Comments on: obsessions

By: Alex P

Alex P — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:27:49 +0000

hey, thank you for the awesome mix! i’ve played it for a couple friends and they’ve all been way into it.

By: timeblind

timeblind — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:32:45 +0000

wow, thanks alex p. sincerely I do try to make a mix more than just a bunch of tracks.

hate to be a 404 following geek, but the link you posted is wrong. its ovah here:

I think ghostification is on e-music because we went through TuneCore. Scuba/hotflush I think has a distro agreement so its his distro that handles that.

By: Alex P

Alex P — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:32:06 +0000

thanks for the zomby mix. i LOVE ‘where were u in 92,’ so this is a nice treat. jrn is right, though, hyperdub has been on a roll as of late – kode9, ld, cooly g, and king midas sound all have excellent singles up. i’ve also been listening to kode9 spaceape’s ‘memories of the future’ lately, which i rate highly among dubstep albums.

speaking of dubstep, what are the chances that emusic will pick up the hotflush recordings label? scuba, mount kimbie, and untold have had excellent singles/eps semi-recently and the label would make a great addition to the emusic catalogue.

one record i’ve been obsessing over is emeralds’ ‘what happened’ (http://www.emusic.com/album/Emeralds-What-Happened-MP3-Download/11385414.html). it’s an excellent improv record that lands somewhere between noise and ambient. check it out if you are into the schulze & tangerine dream end of the cosmic spectrum. the last song on the record just kills me. so beautiful.

in half-emusic news, i’ve also been playing timeblind’s mahout mix a ton (http://crucial-systems.com/music/mixes/mahout). usually i find free mixes available online are fun for a little while, but i don’t listen to them more than once or twice. the mahout mix, on the other hand, i’ve listened to almost every day since i got it about a month ago. if anyone is into that mix, you should definitely check out timeblind’s ghostification ep (http://www.emusic.com/album/Timeblind-Ghostification-MP3-Download/11369789.html) on dj /rupture’s soot records.

By: jonder

jonder — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:07:28 +0000

Is there a chance that US customers of eMusic will be able to get the new Future of the Left album in the near future? I’ve been waiting for today’s release… obsessively.

http://www.emusic.com/album/Future-Of-The-Left-Travels-With-Myself-And-Another-MP3-Download/11458388.html

By: Brendan

Brendan — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:00:27 +0000

Crossword puzzles can easily become an obsession, too. Trust me. Check out some neat puzzles here: http://www.brendanemmettquigley.com/ This guy has totally modern phrases and pop culture references in his grids, and frequently references popular indie bands.

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:20:52 +0000

I hear lots of people are obsessed with the new Grizzly Bear album. It must be pretty good – but, of course, I wouldn’t know.

By: ilya

ilya — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:14:56 +0000

Ukrainian black metal? Thanks jrn!

For a dude with a guitar and a soft voice that Cass McCombs track is surprisingly unique and fresh. I’m in love.

By: jrn

jrn — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:33:00 +0000

i’ve been pretty much obsessed by everything Hyperdub has put out this year, and today y’all FINALLY got the Cooly G single. and, predictably, it kills. not that i’d be honest if it didn’t, such is my undying devotion.

http://www.emusic.com/album/Cooly-G-Narst-Love-Dub-MP3-Download/11474858.html

another today-arrival i’m stoked about is the new record from Ukranian black metal-ers DRUDKH. last i heard from them, and i’m sure stuff happened in between, they released an all-acoustic album of Ukranian folk tunes with no black metal on it. it was great. their new one, which i haven’t heard fully yet, sounds like a perfect realization of old-world melodicism, grim suicidal Burzumic blackness and, unlike the last go-round, blastbeats up the ass.

http://www.emusic.com/album/Drudkh-Microcosmos-MP3-Download/11463582.html

so, uh, yeah. dubstep-hybrid bass music and black metal. there’s my obsessions for ya.

By: alex

alex — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:30:05 +0000

Then there’s the Mariah addendum, of course:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYFoIVhmLnM&annotation_id=annotation_576268&feature=iv