These are seven albums that I’ve been playing in my room pretty often in the week or two leading up to the end of August, 2007. I originally wrote this post by calling them the “top seven” (which had grown out of a “top five”), but I don’t know if that’s right. My reasons for listening to them at around [...]
Not everything I like to listen to has to have synthesizers. For instance, there’s a lot of stuff I like over at Awesome Tapes from Africa… However, there is a lot of electronica in which I’ll find some of that fine more-traditional music included. I think I’ve mentioned a few examples already. Right now, I’m thinking [...]
All right… So this is the top five (or six) tunes playing in my room in the middle of August 2007:
1. M.I.A. - “Paper Planes”/”20 Dollar” (a tie)
2. M.I.A. - “XR2″
3. Skream and Warrior Queen - “Check It”
4. Fulerô O Esquema -”Pinga” (Blackmass Plastics Remix)
5. Sidestepper - “Mas Papaya” Live at LATV
Yes, a great review of Kala, one week before the official U.S. release date. (I guess some people got advance copies?) This one comes from Nerd Litter. If it’s not giving away too much, I’d like to quote from the first and last paragraphs:
Globalization mouthpiece Thomas Friedman’s fond of declaring the world flat. It’s a recent [...]
I love that line…from a very interesting interview with the two women of Fulerô O Esquema. This interview and this duo were an accidental find for me, but a more than worthwhile one. I’m undecided about the video (maybe you have to be Brazillian to fully appreciate this slapstick…and/or female?), but the music is fine [...]
Was it just three days ago when I expressed a wish to see M.I.A. do a Bollywood-style video for “Jimmy”? Well, it might have been out already for all I know, but I have just found it, in a new post at Obtusity. And it is kind of Bollywood, though in a much stranger and more complicated [...]
Given the relatively small number that I’ve seen and heard lately, I don’t in any way qualify to tell anyone where the best music videos come from. But now that I have a new computer with a nicely working flash program (which I didn’t have before), I’ve been able to survey a whole bunch of videos from several [...]
Long story (much of which I just deleted), but while looking up some other DJs and the like that were playing at an event that I almost went to tonight, I made a nice discovery of a DJ outfit known as Heatwave…whom I probably should have known about before, or maybe did know about but forgot. But [...]
Back in May of 2002, I had a job for one month captioning music videos for a post-production company whose main client was MTV. Basically, though it may sound strange to some, I was captioning music videos for the deaf. (Which actually was more interesting than most of the work that I do for wages, [...]
Just wanted to mention, M.I.A. does brilliant stuff around a sample from The Clash’s “Straight to Hell” in her new song “Paper Planes” (from the upcoming Kala), which I was able to hear thanks to a link at All Things Go. In my opinion, this is even better than what she does around the Pixies’ “Where is My Mind” [...]
