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EvilSponge: Album: Fixed::Content by Labradford Or rather, it would if it were not for the thing that i hate about Labradford: they torture droids. Labradford sit and play their music, and somewhere in the foreground are little bleeps and bloops and blips of some poor robot experienceing extreme pain. Labradford make these really beautiful soundscapes, and then destroy the mood and enjoyability of it with their painful wierd electronic sounds. www.evilsponge.org /albums/Labradford__FixedContent.htm   (461 words)

Labradford: mp3, discography, pictures, biography - Onda Rock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Labradford were born in Richmond, Virginia, as an instrumental duo: Carter Brown (electronic keyboards) and Mark Nelson (guitar and voice). Labradford's original recipe was the use of the traditional rock instruments and the modern electronic equipment at the same time. That record brought Labradford at the top of the new American instrumental scene, and transported their music "in melancholic empyreans, refreshed by folk winds and chamber music and inhabited by new age spirits", as Eddy Cilia and Stefano Bianchi wrote in their guide to "Post-rock". www.ondarock.it /Labradford_eng.html   (643 words)

Slow Thrills: [Weedbus13] Labradford Labradford have achieved this from the outset, with their debut 'Prazision' (a low-key mix of guitar and moog), through the more harmonious 'A Stable Reference', which was the first to see them expand to include the bass playing of Robert Donne. 'Labradford's ice-cold but endearing collection of tunes and atmospheres was served up to the UK last November, and we managed to get a few words with the aforementioned Robert Donne when the band were in London in February. Labradford is the first band that Carter has ever been in, he started from scratch with it. jonathan.greer.users.btopenworld.com /interviews/labradford.html   (1034 words)

Labradford - fixed::context (Kranky) Labradford's new album fixed::context is an extraordinarily difficult record to review because my silly descriptions of what I hear do very little to actually convey the experience of listening to this music. Fixed::context shows a fairly equal balance between the guitars and the electronics, in that most of the sounds you hear seem to have been electronically generated, yet it is the guitars that really drive the songs (what slow drive they have). Labradford demonstrates an expert sense of space and sound--it is astonishing that they can carry the listener so far on so little. www.fakejazz.com /reviews/2001/labradford2.shtml   (392 words)

Labradford  Labradford released their self-titled album and tapped into an even wider range of sonic detail and sweep. Labradford began a series of shows in the U.K. called Drifting Festivals with artists who shared their interest blurring the edges of genre. By their third full-length album, the eponymous release of 1996, Labradford began to infuse their music with sampled and real time percussion traces, at times faintly delving into actual syncopation. www.kranky.net /artists/labradford.html   (1116 words)

Labradford - Epitonic.com: Hi Quality Free and Legal MP3 Music Minimalism and restraint are the orders of the day; Labradford's songs evolve at glacial speeds, often returning to the same chord or motif again and again, surrounding you without smothering you. Labradford now has six albums to their credit, throughout which they have explored dub, bossa nova, avant-classical, ambient pop, and countrified cinematic music, growing and changing a little bit at a time. Their most recent effort is the four-song fixed::context (2001), on which the group goes sparer than ever, dispensing with the strings of previous releases in favor of extraordinarily minimal, hypnotic, sun-drenched soundscapes. www.epitonic.com /artists/labradford.html   (415 words)

Labradford - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Labradford is a rock band from Richmond, Virginia. Labradford consists of bassist Robert Donne, guitarist /vocalist Mark Nelson, and Carter Brown on keyboards. Their music style is experimental ambient / post-rock. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labradford   (163 words)

Labradford - A Stable Reference - Review A Stable Reference is the second full-length by the two-person group Labradford (they just released their fifth full-length in early 1999) and once again, I think that I'm going to have to go out and find more of their music as soon as I get the chance. In terms of overall feeling I got when listening to their music, the first actual word that came to mind was, "dreary." Expanding on that single word, I must say that there's something about good, depressing music that seems to hit me bullseye no matter what mood I'm in when I listen to it. Labradford is like that to me. It's not depressing in a king-of-pain, mope-rock sort of way, but in the general aura of the disc just reminds one of bleak, dreary days spent inside. www.almostcool.org /mr/l/l11mu.html   (574 words)

