Dahlene

midnight is probably my favorite time to do groceries. there's a check-out woman working almost every 3rd shift who works at my favorite grocery store. her name is Dahlene. she doesn't like anyone. and for some reason, i like that.
this mix is dedicated to people who don't like people, midnight groceries, Dahlene, and the hope Dahlene is happy some day. i don't know though... she's kind of old... probably set in her ways.



various

1. AHU (dolly) - i know all SIMBAD rmx
2. Beaumont - midnight
3. Tokimonsta - day job
4. Air France - it feels good to be around you
5. Emika - pretend
6. SLEEP ∞ OVER - your world is night
7. Chromatics - killing spree
8. Dj Shadow - midnight in a perfect world
9. The Chemical Brothers & Hope Sandoval- asleep from day
10. Koushik - too much tenderness

*again, the tags are probably effed. so sorry

yogurt cittay

there were so many things to do tonight... and i came home early and ate a yogurt. probably going to bed in an hour.
it's been hard to get to sleep if there isn't some type of sound to distract me from thoughts......
i have a lot to say, but no thanks.

here are some grouper distractions for your sleep.



grouper - split

*this is one part of a split release with inca ore. sleeping is the agenda, so no inca ore, people. sorry... not sorry. te amo.
**i feel like i've already posted this.

co-working

whenever i play S.maharba at work my friend/co-worker, angel, asks what i'm playing... i'm like it's S.maharba. EVERY TIME. i told angel i would get it to her tonight (there's a birthday party tonight!) or upload it for her (because my CD burner is broken). here it is, S.maharba for all you guys too.
i guess i didn't really explain what S.maharba is. cool. i'm not going to. love you all. good night and happy partying.




s.maharba - s/t

FIGHT MUSIC

people act surprised when i mentioned i was going to my grandfather's to watch boxing with my family last night. i'm a very calm person, but there is something about being physical i enjoy. maybe because i grew up with a family of boxers; my grandfather was a boxer, my uncles were boxers (one of them a golden gloves winner), my uncles'/grandfather's first cousin was ranked 7th in the world as a super featherweight, i watched my dad train on bags, they all took me to boxing matches before i was even in preschool... and so on and on and on... the point is i grew up around boxing and i want to feel unapologetic, BUT there is a part of me that feels like it's a bunch of shit for two people to act violent towards each other for sport. that part of me wants to balance out the testosterone drive that makes my fist clinch and hands clammy when i watch two athletes duke it out. that part of me is the same part that likes to chill out on the floor and listen to airy music and let my mind go.
last spring, sick in france, i was searching for the kind of music i could groove to on my back... acheron was what i found. realising there were only 25 cassettes of this made, i jumped on getting a copy to be waiting for me when i got back home. you guys don't have to wait. find a nice spot on the floor and don't think about things that make your hands sweat. space the eff out, people. peace.



acheron - september day fire
(TLWS) (label link)

what's up

just not feeling it today. happens to everyone, i guess.
is there such a thing as mild bipolar? i understand the polar part means extreme opposite, but there has to be a lite version of that shit, right? maybe it's just called being moody. i don't think i'm a moody guy. possibly a little........ i'll call it moody lite.

i'm going to let karen dalton sing me to sleep. good night, people. i love you all. not really. just some of you. but i don't think anyone i know reads my blog... so... i probably don't love any of you. it's possible i would like you a lot though.

my roommate and i had a conversation the other day about liking. you know that part in a relationship when you like someone a lot, but don't want to say love?.. and you let them know how much you "like" them? that's the best and not the best. it's been a minute since i've liked someone. AND IT'S NOT BECAUSE I'M PARTICULAR OR PICKY. yes it is.
stay picky, people. good night for real this time.



