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Tuesday
Aug182009

mon reve 3

This time I'm picking two very very different tracks.

Moth, the prodigious product of Burial and Four Tet that came out earlier this summer. I've tested the limits of my headphones, and the limits of courtesy (I live in a 12-room warehouse/loft/thing and share two walls with others): I don't think this song can ever get quite loud enough.

Moth - Burial & Four Tet

This comes from a 12" release of this single. It's got stumbly yet clever rhythm and sounds like it was recorded from a microphone at the other end of a big empty pool. splended.

Like It Or Not (El Guincho Remix) - Architecture in Helsinki

Wednesday
Jul222009

mon reve one

I'm deep into the creation of (well, for lack of a less-pedestrian term, let's call it) a playlist of songs that share the sympathetic sensibility of good pop and the woolgathering pace of 707-and-reverb-disco. I want to release it to the (as Clay Shirky calls it, available to the public, but intended for the personal) internet.

I can't do a first episode without dear Arthur. This is one of my favorite songs by him off of the 2004 compiled release from Russell-only label Audika, Calling Out of Context. ltd 2k vinyl (impossible to find of course)= want want want

Arthur Russell - Arm Around You

Walter Jones made the jump to DFA a little earlier year with the pressing of this beautifuil 12". It's haunting and I can't stop playing it wherever I go. If I focus, I can almost see the world like a Wes Anderson slo-mo for 6:08

Walter Jones - I'll Keep on Loving You

Friday
Jul172009

I love dance music

A lot. I love to dance too, though I usually come off looking like something inbetween a 1950's twister and Ian Curtis. My ituenes has four playlists which range from around 3 hours to 9 full of different types of jams and I'm always scouring for new vinyl. I'm also a pedestrain vinyl dj, or used to be until I moved to San Francisco with an embarassingly (for me) acomplished scene.

I just ordered the 7" Calls and Responses from my new favorite outfit Memory Cassette. I somehow stumbled over their and (my other new fav band) Weird Tapes' blog sometime late February and listened to them vurtually on loop until I left for San Francisco early June. They're offering up nearly their entire discography on their blog and I highly reccomend giving a listen. It pulls on all my shoegazey, mellow disco heartstrings.

Memory Cassette - Sleep on the Roof

Weird Tapes - Glorious

Memory Tapes (joint venture) - Bicylce