New Wave classic
Technically this isn’t music or a song, I guess… but I really love what the Conet Project did. And you can get this stuff for free from the Internet Archive. see here. Irdial has some other goodies as well. I highly recommend the Mimi Magjick stuff. It’s actual music, btw.
I think this was one of those “sell out” records where GBV used an 8 track recording studio instead of a 4 track. Or something like that. Sounds lo-fi to me. And sounds really great.
Here is a classic from Sparklehorse. A Cracker cover. RIP, Mr Linkous.
AKA — it’s ZOOEY TIME!
Fans sometimes complain when their favorite band changes sounds. But THIS… My Bloody Valentine, might have been the most radical shift of all. I sometimes wonder how many fans of Loveless realize how MBV sounded back in the mid 80s. To me, it’s all good.
Can you fairly call Air and electronic band? It’s probably what they’re most famous for, but to me their music sounds far too organic. But who cares about genres, they’re just fucking great. 10 000 Hz Legend was a jolt after Moon Safari. Some people didn’t like it. At the time I didn’t myself. I didn’t like a lot of the vocal tracks, but hindsight and time has been kind to this album.
It is May 14th, a Friday. It’s been almost two months since I left the Switchblade Sweeties social networking/art pic web site.
Despite three auto-generated emails, I know for a fact that Sissy Switchblade does not miss me. Also, I know for a fact that she has horrible math skills. I was offered a year’s subscription for $29. According to Sissy this is “half off the usual price of $48.” Now, I’m no Stephen Hawking, but even I know half of $48 is $24, not $29. But as the great Barbie once said, “Math is hard!”
I had a big-ass rant ready for this, but I’m not done with it yet. Maybe I will post it later. Maybe not. But in short, money was not the reason I left.
Along with Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada is one of the few modern “electronic” groops I care to listen to. A lot of it has to do with the music. The other has to do with the aura (or stigma, ymmv) surrounding the group. No normal person truly believes they’re Satanists or followers of David Koresh (or Canadian, for that matter), but it’s kind of nice to think so when listening to their music.
Beautiful video for a beautiful song. I almost want to stop making music (if you can call it that) because it’s superfluous when Richard D. James does it so well. But, with the exception of Boards of Canada, I feel the same way about most electronic music.
I know… I couldn’t have picked a more cliched choice for a Fugazi song, but, damn… DAT BASS!
