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<title><![CDATA[Daily Suggestion (by Badmotorfingr)]]></title>
<link>http://melomaniacsdietpills.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/daily-suggestion-by-badmotorfingr-8/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 17:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>badmotorfingr</dc:creator>
<guid>http://melomaniacsdietpills.wordpress.com/2009/09/12/daily-suggestion-by-badmotorfingr-8/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Ricardo Villalobos &#8211; Thé Au Harem D&#8217;Archimède [Perlon, 2004] A solid minimal techno rele]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Ricardo Villalobos &#8211; Thé Au Harem D&#8217;Archimède</strong><strong> [Perlon, 2004]</strong></p>
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<p>A solid minimal techno release by Chilean-German electronic music producer <strong><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Villalobos" target="_blank">Ricardo Villalobos</a>.</strong></p>
<pre style="text-align:left;">http://rapidshare.com/files/114448831/Ricardo_Villalobos_-_2004_-_The_au_Harem_d_Archimede.part1.rar.html

http://rapidshare.com/files/114446622/Ricardo_Villalobos_-_2004_-_The_au_Harem_d_Archimede.part2.rar.html</pre>
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<title><![CDATA[Entrevista: Jay Haze (Incluye dj sets + vídeo)]]></title>
<link>http://weedbrothers.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/entrevista-jay-haze/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>weedbrother</dc:creator>
<guid>http://weedbrothers.wordpress.com/2009/08/21/entrevista-jay-haze/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Es el hombre detrás de Contexterrior y TuningSpork, dos sellos atípicos produciendo música electróni]]></description>
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<p>Es el hombre detrás de Contexterrior y TuningSpork, dos sellos atípicos produciendo música electrónica. Hablamos de <a href="http://www.myspace.com/tharealjayhaze" target="_blank">Jay Haze</a>, una figura controversial en la música, un personaje extrovertido y un “hombre de verdad” el cual desafía la categorización.</p>
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<p><strong>Como se siente una persona manejando dos sellos musicales (Contexterrior y TuningSpork) en el 2009 cuando la industria musical esta en una crisis perpetua?</strong></p>
<p>- Me siento grandioso y me encanta el reto. <a href="http://www.tuningspork.com/" target="_blank">TuningSpork</a> siempre a sido de crecimiento a su tiempo y de alto control de calidad (por eso solo hemos hecho 48 lanzamientos en 10 años) y con <a href="http://www.contexterrior.com/" target="_blank">Contexterrior</a> estoy muy satisfecho en verlo convertirse en un sello de artistas muy variados, envés de estar encerrado en un sonido especifico. En ambos sellos he estado bendecido de trabajar con grandiosos artistas, ósea que de cierta manera me siento dichoso de que aun estamos en el caminado! Sin duda, la crisis pasará….</p>
<p><strong>Lanzaste un triple álbum el año pasado, Love &#38; Beyond, el cual regalaste gratis en tu pagina de Internet. Porque un artista exitoso, luchando en una industrial en aprietos haría tal cosa?</strong></p>
<p>La música es para compartir. Tiene poderes verdaderos y promueve el entendimiento. Yo no quería que este álbum, en el cual trabaje tan duro, y le puse tanto amor, llegara al punto donde las personas tuvieran que pensar en dinero. Pensé: “No seria grandioso si ellos pudieran escucharlo sin la presión de tiendas, vendedores, tarjeta de crédito?” Lo mas importante para mi fue que las personas se sintieran bien, y de eso se trata el álbum. Diría con orgullo… Poco me importa el dinero o obtener riquezas, es una creencia que creo que corrompe todo. Por ello, siempre que pueda hacer algo fuera de ese sistema, yo lo haré.</p>
<p><strong>También has organizado un movimiento global para DJ’s donar dinero a grupos de solidaridad ayudando a la situación en la Republica Democrática del Congo (detallado en la pagina de TuningSpork). Nos puedes hablar un poco sobre eso?</strong></p>
<p>Solo es un pequeño esfuerzo, realmente, pero creo que puede tener un impacto profundo en la conciencia de la industria. Si llegamos a entender que cada uno de nosotros ofrece un poco de ayuda en conjunto podemos crear cambios grandes. Este es el primer paso para dichos proyectos. El plan es conseguir mas DJ’s y exponentes de la escena de música electrónica posibles a donar la mitad de su honorario de una presentación, desde Septiembre hasta el final del año. Les pido que lo piensen como tiempo en vez de dinero. Necesitamos que la mayor cantidad de personas se involucren y estamos abiertos a nuevas ideas. La situación de la República Democratica del Congo (RDC) es verdaderamente penosa como para tomar un poco de tiempo para reflexionar. Una parte de las razones por las cuales ellos están en la situación que están, es porque nosotros deseamos tanto los lujos y tecnología que dependen en la RDC. El punto es que el artista no necesita ser expertos en la situación política allá, solo deben ser apasionados en ayudar a otros. Y estas personas lo necesitan! Niños esclavos, mujeres adolescentes abusadas sexualmente, hambruna diaria, envenenamiento de agua… es todo tan triste.</p>
<p><strong>La industria de la música electrónica y el universo de los clubes es por lo general clasificado como “superficial”. Que te impulso a hacer la diferencia utilizando la posición en que estas para ayudar a aquellos que necesitan?</strong></p>
<p>Estoy muy feliz de aun estar vivo, habiendo dicho eso esto es solo lo que quiero hacer con mi vida. Es una pasión y estoy tratando hacerla una realidad. Me gusta el mundo de los clubes y me encanta fiestar, pero no es nada que me define, yo me divierto y me mantengo conciente al mismo tiempo. El punto es, hay mucho más en la vida que tener un exitoso disco de house o techno. Al madurar uno ve las cosas como son, es bastante claro. Emprende algo mas para mantener el amor fluyendo, porque nunca quieres que tu vida dependa de tu pasión solamente (Creo que así es que muere la pasión… no?).</p>
<p><strong>Has creado un sonido único al pasar de los años, haciendo uno de tus tracks o remixes reconocido al instante. Crees que has alcanzado todas tus metas musicales o crees que aun queda mucho por hacer?</strong></p>
<p>Siendo que he progresado en buena manera. Todavía aprendiendo nuevas cosas todo el tiempo y realmente abierto a nuevas influencias. No soy el tipo de persona el cual alguna ves diría que ha alcanzado todas sus metas musicales, porque sinceramente no tengo metas musicales en el sentido tradicional. Mi meta principal es conectar a las personas. Y hasta que TODO el mundo este conectado, seguiré intentándolo!</p>
<p><strong>Video:</strong></p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/UTwnRXt8JzA&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/UTwnRXt8JzA&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p><strong>Algunos regalos:</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/48115374/RA003_060320_Jay_Haze-residentadvisor.net.mp3" target="_blank">Jay Haze &#8211; Resident Advisor 003 (2006)</a></p>
<p><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/77057124/Jay_Haze-Live_At_Immigrant_Music_Proton_Radio-13-12-2007-DC.zip" target="_blank">Jay Haze &#8211; Live @ Immigrant Music by Proton Radio (2007)</a></p>
<p><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/50718404/jay_haze_ibiza_voice_podcast.mp3" target="_blank">Jay Haze &#8211; Live @ Ibiza Voice Podcast (2008)</a></p>
<p><strong>Autor:</strong> Clifford Brown en Mirrorballs.ca</p>
<p><strong>Texto Original:</strong> <a href="http://www.mirrorballs.ca/">www.Mirroballs.ca</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Morgan Geist // The Driving Memories (1997)]]></title>
<link>http://cantstopthenoize.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/morgan-geist-the-driving-memories-19979/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 13:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Snobot</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cantstopthenoize.wordpress.com/2009/08/08/morgan-geist-the-driving-memories-19979/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Lo prometido siempre es deuda, pagarla o no ya es cosa de casa quien. Yo empiezo con la mejor intenc]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Lo prometido siempre es deuda, pagarla o no ya es cosa de casa quien. Yo empiezo con la mejor intención y además les confieso  algo: he aprendido más de música escribiendo aquí que en cualquier otro año. Hoy por ejemplo, siguiendo la petición de Ariel Izzho de subir el disco debút de Morgan Geist, me encuentro con una obra completisima, fascinante, una maravilla que ya tiene once años en el mercado y que yo he descubierto ayer.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Una pieza maestra de minimal techno, del jazz electrónico, de grandes percusiones, de ritmos melódicamente amorfos. Una composicion de once tracks que viajan entre sí, que son mucho más que los géneros que mencioné, que representan un todo armónico, atrevido, único y desgarrador.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">El disco empieza con <em>Doorbell, </em>un  corte bizarro que siempre está en constante movimiento, con sonidos que nunca parecen pertenecer, que da la impresión de haber sido mezclado con tres tracks distintos encimados uno sobre otro sin coordinación de tiempo. Un track, que sin embargo, tiene la hermosa estética de una pieza que primero parece poco digerible y que finalmente resulta altamente disfrutable.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Así el disco progresa y deja atras lo que prometía un IDM totalmente ácido para convertirse en una linda travesía de ricos paisajes y numerosos ruiditos. La expresión máxima, según yo, llega con <em>Food &#38; Fuel</em>, que no sólo es melódicamente amable sino que experimenta en todo momento y lo hace con la actitud que solo una línea de bajos bien dibujada le da a una composición muy trabajada y hecha con harto sentimiento.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">No sigo más. Los dejo para que, como yo, disfruten este disco que además, haciendolo más emotivo, ha sido escrito por este chico de Nueva Jersey en memoria de su hermana, fallecida en un accidente automovilístico.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/264991716/primeragradecimientoreleasiano.rar.html">Acá el disco</a></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Segumios <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">trabajando </span>disfrutando&#8230;</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[New Akufen, Rubber Duck anyone?]]></title>
<link>http://mnmlanml.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/new-akufen-rubber-duck-anyone/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>jamesgin</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mnmlanml.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/new-akufen-rubber-duck-anyone/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Marc Leclair aka. Akufen Montreal based microhouse wizard Akufen (Marc Leclair) has done it again. O]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div id="attachment_25" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><img class="size-medium wp-image-25" title="Akufen" src="http://mnmlanml.wordpress.com/files/2009/08/a-5844-1222559428.jpeg?w=300" alt="Marc Leclair aka. Akufen" width="300" height="200" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Marc Leclair aka. Akufen</p></div>
<p>Montreal based microhouse wizard <a href="http://http://www.discogs.com/artist/Akufen">Akufen (Marc Leclair)</a> has done it again. On Saturday 18th of July I went to see Leclair played a live set at London superclub <a href="http://www.fabriclondon.com">Fabric</a>, hoping to hear some new material.</p>
<p>Beyond all shadow of a doubt I had all my expectations blown out of the water.</p>
<p>Akufen&#8217;s one hour set in Room 1 thudded, resonated and jangled with ingenuity, flair, and incredibly sampling. While stylistically not far away from his only studio album My Way (2003), riddled with ultrashort samples, microsound and swung grooves, the whole hour of new material which emanated from the Funktion One sound system powered by his trusty laptop, was electrifying. Heavily sampled from funk tracks, the material is full of virtuoso electric bass hooks, brass band hits and guitar spikes, generating a retro-future juxtaposition that kept people riveted to the dancefloor. Cunningly blended acoustic jazz guitar solos meld into tinkling piano riffs. Tempos and feels ranged from dancy upbeat four step house, to slower, sexier live jazz drum sampled loops. Never have I seen a live set with more well executed sample placement and crowd judgement.</p>
<p>One can only wonder at the hours of work it took to listen and sort through all the funk and jazz tracks sampled for these tracks.</p>
<p>The only question is when will all of this be released? Leclair has released a lot of material since his album, but only EPs, notably the Psychometry series and Hawaiian Wodka Party. Perhaps there is a new Akufen album in the works, one can only hope, and I will be keeping a close eye on record label <a href="http://www.musique-risque.com">Musique Risque</a> for details, so watch this space.</p>
