Saw this on a truck this morning. Thought of y'all.

http://biglfood.com/

It's not a comeback, it's a return!

http://m.youtube.com/?rdm=4pcfq6cyf&reload=3#/watch?desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DIYDlsy8eJmc%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&feature=youtu.be&v=IYDlsy8eJmc&gl=US

Sorry for my brevity but Blogger on iPhone = teh suck. What's the meh/FUCKYEAH meter rating, on a scale of 37, with 37 being boobies that play Windowlicker and 1 being Toni Braxton?

Dirty South

Hey, sorry i've been a slacker. I've been too busy rippin' with two headed cows:

and cruisin' babes at the walmart.

 

I'll catch up soon.

Synth Britannia and a tangent.

So, Modulations it's not, but I still think this is an excellent and basically essential documentary. In particular, I was reminded of it when responding to Jason's last post; one of the middle-aged British guys appearing here (I don't think it's the dude from Human League, but he does say something kind of similar at one point) basically calls bullshit on the notion of DIY punk, because you've still got to learn those 3 chords.  Real DIY, in an appropriately defeatist, dystopian sense, is making a machine do it for you (neither stance adequately addresses how one affords an instrument of any kind). Brian's comment about, you know, all the kids with their preset-core dance parties reminded me of this attitude- except now almost everybody (OK, admittedly every-middle-class-and-up-body) has a computer.
I guess what I'm getting at is, we have this established notion in western popular music of celebrating intense amateurism (1977ish-present) and an increasing accessibility of sound software (1999ish to present? I don't really know when Garage Band came about), now coming home to roost in various forms- hipster noise, Girl Talk, "Witch House," Animal Collective, Dan Deacon (BTW I think Dan Deacon is awesome), and Brian's umbrella concept of "PCG,"  which I like because it's a catch-all, like EBM or IDM.
I'm not trying to bring taste into this by any means, or I wouldn't be posting a YouTube video that is partially about Yazoo. I just want to know what the kids are up to; to see them coming before they're all over my lawn and it's too late for the prize-winning begonias.

Steinvord files

Anybody got em?  Hook it up. 

Lapalux - Gone

Ironiception

James Ferraro. Let's talk about it.

I could go on and on about the post title meaning that I can't tell where the irony stops and starts with this thing, or how that linked article intimates that there shouldn't be any irony in it at all (which I have a hard time believing). I've had a hard time getting into the Rustie record for the same reason. With both of those artists, I have moments in the record where I'm like, "this is good... I'm liking it". Then some fucking Yamaha keyboard horn preset or some other such thing that sounds like a scratch track from a Huey Lewis record happens and I'm like, "nope. still annoying."

Maybe this means I just can't look past timbre and appreciate things that sound like fucking garbage but are compositionally inventive. Or I'm just old, and get off my lawn.

The whole reason I even listened past the first track of that Ferraro record is Mike P put it on his year-end list.