Takka Takka #2 is up!

Hear the voices of your friends and mine, all tweaked beyond reasonable recognition!

"and beyond that, you know i hang on your every word, so please let me hang"

...might be the best thing i've written this year (sucks to my music writing...ouch. ouch. ouch. - and look at the response to that last ouch..."Uh, I can't understand what the hell you're talking about ")

2005 Music Recap

I haven't written too much 'round these parts, but after looking over the music I've acquired in 2005, I decided it was time to bite Min Xiu's one-word review styleee and give a little primer of stuff that might make you happy and what might not. Hopefully, with about 130 albums, this doesn't come off as brag-spirited, but instead a way to get me to start writing again about things I love.

DFA 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine (A, loud melodic guitars, mebbe why I decided to dust off my At The Drive In CD recently...this is a good thing)

Justus Kohncke Doppelleben (B, good, but stick to his earlier Timecode for bliss)

Richard X - Back to Mine (B, with John Carpenter and the works...it's what you'd expect from Mr. X, and that, is a good thing)

Husker Du - New Day Rising (A, Touching back on that old rock canon and happier for it - time to move onto Zen Arcade)

MIA - Arular (A, enuff has been said about this and enough people have gushed/hated)

Mum - Summer Make Good (D, fuck this -tronica shite)

Arcade Fire - Funeral (A-, surprisingly good, and Will Butler is a fine gent, despite what he sounds like in the Reader)

V/A - Run the Road (A, grime gets HUGE)

Caribou - Milk of Human Kindness (B+, Still haven't warmed up to this, but still sounds like it could be a grower)

Mu - Out of Breach (B, eh...alright... PARIS HILTON!)

V/A - Digital Disco (C, I have all this already...meh)

Apparat - Silizium EP (B, Granular sounds like this, tiny bits of stuff fuzzing into the distance and into you)

Bloc Party - EP/Silent Alarm (A, These boys are taking over america as much as any british band has, on MTV constant rotation, if only as music for the station's adverts)

Japan - Adolescent Sex (B, I can't stand David Sylvian's voice from these times...his newer stuff is more forgiveable...too smug?!?)

Metabolist - Hansten Klork (n/a, i got this from mr. leone and have yet to really digest...seems like a simmer might be necessary)

Daft Punk - Human After All (C, I wrote this tongue in cheek stypod entry and all I got for it was this)

V/A - Kompakt Total 4 (A-, ...iz good but will never take my heart away from Total 3)

Saint Etienne - Travel Edition (A, Great primer for people that have gotten into the music game too late to know all the 90's brit-pop bands)

J.Rocc & Steinski - Aint No Thing & Say Ho EP (B, Steinski still cuts up with a sharp knife - a knife that I'm trying to learn everyday...respect is due)

DJ Koze - Late Check Out (D, A hip-hop producer gone Kompakt? Even with his "Brutalga Square," as well as a sexy/dirrrty cover, I'm still not buying it)

Schaeben & Voss - So Siehst Du Aus EP (B+, some slick, sophisti-house, but "dunnyukno the WORLD IS CRAZY?")

Tom Ze - Grande Liquidacao (B, Do you ever feel removed from a song/album and wish you could get closer? me too... this is a great article about Ze)

Diplo - Florida (C, Will instrumental just die and get it over with?)

Get Physical 2nd Anniversary Label Compilation - (A, nouveau disco label that wants to make sure you get in shape! RECOMMENDED!)

Jersey Devil Social Club - Magnifique EP (A, Horror-Disco...as incredible as it sounds)

Deepchord - 10 - 13 - 12"s (C, minimal dub-techno - YAWN!)

