voiding
i finally just pinned it down: the bass stabs in carl craig's remix of delia and gavin's "revelee" sounds like the brown note (not brown note).
dfa'd
went to the dfa dj tour last night when it came through seattle, and caught james murphy and john maclean aka the juan maclean spinning for three hours or so. it was pretty damn awesome, i danced my ass of for the better part of the night. they played a more straight-up disco/house/techno set than i was expecting, which was great 'cause i wanted to dance and i love that stuff, but i think some of the people where kind of dissapointed that there was no ke-razy punkfunk action.
but the shit they played was fantasic and had me grinning like a fool, it was basically all the "warm" (ie non-clicky/microedited) dance music that i like, from moroder to loose joints to the paradise garage to roller-skate electro to acid house to the get physical and more recent stuff (btw mandarine girl KILLS on a big system, i finally apreciate why this was so massively popular). i actualy was able to recognize maybe 2/3 of the tracks, which i though was pretty good, but it was all the more frustrating because my favorite things of what i heard were completely new to me and i was not in a state to be remembering lyrics for future research.
the highlight of the night definitely came after their set was done, when my roommate asked them if they had a setlist or something that he could look at, and though the answer was no (they seemed to be playing records off the top of their head), james murphy invited us to look though their record crates and ask about stuff we didn't recognize ("and he was actually really, really nice"). so i got to pester him for ten minutes with inane desciptions of the stuff i liked: "um, you know, it had a chorus, and it was good..." and he very good-naturedly suggested records and just seemed interested in nerding out about that records to a receptive audience. managed to remember a few of the records he recommended, and even had my roommate write down some. so i'll probably post those when i get a chance to listen to them. in the meantime, here's the track that he was finally able to id from my incohenrent desricptions, definitely a new favorite:
so yeah, lot's of fun. go catch them when they're in town (owen, i'm looking in your direction).
but the shit they played was fantasic and had me grinning like a fool, it was basically all the "warm" (ie non-clicky/microedited) dance music that i like, from moroder to loose joints to the paradise garage to roller-skate electro to acid house to the get physical and more recent stuff (btw mandarine girl KILLS on a big system, i finally apreciate why this was so massively popular). i actualy was able to recognize maybe 2/3 of the tracks, which i though was pretty good, but it was all the more frustrating because my favorite things of what i heard were completely new to me and i was not in a state to be remembering lyrics for future research.
the highlight of the night definitely came after their set was done, when my roommate asked them if they had a setlist or something that he could look at, and though the answer was no (they seemed to be playing records off the top of their head), james murphy invited us to look though their record crates and ask about stuff we didn't recognize ("and he was actually really, really nice"). so i got to pester him for ten minutes with inane desciptions of the stuff i liked: "um, you know, it had a chorus, and it was good..." and he very good-naturedly suggested records and just seemed interested in nerding out about that records to a receptive audience. managed to remember a few of the records he recommended, and even had my roommate write down some. so i'll probably post those when i get a chance to listen to them. in the meantime, here's the track that he was finally able to id from my incohenrent desricptions, definitely a new favorite:
so yeah, lot's of fun. go catch them when they're in town (owen, i'm looking in your direction).
downright awesome
digitized archives of weird spaced out disco mixtapes: smylonylon. i've listened to number 16 and it's great. check out the cover art at least, it's pretty fantastic.
crap
mnml pumice bones
from wikipedia:
Not Breathing combines trash, harsh griddles of steel and industrial confines with the moldy air of natures darkest machinations and pumice bones.
for your sensory pleasure, like an inverted and industrialized brutalga square: aether taveler (sic)
Not Breathing combines trash, harsh griddles of steel and industrial confines with the moldy air of natures darkest machinations and pumice bones.
for your sensory pleasure, like an inverted and industrialized brutalga square: aether taveler (sic)
things
the dfa mix of arthur russell's "springfield" is featured in the current beats in space. pretty dec. but i'm more into the other russell track on there, loose joints' "tell you today", which i, in my manic acquisition of all things ar last year, somehow managed to miss. which is kind of awesome, because yesterday i had the pleasure of discovering a new russell gem. oh, that voice. when it hits at four minutes in... wow. so good.
also, i found two sweet-ass whole (rare) album mp3 blogs, orgy in rhythm and bust the facts. what i wouldn't give for a bigger hard drive...
also, i found two sweet-ass whole (rare) album mp3 blogs, orgy in rhythm and bust the facts. what i wouldn't give for a bigger hard drive...
some days
i just want to snort pixie sticks and listen to kid kameleon mixes.