Nicci leaves for Alabama very early tomorrow morning, so I've got to get this posted quickly and start preparing for a short night of sleep and a long day of work tomorrow. Blah. This is gonna suck. RULES for uninitiated noobs : With roughly 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 a wall (not literally) [...]
The Gentleman Losers - Laureline
The 14 tracks service continues apace, the latest selection focusing on the 'Squashed Funk of LA'. So you get the likes of Fly Lo, Madlib, Ras G, Nosaj Thing etc. Do yourself a favour & get the whole bundle, it'll be the best £6.86 you spend all week. From it here's the spasmodic funk of Dam Funk . Dam Funk- Black (Download) Bibio is the subject of this weeks guest list feature on Pitchfork : He mentions The Gentleman Losers 'Laureline' [...]
Most guitar-based ambient artists seem intent on obscuring their sound source, not so with Finnish duo The Gentleman Losers . There's no mistaking the origin of these sounds, though they do indulge in heavy effects now and then. "Ballad of Sparrow Young" is typical of the group: circular guitar figures overlaid by a languid lead melody along with a few other subtle accompanyments. Yes, they do stray towards the new-age end of the musical spectrum, but in typical Scandinavian fashion, feelings of melancholy erase any indications of "mere" peacefulness. And yes, I know it's also not exactly [...]
Mucho le hace honor el nombre Dustland ( Tierra del Polvo ) a la música que encontramos en el segundo disco del dúo finlandés The Gentlemen Losers . Un disco completamente instrumental, sin sorpresas ni pretensiones de reinvención de géneros y cuya intención más inmediata es evocar en el oyente un intimismo melancólico y otoñal, nutrido de un muy acertado manejo de instrumentos tradicionales, discretos loops, escasa percusión y sobrias capas de teclados. Muy en la senda de bandas como Tape o Helios y naturalmente muy afín a las agrupaciones compañeras en el sello City Centre Offices como [...]
Finnish sibling duo Samu and Ville Kuukka, AKA The Gentleman Losers , create atmospheric, instrumental film noir soundtracks for your head, or as they put it, "music from a past that hasn't happened yet." Heavily reverbed guitar lines mesh with brushed percussion and a crystallized ambient electronica coating for a sound that one critic described as the "fine line between twilight beauty and dusky threat." New album Dustland , out July 7, follows up the brothers' eponymous 2006 debut with more gauzy, drifting tracks that seem the ideal aural backdrop to a bleary-eyed, soul-searching sunrise serenade, music that [...]
gentleman losers lullaby of dustland 2009 (française version) Je n'étais pas encore né quand michael jackson est mort. J'étais, caché, dans la matrice. Je ne sais rien. J'ignore tout. Je n'ai pas encore de nom. Suspendu dans l'espace, les eaux m'entourent... (englikhtonian version) I was not even born when michael jackson died. Hidden, I was in the womb. [...]
Here's the recap for last Thursday's heartbreaking loss. In the bottom of the final inning, Bunch Of Guys beat us on a walk-off one-out double. It stung. Top 1: Nate K's one batter and gets through the inning without surrendering a single run. Bottom 1: Pat homers in is first at-bat, hitting one off the base of the wall and racing around the bases, knocking home Pete to give us an early 2-0 lead. Top 2: Nate K's his second batter and gets through the inning without surrending a run. Is this going to [...]
Jun 3, 2009, 1:00am
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Die Musik der Gebrüder Kuukka lässt die Welt im Staub versinken. In magischem Goldstaub. Das Stück "Gold Dust Afternoon" ist zwar bereits drei Jahre alt und stammt noch vom Debüt, nimmt aber nicht nur das Thema des neuen Albums "Dustland" vorweg, sondern auch dessen eigentümliche Besinnlichkeit. Samu und Ville hüllen die Welt um einen rum mit äusserst gefühlvollen Arrangements und sanfter Elektronik in feinen Dunst, der als nebliger Schleier die Sicht verklärt und der Wahrnehmung die Schärfe nimmt. Verträumte Melodien und dezente Beats lassen lästige Partikel und märchenhaften Blütenstaub wie ebenso frei schwebende Gedanken versöhnlich in goldenem Dämmerlichte flimmern, bevor sie sich auf die [...]
Hey everyone, it's Evan! I'm back! My laptop has a new keyboard and I've been itching to return to blogging every day. There was a scary moment this morning when I turned on my computer and the keyboard didn't work, but I reset the machine and everything worked again. I was quite nervous. Did you miss me? Yeah, shut up, you missed me. I want to send a quick thank you to Katie (kT), Bennett, Z, Reader X and Marika for their gracious contributions to Swan Fungus during my absence. Their terse, anodyne prose was truly a welcome [...]
Wow. Last night's dinner party was pretty incredible. Good people, excellent food, an overall great experience. I sampled dishes I'd ordinarily shy away from, and tried my best to liven up the gathering with my particular brand of humor and gregariousness. On a scale of one-to-ten, I'd say my performance was a twenty-two billion, three-hundred eighty-four million, seventy-six thousand, one-hundred and forty two. Thanks, alcohol! Sorry. In all honesty, it was the most fun I've had here yet. Also, in accordance with the laws of full-disclosure, I'm obligated to inform you that I had to choke back a [...]
Swan Fungus
Der Schwarze Salon
Just Press Play
It's a trap!
Super 45
Direct Current
So the wind won't blow it all away
Bison - Quill
SABRINA JOHNSTON + TIEFSCHWARTZ
American Idol Finalists: where are they now?