Labradford/Surfers of Romantica - ENE Remixes (Eerie Materials) The other side of the single is by the Japanese band Surfers of Romantica, and the intent of the single, seeing as (supposedly) Labradford are as unknown in Japan as the Surfers of Romantica are in the US, is to increase the exposure of both of these groups in the corresponding foreign land. Labradford's remix, "Underwood 5ive," is a treat, using as source material a song that most Labradford fans have never heard, its only printing being on the long gone Duophonic 10". The usually reserved Labradford seems quite dramatic here, the quick changes in volume and pattern making the psychedelic washes of guitar seem almost hard-hitting. www.fakejazz.com /reviews/labradford.shtml   (288 words)

Browse by Artist: LABRADFORD Labradford have, over the course of four albums, constantly expanded their sound. With their fifth studio recording, E luxo so, the trio have done it again...utilizing a string section, dulcimer, tape loops that stretched around a room as well as integrating digital technology via samplers. Labradford leads the listener to fill the gaps in their music. www.forcedexposure.com /artists.../labradford.html   (458 words)

Ink 19 :: Labradford Labradford records are so difficult to talk about in terms of individual songs, hooks, etc. I want to communicate in the same worldless ether where most of their work exists. But then I would be out of a job, wouldn't I? Each Labradford record becomes more distant and dignified in terms of songwriting, yet E luxo so is their most emotionally evocative work yet. Labradford have added a string section, dulcimer, and tape loops to augment guitar, bass, and keyboards. www.ink19.com /issues_F/99_07/wet_ink/music_il/154_labradford.shtml   (253 words)

Cerysmatic Factory :: Factory Records, Manchester, England :: :: :: blog, history, archive ::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Their albums A Stable Reference and LaBradford an electro-mix of brooding, Krautrock and dark ambience, hailed an important birth. Shifting on stage unannounced and almost unnoticed, Labradford plugged in, studiously avoided making eye contact with the audience and set off on their journey. LaBradford's stagecraft is certainly challenging and could never be called flamboyant. www.cerysmaticfactory.info /drifting.html   (877 words)

Space Age Bachelor: Labradford: Recovering Lost Anthems Labradford somehow avoid so many of the cliches lying in both the beats and the analogue synth sounds that dominate so many other releases in recent memory. In Labradford’s hands, these prehistoric instruments are not treated in the tongue-in-cheek, kitschy manner, nor are they used in the tacky retro-futuristic manner with the silly outer space imagery, but instead fascinating textures, essentially urban and inherently now, are formed. In this sense, Labradford is part of the cinema of everyday life -- as in the BIG question that Jason asks Goldie elsewhere in this issue. www.space-age-bachelor.com /features/98/labradford.htm   (2359 words)

Labradford -- E Luxo So -- Kranky Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Labradford is a vitally important, incredibly beautiful band. This trio from Virginia consisting of Carter Brown, Bobby Donne, and Mark Nelson have established themselves at the helm of modern underground post-rock. I really enjoy ambience, especially improv, and while composition runs rampant on this release, it is clear that part have been specifially improvised. www.lastsigh.com /reviews99/labradford1.htm   (222 words)

Mi Media Naranja by Labradford If you are a MP3.com member you can set a preferred service to instantly tell if that music service has this album. For all of the group's first three albums each being intriguing, engaging listens, there was no hint that Mi Media Naranja would be as flat out amazing as it was. Yet it was, and remains, Labradford's best album yet, an accomplished meshing of all the various elements to their sound over previous releases into one near-perfect sonic document. www.mp3.com /albums/278101/summary.html   (354 words)