karen dalton - It's So Hard to Tell Who's Going to Love You the Best

woke up way too early

WAAAAAY TOO EFFING EARLY
effing dreams. damn it.
at least tumblr is interesting... thank you, gonja sufi.
just learned the reptilians are effing our women. that sucks. i'm not even going to try to compete with that. if a girl is attracted to a reptilian, what's supposed to make me think she's going to be into me? i'm telling you, man...i could go on about this. people are crazy as hell and i'm feeling loopy.
speaking of loops, they make the rhythm. a beautiful rhythm.
i wish my dreams felt the way the caretaker's music sounds. i would probably never wake up or always be locked-in like dude from the diving bell and the butterfly. i just had someone translate all my blinks to write this post - it took 3 hours.



the caretaker - an empty bliss beyond this world

sleep good .ok. (c90 side a)

so this is the first sleep mix i've made for someone that isn't me. hopefully they like it. hopefully they go to bed smiling and have good dreams... and hopefully they have a cassette player. side b isn't going up, sorry people.
(i'm not sorry)


various

1. dead drums - narcoleptic shock
2. peaking lights - Silver Tongues, Soft Whispers
3. die jungen - Cold Night
4. shlohmo - Empty Pools
5. juana molina - Filter Taps
6. lucas santtana - Mensagem De Amor
7. lullatone - bedroom bossa band
8. ocelote rojo - Untitled #1
9. grouper - Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping
10. mickey mickey rourke - MAMA
11. susumu yokota - shinsen
12. colleen - Sun Against My Eyes

*the tags on these tracks might be off. everything is tagged from my itunes and looks good on my computer... but i was informed the mp3s on my mixes were missing tags. my apologies.

20 degree drop

i think i've woken up three times since 2am (it's now 4:45am). maybe because i left the lights on... maybe because i'm stressing telling my boss i have to quit my tutoring job... maybe both? probably both. it's 4somethingAM and i'm blogging/listening to sea Oleena's 'sleeplessness'. pretty perfect, yeah? pretty manly too, right?
be manly men, guys. check out sea oleena, raise your testosterone levels, kick a cat, quit your job that actually makes a difference, and blog about things that keep you up at night. TIGHT, SON.
(i didn't actually kick a cat or raise my testosterone level)



sea oleena - sleeplessness
*bandcamp link. name your price, foooo. or be manly man like me and buy the cassette from bridgetown records - kevin (homeboy that runs the label) is a very nice guy and runs his label with a lot of care and sincerity. shout out to kevin greenspon. holla at your boy, kevin.

homegirl, you tight

so badly i wish i could own a theremin and play it like Clara Rockmore. she tight, son.
track 4, "De Falla, Pantomime", makes my belly full. something about it just makes me feel good. like watching the opening credits for Amelie or something.



clara rockmore - art of the theremin

oh bars

i was there for maybe an hour... so glad to be home. it went from jack johnson to some bullshit metal (trust me, it was shit). then a girl i used to date played some biggie and best coast; probably the two best things in the juke-box. what if there was real juke music in the juke-box? i would probably still be there.
anyway, the girl kind of made me uncomfortable, so i left.
this city kind of sucks, yo.
so sorry for complaining, internet. let me make it up to you.
(get depressed, people... i'm not sorry)



tropic of cancer - sorrow of two blooms

homeboy Doug...

asked me to post again.

i was playing this at the record store the other day and my friend was like "this is pretty music." it is pretty, but i would say it's more cool than pretty. it's like that girl that you think is pretty, but but she's so cool you would rather call her cool and assume pretty is implied by the way you talk about her. eff... girls. shout out to the girl i'm facebook lurking on (stalking is a strong word i'm not ready to use for myself).



die jungen - just a dream

all day

Peaking Lights - All The Sun That Shines from Not Not Fun on Vimeo.

weather music

i recently received an email from someone trying to promote their music... cool. new music is nice to not have to look for, but most of the time i don't really enjoy what i'm directed to.. so don't post it. BUT the last one sent my way is hitting the spot right now. thank you ocelote rojo. you make perfect spring music. my pops likes it too.



ocelote rojo - pacarina
pay what you want or nothing. i gave a dollar... because i'm tacky.

