Stuff I've been listening to a lot recently

[petronia]

Björk - Pagan Poetry (Infusion Remix)

I'm not a huge fan of Björk (chances are what I need to do is sit down and immerse myself in her discography/artistic vision, though I'd have to get someone to lend or upload it for me, wouldn't I), but I've been listening to this remix compulsively all week. The "technical" description would appear to be progressive breaks (or, "long and sort of trancey"). How it feels is simultaneously like flying a jet plane at night - high enough to see the curve of the earth rimmed with light from the hidden sun - and standing in a museum gallery with very high ceilings, contemplating a black vase-sculpture in a glass case. The material is neither obsidian nor ceramic but Björk's voice.

According to Discogs, Infusion is a three-person electronica outfit from Melbourne, Australia, and rr1000 is a "label started and run in early 2003 by Release Records, Toronto, Canada, to release semi-illicit remixes of popular songs by underground artists. Each release is limited to 1000 copies only." Rip from white-label vinyl IOW - don't look at me, I just gack shiz off the Intarweb.

Morphine - Candy

From audiography, where the poster said it was a Velvet Underground cover and it umm isn't, but you can see why. Bass, drums and... saxophone: guitar-less low-fi blues rock, like the soundtrack to a Kerouac novel. (Poster also said to light a cigarette, if one is in the habit of doing so, and with that I concur.)

Candy asked me if she died if I could go on
Of course I said I couldn't and of course we knew that's wrong
But Candy I said Candy no you can't do that to me
Because you love me way too much for you to ever leave

jillmax - GET9

Single A-side with Origa's "Rise", marked GitS:SAC 1st Gig OP2 - what OP2? ...That aside, I really like this. I mean the first time I heard it I was like "WTF is this, Earth Wind and Fire? o_O;" I'd be more inclined to associate Tuvan throat-singing with GitS than this kind of 70's funk reproduction, but somehow it captures that too-cool-for-words never-amazed-only-professional Section 9 feel. It's like... Section 9, the New York City AU. Oh, Yoko Kanno.

I've been watching more 2nd Gig. Was thrown by the fact that Pazu's old flame appears to have lived umm across the canal from my office, in the ruins of the Habitat apartment complex. XD;; No, seriously, that's really obviously what it is (with minor modifications), not another building in the world has quite the same architecture.

Comments

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

Liking the Bjork remix v. much. Wah. Having no jet plane am tempted to hurtle out into the darkness and speed on the interstate.