"RANDOM STUFF GAA IS LISTENING TO AND THE THOUGHTS... SO MANY THOUGHTS"
——man, i love sharing music. one of my favorite questions to ask random people is, "don't think about it, just say what's in your heart: what's your favorite song RIGHT NOW?" the most unassuming, maybe kind of plain folks will just bust out depeche mode or the temptations and all i can think of is how wonderful everything is. sometimes they say the eagles or something, and that's okay too BUT the real payoff is when i ask and they say something i've never even heard of before. very classic question, highly recommended.
——remember those plastic cd trays from the 90s that had that little clippy door thing and the cover art opened kind of like a gatefold? i have no idea what they were called, but they mostly got used for singles. a friend recently sent some old brandy remixes and the mp3s were tagged with this cover art:https://i.imgur.com/s1AGSgI.jpgOMG YA'LL I'M TURNING INTO A BOOMER BECAUSE I SAW THAT AND GEEKED OUT! bring that schitt to the official artwork on streaming platforms! those cases were so easily damaged but they made so much sense; way better than those chintzy other ones that were just a plastic tray that you slid in and out a thin-ass cardboard sleeve (sry couldn't find any photos, but jeez they were crap. is chintzy an offensive word? i don't mean it in that way, if so. those cases were just total crap).
[tangent: did brandy invent the "bae" thing? y'know "BAE-yay-yay-yay" and so on]
——twee fans are dumb. i should know: i am one. we can't agree on anything but are probably too timid to hash anything out. we all end up either hypocrites or quitters, or both. case in point: mates of state suck, but they have some really good songs. i've yet to hear an entire album and i love this song, even if it's about a fucking modest mouse thing:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fnf8_qsPbsmates of state — "think long" (2006)really good harmonies! and that coda that's straight out of the theater kid scene. damn cheesy, but get on or get out, friends.
——dude, how did i never notice khujo from goodie mob was just babbling random incoherent metaphysical bullshit most of the time? he's really good on outkast's "mainstream" and that song is an alltimer, but as the group continued on, it became harder and harder to understand wtf he was trying to say. i mean, i love him but dude... uhm, wtf u tawnbout bro? lol he doesn't even rhyme most of the time!
——one of the alltime most poignant show memories i have is of kim gordon. it was the rather ripped tour and she was, of course, immaculately dressed in a white sheath and blue heels. there was a lull between songs as she was setting her bass down. her and thurston exchanged an intense glance that seemed to last for about five fucking minutes and she finally approached the mic. "THIS SONG IS CALLED JAMS RUN FREE." then the lights went out and about two minutes later during the noise portion, she was flailing around in a strobe light. i was sat back a bit from the pit and all i could think about was how much i wanted to be her in that moment. absolute queen. anyway, "jams run free" is mislabeled on spotify as "jams runs free." and there's two versions of rather ripped on there and both have the mistake. fuckin` hell.
——lastly (for now) i'm looking for happy songs. here's a youtube playlist of stuff that fits the mode (i recommend shuffle). i'm needing more classic r+b and more 90s rock. anything and everything is eligible, just has to give you that major key feeling. also, i'm kinda trying to avoid assholes, so even though i was really tempted to put some smiths/moz stuff on there, alas no. oh, sigh. do you have any suggestions? i would very much like to hear them.
we'll try to keep things brief and light in here. sometimes i just have to be out with the chicanery in my brain and this feels like a comfy space. what's your favorite song RIGHT NOW?
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Monday, 11 December 2023 04:23 (one year ago) link
RIGHT NOW it is Beep by Pylon. All we have is 4 minutes…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8e-vw4G7_c
― that's not my post, Monday, 11 December 2023 06:07 (one year ago) link
this is a wonderful thread
right now i can't get enough of this incredible album by pom poko. that guitar! those vocals! that clean, warm, sparkling production!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF1v01JEKS0
― tremolo, Monday, 11 December 2023 07:37 (one year ago) link
dude i checked out a good chunk of that pom poko schitt-- wild, but very NOT BAD! thank you for the word.
anyway, my name is dee jaye l.i.f.e. of the lengendary sign language crew and my favorite song right now is "det läcker" by swedish indie soul heroes dina ögon-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-4I7MqD_S4-and, you guys, i have to send this one out with my highest recommendation because holy hot pink pigshit. fucken a, just press play.
