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your grandfather’s techno

paul j. — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 05:32:57 +0000

everything is a mechanic, everything is a machiniac. I’m so happy for you.

Pompeii was not saved. Pompeii is a lie. Pompeii was saved by the mythology of the natural forces of the universe. Pompeii was saved by a lie, pompeii is not what a pompeii is what a pompeii does.

———>>>>> This way

Mechanical movements all the way up to celestial bodies. Dancing, music, and Mubarek are all products of a fundamentally mechanistically conceived universe. Where there is probability, there are merely new mechanisms to be designed. Eventually, even robots choose to smile.

Ballet Mecanique

This is so much wiredness.

this is detroit

paul j. — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:57:38 +0000

I saw Kyle Hall spin this weekend in the basement of this bar/pizza place. Weird space for sure, but the speakers were really nice, and looked like they belonged in a spaceship.

Set was all over the place, although it definitely stuck closely to its house origins. There were some ghetto tech bangers, an acid house track, some beats that were classic Trax records material, and lots of amazing moments with organ filters. Anyway, it is great to see dudes like Kyle and Omar-S keeping the torch burning for Detroit techno.

quarter final wrap-up: netherlands, uruguay, germany, spain

paul j. — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:21:08 +0000

Party in the Hague! The Netherlands conquered Brazil, and they didn’t even play that great! But Brazil played even worse as soon as they were behind. At that point all the Dutch had to do was watch them self-destruct. Netherlands taking over!

Uruguay won a cheap victory over Ghana, so they get a cheap video featuring some sort of 80s throwback track. I have no idea if this is even Uruguayan music or not, youtube says it is, and that’s about the maximum amount of due diligence I have the patience for with this team.

Germany’s young team crushes old idols. Funky handicap indeed.

Remember, how I said that I would take any excuse to post a video of the Ex? Well, Spain’s victory over Paraguay will count for that too. This is a track from their record/book release, 1936, which is a document of the Spanish anarchists’ struggle against Franco.

Stay tuned for the semi-finals tomorrow!

i must be dreaming

paul j. — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:47:15 +0000

I Wanna Dance With Some Numbers

Mash-ups are usually so uninspired that you barely notice them anymore, but every once in awhile you hear one that is totally genius.

living in the age of an aquarium

paul j. — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:14:20 +0000

When DJ / Rupture and Matt Shadetek decided to go with an underwater concept for their album Solar Life Raft they were of course following a fairly rich history in electronic music of utilizing such thematics, for example, with Drexciya’s Bubble Metropolis. U.R. also did a bit of an acid house banger with a track called Submerge.

space is always the place

paul j. — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:38:33 +0000

Saga of Resistance

Theo Parrish goes deep with this remix of Sun Ra, and Detroit once again becomes a gateway into the cosmos splicing through time & space. One thing I miss about living in the Midwest is how seeped the whole area is with Sun Ra’s legacy… you just don’t get that sort of connection with his music in other parts of the country.

Shout out to the acknowledged classic blog.