http://www.wordthecat.com/goku playing with the faeries since May 2005 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:28:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en alphaville have been running an excellent series of podcasts for a while now. field recordings, rain, distant electronics. greek sound artist manekinekod (named for the waving cat) studied music for film and builds herself a "dream machine" here. Alpha-podcast presents Manekinekod by Alphaville tba a.k.a. natalie beridze ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2010/07/21/weather-too-hot-for-titles/ dubbel dutch has been making quiet waves for a while now in this new bass water. here he is remixing fellow austin, tejas resident parson in a broken paving steppers style. he has a mix over here too. parson - i rep the dirty south (dubbel dutch rmx) [audio:parson - I REP ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2010/07/15/oude-oude-oude-kass-kaas-kass/ ------- ---- --- - - - -------------- i'm sure you've heard that Wiley gave away 200 tracks last week. you can nab all 11 zip files here. this is like a ready-made post for blogs. time (to listen) becomes a bigger commodity than data. self-appointed aggregators stand up. BUT. it's also a ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2010/07/15/clearing-the-archive/ i in no way endorse the mentalism contained herein . . ... ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2010/06/14/what-was-i-saying-about-arseholes-who-cant-deal-with-the-vuvuzela/ ---- @livevuvuzela. three 90 minute drone epics a day watched by billions. and if billions are watching there's sure to be some arseholes who can't take it (one of them is called patrice evra, 29, from manchester). elsewhere i attempt to juggle abstract world cup blogging. http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2010/06/14/wheres-my-horn-kru/ ---- image by takehito koganezawa ---- today a track by kyo ichinose from 2002. it's from this cd. file under well designed furniture. bought here, where you can get immaculately designed tables for over €1000. the track is from a evening of performance inspired by st.giga st.giga was a ambient radio station that ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2010/06/12/fielded/ image by yokohama yuichi ---- the weather is getting warm and perhaps inescapable. humid air retains smells for much longer. you can smell tobacco 10 metres away or the smoke being pumped out of the barbeque restaurant from down the road. here is a mix of odour from psychadelic bus a.k.a. hiroki ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2010/06/06/moi-st-air/ they're quite famous, they're also quite good and they have a new record out. don't know about you but this is the sort of thing i hear behind my eyes as i'm falling asleep. amplified and with a hint of todd. crystal castles. ---- and closer to sleep... crystal castles - empathy (wordthecat ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2010/05/25/empathy/ ---- as the weather begins to open up and before intense humidity slams it shut again, a window of cumbia. this is built from gigs of stuff i'd never got around to listening to. retroactive searching reveals at least a quarter of it came from mr /r. follow those tracks back ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2010/05/23/%e3%82%af%e3%83%b3%e3%83%93%e3%83%a3/ matthew herbert has a new record out. herbert is primarily an electronic composer, who previously built records out of sampling the human body and the food industry. this record (entitled one one) contains only sound produced by herbert and is the first part of a trilogy. the second part (one ... http://www.wordthecat.com/goku/2010/05/11/voice-and-noise/