Inspired By Song / Ever felt a certain way about an artist?
Know when you love an artist before anyone else (except the person who showed you).
And that artist ignites the starving underground scene.
And then you share his music with some friends.
And then somehow they’ve heard “of” him. On Pitchfork.
But that doesn’t ruin it. Yet.
And then you get to see him at proper venue instead of shit hole.
But it’s crowded with people there for some remix he did with some other artist.
And next thing you know his shows are too crowded.
And you’ll never go again.
And account people tweet, “This guy’s mask is creepy. Whr’s Arcade Fire”
And a year after no one knew him his shows sell out in minutes.
And then your dad finds him on Spotify.
And then Honda uses him in a commercial.
And then you’re happy but sad
but more happy than sad for SBTRKT?
Ever feel that way about an artist?
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Morning Stranger / Do Unto Others…
My bathroom, flooded chest high, was where I baptized an old Duke alum, though I’m not ordained. I bade him adieu and almost gave him my maroon Bible, the NRS version, but took it back, as its translation I found free of bias and slant. Instead I gave him the King James version, red cover, the one I’d had since childhood. I smiled. He frowned.
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Morning Stranger / Cold fronts and clouds
I ran at him but was only two or three steps away. He looked no bigger than me but as I leapt and sounds vanished and I inched closer I saw I underestimated his frame. Mid-air I shimmied so my side collided with his. He moved not an inch and shame’s warm embrace delivered me par avion into Uncle Orlando’s semi-pro football days, when he, to set a block, ran full tilt at a linebacker, perhaps two times his size. He never did make it to the NFL.
And I woke wondering why cold fronts and clouds are on a break. Cold, stop being such a bitch. Clouds, learn to listen. We miss the magic moisture made this time of year.
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Morning Stranger / Hotel Goth Party
I told him I was atheist after he asked if I was god-fearing Christian. He said if so then you go ahead and stab me in the face with that fork. I stabbed his eyebrow. My extended family arrived at the hotel. I knew they were coming but they still said, “SURPRISE!” Then Dave Newman texted me from the goth party he was at.
Tunes / Solitary Refinement
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Cold, sleet and snow gave some time to put this one together. Feedback from friends has been as unanticipated as consistent days of 18 degrees Farenheit weather so early into winter.
Solitary Refinement
01 / Air / Black Chow
02 / Selector / Mark Ronson
03 / Marriage / Gold Panda
04 / 6669 (I Don’t Know If You Know) / Neon Indian
05 / Bop / Brandt Brauer Frick
06 / Look What You’re Doin’ To Me (MCDE remix) / Jazzanova feat. Phonte
07 / Waterfalls / DJ MA1
08 / Heartbeat Ft. Terri Walker (Mosca remix) / T.Williams
09 / Christopher Willits / The Heart Connects To The Head
10 / The Moving Shadows / United Future Organization
Tunes / Take The Rhode Left
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I remember my parents hitting up jazz festivals all over the Northeast, the Newport Jazz Festival in particular. Its headliners today are often prodigies from your Berklees or Julliards if not icons knocking on heaven’s door in terms of their professions, lifespan or both. Side stages are where more experimental acts let loose, hearkening to the days when psychedelic rock, fusion and free jazz were all the fuss on the main stage. Forefront artists from then are now the focus and inspiration for today’s groundbreaking electronic artists experimenting with similar ambition. Take The Rhode Left captures this cultural dialogue by blending sounds from decades past with our decade present.
Take The Rhode Left
01 / The Blessing Song / Michael White
02 / Monium / Jeremy Steig
03 / Elijah / Spirit
04 / Do It / Aphrodite’s Child
05 / Green Clouds / Egba
06 / Takkasim Sanat Alfeyn / Omar Khorshid And His Guitar
07 / Saxophone Machine No. 1 / Gilbert Artman
08 / Powderly / Rainstick Orchestra
09 / Fast II / Steve Reich
10 / Fresh Flowers Ahead / Kona Triangle
Tunes / Amerington
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A collaboration with Taller/Blacker for The Whorington .
Amerington
01/ School of Seven Bells / Chain
02 / FunkinEven / Kleer (featuring Fatima)
03/ Tussle / Flicker
04 / Kazino / Binary
05 / Junior Boys / Hazel
06 / James Pants / Crystal Lite
07 / Human League / Love Action (12″ Mix)
08 / Theophilus London / TNT
09 / Mux Mool / Wolf Tone Symphony (Paul White Remix)
10 / Phantogram / Turn It Off
11 / Son Lux / Wither
12 / Erlend Øye / Every Party (Prefuse 73 Mix)
13 / DJ Naughty / Quicktime
14 / Ikonika / Heston
15 / Harvey Presents Locussolus / Little Boots
16 / Modeselektor / The White Flash (featuring Thom Yorke)
17 / Toro Y Moi / Thanks Vision
Tunes / Propah Repertoire
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A mix of dubstep from late 2009 through 2010.
Propah Repertoire
01 / Mark Pritchard / Heavy As Stone
02 / Scuba / You Got Me
03 / Joy Orbison / J.Doe
04 / Mosca / Square One (Bok Bok Rmx)
05 / Addison Groove / Footcrab
06 / Cosmin TRG /Strobe Luck
07 / Skream / Slumfunkula
08 / Darkstar / Aidy’s Girl’s A Computer
09 / Guido / Orchestral Lab
10 / Zomby / Tarantula