71: Top 10 Albums #2

Taste evolves. Time for another compare and contrast.

01: Bonobo – Black Sands
02: Four Tet – There is Love in You
03: Caribou – Swim
04: Sigur Ros – Takk
05: The Album Leaf – In a Safe Place
06: Rodrigo y Gabriela – 11:11
07: Fat Freddy’s Drop – Dr Boondigga and the Big BW
08: RJD2 – The Colossus
09: Cyne [...]

64: Neel’s Picks 15

It took me a very long time, but I think I finally made my best playlist yet.

# – Artist – Title – Album
01 – Sigur Ros – Glosoli – Takk
02 – Album Leaf – Thule – In A Safe Place
03 – Psapp – Curuncula – Tiger, My Friend
04 – Vetiver – Everyday – Tight Knit
05 [...]

54: Answers #3

Like most things that matter this Answer only applies to a small number of people, those few enlightened souls that use MediaMonkey instead of iTunes to manage their music libraries. (For the uninitiated, MediaMonkey is just like iTunes with lower memory/CPU footprints, custom classification schemes, and uses DRM-free Amazon for a music store.) MediaMonkey does [...]

51: Memories #5

During my senior year of college my friends and I attempted freestyle rapping on a number of occassions. None of us were particularly any good but it was a fun exercise and test of English skills and thinking on your feet. As I was falling asleep one night I came up with these few verses [...]

50: Iced Tea

I decided to try something different while writing about my iced tea recipe. I have recorded it in real-time audio format! Click here to listen. (There may be swearing in E-flat.)

38: Consipiracy to Defraud the Music Industry

31: Top 10 Albums #1

I recently found an old text file from three years ago where apparently I had been keeping a cumulative track of what my favorite 10 albums were at the time. It was logged about every 9 months. Here is a sample from Feb 2006:

01. J Ralph – Music to Mauzner By
02. Citizen Cope – The [...]

30: Neel’s Picks 14

This playlist felt so perfect coming together.
I have not felt this good for some time.

# – Artist – Title – Album
01 – Vetiver – Been So Long – To Find Me Gone
02 – The Flaming Lips – Race for the Prize – The Soft Bulletin
03 – The Cardigans – Carnival – Life
04 – The Beta [...]

29: Treasure Island

We went to the Treasure Island Music Festival on Sunday. It was the first all-day festival I had been to in a long time. The event is supposed to be zero-emissions so we had to get to AT&T Park and wait in a massive line for biodiesel buses to take us there. It was particularly [...]

23: Neel’s Picks 13

In high school I used to make a lot of playlists. They would have to fit on 1 CD and usually it reflected a wide swath of my music library that I was listening to more frequently at that time. I made the last one of those about 5 years ago. Since then I have [...]