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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

bring, bring the thunder


everybody's freaking the hell out about purity ring.

there was a bizarre little blogger's post-new year's movement declaring them the 'sound of 2012', and the other bloggers couldn't stand for such a declaration because they weren't behind it, and have come down firmly on an opposing declaration that purity ring is 'overrated' and 'derivative' and other such blogger buzz-words. meanwhile i'm still dating things with an '11 and am more likely to be able to tell you what month it is in skyrim than this earthly plane.

anyhow, under all of this is some really neat dreamy synth-pop that's not afraid to push some boundaries when it comes to tempo and traditional song structure. ungirthed has already made the rounds, but here's some other options - a little darker, a little more likely to weird out your roommate. should it catch your fancy, i wholly recommend their remix work. you know how the internet works, you find it for once.

purity ring - bellspeak


purity ring - lofticries

Monday, January 2, 2012

o hai there 2012

 
absence. family christmas, new year's, general apathy. no apologies.

i don't believe in year-end lists, the same way i don't believe in assigning music to a number or a number to music. arbitrary, subjective, pretentious, mindless - adjectives abound. i like music and music likes me.

here's RAC's 2011 hypem mix. it's your new year's eve playlist, two days too late. it's currently been embedded by some trickery that makes it impossible to embed elsewhere (or at least with my 10th grade comp science talents) but, well, click the link, free download, play loud, love.

thank me later


RAC - hypem 2011 zeitgeist mix