run little lizard! run!!!
anyway, if you look down and to the left you will see some new categories of links... friends, politics, news, television, podcasts and music... i check almost all these sites at least weekly.
enjoy... there are a lot of "alexandria is open" type posts in the music category, fyi...
this is the one that caught my attention...
this next one is a nice combination of two common memes...
this is some more of a photo-realistic graffiti meme i've been seeing around...
and of course i dug this one...
from the fabulous woostercollective.com
this is the more traditional version, "viva obama!"
this is the more slammin' reggaton version.
earlier, i posted the great "cumbia de obama"
"we hood, we vote'n, and throwin it up..." this track makes me twitch involuntarily, but overall i'm glad it got made... it sticks in your head, and may get some of my lazy, doped-down friends in the hood to vote...
TI$A - Imma Vote Obama Way... watch for cameos from jay-z, kanye, etc..
i'm mostly posting in the spirit i was expressing BEFORE the indiana/north carolina primaries...
obama picked up 9 superdelegates just today, and the day isn't over yet. even the corporate media is finally telling the tale we've all known for months. the math doesn't work, and the only way for hillary to be the nominee is catastrophic. she hasn't been quite as bad as some have proposed, but she has behaved terribly. so this helped me feel a little better that she has dug her claws into barack instead of dropping out gracefully...
from the photo series "each individual grain of sand is a work of art" by discover magazine. via popurls
1st post here for context. on with B...
baby ford - this is unortunately a mixed version of this track... towards the end the melody is from something else... i'll try to get a clean version some time... great track from an early "minimal" innovator. baby ford & zip were great at the last DEMF.
(mp3) baby ford - "no milk today"
basement jaxx - a really over the top disco/pop/house outfit. hard to pick a favorite, but this is the track that started me off...
(mp3) basement jaxx - "yo yo" from "remedy"
bassnectar - not as good as the name suggests, but some solid breaks with good samples. can get a little cheesy in that "action movie soundtrack" vibe, but i like the vocal samples in this one.
(mp3) bassnectar - "pleasure the bass nympho" from "diverse systems of throb"
ben sims - a little known hard techno dork that i kind of love. this track is repetetive, but well named... it's for those riding a climax out with thunderous, non-stop beats... kind of late 90s feel, but a good mixing tool with stepping filters.
(mp3) ben sims - "poise here" from "symbolism 004"
benga - this guy is outrageous. LOVE this new album. Posted a much barer track of his in my first dubstep post, but this is a banger! (benga?) anyway, it's old school rave through and through with something new, something special. BUY this album... FIRE!
(mp3) benga - "pleasure" from "diary of an afro warrior"
bjork - so ahead of her time, and yours... this is from the first album, debut, and always makes me happy. homogenic, her third (?) album is incredible. the new stuff is all over the map, but she picks great talent, has super fly aesthetics and while she can be annoying when over-played, she is a genius of the age
(mp3) bjork - "big time sensuality" from "debut"
blair - i don't know anything about this track except that i tracked it down off an old derrick carter mixtape, and of you play it loud enough, 30-something raver will appear out of nowhere and start house dancing. great inspirational diva vocals.
(mp3) blair - "life"
blockhead - i already blogged this artist and this track here. in fact, it was the first track i posted. i still love it. a house track from a hip hop producer.
(mp3) blockhead - "cheer up, you're not dead yet" from "uncle tony's coloring book"
boxcutter - totally geeked on his last album, "glyphic"... BUY it. this is a somber but beautiful 2step track with nice base and lovey dovey vocals. smashing for a gentle love in dance fest...
(mp3) boxcutter - "foxy" from "glyphic"
brian eno - preposterously talented and influential producer of such gems as david bowie, the talking heads and (cough!) the best album ever (maybe? probably?), "my life with the bush of ghosts" (with david byrne), he made four amazing solo vocal albums in the late 60s and early 70s. lots of early electronics here, and this track is precient in my opinion.
(mp3) brian eno - "kurt's rejoinder" from "before and after science"
bruce haack - child's entertainer, drug-crazed genius and another indispensible electronic pioneer. a great documentary on him (featuring mouse on mars among others) is here. i found it on piratbayan. laura loves this song, too.
