March 2005

March 30, 2005

And a big happy birthday shout-out to my little brother, who is finishing up his graduate work at Oxford and is probably mortified that I’ve mentioned him on this blog. Our tastes in music are pretty dissimilar–he thinks all the music I listen to is “too weird”–but we’ve bonded over a few things, like when [...]

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March 30, 2005

SFJ on the WMC. Magical stuff, but where are the photos of P. Diddy shouting into a megaphone during the Felix set? Inquiring minds need to know! I so wish I had been there.

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March 29, 2005

Critic and comrade J. Edward Keyes has a blog. Go read!

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stern’s.

March 28, 2005

Stern’s, the downtown record store that specializes in African music, is closing down its New York location in a matter of days. Before it closes, I’m going to go there and spend on a big bunch of discounted records. This is what I need from you, dear reader: recommendations on what to buy. Here’s the [...]

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room cleaning.

March 28, 2005

When I go running, I prefer straight-up 4/4 techno and gliding, minimal house–stuff that hovers at around 130 bpm–because it offers a forward-moving propulsion, just the right tempo, and the feeling of sustained euphoria you need to keep you going in a straight line. When I clean my room and rearrange furniture, like I did [...]

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tim hawkinson.

March 28, 2005

Tim Hawkinson, people, Tim Hawkinson. I don’t usually write about visual art on The Original Soundtrack, and I’m not usually juiced up by big art-with-a-capital-A mid-career retrospectives, but go. See. This. Now. It marks the only time in my life that I haven’t felt ripped off for spending twelve bucks for admission to the Whitney [...]

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interlude!

March 28, 2005

I live in a creaky old house in Brooklyn that was built before the Civil War — a real house, with a yard and stuff. Occasionally it yields odd surprises in the flora and fauna department. A few days ago I found a rotund mother bird skilfully assembling twigs into a nest on the windowsill [...]

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because we all need some breakbeats in our lives.

March 25, 2005

check it out! Ripley (San Francisco, Deathsucker Records) DJ C (Boston, Beat Research) Stelfox (London) @ Subtonic! Five bucks! Tonight! Ripley’s one of my all-time-favorite DJs. I’m sad she’s left New York for SF, but come support her in this rare appearance!

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March 24, 2005

Saw the Glimmer Twins (now called the Glimmers, due to legal troubles! I guess the “real” Glimmer Twins got angry) the other night and all I could think was this: APT really needs to crank up their sound system and get rid of the furniture (tables, chairs, bartenders, everything) pronto. Still, I will go back [...]

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raster-noton: the sound of breakfast crunching.

March 24, 2005

That new Alva Noto thing, ‘Transspray’, on Raster-Noton: I’m kind of into it! So stiff it’s funky! According to the Raster-Noton website (which is insanely sparse and austere in a kind of beautiful way, check it out here: it’s the product of “text, image, vector graphic-storage files, [which] were translated into raw audio data as [...]

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