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No Relation to Big Mountain Fudgecake

September 4, 2008 – 10:46 am
A few hours ago I got together with Emeyesi to record a new episode of our weekly podcast series. A good deal of our between-song banter dealt with the Republican National Convention (which we’d been watching) and the GOP’s platform (which apparently consists of being old, being white, being rich, lying, wearing cowboy […]
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Records Reissues at Random Vol. 64 - Bruce Haack Haackula

August 29, 2008 – 11:22 am
I can think of no better way to cap off our week spent in analysis of the synthesis between humanity and technology in music than to profile Bruce Haack, one of the fathers of electronic music as we know it. In addition to being a “synthesizer music” pioneer Haack was something of a Nikola Tesla-like visionary. […]
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San Juan’s Gone Funky, San Juan’s Gone Soul

August 12, 2008 – 10:38 am
Okay, so it’s been a while since I featured some crunchy Funk vinyl in my Records at Random Fridays. And with the way I’ve been feeling towards my records lately it might be a while until I do again. But that doesn’t mean I’ve been neglecting my need to get funky. It’s […]
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Just Say “I Gotsta Get Me Some” (Then Go Get You Some… At the Recca-Sto’)

July 30, 2008 – 10:51 am
Yesterday I bigged up Blueprint for sampling classic Soul. Today I’ve gotta give it up to some folks who are recreating that vintage Soul sound the old fashioned way. Yeah, I know, the whole retro-Soul thing is like the biggest fad of the last two years and everything. But being the ubiquitous […]
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Remixed at Random?

July 18, 2008 – 11:07 am
I’m in “a mood.” It’s uncomfortably humid here in my apartment. I’m bored just looking at the armload of vintage vinyl I’ve already flipped through a hundred times that’s leaning against the shelf next to my desk. And I don’t really feel like moving crates around in order to pull some other […]
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