Monthly Archives: February 2008

Records at Random Vol. 40 - Deodato Prelude

I’m the first one to admit, keeping this Records at Random thing truly random has not always been easy. My main concern as I’ve picked arm-fulls of wax out of my stacks has been avoiding inclusion of too many obvious breakbeat staples, nightclub standards, Rare Groove essentials or otherwise widely-popular (be it with beat-diggers, DJs, […]

“Take That… Take That…”

Looking back at the first month and a half of Blogarhythms of 2008 I started to feel like maybe I’d been fronting on instrumental beats, a genre I’d regularly featured throughout the past year. A quick glance at my music library, particularly the most recent additions, was all I needed to see why this is […]

Practice Indoor Hooliganism

After yesterday’s excursion into “long drive with the windows down” Pop it’s sort of weird to discover that the hypothetical road-trip in question led right back to the nightclubs and warehouse parties whose music was the topic of discussion in Monday’s post. Granted, with near Arctic low temperatures and Winter Storm Warnings in effect for […]

It’s Pop Music, Not Booty Poppin’ Music

After all the chest-punching bass and floor-shaking kick drums in yesterday’s post I thought it more than appropriate to turn down the volume and pull back on the BPM’s a little bit today. No, you won’t need a disco ball, strobe light or any other nightclub rigging to enjoy the simple Pop tunes of today’s […]

House is Still Hip

I should be spending Monday morning regretting wild weekend escapades which culminated in a sweat-soaked crack-of-dawn emergence from some dark nightclub or party somewhere. Sadly, I haven’t even hit up a run-of-the-mill “close at 2 AM” club night at a local bar recently, much less one of the all-night celebrations of lights & music (the […]