commendation for outstanding service to human race: resident advisor

Jus Ed at secretsundaze last summer

not sure i "get" this one but beat happening into "in the city" was lulz

louderbach's is brilliant

Levon Vincent is excellent.

took me forever to come around to listening to it, but that surgeon mix is as good as everyone said it was months back

so, people are wigging out about this levon vincent mix ... hmmm, i'm going to use it as my next workout mix and get back to you

BTW i lost all of my podcasts when my hard disk crashed, except the ones i'd burned to disc, which were

joakim
alexander robotnick
four tet
laurent garnier
mark e
linkwood

with this as a snapshot of my taste, which ones should i go back and download?

on another note, is anyone else frustrated with the RA 160kbps standard? i don't wanna be a churl cuz it's a pretty amazing service, what with all these free mixes which are frequently better or more interesting than commercial ones, but...it still sounds suboptimal :(

And now it's down to 128...

levon vincent and giles smith both vv good

also can't believe they're LOWERING the sound quality. who knew we were lucky to have 160 kbps?

There is (was) kind of a heated debate on RA about it.

Randomly came across the Ame one.

Reposting in case anyone's interested.

Listening to, and really liking, the nsi. podcast right now. Funny reading all the people bitching about it in the comments.

whats the deal

i think its from some sound engineers at a planetarium? like some birth of the cosmos shit? i couldnt even make it through the whole thing tho

i had forgotten id saved the four tet mix on my ipod and was listening to it again - crazy good

xp to vahid

riton and redshape both have had staying power round my place

and more recently, marco passarani

New Pisco Sour mix is great, Dandy Jack and Butane collab as far a I know.

Reminds me a lot of Mariel Ito/Maetrik, or Lusine only very fun and summery.

I really like this nsi. mix.

good work ms fitz!

holy shit THE REVENGE

no seriously, this is like everything good about roman flugel's recent HIAF mix x 1000

no seriously

yes this revenge mix is fantastic

<3

man i hope my ipod synced this this morning

sweeet

s'alright.

catching up, and just starting the Drums of Death one. Anyone know what that Radiohead cover is at the beginning?

version of "Everything in its Right Place", I should have said.

From this: http://www.emusic.com/album/Rockabye-Baby-Rockabye-Baby-Lullaby-Renditions-of-Radiohead-MP3-Download/10995093.html

listened to some of drums of death, seemed like a total mess. some cool tracks, though. haven't given the revenge or matias aguayo a proper listen yet. the last one i really loved was the maayan nidam. so great!

The 128s are practically unlistenable to me. I'm going to stop bothering with these. I'd love to be able to enjoy this mix by The Revenge but it's just too shitty sounding on the high end.

^ yeah, it makes me think of quitting RA podcast except if there's one by larry levan or something.

i really like the Aguayo one, but i also have a crush on him and his music, and he gave great answers to some questions i fed him recently...

like this gem:

So "minimal" once was a strategy, a way of working, a way of focussing, and also more than anything an idea of leaving things untold and make the mind and the body do the rest.
If it now becomes an overload of technical trickery, linked to a dull laptop shuffle rhythm, for hours around the same bpm, then I must admit I get tired, and start to long for a good sleep.

yeah what original sentiments....10/10 matias

sometimes you completely confound me.

i dunno if that is particularly confounding, i love Matias Aguayo but "boring rote minimal is boring" as an opinion doesn't really do anything for me.

his RA mix is cool, listened to it the last few nights.

jim otm, that quote is the the techno interview's overused static breakdown

plus you know....people have basically been saying that exact thing almost verbatim for what, five years? six years? doesn't speak well of new ideas/perspectives

As opposed to all the new brilliant ideas coming from you, Ronan.

since I stopped blogging I've literally ceased to exist

Also, I find it hilarious to see you having guest mixes filled with exactly the kind of shit you used to diss when dick-riding mnml. It's rough out there when you just jump on whatever's currently popular.

Sounds like Ronan's issue is more with the question than the answer. If Aguayo was asked his opinion of minimal and that's what it is, I don't see the problem. I don't really expect him to have some bright new insight.

Well, to be honest I wouldn't have even read the quote apart from it was singled out as a pearl of wisdom.

As for Tom, that's nice for you. I'm glad you're keeping up to date with my one blog post in the last 3 months.

Not really a pearl of wisdom, I just find the 'i long for a good sleep' line to be hilarious. But maybe that's just me.

yeah btw I wasn't specifically attacking you on it, I just find that kind of comment in various forms seems to run off the tongue pretty easily...

Don't mistake RSS feeds for my checking up on you.

find someone else to hate dude. good luck with your blog and label.

yeah, ronan, i figured that you weren't attacking me, i just thought further clarification of why i posted it was necessary....