From acid jazz and reggae to downtempo and bossa nova, Eric Hilton explored it all as one half of renowned electronic music duo Thievery Corporation. Yet as a solo artist, Hilton’s true love lies with trip-hop. It’s a genre he helped to create with a pioneering approach to sound design, highlighted by ingenious sampling, moody synths and psychedelic lo-fi. Now Hilton is taking an opportunity to revisit these roots with his newly announced Lost Dialect album, the titular track of which is out now. It’s a 10-track opus that, according to Hilton, consciously brought him back to his “early days” of producing trip-hop when he was “combining sample collages with grooves,” he tells EDM.com. For the grooves, Hilton self-recorded all o...
If you’ve ever wanted to travel through space and time, look no further than Virginia Tech’s upcoming Cube Fest 2021. Featuring multisensory art by a cohort of undergraduate and graduate students, the three-day “Sound of Space: An Interactive Afrofuturist Experience” will bring together artists, researchers, industry professionals, and electronic music in order to encourage innovation. Open for free to the public from August 20-22, the in-person exhibit was orchestrated to stimulate the mind with interactive sonic, visual, tactile and olfactory elements. Its venue, a mind-bending installation called “The Cube,” was specially designed for immersive environments like Cube Fest. It comes outfitted with 140 high-density loudspeakers that make ...