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What MUSIC are you listening to?
www.pandora.com/station/play/1245317705933986162
Very good if you like breaks, beats, shoegazing, jazzy whatever noises.
When I can handle lyrics, it's throwback hiphop time:
www.pandora.com/station/play/94824197879175538
Basically, it's an A Tribe Called Quest era station. Bits of Wu-Tang, Public Enemy, some one-offs.
I really miss WFNX, which was the best alt-rock station that ever existed. I try to match those ideas with this one:
www.pandora.com/station/play/94660396416440690
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Since I've been back under headphones, I've had the chance to check out some more material. There's not a lot - they're still very young - but I really like most of it.
I'm not really sure what makes it so compelling. On the surface it's just another modern alt-rock band but there's something about those deep vocals, driving rhythms and stop-start sequences that just works really well.
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About a month ago I was out on a date with my girlfriend and after dinner we were wandering the streets and picked a random bar to go into. There was music playing, 4 bands, free entry, and the 3rd band was someone I had seen as a support act earlier and wanted to check them out again, so we went to watch the bands play.
We just caught the last song of the first act and they rocked so happily stayed. And then the second act "Infraghosts" came on and me and my girlfriend were just thinking WTF. It was someone with far more ambition than talent, but you had to just admire the verve of someone just putting everything out there. She was a trans gender performer in a catsuit with a bondage harness, who couldn't sing, couldn't dance, had a weird video show projected behind her (powered by her phone that kept locking up, so she kept having to stop performing mid song to unlock the phone and restart the video). But weirdly the music was quite good (a bit like New Order), and it took me a while to convince my girlfriend that it was original as everything else was so bad that my girlfriend assumed that she was droning in her bad monotone over other peoples songs.
And then after she finished she announced that she had a merchandise stand in a briefcase if anyone wanted to buy anything after the show. It was all just so out there, as though she looked at what a top act had and decided to recreate everything they have. I was too intimidated to look at the merchandise as I didn't want to engage with Infraghosts as I had no idea where that might go, but was intrigued. So the next day I looked up Infraghosts online to check out the merch, and to my surprise it was cassettes of her music (normal) and engraved kitchen knives (WTF).
So since that night Infraghosts has been a running joke between me and my girlfriend, occasionally singing lyrics and mentioning the knives. On Sunday my girlfriend found out about a couple of concerts that she really wanted to go to but had sold out, and I was joking and told her that we just needed to become Infraghosts superfans because then we will never have any difficulty getting tickets for the concerts we want to go to. And the next morning while half asleep, I thought, well her birthday is coming up in a couple of months, I am going to get her an Infraghosts knife and bought one online, and then because it was early promptly forgot that I had done so.
So I got home yesterday and my daughter said to me "Your merch has arrived", and because i had forgotten about it, had no idea what she she was talking about. "You know. Infraghosts. She was here. She asked for you, I said you weren't home. I told her that you said Infraghosts was cool, and she left this package". And there was a package with a gift wrapped knife and a hand written note explaining that she had hand crafted these as a promo to send to radio stations with her music, and that there was one left over so she put it on the merchandise page.
So it turns out that I am the first and last and only person to have ever bought an Infraghosts knife. So happy to see a 'sold out' notice on the website. And now I have to wait months before telling my girlfriend, which is agony, as she is the one who will truly appreciate the fact that Infraghosts came to my house and how unique the knife is.
And as much as I laugh at Infraghosts, I am reminded that there is some real talent there. She just needs to get someone else to sing, dance, etc, and just leave herself to creating the music.
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I myself have been listening to Quantic/Flowering Inferno. That's as up to date as I have been for a long time in terms of contemporary stuff. It's a combination of old sounds, in cumbia and reggae, but there's not much out there putting those things together and it pulls it all off.
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I think The Place Where The Black Stars Hang is probably a better album on the whole, but this ones got a real solid vibe.
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How about Anti-Pop Consortium, Company Flow, Dalek, Aesop Rock, Kool Keith...I was managing a Wherehouse Music when all of that was going on...we used to listen to that stuff on the in-store all the time while selling customers The Hot Boys, Juvenile, and Sisqo.
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