Hocheez music:<\/p>\n
I’m spending too much time plundering NinjaTune<\/a>‘s playlists. Why the fuck isn’t there something like Kiss 100’s SolidSteel<\/a> here in Vancouver? Does North America just not “Get It” yet? CiTR<\/a> allegedly simulcasts them, but I usually end up downloading\/streaming the show a few days later.<\/p>\n Saw Kid Koala<\/a> at the Commodore<\/a> the other day, pumping his new album “Some of my best friends are DJs<\/a>.” Some catchy stuff in there. “Skanky Panky<\/a>” is a great little track, and sounds like Mr. Scruff<\/a> has been lending Koala some of his old jazz vinyl. Great stuff.<\/p>\n NinjaTune’s Bonobo<\/a> has got some interesting stuff, (Flutter, from “Dial M for Monkey<\/a>” is particularly beautiful). <\/p>\n Cujo (Amon Tobin) has a 2disc thing called “Adventures in Foam<\/a>” which is sorta illbient and weird. Fun if you aren’t sitting up alone in your place at 2am. Great if you’re sitting in a rainy cafe somewhere, trying to freak yourself out.<\/p>\n Hawksley Workman has another album of songs you swear you’ve heard before, you just forgot the lyrics. Great stuff there too. 3rd album from him, and might be his “breakthrough” disc. LoverFighter<\/a> is worth picking up. Pest<\/a> is kinda like Prefuse 73<\/a>, if you know what that’s like. Cliphop<\/a>, or what I’ve come to think of as “Shredder Breaks.” Not necessarily frantic or fast, but just made up of leetle teeny eeentsy pieces of things. If you like that, you might also like this other guy who’s name totally escapes me at the moment. Delilah will know. I’ll CC her. She lives less than a block away now. “Fart-smelling distance” I believe was the term she used.<\/p>\n Tricky<\/a> – Vulnerable<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s official. I’m tired of him. Their cover of XTC<\/a>‘s “Dear God<\/a>” was just… silly. I dug it, but I dug it because it was silly. The same way I dug Marilyn Manson<\/a>‘s cover of “Sweet Dreams<\/a>…”<\/p>\n Oh yeah, and remember Hexstatic<\/a>? They did a great DJ set called “Listen and Learn<\/a>” that’s all over the freakin’ map. Good stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hocheez music: I’m spending too much time plundering NinjaTune‘s playlists. Why the fuck isn’t there something like Kiss 100’s SolidSteel here in Vancouver? Does North America just not “Get It” yet? CiTR allegedly simulcasts them, but I usually end up downloading\/streaming the show a few days later. Saw Kid Koala at the Commodore the other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87613675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87613675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87613675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87613675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87613675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geckotemple.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87613675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHint’s “Portakabin Fever<\/a>” has some of the prettiest piano & drum tracks I’ve ever heard. “Words to That Effect” is something that’ll either put a stupid grin on your face, or maybe bring a tear. Real simple stuff, without all the “Man, that’s DEEP” that tends to happen when jazz\/breaks get stripped down.<\/p>\n