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Yeah, there are some good shows coming up, but I just got word from SooperFlav that one of the Holy Trinity of Music, Richie Hawtin will be playing at Mezzanine on Friday, September 2nd. You can get tickets at Blasthaus. Don't miss it.
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Blue Compilation Track #14 Fixed

Track #14 Madvillain - Money Folder (Four Tet Remix) has been fixed. It was purchased through an online store that makes a popular white music device that everyone seems to have and they put some type of protection on the song which has now been removed for your consumption. This is a promotional site and it is here to share music. Enjoy.

Si See See

Check out The Girl in the Cafe' written by Richard Curtis and directed by David Yates. A compelling movie about isolation, connection and poverty. A poignant movie especially now when the rich are getting richer and poor are getting poorer. Damien Rice's Cold Water bookends the movie with Sigur Ros' Starálfur playing towards the end.

Music Addiction Case No.14

Here's a quick rundown of new music from the past week or so........

Apparat - Silizium EP - A reworked studio session from the BBC John Peel Show. Also, a good Telefon Tel Aviv Remix. More abstract beats with pop-like vocals. abstract pop ?

The Arcade Fire - The Arcade Fire - A re-release of their first ep/cd. Not as defined as Funeral, but it shows signs of the greatness to come.

Prefuse 73 Reads The Books EP - Prefuse 73 reworking some of The Books' tracks. Pagina Dos appears on Surrounded by Silence. A more straightforward collection of beats, but melodic and pure. A great combo of The Books w. Scott Herren.

Sufjan Stevens - Seven Swans, Illinois - 7swans is a softer singer-songwriter collection of songs. Very intimate. Illinois is the newest album from SS continuing the 50 state campaign for melody. Another quirky collection of genius pop.

Eats Tapes - Sticky Buttons - Electro, Techy offerings from the local group. A first release off of Kid 606's Tigerbeat6 label. A great live band.

Jeff Mills - Three Ages - A soundtrack as well as DVD of the Buster Keaton silent classic with Jeff Mills providing his melodic detroit techno beats to the picture. The Mills sound is throughout from this techno pioneer.

Ricardo Villalobos - the' au Harem d'Archimede - I was lucky enough to find this in the used section instead of the 30clams for it on import if you can even find in the states. The co-master of minimal beats. Minimal this and minimal that. Everyone is into minimal now. fuk you. Where were the bins 4 years ago. This is what it's about today and tomorrow.

Richard Devine - Cautella - Another offering from the truly warped and superior mind of Devine. Fucked up beats that sound like heaven if it really did exist. Funkstorung offer up a remix of Sigstop. Not for the weak.

Clicks & Cuts 2 - A great collection of minimal beats on 3 cd's. Rude Solo (Two Lone Swordsmen) offer a great d&b/hip hop track. Probably too minimal for you.

New Shool vs. Old School Vol2 - I got this mainly for the Propellorheads remix of Electric Relaxation from A Tribe Called Quest. Needed an original copy. With 2 other Tribe remixes as well as 2 great Stone Roses remixes. Yes, Kid Rock and Fu Schnickens are on it as well, but sometimes you have to take the shit to get the goods.

Dats it.............for now

Nobody's Fault But Your Own

Beck, the twisty male funkster to introspective guitar strummin' crooner played last night to some 10K people at the Bill Grahanm Civic Center. Oh yeah, he's also one of those scient...gy people. Can't spell the whole word or I'll have Vinnie Barbarino and Maverick after me. 2 nights of religion and music although Beck was more subtle about it--Black Tambourine (a song about aliens from Shazbott that go Nanoo-Nanoo). It was a big venue, so with a good majority of his fans favoring the funky pop stuff, he should have played more of that. I dig his Mutations and some of the Sea Change stuff, but that really doesn't work with 10K people expecting to hear rhymes about 2 turntables and a microphone. Dig. It was a good show nonetheless. 2 drummers, a fulltime dancer/clown, warehouse party-type visuals and drunk people yellin'" yahoo yahoo, i'm drunk". Beck is the Urban Outfitters of music. I have no idea what that means, so if you do, please contact me. Le Tigre opened up and they were like getting gum stuck on the bottom of your shoe. Wherever you went, you felt it on your shoe even though you tried to get it off and couldn't so you tried to ignore it.

It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's ..................... (FT)

Tonight, Sufjan Stevens played the first of his 2 shows at Great American Music Hall. A subtle exploration of emotive beauty conveyed through an 8 piece band/ensemble including the requisite pom-pom's and choreagraphed cheers. An intimate showcase of Sufjan's incredible talent as a singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Tomorrow night is Beck at the Bill Graham which should be a funkitified celebration of the same type of folky fusion. For the encore, he played "Casimir Pulaski Day" which is on the Blue compilation you can get over to your right or from the post below. Too tired to put up the link again. I guess God does have a place in music ?

