april 2005 Archief

i found out a bit late, but radio neurótica stuck my new mix online.

Playlist:
Grimorio - A Través de la Niebla [Alehop]
Wire - I Am the Fly [Strange Fruit]
Out Hud - Requiem for a Requiem [K7]
Ben Mono feat. Capitol A - Mindsweep [Compost]
Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Double Dutch (CO CO POPS) [Ubiquity]
Theo Parrish - First Floor Metaphor [Sound Signature]
The Gorillaz - Dirty Harry [Kong]
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Haunted Graffiti [Paw Tracks]
Château Flight - Autotrak 1 [Versatile]
Château Flight - Autotrak 2 [Versatile]
Axel Krygier - Postcolombino [HiTop]
Gal Costa - Objeto Sim, Objeto Não [Philips]
Edan - Fumbling over Words That Rhyme [Lewis]
Can - Vitamin C [Mute/Harmless]
Beck - Blackfire Choked Our Death [Fingerpaint]
Solex - El Potro [Alehop]

chk

inderdaad.

Kill they certainly did not.

Now, I know it's only April. But I could not care less. You're a Woman, I'm a Machine by Death From Above 1979 is and will be the record that was played the most at Chezlubacov's in 2005, and it will be my number one for this year. It is utterly fantastic, it's energizing, it gives me goosebumps, it wil have me wear a pink t-shirt, it's a work of genius. Yes, that's right, a pink t-shirt. You know I'm into something if it has me wearing a pink t-shirt.
Not yet though, for I haven't been able to buy me one yet. But I will wear one. With pride, too. If you love me you'll buy me one. Go on, you know you want to. XL, please.

July 3rd they'll be playing here. I am shivering with excitement.

i saw heard autechre and snd play yesterday @ petrol. i had only heard the new album a couple times but not properly. as in: sit down, put on ze headphones and lissin. so i didn't really have an opinion or feelings about it. but yesterday i liked it. the gig, that is.

we had dinner with them before the concert. well, we sat at the same dinner table. i didn't really know what to say to them. when we drove from the restaurant to the venue, i was in the back where normally the dog is, and the autechres and snds were going on about extreme graphics and formulas and logarithms. and i still didn't know what to say. "yeah, great video" i thought when they were talking about some car ad. but i didn't say it. it felt like i would be breaking into their conversation if i did.

they didn't want any lights turned on while they were playing. no visuals, no lights anywhere, not even the emergency door signs. "i'm curious how the crowd will react", one of the snds said. they giggled about my boss' nervousness about not having any lights on. one of the autechres said that he wanted people to hear the music. "grab them and shout at them 'this is music!'", he said. hence the darkness.
i'd say it worked. you could hardly see anything, the music came like a tidal wave and smothered the crowd.

still, in the back, where i was, i saw people standing on the second, smaller stage, looking in the direction of the main stage where the band was supposed to be playing. they stood like that for a full hour. watching the three of four little green and red dots in the middle whilst bopping their heads to the complicated beats.
it was even weirder than seeing a crowd watch a dj playing a bunch of records.

get your sweet behind over at petrol antwerp tonight for twill be a funky kinda party featuring gold chains & sue cie, beans and mu live on stage, and maurice fulton on the decks. but the real stars will of course be ze kindamuzik djs!

So yeah, something barfed here this morning. You probably haven't even noticed. But all of a sudden the index page was footsy.

Started fiddling about a bit with WordPress as an alternative but I need more time. The template stuff seems pretty complicated to me. Which is weird, as the rest seems pretty easy. Maybe it's me.

Anyway, another hero (2nd from the right) has gone up in smoke. I interviewed him a couple years ago for a Spanish magazine, he sounded like fun. But I mostly remember that he was complaining a lot about everything.

A bit like me. Only not about music. I complain about Ajax (although there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel), about Barça losing to fuckin' Madrid, about that annoying little man Mourinho getting his anti-football playing team into the semi-finals of the CL, about PSV who seem to be untouchable, about the Dutch footy being broadcast on some new channel that we can't get here in Belgium unless we get one of those ridiculous satellite dishes, so I'm doomed to watch Belgian footy. Which I won't because it's boring. I complain a lot about the footy, basically.

But not about music. There's some good music out this year: Death From Above 1979's You're a Woman, I'm a Machine , Edan's Beauty and the Beat, Solex's 3/4, Vitalic's OK Cowboy, Adult.'s D.U.M.E., Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti's The Doldrums being my favs at the moment.

I'm also not complaining about the new place. It's beautiful, shiny and big and, now that I'm pretty much used to the sounds it makes, sounds nice as well. It's an old place, many people have undoubtedly died here, so there's a lot of screeching and ticking and stuff going on at night. They're not mice, I'm pretty sure.
Still have to get the records in place though. I thought about writing some stuff about the first records I ever bought/got. I thought about writing some stuff period. Which is as far as I get these days, thinking about writing.

In Spain I used to know this woman named Paz, she was convinced JPII would be the last ever pope, as, according to her, old Nozzy had said so, sort of. I didn't check, never bothered to read all that. But I wonder what Paz is thinking now.
Then again, Paz also said that there's people recording words that have been said centuries ago as, again, according to her, they are still floating through the air, you just have to find them. And that they were rewriting the bible using those recordings. The true story, first hand, so to speak.

Apart from thinking about writing, I'm also thinking about redesigning this. I have a new machine now with a big screen and now I don't like the way chezluba looks anymore. Maybe centering the content field will help. One thing I don't like about the WordPress is that all the WP blogs look alike, which makes me think I'm not the only one who finds the template stuff complicated.

The point of all this? None, ma'am. Just to let you know I'm still here. Hi.

heheheheh. i just had to frame this one (no photoshop, honest, guv). 666 mph like kyuss.
[via the now defunkt]