think native

Today a mate of mine asked me to name my top albums of the decade, so I’ve had a crack here. So appraised solely on the number of times I listened to them, here are my 10 fave albums of the naughties - what are yours?

1. The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
Some of the most beautiful melodies I’ve ever heard, coupled with witty, clever and narrative lyrics make this one of my favourite albums of all time, never mind the 00’s.
Favourite track: Mirrorball

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My top techno tunes of the moment:

1. Timing - Guy Gerber // Cocoon

2. Emergency (Rafael Noronha & Re Dupre remix) - Anderson Noise // Lo Kik

3. Klin - Dusty Kid // Boxer

4. Chair Ethics (Dale Anderson mix) - Anil Chawla // CD-R

5. Schizophonic - Audiojack // 2020 Vision

6. Qwerty Poema - Jurek Przezdziecki // Cocoon

7. Ghost Song (Prompt remix) - Slam // Soma

8. El diamante (reix mix) - Jesus Balza // Reix

9. Bomoh - D Dub // Takt

10. Violente - Anthony Collins / Tolga Fidan // Vakant

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain playing the theme from Shaft!

And the very talented Newton Faulkner’s one-man performance of Bohemian Rhapsody.

Being sold in as a way of discovering music you forgot you have (a compelling proposition when you’ve got a few weeks worth of continuous music on your harddrive), the new Genius function in iTunes 8 uses the listening behaviour of all (opted-in) iTunes listeners over time to create an recommendation engine integrated into the media player itself. This engine draws songs from your library that ‘go well together’ with a 1-click playlist set up. The new iPods will allow you to do this on the go too.

Pretty sweet, looking forward to trying it out, though I suspect it’ll get better with time rather than being great from the start.

Can’t wait to play at Catz Musik @ Aquarium this Friday night, if you’re in the neighbourhood maybe see you there

My buddies Tim Davison and Dale Anderson are playing down at Ministry tonight, and in fact it’s the album launch party for Tim’s ‘Long way from home’ longplayer out on Baroque records. See you down the front

A friend of mine recommended this producer out of Finland who creates beautiful ambient and downtempo electronica - here’s his bio:

“Planet Boelex is an electronic music project originating from Finland, started in 2004, consisting of only one member. Self-taught, learning music by experimenting on computer-based “tracker” softwares. Planet Boelex released the first freely downloadable EP “Sinking in the soup” in Janurary 2005, on one of the oldest netlabels in existence, Monotonik. This five track release shaped the sound of Planet Boelex, which could be defined as soft, melodic electronica, fused with influences from ambient and IDM. Still faithful to the style, continuing with new EP releases on the netlabels Ogredung, Monotonik and Kahvi Collective, all freely downloadable under the Creative Commons -licensing. During the years 2006 and 2007 Planet Boelex has performed live in Finland, Estonia, Italy, Croatia, United Kingdom, Russia, Latvia and Lithuania.”

All his music is free and available to share under the Creative Commons 3 license (attribution and no commercial uses, with no derivative works), so click on over and enjoy!

http://www.boelex.org/