tonight

its time to sleep or cry or some emo ish i don't want to do. 'tonight' is hitting the spot right now. just in case you were wondering... i'm not really going to cry; i'm an effing man. you should know better than to question my masculinity. what's wrong with you?
but really... im stressed to all hell and something like this is soothing my mushy snot filled head (got the bronchitis, yo). PLUS, its the beginning of spring, and its laying on the floor, listen to tunes, and stare at the sky type weather.
be cool, guys. be cool (and healthy). COOL.

and a link that isn't mine:
sibylle baier - colour green

top 7 albums i didn't dance to this year

it was a strange year. i spent a lot of time alone, made some new friends, was thrown a surprise birthday party, did a lot of thinking, and a lot of not posting. sorry.
this list is a work in progress and the only thing it reflects are the first seven releases i remembered (and really liked) this year. is that okay?
you can purchase each release via the link attached to the artist's name or check it out via the link attached to the album name (none of the links are mine... i just did a google search and in most cases it was the first link to come up)
in no order:
Oscar McClure - Compost +remixes

homeboy makes some pretty wild experimental hip hop beats. think about that... wild - experimental - hip hop. as if experimental wasn't enough... it's wild too. TRILL!

Polymer Slug - Simple Displays Of Control

just yesterday i got this in ze mail and already it has consumed my december. made with only his roland juno 60, young dunny gave them something to talk about... let's about love.

oOoOO - oOoOO

i don't know what's not to like about this... except for the stupid label you dringles are trying to give it. nothing against wicans - i mean, i like 'charmed' as much as the next teenage boy - but really, witch house? come on...
and it's pronounced "oh", jerks.

sleep ∞ over - sleep ∞ over

you know what they say about girl bands...
they all have ovaries. i said it.
no, but really, sleep over makes some pretty haunting music with melodies that stay in my head. i like those melodies there.

forest swords - dagger paths

beats, samples, guitars, drone-stuff... its pretty good. i like it. okay?!

the soft moon - the soft moon

there's something about san francisco bands im really drawn to. there's a certain mood/vibe. maybe because its something familiar... it just makes me feel a certain way. i can't explain it. GOOD ONE, dude. say something one more time.

tamaryn - the waves

my choice for album of the year.
another one of those san francisco bands that make me think i still live there. i love it.
and i didn't post a link to download this one. just take my word for and buy the album.
WORD IS BOND.

march calmness

march is over. am i sad about it? nope. i aint no sissy. shoot.



various - march calmness

1. White Hinterland - Icarus
2. Memory Cassette - Lately (Deuxième)
3. Coyote Clean Up - this house boat is making me sea sick
4. Sleep Over - Sun Spots
5. Pure Ecstasy - Voices
6. Black Tambourine - Black Car
7. The Raveonettes - Heart Of Stone (Dum Dum Girls Cover)
8. Beach Fossils - Desert Sand
9. Sun Araw - Horse Steppin
10. Bobb Bruno - Fairy Tale Ending

olders

last night i made a slightly dark/depressing playlist in preparation for my 28th birthday (today). today turned out to be not so depressing, but i still like the playlist. lay on your bed, stare at the ceiling, eat some chocolate (as it apparently causes nightmares), fall asleep, and prepare for frightening dreams. FASCINATING!



various - olders

jane - berserker
boards of canada - kid for today
delia derbyshire & barry bermange - "dreams" part 4: sea
colleen - sea of tranquility
flying lotus - spin cycles
grouper - poison tree
twine - girl song
jacaszek - powoli
the dead texan - glen's goo
blue sky research - sleep

lost for a while

hopefully this new year and me turning 28 in a few months doesn't mean me turning into a sad shit. maybe its the weather or maybe its girls being devils. maybe its both. but its mostly females being devils. seriously, why do you guys have to be a bunch of shitheads? the nice ones are with butt-holes, the mean ones play games, the smart ones are just too smart and know better, and the interesting ones are the most effed up,
daedelus seemed to have gotten lucky. he and his wife made a pretty lovely album for doing anything to. you can sleep to it, wake up to it, drive to it, even play wii to it (i was doing that while the upload was going on).
there are a few things that disgust me with this album though. the first one being that my favorite track on here is about cats. i really don't like cats. they're supreme turds and they don't listen for shits. the other disgusting thing is their love for eachother. you can just hear it throughout the album. can't they just keep that to themselves? i'm happy for them and all, but efffffff.

