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khmay

letdown -is that your list straight out of kexp? indierock overhaul, seriously... get off the wagon!

Jan 15, 08 7:21 pm  · 
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mfrech

TV on the Radio = tasty on my stereo.

Jan 15, 08 7:25 pm  · 
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xtbl

wow, what's going on in sweden? so many emerging artists coming from there these past few years.

also, i love how world music is beginning to seep into american popular music. listening to vampire weekend inspired me to check out african guitar players, and there are some really good ones! check out amadou and mariam's dimanche a bamako[/i, and i also really like loketo's [i]soukou trouble. really sharp guitar playing.

also, if your reggae collection consists solely of bob marley's legend (because i know everybody has that one), you should really check out bunny wailer's rock 'n groove which was reissued on cd and mp3 last year. key tracks are the title track, "cool runnings", "dance rock" and "rootsman skanking."

Jan 15, 08 7:38 pm  · 
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n_

Just purchased the new Cat Power over lunch. Listened to it one way through already. She covers Bob Dylan and Billie Holiday. Love it.

Jan 25, 08 2:29 pm  · 
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lletdownl

yamK
great comment. as a matter of fact, i found most of those songs through pitchfork. ass face.
HA! now whos the chump...

Jan 25, 08 2:42 pm  · 
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xtbl

i love this song.

Jan 30, 08 2:27 pm  · 
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scan(adian)

yep, Cat Power is on it for sure.

Esthero is in my permanent list.

Jan 30, 08 2:41 pm  · 
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strlt_typ
Don’t compromise what’s gold
For the soul you never sold
For the soul you never sold, no
Jan 30, 08 2:46 pm  · 
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randomized

and away from the singer songwriters and back to some nice electronica
how about:

justice

Jan 30, 08 5:01 pm  · 
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xtbl

i like justice.

i can't wait 'till technology gives us t-shirts like in the D.A.N.C.E. video.

Jan 30, 08 5:15 pm  · 
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randomized

they already have shirts like this:

so shouldn't be too difficult to make the next step in t-shirt technology.

or a local favourite from my hometown

Kraak&Smaak/Crack&Smack

check the video, it's European, whatever that means.

Jan 30, 08 5:32 pm  · 
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randomized

I meant t-shirts like this:

Jan 30, 08 5:34 pm  · 
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randomized

screw it, they are called t-qualizer shirts

Jan 30, 08 5:35 pm  · 
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randomized

one more try just because otherwise it keeps bugging me all day:

Jan 30, 08 5:39 pm  · 
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xtbl

yeah, one of the student projects for the school i work for was a t-shirt similar to that.

these are pretty cool.



they detect wifi!!!

Jan 30, 08 5:45 pm  · 
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khmay

"yamK
great comment. as a matter of fact, i found most of those songs through pitchfork. ass face.
HA! now whos the chump..."


hahahaha. are you saying there's a difference between pitchfork and kexp?


"So if it starts to get you down
Just pretend
That you don't make your living
From selling advertising
Tracking trends
Coraling demographics
And maximizing traffic"

-david bazan, on pitchfork,

Jan 30, 08 6:07 pm  · 
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randomized

and back to music

how about covers that are very different from the original, such as for instance the Balanescu Quartet doing Kraftwerk

or nouvelle vague doing
joy division

is it sacrilege or are they honest tributes? at least they don't try and copy the original but make them their own...

Jan 30, 08 6:15 pm  · 
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khmay

it'd be great if joy division was covered, all of it besides love will tear us apart and atmosphere. ian curtis needed a little bit of vocal help on 90% of their music.

Jan 30, 08 6:25 pm  · 
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randomized

which reminds me:

best album covers ever, related to architecture or both.

let's start of with:



joy division - unknown pleasures (or as described by valdmont(dot)wordpress(dot)com: el Sgt. Pepper’s de Joy Division

Jan 30, 08 6:28 pm  · 
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grant lee phillips covers both the eternal and (related) age of consent on his cover album nineteeneighties. i like 'em.

Jan 30, 08 6:43 pm  · 
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mdler
Jan 30, 08 7:02 pm  · 
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mdler
Jan 30, 08 7:04 pm  · 
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strlt_typ

the killers just did shadowplay...i've seen moby perform new dawn fades with new order live. and this release...



