Our baby was born. She's beautiful, healthy and awesome. Just like my other two kids, the first song she ever heard outside the womb was "I Will" by the Beatles as sung by me. We spent the night in the hospital and my wife and I watched the Tom Petty documentary. This little girl entered the world to the Beatles and Tom Petty. My kids and I have been listening to the entire Cat Stevens catalog in heavy rotation. Here is the little one:
Not sure if this is your cup of tea but this song kinda made me want to be a father and now being a step dad is a potential thing that could happen to me I'm excited to help raise a good human even if my behavior keeps pushing the time table for that possibility back but I'm doing the right thing now. I'm surprised by my willingness to be ordinary because I thought I'd be Bohemian and scoff at the bourgeoisie forever. It's time to adult.
I offered up my delivery services and the midwife was seriously going to let me do it but my wife said "no." I held her foot and knee up - a human stirrup. It was an amazing birth. My wife is a fucking badass. Women are amazing.
Last Saturday I got lucky. You know those days where there is a party somewhere and you just feel too lazy to go and feel more like staying at home? I had one of those evenings but then decided to push myself and leave the house. And man I am glad I did that. I stumbled into a small venue where Kill Emil was DJing. It was 3 hours of surprises, beauty, dancing, fun, shaking, sweating all of it. Here is a more relaxed set he played a few months ago, enjoy :)
The new Darius turned out OK, but I hope he's working on a major album. Darius is one half of Cherokee. Ugh, it's 6+ years later, and "Sable Doux" never gets old to me.
I'm scraping a soundcloud feed every couple of days. Man, if I had the time, I'd sample that Love Apple hook into a real nice bit of nu disco. It's very likely that you'd hate the result, but at least I wouldn't be working on graded homework assignments at age 30.
Let's find out.? Listen to the first 2 minutes-ish of this if you ever feel like you might could stomach it. Fair warning: Once you get to the start of the bridge, @1:53, it's even weirder. Oh, aaaand the first 40 seconds might not be 100% enjoyable, due to repetition, but the following segments should be almost maybe interesting. The artist, UniBe@t, classified this as "Future Funk", but the genre heavily overlaps with "Nu Disco". So I imagine that you won't like it, but I'd like to know why. Too much phaser/flanger? Over-obvious pitch distortion? Too chopped up and/or robotic? Overproduced? Etc. One of my goals is to play in the gap between sample work and original composition. But I want to maximize appeal, so I humbly submit my questions. Even more unsolicited sidenote: It's increasingly difficult to find "Future Funk" that doesn't have animé and other Japanese cultural influences. The idea that something I enjoy connects me to U.S. weeaboo social circles is, uhhhh.. I dunno. It's whatever. I guess any microcosm of taste has some random cultural overlaps with other populations, and kinda chaotically drives trends. In this case, I think the common factor is basement-dwelling*. *NOTE: the author, am_Unition, does not basement dwell.
Saw Trevor Hall at an outdoor concert last weekend. Suppose it was better that my lady friend wasn't able to make it. They ran over an hour late on top of taking another half hour to fix sound issues as he stood on stage for half of it ready to close us out for the night. On the whole, wish they stuck to the indoor venue that's known for seemless production. Other than that, he played one of his older songs that's grown on me. Got so excited when I heard the opening riff I missed the beginning on my phone's recording. I'll spare y'all the bad quality:
I'm not listening to any music directly, per se, but I've been watching the first season of Preacher on Hulu and whoever picked out the songs for the soundtrack for that series has done an amazing job. Good music, fits the tone and theme of the scenes. Most of it is right up my alley too. I gotta see if I can find a listing of all the songs they used. Unfortunately, IMDB doesn't have it.