Music
Helmet and Goggle
“And I didn’t have any idea what to do, but I knew I needed a click…”
雨音の由来
Spoon & Tamago via Gizmodo
10,000 Goodnight Kisses
Trans-Pacific flights + love songs for my better half @ 124 BPM.
Honey Junket
Last December, I wanted to see if Bonobo could mix with hip-hop (turns out it does), and work outside my 125 BPM comfort zone.
Good Days Ahead
Chipped away learning to mix hip-hop, I present Bonobo’s “Days to Come” (2006) narrated by Big K.R.I.T.
A New Decade
40 minutes, 125bpm, island hopping via flight 79 to Honolulu.
Leaves and Twigs and Bits of Shit
(via Creative Review)
DJ Honey, Drop It
(via swissmiss + culturalfuel)
Chromeo at Daryl’s House
P-Thugg and Dave 1 make sweet, sweet music at Daryl Hall’s house.
The Ordinary, Day 24
A friend of mine used to ask me every day, “What was the best thing that happened to you today?”
Things That Are Awesome
Bon Iver playing with the entire crowd singing The Wolves
Typoratatat
(via graphkzr1234)
Itching to do Stuff
I am seriously behind on my music consumption.
3 Encores!!!
Saw Bloc Party last night at the Fillmore with Arsie—like their first performance there, they played three encores.
Reprise
Walking to the Muni last night before the party, I tried to reconcile the evening’s plans with a nagging sense of post-30 bedroom DJs suffering from Peter Pan
Rusty
Got asked to spin at a club on Wednesday.
The Wolves
My Moon My Man
Friday morning, the marina Fuzio restaurant, doors open, crew setting up tables for the lunch rush was playing Feist.
Repetition Kills You
London electro artists The Black Ghosts bring this delicious slice of Paris + homage to Space Invader and Pac Man, directed by Sarah Hay, featuring Damon
June Mixtape - Backyard Astronomy
June’s mixtape is built for flights and bus rides, benefit parties and best friends.
Golden Sweat
The subject of a few covers and remixes in its 18 months of life, Klaxons’ epic Golden Skans is one of my favorite songs of last year.
Faraway Weddings
My travel this summer revolves around a pair of weddings—one in Hawaii, one in Paris.
Revlogging
Maybe my new favorite vlog, well, second favorite after KT’s: Barbara Gruska and Meghan Toohey bring the theme music.
Recalculation Theme
I’ve always wanted to dance to Metric’s Calculation Theme.
Talking Past Each Other
A more polished rendition of the last mix on Bite Marks, pitting Cloud Cult against Bird and the Bee on a base of Daft Punk cover.
Justice - Stress Video
A nod to The Prodigy original, Romain Gavras directs Justice’s new video for Stress.
Bite Marks
April’s mixtape is a big electro hug for my peeps in Haight/Alamo/Hayes Valley.
Goldfrapp — Happiness
Goldfrapp’s Happiness has been in heavy rotation at ydnar HQ of late, particularly the the excellent Metronomy remix featuring The Teenagers (MP3).
Spring Skiing
67 minutes of dance time is the new prescription for seasonal allergies.
Golden Cage
Walking out of the penumbra of the trainwreck that my love life has been for the past six months, it was nice to find this video from The Whitest Boy Alive,
Borrowing Liberally from Monoscope
(via Monoscope)
March 27
Jose Gonzales or Justice?
This is So Tipping Great
Two links, courtesy of two good friends:
My Electro Lust Manifest
I might just have to start buying wax again.
Minor Serendipity
Buffeted by wind and the remains of yesterday’s snow, my breath visible as tiny crystallizing clouds, I was walking down Hornsgatan past exposed cliffs and
Coachella 2008 Lineup
This year’s roster is an electronic dream lineup.
Scene for Scene
While wandering the grounds of Kew Gardens under an aluminum sky—literally, planes landing at Heathrow flew over with a regularity approaching seconds
Sebastien Tellier
First this epic pic:
A Little Electro Keeps the Doctor Away
Via Missing Toof: CSS - Music is My Hot Hot Sex (KILL THE NOISE Remix).
Because Japanese Robots Rule
Transgenic video for Bloc Party’s latest, Flux:
Murakami, Upset, Electro, Lit
Clinton upsets in NH.
The Xiu Xiu Abides
New video from the San Jose band Xiu Xiu, via The Owl, wrestling moves and other weird shit abound:
Whistler Singer Songwriter Agitator Remixer
Distilling a batch of ten from a rough cut three times that size is a craft.
Kimya Dawson, Juno and The Moldy Peaches
Despite latent bias against soundtracks in general (cough), I love this Moldy Peaches track from Juno.
Je T’Aime Neue Grotesk
Thriller
Just a shade past 25 years, and still banging.
Tuesday Electro
It’s toes are just over the cliff of cheesy, but can’t help listening to it on repeat today.
Electro! Music! Danse!
First up, Kolumbo/Compuphonic’s tweaky mixes on their Emotion EP.
Sigur Rós - Heima Trailer
At Mezzanine, tonight.
Nu:Tone - Back of Beyond
Reviving my old drum’n’bass lust with this new release from Hospital.
Music for Animals @ GAMH
Vox Hunt: Overdubbed
Audio: If you could sing like anyone, living or dead, who would you choose to sound like? Share a song of theirs.
The voices in my head
So Nick and I were talking on IM about Ratatat today:
Bukem
Sometimes, the ill-termed “intelligent drum & bass” just fits.
Beats & Bleeps
A long time ago in another life I used to make electronic music.
I loved this costume so much...
In the pre-Windowlicker tour, Aphex Twin had giant faceless neon-colored teddy bears dancing around on stage.
Springtime Music
It’s April, and time for new music.
The Dichotomy of Shuffle
With a large enough library of music, I’ve found that it’s simply not possible to mentally keep track of everything I like listening to.
Newly Listening To
New additions to my music library for 2006 (links to follow):
Not Played Ever
There are things you know, things you know you don’t know, but it’s the things you don’t know you don’t know that are probably the most interesting.
Flyers 2000-2004
Posted a bunch of old party flyers I designed 2000-2004.
WHITEOUT This Friday
This Friday at WHITEOUT: Xis will be cutting it up with guest Kaspar Hauser at Sno-Drift, San Francisco.
TN-SL1200 Concorde Racing League (TM)
Eats, drinks, beats.
Optimal 4
Throwing another party this evening, at Sno-Drift in San Francisco.
Holiday Cheer
An early Christmas present…37 textures in four sets from the olden days in Archived.
Optimal
If you’re going to be in San Francisco on August 18, and like a little bit of that Detroit techno love, check this.
Additions
Added some proper linkage to the Shaderlab soundtrack: Tag’s Trance Trip, the stream with all the good techno kit.