If you’re like me and haven’t been in the local music scene for some time, then you’ve probably had a few if not all of the following thoughts while staring blankly at Crescent Ballroom, The Rebel Lounge and Valley Bars’ respective event listings: Where’s Mergence? I haven’t see those guys in a while. That reminds me:…
The one man bands of Phoenix came together to show that you don’t always need a full band to play some great jams. Tribal Leader, Manifest Sound, I Am Hologram, and Page The Village Idiot all took turns on stage, with music ranging from techno to “post punk space blues”. The night saw a combination…
Image: Sejo Basic “Is there an underground electronic movement in Arizona?” asks Bit-Flip founder and Tempe local musician Cory Bergquist. “Yes,” he affirms, “there is.” “It’s so underground, only the people making the music know about it,” he continues. And that includes Bergquist, who goes by the moniker Tribal Leader. With this in mind, he created Bit-Flip…
I like to keep my live shows active. If I’m not in complete control at each moment on stage I just don’t know what to do with myself. So I ordered an Akai APC Key 25 to give me access to a small set of keys as well as a whole mess of buttons to launch…
We sat down with the guys from Phantom Airship at a local electronic music night in Scottsdale, AZ to talk about their new EP Jötunn, what inspired them to delve a bit into drum and bass, and how they feel about the state of electronic music in Arizona.
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