Comments on: The Interactive Playlist http://therumpus.net/2009/04/swinging-modern-sounds-the-interactive-playlist/ Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:08:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bob Herdlein http://therumpus.net/2009/04/swinging-modern-sounds-the-interactive-playlist/comment-page-1/#comment-8347 Bob Herdlein Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:49:49 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=15761#comment-8347 hello, Mr. Moody, I'm familiar and very much like your work as a writer and was very pleased to have come across this site via an interview you did for the Iowa Source recently. A find. Along the line of what it seems like your interests perhaps you'd like check out what I'm doing music-wise. Very home/lo-tech, basic, sub-garage. I suppose it would be considered experimental, kind of/to very noisy, very raw, kind of all over the place. Not a parody,not being ironic. I think it's safe to safe to say it does not sound like a whole lot out there...at all. Band (me) is Jimmy Juliano and the Fluorescents from New Hampshire, US. Please look at http://design.focusdesign.com/blog/ . Lots of music on this page...both linkable/downloadable as well as playable on the site. If you're interested in any fashion, please let me know. Thanks, Bob Herdlein hello, Mr. Moody,

I’m familiar and very much like your work as a writer and was very pleased to have come across this site via an interview you did for the Iowa Source recently. A find.

Along the line of what it seems like your interests perhaps you’d like check out what I’m doing music-wise. Very home/lo-tech, basic, sub-garage. I suppose it would be considered experimental, kind of/to very noisy, very raw, kind of all over the place. Not a parody,not being ironic. I think it’s safe to safe to say it does not sound like a whole lot out there…at all.

Band (me) is Jimmy Juliano and the Fluorescents from New Hampshire, US.

Please look at http://design.focusdesign.com/blog/ . Lots of music on this page…both linkable/downloadable as well as playable on the site. If you’re interested in any fashion, please let me know.

Thanks,

Bob Herdlein

]]> By: Cesar Bruto http://therumpus.net/2009/04/swinging-modern-sounds-the-interactive-playlist/comment-page-1/#comment-3013 Cesar Bruto Wed, 06 May 2009 21:24:45 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=15761#comment-3013 Unfortunately, before I spotted the mixtapes, I had already spent my last two dollars on a Miller Lite [Debbie Downer warh-warh smiley goes here]. Unfortunately, before I spotted the mixtapes, I had already spent my last two dollars on a Miller Lite [Debbie Downer warh-warh smiley goes here].

]]> By: Rick Moody http://therumpus.net/2009/04/swinging-modern-sounds-the-interactive-playlist/comment-page-1/#comment-2990 Rick Moody Wed, 06 May 2009 11:14:43 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=15761#comment-2990 Cesar, did you get a copy of a tape or a CD from the gig? Will trade if yes. And thanks for the report. Just great, really. Cesar, did you get a copy of a tape or a CD from the gig? Will trade if yes. And thanks for the report. Just great, really.

]]> By: Cesar Bruto http://therumpus.net/2009/04/swinging-modern-sounds-the-interactive-playlist/comment-page-1/#comment-2965 Cesar Bruto Tue, 05 May 2009 18:07:23 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=15761#comment-2965 I heard Dan Friel live at Oven 51, which turned out to be somebody's basement. Or whatever you call the passageway under a building for storing paint and plank. There was Miller Lite from a mini-fridge. Boxes of mixtapes for sale. Fifteen people in the audience. Almost a full house. Dan's tubular science fair keyboard tray rested on his lap. A Casio on a cocktail of battery acid, absinthe, and crystal meth was a spot on description. He sounded to me like a younger, garage-bound cousin of Daedelus, Flying Lotus, and Lazer Sword, all part of an electronic music movement here in the West Coast in which the beat's no longer tied to any one formula but is free to roam wherever, although the levels of freedom vary from those who layer complex beeps and blips on tracks with predetermined routes (The Glitch Mob, Megasoid), and those who improvise both the blips and the beats such that the direction of the track is up for grabs (Dan + cousins). Thanks for the referral, Rick. It is exciting to venture out for something I wouldn't have heard about otherwise. Currently listening to dd/mm/yyyy’s Black Square. Good stuff. I heard Dan Friel live at Oven 51, which turned out to be somebody’s basement. Or whatever you call the passageway under a building for storing paint and plank. There was Miller Lite from a mini-fridge. Boxes of mixtapes for sale. Fifteen people in the audience. Almost a full house. Dan’s tubular science fair keyboard tray rested on his lap. A Casio on a cocktail of battery acid, absinthe, and crystal meth was a spot on description. He sounded to me like a younger, garage-bound cousin of Daedelus, Flying Lotus, and Lazer Sword, all part of an electronic music movement here in the West Coast in which the beat’s no longer tied to any one formula but is free to roam wherever, although the levels of freedom vary from those who layer complex beeps and blips on tracks with predetermined routes (The Glitch Mob, Megasoid), and those who improvise both the blips and the beats such that the direction of the track is up for grabs (Dan + cousins).

Thanks for the referral, Rick. It is exciting to venture out for something I wouldn’t have heard about otherwise.

