Monthly Archives: January 2008

I’d Go See a Movie About an Avalanche-Causing Octopus Too!

January 24, 2008 – 11:36 am

Riding home from a late matinée showing of the hit monster flick Cloverfield this afternoon I decided I wanted today’s Blogarhythm to be about music that sounds, or at least feels, like a rampaging creature destroying a city. Sadly, the nearest approximation to an anthropomorphic agent of animalistic destruction the music industry has to offer, […]

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Do Androids Read Music Blogs?

January 23, 2008 – 12:02 pm

Being out of sorts sucks. It could be as simple as waking up at the wrong time on day, which messes up your schedule for the rest of that day and in turn makes you either prematurely tired or unable to fall asleep early enough propagating a cycle of messed-upped-ness that lasts a few days […]

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Bass! How Low Can You Go?

January 22, 2008 – 11:57 am

During my run here on Blogarhythms I’ve made no secret of my love for keyboards and synthesizers. That love also extends to other things, such as drum machines, breakbeats, hi-hat/ride cymbal combos, cowbells, xylophones, lazer sounds and hand-claps. But more than any of those things I love bass. Whether it be a heavy rhythmic bass […]

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How Can I Tell You About Him If I Don’t Even Know Who He Is?

January 21, 2008 – 1:27 pm

Have you ever heard a piece of music so dope it actually made you mad that it was so good? A song so ill it made you scrunch up your face and loudly pronounce threats of physical violence to no one in particular? Perhaps this sort of visceral reaction to quality musicianship is just what […]

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Records at Random Vol. 36 - Linton Kwesi Johnson Forces of Victory

January 18, 2008 – 12:28 pm

Seeing as how Reggae music originated in the Caribbean, a decidedly balmy locale, it isn’t necessarily the most suitable soundtrack for the sort of cold, snowy days we’ve been “enjoying” here in the Northeastern United States and much of the Northern Hemisphere. But what if one were to listen to an album by a Reggae […]

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