[ED NOTE: we appreciate your patience and grace, as dina ögon is an ilm discovery. this newest jam is indeed quite remarkable. thanks again, friends. see you when i see you.]
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 02:24 (one year ago) link
coda xpost 2 post-pylon roolz, obvs. if someone said pylon to that question irl, i might ask them for a hug.
. . .oh who am i kidding, no i wouldn't. but i'd have a damn deeo think about it, tell you what.
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Tuesday, 9 January 2024 02:33 (one year ago) link
hi again. dj life back at your service with another jam highly approved for all audiences+one of my favorite songs from 2023 that i didn't hear until 2024-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crdAudZOnbYmiddle kids - "dramamine" (2023)
and do be advised, if you are susceptible to excessive sweets, you have no chance in the battle against this chorus, friend. relent. acquiesce. get in loser, we're going singing along at the top of our lungs. does that sound okay to you?
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Thursday, 18 January 2024 22:09 (one year ago) link
andy describes "det läcker"-
the best soft rock disco ballad in a while
and "dramamine"-
how could anyone take such amazing sounds the wrong way?
also on why everyone should listen to music as loud as possible as much as possible-
it washes the germs out of your brain
considering a name change: dj henry jams wdyt?
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Thursday, 18 January 2024 22:24 (one year ago) link
My all time favorite happy song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYwndYSA6-U
― octobeard, Thursday, 18 January 2024 22:25 (one year ago) link
yes octo, just took the chance to vote blazing arrow in michael b's 2002 poll. that's a great one fir the playlist as well, ty.
i want to ask a general question to all--what do you think of this song?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BvRgwUisSgmaggie rogers - 'alaska' (2017)
(if i'm posting here, it's implied that i like it, which i do. did a search + came up with a few brief mentions of her. wondering what any hindsight thoughts are, if any.)
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Thursday, 25 January 2024 00:04 (one year ago) link
the first three issues of dj life's hiphop ephemera are now out-issue no.1: rass kass+coolioissue no.2: the electric circus vinylissue no.3: 'the truth'
short unscripted memories on the footnotes of hiphop.
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Sunday, 18 February 2024 08:29 (one year ago) link
season two... er, i mean the next issues or hiphop ephemera are out now-
issue no.4: t-loveissue no.5: women in hiphop special issue (take 3, everything is scripted)issue no.5: liner notes
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Monday, 19 February 2024 03:38 (one year ago) link
the calm before the storm: preliminary thoughts on the functionality of mixtapes and the dj as artist.
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Tuesday, 20 February 2024 16:18 (one year ago) link
****SHAMELESS PLUG****
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Thursday, 22 February 2024 00:20 (eleven months ago) link
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
what is astralpop?it's environmental music made by a person who's probably been smoking too long. and, not to be, like, snobby or weird or anything -quite the opposite, in fact, it's a rather friendly gesture- but if you know what i mean by “environmental music”, that person probably likes a lot of the same music as you. you may understand the vibe is what i'm sayin’.
yes, but what IS astralpop?well, idk. depends on who you ask.
it could be transmissions from a nomadic interstellar entity that lives in the tidepools of this cavern we call “THE UNIVERSE.” +who may have played -+continue to play- a major role in the creation of earth+other worlds like it …
… or it could be the grooviest music at the 99¢ store?