Currently listening to dd/mm/yyyy’s Black Square. Good stuff.

]]> By: Rick Moody http://therumpus.net/2009/04/swinging-modern-sounds-the-interactive-playlist/comment-page-1/#comment-2915 Rick Moody Sun, 03 May 2009 20:41:51 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=15761#comment-2915 Cesar, I'm on "Xenogenesis!" Sounds great. Let me know how the Friel show is. Cesar, I’m on “Xenogenesis!” Sounds great. Let me know how the Friel show is.

]]> By: Cesar Bruto http://therumpus.net/2009/04/swinging-modern-sounds-the-interactive-playlist/comment-page-1/#comment-2899 Cesar Bruto Sun, 03 May 2009 01:46:11 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=15761#comment-2899 Hola Rick! I was just going through you list and found Dan Friel is playing in San Francisco tonight. Chevere. I will check him out live tonight! I've been re-re-re-listening to Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble's "Xenogenesis Suite," a sort of The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady plus Unhinged Caribbean Sorcerer. http://firehouse12.com/firehouse12_records_release.asp?id=44048 Hola Rick!

I was just going through you list and found Dan Friel is playing in San Francisco tonight. Chevere. I will check him out live tonight!

I’ve been re-re-re-listening to Nicole Mitchell’s Black Earth Ensemble’s “Xenogenesis Suite,” a sort of The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady plus Unhinged Caribbean Sorcerer.

http://firehouse12.com/firehouse12_records_release.asp?id=44048

]]> By: Rick Moody http://therumpus.net/2009/04/swinging-modern-sounds-the-interactive-playlist/comment-page-1/#comment-2879 Rick Moody Sat, 02 May 2009 10:23:43 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=15761#comment-2879 Jared, nothing wrong with Peter Tosh or Joni Mitchell, at all! Just because they're popular doesn't make them unworthy of consideration. I think BLUE is a masterpiece, obviously, and COURT AND SPARK too. And I also like the period of Pink Floyd that featured the late,lamented Syd Barrett. His solo album THE MADCAP LAUGHS is one of my very favorite albums even. I'm really interested in Racogalu, tho. Will have to chase down the lead! Jared, nothing wrong with Peter Tosh or Joni Mitchell, at all! Just because they’re popular doesn’t make them unworthy of consideration. I think BLUE is a masterpiece, obviously, and COURT AND SPARK too. And I also like the period of Pink Floyd that featured the late,lamented Syd Barrett. His solo album THE MADCAP LAUGHS is one of my very favorite albums even.

I’m really interested in Racogalu, tho. Will have to chase down the lead!

]]> By: Jared http://therumpus.net/2009/04/swinging-modern-sounds-the-interactive-playlist/comment-page-1/#comment-2837 Jared Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:43:15 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=15761#comment-2837 Rick, I'm afraid those five musicians/bands have been so distributed to the masses since the early 1960's that not a single one of them befits more than footnoted coverage in your column, should you stay true to your mission (which is a good one). (Examples: Peter Tosh, Joni Mitchell, Pink Floyd). That said, about one year ago I went to see a band in Olympia called RACOGALU, a bohemian music ensemble who had crafted an entire, two-set show dedicated to exploring themes from Willa Cather's "My Antonia." My journal from the time reads: "Rather Amazing." This may merit further investigation. If I find a link to their music, I will post it immediately. Rick, I’m afraid those five musicians/bands have been so distributed to the masses since the early 1960’s that not a single one of them befits more than footnoted coverage in your column, should you stay true to your mission (which is a good one). (Examples: Peter Tosh, Joni Mitchell, Pink Floyd).

That said, about one year ago I went to see a band in Olympia called RACOGALU, a bohemian music ensemble who had crafted an entire, two-set show dedicated to exploring themes from Willa Cather’s “My Antonia.” My journal from the time reads: “Rather Amazing.”

This may merit further investigation. If I find a link to their music, I will post it immediately.

]]> By: Rick Moody http://therumpus.net/2009/04/swinging-modern-sounds-the-interactive-playlist/comment-page-1/#comment-2811 Rick Moody Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:17:25 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=15761#comment-2811 Jared, please append a list of the five musicians! R. Jared, please append a list of the five musicians!

R.

]]> By: Jared http://therumpus.net/2009/04/swinging-modern-sounds-the-interactive-playlist/comment-page-1/#comment-2802 Jared Wed, 29 Apr 2009 04:13:01 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=15761#comment-2802 Thank you for this. I've been a bit narrow in my music selection--in fact, I have only five musicians that I can name whose discs have graced my car stereo over the past year--and so your column may serve me well. Like you, I have an "irritation test," and mine is more challenging than the bar. Anyway, I like this. Thanks again. Thank you for this. I’ve been a bit narrow in my music selection–in fact, I have only five musicians that I can name whose discs have graced my car stereo over the past year–and so your column may serve me well. Like you, I have an “irritation test,” and mine is more challenging than the bar.

Anyway, I like this. Thanks again.

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