d i m i n u t i v o l u m e s

Hibernation

2008-09-27T07:16:00.000-07:00

Consolidation time! Maybe because the economy is restructuring - maybe because I'm lazy - this blog will live on in archive form... for now. Any posts coming from me will be over on the host blog. See you there! diminutivocations

May / June Mix - 2008

2008-07-07T13:49:00.000-07:00

Listen ( to most of it ) on MUXTAPE

01. Merge (DNTel Remix) - Grizzly Bear
02. The Dutch Fist - Thee More Shallows
03. Boat Friend - Black Moth Super Rainbow
04. House of Cards - Radiohead
05. I Feel Good - Metaform
06. Call it a Ritual - Wolf Parade
07. Ancient Curse - Peter Bjorn & John
08. Cobwebs - Animal Collective
09. Mahalo - Ratatat
10. Never my Love - Evan Voytas
11. Hey - Born in the Flood
12. Mess Your Hair Up - White Denim
13. Blackeyed Birds - Twain
14. Crowds - The Parson Red Heads
15. Campus - Rostam Batmanglij

my Rockband ambitions

2008-05-27T17:49:00.000-07:00

If anyone is wondering what I've been doing recently - this video should explain it:

Mix - March 2008 - Console

2008-04-04T19:18:00.000-07:00

March 2008 - Console

01. Swell - Growing
02. Tane Mahuta - The Ruby Suns
03. Brain & a Vegetable - Hotpipes
04. No Man - A Fir-Ju Well
05. Too Young - Taken By Trees
06. Roll On (feat. Jenny Lewis) - Dntel
07. The Ball - The Dodos
08. Trashcan - Delta Spirit
09. Dreaming of the Plum Trees - White Hinterland
10. Deception Island Optimists Club - Laura Barrett
11. Down with teh Sun - Lost in the Woods
12. Dome Branches - Nat Baldwin
13. Wait for the Summer - Yeasayer
14. Head Spins - High Places
15. Kenya Dig It? - The Ruby Suns

MixWIT mixTAPE

2008-03-26T08:09:00.001-07:00

muxTAPE

2008-03-25T18:39:00.000-07:00

MUXTAPE

Streaming Mix Tapes

Yes, you're limited to 12 songs at a time...

and yes you are limited to 10mb songs, but...

OMG, I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR A FREAKING LONG TIME!!!

The interface is super clean!

Check out my February mix!!

and please send me your mixes to dig!!!

February

Music I like - February 2008

2008-03-06T16:34:00.000-08:00

01. Your Movement - The Shackeltons

02. Song to Bobby - Cat Power

03. Something on Your Mind - Karen Dalton ('Margot at the Wedding')

04. I Stand Corrected - Vampire Weekend

05. My Old Ways - Dr. Dog

06. In the Night - Basia Bulat

07. Lovely Allen - Holy Fuck

08. Ready for the Floor - Hot Chip

09. The Waves at Night - Phosphorescent

10. Torn Blue Foam Couch - Grand Archives

Editor's NOTE

2008-01-27T19:19:00.000-08:00

January's mix has some live links! Just click and you will be presented with an option to download. Enjoy. If you have a problem with any of these files being 'shareable' - let me know, I'll take them down.

Mix, January, 2008

2008-01-27T18:48:00.000-08:00

01. Tinariwen - Matadjem Yinmixman
02. Hang Me Up to Dry (Ingo Star Cruiser) - Cold War Kids
03. Men - The Dodos
04. Welcome Home, Son - Radical Face
05. Julia - Taken by Trees
06. Everbody But Me - Lykke Li
07. No One Does it Like You - Department of Eagles
08. Old Flames - Harlem Shakes
09. Love Set Fire - Moxy Fruvous
10. The First Time it Happens - Frank Oz / Jim Henson
11. Hush if you Must - Brooke Waggoner
12. The Ides - frYars
13. Alarm Clock - The Rumble Strips
14. The Song is You - Antarctica Takes It!
15. Anyone Else but You - The Moldy Peaches