uhm, but what's “astralpop”?i'm sorry to be rude+answer your question with a question, but do you remember that one REALLY BAD nightmare from your childhood? if not, nbd (but tbh idk if this'll make any sense, thx for listening anyway). if yes, i'm sorry you had to go through that. +i'm terrible but i have to ask: would you like to polish up that memory+possibly reclassify it as a happy, nice thing? the image is burned into your mind forever -+is subsequently unforgettable- but what if the soundtrack kicks ass? to put it more plainly: would you like to have _nostalgia_ for nightmares?
okay, but what's “ASTRALPOP”? it's the cheesy song by the washed up band that plays an overbearing pop song during the end credits of your favorite terrible children's movie.
it's your favorite song of all time being ruined by inner-groove distortion. +that album has never been reissued, friend.
it's the demo tape of complete asshole joke songs you+your homies made in college. not REALLY meant for anyone else's ears.
it's the ignorable rush hour dj mix playing on your car's fm dial during the drive home from another long day at work.
+it's, like, novelty vaudeville public domain music. i mean yeah, you COULD try to resell it or something, but why? it's free. anybody can have it. it doesn't really go anywhere because all it's supposed to be is your companion while yer doin’ yr stuff.
oh btw, that person i was talking about earlier goes by the username austinato. if you want to hear what astralpop sounds like, please follow the directions found in this youtube playlist. headphone listening is recommended, though not required; sometimes it sounds legitimately better on shitty speakers.
are YOU austinato?not it!
― she fell asleep with her hand around my throat (Austin), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 04:16 (eleven months ago) link
[ED NOTE: you forgot the © in the "ASTRALPOP" variant. good thing we didn't immediately release anything.]
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 6 March 2024 09:01 (eleven months ago) link
music discussion etiquette question time!
so if i say to folks on here -or places with a similar vibe- "ya, it has an afrobeat kind of feel" you guys all know what i mean. in other (most) situations, i'll be talking to someone who i know has absolutely no idea about "AFROBEAT MUSIC" and i'm hesitant to even use the word because i don't want to sound condescending or snobby. most times, if something like that even comes up, i'll just say something like "oh yeah, kind of sounds like some nigerian music i've heard."
which is the better way to handle it when your end objective is to share music appreciation? go full music nerd + possibly intimidate or play coy?
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 19:46 (eleven months ago) link
i'd like to take a moment + appreciate amel larrieux, while introducing you all to the idea of "clark kenting."
first things first: amel larrieux is exemplary. even i'm guilty of partially writing her solo stuff off initially as "too mor." have you revisited ice cream everyday lately? the inward looking good vibes in that music are so numerous + thorough, i simply don't have the language. is "i do take" corny? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsTY66ofsUamel larrieux - "i do take" (2013)
the production + themes explored are layered af. she's silly + playful one second, profound + life affirming the next. it's arty + weird, childlike + snappy. deep emotions crash straight into pure jubilation. the blend of "weird" production choices + introspection via pop song makes me think of this as kind of a distant modern r+b relative of hounds of love.
the single was "afraid" + it's a hard one to resist. super dreamy beat + extra cirricular fun with the little pause in the chorus. (shoutout to "want you to press against me like if you don't you'll die". okay just don't tell clark kent, right? sry, gettin ahead of m'self!)
the album is maybe overlong, but i can't be too upset by now, as it's been not a lot of activity ever since. her catalogue is solid af + ice cream everyday is the so-far grand finale.
+even superman has to put the cape away sometimes. i've had this jokey idea since i was in my late teens about musicians who are clearly superheroes, but some struggle with keeping their hero identity covert. i call this act of keeping things secret "clark kenting." +like in the superman stories, sometimes he's so good at fooling everyone + other times, it's just ridiculous to believe that he isn't found out.
i look at photos of people like andre3000 from outkast, even back in like 95, +he was, uhh... not very good at clark kenting. +he just got worse as the 90s went on. he's still trying, but he has an electronic flute now + well... (sigh) we know, bro. it's okay.
anyway, one of the greatest clark kenters oat is amel larrieux. i mean, superhero status never in question -just listen to "tell me" to be reminded of her vocal prowess- but what an absolute master of fooling everyone into believing she's "just a pop singer."
https://hellobeautiful.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/50/2015/07/14364588973827-e1436458790667.jpg?quality=85&strip=all&w=1680&h=960&crop=1&resize=1680%2C960lol rrrriiight
♡amel♡
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 22 March 2024 21:55 (ten months ago) link
[ED. NOTE: there's a song on the album called "trapped being human." uhh, not clark kenting so well in that instance.]
