are bound to change soon, but before they do, here are some of them to listen to: cheree, halleluhwah, holland tunnel drive, look ka py-py. more later.

it is now later: come wind come rain, nonalignment pact, paris 1919, thorn.

have i really not posted anything new this year? that's weird 'cause i've been listening to a lot of 'new' stuff lately, most of which i was introduced to in texas by my friend andy who used to work at kvrx in austin. hopefully that means that i'll be getting a lot of it up here in the near future.

my xmas present from andy was a mix cd, and my favorite song on it is currently william devaughn's be thankful for what you got, which i had never heard (or never noticed) before the mix cd, but which i've heard on the radio once or twice since. if you already know all about it, then please excuse my naivete, but if not then listen to it over and over again right now.

also on the cd: a bunch of houston (that's h-town) rappers singing about mouth jewelry... maybe not the most engaging topic for some people, but i like the songs. one of my favorites is from the south by Z-Ro, Paul Wall (who, from what i can gather, actually sells grills in addition to rapping about them), and Lil Flip.

this is probably dated, but when rory pointed out that my year-end singles list missed very noteworthy remixes, i vowed to make a remix list. i'm guessing that most of the songs on this list are implanted in everyone's brain by now, but maybe you've forgotten about some of them by now, so go retro:

1. teen angst - luciano remixex m83
2. drop the pressure - rex the dog remixes mylo
3. what else is there? - trentemøller remixes röyksopp
4. avalon - jacques lu cont remixes juliet
5. our house - ada remixes int'l pony
6. jetstream - richard x remixes new order
7. maps - m mayer and t thomas remix ada
8. technologic - vitalic remixes daft punk
9. who is it - vitalic remixes bjork
10. eve - dj koze remixes ada
11. follow you - d eulberg remixes dj hell
12. jetstream - jacques lu cont remixes new order

i could definitely keep going, but these are my favorites (maybe richard x does freeform five would be next). maybe, after seeing the list outside of itunes, i would concede that i've given too much attention to ada, but i feel some guilt for totally ignoring blondie in 2004. also expect to take some flak for putting rex the dog remix of mylo so high, but that track was necessary and maybe even serves as some sort of neat little summary (cliff's notes?) for what 2005 music was often about for me.

vitalic + puppies = superawesome video

the first side of la monte young's black record is blowing me away tonight. i love it when a peice of music just up and plasters a grin of pure enjoyment on my face. i've been obsessed with throat droning all week, i had to stop myself from belting it out along with him (some dude is asleep on our couch, damn it).

i think this recording is the closest i've come to finding my ideal of super minimal yet hefty and rich sounding drone (not that i've looked very hard (recommendation welcome)): ambient that's not ephemeral is as close as i can come to pinning down what i'm after. he varies the vocals a little too frequently for my taste (ideally i'd like to hear something that varies approx 10x as slow), but that's being overly picky i think.

the only thing wrong with it is that at 23 minutes it's FAR, FAR too short. does anyone know if any long-ass tapes of similar sessions exist/are bootlegged? i've been looping it but as a solution it's far from ideal. i think i might try to solve this prob and get that slower tempo by just playing the thing back at a much slower speed. it will be all bass-y i guess, but that's a plus in general in my book as well.

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update: wow. playing with this track in live was really fun. i need to do that more often.

also, if anyone wants to buy my love, feel free.

i cannot stop listening to the fox (who?) song that fluxblog posted the other day. must have missed it the first time around.

fuck overconsumption angst. if i can keep finding and loving awesome stuff like this i think i'll be able to deal with the overload/undervaluation.

updated the links section:

nyplm is dead, but the usual suspects can be found at the poptimist and sükråt livejournal communities, doing their thing in a somewhat more casual style (plus mark s is there! talking about music!). alldisco is dead as well. electronic music links is a new (massive) blogger page with links to a ridiculuous amount of dj sets. jahsonic should have been linked long ago. i added a couple of non-exlusively music blogs (jane dark and k-punk), whose content is so ridiculously good that you should read them anyway (plus their music posts are routinely really really good). also added a new find, mike powell's peanut butter word's and haha breath. lastly, back and forth is a new group blog by lots of the same people that never post to house is a feeling. soooo much potential for it to be awesome, i hope they actually post there...

