Burial
Biography
Precious little is known about Burial, the moniker of an anonymous dubstep producer from London, and that's part of the allure of his music, which, beginning with his self-titled 2006 debut album, was critically acclaimed. "I love...old jungle and garage tunes, when you didn't know anything about them, and nothing was between you and the tunes," Burial was quoted as saying in a rare interview (The Guardian, October 26, 2007). "I liked the mystery; it was more scary and sexy, the opposite of other music." In that same article, he was quoted as saying, somewhat unbelievably, "Only about five people outside of my family know I make tunes, I think. I hope." Anonymity, of course, has long been a quality positively associated with electronic music, going back to early years of Detroit techno, when acts such as Underground Resistance and Drexciya veiled themselves in obscurity, and even farther back to the days of Kraftwerk, who championed the notion, "We are the robots," and techno godfather Juan Atkins, who named himself Model 500, as if he were a man-machine. So it's the back story of Burial (or rather, the lack thereof), in addition to his music, that explains his great appeal to many of those well-versed in the traditions of electronic music.
Awesome danceable fusion music. Pandora should get his second album, Untrue, on the service as well.
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