Mix - November & December, 2007

2008-01-27T18:35:00.000-08:00

01. Barbappapa's Groove - Barbatuques
02. General Lafayette! You Are Not Alone! - Ravens & Chimes
03. Heart it Races - Dr. Dog (Cover of Arch. in Helsinki)
04. There are Too Many Birds - Arthur & Yu
05. Wrapped in Piano Strings - Radical Face
06. Wedding Day - Marla Hansen
07. Family Tree - Sandro Perri
08. Trumpets - Zookeeper
09. Dreams in the Hollow - Jesca Hoop
10. Corazon - Bishop Allen
11. Svengali What's the Caper - Russian Spy Camera
12. Get Mad - Kyle Andrews
13. Shadow Falls - Hello, Blue Roses
14. Hljomalind - Sigur Ros
15. Cutup Piano and Xylophone - Fridge

Mix - October, 2007

2007-11-10T07:06:00.000-08:00

1. I Saw The Bright Shinies - The Octopus Project
2. We Are Gods! We Are Wolves! - Le Loup
3. Code Orange - Birds & Batteries
4. Glitter Pills - HEALTH
5. Sugar Waltz - Morning Recordings
6. Spook House - Clear Tigers
7. Bat's Mouth - Bat For Lashes
8. Fraulein - Pale Young Gentlemen
9. Tigers - Division Day Beartrap
10. Master of None - Beach House
11. Valessa - Glossary
12. You're A Wolf - Sea Wolf
13. As Good As It Gets - Jay-Jay Johanson
14. Baby I'm Yours - Math And Physics Club
15. Chico (Avalanches Remix) - The Concretes

recently heard

2007-10-27T07:35:00.000-07:00

It is Saturday morning - Boston is rainy, drizzly. I am coffee, yogurt, watercolors. The sound is Caribbean jazz with trumpets. I am reminiscing Chick Corea the night before and drumming out of this world at the Lily Pad. The weather puts me in a reflective mood and I harken back to my friend's post about rainy day music. So in an effort to pair sounds with moods - here are several songs and bands I've enjoyed in the past couple weeks.

HEALTH - The song Glitter Pills kills me. The mix here is just right. Blunt and subtle. Robust and fragile. They are friends with Dan Deacon (or so MySpace tells me) and I really like that Electro Punk Sound. See also Pterodactyl.

Birds and Batteries - I don't know, was it the 'Light Bright' picture? This song - Turnstyles - just struck me. It has some ELO style grandeur (guilty pleasure), but also a healthy dose of irony (another vice). Then the end of the song takes a twist and gets really weird.

Portugal, The Man - has that nice, classic, throbbing rock sound - I like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and so I like this band. Here are two songs - Marching with 6 and Stables and Chairs.

musical segregation?

2007-10-18T18:37:00.000-07:00

I'm not one hundred percent sure how i feel about the 'A Paler Shade of White' article by Sasha Frere-Jones. I was hooked by the critique of recent Arcade Fire developments. But I stayed for the soul, to find where the soul came from. This article serves as a fine lens to view the way music has grown, and what it needs now.

A Paler Shade of White

There’s no point in faulting Arcade Fire for what it doesn’t do; what’s missing from the band’s musical DNA is missing from dozens of other popular and accomplished rock bands’ as well—most of them less entertaining than Arcade Fire. I’ve spent the past decade wondering why rock and roll, the most miscegenated popular music ever to have existed, underwent a racial re-sorting in the nineteen-nineties. Why did so many white rock bands retreat from the ecstatic singing and intense, voicelike guitar tones of the blues, the heavy African downbeat, and the elaborate showmanship that characterized black music of the mid-twentieth century? These are the volatile elements that launched rock and roll, in the nineteen-fifties, when Elvis Presley stole the world away from Pat Boone and moved popular music from the head to the hips.

