I’ve been so entranced by bossa nova in the past few months that I’ve nearly forgotten my cyclic return to the bone-stirring basses of electro. As I periodically revisit Daft Punk’s classics, the mood sometimes strikes to follow with a bit of Cassius, Modjo, or their followers. Inevitably, I spend an afternoon catching up with [...]
By this point you’ve surely heard of Microsoft’s newest foray in hardware, the Zune media player. The Internet is very excited, it seems, about the prospect of someone finally introducing competition to Apple’s iPod - though it wouldn’t be the first time we hear the term iPod-killer misused. Nonetheless people appear to be paying attention [...]
I’m loving Last.fm more every day… I would recommend to anyone who likes music and has a computer to create an account, download the plugin and get started on a profile. The way it works (if you are not in the know), is that the plugin (available for virtually all music playing softwares) records the [...]
I’m doing much better than I was a few days ago, I felt I needed to get that awful ranting out of the way. Now I have to catch up on all the reading I did half-concious as my body was trying to kick some bacteria ass. Moving on, you might remember this entry, I [...]
There are many things that make me happy when I come back to France, but one of which I have been taking full advantage of is the access to a broader spectrum of sound - if you catch my meaning. Since the average college student in the US appears to have the musical scope of [...]
The question was asked by Jason Kottke on his blog and I found it very interesting. So I went through my collection to see what I could find.
English - A lot of stuff.
French - Being my first language, a lot of stuff here too: Air, Charles Trenet, Henri Salvador, MC Solaar, to cite only a [...]