Good Sunday, all. A very good Sunday if you're looking forward to the summer months, I suppose, but here in Southern California there isn't really anything that exciting (or even noticeable most of the time) about changing weather and seasons. While there's certainly a difference between cloudy/cool and sunny/warm, those are pretty much the only two "days" that we experience all year. Maybe your Sunday was good for another reason? Did your local sports team win a big game? Did your significant other buy you a gift? Did your parents finally decide to get off your back, even [...]
It's been seven months since we said goodbye to The Best Podcast You Have. On Monday May 7th, 2007 (my first full day in Los Angeles - coincidence?) Jack offered the final episode of his Circulations Amethyst series, entitled "The Night We Called It A Day." Now, Podcast Jack has returned with his newest incarnation of his pet project (now with fancy website !). The first episode is available as a video file on Jack's website. It features some cool music and two brief images of yours truly. In fact, I open and [...]
Nicci's workplace had their annual Christmas Party at Malo tonight, which meant a couple hours of heavenly eating and drinking. Right now I am full of carnitas, potato and eggplant tacos, beef and pickle tacos and chicken/chorizo quesadillas. I could not be happier. If that restaurant wasn't so expensive (or maybe if I had a better-paying job?) I would eat there every night. Well, not every night - I'd need to eat at Qdoba and Casa Bianca and Patra, too! Hey, how about a mix tape? RULES for uninitiated noobs : With [...]
Hi everybody. I'm glad you could all make it. Welcome to the annual "Best Albums Of..." post, which is usually the time I put effort into composing a blog entry. In 2005 I wrote small blurbs about the top twenty-five albums of the year. In 2006 I wrote three-word reviews for the 50 best records of the year. Last year I went so far as to craft a complete sentence for my favorite 100 albums of 2007. This year...I don't know, I haven't started the list yet. I think I'm just going to write blurbs about the albums for which [...]
Gbg-based drone artist Jasper TX has a new 3" CD out on Norwegian label Fenêtre Records called "Closet ghosts" . Read more here: http://www.fenetrerecords.com/ releases/ghosts.html
You might be thinking to yourself, "Who the fuck are Dag Rosenqvist and Rutger Zuydervelt?" Chances are you'd be more likely to recognize them under the monikers they normally use to create music. Rosenqvist happens to be known as Jasper TX and Zuydervelt is none other than Machinefabriek. Yes, this is a collaboration of epic proportions. These two joined forces before a couple years ago on Vintermusik , so this isn't unprecedented. However, that doesn't mean this isn't fantastic. Because it is. Feberdröm is a mini 3" CD containing one 24 minute [...]
machinefabriek porselein 2008 jasper tx black sleep pt IV 2008 (française version) Je dors. D'un sommeil lourd. Granitique. Seize éléphants, en quatre groupes, à l'écart du troupeau, s'emploient, pendant que la totalité des animaux, affolés, se ruent, dans une accélération vertigineuse, échappant, par leur vitesse, à la chute, vers je ne sais quel [...]
Swedish drone artist Jasper TX does the Listed thing for Dusted: http://www.dustedmagazine.com/ features/769
The Silent Ballet on the new album "Black sheep" from prolific Swedish experimental/drone artist Jasper TX : http://thesilentballet.com/dnn /Home/tabid/36/ctl/Details/mid /384/ItemID/1765/Default.aspx
Jasper Tx Black Sleep (07.2008, Miasmah) Verdict = Brooding headphone candy of the highest quality I think this is pretty much true of all the releases we discuss here on FG (AKA music in general), but for Jasper Tx's Black Sleep let me recommend the use of headphones. I'm not talking about your stock iPod earbuds either; it is important that you have a good pair of heavy duty headphones that fit like enormous earmuffs or aviation tower communication equipment when listen to the latest from Mr. Dag Rosenqvist (the Swedish mastermind that is Jasper Tx). [...]
