Diario

idm / wonkie / hip-hop / glitch-hop / bass / ghetto tech

1 hidden place (acapella) Bjork
2 Hall Of Mirrors (Digitonal's Strings In Space Mix) B12 & Digitonal
3 I Need A Life (Four Tet Remix) Born Ruffians
4 Kid For Today Boards of Canada
5 Vibe-a-Rolla Jello
6 Rank Rink Ring Luke Vibert
7 Paper Planes feat. Bun B & Rich Boy (Dirty) (The DJ KL / US&THEM Re-Edit) M.I.A.
8 Ooops Hud Mo
9 Fever Eliot Lipp
10 None In Mind Koushik
11 In Loving Memory Modeselektor
12 Swing Lite Luke Vibert and BJ Cole
13 Last Light Prefuse 73
14 Ghostwriter RJD2
15 Devil's Pie D'Angelo
16 The Healer Erykah Badu
17 Be Your Own One Self
18 Melodic Stroll TM Juke Feat. Bread and Water
19 Hand On The Pump (Muggs' Blunted Mix) Cypress Hill
20 Hip Hop Hooray (Pete Rock Remix) Naughty By Nature
21 Conscious Ferilla Kraddy
22 Molotov Bitch The Prodigy
23 Baghdad boogie (featuring Mike Ladd) Stacs Of Stamina
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Here are the 'older' records I got in 2008 and listened to the most.

Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
Ministry - Psalm 69

Before NIN, industrial music was dominated by Ministry. I don't know how I managed to avoid this band for so long. They have all the ingredients I like: distorted vocals and guitars, loud drum machines and an overall no bullshit attitude. Anyway I first came across their new covers record called Cover Up. Nothing special there, but it sparked my interest to dig deeper and what I've found, I liked. The Land Of Rape And Honey is their best album with 'Stigmata' and 'You Know What You Are' being my favourite songs. Psalm 69 is their breakthrough record. It's a lot more guitar based then it's predecessors, but still maintains the same high quality.

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis - The Proposition OST

This is my music-to-fall-asleep-in-the-afternoon album. Eerie stuff.

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Pretty much the definite shoegaze-dream pop-whatever record.
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Since I still need to scribe some write-ups for some of the albums on my best of ‘07 list, I figured I’d post this.

Question marks (?) indicate artists that have stated they’re writing new material, but an ‘08 release is not definite; although, at an educated guess- I’d say an ‘08 release is likely.

Bold font are albums I’m looking forward to. Bold font plus red are albums I’m really looking forward to.

If there’s any mistakes please let me know. Feel free to post releases I’ve missed, also.

¡Forward, Russia! ~ Life Processes
(+44) ~ tba
(Damn) This Desert Air ~ TBA
10 Years ~ Divisions
1997 ~ tba
3 Doors Down ~ tba
311 ~ tba
36 Crazyfists ~ tba
50 Cent ~ Before I Self Destruct
7th Son ~ tba
Æthenor ~ Faking Gold and Murder
ABC ~ Traffic
A Breach on Heaven ~ Through the Mirror (leaked)
A Different Breed Of Killer ~ tba
A Hill to Die Upon ~ tba
A Loss For Words ~ tba
A Shoreline Dream ~ tba
A Silver Mt. Zion ~ 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons (leaked)
A Skylit Drive ~ tba?
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This week scale heretofore unknown heights of vainspurious theme glory – throwing ourselves headlong into the very beginning of the alphabet only to chicken out and hide behind the curtain falling after the last notes have expired. Please see below for clues.


Appliance - Heroes Of Telemark (Pole Remix)
(“D4” EP - 1999, Mute)

AGF - Un-De-Buged
(“Language Is The Most” - 2003, Quecksilber)

Alternahunk - Lite Spray
(“Alternahunk” - 1997, Dual Plover) #

Aurobindo - Involution
(“Involution” - 1995, Ash International)

Barry Adamson - From Rusholme With Love
(“The Taming Of The Shrewd” single - 1989, Mute)

Add N To (X) - Sir Ape
(“On The Wires Of Our Nerves” - 1998, Mute)

Apsci - Synth 4PO (feat. Seraphim, Tes & Mike Ladd)
(“Get It Twisted” - 2003, elefant traks) #

Adult - Seal Me In
(“Gimmie Trouble” - 2005, Thrill Jockey)

The Associates - A
(“The Affectionate Punch” - 1980, Fiction)

Ark - This Is A Song (Herbert Remix)
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Uncle Tony's Coloring Book should have been out by now, but it's not yet. Thats cool though because for this, we can wait a couple extra months...

According to his myspace page it was going to be out by spring, but now it sounds like it won't be out for another few months... which by my calculations is summer time.

Lets just pray that it doesn't turn into a Window's Vista release (oh, its coming in the new year, no wait, in the spring, no in the summer - oh wait, no - 3 years from now)

If you're into Blockhead as much as I am, you are highly anticipating this release. Check out some of his tracks on his myspace .

Put Down Your Dream is the only track up right now to demo his upcoming album. It's decent, but I think we can expect a lot more from him in the next few months. I'm definitely excited.

My prediction is that he will stick to his patterns and retain the same sort of feel - his "old ASR-10" sampling .99 cent records... …

I hear people talking and read posts here and everywhere on the sad state of music today. How so much of it is horrible and pointless and music died 10,20, 30, 40 or 50 years ago. I hear this a lot from jazz and rock n roll fans. Music ended when Miles Davis died, or when the Beatles broke up, etc etc. My belief...you are all wrong.
Now...first let me say that i love Miles Davis and the Beatles...and jazz is probably my favorite kind of music but think and listen, or read.
Music has always sucked as well as always been incredible. At the same time Miles Davis was creating music he had to open for the Steve Miller Band...not that the steve miller band is horrible, but COME ON...theyre nothing special.
What I'm saying is during the "golden age of jazz" there was shitty music too.
But in defense of today's music, let me start with hip hop/rap, a genre i find myself needing to constantly defend.
Yes...there are Mike Jones', there are Young Jeezys' etc. …

Daedelus
Browsing through the listening stats, I was shocked and upset to see that he has so few listeners on last.fm why is this ?
i think anyone who likes Lemon Jelly, some people who like Madvillain, and people who like The Go! Team, when they are feeling a bit less happy or drunk should def. be into it, so why aren't they ? have they just never heard of him ?
DJ Krush is, in my opinion much less accessable, but is much more popular.
Mike Ladd is also much too underrated... despite making one of the best albums ever, and a few very well placed collaborations.