Friday, May 22, 2009

April play lists

Two play list from brief data crunching sessions

1. Ladytron - Burning Up
2. Fischerspooner - Emerge
3. Client - Come On
4. Miss Kiten - Allergic
5. Viva la Fete - Nuit blanche
6. Electrocute - Blow it
7. Goldfrapp Ooh La La
8. The Presets - Kicking and Screaming
9. Alice in Videoland - Radiosong
10. Crystal Castles - Love and Caring
11. Chicks on Speed - Fashion Rules
12. Ladytron - He Took her to a movie
13. Fischerspooner - the 15th
14. Chicks on Speed - for All the boys in the world
15. Felix da Housecat - Silver Screen Shower Scene
16. The Presets - Talk like that
17. Tiga - The Ballad of Sexor
18. Ladytron - Ghosts
19. Client - Come on
20. Vitalic - Le Rock 01
21. Electrocute - Tales of Ordinary Sadness
22. Simian Mobile Disco - Sleep deprivation

Best of set:
Emerge by Fischerspooner

Feh:
Tiga

I've decided I *don't* like Miss Kitten. At all.

Best band name EVER Simian Mobile Disco

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

And now for something a little different

Not a set list (I have so many to upload) but a meme!

From the dreaded Facebook 15 Albums Meme...

"Think of 15 albums that had such a profound effect on you they changed your life or the way you looked at it. They sucked you in and took you over for days, months, weeks and years. These were the albums that you can use to identify time, places, people, emotions. These are the albums that no matter what they were thought of musically shaped your world."

1. Parallel Lines - Blondie
New wave was the first music genre I discovered on my own - roughly age 9 or 10. The first track, Hanging on the Telephone, just blew my mind. I met Deborah Harry about 12 years ago; she was gracious and as awesome as I anticipated.

2.The Doors - The Doors
Released the same year as Sgt Pepper and Surrealistic Pillow, this to me typifies all that was fantastic and fatal about the Summer of Love. Morrison. I listened to this non stop in junior high school.

3.Back in Black - AC/DC
The first album I asked my parents to buy me - and they did.

4.Dirty Mind - Prince
The neighborhood kids introduced me to Prince around the time Controversy came out. After a few years I went back to find more Prince and stumbled upon Dirty Mind. Scandalous. Funky. Fabulous.

5. Touch - Eurythmics
I had the Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) album but it was Touch that made me a rabid Eurythmics - and by extension - Annie Lennox fan. It was a tip off to adoration of all things electronic leading to....

6. Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
This album was released in 1977 but I didn't discover it until roughly 1983 or 84. Played it until the grooves wore out.

7. Leave Home - Ramones
Welcome to Punk Rock. Also released in 1977 and entered my world in 1984.

8. Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
My favorite track on this album is Are You Experienced. Yes, I know Electric Ladyland is better, but this the first Hendrix I bought. I played it non stop my freshman year of college.

9. Fables of the Reconstruction - R.E.M.
Another album that dominated my college years as I became a philomath myself. Alternative music becomes popular music.

10.The White Album - The Beatles
In truth Revolver means more to me musically, but The White Album comforted my seventeen year old broken heart.

11. Doolittle - The Pixies
Debaser and Tame picked up the pieces of my mind that were destroyed by Blondie, pulverized them, and shot them into space.

12.It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back - Public Enemy
The soundtrack for my first summer of research in graduate school, at the synchrotron in Stoughton, Wisconsin. Don't believe the hype - it's a sequel.

13. Nevermind - Nirvana
Classic. My favorite Nirvana tunes are on other albums (Pennyroyal Tea, In Utero, Aneurysm, From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah) but this ripped the 1990s out of the utter crap that was pop music. Also, eff Pearl Jam. Poseurs.

14.Diva - Annie Lennox
The soundtrack to the start of my first significant relationship - six and half years of mostly joy. After our breakup, I'd listen to it and mourn.

15.Living in Clip - Ani Difranco
The soundtrack to the start of my second (and current) significant relationship - ten years of Sturm und Drang, ideas and lust, devotion. Like the energizer bunny, still going.

BONUS
16.OK Computer -Radiohead
Minor keys. Paranoia. Thom Yorke. Macintosh Simple Text. Enough said.

Friday, January 16, 2009

Statistical analysis tunes - January 6 2009

Fatboy Slim – Praise You
Björk – Army of Me
Simian Mobile Disco – I Believe
Ellen Allien – Erdbeermund
The Knife – Heartbeats
Tiga – Welcome to Planet Sexor
Freezepop – Parlez-Vous Freezepop?
Peaches – Set it Off (Northern Lite RMX)
Fischerspooner – Emerge
Chicks on Speed – 99 Cents
Ladytron – CMYK

Best of set: The Knife, Fischerspooner

Thursday, January 15, 2009

The next day 12/09/2008

A short experiment and a short list:

Cibo Matto – Sugar Water
Dannii Minogue – Good Times
Imogen Heap – Closing In8
Kate Bush – Pi
Saint Etienne – Stars Above Us

Playlist 12/08/2008

Shinjuku Zula Da Riddim Griffin (from Various Chimeras)
B-Rock Fuck the Chase
Ladytron Cease2xist
The Thought Criminals (I'm gonna be a) Celebrity
Ravelyn Slipstream (omg awful singing)
Goldfrapp Deep Honey
Bjork, Venus as a Boy,
Hooverphonic, Battersea (from Blue Wonder Powder Milk)
Moloko, Indigo
Sneaker Pimps, becoming X
Brazilian Girls, P*ssy
Faithless, Mass Destruction
Gus Gus, David (from Attention)
Sia, Breathe me (from Colour the Small one)
Royksopp, Triumphant
Portishead, The Rip
Emilie Simon Dame de Lotus
Cibo Matto, Sugar Water
Tricky, Feed Me

Best of Set: Gus Gus, Brazilian girls, Emilie Simon
Worst of Set: Ravelyn, Faithless, B-Rock

Monday, October 6, 2008

Data Crunching Music

10/3/08
Vicious - Spalding Rockwell
New American Century -KMFDM
Altair - Robert Fripp & Brian Eno
Slow time - Patrick O'hearn
Rainbow meditation - Daevid Allen (from Stroking the Tail of the Bird)
Water music - William Basinski
Careless Whispers - Tim Hecker
Spacegerat - Phonosynthese
Accompanying Guilty Thoughts - Klimek
2 strings - Four Color

Feh
New American Century - KMFDM

Best of Set

Careless Whispers - Tim Hecker

Thursday, October 2, 2008

Music for Dielectric Testing

9/30/2008
Trip Like I Do - Crystal Method
Rabbitweed - Sasha
High Energy Protons - Juno Reactor
Dance Hall Tornado - Way Out West
Leave Home - Chemical Brothers
Take California - Propellerheads
Bitchy - Lesbians on Ecstasy
Strict Machine (We Are Glitter Remix) - Goldfrapp
Life in Mono, Mono
Little Things, Lamb
Karma Police, Radiohead
Wish, Kosheen
Polythene Pam, Beatles
Change, Tracey Chapman
Shameless, Ani Difranco
Paranoid, Dickies
Beat on the Brat, Ramones
Holiday in the Sun, Sex Pistols
I Wanna Be a New York Ranger, Misfits
Ice Water, Cat Power
Whirl Away, Patti Smith
Maria (live), Blondie
Something is not Right with Me, Cold War Kids
Killing in the Name, Rage Against the Machine

Best of Set
Something is not Right with Me, Bitch, Ice Water, Wish

Feh

Life in Mono