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Definitely dig Johnny Dowd, at least the first couple records and live. He's got his act down pat, with the cig hanging precariously from his lips half the time. Plus I loved how his drummer handled the basslines, too, with some sort of foot-keyboard.

Daaaamn. The expositional notes (with effing audio examples!) alone are getting me excited for that one!

Probably not a very Dissensian mix, tailored to the tastes of more mainstream-listening friends of mine (to whom the little blurb was directed). But, I've upped a Sendspace link, so it might as well get used. . . Various - 'Electromance' (1969-2006) [77:10] download at this page 01. Silver...

I'm still wishing for somebody in mainstream hip-hop to interpolate gamalan/jaipong/kacek, maybe over Jaki Liebezeit beats, with music concrete or Eno-ambient textures surrounding the core. But that hardly a scene makes. I'd like to see more people combining the synthetic and the organic in...

I thought you were quitting this place?

This may be beyond the Dissensian pale, but here's a simple little comp (unmixed) dashed together for a new lady-friend in about half an hour. Some real hair-on-end moments in there, for me. Download: http://www.sendspace.com/file/d3mybx 01. Alan Sparhawk - 1.45 (2006) (1:43) 02. Jamie...

Cool, I'll keep my eyes open for it. Souljazz I assume?

Can't wait to hear #7, definitely one of the most-anticipated, personally.

I hadn't heard all of this, very good stuff indeed. There's something very un-rock about it's brand of the darker-side-of-post-punk that others (ie Joy Division) treaded but not as well. I think I would've been in heaven in New York when No Wave was dying and the weirder stuff (Liquid Liquid...

Thanks! There was definitely more effort put into mixing, editing, overlapping/texturematching, etc. on this one than 'Adrift' or 'Gloaming'. Pushing the idea a little further.

Thanks so much, Bass and Bruno. Maybe if Droid'll have us for a second go-round, and I can get it together, I'll try another in this vein. But I'm feeling a sunny, cheery, light-hearted affair coming up before then : )

Thanks Matt, Eden, Bass. I hope it held through past twenty minutes (and I'll take scaring off students as bonus). As for my record collection, it's really nothing unique. I've never specialised much, so it's pretty much what you'd expect a 26 year old with a dozen years of record collecting...

Mine should be up later today, unless Droid's unable (it's guest-blogged on weareie.com). Fingers crossed.

It's a valid desire to try to be forward-thinking. But the idea that this inherently means being anti-traditional seems to me to limit a creative endeavour to faddishness and caprice. It's the irony of orthodox modernism--you're destined to keep repeating essentially the same thing, without...

Can we just ban the ability to sustain a note on a guitar longer than a split second? I still like them sometimes, as a percussive element. It's just the "lead" shit that's long past it's expiry.

Which Ism's' trope is using "maaaan" as a pejorative?

Mine (up 11th of September) falls somewhere between the ambience of Droid+Slugs and the beat-orientation of Bassnation's. I just hope you lot don't think it sucks : )

No Doubt and other Nth-Wave "ska/ska-punk" bands kept me from discovering that actual (1st/2nd-wave) ska was fantastic, for a number of years. I hated them so, so much as a teenager.

heh. What about "combos"? "Groups"? "Collectives"?

I probably don't avoid stuff with guitars as much as most people at Dissensus, having been a bit too young to have been into the late 80s/early 90s dance/rave continuum (I'm currently 26). Most "embarrassing" period of intensely liking something, in retrospect, was my flirtation with the band...