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I almost missed this, since KK posted it while I was in Italy with limited internet access. But, here is Music Dork Meme, via KK and Wayne.
total volume of music files on my computer: Like Wayne and KK, about 20GB. This is down from about 23 yesterday before I had to clear some off to make room for the latest gargantuan World Of Warcraft patch. If you count miscellaneous noncompressed audio for composition, that's another 4GB on my laptop and 10 or so on my outboard drive.
last CD i bought was: Scavengers by Food For Animals. After listening to astounding MP3s of Elephants and Cut And Paste for months and months, I finally broke down and bought the album. It's part of an effort I've been making recently (partially inspired by recent conversations with Ian MacKaye and Chuck Brown) to find really good DC-native musicians. AoW are mindblowingly new and innovative and noisey and good.
song playing right now: Bonobo's Recurring from the new Live Sessions EP on Ninja. Which I've only had for a few days since Bleeping it, but is seriously growing on me-- I was listening the tricky midtempo percussion and delicate pizzicato strings and complicated swooning harmonies and suddenly found it to be intensely conected with that archetypal grandaddy of delicatronica, the RDJ Album, which now has me real excited to hear where B's future output is going to go...
five songs i listen to a lot these days: Excepting the afforementioned. All 5 are seriously impacted by recent balmy and spaced-out weather conditions.
1. David Last- Cat-Silver. This track is just gorgeous and nice.
2. Four Tet- High Fives. Not really Tet's best track, but I'm a sucker for the plinky xylophone beeps and swirly faux-turntable sounds. Also of course the recent Madvillain remixes have been in heavy rotation.
3. Nightmares on Wax- Argha Noah. In line with the K&D track I posted a few weeks ago, late-90s open-aired synth-heavy shimmery-guitar tracks like this one have been getting a lot of listening time from me lately.
4. Edan- Making Planets. But really the whole freaking album is brilliant. Seriously throwback/retro while still experimental and forward-looking and creepy and so on.
5. Cellophane- Music Colours. Since its post on gabba a while back, I have played this hella cheesey italodisco so much that I am really sick of it. Really. Colours!
Here is some great stuff recently found on the internets.
Adoru has a great video of Ahmir Thompson babbling about his awesome record collection.
Noz at Cocaineblunts just posted some killer Ghostface bootlegs, with the striking assertion that "in the utopian future where sample clearance laws are lifted, the ten disc ghostface lost tapes box set will be a must." Dizzamn.
The Agriculture has, in addition to a totally enchanting scrolly slideshow of crazy party people mugging for the camera, full-length MP3s from most of their releases. Check out especially, of course, David Last.
This track by Gavouna is also really good, I am resolved to pick up the album.
Much props to O-Dub, who has kept Soul-Sides going as one of the best mp3blogs around. Favored recent picks include: On how the LA riots changed hiphop, On the long twisted and fascinating history of the Apache break, and Boogaloo podcasts Part One and Two.
My new favorite non-music blog is The Rude Pundit.
Finally, June being the spacey month it is, KK and I have become re-obsessed with K&D's thick and spacey remix of First Of The Month-- if you haven't heard it lately, here it is.
Does anyone know how to scrape an RSS or Atom feed from a blog that doesn't include one?? I want to read Blissblog, BoomSelection and CTPoliticalWatch without having to think too much about it.
From East Bay Express. Cover story about the man behind The Daily Kos. That is, Kos. Interesting stuff.
