tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77005519586814501482011-09-28T22:05:54.115-04:00Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-2672223917264864062010-08-23T12:43:00.012-04:002010-08-23T23:59:54.090-04:00

Yeah so, as I'm sure I've mentioned before, this here blog was originally launched with a specific purpose -- as the outboard component to a radio show I used to do. That radio show bought the history book a few years ago, and in the interim readership for this blog has (from all indications) dwindled considerably. Diminished interest and relevance all around, so I decided to close the thing out.

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Because I find Milton probably about as boring as you find Milton. And it was over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

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Hopefully, something here to get the blood moving in this, the dead of winter. Recent favorites, some things that should float a number of boats, etc. Eclectic in the first half, more -floor oriented in the second, with a number of throwback styles turning up throughout... :: DRRRROP! :: link expired

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There are plenty of things I simply don't comprehend. How it is that the cover design for the above item could go from this to that is only one of (too) many examples.

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Because for every track I use in a mixtape, there are usually 3 to 4 that I bench because they don't quite fit for some reason or another, here's a mix of some of the remnants. Don't expect it to make sense...::: DL :::dj house shoes / lights off / no labelblockhead / four walls / ninjatunedimlite / lullabye for gastric ulcer / sonar kollectivshlohmo / tomato smash / friends of friends2562 / lost

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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Title, illustrations 1-4: The Reverend Ethan Acres5: Yves Klein (duh)

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Deep sonic and visual reductivism from Berlin circa the mid-late '90s, courtesy of Klaus Kotai and Daniel Pflumm, via the Elektro Music Department label. Easily missed at the time, largely forgotten by now; but the whole "integrated package" that was EMD constituted one of those rare instances when pop music and high art came together in an intriguing way. Kotai was a producer and Pflumm was a

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-73320418485209463032010-07-17T13:00:00.024-04:002010-07-17T17:22:06.410-04:00

As the last mixtape suggested, the new discs from Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti and Oneohtrix Point Never have been getting played pretty heavily around here in recent weeks. In relation to the first item, The Quietus offers a look inside the mind at work behind the music, with Mr. Pink serving up some observations about life in L.A., the musical semantics of chillwave, the influence of R. Stevie

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-86066124026633780042010-07-13T18:16:00.012-04:002010-07-14T20:38:57.246-04:00

R.I.P. Tuli Kupferberg. Poet, author, songster, old-school Yiddish beatnik and dyed-in-the-wool bohemian, anti-war activist, and "anti-folk" pioneer with The Fugs, dead at the age of 86.

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-50337495263163865122010-07-12T23:42:00.010-04:002010-07-13T00:46:30.661-04:00

Whimsy takes you where you let it, because otherwise it wouldn't be whimsy. Originally I aimed to do a seamless mix of deep minimalism with a good late-night vibe to it--slightly dark, fidgety and angular at some parts and impressionistic at others. But instead I went into radio mode and just casually strung together an array of things that have brought a few smiles and moments of absorption

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Yep.I figure this probably doesn't quite qualitfy for a WSE, but it def pegs the top of the "If Eyes Could Puke" meter.)

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Guerilla Art, an hour-long documentary by Sebastian Peiter released to accompany his recent book. Featuring Futura, Rammellzee, Banksy, Os Gemeos, WK Interact, Zevs, and others. Nice.

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Fiona Banner, Harrier and Jaguar 2010Gabriel Orozco, Modified Citroën DSGabriel Orozco, Mobile Matrix and Dark Wave An aside: I guess it isn't all that surprising to hear a common misgiving about the recent MoMA mid-career retrospective for Gabriel Orozco is that many of the pieces lose their appeal or "aura" in the sterile, hallowed halls of a grand institutional setting. Unsurprising because

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-31799763077077060042010-07-01T19:02:00.003-04:002010-07-01T20:23:18.656-04:00

Not only that, but I hear he can fill the dancefloor better than Sven Väth.

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Anyone that's been routinely sifting record bins over the past few decades is long since used to seeing the Josef Albers-designed sleeves for all those Enoch Light LPs. But beside that, this is shaping up as a nice curatorial effort.