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 22 March 2024 22:06 (ten months ago) link
I GET PREGNANT WHEN I SEE YOU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtg6KzRmGpE
bonnie banane - "muscles" (2012)
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 31 March 2024 21:48 (ten months ago) link
dear friends,
fuck you. call me names. tell me i don't know anything. i don't care. i want to make music that swirls like this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPDl62vDxOYtesia - "overflow" (2021)
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:54 (ten months ago) link
if you're ever in need of a good time, go on your favorite massive social media platform, find a topic where a subject you love is being discussed and respond to the oldest comment you can find. bonus game: you can only respond to comments that are at least five years old. tell these anonyfriends from the past how much you also love "sir duke" by stevie wonder in youtube comments! thank your friends for being here! it's fun - and what if they see it someday!! it's a digital message in a bottle!
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 18 April 2024 17:59 (ten months ago) link
hi,
idk who's reading this but if you're not me and you are, stop everything and go listen to the band soft location. they have three albums, but they're all really short. i like fools the most and again, if you're reading this, you probably will too.
what do they sound like? idk, they have a woman singer and it's really dreamy soft rock i guess? my main thing is: try picking a highlight from any of their albums. you can't do it - the albums are too consistent!
anyway, VERY highly recommended. wow!
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 21 April 2024 15:42 (ten months ago) link
soft location is good. thank you
― budo jeru, Sunday, 21 April 2024 15:49 (ten months ago) link
for bringing them to my attention
hi bj,aren't they great!? have you ever noticed that "lofi hiphop" isn't actually very low in its fidelity?
thanks for stopping by!
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 21 April 2024 16:26 (ten months ago) link
hello to my friends enjoying the nine inch nails poll! i'm sorry to say that's a band i've yet to truly connect with. but i am lurking on the thread! i was reading and skimming some nin stuff, but well, dissociative disorder, so here's a dreamy dub reggae cover of "hand that feeds" by bay area indie rockers abracadabra-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs3ZPRSY5Y4
it's neat!
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Wednesday, 24 April 2024 18:45 (nine months ago) link
a thought occurs:growing up, going to the school dances/assembly/extracurricular parasocial gatherings, i always wanted to hang outside because that's where the music sounds best coming through a PA. that's where you get the best echoes and natural delay (which is made extra super fun when most of the music being played over said soundsystem is late 80s/early 90s pop music with big gated snare drums). i was having so much over there by myself because the music sounded fucking awesome. and like, not 2 b rude, but i can hang with you guys anytime. i can't hear "escapade" like this just whenever i want.
so anyway, the thought:this may? have contributed to people thinking of me as antisocial.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Monday, 29 April 2024 17:54 (nine months ago) link
[ED. NOTE: this translates to the music they make, too-- reverb+delay don't do most of the work, they do all of it. never felt so complimented as when i was told my music sounded like it was recorded underwater. like ally sheedy at the end of breakfast club, i felt so pretty+noticed.]
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Monday, 29 April 2024 18:10 (nine months ago) link
this post was inspired by clemenza's recent shoutout to nana mouskouri. thank you for posting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Uu3Gekws6golgamaria touzet guillot - "ámame" (1981)
the female pop crooners of my generation were folks like juice newton, linda ronstadt (sp?), etc. meh from me mostly. as ever, i've been set on researching what was happening elsewhere and that's brought me to some early 80s latin soft rock. olga is fairly in charge on this one and it feels like it may just sit in with some open-minded lovers rock sets. really good jam. this one's a hit, boys.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 2 May 2024 07:12 (nine months ago) link
(awkwardly and delicately walks into thread)
Um. Hi.
