2000
Arovane - Tides
Broadcast - The Noise Made By People
D'Angelo - Voodoo
Gas - Pop
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Fig. 5
Matmos - The West
Outkast - Stankonia
Smog - Dongs Of Sevotion
The Infesticons - Gun Hill Road
Weakling - Dead As Dreams

2001
Bjork - Vespertine
Bows - Cassidy
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Fennesz - Endless Summer
Henry Threadgill's Zooid - Up Popped ( Read more... )

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Heavy Winged - Feel Inside [aRCHIVE], On the Marble Cliffs [Trensmat], Blacc Lust [Three Lobed]

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I'm sort of copping
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So this is way late now, but I'd meant to collect my thoughts on a couple shows I saw over two nights in early October, writing up not only the bands, but also the venues and the startling new experience of not going deaf at the rock show.

The first show, as you might have astutely guessed from the title here, was Damon & Naomi & Boris with Michio ( Read more... )

You've heard those tales, a few years ago now, about how maybe, just maybe, there is actual sex going down on the Brazilian dancefloors.  You've thought about it.  You've decried the puritanical state of North American dancefloors in comparison.  You've done double takes at the covers of those Baile Funk compilations, perhaps you even bought one ( Read more... )

Here's a good one: I take a trip to Portland, new location of half my family and city of my heart of hearts, and just around the corner from my sister's house is another one for sale. It's a small perfection, with enough function to call it a home and enough oddity to make it special, and my girlfriend and I are both in love with it. It's no ( Read more... )