have mostly been work listens. at home i listen to my records (new & good: mountain goats 4ad albums finally on vinyl (so glad to finally pay for dude's songs), magnetic fields charm of the highway strip (same), glimmers edits box, james brown live at the apollo, quiet village silent movie, studio (still...)), some podcasts, and movin' 92.5.

but most of the music i listen to is at work, where unless i play something in the kitchen to drown out the crappy xm that's pumped into the cafe, i have to endure it (40's big band station that cycles thought he same 25 songs is inhumane). so i usually have something playing on the little radio whose cd player is pretty shot, so it's either kexp/kbcs/movin', or tapes.

ahh, tapes. too lazy to track down blanks and make my own too often, i've been hitting the 2/$1 deal at everyday pretty hard. paul simon, pet shop boys, depeche mode, miami vice soundtrack, vangelis... anything white people listened too in the 80's is apparently really cheap if you're willing to listen to it on degraded cassettes.

favs though are two tapes that i picked up mostly on a whim:



bass patrol's planet bass, aside from having one of the best covers i've ever seen, is fucking badass pounding miami bass. my exposure to that sound has always been mediated through other genres, so i don't really know how it compares with other stuff from that period, but damn. so good.

played it for alex and i'd say it floored him but it did the exact opposite in that he started bouncing around and saying silly things like "this is the only thing i want to dance to ever."

bass patrol - eddy mix



sly and robbie's reggae greats is far more chill, but after about three weeks i'm pretty sure it's one of the best albums i own. amazing tunes by sly and robbie mixed up and dubbed to fuck my the mixing engineer. very deep dubba.

sly and robbie - demolition city

cop them shits, and remember to play them with the bass turned way up.

vinyl and the like:

• roy ayers - everybody loves the sunshine
  
• various dfa 12"s (syclops, h&la, still going, gucci soundsystem, altz, ...)
  
• p.i.l. - metal box
  
• studio - west coast
  
• the slits - cut
  
• john cale and terry riley - church of anthrax
  

podcasts:

• beats in space
  
• allez-allez
  
• resident advisor
  
• dj /rupture on wfmu
  
• lovefingers
  
• bumrocks

mix blogs

• another night on earth
  
• trackwerk
  
• sounds of the apocalypse
  
• this is not an exit

west coast has been ruling my life for the past few days, especially the opener "origin", a sixteen minute track that is over too soon. it turns to pure magic at about the 7:50 mark, but it is all wonderful.

studio - origin
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as many laserpeople may know, we got it for cheap vol 3 dropped recently, and is good. i have been feeling more oldschool lately though, and have been listening to the effing awesome mixtapes that dj sloppy white is now giving away for free at his site.

the frankie knuckles remix of blind by hercules and love affair sounds like the most devastatingly beautiful thing i've heard in years. has arthur russell's vocal style become a thing while i've been not paying attention to music? i wish i could concentrate enough to write about it but i just want to listen to it over and over... not going to post it but you can find it at the hype machine.

shortly after getting a new laptop on which i can listen to loads of free music i... went and bought a bunch of records. went edit crazy and picked up half of the underdog edits and the first three wurst edits. also grabbed the hatchback white diamond 12" with the infamous prins thomas remix on the b side... listened to that many times already; very pretty.

internet music i have heard lately:

• new mountain goats album (really great)
  
• new magnetic fields album (really great)
  
• peter visti's balaero-cosmic edit/remix/cover of dolly parton's jolene (fucking fantastic, listen at xxjfg)

now rocking a refurbed thinkpad running ubuntu. i know, i know, using ubuntu linux is like riding a pista and thinking you're cool, but it's better than windows and lets me use a laptop that, unlike all the mac 'books i've encountered, probably won't die every nine months.

maybe i will start listening to lots of music again, who knows?

so far, on my new 'pad, i have listened to and enjoyed two mixes:

• this is not an exit vol. 9


• peter visti's mix for 24 hours