Mr.

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 23:06:21 GMT

Droids - "The Force (Part I)"

Droids - "The Force (Part II)"

Droids - "Interspace"

Droids - "Tchoung Fou"

Droids - "Be Happy"

Droids - "Shanti Dance - Part I"

Droids - "Shanti Dance - Part II"

Droids - "Renaissance De L'amour"

If the size bothers you, lemme know and I'll fix it. :)

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 09:53:03 GMT

Sorry about the obscure post, but I just remembered the times when I was hypnotized as a child in front of the purple weather channel screens with sometimes-cheesy music. I decided to look on youtube and lo-and-behold, there seemed to be a community of weather channel geeks, even giving answers to what songs were being played in most of the clips. It's not too much fun to look at, other than nostalgia, but sometimes the music's good.

Oh and I got a Droids album and Dirty Space Disco tracks I want to put up, hopefully late tonight, after getting off work. So, it's not always gonna be weird like this hah.

-Matt, the weird kid who'd watch the weather channel when he was a kid and when the weather channel was still all about weather! hah. Enjoy yo' Saturday everyone.

Doop doo Doop badunk doo

Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:41:29 GMT

"Sleep Dirt [Instrumental]" - Frank Zappa

"Copper Sunset" - Aardvark

"Inside Out" - American Gypsy

"I'm One" - The Who

"It was a Good Day [Screwed up by Dj Screw] - Ice Cube

Hey, all I do is find the stuff aight.

Sun, 17 Jun 2007 08:11:52 GMT

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 08:22:16 GMT

Lake - "Time Bomb"

Ginhouse - "And I Love Her"

Odin - "Turnpike Lane"

Paice Ashton Lord - "Dance Coming"

Yellow Magic Orchestra - "Key"

I wonder who chooses the music for those local on the 8s on the Weather Channel

Tue, 12 Jun 2007 08:20:34 GMT

Slayer - "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"

Crack the Sky - "Hold On"

Felt - "Now She's Gone"

Kestrel - "Take It Away"

Colosseum II - "Dark Side of the Moog"

Midnight Special

Sat, 09 Jun 2007 05:58:45 GMT

I love me some electric prog

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 05:44:59 GMT

...that sounds like Mr. Do samples. This is the "Fountains of Light" album by Starcastle. Their name fits the music.

Starcastle - "Fountains"

Starcastle - "Dawning of the Day"

Starcastle - "Silver Winds"

Starcastle - "True to the Light"

Starcastle - "Portraits"

Starcastle - "Diamond Song"

My next post will be more varied, promise.

Listen to "Silver Winds" on a bangin'(?) system. Pretty darn cool. Get the vinyl if you can, or cd. I doubt if it's sold these days heh, awesome stuff.

Subtle and Supple

Thu, 31 May 2007 01:03:47 GMT

Map of Africa - "Wyatt Urp"

Waki - "July"

Steve Miller Band - "Macho City"

Chairmen of the Board - "Skin I'm In"

Map of Africa - "Freaky Ways"

The Return Pt. II

Tue, 29 May 2007 19:53:02 GMT

Music will return shortly as well. As in, today probably.

-M

Shoegaze in the Haze

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:14:35 GMT

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It was inevitable and possibly done before. A compilation of current artists that have been influenced noticeably by the shoegaze spectacle from the mid 1980's to the mid 1990's. The compilation is 1 of what will be 3 installments. This installment is called Never Lose that Feeling, named after a Swervediver song. Amusement Parks on Fire come out of the gates running with a scorching cover with an even more intense version of "You Made Me Realise" by My Bloody Valentine. Another Airiel mentioned here on this quaint blog thanks to their brilliant accurate cover of Swervediver's "Blowin' Cool". Sounds like it could have made it's way onto "Loveless", the music that is. Echo Orbiter tackle and force you to bop and gaze with Medicine's famed basslines on their song "Never Click". Douglas Heart's careful rendition of "Alison" from Slowdive swims with sound and singing. A whirlwind of ambient and shoegaze riffage with a delicate vocal straining to be heard in the background. Finally one of the more beautiful songs I have ever listened to and Andrew Kenny does his best to keep it that way and does with his acoustic guitar and harmonied voice gasping "girl, it's like angel sigh when I see you walking by..." I am really tempted to post the whole album because it is one of the best compilations released this year, in my mind. Never Lose That Feeling Vol. 1 relives the great era of music that swallowed music by storm between one and two decades ago and also introduces many new bands in the genre that want to push it forward that are just paying homage to their forefathers and influences. You can snag it here at Tonevendor We thank you all.