(mp3) bruce haack - "electric to me turn" from "electric lucifer"
it's no secret to those who know me... i LOVE techno. (and house, and electro, which i don't bother to make too much of a distinction from techno, they have sort of blended into each other anyway, in my opinion...)
i could upload a thousand tunes i find notable for one reason or another, but i'll start with A... and work my way to Z (do i have any Z?) here's the thing though... a lot of these tracks don't really "stand on their own", a techno track is mostly conceived of as an element in a mix, to be blended in that "non-stop ecstasy throb" that was rightfully jabbed at in an article recently on muddup! so try to imagines these tracks as a temporary layer, slices of rhythmic orientation to be juxtaposed and framed by the dj in the moment...
abe duque - i don't like the rest of this album ("so underground it hurts"), and he was pompous when i met him (saying "it doesn't hurt anymore"), but these two tracks have a nostalgia about them i dig. mind the name dropping in the first one, and i mostly only feel the words in the second...
(mp3)abe duque - "what happened" from "so underground it hurts"
(mp3)abe duque - "acid" from "so underground it hurts"
akufen - was pretty great when i saw him live at fabric. credited with a unique style of "micro-sampling", which seems to bypass copyright laws by only grabbing tiny snips... some of it's a bit smalzy, but it's a great sound.
(mp3) akufen - "severed finger samba" from "montreal smoked meat"
(mp3) akufen - "the dragonfly who thought he was a mockingbird" from "the appleseed ep"
alter ego - i don't know shit about this artist, but this track has a nice "bassline" house sound. it's a lot like what i've heard described as blog-house. it gets annoying after too long, but useful for like a minute and a half of dancefloor slamming...
(mp3) alter ego - "fuckingham palace" - from "why not"
aphex twin - you can't overstate the influence of aphex twin. great jungle, ambient, etc music. i love "on", "windowlicker" (videos) and a ton of his acid work, but these two get me personally with the techno feel.
(mp3) aphex twin - "elephant song" from "analogue bubblebath 4"
(mp3) aphex twin - "breath march" from "analord 4"
ark - this french musician makes minimal, goofy but solid tunes. also some slow, hiphop instrumental bangers... these are the only tunes i would play in a techno/house set...
(mp3) ark - "preacher" -from "caliente"
(mp3) ark - "sweet chat rio" from "alleyuark"
autechre - another highly influential musical force, these folks make a lot of machinic, experimental sound. some great melodies, here and there. a little sparse for most situations, but these two tracks i play a lot... particularly the second, but it's not really "techno"... but what is it?
(mp3) autechre - "djarum" - from the "anti ep"
(mp3) autechre - "iera" - from "untitled"
that does it for A...
anyone you think is missing?
bear in mind i'm going with first names, and if the artist has a ton of aliases (like atom heart) i'm going to use their "real" name (uwe schmidt)...
god, i love techno...
27-year old omar osama bin laden, pictured above with his british-born wife jane felix-brown (now known as zaina alsabah), 52, has been denied british citizenship. it's a shame really, because while he hasn't denounced his father (a serious thing to do, regardless of the circumstances!), he has pledged that he wants to work as a peacekeeper between islam and the west, promoting a horse race across africa for the cause. and he's hot, in a braided hair/leather jacket kind of way... i wish him luck, and the other 600+ members of the bin laden family that aren't of the evil persuasion.
i wish. it ain't over till it's over. but seriously folks. let's look at the facts...
if playing with the delegate calculating thingy over at the new york times doesn't convince you, read this article from way back in march that made a pretty convincing case. even her camp using the "nuclear option" isn't likely to accomplish much, because howard dean will have a say, and he's too smart to let the party get split that way.
everyday you can watch obama close in quicker than clinton on the table at the top of the daily kos, and clinton losing already commited delegates is happening more and more.
add it all up, and i can't wait...
i registered today at marrow.org to become a marrow donator. race is a factor in finding matches, and as i have some unique dna (particularly basque) that might not be in the registry yet, i joined. even if you are a common race, there are still particulars with each individual that might be in demand. it normally costs money, but right now the first 10,000 to sign up it's free, and you just swab your inner cheek at home and send them back the samples. if you are called upon to donate marrow, they just suck it out with a hollow needle under anesthesia.
you could save someone's life, on the real, and how nice would that be?
ecologically devastating or actually beneficial?
anyway, bulk mailer shows you how to use postage paid envelopes to send heavy objects back to the companies that send wasteful junk mail... costs them money, but also costs carbon. i'm intrigued but unsold. the faq (on the same page as the link above) is worth reading, anyway.
anyone have a feeling one way or the other?
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