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too...hot..to...function...properly...
actually, I revise my statement: Yesterday it was too hot to function properly - today we remembered that the windows in our office can actually be opened, so it was a much more pleasant temperature with a nice breeze coming in. I have realised that of late all I seem to talk about on here is what records I've bought recently; this post is no different but I will be considerate and put it under a cut for those (most people, I'd imagine) who really couldn't give a toss about what I've been listening to over the weekend.
I was very impressed by a record I got recently by a guy named Dino Felipe; crunchy, organic-sounding electronica. It is very fun music too, which is kind of unusual for glitchy IDM which mostly tends towards the somewhat cerebral. I guess the best comparisons would be Kid 606 or Cex, but I like what I've heard of Dino much more than either of those two. I've also been enjoying greatly the last CocoRosie album, Noah's Ark. Beautiful, melodramatic (in a cabaret style), and idiosyncratic music. The compositions are fragile and dreamlike, mainly piano and harp with occasional acoutic guitar, and remarkable vocals that sound like they come from another era altogether. The same could be said for The Olivia Tremor Control, Black Foliage is a 60s pyschedelic pop masterpiece, recorded in 1999. Think The Notorious Byrd Brothers or Smile for reference points, brilliant songs with brillaintly original arrangements, which throw in everything but the kitchen sink instrument-wise. There are gorgeous vocal harmonies, melodic themes reccur throughout the album, and it has a 12 minute musique-concrete centrepiece - basically it is fucking fantastic.
We have a very adventurous mouse living under our sofa - mostly the mice in our flat scamper away as quick as a flash when you come into a room, but this one doesn't seem to care, it just stands in the middle of the room and looks at you. It was smart enough to know to dart for cover when Duncan threw the TV remote at it, but this mouse has some serious balls.
actually, I revise my statement: Yesterday it was too hot to function properly - today we remembered that the windows in our office can actually be opened, so it was a much more pleasant temperature with a nice breeze coming in. I have realised that of late all I seem to talk about on here is what records I've bought recently; this post is no different but I will be considerate and put it under a cut for those (most people, I'd imagine) who really couldn't give a toss about what I've been listening to over the weekend.
I was very impressed by a record I got recently by a guy named Dino Felipe; crunchy, organic-sounding electronica. It is very fun music too, which is kind of unusual for glitchy IDM which mostly tends towards the somewhat cerebral. I guess the best comparisons would be Kid 606 or Cex, but I like what I've heard of Dino much more than either of those two. I've also been enjoying greatly the last CocoRosie album, Noah's Ark. Beautiful, melodramatic (in a cabaret style), and idiosyncratic music. The compositions are fragile and dreamlike, mainly piano and harp with occasional acoutic guitar, and remarkable vocals that sound like they come from another era altogether. The same could be said for The Olivia Tremor Control, Black Foliage is a 60s pyschedelic pop masterpiece, recorded in 1999. Think The Notorious Byrd Brothers or Smile for reference points, brilliant songs with brillaintly original arrangements, which throw in everything but the kitchen sink instrument-wise. There are gorgeous vocal harmonies, melodic themes reccur throughout the album, and it has a 12 minute musique-concrete centrepiece - basically it is fucking fantastic.
We have a very adventurous mouse living under our sofa - mostly the mice in our flat scamper away as quick as a flash when you come into a room, but this one doesn't seem to care, it just stands in the middle of the room and looks at you. It was smart enough to know to dart for cover when Duncan threw the TV remote at it, but this mouse has some serious balls.