Bryan Raydio: DECEMBER MEGA POST 2

Friday, December 24, 2010

DECEMBER MEGA POST 2

I've been away for a while again. Part of this was due to travel, part due to holiday obligations, and part admittedly to being tired and lazy, so again I will attempt to reconcile this with another mega post. Less writing this time, more music. Beginning tomorrow I'll begin to cover my seven favourite albums of the year.

We'll start with some folky stuff. This is Lior, who I don't really know anything about because I just happened to randomly come across this while sifting through a bunch of other stuff. He's Australian. Imagine that. Good music coming from the other side of the world. I don't really understand it either.

Lior - I'll Forget You

...and on to Sia, who sings backup on that last track. She's also from Australia. Even more decent music coming from the land of didgeridoos and things that hop. This makes no sense at all.

Sia - Buttons

Beth Orton is not Australian, she's English, which means she's one of the ones who sent those dirty criminal Aussies down to their giant penal colony all those years ago. I bet she wishes she was down there now instead of being buried in snow and freezing cold and neo-imperialism. Oops. There's a great remix of this track by Deep Dish around somewhere if you can find it. It's worth looking for.

Beth Orton - Central Reservation [Live]

I was talking about some of the better live shows that I've been to the other day, and one that definitely sticks out was seeing Rob Zombie and Korn at Copps Coliseum in Hamilton circa March '99. Ol' Rob and his dreads might not be the best musician ever, but as a showman he's hard to beat. Think go-go dancers, giant-ass flames, and giant-ass robots. His old band White Zombie was kick ass and this was the song that made them really get huge.

White Zombie - More Human Than Human

...and speaking of Korn, I have to say they were also awesome live. Jonathan Davis walked out in his kilt playing the bagpipes with a bunch of the audience brought on stage to hang out in cages behind the band. They opened with this classic and the place went nuts. What a show.

Korn - Blind

I've been dabbling in some minimal house lately, and one of the most exceptional producers of this genre in recent years is Ricardo Villalobos. Born in Chile but raised in Germany, his 2003 album "Alcachofa" is probably bested only by Metro Area's 2002 self-titled masterpiece in terms of influence on the genre. This is one of the tracks from it, and you can find some Metro Area below. It's not normal to see any kind of music video for a piece of minimal tech house, so this is particularly cool.

Ricardo Villalobos - Dexter