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The soft, electronic drone of Jay Bodley's A Setting Sun is setting the phase and the tone for this Monday morning here in the Bad Fotography HQ aka my bedroom.) This is like the build up to an epiphany: the emotions captured so solidly with textured layers of sound in slow motion. I am listening to this and watching the white dust of snow slowly melting in the late morning sun. Dial81 has done a more upbeat, avant pop version of the track, I guess a more palatable version for people who don't [...]

[RSS Readers: See post to listen to audio] Excuse this dark tone period i've been highly enjoying, it definitely has something to do with the winter and also wanting to listening to more than just drone, diggin deep for colorful and moody material. One of the less ambient pieces on this new A Setting Sun EP is this remix by Dial81 , if you like it download it for free . I fully support anything by Rafael Anton Irisarri but this one is an absolute gem, he needs to be scoring [...]
How do you best the anti-guitar-god bluster of arguably the most sonically bold and melodically sophisticated band of England's shoegaze era? If you're Swervedriver's unflappable former leader, Adam Franklin, you don't even try. You simply work off the various templates for greatness set forth by your former outfit, which, quite frankly, spewed out enough novel [...]
![[WEEKLIES] In Reality and In Dreams Weekly {Remix} Playlist](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/2609716_lg.jpg)
Photo Courtesy Check her work, it's really good! This playlist is created with credits to ISO50 blog. I renamed the playlist from There Will Be Echoes to In Reality and In Dreams because I think some if not most of the remixes have an underlying dreamy and a slight romantic feel despite the upbeat party mood. The tracks are related to the Moodgadget label, and has reached about almost a thousand downloads since the 4th of June 2010, so I think it's [...]

It was my birthday this weekend and I went out on a limb earlier in the week for a last minute HUGE favor from some close musician friends to do covers of some of my favorite songs or songs I thought the musician would do a cover of really well and surprisingly they agreed....20 of them! So here are the first 5: Benoit Pioulard covers Hum : This is absolutely stunning, Benoit has a voice that i'd want to have if I could sing. I heard once that Benoit liked [...]

Jay Bodley aka A Setting Sun has been on the blog before with his cover of Air's Le Soleil Est Pres de Moi but that sound is far different from what he's brewing which is more of a textured doom metal that you'd find from an artist like Ulver with hints of what a non-metal fan would call beautiful. Raspberry is a song that could be split up into multiple sections where you start off with the unforgiving coldness of the intro [...]

I'm finally mostly recovered from the bout of the flu that pretty much knocked me out for the last couple weeks. So posting will resume at a more normal (but still sporadic) pace. But today is still mostly a placeholder post, as I have a ton of reading to get done for my class tonight. Along those lines, though, I've been listening to a lot more ambient/drone/minimalist spacey sorts of music these days while I'm studying or working. Still, I'd hesitate to call it "background" music, because it's not exactly something I'm trying to [...]

D. Gookin – When You're Lonely Everybody's A Celebrity First up, Mike Birnbaum delivers an epic EP after successfully drumming for Passion Pit album on Frenchkiss Records and Landau Orchestra and getting love from slow motion disco producer Sorcerer, this karaoke style drumming performer (drumming and singing like Phil Collins) has a unique list of influences as well from Luke Vibert and Tom Tom Club to Primus and Mylo. D. Gookin - Glad I Met You [...]

To assist those of you that have made a resolution to keep things low key during January, I thought I'd post a touch of chill-out today. A Setting Sun 's latest EP, Views From the Real World, came out on Moodgadget at the back end of last year and it's mellow electronica all the way. The first track (available below) has got possibly the longest introduction I've ever heard as it's over four minutes into the track before the kick finally drops. Maybe it's the artwork and the name that reminds [...]