Why the music cassette has never died
Since I started relieving Oxfam of their surplus, I have filled my car with albums by the Supremes, Van Morrison, James Brown and Talk Talk. Surprisingly, the cassette era even extends to relatively recent gems such as Radiohead’s Kid A. Better still, the foetal bass and padded cell production of that album’s highlights — Everything in its Right Place, Morning Bell — is perfectly suited to the warm, cocooned ambience of magnetic tape.
Chumbawumba: Tubthumping
///DH: I don’t care if this was released in 1997, it’s still the best track of the noughties. Listen to it, it’s actually 4 or 5 great songs interpolated into one giant mega-track. Chumbawumba, who pioneered a pub-friendly brand of anarcho-pop-punk-folk-dance, are the unacknowledged precursors to 21st century “mash-up” culture.
Artist Cyprien Gaillard presented his electronic opera Desniansky Raion at Tate Modern this July. The triptych of films features some startling images, including battling gangs and a son et lumière building demolition. In this video Gaillard talks about the ideas behind his work and how composer and musician Koudlam provided the films extraordinary soundtrack
///DH: I saw Koudlam in a cramped, smokey basement club in Paris earlier this year, he put on a really wild show.
Tower Block Dreams (ep 1. 1/6)
The series follows young people trying to make a career in music, and escape lives of crime and deprivation. It explores the pirate radio stations, raves and drug deals that are at the heart of the urban underground.
///DH: This whole way of life is out of control. I’ve had friends who were total wastoids/criminals, and I always wondered where they found the inspiration to be such monumental fuck-ups. But to keep yourself on self-destruct and run a pirate-radio station - now that’s a rare talent.
SLEAZY LISTENING: Long before Lady Gaga, Beyoncé or even Madge, there was Betty Davis.
North/South/East/West is a new project from photographer Shaun Bloodworth, designer Stuart Hammersley and Bleep.com. A photographic and musical document focusing on the music of four different regions of the world — North and South UK and East and West coast USA.
…so I’m compiling my “top 10 albums of the ’00s” list and I’m having a hard time deciding which Alien Ant Farm album(s) to include. Can I just use “the best of” or is that cheating?
SASHA FRERE-JONES: Is the MP3 a satisfactory medium for your music?
JONNY GREENWOOD: They sound fine to me. They can even put a helpful crunchiness onto some recordings. We listened to a lot of nineties hip-hop during our last album, all as MP3s, all via AirTunes. They sounded great, even with all that technology in the way. MP3s might not compare that well to a CD recording of, say, string quartets, but then, that’s not really their point.
Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world’s largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection.
via:The Archive
I said it before and I’ll say it again - Benji B always kills. The latest show was especially choice with new tracks from HudMo and FlyLo.
Where did the name “The Motherfucking Gaslamp Killer” come from?
I got my start deejaying in the gaslamp district of san diego. its where all the pretty people like to go to look at each other and get drunk in there button up silk shirts and high heel shoes. they dont go out to listen to music, the music is simply in the backround & “that outfit” or “thats my team” are whats important. So for the first 6 or 7 years of my musical life, i was being ignored / hated on by these fucking good looking jock morons & theyr cheerleader girlfriends.
20 best Brazilian records ever made
“When I arrived, I discovered that records were so cheap that I bought 1,000 of them. Back then, nobody was really collecting records in Brazil, and there was an excess of vinyl as many music collectors were changing over to CD - vinyl records were almost treated like junk. I discovered so many styles and started to understand the depth of the music, which incorporates influences from all over the world. Like Brazil itself, it reflects a huge number of cultures. I found amazing funk records, jazz records, MPB crossover with progressive rock, reggae - the list is endless. It was an incredible time for me and I have never stopped collecting since. Over the past 18 years, I’ve travelled up and down the country in search of killer grooves. Even now, when I’m on recording trips in Brazil I try to get to collectors’ houses in my spare time to search out new sounds.
