Wednesday 12.23.2009 | 4:23 AM UTC
Ancestor of Oughts:
Best (old) Music of the Decade
Everybody’s got ‘em, present company obviously included. Lists and lists of the best of this and that to help mark the passing of another 10 crazy years. But the Ought’s ancestors called, and they want their jaggy guitars, compressed drum tracks, cheesy keyboard sounds and whispery vocals back.
So, here’s to those records without whom our latest crop of honorable pirates and thieves would have starved on the streets. And make no mistake, this is no slight. The bad only borrow. Only the good steal.
Listen up:
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/ miscellany
Not Berlin, not China, not the Floyd, just every photo on maunet, laid out brick by brick.
// currently reading
Sharing a numerical moniker with c23,Mick 23 iterates one simple graphic element into a remarkable variety of visual/verbal haikus.
Friday 02.26.2010 | 4:36 UTC
chairmanmau says:
thanks daniel, had not seen this documentary, so very much my speed ;-) Sadly, Netflix doesn’t offer it, so I’ll watch it piecemeal. I love that it’s intentions as serious documentary vs. satire are very much unclear. Kinda like SynthPop itself ;-)
Friday 02.26.2010 | 4:09 UTC
daniel aka autobahn aficionado says:
I love the new site! And this is a great mix! Have you seen the BBC Doc “Synth Britannia”? I think you’d dig it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeVRYPjcVXg