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“You’re the Best, Around…” (El Keter’s Favorite Albums of 2008, Day Two)
December 19, 2008 – 10:32 am
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Out of all the records I enjoyed during 2008 I chose 20 of them as my favorites.
I put them all in alphabetical order and wrote about them.
Here are five more…
Last week I got an e-mail from Asthmatic Kitty Records announcing that a certain website gave Ropechain, the sophomore album from Indianapolis, Indiana’s Grampall Jookabox a […]
“Cheesy Rat, You Ain’t All That…” © James Todd Smith
December 16, 2008 – 10:30 am
When I was young and could care less about my Hebrew ancestors’ pronouncements against “unclean animals” I somehow talked my mother into letting me keep a mouse in our house as a pet. I also owned a cat who was, by coincidence, named after a fictional mouse. The cat and the mouse were, […]
“Keys Open Door…Key-Keys Open Doors…”
November 12, 2008 – 10:30 am
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!
October 13, 2008 – 10:30 am
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 […]
“C-to-the-O-to-the-O-to-the-L-to-the-I-to-the-N” © James Todd Smith
October 1, 2008 – 10:30 am
Circumstances beyond my control — but which have much to do with my bank account — have been filling my days with a lot of stress lately. Relaxation and enjoyment of personal time have been at an all-time minimum. Even the fire alarms in my apartment building, which went off last night well […]