Today was one of those "I hate my life" days, but since I came home from work things are slowly turning around. Maybe a little Sunday Mix Tape will help sooth my frazzled nerves. 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) and see [...]
De eerst festivaldag had op het programma: Mira Calix set against strings, Kok & Deiman, Ryoichi Kurokawa, William Basinski, It's A Musical, Sin Fang Bous, Borko en Humanworkshop. Uw eclectro verslaggevers hebben zich met name op gehouden in het imposante Energiehuis waar de meeste electronische muziek geprogrammeerd stond. Unaniem waren we het erover eens dat Ryoichi Kurokawa de beste performance had vrijdagavond: Klik hier om de embedded video te bekijken. William Basinski werd door velen niet echt begrepen terwijl anderen juist [...]
Record Store Day was a smashing success. We brought in, as far as I know, the 2nd largest amount of dollars in any sale in the history of the store. The only day that outperformed yesterday was Christmas '08. Who the hell says we're in an economic depression? When a tiny independent store can rake in twice my annual salary in a span of nine hours...it really makes one wonder. I'd post some pictures to prove how much pandemonium there was yesterday, but I've yet to find any circulating online. Oh well, it's your loss. That said, today [...]
photo: Georg Parthen The radio aches a little tune that tells the story of what the night is thinking. It's thinking of love. It's thinking of stabbing us to death and leaving our bodies in a dumpster. That's a nice touch, stains in the night, whiskey and kisses for everyone. - Richard Siken, Little Beast . Gonzales - Overnight Solo Piano (Pony Canyon / 2005) Scsi-9 - Señorita [...]
Did you all remember to deprive yourselves of one hour of sleep this morning? I sure did! I had to be at work early and the entire day just kind of crept by like the slowest, most excruciating event since...uh...that presentation I had to give for English class my senior year of high school. Sure, on those rare occasions when I actually eat lunch (Sundays only), it usually revitalizes my spirits, but for some reason today it made me even more tired. Oh well. Two more days until my "weekend", and LOST . Too bad Top Chef [...]
I've done some unfortunate shit in my time. At the age of three I robbed an egg from the fridge and sat on it to see if it would hatch. In junior infants I walked out of the classroom jacks with little gardenhead waving in the breeze and asked the teacher for toilet roll. In second class I called my teacher "Mammy" in front of a ruthless audience of sneering Kells boys. At the age of twenty, when at a house-party, I necked some extra virgin olive oil from a fancy bottle thinking it was white wine. This week, the [...]
Hangover mixtape from Oxford-based experimenters, Youthmovies this weekend. check out the tracklist and other stuff in the read more. 01 Emeralds - 'Magic'. 02 Neil Young - 'On The Beach'. 03 Grouper - 'Heavy Water / I'd Rather Be Sleeping'. 04 Adam Gnade - 'The Winter / Their Apartment'. 05 M Ward - 'Let's Dance'. 06 Fennesz - 'The Point Of It All'. 07 Red House Painters - 'Katy Song'. 08 Tall Firs - 'So Messed Up'. 09 Jason Molina - 'Everything Should Try Again'. 10 William Basinski - 'DP3'. [...]
Only recently did The Urban Legend hip us to The Fun Years , an electrodrone duo whose music not only maps an overlap between the hypnotic iterations of William Basinski and the quieter elegies of A For Carnation but also serially draws comparisons to Wolfgang Voigt's sublime GAS project. After listening to The Fun Years ' gauzy music for several weeks, we were surprised to learn that the now bi-coastal concern -- featuring Cambridge-based turntablist Isaac Sparks and California-based guitarist/laptopper Ben Recht -- had booked a live performance in the [...]
Hey, in case you haven't noticed, my website broke. I don't even know if anyone will be able to read this, but have no fear, I'm trying to fix things. And by that I mean I'm crying and jerking off and submitting questions to support forums across the Internet, and waiting for some kind soul to help me. The page might be fixed at any moment, or it might never be fixed. Who the fuck knows, really? By the way, if anybody reading this knows anything about WordPress, Blogger, 1and1, and subdomains, now would be a really good [...]
Some bits and bobs: -The most mammy CNN headline ever: "Russian tanks and troops on way to troubled region." -A good Fader article by Jace Clayton aka DJ/Rupture on the new cumbia scene. For a taste, check the Bersa Discos site, co-run by my old friend Gavin Burnett (DJ Oro11). Tropical, latin and psychedelic is right. -Been digging out from a promo backlog lately and I'm surprised to see a lot of familiar old names: The Orb, Bomb the Bass, Red Snapper and Nightmares on Wax. Need to digest properly [...]
Why am I so, so tired? As I write this I have just awoken from a mini-slumber. Earlier tonight I tried watching The Polar Express with Nicci to officially usher in the Christmas season, but unfortunately I could not keep my eyes open, and missed the majority of the animated holiday magic. Not only that, I decided to venture up to the garage with Ilya and others for a brief session, completely shirking my mix tape duties, so this has all been thrown together with alarming speed. Hopefully it doesn't totally suck, you'll understand my somnolence, and give [...]
Cover art: Ryoji Ikeda "Dataplex" (Raster-Noton, 2005) The same thing happens every day. We wake up, eat breakfast, go to work or college, maybe have some fun afterwards and then go back to sleep again. It is a continuous cycle that is so familiar that we are even unaware of its existence. It provides us stability and structure and when you are right in the middle of it (which you are, right now) you hardly recognize the changes that are taking place. You are simply too close to see them. Only if you take [...]
We at Audiversity have been toying with a few ideas to mix things up a bit without losing our straight-ahead ethos of music reviews. Bigger things in bigger ways are the stuff of bar chats over cold brews, but for now we have decided to devote Saturdays to the glory of literary limitation. This new aspect gives us a chance to comment on videos or music that do not fit into either the New Release of Essential Classic columns, but it's a place where we can still have a little fun. In celebration of this being Post #144, we [...]
Stolen blatantly from a friend and former-Stayfun writer. So Stayfun takes no credit at all for this mix, purely the good work of Nick (No Longer) in Korea. The original post is here - just trying to spread the love a bit further. If you have any comments, best to send them directly to Nick at the above link. ------------ A 77 minute compilation of mainly pretty, downbeat stuff. Go on, you know you want to. 01 - goldmund - methusela tree (4.48) http://www.yousendit.com/trans fer.php?action=download&ufid=5 2F9A82A2D078058 [...]
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