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leave luck to heaven posted tuesday morning social software pains | Apr 29, 2008
thanks to imeem's on-demand track listening, i've been on a 90s music kick. however, i am learning today on last.fm that just entering "90s" as a listening tag is nary enough to dig up the good tunes. right now i am being punished with backstreet boys and alanis morrissette. i was already...
brownamazon posted Show them how funky, strong is your fight | Apr 27, 2008
There's this famous club in Montreal called Metropolis. Been around since Michael Jackson had an afro. Circa 1995, they used to have these big latin-salsa nights every Thursday night in the summer. My friends and I used to go quite regularly because the music was always amazing. One night, my crazy...
Burl Veneer posted S Convergence: Sakamoto, Satie, Stewart, Sylvian | Apr 24, 2008
Item 1: Mrs. Veneer buys Ryuichi Sakamoto's CD of solo piano pieces, BTTB. It's quite beautiful and Sakamoto mostly avoids the New Age clichés that plague so many piano CDs. Some of the pieces are obvious homages to classical works, such as "Opus," which evokes the Gymnopédies of Erik Satie: Item...
KB posted Early 90s Hip Hop Part 1 | Apr 21, 2008
I've been in a 90s hip hop mood lately. It's been a cross divide between the early (happier) sound of things like Pete Rock and DJ Premier productions. The other end of the spectrum is that grimey, hide-your-chains-because-the hoods-are-coming-out music (like Onyx, Mobb Deep, and MOP)l So this week...
