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I first heard gamelan music in a class called, rather portentiously, "Orientalism and Primitivism in Western Music". Love love loved it at first hearing, but then never really explored it. Thanks for the link, Zhao.

I definitely wouldn't go quite that far. I think there are some recent people who have mined some of this affective "reduction of indie to the limit" more effectively, maybe someone like LCD Soundsystem or something, although really that was more to do with affect than the actual music, which is...

That makes sense of course, but doesn't really make me want to listen to it, if you know what I mean...

just listened - doesn't do it for me at all. it all sounds so... flat.

yeah, me too. One of my favourite albums of the last few years for sure. As for the new EP, unfocussed for sure, but there are some moments I really like. I like how the first few seconds almost sound like Reich-ian minimalism, then you get all these "middle eastern" pop strings in, etc. but...

re: Dopplereffekt

lovely cans. (that sounded dirtier than I had intended)

it doesn't help that the vocal isn't a million miles away from KB's.

true dat. ipods are pretty much useless for most dubstep, except for something like burial, which is more metadubstep than anything really.

bizarre coincidence... not 10 minutes after I read this, my brother plays me a clip of this on his computer. as for the song itself, the original's synths are so burned into my head that the cover seems... well... a little superfluous.

indeed it did. downloading now...

so true. I just fished out my "Rip it Up and Start Again" to see what blissbloggah had written about it: just about right.

this is what kills me.

I could listen to poptones over and over and over...

wow, this reminds me so much of my radiohead-obsessed youth (no offense, of course). on the rh forum I frequented, people were always wracked about whether they should download the (less than full quality) leak or wait for the real thing so as not to ruin it.

the last laptop performance I saw was a performance with Marc Leclair aka Akufen doing his thing (hitting play?) to a film called 5mm which just seemed like particularly well-done visualisation of the music. Everyone was seated as in a theatre, and it didn't really work. The guy who'd played...

so funny! I bought one of the clouddead albums (maybe on recommendation from the wire? can you believe they had them on the cover with the headline "Hip Hop's Silver Lining"?? What's with that?), and kept trying to like it, maybe once every couple of months. I even remember trying to convince...

I'll check this out Zhao. Recently, I saw a live hour-long improvisation between Pauline Oliveros and a local (Toronto) cellist, Anne Bourne, who also sang. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to sit through an hour of the stuff, but it was mesmerizing. I know it probably has little to do with...

killjoy.

(no big surprise, but) not particularly impressed with the music or the sound...