To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour.
A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage.

- William Blake , Auguries of Innocence

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” An Old Repeat ”

01. Paavoharju - Valo Tihkuu Kaiken Läpi
Yhä Hämärää (Fonal, 2005)
02. Nouvelle Vague - Ever Fallen in Love
Bande a Part (Luaka Bop, 2006)
03. Medeski Martin and Wood - Sequel
Friday Afternoon in the Universe (1995)
04. Aphex Twin – Petiatil Cx Htdui
Drukqs (2001)
05. Fürsaxa - Karma
Lepidoptera (Atp Recordings, 2005)
06. Elysian Fields – Rope Of Weeds
Queen Of The Meadow (Jet Set Records, 2000)
07. Can – Spray
Future Days (1973)
08. Sun Ra – Angels And Demons At Play
Angels & Demons at Play (1953)
09. Four Tet – And Then Patterns
Everything Ecstatic (Domino, 2005)
10. Peggy Lee – Alone Together
Things Are Swingin’ (1958)

note: Happy Thanksgiving everybody. I found this list I made for mia two years ago. Maybe it’s a look back what MdM sounds like in 2005. I think I made this around the time of another list “Midnight Lover”, a series of late night soft tunes. They have mix of classic IDM, pop and a little folks. A bit flamboyant, looking back.

see also: Midnight Lover
image: inhabitat

When I emerge, nobody looks like me anymore. Most of all you. Or least. Isn’t it strange how either one fits?
You can do that with words, use one for the other.

- Priscilla Becker.

1. Flying Lotus – Auntie’s Lock / Infinitum
   Los Angeles (Warp / 2008)
2. Shigeto – Winter Thaw
   New Crossings Ep (Moodgadget / 2008)
3. Mujuice – Over the Rainbow
   Monochrome Ep (Pro-tez / 2006)
4. Ezekiel Honig – More human than human
   People, places & things (Microcosm / 2004)
5. Paul Kalkbrenner - Aaron
   Berlin Calling OST (Bpitch / 2008)
6. Son.sine – Upekah
   Upekha (Nurture / 2000)
7. Paul Kalkbrenner – Since 77
   Self (Bpitch / 2004)
8. Arc Lab – Versions
   No Spectre (n5MD / 2007)

Note: The idea behind this set of songs was to create an atmosphere where every sounds seems active without really doing anything. Movement without motion. Motion without movement… something like that. I chose songs that could be alternately be used for either physical or mental activity. At moderate volume the sound is not distracting, but on a good set of headphones the wall of sound will crush every kind of thought around you and keep you disjointed and unfocused enough that you’ll feel like drifting out from conciousness.

Also try: Caledoiscopio Cromático.
Photos: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Toute l’âme résumée quand lente nous l’expirons
Dans plusieurs ronds de fumée abolis en autres ronds
Atteste quelque cigare brûlant savamment pour peu
Que la cendre se sépare de son clair baiser de feu

- Stephan Mallarme, Hommage.

1. Peggy Lee – Is That All There Is?
   Is That All There Is? (1969)
2. Jon Brion – Little Person
   Synecdoche, New York ost (Lakeshore / 2008)
3. The Perishers – Best Friends
   Victorious (Nettwerk /2007)
   
4. The Pretenders – Almost Perfect
   Break Up the Concrete (Shangri-La Music, 2008)
5. Urbs – So Weit
   Toujours Le Même Film… (G – Stone / 2005)
6. Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley – Save Your Love for Me
   Nancy Wilson & Cannonball Adderley (1961)
7. Norma Beguell – That Old Black Magic
   Oooooh! Norma (Deon / 1959)
   

The trouble with bad habits is that they are mutually reinforcing. And, just as a bank won’t lend you money unless you are too rich to need it, exercise is a pastime only for those who are already slender and physically fit. It just isn’t so much fun when you have a marked tendency to wheeze and throw up, and a cannonball of a belly sloshing around inside the baggy garments. In my case, most of my bad habits are connected with the only way I know to make a living. In order to keep reading and writing, I need the junky energy that scotch can provide, and the intense short-term concentration that nicotine can help supply. To be crouched over a book or a keyboard, with these conditions of mingled reverie and alertness, is my highest happiness.

- Christopher Hitchens. On the limits of Self-Improvement.

Photos: [Matthew Ellis] [1, 2, 3 , 4, 5]

The kids on the net are ruining everything. They have no taste. -Anon

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” 2008 Early Winter Web Samplers ”

01. The Pretenders – Almost Perfect (hp. via fluxblog)
Break Up the Concrete (Shangri-La Music, 2008)
02. Melpo Mene – Hello Benjamin (MySpace via brooklynvegan)
Holes (Imperial Recordings (Sweden), 2004)
03. Gigi - The Hundredth Time (MySpace. via said the gramophone)
Maintenant (Gigi, 2008)
04. Madita - Deep Down (hp. via aurgasm)
Too (Phantom Sound & Vision, 2008)
05. Zach Condon of Beirut – Venice (Beirut. via GvB)
Believer 2007 Music Issue (2007)
06. Friendly Fires – I’m Good I’m Gone (Lykke Li cover) (hp. via GvB)
[Demo] (Friendly Fires, 2008)
07. Team B (Kelly Pratt of Beirut and Arcade Fire) – On My Mind (MySpace. via brooklynvegan )
Team B (Team B, 2008)
08. Maps & Atlases – Artichokes (MySpace. via said the gramophone)
You And Me And The Mountain (el Sargent House, 2008)

note: Thursday afternoon list. A little survey what’s on other blogs, brief change from complicated list. I always thought the blogs have the most diverse selection of new music if not wildly erratic. It’s great for hunting new tunes and finding different texture. So here is early winter 2008 sound. In softer and more melodical texture. I pick mellower posts. This is what the kids on the interweb are listening, so as a rule it is hip. (haa haa. There was some argument if mp3 blogs are any good as the new tastemakers. It wasn’t such an interesting argument. The music is much better than the critique.)

image: mondopanno

Photo: Yoann Lemoine.

1. Clinic – Porno
   Porno single (Golf/ 1997)
2. Boards of Canada – Seeya Later
   Twoism (Music70 / 1995)
3. Modest Mouse – Worms vs. Birds
   Worms vs. Birds single (Suicide Squeeze / 1997)
4. Sonic Youth – Diamond Sea (edit)
   Little Trouble Girl single (1996)
5. Piano Magic – Snowfall Soon
   Low Birth Weight (Rocket Girl / 1999)
6. Gustavo Cerati - Te llevo para que me lleves
   Amor Amarillo (1994)
7. A.R. Kane – Lollita
   Lollita Ep (4AD / 1987)
8. Young Marble Giants – Final Day
   Final Day 7″ (Rough Trade / 1980)

Cleaning my room this weekend I found a cd mix that brought back a huge block of memories from my highschool years and which is dated as being created on ‘June 2001′ when I was 15 years old. Even though my taste has shifted through the years, I was pleasantly surprised to listen to this collection of songs years later and discover most of them still sound very good on my ears. The original playlist is actually 16 songs long but half of it is so sincerely embarrasing that I’ve decided to just give away a synthetized version with the good stuff instead.

The idea behind the playlist, as far as I recall, was driven by the nostalgia of a musical life that wasn’t mine – to capture this dated, lo-fi type of sound which reminded of a friend who was 6 years older than me and all the music I discovered by hanging out at her house, gazing at her huge cd collection while she was busy with college projects. They were a distant past that was hard to learn about and I was in an age when we all want to swallow the world whole.