<p>One small concession is that the new track Rubber Ducky is available for streaming at Akufen&#8217;s myspace page &#8211; <a href="http://www.myspace.com/akufunkture">www.myspace.com/akufunkture</a>, make the jump to check it out.</p>
<p>Peace. anml</p>
<p>Akufen is next playing live on Friday 7th August at Public Assembly, New York, with a host of amazing artists including Stephen Beaupre. <a href="http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?107234" target="_blank">More info</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Boris Werner @ Technootjes Simplon Groningen [13.06.2009]]]></title>
<link>http://wede40.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/boris-werner-technootjes-simplon-groningen-13-06-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>3030303</dc:creator>
<guid>http://wede40.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/boris-werner-technootjes-simplon-groningen-13-06-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Atlikėjo MySpace. Atlikėjo diskografija. Boris Werner @ Technootjes Simplon Groningen [13.06.2009]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" src="http://a560.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/72/l_8f7f415a8873e7a0afcd1fbfebdc530f.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="451" /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/boriswerner" target="_blank"><em>Atlikėjo MySpace.</em></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.discogs.com/artist/Boris+Werner" target="_blank"><em>Atlikėjo diskografija.</em></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://nightclubber.ro/xanderz/Audio/Boris_Werner_-_Live_at_Technootjes_13062009.mp3" target="_blank"><em>Boris Werner @ Technootjes Simplon Groningen [13.06.2009]</em></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Aviso Importante]]></title>
<link>http://weedbrothers.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/avisos/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>weedbrother</dc:creator>
<guid>http://weedbrothers.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/avisos/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Disculpas a los lectores por la falta de contenido ultimamente. Las ideas estan siendo replanteadas ]]></description>
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<p>Disculpas a los lectores por la falta de contenido ultimamente.</p>
<p>Las ideas estan siendo replanteadas y, sinceramente, prefiero pedir disculpas por falta de actividad que por quitarle su valioso tiempo hablando sinsentidos.</p>
<p>Sin decir mas, dos avisos:</p>
<p>1) El viernes hace 8 días estuve invitado a la fiesta de <a href="http://www.monofonicos.net/2009/06/lanzamiento-monopodcast-este-viernes-en-horeb/" target="_blank">lanzamiento</a> del Monopodcast 006 de <a href="http://www.monofonicos.net/" target="_blank">Monofonicos.net</a> en Horeb. Grabe el set y lo comparto con ustedes.</p>
<p>2) <a href="http://www.myspace.com/exe00" target="_blank">Excer</a> presenta &#8220;<a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=120506581076&#38;ref=ts" target="_blank">Showcase thursdays</a>&#8220;. Cada jueves dando a conocer a un nuevo talento local desde lo mas remoto del underground. Y una vez al mes con alguien más experimentado.</p>
<p>JULIO 9 EXCER pres GREEN REVOLUTION<br />
JULIO 16 EXCER pres CHIGUIRO<br />
JULIO 23 EXCER pres RAYAS<br />
JULIO 30 EXCER pres DSUM</p>
<p>No siendo mas:</p>
<p>* Green Revolution &#8211; Live @ Monofónicos Nites (Horeb, 26-06-09): <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?t4ylntenazb" target="_blank">Descargar</a></p>
<p>* MonoPodcast 006 – Liquen: <a href="http://www.archive.org/download/MonoPodcast006-Liquen/MonoPodcast006_Liquen.zip" target="_blank">Descargar</a></p>
<p>A gozar!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Solo // The Big Stef EP (2099)]]></title>
<link>http://cantstopthenoize.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/solo-the-big-stef-ep-2099/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Snobot</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cantstopthenoize.wordpress.com/2009/06/30/solo-the-big-stef-ep-2099/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Solo es un productor que también se ha hecho llamar Deadfish, entre otros seudónimos, es de origen r]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Solo es un productor que también se ha hecho llamar Deadfish, entre otros seudónimos, es de origen romano -radicado en Londres- y se dedíca, desde hace unos años y con bastante éxito, al <em>fidget house</em>, ese género o subgénero que se desprende del <em>minimal</em>, que se acerca al t<em>echno</em> y que tiene mucho del h<em>ouse</em>, específicamente del t<em>ech house</em>. A él le gusta llamarlo <em>midget house</em>, para hacernos esto de la etiquetada más difícil.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Les decía que toca esa cosa y además lo hace con unas influencias africanas que le van muy bien. Lo que van a encontrar en su música es algo parecido a lo que hace <a href="http://cantstopthenoize.wordpress.com/?s=renaissance+man">Renaissance Man</a>: muchos bajos, una rica variedad de soniditos, vocales que le tiran a lo épico, otras más bien guturales, cambios de ritmo constantes y un <em>minimal</em> hecho para bailar. P<em>ara disfrutarse en una pista obscura viciada por el humo del tabáco que atraviesa azaroso las luces, donde cuerpos sudorosos se mueven poco, cuidando su estética, sin perder la cadencia.</em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/248386720/alone.rar">Acá el EP</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Flash! Bam! Pow! Attack!]]></title>
<link>http://mikrolog.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/flash-bam-pow-attack/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Tim</dc:creator>
<guid>http://mikrolog.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/flash-bam-pow-attack/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Fühle mich gerade sehr umgehauen. Mit sowas hatte ich heute nicht gerechnet. Die Rede ist von einem ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Fühle mich gerade sehr umgehauen. Mit sowas hatte ich heute nicht gerechnet. Die Rede ist von einem Set aus dem Jahr 2008 von Zip, also dem Perlon-Chef höchstpersönlich. Was es dort zu erwarten gibt: Natürlich in erster Linie herlich in dein Seilen hängenden Minimal mit dezent funkiger Housenote. Das ist die Musik aus der Träume gemacht sind. Zumindest meine Träume.</p>
<p><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/232176293/2008-05-24_Zip_-_Live_at_D.E.M.F.mp3">http://rapidshare.com/files/232176293/2008-05-24_Zip_-_Live_at_D.E.M.F.mp3</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Marbert Rocel // Speed Emotions (2007)]]></title>
<link>http://cantstopthenoize.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/marbert-rocel-speed-emotions-200/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 23:20:10 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Snobot</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cantstopthenoize.wordpress.com/2009/05/26/marbert-rocel-speed-emotions-200/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Así, definitivamente así, debería ser la música pop, toda ella. Lo de estos alemanes (Marbert y Roce]]></description>
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<p>Así, definitivamente así, debería ser la música pop, toda ella. </p>
<p>Lo de estos alemanes (Marbert y Rocel) pasa por los terrenos del <em>groove</em>, del <em>jazz</em>, del <em>minimal </em>y del <em>acid</em> pero se acompaña en todo momento de vocales hermosas, de una poesía tan romántica como divertida y de la musicalización digna del mejor melodista enamorado.</p>
<p>No hacen falta más de nueve minutos para prendarse de todo el disco pues la magia aparece desde la primera pista <em>Seven Stars</em> donde descubrimos que después de un pródigo intro músical aparece, como una genialidad, la voz por demás hermosa que nos acompañará durante este viaje. Aún impresionados y apenas en el segundo corte <em>Cornfalke Boy</em> nos enseña cómo los sonidos característicos de esta producción, que ya se van volviendo familiares, coquetean con lo divertido a la vez que seducen a aquel que prefiere las hojuelas de maíz para desayunar y a quien la escucha. Luego, ya entrados en calor, aparece la tercera en lista <em>Eleonor Birthbath</em> para sorprendernos cuando esta gama tan melódica de sonidos se transforman, sin perder su personalidad única, en aquella gran canción que los Beatles crearon hace poco más de cuarenta años, donde la protangonista se llamaba igual, pero se apellidaba Rigby.</p>
<p>Podría seguir así con cada pieza y después volver a empezar, sin embargo preferiría que juzguen ustedes mismos. De mi parte bastará con decir que este material me parece tan único y genial como el <a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/174454530/tsss_que_disco_caray.rar">Bodily Functions de Matthew Herbert</a>, que es un estandar dentro del <em>Downbeat</em> y el <em>Minimal</em> que además debería serlo sobre cualquier producción electrónica.</p>
<p><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/237569144/spidemotions.rar">Acá el disco</a></p>
<p><em>Recomiendo especialmente nada y más bien recomiendo exageradamente todo el disco. Recomiendo también, que como en el quinto track (Beats Like Birds), encuentren algún día aquel lugar donde los beats son como pájaros.</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Green Revolution - The Same But Different - May 09]]></title>
<link>http://setsandlives.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/green-revolution-the-same-but-different-may-09/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 00:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Soto</dc:creator>
<guid>http://setsandlives.wordpress.com/2009/05/25/green-revolution-the-same-but-different-may-09/</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[LoSoul - Care - 2009]]></title>
<link>http://bigearflux.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/losoul-care-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>pixiecurtis</dc:creator>
<guid>http://bigearflux.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/losoul-care-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Click on the image to get it MySpace Losoul, member of Germany&#8217;s Playhouse label, has great re]]></description>
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<p>Click on the image to get it</p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/losoul1996">MySpace</a></p>
<blockquote><p>Losoul, member of Germany&#8217;s <a href="http://www.ongaku.de/news.php?lang=en">Playhouse</a> label, has great respect for jazz, funk, and soul. Besides their intensity and &#8220;explosiveness&#8221;, he especially admires their ability to unite rhythm and groove with melody, emotion and dramaturgy in view of, however kitsch it might sound, a better world in which peace and freedom, love and friendship prevail. Beauty, finesse, emotion, abstraction: his is gripping groovy music that soothes the soul&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Finíssimo.</p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away (2009)]]></title>
<link>http://hotfreaks.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/gui-boratto-take-my-breath-away-2009/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:17:19 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>hotfreaks</dc:creator>
<guid>http://hotfreaks.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/gui-boratto-take-my-breath-away-2009/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Nowy Gui Boratto bardzo mnie cieszy. Nie znam poprzedniego &#8211; podobno jest lepszy, będzie trzeb]]></description>
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<p>Nowy Gui Boratto bardzo mnie cieszy. Nie znam poprzedniego &#8211; podobno jest lepszy, będzie trzeba posłuchać. Take My Breath Away to natomiast zdecydowanie podium płyt pierwszego kwartału 2009 &#8211; można chcieć czegoś więcej?</p>
<p>Można. Dobrze by było, gdyby początek płyty i jej koniec nadawały się do słuchania dla każdego, nie tylko ćpających hałserów, hałsowców, hałsiarzy.  Ja niestety nie ćpam i nie mogę sie rozkoszować w pełni takim &#8220;Atomic Soda&#8221;, &#8220;Eggplant&#8221; czy w szczególności &#8220;Balroom&#8221;. To dobre utwory, ale w konfrontacji ze środkiem płyty wypadają zdecydowanie słabiej. Gdzie im do takiego &#8220;Opus 17&#8243; z piękną melodią, new orderowego &#8220;Besides&#8221; czy bardzo popowego w gruncie rzeczy, okraszonego świetnym wokalem &#8220;No turning back&#8221;.  Momentami dzieją się tutaj rzeczy że hohoho, wooohoo, &#8220;doznajędoznajędoznajędoznaję&#8221;, ale wspomniane początek i koniec psują lekko (podkreślam &#8211; LEKKO!) obraz całej płyty. Gdyby było inaczej, nowe Animal Collective spadłoby zapewne z mojego tegorocznego płytowego piedestału. Nie ujmuje to jednak nic od oceny &#8220;Take My Breath Away&#8221; &#8211; to świetna płyta, przy której można i przyćpać w klubie, i słuchać jej eksplorując internet czy czytając książkę w housie (w domu).</p>
