sup.
October 9, 2008 | Filed Under music | 2 Comments
Due to circumstances out of my control, blogging can’t happen with any reasonable amount of frequency. I’m currently on my S.O’s glamorous antique iBook. Luckily, the day to replace my computer will be here soon. AAPL is announcing something new next Monday Tuesday, and hopefully sometime soon thereafter I will have a legit-for-real platform to curate mainstream pop music from.
Until then, waking up to a little Mehdi by Joakim, Digitalism by Fred Falke, then Macho will always brighten anyone’s day –even if your computer is broken.
DJ Mehdi - Pocket Piano (joakim remix)
Digitalism - Apollo-Gize (Fred Falke Edit)
PS: I’m Hippy Runster’s little bro!! (according to ped.tv) I’m soooooooo excited, but pretty sad he kicked me off his ‘blog bff’s’ link section. pity added me back to the blogroll. Did anyone see last night’s episode of Greek? Pity date? Yeah, just like that. totally crushed. real.
<3
BONUS: I know u guys fucking loved that Macho track. (SUP BIBABIDI)
Macho - Got to Make a Move
PPS: australia, can we go get pissed on some piss already?? please?? just send me the 1-way ticket and we’re set.
brb.
September 29, 2008 | Filed Under day to day | 6 Comments
Remember how the inverter died on my Powerbook? Well, the hard drive finally came to a screeching halt as well.
I’m thinking about waiting to see what Jobs has to say this late October. Either way, I’ll probably get a new computer by then.
In the meantime, things may be slow around here.
R.I.P. 17″ Powerbook 2004-2008.
In remembrance, how about something from an earlier era of tuftsmania. The music on that page won’t work of course, so here’s the re-up.
The Editors - Camera (sebastiAn remix)
ps: what’s the deal with the rapid turnover rate of these things? I was expecting at least one more year out of my computer and it was taken care of quite well I might add. fuck apple.
pps: in the meantime, I’m still alive via twitter.
Anything they touch will turn to gold?
September 23, 2008 | Filed Under music | 7 Comments
image: tufts vs cits
MSTRKRFT, Soulwax, Midnight Juggernauts… it seems like anything these guys remix has high replay value –even if the original track sucked.
Proof:
Usher - Love in this club (MSTRKRFT ‘picks up the pieces’ remix)
- The original made me break my speakers –had to go out and purchase new ones in order to listen to the MSTRKRFT remix. The remix made me feel less pissed off at the original version.
LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous (Soulwax ‘what they should have done’ remix)
- The original was minimal, shitty, and it put me to sleep. The Soulwax remix remains along the same vein –except it’s minimal, awesome, and keeps me awake. very important. (i’m really down with minimal, actually. Just not when it sucks.)
***CSS - Left Behind (midnight juggernauts ‘all we have to do is look at it’ remix)***
- I have only listened to CSS remixes. I am pretty sure their original tracks don’t even exist.
***the stars mean you should listen to it more than once. many times. and it’s not that shitty transcode that’s been floating around.
This is my challenge: to MSTRKRFT, Soulwax, Midnight Juggernauts, and anyone else….
MAKE KANYE WEST’S LATEST VOCODERED FUCK UP OF A TRACK UN-SUCK. Is this track not salvageable in any way?
I haven’t found one yet. I’ve heard them all up until right now so…. still no. we need some MIDAS-style touching up in here.
itunes: how do YOU use it?
September 16, 2008 | Filed Under day to day | 5 Comments
For soooo long I’d been reluctant in allowing iTunes to ‘take over my computer, brain, life, body’ aka: ‘organize’ my music folders. More than a year ago, I was somehow compelled to try this inbuilt feature that had been overlooked for so many years.
I selected “copy to library when adding to itunes” and “let itunes manage my music”.
This changed my life completely. No longer was I spending hours scrambling to rename, refile, and sort through folder upon folder of music files. I simply opened the file in iTunes, corrected any tags needing it, and iTunes subsequently filed the music away based on tag information.
Now with the the volume of music that I get through this website alone, it’s a task in itself keeping everything organized.
- First it’s the “I don’t give a shit about sending you a properly tagged file” problem.
- Then it’s the, “I’m going to send you every revision of my remix from beta 0.0002 to RC3 GLD MSTR CPY”.
>>>>>>>FUCK U GUYS
I also have a ’smart playlist’ for all my recently added tracks –it’s the ‘inbox’ playlist. This thing gets SO saturated and backed up with shit that there’s just no way. That’s it, just no way Jose.
Which brings me to why I even bothered to write this much: I was briefly sorting through this playlist today trying to delete bad songs, duplicates, low bitrate pieces of digital rubbish (stop sending low bitrate please), etc etc. and I came across something that nearly slipped through the cracks:
Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia (turkish prison rmx) (right click, save as)
Yeah, I know it’s another Midnight Juggernauts remix, but that’s exactly it. It’s another Midnight Juggernauts remix. listen to the session-y bassline! (fucking awesome) (it seriously is so good) (totally serious)
I imported my copy of Dystopia from the AUS release, and apparently this remix came from the US domestic version as a bonus track.
Hey –Midnight Juggernauts: come play a show at my house and I’ll invite my parents and their friends!! (seriously)
ps: omggg, we’re seriously on so many social networking sites. facebook, twitter, myspace, hypem (weaksauce), last.fm. gotta add them all… LIKE POKEMON!!
P.O.T.W.N.D
September 9, 2008 | Filed Under day to day | 3 Comments
Part of the weekend never dies is out….who’s watched it? who’s going to watch it?
Speaking of Soulwax… special douchebags like Erol Alkan get to play out hot items such as MGMT - Kids (Soulwax remix) live, so for those of you who haven’t heard:
also, this teaser is notably less intense than the live-edit of the remix, but at least it’s clean.
MGMT - Kids (Soulwax Nite Version Teaser)
Soulwax synth still gives me goosebumps and I ♥ them for it.