I recently finished up work on the album cover you see above. Composer Joe Hallman’s gogreengo has been remixed by Megan Cauley, Peter (PONY) Celment, DJ Carl Michaels/Jamie Johnson, Kono Michi (Michi Wiancko), and Paul Pinto. gogreengo is a hard album to pin down, and tends to be pretty abstract and probably isn’t for everyone, […]
Category Archives: Music
“You’re out of time…”
First album I ever owned, bought for me by my Dad when I was about five years old. I miss Michael, but I’m not saddened by his death. The MJ I knew as a child has been dead for years.
Is this awesome?
I’m sorry, the correct answer is: “The real question is ‘Just how awesome is this?’” To which you must answer your answer with: “So awesome.” (via 43folders)
The Death of Music DRM?
Apple announced today that 8 million songs on iTunes will be DRM-free, and by the end of this quarter all 10 million will be. Between Apple and Amazon (who are already DRM-free), we may have just witnessed the beginning of the end of music DRM. No one offering DRM’ed music will be able to compete. […]
Zoe Keating
Zoë Keating’s album One Cello x 16: Natoma is a piece of music everyone should listen to. I’m not sure I have the musical vocabulary to place it or articulate it with any skill. But if I had to put words to it, I’d describe it as intense, deep and abstract, but still accessible string […]
My Baby Loves the Music of the 30s
Blackbird’s been a bit fussy the past few days. The remedy? Dancing to the musical hits of the 1930s. She’s always liked two things: being close to Mom (or Dad) and movement. Well, it turns out she likes music as well, and is a sucker for the 30s. I was playing 1930s compilation (link opens […]
Structures Great and Small
Two scenes as viewed from the train this morning. These are best considered while listening to Cicada’s Technology Crisis, which is available for free.
We Believe in Nothing!
I noticed this last night on a package of ‘Hearty Grains’ Thomas’ English Muffins: Aren’t they describing the very parts of the English muffin that are nothing? I mean, I know the “nooks & crannies” thing is their hook, but don’t start assigning adjectives to pockets of nothing; adjectives that are, by their very nature, […]
Further Proof That DJ Shadow Rocks
I recently ordered a copy of DJ Shadow‘s latest mix album, Funky Skunk. Because it’s part of some thing he’s doing with Shepard Fairey and his OBEY project, I also got a tshirt as part of the package (I didn’t go for the big super-expensive package with seven tshirts and tons of stuff). I didn’t […]
Ultramagnetic MCs’ Critical Beatdown
Have you ever heard an album that makes a sigificant percentage of the music you listen to suddenly make more sense? It all suddenly become related and connected in a natural progression? I had that experience when I started to listen to KRS-ONE. I always knew that Ultramagnetic MCs was a key group in hip-hop. […]