<p>Przyćpajcie, posłuchajcie &#8220;Take My Breath Away&#8221; i powiedzcie jak było. Zapewne lepiej, ale mi wystarczy wersja &#8220;light&#8221;, gdyż daje ogrom radości i w pełni mnie zadowala. Enyoj!</p>
<p>Ocena: <strong>7/10</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Animal Collective + Pantha Du Prince @ L'Aéronef, Lille (19/03/09)]]></title>
<link>http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/animal-collective-pantha-du-prince-laeronef-lille-190309/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:32:56 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>SyrFox</dc:creator>
<guid>http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/animal-collective-pantha-du-prince-laeronef-lille-190309/</guid>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Posons immédiatement les faits tels qu&#8217;ils sont, pour que ça soit clair: je suis fan d&#8217;<strong>Animal Collective</strong>.<strong> </strong>Ajoutons à celà que j&#8217;ai frôlé la crise cardiaque en apprenant que <strong>Pantha Du Prince</strong>, que je considère comme l&#8217;un des meilleurs artistes techno actuels, faisait leur première partie pour cette tournée, et vous comprendrez deux choses: premièrement, je ne pouvais pas rater ce concert, et deuxièmement, il m&#8217;est impossible d&#8217;être objectif ici &#8211; comme d&#8217;habitude, en fait.</p>
<p>L&#8217;Aéronef ouvre ses portes aux alentours de 20h, mais c&#8217;est aux alentours de 20h30 que les lumières s&#8217;éteignent et que Pantha Du Prince prend place derrière tout son matériel. Et le début du concert est franchement surprenant: on est plus proches des expérimentations de Lucky Dragons que du label Kompakt! Pantha tape avec une petite baguette sur un tas de petits objets aux sons scintillants, des sortes de petites cloches, dont les sons sont ensuite bouclés. Une atmosphère se construit progressivement, des rythmiques déconstruites se mettent lentement en place, et puis soudain, le &#8220;boum boum boum boum&#8221; monte, et c&#8217;est parti pour 40 minutes de techno minimale. Et bon sang, ce gars-là est doué. C&#8217;est à la fois incroyablement dansant (ces kicks! ces basses!) et planant (ces nappes ambientes qui enveloppent le tout!), et ça ne faiblit jamais. Le set démarre sur un paquet de nouveaux morceaux qui laissent présager le meilleur quand au prochain album. Les morceaux sont tous enchaînés, et après les nouveautés du début du set, Pantha amène la terrible mélodie de <em>Moonstruck</em>, tandis que les monstrueuses basses se mettent en place. Le morceau est étendu, étiré, et complété, par rapport à la version album, par des nouveaux éléments, comme des nappes lancinantes. C&#8217;est tout simplement imparable. Enfin, des vagues ambientes amènent le set sur le magnifique <em>Butterfly Girl</em>, extrait de Diamond Daze, qui prend une toute autre ampleur en live: les passages techno deviennent vraiment hypnotiques, tandis que la beauté des breaks ambient est transcendée. Et le set s&#8217;arrête finalement aux alentours de 21h10. Pas de Saturn Strobe, tant pis, Pantha Du Prince a tout de même tenu toutes ses promesses en jouant un set prenant de bout en bout. Ce n&#8217;est donc pas ce concert qui va me faire revoir la musique de l&#8217;Allemand à la baisse.</p>
<p>Vingt minutes plus tard, c&#8217;est au tour du collectif animal de prendre la scène. Depuis l&#8217;an dernier, leur visuel a changé: les barres de lampes qui étaient situées dans le fond de la scène n&#8217;y sont plus; en revanche, toutes les tables sont drapées de blanc, mais des lumières situées en dessous permettent de leur donner une couleur, tandis qu&#8217;un drapeau à l&#8217;effigie du dernier album trône dans le fond de la scène et qu&#8217;un grand ballon sur lequel des projections sont faites surplombe la salle. Le groupe attaque avec son nouveau morceau, <em>What Would I Want Sky</em>, que j&#8217;avais déjà entendu sur bootleg mais pas encore en live: le morceau tient ses promesses, les bribes de voix qui sont ajoutées sur la partie planante du début du morceau s&#8217;y intègrent parfaitement, tandis que la seconde partie, tournant autour du sample vocal donnant son titre au morceau, est décuplée par la puissance du live. Le groupe enchaîne avec le classique <em>Leaf House</em>, puis avec <em>Summertime Clothes</em>, deux morceaux qui n&#8217;ont pas changé depuis l&#8217;an passé. En revanche, sur Summertime Clothes (anciennement Bearhug), le principal point faible du concert se fait sentir: un son un peu trop brouillon, qui rend les voix presque inaudibles dans les aigus sur ce morceau, et les basses beaucoup trop fortes &#8211; ce que je craignais, l&#8217;Aéronef n&#8217;ayant pas une très bonne réputation en la matière, ce que j&#8217;ai notamment pu vérifier au concert de Joseph Arthur il y a une quinzaine de jours; cela dit, j&#8217;ai lu le même genre de critiques sur d&#8217;autres concerts de cette tournée, donc la faute ne vient peut être pas complètement de la salle. Le son s&#8217;améliorera par contre par la suite, ce qui n&#8217;est pas pour me déplaire. Bref. Le groupe joue ensuite une série de morceaux que je n&#8217;avais pas eu l&#8217;occasion d&#8217;entendre l&#8217;an passé: la nouvelle version électronique de <em>Slippi</em>, tout aussi efficace que sa version plus acoustique sur album, puis le psychédélique <em>Lion In A Coma</em> et son intro à coup de samples de cloche (encore meilleur que sur album), et enfin le splendide <em>Daily Routine</em>, dont le coda est ici étiré sur de longues minutes sans lasser. Le jeu de lumières fait des merveilles, toutes les tables changeant de couleur quinze fois par seconde, renforçant le côté hypnotique du morceau. Après la seule interruption du set, le fantastique <em>Guys Eyes</em> est joué, toujours aussi hypnotique (lui aussi) sur sa partie centrale, suivi de <em>In The Flowers</em>, qu&#8217;il est étrange de trouver à cet endroit du set &#8211; sans pour autant diminuer son effet -, puisque ce morceau fait plus généralement office d&#8217;introduction. Et puis, c&#8217;est parti pour 18 minutes de transe avec la nouvelle-nouvelle-nouvelle-nouvelle version de <em>Fireworks</em>, alias &#8220;le morceau qui ne cessera jamais d&#8217;évoluer&#8221;: le morceau n&#8217;est plus mélangé avec <em>Essplode</em>, en revanche il se dote d&#8217;une furieuse introduction distordue, avec des basses qui font vibrer toute la salle, d&#8217;une ambiance plus sombre à mon goût dans un premier temps, et surtout d&#8217;un jam central monstrueux, sur lequel le jeu de lumières fait encore des ravages, qui ne cesse de monter en puissance, en particulier lorsque les basses se relancent&#8230; avant de retomber sur ses pattes avec la dernière partie du morceau. De toutes les versions du morceau, il s&#8217;agit peut être de ma favorite, le jam de guitare étant vraiment exceptionnel, et tous les éléments s&#8217;enchainement à merveille. Enfin, pour conclure cette première partie de set, l&#8217;inévitable <em>Brother Sport</em>, toujours aussi prenant &#8211; le public s&#8217;en donne d&#8217;ailleurs à cœur joie, et tant mieux! -, accompagné de projections qui lui vont plutôt bien. Le groupe quitte la scène, puis revient bien vite sous les acclamations du public (plutôt nombreux, même si moins conséquent que je ne le pensais) pour jouer le morceau le plus expérimental du set, <em>Banshee Beat</em>. Si la version studio, sur Feels, laisse parler le côté &#8220;tribal&#8221; du morceau, dans cette nouvelle version, c&#8217;est la face ambient qui s&#8217;exprime: toutes les percussions sont supprimées, laissant place à une longue nappe planante, sur laquelle Avey déclame lentement le texte du morceau &#8211; même si je préfère tout de même la version album, celle-ci présente également ses charmes. Enfin, pour finir, <em>My Girls</em>, tout simplement remarquable.</p>
<p>Il est 23h10, le temps de passer par le stand merchandising pour me procurer le T-shirt en vente et le poster de la tournée (et oui), de rejoindre le métro, le constat est clair: malgré les quelques problèmes de son (il parait qu&#8217;il allait aussi beaucoup trop fort, même si je ne l&#8217;ai personnellement pas forcément senti), Animal Collective a encore livré un set prenant, intéressant, excellent, de bout en bout.</p>
<p><strong>Setlist:</strong></p>
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<li>What Would I Want Sky</li>
<li>Leaf House</li>
<li>Summertime Clothes</li>
<li>Slippi</li>
<li>Lion In A Coma</li>
<li>Daily Routine</li>
<li>Guys Eyes</li>
<li>In The Flowers</li>
<li>Fireworks</li>
<li>Brother Sport</li>
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<li>Banshee Beat</li>
<li>My Girls</li>
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<p><a href="www.myspace.com/animalcollectivetheband" target="_blank">Myspace: Animal Collective</a><br />
<a href="www.myspace.com/panthaduprince" target="_blank">Myspace: Pantha Du Prince</a></p>
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<link>http://reidmix.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/top-10-albums-of-2008/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Forgive me for I am late — so so late — but here is my top 10 albums of 2008!  I really struggled wi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Forgive me for I am late — so so late — but here is my top 10 albums of 2008!  I really struggled with this list because I felt very confident with my top 10, but the order I rearranged over and over, struggling with what I loved in CD-R form, what I loved earlier in the year, and what I love now.</p>
<p>Some choices were released in 2007, which surprised me and I will start a new series: Hey You! Last Year.  Even though I keep this list within 2008, one selection (Bon Iver) was &#8220;technically&#8221; released in vinyl form in 2007.</p>
<p><a title="Top 10 Albums of 2007" href="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/top-10-albums-of-2007/">Last year</a> I looked forward to good things to come based on singles, EPs, and CD-Rs but I&#8217;ve never put those in my top 10.  This year I have two EPs in my top 10 and I really do believe this was the year of the EP.  In once case (High Places), I have a compilation of singles and rarities.</p>
<p>There are no rules to albums you really love.</p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-241 alignleft" style="margin-right:10px;" title="Entanglements" src="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/files/2009/02/entanglements.jpg" alt="Entanglements" width="200" height="200" /></p>
<p>10. <strong>Entanglements</strong> by <a title="Parenthetical Girls Website and Blog" href="http://www.slendermeanssociety.com/parenthetical/" target="_blank">Parenthetical Girls</a><br />
I really looked forward to this album and anxiously <a title="Blog about: Just Because It's a Bunch Of Dudes Playing Middling Indie Rock Doesn't Mean It Isn't a Performance Art Piece." href="http://www.slendermeanssociety.com/parenthetical/archives/2007/09/just_because_it.html" target="_blank">trolled Zac&#8217;s site</a> for updates.  News of a Tomlab release made me happy — one of my favorite labels as of late — and then a peek at an <a title="Parenthetical Girls: OMG the best OMD cover" href="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/2008/05/29/parenthetical-girls-omg-the-best-omd-cover/">OMD cover</a> had me swooning.<br />
Entanglements is a vast, orchestral siege.  It is not the twee little confections that were the panic pop of albums past.  The glockenspiel is still there but it&#8217;s now only a single voice amongst the movements of full symphony in each song.<br />
What make most of the songs impenetrable are the lyrics.  Gone are the dirty little vignettes that made the cast of &#8220;Love Connection&#8221; or &#8220;I Was the Dancer.&#8221;   Those lyrics took a little tinkering to get the essence and (with great glee) the perverse irony out of them.  Conversely, the words that make up the songs of Entanglements are subconscious, delivered in secret language or with dream-time meaning that are tongue in cheek and full of innuendo and rhyme: &#8220;his legs gave way like pages / from a pop-up book / and i had to look.&#8221;  In the end, you derive your own message from each song, and with each song a mood that is meticulously crafted by Pennington &#38; Co.  On the whole, the album cannot be easily cast aside.  Much care was put into the production and its soul is too sincere.  You are left wanting more, to know more, to be entrenched more, and with any album what more can you ask?<strong><br />
Buy Entaglements</strong>: <a title="Buy direct from Slender Means" href="http://www.slendermeanssociety.com/Entanglements.html">Slender Means</a>, <a title="Buy direct from Tomlab" href="http://tomlab.com/front/index.php?action=release_detail&#38;release_id=220&#38;release_strike=538&#38;artist_id=98" target="_blank">Tomlab</a>, <a title="Buy Entanglements from Insound" href="http://www.insound.com/search/searchmain.jsp?query=parenthetical+girls+entanglements" target="_blank">Insound</a>, <a title="Buy Entanglements from Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_m_0_20?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&#38;field-keywords=parenthetical+girls+-+entanglements&#38;x=0&#38;y=0&#38;sprefix=Parenthetical+Girls+" target="_blank">Amazon</a>, <a title="Buy Entanglements from eMusic" href="http://www.emusic.com/album/Parenthetical-Girls-Entanglements-MP3-Download/11280712.html" target="_blank">eMusic</a>, <a title="Buy Entanglements from iTunes" href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=289452416&#38;s=143441" target="_blank">iTunes</a></p>
