Today marks a very special occasion for this blog, and it could be perceived as a happy thing or a sad thing depending on how you look at it. Tonight will be the final Sunday Mix Tape. I'm stopping at number 100, and in all likelihood there will never be another Mix Tape posted here. Since I started doing this over two years ago, a ton of music blogs (remember: this isn't a music blog, no matter what others say) have followed my lead. Some of them have even stolen my themes! Whatever, I don't give a fuck. I know [...]
Since I'll have several days without any real responsibility around here I decided to finally condense my 25+ years of pack-ratting down to smaller, more portable containers. I had been storing everything in enormous, 60-gallon tubs that were so packed they couldn't be moved by a single person. Anyway, while going through everything I found stuff I didn't even remember I owned but, strangely, have become reattached to. Prime examples of what I consider to be treasures: -Original PYLON fan club membership package (circa 1989) -A hoard of early [...]
Lumerians Genre: Rock / Rock / Rock From: San Francisco, California United States via out of space Beamed down to a grateful planet by a civilisation far more advanced than our own. The enigmatic Lumerians are a humanoid species, clearly noticeable by their distinctive forehead markings and unusual musical instruments. As a species they are gifted with empathic abilities and are able to ritually form a [...]
Hello my loves. I'm currently scribing from the kitchen, where Sari is preparing a massive Sunday afternoon spread that includes homemade bruschetta and all sorts of yummy snacks. We're several bottles in, and it's been a generally beatific day. Not sure what the plan is tonight, but I have to be asleep at a reasonable hour thanks to another voluntary airport run in the wee hours of tomorrow morning. Hopefully this won't happen again for a while. Now here's the music. RULES for uninitiated noobs : With 100MB of webspace, I give birth to [...]
artwork by ben sisto cc by-sa But that just doesn't sound right . It's 2007, and there's still no good solution out there when looking for non-mainstream music digitally. People want a place where they can find most everything they're looking for, and it came the closest to anything out there. I often said that I'd happily pay a monthly fee for it so that the money could go back to the artists. There is no other site out there with that kind of selection, those [...]
Paper - underground (As as / 2007) Other people's children - On a clear day (On a clear day 73 / 2001) Lali Puna - nin-com-pop (Scary world theory / 2001) Chrisma - c-rock (C-rock / 1977) Wilco - spiders (kidsmoke) (a ghost is born / 2005) [...]
The argument of whether or not to offer free mp3s on my blog is one that's raged on inside me ever since I began to take this blog more seriously last year. With how effortless it is to host files online for free with sites like Yousendit, and the newness of treating mp3s as legitimate products you purchase and own, it's easy to forget what the files represent: hours and hours of creative effort and a good deal of money spent making the product available. The internal debate intensified as Ewan Pearson , Ronan and JBH spoke [...]
Krautrock is one of those genres that had monumental impact on modern music without ever really becoming well-known to the mainstream. The term itself is used to refer to a collective of German bands in the early 70's who pushed the boundaries between music & noise, rhythm & art. Really, it can be seen as a subgenre of progressive rock - but without all the cheese that accompanies typical prog-rock or the lame "we're going to use synths 'cuz we can use synths" philosophies. We are talking about music that is, in most regards, [...]
artwork: dishwasher safe by krames So there has recently been some talk about " neu rave ," and I thought it might be worth clarifying. Just what we need, another genre, right? And if that wasn't enough, what about " blog house ?" In any case, I'm not so sure that neu rave actually exists (also note the german spelling, consistent with this blog). In fact, I'm pretty sure that it doesn't. But let's just pretend that it does, for the sake of the following hypothetical. According to [...]
artwork: max williams by way of blaze Remember that kid that was a complete prodigy at the violin or that one that seemed to be able to answer every math problem even before it was asked? Or how about the kid that could recite the digits of pi to no end ? Many would believe that these people had some kind of innate ability to do what they could do really well. But psychological studies show that in fact, to a large extent, " experts are [...]
artwork: remix of original by a cherry blossom girl I threw out all of my tapes recently. It was somewhat unintentional, as I was caught up in moving and the pressure to get rid of things, but unfortunately it was only after the fact that I realized what a stupid thing it was to do. At the time, I remember thinking, well I can get it all digitally anyway, who needs these shitty, low quality analog tapes? Right? But the thing is, even if I had the tracklisting from [...]
artwork: basit khan As seen by recent posts on Palms Out and this very blog , we are a generation obsessed with Daft Punk. Our parents may have rejected disco in 1979 at a sporting event, but we are the ones that rediscovered it. Or at the very least, we saw through the bullshit like Disco Duck and Disco Inferno and a landfill of other cheesy anthems destined to be on a 70's compilation. Labels like Crydamoure and Roulé (both members of [...]
artwork: vol a vue So with all of this talk of blog house and DJs downloading tracks off of blogs the morning of and playing it that night, electronic music visionary David Day had a pretty ingenious idea. Instant DJ Network . You download the mix as soon as it's done and play it right then and there in the club. You trade tracks with other people playing in other places. In a way it's [...]
artwork: gold chain "Make new friends, but keep the old..." You know how it goes, right? Well I think there's something to be said about remembering the musical past of electronic music. As seems to be continually reinforced , much of what we have today has been borrowed from the past, and peering into where it all came from can be a valuable experience. Sometimes it's an overt and recognizable sample, and in others, it's a more latent stylistic influence. The Electroclass mentioned briefly before really [...]
artwork: aphid Ever feel like you have constant ADD? Well it seems that increasingly, our generation suffers from what has been termed infomania. Can't go more than 10 minutes without checking your email or myspace or text messages? Well then you're not alone. Infomania has been loosely defined as "the urge to check email, text messaging and other sources of information, which causes the person showing symptoms to neglect other, often more important things." Basically, we just can't sit down and enjoy ourselves anymore. We need to be [...]
Amon Düül II - Kanaan [MP3] Amon Düül II - She Came Through the Chimney [MP3] Can - Halleluwah [MP3] Can - One More Night [MP3] Neu! - Hallogallo [MP3] Faust - Krautrock [MP3] The beginner in the title refers to me. I can't remember exactly what I was listening to in the late 1990s when the Krautrock revival apparently happened but a fair guess would be the seemingly endless supply of funk compilations that got released around that time. [...]
Yes, I have been gone a long time and the story of my dissapearance is strange indeed. I will, however, regale you with it should that be agreeable? It is? Excellent... Dark were those first... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit http://20jazzfunkgreats.blogsp ot.com for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Teutonic sounds for a weekend that came a tad late for me. Most of the songs feature a steady motorik beat set to replicate the experience of motorway driving through the autobahn... or just bouncing on your living room alone at 4 am. All flowing, repetitive and slightly snobbish. An accurate aural copy of how I've been feeling this week. 01. Gas - untitled 1 (Pop, 2000) 02. Zorn - eckermann (block 011, 2001) 03. Mikkel Metal - kaluga [...]
Miho Hatori "Ecdysis" - Video treatment: At the start of the clip, Miho Hatori buries a bag of candies, but when they are put in the soil, a colorful stalk pops up from the ground. As the churning bassline enters the mix, the radiant, pastel-hued stalk grows higher and higher. At first, she goes about her business, but is distracted by its presence -- she can see it everywhere she goes in her town. She decides to climb it, and as she does, she sees her home eventually disappear beneath her as she scales up the [...]
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REMIX SUNDAYS- May 27th, 2012
(Re)Covered, Vol. XXVI: New Covers of… The Band, Paul Simon, Bill Withers, Springsteen, Dylan, & more!
