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Christopher Walken demonstrates cooking a chicken

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Labels: misc time-wasting

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Weekly mp3 #80: Steinbrüchel - Snowfall

This is from the first Summertour Remix compilation. They're collections of tracks made by remixing field recordings Sawako made while on tour. In summer.

Um, ridiculously ambient. A peaceful, easy feeling. Take it easy. I can't tell you why I'm quoting The Eagles, maybe it'll make sense in the long run. Basically, it's top-drawer, delicate (as opposed to moody, dark) drone and you already know whether that sounds great or awful to you.

Ralph Steinbrüchel is a Swiss producer, who I've played a bit when I DJ the DEEP show. In fact my music news page came up when I was doing a search for images for this post. Weird.

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Cute albatross chicks on Midway Island

These photos are sooo sweet.

The thing the mummy albatrosses do where they feed their chicks plastic that they mistake for food? Where they do that until the chicks keel over and die? That's real funny. Makes me "lol", bro.

Labels: life

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Weekly mp3 #79: Buildings - Slow Cradle

Hosted by The Audio Foundation, a bunch of people dedicated to "innovative audio culture in New Zealand".

The track sounds like processed field recordings - distant sounds of cars on wet roads? - mixed with some very long, slowly changing horn notes that may just as likely be a ship's horn. Haunting. The last minute or so of the six minute track suddenly adds in some thick synth noises that sound a bit like SND.

It's very hard to find any information about Buildings online, but I emailed the address on there and have lined up a copy of the CD this is from. It's a solo project by a guy called Paul Winstanley. A magazine's website describes an issue that includes Paul "murmuring vaguely about his obscure solo electronic / improv projects in New Zealand" and if you then scroll down the page it lists all the different projects and one of them is the Buildings album Travel In A Balloon. That's about the guts of what I'd found online before I emailed him directly. Snooping based on the "Eden Gully" bit of the email address on that page also reveals that there's a New Zealand label by that name apparently run by Paul Winstanley and Mark Sadgrove.

Labels: music, weekly mp3

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Weekly mp3 #78: The Wooden Birds - False Alarm

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Strummy guitar, tapping hand drums... all acoustic apart from a very gentle sounding bass guitar. Oh shit it's so mellow. A man sings softly, joined by a woman singing harmony in the middle of the song. It's a bit country rock. Things get totally raucous with occasional taps on a tambourine and some tremolo guitar. Easy tiger!

The Wooden Birds are an American band fronted by Andrew Kenny, which is how I ended up checking them out. Kenny was the singer for a good band called the American Analog Set (not to be confused with American Music Club) and did some great solo songs on a split EP with Ben Gibbard (Postal Service / Death Cab for Cutie). So there.

Labels: music, weekly mp3

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Weekly mp3 #77: High Places - From Stardust to Sentience

Lucky for us High Places' Aus. / NZ label, Mistletone, is more generous than their American one, Thrill Jockey.

Slushy noises turn into quiet but naggingly broken-up beats. Like a typing pool that rests at the end of every bar of the song. Some crazy electronic shit happens which I can't really describe without just going all technical on you. I think of people hitting marimbas, conches, woodblocks... all kinds of tuned percussion, basically. But it's more like a robot parrot is listening to that and trying to imitate what it heard. Gah. Sorry. I shouldn't have tried. :) Anyway, it's really chilled out and pretty. A woman sings a simple and lovely melody about the nature of life from a materialist's viewpoint. Nothing outstays it's welcome.

The album this is off is a good example of one of the dumb things about end of year lists - it came out in 2008, but I didn't hear it until June this year... OK, and it's a bit shit and doesn't deserve to be on a best of 2008 list, but, man, this song is awesome!

American duo High Places apparently met while one was studying bassoon and the other was teaching in the visual arts. They sound like it. Those confounded comfortable white people and their arty pretensions. Oh wait.

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Eat a sundae every Monday / popsicles in my Hyundai

Holy shit, what's up with Mr Bobbi Soxx? Lightest falsetto ever? OK, I love it. The video disturbs me, but suits the song totally.


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Also, how about peak oil?

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