I first wrote about the Before the Rain soundtrack almost three years ago . Since then, that album has been a regular fixture on my iPod. Something about the deeply somber slavic lyrics combined with Byzantine melodies, and moody folk instrumentation that just clicks well with me. However, the movie itself has been out of print for years. One of those films that just missed the cutoff from VHS to DVD, and didn't have the video sales for movie companies to merit a fresh release to DVD. Until now, [...]
So, I might as well reveal the other reason I haven't been posting that much. My wife is pregnant with our first child. It's meant a flurry of activity at our house... painting, rearranging, classes, doctor appointments, unscheduled Emergency Room visits, etc., etc. We are currently converting the second bedroom in our place from a dual office into a baby's room. The problem is, that office is where I've been keeping all my CDs. And as a former DJ, I have a large amount of them... in overflowing binders, shoved into individual plastic sleeves, stacked into and [...]
So, I might as well reveal the other reason I haven't been posting that much. My wife is pregnant with our first child. It's meant a flurry of activity at our house... painting, rearranging, classes, doctor appointments, unscheduled Emergency Room visits, etc., etc. We are currently converting the second bedroom in our place from a dual office into a baby's room. The problem is, that office is where I've been keeping all my CDs. And as a former DJ, I have a large amount of them... in overflowing binders, shoved into individual plastic sleeves, stacked into and [...]
Looks like I'm posting once a month these days. Got some stuff going on in my personal life that I'll share with you later. It's a very, very good thing, but something that does occupy the majority of my private time. For some reason, I got about TEN e-mails telling me about an MP3 from the new Ladytron CD being available. Literally, ten e-mails. Guess, someone's got a happy send button or something. I've talked about the cluelessness of Ladytron's US press team before , so that's hardly surprising. [...]
Looks like I'm posting once a month these days. Got some stuff going on in my personal life that I'll share with you later. It's a very, very good thing, but something that does occupy the majority of my private time. For some reason, I got about TEN e-mails telling me about an MP3 from the new Ladytron CD being available. Literally, ten e-mails. Guess, someone's got a happy send button or something. I've talked about the cluelessness of Ladytron's US press team before , so that's hardly surprising. [...]
There are a lot of reasons why I haven't posted much lately. But mostly it's that whole hoarding music vs. savoring music thing I've written about. With a Rapidshare account, I find myself much more apt to hoard lots and lots of music rather write about it. And if I were to point my fat, greasy, over-priveleged finger in an accusatory blog as the main source of my hoarding, it would have to be w-ki.com . Holy shit, do these guys have [...]
There are a lot of reasons why I haven't posted much lately. But mostly it's that whole hoarding music vs. savoring music thing I've written about. With a Rapidshare account, I find myself much more apt to hoard lots and lots of music rather write about it. And if I were to point my fat, greasy, over-priveleged finger in an accusatory blog as the main source of my hoarding, it would have to be w-ki.com . Holy shit, do these guys have [...]
Well, that's certainly one of the nicest looking dexes I've ever seen. Nice use of the Ninja Tune logo. Lately I find myself skipping past the Amon Tobin/Ninja Tune stuff when my iPod is on shuffle, but I do give them props for an excellent logo. Someone with decent taste was doing some uploading too. Some choice tracks from DJ Cam , Joy Division , James Brown , Tosca , Cut Chemist , etc., etc. A real [...]
Well, that's certainly one of the nicest looking dexes I've ever seen. Nice use of the Ninja Tune logo. Lately I find myself skipping past the Amon Tobin/Ninja Tune stuff when my iPod is on shuffle, but I do give them props for an excellent logo. Someone with decent taste was doing some uploading too. Some choice tracks from DJ Cam , Joy Division , James Brown , Tosca , Cut Chemist , etc., etc. A real [...]
Still on the soundtrack theme, I found this curious little dex . It's curious because apart from the obligatory Philip Glass and Tangerine Dream , is also some sort of "classic" Hollywood action film soundtrack MP3s. The bitrate is abysmal, but the main theme to Rambo 2 is on here. And so is a godawful, obvious love scene MP3 called " Skyline " from the soundtrack to Cobra. Cobra . Jeez, that takes me back. Based on the amount of sequels Stallone has been shitting out [...]
