Thought I should get off my bum and post some music

[petronia]

It's been very hot for the past week (though not as hot as it is in England o_O;), my mum and sister are in Shanghai, and my dad and I are too dumb/lazy to work the central air conditioning so have been sleeping with the windows open and living off cucumbers and uncooked tofu. Have been listening to less dance/electronica and more Chara as she's appropriate for this weather, not to mention I can't dance anyway because of the dratted ankle so where's the point.

However I could be posting backlog til September. XD

bis - Stray Cat Blues
bis - Secret Vampires

Requested by supplanter (the first; the second is just for thematic coherency XD).

Ricardo Villalobos - Sieso (18.9MB): clattery sounds (badly-loaded washing machine knocking? lawn sprinklers?) and an oddly tilted melody which I'd like to be able to claim is duodecatonic, but I'd just be making things up. Has an experimental feel, at any rate.

The ID3 may say this is "Ichso", I'm not sure. Just... don't ask. orz|||

Senor Coconut - Electrolatino (Villalobos Lecktro Carino Mix) (23.2MB): last of the Villalobos I care to inflict, I think. XD Not as electro as the track name would make it out to be; I really like it.

Pet Shop Boys - Minimal (Tocadisco's Sunday at Space Mix) (9.2MB): I asked for extended bombastic orchestral remixes of "Minimal" and they are kindly provided. The first time I played this there was an afternoon shower and it took me a few bars to realise the rolling thunder I was hearing was from outside and not drum fills within the song.

Luciano and Melchior - Solomon's Prayer (18.8MB): it's not bad for keeping rhythm during yoga breathing exercises. XD As minimally percussive as it gets, there's just something about that M83-esque *doosh* synth drum noise... At one point I was actually going to upload the last 5-6 tracks of Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi 2, the "Les Velas No Arden"/"Ichso" mashup through the Melchior/Luciano and "Glasshouse" to the lovely plingy-plongy ending, but I'm not sure how much good that would do anyone. So here's a proper track instead. I wish I had the version actually on Sci.Fi.Hi.Fi 2 though ("Father"), because I've played it so often I've memorized the passage in question - it's the Bhagavad Gita. XD;

EDIT -- Cis sez this is "Father" and the one on SFHF2 is "Solomon's Prayer" or not ahhhhhh despite labeling. Once is luck, twice is coincidence, thrice and up is the record label messing with your psyche. I SEE THROUGH YOUR MIND TRICKS, CADENZA

I keep thinking "Donnacha Costello" would be a great name for one of Hermes' relatives. (If I were going to make up a part 5 character, on the other hand, he'd be called "Pastiglie Leone".)

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[jokersama.livejournal.com]

grabbed stuff~ <3

also, join us tonight if you have the energy! but BEFORE MIDNIGHT EASTERN T_T

[petronia.livejournal.com]

It's way past midnight now - was out catching PotC? ^^; Will get on this weekend but hopefully you'll see fic from me first. XD

[cis.livejournal.com]

Okay, so there's this Cadenza records conspiracy by which everything on Cadenza appears on the internets mislabeled, which is to say-- that is "Father", it's the b-side to "Solomon's Prayer". I keep meaning to get the 12" but it is too hot to leave the house and walk to the record shop, stupid heatwave, honestly. Achso still eludes me though as the 'sieso' clip on the cadenza site == 'ichso' on scifihifi2. That Bhagavad Gita passage is fantastic - it kept resonating in my mind and being obnoxiously familiar, the 'cast off worn-out garments' line especially, before I eventually worked out where it was from, using the magic of google.

secret vampires! i have not listened to that since like 1996 or something.

(repost for more appropriate icon XD)

[petronia.livejournal.com]

that is "Father", it's the b-side to "Solomon's Prayer"

DOTDOTDOT

Okay now they're just messin' wid us.

It is really perfect. Once on my lunch hour I went down to the canal and walked out to the end of a mooring pier and lay there watching the clouds and listening to this. And then I realised the clouds were gathering into a thunderhead and hurried back to the office. XD

[cis.livejournal.com]

no no no the one on is scifihifi2 is father as well! they're the same track! i swear! Solomon's Prayer sounds completely different! I think Luciano might have been using an earlier mix of Father for SFHF, since he only credits it to Melchior, but.

It's the central track of a mix cd I made the few weeks ago (which also has e.g. that Braxe remix of Van She, the Booka Shade/Corona bootleg, and um also the Paris Hilton single) so I've done a lot of listening to it in motion recently - walking out into town, curled in the back of a bus, ambling through fields. I can't listen to it in the supermarket though, I lose all my quick-shop skills.

It's so disappointing when it ends, I want it to keep going forever.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

The Booka Shade/Corona! I've always had a suspicion that there's a vocal out there to match every one of these minimal electrohouse whatever instrumentals, all that remains is to find it. XD

It occurred to me, reading your comment thread, that the appeal of Paris Hilton may be analogous to the appeal of... Ouran High School Host Club? XD That is, Paris is rich and rather ridiculous and refreshingly makes no effort at shoehorning herself into a narrative beyond such; she comes across as more honest for not trying to be "real", and I think it engenders an honest affection in return (in those who're not inclined to hate the rich/ridiculous just for being rich/ridiculous, anyway).