well, i failed to find a copy of that's my beat, but i found plenty of other records on which to blow my money:

anyone interested in the confluence of early hip hop, disco/house, electro, (and weird new york club music from the early 80's in general) is well advised to check out mantronix's that's my beat, out a couple years ago on soul jazz.

shit is intense. not a comp of his tracks, but rather selections of his that represent the scence of which he was a part, so everything is a bit different. not mixed either, which suprised me a bit, but whatever. all the songs are super vibrant and fertile sounding, and cohesive in their weird way though. THIS is the 80's sound that needs reviving. really really great.

sample tracks:

• suszy q – get on up & do it again


• art of noise – beatbox


• pleasure boys – visage


• machine – there but for the grace of god

ha, i was trying to pick out a couple of representative tracks (should i throw up the electro one? well which one, the bambaata influenced one or one of the other weird ones? which flavor of house? etc...) and was totally stumped, as these songs are all REALLY different, even though they def share a unifying spirit of some sort. so i just posted four random tracks. go buy the vinyl. that's what i'm gonna go do as soon as i'm done posting this...

explanation for this post.

• me plus one - i always think of this songs as half way in between chewing gum and heartbeat, even thought that doesn't make much sense. i like it more than chewing gum but less than heartbeats, which should have been the only annie song on this disc.
  
• cherry blossom girl - v pretty song from a disc i never really got into aside from this. glad it's here.
  
• was a time - schuffle-cheese. awesome.
  
• save a horse (ride a cowboy) - weird country. i like this song ok, but i def didn't get the same charge out of it that kogan etc did. prob need to listen to more legit country to get the context...
  
• happiness (m. mayer mix) - this track is good. really good. but still, i always hope that the mayer/superpitcher interface will blow my mind, and it has not done so yet, so there is always a little bit of disappointment when i listen to this track. (how fucking spoiled does that sound?)
  
• world war iv - i get the same charge out of this that i think some people get out of operatic metal or queen. i love the balls out entusiasm this dude has for his sound: ridiculous falsettos, big riffs, synth solos... being generally poptastic doesn't hurt either. i can't believe no one else was into this last year.
  
• i'm a cuckoo (avalanches mix) - avalanches take the first b&s song i've liked in ages and make it even better. i can't wait for their new album, if they ever get around to making one.
  
• walking machine - i want to dismiss this as nice enough if generic riffy-electropop, but it always grows on me when i hear it.
  
• frei/hotlove (justus köhncke feat meloboy remix) - what a brilliantly weird remix. justus so crazy! schufflier and cheesier than the whigfield song, if you didn't think that was possible.
  
• listen to the hiss (tiefschwarz remix) - the wheeze/scream intro to this track was one of my fav sounds from 04. sweet track. i'm sad i've never been able to hear this on a really loud system, esp when it freaks out halfway through.

previous batch.

just discovered the les visiteurs remix of "drop it lik it's hot", "snoops acid drop". so good. that makes two incredible snoop remixes from 2005 that won't be ever officially released. but through the magic of the internet you can hear it anyway!

tom signs off. sad to see the old girl go. i suppose lasting 6 years is like living to 200 in blog time, but still.

the freakytrigger crew (and especially mr. ewing) almost singlehandedly turned the way i thought about music on its head back in '01. for a good three years it was the hub of my online/music-nerding world, and remains one of the main pillars of my music (and art in general) aesthetic.

nyplm also holds the dubious distinction of being the first music blog (or blog at all) that i ever knowingly encountered, and god knows what a dark path that's lead down.

you should all take tom up on his recommendation and check out the archives. there is soooo much great stuff in there. just pick a random month from 2001-2 and you will be astounded.

best. blog. ever. for seriously.

house is a feeling goes riff? whatever, i just wish they'd post more than once a month...