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<li><a title="A Song for Ellie Greenwich from Slender Means" href="http://www.slendermeanssociety.com/mp3/ASongForEllieGreenwich.mp3">A Song for Ellie Greenwich<br />
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<p>09. <strong>Chunk of Change</strong> by <a title="Passion Pit's MySpace Page" href="http://www.myspace.com/passionpitjams" target="_blank">Passion Pit</a><br />
The first EP of the list, Passion Pit is Bee Gees for the Indie world.  I say this with the highest regard to Michael Angelakos and his <a title="Wikipedia article about the Bee Gees" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Gees" target="_blank">Gibb</a>-like falsetto that graces each song on Chunk of Change.  Sure there may be <a title="Pitchfork Review of Chunk of Change" href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/146905-passion-pit-chunk-of-change-ep" target="_blank">room for improvement</a>, but here is a set that is more interesting than most full length LPs I listened to in 2008.<br />
The songs are sticky sweet, multilayered candy.  The recipe may be full of synthpop, but there is enough playfulness and exploration of melody and percussion to keep things fun and surprising. Each song is dancible with the gold lamé of disco and the pathos of every great 70s love song.  In the title track, &#8220;Live to Tell the Tale,&#8221; the poetry goes: &#8220;Whatever happens to me / I hope that I&#8217;ll fall asleep / Knowing that you&#8217;ll always be / The story with no ending&#8221;<br />
I must talk about &#8220;Sleepyhead&#8221; which was most of our introduction to Passion Pit and recorded later than the rest of the songs on the EP.  Here&#8217;s our departure from the love note of an album and for me, shows what we can expect.  Big beats that shake through the song while holding onto its playfulness, M.I.A.-like in its worldliness, more confident in its falsetto-ness. The melody is adept and smooth and the song is just too short.  This EP has enough going for it to last until the full-length release in early 2009.<br />
<strong>Buy Chunk of Change</strong>: <a title="Buy direct from Frenchkiss records" href="http://frenchkissrecords.com/bands/records/passion_pit/" target="_blank">Frenchkiss</a>, <a title="Buy Chunk of Change from Insound" href="http://www.insound.com/search/searchmain.jsp?query=passion+pit+chunk+of+change">Insound</a>, <a title="Buy Chunk of Change from Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&#38;field-keywords=%22passion+pit%22+%22chunk+of+change%22&#38;x=0&#38;y=0" target="_blank">Amazon</a>, <a title="Buy Chunk of Change from eMusic" href="http://www.emusic.com/album/Passion-Pit-Chunk-Of-Change-MP3-Download/11268621.html" target="_blank">eMusic</a>, <a title="Buy Chunk of Change from iTunes" href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=292132170&#38;s=143441" target="_blank">iTunes</a></p>
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<li><a title="I've Got Your Number from KEXP" href="http://feeds.kexp.org/~r/kexp/songoftheday/~5/440840609/3f82e108-6d60-4a64-9ef1-fc876a8aa541.mp3">I&#8217;ve Got Your Number</a></li>
<li><a title="Sleepyhead from Stereogum" href="http://stereogum.com/mp3/Passion%20Pit%20-%20Sleepyhead.mp3">Sleepyhead</a></li>
</ul>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-241 alignleft" style="margin-right:10px;" title="In Ear Park" src="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/files/2009/02/inearpark.jpg" alt="In Ear Park" width="200" height="200" /></p>
<p>08. <strong>In Ear Park</strong> by <a title="Department of Eagles Website" href="http://www.departmentofeagles.com/" target="_blank">Department of Eagles</a><br />
I have mixed feelings about In Ear Park.  It is certainly good enough to be in my Top 10.  The songs are strong, especially in the first half of the album, and are worthy of all the praise the album has garnered.  I love the lyrics as epistles to Rossen&#8217;s recently passed father, they often hold a perspicacious view on life and how we live it.  The delivery approaches what McCartney and Lennon gave us in the late 60s, and what makes them pop gems are the repetition and variations on questions and phrases.  In &#8220;Phantom Other&#8221; the lyrics ask &#8220;What would it take? / What would it take to make you leave? / What would it take? / What would it take to make you listen? / My God, in heaven / What were we thinking?&#8221;<br />
There are other musical nods — like on &#8220;Teenagers,&#8221; I imagine to the <a title="Wikipedia article about A Teenager in Love" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Teenager_in_Love">Dion and The Belmonts</a> — hints of 50s AM radio <a title="Wikipedia article about Doo-wop" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doo-wop">doo-wop</a> over jingly guitars.  But the Achilles heal of the album for me is how close to <a title="Grizzly Bear's Website" href="http://www.grizzly-bear.net/" target="_blank">Grizzly Bear</a> it sounds, and my first reaction was that it sounded half-of-that-band.  And certainly, if In Ear Park is Rossen&#8217;s farewell letter, I have rationalized that may be why what Fred Nicolaus brings to the table has taken a lesser role.  The exceptions is &#8220;Around the Bay&#8221; (my favorite song) and &#8220;Classical Records&#8221; which are full on <a title="Wikipedia article about For Mark Mothersbaugh (You Know, Devo)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Mothersbaugh" target="_blank">Mothersbaugh</a> percussive elements, bangs, clunks, doorslams, noisemakers, cello strings and blips to create a microhouse symphony standing mere inches behind Rossen&#8217;s vocal harmonies. The album is a thing of stark beauty and <a title="Yeah, I lifted the phrase from Pitchfork" href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/146048-department-of-eagles-in-ear-park" target="_blank">gothic-folk</a>, but I still want all the cylinders roaring on that <a title="Wikipedia article about the Beta Band" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Band" target="_blank">Beta Band</a> trip-hop that fueled the first album.<br />
<strong>Buy In Ear Park</strong>: <a title="Buy direct from 4AD" href="http://4ad.com/department-of-eagles/releases/in-ear-park-0/">4AD</a>, <a title="Buy In Ear Park from Insound" href="http://www.insound.com/search/searchmain.jsp?query=department+of+eagles+in+ear+park">Insound</a>, <a title="Buy In Ear Park from Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&#38;field-keywords=%22department+of+eagles%22+%22in+ear+park%22&#38;x=0&#38;y=0">Amazon</a>, <a title="Buy In Ear Park from eMusic" href="http://www.emusic.com/album/Department-of-Eagles-In-Ear-Park-MP3-Download/11284590.html" target="_blank">eMusic</a>, <a title="Buy In Ear Park from iTunes" href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=290878332&#38;s=143441" target="_blank">iTunes</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a title="In Ear Park from Stereogum" href="http://stereogum.com/mp3/Department%20Of%20Eagles%20-%20In%20Ear%20Park.mp3">In Ear Park</a></li>
<li><a title="No One Does It Like You from Pitchfork" href="http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/Department%20of%20Eagles%20-%20No%20One%20Does%20It%20Like%20You.mp3">No One Does It Like You</a></li>
<li><a title="Download Herring Bone live off of Daytrotter" href="http://www.daytrotter.com/download/311/id=1901/DofE_DaytrotterSession_3.mp3.link">Herring Bone [Live on Daytrotter]</a></li>
<li><a title="Balmy Night from Pitchfork" href="http://downloads.pitchforkmedia.com/Department%20of%20Eagles%20-%20Balmy%20Night.mp3">Balmy Night</a></li>
</ul>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-241 alignleft" style="margin-right:10px;" title="Nouns" src="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/files/2009/02/nouns.jpg" alt="Nouns" width="200" height="200" /></p>
<p>07. <strong>Nouns</strong> by <a title="No Age Blog" href="http://noagela.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">No Age</a><br />
I&#8217;m a big fan of No Age and their tongue-in-cheek noise-pop sensibilities.  Last year their compilation of singles ranked #4 on my Top 10.  Their full-length debut was another album I looked forward to in the spring and was stuck on repeat in my car in the summer.   The funny thing is that Nouns didn&#8217;t stick like Weirdo Rippers did.  Perhaps the sound was too polished, the edges a little too smoothed out.  Well I don&#8217;t care, every album has a halflife, I just may have burned through Nouns a little too quickly, not the fault of No Age!<br />
The album first catches hold on &#8220;Teen Creeps&#8221; in a guitar and fuzz-off and has lyrics that read like adolescent anthems: &#8220;I hate you more I hate this place / I know why I feel this way / Teen creeps please don&#8217;t leave me dead, dead this way.&#8221;  The elastic sounds of &#8220;Things I Did When I Was Dead&#8221; has both a intimacy and a rawness that makes me wonder if <a title="Wikipedia article on Steve Albini's Recording Projects" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Steve_Albini%27s_recording_projects" target="_blank">Steve Albini recorded</a> the track in the same vein as my early 90s faves like PJ Harvey or Pixies / The Breeders.  Other times, I feel like the songs like &#8220;Cappo&#8221; and &#8220;Keechie&#8221; are a nod to their experimental progenitor, Sonic Youth, with wide open spaces full of chutzpah and guitar.  Nouns gives us something a little more laid back, having less to prove, nonetheless with a lot of care. In the instrumental &#8220;Impossible Bouquet,&#8221; you feel their sense of joy in the making of their brand of rock that is quite beautiful.<br />
<strong>Buy Nouns</strong>: <a title="Buy direct from SubPop" href="http://www.subpop.com/releases/no_age/full_lengths/nouns" target="_blank">SubPop</a>, <a title="Buy Nouns from Insound" href="http://www.insound.com/search/searchmain.jsp?query=no+age+nouns">Insound</a>, <a title="Buy Nouns from Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/qid=1235449174/ref=sr_nr_i_1?ie=UTF8&#38;rs=&#38;keywords=%26%2334%3Bno%20age%26%2334%3B%20nouns&#38;rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3A%26%2334%3Bno%20age%26%2334%3B%20nouns%2Ci%3Apopular" target="_blank">Amazon</a>, <a title="Buy Nouns from iTunes" href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=278754647&#38;s=143441" target="_blank">iTunes</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Eraser from SubPop" href="http://www.subpop.com/assets/audio/4260.mp3">Eraser</a></li>
</ul>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-241 alignleft" style="margin-right:10px;" title="In Ghost Colours" src="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/files/2009/02/inghostcolours.jpg" alt="In Ghost Colours" width="200" height="200" /></p>
<p>06.<strong> In Ghost Colours</strong> by <a title="Cut Copy Official Site" href="http://www.cutcopy.net/" target="_blank">Cut Copy</a><br />
In Ghost Colours, I feel like I&#8217;m cheating you at #6, please forgive me! You are one of the ones who&#8217;ve snuck up the charts in the writing of this list (you may glare at #1, if you dare).  <a title="Cut Copy is #2 of Top 10 Bands in 2008 (According to Last.fm)" href="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/top-10-bands-in-2008-according-to-lastfm/" target="_blank">I&#8217;ve asked before</a>, how can a band so young throw-back to the best of the 80s synthpop and yet sound so new?  In Ghost Colours is not a hodgepodge of the great underground dance tracks, New Order, or nods to Top 40 connundrums like Fleetwood Mac, but a neat a holistic album where each song flows naturally from one song to the next.  The movement to each song is surprising and not forced, like the intro into &#8220;Lights &#38; Magic&#8221; where you don&#8217;t the switch between songs as a fade but a progression, and the full movement of the song doesn&#8217;t occur until you hit the chorus.<br />
Unlike much electronic based music, In Ghost Colours remains organic through role of fine vocals and libral use of guitars. Even in the most <a title="Wikipedia article about Big Beat (Hello Chemical Bros!)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Beat" target="_blank">Big Beat</a> moments, they are connected with a sincerety in lyrics and composition between the spaces which keeps the album real and accessible. Cut Copy is not a one-note wonder, tripping genres and ripping rifts right off bands like the Pixies&#8217; &#8220;Break My Body&#8221; like they do in &#8220;So Haunted&#8221; all the while danceable, moshable, thrashable, whatever works to keep your body moving with each song.  To fill out their sound, plenty of sound samples, tape loops, blips and the best of glitch to keep your ears entertained.   There is so much good on this album, it&#8217;s hard to believe we&#8217;re halfway through this list!</p>
