First heard this track in the super awesome Kiss FM mix by Slacker back in early 2002. You can get a copy of that mix here.
Change One Thing
11 years ago
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Trisco - Musak (Wonderland Avenue Remix)
One of my all-time favorites...gets me from six to midnight in a hurry:
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Saveur Magazine - Sandwich Stories: Pastrami on Rye
One of my favorite sandwiches in NYC. As Manager Steven Cohen says, "It's a microcosm of what's right in the world".
Thursday, March 24, 2011
H-Foundation (Hipp-E & Halo) Live @ Sneak Beats, I'm A House Gangster, (Robsoul Room) Miami WMC - 11-03-2011
A live mix from WMC 2011 from two of my favorite dj/producers:
H-Foundation aka Hipp-E & Halo Live @ Sneak Beats, I'm A House Gangster, (Robsoul Room) Miami WMC - 11-03-2011 by R_co
H-Foundation aka Hipp-E & Halo Live @ Sneak Beats, I'm A House Gangster, (Robsoul Room) Miami WMC - 11-03-2011 by R_co
Monday, March 21, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Modest Mouse - Float On
A nice song for a nice day:
I backed my car into a cop car, the other day.
Well he just drove off, sometimes life's ok.
I ran my mouth off a bit too much, oh what did I say.
Well you just laughed it off, it was all ok.
And we'll all float on, ok.
And we'll all float on, ok.
And we'll all float on, ok.
And we'll all float on any way, well.
A fake Jamaican took every last dime with a scam.
It was worth it just to learn some sleight-of-hand.
Bad news comes don't you worry even when it lands.
Good news will work its way to all them plans.
We both got fired on exactly the same day.
Well we'll float on good news is on the way.
And we'll all float on, ok.
And we'll all float on, ok.
And we'll all float on, ok.
And we'll all float on, alright.
Already we'll all float on.
No, don't you worry, we'll all float on.
Alright, already, we'll all float on.
Alright, don't worry, we'll all float on.
Alright already we'll all float on.
Alright already we'll all float on.
Alright don't worry even if things end up a bit too heavy.
We'll all float on...alright. Already we'll all float on.
Alright already we'll all float on, ok.
Don't worry we'll all float on.
Even if things get heavy, we'll all float on.
Alright already we'll all float on.
(Alright)
Don't you worry we'll all float on.
(Alright)
All float on....
I backed my car into a cop car, the other day.
Well he just drove off, sometimes life's ok.
I ran my mouth off a bit too much, oh what did I say.
Well you just laughed it off, it was all ok.
And we'll all float on, ok.
And we'll all float on, ok.
And we'll all float on, ok.
And we'll all float on any way, well.
A fake Jamaican took every last dime with a scam.
It was worth it just to learn some sleight-of-hand.
Bad news comes don't you worry even when it lands.
Good news will work its way to all them plans.
We both got fired on exactly the same day.
Well we'll float on good news is on the way.
And we'll all float on, ok.
And we'll all float on, ok.
And we'll all float on, ok.
And we'll all float on, alright.
Already we'll all float on.
No, don't you worry, we'll all float on.
Alright, already, we'll all float on.
Alright, don't worry, we'll all float on.
Alright already we'll all float on.
Alright already we'll all float on.
Alright don't worry even if things end up a bit too heavy.
We'll all float on...alright. Already we'll all float on.
Alright already we'll all float on, ok.
Don't worry we'll all float on.
Even if things get heavy, we'll all float on.
Alright already we'll all float on.
(Alright)
Don't you worry we'll all float on.
(Alright)
All float on....
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
The Voice Project: DJ Spooky + Joshua Roman » Radiohead - Everything in Its Right Place
Via The Voice Project:
Went for dinner with Paul and had a great talk about the ways electronic musicians around the world are collaborating, influencing and amplifying each other over the Web as well as finding new voices in the very design of the tools they are using. Paul's been a force pushing the boundaries of experimental music and conceptual art in New York since the mid-90's and continues to push down the boundaries between different traditional genres, has collaborated with everyone from Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore to Yoko Ono, and is a professor at the European Graduate School in Switzerland where he teaches Music Mediated Art...
