I wasn't going to do a Top 10 list this year. I figured my Top 1 list was sufficient because that was so clearly the one thing that made such a life changing impact on me. But then the fine folks of Weirdo Records asked me to make a Top 10 for them. I couldn't turn them down, obviously, and it was an excuse to do something that I really wanted to do all along. I love making lists. And people love reading them. I don't know why I withheld from something that everyone so clearly [...]
Gregg Kowalsky - IX This album is called Tape Chants and you thought it wouldn't end up on this blog? Not a chance. I almost feel like saying just that this is an album stuffed with lazy minimal textured tape drones and be done with it. There's really no point in beleaguering or persuading. If that phrase doesn't instantly make your nips hard, then there's no fucking way you're going [...]
Bay Area drone architect Gregg Kowalsky is one of Kranky's newest offerings. Of course, Kranky is one of maybe four labels wherein if the skewed rectangle logo is present on any given album's spine, said record will probably be blazin'. Kowalsky's Tape Chants is no different. While I enjoy ambient music, there are very few ambient artists I can truly cheer for outside Christian Fennesz and William Basinski. However, Kowalsky, who holds a masters in electronic music performance and recording, is one of them. The potent alien oscillator tone that opens "Vi-Vii" makes your [...]
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Kranky is known for putting out great releases that edge toward the avant-garde and the drone-heavy by artists like Deerhunter and Windy & Carl. Their latest release, Tape Chants by Gregg Kowalsky , fits the mold perfectly. In support of Tape Chants , Kowalsky will head out on the road to roam the states and avoid the Pacific Northwest. No, he's not really avoiding the PNW, but he does begin in the mid-west and head east. The tour kicks into gear tomorrow and coincides [...]
An exquisite ambient/micromusic/drone/elect ronica mix by our friend from down under Cenk Akyol, who's already given us this and this . Perfect for, well calm dawns? Enjoy Julien Neto - VI Moby - The Rain Falls & The Sky Shudders Jam & Spoon - Salinas Afternoon Silence II - Sweet Angels Steinbrüchel - Snooze El Fog - Olive Pan American - Lights Of Little Town Alec Empire - Pussy Heroin Hazan & Shea - Rhizome No Beginning No End Ennio [...]
It's February 1st, and that means I've officially finished the first 31 days of my 1,001 day challenge. In case you don't recall, at the end of 2007 I made a list of 106 things I want to achieve in the next 2.75 years. The list includes personal goals, financial goals, travel goals, health goals and more. It's pretty ambitious, if I do say so myself. Anyway, I'm sure you're all wondering just how it is I'm doing after 31 days, so here's a brief update for you. I've already crossed 5.5 things off my list. I sent [...]
As I sit here, wondering about where today disappeared to, I am drawn to a recent article published in The Globe And Mail about the relationship between laziness and industriousness. One mathematician from the California Institute of Technology and two from Harvard University have answered the age old question, "Is it better to wait or to walk?". Together they created an equation that calculates the best option for people who are at a bus stop and cannot decide if it is going to be quicker to -- you guessed it -- wait for the bus, or walk to [...]
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