wordle + lastfm

http://giraffeincognito.com/2009/general/turn-your-last-fm-into-a-wordle/

genrates your top artist into worlde and with a bit of cleverness you can turn into your desktop wallpaper. preety fancy hey!?

something big is coming....

L-Vis 1990 - United Groove from Mad Decent on Vimeo.


been meaning to post this for agggges.

"experiments"

crazy stuff to do with google. good to play with while listening to music.

http://www.chromeexperiments.com/

and tiny computer drum thing www.thepixelplant.net/dmf/dmf.html

200nine

another year off great music and here are my top gems of the year. with very brief blurb on each one. click on the album covers if you want to hear them for yourself.

Dm Stith - Heavy Ghost. the demos showed more promise but it still makes my list. Haunting songs suited to night time.

Nils Frahm - The Bells. sparse contemporary classical music for the winter

 The XX - Eponymous. the trendiest english band around but they actually have created a well crafted and produced album

Dead Man's Bones - Eponymous.  its like a children's gospel choir with arcade fire that sing about zombies

Grizzly bear - Veckatimest. essentially a weird band making a pop album that managed to challenge jay-z and beyonce in the charts.

A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Ashes Grammer. distorted harmonies and layers of sounds. my fav of the bunch!

Former Ghosts - Fleurs

 

modern day this mortal coil!

The Antlers - Hospice

  

has to be a sad album on the list

Pink Mountaintops - Outside Love.
the lady from the band has her own album under the pseudonym lighting dust also highly recommend!

Twilight Sad - Forget The Night Ahead. King Creosote, we where promised jet-packs and the phantom band made all good albums this year but this one me over on the scottish side.

Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle

all my thoughts are prey to some beast




Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport says its 'experimental' but its not anything new   
 

Birdy Nam Nam - Manual for Successful Rioting. good dance music








jj - jj n° 2. good everything


       

Bombay Bicycle Club - I had the blues but I shook them loose. another good pop album and scottish to!

Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away. dance music for spring!

                                                                Vitalic - Flashmob. discoitalia!

Black Meteoric Star - Eponymous. Jogging Music!

Oldies out this year

Love - Love Lost finally official realise of everybody's gotta to live

The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms finally got remastered

Abner Jay - crazy old forgotten blues singer

  

Best Album Artwork

makes the fav album list aswell. came in a glorious limited edition vinyl package from not not fun.

Vic Chessnutt has died

was taken off life support on christmas day from taking a overdose of muscle relaxants. 

i have actually been devastated by this news as he has been one of my favourite musicians for quite some time. 

his poor family have been left with his healthcare bills due to the fucked up american welfare system. 70 grands worth! there is a website where all the money goes to his family to help with the bills  

http://kristinhersh.cashmusic.org/vic/

Winter Pascha (christmas mixtape)

Disc 1                                                   Winter Pascha

1)     Tony Bennett - My Favorite Thimgs

2)     Radar Bros. - This Xmas Eve

3)     The Everly Brothers - Christmas Eve Can Kill You

4)      Randy Newman - 02 - Christmas In Cape Town

6)     Galaxie 500 - snowstorm

7)     The Long Blondes - Christmas Is Cancelled

8)     Willard Grant Conspiracy - Christmas In Nevada

9)     Johnny & Margaret - Baby It's Cold Outside

10)  Casitone for the Painfully Alone - Cold White Christmas

11)  dinah_washington_-_ole_santa

12)  Bill Baird - Christmas In Jail

13)  Bing Crosby - Do You Hear What I Hear

14)  John Prine-Christmas In Prison

15)  Tom Waits_Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis

16)  Tindersticks - 03 - My Sister

17)  Jape & David Kitt - I Will Cry This Christmas

18)  The Crocodiles and the Dum Dum Girls - Merry Christmas Baby Please Dont Die

19)  Jack Scott - There s Trouble Brewin

20)  Nat King Cole - I Saw Three Ships

21)  Ry Cooder-Christmas In Southgate

Disc 2

1)     Carolyn Sills - George Bailey

2)     The Shalitas - Christmas, Dont Be Late

3)     James Yorkston - When the Haar Rolls In - When the Haar Rolls In

4)     Frank Sinatra - Mistletoe and Holly

5)     El Perro Del Mar - Oh_What_A_Christmas

6)     Dean Martin - Let It Snow Let It Snow

7)     Better Off Dead - All I Got For Christmas Was Drunk

8)     Leroy Carr - Christmas In Jail, Ain't That A Pain

9)     The Hives vs. Cyndi Lauper - A Christmas Duel

10)  Mary Gauthier - Christmas In Paradise

11)  the scumbagz - get fucked up for christmas

12)  Ray Conniff - God Rest Ye Gentlemen

13)  The Very Most - Away in a Manger

14)  Merle Haggard - If We Make It Through December

15)  Over the Rhine - Darlin (Christmas Is Coming)

16)  groovie_ghoulies_christmas_on_mars

17)  Perry Como - It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas

18)  Madi Diaz & Keegan Dewitt - I Hope That It Snows

19)  Kansas City Kitty - Christmas Morning Blues

20)  Bobby Helms - Jingle Bell Rock

21)  Adam's House Cat-Santa's Out of Rehab by Christmas

22)  chuck_berry_-_merry_christmas_baby

23)  Phorscephrent – Wolves

Disc 3

1)     Lightnin' Hopkins - Santa

2)     The_Sonics_-_Santa_Clause-gF

3)     Johnny Cash - Little Drummer Boy

4)     Patti page - where_did_my_snowman_go

5)     Sufjan Stevens - Put The Lights On The Tree

6)     Seasick Steve and the Level Devils - Xmas Prison Blues

7)     Wave Pictures - We_Dress_Up_Like_Snowmen

8)     Goldblade feat Poly Styrene - City_Of_Christmas_Ghosts

9)     Joni Mitchell - River

10)  Roger Miller-Old Toy Trains

11)  Jona Lewie - Stop The Cavalry

12)  brenda_lee_-_rockin_around_the_christmas_tree

13)  Okkervil River - Listening_To_Otis_Redding_At_Home_During_Chris

14)  The Walkmen - Christmas Party (featuring Nicole Sheahan)

15)  The Youngsters - Christmas In Jail

16)  Johnny Mathis - Marshmallow World

17)  Red Red Meat - There's A Star Above The Manger Tonight

18)  The Decembrists - Please Daddy Don't Get Drunk (This Christmas)

19)  They Might Be Giants - Santa's Beard

20)  Asobi Seksu - Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want To Fight Tonight)

21)  Vampire Weekend - Horchata

22)  Sufjan Stevens - Sister Winter

23)  Aimee Man - Christmastime

24)  Palace Songs - Christmastime In The Mountains

1)     Mountain Goats - This Year

hope you enjoy and happy christmas!

Goo Goo Muck

sorry i've been away for ages been relaxing and setting up my radio show. these are the banners for it ive made. halloween special this friday to!

the normal banner has lux interior the singer from the cramps who the show is a tribute to when he was plain old Erick Lee Purkhiser.

Rember thats 20:15 GMT! the shows should be archived and i will upload them here for people to listen to.