Brad Rose

Brad Rose is the founder and editor-in-chief of Foxy Digitalis. He also runs Digitalis Recordings and records as The North Sea.

Brad Rose's website is here.

latest reviews by Brad Rose....
Brad's lifetime average review-rating is 7.87
Envenomist "Divine Intervention" Killer tape on Husk... rated 9/10 (15 July, 2008)
Gryn Brvs "Grail Fruit of Les Prix Chauns" Excellent tape on Pendu... rated 8/10 (21 April, 2008)
Golden Cup "Eye Mith" Great tape from the head of 8MM Rex... rated 8/10 (12 February, 2008)
Tecumseh "Crossing Divides" Oh divine sludge... rated 9/10 (21 January, 2008)
Aaron Martin "Almond" Excellent debut on Australia's Preservation imprint... rated 9/10 (10 April, 2007)
Eugene Carchesio & Leighton Craig "Leaves (Reissue)" It doesn't get more crucial than this brilliant re-issue... rated 10/10 (28 August, 2006)
Heavy Eye of the Sun "II" Second, brain-frying album from this Montreal duo... rated 8/10 (28 August, 2006)
Father Beard "Tokens, then Light" Debut from 1/2 of the mighty Mirza... rated 8/10 (10 July, 2006)
Kukkiva Poliisi "Ilola" .. rated 9/10 (28 June, 2006)
Marianne Nowottny "Strange Weather From the Basement" .. rated 8/10 (28 June, 2006)
Milton Cross "Light in the West" .. rated 9/10 (28 June, 2006)
Jerry Johansson "and a String Quartet From Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra" .. rated 9/10 (28 June, 2006)
Gown "For You" .. rated 7/10 (28 June, 2006)
Gart & Seekatze "Humming Songs" .. rated 8/10 (28 June, 2006)
Gareth Dawson & Righard Kapp "Puin" .. rated 8/10 (28 June, 2006)
latest features by Brad Rose....
Börft Records & Jan Svensson (part 1) Even though I am a bit late in the game with my initiation into the world of Jan Svensson & Börft Records, the guy is already practically a hero to me. .. (30 June, 2010)
The Long Decline #11 World Cup glory and loads of tapes... what else could you want?.. (2 June, 2010)
Neon Marshmallow Festival Neon Marshmallow is seemingly the festival to end all festivals for lovers and purveyors of weird, experimental musics. .. (19 May, 2010)
Year End 2009 It's hard to believe that 2009 was only ONE year .. (13 January, 2010)
The Long Decline #10: 2009 Alright, 2009... a total motherfucker of a year with so much happening, where to start and where to end... yeah, I don't even know. But let's take a stroll down memory lane, shall we?.. (13 January, 2010)
The Long Decline #9 Installment numero nueve of random discussion and exhumation of recent (sort of) tapes and such. Yeow... (18 November, 2009)
Oneohtrix Point Never I feel pretty lucky to have known Daniel Lopatin for over a year now and be treated regularly to his swirling synthetic creations. .. (19 August, 2009)
Social Junk Social Junk have seemingly moved all over the place in the past 18 months, but considering their all-over-the-map output, it's pretty damn fitting... (22 July, 2009)
William Fowler Collins William Fowler Collins was flying under my radar until recently when a good friend and label figurehead sent me an advance copy of his most recent effort, Perdition Hill Radio. Holy crap... (14 July, 2009)
Locrian Locrian have been creating epic drones and soundscapes up in Chicago for a couple years now, and just recently have been getting the praise they deserve... (8 July, 2009)
The Long Decline #8 More rambling about recent tapes and tours and god knows from your esteemed figurehead... (16 June, 2009)
Odawas Odawas has been like a good Scotch for me. .. (30 April, 2009)
Night People There's some serious storms brewing in the Midwest right now. .. (30 April, 2009)
The Builders #1: Planet Synth Killer handmade analog synths from Ypsilanti, MI... (14 April, 2009)
The Long Decline #7 Seventh installment with a nod to Bret Michaels, Daisy De La Hoya, and ex-Raccoo-oo-ooners... (7 April, 2009)

