More notes to self

This thread makes me want to check out SOOO much music.

Also it reminded me, very randomly, about Ware records, and specifically the Markus Guentner and Mathias Schaffhäuser albums on there that from back in the early 00's. I have one or two tracks from them and they're great dubby house music. I didn't even realize Guentner had a second album on there. Crazy. I bet it's ace.

Apparently I've decided to start talking about all the music I want to check out here, rather than the music I have checked out, though (obv) I talk about that too.  The list of music I'd like to hear is long and this is a positive state of affairs.

The other funny thing about that thread is that it actually spans more-or-less the time that I've been listening to dance music. I guess I started more around 99-00, but stuff from 98 was definitely still current. It's weird...I have the Dom & Roland album...and Surgeon! I remember downloading tracks from him, though I never quite got any of his albums. And Consumed! Man I remember playing that to my friends when I first got into electronic music and they were absolutely appalled. Still one of my top 5 albums of all time, easily. Apparently I've been a music nerd for a while now.

I would add:
Lawrence - s/t (I've always loved Lawrence, glad he's more high-profile these days)
Herbert - Second Hand Sounds (the second cd with all his housier parts on it has always been my favorite thing by him)
...and I'm sur there are others.
Get to work dave!

"he’d always had a tendency to confuse happiness with coma."

So I read the book The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq the other day (literally, I read it in a day) and it was fantastic. One of the best books I've read in a quite a while, and really quite affecting. Then I learned that a lot of people really don't like Houellebecq, for instance John Updike (who, completely unrelatedly, just died). They seem to regard him as being particularly misanthropic; but it's funny when I read through that John Updike review the quotes that he pulled out were all great, and I smiled at some of them once again (I've read ...Island too, also good). Perhaps this makes me a misanthrope. In one sense it is a very depressing book. It does not try to hide from the realities of life, that you get old and die without ever really achieving much and barely getting a chance to have any decent human relationships or really have much nice happen to you at all. I suppose this is pretty pessimistic; actually I think he's overstating the case a bit. But it's totally refreshing to have someone make no bones about it, no illusions of some sort of spiritual reward at the end of it all. Several reviews mention a likeness to Camus, which makes sense, and also explains why I like Houellebecq so much--Camus is tops. It's a cleansing book, right. Lay things bare so you can see what's really there, take stock, and start again. Beautiful, beautiful stuff. Everyone should read it.

Note to self

Must get:
Crydamoure Presents Waves (volume 1)
Super Discount 1 & 2 by Etienne DeCrecy
Motorbass - Pansoul

And generally more 90's and early 00's french house. Post prompted by listening to Crydamoure Presents Waves 2.

Also should check out DJ Sneak, even though he isn't french.

bass

As phil says this mix is ace. I've not paid much attention to dubstep in while--which this isn't. Things got livelier, better synths, more colour, less rigid structures. This is fun stuff, party stuff, though still heavy pon de bass weight. ace

PS> UNCONTROLLABLE URGE TO RUN AWAY FROM WORK RIGHT THIS INSTANT!
fuck fridays!

READ THE POST BELOW

And do what I say!!! It seriously is that good.

Sebastien Tellier - Kilometer (Aeroplane 'Italo 84' Remix)

Search. I mean literally, do a google search and you should easily find it for download. It is brilliant! And I have high standards for Aeroplane: they make fucking stunning dance music, consistently, each and every time.

Gaza

Statement. Add my name to the bottom of that list.

Just another lie

Completely unrelated to the current horrors making headlines these days, but this is a good reminder of how willing the US government is to knowingly tolerate the targeting of civilians as long as it aligns with their (often rather questionable to begin with) ideological goals. Government support of death-squads and institutionalized murder of innocents? Don't worry about it! They were probably standing next to drug-traffickers anyway.

Afro House<-->UK Funky

Just downloaded this mix of african house & uk funky (plus other bits).  It's great for several reasons:
1. The music's great
2. It has almost all the good african house tracks I know of, from Dr Duda and Dr M-bee, DJ Cleo, and DJ Mujava (almost all downloaded off some dissensus thread last year, prob the same place this guy got them from).
3. In addition to having some great UK Funky, it also neatly demonstrates why I wasn't quite as blown away as some other observers when Funky started to be really noticed in the last half of 08: funky really ain't that much different from a lot of afro/caribean house sounds. The main difference being that funky is made by black youths from london and is therefore the new IT super important and inovative music (fuck an anglophile!). That said I am liking a good chunk of the funky I'm hearing and could easily see myself falling in love with this stuff over the summer. It is definitley summer-time music!


(Final side note: I like how Funky, like Minimal before it, has dispensed with the noun and just gone with the adjective as genre name. I'm looking forward to Speed, Hard, and Juicy coming up in the future...)

Cancel, Abort, Retry?

Let's go with retry.

My goal this time round is to keep it short, simple and frequent. Not too heavy on the images or the downloads, maybe a link here and there but not much more. The idea being to jot down what's on my mind quickly and move on. (Isn't this what twitter's for? I don't really understand twitter)

Since I'm sure I've lost what minimal audience I had originally this is going to be real shouting into the void-like. But if you shout long enough into the void, the void shouts back right? Right???