Graybo (and Mrs Graybo) in purchase of Number 1 Album shocker! (and agree that it is really rather good).
Next thing you know, we might even buy a Top Ten Single (which we also think is rather good – the album looks pretty good too if you like RnB).
Category: music and radio
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Number 1
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Music and birthday
Forgot to mention on Thursday that it was Lord Percy’s birthday. The poor chap was 21 again.
In other news: Soul Deep has to be the best series that has been on TV in years – absolutely fantastic and compulsory viewing. The track listing on the CD compilation that goes with the series looks a little lacklustre, so I’m hoping that the Beeb will release the whole thing on DVD.
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GHC back
Global House Connection will be broadcasting again this week (today), for the first time since 6 March, at a new time of 4pm Pacific (midnight UK) and Lars has publicly promised me that they will (at least try to) be weekly. They are also working on podcasts for subscribers. Announcement here.
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Low-cost mp3s
This looks highly illegal, but it’s pretty impressive nonetheless.
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Music gremlin
For reasons known only to the little gremlins that inhabit my skull, I’ve had Airport by The Motors on my brain all morning. I’m not sure if this is a good thing or not.
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Pretentious?
Pitchfork: Once you guys were asked about progress and you said that every record was an asymptotic approach to something– that there wasn’t a perfect Autechre record, just a series of tangential curves towards and away from the same point.Autechre: Yeah.
Pitchfork: Maybe [Charles] Manson was asymptotically approaching pop stardom but just curved off. So I was wondering about that metaphor, and tell me if I am just being a Charles Manson and reading too much into it, but about that point that you guys are approaching over and over– is that point itself in motion? Is it changing?
Autechre: We’re kind of following it, so yeah, it’s traveling but not with any given trajectory. It’s bouncing around. It’s confined by moving walls.
Pitchfork interviews Autechre. Time to get my Autechre CDs out. (Thanks Bob).
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For Lord Percy…
Knockout Greg – playing Blues on the Farm this year.
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Dated
Ages ago (I mean, like, years dude), I linked to this NSFW music video and thought it was really, um, kicking. It still is, but hasn’t it dated badly? I mean, who moves files around on 3.5in disks any more?
(Incidentally, in case you were wondering why I was thinking about this today, it’s because H and I had a conversation about the word "copacetic" the other day, and this choon features that word). -
Music links
It’s a long time since I last linked to it, but if you are interested in music you should absolutely bookmark DJ Martian’s Page, which has more music links than you could shake a very large musical stick at, and will be celebrating its fifth birthday just a couple of weeks before this site.