So basically we were pretty excited to see what kind of creative direction he would take a TVP episode. We set a date to meet up at his Tribeca rehearsal space and got treated to this. Many thanks to Paul and Josh for lending their voices to the cause.
Went for dinner with Paul and had a great talk about the ways electronic musicians around the world are collaborating, influencing and amplifying each other over the Web as well as finding new voices in the very design of the tools they are using. Paul's been a force pushing the boundaries of experimental music and conceptual art in New York since the mid-90's and continues to push down the boundaries between different traditional genres, has collaborated with everyone from Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore to Yoko Ono, and is a professor at the European Graduate School in Switzerland where he teaches Music Mediated Art...
So basically we were pretty excited to see what kind of creative direction he would take a TVP episode. We set a date to meet up at his Tribeca rehearsal space and got treated to this. Many thanks to Paul and Josh for lending their voices to the cause.
DJ Spooky + Joshua Roman » Radiohead from The Voice Project on Vimeo.
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Hot Lips Page - Rockin at Ryan's
A somewhat forgotten jazz trumpeter, Oran Alfred Page aka Hot Lips Page, really knew how to blow that horn:
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Inside David Chang's Secret Momofuku Test Kitchen
Via Eater:
Last fall we shared the news that Momofuku's David Chang had recently opened up a private test kitchen to give his team a space to experiment with new techniques and come up with new dishes and ideas. Or as Chang explains, "It's really just a place where we catalog mistakes."
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon brings cameras in for the first time to take a look around at the space and gets a peek at the MomoLab's current experiments. See the full clip above, in which Chang explains his goals to figure out what "American food" really is, to make as many things in house—think hams—as possible, and to someday get out of the food biz altogether an open a distillery.
Last fall we shared the news that Momofuku's David Chang had recently opened up a private test kitchen to give his team a space to experiment with new techniques and come up with new dishes and ideas. Or as Chang explains, "It's really just a place where we catalog mistakes."
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon brings cameras in for the first time to take a look around at the space and gets a peek at the MomoLab's current experiments. See the full clip above, in which Chang explains his goals to figure out what "American food" really is, to make as many things in house—think hams—as possible, and to someday get out of the food biz altogether an open a distillery.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Friday, February 25, 2011
Doi-Oing - Blue
An oldie but goodie that was featured on the seminal Northern Exposure: East Coast compilation mixed by Sasha & Digweed:
Vinyl Records Spin Back Into Vogue
Via USA Today:
By Brian Passey, USA TODAY
CEDAR CITY, Utah — As both a music lover and record store owner, Tim Cretsinger is excited about the recent resurgence of vinyl record albums.
"This is my favorite thing to do — hold a batch of records like this," Cretsinger, owner of Groovacious in Cedar City, Utah, says as he hugged a stack of new records close to his chest. "It reminds me of the old days."
The old days are making a comeback.
According to recent Nielsen SoundScan numbers, vinyl was the fastest-growing musical format in 2010, with 2.8 million units sold, the format's best year since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.
Vinyl's increase in popularity is providing a beacon of hope for independent record stores — an industry that has suffered with the increase of digital downloads this past decade.
When Cretsinger moved his business from Keiser, Ore., to Cedar City in 2000 there were two other record stores in the college town of about 28,000. Now, the closest independent record store is in Las Vegas, 175 miles away.
"Vinyl seems to be the light at the end of the tunnel for those of us who have hung in there," he says. "It's kind of a surprising light at the end of the tunnel. It's incredibly exciting."
Not only have vinyl album sales picked up, but the interest in record players has increased as well. Cretsinger said he got tired of directing his customers to other businesses where they could purchase turntables, so he began offering a small selection at his store in January.
