I have no idea where I found this song. iTunes tells me it's from Music for Robots but I'd like to think that it mysteriously appeared on my computer thanks to some gypsy's trickery. Listen how does she dances from dry sophistication to child like playfulness from one syllable to the next. It must be a spell. It's just so absurd, so hypnotic. So... all of a sudden it's gone?

Eglatine Gouzy - Cowboy

Ok, ok. Here's more:

Eglatine Gouzy - Zone A

I'm not going to pretend I understand, or that I'm even in control. I'm enamored, possibly beguiled. So please; save your freudian conclusions and find the gypsy that put me under this spell!

bah bah bah bah bah bah....

photo: Filippo Minelli

note: after a couple hours of learning html the new layout is complete[-ish].

Every Thursday night from 12 until 2ish on CHUO for about... shit, 10 weeks in 2005, you could here Jon (Braap!!) and I fumbling through playlists on a program called The Fresh Syndrome. If you happened to have your dial set to 89.1, you would have heard everything from everything from first wave Baile Funk, Hip Hop, Lo-Fi and IDM to anything in between. The playlists were tight, and more than made up for our lack of on air experience. To [loosely] quote Dose One, "It was what it was and when it was what it was it just was..."

I'm bringing this up only because I stumbled upon this song today and felt instantly notsalgic. I discovered Scarf Face thanks to this post on the blog that also introduced me to Jaga Jazzist and Mice Parade. I think we played it on our very first real show and I remember feeling like something new, something big was happening.

Scarf Face - Lonesome

I guess Scarf Face, though still relatively unknown, has signed a deal with Cook Shop, so more can be expected soon. In the meantime check out his Myspace and the amazing (!) Audio Aubergine for more tracks. Since I can't just mention Audio Aubergine without leaving a little sample, here you go:

Greg Scrase - Fairfield

Seriously download everything off of that site. Everything.

I used to be so fancy free.

As you can see, everything looks kind of mangled on here right now. I'm changing the layout a bit, and sorry for the temporary eyesore. In the meantime, enjoy a young Jean Michel Basquiat on Glen O'Brien's TV Party.

photo: Chris Johanson (again!)

The Ghosts - Penny Falls

I can't stop listening to this song, I mean I've tried. Really I have but it just won't let me. If feel like a pusher by sharing this damn addiction with you.

Wait! please don't download the song, unless you really know what you're getting into...

I don't know much about The Ghosts, except that Penny Falls will be on an album due out in January on Catbirds Records.

He was disappointed in the world so he built his own.