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Over at History Is Made At Night, someone skips the irony and cuts a lot closer to the bone. There's been some other discussion this week about the history of BP, about one particular aspect of the long historical shadow that it casts, some of which turns up in the comments section of the above post via a BBC blog post from film-maker Adam Curtis. For those who didn't sleep through History class,

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Spanish experimental music site modisti asks its readers a curatorial question: Which of the following do you think does/doesn't belong on the billing for a Sound Art festival?The deck is stacked with videos of work by such blue-chip faves as Christian Marclay, Otomo Yoshihide, Pauline Oliveros, Chris Watson, Alvin Lucier, and John Cage. The wild cards include a clip of Shackleton spinning a live

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-19139827972695396822010-06-16T17:40:00.007-04:002010-06-16T18:10:06.413-04:00

When I was a kid, I remember my grandfather doing some modifications to his sedan -- adding a horn from an 18-wheeler to the one that was already under the hood. And then going out of the road with him as he tested it against the first pickup truck that distractedly drifted into our lane. Him being the incessant mechanical & electrical tinkerer that he was, I imagine he would've loved this...And

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What to make of all the accusations from across the pond, about supposed anti-British sentiment brewing on these shores (via, allegedly, White House rhetoric) over the BP incident? Not sure. I had no idea the Brits were so touchy and paranoid and irrational about such stuff.The source of the complaint seems to stem from syntactical hair-splitting -- with U.K. publications taking issue with the

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-72052906719974541572010-06-09T23:50:00.004-04:002010-06-09T23:59:37.173-04:00

And this year's winner for "Best Use of a Punjabi MC Song in a YouTube Video" goes to...That's it -- show the sole of your foot to the dude wearing combat fatigues.

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"For at least twenty years, W.R. Grace knowingly exposed its employees and townspeople [of Libby, Montana] to airborne fibers in tremulite dust that were described in a 1956 report by the Montana Health Department's Division of Disease Control as possessed of 'considerable toxicity' that 'must sooner or later produce pulmonary fibrosis.' Workers breathed the dust daily, carried it home on their

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-32084017392569869752010-06-07T20:34:00.024-04:002010-06-08T08:56:59.065-04:00

Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers [Hotflush Recordings]In which the best duo to come out of the U.K. since Boards of Canada releases what is (for some) the most eagerly-awaited album of the Summer -- its full-length debut. With a pair of beautiful EPs and a string of remixes throughout 2009, Mount Kimbie landed themself a spot on the Artists To Watch lists for numerous e-music publications. A lot

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It's been a long while since I made a tape of beats & isht.So, here we go: flashback mode. Back specifically to the type of format I was doing around 1999-2000, when I first started doing a radio show. Here's a collection of some favorite beats & bumps of late '90s-early Noughts vintage (with one obvious, more recent exception). More abstrakt and smoked-out and darker than the format in later

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-69087753057277659572010-06-03T21:47:00.004-04:002010-06-06T21:45:21.804-04:00

"Authenticity' is a reality-label from the art world, and as such it cannot be fixed to anything living and vital."

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Naturally, this sort of soc-psych analysis can be extended to a number of things these days...Here’s a hypothesis: denial is largely a product of the way normal people think. Most denialists are simply ordinary people doing what they believe is right. If this seems discouraging, take heart. There are good reasons for thinking that denialism can be tackled by condemning it a little less and

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"The radio calls it a feathery plume," he said. "But it's not a plume.""What is it?""Like a shapeless growing thing. A dark black breathing thing of smoke. Why do they call it a plume?"— Don DeLillo, White Noiseimages: 1, 2 & 3

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The first thing that kills me about this clip is the yawling disconnect between content and presentation -- a frenzied performance framed with the sort of cluelessly static camerawork that you'd find in your average vintage middle-school instructional film. But, secondly: That a guy who'd soon be reduced to putting decks on yuppie beach homes in Malibu was at one point in his life the missing

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From the libraries of Tulane, Mystick Krewe of Comus Margi Gras design illustrations circa 1873 and 1910. Via Bibliodyssey.

