LCD Soundsystem - 45:33: Nike+ Original Run
So many reasons why this is good.
1. It's a solid 45+ min track of space disco gold, shifting through numerous stages of wonderful kick-assitude.
2. It was commissioned by Nike specifically for the purpose of being a soundtrack to jogging, and is available only as a DRM-protected mp3 on iTunes. This song couldn't be more sold-out. (For those who are confused, selling-out is the opposite of all that rock, and especially indie rock, stands for in this day and age, and is therefore good).
3. I actually really want to try jogging to this. This music is so wonderfully calculated in its pure functionality: it's made for dancing and/or jogging, none of this being artistic crap.
4. Despite/because of all this it's actually alternatively beautiful, hypnotic, funky and calming.
*edit* 6. I forgot: it's also loosely inspired by Manuel Göttsching's E2-E4, whichi is, like, the greatest peice of post-krautrock, pre-techno dance music ever!
Love it.
(yes posting's have been a bit slack round here, i'm still on the downward slope of that graph posted below. Hopefully I'll have a good post up soon about the use of liberal critiques of Muslim and Arab society as a tool for racist oppression...fun!)
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Interesting, I had guessed it'd be more upbeat and less slow grooving. but i guess it'd be good for pacing yourself and getting youself in a zone.
also, that website download is confusing.
Yeah, i had to use megaupload because the file was so big, yousendit requires you to have a login id to download files that big. on the upside it doesn't expire in 7 days.
but yes, the track's meant more for a slow jog kinda thing, just to keep you going.
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