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I’m Chris Clarke. I use this page to let out my excitement about what I’m listening to in a totally self-indulgent way. Most of it is electronically produced, but there's no theme or genre to it, and I'm not trying to showcase all of my favourite music or post exclusively new music or pretend that I'm any kind of authority on the matter. The same artists will probably crop up multiple times too. Falla me. |
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Notes"Put a mic in front of me and I’m gunna bless it hummingbird style - 70 times in one second"Cannibal Ox - Stress Rap
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Notes"To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave."Primus - To Defy The Laws Of Tradition
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NotesZebra Katz - Mr. Roachclip
I loveeee the production once the verse gets in. Zebra’s Champagne Mix is really great.
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NotesPVT - Light Up Bright Fires
PVT (formerly known as Pivot) are a Math-Rock band that mix electronic sounds and live instruments to awesome effect. Their 3 albums are all completely different, and are all awesome.
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NotesJuggaknots - Clear Blue Skies
An extremely well put song about racism. Frustrating, but brilliant.
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NotesJ Dilla - So Far To Go (Feat. Common & D’Angelo)
This song gave me a really strong reaction today thinking about it. For those that don’t know, Dilla made an alternative version of this track for his album Donuts, under the name ‘Bye.’. Donuts was almost entirely made by Dilla when he was in hospital, and he died 3 days after its release date, which was also his 32nd birthday. He was also quite sick when he made The Shining, which this track appears on. The names of the tracks and the circumstances of their production… so sad, yet so uplifting.
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NotesComfort Fit - Cable Vamp
That drum break from :45, and the bass from :57. Fucking nice.
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Notes"I am a very emotional person, and music was the thing that always made it gush out. Music has a particular access to one’s emotional self that is at a far deeper level than any other art form. Eliot said it was the deepest of the arts and deep beneath the arts, and that seems to be true. I suppose it’s because it’s abstract, it’s not about anything, so it’s not mediated or palliated by the dirt of actual reference. A word is more or less a token - poets are always struggling with the words they’re having to use. I think it was Rilke who said that ‘language is the universal whore that I must make into a virgin’. Musicians don’t have to do that: they don’t have to use language, the diminished currency of everyone. Because music isn’t about anything, it can be about everything." -
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NotesTOKiMONSTA Mix Excerpt
Cut this myself from the D-Styles & TOKiMONSTA podcast for The Low End Theory. I have no idea who the track is by, but damn it’s good. Don’t know what it mixes with in the middle either.
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NotesDOOM & Thom Yorke & Johnny Greenwood - Retarded Fren
Damn this is amazing. DOOM.
DOOM with Thom Yorke & Jonny Greenwood - RETARDED FREN (by circa2O11)
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NotesBlack Chow - Purple Smoke
Another track with Hitomi’s vocals and Martin’s production. love her voice.
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NotesKing Midas Sound - Tears (Kiki Hitomi Revoice)
At first I didn’t like this nearly as much as the original (Cool Out), but this revoice has grown on me massively. Reminds me of another track I’ll post after this
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NotesMichel Corringe - Cigarettes Sur Cigarettes (Unknown Remix)
I cut this from a mix myself, cause no one has released it and I don’t know who the remix is by. It’s from a Low End Theory podcast by The Gaslamp Killer and Mary Anne Hobbs. There’s something incredible about it.
Download the podcast here. Also brilliant are 3, 5, 15, 17 and 20.
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NotesHudson Mohawke - 3.30
Lots to say about Hudmo, but too busy listening to him.
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NotesThe Streets - Don’t Mug Yourself
Cheeky classic. Such good vibes every time I hear it even years later.
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I was literally the most embarrassing 13 year old in the whole world
STOP REBLOGGING THIS YOU LITTLE...
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Love a good race day ensemble! #derbyday
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mATH HOMEWORK???
THE BIBLE SAID ADAM AND EVE NOT ADAM BOUGHT 60 WATERMELONS
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“I am Sam, I am known to go H·A·M, the full retard
Playing taps on a keytar, in the Benz or the Beamer
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Lost sons of Odin
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Cannibal Ox - Def Jux Documentary (part 1). Maybe my favorite rap album ever, The Cold Vein, made by these guys.
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