Comments on: top 10 albums of the year

By: pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog » the duke spirit neptune

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:00:35 +0000

[...] Life During Wartime. The rock bands I like I can count on the fingers of one hand. Therefore The Duke Spirit should be glad that I care about their music. Perhaps I like the spunk of Liela Moss their lead singer. Perhaps I’m giving them a chance to worm their way into my head in the hope that other bands will follow and rock music can gain a foothold in popular music rankings again. Maybe. I haven’t tired of my In Rainbows package yet nor the Burial album. Both not rock. [...]

By: pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog » powells books blog and neil strauss, a dubstep connection

Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:48:05 +0000

[...] “LONDON: I had exactly three hours of free time in London, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. And rather than sleeping, I ran out to shop for music and try a dumpling restaurant that had been recommended. Since acid house in the late ’80s, the British dance music scene has been funny to watch. At first, every year, some innovator came along and created a new genre of dance music. Gradually, that window of time between new genres decreased. Now, sometimes it seems that the new genres are changing faster than the actual innovations. So in the progression that has gone from jungle to drum-and-bass to two-step to garage to grime (and don’t even get me started on grindie), the 2007 favorite is dubstep. So I went dubstep shopping, picking up the classic compilation Warrior Dubz; a collection of Skull Disco singles; and, most impressive, the new Burial CD Untrue. Afterward, I went to Yauatcha for dumplings and noodles with a guy who claims he won the U.K. version of The Apprentice. (Note: Just looked him up on Google — turns out he did.)” Here’s Neil’s web site. [...]

By: pampelmoose top 10 tracks or remixes of ‘07 « PDX PIPELINE

pampelmoose top 10 tracks or remixes of ‘07 « PDX PIPELINE — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:12:52 +0000

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By: Roy Christopher

Roy Christopher — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:56:16 +0000

Simon is great. He knows that music stuff.

By: Dave Allen

Dave Allen — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:26:38 +0000

I just found a great Burial review by Simon Reynolds, he of Rip It Up..Post-Punk etc fame…

By: pampelmoose » Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog » thom yorke drops burial and modeselektor remixes on boomkat

Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:01:23 +0000

[...] 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 Moose, I knew slipping Thom that fiver would work. One slight puzzle though. You can buy the MP3s at 320kbs or you can buy the songs in FLAC - Free Lossless Audio Codec - for £1 more. Boomkat’s blurb goes as follows - You are a bit of a music connoisseur, you deem 320Kbps MP3s to be inferior, you want DRM free, lossless downloads and you want them now! All very well, but does this mean that the “inferior” MP3s have DRM? I’ll buy them and let you know. [...]

By: joshk

joshk — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 08:48:46 +0000

burial works great with headphones. new sounds bubble to the surface with each listen.

By: Dave Allen

Dave Allen — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:29:29 +0000

Mr Goldie, if in fact you are a Mr, maybe a Ms, your blog is fine, but such early days….you’ve got to earn the accolades in the blogosphere and it takes years believe me. The ‘tricks’ of getting traffic are out there but they don’t work, there are no shortcuts. What works is a dedicated posting schedule, an authentic voice, a good overview of your subject and/or topics, original content that other blogs will want to host on their own site, etc etc etc. You must become a journalist and do your research too. The Moose site is now heavily-trafficked after two years of at least 3 posts a day. 852 blogs link to the Moose and we get about 63,000 unique visitors a month…that’s uniques, not just our fine regular readers such as yourself. To get there I have put in on average about 3 hours a day every day for two years. Keep at it and you’ll be fine. BTW, my local top picks are up on Indie Music Portland