Blue - July 05 Compilation (fuzzyteeth)

While I'm working on a new "proper" mix of beats, here's a compilation for July called (Blue). The tracklisting is:

01 Charles Whitehead - Between The Lines
02 Jamie Lidell - A Little Bit More
03 The Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies)
04 LCD Soundsystem - Tribulations
05 Saul Williams - List Of Demands (Reparations)
06 TV On The Radio - Young Liars
07 Josh Rouse - Sparrows Over Birmingham
08 Sufjan Stevens - Casimir Pulaski Day
09 Radiohead - Arpeggi (Live from Ether Festival)
10 EPO - Doorstep
11 Prefuse 73 w. The Books - Pagina Cinco
12 Bomb The Bass vs Lali Puna - Clearcut (Arovane's Amx)
13 Nicolette - No Government
14 Madvillain - Money Folder (Four Tet Remix)
15 Beans - Blind Driver
16 Venetian Snares - Ongyilkos Vasárnap
17 Björk - Desired Constellation (Ben Frost's School Of Emotional Engineering Mix)

Magda Make the Tea

Check out Ubercoolische. It " totally" makes fun of minimal techno. Part 10 is great. Yeah, minimal rules. What, you say Breaks rule ?

I use this person as a baramoter of when I know a certain type of music has hit the so-called underground critical mass. She, i mean It is an up and coming (or Down and cumming) DJ in San Francisco. That's when i know that this type of dance music has hit the plateau. I expect minimal, or techno. or the combination to be rolling off of her lips (i don't know which one) pretty soon.

Say No to Cheese especially if it comes in the form that sounds like that stone/gem that gives you bad luck. It also sounds like a European car manufacturer.

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what i got is what i got..........

Before I get into the music, read 'My Friend Leonard' by James Frey. It's the sequel to 'A Million LIttle Pieces'. You need to read that one first, but 2 of the best books I have ever read. Frey is the modern day Bukowski. The writing style is direct without being overly descriptive. He builds it slowly and in a way that has you thoroughly engaged in the story. now.....


Jamie Lidell, Multiply - Quite a change of pace from his earlier releases including the ones with Cristian Vogel as Super_Collider. The album is pure funk with some hints of abstract beats, but for the most part a pure funky, soulful collection of songs. think Motown/Hitsville and Stax. A part of me loves this type of music and to see it be released on Warp by Lidell renews my faith in music. good music is good music. Full circle, motown to techno/house to abstract to motown. "A Little Bit More" is a track that's gonna make you move.

Funkstorung, Return to Acid Planet - A collection of songs collected from their "vault". A double 12"-only release showing more of their eclectic old-school style rather than the pop-orientated stuff on Disconnected. A lot of 303 acid fuzzy bass lines.

Lali Puna, I thought I was Over That - A collection of remixes and rarities. One cd is the remixes that they did and the other one is remixes of their own songs. Some interesting songs here. Nothing that really tops the originals.

Spectral Sound Vol.1 - The alter ego of Ghostly International bringing together some of the great tracks and unreleased stuff from the likes of Matthew Dear, Osborne, Geoff White and others.The second cdis a megamix of Spectral tracks compiled by Ryan Elliot. Bass heavy and "progressive" type melodies.

Sufjan Stevens, Greeting from Michigan :The Great Lakes State - Released in 2003. A great collection of pop songs from this multi-instrumentalist that are all about Michigan. A very warm intimate record. Gotta check out his other stuff soon. Wow.

Deadbeat, Primordia - An album from 2001 that displays more of a dark slow building collection of beats. Not as dubby as his newer stuff, but just as good. Another artist who is pushing music forward.

Geoff White & Must C.

Saturday night at RX, Geoff White and Christopher Willits played for the Cargo Party. Both artists are off of Ghostly International Records. I had never heard of Willits and he played an eclectic laptop set using a fender strat guitar. Geoff White also played a laptop set that was more danceable techno. The crowd was into it and we saw a few peeps that normally never go to techno shows. I can see it now. Everyone is now going to be into minimal techno, or what they deem as minimal techno. With Michael Mayer/Kompact and Ghostly/Spectral, you are gettin this wave of "progressive" techno. A more melodic, minimal tech house derivative. I guess everyone is going to have to trade in their breaks rekids.

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Here's a list of bands, artists, dj's that i'd like to see/hear before i die. A growing list.

Massive Attack - Past their prime, but damn have they put out some great music.

The Replacements - I know reunions are cheesy and they always suck, but it would be nice. I've seen Westerberg, but no Mats. The one time I did have a chance, I could not bring myself to see them open for Tom Petty (he stole the line "rebel without a clue" from Westerberg)

Portishead - It would be scary and dark.

Adam Beyer - Funky Hard Techno, swedish style.

Ben Sims - Another great funky techno DJ.

Martina Topley-Bird - funky soul. the UK version of her 1st album is great.

The Arcade Fire - Like Sufjan Stevens, I discover these bands a week after they just played San Franciscom and at Cafe Du Nord. And like SS, taking a old formula and putting a compelling twist on it.

Deadbeat - the Master of Downtempo Dub.

Slobodan - Technically a Techno DJ, but his sets and his production work is this 150-160 BPM maddening barrage of beats. It would definetly be a show that you would have to train mentally and physically a few weeks beforehand to prepare for.