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Winter Cometh

Eric — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:26:14 +0000

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

Eric — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:25:17 +0000

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

Eric — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:55:33 +0000

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

Keep Time – Gauntlet Hair
Hazel – Weekend
Wild Palms – Sun Airway
Parentheses – The Antlers
WHALE – Yellow Ostrich
The Modern Age – Exitmusic
Hikikomori – Zola Jesus
Palomino – Mates of State
Engine 1 (Dave Clarke & Mr. Jones Unsubscribe Remix) - Bryan Black presents Black Asteroid
Hours – Tycho
Coming Down – Dum Dum Girls
Ritual Union – Little Dragon
Sails – Hooray for Earth
Aniborne – Echo Tongues
Sunlight - The One AM Radio
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

Eric — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 19:53:54 +0000

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.

Eric — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:11:31 +0000

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.