Friday, July 31, 2009
Thursday, July 30, 2009
A Host of Fun Crap
I've got a bunch of new stuff to check out. First and foremost, this is going to be hot:
Popmatters celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Warp
There's one here on the new greatest hits of Blur
The Soul Jazz compilation Fly Girls cover females in hip-hop.
Alva Noto's second in the Xerrox series
Sumsumu Yokota's latest album sounds like 4AD circa 1986 (not necessarilly a bad thing)
Popmatters celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Warp
There's one here on the new greatest hits of Blur
The Soul Jazz compilation Fly Girls cover females in hip-hop.
Alva Noto's second in the Xerrox series
Sumsumu Yokota's latest album sounds like 4AD circa 1986 (not necessarilly a bad thing)
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Disco All But Demolished
Over at PopMatters, I've got a brief entry on one of the blogs celebrating disco's vitality 30 years post Chicago's disco demolition night. I tried to stick to things that would mostly fit a technical definition of Disco (or House, as it is now known) rather than splintering off into the myriad deviations that have grown outward from disco.
Some great music there and it wouldn't be hard to add a ton more. Oh Hell, here's a few:
Some great music there and it wouldn't be hard to add a ton more. Oh Hell, here's a few:
Friday, July 10, 2009
Obits, Ambivalence, mnmlsm, and Warehouses
After a long couple weeks of publishing silence, I've got a couple articles up at PopMatters. They're all things I was unsure about after I finished them, but it turns out they're all pretty good. Check them out
The Fawn in the Burning Forest: Our Beloved Monster
My encapsulation of the whole Michael Jackson affair, which appears as part of PopMatter's week long infatuation with his death.
A review of Bibio's Ambivalence Avenue, which is quite a departure.
A review of Studio 1 by Studio 1 (aka Wolfgang Voigt), which reads more like a treatise on hyper-minimalism.
And a more substantial form of minimalism, in the form of Claro Intelecto's Warehouse Sessions
The Fawn in the Burning Forest: Our Beloved Monster
My encapsulation of the whole Michael Jackson affair, which appears as part of PopMatter's week long infatuation with his death.
A review of Bibio's Ambivalence Avenue, which is quite a departure.
A review of Studio 1 by Studio 1 (aka Wolfgang Voigt), which reads more like a treatise on hyper-minimalism.
And a more substantial form of minimalism, in the form of Claro Intelecto's Warehouse Sessions
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Saturday, July 4, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Sunday, June 28, 2009
A Collection of Other Lesser Played Tracks.
Ain't No Sunshine (surprisingly trip-hop-ish)
Johnny Raven
I Can't Help It
Get on the Floor
The Jacksons- Shake Your Body Down (to the Ground)
Destiny
Heartbreaker
The Brothers Johnson- This Had to Be (MJ Production/ Backing Vocs)
Janet Jackson- You Don't Stand Another Chance (MJ Backing vocs)
Greg Phillinganes- Behind the Mask (MJ Backing vocs apparently. YMO cover)
Plunderphonics- Dab
Raver's Choice- The Lady in My Life
The first record I ever owned
The second record I ever owned
Friday, June 26, 2009
More Michael Jackson
Rebbie Jackson- Centipede (co-written by her brother Michael). What a hot beat.
Bubbles- We Can Ride the Boogie
Perhaps the best MJ mix ever
Thursday, June 25, 2009
I got bugz
My output has been sorely affected by the bugs on my laptop. Nasty ass malware infected my system (avast!antivirus bug, malware doctor, trojans and rootkits and bullshit, oh my!). It may have taken down many unfinished songs and unfinished writings with it. Which is almost like a genocide of my creative spirit. But it also leaves room for fresh starts...
To catch up, I've got a few older reviewers here, of two really good albums:
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas' II
Jon Hopkin- Insides
In addition, check out this great ongoing feature on the 10th anniversary of PopMatters in which we look back at the music of 1999. I've got four capsule reviews in there already published (on Trans Am, Nobakazu Takemura, Underworld, and Four Tet).
The Edge of Change
To catch up, I've got a few older reviewers here, of two really good albums:
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas' II
Jon Hopkin- Insides
In addition, check out this great ongoing feature on the 10th anniversary of PopMatters in which we look back at the music of 1999. I've got four capsule reviews in there already published (on Trans Am, Nobakazu Takemura, Underworld, and Four Tet).
The Edge of Change
Monday, June 1, 2009
RIP George Tiller
"It is very well established that as women have more opportunities, more education, as better medical care is available, as more family planning is available, fertility rates go down, abortion goes down, children are better cared for, women are healthier. Those things are known. Those are all things that are easily under social control and should not be controversial.
"I don't think there should be anything controversial about making sure that women have access to decent obstetric care. That alone would save hundreds of thousands of lives each year. If you want to do things to help women, there are very easy ways to do it. And it's not just true of women but also children. UNICEF also reports that, if my memory is correct, 15 million children die every year from mostly easily treatable diseases, things like a lack of drinkable water, or dehydration, or diarrhea, things that can be very easily treated, and treatable for pennies a day from the rich countries. So, if you're serious about saving lives, about saving children's lives, there are easy ways to do it.
"On the other hand, if you look at the same people who are most militant about saving the fetus, are they calling for an increase in foreign aid? Are they concerned that the United States has the most miserable and miserly foreign aid program of any developed country, by quite a large margin? The country has plenty of wealth, the means are easily there, (but) the social policy is being designed to enrich the wealthy even further and let the poor suffer, let the children starve, let the mothers die, and so on. That's an overwhelming problem.
"People who are willing to address those problems we can at least take seriously when they talk about values. You can listen to what they say about other things, like abortion, which is a hard question. But I don't think we should be interested in discussing it with people whose values are such that they don't care about the massive problem of killing and harming women and children that they could easily deal with and are doing nothing about. In fact, making it worse, not doing nothing about it, but making it worse."- Noam Chomsky, Lake of Fire
"I don't think there should be anything controversial about making sure that women have access to decent obstetric care. That alone would save hundreds of thousands of lives each year. If you want to do things to help women, there are very easy ways to do it. And it's not just true of women but also children. UNICEF also reports that, if my memory is correct, 15 million children die every year from mostly easily treatable diseases, things like a lack of drinkable water, or dehydration, or diarrhea, things that can be very easily treated, and treatable for pennies a day from the rich countries. So, if you're serious about saving lives, about saving children's lives, there are easy ways to do it.
"On the other hand, if you look at the same people who are most militant about saving the fetus, are they calling for an increase in foreign aid? Are they concerned that the United States has the most miserable and miserly foreign aid program of any developed country, by quite a large margin? The country has plenty of wealth, the means are easily there, (but) the social policy is being designed to enrich the wealthy even further and let the poor suffer, let the children starve, let the mothers die, and so on. That's an overwhelming problem.
"People who are willing to address those problems we can at least take seriously when they talk about values. You can listen to what they say about other things, like abortion, which is a hard question. But I don't think we should be interested in discussing it with people whose values are such that they don't care about the massive problem of killing and harming women and children that they could easily deal with and are doing nothing about. In fact, making it worse, not doing nothing about it, but making it worse."- Noam Chomsky, Lake of Fire
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