Opentapes!
Muxtape may be dead or returning as something new, but Opentape is taking Muxtape’s original idea and UI, making it self-hostable, and running with it. I just set one up here, check it out.
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Music notes, the death of muxtapes
Since Muxtapes are no more, I felt I should make a post listing what tracks were on mine at its time of death.
- Yura Yura Teikoku — 2005 Nen Sekairyoko
- Murcof — Camino
- Coil — Teenage Lightning (10th Birthday Version)
- Muslimgauze — Saladin Mercy
- Slowdive — Souvlaki Space Station
- Global Communication — 14.31
- Burial — Southern Comfort
- Gescom — Go Sumo
Combined with this other muxtape, I feel like my run on that site was pretty good.
I swear I’ll get to the 50 Great Albums thing eventually. I’ve been really busy—who knew grad school took up lots of time?
The New Yorker’s Sandwich Duel
Normally, when I write a post here, it’s (somewhat) well thought-out, (somewhat) long, and about me. This is not one of those posts. For anyone that doesn’t read Achewood, this may be less funny, but: Chris Onstad (writer of Achewood) and Zach Kanin (writer of stuff in The New Yorker) are currently having a “sandwich duel” on The Cartoon Lounge, a New Yorker blog. If you’re into food and humor, you should read it, because I think it’s currently the greatest thing on the internet.
Great albums 4: Autechre
Those who know this album are probably not surprised that I’m writing about it, since I took the domain name for this site from the title of track one. Autechre were for a long time my favorite band, their Confield being the first album I really independently liked. As I am now intimately familiar with almost their entire discography (and their work as Gescom), I think I’ve come to the final conclusion that LP5, their untitled fifth album, is their high point. While I haven’t heard this album as many times as I’ve heard some others, I think this is probably my all-time most listened album, and it continues to be great. More… »
Great albums 3: Aphex Twin
For some of these great albums, I’m going to have to listen to them a bunch of times before writing to get my thoughts together. Aphex Twin’s Come To Daddy EP is absolutely not one of those. Released at around the height of his popularity (I think “Windowlicker” takes that crown, though), this is not only an amazing sampler of most of Aphex Twin’s styles (only really missing the ambient work of his early career), but also possibly his best release, or, at least, the most consistent. More… »