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Recently, a friend CC'd me on a send-out of an abridged, online version of Richard Hofstadter's famed 1964 essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics." The timing was uncanny, because I'd been meaning to delve into Hofstadter lately, starting with that essay. So I responded:Relatedly, my favorite conspiracy theories of recent weeks:1) The election of Barack Obama marks the fruition of an

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On translating the work of Roberto Bolaño, "dirty" bits and all... "The word that gave me most trouble was ‘grupa’, which literally means a horse’s hindquarters. I wanted to preserve the farmyard connotations, which give the sentence an extra jolt of dirtiness. Another possibility might have been ‘rump’, but there’s something more suggestive and sexual about ‘haunches’. The rest was fairly

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-30762592778876113372010-05-20T11:08:00.021-04:002010-05-20T23:22:02.182-04:00

Back again with another podcast mix in-the-rough. Steering things in a more varied & off-kilter direx this time. Swerve and zag, wobble and roll, wonkt and skewd.Apparently the last one was -- according to one listener -- too "clubby." Oh boo(hoo). So the pendulum swings another way this time around. Yoinx.Yodel.62min, 51sec. / 86.3mb / 192kpb:: DOWNLOAD ::_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

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Gristleized freeform electronics and heavy doses of abstrakt internal rhyme. Anti-Pop Consortium live on the air at KEXP this past November. True, with their reunion jawn last year these guys finally brought some tracks that sported some major bump; but I think it's fair to say that they were on the "wonky" tip about a decade before anyone else.

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-25570123476361198662010-05-09T18:09:00.008-04:002010-05-09T19:22:46.597-04:00

Tulane University's Matt Sakakeeny on New Orleans funerals and the second line, the Crescent City's history of segregation, architectural apartheid and gentrification, the reclaiming of history and public space, and the politics of "noise" in the post-Katrina NOLA, as mediated through the acousmatic theories of R. Murray Schafer... 'Under the bridge, the dancing bodies are closest together; the

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Fairly short (just over 33 minutes) but hella nice set from Cardopusher, originally done for the Lisbon-based Mr. Gasparov site back in November. Recommended.:: Download ::Tracklisting1.Filastine - Singularities (Cardopusher remix)(dub)2.Synkro - Connected (forthcoming Synkro)3.Pearson Sound - Gambetta (Soul Jazz)4.Cardopusher - Pupusa (dub)5.Badawi - El Topo (Cardopusher remix)(forthcoming The

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:: His Name Is Alive - "Capricorn Moon"[ from Sweet Earth Flower: A Tribute To Marion Brown, 2007, High Two Records ]

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A bit of designerly post-psych, quasi-futuristic hauntological sound & vision via the theme opening sequence of the early '70s ITV show The Tomorrow People. Very much of the classic/archtypal pedigree that Julian House drew from when crafting these two clips.Related: This was Tomorrow

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Simon Reynolds pretty much killed me with his recent yarn about the neo-emo aspirations of certain up-and-coming e-music artists. I couldn't be more in agreement on a number of points. Starting with the matter that the whole thing begs a couple of obvious questions. Such as: If dancing is so over-rated, then how come dancers at many Chicago club events I've attended over the years frequently had

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Here's one from the last mixtape -- the official video for "Stampede Me" by Daedelus, the final track from his recent Righteous Fists of Harmony EP. Somewhat odd in its execution, given how it runs so contrary to the lulling, lilting pastoral feel of the track itself. More from the Brainfeeder site.

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Rad synth dude._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Severely un-rad synth dude._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Synths are rad.

