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It’s time, once again, for Massive Music Weekend, WRCT‘s 60-hour marathon of 120 30 minute blocks of our favorite artists, which we do over Valentine’s Day weekend because we’re married to music. I’m doing five blocks this year, and it should be really good. Here are the slots corresponding to bands I already know I like (there are a bunch more of bands I am anxious to learn about), with ones I’m particularly excited about hearing in italics, and the ones I’m doing in bold. Listen from Friday, February 13th at noon until Sunday the 15th at 11:59 on 88.3fm in Pittsburgh or on our website worldwide!

• Friday, 2:00pm: Frank Zappa (experimental rock)
• Friday, 3:30pm: Brian Eno (rock, ambient)
• Friday, 4:00pm: Captain Beefheart (experimental rock)
• Friday, 5:00pm: King Crimson (prog rock)
• Friday, 9:00pm: The Orb (ambient house)
• Saturday, 1:30am: The RZA (hip-hop)
• Saturday, 3:30am: Judas Priest (80s metal)
• Saturday, 4:30am: Keith Fullerton Whitman (ambient)
• Saturday, 5:30am: The Avalanches (dance, dj)
• Saturday, 6:30am: Windy & Carl (ambient)
• Saturday, 7:00am: M83 (electronic shoegaze)
• Saturday, 8:30am: Time Machines (ambient)
• Saturday, 12:30pm: Mogwai (post rock)
• Saturday, 2:00pm: Broadcast (indie)
• Saturday, 8:30pm: Modeselektor (dance)
• Saturday, 9:00pm: Aphex Twin (idm)
• Saturday, 10:00pm: Wiley (eskibeat, grime, 2-step, 8-bar, garage, urban)
• Saturday, 10:30pm: Lucky Dragons (ambient)
• Sunday, 12:30am: Emeralds (ambient)
• Sunday, 1:00am: Autechre (idm)
• Sunday, 1:30am: Squarepusher (idm)
• Sunday, 3:30am: Portishead (trip-hop)
• Sunday, 6:00am: Hrvatski (idm, drum’n'bass)
• Sunday, 6:30am: Mu-ziq (idm)
• Sunday, 8:00am: Bleach (hardcore)
• Sunday, 11:00am: Melvins (metal)
• Sunday, 5:30pm: Lee “Scratch” Perry (reggae)
• Sunday, 8:30pm: Funkadelic (funk)
• Sunday, 11:30pm: Crystal Meth Wolf Fire From Barcelona (free improv)

I am in a good mood, and thus I reorganized my a new one featuring Faust, Twine, Comets On Fire, Coil, and Matmos. Go listen.

(Edit, 2009/11/22: I have removed the mixtapes in question to save storage space. Sorry, all! The tracklist was:

• Faust – Meadow Meal
• Twine – None Some Silver
• Comets On Fire – The Black Poodle
• Coil – Sex With Sun Ra (Part One – Saturnalia)
• Matmos – The Struggle Against Unreality

I should really get around to making another one.)

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.

(Edit, 2009/11/22: I just removed the old mixtape for storage space. The track list:

• Giraffes? Giraffes! – When the Catholic Girls Go Camping, the Nicotine Vampires Rule Supreme.
• Zeni Geva – Angel
• This Heat – Horizontal Hold
• Keith Hudson – I’m All Right
• Sun City Girls – Cruel And Thin
• Charalambides – Silvatica

Pretty good, in retrospect. I should make a new one.)

Since Muxtapes are no more, I felt I should make a post listing what tracks were on mine at its time of death.

1. Yura Yura Teikoku — 2005 Nen Sekairyoko
2. Murcof — Camino
3. Coil — Teenage Lightning (10th Birthday Version)
4. Muslimgauze — Saladin Mercy
5. Slowdive — Souvlaki Space Station
6. Global Communication — 14.31
7. Burial — Southern Comfort
8. 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?

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… »