really though, there are some very nice songs on here. besides 'cat fancy', 'woebegone' is a gem for the lonesome. and gem is her name!

the long lost - the long lost

i don't even know how to start....

well, i bought this at pitchfork last summer. and its pretty good.
think stereolab + getz & jobim + kraftwerk... (i don't even know how to be clever anymore). just listen to it then buy it from the record label. i won't mention what the label is, because they're pretty on top of links. just do an amazon music search for 'camino del sol'.



link

sorry for the lack of a creative post. i'm tired and my mind is elsewhere. i just wanted to share some good tunes that reminds me of warmth and good times.

colors

i remember when my sister was three or four i hid her bag of crayons because she was being a little shit. the thing is... im twenty years older than her. why did i do that, right?

don't judge me.

well. what reminded me of that high point in my life is Sister Crayon.
i don't really need to explain their sound. if you're here, you're going to like them.



http://www.myspace.com/silentandclementine

lullaby (mp3)
well loved (mp3)

OH SHITS!

music to sleep to

sooooo... Dr. Strangeloop made an awesome mix of sleepy music.
i grabbed it from brainfeeder's site.



Dr. Strangeloop - music to sleep to mp3 (mix)

tracklisting:
cliff martinez - don’t blow it (solaris soundtrack)
brian eno - ambient music for airports (1/4)
seven saturdays - suicide leap from hollywood sign
flying lotus - ambient practice 11.18.08
strangeloop - wavefronts
seven saturdays - the day after (underwater mix)
sigur ros - refur (underwater mix)
milieu - over hills
boards of canada - farewell fire

o karen, you make good music

my little lady was reading a magazine with an article about karen o's other project, native korean rock. so we checked the myspace and found some dime pieces. with no official release for this project, i took it upon myself to rip these tracks from myspace and upload them on mediafire for the world to hear at super high 96kbs. you're welcome.
so, yeah... sorry about the bit rate. but something is better than nothing. right?
and uh, "OOO" and "rapt" are my favorite of the bunch.



native korean rock - demo

it has a rhino on the cover

i'm not sure if you guys have ever been to boomkat, but that's how i discovered this album for myself. it was on sale for i think $3 and the preview samples were pretty rad. when i got the cd in the mail and began listening, my excited face slowly turned into a sad face. then i got to track 5 and everything was good again. the sun came out, kids began playing outside, hands across america happened in my once sad heart and face. i knew everything was going to be OKAY.
moral: just skip to track five. one through four do absolutely nothing for me.



morgan caney & kamal joory - magic radios
or
listen

the wonder years

with a name like the fun years, one would think their music would be loud and "fun"... but no, the fun years manage to take fun out of anything you're doing. it's just going to make you want to listen and think. think about life and the things you forgot to do in the last year. not to say i don't like listening to them; quite the opposite, i REALLY enjoy listening to this album. A LOT.
if colleen used dusty records for her loops and collaborated with someone that likes the fuzzy moments of mogwai or some other post-rock band, the fun years would have someone trying to copy them. stay trill and listen to these folks.



The Fun Years - baby, it's cold inside

thermal underwear

blissed out ambient music released in 2001 remastered and renovated from quarter-inch tape and reintroduced in 2008. kiln is one of my favorite electronic groups...EVER. 'thermals' is a bit different from their usual rhythmic drum patterns and drone laced albums, but from what i gathered, its because these tracks were made during their fiberforms years (which i'll up later). sit in your apartment, lay on the couch (if your cat is on the couch, kick it off and let your dog chill with you instead), stare at the ceiling, and fall asleep.



kiln - Thermals: Sonic-Carousels, Tonesheets, Loopstrata, And Slo-Wave Microsymphonies 1993-2000

three pregnant women walk in a bar...