<p><strong>Buy In Ghost Colours</strong>: <a title="Buy direct from Modular People" href="https://www.modularpeople.com/themodshop/product.asp?productId=120&#38;categoryId=3" target="_blank">Modular Interscope</a>, <a title="Buy In Ghost Colours from Insound" href="http://www.insound.com/search/searchmain.jsp?query=in+ghost+colours+cut+copy">Insound</a>, <a title="Buy In Ghost Colours from Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&#38;field-keywords=%22cut+copy%22+%22in+ghost+colours%22&#38;x=0&#38;y=0">Amazon</a>, <a title="Buy In Ghost Colours from eMusic" href="http://www.emusic.com/album/Cut-Copy-In-Ghost-Colours-MP3-Download/11191292.html" target="_blank">eMusic</a>, <a title="Buy In Ghost Colours from iTunes" href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=276328444&#38;s=143441" target="_blank">iTunes</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a title="So Haunted from our Stereogum friends" href="http://stereogum.com/mp3/Cut%20Copy%20-%20So%20Haunted.mp3">So Haunted</a></li>
<li><a title="Lights &#38; Music by the best radio blog KEXP" href="http://www.digitalwell.washington.edu/dw/1/51/e8/e8f85b45-9c4f-4662-8e12-4891f926dd4d.mp3">Lights &#38; Music</a></li>
</ul>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-241 alignleft" style="margin-right:10px;" title="Spectrum, 14th Century" src="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/files/2009/02/spectrum14thcentury1.jpg" alt="Spectrum, 14th Century" width="200" height="200" />05. <strong>Spectrum, 14th Century</strong> by <a title="Final Fantasy Website" href="http://www.finalfantasyeternal.com/" target="_blank">Final Fantasy</a><br />
I adore Spectrum and Final Fantasy&#8217;s EP almost took top honors for me this year.  The 5 songs about this imaginary land that lives somewhere betweeen the mind of Owen Palette and the production of Beirut&#8217;s Zach Condon make up one of the most perfect EPs.  Begin with &#8220;Oh Spectrum,&#8221; where we entranced by the chirps of outdoor creatures to a build that reminds me of the bright horns in a <a title="Wikipedia article about West Side Story" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Story" target="_blank">West Side Story</a> showdown (Hello, I&#8217;m talking Bernstein and Sondheim here!)  Somehow this song flows into a steeldrum masterpiece &#8220;Blue Imelda&#8221; with horns and heavenly chorus betray the words of a farmer, who works both the soil and his plow.<br />
The lyrics are priceless and crafted with anachronism that make up songs like &#8220;The Butcher&#8221;  to tell the tale of a preacher at the end of days: &#8220;Every morning I listen to confessional / Couldn&#8217;t give a shit &#8217;bout the bulk of it / Still I keep it professional&#8221; all the while in the same song to quote the great internet meme: &#8220;All your bases belong to us!&#8221;  The music is gorgeous, full of strings, and piano, against the backdrop of the outdoor bugs and birds forever present.  The wordplay is key against the castanets we learn of the &#8220;Cocktrice&#8221; in a self-referential song about self-existentialism before entering, I believe, the finest medieval lyrics about a gay bar &#8220;But I&#8217;ve seen them in the commons with their kerchiefs and tattoos&#8221; and &#8220;They are fathers without sons or daughters&#8221; and homophobia: &#8220;And a bunch of those together / Can only do the Devil&#8217;s work, and it&#8217;s the Devil&#8217;s work they do.&#8221;  A thing of genius!<br />
<strong>Buy Spectrum, 14th Century</strong>: <a title="Buy direct from Books Recording Club on The Blue House" href="http://www.thebluehouse.org/details.php?id=1035">Books Recording Club</a>, <a title="Buy Spectrum, 14th Centery from Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001IA63MK/ref=dm_sp_alb?ie=UTF8&#38;qid=1235449237&#38;sr=8-2">Amazon</a>, <a title="Buy Spectrum, 14th Centery from iTunes" href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=292510303&#38;s=143441" target="_blank">iTunes</a></p>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-241 alignleft" style="margin-right:10px;" title="Vampire Weekend" src="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/files/2009/03/vampireweekend1.jpg" alt="Vampire Weekend" width="200" height="200" />04. <strong>Vampire Weekend</strong> by <a title="Vampire Weekend" href="http://www.vampireweekend.com/" target="_blank">Vampire Weekend</a><br />
I love me some Vampire Weekend and read <a title="Vampire Weekend on Emusic" href="http://www.emusic.com/artist/Vampire-Weekend-MP3-Download/11822865.html">on eMusic</a> a quote that put them into context: &#8220;Third-wave ska goes prep, with enormous results.&#8221; (Would this be another wave? <a title="Wikipedia article about Ska" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ska" target="_blank">Who&#8217;s counting</a>?) I&#8217;ve had love affairs with <a title="Wikipedia article about The Beat" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beat_%28band%29" target="_blank">The English Beat</a>, <a title="Wikipedia article on Madness" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madness_%28band%29" target="_blank">Madness</a>, and saw  <a title="Wikipedia article about Mighty Mighty Bosstones" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mighty_Mighty_Bosstones" target="_blank">Mighty Mighty Bosstones</a> play the same set twice because they had so few songs.  I can say that 90s mainstream didn&#8217;t do ska much good for me.<br />
Ok, to go &#8220;prep&#8221; means for me, those cardigans of the 80s, those thin ties, raybans and the sweet music of Ezra Koenig&#8217;s &#8220;Upper West Side <a title="Wikipedia article about Soweto, Johannesburg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soweto" target="_blank">Soweto</a>.&#8221;  There isn&#8217;t <a title="Tuesdays with Vampire Weekend" href="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/2008/01/29/tuesdays-with-vampire-weekend/" target="_blank">much</a> <a title="Top 10 Albums of 2007" href="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/top-10-albums-of-2007/">new</a> <a title="Top 15 Tracks I Listened to in 2007 (According to Last.fm) " href="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/top-15-tracks-i-listened-to-in-2007-according-to-lastfm/">to</a> <a title="Top 15 Tracks I Listened to in 2007 (According to iTunes) " href="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/2008/01/06/top-15-tracks-i-listened-to-in-2007-according-to-itunes/" target="_self">say</a> about Vampire Weekend other than to thank <a title="Band To Watch: Vampire Weekend on Stereogum" href="http://stereogum.com/archives/band-to-watch/band-to-watch-vampire-weekend_005100.html/" target="_blank">Stereogum</a>/<a title="Song of the Day: Vampire Weekend - Walcott (Insane Mix #2) on KEXP" href="http://blog.kexp.org/blog/2007/08/07/song-of-the-day-vampire-weekend-walcott-insane-mix-2/" target="_blank">KEXP</a> for getting me in at the ground floor and scoffing up those early 45s and finding the CD-R.  The XL release is remastered, fuller in sound and quality, some of the songs got renamed, but the sequence is the same.  The lyrics are fresh and full of fun cultural references, &#8220;Cape Code Kwassa Kwassa&#8221; still being my favorite: &#8220;As a young girl, Louis Vuitton / With your mother, on the sandy lawn / As a sophomore, with reggaeton / And the linens you&#8217;re sittin&#8217; on.&#8221; I feel fortunate I got to see the band twice, <a title="Last.fm event for Vampire Weekend" href="http://www.last.fm/event/395986" target="_blank">once at the Echo upstairs</a>, certainly one of the busiest nights I&#8217;ve seen for a Monday, and full of a much more varied agéd crowd that made me conclude that I was amongst the true earlier adopters of music greats that are my peers.  Even though I may have listened to the songs off this album ad nauseum even before it debuted, I look forward to what comes next. <strong><br />
Buy Vampire Weekend</strong>: <a title="Buy direct from Vampire Weekend" href="http://www.kungfunation.com/index.php?main_page=product_music_info&#38;cPath=999&#38;products_id=743" target="_blank">Direct</a>, <a title="Buy direct from XL Recordings" href="http://shop.xlrecordings.com/search/?searchtext=Vampire%20Weekend" target="_blank">XL Recordings</a>, <a title="Buy Vampire Weekend from Insound" href="http://www.insound.com/search/searchmain.jsp?query=vampire+weekend">Insound</a>, <a title="Buy Vampire Weekend from Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Weekend/dp/B0010V4TZU/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpt_1" target="_blank">Amazon</a>, <a title="Buy Vampire Weekend from eMusic" href="http://www.emusic.com/album/Vampire-Weekend-Vampire-Weekend-MP3-Download/11227999.html" target="_blank">eMusic</a>, <a title="Buy Vampire Weekend from iTunes w/Digital Booklet" href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=270425072&#38;s=143441" target="_blank">iTunes</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a title="A-Punk from KEXP" href="http://www.digitalwell.washington.edu/dw/1/51/5f/5f98ec99-610b-43b1-a4cd-d55bb19526d8.mp3">A-Punk</a></li>
<li><a href="http://stereogum.com/mp3/Vampire%20Weekend%20-%20Oxford%20Comma.mp3" target="_new">Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa</a></li>
<li><a title="Oxford Comma on their Official Site" href="http://www.vampireweekend.com/VampireWeekendOxfordComma823.mp3">Oxford Comma</a></li>
</ul>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-241 alignleft" style="margin-right:10px;" title="For Emma, Forever Ago" src="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/files/2009/02/foremmaforeverago.jpg" alt="For Emma, Forever Ago" width="200" height="200" /></p>
<p>03. <strong>For Emma, Forever Ago</strong> by <a title="Bon Iver Website" href="http://www.boniver.org/" target="_blank">Bon Iver<br />
</a>This unsuspecting, spare album will arrest your velocity and place you firmly in it&#8217;s orbit.  Justin Vernon&#8217;s falsetto harmonies are startling, full of so much emotive quality, he puts most singer / songwriters in a lower class.  The creation of For Emma is equally entrancing, recorded over several winter months in Wisconsin alone in a cabin after a breakup.  And you can almost infer those origins simply by listening to it.<br />
Even with that said, you might feel the album is cold, self-indulgent but Bon Iver provides the warmth in each song, wailing on a song like on &#8220;Skinny Love&#8221; with enough ire to not take himself too seriously: &#8220;I told you to be patient / I told you to be fine / I told you to be balanced / I told you to be kind.&#8221;  These are glorious creatures that reach upward to the sky and the sun, despite their current predicament or where the may have come from.<br />
You can get lost in the melodies and rhythms and a subtle crescendo in several songs that sneaks up on you.  I personally love &#8220;Re: Stacks,&#8221; a sort of final resolution of the album after the title song, a way out of it&#8217;s inner depths, &#8220;It&#8217;s hard to find it when you knew it / When your money&#8217;s gone / And you&#8217;re drunk as hell&#8221; but you find that &#8220;It&#8217;s the sound of the unlocking and the lift away / Your love will be safe with me.&#8221;  And with For Emma, Forever Ago you believe it&#8217;s true with a self-realization you did not possess before.<!--ringtones and media links --><br />
<strong>Buy For Emma, Forever Ago</strong>: <a title="Buy direct from 4AD" href="http://www.4ad.com/releases/for-emma-forever-ago-0/" target="_blank">4AD</a>, <a title="Buy direct from Jagjaguwar" href="http://www.jagjaguwar.com/onesheet.php?cat=JAG115" target="_blank">Jagjaguwar</a>, <a title="Buy For Emma, Forever Ago from Insound" href="http://www.insound.com/Bon_Iver_For_Emma_Forever_Ago__CD/productmain/p/INS41232/">Insound</a>, <a title="Buy For Emma, Forever Ago from Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_m?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&#38;field-keywords=%22bon+iver%22+%22for+emma%2C+forever+ago%22&#38;x=0&#38;y=0" target="_blank">Amazon</a>, <a title="Buy For Emma, Forever Ago from eMusic" href="http://www.emusic.com/album/Bon-Iver-For-Emma-Forever-Ago-MP3-Download/11161152.html" target="_blank">eMusic</a>, <a title="Buy For Emma, Forever Ago from iTunes w/Digital Booklet" href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=273428119&#38;s=143441" target="_blank">iTunes</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a title="Skinny Love from Jagjaguwar" href="http://www.scjag.com/mp3/jag/skinnylove.mp3">Skinny Love<br />
</a></li>
</ul>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-241 alignleft" style="margin-right:10px;" title="03/07 - 09/07" src="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/files/2009/02/highplaces.jpg" alt="03/07 - 09/07" width="200" height="200" /></p>
<p>02. <strong>03/07 &#8211; 09/07</strong> by <a title="High Places' Blog" href="http://hellohighplaces.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">High Places</a><br />