1. Amusement Parks on Fire "You Made Me Realise (My Bloody Valentine)"

2. Airiel "Blowin' Cool (Swervedriver)"

3. Echo Orbiter "Never Click (Medicine)"

4. Douglas Heart "Alison (Slowdive)"

5. Andrew Kenny "Angel Sigh (Spiritualized)"

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A hip off the old body block

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 02:22:05 GMT

BMSR are from a great label 70's gymanstics, which I linked to in the picture. This label is growing and it's fanbase is growing because of the fact that musicians from this label love music and love to play with it as much as humanly possible and do so and yet still create a beautiful sound not many, if anyone could imitate. I would love to see BMSR live, but after asking the main man in the band, he said it really wouldn't be logical coming down to New Mexico. Damnit! I wasn't talking about logic! Haha, but I understand. My success and greatness keep blessing BMSR and their label.

Tiga is at it again with another single, why can't he just put out an album already!! He's upped his production skills in this and in this single Isolee has decided the tune. Groovy head nodding electro bass line with Tiga's "rap".

Somewhat unashamedly so, Soulwax is my favorite band of all time. They continue to reinvent themselves and with their "Nite Versions" LP. They decide to reinvent their most recent album. With a more steady repetivie grooviness to the music and less in your face rock. More club friendly? Compute was a standout besides the obvious nite version of Krack which is floating around in cyberspace with appraise. Quoting 20jazzfunkgreats.blogspot.com. Soulwax are the 2nd best band from Belgium.

I don't know too much about The Low Frequency in Stereo. This song tricks in some parts. At the beginning it has bass with acoustic guitar and a nice quiet groove, then a constant riffage of the guitar floods the song with the same intro it began with in the background and slowly builds with more electronic noisy guitar sounds until around one minute into the song at which the song slows down with the sound of an airliner flying and then the indie-noisy guitar begins again. Gaze at your shoes damnit!

Ahh Gravenhurst, I believe I have posted their cover of the Husker Du song "Diane" earlier. They are coming out with a new album through the seemingly refreshed and newly vibrant and active Warp label. The name of the LP "Fires in Distant Buildings". Somewhat louder than past Gravenhurst which, to me, is a welcome change. The Velvet Cell soothes you with Nick Talbot's lyrics and breathy vocals while keeping you awake with constant chugging of guitar chords with an occassional breakdown then it reverts back to the original chugging of the riff.

Why Why? Somebody told me this was one of their records of the year (Elephant Eyelash). Just an overall pretty song, which begins with what sounds like a lo-fi vocalwork and delicate guitar work.

Silver Screen's "The Greatest Story Never Told" is one of my records of the year at this time. It's mix of acoustic dream-pop with wonderful production and shoegaze elements.

Forgive me for lack of writing. Tired and need to walk home and all that jazz. Just wanted to say my thoughts are with all people affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Atari-Bleepcore! (haha I don't know) 1. Black Moth Super Rainbow "The Live in The Meadow"

Electro 2. Tiga "You Gonna Want Me (Radio Edit)"

Electro 3. Soulwax "Compute (Nite Version)"

Indie-Noisy 4. The Low Frequency In Stereo "Strobecontroller"

Indie? 5. Gravenhurst "The Velvet Cell"

Indie 6. Why? "The Hoofs"

Dream-pop/shoegaze? 7. Silver Screen "Rockinghorse Road"

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Suede, almost spells "God" backwards in latin.

