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It's another "I'm in love with music" post

Wed, 2007-04-04 23:00 — elliot

I love my music. I think I might die if I couldn't listen to music all day. I also love the 22nd of every month, as that's when my eMusic subscription refreshes. This month I've been loving:

  • Philip Jeck, the master of skipping vinyl transformations. Try Surf for size.
  • Oval, who are a bit like Mr. Jeck, but use CDs painted and scratched as source material rather than vinyl. Juddering ambient washes. Try Ovalprocess.
  • Funkstorung, who produce nasty beaty acid. Try Return to the Acid Planet.
  • Metro Area, sublime disco-tinged house. Try Miura (my favourite track from their self-titled album).
  • Pole: precise, dub-inflected, glitchy down-tempo techno. The new Steingarten album is great.
  • Soylent Green: spartan acid/house. I got La Forza Del Destino, which works really well as a complete album and keeps up a decent quality and tempo throughout.
  • Paul Dresher, modern electro-acoustic music. I've got the first two tracks from Cage Machine, which are excellent.
  • Trans Am's new Sex Change LP is excellent. They seem to turn into a different band for each album: this time there are echoes of Can and Kraftwerk, plus some raucous guitar work-outs.
  • And of course, most importantly, I forgot my friend (he's been promoted) Mark's band TheRubbish. They've got a MySpace page where they claim Beck and Jarvis Cocker as friends, though I'm not so sure. I recommend their classic Compo Compo.

Looking at that list, there's definitely a Teutonic tendency.

Comments

Sun, 2007-04-08 06:58 — Natalie Andrew (not verified)

Less about music, more about Interactive Fiction

Well, first of all it's MATHS not math. Bloody Americans. Second of all, hi Elliot, long time no see.

I got started off on interactive fiction again yesterday when I went to see an exhibit by Jill Magid which reminded me of Emily Short's 'galatea'. By a roundabout and terribly nostalgic route this reminded me of you. In fact I still have copies of your stories with me... including Kong... you freak. So now you are present in my latest miserably bland blog entry, lucky you! You are looking very very well. Haven't been to Winterbourne for a while and now it's a bit far but my ex-boss seems to troupe his kids through there often enough to get photos I recognise on flickr.

All the best,

Nat

PS I too have pics of succulents :D

Mon, 2007-04-09 19:50 — elliot

Hi Natalie. Marvellous to

Hi Natalie. Marvellous to hear from you again. Marvellous. I am flattered that you've kept copies of my stories. So you may be pleased (maybe not) to hear I've started writing fiction again this year after a long hiatus. I'll be following up the interactive fiction on your blog. By the way, your blog looks good, not bland at all; and it's an honour to be remembered there!

Funnily enough, I was looking for you on th'internet a couple of weeks ago. I found a couple of papers with your name on, but no blog, so I'm pleased you've introduced me to your home on the web. Glad to see you've found gainful employment; also that you've been brave enough to make a move to America. By the way, it would be good to swap email: mine is elliot at this domain.

Thu, 2007-04-05 11:54 — Mark B (not verified)

Hey, Elliot, if you like

Hey, Elliot, if you like music, try these bad boys.
http://www.myspace.com/therubbish
Not exactly house but still the best sounds you will ever here while visiting that website as long as you haven't got anything on in the background.
Seriously great, though.
By the way, can you make those maths questions easier. We're not all brain of Britain, you know.
M

Thu, 2007-04-05 14:37 — elliot

Oh, this just isn't on. This

Oh, this just isn't on. This is just blatant self-promotion. You corporate whore.

Those maths questions are annoying, but it's the only way I can stop the robots/Borg taking over my website. Glad to hear you're writing something about a werewolf, by the way.