Pitchfork just finished up their Top 200 Albums of the 2000s list today and only two Japanese albums from the past ten years placed – Boris’ Akuma no Uta (#197) and Boredoms’ Vision Creation Newsun (#39, but should be higher in this writer’s humble opinion). I realize the folks over at the ‘Fork needed to…
They also try out some tunes by The Stylistics and The Gypsy Kings. Dudes got the Garfunkel hair down, though. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGNPPU2DVr8&hl=en&fs=1&]
At the sundae bar we call music, irony takes the role of the extra-sugar sprinkles at the end of the table. A few spoonfuls aren’t bad and could even add some flavor, but too much ruins a perfectly good treat. This year has seen an epidemic of artists loading up on irony and absolutely shooting…
I stumbled across Kyoto DJ/producer Handsomeboy Technique looking for remixes of Thieves Like Us’ “Drugs In My Body.” Handsomeboy (a.k.a. Yoshitaka Morino) somehow made the nocturnal strut of the original into something strangely triumphant. Check it out at his MySpace page. He has a new album of remixes available titled Discommunication Breakdown including the “Drugs”…
Two posts about Lullatone in a row, nice. The duo have added some new tiny tunes to their commercial Melody Design library. Enjoyable albeit short stuff but a great change of pace if, like me, you spent the whole afternoon listening to Raekwon on loop. Listen to them here.