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I don't think there's any music I enjoy of which I'm embarrassed. Which means either I have too much "taste" for my own good, or too little and I don't care. Probably the stupidest music I like is some really not that good 90s indie-pop, ie something like Beulah, the Minders, maybe the first...

Thanks! Mixing "songs"/vocal/pop music in this way means you can't really evenly mesh elements (or not very easily--I think I managed it a few times on the forthcoming b'riddims mix). So I kinda embraced that on this one, and tried to mix it to where you could concentrate on the "ether" of...

Run a search on Soulseek or the like for "1981 box" or something like that. I'm not sharing it, but I've heard other people are. With over 460 artists on the version that'd be floating, a number of them obscure, you'd probably hear quite a few things you'd enjoy. I'm not familiar with Ariel...

The extremely feminine way in which he's singing on this new single seems to indicate any pretense at "street and hard" is fading quickly.

I've always been a bit paranoid about that--seems like if you screw up the USB port, it's junk (unless you can fish out the drive into some other player that takes 2.5" HDDs, and maybe even then you're screwed.) I like mine so much I almost bought a "spare" empty player, just in case. There...

What would be much cooler is if you could enter a list of songs/artists as apparently disperate as you liked, and let it find things that ran the gamut of commonalities between them. Or to take a survey that asks hundreds of questions about instruments, styles, keys, etc--whatever they use as...

At the least, I have learned that I am apparently a big fan of "extensive vamping," which means I didn't really know what vamping meant. I thought it was something Yngwie Malmsteen did expertly. : p

I can't really answer this--I mean, they do just write about other people's records.

Ostensibly, they're not actually looking to convey particular 'styles', but rather sonic commonalities from amongst potentially disparate "styles". I guess I may be projecting my interest in this sort of thing onto them--but I rarely like to mix or listen from within "a" style. In terms of...

You are playing to character, right? Mr. Rocky "Buick" McRockonlyson?

I heard it before I was aware of what sort of following it would attract, and I wasn't moved or impressed. It had an innate. . . safety to it that made it very snoozable. In fact, all I know about its most vociferous audience is that it seems to be "the" "electronic"/sample/DJ album proponed...

It would be neat to have more conscious/intentional connections and correlations involved--but I think it's a somewhat interesting idea that they ignore "what genre they supposedly belong to, or about who buys their records" and instead attempt to focus on "what each individual song sounds like...

Several hours in, definitely does favour new releases, but frankly, it's getting me to hear some young kids I'd probably write off normally, none of it amazing, but some of it not too bad really.

Definitely could do with a more nuanced response format than "thumbs up/thumbs down," if they're really interested in advancing their project/marketeering. I may like something, but not because it's actually connected. I'd also like to be able to atomically blast to hell the occasionally...

Frankly, it may have been the search I ran, but on first run. . . I'm impressed, and a little spooked. I searched for "This Heat," as a test. It apparently latched onto the "24 Track Loop" This Heat (actually, "Repeat," the extended mix) which is ok, as I like that permutation just fine. I...

DJ Shadow has always sounded ready-made for hip Ikea adverts, to my ears. Anything that would change my mind on this new thing? (disclosure: the only thing I've heard was Endtroducing but it sounded like the utter indiefication and deflation of everything normally engaging about...

That's ACR, is it not? ; )

Well argued, Gabba. However, I would take issue with one of your argument's underlying assertions: that the majority of non-JD post-punk saw experimentation as the end, rather than a means to an end. Accrediting JD with some sort of visceral gravity around which other artists merely orbited...

Hope so. The one on the Blogarridims is tighter.

Hahaha that's one of the inherent contradictions of so-called "popism", right? That it's ostensibly battling dinosaur rock-snobbery toward the music of the masses, fighting the good fight for gloriously "inauthentic" musical forms; except for it has its own aesthetic "snobbery" (even if defined...