Mon, 29 Aug 2005 15:39:41 GMT

Back again, again. Aerial Pink's "For Kate I Wait" leads of today's post with it's desperate vocals as he sings and regrets and mourns about Kate with very lo-fi yet still sounding produced perfectly, as in, Aerial Pink knew what they wanted this song to sound like. Ween has finally released (new?) material in the form of a b-sides/collection of unused tracks in the form of Shinola Vol. 1. Transitions is a standout track for me with this jazzy composition with Dean and Gene Ween's vocals slithering through the guitar and synth sounds. Ah this La Ritournelle track has been Everywhere!! Well, for good reason also. It's a truly magnificent track, but this remix here by Mr. Dan does what just a remix of this song should be like, I think. Retaining the best parts of the song, which I think are the vocals. Mr. Dan starts the remix with some sort of effected xylophone then the strings to the song come in and then Tellier's magical voice. Then when the main melody comes in, it's delicately played in acoustic guitar, rather than piano (although the trademark piano is not absent from this mix). Finally, after the first round of vocals ends, the drums do come in and repeat. dEUS, arguably Belgian's best band, come back with a new album this late summer: Pocket Revolution (with interesting artwork on the cover). "The Real Sugar" reveals why they might be the best band from Belgium. With a somewhat dreary acoustic riff starting of the song, along with a cello to further deepen the mood. Okay, Ozric Tentacles, I discovered randomly a few weeks ago on soulseek and I must say I am perplexed as to why not many people have heard of them before, or was it just me that had not heard of them. After doing research about them, they have a large back catologue of music. I can't really describe the music, just amazing. It varies so much in each of their songs, you can't really pinpoint which genre they were trying to be classified in, which is probably exactly what they did not want to be (classified into any specific genre). Finally (congrats on making it this far), the Air cover of Funkadelic's "Maggot Brain". It was recorded in Berlin in 1998. It's just a powerful version of the even more pungent original. Supposedly Air going to release a cover of "Maggot Brain" on their version of the "Late Night Tales" cd series. I wonder how much different it will be, if they end up not using this live version and end up recording the song again in a studio. Whew!

Shoegaze/Ambient/Experimental 1. Ariel Pink "For Kate I Wait"

Jazzy 2. Ween "Transitions"

Beautiful 3. Sebastien Tellier "La Ritournelle (Mr Dan's Magic Wand Mix)"

Indie? 4. dEUS "The Real Sugar"

I don't know actually 5. Ozric Tentacles "Jurassic Shift"

Funkadelic Cover 6. Air "Maggot Brain"

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Mon, 29 Aug 2005 14:51:49 GMT

I am back. Not sure how consistent these posts will be, but I will do my best. Here is my radio show's playlist last Thursday.

"Minidoux" - Jackson & His Computer Band

"CMYK" - Ladytron

"Rock On" - Jackson & His Computer Band

"Saturday (Soulwax Remix) Saturday Vs Billie Jean" - 2 Many DJ's (Soulwax)

"I Wish (Soulwax Remix) Skee-Lo Vs Eye Of The Tiger" - 2 Many DJ's (Soulwax)

"My Cruel Joke (Soulwax Remix) Rmx By Soulwax" - 2 Many DJ's (Soulwax)

