November 24

Moby : Wait For Me Deluxe Album/Version/Edition

I got pretty excited over the June 30th release of Moby's album, Wait For Me. However, this deluxe release has me ecstatic.

A three disc release.

The first disc is the entire original album, plus two unreleased bonus tracks.
The second disc is an ambient version of the original album, with new interpretations of each of the 16 tracks, re-recorded and re-interpreted by Moby himself. No funky remix album in sight.
And the third disc is a video DVD including live performances, music videos and of course, what we all know and love, more Little Idiot animated shorts for each of the tracks on Wait For Me.

Korg X3

I used to play one of these.

The Korg X3. I remember this thing having wonderful string and piano sounds. A nice cello patch. While it didn't have much to boast about in the way of knobs and tweaking cutting-edge sounds, its sound banks were huge.

January 19

The Cold War Kids are planning on releasing a 4 song EP entitled, "Behave Yourself," on January 19th. New material is currently being worked on for the upcoming album, following the release of the EP. Also, here's a little promo video they put together for the whole thing. LA bands. *Puh.*

Moby and his drum machines

Moby talks about his gear, shows us his drum machine collection and rants about the nerds in electronic music. This is a submersion into Moby's home studio in New York. This is SO COOL.

If the vid doesn't work, check out the interview HERE.

New Sea Wolf album

Released September 22.

How did I miss this?


Here's a free download (enter your email to acquire) of a bonus track off of the album, entitled Stanislaus. I've listened to it a few times now. It has that bohemian-gypsy-thing going again. It's melodramatic. However, it's tastefully melodramatic. Nonetheless, I am anticipating picking up White Water, White Bloom. It seems Alex Brown Church, lead singer of Sea Wolf, "couldn’t have known beforehand what the next record would sound like, but I did know I wanted it to be bigger, with a band feel, rather than another series of intimate confessionals.”

With this crisp Autumn weather at hand, Sea Wolf seems fitting to be listening to.

Orthodoxy: G.K. Chesterton's closing thoughts

"Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian. And as I close this chaotic volume I open again the strange small book from which all Christianity came; and I am again haunted by a kind of confirmation. The tremendous figure which fills the Gospels towers in this respect, as in every other, above all the thinkers who ever thought themselves tall. His pathos was natural, almost casual. The Stoics, ancient and modern, were proud of concealing their tears. He never concealed His tears; He showed them plainly on His open face at any daily sight, such as the far sight of His native city. Yet He concealed something. Solemn supermen and imperial diplomatists are proud of restraining their anger. He never restrained His anger. He flung furniture down the front steps of the Temple, and asked men how they expected to escape the damnation of Hell. Yet He restrained something. I say it with reverence; there was in that shattering personality a thread that must be called shyness. There was something that He hid from all men when He went up a mountain to pray. There was something that He covered constantly by abrupt silence or impetuous isolation. There was some one thing that was too great for God to show us when He walked upon our earth; and I have sometimes fancied that it was His mirth."

Beck's Record Club

Beck is exorcising his creativity in yet another way: a Record Club.

This group, composed of Devendra Banhart, both of the dudes of MGMT, legendary producer Nigel Godrich, actor Giovanni Ribisi, members of Little Joy, Wolfmother, and of course Beck himself, is going through choice classic albums and covering all of the tracks. This formula produces a track once a week. The site states, “There is no intention to ‘add to’ the original work or attempt to recreate the power of the original recording. Only to play music and document what happens.”


So far, The Velvet Underground & Nico has been covered. The project at hand is the misty, clairvoyant, Songs of Leonard Cohen.

Check it out: Beck Record Club