25.4.09

Weekend Playlist: Drone, Ambient, Minimalism, Experimental


It's really nice outside--summer seems to have arrived early. BBQ's, drinking beer in parks, t-shirts!, all that stuff. Here's a playlist to help you ruminate and examine the possibilities:
  1. Tim Hecker - "Her Black Horizon" (2009; An Imaginary Country)
  2. Stars Of The Lid - "December Hunting For Vegetarian Fuckface" (2007; And Their Refinement of The Decline)
  3. Steve Reich - "Phase Patterns" (1970/2000; Four Organs/Phase Patterns)
  4. Dreamsploitation - "Monochrome" (2008; The Soft Focus Sound Of Today)
  5. Fennesz - "Perfume For Winter" (2008; Black Sea)
  6. Brian Eno - "Another Green World" (1975; Another Green World)
  7. Tim Hecker - "Harmony In Blue IV" (2006; Hamony In Ultraviolet)
  8. Karlheinz Stockhausen - " Stockhausen, Karlheinz Teil 1" (1960/1997; Kontakte)
  9. David Rosenboom - "Four Lines" (1974; Brainwave Music)
  10. Luc Ferrari - "Cellule 75" (1998; Cellule 75)
Not recommended while behind the wheel, or when friends are over. I listen to Stars Of The Lid before I go to sleep sometimes, if that's any indication. Please visit my friend Chuck's (Dreamsploitation) MySpace page: www.myspace.com/dreamsploitation