(looks back and forth nervously)
Jangly Japanese girl groups are awesome.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8uJbqCwFeISaToA - "bitter coffee" (2018)
So are Russian shoegaze bands.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jEBwl-8nJuAСияние - "Во сне" (2020)
Thank you for listening.💙
(continues looking around while walking away with even more apprehension)
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 5 May 2024 00:33 (nine months ago) link
Thumbs up emoji
― calstars, Sunday, 5 May 2024 00:54 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CsfeRbEm7cjune mcdoom - "babe you light me up" (2022)
i like this so much that i don't even want to talk about it.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Monday, 13 May 2024 03:11 (nine months ago) link
instead i'll ask a question to you: what does "babe you light me up" by june mcdoom sound like to ya'll?
i have an answer but i really don't wanna talk about it.
(the june mcdoom ep is def recommended btw)
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Monday, 13 May 2024 03:13 (nine months ago) link
have really appreciated this thread today Austin, long may it continue
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 23 May 2024 12:31 (eight months ago) link
^
― calstars, Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:27 (eight months ago) link
hi! thank YOU! :D
still stuck on june mcdoom over here. https://media.bylinebyline.com/JM_horizontal_0c2336b3ae.jpgi've never seen any actual evidence of her having one, but her cape is definitely green btw.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 23 May 2024 14:57 (eight months ago) link
btw if anyone wants to follow along+hear some of the stuff talked about here+other tangents upon tangents, i keep a playlist on spotify called redundant chicanery: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0IPabgAjcOalDzsYVYKVGB?si=bpoEMqAcScqoPdQ6Cl49Fg&pi=eDJvYVb3Q2qTZ
i just treat it like my personal radio station and it's got some context/guidelines for not me listeners:-shuffle only. yer gonna have a bad time otherwise. optional, but i recommend also toggling the repeat all to on to completely dip yrslf into the batter for deep frying.-it changes all the time every day.-on that note, some songs stick around for years, others for a matter of hours.-it's over 30 hrs presently, but has been as short as 5 hours. -i'm a nerd so there are a good chunk of offline things. if you're so compelled, i think most of the "greyed out for not me listeners" selections are available on youtube.
it's really just meant to confuse the listener with similar sounds from mildly disparate sources. very ilm-friendly.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 24 May 2024 03:29 (eight months ago) link
search: carrot top records. nothin else, really. just checking out what's available and it ranges from the coctails and archer prewitt's stuff through poi dog pondering side projects and on to americanaish indie folk rocky stuff like this-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rctc_LzxDdkfebruary - "trace" (1997)
v cool.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Friday, 24 May 2024 22:30 (eight months ago) link
subbed
― calstars, Friday, 24 May 2024 22:36 (eight months ago) link
saturday night smokefest brought about this passionate exclamation from our host:
i just don't understand how you can take yourself seriously as a music fan if you're not interested in new sounds.
in terms of enthusiasm, it certainly beats this one from yesteryear-https://i.imgur.com/TEuVBr0.jpeg
photo by ted dugan.
