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I feel like I should add how stunned I am every time I listen to the set, at the care IM's taken in curating the flow of each disc, and at the editing of the sound, especially considering how disparate the sound sources--

I want everything, in 1981 I got this a few months ago, and still feel like I'm getting to know it. I do agree with Woebot's assessment that the box doesn't quite connect the dots as it might; for me the value of the moment is all about a (likely spurious) analogism between various disparate...

I'm interested in Raad's work. Its important to note that not all of it is faked; indeed lots of the material he presents is research-based, or discovered. The lines are blurred between the fictional, the manipulated, the interpreted, and the found. I found myself deeply into it, but feeling a...

Color Changin’ Click Mu-Shu Academy OG Ron C, Fuck Action 40, for insane scope alone Voicemail on the Wow riddim Mahjongg, Raydoncong Out Hud, Let Us Never Speak Of It Again Vex’d “Gunman EP” Timbaland’s recent mixtape shit: John Doe, “Rollin’” and “You Don’t Believe Me”, Rich Boy, “Get...

This line of thought has its origins in Artforum, where, under the editorship of John Coplans, the magazine swung heavily towards identity politics, and Abstract Expressionism was out of favor. Pollock was not singled out, though; all of Abstract Expressionism was accused of being an ideological...

I can agree with everything that Simon says--"half-written, perfunctory, emotionally numb, and rhythmically on the lifeless side"--and yet still say this: There is something innately modernist and ...here's the word...IRREDUCIBLE about this record. I think it is what it is _because_ it is...

westside <img src="http://musicmedia.ign.com/music/image/westsideconnection_artist160_010904.jpg"> i'm in san francisco, california. grime yes, but dubstep nerp. not for me. my true allegiances lie with e-40 and e-a-ski.

For another odd wrinkle to this whole thing--many scene watchers and City Weekly writers keep a close eye on the British music press before they'll write about bands over here; I can think of several bands that labored in opening slots and small shows here in San Francisco (BRMC, and the Rapture...

Thanks for this, logan. the show's great...

In San Francisco all the Nu-Groove stuff is at collector prices, already. There are too many house heads and collector-geeks, and I'd guess the records didn't make it out here so much back then. But in regard to the records still being cheap, check on Amazon US (I know, I know), last time I...

I adore them, and they're worth seeing, but I don't know how "good" they are--in fact, watching them, we marveled at how crap it all sounded live: such ridiculous, tacky "industrial" drum sounds, and lame versions of old songs. Alan Vega looked for all the world like a homeless person ranting...

A roommate once told me he'd periodically wake to the sound of sniffs, first in one ear, and then the other, getting louder and louder. He'd be unable to move until the sniffs had reached a tremendous volume, then stopped. When I said, incredulously, "Sniffs?," he said, yes, like a large animal...

Amidst the spiralling synth-skid that is Joey Beltram's "The Omen", there's Robert Plant "Eh, Uh, Unh, Uh, UNH! Leehhuhhh!" And then another voice: "Keep this frequency Clear!" I find the whole thing irresistibly carnal, and impervious to "better judgement". As I do with LZ, in general, i...

/I thought Wiley's album was an artistic miscalculation. It's "warmth" feels put-on and unbalances the music, which is driven by its humming alienness, its ska-like weightlessness. Even the best songs on it--"Pies", "Treddin'"--are burdened by Wiley's "seriousness" on the one hand, and his...

Does anyone have a copy of Christian Marclay's "Guitar Drag"? A short version was on the CD included with the book from David Toop's "Sonic Boom" exhibition. I've contacted Paula Cooper Gallery already for the DVD, but need some kind of documentation ASAP. Did anyone see it installed at the...

Big Baby Jesus has passed, suddenly, while in the studio. I don't know why, but this makes me so sad! The guy was 35! I guess I had always pictured him cranky and old, wild-eyed and grey-headed. Like some mythic character out of Zora Neale Hurston. God's got your money, don't you worry JD

dub tar pit No, though I did think the "STD" song you posted was a step up. What did you think of the Milanese? I liked it but didn't enjoy it, if that makes any sense. I LOVED the kode 9/daddy gee "sign of the dub". as a song it simply exists, a "real time status", rather than "going...

"...an immense cortege of undertaker's mutes" Bourgeois music would be something else entirely, would it not? From Baudelaire's "To the Bourgeois": "You are the majority, in number and intelligence; therefore you are the force---which is justice..." Would not bourgeois music then be the iTunes...

Powerpoint, for better or worse, is the new standard in my work (art history + theory), a sea change from the magic-lantern slide projection. The new medium has its merits: it's hard to have a discussion with a whirring, hissing, clacking machine in the center of the table. I wonder how I...

The story, told in Cheo Coker's "Unbelievable", of Puffy piecing together the beats for "Life After Death" with a huge team of producers--was it in Compass Point? or am I misremembering that?--is probably the best indication of his creative process: he's a curator vs. a "lone genius" like, say...