Weekly 30 minute mix of music from the internet and my head.
Monday, October 09, 2006
Haitus
Recent website probs and motivation to work on other projecs have led to the haitus of this project. It WILL RETURN in some form or another soon. But for now I am on indefinite haitus. I am well aware that the web is littered with webpages saying the same thing that have not been updated in 5 years. May this not become one of them.
I'm sorry about the lateness again. No excuses here, just couldn't get it going. I wanted something a bit better for the 20th episode, but I think this is alright. I imagine soon we will see all sorts of cool stuff posted for another kickass mix. Many of the blogs I got my songs from were in different languages. Don't know why, it just happened.
Download the mix HERE (yousendit, reg. required) or HERE (Savefile)
I assume they are named after the Sonic Youth album so I'll throw them in here with them. My snob-acity wants to not like them and dismiss them. But even though they sound like a 90's band and the lyrics are cliched, I like the sound.
Lots of good stuff was posted this week. Too much to fit into my mix so I have a few bonus downloads for you. I also have a few added bonus tracks related to songs in the mix. In short it's my best post ever!!! But it has to tide you over for 2 weeks because I am again going away next weekend. Wild and Wonderful West Virginia will bring me some drinking, rafting, drinking and hanging out.
I'm also switching from the wretched hosting I used last week to Savefile for the mix. I will keep the Yousendit links too, it is a better site, but to download large files like the mix you need to register (free!). The individual mp3s will still be on yousendit and you should be able to download those with no registration.
I don't want this to become I space where I write about all my activities to bore you to death but I must say a few sentences about Burning Man. You gotta see it. It's weird by day when the hippies are out, but when the ravers take over at night it is crazy surreal. I can't really describe it in words but some of the installations and entertainment was great. The living conditions are harsh at times but it really is like nothing I've seen before. And the music is crazy. I danced like a madman at times to some nice techno, trance, and whateverothershittygenrenameyougot. Kind of like partying on another country on another planet.
Somehow this old video for CJ Bolland's "Sugar is Sweeter" captures a small piece of the sound, feel, and look of the whole experience. Try to imagine it while 90% of those around you are rolling out of their mind:
So you want a funk cover of MJ that gets by on more than novelty? Check this out. If this had been the version they made the video for it would have been an awesome blaxploitation werewolf zombie extravaganza with a car chase. Shut yo mouth.
Nothing new here. Just an awesome Talking Heads classic to kick off the festivities. I once did a horrible drunken dance/pantomime of this song at a collge party. It should have embarrassed me but I think it emboldened me to try stupider things to attract attention in the hours and days to come.
Pound for Pound introduces me to the Presets. I'm glad people are making music like this and I still find new stuff like it every once in a while. Sounds kinda new wave but with some modern shit in there to keep ya from feeling too out of touch.
Just a short little 1.5 minute interlude from ambient master Biosphere. The link mentions his true masterpiece , Substrata, a must get for anyone interested in ambient music. I think the Universe's creator spoke to me through that album the first time I heard it all the way through. Being fucked up out of mind didn't hurt either. It has no beats anywhere near as hard as the one that takes over this track for about 30 secs but its smooth and taught me everything I needed to know about the true nature of reality. We are all interconnected nothingness, purely intellectual constructs created as part of the process of an intellegence trying to answer an unanswerable question. So get drunk.
New Basement Jaxx. Sounds like any other Basement Jaxx song. But with a banjo. The bouncy beat betrays the desperation of the lyrics, but who cares about lyrics. Bounce along to it.
Heard a bit about these guys recently. I don't listen to much stuff like it anymore, but I like it and I want to hear more. I kinda get the Smashing Pumpkins references, but not really. Sounds like some stuff of that era though. They are touring small venues and coming to such PodcastRx readership hotspots as Arlington, VA and Urbana, IL so go check em out and get back to me.
Kim Deal spent her time between Breeders incarnations in the Amps. Don't worry Kelly, I'd be all loopy on the smack too if my sister was so talented. I feel for ya.
While everyone else is (deservedly) going nuts over their new single "In the Morning", The Music Slut steps back and shows us the wonder of "Under the Sun" off of Last Exit. This song always gave me musical blue balls, threatening to fly off into spacey bliss but then returning to the driving beat. And while i'd like to go flying off into otherworldly ecstasy the anticipation and frustration of the blue balls experience is a real character builder.
The below bonus track does not give you the musical blue balls. It just starts to massage your shoulders, slides its hands into your pants, rips your dick right off , runs it through a shredder and feeds it into your ears. Then it start the whole thing all over again (I guess you grew a new one in the meantime). Then it apologizes and leaves gracefully while you bleed to death. Bonus Track: Last Exit (Fennesz Mix) by Junior Boys from Last Exit Bonus Disc
MP3 mixes are posted on Saturdays and should be valid until the following Friday. MP3s on pages linked from here are more likely to be valid earlier in the week.
