Thursday, February 28, 2008
Last.fm Tagger 0.9
As always, you'll need the wonderfully awesome RubyOSA gem installed.
Download it now.
Labels: last.fm, lastfmtagger, music, programming, ruby
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Last.fm Tagger for RubyOSA Update 3
What's new:
• Nice console messages telling you what's happening.
• Support for skipping over identical genre's.
• Ability to continue or abort tagging process. So if you don't like that tag, type 'n'.
• Use -q to subdue tagging confirmations.
• Full UTF-8 support, as well as proper URL escaping.
Download it now! And have somewhat useful genre's to choose from.
I will tackle cleaning it up later. Add me to your RSS reader if you want script updates.
Remember, you can get RubyOSA with the Last.fm Tagger here.
Labels: computers, last.fm, lastfmtagger, music, nerd, osx, programming, ruby, software
Thursday, August 9, 2007
eMusic.fm Greasemonkey Script
I finished a v0.1 of my eMusic.fm Greasemonkey script. What it does is pretty simple. On an album page, it will pull the 10 most popular tags from last.fm and inject them into the page below the description.
I found myself looking at last.fm for a particular artist to see what the community has labeled it as. This provides a more insightful look into artists you may not be aware of.
Download my eMusic.fm greasemonkey script
Labels: computers, firefox, last.fm, music, nerd, programming, software
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
mr lot lemmwax and his musical inflections
Monday, June 5, 2006
Fuck the Blackouts!
Labels: music
Monday, May 22, 2006
Ambient Recommendations
Alec is in the mood for some solid ambient, so I thought I’d throw in my two cents of a recommendation. I’ve fallen asleep to all of these. Highly recommended for a trip.
Yeah, it’s solid:
- Stars of the Lid, namely “Avec Laudenum”
- Zoviet France “Shadow, Thief of Sun” … wicked ambient.
- Biosphere, of course!! I think “Substrata” is my favorite. lush ambient soundscapes.
- Eluvium “Talk Amongst the Trees” … this is ambient.
- Colleen “Golden Morning Breaks” … organic, nostalgic
- Hammock “Sleep-Over Series” … shoegaze ambient, to say the least
- July Skies “The English Cold” … sad, progressive, romantic, cinematic. lush soundscapes.
- Seefeel “CH-Vox” … mechanical, dazed, ominous, dark
- Porn Sword Tobacco “Explains Freedom” … lo-fi, epic, very cinematic
In the realm of post-rock ambient, definitely hit up:
- Daturah “self-titled”
- Below the Sea
- Windy and Carl “Antarctica” or “Consciousness” or “Depths”
Labels: music, recommendations
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Listening to...
Lately, I’ve been heavily listening to Belbury Poly and Canyon Country
Both links have sample music available. I highly recommend checking them out.
Canyon Country has a member from Freescha!
Belbury Poly is very Boards of Canada like.
Labels: cd, music, recommendations
Sunday, March 19, 2006
Aloneliness
New track.
I want to keep working on this track. I made it on a whim, like all my songs are made, and it’s hard to get back into it. Criticism always helps.
Labels: compositions, music
Tuesday, March 7, 2006
New CD's!
Yessssss. My tonevendor order was waiting for me in the mailbox today. I ordered:
- Lowlife – Eternity Road
- Ceremony – Self-Titled
- Skywave – Synthstatic
- Biosphere – Dropsonde
All amazing albums. One track on Lowlife, entitled “Hollow Gut” sounds strikingly familiar to Joy Division. It’s almost like Ian was resurrected and called the band for a reformation.
If you are a fan of noisey shoegaze, electro stuff, I highly recommend the Ceremony album. Before Ceremony, there was Skywave… a Jesus and Mary Chain rip off, almost. Ceremony has more of a New Order feel. Only 7 tracks :(
The latest Biosphere is amazing! As always… I wouldn’t expect anything less. The man Geir Jenssen is the ambient king. He continues to evolve his soundscape. I will always love Biosphere. When you can’t sleep, listen to Biosphere. When you need peace, listen to Biosphere. When all else fails, listen to Biosphere.
Monday, February 13, 2006
v89 vishlist
As I’m listening to WVFS I hear the occasional good artist. I will list them here so that I may do research on them later.
- marion faithful
- aids wolf
- delta five
Saturday, February 11, 2006
I Am Your Noisy Neighbor
It’s been a lifetime,
A few hours or so.
Cold, dark starlit smoke plays a past-time,
Let me know.
Labels: compositions, music
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
Astrobrite - Pinkshinyultrablast CD
So it’s been a few weeks since I got this CD. I never heard Astrobrite before this, but when I read the review of this CD I immediately had to get it. It’s $20, includes 13 tracks of pure sonic bliss and a video of track three: Orange Creamsickle.