Like Groovacious, Plan 9 Music stores in Richmond and Charlottesville, Va., are fairly new to the turntable market, but have offered vinyl records since the first store opened in 1981, says owner Jim Bland. Although he never quit selling vinyl, Bland says sales were slow for many years as CDs dominated the market.
However, as CD sales plummeted in recent years, Plan 9 Music found itself with some open space on the floor. That empty space is now back to the basics.
"It's filled in with vinyl," Bland says.
As a way to promote their businesses, 700 independent record stores across the nation have joined together since 2008 to celebrate Record Store Day on the third Saturday of April. Record Store Day regularly features limited-edition CDs and vinyl records available only at independent retailers.
"Last year all the cool stuff was vinyl," Bland says. "People were lining up to get it."
Like Record Store Day itself, Cretsinger says, listening to music on a vinyl record is an event. It forces listeners to sit down at a turntable and listen to the music, giving them an opportunity to enjoy the cover art and read the liner notes.
"There's something organic and historical about playing music that way," he says. "It sounds better."
The scratches and pops often associated with the vinyl sound are all part of the "warmth" Cretsinger and other record store owners such as John Kunz, of Waterloo Records in Austin, say vinyl offers.
Kunz says CDs are more convenient than vinyl and easier to manage, so they had their place in the music industry for a time. However, Kunz sees a change in his customers' taste from the digital sound of Internet downloads to what the classic vinyl format offers.
"I think there was a pendulum swing back to the analog sound," he says. "It's sound waves rather than zeroes and ones emulating a sound wave."
Terry Currier, owner of Music Millennium in Portland, Ore., says vinyl aficionados treat their passion as art, as opposed to a product.
"People didn't interact with CDs the way they did with vinyl," Currier says. "I think people lost that interaction they had with the vinyl."
The music lovers buying these records aren't necessarily those who grew up with them in the 1960s and 1970s. Record store owners across the nation say teenagers and young adults constitute a large portion of their vinyl customers.
"There are tweens, teens and twentysomethings looking through Mom and Dad's record collection," he says. "All of a sudden Mom and Dad are a lot cooler than the kid might have expected."
Currier says it's almost like vinyl appreciation skipped a generation. Now purchasing vinyl is "cool" for younger customers because it's "retro." For the youngest of the customers, it might even be something their parents never experienced.
Bland agrees: "It's cool; it's hip. My 14-year-old's even getting into it."
Among Cretsinger's customers at Groovacious in Cedar City is Matthew Montgomery, a 25-year-old Web developer, freelance music journalist and student at Southern Utah University. Montgomery says he began to seriously get into vinyl about two years ago, and now it's practically his exclusive musical format.
He says there is an "aesthetic difference" in the sound of vinyl records compared with the digital downloads purchased by many others of his generation.
"I think vinyl is incredibly exciting," Montgomery says. "To see a resurgence in it is beautiful."
Montgomery says the act of walking into a record store to purchase his music is part of vinyl's allure as well.
"To me that represents a cultural idea that is incredibly attractive," he says. "It's a place you can explore and learn and talk to people."
While vinyl sales help independent stores stand apart from nationwide retail chains, even Best Buy seems to have noticed the popularity of vinyl records.
About 100 Best Buy stores now carry a small selection of new and classic albums following a test period that began in the fall of 2008, says Best Buy spokeswoman Erin Bix. Best Buy also offers 14,000 vinyl titles online.
By Brian Passey, USA TODAY
CEDAR CITY, Utah — As both a music lover and record store owner, Tim Cretsinger is excited about the recent resurgence of vinyl record albums.
"This is my favorite thing to do — hold a batch of records like this," Cretsinger, owner of Groovacious in Cedar City, Utah, says as he hugged a stack of new records close to his chest. "It reminds me of the old days."
The old days are making a comeback.
According to recent Nielsen SoundScan numbers, vinyl was the fastest-growing musical format in 2010, with 2.8 million units sold, the format's best year since SoundScan began tracking sales in 1991.
Vinyl's increase in popularity is providing a beacon of hope for independent record stores — an industry that has suffered with the increase of digital downloads this past decade.
