so I'm listening to Eardrum's 1999 album "Last Night" and i just can't think anything about it but 'man, i know i heard this in other music in 1999' and i'm not just saying that cause the dude who gave me the album has the OM connection, but really, it's the spatial, the skitterstepping, the musique concrete over shifty beats that so characterises the vanguard of this time, like having a post-rock sensibility but being more in conversation with the types of things going on in the idm/underground hip hop world. hrmrm.
that said, I HATE the Morningstide Heights Kim's for the following reasons:
1) it's small
2) there's a ton of space dedicated to DVDs and books, but really not too much space for new albums
3) the dudes who work there don't know very much about music and don't ever want to leave their kiosk perch, which
4) is really lame, like, why did they build it soo tall that you have to step up on a little step just to see the freakin clerk? duh, handicap accessibility and the general melodrama of standing eight feet in the air when you just want to get yr new blood brothers album for 10 dollars and zoom out
5) the replication their dumb filing system uptown (which i understand bc of the whole chain continuity thing) for a store serving a vastly different population and with radically understocked shelves of the so called 'best of' of mainstream music and cherrypicked alternatives. if you're going to have an 'electronic music' section, you know, and be proud of it, you should have more than 200 albums in stock. no?
and while i'm on the subject of 'so 1999', the leaf label is my new nominee for worse website for best label. all flash websites bore my brain and overtax my laptop - what do i want? information!
Here's my review of the Lenka Dusilova and Alvik show.
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