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Recently I have found myself in that awesome position of really digging into some new (at least for my ears) music.
I think it sort of started with my over listening to Tripswitch's Circuit Breaker album, which I still think is just the friggin bomb. Anyhow, that kind set my mood for more down tempo leaning stuff than I had been listening too.
That I think led me back to Ulrich Schnauss, who I have been a fan of for a few years now, but never really got sucked into.
Well, I inhaled deeply.

And, man it is some good shit. I even went so far as to BUY some of his CD's online. I do realize I am some sort of freak for actually doing that, but good music made by good people on small labels deserve our money. (Oh and I was also able to find Circuit Breaker as well. Got it too)
Sticking Ulrich Schnauss into the last.fm player also got me to discover Abfahrt Hinwil and their album Links Berge Rechts Seen. They are on the Toytronic lable, which my friend Mr. Projectile used to be on as well.
Their music is much more idm/minimal, than the other stuff, but still pretty nice.

And then lastly, mr. projectile shared with me a link to a song on Jon Hopkins website, and I was immediately hooked and proceeded to buy his two albums fro his labels ( Just Music ) site the next day.
And wow... They are great. Simply brilliant stuff. Just tasty as hell. Contact Note and Opalescent are just amazing. Friggin' buy them!
Oh and if that weren't enough, Jon Hopkins is going to be performing live in San Francisco on March 21st @ Mezzanine with Four Tet!

I gotta say, last.fm is the shit. It continues to turn me on to new music and keep me mindful of artists I like who are performing near me.

And lastly, two of those CD's I got came from Juno Records . They are a great online CD store for electronic music and they are FAST. I order two discs on monday night, from England, and they showed up here, in San Francisco, on thursday the same week. WTF!? Yes i paid for the FedEx shipping, but it was only like 3 bucks more... but DAMN that is fast.

from http://loczek.webd.pl/ - does not necessarily reflect the number of times actually listened to. Well, I do have a Mesu Kasumai addiction...

enriqueiglesias's top albums
1. Mesu Kasumai - My Fiero (449) 2. Little Computer People - Electro Pop (315) 3. Miracle Fortress - Five Roses (298) 4. Goudron - Raw Voltage (271) 5. Cornelius - Point (210) 6. Mr. Projectile - Sinking (190) 7. Dan Deacon - Spiderman Of The Rings (180) 8. Abfahrt Hinwil - Links Berge Rechts Seen (176) 9. Bit Shifter - Information Chase (167) 10. Bogdan Raczynski - Boku Mo Wakaran (147) 11. The Gasman - This One's for You (126) 12. o9 - Church of the Ghetto P.C. (124) 13. Cursor Miner - Explosive Piece Of Mind (122) 14. Proem - You Shall Have Ever Been (120) 15. Richard Devine - Cautella (113) 16. Secret Frequency Crew - Forest of the Echo Downs (113) 17. Isolée - Western Store (113) 18. Emotional Joystick - Bellicose Pacific (107) 19. Boy Is Fiction - Boy Is Fiction (105) 20. Manual - Ascend (105)

http://www.darkaudio.co.uk?artid=497&traid=916
Wow! so here we have it, my first dubstep mix and what a beauty. The road towards this was arduous, after a months work it was nearly completed only for it to be erased in the accidental computer format incident of September. By some miracle I was able to recover the original file and make some last minute edits to it.
I had to complete the tracklist from memory and there is only one track I can't name. Please let me know what it is!
It starts off very ambient and light hearted, then journeys to the dark depths of dubstep before coming full circle with a party Roll Deep number, and The Brunettes indie pop hit 'B.A.B.Y.' Finally it ends with the epic 'pusher track, Iambic 9 Poetry, which holds a special place in my heart and always brings a smile to my face.

