01 March 2007
WHEREFORE GUEST RIFF WEDNESDAYS
Spectral/Ghostly: Getting Awesome
My love-hate with Ghostly International is now about 70/30 after this Death Is Nothing To Fear Vol. 1 EP. Audion's "I Gave You Away" is "Mouth To Mouth" but with a better keyboard riff, just a notch down atonally from Melchior's "Different Places," and with better variations too. I know I'm in the minority of people who dig this one over "Mouth" but holy shit. I used to think Ghostly was like the Ultra Records of the Midwest but worse because of all the bad synthpop LPs, plus I didn't like the labelhead implying to me in a Voice elevator once that me not liking his records was me not supporting dance music in America, plus there was that really asinine Osborne record they released, Afrika, the one that ripped CK Mann's "Asafo Beson" entirely, no credit and no justified "transformative" use, which all is to say that Death is borderline salvation-level awesome at times. Even the Bodycode track at the end, this reconfigured filter-house low-key job with potentially annoying vocal snippets and one extended monologue halfway through, is really strong, really freaky towards the finish too.
78 RIFFS
// posted by NBS @ 9:00 AM 
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don't know how else to say this... but i've been listening to can since 14 (24 now) and i finally made something i think is good enough. and i figured you might dig it.
it's here: http://tago-mago.net/music.htm
remixes of the streets, marvin gaye, mos def, b-52's, cocteau twins, more
hope you like it
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The "Eardrums shall fail" blog said:
"Remixing is raised to art status when you give new life to music, any type of music. To see potential in a boring cut, to push the envelope all the way to different galaxies, to let your mind wander where the original intention left off - all this presumes passion and marquees lighting up over your head as opposed to a mere lightbulb. A writer, most of the time, is a passionate reader first and a remixer of words second. Tago-Mago does that with music. I may not like each and every track but that would be a strange and new feeling anyway. Rarely have I heard a reinvention of music I was, or thought I was, familiar with, in such unexpected ways. His major influence is Can, and the mixes are inspired by a variety of hip hop and electronica artists."
http://eashfa.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/pusherman-tago-mago/
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it's here: http://tago-mago.net/music.htm
remixes of the streets, marvin gaye, mos def, b-52's, cocteau twins, more
hope you like it
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The "Eardrums shall fail" blog said:
"Remixing is raised to art status when you give new life to music, any type of music. To see potential in a boring cut, to push the envelope all the way to different galaxies, to let your mind wander where the original intention left off - all this presumes passion and marquees lighting up over your head as opposed to a mere lightbulb. A writer, most of the time, is a passionate reader first and a remixer of words second. Tago-Mago does that with music. I may not like each and every track but that would be a strange and new feeling anyway. Rarely have I heard a reinvention of music I was, or thought I was, familiar with, in such unexpected ways. His major influence is Can, and the mixes are inspired by a variety of hip hop and electronica artists."
http://eashfa.wordpress.com/2007/02/24/pusherman-tago-mago/
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