not all good music should to be an easy experience.

*edit: i changed the above adjective from "pleasant" to "easy". "pleasant" was not close enough to the idea i've been thinking over and now am trying to convey.

lee is somewhat buzzed from redbull & vodkas, so he does not have it in him to make a long, coherent post. he would like to say however that Jimmy Edgar and Jamie Lidell in concert are a fucking pimp combination and one of the most enjoyable shows i've ever been to ( Read more... )

today i had this unexplainable urge to listen to paul oakenfold's "tranceport" mix cd. very strange, because i haven't owned or listened to (or had a desire to listen to) anything by oakenfold in years. and yet... for probably a good year or so, this cd and a few others were a prominent audio backdrop to a very interesting time in my life ( Read more... )

i am of the opinion that Jimi Hendrix's "Voodoo Chile" [NOT "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)", but rather the 15 minute track from the same album, Electric Ladyland] may just be the sexiest song ever recorded ( Read more... )

I'm trying to find some satisfactory combination of words to describe "Drowning in a Sea of Love", Nathan Fake's debut full length album released yesterday on the Border Community label, but I suspect my mission may be doomed even before I start. And it's not because I don't know what to make of the music; it is because there is such a clarity to ( Read more... )

some of the dopest, original hip-hop production i've heard in quite some time...


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i'm listening to a live recording of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother from 1970.

that's one ambitious and impressive piece of music.

my co-worker tells me that i need to see the their Live @ Pompei movie. i can honestly say that as much as i like and respect Pink Floyd, i definitely have not delved deep enough.

just, wow.

ladies and gentlemen ( Read more... )

so i promised you beautiful people some good music.

might as well start this right:

David Holmes : BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix 1997-12-31

Part 1 - Part 2David Holmes is an interesting, interesting man. As both a producer and a DJ he's gone all over the musical map over the years. But This mix... this mix is something special. Voted Mixmag's ( Read more... )

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