i would like to thank figlife (my #1 neighbor on last fm) for bringing Marc Leclair to my attention. 'Musique Pour 3 Femmes Enceintes' seems to have mastered the art of being intense and chill at the same time... it reminds me a bit of electric birds or efterklang at times... if they used found sounds instead of 57 instruments all at the same time.

so, its glitch, but relaxing glitch. but i feel weird saying its relaxing because it makes me feel tense too. i don't know how to feel anymore... thanks figlife. now i'm never going to know how i'm supposed to feel.

for real though, thank you for this album.



marc leclair - musique pour 3 femmes enceintes

kira kira kira kira kira kira kira

yes, her first name and last name are the same. kira kira kira's (assuming her middle name is also kira) music makes you feel like a little girl going on a journey somewhere made of jello and jolly ranchers. you look in the mirror and you see yourself wearing a little poofy dress licking a lolly-pop. almost like you're in quantum leap or something. but the only mission ziggy tells you is to lick that lolly-pop and look cute.

sooooooo... kira kira sounds like mum (pre 'Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy') + lullatone. its actually pretty enjoyable.



kira kira - Our Map To The Monster Olympics

for shilzzzy

there isn't much to say about a krautrock kranky record. let's see.... its on kranky.... and its krautrock. "You get the best of both worlds / Chill it out, take it slow / Then you rock out the show" - miley cyrus.



cloudland canyon - lie in light

45's

last february my girlfriend bought me tickets to see dj shadow and cut chemist for my birthday. one of the gifts ever... but we missed the show because amtrak kept delaying the departure time and when we finally left, there was an 1 hour delay halfway there. so now all i have are unhappy memories and unused dj shadow + cutchemist live at parkwest tickets. cool!
this is isn't the chicago show, but i'm assuming its just as good since they actually made a dvd of it.
oh, they're using eight turntables and only 45's. dang!



dj shadow + cut chemist - hard sell

why the name change?

because some other group had the name. stupid.
anyway, resurrection is one of those albums (along with jazzmatazz and reachin' a new refution...) that got me into hip hop, but mainly got me into beats. no id dropped some gems on this album. you better axe somebody... or download.



common - resurrection

low and medium places

i was going to write about how i don't really like high places a whole lot, but as i write this post... i've become a different man. i like high places. a song from their upcoming LP (on fat cat) changed my mind.



high places - high places EP

ob-la-di, ob-la-da

do you guys remember that show "life goes on"? during the opening credits the boy with downs, corky, sings with the rest of the family. he's not a good singer, but i liked hearing him sing. it just kind of made you feel good. well, vincent gallo is kind of like my corky without the feeling good part.



vincent gallo - recordings of music for film

hard drugs

valet makes me feel like i do drugs and its 1970. that's the only description i can think of right now... i woke up too early and think i'm about to go back to sleep.



valet - naked acid

BoC 2.0

any other day i would have poured a glass of lemon haterade all over this, but not today... i actually like tycho's music quite a bit.
real talk though: its not always a good idea to show your influences as blatant as this... luckily, it works for tycho.



tycho - past is prologue

another crappy atmosphere record

just joking, "songs for luci" isn't some sensitive 30 something year old rapping about some girl named lucy. its Paz Lenchantin and she doesn't even rap. what?! yup, she plays folk songs with guitars, strings, and voice. and best of all, she has talent... unlike the other guy that makes songs for lucy.

...oh, and paz is the bassist for a perfect circle. YES!



paz lenchantin - songs for luci

... and i decided to post again even though i wasn't going to for a while. its just that i saw shilzzz over at goldenHymn posted, so i thought i would too. i mean, he IS a man-beast with the ladies... so i should probably do everything he does so that maybe one day i can be a man-beast with the ladies too.

like a swift kick to your cat's ugly face

goldenHymn posted the new flying lotus (here). i think i'm in love with this album. just in case you aren't caught up with things that are cool, flying lotus is bad frickin ass. i can't wait till this comes out for real.
if you're wondering why i'm on mister lotus' weenis, here you go:


flying lotus - 1983


flying lotus - reset (ep)