that's an actual quote btw. i specificallyrequested comic sans, too.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Saturday, 1 June 2024 06:59 (eight months ago) link
https://mrbongo.bandcamp.com/album/hidden-waters-strange-and-sublime-sounds-of-rio-de-janeiro
The popularity of Brazilian music from the 60s, 70s and 80s has experienced quite the renaissance; artists such as Gal Costa, Gilberto Gil, Arthur Verocai, Joyce et al, have become household names to an international audience passionate about global sounds. However, even for die-hard fans and collectors of Brazilian music of the past, discovering contemporary Brazilian artists is not always easy, nor accessible. But, if you know where to look, you will see that there is a resurgence well underway that can be epitomised by an exciting new wave of Brazilian artists beginning to break through and gather momentum overseas. It’s with thanks to Sound and Colours, a website devoted to promoting Latin American music and culture, that we can help shine a light on one particular collective, bursting with creativity and camaraderie.‘Hidden Waters: Strange and Sublime Sounds of Rio de Janeiro’ is compiled by Joe Osborne (founder of specialist Brazilian music platform Brazilian Wax) and Russ Slater (editor at large of Sounds and Colours). Focusing solely on the 'Rio Scene', rather than taking on the mammoth task of tackling Brazil as a whole, this collection presents 20-plus ground-breaking artists selected from Rio’s resurgent music scene. By presenting a snapshot into the pulse of the city and the vibrant musicians that live in it, ‘Hidden Waters’ collates tracks from a wide spectrum of musical genres from the avant-garde edge to bossa nova, samba, Candomblé, lo-fi rock, jazz and funk.‘Hidden Waters’ showcases musicians such as iconic Rio mainstays Negro Leo & Ava Rocha, Brazilian jazz upstart Antônio Neves, critically lauded Avant-pop trailblazer Thiago Nassif, breakthrough artists Ana Frango Elétrico and Letrux, lo-fi psych rocker Lê Almeida, plus the Latin Grammy-winning Bala Desejo who are set to explode onto the world stage.The music featured on ‘Hidden Waters’ is unequivocally Brazilian, swelling with samba, bossa nova, funk, and jazz. But it’s within the album's blend; from sunny psychedelia to dusky synth-pop via experimental electronics, that marks the compilation as the sound of modern, multicultural Rio. Fans of Brazil’s fertile 60s and 70s will spot the antecedents in Tropicália. Not only in the experimentation but also through the similar political context: back in the late 60s there was Brazil’s military dictatorship, and up until the end of 2022 it was Bolsonaro’s censorious premiership. Here are a group of musicians writing and reflecting on another colourful chapter within Brazil’s musical history.This comprehensive compilation comes with album artwork designed by Rio music’s leading album artwork designer, Caio Paiva. It features essays by professor and music critic Bernardo Oliveira and music journalist Leonardo Lichote, plus extensive notes on each track by the artists themselves.
‘Hidden Waters: Strange and Sublime Sounds of Rio de Janeiro’ is compiled by Joe Osborne (founder of specialist Brazilian music platform Brazilian Wax) and Russ Slater (editor at large of Sounds and Colours). Focusing solely on the 'Rio Scene', rather than taking on the mammoth task of tackling Brazil as a whole, this collection presents 20-plus ground-breaking artists selected from Rio’s resurgent music scene. By presenting a snapshot into the pulse of the city and the vibrant musicians that live in it, ‘Hidden Waters’ collates tracks from a wide spectrum of musical genres from the avant-garde edge to bossa nova, samba, Candomblé, lo-fi rock, jazz and funk.
‘Hidden Waters’ showcases musicians such as iconic Rio mainstays Negro Leo & Ava Rocha, Brazilian jazz upstart Antônio Neves, critically lauded Avant-pop trailblazer Thiago Nassif, breakthrough artists Ana Frango Elétrico and Letrux, lo-fi psych rocker Lê Almeida, plus the Latin Grammy-winning Bala Desejo who are set to explode onto the world stage.
The music featured on ‘Hidden Waters’ is unequivocally Brazilian, swelling with samba, bossa nova, funk, and jazz. But it’s within the album's blend; from sunny psychedelia to dusky synth-pop via experimental electronics, that marks the compilation as the sound of modern, multicultural Rio. Fans of Brazil’s fertile 60s and 70s will spot the antecedents in Tropicália. Not only in the experimentation but also through the similar political context: back in the late 60s there was Brazil’s military dictatorship, and up until the end of 2022 it was Bolsonaro’s censorious premiership. Here are a group of musicians writing and reflecting on another colourful chapter within Brazil’s musical history.
