Tag Archives: Chromeo

Records at Random, Vol. 77: Frankie Valli & the Four Seasons Beggin’: The Ultimate Collection

This week I and my impeccable taste in footwear assisted my best friend m. Cody in purchasing a much-needed pair of new sneakers. She in turn used her discount connections to assist me in obtaining the first of what will have to be many much-more-needed shelves in which to store my many vinyl records. […]

Albums That Should Suck, But Don’t: 808s & Heartbreak

Something like a bazillion years ago (okay, it was more like a year and change) I tried starting a new regular Blogarhythms feature about things…Be they artists, albums or whatever…That should in theory “suck,” but don’t. I got as far as profiling rich kid son of a superstar guitarist turned superstar DJ turned superstar […]

“Keys Open Door…Key-Keys Open Doors…”

The pair of acts I’m going to introduce you to today are sort-of a holdover from yesterday’s entry discussing Neptunesian Pop music. Neither of them are signed to the Star Trak label. But both are well-versed in the keyboard and drum-machine-powered method of neoteric transposition of the grooves, melodies, chords, instrumental flourishes, songwriting […]

Paint That Sh*t Gold!

Hopefully some of you went out and peeped Ann Arbor, Michigan-based emcee Buff1’s sophomore LP There’s Only One when I told you to a couple of months ago. If you did you know that Ypsilanti, Michigan-based beatmaker 14KT — who is a member of both the Lab Techs producers collective and, like Buff, the […]

Fresh From the Frialator

As I noted in yesterday’s blog entry, UK Indie-Dance outfit Hot Chip holds the top spot for most listens out of all the music on my hard drives and hand-held digital listening devices according to the calculations of Last.fm and their Audioscrobbler software. I make no bones about it either; I love the shit […]