Merry Christmas, Mr. Kappus

I don't want you to be without a greeting from me when Christmas comes and when you, in the midst of the holiday, are bearing your solitude more heavily than usual. But when you notice that it is vast, you should be happy;


for what (you should ask yourself) would a solitude be that was not vast; there is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along, the most unworthy.


But perhaps these are the very hours during which solitude grows; for its growing is painful as the growing of boys and sad as the beginning of spring. But that must not confuse you. What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude.

To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours - that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child, when the grownups walked around involved with matters that seemed large and important because they looked so busy and because you didn't understand a thing about what they were doing.
.....
....

:D

This Guy

A portrait of what
a man may pretend not to be
a woman may pretend not to see



Those eyes at 3:56

So it goes

So you look for a path, going ahead and searching as if there could be a highway somewhere with a paved road laid out.
And sure, there are many. So many paths. How do you choose?
He says, 'It is not you who chooses. The Path chooses you'.



'He's a child,' she says. 'You don't choose a path, and a path doesn't choose you. Its a courtship. You look around, you flirt, something catches your eye. Suitors come and go, some obviously wrong for you, some that appear too perfect, some that you've perhaps experienced before. Your path is never your path, it has its own whims. Your path is your mate for life, and



when you are together you won't have to die alone.'

Cowboys and Indians

One would think

that this is not a singular experience.

Miwon

A cloud of sound

miwon music by Miwon

A.... Soundcloud.

Agrajag

nomnomnomnomnom

And then it becomes a Raptor!

okay play this:

and within one second play this simultaneously:

Make sure its in HD!

:)

Trick or Treat

Happy Halloween

This mix comes recommended by the illustrious Simon Posford.

http://soundcloud.com/twistedmusic/younger-brother-halloween-mix

Listen for the Shpongle samples scattered everywhere.

Le Thing du Jour

YAY

First I was:


and then I was:


so then:


Speedy J, how did he imagine this back in 1990?

Rainer Maria Rilke

There is only one kind of Rilke, and that's a poet who was dressed as a girl until he was 5. (And that is greatness)

Post rock progression

A collective of lesser-known bands with big sounds.
I missed the crash of drums and twang of electric guitars.


Check tracks 1 and 2 to start with.

Lets get some smooth vibes

Electric Dreams

the breathing sound, incomplete sentences, dystopian future love-drama visuals, eerie tones, a fascinating late night voyage into involuntary solitude. Hey, you.

"There is only one kind of loneliness, and that is greatness"

Rilke

Getting more complicated

Gui Boratto is one of several new fascinating finds. I forgot to keep searching for wizards like this.

So Pleasantly Calmed Out

Like a warm pumpkin and xylophone pie.

So Dubstepped Out

Like a freeze-dried WTF pie.

somehow makes me think of zelda... and sonata arctica.

So Chilled Out

Chilled like organic key lime pie.

Emancipator Remixes

This is totally worth fasting for a lunar month.

The return to Trip-Hop

Makyo

The term makyo (魔境 makyō) means “ghost cave” or “devil’s cave.” It is employed in Zen as figurative reference to the kind of self-delusion that results from clinging to an experience and making a conceptual “nest” out of it for oneself.

This makes Elephant Happy!

Tranquility Bass

yumyum

Get some energy with Nadia Ali

mousetrap

something or the other

Moth

to a flame

Parabol Parabola

Arr!

rrar!

Relaxing track

Tell me your weakness

oh i keep it a secret

... ok its Vodka on ice



but then there's women on bikes
or just the women who straddle


i forgot about handfuls

Graduating

From this easy life.



oh सम सारा

Killer Karma

Holy rollercoaster of doom.


Acting out will only dig you deeper.
There's worse deaths in life than dubstep.

FFFFFFFUUUUU

I WANT TO KILL EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD


(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻　┳━┳ ◡ ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ ┻━┻ （●＾o＾●） （＾ｖ＾） （＾ｕ＾） （＾◇＾）

A Flash of Lightning

In the Dark of Night.

The whole song

I accidentally


all of it.
Breathe deeply. Don't even try to understand.

Relax! NOW! :D

Heehee.. I was skeptical when I started listening to this album, and then something weird happened and it made my day sparkly bright happy. Giggles.


Such a pleasant state of being, to be a bongo drum.

