Some good finds recently. Not free music though.

At War With False Noise

Valgriindedfa

Rage in Eden

Twilight Records

Beast of Prey

Things are a little slow at work today, so I’m going through the drafts on this site and flushing them out into real posts. This list has been sitting around for some time.

In no particular order: Eleven records from the last ten years that have made a big impact on me in some way, mostly having to do with making my own tunes.

1. Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile (1999)
2. Sigur Rós: Ágætis Byrjun (1999)
3. Lament Configuration: Paragon-Asia Dataflow (2004)
4. Cex: Oops! I did it again! (2001)
5. Gultskra Artikler: Goloded (2004)
6. Tujiko Noriko: Make Me Hard (2002)
7. Lustmord: Zeotrope (OST) (2002)
8. Panacea: Brasilia (2000)
9. M² (Squaremeter): The Bitter End (2002)
10. Set Fire to Flames: Telegraphs in the Negative/Mouths Trapped in Static (2003)
11. Clint Mansell: The Fountain (OST) (2006)

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Other albums not on this list that I’d include now.

Dead Lettters Spell out Dead Words: Facelessness Erases Every Trace of Humanity (2008)

Kode9 and the Spaceape: Memories of the Future (2006)

Wolves in the Throne Room: Two Hunters (2007)

From 2000-2005 it seemed like every netlabel that was popping up was putting out at least one, really killer, free album every few months. Has anyone else noticed that the days of the great netlabel seem to be over?

There are still a few shining lights out there, but it seems like when Fukkgod Let’s Create went away (in their familiar form at least), a lot of other netlabels disappeared as well, or started putting out sub-par material. Autoplate is no longer putting out new stuff, and the rest of Thinner has gone the route of paid downloads. Monotonik is still going strong, but I haven’t heard anything vibrant out of that camp in at least two years, not since Bliss’ “Hello Brain Goodbye Heart”. No Type offers fewer and fewer releases overall every year, and sub-labels Sine Fiction (a netlabel project that could be amazing) and Nishi haven’t had any new releases since 2007.

So what’s going on out there? Am I just not finding the good shit on Google anymore or have things really become that stale?

I’ll write more about this soon. I just wanted to get this initial part down here first.

Okay, so the point of that little rant?
I am going to delve deep into the netlabel land again and find some of the good stuff.

But it seems like everyone I know who went to art school was never taught how to make money from their art. I’m not saying its good or bad, I’m just saying it seems like by now art schools should teach artists how to make money if they can’ t figure it out on their own. Its kind of a fine line I suppose.

I don’t make money from making music, but I still do it of course. I never went to music school either and it seems like some people who did go to music school are worse off than I am and they have a B.A..

In a round-a-bout way it kind of makes me think that I’d be happy teaching skills at a trade school, instead of producing art for car and travel companies.

He’d be be bigger than J.K. Rowling. (I’m still of the opinion that Rowling can’t write for shite)

Seriously, the dude is almost better at reading and speaking than William S. Burroughs. For some reason his prose seemed to have dropped off as of late.

http://www.bordersmedia.com/backlot/coraline.asp

This subject came about in a weird conversation and a weird Google downward sprial that started on Dark Roasted Blend. Ahnyhoo.

To me the moniker is not in reference to its views or it being a particularly hairy 4×4 trail. The reason its the “Oh My God” Road is because its not a 4×4 trail. We actually are insane enough to use it as a road. Like you’d drive down a frontage road to the next town to visit your friends that go to a different high-school. To me its “Oh my god what the Hell was someone thinking when they made this a commuting route!” Road.

That is all.

Think something sounds awesome when you’re drunk, and then when you hear it sober it sounds like total ass???
My solution is to work on music sober, then have a few drinks. If it still sounds okay when slightly intoxicated, it is probably okay to keep working on.
This isn’t all the time. Just today.