latest blogposts by Brad Rose....
digitalis tapes for spring hey everyone, spring weather here is fucking ruling... (2 April, 2010)
TWO NEW DIGICDS: ACRE & J. HANSON hey everyone, hard at work as ever, got two new CDs ready for your enjoyment... (8 March, 2010)
Homophobia in Hatemail vol. 1 Ahhh, gotta love it when some stupid band/label sends out shitty promos blindly, not bothering to figure out what kind of music/content a publication cove... (25 February, 2010)
DIGITALIS OLYMPICS: NEW TAPES 2010 hey everyone, watching tons of winter olympics (curling obsession) and having a folding/assembling olympics of our own... (21 February, 2010)
Free Diogenes Foxy D Compilation to accompany the diogenes interview, they've set up a nice little preview comp for foxy d readers to scope out some killer tracks... (18 February, 2010)
DIGITALIS SAYS SO LONG 2009 hey everyone, WOO... (29 December, 2009)
DIGITALIS OKTOBERFESST hey everyone, alright alright fall is in full blast and my heels have been dragging... (23 October, 2009)
NEW PEYOTE TAPES Indigenous Capsules Box Peyote Tapes 06/Object In Hand CDR Box w/Print Set Amplifier worship, synth noise and field recordings from Soundpressings/Obj... (22 October, 2009)
MYRMYR 'AMBER SEA' Tour so, myrmyr are one of the bay area's best kept secrets at the moment, but it's all gonna change soon... (7 October, 2009)
THE BROTHERS PEEESSEYE: PHANTOM LIMB & US TOUR THE BROTHERS PEEESSEYE... (7 October, 2009)
Oneohtrix Point Never "Rifts" 2CD - SOON Oneohtrix Point Never Rifts (No Fun Productions) Release date... (28 September, 2009)
social junk on tour our buddies social junk are heading out on a month-long US jaunt in support of "born into it" which you need) and you should definitely go see these cats... (10 September, 2009)
DIGITALIS EARLY FALL YUMS hey everyone, summer's dying on the vine around here, earlier than normal which i hope means an awesome fall and brutal winter... (8 September, 2009)
ELM + EVAN CAMINITI preorder hey everyone, a really quick announcement, a bit of a precursor to our new tape batch next week... (4 September, 2009)
Postcommodity install in Tempe, AZ folks in &... (28 August, 2009)
latest podcasts by Brad Rose....
Early Women Composers A collection of tracks from some of the best female composers this century... (12 August, 2010)
ALPHACAST A collection of songs from the mighty Colin Ward AKA Alphabets in celebration of the ALPHABOX release... (3 July, 2010)
Early Electronics A collection of various electronics from the last half-century... (25 June, 2010)
Digitalis Preview 2009 A preview of forthcoming Digitalis & Digi Ltd biz.... (22 July, 2009)
The Best of 2007 Some songs culled from various selections in my year-in-review column... (7 January, 2008)
Digitalis & Foxglove - Fall & Winter 2007 Preview A selection of songs from forthcoming Digitalis & Foxglove releases..... (13 October, 2007)
''My Podcast'' The Boss kicks everything off with the inaugral Foxy Digitalis podcast. Uh, that's Brad Rose, not Bruce Springsteen... (19 February, 2005)
 
 

1 September, 2010
Bis auf’s Messer Berlin’s Bis auf’s Messer emporium has all bases covered. From two rooms in the Eastern borough of Friedrichshain, Robert and Stefan run a store and a mailorder operation, they organize gigs, and not one, but two labels... feature :: by Jan-Arne Sohns

Neon Marshmallow Fest Recap More so than perhaps any festival on the radar, the lineup itself was truly the draw of Chicago’s inaugural Neon Marshmallow Fest, the four-day cornucopia of experimental music of all stripes.... feature :: by Travis Bird

25 August, 2010
Little Fury Things Padna’s own Nat Hawks runs a rad micro-label out of Brooklyn with an even radder name! .. feature :: by Dave Miller

Live London #13: Graham Lambkin / Call Back The Giants / Helm Show review from August 6th, 2010 at Cafe Oto in London featuring Graham Lambkin, Call Back the Giants and Helm... feature :: by Peter Taylor

18 August, 2010
Donovan Quinn Donovan Quinn has already proven himself to be one of the more gifted folk-pop songsmiths of the past decade through his work with Verdure and The Skygreen Leopards... feature :: by David Perron
10 August, 2010
Early Women Composers A collection of tracks from some of the best female composers this century... podcast :: by Brad Rose

5 August, 2010
Hobo Cult #1 First set of tunes from the man behind Hobo Cult/Hobo Cubes... podcast :: by Frank Ouellette

15 July, 2010
LAFMS Podcast #1 A selection of tracks from the might Los Angeles Free Music Society.. podcast :: by Andrew Murdock Livingston

3 July, 2010
ALPHACAST A collection of songs from the mighty Colin Ward AKA Alphabets in celebration of the ALPHABOX release... podcast :: by Brad Rose

26 June, 2010
Early Electronics A collection of various electronics from the last half-century... podcast :: by Brad Rose
 
 
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1 September, 2010
Various Artists "I'm Going Where The Water Drinks Like Wine" A must have compilation... review :: by Crawford Philleo

Mark McGuire "Tiding/Amethyst Waves" Recommended reissue on Weird Forest... review :: by Anthony D'Amico

Skjølbrot "Maersk" CD-r An absolute gem of a CDR... review :: by Matt Blackall

Zola Jesus "Stridulum" Another massive entry in the Zola Jesus discography... review :: by Dave Miller

other new reviews....
April In The Orange Siva Casting Dice 7''
Arklight Nolo Contendere/Rakkasans 3'' cd-r
Iain Campbell Absolutely the Best ABBA since ABBA CD-r
Celer All At Once Is What Eternity Is 3'' cd-r
Cornucopia Ultima LP
Dense Reduction Hobbes Diamond tape
Drivan Disko
Adam Gnade Trailerparks
Hellcake Friends Become Enemies tape
Imbogodom The Metallic Year
Ken Rei Wearing Sweatpants
Kkrakk!! Subatomic Vibrations tape
Lee Konitz, Chris Cheek, Stephan Furic Leibovici Jugendstil II
Outer Limits Recordings Foxy Baby LP
Oval O
Pausal Lapses
Horacio Pollard Acorn Bath CD-r
Prurient Cocaine Death
Sensible Nectar Minor Devil tape
SF Ghost Pulse tape
Sheik Anorak Day 01
Siddhi Cuttlefish Bone CD-r
Squim No Blade of Grass CD-r
Tokyo Mask Route Painless