High Places makes music with so many of the elements that I love in music and have loved for many many years now.   Boy-girl vocals, music-box melodies, odd sound creations and sampling, electronic in its creation but organic in sound, sweet (twee) lyrics that are so precious you want to squish their little eyes out.  They compose songs in a way I loved most about <a title="His Name is Alive's website" href="http://hisnameisalive.com/" target="_blank">HNIA</a> and has so much character and psyche rock to keep it interesting over months and months of listening.<br />
Here is an <a title="Buy 03.07 - 09.07 from eMusic" href="http://www.emusic.com/album/High-Places-03-07-09-07-MP3-Download/11157472.html" target="_blank">eMusic</a> collection of rarities that some how come-off as more coherent than their full length that was released later in the year.  What binds them together is an exestentialism like in &#8220;Cosmonaut&#8221; that wonders: &#8220;And we&#8217;re all full of questions / And we would like to know just exactly where we came from /And exactly where we&#8217;ll go&#8221; and considers that &#8220;I&#8217;ve read a lot of books about the future of the sun / And how my great-great-great-great-grandfather might have been a monkey&#8217;s son.&#8221;<br />
These songs have a joy of life, humor, and innocence about them and are the epitome of what keep me so interested in new, independent music and remind me where I&#8217;ve come from and why I spend so much time online keeping my ears wide open.<br />
<strong>Buy 03/07 &#8211; 09/07</strong>: <a title="Buy direct from Thrill Jockey" href="http://www.thrilljockey.com/catalog/index.html?id=102897" target="_blank">Thrill Jockey</a>, <a title="Buy Insound 03/07 - 09/07 from Insound" href="http://www.insound.com/High_Places_0307_-_0907_CD/productmain/p/INS45772/">Insound</a>, <a title="Buy 03.07 - 09.07 from Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/03-07-09-High-Places/dp/B0019DUGUG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#38;s=music&#38;qid=1235449494&#38;sr=1-2" target="_blank">Amazon</a>, <a title="Buy 03.07 - 09.07 from eMusic" href="http://www.emusic.com/album/High-Places-03-07-09-07-MP3-Download/11157472.html" target="_blank">eMusic</a>, <a title="Buy 03.07 - 09.07 from iTunes" href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=284315616&#38;s=143441" target="_blank">iTunes</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a title="High Places from Stereogum" href="http://stereogum.com/mp3/High%20Places%20-%20Head%20Spins.mp3">Head Spins<br />
</a></li>
</ul>
<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-269" style="margin-right:10px;" title="Skeletal Lamping" src="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/files/2009/02/skeletallamping1.jpg" alt="Skeletal Lamping" width="350" height="350" />01. <strong>Skeletal Lamping</strong> by <a title="of Montreal Website" href="http://www.ofmontreal.net/" target="_blank">of Montreal</a><br />
Of Montreal has been on my music periphery for the <a title="Of Montreal in 2006 Top Bands" href="Top 10 Bands in 2006 (According to Last.fm)" target="_self">past several years</a>, but never landed square in the middle of it nevermind the top of it.  Each release capturing my attention more and more, I believed that <a title="Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? on Polyvinyl" href="http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/store/index.php?id=36" target="_blank">Hissing Fauna</a> would come the <a title="Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? in &#34;I coulda been a contender&#34; 2007" href="http://reidmix.wordpress.com/2008/06/11/i-coulda-been-a-contender-2007/" target="_self">closest</a>.  When Skeletal Lamping arrived, I read many posts about its schizophrenia, it&#8217;s lack of focus and direction, it&#8217;s cringe-worthy lyrics.  Wrong.  It&#8217;s simple, they didn&#8217;t stick around to get to the meat of this amazing album. Fuck&#8217;em if they cannot handle the ride.<br />
I had a friend who&#8217;s defense mechanism when first meeting him was to repeat in oh-so-many ways, &#8220;I&#8217;m gay! Gay! Gay gay gay, I&#8217;m gay!&#8221; And boy was he!  But after you got used to his fey qualities and need to prove his queeritude, there was a real person kicking around in there, complex and deeply sensitive.  Skeletal Lamping is this friend and the more you listen, the more you want to hear his story.<br />
Sure, it&#8217;s about Kevin Barnes&#8217; Ziggy-esque alter ego. &#8220;I&#8217;m just a black she-male / And I don&#8217;t know what you people are all about&#8221; but what&#8217;s more interesting is that &#8220;I&#8217;m a motherfucking headliner, bitch you don&#8217;t even know it!&#8221; exclaims Georgie Fruit with an attitude that&#8217;s all  <a title="Hedwig and the Angry Inch Wikipedia article" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_and_the_Angry_Inch_%28musical%29">Hedwig</a>.  For every song that may have put off cautionary reviewers, there&#8217;s something going on under the surface.  Sure, &#8220;We can do it softcore if you want, but I take it both ways,&#8221; but later Georgie confesses, &#8220;The mutual conclusion was I&#8217;m not worth knowing because I&#8217;m probably dead.&#8221;  It&#8217;s both sad and wonderful, an album of cinematic quality, full of vignettes and unexpected turns down dirty alleyways and into backdoors of Studio 54s.<br />
The music is exquisite, perfectly crafted, unique and with a purpose.  Because each song shifts and turns doesn&#8217;t make it erratic, it&#8217;s theatrics and the headliner may be fucking with you (&#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid Lille Venn of violence / I&#8217;m only poisoning you, not going to stab you&#8221;), may be fucking you (&#8220;I want you to be my pleasure puss / I want to know what it&#8217;s like to be inside you&#8221;), may be getting real with you (&#8220;He&#8217;s the kind of guy who would leave you in a k-hole / To go play Halo in the other room, remember?&#8221;), may be regarding a mood (&#8220;Plotting midnight raids on the Swedish plum trees&#8221;), or may be questioning his existence (&#8220;Why am I so damaged, girl?&#8221;)<br />
You&#8217;ve got to listen carefully because I know Skeletal Lamping will be remembered when Of Montreal raised the stakes.<br />
<strong>Buy Skeletal Lamping</strong>: <a title="Buy direct from Polyvinyl" href="http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/store/index.php?id=554">Polyvinyl</a>, <a title="Buy Skeletal Lamping from Insound" href="http://www.insound.com/search/searchmain.jsp?query=of+montreal+skeletal+lamping">Insound</a>, <a title="Buy Skeletal Lamping from Amazon" href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_m?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&#38;field-keywords=%22of+montreal%22+%22skeletal+lamping%22&#38;x=0&#38;y=0" target="_blank">Amazon</a>, <a title="Buy Skeletal Lamping from eMusic" href="http://www.emusic.com/album/Of-Montreal-Skeletal-Lamping-MP3-Download/11305973.html" target="_blank">eMusic</a>, <a title="Buy Skeletal Lamping from iTunes w/Bonus Track" href="http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=292482141&#38;s=143441" target="_blank">iTunes</a></p>
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<li><a title="Nonpareil of Favor from Stereogum" href="http://stereogum.com/mp3/of%20Montreal%20-%20Nonpareil%20Of%20Favor.mp3">Nonpareil of Favor</a></li>
<li><a title="An Eluardian Instance from KEXP" href="http://feedproxy.google.com/%7Er/kexp/songoftheday/%7E5/ldBxu-ukszA/088c879f-bdaa-44be-8117-4986291af91a.mp3">An Eluardian Instance</a></li>
<li><a title="Id Engager from Polyvinyl" href="http://www.polyvinylrecords.com/shared/uploads/media.php?download=1&#38;folder=media&#38;secure_filename=00146_of_Montreal-Id_Engager_192.mp3">Id Engager</a></li>
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<p>Thanks for hanging in to the end, please let me know what you think.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[DJ Kicks pour Erlend Øye]]></title>
<link>http://incdownloads.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/dj-kicks-pour-erlend-ye/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 03:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Color Machine</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Bem, eu já falei por aqui de toda a minha admiração pelo trabalho do Erlend Øye, e vou disponibiliza]]></description>
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<p>Bem, eu já falei por aqui de toda a minha admiração pelo trabalho do <strong>Erlend Øye</strong>, e vou <strong>disponibilizar por aqui</strong> <strong>tudo</strong> que eu tenho dele.</p>
<p>Pra quem não conhece, <strong>DJ Kicks é uma série de coletâneas</strong> onde um artista é convocado pra <strong>mixar músicas que tenham siginificação pessoal</strong>, sem compromissos ou regras a serem seguidas, resultando sempre em <strong>edições pessoais e extremamente particulares ao artista</strong>. Aqui, então, vemos <strong>quão eclético é Erlend</strong>: mistura desde <strong>Jürgen Paape [microhouse fino], The Rapture [the New York rave kids] a Avenue D [rap feminino super atirado]</strong>, ou seja, um verdadeiro caldeirão onde <span style="color:#888888;"><strong>tudo se funde perfeitamente.</strong></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="color:#ff0000;">Pode baixar sem medo, pois apesar de serem ‘coladas’ entre si, as músicas estão avulsas. Só pros </span></strong><em><span style="color:#ff0000;">INCostumers.</span></em></p>
<p><strong>DJ Kicks<span style="color:#ff0000;"> -</span> Erlend Øye</strong></p>
<p><strong>1 &#8211; So Weit Wie Noch Nie &#8211; Jürgen Paape<br />
2 &#8211; Sheltered Life &#8211; Erlend Øye<br />
3 &#8211; Drop [Kings of Convenience Remix - Cornelius<br />
4 - If I Ever Feel Better - Phoenix<br />
5 - Radio Jolly - Jolly Music<br />
6 - Rubicon - Alan Braxe &#38; Fred Falke<br />
7 - 2d2f - Avenue D<br />
8 - I Need Your Love - The Rapture<br />
9 - Lattialla Taas - Uusi Fantasia<br />
10 -The Black Keys Work [DJ Kicks Mix] &#8211; Erlend Øye<br />
11 &#8211; Airraid &#8211; Jackmate<br />
12 &#8211; Poor Leno [Silicon Soul's Hypo Dub] &#8211; Röyksopp<br />
13 &#8211; Meta Chix &#8211; Skateboard<br />
14 &#8211; Dexter &#8211; Villalobos<br />
15 &#8211; Winning a Battle, Losing The War &#8211; Minizza<br />
16 &#8211; Lullaby &#8211; Morgan Geist</strong></p>
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<p><strong>O link para <span style="color:#ff0000;">download</span> está nos <span style="color:#ff0000;">comentários.</span></strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Go ask Alice]]></title>
<link>http://isamizdat.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/go-ask-alice/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:49:25 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>isamizdat</dc:creator>
<guid>http://isamizdat.wordpress.com/2009/02/11/go-ask-alice/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Two Youtube discoveries that just made my night, brought to my attention by certain folks with big h]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[25 things that are DEFINITELY true about me.]]></title>
<link>http://rhodribrady.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/25-things-that-are-definitely-true-about-me/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:24:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>rhodri89</dc:creator>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div><em>These things are very popular on the book of faces at the moment, I thought I could share with you my 100% factual attempt at sharing with you<strong> 25 things about me.</strong></em></div>
<div>1. I was once able to witness a <strong>Gregale</strong>, which is a Mediterranean wind that can occur during times when a low pressure area  moves through the area to the south of Malta and causes a strong, cool, northeasterly wind to affect the island.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Gregale" src="http://z.about.com/d/mandarin/1/0/f/c/-/-/windy_5.png" alt="" width="404" height="351" />2. I was born in <strong>Cachy</strong>, which is a commune in the Somme département in the Picardie region of France.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="France Flag" src="http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/files/images/france-flag.jpg" alt="" width="483" height="400" /><br />
3. My favourite thing in the whole world is <strong>&#8216;Iolanthe&#8217;</strong>, or <strong>&#8216;The Peer and the Peri&#8217;</strong>, it&#8217;s is a comic opera with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Iolanthe" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/Gilbert_and_Sullivan_Iolanthe.jpg" alt="" width="405" height="328" /><br />
4. I own the <strong>The Yamaha OX99-11</strong> sports car.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="The Yamaha OX99-11" src="http://www.supercarstats.com/cars/yamaha/ox99-11/1.jpg" alt="" width="635" height="301" /></div>
