I like repetitive music

I was recently given some headphones for my birthday, the first decent ones I’ve had in…. maybe ever actually. I’m slightly shocked and elated and the effect they’re having on my music and I, but at the same time the realization that I’ve been listening to just a fraction of my favourite tunes for years, [...]

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15 albums that live forever

My friend Keith asked me to list “fifteen albums you’ve heard that will always stick with you”, spending no longer than fifteen minutes to think about it. I may have gone over the time limit somewhat as I found this a fascinating challenge, thinking about the albums that have been most significant in my life, [...]

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Musical discovery this week: Save the Robot

My favourite new act discovered this week: Save the Robot. Really fun and creative full-on and progressive psy Save the Robot is a collaboration between heavyweights Alien Project and Quadra. I only found them this week but they’ve got two albums out already on the TIP World record label – 2005′s Battle of the Mind and [...]

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NYE Mix

I’m kinda proud of this mix, the first I’ve properly put together, which I played on NYE. It was planned for two hours, which is the length of the mix posted here, but ended up being almost three hours on the night, with me extending it with additional tracks, mostly by Protoculture, given the lack [...]

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Burning Man Karaoke Statistics

As part of our Oasis 47 camp at Burning Man a group of our friends from San Francisco who go by the name Deadly Muppets built the Caveman Caraoke, a caveman-themed, dragon-pulled, karaoke-focused mutant vehicle. A member of the gang just compiled all the statistics and in the interests of future research into the karaoke [...]

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Deadmau5 at the 9:30 club

Last night K and I went out to see Canadian tech-house producer Deadmau5 (pronounced “deadmouse”) play. Deadmau5 is another internet-fueled superstar, blowing up on Beatport last year to be their number 1-selling artist and now, to my amazement, selling out the relatively massive 9:30 club on a Monday night. I took a video on my [...]

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Burning Mushroom Part II

I’ve been meaning to write up my Burning Man experiences but it’s harder to do than it sounds. Meanwhile, let me just update you on my excitement to see Infected Mushroom at Burning Man. And boy was my excitement fulfilled; it was one of the most adrenalating, annihilating, wildly surreal dance music experiences of my [...]

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Radiohead and Banksy, together at last

Radiohead are one of the great music innovators of our time and one of my favourite bands. Banksy is an iconic artist from our generation, the most famous street artist in the world whose work I love. So it’s brilliant to see Radiohead’s latest video featuring Banksy’s work:

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20 Random Tracks

This is another Facebook meme, to whit: (1) Turn on your MP3 player (or  iTunes). (2) Go to SHUFFLE songs mode. (3) Write down the first 20 songs that come up–song title and artist–NO editing/cheating. I don’t normally bother with these sorts of things but this one was right up my alley so I couldn’t [...]

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Burning Mushroom

So I was thinking last night about how much I wanted to go up to Desiderata Festival in NY State and see Infected Mushroom but also how I probably can’t really afford it and how we’d be pushing it to get there in time to catch their Friday night set. And I thought to myself, [...]

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