Category: Music

I find myself annoyed at myself that I like another Kanye West song because the guy’s such a megalomaniac. But seriously. This video pretty much rules, and the song isn’t bad, either. Sigh.

New tunes I’ll share with you, that I am quite enjoying. Sorry about the grammar there. “Pretty Girls Make Mothers” by The Remote (Ambient Mix): Chilled/Sad. Get it on Beatport.com. “Delorean” by Flux Capacitor (Noel Sanger Remix): Straightforward cheerful trance. Get it on Beatport.com  ”Downtime” by Air Hustlers (Kenneth Thomas Remix): Great stuff–my type of [...]

I hate to keep denigrating poor ol’ Mr. Corsten, who is a world-renowned trance DJ, and responsible for some things that definitely make me happy, but he continues to crack me up. This installment: doesn’t translate well/dorkiness. He does a weekly show (which I listen to) called “Ferry Corsten’s Countdown”. Said radio show plays “jingles” [...]

This is the album cover for Ferry Corsten’s album “L.E.F”. For some reason it just screams Extreme Dildohead to me. Although there is a reasonably decent track on it (“Into the Dark”), I’d suggest trying to find a remix of it anyway as the album version is somewhat effete.

I just bought Underworld’s new album, Oblivion with Bells, from iTunes, mostly on the strength of the song “Beautiful Burnout,” which I heard on the radio and was like all hells yes. Careful, though, Oblivion is unapologetically dance-centric with just a hit of dark industrial yearnings. All the better for me, but less ponderous and [...]

Saw this over on Blogtown today. Cracked my shit up.

“7 Skies” by Kyau & Albert (on Euphonic)Male vocal progressive trance, released Aug. 23, 2007 EP available on iTunes. Discovered on Solarstone’s weekly DeepBlue Radio Show, this week mixed by Agnelli & Nelson (show #74), which I listen to at 9-11am Pacific on ETN.fm’s Trance station (available also in iTunes).

My at-work music situation is going downhill. As I age and my concentration becomes more and more tenuous, I have been listening to more and more geriatric, soothing music. First it was a switch from progressive trance to more insidious dance-pop tracks, then to downtempo lounge, then to chillout, then to ambient, and, finally, the [...]

Solaris Soundtrack, Cliff Martinez (reminds me a bit of the quieter music in the Battlestar Galactica score)Donnie Darko Soundtrack, Michael Andrews These are both quiet, meditative scores. I like.