"Blues in 9/4" - George Shearing

"Into The Stars" - Alphawezen

"Memories Of Places We've Never Been" - Faunts

"Immaculate Heart 2" - American Analog Set

"I Was A Sunny Rainphase" - Stereolab

"Jurassic Shift" - Ozric Tentacles

"Transitions" - Ween

"SUMMERTIME" DJ JAZZY JEFF & THE FRESH PRINCE

"Do You Remember House" - Blaze Feat. Palmer Brown

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" - Ragnar Bjarnason

"Since K Got Over Me" - The Clientele

"The Shining (Main Title)" (for Bob Moog) - Wendy Carlos and Rachel Elkind

"96 Tears" - The Stranglers

"Da Da Da" - Elastica

"La Ritournelle (Mr. Dan's Magic Wand Mix)" - Sebastien Tellier

"Kawasaki" - Mental Overdrive

"Headlines" - Neon Blonde

"7/4 (Shoreline)" - Broken Social Scene

"7 Days, 7 Weeks" - dEUS

"Aku Kembali Lag" (Beatles Cover) - The Quests

"Monkeys" - Who Made Who

"I'm a Man" - Chicago Transit Authority

"Nothing Is the Same" - Grand Funk Railroad

Return

Wed, 06 Jul 2005 20:53:59 GMT

I am back, apparently something happened to the folder with all the music for each of my posts so I will probably leave them as broken links and cross them out, but if you want anyone of the songs, do comment or email me and I can see what I can do. My soulseek username is "zrooooookovian". Sorry for the long delay, but just finished moving into a new apt. with no roommates. Whew. Here is some of the music I have been listening to for the past few days. Victor Gama truly deserves to be described as an oddity. The music is all percussion from many plastic objects, but does not sound playful, but serious at times, all the while being experimental and provactive. The Coup. Is it pronounced "Coo" or "Coop". I would say the former. This is almost gfunktified, but the lyrics are powerful and at times blatant and disturbing, but that's what powerful music has to be sometimes. One of my favorite punk songs is this one by the Undertones. I could sure relate to this song when I was younger and even now, just wish I had known about them back then. Punk off! This gem (to me) is from Supertramp and one of their "not-very-well-known" songs. Words Unspoken speaks about certain things that shouldn't be spoken, but just kept in your mind. At least that's my interpretation. Also, it is quite enjoyable to try to sing with it and is just a pretty overall song. Pajo, David Pajo. A nice electro-acoustic one man band I discovered around 2 weeks ago and have yet to tire of yet after tirelessly listening to his music. This one of his is my favorite. The lyrics, the groove, the riff, the music. Quite a sad song, but a fitting one if someone you love had to leave you. Enjoy and thanks for waiting up for me.

Oddities 1. Victor Gama "O Dialoga Dos Pernatas"

Caution: Explicit Content! Rap 2.The Coup "Me and Jesus the Pimp In A '79 Granada Last Night"

Punk 3. The Undertones "My Perfect Cousin"

Soft Rock? 4. Supertramp "Words Unspoken"

Electro-Acoustic 5. Pajo "Baby, Please Come Home"

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Guh-rue-vee (Remix)

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 21:51:08 GMT

This might be somewhat of a repeat but its great stuff that deserves a chance yo! Starting with another remix of DFA 1979 by some of my favorite remixers Alan Braxe and Fred Falke. They somehow manage to transform this rock stomper into a french house beauty. Great! Next is a double dose of DJ Shadow. With his intro album "Endtroducting" being released as a deluxe double cd now, I thought I would post some of my favorites from disc 2. Enjoy. One is the same instrumental from "Why Hip Hop Suck...", but with some "gibberish" about soup near the end. Made me laugh. Next is another great epic of sampling from DJ Shadow, remixed. Last two are also remixes. One from International Pony touching up and calming down Bob Sinclair on his song "Ich Rocke". One of my favorite EP's so far this year was and is the "Italian E.P." and lo and behold an actual remix album of this E.P. has come out and one of the and one of my favorite great disco grunge punk bands (David Gilmour Girls) do their stuff to Ajello's "Harlem USA". Rock to the Groove and Groove to da Rock everybody!

French House? 1. Death from Above 1979 "Black History Month (Alan Braxe and Fred Falke Remix)"

Trip-hop? 2. DJ Shadow "Soup"

Trip-hop? 3. DJ Shadow "Stem (Cops 'N' Robbers Remix)"

French House 4. Bob Sinclair "Ich Rocke (International Pony Remix)"

Disco Dance Punk? 5. Ajello "Harlem USA (David Gilmour Girls Remix)"

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R U Down Wit Dis?

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 19:50:59 GMT

Since every other blogger out there seems to be able to dj at some club makin' people dance at some point or another, I figure I would post what I played on my college (best respect it) radio show "Eclecticity". I will post what I play each week. My show can be heard on http://www.kruxradio.com on Thursday evenings from 6-8 PM MST. Any comments suggestions, hate this idea and just want the music? Hit me up. Thanks for listening/reading/downloadin'!

Why Hip Hop Sucks In '96 - DJ Shadow

Twentieth Century Fox Fanfare (1953 Version)

AC-CENT-TCHU-ATE THE POSITIVE - Johnny Mercer (VA)

