Heedfulness!

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Okey dokey. On Monday I received an absolutely gigantic number of recommendations of music. And so… I listened to them because that is how I roll. (We’re going through them in the order of the comments rather than in the order the comments were left because that, too, is how I roll.) We’ve got a bunch of videos behind the cut as well as the two albums that I purchased (so far).


This is Apparat. Dhex told me to listen to them. It’s got a hazy ambient kinda thing going on where you can’t quite make out the lyrics. This is good because the lyrics are exceptionally creepy. I enjoyed it, so I listened to more Apparat and found this:


It does one of the things I enjoy in my electronica which is to have something (the beat, the alto part) on a loop in the background and then to put the vocals or melody over on top of this repeating loop.

Speaking of loops, Glyph pointed me at DJ Krush and I listened to him and he reminded me of a conversation I had with one of my friends at 2AM when we were working mids and talking about the perfect house music. We decided that we wanted a thumping base, scratching, and Stephen Hawking quotes played over everything. “Imagine the universe as a rubber sheet”, that sort of thing.


Meiso reminded me of the beats that I wanted underneath all of that.

Next, dhex pointed me to Andy Stott’s Numb.


This is the kind of music that I put into the “altered consciousness” category. It somehow slips between your lobes and makes you remember stories that your friends might have told you about trances they may have been in. As such, I immediately put in an order for his album Luxury Problems
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Glyph then made a bold, bold statement. He said that DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing album was worthy of sitting next to Loveless. Well… I don’t know that I’d go precisely *THAT* far (Loveless is one of my Desert Island Discs, you know) but I found myself, yes, entranced. Here’s the number song:

So I bought the album. I bought Endtroducing.

So, these are the recommendations of yours that I’ve followed so far this week.

Jaybird

Jaybird is Birdmojo on Xbox Live and Jaybirdmojo on Playstation's network. He's been playing consoles since the Atari 2600 and it was Zork that taught him how to touch-type. If you've got a song for Wednesday, a commercial for Saturday, a recommendation for Tuesday, an essay for Monday, or, heck, just a handful a questions, fire off an email to AskJaybird-at-gmail.com

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  1. Sweet! The Andy Stott was dhex though.

    Spend a weekend with Entroducing’s soundworlds and some decent headphones, and get back to me and tell me I am being hyperbolic then. 🙂

  2. “Imagine the universe as a rubber sheet”

    General relativity for bed-wetters.

    • “Tbq qbrf abg cynl qvpr jvgu gur havirefr; Ur qbrf, ubjrire, fbzrgvzrf qevax gbb zhpu jngre orsber Ur tbrf gb fyrrc ba vg.”

      (No religion.)

      EDIT: rot13’d because even though it’s really an “Einstein” joke, not a religious one, I did not want to give offense.

  3. JB and dhex – when we were talking Apparat, I mentioned that I am not crazy about him on his own, but I really liked the Ellen Allien collab he did.

    I had forgotten then, but it just came up on shuffle…he also collaborated with Modeselektor on the Moderat record, and I really like *that* one too (maybe he just needs someone to handle “beats” while he handles “textures”):

    http://youtu.be/DoxUiqUpkw4

    There’s a vocal sample in the rhythm (that “owhm” sound) of that track that makes me think of this one:

    http://youtu.be/q-Of0OPstYc

    And *that* guy also did the best Smiths cover ever, somehow retaining the song’s essence even though it’s fairly different:

    http://youtu.be/vodnI38cNI0

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