(for the first time, in the below live version, i can clearly decipher the words.)
“sunday night” (originally posted as “sunday night in atlanta”) was posted charmingly to the deerhunter / atlas sound/ lotus plaza blog by lockett pundt back in ‘7. as he explains in the post, he had just purchased a new pitch-shifting pedal and went a little wild with it (i wonder how much of the track was improvised with the new pedal).
i remember being enamored of the track right off the bat, and we got to hear a polished version on his debut lp the floodlight collective. in a recent, rare (though maybe not for long, considering deerhunter’s newly-fastened hiatus) live set, deerhunter’s panda bear laid down a super drawn-out, guitar solo-laden rendition of the track at atlanta’s eyedrum. track kicks in around 11:20-11:25.
currently loving this track. it’s a bit buried in the forkcast right now so i thought i’d bring this to attention. great track, definitely playing it next rock set. also, i like that it’s not THAT distorted/fuzzy. TOO much, y’all.
i find myself up at 8:45 am vibing to dj nate on youtube. “lil mama bad as hell.” – this track means many things to me. it’s music devoid of anything but raw expression. this young buck is pumping out some pretty avant-garde lo-fi bedroom juke beats (though more so in his below track and others than the above one).
this one’s a sentimental soft-spot. insanely catchy. the song makes me want to be a high school (hood) girl so i can say “that’s ma song” and think about my boo to it while commenting on youtube.
two of dj nate’s tracks were featured in salem’s great xxjfg mix i posted about previously. download one of them here:
this track is fucking nasty as well. more insanely hard-to-find, lo-fi, experimental juke gold. like this summer’s fuzzed-out indie flavor, the low fidelity recording here adds something.
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and man, i have a ton of other new tracks to post from this week, my first week in action. i’m still deciding how to go about doing this: a weekly roundup mp3 marathon, multiple-track posts, unhinged rapid posting, a dj mix.. who knows. if there were more of you out there i’d ask for input. most likely i’ll just let it sprout how it wants to.
here’s another track that’s been on my radar for a while: the warbly, woozy casio melody in this track popped into my head last night, and i feel like it came to me in a dream. it also was the perfect song to fall asleep to (although it’s too short to actually fall asleep to, so maybe a pre-sleep wooze-jam). it’s a bit like indie j dilla.
this song was stored in my subconscious since i heard it on the salem mix that made the rounds a few months ago. finally, after 48 hours of racking my brain and my music library, i remembered where i got it from. the salem mix is one of the most abrasive/skull-piercing things i’ve ever heard, and almost all the tracks on it are ridiculously hard to track down. these guys especially seem to bask in mystery: on myspace, you can’t add them as a friend unless you know them by “last name” (??). whatever. as noted just a few posts back, it doesn’t really matter. cause jesus be damned, i’m rocking this tune hard right now.
