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ricosesquites
Irish winter must be brutal, i hate the fact that i can't rock a t-shirt all day in winter but alcohol consumption effs me up big time mang. I do not handle it well.
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darrenstallard
Looking doubtful. Haven't really heard enough this year to make it worthwhile. I have been trying to catch up in the last few weeks but am still way behind and there are so many things I wish I had gotten round to. Will see at the weekend if I get enough proper listening in over the next few days.
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darrenstallard
The popularity of the Jamie xx reworking has baffled me; I found it pointless in the extreme, I don't think it added anything useful to an album that, admittedly, I thought was patchy in the first place. I reckoned at the time, the superlatives that were heaped on it seemed as much informed by the fact that people were so happy to see him back on the horse as much as the content itself. A decent album but not a great one. So, to see it re-hashed and get all that acclaim again was a little puzzling. Just bought Atlas Sound this morning so will give that a listen later.
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darrenstallard
Haha, you are right! I did one last year at the last minute, it was the year before I didn't get it done and Dermot did his wonderful stream of hip hop posts :-) I liked the Weeknd, SBTRKT, Ford and Lopatin, James Blake stuff but electronic things have all melded into a samey-ness for me this year in many ways, likewise hip-hop and R&B (thought that's a regular feature) and even a lot of the post-classical/drone stuff hasn't grabbed as it has done in recent years. But still a lot fo good stuff about I reckon. I don't tend to care whether something is groundbreaking or not really, just that it's good and I, of course, tend to favour traditional 'songs' in a lot of my listening.
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pocketwatch
nope i have not! will have a listen anything i should start off with? hows block t darkroom coming along?
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pocketwatch
Yeah it's definitely growing on me that Weeknd album. I absolutely love What You Need. So good. Hope I wasn't forcing that Red Wine on you and liz the other night. My arms are still sore from Dominique swinging me around like a rag doll. Some man for one man. Have you listened to Art Department at all? Get this http://inevil.com/art-department-–-the-drawing-board-crmcd014-3/
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pocketwatch
Deadly, listening now! What you need is good! Not mad on the last few songs though. You still in Dublin? Bibio's gig was shit. Did you go to James Blake?
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pocketwatch
Ah deadly that blog looks great. Yeah the other two albums are good, not as good but definitely have a listen! I'm delighted, just handed in essays and projects today. How are you getting on? How's being home treating you?
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darrenstallard
Yeah, trying to do one but struggling to sort my thoughts.. In the meantime, Dermot is filling in for me on my blog, rounding up the year in hip hop :-) http://liedreamcasino.blogspot.com/
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darrenstallard
you gotta play the chrimbo choons when you are putting up the tree and deccies :)
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pocketwatch
Hey Diarmuid! I just got it off megaupload there, I only downloaded stuff off the BBC before now, hopefully this will work for you..........[spam] The password is pitimini. How was John Maus? You lucky bastard!
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pocketwatch
Oh deadly! Thanks I'll spread that around the class definitely! Everyone will be delireh. I got your invite on dah book for friday. I'm djing in spy for a bit not sure what times yet but I'll run down to Le Cirk to say hello! Are yous staying there for the evening or are you going anywhere afterwards? Are you going to the Redneck Manifesto gig on Saturday?
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pocketwatch
Ahh Diarmuit thank you so much! Yeah the one between the houses were just photos I took to use up the roll of film I shot my ten picture narrative on! It was really foggy out and the film was expired, so that's the secret! I found a bag of expired film in Cumberland Street market I'm so excited! How are you!? Are you still in Dublin?
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pocketwatch
Oooh cool are you gonna go over for the year or just see how it goes when you get there type of a thing? Yeah they weren't as good the second time...they must have just completely taken advantage of how loud you're allowed play in Spain and left me (i don't need any bleeding earplugs) saying "Whaaaat" at every single sentence aimed for me. Hope you enjoy the Linstrom & Prinss stuff! You're right that BBC mix is brilliant!
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darrenstallard
Yeah, I really like shiftwork a lot.. But then, I can make some form of argument for most (if not all) of their albums. Have you read that Renegade part auto-biography thing he did? Check out the album he did with Mouse on MArs as Von Südenfed as well if you haven't already.. pretty interesting.
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darrenstallard
I have never seen them live because I am afraid they will be crap.. I reckon they are probably great some of the time, but I would say they are shit a fair bit of the time as well. Edinburgh Man is so gorgeous
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pocketwatch
Hiya! How are you? When are you off to Korea? I will be seeing MBV in ohh 48ishh hours so I'm ridiculously excited! Oh yeah that's the one I have, it's not that good. Filestube.com is always good for finding albums. Here's some more I hope they work. hxxp://[spam] change the http around and ye'll be grand) I wasn't able to get that BBC mix the other night bleeding passwords....I'll have to try and get it again!
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darrenstallard
Umm, I had been playing live a bit a couple of years ago but systematically pissed off every event organiser and gave that up. Then I uploaded stuff somewhere to try force myself that way and never went any further. So lately I was almost starting a band but after one session a dog bit me and fucked up my finger so that went on hold. Now I have 21 songs for a loose concept album so I am hoping to start a band for that but in the meantime, I intend to start recording again in the next few weeks and uploading some EPs to a blog as I record them. Time is tight though cause we are trying to buy a house and stuff so that takes over a bit but soon enough I should be on the go again.
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darrenstallard
Yeah, when you subscribe you can see who has viewed your profile so I saw that :-) Still in IBM; 10 years now. That's cool about working in the college. How is the photography going? I still have your guitar somewhere under the stairs :-)
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darrenstallard
I see someone broke your taste in music. btw, do you have my Fatima mansions cds by any chance? Do I have your guitar by any chance? D
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