Showing posts with label bt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bt. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Listening Post



In addition to all the traditional records he releases, BT has become famous for releasing extended independent tracks and albums full of ambient "soundtrack"-style music.

Here's his latest offering, a nearly 14-minute piece called 13 Angels on My Broken Windowsill, which runs the gamut from ambient to dubstep and is accompanied by an admittedly mesmerizing video.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Listening Post


I've done it since I was a teenager: Put in earphones -- or gotten into my car and cranked the stereo -- and disappeared into my own little world, letting the music transform everything around me and provide the soundtrack to a movie only I know exists.

This was one of the best things about living in New York. Every day, everything you do at any time, feels like it was made to be set to music -- and the music you choose can change not just your own mood but the way the city, your surroundings, actually look to you.

About halfway through my last tour in Gotham, I began listening to a lot of BT's This Binary Universe album in my iPod as I navigated the ins and outs -- the dark corners and wide open spaces; the streets, alleys, subways, and cabs -- of the city. The nearly tactile atmosphere that this music evoked as it gently drowned the usual chaos of New York life was nothing short of magical. It was like creating very personal art -- turning life into art.

From that album, here's the title track -- This Binary Universe.



And as a bonus, BT's excellent new single, Every Other Way.

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Listening Post



Not exactly your typical video, but when BT releases something new I find myself wanting to make sure people hear it as quickly as possible.

This is Rose of Jericho.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Listening Post



If you're into trance/electronica, BT's 1999 album Movement in Still Life is probably one of your favorites.

From that, here's BT and Soul Coughing's Mike Doughty with Never Gonna Come Back Down.