Picked up this 1967 EXECUDISC LP in Rochester a few weeks ago. Eight bands of tips on composing your dictations for maximum managerial value!
The sleeve indicates that each band is a locked groove so you have to intentionally move to the next track, but my copy played right on through. I love the ambient office noise. Click the image to listen / download. Ripe for a remix!
My top 15 records of the year, in an undisclosed order, each with representative video:
Les Blanks – In Country
Baxter Dury – Happy Soup
Panda Bear – Tomboy
tUnEyArDs – whokill
Yuck – Yuck
Thee Oh Sees – Castlemania
Wye Oak – Civilian
Moon Duo – Mazes
The Men – Leave Home
Hella – Tripper
Computer Magic – Electric Fences EP
Belong – Common Era
Black Angels – Phosgene Nightmare EP
Forma – S/T
Wild Flag – Wild Flag
Honorable Mention:
Sons & Daughters – Mirror Mirror
The Ettes – Wicked Will
Widowspeak – S/T
Pure X – Pleasure
Handsome Furs – Sound Kapital
Kurt Vile – Smoke Ring for My Halo
Black Lips – Arabia Mountain
Com Truise – Galactic Melt
Beach Fossils – What A Pleasure
Ladytron – Gravity the Seducer
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath 1972
Toro Y Moi – Underneath the Pines
Nicole Atkins – Mondo Amore
Ducktails – Arcade Dynamics
Raveonettes – Evil Seeds
Blackout Beach – Fuck Death
This is the first thing I have created in months that was not a dissertation.
Now you can watch my two favorite moments in Big Business simultaneously.
I just realized that Greg had posted all of our Automixes to Aggregating Music, along with covers, audio, video, and the liner notes (mouse over the speech balloon for comments on each track). Here’s mine:
& Greg’s, Hannah’s, and Kaleb’s.
Oh, and Kaleb and Hannah were on ReMIX on KOOP to talk about theirs!
Hopefully the next round of mixes will appear soon.
Not feeling all that descriptive. no more than 5 words. Several EPs on this list; I’ve lost my attention span. Few real surprises, I suppose.(Favorite songs way down below)
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti: Before Today
Nothing was better than this.
Wild Nothing: Gemini
Keep reviving what he’s reviving.
Pairs: Pairs EP
This year’s Japandroids, to me.
Arctic Death: S/T EP (& untitled CDR)
Western New York Represent, yo.
Beach House: Teen Dream
Of course this is on th’list.
Jason Forrest: Utopia EP
Much more accessible, also: free!
Stereolab: Not Music
Start, end with side four.
Kurt Vile: Square Shells EP
Was free, for a minute.
Benoit Pioulard: Lasted
Gets me every single time.
Solex vs. Jon Spencer + Christina Martinez: Amsterdam Throwdown King Street Showdown
All of them, back finally.
Sam Prekop: Old Punch Card
Librarians must all love this album.
The Soft Moon: S/T
Buzzing, squealing across the warehouse.
High Places: High Places vs. Mankind
Love where it goes eventually.
Magic Kids: Memphis
Almost painfully perfect, thankfully brief.
Jaill: That’s How We Burn
A nice little rock record.
Honorable mention, no reviews: Charlotte Gainsbourg: IRM; Efterklang: Magic Chairs (Wait, that was 2009?); Tobacco: Maniac Meat, Foals: Total Life Forever, Janelle Monae: The Archandroid, and Oval: O.
Favorite Songs of 2011:
“Baptism,” by Crystal Castles
“How Does Somebody Say When They Like You?” by A Sunny Day in Glasgow
“Round & Round”, by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti
“It’s Kate’s Birthday” by Washed Out
“Weird Machines,” by Small Black
“Silver Soul” by Beach House
Nicole Atkins cover of Can’s “Vitamin C”
“You Wouldn’t Have to Ask” by Bad Books
“Hey Boy” by Magic Kids
“Love Cry” by Fourtet
More gems in my Last.fm account.
What about you?
Saw some bands, some theatre, a bunch of lost panoramic photos, and this stuff:
Also, tons of amazing food and better than usual used record stores.
It’s no Je veux te voir, but the new Yelle sounds pretty good to me. Give it a sec. Then watch the Je veux te voir again.
The Beer-Every-Mile SF Half Marathon: 13 Beers in 13 Miles « Exercising While Intoxicated.
via Mefi.
Ian’s Shoelace Site – Slipping Shoelace Knots, Crooked Bows.
It’s going to take me a while to process this, but I think it may help me finally tie my shoes properly.
via Anti-mega.
Der Mensch als Industriepalast from Henning Lederer on Vimeo.
After Fritz Kahn, via MeFi.
A nice response to the “Art or Hokum?” editorial that ran in the Post-Standard on the eve of Yoko Ono’s initial show at the Everson. The tone of the Post Standard piece is hilarious– the frequency of “mockingly verbatim” quotes from the museum reeks of the hackery that is now only (well, mostly) evidenced in user comments posted to the Post-Standard on stories dealing with politics or race.
I just unsubscribed to a blog called Minimal, which was outpacing the majority blogs I follow with a decidedly non-minimal posting frequency.