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-23583672813626391652010-04-24T21:14:00.007-04:002010-04-24T22:42:19.239-04:00

A young Karlheinz Stockhausen encounters Theodor Adorno, and is encouraged to "use The Force." Screengrab from the documentary Karlheinz Stockhausen: Musik für eine neue Welt. (a.k.a. The Decline of Western Civilization - Chapter One: The Ring Modulator Years.)Oh, to be a fly on the wall for that one. (A fly with an advanced grasp of German, naturally.)[ Courtesy of acousmata ]

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Nowhere near as amusing as having Mark E. Smith read th enightly football scores, and falling considerably short of the "conceptualist" rigor of the title track from this thing. But still -- of curioso interest to some, I expect.(Can't help but wonder if this is Lynch's equiv of On Kawara's "I Got Up At..." series of daily postcards.)

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No. 6: When you start hearing 'indie' fare on your local college station that could almost be mistaken for something off the latest album by Sting, then you know it's time for a major and long overdue paradigm shift.No. 14: Anyone who isn't old to remember the days when Frampton Comes Alive became some saturational, Invasion of the Body Snatchers-styled cultural meme, is clearly too young to ever

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"In concert, the Mothership was last spotted in Detroit in 1981, belching dry ice fumes and flashing kaleidoscopic light. An aluminum flying saucer, it was about 20 feet in diameter and decked out with dazzling lights. Below it stood a band of otherworldly eccentrics celebrating the hard-won freedoms of the civil rights movement in a freaky, fantastical display. Darryll Brooks remembers the last

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Hmm. So far, I'm hearing a complete lack of the tension and energy that pulled me in with their debut. I'm guessing this is what the band meant when they said that their next album was going to be more "ambient" -- smothering everything in a blanket of textured haziness. And it's usually not a good harbinger when a remix outshines the original track. Hate to say it, but I'm inclined to brace

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So tonight marks the debut of Treme, the new HBO series about post-Katrina New Orleans from writer David Simon and many of the same people responsible for The Wire. Which means it's one of those occasions that I actually feel like I'm missing out on something by not having cable.Yes, there's been a fair about of buzz and anticipation surrounding the show, and understandably so. And yes, The Wire

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With a lot of really nice & feeling-it recent releases having come through the door lately, this party could've gone on for about 3x the duration that it did. But as it is, this one just barely squeaks in under the upload limit, so it'll have to do for the time being. Today's forecast: Mostly sunny, with scattered cloudiness. Tempos will range from up to down with assorted peaks and valleys,

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TV appearance, backed by the Roots...Nice.

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From All You Need Is Cash, in which a twist on post-WWII Brit grudge-bearing xenophobia and the public head-scratching over John & Yoko's Fluxus-inspired art activities brilliantly collide.And that, in a very roundabout way, brings us to the passing of Malcolm McLaren...A gloss of the comments section of any given obit would probably reveal that public opinion about the man is wildly split, even

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The above is a short film by Adam Curtis, a British documentary filmmaker whose work I'm only just now catching up with. Curtis currently works for the BBC, and his films often deal with how media shapes and influences public perceptions of politics in post-Cold War society -- its numerous failures, distortions, elisions, etc. His past films of note include Pandora's Box, The Mayfair Set, The

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Martina Topley-Bird, Hope Sandoval, and Damon Albarn -- I guess that's all it takes to pull me in. Honestly, as someone who listened to a lot of trip-hop and downtempo back in the mid '90, I've always been thoroughly un-whelmed by Massive Attack. Last year's collab with Terry Callier reminded me of all the reasons why -- the beats are often too listless, the dub nuances too airless, and generally

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Banksy talks to Time Out London about why he deems Exit Through The Gift Shop a "disaster," on life after being unmasked, on being a hot commodity and "selling out"...'My lawyer's opinion is that the cops might not actually be able to charge me with criminal damage any more -- because theoretically my graffiti actually increases the value of property rather than decreasing it. That's his theory,

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Luc Sante with a deft, compact unpacking of the legacy of Serge Gainsbourg: "[He] advanced the international conception of Frenchness by a degree unmatched by anyone since Maurice Chevalier or, arguably, J.-P. Sartre. He accomplished this by being dissolute, unshaven, a short and unprepossessing man who attracted spectacularly beautiful women, and a Jewish intellectual who wore his learning like

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Via: this guy.

