June 2009
5 posts
004 - santigold "santogold"
where/when did you first hear it?
a couple of tracks came down with the hype machine podcast feed, mostly mixes of “shove it” and “LES Artistes” got me interested. what do you like/hate about it?
reading the lyrics to LES Artistes got me VERY interested. i felt the same way about some people, often i think “the emperor has no clothes”. the music itself is...
003 - the crystal method "vegas"
where/when did you first hear it?
it would have been mid-1998, probably the filter-trip like i do remix, living in east brisbane or chapel hill… share houses, eating badly, lots of boxing training, squash, and wake-boarding in those couple of years.
what do you like/hate about it?
i love the sort of slow-burn build up in a lot of the tracks, also the signature style of the keyboards,...
002 - OST "lock, stock & two smoking barrels"
where/when did you first hear it?
my house mate in kenmore had it; jo, can you believe this soundtrack introduced me to james brown (other than “i feel good”).
what do you like/hate about it?
i love that it’s like a 70’s mixtape, but feels timeless. the music flows from track to the next and has heaps of swagger. i can take or leave the little bits of dialogue between...
001 - live "mental jewelry"
where/when did you first hear it?
back in about 1994 i was hooked on their later album “throwing copper”, i probably listened to it so much i made myself sick of it. anyway i went looking for more of their stuff and found a friend of my brothers had this album… what do you like/hate about it?
i like that on re-listen it doesn’t sound really dated, just mid-nighties...
000 - rules
where/when did you first hear it?
what do you like/hate about it?
fav and least fav track?
know any trivia or have any random thoughts?