(edit cleanup 3.19.13: A lot about the Christmas EP I made in December 2011 under the joke-rock fake-band Dripping, Sopping: A Saturation Celebration. I currently only keep this EP available in the 20-30 days before Christmas, because ultimately I was not that happy with it and I’d rather people listen to the 2007 DS:asc project instead, if they must hear any of the always-very-hastily-rendered goofy fruits of the DS:asc project at all. Warning: That link above will play loud music if you click on it.)
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Archive for December, 2011
Behind the Alleged “Music”: A Very Dripping, Sopping Holiday
Posted by r on December 24, 2011
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Discoveries part 1
Posted by r on December 18, 2011
Just some stuff about music by other people after the break.
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The kids are alright
Posted by r on December 13, 2011
(edit cleanup 3.19.13: On Spotify / Internet-music-service payouts and the tenuous link made by some other guy on the Internet between those low payouts and today’s general lack of musical innovation, re: which I disagree and instead put the blame on both musicians eager to find their way through the worst signal-to-noise ratio in content history and the modern-day listener with a 15-second attention span. Whatever.)
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ummmbira?
Posted by r on December 11, 2011
(edit cleanup 3.19.13: This post is mostly about mbiras– which we dumb Westerners might otherwise know as a “thumb piano”– and other related lamellaphones, including some dumb-Westerner takes / “reboots” that make me upset. I have been slightly obsessed with mbiras for almost 20 years now, but I still don’t own a good one yet.)
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init ding
Posted by r on December 11, 2011
(edit cleanup 3.19.13: Explaining why I started this blog, which to March 2013 has mostly been filled with personal ramblings about shit I just needed to get out of my system somewhere. I’m trying to repurpose things now for more General Interest and Public Good, of course.)
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