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I think I posted this elsewhere once, but it seems relevant for those in the NDW mood (and it recently got the not of approval from Weltklang, who asked me for a copy): Various - 'How Do You Say "1981" in German?' (1981) [74:59] download here 01- Neonbabies - Profi (1981) (3:51) 02- Absolute...

X-Clef 500 something or other. Real ugly thing, which I personally like as it's meant to function not be a bit of jewelry. Bought it through www.digmind.com, but it seems to be down. I'm not sure they're still making them, but if you want something that over which you have total control (ie...

Goodness does this thread ever confirm every reason I've always disliked the iPod/iTunes. Pushy, buggy, mistrustful, invasive, cryptic, simplistic. . . I got a 100GB player that cost me $300 two years ago, shows up as a hard drive, has a digital line-in record, no DRM/copy protection, lasts...

I very much like the idea of a visceral response to the sound-stage itself (as differenciated from the music). I always wanted to have that feeling with JD, given how many of my music-friends seemed to get it. I'm going to listen again tomorrow, who knows, maybe I'll be ready.

I've had the Warsaw for many years and I give it a go every now and then--can't say it does a lot for me. The BBC recordings reach that fine balance between strength and diffusion; Warsaw is a little brutalist, and it doesn't really sound intentional. Jeez I sound like a snob saying that. I...

I thought it was Mr. Sparhawk who'd had the mental issues (I believe bipolar disorder, addiction to marijuana). But maybe Mr. Sally has, too? At one (or maybe two) points I got the impression Zak had split from the group on reasonably amicable terms--and then rejoined--though I thought he'd...

I'll have to give Hannett his credit on other more innately lively, less po-faced acts like ESG and (post-81) ACR. Hiw sound seems one of the more imitable, though--probably why it's often the defacto mode for "post-punk revivalists".

I think I've reached the point where any desire I had to understand why Joy Division are held in such esteem as a post-punk band--to the level that I think most people who're only slightly familiar with the concept of "post-punk" probably think of Joy Division as the defining band--has...

Hope I'm able to keep up the pace in September.

The Cave (1964-2004) [63:00] download here [00.00 - 03.30] 01 Nina Simone - Black is the Colour of My True Love's Hair (1966) [00.00 - 04.50] 02 Chicago Underground Trio - Teletransportation Unit (1999) [00.00 - 11.30] 03 Terry Riley - Poppy Nogood & the Phantom Band (1968) [00.30 - 20.00]...

'Secret Name' remains my favourite album, partly probably due to nostalgic association, but I really just love how it's recorded. But it does seem that 'Things We Lost' is the concensus pick. It's good and all, but it's actually made probably the least impact on me of any of their records. It...

Have they? That's really great. They've earned it.

They're possibly the only "indie rock band" I follow. It's very rare to see such slow and steady boilers in rock music--and for my money they've been on an almost uninterrupted ascent since about 1997. They paint in subtle tones that I don't really associate with relatively straight-forward...

Haha that's the game, isn't it--we almost have to have criticism which takes Serious Positions Rather Seriously in order to keep the game rolling (esp. re: academia) but in the end, we have to admit that "somewhere in the middle" is the truth. And I'm fine with that, if we admit that the...

Oh, trust me, the apparent disconnect between what I love in architecture/the built environment and what I love in (less "functional" art such as) music is something I'm constantly evaluating. It's not an analogy I like to push very far, because I sincerely believe architecure in an important...

Haha so there is a little room to breath in the teleology ; ) Certainly techniques/technology/styles come around to especial relevance to a "dislocated" time for reasons--at least I hope so, because if culture (even pop-culture) is merely fads, futurism and nostalgia, then I'm ready to check...

If modernism has taught us anything, it's that the beloved future eventually becomes the past, and that we're better served by embracing this fact rather than fighting it as though we'l somehow overcome it. The more obsessed we've become with creating the future, the shoddier a past we seem to...

This would suggest that any response to music "out of its time" could only be based in a) some sort of historical interest in the song-as-artefact; b) whatever qualities it contributed to the "progress" of (popular) music; or in c) nostalgia, that most-despised bane of modernism. I'll concede...

I'm about to use a literary and intellectual device: "you'll be greatly missed".

Maybe so, but the other half of the fun is (for me) watching that baggage disappear with ignorance about particular types of music, such that music becomes music and I can find the virtues in many forms. I'm not a relativist by any means, but I also know that if one form of music "got it right"...