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Winter Cometh

Dec 3rd, 2011
by Eric.
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Here it is, my final compilation for the year. It is about CD length in time. These are tracks that I’ve heard, gathered and enjoyed this last quarter of 2011. It’s mixed up a bit with Post Punk, electronic, techno and indie. Not stuff you’ll find on the radio. Making this available one of two ways: Spotify link at the bottom, or you can download the whole thing here and burn your own cd.

TRACK ARTIST ALBUM
1 True Lies The New Division Shadows
2 Nodding Off (feat. Best Coast) Wavves Life Sux – EP
3 Bullet Ben Sims Smoke & Mirrors
4 Into the Trees Still Corners Creatures of an Hour
5 Lack of Technology Made Me a Killer The Ropes Lack of Technology Made Me a Killer
6 Cigars N Money Dom And Roland The Big Bang LP
7 Circles and Squares We Were Promised Jetpacks In the Pit of the Stomach
8 So Long Thieving Irons
9 Fever Dreams Nurses Dracula
10 Dark Darkness Ft. Teachers Chllngr Haven
11 Palomino Mates of State Mountaintops
12 Answer Cant Dreams Come True
13 Dark into Light AM & Shawn Lee Celestial Electric
14 Adrift Tycho Dive
15 The Beast Laura Marling A Creature I Don’t Know
16 Call It Off Washed Out Amor Fati

 

Listen on Spotify : HERE

Download all: HERE
On the Fileserver download page, scroll down and click the free slow download. Follow instructions and wait.

Time for a techno cd

Oct 21st, 2011
by Eric.
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I think it’s just time for some good old techno. Couple of solid bangers. Only this isn’t the strongest of the strong. It good middle road. And it ain’t mixed. For those who aren’t as familiar with techno as us purists are. Here’s a sample of tracks that I believe stand on there own. Stuff you can really listen to all the way through. They give you a real sense of what techno is and how tracks are constructed and made. And you can listen to them without a club or mix context. Not all techno tracks can stand on their own, but I believe that these can. They all touch “inside my mental landscape” for me. I can easily get “lost” in anyone of these tracks. See if you can too…

TECHNO 01

1. WJ Henze Used 2005
2. Jaydee Single Minded People 1992
3. Greg Gow Black Sun (Original Mix) 2009
4. Sami Koivikko Pientare (Original Mix) 2009
5. Heiko Laux sense fiction (surgeon rmx) 2006
6. Deetron The Last Dance 2005
7. WJ Henze Partial 2005
8. Shed Estrange 2008
9. Geoff White Scilleta (Original Mix) 2009
10. 2000 And One Tropical Melons 2009
11. Greg Gow The Bridge (Late Night Grand River Mix) 2009

You can download all the tracks HERE in one folder from FileServe:
A.) Click on the free user “Download File” button in the lower right side of the page.
B.) Fill out the CAPTCHA.
C.) Wait 30 seconds.
D.) Now click the “Slower Download” button that has appeared in the middle of the page.

Fall 2011 CD Compilation

Oct 18th, 2011
by Eric.
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Since I was feeling a little bummed out today, I created a CD Compilation to cheer me up. Excellent music has been coming out and this is a good mix of what I have been enjoying. This is a collection of Indie, Post Punk, Rock, Alternative, & Techno/Electronica.

It’s Time For Fall 2011

TRACK  - ARTIST

  1. Keep Time – Gauntlet Hair
  2. Hazel – Weekend
  3. Wild Palms – Sun Airway
  4. Parentheses – The Antlers
  5. WHALE – Yellow Ostrich
  6. The Modern Age – Exitmusic
  7. Hikikomori – Zola Jesus
  8. Palomino – Mates of State
  9. Engine 1 (Dave Clarke & Mr. Jones Unsubscribe Remix)  - Bryan Black presents Black Asteroid
  10. Hours – Tycho
  11. Coming Down – Dum Dum Girls
  12. Ritual Union – Little Dragon
  13. Sails – Hooray for Earth
  14. Aniborne – Echo Tongues
  15. Sunlight  - The One AM Radio
  16. Black Chow  - Big Spider’s Back
Freebie for you. Drop me a request with your mail address and I’ll send it to you. Or you can download it HERE from fileserve and burn it yourself if you prefer.
UPDATE: I got a Spotify account under my pseudonym: MrPhotomatic. I’ve made this mix shareable here: It’s Time For Fall

One Square Inch of Silence

Apr 6th, 2009
by Eric.
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In the mornings on Saturday when I’m getting up early for a bike ride or running, I often hear snippets of Living on Earths radio show on the local radio station. One morning this story came on and it stopped me in my tracks. Literally. Then there was the sounds of the forest that came on. Just wild noises of the forest. All natural. For that 20 secs that they played those sounds I just started crying. I kinda felt that I was crying for Mother Earth. For the beauty and richness that she has for us and that we have totally taken advantage of. I felt a loss. Loss of something sacred. Something that was bigger than me. Also the overwhelming beauty of the sounds. I’ve rarely been struck to have such an emotional reaction to sound, but this was defintely one. Give it a listen.

One Square Inch of Silence

Boo Williams at Block21.

Jan 26th, 2009
by Eric.
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Slide show of photos, just a few, from the Boo Williams event at Block21 here in Houston. I didn’t do a great job of getting photos, but I really didn’t feel like playing mr photographer. I ended up spending much more time in the backroom/second room where Henry, Marcus, Jeff and Andrei played. Main room was totally crowded.

First time to the Block21 venue. It was alright. Nothing to be really excited about though. I might go again, but again it would have to be to see someone I really want to see…for free.

Jeff handed out free cd’s of his newest mix. Awesomeness. He should be posting it up soon on his site. Check him out.