<div>5. My favourite song of all time is called<strong> &#8216;Linda&#8217;.</strong> It was written by Jack Lawrence, and published in 1946.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Linda" src="http://www.soservices.co.uk/images/linda_barker.jpg" alt="" width="194" height="194" /></div>
<div>6. My hero is<strong> Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg</strong> who lived from 1 December 1880 – 14 June 1963, he was a Swedish botanist and explorer of Antarctica.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Carl Johan Fredrik Skottsberg" src="http://www.wku.edu/~smithch/chronob/SKOTTSBERG.jpg" alt="" width="288" height="385" /></div>
<div>7. I often read poems by <strong>João de Deus Ramos</strong> who died on January 11, 1896. He&#8217;s better known as <strong>João de Deus</strong>, the greatest Portuguese poet of his generation.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="João de Deus Ramos" src="http://www.idealgarve.com/images/personalidades/joaodedeus.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="272" /></div>
<div>8.  I invented the <strong>wind-up radio</strong>.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="wind up radio" src="http://www.storeshop.com/images/wind-up-radio.jpg" alt="" width="455" height="597" /></div>
<div>9.<strong> 6631 Pyatnitskij </strong>(1983 RQ4) is a Main-belt Asteroid discovered on September 04, 1983 by L. V. Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj. This is something that inspires me.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="6631 Pyatnitskij " src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f3/InnerSolarSystem-en.png" alt="" width="600" height="600" /></div>
<div>10. I went to <strong>Stiftung Louisenlund</strong>, which is a privately run boarding school for boy and girls in Güby, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Stiftung Louisenlund" src="http://www.internate-portal.de/images/jpegs/id076.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="205" /></div>
<div>11. <strong>Philip Douglas Taylor </strong>(born 13 August 1960 in Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent) is a 14 time world champion English darts player whose nickname is <em>The Power</em>. He is my mentor.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="The Power Phil Taylor" src="http://www.unicorn-darts.com/upload/news/taylor.news_1000.jpg" alt="" width="270" height="367" /></div>
<div>12. My favourite work of art is <strong>April Love, </strong>a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite painter <strong>Arthur Hughes</strong> which was created between 1855 and 1856.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="April Love" src="http://www.shafe.co.uk/crystal/images/lshafe/Hughes_April_Love_1856.jpg" alt="" width="548" height="1000" /></div>
<div>13. <strong>&#8216;Chunklet&#8217;</strong>, which is an American music and culture magazine edited and published by me. According to Pitchfork Media, issue #16 has sold more than 10,000 copies. How or why Pitchfork records the sales of a magazine is a mystery.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Chunklet" src="http://www.slugmag.com/etc/238/chunklet.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="479" /></div>
<div>14. I once woke up in <strong>Arts et Métiers</strong>, which is a station of the Paris Métro, serving Line 3 and Line 11.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Arts et Métiers" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Artsmetier.jpg/800px-Artsmetier.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="360" /></div>
<div>15. I took down <strong>Richard Porter</strong> (1965 &#8211; January 3, 1990) he was one of the most notorious New York City drug kingpins.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="kingpin" src="http://www.marvel.com/universe3zx/images/thumb/7/72/Kingpin_Head.jpg/440px-Kingpin_Head.jpg" alt="" width="440" height="372" /></div>
<div>16. I created and regularly draw, <strong>Mordru</strong> (also known as<strong> Mordru the Merciless </strong>or <strong>The Dark Lord</strong>) he is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Comics&#8217; main shared universe.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Mordu" src="http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/2355/102337-144541-mordru_large.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="527" /></div>
<div>17. I am related distantly to <strong>Bruno, Brun, </strong>or<strong> Braun</strong> (died 2 February 880) he was the <strong>Duke of Saxony</strong> from 866 to his death.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Braun" src="http://www.scholarsresource.com/images/thumbnails/192/l/lgf0863.jpg" alt="" width="141" height="192" /></div>
<div>18. I taught <strong>Jeff Alexander</strong> everything he knows. He lived from July 2, 1910 to December 23, 1989. He is an American conductor, arranger, and composer of film, radio and television scores.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Music" src="http://www.irvmusic.com/music%20note5.jpg" alt="" width="483" height="500" /></div>
<div>19. <strong>Isolée</strong> is the best microhouse artist working today, his real name is Rajko Müller. I was the one he played his first track to.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Isolée" src="http://weedbrothers.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/isolee.jpg?w=480&#038;h=288" alt="" width="480" height="288" /></div>
<div>20. I won the <strong>Open Tarragona Costa Daurada</strong>, a tennis tournament held in Tarragona, Spain in 2006.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Open Tarragona Costa Daurada" src="http://www.opencostadaurada.com/08/images/portada/11-1-fp.jpg" alt="" width="342" height="229" /></div>
<div>21. <strong>The Baldwin apple</strong> is a bright red winter apple, very good in quality, and easily shipped. I regularly eat it.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Alec Baldwin Apple" src="http://www.millernurseries.com/images/products/product_90.jpg" alt="" width="292" height="275" /></div>
<div>22. <strong>Annabouboula</strong> is a Greek-American musical trio that flourished in the 1980s and 1990s. Their members are Anna Paidoussi, George Sempepos and myself.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Annabouboula " src="http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/117447.jpg" alt="" width="280" height="280" /></div>
<div>23. The greatest album of all time is <strong>&#8216;Pots and Shots&#8217;,</strong> the debut album of J-ska band <strong>Potshot</strong>. The album was released in the USA by Asian Man Records in 1997.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Potshot" src="http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XP16PCVCL._SL500_AA240_.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="240" /></div>
<div>24. I am currently engineering<strong> &#8216;The Incheon Bridge&#8217;</strong> (also called the <strong>&#8216;Incheon Long Bridge&#8217;</strong>) which is currently under construction in South Korea.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Incheon Bridge" src="http://fr.structurae.de/files/photos/f005970/incheon_bridge_1.jpg" alt="" width="600" height="459" /></div>
<div>25. My favourite species of bat is <strong>The Broad-eared Bat</strong> (Nyctinomops laticaudatus), it is from South and Central America.</div>
<div><img class="aligncenter" title="Broad-eared Bat " src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Bat-capture-moth1nov2000_hi.jpg/180px-Bat-capture-moth1nov2000_hi.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="330" /></div>
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<title><![CDATA[Efdemin: "Efdemin"]]></title>
<link>http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/efdemin-efdemin/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:48:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>SyrFox</dc:creator>
<guid>http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/efdemin-efdemin/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tout comme Pantha Du Prince, Efdemin nous vient d&#8217;Allemagne, de Berlin pour être précis. Comme]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-750" title="41rvgixanrl_ss500_" src="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/files/2009/01/41rvgixanrl_ss500_.jpg?w=300" alt="41rvgixanrl_ss500_" width="300" height="300" />Tout comme<strong> Pantha Du Prince</strong>, <strong>Efdemin</strong> nous vient d&#8217;Allemagne, de Berlin pour être précis. Comme Pantha Du Prince, Efdemin est signé sur Dial Records, distribué par Kompakt. Et toujours comme Pantha Du Prince, Efdemin donne dans la deep house, ou techno minimale, ou microhouse, enfin comme vous préférez.</p>
<p>Toutes ces comparaisons ne sont bien évidemment pas sans intérêt, puisque cet éponyme de très bonne facture fait écho au chef-d&#8217;œuvre <a href="http://syrfox.wordpress.com/2008/06/14/pantha-du-prince-this-bliss/" target="_blank">This Bliss</a>, paru quelques mois avant (This Bliss est le DIALCD09, Efdemin le DIALCD10): ainsi, si les réfractaires aux rythmiques qui tapent sur tous les temps pourront passer leur chemin, ceux qui avaient apprécié ce disque exceptionnel devraient ici retrouver leurs marques.</p>
<p>Pour autant, limiter ce disque à un simple rip-off du Prince serait absurde: loin de la banalité de certaines productions du genre, Phillip Sollmann (car c&#8217;est son nom) tire son épingle du jeu avec un parti pris résolument plus hypnotique que Pantha du Prince, moins basé sur des mélodies aériennes en contraste avec des basses profondes que ce dernier, et plus axé sur des boucles de sons simples, souvent délayés (oh le joli mot) sous de faibles couches de reverb &#8211; promis, j&#8217;arrête là les comparaisons avec qui vous savez, mais c&#8217;est que This Bliss est vraiment génial; bref.</p>
<p>Pendant plus d&#8217;une heure, l&#8217;Allemand va donc nous baigner dans une techno qui se fait à la fois presque abstraite, dansante et pourtant bourrée d&#8217;émotions (tout aussi opposées que ces trois notions puissent paraître): sur le classique beat &#8220;four to the floor&#8221; viennent parfois se poser des touches discrètes d&#8217;electronica, en forme de rythmiques flottantes, et surtout ces boucles répétitives et obsédantes, enfumées, qui viennent se scotcher dans votre inconscient pour ne plus en sortir, sans jamais perdre l&#8217;attention de l&#8217;auditeur. Ca pourrait paraître épuisant, mais ça ne l&#8217;est jamais: profondément humaine, la musique d&#8217;Efdemin, évoluant doucement, s&#8217;étirant toujours sur au moins six minutes par plage, distille un charme indéniable, tout au long de ces onze morceaux éthérés.</p>
<p>Si l&#8217;album s&#8217;ouvre sur un sympathique <em>Knocking At The Grand</em>, il va ensuite globalement gagner en qualité morceau après morceau, et ce dès le joli <em>Lohn &#38; Brot</em> qui suit (dommage qu&#8217;il soit un peu diminué en frôlant la faute de goût avec des synthétiseurs un peu trop désuets dans son final): et le disque présente, dès le  troisième morceau, mais surtout à partir de la troisième piste, <em>Back To School</em><em>, </em>une succession de titres superbes, intéressants de fond en comble, atmosphériques, ambient, jusqu&#8217;au coup d&#8217;éclat final: <em>Bergwein</em>, fabuleuse pièce finale de cet éponyme, capable de vous tirer des frissons durant presque huit minutes. Porté par des synthétiseurs déchirants, bien plus mélodiques que dans le reste du disque, Efdemin nous y offre aussi un développement parfait: le break central intervient quand il faut, la nouvelle structure se construit au rythme idéal, le beat se fait de plus en plus fort, les nappes initiales reviennent, et c&#8217;est tout simplement l&#8217;une des plus belles perles electro de ces dernières années qui se dévoile. Bergwein est une superbe composition, qui pourrait faire oublier l&#8217;idée encore bien trop présente que la musique électronique, et plus précisément la techno, est nécessairement inhumaine.</p>
<p>Tout n&#8217;est pas ici parfait, bien sûr, mais Efdemin nous livre malgré tout ici un premier album de très grande classe, dansant et beau à la fois, mélancolique et groovy, aux constructions irréprochables, et atteignant parfois des sommets d&#8217;une qualité impressionante (<em>&#8220;Further Back&#8221;</em>, &#8220;<em>Stately, Yes.&#8221;, &#8220;Le Ratafia&#8221;</em>), et culminant sur le génial <em>Bergwein</em> (à écouter absolument!), point d&#8217;orgue parfait à une telle œuvre. Notons enfin que le tout est emballé dans un très joli et très sobre packaging, et vous comprendrez pourquoi j&#8217;attends la suite discographique de l&#8217;Allemand avec impatience.</p>
<p><strong>Efdemin &#8211; Efdemin (2007, Dial Records)</strong></p>
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<li>Knocking At The Grand</li>
<li>Lohn &#38; Brot</li>
<li>Le Ratafia</li>
<li>Acid Bells (Album Version)</li>
<li>Back To School</li>
<li>Stately, Yes.</li>
<li>Further Back</li>
<li>Salix Alba</li>
<li>April Fools</li>
<li>Bergwein</li>
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<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/efdemin" target="_blank">Myspace: Efdemin</a><br />
<a href="http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=5xWa-vzICP8" target="_blank">Vidéo non-officielle: Efdemin &#8211; Bergwein (le son n&#8217;est pas de la meilleure qualité sonore possible, mais la vidéo très bien réalisée)<br />