Mix - September, 2007

2007-09-28T13:17:00.000-07:00

1. Alt Som Ar Ditt – Sakert!
2. Blanco – The Broken Hearts
3. The Castle – And the Relatives
4. Dictionary – The Go Find
5. Exit Counselor – The Octopus Project
6. Fortune – Miracle Fortress
7. Giddy Up – Jared Micah and Hats
8. Heaven – Club 8
9. If I Could Split – Kite Flying Society
10. Just For Love – Electric Light Orchestra
11. King Friday – Songs of Green Pheasant
12. Local Moon – Through the Sparks
13. Matagorda – Black Before Red
14. New – Modern
15. One More Time – French Kicks

mi espacio es su espacio

2007-09-20T19:08:00.001-07:00

Here are some better than great bands that you too can enjoy via Myspace.

Miracle Fortress
Tender Forever
Clear Tigers

Mix - August, 2007

2007-09-06T09:35:00.000-07:00

1. My Own Face is F Word – Dan Deacon
2. For Reverend Green – Animal Collective
3. Silly Crimes – The Tough Alliance
4. The Python – Tickley Feather
5. Ship – The Ohsees
6. Evergreen – Celebration
7. That’s That – Cass McCombs
8. Subterannean Homesick Alien – Mobius Band
9. The Crystal Cat – Dan Deacon
10. The Parakeet Beat – Sunburned Hand of the Man
11. Maybe Lately – Miracle Fortress
12. Bossa – Lullatone
13. All of my Tears – Spiritualized
14. Everybody Daylight – Brightblack Morning Light
15. I’ll Love You Until My Veins Explode – The Paper Cranes

Mix - July, 2007

2007-07-25T14:12:00.000-07:00

1. A Better Son / Daughter – Rilo Kiley
2. Be Brave – Wheat
3. Ten Thousand Lines – Electric President
4. Human Racing – St. Vincent
5. Shampoo Suicide – Broken Social Scene
6. What Would Wolves Do? – Les Savy Fav
7. My Piano (Original) – Hot Chip
8. Fit Song (The Books Eat White Paint Remix) – Cornelius
9. Ben – Azeda Booth
10. From Here We Go Sublime – The Field
11. New Birth – Birdy Nam Nam
12. Handsome Furs Hate This City / Sing! Captain – Handsome Furs
13. Not a Number – Apparat
14. Heart It Races (Dj Rupture Remix) – Architecture in Helsinki

15. Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa – Vampire Weekend

photo credit

Mix - June, 2007

2007-07-13T10:43:00.000-07:00

1. Green Typewriters (1:10) – The Olivia Tremor Control
2. Komad – Alex Delivery
3. Schnoer Wissen – Oval
4. This Room (Four Tet & Caribou Remix) – The Notwist
5. Klaw Prints – Nobody & the Mystic Chords of Memory
6. Your 8th Birthday – Cloud Cult
7. Green Typewriters (0:24) – The Olivia Tremor Control
8. Green Typewriters (0:59) – The Olivia Tremor Control
9. 5:15 Train – A Sunny Day in Glasgow
10. Love Your Abuser – Lymbyc Systym
11. Green Typewriters (1:21) – The Olivia Tremor Control
12. Nowhere – Cornelius
13. The Now – Mouthful of Bees
14. I Am Constellation – The Kingdom
15. Buzzin’ Fly – Tim Buckley

video game-o-phone

2007-07-02T11:29:00.001-07:00

I often marvel at how technology works,

and this article rightly confounds while impressing me:

Vinyl Data.

The author illuminates an unknown link between video games and music

(two personal past-times of mine)

Both of which lend themselves nicely to archaic nostalgia...