When Cretsinger moved his business from Keiser, Ore., to Cedar City in 2000 there were two other record stores in the college town of about 28,000. Now, the closest independent record store is in Las Vegas, 175 miles away.
"Vinyl seems to be the light at the end of the tunnel for those of us who have hung in there," he says. "It's kind of a surprising light at the end of the tunnel. It's incredibly exciting."
Not only have vinyl album sales picked up, but the interest in record players has increased as well. Cretsinger said he got tired of directing his customers to other businesses where they could purchase turntables, so he began offering a small selection at his store in January.
Like Groovacious, Plan 9 Music stores in Richmond and Charlottesville, Va., are fairly new to the turntable market, but have offered vinyl records since the first store opened in 1981, says owner Jim Bland. Although he never quit selling vinyl, Bland says sales were slow for many years as CDs dominated the market.
However, as CD sales plummeted in recent years, Plan 9 Music found itself with some open space on the floor. That empty space is now back to the basics.
"It's filled in with vinyl," Bland says.
As a way to promote their businesses, 700 independent record stores across the nation have joined together since 2008 to celebrate Record Store Day on the third Saturday of April. Record Store Day regularly features limited-edition CDs and vinyl records available only at independent retailers.
"Last year all the cool stuff was vinyl," Bland says. "People were lining up to get it."
Like Record Store Day itself, Cretsinger says, listening to music on a vinyl record is an event. It forces listeners to sit down at a turntable and listen to the music, giving them an opportunity to enjoy the cover art and read the liner notes.
"There's something organic and historical about playing music that way," he says. "It sounds better."
The scratches and pops often associated with the vinyl sound are all part of the "warmth" Cretsinger and other record store owners such as John Kunz, of Waterloo Records in Austin, say vinyl offers.
Kunz says CDs are more convenient than vinyl and easier to manage, so they had their place in the music industry for a time. However, Kunz sees a change in his customers' taste from the digital sound of Internet downloads to what the classic vinyl format offers.
"I think there was a pendulum swing back to the analog sound," he says. "It's sound waves rather than zeroes and ones emulating a sound wave."
Terry Currier, owner of Music Millennium in Portland, Ore., says vinyl aficionados treat their passion as art, as opposed to a product.
"People didn't interact with CDs the way they did with vinyl," Currier says. "I think people lost that interaction they had with the vinyl."
The music lovers buying these records aren't necessarily those who grew up with them in the 1960s and 1970s. Record store owners across the nation say teenagers and young adults constitute a large portion of their vinyl customers.
"There are tweens, teens and twentysomethings looking through Mom and Dad's record collection," he says. "All of a sudden Mom and Dad are a lot cooler than the kid might have expected."
Currier says it's almost like vinyl appreciation skipped a generation. Now purchasing vinyl is "cool" for younger customers because it's "retro." For the youngest of the customers, it might even be something their parents never experienced.
Bland agrees: "It's cool; it's hip. My 14-year-old's even getting into it."
Among Cretsinger's customers at Groovacious in Cedar City is Matthew Montgomery, a 25-year-old Web developer, freelance music journalist and student at Southern Utah University. Montgomery says he began to seriously get into vinyl about two years ago, and now it's practically his exclusive musical format.
He says there is an "aesthetic difference" in the sound of vinyl records compared with the digital downloads purchased by many others of his generation.
"I think vinyl is incredibly exciting," Montgomery says. "To see a resurgence in it is beautiful."
Montgomery says the act of walking into a record store to purchase his music is part of vinyl's allure as well.
"To me that represents a cultural idea that is incredibly attractive," he says. "It's a place you can explore and learn and talk to people."
While vinyl sales help independent stores stand apart from nationwide retail chains, even Best Buy seems to have noticed the popularity of vinyl records.
About 100 Best Buy stores now carry a small selection of new and classic albums following a test period that began in the fall of 2008, says Best Buy spokeswoman Erin Bix. Best Buy also offers 14,000 vinyl titles online.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
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