Every spring I bust out the Brazilian pop music. A few gems stood out, so I dug up the lyrics and ran them through Google translate. The results are refreshing and delightful, if a tad schmaltzy. But they are also irresistible!
Check these out:
Dragons And Jewels: The Kingdom of Lone
My first exposure to Lone was the refreshing and delightful (if slightly half-baked) Emerald Fantasy Tracks from 2010. Like so many of my electronic albums, I have absolutely no idea how I stumbled upon it. I’m so glad I did. Galaxy Garden, his follow up collaboration with Machinedrum, made it into my top 20 favorite albums of all time. I’ve been a devoted fan ever since.
When You Find Someone Who Loves The Same Music As You
Re-Spawn
ANGEL: You’re dead.
ME: …
ANGEL: Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but yeah. As a door nail.
ME: So…
ANGEL: You have two choices. You can move into a higher plane of existence where all is energy and light, all paradoxes are collapsed, and all mysteries are resolved. Your true human potential—nay, the cosmic destiny of all humankind—will finally be within reach. Even the face of God Itself…
ME: What’s the other choice?
Converging Parallel Lines: Yet Another Reader’s Take On Infinite F**king Jest
I just finished reading Infinite Jest for the third time, and this time I took notes. It helped. Keeping the dozen-plus storylines straight in the mist of the rhetorical glitter bombs Wallace throws in your face borders on the Herculean, which I get is on purpose, but I noticed (and more importantly retained) what felt like a good quarter of the story that I missed the last two times around.
Album Alert: Regera Dowdy’s Ghost At The Hotel Recherché In 1961 (EP)
Check out these remixes and outtakes from my 2011 album Allusions & Homages to Mrs. Regera Dowdy.
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Happy Halloween 2018! 🎃
Mixtape Alert: 95 Jungle Bizness
Check out this quick and dirty collection of ruff riders from the crucial ’93 – ’95 jungle era!
Track list:
- Shabba Ranks – Lets Get It On (Shy FX Dub)
- Bay B Kane – Wake Up
- Tom & Jerry & DJ Stretch – Maximum Style (Dubplate Mix)
- Omni Trio – Renegade Snares
- Scientist – New Style
- Cris B – The Storm
- Moody Boys – Destination Africa
- Shabba Ranks – Lets Get It On (Shy FX Vocal Remix)
- Dillinja – Deep Love
- DJ Rap & Austin – More Time
- L Double & Younghead – New Style
Mixtape Alert: Birth of Liquid (Faze Two)
Welcome to part two of Hardcore Math User’s liquid funk history lesson!
Picking up where Faze One left off, Faze Two ups the tempo and brings a stronger funk aesthetic to the table while maintaining that shimmering watery vibe perfected by late ’90s melodic drum & bass.
Continue readingMixtape Alert: Birth of Liquid (Faze One)
It’s early summer, the perfect time of year for melodic drum & bass!
As always, there’s a bit of a history lesson. Liquid funk came of age around 2004, but the birth cries could be heard as far back as the early ’90s with the dawn of drum & bass itself.
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