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30) Grandaddy – The Sophtware Slump (2000)
In short, this is a concept album about a suicidal humanoid robot named Jed. Blissed out electronics and fuzzy guitars clash with Jason Lytle’s high, vulnerable singing voice in an album-long juxtaposition of nature versus machine. Sure, Radiohead and The Flaming Lips often tackle the same topic, but neither do it as beautifully as Grandaddy.

29) Daft Punk – Discovery (2001)
I tried hard not to like these guys. Cheesy French dance music that became one of the hipster darlings of the decade. Well it turns out that dance music is at it’s best when at least a little cheesy, and these French guys know how to break it down. Yo Kanye, I’m really happy for you and Imma let you finish, but Daft Punk made the best version of “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” of all time!

28) Extra Golden – OK-Oyot System (2006)
It’s a tough case to sell an album as one of the decade’s greatest for just one track…

top albums:
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Alasehir - Torment of the Metals / Moon Phantoms
Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 2 [Raster-Noton]
Bardo Pond - Volume 7 / Peri
Emeralds - What Happened / Allegory of Allergies [2LP '09 issue on Weird Forest]
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country

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Aarktica - In Sea
Aus - Light In August, Later
Celer - Engaged Touches
Heather Woods Broderick - From The Ground
Isla Craig & the Continental Drift []
Mountains - Choral
Pan American - White Bird Release
Raveonettes - In and Out of Control
Simon Scott - Navigare
Tomasz Bednarczyk - Let's Make Better Mistakes Tomorrow [12K]

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Chihei Hatakeyama - Saunter [Room40]
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Disrupt - The Bass Has Left The Building
DJ Signify - Of Cities
Dub Tractor - Sorry
Klimek - Movies is Magic
Kromestar - My Sound
London Apartments - Signals and Cities are Forever []
Rameses III - I Could Not Love You More
Jonsi & Alex - Riceboy Sleeps

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Today's show is a mix that would ideally be played on a sexy and sultry summer night with the object of your desire on one hand and a mojito in the other. With any luck you're doing just that even while today's show plays.

One group I'm excited to play on this week's solipsistic NATION is Sidestepper. Sidestepper is a Colombian band with English DJ/producer Richard Blair and Colombian producer/songwriter Ivan Benavides at the core. Sidestepper combines popular Afro-Colombian music styles like salsa and cumbia with electronica.

Another gem is Quantic Soul Orchestra's "Tropidelico." Will Holland (AKA Quantic), a DJ and musician, is the man behind the Quantic Soul Orchestra, which is a live band project with a changing lineup from album to album. Will has explored different genres of music in the past but the direction he's taken his album, Tropidelico , is very exciting.

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Uncle Tony's Coloring Book should have been out by now, but it's not yet. Thats cool though because for this, we can wait a couple extra months...

According to his myspace page it was going to be out by spring, but now it sounds like it won't be out for another few months... which by my calculations is summer time.

Lets just pray that it doesn't turn into a Window's Vista release (oh, its coming in the new year, no wait, in the spring, no in the summer - oh wait, no - 3 years from now)

If you're into Blockhead as much as I am, you are highly anticipating this release. Check out some of his tracks on his myspace .

Put Down Your Dream is the only track up right now to demo his upcoming album. It's decent, but I think we can expect a lot more from him in the next few months. I'm definitely excited.

My prediction is that he will stick to his patterns and retain the same sort of feel - his "old ASR-10" sampling .99 cent records... …

hey, so i started this group a while back...
called "djs make the music"

now anyone who has done this knows how hard it is to get a good group going. but with the help of its members, we have successfuly made it some top dj's pages!

these are the ones i've found so far, and i was super stoked and thought i'd brag share:

RJD2
Boom Bip
Prefuse 73
DJ Krush
DJ Vadim
Blockhead
Jel
DJ Signify
Pelican City

these are some of my favorites, so you can imagine how stoked i am right now! thanks to everyone who has made this possible. keep up the good work - and get in some more reviews!

PEACE

Hey scrobblers,

I’m sorry, that but that term really sounds like a sex act. That’s just my opinion.

I HAD MY FIRST FULL SHOW IN THREE MONTHS TONIGHT! I am so stoked on life. I played a bunch of new stuff, shared some old favorites, made some friends, learned a moral, and we all walked away a better person. It was basically an episode of “Life Goes On”. Do you remember that show? Probably not.



Things that are Square 3-8-0

(*) = New Release

Little Wings – Uncle Kyle Says – Magic Wand

(*) Andrew Bird – Imitosis – Armchair Apocrypha
Mirah – La Familia – You Think It’s Like This But Really It’s Like This
Akron/Family – Shoes – Akron/Family
M83 – In Church (Cyann & Ben Version) – Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts

Hello Saferide – High School Stalker – Introducing…
(*) I'm from Barcelona – Treehouse – Let Me Introduce My Friends
Kimya Dawson – The Competition – Remember That I Love You
The Mountain Goats – Shadow Song – The Coroner’s Gambit

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