“Golden Clouds” from The Orb featuring Lee “Scratch” Perry‘s The Orbserver In The Star House album. The Orb and Lee “Scratch” Perry on one album? That may be too much of a good thing.
Check out The Orb, live, on solipsistic NATION. Bonus: interview with The Orb’s Alex Paterson.
“Dub Des Erables” by Deadbeat from the EE Compilation album. Spend a couple bucks on the album and not only fo you get this fantastic track but you also help support my fellow brother in podcasting, Rob Booth, host of Electronic Explorations. Major karma points.
“Sus” from Pjusk‘s Sval album.
One of the benefits I’m getting from posting tracks to the Song of the Day section of my blog is that it’s forcing me to watch videos, which is always been something of an&emdash;ahem&emdash;a blind spot for me. I don’t know why but I’ve nevber really gotten into music videos. Maybe it’s because I never had MTV as a kid and hencenever developed a taste for videos. Or maybe it’s because music videos require my rapt attention, which means I can’t do anything else, and that makes me fidgety. Nonetheless, this is a beautiful video and had me pretty much fromt he first frame.
“Spider Toupet” by Port-Royal from Tympanik Audio‘s Emerging Organisms vol. 4 compilation album.
I’ve been thinking about this video for days. It felt like something lifted out of a fairy tale but really, this idea is so rich and so true that it’s been told again and again. I can’t help but think it has a special relevance for us as we enter the post-scarcity economy, at least n the digital sense. There is so much free media (music, literature, movies, etc) out there that it devalues itself. I’m sure we’ll reach equilibrium at some point but in the here and now it’s unsettling and unsatisfying.
Click here to hear music from Tympanik Audio and my interview with the label’s founder, Paul Nielsen.
“Kilo” from Bonde Do Role‘s Tropicalbacanal release. Man, what a great name for a single. Wish I had thought of it.
I gotta get these cats on the show if only to ask what the deal is with the sumo wrestler.
“Dark Steering” from Squarepusher‘s forthcoming Ufabulum album. Squarepusher seems to be channeling his inner Tron. Yeah, I know, the song of the day is also today’s featured video. What can I say? It’s friggin’ Squarepusher!
FilFla/wst-est/ from Tokuro Oka on Vimeo.
“Wst-Est” from Filfla‘s Fliptap album. Whenever I hear a dreamy pop song from Japan I just assume it’s a 12k joint, but this one actually comes from Someone Good.
When we discover the music of Brian Eno we discover that the world of music is far larger and more mysterious that we previously imagined. At least that’s how it was for me. I was first turned on to Eno by a friend to Ambient 4: On Land, Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, the collaborative album he did with David Byrne. Each album blew out the boundaries of what I thought music could be and I was astonished that there was more to uncover in the path that Eno had blazed.
Take this video, “Thursday Afternoon,” for example. A moving painting set to ambient music, which is another kind of a moving painting. It’s just one, of thousands, of pieces that represents Eno’s journey into sound. Thanks to Youtube, we all get to explore together. Watch it here.
Enjoy!