slow it again in 2010

The hills are alive with the sounds of Bieber.

For those hipsterly-but-passively interested in ambient and its fellow travelers, the reference point has been Sigur Ros since the late '90s. Then Along Came Bieber. Electronic musician (now minor celebrity) Shamantis changed the tempo of Bieber's "U Smile" by -800%, and when the dust from the kerfuffle settled, there were dozens of others slurring their own selections, now lovingly curated at Slow It Up. Think of it as chopped & screwed for white people. However, there's always been ambient worth listening to, from Wieland Samolak to Music For Cats To Sleep To. And now we have Balam Acab's debut EP: See Birds.

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Goth/Pop/Religious: Interview with Robin from Tri Angle

At soldout, we wear our Witch House/Kill-Juke/Fuckcore/whatever you choose to call it badge on our sleeves with pride (we are, after all, in possession of the only video interview with the syrup-goth ground-layers Salem).  We're not the experts, and we haven't been around the longest, but we'll be damned if we think we don't have the most wide-eyed interest, possibly like the kids wandering into the woods to gladly be decapitated by the scythe-wielding slow-tongued ghostdemon (which in our dreams looks remarkable like Jack Donoghue).  So when Robin Carolan, from the blog that, as far as we're concerned, started it the gothcrunk scene, 20JazzFunkGreats, announced a parternship with seminal (and quite dark and moody themselves) tech label Kompakt that's resulted in the formation of Tri Angle records, we immediately jumped on the opportunity to throw some questions his way, in hopes of finally shedding some (pun intended) light on one of the most interesting scenes in music right now. 

After the cut, we dig deep into the darkness. Keep your head above the ephemera, kid. 

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