Labradford: discography, pictures, biography, reviews - Onda Rock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) In seguito, i Labradford si sono affermati come una versione da camera dei gruppi che nel decennio Novanta hanno trascinato il rock oltre i suoi classici confini, facendogli vivere una vera rivoluzione. Il disco accredita i Labradford come band di punta del nuovo rock strumentale americano, facendo librare la loro musica "in malinconici empirei, rinfrescati da brezzoline folk e cameristiche, e popolati di spiritelli new age", come scrivono Eddy Cilia e Stefano Bianchi nella guida "Post-rock". Nel 2001 i Labradford hanno realizzato l'Ep Fixed::Context, quattro brani di puro ambient-post-rock, a cominciare dall'iniziale "Twenty", diciotto minuti di una lenta digressione rumorosa, silenziosa a tratti, inquietante. www.ondarock.it /Labradford.html   (711 words)

Labradford Reviews Where its predecessor, 1999's E Luxo So, explored spaced-out cosmic dub soundscapes, this is the sound of Labradford returning from the outer planes and delving into windswept Americana. Which just indicates that Labradford are nearing a state of conceptual perfection where they're as quiet as they are magnificent. Listening to Labradford's Me Media Naranja is like eavesdropping on the dream music of the American cowboy. www.iq451.com /music/labradford.htm   (312 words)

riverfronttimes.com | Music | Labradford | 1999-07-14 Thin wisps of nostalgia hang almost tangibly in the air, and the music, once bass-heavy and pumping, lingers in your brain as oddly juxtaposed melodic splinters and haunting fragments of what used to be. Labradford has always set its course through the minimalist ether, but on their fifth full-length release, E Luxo So, you'd be hard-pressed to find even a breeze to hold onto. Labradford, believe it or not, has always been a guitar band, although those guitars are processed, looped and stretched beyond recognition. www.riverfronttimes.com /issues/1999-07-14/record2.html   (474 words)

Sentireascoltare.com - Music Magazine - Monografia: Labradford / Pan American I Labradford rivisitano Central Texas (da The Ballasted Orchestra), spogliandolo nei rumori e dilatandolo all'infinito. L’arte dei Labradford targati 1999 manca il bersaglio (estetico) proprio quando vi si approssima di più per eccesso di calcolo. L’evidente voglia di inserire nel corpo del sound dei Labradford le esperienze acquisite in proprio portano quindi il chitarrista a riprendere in mano l’etichetta Pan American, al fine di testare in completa autonomia ciò che non era stato possibile nelle session in trio. www.sentireascoltare.com /CriticaMusicale/Monografie/labradford.htm   (2339 words)

London Student Issue 5 - music labradford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) The recent ‘Labradford’; was so titled, not out of some notion that it expressed their true selves, but because it looked nice as the only word on the front cover. Labradford were never going to attract adjectives like ‘fruity’ or ‘citrus’, but, seeing as they are all now firmly attached, the title hints at the conjugal peace of songs like “Footsteps” and “Spaghetti”. An unashamed bunch of perfectionists, politeness personified, Labradford are unique and a little difficult at times, but always delicate yet engaging, always troubled yet composed. www.londonstudent.org.uk /5issue/music/labradford.htm   (645 words)

TrouserPress.com :: Labradford You don't need to be a card-carrying krautrock connoisseur to plunge headfirst into the placid-looking waters that pool up beneath Labradford's vintage analog synthesizers and electronic gizmos — but it couldn't hurt. With an equal affinity for ambient soundscapes and Neu!-inflected mekkanik-rock, what began in Richmond, Virginia as the duo of Carter Brown and Mark Nelson (who also records on his own as Pan-American) manages to draw listeners off into an nth dimension where sound takes on cross-sensory attributes. Oddly, the addition of a member results in the subtraction of several sonic layers on songs like the stark "El Lago" (which is marked by Donne's cybernetic timekeeping and a cathedral-like organ wash loosed by Brown). www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=labradford   (298 words)

