Well, first it was my headphones. Today my brother “accidentally” erased my folder labeled as “Onassis” were I kept most of the mp3′s in my computer. A really bad week for my music collection. Came here to mourn and to do a little notes on our sidebar updates. Still undergoing some changes but I’ve added this week more links to highly recommended sites worth bookmarking, take a peek:

Little Radio – little radio keeps track of the most relevant posts of several mp3 blogs around the world. If you’re too busy to visit most of the mp3 blogs out there I’d recommend you to visit little radio, really does the job a lot easier.

The ghost in the machine – A nice surprise this week. Ghost makes some of the most interesting podcasts I’ve heard. Amazing selections.

Mars needs guitars – Shoegaze fans go here, Now!

I’m also using my spare time to endorse some of the most exciting movies I’ve seen and because I know how much you like reading other people’s lists. I’m not rating them from the highest to the lowest because I love them all in a same degree. Needless to say, if you have the chance to see them, I strongly suggest you do so. I’ll also buy them from you if you’ve got no soul and think they’re extremely pretentious and boring movies (tip: mail me if you’d like to sell!):

• Sunrise (Murnau, 1928)
• Amelie (Jeunet, 2001)
• 10 (Kiarostami, 2002)
• Ai no Corrida (Oshima, 1976)
• Sawdust and Tinsel (Bergman, 1953)
• Lost Highway (Lynch, 1997)
• The adventure (Antonioni, 1960)
• Lancelot (Bresson, 1974)
• Romance (Breillat, 2000)

And finally, for those in need of music, one of the few mp3′s that survived the deleting massacre, enjoy:

Harry Nilsson – are you sleeping

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Image by Tra Selhtrow.

Tal vez, si consigo unas muletas, entonces podría escaparme de aquí…

Gnarls Barkley – crazy
Jimmy Edgar – my beatz
Papas fritas – way you walk
Klapto – queen of the night
Etienne Daho – le grand sommeil (sweetlight remix)
Bran Van 3000 – astounded (feat. Curtis Mayfield)
Erlend Oye – if I ever feel better
Chelonis R Jones – na na na
Hot Chip – down with prince
Eliot Lip – rap tight

Kudos to jk for helping me through my static weekend.
Image: Adrian Johnson.

Sometimes a blog post is so dangerously self indulgence it should be banned. This is like that. It will forever redefine the color of luminous orange as a group of high power shoegazer guitar fuzz and throat screaming. This is the third list in dream series.

The Beta Sweat - Save the Mazurka for Me
The Noisettes – Don’t Give Up
Rogers Sisters – Zero Point
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Art Star
Luminous Orange – Drop You Vivid Colours
Bowery Electric – Freedom Fighter
Deerhoof - This Magnificent Bird will Rise

image credit: linny

The hilariously talented Leslie & The Lys
by Erin Caruso.

from Brazil to Sweden
cool girls are easy to find
yet hard to get.

sweet tease.

Cansei de Ser Sexy, Alala. (Brazil)
Villeneuve, Oh No. (France)
Kudu, Magic Touch. (USA)
Zeigeist, F as in Knife. (Sweden) (thanks to papat)
Nina Hagen, New York, New York. (Germany)
Uffie, 1984. (France)
Fox N’ Wolf, Youth Alcoholic. (Sweden)
Javiera Mena, Mi Generación. (Chile)
Maria Daniela & su Sonido Lasser, Miedo 2005. (Mexico)
Jenny Wilson, A Brief Story. (Sweden)

Everytime I listen to shoegaze millions of scared hippies always come to mind.
Amelie counted orgasms. I count the number of bad trips in woodstock, had bands like Loop and My bloody valentine been present at the time.

Although I wasn’t listening to the sounds around me while growing up in the 90′s, I later (when I was about 16) rediscovered amazing shoegazer albums like Slowdive’s “slouvaki”, Spiritualized’s “ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space” and of course, My bloody valentine’s “loveless” that cracked my head open. So whilst most of the people in my generation were listening to grunge and that alternative genre later baptized as “nu-rock”, I was in my room shoegazing and listening to Radiohead and 60′s and 70′s rock bands. I still think very fondly of those times…
You’ll see while “OK Computer” is the record that started me buying and paying more attention to music, records like “Souvlaki” and “Ladies And Gentlemen…” are the ones that contain the outlines of a depressively large proportion of the music I enjoy today, reason I treasure them as one of the most important records in my collection.

Note: The songs in the playlist are organized by their original release date.

My bloody valentine – strawberry wine (1989)
Ride – dreams burn down (1990)
Kitchens of Distinction – under the sky, inside the sea (1991)
My bloody Valentine – soon (1991)
Slowdive – machine gun (1993)
Swervedriver – duel (1994)
Medicine – all good things (1995)
Chapterhouse – mesmerize (1996)
Spiritualized – broken heart (1997)
Should – sarah missing (1998)
The meeting places – see through you (2003)
Destroyalldreamers – destroy all dreamers (2004)
Readymade – rehearsed disaster (2005)
Silver Screen – all I have (2005)
The fleeting joys – go and come back (2006)
Astrobrite – miss teen USA (2006)

Also check: This post about Loop and this Jesus and Mary Chain post that makrugaik wrote last week and Carl Kruger’s mixtape memories.
Image credit: ofthesky