July 2010
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"How To Start a Chillwave Band" →
How to Record a Chillwave Track:  Think positive thoughts, go to the beach, record a quirky, gently offbeat song, and ensure you use plenty of looping and synth effects. Edit. OK, now play the full song underwater and record at the same time. Discard first beachside recording and keep second underwater version. Upload onto your computer. Add a moody melody and ensure you use an echo effect at...
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Jul 27th
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Listen via windmillbill, sisternebraska
Jul 27th
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Darling June Allyson!
Jul 27th
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Listen“GIVE YOU MORE (remix)” (The XX...
Jul 27th
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After Night of Sleep Deprivation, Local Man... →
The ‘local man’ is me.
Jul 27th
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“Wasn’t it YOU who said, ‘REAL LIFE IS SLEEP and we are just the...”
– “ALL NIGHT LIVING” by Wire Train, 1990
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BOYCOTT BILL MURRAY FOR A BETTER AMERICA →
ChristWire: America needs to boycott Bill Murray and do it now! Peel back the layers of this aging man: slapstick comedian, jaded movie star, imperious intellectual, notorious bon vivant, restless wanderer in the dark, slick self-promoter… Have you reached the core yet? Is he hollow? Or has Bill Murray come to the grand revelation himself that he is desperately clawing against his own...
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Jul 26th
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NEVER GO WEST WHEN YOU KNOW SHOULD BE HEADING...
Probably the best live music TV show in existence is…Britain’s Later…with Jools Holland.  I have selected at semi-random 5 great performances: “BOYS DON’T CRY” - The Cure (2004) “NEVER GO WEST” - Seasick Steve (2009) “HEY MAN” - Eels (2005) “DEMOCRACY” - Leonard Cohen (1993) “POLICE AND THIEVES” - Junior...
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Listen “ABE LINCOLIN vs. MADISON AVENUE”,...
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Listen “COLD BLOODED OLD TIMES”, Bill...
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Groove Yard: A Reggae Sampler Sampling
Like the vast majority of my CD collection, my copy of Groove Yard, a reggae sampler, comes from a pawnshop.  My favorite track, “Tenement Yard” is by Jacob Miller, who like Eddie Cochran before him, died much too young in a car crash.  
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“Joe South is the sort of person who personifies his times and makes them...”
– From “The Enigma of Joe South” via The Driftwood Singers Present
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From an actual, physical CD collection to you
I selected 4 CD’s at random from my collection: Sing Hollies In Reverse: a compilation of Hollies cover songs by Eggbert Records, Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2; Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5 by Van Cliburn, StrangeLittleGirls by Tori Amos, and Wire Train by Wire Train.  The following playlist is comprises one track from each album.  
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