June 2008

Never knew 'White Lines' was just a massive rip-off

Liquid Liquid's 'Cavern':

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It's so much more interesting too - so live, and weird sounding.

The backstory of the rip-off action on this history of 99 Records is interesting too. Scroll down to the bit about the single "Optimo / Cavern".

Finding Nemo's sex

Just read on the oh so reliable Wikipedia page about clownfish that they are all born male and change sex. So apparently Nemo's dad should've taken over as Nemo's mum after his wife died in the movie.

Seems kinda funny that famously conservative Disney made a movie about a naturally sex-changing fish. I'd love it if there were a sequel in which Nemo is a girl, but where that's just completely incidental to the plot...

weekly mp3 #10: Antiguo Autómata Mexicano - Broken In Your Room Again

This track is part of a Background Records sampler on the now defunct Minlove site. Well, it may come back some time, but it's been out of action since 2006, so maybe not.

Weekly mp3 #9 take 2: Albert Kuvezin and Yat-Kha - Love Will Tear Us Apart

OK, since Tuesday’s effort failed, here’s another attempt. You can download a ridiculously lo-fi MP3 from the band's website.

A cover of Joy Division's most famous song. Tuvan throat singing, acoustic guitar. Odd.

weekly mp3 #9: anders dahl - kärrsilja - metal bowls, electronics, bouzouki

This week's offering is a change of pace in two ways - it's not a song (or anything to do with "pop music" in any sense) and it's from a "net audio" release, i.e. it's from a free MP3 release that's not attached to some commercial release available in a physical format.

EDIT 18/06/08: Sorry, turns out Komplott have redesigned their site, and this release is no longer available.

weekly mp3 #8: david byrne & brian eno - regiment

My favourite track from 1981's My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts was made available for download when the album was reissued in 2006. Lots has been said and written about it, but if you haven't heard of it around the time Eno was producing Talking Heads he and that band's frontman wrote an album together. It's usually described as instrumental, which is somewhat ironic given it's built around the premise of writing instrumentation around pre-existing vocal recordings.

Wu Tang Clan founder starts chess-playing site

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Curious. Having won the, ah, coveted (?) Hip-Hop Chess Federation tournament last year, RZA has launched a weird online business...

WuChess Link to external site

weekly mp3 #7: the deadly deaths - see the world

Some New Zealand stuff this week, specifically from the much maligned (fairly, in my experience!) city of Hamilton. You can get four free tracks by The Deadly Deaths from their virb page.