Minimal Signals talks to Gbg-based experimental artist Jasper TX : http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/20 08/07/mnml-ssgs-mx08-jasper-tx .html
Thank you John from Ohio! Thank you Tyler from California! Thank you Old Man Neil for your 2nd and 3rd donations (bringing your grand total to a whopping $1.99 -- who wants a 5-piece nugget from Wendy's?)! If you have not already, please donate, dear readers. If you have donated, there's no need to donate again. Let the other readers pick up the slack. Why hold a fundraiser? My roommates are moving out and taking their turntable with them, and I don't have money to buy a new one and the new phone/contract I have to purchase next [...]
But first, I have to review this week's news! Hmm...I see...yes, well, that's very interesting ... Oh, I didn't know that was still happening ... You mean they haven't cured it yet? ... I have a difficult time believing his review ... WHy would anybody go see that movie? ... Who owns stock these days? ... Isn't science just the most fascinating ... He's dating her ? ... I didn't know that piss-poor country even had a president! ... Oh shit. I was holding it upside down! [...]
Twelve noon and eighty-eight degrees doesn't seem like an uncomfortably hot day, but I am sitting in my bedroom (in boxers and a t-shirt...eh? Ladies?) and I have actually broken a sweat. It's not like my desk is in direct sunlight either. I have to crane my neck just to see around a neighboring apartment building. Still, I find it unusual that the days seem to go from unseasonably hot to cold in a seemingly random way. Whatever. None of you care about my life and my daily struggles anyway, so here's a new blog entry for you. [...]
I feel like such a waste of life. I got absolutely nothing accomplished this weekend. This is like a dead zone or something. Ken and his lady-friend Katie have flown out to LA from Jersey and are here staying with us for about a week, but all we've done is thrown a big party for Nicci's sister, played some music with Ilya, gotten really wasted and sat around giggling or napping. I think I've been caught in one of those phases where all the days run together to form a linear system of increasingly hazy moments. It's kind of fun [...]
According to this CNet article , the web sites a person visits say as much about them as the clothes they wear and the cars they drive. For example, the author of the article suggests that if you are a frequent MySpace visitor, you are between the ages of 11 and 35, you have never quite grown up, and you are strongly influenced by alternative music. Also MySpace visitors are, "united in their homemade haircuts, abhorrence of popular fashion and fondness for obscure electropunk. Typical MySpace users treat their profiles like a sandbox: a place where they [...]
Today was the big chili cook-off at the Beverly Hills Farmer's Market. You're going to wait until tomorrow (isn't that the refrain of Silverchair's first single?) to hear all about it. If I had two describe it in two words, I will say, "Tears. Hair." I'm sure you will be waiting on the edge of your seat for my description of the event. Yes, there will be pictures. No, they are not good. RULES for uninitiated noobs : With 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods [...]
Under ugly, menacing gray skies , I departed from Tulsa this morning. For only a brief amount of time, I drove along I-44W. Then I exited onto the John Kilpatrick Turnpike (I wondered at the time if Kilpatrick was in any way related to my friend Connor, and I've since found out he was!), and finally took I-40 west for a few hundred miles. I passed nearly nothing all day. There were some giant radio towers though. It rained steadily for the first portion of my drive, and then, slowly, the clouds began to give way [...]
As I write this, I'm watching Mike Lowell hit his second home-run against the Yankees in a hotly contested battle up in Boston. I had a good weekend, thanks for asking. There was socializing, drinking, seeing an old friend, and more. Oh yeah, and Obscure References is trying to put together a national tour. Well, I mean, we've done calculations. So far we contemplated an entire tour (or, as I called it, a "heist") where we pretend our gear was stolen every night (thus cutting down on our costs because we could drive our cars, and not have to rent [...]
For all the gentiles who enjoyed their fancy holiday dinners this evening, I ask that you please enjoy this hollow chocolate Easter bunny of songs. Consider it penance for my people killing your savior all those years ago. What do you say...Truce? RULES for uninitiated noobs : With 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other times I'll just throw songs at [...]
Swan Fungus
It's a trap!
Anti-Gravity Bunny
So the wind won't blow it all away
Forest Gospel
I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
BAND OF HORSES – The Funeral (Sound Remedy Remix)
Antony and the Johnsons - "Rise"
Santigold – The Keepers (Duke Dumont Remix)
