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July 2009
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Listening to old Oregon CD now, I'm a sucker for this stuff. Aha -- MF Doom does cooking hip-hop. K, nuff, really back to the book now. A rather sypathetic performance of some of Chris Newman's absurd, existentialist, postmodern art songs More evidence of the fuzzy boundary between music and poetry. Berio mashes up Joyce -- sleeve notes here: http://bit.ly/qJQGk. A blast of E#'s frenetic string quartet stuff Blip.fm keeps surprising me -- Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra song dripping with lovely British irony. A propos of Wednesday night, this is the Japanese shakuhachi piece we heard (diff performance). More Dadaist sound poetry... slight obsession just now... Blip.fm rather impressive... http://twitter.com/bigideas -- not really "again" so much, cos I posted about 4 tweets & gave up last time I tried it, but I've got the Big I blog and del.icio.us feeding into it now and I'm starting to see some use for it. OK this is a shameless gloat about Big I... but we've got a load of good stuff coming up... Checking that industrial band Whitehouse really where named after the porn mag, which was in turn named after Mary the anti-fun campaigner, I stumbled across the following statistic from the Grauniad in 2001:
Lovely choices for comparison, nice work. Can't make my mind up about Whitehouse, the band. They make good noises, but the megaphone-shouting is incredibly annoying. Yeah, I know it's supposed to be annoying, that's the point. And I'm still hesitating over paying £5.53 for an album on iTunes for the rather silly reason that I'm not sure when I'd ever listen to it. This has never stopped me in the past, so I may as well just give in. Here's the side of them I like: Whitehouse: Mikrisi Munkondi Something there, isn't there? That magic quality of just enough and not too much. In a similar vein, I've been listening a lot lately to Merzbow, whom I managed to miss first time around (1990s, roughly). People call his music "noise", but the sensitivity of his handling of it is really lovely, and it draws you in. Merzbow: Music For A Dead Man: Side A For me this is wonderful late-night chill-out music -- it fills your head utterly. I know, I should try drugs some time, I'm advised they're ace. It's 11:30, I've had a few pints a wine, the global financial system's in turmoil, and here are the tunes I want to hear THIS INSTANT:
Following a conversation yesterday re mashups, I wanted to stick a link to DJ Food's Raiding the Twentieth Century here, largely so I don't lose it. There's a track listing (and alternative link) here. Hmmm. So, it appears that drinking steadily for 7-8 hours and (it's always, always unwise for me, this) finishing it off with a fat stogie can leave one a bit jaded the following morning. In times gone by I'd have spent such a day making a mix tape, so here are some things I've been enjoying lately that you can listen to on the web for nowt, all legally as far as I can determine.
Maybe I'll do this again, next time my head hurts and all I can do is half-arsedly surf the net and eat Co-op lemon drizzle cake (oh yeah, it's good, 5 stars, "I couldn't put it down" etc). Or maybe this is doomed to be one of those blogs that never has more than two posts on it. Apropos of last night's ramblings, here's this link to some fine food photography. |