Introduce Yourselves!

i totally loved walt mink in high school! i guess spoon would be the other bands from the 90s that went through label hell and back, but survived....

26 in Los Angeles and I work in "television". I don't like describing music to people because I suck at it. I like lots of stuff and I hardly ever hate anything even when it's bad because it makes me laugh. My copy of "Bootyz in Motion" is a testament to this...It has both "Whoot! There it is" and "Whoomp! There it is". Amen!

also, I live in Reno, Nevada.

i'm joseph, 20, from new jersey, living in the financial district of manhattan and going to NYU currently (there seems to be a tiny NYU faction on ILX, which is pretty rad). ILM kinda changed how i thought about music (in that it got me to actually really think about music and how i respond to it in the first place) and have since been avidly perusing the music blogosphere, picking up little nuggets of wisdom/truth/free mp3s wherever i find them. my tastes seem to be largely grounded in whatever it was i was listening to when i was eight, for some reason (which was, by some weird coincidence, new order's singles and early '90s eurodance). and um my boss politely snickered under his breath when my copy of a history of miami bass accidentally found its way into my place of employment (fell out of a bag or something). so this is what it's like to be me hooraaaaaay

mike aka mikebee, 31, san francisco
for money i maintain the electronic(a) section at amoeba music in the city
i've also been a staff writer at XLR8R mag since 1997. i've been known as a freelance writer occasionally, at one time having a column in URB (96-97) and writing for horrible rags like Sweater and Revolution (remember them?) with the occasional respectable cover story in the SF Bay Guardian.
i'm a DJ and have been spinning and promoting club nights in SF since 1995. a few of mine: La Belle Epoque (atmospheric d'n'b '96-'00), Bottom Heavy (breaks, d'n'b, uk/2-step garage, broken beat '01-'03), Safe ('03-04 UKG, grime, broken beat, future jazz). they were marginally successful. my motto: "languishing in obscurity"
i have been heavily into at one time:
kirk degiorgio
mo'wax
madchester
sonic youth
harthouse
warp records
uk hardcore/"breakbeat house"
depeche mode
pixies/4AD
nick drake
plaid
squarepusher
ninjatune
stax
good looking records/ltj bukem
4 hero/reinforced records
bugz in the attic
wookie
the orb
shoegazer
stevie wonder
acid jazz

to name a few.

current favorites:
m.i.a - arular
caribou - milk of human kindness
v/a - full body workout
ame - s/t
v/a - speicher 2
primal scream - give out but don't give up
lots of electrohouse singles - get physical, john dahlback, dirt crew
lots of broken beat singles - domu, bugz, i.g. culture
the GAMM label
octave one "blackwater" strings instrumental mix
steve bug presents bugnology
the dukes of stratosphear
dolly parton - the grass is blue

anyway you all seem like my kinda people, for the most part. i'm going to try and contribute a bit more. nice to finally meetcha.

mb aka hj

Naturally!

I've lived in Copenhagen, Alexandria, Florence and Rome amongst others and have tried and given up on various instruments. I'm open minded, friendly and an amazing lover. Or at least I think so. I'm fast running out of things to say so I shall stop here and hopefully keep my dignity intact.

*Spills coffee on groin as he presses 'Submit' button*

And Sibsi, you're the first person I've seen mention Asthmatic Kitty on here. Do you like that crazy HalfHanded Cloud?

Hair-laden.

Hello, I'm Chris. I'm 21 and from Northern Ireland but studying French Studies with European Studies at Lancaster University in England. I graduate this year and I'm thinking of doing a Masters in Dublin in a coupla years, after I've earned a bit of money doing some shit job in Belfast. Musical passions are mainly what you might call indie, but especially with a post-punk/new wave kind of bent. Interpol, British Sea Power, Talking Heads, Pixies, Mclusky, MBV, Arcade Fire, Ikara Colt and LCD Soundsystem are all favourites. And I'm a big fan of Liverpool FC.

