MEDIA ROOTS- Despite the incessant commercialization of electronic music and increasing accessibility to beat making software, my brother Robbie Martin, AKA Fluorescent Grey, continues to push his musical limits while staying true to his art. Every album he’s released has been the product of innovative conceptualizations, whether it be constructing songs from sampling the elements of fire and water or … Read More
Media Roots Music – Fluorescent Grey Mix #1 by Media Roots FG: If you are an avid listener of Media Roots Radio, you may have noticed our frequent use of obscure electronic music in our intros, and segweys. This mix is dedicated to the electronic music that influenced me as a child. I was born in 1981, so a lot … Read More
(Free album download below) “Perhaps within the next hundred years, science will perfect a process of thought transference from composer to listener. The composer will sit alone on the concert stage and merely ‘think’ his idealized conception of his music. Instead of recordings of actual music sound, recordings will carry the brainwaves of the composer directly to the mind of … Read More
Egyptian Protest Ambient by Fluorescent Grey FG: I made this song because I was inspired by the background sounds in the raw protest footage in Cairo’s Tahir Square during the Egyptian revolution. The police sirens, although menacing, start to coalesce into an incidental Steve Reich-like melody that I used as the base for the track. For more information go to … Read More
MEDIA ROOTS- Check out some promo music videos for new releases from independent bay area record label RecordLabelRecords. The videos feature a variety of electronic music overlayed to old school cartoons and other dope footage. RecordLabelRecords is putting out two complimentary sister compilations in early 2011 titled Electric Carpets and Drinking the Goat’s Blood. Each one is designed to display a … Read More