This comprehensive compilation comes with album artwork designed by Rio music’s leading album artwork designer, Caio Paiva. It features essays by professor and music critic Bernardo Oliveira and music journalist Leonardo Lichote, plus extensive notes on each track by the artists themselves.
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 6 June 2024 21:23 (eight months ago) link
* * *LIMITED BROADCAST FOR 4 JULY WEEKEND* * *
https://austinatosingles.bandcamp.com/album/endurance-round
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRGxV3awEpA
"for simone biles."`
recorded in the midst of simone biles' public ridiculing after bowing out of the olympics in favor of handling her mental health. the new national anthem; another endurance round.
the 7" edit of the new national anthem is available here.
cayalogue info: composition 133, received by andy 17 february 2019. a/k/a "endurance round." a/k/a "captain leela's theme." a/k/a "for simone biles." a/k/a "the new national anthem."
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 4 July 2024 16:54 (seven months ago) link
/\fyi, that's back now indefinitely because of current events. #bilesforvp
[ED NOTE: lol clark kent is not supposed to be able to fly, simone!]
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Thursday, 1 August 2024 23:41 (six months ago) link
recollections of 9/11, the blueprint+therapy through music in real time.
(like dj life's hiphop ephemera, record store daze may only be available for a limited time)
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 4 August 2024 02:13 (six months ago) link
i'm at that age where i'm starting to see younger listeners pick up on now obscure stuff ―that i hated back in the day when it was new for being gimmicky trash― and are heralding it as great and noteworthy from its contemporaries.
makes me wonder what gimmicky trash i like from before i was born.
[ED. NOTE: all of it iirc.]
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Sunday, 8 September 2024 09:30 (five months ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/artist/2725368-Kathy-Leisen
― lil lurk (Austin), Monday, 21 October 2024 02:55 (four months ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/release/791685-Volplane-1997-1999
― lil lurk (Austin), Sunday, 27 October 2024 03:09 (three months ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/artist/7459090-Julia-Meijer
― lil lurk (Austin), Sunday, 1 December 2024 17:19 (two months ago) link
"andy has stolen a lot from cannonball adderley: music, mannerisms, mindset... good person to steal from, great examples."
― lil lurk (Austin), Thursday, 26 December 2024 17:09 (one month ago) link
SUNDAY AFTERNOON THOUGHTS 5 2025 ~23:20 LST
💙👋🏻ANDY = FINDS A TUNE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_wVB6fq4Gc
sugar plant ― "thunder" (2000) CITY POP / KANKYO ONGAKU POP
― MUFFY TEPPERMAN WAS THE OG KAREN (Austin), Monday, 6 January 2025 00:12 (one month ago) link
CORRECTION: 5 JANUARY 2025
― MUFFY TEPPERMAN WAS THE OG KAREN (Austin), Monday, 6 January 2025 00:13 (one month ago) link
riyl fender rhodes
― MUFFY TEPPERMAN WAS THE OG KAREN (Austin), Monday, 6 January 2025 00:15 (one month ago) link
Awesome tune.
― brimstead, Monday, 6 January 2025 01:02 (one month ago) link
shades of d. gilmour's "mihalis"
― budo jeru, Monday, 6 January 2025 01:22 (one month ago) link
yeah, sugar plant are great
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Monday, 6 January 2025 05:04 (one month ago) link
okay, i know i've posted her a lot lately but this vespre single from 2018 is pretty confounding――――https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWu0f0zVAjA
vespre ― "lovers" (2018)
it's like a whitney houston or early mariah carey beat. she doesn't have the vocal chops to complete the comparison so instead it comes off to me as like a... i. don't. know. the beat is so spot on, but the brilliant 'i wanna wish you well' middle 8 and her vocals are beamed in from some other timeline. i kind of took to thinking of the june mcdoom ep as "vashti bunyan produced by andy mcclusky circa 1983" ... so some sort of alternate timeline situation where this could get on the radio in 1992 and still fit in.
pretty good jam according to me. she's got some momentum by now, but productions have moved away from this sound entirely.
