BRYSON ANDRES
Mesmerizing. I’ve been watching and listening to musicians make use of looping technology for several years now. Most use it in place of the voices or instruments they don’t have but Bryson builds the layers so tightly it comes out as one gushing sound. I don’t expect him to be busking for much longer.
MAJOR MARVELOUSNESS.
Congratulations on 10 years, which hardly seem possible but have been consistently superior.
I am celebrating the 10th anniversary of Fluxblog with a series of survey mixes for each year the site has existed. First up: 2002! 140 songs on 8 discs, with music from Missy Elliot, Kylie Minogue, Wilco, Spoon, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol, Cam’ron, The Kills, The Rapture, Cee Lo Green, Coldplay, Ashanti, Andrew W.K., Sleater-Kinney, Clinic, Sonic Youth, Justin Timberlake, Christina Aguilera, Clipse, Neptunes, McLusky, Beck and many more!
Once upon a time, not all that long ago, bonuses were rare things, handed out to those exceptional few who exceeded expectations on a grand scale. Today people expect them for simply doing the job. Wrong. That’s a salary.
[Picture via @littlejuande]
I started out as a finance journalist. I was 21 and fresh from university. Almost every day, I came into contact with bankers in their larval stage. No older than me, they had emerged from their chinos-and-rowing-stash cocoons into the uniform of braces and…
Oooooh lala!
J’ai utilisé toutes ces solutions. J’ai trompé tout le monde. Okay, nobody was fooled. I have new ones now….
Nod your head and say ’ Je sais’. If you sense a lag in her story, prompt your tablemate with ‘et puis?’ or ‘vraiment?’
If that fails, go back to Step One. Then pass out.
Sometimes writing it all down is an excuse for not doing it.
I’m sorry. I’m not one to go look at what kind of comments people like to leave on my youtube videos, but tonight I was enjoying looking at live versions of my songs because I have to go tour again and I think I have forgotten how to do some of them properly…and while on the Woods and Wires sesh video, I saw this.
Everything is wrong with this. Especially if he literally meant what he wrote. Not the tattoo thing, not really caring about that, that’s just petty nonsense, but as far as saying that one would go as far as self harm is another story, friends.
I get people saying that I’m either fat, or have a bad voice, or whatever. To be honest, that gets to me once a month and it’s usually in my woman’s time of the month, so I get sensitive like EVERY human being out there. But as far as death threats, violence and intimidation goes? I can’t forgive. That just makes me lose it. Especially on THE INTERNET.
If anybody does this to you via Facebook, Twitter, e-mail, school, anything…just go to the source. Tell someone about it. I lived my first year of elementary school sitting next to the bus driver’s trash can on my ride to school every morning because if I was sitting on the seats with the other kids in the bus, well, I was getting my hair pulled or spit on. I told my parents like, years later, and I’m pretty sure it has left some deep deep scars (like an attraction to the first seats available in a bus when I ride them, or something).
I feel much better now.
The trolls on the internet go round and round.
The talented Lucy Pepper knows his shtick, oh yes she does, Mr Caged Crusader .
THE PROBLEM WITH MUSIC LISTS
They are just a slice of a very big pie and they are only useful if you already know who made them and understand and accept their tastes, biases and blind spots.
I happen to like them because nobody can listen to everything. By following some compilers I think are interesting ( shoot me if I ever use the word curators in this context) I get introduced to music I wouldn’t normally hear.
But let’s be honest here. I think ten years from now, this song will be the one most easily identified with 2011. For the cognitive dissonance alone, I think it’s fabulous.
2011-15 SINGLES
*1*—tUnE-yArDs- BIZNESS
Anybody who knows me isn’t surprised that Merrill Garbus is on my list. It’s not because she taught me some of her pygmy yodeling technique this autumn, or lit the room ablaze with the power of her voice at Casa de Popolo this past May. It’s because this song is unforgettable, hypnotic and full of justified anger and alarm. The woman is a marvel.
