Category: Music
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gogreengo remixes – Listen at Apothecary 9/10
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,…
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“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.
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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)
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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,…
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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…
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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.…
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