Jan 30, 08 7:25 pm  · 
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strlt_typ

nine inch nails did dead souls

Jan 30, 08 7:32 pm  · 
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xtbl

since we're on the subject now of album covers, i highly recommend factory records: the complete graphic album

Jan 30, 08 8:03 pm  · 
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strlt_typ

this one's cool too...it has essays and an interview...

Jan 30, 08 8:29 pm  · 
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xtbl

oooooohhh!!! that is so cool!

Jan 30, 08 8:43 pm  · 
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strlt_typ
muse - absolution instrumentals


Feb 9, 08 11:48 pm  · 
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strlt_typ

the backing tracks on the chorus of stockholm syndrome is crazy...

Feb 9, 08 11:58 pm  · 
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xtbl

thom yorke on npr

Feb 14, 08 5:23 pm  · 
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khmay
AOTKPTA
Feb 14, 08 5:54 pm  · 
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a-f


Concert in Amsterdam next week:
Cluster

Feb 15, 08 4:49 am  · 
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xtbl

bump

because i'm bored and i'm looking for new music.

i saw george clinton and parliament funkadelic on friday night. those guys rock. their set was @ least 3 hours long.

so, what's new?

Feb 18, 08 2:48 pm  · 
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'version' is a recent favorite: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Ronson

terribly poppy and fun.

Feb 18, 08 3:01 pm  · 
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xtbl

awesome. thanks steven. i'll definitely check this out.

what do you think of his radiohead tribute?

Feb 18, 08 3:12 pm  · 
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Emilio

"because i'm bored and i'm looking for new music"

silence is the new music

(john cage is cool again)

Feb 18, 08 3:12 pm  · 
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brer

I really like the latest release from Do Make Say Think. I listen to it first thing at work and it sets a good tone for revit-monkeying.

Feb 18, 08 4:27 pm  · 
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xtbl

emilio, if i like philip glass, will i like john cage?

brer, is the album you speak of called "you, you're a history in rust"?

Feb 18, 08 4:36 pm  · 
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lopaka

Check out the Embedded Records label, its a tight knit group of quality artists

Feb 18, 08 4:50 pm  · 
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Emilio

dread, i like philip glass too. well, i think glass was influenced by cage, among others, especially his ideas of repetition, chance, and minimalism.
i was (eye-winkingly) referring above to cage's (in)famous piece 4'33" which is the most minimal of all: he basically came out and sat in front of the piano and played no notes, just closing and opening the piano lid to mark the three movements....hence the silence.

Feb 18, 08 4:50 pm  · 
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strlt_typ

i think he stole that from victor borge...

Feb 18, 08 5:13 pm  · 
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strlt_typ

fire...

Feb 18, 08 5:15 pm  · 
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dread, radiohead's 'just' is covered on 'version'.

very well done. much more fun than radiohead, really.

Feb 18, 08 8:45 pm  · 
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holz.box

dread, i can go back and forth between glass and cage all day. however, lately i've been listening to a lot of steve reich and some terry riley.

if it's the minimal compostions you are grooving on, check out some of these:

autechre
taylor deupree
ricardo villalobos
biosphere
vladislav delay
richie hawton
matthew dear
onur oezur
skoltz_kolgen
frank bretschneider
robert henke
reinhard voigt
loscil


labels:
m_nus
l-ne
raster noton
mille plateaux

Feb 18, 08 9:09 pm  · 
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xtbl

sweet. thanks guys. this'll keep me busy for a week or so.

Feb 20, 08 12:25 pm  · 
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a-f

some essential minimalist compositions for dread:

charlemagne palestine: "strumming music"
terry riley: "in c"
steve reich: "six pianos"
alvin lucier: "i am sitting in a room"
john cage: "in a landscape" (gorgeous, very satie-like)

Feb 21, 08 6:16 am  · 
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scan(adian)

itunes U!

Feb 21, 08 8:01 am  · 
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Philarct

whats this i hear about the mars volta's
new album being demonic and what not?
sure, theyre music takes psychodellic music
to a new level, but not devil worship!
ima good old christian boy, i cant listen to
devil worhsip, and i know that their first few
albums delt with some dark issues but
it wasnt that bad right?
anybody feel me on this?

Feb 21, 08 8:55 pm  · 
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holz.box

me thinks you should listen to the album instead of pat robertson

Feb 21, 08 10:10 pm  · 
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xtbl
"all the best bands are affiliated with satan."

-bart simpson

Feb 21, 08 10:44 pm  · 
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