We live today in a world of ever more stuff – what sometimes seems a deluge of goods and shopping. We tend to assume that this has two results: that we are more superficial, and that we are more materialistic, our relationships to things coming at the expense of our relationships to people. We make such assumptions, we speak in cliches, but we have rarely trid to put these assumptions to the test. – somewhere online.

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” Beat Callibration for new Template. No.1 ”

01. Hauschka - Firn
The Prepared Piano (2005)
02. Nik Bartsch’s Ronin – Modul 45
Holon (Ecm Records, 2008)
03. Alva Noto – flashforward
For (Line (a division of 12k), 2006)
04. John B – Jazz Session II
Drum’n'bass: Visions (1997)
05. Matmos – Semen Song For James Bidgood
The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast (2006)
06. Fridge – Drum Machines and Glockenspiel
Happiness (Temporary Residence, 2001)

note: A lovely miscellaneous minimalism and other. I created for late summer afternoon sometimes ago, but I’ll turn it to idea source for this new template. Orderly but not antiseptic, sparse but not empty, clean but not lacking detail. One can run around freely in the open space. Yes we know the new template is a little disorganized. It needs work, incorrect size and everything is in the wrong place. But as 2 previous templates, we eventually fix the balance if everybody nags enough. Think of this as MdM Madonna’s phase. Change of style and dusting up stodgy habit. … oh and from now on, we will only post lady Gaga for good measure. (just kidding, she is cool)

as usual don’t be shy commenting away if you have good idea for MdM. We are a bit off the caffeine lately.

image: channel 4

The West Siberian Plain consists mostly of Cenozoic alluvial deposits and is somewhat low-lying. Many of the deposits on this plain result from ice dams; having reversed the flow of the Ob and Yenisei Rivers, so redirecting them into the Caspian Sea (perhaps the Aral as well). It is very swampy and soils are mostly peaty Histosols and, in the treeless northern part, Histels. In the south of the plain, where permafrost is largely absent, rich grasslands that are an extension of the Kazakh Steppe formed the original vegetation (almost all cleared now). – Geology of Siberia.

” Nearly Random Evening Electronic Mix ”

01. Nirvana vs. Adam Freeland – Smells Like Freeland
Smells Like Teen Spirit 2003-Whitelabel Vinyl (2003)
02. Royksopp – A Higher Place
Melody AM (2001)
03. Ralph Myerz and The Jack Herren Band – Feel It
A Special Album (Emperor Norton, 2003)
04. Kraftwelt - Wind blues
Electric dimension (Cleopatra, 1996)
05. Cantoma – Bill Morgan on The Organ
Cantoma (Quango, 2005)
06. Quantic – Snakes In The Grass
5th Exotic (Tru Thoughts, 2001)
07. Xploding Plastix – Working The Neck
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note: I am a little drifting, so this is a somewhat muffled evening electronic. I made this a while back, not even sure why I did it, but it is not entirely directionless. It has some nice head bopping tempo in it, mostly instrumental. It should work for quite evening working at the computer. I will make a nicer list later.

image: World largest artwork

One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space.  Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages.  Otherwise there was no reminder of human life.  My companion and I were alone with the stars:  the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon.  It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators.  But it can be see many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.
Rachel Carson

• Mlle Caro & Franck Garcia – Soldiers
  Left (Buzzin’ Fly Records, 2010)
• Zoot Woman-It’s Automatic
  Living In A Magazine (Wall Of Sound, 2001)
• Popnoname -Hello Gorgeous
  Hello Gorgeous  (Kompakt, 2010)
• The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart-Higher Than The Stars (Saint Etienne Remix)
  Higher Than The Stars (Slumberland Records, 2009)
• Ada-Lovestoned
  Adaptations (Kompakt, 2009)
• Massive Attack-Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix)
  Heligoland Remixes (The Vinyl Factory, 2010)
• Arandel-#1
  In D  (Infiné Music, 2010)

This is the first of the “Midnight tempo” series. You can find some rhytmical pop sound to surfing or traveling  across the midnight. 
See you in the next time.  While enjoy it.   

Photo: Twentyeight

Photo: Julia Galdo.

• NUfrequency – Fallen Hero (Motor City Drum Ensemble remix)
  Fallen Hero (Rebirth, 2010)
• Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts – The Pussy Shepherd
  The Pussy Shepherd (Musique Risquée, 2009)
• Fania All Stars – Ella fue (She was the one)
  Ella Fue 7″ (Fania, 1978)
• Les Edits du Golem – Fever (Lulu Rouge edit)
  Mp3 release only
• Archie Shepp – Mozambique (Stilove4music edit)
  Mozambique (Stilove4music, 2006)
• Martha Reeves & The Vandellas – Heat Wave
  Heat Wave (Gordy, 1963)

Now that I am no longer a hyperbolic youth able to make love to you 37 times an afternoon, perhaps my odes are better in recompense.
Here is a semitransparent pebble I picked up on the way to my EKG. Probably worthless but it is my heart so take it. Step inside the lightbulb of my fermentation, Aphrodite, and tell me of the heating ducts of your day.
Put your eyelash on my pillow, I will do whatever you say.

- Dean Young.

Floorboards creak all night long in our house; the ghosts must go soon,
all night they tremble and fold their secrets in the growing heat of
the trees.

I remember again the night my roots exploded and mud sloshed in my guts.

How you resex the swinging trees and sing our trembling skins to sleep.

- Spencer Reece. Ghazals for Spring.

” Spring, in full swing. Part. 2″

• Antonio Carlos Jobim – Andorinha
  Stone Flower (ICT, 1970)
• Sora – Revans
  Re.sort (kk, 2004)
• Jurassic 5 – Canto de Ossanha
  Feedback (2006)
• Jackson Conti – Casa Forte
  Sujinho (Kindred Spirits, 2008)
• Perrey & Kingsley – One Note Samba / Spanish Flea
  Kaleidoscopic Vibrations (Vanguard, 1967)

+ Stone Flower is by miles my favorite Jobim album. Very subtle and sophisticated with some superb arrangement by Eumir Deodato. Today I’m picking Andorinha off of that album to start the playlist. It’s a very simple song fronted mainly by three musicians; Joao Palma providing a very delicate bossa beat, Jobim – absolutely brilliant – playing only the notes he needs to play on his Rhodes piano and Urbie Green, delivering a very smooth and laidback trombone performance.
+ Sora and Perrey and Kingsley give brazilian music the glitch treatment to produce some kind of retro-futuristic bossa, their approaches are wildly different though; Sora offers a polaroid, a nostalgic, detached fantasy while Perrey & Kingsley sound like a pair of crazy scientists using all sort of sounds they find in their studio library and exploding them apart just for fun.
+ Jurassic 5 and Jackson Conti provide the upbeat section this fine spring afternoon with some instrumental hip hop. Have a nice weekend!

In other things: I re-opened my twitter account. I’m still learning to use the thing, but I’ll try to log in as much as possible and post some music recommendations and motel updates as well as answering user messages and comments. So uhm…, I’ll just leave this thing here: twitter/moteldemoka

Image credits: [1, 2, 3, 4, 5].
See also: Spring 2010.