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John-Paul Shiver is a music-based writer, obsessed with all types.
Vinyl and burritos from the Mission District in San Francisco are his go-to's, and at times, he can be grumpy because he gives a damn.
Bylines: The Wire, Resident Advisor, SF Weekly, Treble, 48hills, Bandcamp Daily, PulpLab, AFROPUNK, and Drowned In Sound.
A post-disco anthem, several times over. Rewind is a review series, published in partnership with Discogs, that dips into electronic music's archives to dust off music from decades past.
"Funk is anything it needs to be in order to save my life," soothsaid George Clinton, the Godfather of the Funk, into my ear over the phone sometime in the early 90ʻs, during a chance interview granted to this young music nerd.
Two months into quarantine and every day is starting to feel like Groundhog Day. The dearth of intimate physicality makes one feel separated from time itself, and 2016 feels like it was straight-up decades ago.
LABEL PROFILE Electronic Label Deepblak Prefers to Be Unclassifiable By John-Paul Shiver · September 09, 2019 Berlin-based label head, producer, and musician Aybee, aka Armon Bazile, describes his vanguard electronic label Deepblak as an ongoing relationship with the drum. Co-piloted by Afrikan Sciences (aka Eric Porter), Deepblak releases techno, house, experimental, and hip-hop albums, and all of them are rhythmically focused.
Laurel Halo, the American-born producer, musician, and DJ, has released four dissimilar studio albums since 2012, which move briskly from experimental pop, through minimal techno, to evergreen-ambient textures. Her avant-garde technique remains steadfast. To alter the properties of sound by tinkering with the roles that voice, machines and wide open spaces can play in modern music.
"We're living in the present, and there are pressing issues that are happening to us personally," stated bassist Luke Stewart of the free-jazz outfit Irreversible Entanglements during a rare interview with ShadowProof a couple of years back. "And those are things that need to be addressed.
It's downright disrespectful to discuss the year in Black electronic and dance music without first acknowledging Ras G. This Los Angeles-based visionary, beatmaker, and Afrofuturist, who was one of the founding artists of Flying Lotus' Brainfeeder imprint, passed away on July 29.
Solange hit a watershed moment career-wise by artfully discussing gender, race and culture with 2016′s A Seat At The Table -therein bending the Vox Populi in her direction. By rendering her closest interpretation of what an antiquated soul album is, she reached out and touched many across generations and social-political economic lines by documenting the power, struggle and the plight of All Black Women.
Tweet Share 0 Reddit +1 Pocket Pinterest 0 LinkedIn 0 Email Texas Sun EP Khruangbin & Leon Bridges Dead Oceans Records Columbia Records Night-Time Stories By John-Paul Shiver channelsubtext (@channelsubtext) From their start in 2010, Houston-based Khruangbin - the genre-bending psychedelic band consisting of guitarist Mark Speer, bassist Laura Lee and drummer Donald "DJ" Johnson ...
One of the the main themes in W. Kamau Bell's upcoming book, The Awkward Thoughts of W. Kamau Bell: Tales of a 6′ 4″, African American, Heterosexual, Cisgender, Left-Leaning, Asthmatic, Black and Proud Blerd, Mama's Boy, Dad, and Stand-Up Comedian is the topic of coming up as a Black Nerd, aka "Blerd."