I Can Only Give You Everything - Them

All Mixed Up - Red House Painters

Brick - Ben Folds Five

She's Not There - The Zombies

Airwaves - Thomas Dolby

Home Made Polysynth - AFX

She Makes Me Think of Endicott - Gary Wilson

First Time - Maktub

Jolene - Dolly Parton

Butch - The Geraldine Fibbers

jeka - port-royal

The Nurse - The White Stripes Rock & Roll Number One - Zdar

Comforting sounds - Mew

To Love Somebody - Billy Corgan

Yolanda - Robert Wyatt

The Safety Dance (Extended Mix) - Men Without Hats Pass

This On (M.A.N.D.Y. Knifer Mix) - The Knife

Owner of A Lonley Heart (Klonhertz Remix) - Max Graham Vs Yes

Money (That's What I Want) - Secret Machines

De Luxe (Immer Wieder) - Secret Machines

Program - Windy & Carl

Everyday - Buddy Holly

Sweet Jane [Live] - The Velvet Underground

Guess I'm Falling In Love (Instrumental Version) - The Velvet Underground

Will be updating with downloadable music soon and yeah requests are more than welcome.

Fri, 17 Jun 2005 19:52:29 GMT

First one is thanks to MFR for pointing them out to us and me. Their guitar work is superb and shows in this song, not my favorite of theirs, but very good cover nonetheless. It captures all you need from the song and all with guitars. Great. Ölvis or Orlygur Thor Orlygsson if you can pronounce that. Amazing stuff featuring Sigur Rose members Orri Dyrason and Georg Holm.. This song is great. Showcases the production of the band on this recording. It's from their new album "The Blue Sound".
Robert Wyatt's always been one of my favorites ever since I had discovered him through the tigersushi praise he received. This is a pretty love song sung in spanish. Sonic Youth's more experimental side project is showcased as Ciccone Youth and this song is a goovy masterpiece, as the name may or may not suggest. Finally a wonderfully jazzy upbeat fast guitar/trumpet fest from the wonderful Belgian Jazz musician Marc Moulin. One of the smoothest and fastest guitar solos I have ever heard and loved. Thank god it's F! Take care all.

Classical Guitar 1. The California Guitar Trio "Bohemian Rhapsody"

Ambient Post-Rock 2. Ölvis "Acid Trip Festival"

Classic 3. Robert Wyatt "Yolanda"

Experimental Rock 4. Ciccone Youth "Into The Groove"

Fusion? 5. Marc Moulin "Bosso"

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Mister Twister

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 21:01:20 GMT

Will Zdar be the new Prince? Doubtful, but I am sure loving his funky production/sampling in the 3 solo songs I have heard from him so far. I hope you enjoy and are ready to groove. Mew starts the song with a comforting hook and just slowly manipulates it and adds to it. It could hypnotize you to sleep before it gets loud before the end, maybe that's what they were going for, but the production is magnificent in it, before you know it it's a powerful song pounding into your ears. One of my favorite love songs and I felt that it needed more love. If I ever get married, I would want this song to be played during my wedding at some point, if not, I would have it played during the "first dance". Just a purdiful song. Well this might be a guilty pleasure, but this song by Rave Signal seems to me to be one of the few songs that would be played at a rave that I actually would want to make a fool of myself to (meaning dance). Secret Machines cover a song from one of my favorite genres, Kraut Rock. It's a song by one of the lesser know yet more premiere bands in the genre. My ears are slowly opening up to Secret Machines and I hope your ears are slowly opening up to this blog. Sorry for the blinding text and colors for the past few weeks.

Funk/House? 1. Zdar "Rock & Roll Number One"

Indie 2. Mew "Comforting Sounds"

Classic 3. The Association "Never My Love"

Electro/Techno? 4. Rave Signal "Horsepower"

Covered Kraut Rock 5. Secret Machines "De Luxe (Immer Wielder)"

Maybe I will upd8 l8r, n e wayz, b@| b@|

PS: Anyone up for enlarging the font size say aye.

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Relax with the Wax

Thu, 09 Jun 2005 20:07:10 GMT

It was hard to choose one song from the oft remixed Belgian band Telex, but I decided on this one mainly because their main single most of you probably already have (including remixes): Moskow Diskow. Their album "Looking For Saint Tropez" features addictive beating electronics and many refrences to classic 50's rock from the US, probably showing their love for that era of music, simple and all about the riffs and beats and rock and roll!! This one is a "cover", I guess you could say, of the "Twist!" Finland producer had a remix lp released recently and one of the stronger tracks from it is remixed by Funckarma. Melding "intelligent" dance music with groove that flows through the whole abstract-beat-fest. Lo-Fi sounds embrace this song and the lyrics embrace the lo-fi-ness. Enjoy. One of the better remixers around attempts to remix one of the better electronic acts around and succeeds. I meant to post this last track by The Pine last time, but forgot, but it's a quiet song at first, but the vocals are what get me by loosely lassoing the whole song together messily as I am sure the musicians wanted. Sounds like an unnerving desperate singing messing with the messy almost-shoe gazey guitar work.