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-47933486412745356442010-03-29T14:01:00.015-04:002010-03-30T00:14:46.236-04:00

Above is the first part of "All Junglists -- A London Somet'ing Dis," a 1993 documentary on the emergence of Jungle on the U.K. rave scene. Here's a related feature on Jungle as via BBC program called "All Black." Featuring appearances by Shy FX with UK Apache, Fabio, LTJ Bukem, and DJ Rap circa 1994. And here's yet another one about rave & Jungle in '90s England, this time focusing on London

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-45951570436332803422010-03-28T17:54:00.001-04:002010-03-29T20:29:53.389-04:00

"The other day I heard a band who had the worst singer, the most out of time drummer and most out of tune guitarist I've ever heard on a professional record, and I thought, at last, the reaction against pro-tools perfection has set in. A pro-tools engineer would have sorted it all out, but this band was an actual celebration of human frailty. It was so rough it was really encouraging."-- Brian

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-33884721516156677192010-03-27T10:51:00.014-04:002010-03-27T18:18:09.431-04:00

I have to agree that this is one of the more surprising out-of-nowhere debuts of late. Funny how it's caught the "artist to watch" attention of more rhythm-minded popsters and some quarters of the nu-gen "noise" set. For me, it stacks up like a cold take on some Neil Young/spaghetti western high-lonesomeness as filtered through a dubbed-out Big Beat mesh.* Playing nicely alongside Mount Kimbie,

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-46172883959411789652010-03-26T00:29:00.005-04:002010-03-29T14:00:30.336-04:00

Close irony tag.

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Rob Walker at Murketing on "The Idea of the Cassette" and its recent retro- resurgence as a pop-culture meme and the variety of ways it's been enshrined lately. (Although he seems to have missed this one.) Walker cites recent essays on cassette culture published at Pop Matters and Pitchfork, as well as another essay that he contributed for the exhibition Rewind Remix Replay: Design, Music &

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-49665145898085351712010-03-23T12:26:00.002-04:002010-03-24T20:37:21.368-04:00

Via this guy.

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-20669500015491851992010-03-23T09:44:00.001-04:002010-03-25T22:31:13.663-04:00

Simon Reynolds ruminating as always, prompted by the new Ikonika album and its accompanying press release spiel:"You get this kind of slippage in reviews of dance music all the time (which often consist in greater part of intricate breakdowns of the dance-historical sources and components that the track or artist's style or sub-sub-subgenre assembles itself out of). Nobody ever really gets around

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-63247236144161332672010-03-21T13:18:00.008-04:002010-03-21T23:58:55.810-04:00

Yep. I'm split between doucheoisie and fauxhemian, myself.

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-50904986946987470492010-03-19T15:41:00.009-04:002010-03-20T01:09:05.510-04:00

Mark Fisher, a.k.a. k-punk, musing on "Why Don't Groups Split Up Anymore?":"Why don't groups split up any more? This immediately begs another couple of questions: why is it a problem if they don't? Who demands that groups split up, and what is at stake in this demand? And what we are talking about here – let's be clear – is our groups: not the 'mainstream time-servers who can be expected to

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-48095819074816576682010-03-18T07:44:00.015-04:002010-03-18T15:45:48.696-04:00

"Well, you see, there were never any manifestos. When I wrote the essay, 'Music As A Gradual Process' in 1968, I was looking back at what I'd already done and trying to understand it better. It was in no way a manifesto about what I was going to do in the future and I never had an attitude that I was a card-carrying minimalist of anything -- I think that's absurd. I was doing what felt exciting

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-84174108543757090142010-03-17T21:50:00.004-04:002010-03-17T21:59:12.946-04:00

Damn.

