thank you thank you thank you for making the perfect beats compilations exist. they are EXACTLY what i need this summer.

i've been really into the mantronix-curated that's my beat comp that came out on soul jazz a couple of years ago, but i never really got atound to checking out much of kurtis mantronik's original productions. i think that's going to change soon...

heard this track track on a sweet-ass mix from this is not an exit. that mix is really good. kind of reminded me of optimo a little, in that current hip dance meets old hip semi-atonal pre/post-punky whathaveyou vibe. maybe listing some of the tracks is a better description: can and emperor machine, delia & gavin and the velvets, etc. i thought it would be kind of boring... 'oh, another one of those kind of mixes', but i've played it a bunch of times and have yet to get tired of it. and this was one of the highlights:

• raconteurs – steady as she goes (radio slave vs tommie sunshine remix)

been avoiding gnarles barkley, certain that i would not like it, based on dangermouse's involvement in the most unfortunate grey album. this morning, one of the local hip-hop stations exposed me to the single crazy. oh, what a fool i've been. guess i should read stereogum more often.

i feel so reconnected to the youth (i.e. the myspace generation)! is disco returning to the mainstream for real?

in case you've heard 'what else is there?' and 'beautiful day without your' and were wondering if there are any other gems on röyksopp's the understanding, i recommend 49 percent.

(though i have the feeling this has already made the rounds, and i just missed out... oh well... glad rob finally turned me on to it.)

recently lost all the music on my ipod as a result of the database file becoming corrupt when i unplugged without ejecting. this turned out to be a good thing. i had to waste hours of time (when i should have been studying for a condensed matter final) reloading the ipod, but i got to leave out a lot of crap to which i don't listen anymore.

it also gave me lots of time to listen to stuff i had not yet heard/did not expect to really like. some of the most enjoyable bits were

the new thom yorke (it was cloudy outside)

the new junior boys (thought i had outgrown these guys - i was wrong)

the old cocteau twins (track)

(search for samples of first two with elbo.ws.)

also, i'm still really in to jean-michel jarre's zoolook. it's the only thing i've heard by him. where do i go next?