Wtf this isn't Dubstep!

I did not come to this blog looking for some Hindu lullabies! Give me some fucking Womp!
Sure thing, socially-normative-conformity guy. Enjoy your dubstep.




I met this woman (Wah!) and she taught me yoga.

Go! Want more!

I was tempted to make a reference to (insert current youtube meme) but then I found out that blogger wants me to type in Hindi.



संसार = निर्वाण


ॐ मणि पद्मे हूँ

Have you ever been as far as

decided to use go want more?

The problem with being a genius is that its Douchey

Debussy was a composer of music.

No one was ever sure whether the spites with which Debussy armed his volatile sensibilities were activated by a savage insensitivity, or by the holy egoism of genius.

Super Chill

Iambic 5 Poetry by Squarepusher

A Very Long Time Ago....

...I used to have a pseudonormal taste in music.
But even that confused high-school kid on the verge of imagining some fuzzy inkling of love had some issues with regular lyrics.


This song brought to you by the silhouette of memory of a childhood infatuation.

I Miss Planet Earth

I miss the days when life used to be simple.


Eh, you can say that again every five minutes. In reference to every 5 minutes ago.

Adil Will Like This Song

Cuz its awesome. Kthx.

Ott new Album: Mir

Few artists have the absurd grasp over just the correct sonic strings to puppeteer one's mind into the phantasmic states of consciousness that Ott does.
I present to you Mir, Ott's most intensely complicated, almost disturbingly intricate collection of pseudo-melodies and aural adventures.
Make sure you get to track 3.


If high-level musicians were Asgardian deities, Ott would be Loki.

Mmm passionate apathy.

I've recently gotten into running low volume ambient rain sounds while playing music reflecting the mood of soft autumn/winter rain.

Have a sample:

Go to www.rainymood.com

Now this:

or this:

or even:

And close your eyes.

Or maybe do some gentle reading.

Radiobread

So I think I'm going to keep posting on this blog whenever I get the chance to.

Radiohead released a new album.

Kinda mellow... I approve.

This toast is for Myers

I changed the dimensions of the videos to better represent the koan-like nature of this post.

Where is the Mind?

This post is for adil

I think the video is mashed up advertisements from Canada or something like that.

Mos Dub (instrumental)

Mos Dub is dub reggae music with mos def lyrics. This is an instrumental track....i.e no mos def.

Oh and super sick. Smoke 'em if you got 'em. Ya, something like that...

Beyond Monday

Another sick Glich Mob song. Gets even cooler about half way through.

Discovery - Swing Tree

guy from vampire weekend does more music:

Justin Timberlake Vs The Cure - Lullaby Love

Vampire Weekend - White Sky [Bukez Finezt Remix]

I guess Vampire Weekend tracks are full of remix opportunities...

Hacksaw by Ooah

Ooah is one of the members of The Glitch Mob as far as I can tell, so you already know its going to be awesome.

More All India Radio

This is track off of their latest album, and if you click on widget to bring you to bandcamp site you can download this song for free!!

Torley Part 2

Why is this guy so awesome?

Torley

I have been following all sorts of startups for a few months now. I went to one that seems to offer a service to create an 8-bit version of your avatar so you can be a cool kid (not sure though, as they are in closed beta) and one of Torley's songs was playing in the background.

ENJOY!

molto bene!

Hip Hop Violin - Paul Dateh and inka one

Hrmmm.....got here from Mystery Guitar Man. He's the man.

House is still alive

Remember the good old days when techno was the high end of music culture? No? Me neither.

That old school has been evolving, with smooth sweet progressions of luscious elusive celerity.

Someone, somewhere is on ecstasy.

Disco Biscuits

Out of Nowhere!

Disco Biscuits!

All India Radio

As featured in Wired (haha, but true)

THIS IS IT - WHAT!

...accidentally tagged this "rape"

Charity Album

There is a charity album out there... () and this song was on it. There are also a whole bunch of awesome glitch mob remixes on (so of course I bought it....it was like $10 for a ton of songs).

yeah yeah yeahs DIPLO remix

can't remember if i posted this before. oh, well.

cheri - murphy's law

this is an amazing tune from the 80s

Mos Dub

Just saw a link to this on facebook. I thought it was really really cool and super duper chill.

