The Audiozine

Farsheed has an excellent post on Midnight Parking about Bandcamp's recent decision to take a 15% cut from music sales through their website.

Loving the Martin Denny influence at a few points here. And all the other influences. Geez.

Loving the Martin Denny.

Loving pretty much everything by and about Fight The Big Bull these days, including but not limited to the song "Martin Denny" from their 2010 opus All Is Gladness In The Kingdom. Their new collaboration with David Karsten Daniels is also a treatx1,000,000, really sad I missed their show at Le Poisson Rouge.

I feel no need to format these pictures to fit into tiny boxes on a screen. [UPDATE: the previous sentence is false]

My friend, Joy, is an architect by training and she has put some recent projects up on a blog. Way back when we were hanging in Cville, I remember she would be up until crazy hours of the night working on projects that were well beyond my level of spatial/conceptual comprehension; there were all these wild structures and plans inspired, I think, by natural forms with really intricate geometries.

My friend Josh just finished a mural in his once industrial neighborhood in Baltimore. Enjoy.

Oval - Kastell from Thrill Jockey Records on Vimeo.

FEEL IT.

Record Club: Yanni "Santorini" from Beck Hansen on Vimeo.

Live At The Crabopolis

Ouch. I remember hearing "Beat Bop" for the first time and being overwhelmed by the production, the vocal interplay, the crazy echo effect on Rammellzee's voice, and the fact that it was 10 minutes long and never let up. Soon after, I snagged (er, downloaded?) the Death Comet Crew jam that came out on Troubleman Unlimited and that threw me for a huge loop. It was such a noisy and free variant on hip-hop production and the beats were done on such primitive gear so early in hip-hop history that it just felt like this primordial soup. Anyway, huge loss.

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great stuff. nice vid gary.

How did this happen in the first place? [studio]

How is it actually happening at all? [live]

Tyshawn Sorey (on drums) is just killing it the entire time. And how neat are these harmonies?

Stay up late and read about WTJU as it approaches a tough, new transitional time -- props to Tyler, his new blog handily facilitates a community discussion while highlighting a lot of broader issues that have affected and transformed broadcast media over the last two decades or so. Good answers are elusive.

And if you stay up late enough, this might happen.