V/A - Block Party Breaks - Classic Original Breaks and Rare Funk 45s (B+, great but a little bland...it's amazing how all these comps are rare funk but can sound so unrare)

V/A - Tracks that Build the House (A, Classic House - if you have any interest, please FIND THIS)

Break 3000 - Flash (MBF 12004) - (B+, rollicking and minimal as any 12" i've heard this year...good, but also too much, as in, if you don't already know this, you probably won't like it)

Prefuse 73 - Surrounded by Silence (C, Quality control!!! When guest spots fill up into the double digits, remember something MIGHT not be workin')

Books - Lost and Safe (B+, This is just kinda underwhelming, if any problem - it's sad that the collabo w/ Prefuse 73 could be my favorite track they've done this year)

KMD - Mr. Hood (A, ROCK! I need to listen to this everyday. You do too)

Metope - Libertango (A, If techno is not a scary word, then I would suggest checking this out along with the rest of the Areal label - juicy slabs of what could essentially be called cock-glitch...chunky, huge synths...made to be loud)

Matthew Jonson - Followed By Angels (A, I always think Matthew Jonson sounds like what Aphex would be doing nowadays if he TRULY SOLD OUT, and that would be something good)

alright. that installment was helpful for me... but i've only made it to the beginning of February...eek. Please leave comments whether I should keep moving on, or just write about albums that I really love, cause this all-encompassing thing seems like it might be WAY too much to digest. i don't think i have, at very least.

Two Movies for my Absence, Tardiness and being Generally Unkempt

Advertising (6.4 megs)

Clouds, Fiery Dust and Boredoms (2.4 megs)

love,
nate

So this Bloc Party...



is so much better than Franz, yo.

Listen Here

and they're playing the Metro on March 31st.

Who's with Zach and Nate?

Some more songs...

I have a couple selections going on over at the stypod - check it!

(they should be up for a couple days)

Oh dear Michael...



DJC "Billy Jungle Version"

Those weary of the above two faces or the amen break, steer clear. the rest of you, have at it. also, if there's anyone with the slightest idea of where to find a decent jungle comp - forward that on to me.

Here's another song to prove that my urge to give my dear friends a chance to hear very random music isn't a fluke.

I'm not sure any description is necessary for this song, but at very least I can direct y'all to this song's origins, or at least what I can make of them:

from the grapes of google, this song was put up on a mix-cd at MODSQUARE here by the site's editor, no less. MOD SQUARE's web title lists off the string of scary names including "idm" and "geektronica," but they are separated by "wtf." the title also has "etc." hopefully etc becomes a genre and hopefully i'll be able to be the one to coin it.

dance is dead? (in preparation for daft punk's eulogies)



Since I have no urge to contribute much writing these days, I'm just going to start my Club Lonely of one. Buni encouraged me, so if anything I post offends you, please forward hate mail to her (as I'm too sensitive for that stuff anyway)...

These links will work for a week, so download fast and furious people. Click on the link and click on download the file...

Boards of Canada - Trapped (EXPIRED!)
This is off one of those early bootleg sets of Boards of Canada stuff. I was obsessed with this song, until I found out that it was actually just a tweaked out version of the Classic Chicago House song by Colonel Abrams.



Since I'm constantly trying to build my dance/electronic history ass-backward, it takes me a couple months to stumble on these fucking great classics. But there's still something appealing about this reportedly BOC-version. The BOC touches take just enough of the original song, but add the analog synth as completely ominous presence, the drum breakdown practically sublimated into the barrage of breakbeats and the presence of that damningly brief french horn. And the gospel choir sounds just melodramatically correct for the song's lyrics with the BOC musical counter-point.


Spektrum - Kinda New (Tiefschwartz Dub) (EXPIRED!)
On a Playhouse 12" (#87, I believe), Tiefschwartz's two remixes of Spektrum are just maddingly overwhelming. Simon Reynolds called for macro-house a couple years ago in one of his year-end wrap-ups and it seems tiefschwartz came calling. The bloated excesses of this remix and well, all of electro-house by definition, create this identity by scavenging through dance, 303s and all. With the introductory lick, and the metronomic click that sounds like it's just tapping - waiting for you - just builds builds builds builds and so on. With the vocals appearing after 2 1/2 minutes of this build, the original song's "we all live and die" never sounded so right. by the end of the song, the "death" sounds like a group creating such a monolith that the thrill out of making it trip as much as possible under its own weight has never been so fun.