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Yeah, I agree that it is too similar, but I always liked Loop, so I'm willing to give it a pass. Slightly OT, Th' Faith Healers did an incredible cover of Mother Sky on, I think, their first album. I need to dig it out but I recall that it was really reductive and managed to fit into the...

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I really love this series. I think it's an excellent idea and has been executed extremely well. I've read "Unknown Pleasures," "Forever Changes," and "Murmur." The last is definitely my favorite in that it seems to be a more personal response to the album while at the same time exploring the...

Sorry, that was in reference to this thread: http://www.dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=3916 I like Sunn O))) quite a bit. I think that they've taken the groundwork of metal riffage, Earth, Spacemen 3 and Tony Conrad and forged something totally unique and interesting from it. I got a...

Perhaps there's a DJ Spooky remix on the way?

Totally true. What could better describe the feeling-state than "Night Drive" by Model 500 but in the more refined and concentrated dosage? Also, I've been listening to the Louderbach album by Troy Pierce and it fits it perfectly. http://www.discogs.com/release/635062

I know exactly the mood of which you speak. This music works really well in Chicago, driving on the expressway at night, listening to a couple of stations that seem to play this sort of music exclusively at that hour (V103 FM comes to mind). I think there's something about the early 80s DX7 +...

This list is so beyond idiotic that it almost isn't even worth discussing. This article is fueled by the undaunted ignorance caused by the right's on-going effort to underfund the public schools and promote home-schooling and christian education; it could also be endemic stupidity for which we...

Oh, good god. I've seen both these artists live and enjoyed them, but "extreme minimalism"? Why is it that curators and academics have to market any sort of non-canonical project (in the museum sense) like this as though it is some sort of, in the parlance, liminal experience? It's just so...

EMusic has it. I'm not pimping their site or anything, but they do have that nice 50 tracks for free promotion...

Bach is a really great place to start. I'm very fond of the keyboard music myself, esp. the French Suites and the Goldberg Variations. I personally think that keyboard works are a much easier classical music gateway than larger scale pieces because they tend to be smaller in ambition and thus...

Amen. For someone who spends a lot of energy waxing about theory/practice, the irony is his total disconnect between the two. However, curators seem to heart him big time. What does that say? :p

Yeah, the first one is pretty incredible, esp. the long track, "Animal or Vegetable?" Sorta manages to extract the drugged-out krautrock vibe that Stereolab's minimalism was only cruising over the surface of at the time. I recall reading in the Wire ages ago that they asked Stapleton to do it...

Basic Channel was the name of the label and the name of the artist on two eps on the label. All of the artists on the label, Cyrus, Phylyps, etc. (with the exception of Vainqeuer) are all the same producers: Mark Ernestus and Moritz Von Oswald. The whole discographic...

Many of the Wackies records are really excellent. My favorite though is Horace Andy's "Dance Hall Style." Really incredible.

I managed to pick up the first two Pylon records on the 'bay for really cheap and have been enjoying them both immensely (although "Gyrate" is superior). Of course, the first two 12"s are even better especially the incredibly rocking tracks "Cool" and "Dub." I've been on the Thomas Leer tip...

Oh, I was just going to post this! This is such a classic moment in American television.

Very nice! The vintage video effects are really wonderful. I'm still hoping that someone will sooner or later post the "Truckstop Gondelero" performance of Kraftwerk with Ralf, Florian, Michael Rother and Klaus Dinger...

Boondocks the TV series is sadly hit-or-miss. Some of the episodes (R.Kelly, for example) have been really sharp. Others, less so. Part of the problem is likely the switch for MacGruder away from the comic strip format where he can respond to current events currently. It's just not possible...

Wow. That article has a lot of useful information. I saw the exhibit when it was here in Chicago and it was disappointing. It was nice to finally see the installation "Tropicália" which is actually very nice, but the rest of the show seemed to have a lot middling work and felt like it was...