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<title><![CDATA[Modern musical minimalism and you]]></title>
<link>http://completement.wordpress.com/2009/01/16/modern-musical-minimalism-and-you/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>wickethewok</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Minimalist electronic music is about as far from accessible as you get without getting into pure exp]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Minimalist electronic music is about as far from accessible as you get without getting into pure experimental composition.  In order to understand or at least appreciate genres like <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microhouse" target="_blank">microhouse </a>and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_techno" target="_blank">minimal techno,</a> one needs some sort of understanding of their influences and goals.  Like modern art, it just seems like nonsense until you dive deeper.  I think it was <em>Resident Advisor</em> who compared minimal techno to free jazz in terms of accessibility.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s a whole lineage that can be traced back through various artists and genres; if you want a more complete history I&#8217;d recommend the links above, as I won&#8217;t be delving into the historical aspect much.  Basically, I think there are a few genres that cross-pollinated each other, had a few subspecies split off, and more or less ended up at the same place.  One group comes from the Detroit techno camp, which includes the duo <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Channel" target="_blank">Basic Channel</a>.  Hailing from Berlin, they became a large part of the &#8220;Berlin sound&#8221; which emphasized dark, metallic, atmospheric drones.  Meanwhile other German producers were more influenced by glitchy EDM and eventually formed the squelchy, stark backdrop known as microhouse in the early 2000s.  Coming at it from the more &#8220;conventional&#8221; progressive side is an artist like Fairmont, who put out the excellent album <em>Coloured in Memory</em> on James Holden&#8217;s Border Community label.  And, as is unavoidable in atmospheric music, there are also Eno-influenced soundscapes and Kraftwerk-induced stoicism.</p>
<div id="attachment_292" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://completement.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/echospace-coldestseason.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-292" title="echospace-coldestseason" src="http://completement.wordpress.com/files/2009/01/echospace-coldestseason.jpg" alt="it's winter)" width="225" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Deepchord Presents Echospace - The Coldest Season (hint: it&#39;s winter)</p></div>
<p>A nice example of the cross-pollination of genres is Deepchord Presents Echospace &#8211; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Coldest_Season" target="_blank"><em>The Coldest Season</em></a>.  Deepchord, a Detroit act, was influenced by the Berlin scene, which basically looped these influences back on themselves and came out with one the driest albums you&#8217;ll ever hear.  <em>The Coldest Season</em> sounds like how you think it would.  With blisteringly cold sweeping synths and relentless reverb, the album is a penetrating and unique experience.  <em>The Coldest Season</em> is something that really needs to be digested as its gestalt.  In contrast to the coldness found here, there&#8217;s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orb" target="_blank">The Orb</a>&#8217;s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okie_Dokie_It%27s_the_Orb_on_Kompakt" target="_blank"><em>Okie Dokie It&#8217;s the Orb on Kompakt</em></a>.  While <em>Okie Dokie</em> is still melodically distant, the harmonies are warm and bubbly.  Combining Thomas Fehlmann&#8217;s rigid German discipline with a touch of Brit Alex Paterson&#8217;s whimsy, you get tracks like minimal yet melodic &#8220;Traumvogel&#8221; (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Orb-Traumvogel.ogg" target="_blank">listen</a>) and the shuffling &#8220;Cool Harbour&#8221; (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OrbCoolHarbour.ogg" target="_blank">listen</a>).  Fehlmann has also done other work on Kompakt such as <em>Visions of Blah</em> and <em>Honigpumpe</em>, which Pitchfork describes as being <a href="http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/43581-honigpumpe" target="_blank">&#8220;sneakily better than&#8221;</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Here_We_Go_Sublime" target="_blank"><em>From Here We Go Sublime</em></a> by The Field.</p>
<p><em>From Here We Go To Sublime</em> is the type of album that gets stellar reviews due to its crossing of a cult-like subgenre with more accessible melodies and indie influences.  A Swedish gentleman, The Field injects a little emotion and some quirky cut-up melodies into minimal techno.  This is probably one of the easier albums for someone to start with if they have a background in something like trance or IDM.  While nowhere near as disparate as <em>The Coldest Season</em>, The Field does bring a little chill to the table with &#8220;Sun and Ice&#8221;.  Ricardo Villalobos is another DJ/producer who is seeking to expand the domains of minimalism.  Apparently, the genre is now popular enough for the Chilean Villalobos to <a href="http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature-read.aspx?id=1000" target="_blank">poll as the number 1 DJ</a> in the world.</p>
<p>Arbitrary song of the day: The MFA &#8211; The Difference It Makes (Original Mix)</p>
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<link>http://dadagaio.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/desacelerando-as-batidas/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:50:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>samdrade</dc:creator>
<guid>http://dadagaio.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/desacelerando-as-batidas/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Um pouco de minimal pra voltar à realidade. DJ Koze é um alemão gateeenho revelado pelo selo Kompakt]]></description>
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<p>Um pouco de minimal pra voltar à realidade. <strong>DJ Koze</strong> é um alemão gateeenho revelado pelo selo Kompakt e <strong>Ricardo Villalobos</strong> é o top minimal chileno <em>puro charme</em> que chama seu som de microhouse e do qual eu sou fã confesso. </p>
<p>Ma-mãe-man-dou-eu-ba-ter-nes-se-bem-da-qui&#8230;</p>
<p><img src="http://dadagaio.wordpress.com/files/2009/01/ricardo.jpg" alt="ricardo" title="ricardo" width="500" height="334" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-4498" /></p>
<p><a href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/5378725443bee187/">DJ Koze &#8211; Mariposa</a><br />
<a href="http://www.zshare.net/audio/53787334a3356763/">Ricardo Villalobos &#8211; Electronic Water</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.myspace.com/djkozeakaadolfnoise">DJ Koze MySpace</a><br />
<a href="http://cn.profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&#38;friendID=1300602550">Ricardo Villalobos MySpace</a></p>
<p>Mais gatos do minimal, fica a dica: Luciano e Loco Dice&#8230; Uiuiui</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Matthew Herbert // Bodily functions (2001)]]></title>
<link>http://cantstopthenoize.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/matthew-herbert-bodily-functions-2001/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:20:14 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Snobot</dc:creator>
<guid>http://cantstopthenoize.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/matthew-herbert-bodily-functions-2001/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Me acabo de acordar que los beats de esta página no siempre tienen que ser puercos ni atascados, por]]></description>
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<p>Me acabo de acordar que los beats de esta página no siempre tienen que ser puercos ni atascados, por eso corrí o más bien floté directo a mi biblioteca musical para buscarme algo más tranquilo, más rico, como para desear y soñar, acciones que, entre otras, son las más importantes de nuestras funciones corporales. </p>
<p>Y si a mi no me creen tal vez lo hagan con Matthew Herbert quien en este disco -con ya algunos añitos- se encargó de demostrarnos que el terreno donde acaba el jazz y comienza la electrónica puede ser apenas perceptible, tanto así como la diversidad sonora de sus pistas que forman bases de bajos y ritmos a costa de una riqueza enorme de sonidos, impulsados por distintos cuerpos que resultan tan orgánicos y eléctricos como la mezcla de materia y energía encargada de movilizar nuestros envases terrenales.</p>
<p>Por si fuera poco el impecable trabajo de Herbert viene acompañado de hermosas vocales que te envuelven durante todo el disco, logradas magistralmente por Dani Siciliano, de quien ya habrá tiempo para subir algo más pues su voz es la perfecta representación del Acid Jazz, es decir, sin más, una delicia.</p>
<p><a href="http://rapidshare.com/files/174454530/tsss_que_disco_caray.rar">Acá el disco</a></p>
<p><em>Recomiendo especialmente the audience, un track como para recordar que frente a nuestros parlantes o aduífonos somos nosotros los jueces, los espectadores, los que aprueban o descartan y que merecemos de los que se presentan no menos que una actuación soberbia, como ésta.</em></p>
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<title><![CDATA[ Built your home whit your own hands  ]]></title>
<link>http://modularbox.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/built-your-home-whit-your-own-hands/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ilio2008</dc:creator>
<guid>http://modularbox.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/built-your-home-whit-your-own-hands/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[You have a field and you want to build a small modular house? You like do manual works? You felling ]]></description>
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You felling creative, but you don’t know what to do?<br />
This video shows how to build your own microhouse. It’s easy, it’s cheap, it’s fun.<br />
If you are looking for something original, for your place of vacation, you’ll like this video. </p>
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<title><![CDATA[Luomo - Convivial]]></title>
<link>http://saltoalvacio.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/luomo-convivial/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Señor X</dc:creator>
<guid>http://saltoalvacio.wordpress.com/2008/11/13/luomo-convivial/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[The Present Lover fue un discazo que a más de uno nos ha tenido muchas horas pegado a los auriculare]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Matthew Herbert - Globus Mix Vol. 5 - Letsallmakemistakes!]]></title>
<link>http://weedbrothers.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/matthew-herbert-globus-mix-vol-5-letsallmakemistakes/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:03:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>weedbrother</dc:creator>
<guid>http://weedbrothers.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/matthew-herbert-globus-mix-vol-5-letsallmakemistakes/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Matthew Herbert es un artista inglés de jazz-house y de house experimental, que ha innovado notablem]]></description>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-CO">Matthew Herbert es un artista inglés de jazz-house y de house experimental, que ha innovado notablemente en la forma de concebir el house en particular, y la música electrónica en general. El suyo es un jazz-house que para algunos tiene una escasa cabida en la pista de baile, es un house trasgresor, más doméstico e intelectualizado.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-CO">Globus Mix, Vol. 5: Letsallmakemistakes (título que se explica por su rechazo de las sesionas de dj perfectas, sin errores, en las que todo está programado y se deja poco margen a la improvisación y experimentación) es un </span><span lang="ES-CO">album/dj set grabado por este revolucionario para <a href="http://www.tresorberlin.com/label/data.pl?release=Tresor.157CD" target="_blank">Tresor Records</a> en el año 2000.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="ES-CO">En él, configura una sorprendente <a href="http://www.discogs.com/release/1135" target="_blank">compilación</a> en la que mezcla 22 temas de house y techno, repletos de sonidos evocadores y ritmos sinuosos, entre ellos temas de Moloko (el conocidísimo tema Sing it back), además de dos temas de Wishmountain (uno de sus pseudónimos), uno de Radio Boy (otro de sus pseudónimos) y dos temas propios, en el que los ritmos son sugestivos y envolventes, elegantes y luminosos, oníricos y sensuales, asi como acompañados de delirios ácidos de DBX, Theo Parrish y Mr Oizo. </span></p>
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