I Got The Big Beat: Fragment’s “Polygonair”

ByPatrick St. Michel

[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjnELDJNidg”] Fragment’s latest, “Polygonair,” starts with just percussion. His beats hit like pistons, a few other scattered sounds (hand claps, electronics trying to suck themselves up) popping up, but the early parts of this track dominated by those big pounds. It sounds like a laptop maestro’s take on Stomp! Fragment softens the blows by sprinkling…

Vivid Youth: Fragment’s “ゆらめきポラロイド”

ByPatrick St. Michel

Earlier this year, Los Angeles musician Baths released a song called “Aminals” into the wilds of the music world. The track stands out in a year featuring an RSS-feed-worth of artists’ mining the sounds of their youth (read: the 80s) for cheap nostalgia. “Aminals” isn’t a tossed-off slab of irony-cloaked pop, but rather a labored-over…