furniture music

i am on a brian eno kick. i have never listened to him extensively, but have been particularly inspired lately by an album called "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" that he did with talking heads founder david byrne. as i was reading about some of his productions i found out that he is credited with starting ambient music as a genre. he was particularly inspired by the music of french composer erik satie as his "furniture music." i am quite fond of it myself. here are some numbers if you'd like to check them out.


tapisserie en fer forgé, carrelage phonique, and tenture de cabinet préfectoral

The Microsoft Sound (via Wikipedia)

In 1994, Microsoft corporation designers Mark Malamud and Erik Gavriluk approached Brian Eno to compose music for the Windows 95 project. The result was the six-second start-up music-sound of the Windows 95 operating system, The Microsoft Sound. In the San Francisco Chronicle he said:

The idea came up at the time when I was completely bereft of ideas. I'd been working on my own music for a while and was quite lost, actually. And I really appreciated someone coming along and saying, "Here's a specific problem — solve it."

The thing from the agency said, "We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah- blah, da-da-da, optimistic, futuristic, sentimental, emotional," this whole list of adjectives, and then at the bottom it said "and it must be 3¹/₄ seconds long."

I thought this was so funny and an amazing thought to actually try to make a little piece of music. It's like making a tiny little jewel.

In fact, I made 84 pieces. I got completely into this world of tiny, tiny little pieces of music. I was so sensitive to microseconds at the end of this that it really broke a logjam in my own work. Then when I'd finished that and I went back to working with pieces that were like three minutes long, it seemed like oceans of time.

a little mixtape action

a random set of songs for y'all, with no set of coherency whatsoever:

don cherry - brown rice
raphael saadiq - let's take a walk
lana del rey - video games (jamie woon remix)
flight facilities - crave you
hugo frederick - family affair
bayaka - 3 voiced song (from The Extraordinary Music Of The Babenzele Pygmys   And Sounds Of Their Forest Home)
serge gainsbourg - l'anamour
jacques brel - le moribond
goldfish - hold tight
philip glass - 1000 airplanes on the roof
eleanor freidburger - gold glitter year
stanley turrentine - sugar
idris muhammad - piece of you

張帆 - man chang fei

quartetto cetro - crapa pelada
recloose f/ joe dukie - deeper waters

also, highly suggest you check out:
blade runner the soundtrack
CANT - dreams come true
steve reich - music for six marimbas
steve roach - artifacts
the embassadors - healing the music
nguyen le - tales from vietnam

chocolatish orange juice mixtape (belated)

jensen sportag - everything good
new look - everything
blood orange - dinner
solange - stillness is the move
joywave - winnepeg
earrings - worlds end
sampha - subconscious
muhsinah - are in be
jessie ware/sampha - valentine
cocorosie - by your side
quadron - buster keaton
inc. - millionares
active child (f/ how to dress well) - playing house
kotchy - getaway
exile - stay here
toro y moi - saturday love
sokar and martin - what i know
how to dress well - ready for the world
the weeknd - what you need (jacques greene remix)
below rimar - higher ground
submotion orchestra - all yours

lambrousco bubblegum mixtape (belated)

pariah - detroit falls
the xx - islands (nosaj thing remix)
holy other - touch
james blake - to care (like you)
ifan dafydd - no good
boom clap bachelors - løb stop stå
blood orange - sutphin boulevard
glasser and jamie xx - tremel 
how to dress well - decisions
CREEP - you (f/ nina sky)
the goat - what a life (balam acab remix)
the xx - basic space (pariah remix)
araab MUZIK - streets tonight
SBTRKT - wildfire
jamie xx -far nearer
toro y moi - blessa
disclosure - carnival
nguzunguza - times up (kingdom remix)
sibian and faun - i'm sorry
ifan dafydd - miranda
h-town - they like it slow
first rate people - girl's night
alauna george - we are chosen
blaman - getting me down

june playlist

some tunes i've stumbled across in recent days...

CREEP - you f/ nina sky
blawan - getting me down
blood orange - dinner
delorean - grow (taragana pyjarama remix)
disclosure - carnival
grimes - heartbeats (laurel halo remix)
ifan dayfdd - no good
james blake - to care (like you) (poppa mint remix)
machinedrum - TMPL
SBTRKT - wildfire
the goat - what a life i dream (balam acab remix)
holy other - touch
washed out - eyes be closed (grimes remix)
gil scott-heron and jamie xx- new york is killing me

also foals (total life forever), holy other (with u), blood orange, 116 and rising, baths (cerulean), darkstar (north), and balam acab (see birds ep) have been treating me well.

playlist for may

björk - where is the line
fatboy slim - praise you
frank ocean - we all try
the weeknd - the party and the after party
radiohead - nude
sensorama - star escalator
disclosure - carnival
SBTRKT - wildfire
tune-yards - gansta
balam acab - oOoOOO
jamie woon - shoulda (this guy is so good)

also, in the last couple weeks there was great mixtapes from:
jamie xx and oneman
canblaster
how to dress well
...go look for them...