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.