Bowerbirds

#90.1 - BOWERBIRDS - Bur Oak
by lablogotheque


My love for these guys is due in large part to fellow DJ, Ed Gonzalez. What a great NC band... Dead Oceans is really impressing me.

Lupe

Paris, Tokyo.

He had a pretty good concert on USC campus this past Saturday. More on that, hopefully.

Update 2.0

Ok, so, having a blog and running it on one's own is pretty difficult. That is to say, keeping it relevant and up to date is an on going struggle.
If it has become a burden, why do it? Well, it's not as simple as that. Not exactly a love hate thing, but "The Audio Phile" has become a task and not always a fun one. Hopefully, when summer finally comes around, there will be more time to fart around on the interweb and type some stuff up on music. For now though, I'm giving fair warning. This will be an minimally updates extra curricular indulgence.
The onslaught of an academic semester's end has indeed hit. My focus has shifted.

Here's to some truly free time.

Scrambled and Mashed: Episode BEST OF!

YEAAAH!
So, where to begin? For starters, let's get us all on the same page. DJ/Chef Ed and DJ/Cook Zak put together their favorite tracks/ingerdients from the past six episodes of Scrambled Eggs and Mashed Potatoes and cooked up the best tasting show/meal to date. It was an All-Star performance in the kitchen/studio, and the food/music was... well, it was great.

Believe or not, even the speakers were disappointed at the end of the set. We gave them such a good work out, if you know what I mean.

Enough ego stroking. Here's last Friday's menu/playlist.

"Busy Busy Busy (Prince Klassen Young Professional Remix)" - Ghosthustler {zSHARE}
"Golden Skans (SebastiAn version 1.2.0 Remix)" - Klaxons
"GoodBooks (Crystal Castles Remix)" - Leni
"Shut Your Eyes (Glimmers Remix)" - Snow Patrol
"Stayin' Alive (Teddybears Remix)" - The Bee Gees
"Sexual Sportswear (SebastiAn Remix)" - Sébastien Tellier {Savefile}
"We Share Our Mothers' Health (Ratatat Remix)" - The Knife
"Whoo! Alright, Yeah... Uh Huh (Simian Mobile Disco Remix)" - The Rapture
"Atlantis to Interzone (Crystal Castles Remix)" - Klaxons
"Staring At The Sun (In Digital Tim Remix)" - TV on the Radio
"Genesis (CCCR Remix)" - Justice {zSHARE}
"Romantic Rights (The Phones Lovers Remix)" - Death From Above 1979
"Pogo (Shinichi Osawa Remix)" - Digitalism
"I Believe You Should Looka Here" - Rich Boy vs. Simian Mobile Disco {zSHARE}

... Amazing. Next week, Friday 8PM pt, "LEFT(c)OVERS!"

Show 9

There is a point when belatedness is more part of one's identity as opposed to just a trend. Perhaps that's the case here, but let's be honest for a second. This is a blog. Moreover, this is a blog without much web-traffic. Were The Audio Phile to average more listeners and more visiters then perhaps that would manifest a compulsion to please and a subsequent desire to write often and on time.

At the moment, and as the language of past posts has made clear, this is a self-serving blog and radio show. In a word, it's fun, or at least it has been. But now?

I don't know. Consequently, I've slipped into a habit of simply posting about past shows with a mere tracklist and some poorly written excuses. There has been an overload of informality and with it way too many first person pronouns.

Are these the ramblings of a stickler? Perhaps, but the status of the blog has recently gone from one that would excite me with its potential to one that appears to be more of a worthless, demanding task, only completed out of a promise to those few listeners and to myself. Hence, the late posts, sloppy writing and so on.

Then I had an epiphany - or perhaps it was a realization that felt like more of a reminder.
Both this radio show and this blog display a very developed and refined taste in music - one that is marinated in particularity and ecclecticism. I mean, this stuff is good... really good.

Granted, the music could be construed as safe, but to a point. Nothing played or recommended comes to you without other critical acclaim. Indeed, it is rare that an album gets added to this here audio phile's iTunes without an extensive check on its critical reception. Yet, this can be blamed on the understandable fear of disappointment. It's been touched on before, but buying an album and not liking it can be a monumental let down, a waste of time for want of liking it, and an embarrassing stain on a discography.

However, the music comes to you having gone through one final step of refinement. After repeated listens, extensive research, and various classified tests, the artists you hear on the show, the ones you see featured on this blog - they all have one thing in common, and this one linking commonality is the most important aspect of the music. It's my approval - my enthusiastic promotion because the chosen artist has touched me in a way that I've decided you need to feel too.

My thoughts digress. The point is, I really like what I listen to, and I have an instilled passion to spread the good news. I want you to like what I like also. Maybe there's a hint of arrogance there, but anyone who is proud of their musical taste can attest to their own pretentions.
Anyway, consider this a renewal of my vow to keep up the blog and to continue to make the radio show an excellent one each week.

Remember, KSCR every Wednesday at FOUR PM pt. You'll like what you hear.


On to last week's show:

I only DJed the first hour, and it'll be like that until the end of this semester. Bill the intern, or William as you may know him, is now in studio for The Audio Phile. TRAINING HAS COMMENCED! Be warned, our two tastes do differ, but keep an open ear. Bill knows what he likes, and I've got to say I like it too.

Here's the first hour's playlist. It's a tad out of order since, as you may recall, there was not an outlet to be found in studio. Still, the music is, as the kids say, awesome.

"Spinning Cotton Candy in a Shack Made of Shingles" - Black Moth Super Rainbow {mp3}
"Start To Melt" - Peter Bjorn & John {mp3}
"Elves" - The Dodos {link to cdbaby}
"Grease 2" - Thee Oh Sees {MySpace}
"In The Mausoluem" - Beirut {mp3}
"Rolling Down The Hills (Spring Demo)" - Glass Candy {mp3}
"Hip-Hop Saved My Life (Feat. Nikki Jean)" - Lupe Fiasco {mp3}
"Bring It On Down" - Goose
"The Good, the Bad, the Ugly (feat. Kanye West)" - Consequence {mp3}
"Blind (feat. Antony Hegarty)" - Hercules & Love Affair {mp3}
"Tragedy" - Okay {MySpace}
"Sipping On The Sweet Nectar" - Jens Lekman {zSHARE}
"Here Comes Your Man" - Pixies {mp3}
"Be Dark Night" - Phosphorescent {mp3}
"All I Need (Remix of Radiohead)" - AmpLive {zSHARE}