I live in an apartment that doubles as an office, a recording studio, a storage space for all manner of media, an art studio and a textiles workshop. As you might imagine this doesn’t make it the most opportune location to entertain visitors. For this reason m. Cody and I only rarely invite […]
By El Keter
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Posted in Music
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Tagged Afrika Bambaataa, Bizarre Inc., Blackstreet, Chicago, Daft Punk, Deee-Lite, Fleetwood Mac, Flo Rida, Girl Talk, Heart, Hot Chip, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Lil Jon, Lil Wayne, Lykke Li, M.I.A., Mary J. Blige, Nirvana, Public Enemy, R. Kelly, Radiohead, Salt-N-Pepa, The Cardigans, The Cranberries, The Guess Who, The Jets, The Quad City DJ's, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Velvet Underground, The Youngbloodz, Tone Loc, Trina
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Does Records at Random look a little weird to you today? Well, if it does it’s ’cause I kinda got thrown a curveball this morning. As usual, I rolled out of bed, grabbed a stack of records and walked them over to the desk where my computer and record player sit. I […]
By El Keter
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Tagged 10cc, Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, ESG, Giorgio Moroder, Hot Chip, LCD Soundsystem, Of Montreal, Queen, Sparks, Sylvester, Yoko Ono
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This week has been full of ruminations on the bio-mechanical impetus behind man’s desire to create music. I discussed the transformation of our perceptions of natural, spiritual & psychological reality via the electric impulses our brain & body utilize to process and act on those perceptions into sound that in turn has the power […]
By El Keter
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Tagged Aqueduct, Björk, Computerization, Death Cab for Cutire, Depeche Mode, Dntel, Mates of State, Roar and the Wolf, Schneider TM, Softlightes, The Beach Boys, The Incredible Moses Leroy, The One AM Radio, The Postal Service
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All that talk of ghosts and music yesterday took on a whole new meaning after an intercontinental discussion with one of my closest homegirls last night. See, she was visited by a ghost this weekend… The ghost of a former lover which left her haunted in her own unique way. I’m not talking […]
By El Keter
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Tagged Awol One, Copy, Dabrye, Daft Punk, Depth Affect, EPMD, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Lauryn Hill, Modeselektor, Prefuse 73, Radiohead, Ratatat, Sébastien Tellier, Thom Yorke, Timbaland, Tom Waits
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I hope you all had a relaxing Monday, because yesterday’s blog activities, while tranquil and beauteous, failed to keep the peace and instill the quiet in my day. The crack of thunder, the clash of personalities and financial insecurities could give fuckall about pretty songs so they all ganged up to make my Monday […]