― MUFFY TEPPERMAN WAS THE OG KAREN (Austin), Tuesday, 14 January 2025 04:12 (one month ago) link
hey this is your host.
here's some new old astralpop by andy. it's called "double k, rock on" and it's a mono loop station homage recorded the day after chris turner died: a beat to vibe to. hope you like the boss tera echo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia-FW6t3ywY
"andy live in session. improvisation in e standard for christopher turner: respect. recorded 31 january 2021 where astralpop lives.
💙we miss your good vibes and dependable character more than ever. thank you for your service.💙"
besides this recording, he documented nothing else about the song.
if you haven't heard thes one's album-length tribute to his former bandmate and you haven't balled uncontrollably like a child in a while, i def recommend it.
― MUFFY TEPPERMAN WAS THE OG KAREN (Austin), Saturday, 25 January 2025 02:24 (three weeks ago) link
I should really wait at least 4 more years to ask this, but by "panacea" did you really mean "panoply"?
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 25 January 2025 19:33 (three weeks ago) link
I think he meant “panopticon”
― calstars, Saturday, 25 January 2025 19:34 (three weeks ago) link
cal otm ty for the improved articulation. mods plz change title.
also thank you both for stopping by and giving andy new vocabulary words to exploit. i have nothing equitable to compensate you with, so please enjoy a picture of prince and sheila e giggling:https://i.imgur.com/HslzS7G.png
i may have posted this image previously.
― MUFFY TEPPERMAN WAS THE OG KAREN (Austin), Saturday, 25 January 2025 20:28 (three weeks ago) link
panacea always made sense to me because obviously the music is healing you and making you feel better
ilx is a panopticon, though, when you stop and think about it
― budo jeru, Sunday, 26 January 2025 23:27 (three weeks ago) link
💙👋🏻Hello, Andy wants to tell you about something but I don't know where to put it. I don't know how to describe it, so I'm going to use the speech-to-text device in the smartphone and describe it in words as best I can.
Back before we could collect records and listen to music on the internet, we would just listen to music on the radio like a lot of people our age.
So Andy would like to play with the sound. And on old radios you could do that, because you had the dial. Sometimes you could find two stations that were really close together on the dial, and Andy would be able to spin the dial and make patterns and repetitive sounds.
(But that's also where Andy starts to get the radio taken away from me. I guess other people don't like the new patterns the same way Andy does.🫣😖)
There was something that would happen sometimes and it was simultaneously very satisfying, rewarding, and suspenseful.
Sometimes, two stations would be playing the same song at the same time! Obviously not synced up exactly, though. Later on, you had preset buttons where you didn't have to worry about moving the dial. Andy would find where the different iterations of the songs were in their durations and I would be able to loop certain parts! I had some of those recordings of that happening in real-time on an old cassette. But of course, that is many, many decades lost. I wish I still had those recordings.
It could be easily replicated by now. But in those boxes of my old literally lost tapes, there was a version of 12-year-old Andy who manipulated “That's the Way Love Goes" into a rearranged loop somewhere outside out of 4/4 time where the ‘oooh baby don't stop don't stop’ verse collided into the chorus for some sort of in-tongues euphoric nonsense. Only worked for about 90 seconds, but wow, it was a pretty good remix.
― "The Well-Tempered Holophonor by Philip J. Fry" (Austin), Wednesday, 19 February 2025 19:24 (two days ago) link
the wild thing is: when he would do that it sounded like the song was out of order and spitting musical gibberish, but then a few years later i was totally into buying records so i could do something like this with them. no i was nowhere near this good:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd5FeSmLGVIdj vinroc ― "30 something routine"
seems like i've always kind of considered music an interactive game.
― "The Well-Tempered Holophonor by Philip J. Fry" (Austin), Wednesday, 19 February 2025 19:40 (two days ago) link