Archive for the 'music' Category
I was looking for some files on an older hard drive and I found a few of my Record Jumbles from 2005. Sound quality varies, and there is a charming amount of surface noise on these. Since I’ve been doing so many mixes in the last bunch of years all from within my computer, it’s nice to hear some spontenaety and human error. Also, totally weird record selection on most of these. Enjoy!
April 18, 2005
April 25, 2005
May 2, 2005
May 9, 2005
January 22, 2007 (Drawn completely from records found on the street in Brooklyn)
YouTube – My Generation live in Lyon, Feb 15 2007.
In late 2006, I sold my Mexican Fender Starburst Jazz Bass to an artist in New York. He didn’t care that I didn’t have an amp for him to test it on, and told me he needed it for an art installation in Lyon about the Who. He neglected to mention that the bass would be destroyed– he must not have known that I’d have given him a discount for that.
Incidentally, the artist, Christoph Draeger, created a series of works about disasters like plane crashes. One of his works features a plane crash that happened in the early 60s about a block from my apartment, where he bought the bass from me.
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Lots of terrific albums this year– my top three were definitely:
You Will Never Know Why – Sweet Trip
Actor – St. Vincent
Moondagger – Deastro
The rest, in no particular order:
Face Control – Handsome Furs
Two Dancers – Wild Beasts
A Certain Distance – Lusine
Telekinesis – Telekinesis
Eating Us – Black Moth Super Rainbow
Leaves in the Gutter EP – Superchunk
Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
Good Evening – Nite Jewel
Landscapes – Ducktails
In Prism – Polvo
Middle Cyclone – Neko Case
Still Night, Still Light – Au Revoir Simone
My Maudlin Career – Camera Obscura
Ashes Grammar – A Sunny Day in Glasgow
Ohio (OH) – Lambchop & Live at Merge XX (best show I’ve attended in years)
Bitte Orca – Dirty Projectors
Choral – Mountains
Art Brut vs Satan – Art Brut
Further Complications – Jarvis Cocker
Post-Nothing – Japandroids
Honorable mention to Major Lazer, The Field, AC Newman, The Clientele and CFCF.
Stuff released last year that should have made my 2008 list:
Temper – Benoit Pioulard
Magic Monday – Michna
No Way Down EP – Air France
Re-arrange Us – Mates of State
What were your favorites? I may editorialize on these a bit later, but I wanted to get the list posted before new years.
Kelly and I caught Alasdair MacLean, from shared favorite the Clientele, at Union Hall for a solo show once a couple of years ago. We loved it, but his amazing finger-picking just wasn’t the same on an acoustic guitar and without shimmering reverb and vibrato. Here he plays the title track from the new Clientele album and a few older favorites, solo and electrified. Not to over-re-live XX Merge, but the Clientele were also among the best acts there. An early highlight for sure.
Free Music Archive: Alasdair MacLean – Live at WFMU on Irwin’s show 10/28/2009.
Lambchop – Give It from Merge Records on Vimeo.
Lambchop’s XXMerge set is getting a proper release and film!
Thanks, Libby, for posting it. I made this mix over the weekend with the aim of documenting some of the songs I’ve woken up with in my head recently. A nice mixed-tempo one for running– lasts about 1:10.
Let me know what you think!
Is a good way to close out the summer (especially in free stream format). Expect this on my Best of 2009 list.
I love this song for more reasons than just that its title was a part of my wedding vows.
Music Review – Gas – Wolfgang Voigt’s Techno-Minimalism Is Paired With Brian Eno’s Serenity
Sadly, we left Montreal a couple of days before his Mutek performance.
Good news is though, Syracuse is one of only a handful of stops on the Alva Noto / Bytone Raster-Noton North American tour this week.
…also wrote and conceptualized the 15 minute film surrounding Michael Jackson’s “Bad” video.
via Richard Price (writer) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The wonderful bookish blog A Journey Round My Skull has a post this week highlighting the fact that Charles Seliger: Redefining Abstract Expressionism is available (at least partially) on Google Books.
I was shocked to see Seliger’s 1944 work Organic Form in my RSS reader, as it’s a piece I’m well familiar with– it was the basis for my kind of project from 2004.
I need a big long project like this one again– I’m already getting excited about the possibilities for all the new basement space we’ll get in our new house (coming Saturday!).
Anyway, in honor of being reminded of this guy, here’s the final phase of my project, a short video, uploaded to youtube and magnificently degraded. Better versions here.
DANIEL MILLER (THE NORMAL) INTERVIEW. MAYO THOMPSON INTERVIEWED WHILE LOOKING SHARP AS HELL. DAVID THOMAS NO SOCKS. MORRISSEY JUST WALKING DOWN A STREET. MAYBE LIKE HALF A SECOND OF HARRIET WHEELER. SOME JARVIS. AN ENDEARING MOMENT WITH DUFFY. EXCUSE CAPS PLEASE BUT THIS IS SERIOUS FOLKS.
Do It Yourself – The Story Of Rough Trade. via WFMU.
& because it’s relevant: the mute records logo:
A Gary Numan Mixtape Sequenced to Offer the Listener Assistance in Confronting the Mind-Body Problem
Side One:
I Wonder
Are You Real?
My Dying Machine
You Are, You Are
Complex
ME
I’m an Agent
I, Assassin
I Die, You Die
Side Two:
Oh! Didn’t I Say
This Is My Life
Me! I Disconnect from You
Everyday I Die
I Can’t Stop
I Can’t Breathe
This House Is Cold
We Are So Fragile
Glitter and Ash