The Gun Club – Sex Beat Jorge Ben Jor – Errare Humanun Est The John Shakespear Orchestra – Number One Theme Neu! – Isi Jean Louis – Misaotra Mama Roy Ayers – The Memory Roy Ayers – Feel Like Making Love Patrice Rushen – Forget Me Nots Spacemen 3 – Big City (Everybody I Know [...]
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Thursday Playlist: My latest enthusiasms
Two songs by Pantha du Prince, a book by Carl Wilson, and an Italian you tube video. Follow this link to a site where you can stream the whole album. But for the purpose of this post, just play track #1 “Lay in a Shimmer” and track #9 “Welt am Draht.” I had never heard [...]
This Year’s Gonna Be Ours – Mix 09
Time files, doesn’t it? Sure it flies, but it also files. It files the past away for the future. It files down the present until the future emerges. It seems like I just made last year’s mix, so I felt a little unprepared when other contributors started posting theirs. Here’s mine. Many of you know [...]
Mixmas: favorite songs of 2009
Here we go again. Thank you Rachel for kicking off the TGW best-of season with such a great mix. These here are not the songs that got played most, that framework is finished (with a five year old in the house, that would mean way too much Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, and the Monster Mash). [...]
Thursday Playlist: Songs for late summer nights
Although the calender-makers may quibble, summer feels like it has arrived. And so the time has come for this: the third and final installment of our Thursday playlist project. It’s been fun crafting our most-played songs into a few themed mixes. Today’s installment is the best of them. And it is a lovely gift to [...]
Bonus playlist Wednesday: soul food edition
Remember the theme mix? Used to be something you crafted over days or even weeks, linking up lyrical motifs and musical patterns into a coherent whole that explored an idea or told a story. Searchable databases have changed all that. Now I can type any word into iTunes—say, “book”—and get a perfectly bookish playlist that [...]
Stella’s 10 @ 10
Imagine, it’s 1977 and Stella looks back on her first decade of music appreciation. Once she moved past “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” and “Away in a Manger,” she was ready for the popular music all the kids were enjoying, served up on a weekly basis by Top of the Pops. Stella was swept up in [...]
Thursday playlist: Meta
A list of lists: Leftob has an audio stream of really nice minimal/ambient stuff from all over the web. Music to Play in the Dark is a lovely podcast of dark ambient and other experimental stuff. This is a thread on the monome.org discussion board where various monome artists give the coordinates of their soundcloud [...]
Thursday playlist: A bit of everything, except red meat
So since I’ve only been posting a lot of music here on Thursdays, my playlist today is a series of other things I’ve been “diggin” lately. And I suppose some music. Here follows a rather personal peak into some of my recent pleasures. Be kind. Shows: Top Chef (Season 5) – Nothing to say, it [...]
Thursday Playlist: Sunday Morning Mix
Sunday mornings are lovely, no? Around these parts, there are few things that we enjoy early on a Sunday more than than a hot french press of strong coffee, the Sunday Times, and a decent soundtrack. To be honest, we never really listened to these songs all together, much less in this sequence. But they [...]