Electronic 1. Telex "Twist A St. Tropez"

IDM/Funk 2. Blamstrain "Blamstrain (Funckarma Remix)"

Lo-Fi? 3. Midlake "Mr. Amateur"

Electro 4. The Knife "Pass This On (M.A.N.D.Y's Knifer Remix)"

Rock 5. The Pine "Crumbled"

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The Beginning of The End of Civilization

Mon, 06 Jun 2005 23:07:11 GMT

MMMmmm ambient! Well Port-Royal, the band, are and I frickin' adore it. Discovered Port-Royal through Piccadilly Records in the UK. Lovely guitar/ambient work. The best since Julian Fane (if you consider him ambient). Wonderful lazy soundtrack that glides effortless into you and yet doesn't sound slow, quiet, or boring at all. Seriously. Check their new album "Flares"Truly inventive and refreshing post-rock-ambient. Hah I love making up gibberish genres! Next we got the bonus/hidden track off of Placebo's "Sleeping With Ghosts" called Daddy Cool. The placebo's finally working for me, hence I enjoy the catchiness/fast riffs/and simple lyrics! Next up I am a little late with this one, posting-wise, but have enjoyed the music of Biffy Clyro's "Infinity Land" ever since I discovered it and kind of considered it my guilty pleasure, but eh I am gonna post anyways. I like the fact that this song seems to play like 3 different types of music. At least from what I can hear. Quiet/Passionate and umm Emo?/Hardcore Crazy and ummm Screamo? heh, but yeah, I'm feelin' it and of course the lyrics are a plus. One of the better remixes I have heard of the "it" band Bloc Party. Bringing their zanyness to Bloc Party through remixing them is Polysics. Mhmm genius. Finally my favorite (well it's a contender) remix of Daft Punk's "Technologic" It sounds like a mixture of a bunch of loops and it is, but Basement Jaxx are the masters of kontrolled kaos and this remix shows. Thank you Jaxx.

Ambient/Post Rock? 1. Port-Royal "Jeka"

Rock 2. Placebo "Daddy Cool"

Rock 3. Biffy Clyro "Only One Word Comes to Mind"

Electronibleep 4. Bloc Party "Luno (Polysics Harajuku Remix)"

Electronic/Bumpin' Dance 5. Daft Punk "Technologic (Basement Jaxx Kontroll Remixx)"

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Sweat Glistening From a Cold Glass of Water with a Thunderstorm in the Background

Tue, 31 May 2005 21:45:08 GMT

No cloud in the sky means me wishing the sky was plastered with dark storm clouds blocking out the opressive sun with rain streaming down putting out the heat on the sweating grass and steaming pavement. Hah with that said here are some tunes I love starting off with one that I could listen to over and over, especially in dark dreary weather. New Order's full version of "Elegia" (Warning: The Song is 17 minutes plus, but I think it's worth the download). A lovely prog song that I can never tire of for some reason or another. Moog Cookbook bring out the space rock in Tom Petty's "Free Falling". The Posies are up next with a charming track off their new album "Every Kind of Light". The Jaun Maclean's album is coming out soon and this is a selection from it which reminds me of minimal/experimental disco. "In The Afternoon". I guess I am in a proggy mood or somethin' because the last is a selection from Aphrodite's Child album "666" which is supposed to be a "soundtrack" to the Apocolypse of John. Here is some background story behind the album and the Apocolypse of John. Everyone enjoy the music before the world ends.

Experimental 1. New Order "Elegia (Full Version)"

Experimental 2. The Moog Cookbook "Free Falling"

Indie 3. The Posies "Last Crawl"

Experimental Disco? 4. The Juan Maclean "In The Afternoon"

Experimental Rock 5. Aprhodite's Child "Babylon"

More 2 Come kthx

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PS: The New Order track should be working now.

