The Quasi-Random Links of the Day
Do you ever start wondering if you're ever going to have time to "get back" to those things which catch your interest but which you just don't have the time to fully explore now? Yeah, I'm here, but I should be there, and I'll never get back to here. But, in case I do, here are some things that I'd like to find when I return.
Meat Beat Manifesto remixes. The Fans Who Are Musicians Remix Project has uploaded a good assortment of MP3s. Artists remixes and reconstructing Meat Beat Manifesto which is like putting another layer of chocolate frosting on a double chocolate cake.
Matt Bogrhi and Jason Sloan have a new record out at Kikapu. I've got a folder on my inbox at home that has more than fifty unread digests concerning netlabel releases. I'm not going to get to them either. Bogrhi and Sloan do the slow drone thing with treated guitars and it's a treat. When you've got the time to slow down and enjoy it. Damn, I really need to get back to this one.
US Frequency Allocation Chart. A handy thing that'll be useful for a throwaway reference in the BOOK OF LIES. It'll make me look like I know what I'm talking about.
There's an entire wealth of information about Nikola Telsa that I want to get to as well. That's really going to be throwaway texturing, but man, it would be good to have.
And finally, Loren Jan Wilson has crafted a critique of music criticism in a way that only a data engineer could. The pitchformula statistically renders music criticism at Pitchfork in such a way that Wilson can then use this data to craft "critically successful" toons. Science working to reduce the magic to an equation.