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-67096878779389856542010-03-16T20:26:00.055-04:002010-03-21T23:56:45.920-04:00

This is internationally renowned Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan:And this isn't...While we're on the topic of genitals: I've always thought that TV would be far more interesting if all adverts were as vague and mysterious and oblique as ads for "feminine care" products have always had to be.E. J. Dionne in WaPo: "Because we never face up to how much we need government to do, there is a pathetic

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-36195963004529704052010-03-14T11:12:00.000-04:002010-03-14T12:26:33.515-04:00

Eventually I'm going to start varying the vintage of tracks on these, but for the time being: another edition of some current-recent likings.:: DOWNLOAD ::56 min, 22 sec. / 224kpb / 90.3mbHoller._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Tracklisting:Udachi & Jubilee - "Smoke Rings"DJ Donna Summer - "Raw"Dizzee Rascal & Armand Van Helden - "Bonkers (Doorly Remix)"

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-60332787283139079762010-03-13T16:10:00.002-05:002010-03-14T12:27:48.213-04:00

Yeh, absitively.

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-84389686169305872042010-03-11T14:56:00.026-05:002010-03-14T21:50:28.395-04:00

A pair of surprising artistic tributes...First: Currently up at the Gagosian in London, the exhibition Crash - Homage to J. G. Ballard. Featuring pieces by established artists whose work took inspiration from (or thematically intersects with) Ballard's experimental fiction, plus a few works by artists who originally inspired the author... Dan Holdsworth - "Untitled (Autopia)" 1998Ed Ruscha - "

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-37733668080611724672010-03-11T13:25:00.022-05:002010-03-15T16:37:53.111-04:00

A truly bizarre set of (what's purported to be) anti-American propaganda posters from North Korea. The work above echoes the usual Neo-Classical aesthetic of Western authoritarian regimes -- most likely inspired by the work of Jacques-Louis David (if not specifically modeled after David's "The Rape of the Sabine Women"). But it's an atypically restrained when stacked along some of the other

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-89793766097725865912010-03-10T11:30:00.001-05:002010-03-12T10:23:41.722-05:00

[SIC] And indeed.

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Since moving to Germany some years back, Jason Forrest hasn't been keeping the highest of musical profiles. Judging from his recent Facebook updates, I was mostly under the impression that he was busy with long-distance running and creating his own iPhone app to work on any new output of his own. Sure, he's kept his old CockRockDisco label going all this time and has done plenty of DJ engagements

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-15024412994594870172010-03-08T21:52:00.007-05:002010-03-08T22:16:15.875-05:00

Okay, so it isn't just me who's been getting this impression..."Whereas the economic populism of the eighteen-nineties and the right-wing cultural populism of recent years represented reasonably coherent ideologies, this new populism has stitched together incompatible concerns and goals into one 'I’m mad as hell' quilt. The people may have spoken. It’s just not clear that they’re making any sense

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-84473369954861853282010-03-06T11:22:00.009-05:002010-03-06T11:33:57.023-05:00

One example of some animation by beeple. This one -- complete with an audio track -- brings to mind this other one from a while back. Plenty of other nice, short doses of various abstract animations via beeple's Vimeo page.

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-46860233861725110652010-03-04T16:20:00.005-05:002010-03-14T21:47:45.710-04:00

Second edition. Similar trajectory as the previous installment, and also involving a few of the same artists. Beginning on the wonky end of the spectrum before veering into some other current beats. Pitchfork Rating: 8.4 on the Chin-Stroking Volubility Index.Holler.:: DOWNLOAD ::_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Tracklisting:Terror Danjah - "Acid"

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-70127410084041014022010-03-04T09:02:00.061-05:002010-03-14T21:57:16.863-04:00

Inherent contradictions to the System. Eliot Spitzer in the Boston Review on the Fed's role in the marketplace:"Angry populism—180 degrees from libertarianism—is no better a guide than [Ayn] Rand.""There are certain core values—values that we as a society embrace—that the marketplace simply will not address.""Those who have analyzed the return of equity of major companies understand that when

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-61941151853580451472010-03-02T08:51:00.002-05:002010-03-03T22:41:59.004-05:00

:: DOWNLOAD ::Single continuous track, 56+ minutes. Mood: Thumpy, then dark & spacious, with some more moody & pop-oriented payoff toward the end for accessibility's sake. Customers who bought this item also bought: Amadou & Mariam, Darkthrone, Massive Attack...and Elton John._ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _Tracklisting:Gang Gang Dance - "Bebey (edit)"

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-84577503284797881022010-02-26T11:33:00.004-05:002010-03-02T09:21:53.075-05:00

Zimoun - "30,000 Plastic Bags, 16 Ventilators" [2010]Coastward bound, out of here for a few days.