From the Vaults - May, 2003 - Time for Me to Form Me

2007-06-14T10:15:00.000-07:00

Disc One – Time for Me

1. Machu Picchu – David Byrne
2. A Thousand Years – Sting
3. Cello Song – Nick Drake
4. In Time – Sly and the Family Stone
5. It Might as Well be Spring – Astrud Gilberto and Stan Getz
6. Independence Day – Elliott Smith
7. Fearless – Pink Floyd
8. It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue (Live) – Bob Dylan
9. Exodus – Bob Marley
10. Astral Weeks – Van Morrison
11. Amazing Grace – John Fahey
12. California One / Youth and Beauty Brigade – The Decemberists
13. America – John Fahey
14. Pretty Good Year – Tori Amos
15. When the Light Appears Boy – Cornershop w/ Allen Ginsberg

Disc Two – To Form Me

16. A Clearing – Brian Eno
17. Slim Slow Slider – Van Morrison
18. Long as I can see the Light – Ted Hawkins
19. I Fought in a War – Belle & Sebastian
20. Tundra – Squarepusher
21. Black Eyed Dog – Nick Drake
22. Cold, Cold Ground – Tom Waits
23. Favorite Hour – Elvis Costello
24. End of the Day – Beck
25. Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Loo-Ra – Bing Crosby
26. After the Goldrush – Neil Young
27. The Whale – Electric Light Orchestra
28. In the Morning of the Magicians – Flaming Lips
29. Here I Dreamt I was an Architect – The Decemberists
30. Carry On my Wayward Son – Kansas
31. Come Sail Away – Styx
32. Sparkplug Minuet – Mark Mothersbaugh
33. There is an Ocean - Donovan

Mix - May, 2007

2007-06-04T11:04:00.000-07:00

1. Mic Check - Cornelius
2. May Banners – Tree Wave
3. Atlas - Battles
4. Esses - Pterodactyl
5. Spring Succeeds – The Olivia Tremor Control
6. It’s already here (4th draft) – Bill Bard
7. Footprints – Bill Callahan
8. My Children, Be Joyful – Rock Plaza Central
9. Sitar Folks – Peter Bjorn & John
10. Colours (DFA remix) – HOT Chip
11. Landscape (With Grass) – Azeda Booth
12. Sway – The Annuals
13. Pretty Voice – Cloud Cult
14. Beautiful Machine, Parts 3 & 4 – The Apples in Stereo
15. Pagina Cuatro – Books vs. Prefuse 73

Mix - April, 2007

2007-05-07T13:53:00.000-07:00

1. Underground – Nina Nastasia
2. The Twist – Frightened Rabbit
3. That summer, at home I had become the invisible boy – Twilight Sad
4. Boxphones – Black Moth Super Rainbow
5. Conductor 71 – Fujiya and Miyagi
6. Memories of Jacqueline 1906 – the Olivia Tremor Control
7. Devastation – the Besnard Lakes
8. I’m Set Free – the Velvet Underground
9. Bluebirds fall – the Autumn Defense
10. Change in the Weather – the Concretes
11. This Little Garden – Michael Nau
12. Paisley park – Richard Swift
13. Complete or Completing – Annuals
14. No Growing – the Olivia Tremor Control
15. Chemicals Collide – Cloud Cult

Mix - March, 2007

2007-04-26T11:15:00.000-07:00

1. The Melody of a Fallen Tree – Windsor for the Derby
2. I don’t know what I want us to do – Peter Bjorn and John
3. For Agent 13 – The Besnard Lakes
4. Lost, Picking Flowers in the Woods – Black Moth Super Rainbow
5. Dear Grandma and Grandpa - Tortoise
6. My Horse must Lose – The Sound of Animals Fighting
7. My Sword Hand’s Anger – Apostle of Hustle
8. Muscle’n Flo - Menomena
9. Victorian Ice – British Sea Power
10. Adem Mix (Bonus) – Explosions in the Sky
11. The City, The Airport – Loney, Dear
12. Farther On - Vetiver
13. Tones of Town – Field Music
14. Man Must Dance - Johnossi
15. You’re Beautiful – The Faintest Ideas