Hot Summer Day

Tue, 24 May 2005 21:25:46 GMT

Summer is nearly hear and I am slowly adjusting so as I can start updating more frequently. A nice hot summer day here to accompany this update. Starting off with Matthew Herbert's newest, well a selection from it. You can hear he is divulging more into the untreaded experimental side with noises amongst the music to help enhance it, I suppose. He was/is possibly influenced by one of his favorite electro-acoustic musicians, Pete Stollery. Next up, some decent "loungecore" (if there is such a thing) from Gary Wilson. From his Newark Valley 12" with half songs and half instrumentals. To me, the instrumentals are more "powerful" without the quirky vocals. This is the instrumental of "Gary Saw Linda Kissing Frank". Next, a rather humerous/accurate rock rendition of Beyonce's "Crazy in Love" by the one-hit wonders Snow Patrol. Poni Hoax from Tigersushi is up next. I still have faith in the tigersushi label even after the Mu fallout, so I do hope that Poni Hoax can take the reins where Mu left them. I'll admit, it probably does sound better on the dance floor, but Joakim is one of my favorite remixers and this one builds and builds with loud soundclashes at some point in this remix that emphasizes the beat well. Kind of anticipating more from this Poni Hoax group. Lastly but not leastly, Amusement Parks on Fire. I discovered them around 3 months ago on tigersushi, I do believe, and sadly I didn't devote much time to them (thanks to school or otherwise), but after other sites mentioning their name and music I definitely see the beauty in their shoegazery and what I was missing out on, and I hope you do as well. I hope you guys and gals have a wonderful rest of the afternoon/evening/morning/whatever.

Experimental 1. Matthew Herbert "The Final Meal of Stacey Lawton"

Loungecore? 2. Gary Wilson "Gary Saw Linda Kissing Frank (Instrumental)"

Cover 3. Snow Patrol "Crazy in Love"

Italo Disco 4. Poni Hoax "Budapest (Joakim's Italo Dub)"

Shoegaze 5. Amusement Parks on Fire "23 Jewels"

More 2 Come kthx

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Foliage on Fire at the Zoo

Sun, 01 May 2005 20:37:12 GMT

Mystery Jet's pump up the Post Rock scene with this little number. People will probably be focused on Zoo Time (rightfully so), but this one attracts me more with a catchier riff and singing. Sufjan keeps his album wheels rolling, still working towards his promis of having an album done for every state in the union. As far as I know, he has only done two so far and this track is from his new one coming out soon "Illinois". His previous and still great work was "Michigan". Weezer comes back, but with this track, it sounds like they traveled back to the eighties in the studio and recorded in that decade and returned unnoticed until now. I like it, but definitely probably not the Weezer you are used to. Next to a live collaboration of Brian Eno and friends, including Phil Manzanera. They cover the oft-covered song "Tomorrow Never Knows" and to me one of the best covers of course. Finishing off with a Hüsker Dü cover by Gravenhurst, chilling, at least it gave me the chills and still does. Be forewarned the Hüsker Dü cover get's instantly graphic. Just sayin'. Enjoy.

Post Punk 1. Mystery Jets "Lizzie's Lion"

Indie 2. Sufjan Stevens "Come on! Feel the Illinoise!: Pt, I-The World's Columbian Exposition/Pt, II-Carl Sandburg Visits Me in a Dream"

Alternative (Synthy) 3. Weezer "This is Such a Pity"

Kraut Rock (Kinda) 4. 801 "Tomorrow Never Knows"

Acoustic 5. Gravenhurst "Diane"

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Bloatation

Wed, 27 Apr 2005 22:43:25 GMT

I like this song "Imagine" for some reason. The lyrics maybe? M makes soothing downtempo songs that sounds a big like Air early era with equally as refreshing vocals. Discovered M through MFR. They have a fitting music video of the song. Bitmap is a bit of videogame noises with some old fashioned rock and roll guitar, but not as violent as say Electronicat, but enjoyable, very. The Geraldine I just discovered today on iTunes through E (from EELS) playlist he put up today, and he described them as a "Los Angeles Treasure". I have to agree. Enjoy with me.

Rock? 1. John Lennon "Imagine"

Downtempo 2. M "Ma mélodie"

Bliprock=Block? 3. Bitmap "How the West was Won"

Rock 4. The Geraldine Fibbers "Trashman in Furs"

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