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Kiran Sande in FACT Magazine, musing about recent developments in dubstep, and wondering if now isn't the time for a junglist/breakbeat revival..."Everything sounds so bloody crisp and sleek these days, there’s an international shortage of grit."Indeed. Early punk, midskool hip-hop, early techno/'ardkore breakbeat & jungle....I've always had strong preference for "gritty" sounds & beats.But that

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-46328323553689979382010-02-24T13:28:00.002-05:002010-03-02T12:17:02.457-05:00

Effectively, this is a visual supplement to the "hauntology" mixtape I posted a short while ago, spotlighting work associated with some of the music in question...Julian House co-founded the Ghost Box label and is also the artist responsible for recording material under the guise of The Focus Group. Aside from that, he's one of the leading graphic designers in the U.K., with an extensive

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-75385656228788372522010-02-23T12:16:00.018-05:002010-02-23T13:17:54.233-05:00

Shortly before I bouncing from Baltimore back in 2004, I met some of our neighbors -- a younger couple who'd had just moved in upstairs. While we were hanging out, the woman explained to me that her boyfriend was a chef at a local restaurant, and that she worked as the sole female employee of the "family business." Turned out that her grandfather was Jack Loizeaux, the guy who founded Controlled

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-3789321603335142292010-02-21T18:10:00.001-05:002010-02-21T18:14:28.679-05:00

Headphones, full-screen, take a time out...Jacaszek - "There are no others, there is only us"Alias - "Sixes Last"Gordon Matta-Clark's "Tree Dance," c. 1971, set to music by Venetian Snares

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-18051533713801629492010-02-21T13:32:00.005-05:002010-02-22T13:37:53.320-05:00

Springtime must be just around the corner. The way it's stacking up, this week has seen a number of nice things popping up around the internets, especially things related to some long-time favorite artists of mine. First, there was the new Filastine mix set (below), and now DJ Mutamassik has dropped a new album...for free, via her website.Admittedly, Mutamassik hasn't kept the highest of profiles

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-73162830976814066622010-02-20T14:27:00.026-05:002010-02-22T13:42:29.900-05:00

Via a recent Dutty Artz podcast, here's a new mix set from nomadic beat killer Grey Filastine. DJ /rupture offers a little backstory on the post..."In support of his 2009 album, Dirty Bomb, Filastine circled the earth twice in a 100-stop tour that began at a squat in Jakarta, Indonesia, tore up Europe’s most respected festivals (Sonar, Transmediale, etc.), and ended in a cloud of tear-gas outside

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-72028051699746930772010-02-15T20:41:00.036-05:002010-02-15T22:15:57.284-05:00

I've talked about Baltimore resident Ian Nagoski here before, and it seems that his recent activities have been many. He's also been a regular contributor to Arthur Magazine and to the website Excavated Shellac. He recently put together the String Of Pearls compilation, which marked -- as a joint release from Mississippi Records out of Portland -- the launch of Nagoski's own Canary label. And now

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-65869383368667873772010-02-14T17:39:00.001-05:002010-02-15T22:06:40.794-05:00

Yep, I've been 'tarding out to this track for a good long minute, now. Seriously -- when the beat switches up over the sound of someone beat-boxing through a didgeridoo, I'm ready to start doling out hugs. If anyone had any sense, it would permanently displace this overrated club-rat jawn (below) from hipster DJ sets...As the above demonstrates, it seems that lately YouTube's become awash in

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Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-35012433979171662872010-02-08T15:10:00.024-05:002010-02-08T16:47:08.406-05:00

A few passing thoughts about this little tempest in a teapot this is the public exchange of barbs between art critics John Yau and Jerry Saltz.Yes, I once had Jerry Saltz as an instructor back in my grad school days, and I happen to like and respect Jerry a great deal. But I disagree with him on a number of things, and his undying affection for the work of Jeff Koons where our paths most diverge.

