ironphoenix | New Music

This weekend's hits:

Linkin park--Meteora: I finally found a copy of this disc, which ms_danson introduced me to some time back. Quite a bit harder and less electro than my usual style: mostly heavy guitar, bass, drum and voice, a bit of scratching, but no discernible keyboards. Some spoken-word lyrics are mixed in with standard hard-rock and grunge style. It works well, although I have to be in the right kind of mood: chillout it isn't.

Vanessa Daou--Slow to Burn: The cover art is a bit misleading on this one, I find: the très chic french woman fashion-shoot collage suggests either cool french cafe stuff or poseuse chick-rock. Nonetheless, I'll listen to anything once. What I heard was Morcheeba-esque warm vocals and melody, with a somewhat bluesy flavor. Is there a genre called warmout?

SSI--E Pluribus Unum: This is a purist's electronica, the stuff I can space out to. It's strongly influenced by Jean-Michel Jarré's work, even to the point of using the album title with roman numerals as the only track designations ("E Pluribus Unum I", "E Pluribus Unum II", etc.). The main differences are the slightly stronger use of percussion and the sound of the more modern instruments.

Boards of Canada--in a beautiful place out in the country: This EP has only 4 tracks, but they are very easy to like. They aren't quite as formless as BoC's early work, but keep the abstract, elemental sound and the old-school synths. This is surprisingly warm for something so minimalist, I find.

Hardkandy--How Do You Do Nothing?: More bluesy chill. Nice use of samples and assorted jazzy instruments and vocals. The bonus track tucked away a few minutes after the end of the last listed track is particularly fine jazz.

I listen to lots of stuff "outside my genre." Nobody gives me a hard time over liking blues and impressionist classical and dance and celtic and trance and chillout and etc. Any musical "cred" I have with people has to take into account my eclecticism. Just about nobody I know likes everything I like, but I can't think of anything I like that nobody else likes. What I work on is finding what a given person or group will like, and playing it. I don't always get that right, of course!

It seems to me that it's probably just that particular community that's a bit @n@l.

Girls can get away with anything at a club... especially if they're hawt.

Girls can get away with anything at a club... especially if they're hawt

Damn! *grin*

BTW... check out

wildelf. He's the DJ/promoter I was mentioning. He puts his playlists online so you might find that useful.

::shove:: If Draco isn't telling you you're hawt enough for you to believe it, someone may need to beat his head in. ;P

*chuckle* Draco thinks I'm the most wonderful woman to walk the earth. But frankly, my looks ain't what gets me noticed.

Yes, I suppose the blaring "I WILL EMASCULATE YOU BWAHAHAHAHAHA" aura you seem to exude would distract one from your looks. ;D

Heh... no, she doesn't reserve it just for males. The sword is capable of dicing up numbskulls of any persuasion.

Hey! You two are making me sound scary!??

I'd pout and do puppy dog eyes right now but that just gets me mocked and laughed at....

You should only be scary to numbskulls.

Which is what anyone who falls for the pout and puppydog eyes qualifies as.

*laugh* But it works when other women do it!!

I seem to be lacking in the feminine charms category...

I'm the same. New people always look at me weird when they go through the CDs in my car and see Mozart's Requiem Mass next to Hatebreed, Eminem and Johnny Cash.

Girls can get away with anything at a club... especially if they're hawt

::facepalm:: I know. So much for gender equality, eh?

Go stick socks down your shirt... I'm sure you will get a reaction then. :P

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That is just too disturbing a thought for words.

Oooo, soxy cleavage!

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