October 2010

Weekly mp3 #128: Christopher Willits - Light Into Branches

Christopher Willits

BetterPropaganda is one of a bunch of sites this cropped up on.

Weekly mp3 #127: Electric Egypt - Temple of the Sun

 

Picture of Electric Egypt guy

On dublab's website, can stream first there.

A 1 1/2 min beat track - gamelan (that's Indonesian bell / bowl / gong orchestra, durr brain) samples dovetailing happily into each other over a slow, murky drum machine beat. Not much to say, description-wise, but it sounds good. :)

Weekly mp3 #126: Caribou - Odessa

 Promo pic of Dan Snaith, aka Caribou

RCRDLBL served this one up back in February and now you can stream and download it:

Visible branding matters if you're not religious

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I thought this series of studies into brand loyalty and religiosity was pretty interesting.

The guts of the findings seems to be that if you are religious you're not going to be so interested in choosing brands for products that might otherwise identify your brand loyalty.

Weekly mp3 #125: matthewdavid - Trusss

Matthew David in a field 

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Half way between an 80s R&B slow jam (think Luther Vandross, Freddie Jackson, James Ingram...) and a lo-fi ambient number. There are bits of clean jazzy guitar and soul vocal stylings on top of a slow mo synth beat, but the whole thing is degraded at the edges and super slushy. If Boards of Canada had started this century..?