And One More Thing...

This song was WAAAAAY ahead of its time and super funky.

P**y

"How much do you need?"

Dub Endurance

So this is the starting line:

Can you get from there to here:

without ejaculating?

Crazy in the Coconut

A fantastic music video that you may or may not have been exposed to:

So I just watched Black Swan last night. I think this double post is reflective of the neural scrambling I've gone through.

Then again, pretty much all of my posts are.

The Glitch Mob is God part 2

laid back track

The Glitch Mob Is God

Sorry to keep posting so much glitch mob but they are my new favorites and this song is going to rock your socks off.

Fight Grime with Love

If you couldn't sleep after that last manic post, I apologize.

Let this video by BT show you that the machinery of the universe is still working harmoniously for the sake of us organics.

Today my face was Raped.

with a chainsaw.

Sodomized the Subwoofer too.

Acid Drive

OMG hilarious

you oughta know das racist

Study shows love for music relates to brain chemical, not to My Chemical Romance

"It would make sense that people listen to music for the sheer pleasure of it, right? That's what we thought, but apparently there's a scientific reason for this. Scientists have discovered that when Earthlings listen to pleasurable music, one particular chemical is loosed in the gord. The study, conducted by Robert Zatorre and Valorie Salimpoor of McGill University in Montreal, concluded that when the participants tuned into instrumental pieces they were familiar with, their brains released dopamine into the striatum -- an area of the noggin linked with anticipation and predictions." more

Insanely Funky Song

Was sampled by the Beastie Boys for another sick song, Car Thief. (here it is)



Pretty sick, eh?

West vs East

I am from San Diego but went to school in Massachusetts. People always ask me which is better: The West (best) Coast, or the East (least) Coast?

Here is my answer:

Travelllling Music

I'm about to leave Pakistan. As homage to the land, here is a video of the national dance of the proud Pakistani people.

They're wearing British dresses because of the whole colonization thing, or something. But this is legit Pakistan. Really.

The Glitch Mob

is fucking sick.



You're welcome.

Kid Cudi - Pursuit of Happiness (The Killabits Remix) (Dubstep Re-work of Steve Aoki`s KC Mix)

So I received this email today about my passion pit remix post:

"Blogger has been notified, according to the terms of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), that certain content in your blog is alleged to infringe upon the copyrights of others. As a result, we have reset the post(s) to "draft" status. (If we did not do so, we would be subject to a claim of copyright infringement, regardless of its merits. The URL(s) of the allegedly infringing post(s) may be found at the end of this message.) This means your post - and any images, links or other content - is not gone. You may edit the post to remove the offending content and republish, at which point the post in question will be visible to your readers again."

dang.

In other news:

Lego Music

Just saw this video and thought the song was pretty sweet

GORILLAZ DARE REMIX Big Time Dare Gorillaz vs Peter Gabriel

Today Was A Good Day

Here's a little bit of what I am feeling.

Soothing Melody

This song is super awesome and I really like the video track from this youtube video.



Thank you Scott for telling me about Emeralds.

Funkadelic Mushroom

This is going to change some wiring in your brain.

Do this:

1-Reduce Volume on first song (Heavyweight) to 50%. Leave Funkadelic's Maggot Brain at 100%

2-Play Heavyweight, 1 second later play Maggot Brain. (Pre-buffer them both)

3-??????

4-PROFFFUFUUUUUUUFUUFUUUUUFFFUUUUU

I hope you're ready for this.

ps. love to shootswegoden for suggestion.

Bassnectar- Beyond the Womp

I hope you know a revolution is coming.

The dreadlocked prophet you call Bassnectar is just the first of the harbingers of a sonic paradigm shift.

If you ever see Bassnectar live, remember that the reason you can't describe the phenomenon is because your brain shut down during the experience to protect your sanity.

Good Night

This song is sick.

Destroyer - Chinatown

This is a pretty good lo-fi electric folk tune from an artist signed to Durham, NC based Merge Records.

youtube comment: "i like the original song but hearing it in a more tranced out kinda techno beat ups my like alot (sic) more..."

I like the Chromeo remix of VW's "The Kids Don't Stand a Chance" posted above. The chorus sounds a lot like this 80s hit:



Coincidence?

Download this song (the remix).

Another Great Fred Falke Remix...