Moohairies
A song from 1998, inspired by julio iglesias and the walking scenes from “Hopscotch”. this was the first Pepito song, done with Reason, SoundEdit 16...
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“Se Vale Soñar” by Juan Cierro
My own hasty translation of the lyrics: I wish that when it rained instead of water, cocaine fell that beer would run along with tequila through the rivers and ...
was there more Latin rhythm on top 40 radio 40 years ago? 5 YouTube links
Mandrill: Hang Loose (YouTube) 1973 War: Cisco Kid (YouTube) 1972 Steely Dan: Do It Again (YouTube) 1972 Malo: Suavecito (YouTube) 1972 Santana: Evil Ways (YouT...
extending play: from lp’s to mp3’s and beyond
One of the benefits that record companies enjoyed when albums were the prevalent packaging for pop music was the upward pressure this scheme placed on song pric...
Noise as signal: overdetermined music from The Jesus & Mary Chain through My Bloody Valentine and Autechre to I Break Horses
music videos on YouTube: I Break Horses Hearts (2011) Crystal Castles Celestica (2008) The Field Sun & Ice (2006) Autechre Gantz Graf (2002) Fennesz Shishe...
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About a year of tweets, archived here for posterity.
I began this current journal, XSML, with the intent of reducing my own notes to extra small, XML-friendly updates. Increasingly, I have been drawn by the allure...
Rita Indiana name checking Minor Threat into the merengue canon.
Thanks to our friend Joni Daher I have just learned about Rita Indiana Y Los Misterios The song Esqueibol (Skateboard), is pure gold. Starting at 9m30s, Rita br...
Disco music: Popcorn vs. State of Things
1972: Hot Butter’s Popcorn 2007: Simian Mobile Disco’s State of Things
Pop chopped and screwed.
I often wonder if a single song can inspire an entire genre. Certainly, there are combinations that are so influential they turn up again and again. Consider 10...
rainy sunday in LA – YouTube soundtrack. The Field, The Cure, Daft Punk, Little Dragon
Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime – The Field Nightvision – Daft Punk Blinking Pigs – Little Dragon Analyse – Thom Yorke A Forest – The Cure Minor c...
Eleven years ago, five years ago, playing The New World. Also, the video.
True story. Our band Pepito began in San Francisco, California on a Thanksgiving day in 1999, with a brand new Blueberry iMac, a cracked copy of Reason and a th...
An old song of ours called “Get Out”.
This may be my favorite of our old songs – at this moment. Thank you Chris Palmatier for making the synth so Pat Benatar at the end. Chris Groves and Ana Machad...
The 80′s keeps getting better: Passion Pit “The Reeling”, Friendly Fires “Jump In the Pool” and “Too Dramatic” by Ra Ra Riot
The 1980s keeps getting better and better in the retelling: Passion Pit “The Reeling” Friendly Fires “Jump In the Pool” “Too Drama...
Stuck in the 70s, 80′s, 90′s, 00′s: the iTunes Genius playlist generator can’t make associations across decades.
One of my favorite things about music is how clearly it adheres to the dialectical mode of thesis (let’s use more synthesizers!), antithesis (no, let̵...
Sony, 30 years of headphone music and psychoaccoustic tomfoolery in Wham!’s Everything She Wants
Josh Marshall notes that Sony is retiring the Walkman and what a revolution that product represents. I couldn’t agree more. Just now I was listening to Ev...
Exceptional rhythmn programming in singles by Nicki Minaj, Missy Elliott and Amerie
Nicki Minaj Massive Attack Missy Elliott Pass That Dutch Amerie 1 Thing
LCD Soundsystem vs Pavement
As they’re back in the news for a reunion, I have been listening to and thinking about Pavement recently. Their songs are still as fresh for me as they we...
A total guess on Pandora’s “random walks”.
My guess is that when you first launch a Pandora station it begins at the dead center of the Venn diagram created by all the people who have also endorsed/reque...
music: mastodon’s “the last baron”
because it was released on iTunes as an album-only purchase, i’d not heard Mastodon’s The Last Baron until today. it is by far one of the most ridic...
Music: Little Dragon
Somewhere between Feist and La Roux, if you avoid their nods to neo soul. Favorite songs: Feather, Fortune, My Step, Runabout and Blinking Pigs.