(jerry) springer

haha. not funny. :(

i bought this album because i saw a leaf label ad in a magazine and thought it looked interesting. at first i tried skipping through the tracks to find the "meat" of the songs. i found no meat. these are songs that have to soak in from beginning to end... kind of how albums should be. eff a single. WORD!



efterklang - springer

they're greeeaaaaat

well, maybe not great, but good enough to share. super numeri sounds like a psychedelic jazz band that listened to 'bitches brew' while in their mother's womb. track one has a very droney intro, which is nice, but when it picks up, it takes you to a whole new world (pretend i just sang a 'whole new world' to you).



super numeri - great aviaries

DEMOS

Shilzzz from golden hymn is taking demos. when i talked to him earlier he seemed pretty excited about what he has planned.
from golden hymn:
So I'm interested to hear some demos. Been thinking about setting up an online distribution site or something for a tape label. Nothing big, but I want to at least get some demos coming in, and see what happens. If nothing else, I can always feature a good demo on here and get your bands name out. Email me = somanywheelchairs(at)gmail(dot)com, and let me know you're interested. I want hard copies though, like send me a tape or cdr or something.

more sleepy tunes

as you can probably tell, boards of canada are one of my favorites. there is just something about them that sets their electronic beats apart from everyone else. maybe its the organic quality of their sounds or maybe its in the hidden messages they put in the music. i don't know. this ep actually got me into listening to BoC. there are a few notes around the 5:05-5:07 mark that give me goosebumps. needles to say, this ep holds a special place in my heart, along with the band heart.... and "hell is for children", pat benatar.



boards of canada - in a beautiful place out in the country

for a rainy day

sometimes i don't feel like getting out of bed. i just want to lay here all day and listen to ambient music until i fall asleep again. so i'm kind of doing that today... until i have to get up, meet with shilzzz, then take my cousin to his futbol game. but i'm for real not getting up until i have to.
and this is what i'm listening to:



chihei hatakeyama - minima moralia
part 1
part 2
it's in two parts because of the high bit rate (i almost wrote but rate. that would have been stupid)

getting tired

zero 7 put out a chill as efff mix that was the soundtrack to my art school career. that's all i have to say. good night. yeah!

(the artist is zero 7 for all the tracks because i was too lazy to fix it. the real artist's name is in the title of the song. sorry for my laziness)



zero 7 (various) - another late night

the opposite of a hard circle

former black dice drummer, hisham bharoocha, made an album. its called 'full bloom'. yup.
like most albums by drummers, 'full bloom' is full of percusion and almost completely goes without melody. doesn't sound very promising does it? that's what i thought. i was wrong. and then i was upset about being wrong. now i'm better

and i should thank matty g for getting me on soft circle. thank you matty g.



soft circle - full bloom

just in case darondo didn't work

lovage WILL get your girl... or guy in the mood. i played this at work today, and everyone started efffn like crazy. you should have seen it. oh man. oh freaking man.
just lying. that didn't happen at all. but i'm not lying about the mood getting of this album.
dan the automator + kid koala + mike patton + jennifer charles = raunchy



lovage - music to make love to your old lady by

who?

no... why? haha.
a lot of people like why? i do.
so here is a project yoni did with andy broder (aka The Fog). there is a background story to this project.... it was made in a basement in two weeks and some other stuff. if you plan on buying the cd, don't be alarmed by the red marks on the cover. it threw me off and i thought the guy at the record store was a turd and marked my cd case. but he wasn't a turd, he was a person.
anyway, i REALLY like track one. the rest is okay. YES!



hymie's basement - hymie's basement

lesser knowns

yeah. here are scott herren's lesser known projects. delarosa and asora plays as a glitchier prefuse 73, a cloud mireya as an english savath y savalas, and piano overlord as a sample free prefuse 73. honestly, these aren't his best works but are worth listening to or trying to find for purchase if you're a prefuse 73 fan. so, peep game son (im not your dad). YEAH!
oh, and i don't have ahmad szabo... sorry young blood.



a cloud mireya - singular



delarosa and asora - backsome ep



delarosa and asora - agony part 1



piano overlord - The Singles Collection 03-05