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As I've alluded to previously, I've been gradually putting together around the "hauntology" theme.* Included is material from a number of artists who've most often been lumped together under the term, including Boards of Canada, Burial, and material from the Ghost Box label. The whole hauntology aesthetic being a bit soft and subjective, I played pretty loosely with the theme, adding other tracks

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-13622178592195417802010-02-06T15:31:00.004-05:002010-02-08T16:41:24.836-05:00

Right, so the recent round of NSA and FAA in-flight restrictions are ridiculously strict; so much so that when they were it announced, they prompted a friend of mine to winder, "How long before they just strap down & sedate the passengers for the duration of the flight?" Of course, we all know how we got here; how the fear of terrorism has become a integral part of our lives in the past nine

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-4216589182065203112010-02-04T18:42:00.021-05:002010-02-12T13:30:59.548-05:00

Old record LPs from one's formative years. Filed away, sporadically played, and sporting the scuffs and ringwear and signs of vintage-ness. Chances are the grooves are just as seasoned and yielding their share of surface noise. But there's nothing like the physical artifact, especially with the artwork spread out over a 12" x 12" format. Generational nostalgia, perhaps. If anything keeps records

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-46482584191154591302010-02-04T12:47:00.007-05:002010-02-04T12:55:04.960-05:00

"Doll Clothes," an early super-8 film by Cindy Sherman, c. 1975.* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Trapped in an elevator for 41 hours. Story here.

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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ :: Hala Strana - "Svatovac/Becarac"foto: coquinete

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Possible items of interest from around the intertubes...Books About Cities, Pt. 1: "City on the Make," Reconsidered. A review of historian Dominic Pacyga's Chicago: A Biography from The New Republic, as well as an interview with the author via Wunderkammer.Books About Cities, Pt. 2: Before the Deluge. A spotlight on Ned Sublette's new book The Year Before The Flood: A Story of New Orleans. Also,

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-41849865146360468702010-02-01T14:05:00.008-05:002010-02-02T13:42:19.812-05:00

Yeah, so it's been a while since I linked to any downloads for some good online mixsets. Here's a few I've encountered lately.First up, Joro-Boro has a nice downloadable mix on his Soundcloud page, sporting a cross-categorical blend of "post-national booty and ethnoteck." For those on the cumbia kick , of late. Forty-three tracks in the span of an hour, the guy keeps the set moving...

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-70153998483185918352010-01-31T16:57:00.004-05:002010-01-31T17:10:08.315-05:00

The documentary Copyright Criminals recently aired on PBS's Independent Lens series. If you missed it, it's currently up on Youtube, broken up into six different clips. Probably won't stay up for very long, though. For your one-stop viewing purposes, Beautiful Decay has a round-up of all six parts in a recent post. So check it out before someone gets served a Cease & Desist.Also, the Independent

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-43950168549697111842010-01-31T12:52:00.046-05:002010-02-01T00:42:10.163-05:00

If there's such a thing as "mutant disco," then I'm sure a considerable subcategory for mutant rave -- for wonky bangers that revel in the energy of acid house & the like, but also delights in scribbling outside the lines.Eats Tapes are the Oakland-based duo of Marijke Jorritsma and Gregory Zifcak, and their music would neatly fit on the upper shelf of said unter-genre. I had the pleasure of

Greyhoosnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7700551958681450148.post-58295976273388537022010-01-30T13:08:00.059-05:002010-01-30T23:08:34.053-05:00

Yes, I believe we all know this tune by heart. So much so, that the word rote doesn't even begin to cover it. Numbing probably gets closer to the point.. "It's just news. It's just news."Funny that in this time of so much talk about new technology the ever-changing face of the media landscape, certain things remain fundamentally unchanged. For instance, the broadcast news model parodied above.

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