Still on the soundtrack theme, I found this curious little dex . It's curious because apart from the obligatory Philip Glass and Tangerine Dream , is also some sort of "classic" Hollywood action film soundtrack MP3s. The bitrate is abysmal, but the main theme to Rambo 2 is on here. And so is a godawful, obvious love scene MP3 called " Skyline " from the soundtrack to Cobra. Cobra . Jeez, that takes me back. Based on the amount of sequels Stallone has been shitting out [...]
Thanks for the comments, friends. I'm taking Christian's comment to heart. I think I am just truly over-loaded, gorging myself on music. It's a wonderful, beautiful thing, of course. Having too much quality music at my fingertips is a fantastic problem to have- nothing to complain about! However, it does put me in a position to write less and search for things to write about lesser still. But I did take the time today to peek through some dexes today though, and check this one out . Yes. Most of it is [...]
Thanks for the comments, friends. I'm taking Christian's comment to heart. I think I am just truly over-loaded, gorging myself on music. It's a wonderful, beautiful thing, of course. Having too much quality music at my fingertips is a fantastic problem to have- nothing to complain about! However, it does put me in a position to write less and search for things to write about lesser still. But I did take the time today to peek through some dexes today though, and check this one out . Yes. Most of it is [...]
Whether you like Prog Rock or not, there's an interesting development happening now with the Prog Not Frog MP3 blog. PNF uses a rapidshare/megaupload system of sharing MP3s. Typically, PNF will share entire albums of long forgotten and out-of-print prog records along with a couple other things like world music that strike the bloggers' fancy. They've run into a problem recently with one person (or possibly persons) who have their own psuedo-blog at progagainstpirates.blogspot.co m . Basically, any time Prog Not Frog posts some MP3s to Rapidshare, the progagainstpirates [...]
Whether you like Prog Rock or not, there's an interesting development happening now with the Prog Not Frog MP3 blog. PNF uses a rapidshare/megaupload system of sharing MP3s. Typically, PNF will share entire albums of long forgotten and out-of-print prog records along with a couple other things like world music that strike the bloggers' fancy. They've run into a problem recently with one person (or possibly persons) who have their own psuedo-blog at progagainstpirates.blogspot.co m . Basically, any time Prog Not Frog posts some MP3s to Rapidshare, the progagainstpirates [...]
Yesterday, I clicked on PLHH.com for the first time in a year or so. Holy shit am I glad I did. Look what's coming to Chicago (and New York): To roughly translate, giant fucking Polish hip hop show in Chicago on January 26th! While Molesta Ewenement is not on the bill, the show does have some large names in the Polish hip hop world: Pezet and Plomien 81 being the names I recognize. [...]
Yesterday, I clicked on PLHH.com for the first time in a year or so. Holy shit am I glad I did. Look what's coming to Chicago (and New York): To roughly translate, giant fucking Polish hip hop show in Chicago on January 26th! While Molesta Ewenement is not on the bill, the show does have some large names in the Polish hip hop world: Pezet and Plomien 81 being the names I recognize. [...]
My love for the Polish hip hop is well-documented , but I haven't touched much on Poland's next-door neighbor's hip hop habits that much. Thankfully, stanislav.net has given my ass a kick with this tremendous dex . As far as I can tell, "Hip Hop Info" is a series of Russian hip hop compilations. And Stanislav here is giving you NINE volumes of it. From 1995 to 2001. Wow, right? Pretty amazing... you can listen to the evolution of a genre over time... [...]
My love for the Polish hip hop is well-documented , but I haven't touched much on Poland's next-door neighbor's hip hop habits that much. Thankfully, stanislav.net has given my ass a kick with this tremendous dex . As far as I can tell, "Hip Hop Info" is a series of Russian hip hop compilations. And Stanislav here is giving you NINE volumes of it. From 1995 to 2001. Wow, right? Pretty amazing... you can listen to the evolution of a genre over time... [...]
Hey, you know how I was just talking about the brilliance of Kraftwerk's "The Model?" I've found like a dozen covers of it on this Polish dex . Actually, it's a lot more than just covers of the Model. It's covers of a ton of different Kraftwerk songs, Krafterk mash-ups, remixes, mega-mixes and ripoffs. Just about every Kraftwerk cover I know of *except* the Big Black one I mentioned in the previous post. If you listen to ten different covers of "The Model" in a row, [...]
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