She seems to enjoy herself, as an heiress should (Andy Warhol would've adored her), and sometimes it's just good to see that. Maybe it's a market niche, I don't know.

[cis.livejournal.com]

okay, you find the vocal for 'Erso'. XD People seem to really want to do it to Booka - there's those two not-quite-right Mandarine Girl ones, the Heartbeat and the What About Us, and then Lose Body Control which is grade-A-genius... maybe because it's so populist-trance-lite? strangely 1994-sounding (except the synths are more organic-sounding, digital rather than analogue), except if it were 1994-era, if it were chart dance, it would have a diva vocal. You could probably count that new madonna single as a Booka Shade bootleg if you wanted, that's the feel it has.

...yes! That really works, actually - I watched some Ouran High, and it seemed to be like the Hana Yori Dango dorama (the only version of HYD I know ^^;; ) in that there was a lot of 'look at the セレブtachi, they live these rareified rich lives which render them incapable of understanding what it means to be Japanese' (their lifestyles seem v western, in fact - shoes worn indoors, black tea rather than green). And after a while the normal-japanese-girl-maincharacter/reader discovers that not just are these absurd characters people too yada yada, but also that their abundance of wealth means a lack of identity, is something to be pitied, makes them someone the reader is superior to. Not 'o noes the luxury hides mistreatment and suffering and sociopathy' but 'growing up rich makes you a freak'. Ouran High shows this more, I think - HYD's lines on its rich-boy characters seem to be slightly cruder and less ambiguous (mind you, doramas, not with the subtle), more "he has money but NO LOVE" or "he has money and is yr ideal prince", less "he has money and is incapable of surviving in the real world, bless 'im".

I really think there's a joy in "she does what she does and she's good at it" - seeing someone fulfil their role so effectively. She... knows her place, if I can put it like that. You'd resent her if she tried to be real, she'd be like rappin' Victoria Aitken or worse, it'd be like she was looking down on you with your normal life if she came out and said the equivalent of "people in third world countries are so much spiritually richer than we westerners". She doesn't try to slum it, doesn't give the impression that she's reaching to be 'better' than she is (culturally, emotionally, hipster-wise), just lets us watch her being alien-strange. There's something non-judgemental about that lack of a self-improvement narrative, when everything else in popular culture is "how i battled my drink addiction"-type protestant confessional.

[flamebyrd]

Also grabbed some stuff!

Do you have any recommendations for places for little anime fangirls to visit in Montreal? Or, you know, non-anime-fangirl-related places to visit. Or maybe just restaurants with good Pho.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Oi, if you're coming to Montreal you get the Sabina Tour, that's the rule. XD

(Chinatown will modestly serve both anime fangirl and pho needs, within a three-block radius. But there's lots to do, especially this time of year.)

[flamebyrd]

Well, we get in on either Sunday or Monday (depending on whether we spend a night in Toronto) and we still don't know where we're staying, aargh. Apparently my beloved is looking at the McGill residences.

[petronia.livejournal.com]

Well, if you think you'll have time, email me at petronia gmail and I'll give you my cel number. ^^ Will be taken up Sunday but Monday after work is fine.

[supplanter.livejournal.com]

YAY, SABINA WE LOVES YOU. :DDDDDDDD

... I listened to "ichso", or whatever you posted this time, and it sounded terribly familiar.  So I went and checked what Ricardo Villalobos I'd leached from you before and am now listening to "sieso" (both filename and in the tag; length is 11:57) and... it does not sound the same?  So now I'm all confused about why the song you uploaded today sounds familiar at all. ^^;;

[petronia.livejournal.com]

The one I posted this time is "Sieso" despite being labeled "Ichso". The 11:57 one you got from me before is "Ichso" despite being labeled "Sieso".

It's not just me/you, every online resource is confused on this one: Beatports, Discogs, Pitchfork, ILM... orz

They come from the same double LP but sound completely different, yes. If this one sounds familiar it may just be... textural? I've been posting a lot of stuff within the same narrow genre confines, i.e. that sounds vaguely like this. XD

[supplanter.livejournal.com]

I went and renamed the three tracks (...) and now I'm listening to ichso and sieso again and sieso still sounds familiar to me, whereas ichso does not (although by now I must have listened to it at least 2 times; otherwise it would still have been in the "unheard" folder and I would have only heard it maybe once before.)

... it's hard giving feedback on this guy since his stuff is so long and when you get through it you forget what the beginning was like, even if you suspect it was kind of a great deal like the end.  Or my brain's just not built for it. XD;  Suspect I may never seek out plip-plop on my own, but sometime I might try it as background music for studying—though usually I can't manage with more than silence....

I've been looking for anything with "villalobos" in the filename, and I think I've figured out why my brain was spazzing on me!  The Isolee "I owe you" villalobos remix can sound a lot like Sieso—same key, I think, same sounds/instruments, similar overall pattern, more notes.