Most people that I have let hear this, immediately refer to it sounding like My Bloody Valentine. While I somewhat agree, Astrobrite trancends any shoegaze artist out there by destroying the fuzz/noise boundaries setup by previous shoegazing albums. They manage to make the most beautiful and melodic noise you’ll ever hear. You’ve probably never heard anything like it. This is beauty underneath the skin. This is what makes things beautiful. It’s all the chaos and tragedy of the process.
You can read a (much better) review on tonevendor and buy it as well.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Vera Violets - Sunshine Dust CD
Got a Vera Violets CD from Tonevendor (psssst. it’s only $7!) and it’s damn good. My interpretation of the style would be a sort of shoegazing Beat Happening.
I love how the vocals are amateurish in that they are pure, unfiltered, and unaffected. Too many bands/artists these days rely on effects to make their vocal tone perfect. There’s only too much perfection I can take. It’s just like reading an alphabetized list of your collection, you’re bound to miss something by knowing what order it’s in. When things are too perfect, you start taking for granted the little things inbetween.
Overall, it’s well worth your money. There’s nineteen tracks!
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Monoland - Ben Chantice CD
This isn’t your ordinary shoegaze. This is shoegaze with a twist. And the twist lies with the drums. It’s a clever way to deviate from the shoegaze genre of the past, while maintaining that ever-so-loving distant, isolated, shimmering guitar. Lots of sampled loops make this album some kind of electrogaze.
The poppy vocals will slip up on you. Sometimes not even making a presence until a few minutes in. A beautiful mix of up-close-and-personal lyrics with not-so-personal whispers lies within.
There’s a lot of ambient solitude mixed inbetween songs. Like a train working to get up to speed, some tracks take a while to break out of the intro into a beat.
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Galerie Stratique: Horizzzons (CD)
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
You Can See Me Listening
Hey. Look at the slick new chart to the left. Thanks Last.fm!
I’m not happy with the audioscrobbler sidebar plugin that comes with Typo. This is a lot nicer, but it isn’t very interactive. It’s just a static image. I’m not complaining!
If you haven’t already, I highly recommend getting an account at Last.fm. It gives you a detailed analysis of what you listen to. Charts, graphs, recommendations, the whole nine…all transparently! Be wary though, some recommendations are waaaay off. That’s to be expected, until quantum computing and holographic memory, of course.
EDIT: The new recommendations system, codenamed Pony is proving to be quite resourceful and more accurate. They are really starting to add in lots of cool new features.
Labels: music
Friday, December 2, 2005
Say What You Can... Or What You Mean
Help me Jessamine… I’m addicted.
After listening to The Long Arm of Coincidence several times, it is apparent to me that they are widely influenced by some major artists.
First, it was Stereolab. Second, Sonic Youth. Third, Flying Saucer Attack. Fourth, Yo La Tengo. Fifth, Trans AM.
So combine all those together, and you have Jessamine. Where has Jessamine been? Why haven’t they contacted me earlier? Oh well, get some.
After they broke up, two of the members went on to form the artist known as Fontanelle. I must hear them now.
Labels: music
Wednesday, October 26, 2005
Jessica Bailiff + Dave Pearce (Rural Psychedelia)
Two of my favorite composers have collaborated and produced one hell of an album. Intertwined is Jessica Bailiff and Dave Pearce (Flying Saucer Attack) forming Clear Horizon. Created is an elegant and isolated soundscape perfect for the upcoming cold winter daze. This album was created with true and pure dedication and love over two years of sending tapes overseas to each other.
This is something I’d love to do one day. With broadband becoming more of a commodity, it’s so easy and convenient to record something on your computer, upload it, and send it to your friend to work on. Don’t forget how it used to be!
Monday, October 24, 2005
What Wave?
So I am completely obsessed with no-wave. A while back, I started getting into some Factory Records goodness (A Certain Ratio, Durutti Column, etc) and my friend from East Hill CD told me about James Chance and the Contortions At first, I thought James’ sax playing was too chaotic and abrasive, but thanks to the just recently purchased Live in New York album, it really sold me on how innovative they were back in the 80’s. It also made me crave James’ singing. It’s toxic! And to think…
“No Wave was a short-lived but influential offshoot of punk rock centered in New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The term No Wave was partly a satiric wordplay rejecting the commercial elements of the then-popular New Wave genre, and also a declaration of the music’s experimental nature: No Wave music belonged to no fixed style or genre.”
Now, this has lead me onto many other wonderful artists such as: Teenage Jesus & the Jerks, Lydia Lunch, Mars, and thanks to a guy at Vinyl Fever, DNA, which I’m not fully into yet. Teenage Jesus & the Jerks are quite amazing.
Friday, October 21, 2005
Envious... oh so envious!
Labels: music
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