Category Archives: Music

Favorite Music from 2010

Another list. I look for­ward to skim­ming through oth­ers' lists to see what I missed or dis­missed too eas­ily in 2010 or what never made it to my ears. My picks, in alpha­bet­i­cal order: Akira Rabelais — Caduceus The lat­est from Akira Rabelais delves fur­ther into his finely tex­tured sound­world. Hav­ing built a del­i­cate and detailed sonic […]

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Hip Hop is Read presents The Beat Tape, Volume #1

I am happy to announce that two of my beats have been selected for inclu­sion on The Beat Tape, Vol­ume #1. Big thanks to Ivan for putting the effort into solic­it­ing and com­pil­ing the mate­r­ial from his read­er­ship. And thanks, espe­cially, for pick­ing my stuff for vol­ume one. Con­grat­u­la­tion to all the other pro­duc­ers, too. More info […]

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Music faves from 2009

It seems that 2009 is the year when I shifted my atten­tion back to rock and pop music. Dub­step still holds my atten­tion but not to the extent that it did back in 2006 when it took over my brain. Here are the things I enjoyed most in 2009, in no par­tic­u­lar order. Best Albums The […]

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Halloween Dubstep Mix 2009

I did a pre-Halloween dub­step spe­cial on my radio show this week. I have pre­pared a trimmed down mix, with­out the back­sells, PSAs and sta­tion IDs. Instead of a ram­bling 2 hour pro­gram, I have con­densed things to about 40 min­utes. Hope you enjoy it. Track­list­ing after the jump. stream: [Audio clip: view full post to lis­ten] down­load: halloween_mix_2009.mp3 […]

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Found it!

I love when I find some­thing that I for­got that I was look­ing for… I used to search for this song at every record store I vis­ited from around 1996–2000. It was not a new song at the time, but I really wanted it on 7-inch. Amoeba Records in San Fran­cisco had a cor­ner filled with […]

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