April 1, 2010 at 11:22 am
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- Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti - Can’t Hear My Eyes
Can’t Hear My Eyes 7″ (Mexican Summer, 2009)
- Dungen - Fredag
4 (Kemado, 2008)
- Of Montreal - Lysergic Bliss
Satanic Panic in the Attic (Polyvinyl, 2004)
- Super Furry Animals - Juxtaposed With U
Rings Around the World (Epic, 2001)
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- Ricardo Villalobos - Easy Lee
Alcachofa (Playhouse, 2003)
- Adult. - Hand to Phone
Hand to Phone (Clone, 2001)
- Legowelt - Disco Rout
Disco Rout (Coccoon, 2002)
- Bot.ox - Blue Steel
Blue Steel (I’m a Cliché, 2009)
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This one ended up all over the place as I started running out of space in the list. Some weird style contrast for sure; opens with warm-bellied psychedelic pop and closes with robotic new-wave. Of course I couldn’t find a way to make them work together. It’s barely works if you really take each section as separate playlists.
Seems to me it took forever to compile and publish this list so I’m feeling a great relief now that it’s finally over. Back to the sweet and tidy motel routine at last. It’s been a really fun exercise, tho. Hope you’ve enjoyed the series as much as I did compiling them.
March 15, 2010 at 2:24 pm
Photo: Kinosport.
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- Clinic - The Second Line
Internal Wrangler (Domino, 2000)
- Electrelane - The Valleys
The Power Out (Too Pure, 2004)
- Beirut - Scenic World
Gulag Orkestar (Ba Da Bing!, 2006)
- Kurt Vile - Freeway
Constant Hitmaker (Gulcher, 2008)
- The Beta Band - Assessment
Assessment (Caroline Music, 2004)
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Summer sensations are non transferable. There’s music and fragrances and photographs, all emblems of perfect happiness which appear in summertime which are harder to confront as time passes. The way things were, and how we had wasted time as though there was nothing to do. These memories taste much better when left less rich, less clear.
How I learnt to swim or how I learnt to kiss are all very good stories I’ve forgotten. I did not listen to music the first summer.
February 26, 2010 at 11:40 am
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- Chromatics - In the City
In the City 12″ (Italians Do It Better, 2007)
- Crystal Stilts - Converging in the Quiet
Crystal Stils (Woodsist, 2008)
- The American Analog Set - Hard to Find
Promise of Love (Tiger Style, 2003)
- Piano Magic - Incurable
Incurable Ep (Important, 2006)
- Young Galaxy - Wailing Wall
Young Galaxy (Arts & Crafts, 2007)
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February 11, 2010 at 4:49 pm
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- Iron & Wine - Naked As We Came
Our Endless Numbered Days (Sub Pop, 2004)
- Innocence Mission - Tomorrow On The Runway
Befriended (Badman Recording Co., 2003)
- Bright Eyes - Lua
I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning (Saddle Creek, 2005)
- Miracle Fortress - Next Train
Five Roses (Secret City, 2007)
- Fleet Foxes - Mykonos
Sun Giant Ep (Bella Union, 2008)
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- Lambchop – Is a Woman
Is a Woman (City Slang, 2002)
- Sun Kil Moon – Duk Koo Kim
Ghosts of the Great Highway (JetSet, 2003)
- Songs: Ohia - Hold On Magnolia
The Magnolia Electric Co. (Secretly Canadian, 2003)
- Antony & the Johnsons - You Are My Sister
I Am a Bird Now (Rough Trade, 2000)
- Low - Laser Beam
Things We Lost in the Fire (Tugboat, 2001)
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Hope is the thing with feathers.
- Emily Dickinson.
February 9, 2010 at 2:06 am
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- Sascha Funke - Mango
Mango (Bpitch Control, 2008)
- Dominik Eulberg - Adler
Heimische Gefilde (Traum, 2007)
- Gui Boratto - Atol
Division Ep (Harthouse Mannheim, 2006)
- The MFA - The Difference it Makes
The Difference it Makes (Border Community, 2001)
- Popnoname - The Movement
Surrounded by Weather (Italic, 2008)
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- Booka Shade - Charlotte
The Sun & the Neon Light (Get Physical, 2008)
- Lifelike - So Electric
So Electric (Different, 2008)
- The Honeydrips - Fall from a Height
Here Comes the Future (Sincerely Yours, 2007)
- Junior Boys - In the Morning
In the Morning 12″ (Domino, 2006)
- Ratatat - Wildcat
Classics (XL, 2006)
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- Soulwax - NY Excuse
Any Minute Now (PIAS, 2004)
- Yo Majesty - Club Action
Club Action 12″ (Domino, 2008)
- Metro Area - Miura
Metro Area (Environ Records, 2002)
- M.I.A. - Galang
Arular (XL, 2005)
- Jimmy Edgar - I wanna be your STD
Color Strip (Warp, 2006)
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I. Rich, melodic technopop tunes that sit halfway between club fare and home listening. It seems these are pleasant enough for almost every type of audience to enjoy.
II. Highlights from out electropop collection. Very likely they were designed to appeal a very specific niche with all those requisite sharp-edged, Casio-based noises and 80’s samples that make them feel like good old friends to us in the mid-twenties demographic.
III. It’s hard to think clearly when exposed to any sort of saturation of the senses. You’re being forced to trust your animal instincts. How could anyone avoid thinking about steaming sex while there’s a hazy, ethereal, swooping, swirling wall of sound coming out of the speakers? Maybe you were distracted. Try again.
IV. Yet another playlist filled with patches. After giving it some thought I think that the one thing these songs do have in common is that they incursioned in sounds which eventually became cliché; the pan-global influence, grime, electro, disco revival, hip-house. Regardless of fatigue I still remember them with fondness and it will be hard for me not to look back in a few years and realize how much these sort of songs helped define the promiscous musical environment in which I lived in for the better part of the decade.
February 4, 2010 at 2:25 pm
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I. Some of our favorite slices of pop music this decade. They sway with sensuous delight, get stuck in our brain for days and bring us big stupid smiles on our faces whenever we listen to them.
II. Probably my favorite segment on this post. These five artists share a love for deep and engaging textures, but never sacrifice melody or structure for it, as many other IDM acts tend to do.
III. We proceed to cool things off with a segment of what could be defined as electronic chamber pop. Songs which seem like they were specifically designed to be played in small home speakers at the laziest hours of the day. Most of the time this is how I imagine perfection in pop music; Antiseptic, calculated, bright, colorful. Like a brand new toy or a clean apartment.
IV. In a similar note to the past segment, only less cool and cynical, more infatuated and naïve. I admit the playlist feels a tad sketchy in construction - the vibrant psychedelia of the last three songs against the detached, melancholic vibe of the first two - but let’s just pretend it’s supposed to reflect on the confused eagerness and crushing desire within the music. A story of love lost and found… or something something.
