Archive for December, 2007

DJ Spooky: Holiday in Antarctica

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Multimedia artist and DJ, Paul D. Miller a.k.a DJ Spooky is going to Antarctica for the holidays. Well, he’ll be there for the holidays, but the trip is not holiday-specific. He’s going to make a film.

pampelmoose top 10 tracks or remixes of 2007

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

As the year draws to an end I figured I’d get one last list in before I start to wonder what ‘08 might bring. Here’s my top 10 of the individual tracks that rocked my iPod in ‘07 not ranked by order as they are all equally great in my mind:
Blitzen Trapper Sci_fi Kid (Recordist [...]

circuit bending, get on ebay and grab a speak & spell

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Thank you Rodger from Strange | Beautiful

dubstep, nuum et al

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

After Tuesday’s tip from Josh K I decided that there must be a whole mess of info about Dubstep and Grime and how it’s crossing over into the underground “mainstream,” for want of a better word. It didn’t take me very long. First stop Roy Christopher’s blog, from there to BlissBlog one of many blogs [...]

how to get the attention of the moose

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

As you might imagine many unsolicited submissions arrive at the Moose daily. They create a quandary - what to do with them? I have a rule that sort of works (at least for me). If I like what I hear I will post it, if not I don’t. My thinking goes like this - if [...]

nice motion piece

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Adore Adore
This landed in the Moose inbox this a.m. The subject line simply said “I think you might like this.” No other info. And I do like it; the motion piece is fluid and engaging. I can’t say the same about the song though as I find it begins to annoy me after a while.

motel de moka, dubstep, lists, mp3s and more

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Image from Motel De Moka
Moose contributor, Josh K, sent me a link to a cool blog called Motel De Moka where he’d discovered a great MP3 list of dubstep cuts posted up - Deep Night Dubstep (2:45AM), there’s some very good cuts there. And digging deeper Josh found another post that was a rather fascinating [...]

thom yorke drops burial and modeselektor remixes on boomkat

Sunday, December 16th, 2007

It’s tomorrow in London as I write this post and the good folks at Boomkat offer up a digital download of Yorke’s ‘And it Rained All Night’ and ‘Skip Divided’ with respective mixes by Burial and Modeselektor. So my 2007 Best Albums of the Year top 3 artists are all represented here….such prescience from the [...]