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Colossus, The Tribute

Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Gathering Storm Unofficial video by Nickapottamus

Wax Tailor, I Don’t Know

Aphex Twin, Avril 14

MGMT, Time to Pretend I’m feeling rough, I’m feeling raw, I’m in the prime of my life.Let’s make some music, make some money, find some models for wives.I’ll move to Paris, shoot some heroin, and fuck with the stars.You man the island and the cocaine and the elegant cars. This is our decision, to liveContinue reading “The Last Romantics”

The Chemical Brothers, Let Forever Be (dir. by Michael Gondry)

Brian Eno and David Byrne, Help me Somebody, from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, 1981This record was so ahead of its time in, among other things, its rhythmic-instrumental manipulation of “found” sounds and voice samples (in particular its mesmerizing use of charismatic evangelical sermons, such as here–listening to the record again I’m struckContinue reading “Seminal Found Sounds”

Warning: sanctimony, with a brogue, at 2:32; Orbital, You LotVideo by Sebastian Demuth using footage from the film Casshern. Voice sample from the British television program The Second Coming. These are great days we’re living, bros. We’re jolly green giants, walking the earth. With guns!–“Crazy Earl”, Full Metal Jacket