Filthy Mix #1

I made a mix for the blog, mostly stuff i've picked up from other blogs over the last few months -- eclectic mix and amateur mixing, but its my first one, so I only feel slightly retarded.

Fang Island -- Dream of Dreams; The Black Keys -- Goodbye Babylon; Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti -- Blue Lit Blue Skies; These New Puritans -- Hologram; The National -- Lemonworld; Son Drop -- The Sails Will Fill Out; Gauntlet Hair -- I Was Thinking..; Dom -- Burn Bridges; Tanlines -- Real Life; ORPHAN -- Day Drunk Dial; ///∆∆∆\\\ -- Tetanus Wine; White Ring -- we rot (mixed quite a bit); Cults -- Go Outside [end of what i wanted to put on it]

Bonus: Q4 -- Goin' Down; C.W. Stoneking -- I heard the marching of the drum

Lix
15 songs; 58:21 54.4mb
320 constant (over a range)

A n o t h e r sadday

The blog No-Conclusion just went down...

Keep Bleeding

Native FLAC playing capabilities are hard to find on a mac, on applications that work simply, but now there is Fluke, which is a javascript program that imports and allows itunes to play .FLAC files. The guide where I found out about this importing method is SimpleHelp.

Its a much better player than VLC, which is what I was using before -_-'
Anyways, I've been listening to Tanlines quite a bit and I like their music. Its very much drum driven music, but it has a tropical like feel -- almost dancehall, but not quite. It also uses Chillwave style vocals: droning, with synth or vocoder style holding-notes.

Also jumped onto the new hipster boat 'witch house'. Been listening to ///▲▲▲\\\, White Ring and twYlYZoNe. I find it very similar to Chillwave because I feel as though its driven by nostalgia for the poor sound quality in the 80s and 90s on TV. I don't know if that's true, but it is what witch house reminds me off. Crackling, using the popping sound found on records to make beats and manipulating VCR video seems to be what makes the most of the witch-house scene video logs. I'll leave you what got me listening to it, with all credit of introduction going to Ashtapes @ blogspot.com, who seem to be a good bunch of peeps.