8.27.2009

Ohh Dharma virtualmixtape02


excessive cloudwatching/daydreaming/studying/discovering/

01 Boards of Canada "Chromakey Dreamcoat"
02 Jonsi & Alex "Boy 1904"
03 Air "Alone in Kyoto"
04 Album Leaf "Vermillion"
05 Cinematic Orchestra "The Child Song"
06 Thom Yorke "All For the Best"
07 Air "Do The Joy"
08 Antony and the Johnsons "Crazy In Love (Beyonce cover)"
09 Feist "One Evening (Piano Version)"
10 Sun Kil Moon "Lost Verses"
11 David Bazan Priest and Paramedics (live)"
12 Asobi Seksu "Taiyo"
13 Burial/Four Tet "Wolf Cub"
14 Nujabes "Final View"

mad photo props to Aaron Garcia

8.19.2009

not-so-weekly-update post

Summer is coming to a close. It's about time. I can't handle the non-stop pace, and I sure did try to hang on. Time to get back to reality...back to selfishness, back to myself, back to the grind. It's going to be a rocky transitional period but I'm going to keep that 'boy of summer' smile alive!

Atlas Sound (Bradford Cox of Deerhunter) and Noah Lennox (Panda Bear/Animal Collective) did a track together, it's better than good.

download/listen/share/enjoy/breathe.


few daily snaps that haven't surfaces yet...

8.10.2009

Intergalactic Bike Ride

8.06.2009

Record of the Week.

I found this record in the basement of a Seattle record shop, Bop Records. America's link between psychedelia and what soon became heavy metal.

Vanilla Fudge [1967]
In a debut consisting of covers, nobody could accuse Vanilla Fudge of bad taste in their repertoire; with stoned-out, slowed-down versions of such then-recent classics as "Ticket to Ride," "Eleanor Rigby," and "People Get Ready," they were setting the bar rather high for themselves. Even the one suspect choice -- Sonny Bono's "Bang Bang" -- turns out to be rivaled only by Mott the Hoople's version of "Laugh at Me" in putting Bono's songwriting in the kindest possible light. Most of the tracks here share a common structure of a disjointed warm-up jam, a Hammond-heavy dirge of harmonized vocals at the center, and a final flat-out jam. Still, some succeed better than others: "You Keep Me Hanging On" has a wonderfully hammered-out drum part, and "She's Not There" boasts some truly groovy organ jams. While the pattern can sound repetitive today, each song still works as a time capsule of American psychedelia.