Favorite Music of 2009, Pt. 7: So Many Dynamos – The Loud Wars

Nerd rock! So Many Dynamos (palindromes get my attention) has a math rock underbelly, but lyrically the songs are more indie, if you’ll forgive the vagueness of that label, which is only outdone by “electronica,” a nigh-useless genre I haven’t found a way to improve upon.

So Many Dynamos – Glaciers [Audio clip: view full [...]

Favorite Music of 2009, Pt. 6: The Field – Yesterday and Today

Maybe it’s not quite the groundbreaker Axel Willner’s previous effort was, but the man is still making clever, subtle electronic music that straddles the lines between dance and IDM, and also creating its own paradox by being not quite background music but not requiring attention throughout. If that makes little sense, well, the music does [...]

Favorite Music of 2009, Pt. 5: Super Furry Animals – Dark Days/Light Years

Super Furry Animals hail from Wales, in the UK, which wouldn’t be all that significant except that they often use Welsh in their lyrics. It makes them cooler, in a rock-’n’-roll, screw-you sense, that they don’t give a damn about making all the songs on their albums easily accessible to the English-speaking public. I doubt [...]

Favorite Music of 2009, Pt. 4: Pogo – Weave and Wish

I’m going to try and knock the rest of these out as fast as I can, ’cause this is getting ridiculous. April indeed.

Pogo is a DJ from Perth, Australia, who’s carved out a fantastic niche for himself by slicing movie soundtracks for melody and percussive elements and adding beats and basslines. Most of the [...]

How Did My Hard Drive Migration Go, You Ask?

I believe the following image sums up the situation:

It’s nice to have all my files back in the proper place, with a little more room to bang around in, after a two month hiatus following the crash. Back up everything, people, this is the first time I’ve not lost a single file.

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