Labradford - Fixed :: Context If we assume that post-rock is more than a critic's concept and that bands and artists actually aspire to achieve this state with their music, then Labradford's latest, Fixed :: Context, might just have achieved the purest definition. David has more of a smilar vein with regard to guitars, developing via cosmic chords on keyboard to a state of utopia; a theme piece that would have been happy as backing music for 2001 had Johann Strauss not gotten in on the act. A refreshing alternative to the mind-numbing 4/4 beats of most modern indie music, Labradford have been plying their trade for almost ten years and are now an accomplished band purveying some of the most challenging music around. www.musicomh.com /albums/labradford.htm   (227 words)

Labradford: fixed::context: Pitchfork Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) To be honest, the clichéd sound of the "soundtracky" guitar is one of the things that turned me off from Labradford's last two records. On "David," Labradford weave an Eno-esque drone through the chord sequence, which, believe it or not, recalls the slow bridge of "I'll Melt with You." Each track is cut from the same plain cloth, but identifying details become clear over time, and they're worth the wait. Maybe I'm just meeting Labradford halfway, but this is an album I enjoyed spending the week in. www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/l/labradford/fixed-context.shtml   (512 words)

Labradford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Labradford is an album of exquisitely haunting music, but not in the least frightening, like the ghost of a dead lover returning to let you know that all's well on the other side. Mark Nelson's spectral spoken vocals are bolder than before, mixed higher than on their two previous albums, but are still mostly indistinct and only hint partially at meaning, adding to the haunting low gravity atmospheres of the music which tends to centre around Carter Brown's enthralling synth experimentation. The revamping of Scenic Recovery with added atmospheric violin proves that Labradford's lessening instrumental minimalism is certainly not going to detract from their sound. www.webinfo.co.uk /crackedmachine/labradford.htm   (2578 words)

Labradford Music Web Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str "The formula for my happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If ever two were one, then surely we. -- John Kenneth Galbraith Labradford And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye. Their tastes may not be the same." (George Bernard Shaw) When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Bands_and_Artists_L_Labradford.html   (1730 words)

Delusions of Adequacy Reviews - Aix Em Klemm   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) One day he sat me down and played me what he thought was a musical masterpiece from said band. His eyes seemed to say, "How dare you expect more?" This record is in the vein of Labradford but is somehow even more stripped-down and tranquil. Aix Em Klemm is a collaboration of Adam Wiltzie from Stars of the Lid and Bobby Donne from Labradford, conducted partially over the mail, apparently. www.adequacy.net /reviews/a/aixemklemm.shtml   (359 words)

Splendid E-zine reviews: Labradford If I'm not mistaken, E luxo so is Portugese for "It's only luxury." It's also the name of a well-known Samba standard by Ary Barroso, but as far as I can tell that's entirely coincidental. E luxo so certainly isn't Labradford's stab at samba, but it is luxuriant. Slow, blurry guitars and keyboards ooze across pliable sonic landscapes, followed at a safe distance by subtle samples and loops, a dulcimer and, to very elegant effect, a string section. www.splendidezine.com /reviews/jun-21-99/labradford.html   (194 words)

Amazon.co.uk: Music: E Luxo So   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) American post-rock trio Labradford are a band in thrall to the quiet majesty of near-featureless ambient music, and while El Luxo So is no replacement for a copy of Now That's What I Call Crazy Party Music! I won't be purchasing any more labradford albums, but I won't be throwing this is in the bin either. Labradford produce a wonderful swirling soundscape for the ambient devotists. www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000257EI   (608 words)

Labradford   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) Labradford was formed in Richmond, Virginia in 1992 and consists of Robert Donne, Carter Brown and Mark... Labradford makes the sort of music that can define a space, that can... Each Labradford record becomes more distant and dignified in terms of songwriting, yet E luxo... www.okdirt.com /Bands_and_Artists/L/Labradford   (646 words)

Pan American I think the goal with Labradford is to become more and more subtle, more and more discreet. Drums and percussion are such a signifier-of rock or dub or techno etc. That there doesn't seem to be a place for them in Labradford. I sampled Carter (from Labradford) equipment so there are also quite a lot of keyboard sounds. www.scaruffi.com /interv/panam.html   (795 words)

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