2013: shows of the year

Rustie, Jackmaster, Oneman @ Le Belmont Hot damn.  This was sonically colossal, had a perfectly diverse / messy crowd, and featured two smooth-as-silk DJ sets…

2013: concerts of the year

Strauss / Strauss / Ligeti –   2001 The NY Philharmonic did two sold out nights doing a play-along to the entirety of 2001.  The…

2013: albums of the year

Holden – The Inheritors Astonishing. Julianna Barwick – Nepenthe Some wags at work called this ‘slowed-down Enya’ – which is basically true, but in all…

2013: sets of the year

  DJ HENNESSY YOUNGMAN – NSA BANGERS Clearly the mix of the year.  Fuck the NSA, long live Hennessey James Holden – RA 367 A…

let’s go around one more time

Happy solstice:  Sun, it will be nice to see you again.

week 74

– My last day of my internship at The Echo Nest was today.  I will miss them. – The good people at This Is My…

week 73: smaller things

Apparently nothing happened this week.  I am packing to move back to Montreal, realizing how much of a hermit I’ve been this year, and thinking…

week 72: small things

– So this is really interesting:  Bespoke controllers. – TWO HOURS from the Paradise Garage closing party. – In other DJ set news, I am…

week 72: automatic music hackathon

I went to Brooklyn, I went to a hack day, I built a thing called grid, which touches on a few things that I am…

MMHD

Also, I am going to NYC next weekend for the Monthly Music Hackathon!  The theme is Automatic Music – it’d be great to see you…