Music

I was disappointed when I clicked play on the first track of the new album.  Even a bit angry.  I was trying to not think too hard, just let the music do its thing, but, well, I’m me. ;)  

So last Saturday I wrote on Facebook and Twitter about trying to listen to the music I already had, since I have more than I can possibly get familiar with.

Then, in the last week, I received two CDs in the post (admittedly ordered before last Saturday), ordered a 7", downloaded two promo albums, a free album, two free EPs, and I think three individual free tracks.

I've listened through all of these things once (at best).

Bla bla, end of year list caveats, all a load of shit, I'll find lots of 2012 stuff I love in the next coming years and dismiss everything below as faddish rubbish...  Granted.

So, a few things that stick out in my mind, anyway.   I also played a bunch of stuff from this year on the radio relatively recently - a couple of week's ago and back in August.

Guess I'd better blog a bit about some other stuff since I stopped doing those weekly mp3 posts.

End of October I started an occasional series of interviews with New Zealand producers for the website The Corner, called "Production Value".

First up was Sable, a house-influenced producer from Auckland.

Second, just this morning, is S.F.T., a hip-hop producer from Auckland.

So, back in April 2008 I started doing these Weekly MP3 posts, with a write-up of Dntel's 'The Distance'.  I've had occasional comments and a few friends in real life said they found lots of interesting music through this, but I'm done.  Got plenty of other stuff I'm doing, and will continue to link to lots of free stuff through my radio show playlists.

Appropriately blissed out Swedish rejig of  Lil Wayne's 'Lollipop', free from Betterpropaganda.

One of my listening highlights this year was this 1964 electronic radio broadcast, archived in its entirety on the art website UbuWeb as a free download.  Here's a Youtube clip to listen to as well.

I'm suspecting Asian movie soundtrack samples on this hip-hop instrumental, from a free EP on Bandcamp.

Aqueous soundscape-maker Balam Acab gave this and another tune away via Twitter earlier in the year, but you can grab them from Pitchfork.

Slightly gloomy synthpop from Dublab's MP3 blog.