Title - Artist - Album (Year)
Zeros and Ones - Jesus Jones - Aphex Twin - 26 remixes for cash (2003)
Yulquen - Autechre - Amber (1994)
Premecy - LFO - Sheath
fend to buddy - Mr Projectile - the last summer
Pandering to the Locals! - David Cross - It's Not Funny
Qawwali - Pinch - 10 Tons Heavy (2007)
Near Dark - Burial - Untrue (2007)
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Chapter 8 Higher Education - Stephen Colbert- I Am America And So Can You (Audiobook) (2007)
26 Basslines - Benga - Diary Of An Afro Warrior (2008)
Infinity - Undertow
Untitled - Burial - Untrue (2007)
Down - dz - Around The World Vol 1 (2008)
Timewarp - Headhunter & Ekelon - Mary Anne Hobbs Evangeline (2008)
Crusher Dub - Vex'd - 10 Tons Heavy (2007)
Submarine Snares (part 1 - Sub-Low Dubstep mix) - NUFACE - Submarine Snares EP (2008)
Submarine Snares (part 3 - Bare Breakbeat mix) - NUFACE - Submarine Snares EP (2008)
Space Odyssey (original mix) - Darkham - Age Of War (2008)
28 Hours Later - 12th Planet- 28 Hours Later (2008)
Wildstyle - dz - Roguedubs 002 (2008)
Shake A Leg - Roll Deep - In At The Deep End (2005)
I Can't Take It - Si Begg - Botchit Breaks Vol 4 (2001)
Brunettes Against Bubblegum Youth - The Brunettes - Structure & Cosmetics (2007)
Iambic 9 Poetry - Squarepusher - Ultravisitor

Pick a band/artist that you like. Follow the top similar artists until you have a list of 50 bands. If a band appears again just pick the second or third most similar artist..

1.Starting point: Benoît Pioulard
2. Svarte Greiner
3. Machinefabriek
4. Daizok
5. Wouter van Veldhoven
6. Herzog
7. Muhr
8. marcel türkowsky
9. Huw Roberts
10. yannick franck & olivier pé
11. Stephane Leonard
12. Neuf Meuf
13. Heezen
14. D'incise
15. Darren McClure + Lezrod
16. Fgmcvp + Lezrod
17. Gurdonark + Lezrod
18. Lezrod
19. Ibakusha
20. Tigrics
21. 3tronik
22. Kriipis Tulo
23. stockfinster
24. Sleepy Town Manufacture
25. Sense
26. Lackluster
27. Blamstrain
28. Mr. Projectile
29. Funckarma
30. Proem
31. Bola
32. Arovane
33. Xela
34. Deru
35. Yasume
36. Benge
37. Bauri
38. Multiplex
39. Maps And Diagrams
40. Kettel
41. Secede
42. Landau
43. Proswell
44. Brothomstates
45. Gescom
46. Autechre
47. Aphex Twin
48. AFX
49. Caustic Window
50. Polygon Window

Now you have a list of recommendations!

Look what finally arrived in my mailbox today! I tracked it down through gemm.com, and had it shipped all the way form Spain. And it's worth it every penny!!!



Oh, the beautiful 12" sized wooden box that still has a wonderful aroma of cedar. The eight tiny 3" CDs with minimalistic design of butterflies. The packaging is simply outstanding. But it's not just about the package (although this beats any MP3 download hands down) - it's also about the music on this perfect Hymen release from February 2006.

cd1. Lusine ICL
cd2. SolarX[masters of meanders]
cd3. Lowfish
cd4. Gridlock
cd5. Psi Spy [lost and found]
cd6. Snog [seven hymns for the worker bee]
cd7. Hecq
cd8. Mad EP [eine kleine madmusik]

oi oi oi oi oi!!!
I'm so excited. Ripping these to lossless and shutting off all phones and closing all doors to submerge myself in travel sickness!

(more on this release at hymen-records.com)


last.fm interlinks : Arovane Venetian Snares Squarepusher Proem Funckarma Deru Blamstrain Kettel Quench Autechre Secede Yagya Landau Maps And Diagrams Sense Bola Mr. Projectile

I was waiting for a rainy day to record today’s show because all the music is so delicate and beautiful. But I live in San Diego and rainy days in Southern California are rare. It’s difficult to listen to music that’s fragile or moody when the sun is always shining. Sometimes you need overcast skies or fog to accompany that kind of music but as luck would have it, it rained.

Today’s show is dedicated to Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge, wife of industrial music pioneer Genesis P-Orridge and member of Psychic TV. She died of heart failure last Tuesday. My condolences to go out to Genesis P-Orridge and his family.

