Posted in music on August 6th, 2008 No Comments »
In April last year, I visited Yahoo HQ to take a look at what was then their in-progress redesign of del.icio.us. It took me no more than a few minutes to decide that I hated it: it fit much less information on each page, it introduced big bars of colour to no apparent purpose, and [...]
Posted in music on January 2nd, 2005 No Comments »
How much better it is to be patient, and visit Aquarius, than to give into the desire for a quick fix and waste time at Borders or some other soulless chain. I pulled my occasional largely-unplanned-trip-to-the-record-store trick on Thursday. Oh, it was good. A mediocre, rushed trip to Aquarius is enormously more satisfying than two [...]
Posted in music on October 16th, 2004 No Comments »
Another album that I picked up during my Borders trip last week was M83′s Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts. After I bought it and played it, I was stunned by the warm reception this album received at places like Amazon’s customer reviews and Pitchfork Media. At least I had my curiosity piqued: What [...]
Posted in music on October 11th, 2004 No Comments »
I went to Borders the other day, to replenish my stock of commute music. I get restless when I have to rotate the same few discs more than a few times when driving up and down the Peninsula, and NPR is currently so focused on election politics that I can’t listen. Oliver Sacks had a [...]
Posted in music on October 11th, 2004 No Comments »
Tom Jenkinson has been recording as Squarepusher for years. He started out with genre-defining drill-and-bass albums, then moved on to his own peculiar interpretation of jazz. His latest, Ultravisitor, is a part-live, part-studio album, about evenly split between d’n’b and jazz. The album as a whole is disappointing to me. The drill-and-bass tracks are either [...]
