Archive for the ‘music’ Category

TAME IMPALA

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

Tame Impala Innerspeaker

I’ve been listening to this album almost non stop for the past week. Tame Impala have a great mix of garage rock & trippy psychedelia. I’m normally not into guitars heavily soaked in chorus/flange/phasers, but they make me want to get out my Uni-Vibe and Phase 90 and find some old fuzz boxes on eBay. Below is another track, it’s not on the album but it’s an awesome tune.

THE STUYVESANTS

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

The Stuyvesants

Awesome instrumental hip-hop out of Brooklyn from The Stuyvesants. You can pick up their album “Brooklyn’s Finest” for free from their website. I’m positive this is going into heavy rotation this summer.

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BEAT THE DEVIL’S TATTOO | BRMC

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

The latest album from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Beat the Devil’s Tattoo, came out last Tuesday which coincidentally was when they played at Slim’s here in San Francisco. I’m glad I finally got to see this band live, and I’ve been listening to this new album a ton since picking it up at the show.

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SPOON + SQUAREPUSHER

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

A couple albums I’ve been listening to a ton over the past several weeks; I picked them up at my previous trip to Amoeba Records. The album from Spoon is their latest, Transference, which I’ve been enjoying immensely. Budakhan Mindphone by Squarepusher came out in 1999, but I picked it up or two reasons, it’s one of the albums by him I don’t have, and the second being the song Iambic 5 Poetry is how I was introduced to Squarepusher, so it has some nostalgia attached to it. I’ve included the song below as I think it’s a perfect example of how a song can create atmosphere, and I find it’s a great song to listen to while I’m working.

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