Photo credit: James G. Caddell
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jim_caddell

01. Ulrich Schnauss “Never Be The Same”
02. Amiina “Seoul”
03. Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson “All For Love”
04. Dogmixer “Soulbrain”
05. Daniel Ceballos “Recuerdos”
06. Aaron Spectre “Dulcimer”
07. Mothboy “Beinambo”
08. krill.minima “Sommerdellen”
09. Mr. Projectile “Stuff”
10. Mark Snyder “America 1958″
11. Rena Jones “Cypress And Evergreen”
12. The Cinematic Orchestra “As the Stars Fall”
13. Mad e.p. “Ride_072902″
14. Little Dragon “Twice”


Download:
http://m.podshow.com/media/9683/episodes/83896/nation-83896-10-18-2007.mp3

solipsistic NATION website
http://solipsisticnation.com

today i've found some very interesting scripts, generating "tag cloud" based on my last.fm user profile.

here are some samples:

Tag cloud for placid (alphabetic):

alternative ambient electronic electronica experimental idm indie post-rock rock

Recommended artists cloud for placid:
My recommendations are

Adam Johnson Autechre Boards of Canada Brothomstates Casino Versus Japan Chris Clark Christian Kleine CiM Deru Digitonal Dub Tractor EU Four Tet Freeform Frog Pocket Gescom Gimmik ISAN Ilkae Jega Jello Lusine ICL Machine Drum Manual Md Metamatics Monolake Mr. Projectile Murcof Nautilis Novel 23 Ochre Phonem Praveen Proswell Quinoline Yellow Richard Devine Ruxpin Sabi Sense Seven Ark Squarepusher Syndrone Tim Koch Ulrich Schnauss Vesna Wisp Xela Yasume µ-Ziq

How eclectic is the musical preference of placid?
My eclectic score is currently


Take your top 20 artists. For each of these artists, collect the top 5 similar artists. The resulting number of unique artists is your eclectic score. If the score is small (extreme = 5) your musical preferences are very limited, and if it is large (larger than 80, extreme = 100), then you have an eclectic musical preference. You can compute your own score at http://anthony.liekens.net/pub/scripts/last.fm/eclectic.php

The 81 related artists for my profile are A Perfect Circle, Abfahrt Hinwil, Air (2), Amorphous Androgynous, Another Electronic Musician, Aphex Twin, Architect, Arovane, Autechre, Bauri, Beck (2), Beefcake, Bitcrush, Björk, Blamstrain (3), Boards of Canada, Coldplay, Datach'i, Deaf Center, Displacer (2), Dryft, Ellen Allien & Apparat, Emotional Joystick, Esem, Explosions in the Sky, Funckarma, Gimmik, God Is an Astronaut, Goldmund, Gridlock, Hecq, ISAN, Ilkae (2), Julien Neto, KMFDM, Kattoo, Keef Baker (2), Kettel (3), LCD Soundsystem, Lackluster (2), Lamb, Last Days, Loess, M83, Marilyn Manson, Marsen Jules, Mice Parade, Ministry, Mogwai (2), Mono, Mr. Projectile, Multiplex, Muse, Nebulo, Novel 23, Orbital, Orgy, Orphx, Piano Magic, Pixies, Portishead, Proem (6), Proswell (2), Quench, Radiohead, Red Sparowes, Run_Return, Sense (3), Somatic Responses, Sovacusa, SubtractiveLAD, The Orb, The Smashing Pumpkins, Tim Koch, Tortoise, Tricky, Venetian Snares, Wisp, Xela, Zero 7, µ-Ziq

interesting stuff. lexicon fever.

Generate your own musical cloud.

Having quite a few friends who are quite in to their music (up to those who are seriously involved), and in whose company vast quantities of awesome tracks are laid down, it often makes the sit-down-and-listen-to-music-at-home experience less gratifying than it could be.

My taste in music has certainly changed over the years, and despite occasionally laying out hundreds of dollars on CDs, throwing a few tracks on myself isn't quite the same as having two or three friends mixing it up with a vast stores of (often rare) wax.

I'm now used to having "my own personal DJ". I think there's an element of laziness there as well, as choosing tracks does require effort, but I think it's also about the variety, depth, range... and the surprise.

Out of the probably weeks-worth of music I have access to, I've recently found myself loving to death (well, I hope not) a series of mixes posted by "Asmadeus" (a Chicago-based DJ). I guess what a DJ does it take the absolute cream of thousands of available tracks and refines that down to a few hours of only the best stuff. I even found myself, when hand-picking a compilation, that I went through a hell of a lot of tracks to just pick out a handful. Is it jadedness, or evolution?

I think I'm just spoiled rotten.

spxl.

Music fiends found here:
asmatronica.com
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Adam Johnson
Arovane
Bola
Claro Intelecto
Funckarma
Kettel
Mr Projectile
Proem
Quench
Secede