you, at the back

have just discovered that that track i love quite a lot, miles behind me by hotel lights, is the songwriting work of the drummer from ben folds five, darren jessee

and lookee - there's a new album due out in august!
http://www.hotellights.net/

and i apologise to his inevitable wife, girlfriend or whatever, but i think he might be my new crush...

blipping brilliant

added several new pieces to the blip

http://blip.fm/anaesthete

and noticed that my much loved amiina have a new CD out. puzzle.

thinking of getting the new fleet foxes album too, after it dawned on me slowly that they are fucking brilliant. can't pass up that title helplessness blues

helplessness.

funny to think about the chance/cause/effect/reaction that creates the situations in your life.

as long as i continue to listen to music i feel more likely to survive the despair.

it would be good if i had the same attitude to eating. but it seems in times of trial the first thing i do is cease ingesting.

i would bottle coriolis and drink it if it could. and why won't someone upload a version of that so i can share it with you? i have spent an inordinate amount of time in that track.

i realised something last night. i couldn't sleep. lay awake with fragments of a new favourite piece of music circling in my mind. for me, one of the pieces of proof that i have absorbed a work of music is when i can hear it, in full or in part, played on my internal mental stereo.

i always had a theory that the human individual was at the mercy of a terminally incomplete, biased and inferior recording system from which to try and transcribe the evidence of their life.

and that led to a theory that if god was anything, it was a perfect recording of things. of the moments before, during and after those things that somehow became defining parts of your understanding of who and what you were.

me?

i am a sad song. minimalist heartbreaker in minor chords and lingering.

i am also a 4/4 beat for shameless booty-shakin' to. hands in the air and breathing the sheer glory of being alive.

the pendulum swings, the venn diagram is drawn, between these forces. to grieve and to exhault.

but eventually i will have to eat something...

love

~ a listener

still listening

new dawn, new day, new PLAYLIST!

so, what's in the new car CD and at-home-preferred playlist? Well, a quick impulse buy of an iTunes $20 voucher got me a backlog of dance-pop (guetta/cudi, duck sauce, MSTRKRT/Chromeo and Glee Safety Dance), mixed in with some gifts from friends (Black Cab, Jezebels) and some of my trusty epic electronica and postrock. Which I Love.

I reckon that MSTRKRFT Chromeo remix is awesome enough to get me tracking down some more remixes by them, and even the whole of the remixed Chromeo Fancy Footwork (entitled Fancier Footwork, ahhh, those smoothies).

Weird Crush shout-out here to P-Thugg from Chromeo, actually. Is it his reminiscence of Turtle in Entourage maybe, because Jerry Ferrara did register with me (a cute, cuddly twenty-something who can fulfill your needs? sweet.)

interview with P-Thugg on Some Kind of Awesome

and for just plain excellent new pop - Two Door Cinema Club's What You Know and Pigeon John's The Bomb.

All. Good.

Holland, 1945 / Neutral Milk Hotel / In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
What You Know / Two Door Cinema Club / Tourist History
Tenderoni (MSTRKRFT Remix) / Chromeo / Fancier Footwork (Remixes)
Memories /David Guetta (feat. Kid Cudi)
Hooray! Hooray! Hooray! /Do Make Say Think / Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn
The Bomb / Pigeon John / Dragon Slayer
Singular feat. Matias Aguyao / Discodeine
Safety Dance (Glee Cast Version) / Glee Cast
Barbara Streisand (Original Mix) / Duck Sauce
After The War / Black Cab / Call Signs
Hollywood / Marina & The Diamonds / The Family Jewels
Hurt Me / The Jezabels / She's So Hard
Coriolis / Penguin Cafe / A Matter Of Life...

interested in Googling this music? Try www.google.com.au

x

~ listener

the end of a road

bookended by playlists

here's how it ended

Lump Sum / Bon Iver / For Emma, Forever Ago
Lua / Bright Eyes / I'm Wide Awake It's Morning
I See A Darkness / Bonnie "Prince" Billy
Love Letter / Lisa Mitchell / Wonder
Coriolis / Penguin Cafe / A Matter Of Life...
Colorado / Grizzly Bear / Yellow House
Brainy / The National /Boxer
It's Not Up To You / Björk
Holland, 1945 / Neutral Milk Hotel / In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
What You Know / Two Door Cinema Club / Tourist History
So Long, Baby / The Wedding Present / Watusi
They Can't Take That Away From Me / Fred Astaire / Cheek To Cheek
You Could Be Happy / Snow Patrol / Eyes Open

shoulder shrug shuffle

it's odd to realise how much a genre means to you until you're called to defend it.

electronica.

i fucken love it.

i would miss it if i were never allowed to hear it again and it has begun to occupy a place in my listening habits which render it pretty irreplaceable: ie. i can do other things while i listen.

poetically composed lyrics always have to be heard, even when you know them by heart.

repeated individual words, like in caribou's sun

and totally wordless, lengthy tracks like the pantha du prince stuff...

are possibly my most beloved new musics.

so this is pantha - bohemian forest (note youtube embed code is now iframes... interesting)



see ya

~ listener

it's a blipping addiction

can't WAIT for these guys to kick out an iPhone app so i can stream this stuff, but for the past few months i have been toying with this online radio thingo, and i love it.

it will possibly eclipse my blogging shortly, so if you want to follow me on blip, go here:

http://blip.fm/anaesthete

playlist is so far nearly all super mellow electronica

cheers

~ listener

what we like

no remix, no unwanted gift wrapping

just the original mix