There you are, hello one and all.

and so on.
I've traded mix cds with Nate Patrin and Charlie Rose but otherwise haven't had any contact with anybody else on the board.
So there you go.
Hoping to drag myself out of lurkdom...

Last week of CD purchases:
"Pop Ambient 2005"
Cut Copy "Bright Like Neon Love"
"Putting the Morr Back in Morrissey" (Morr Music label comp)
Spiritualized "Complete Works Vol. 2"
Wedding Present "Take Fountain"
M83 "Before the Dawn Heals Us"
"Phil's Spectre: A Wall of Soundalikes" (compilation of 60s tracks with Spector-influenced production)

Priti I'm just getting my feet wet here, not the most knowledgeable person about Hindi music. I thought Rahman's score for Lagaan was pretty great, my daughter and I went around singing that title theme for WEEKS before we forgot it. Other than that, I dunno, most of my stuff is compilations, etc.

In fact, we should probably check to see if there is a thread around here, or start one....

Grew up in a musical household, first musical loves (upon reaching adolescence and beginning a search for self-definition) were Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Fugazi, Stone Temple Pilots, Soundgarden, The Who. Still like all of those today (though there are surely others I've long forgotten).

Work as a quasi-journalist (heavy emphasis on "quasi"), play in a fairly serious band. Some of my my top albums of all-time:

Jay-Z: Reasonable Doubt
Led Zeppelin: III
Jimi Hendrix: Axis Bold as Love
DJ Shadow: Endtroducing
Jim O'Rourke: Halfway to a Threeway
Fugazi: Red Medicine
Thelonious Monk: Thelonious in Action
Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz
Miles Davis: Filles De Kilamanjaro
Sam Prekop: s/t
Tortoise: Millions Now Living ...
Gang of Four: Entertainment
Mississippi John Hurt: 1928 Okeh Recordings
Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
John Coltrane: Complete Live at the Village Vanguard 1961
Tony Williams: Lifetime
Wu-Tang: Enter the 36 Chambers
Silver Jews: Natural Bridge
Meters: Look a Py Py

Top 10 of right now:

Jim O'Rourke - Insignifigance
Blonde Redhead - Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons
David Axelrod: Songs of Experience
Bill Evans: Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Can: Ege Bamyasi
Miles Davis: Live at the Filmore East
Miles Davis: On the Corner
Mike Wexler: EP
William Parker: And William Danced
Kris Kristofferson: Silver Tongued Devil and I

Representative quote from my Myspace profile: "Did I mention that if you go to clear channel shows, you are fucking your favorite independent club/non-asshole sellout musician in the mouth with a rusty screwdriver? Well, you are. Please stop. Now."

Dan Perry is my official sponsor in this Alcoholics Anonymous of musical listeners. Thanks Dan!

(I also live in Minneapolis. Are you going to the Gang of Four show? Sonic Youth's Clear Channel show at the Quest was not a good experience.)

I'm jealous of what you must be feeling right now.

I would kill to see the Gang of Four show. But I won't support clear channel, so I can't go. My CC boycott is running 3 years strong now, and I am an aggravated but immovable object. Sons of bitches...(both GO4 and CC)

You can't be TOO excited about it! :-)

Myonga, you may well be right about the relative merit of the rest of My Bloody Valentine's stuff; it can't be entirely coincidental that in my passing acquantaince with it none of it has ever hit me like this. On the other hand, I'm still going to have a bloody good listen to all their post-1988 stuff this week, with particular attention to the sizable chunks I haven't heard, specifically the You Made Me Realise EP. That's after I download the 17-minute live version, and build the shrine.

Perhaps I should introduce myself again (even though I've been here for over a year), since I posted on another intro thread and this is the one that always gets revived. Plus, my original intro sucked.

I guess I've recovered from an earlier period of indie schmindie immersion, but I've never been through a proper metal phase, nor a Britney phase, nor an Italo disco phase. There is work to be done.