daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Nov 24, 2009, 10:29 pm
Sometimes when you first open your eyes, you already hear the song playing. As you lie in bed, listening intently, you play out the events that will unfold today. You’re editing the montage of e...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Nov 21, 2009, 12:12 pm
according to jerry harrison of the talking heads, a principle that shaped the production of the band’s early albums was that each one should be recorded in a different place, in a different way....
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Nov 18, 2009, 11:36 am
i listened with some curiosity and much interest the strut retrospective of ZE records, one of the most influential underground new york labels of the 70s and 80s. formed by michel esteban and michael...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Nov 16, 2009, 1:26 pm
memories came flooding in when i finally got about to digitizing my old beck cds. i remember listening to brian’s copy of odelay over and over again (i think i hogged it for quite a while before...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Nov 15, 2009, 1:07 am
over the 12 months of being part of MAP, we’ve brought you the best of singapore music, from the established veterans (concave scream, force vomit, astreal) to the current flag bearers (i am dav...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Nov 12, 2009, 9:04 am
you know once i’m onto swedish pop i really can’t stop, especially when there’re singles aplenty to dust off and share. this time, i have a track from the sweet seranades, something ...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Nov 9, 2009, 11:09 am
oh sweden, land of everything that magically goes pop, how i’ve neglected you, after all you’ve done for me, convincing me that loving good ol’ catchy pop music is nothing to be asha...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Nov 7, 2009, 1:15 am
Like a breath of fresh air, I took a lungful when I first stumbled upon Motopony’s “King of Diamonds”. I tend to have a soft spot for card playing metaphors and the Eagle’s cla...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Nov 5, 2009, 9:49 am
how exactly do you pin down what counts as “fresh”? for music, i guess it usually means a new sound that’s original rather than purely derivative, something that basically sounds dif...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Oct 31, 2009, 12:16 pm
it’s been about half a year since i introduced brooklyn psychfolksters suckers‘ debut self titled ep as one of my favorite new releases of the year, and it’s a good sign that it stil...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Oct 30, 2009, 1:15 pm
i hate taking things out of context and i risk doing that here with circulatory system’s recently released signal morning, which comprises probably more than a million fragments of tunes, sounds...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Oct 28, 2009, 12:28 pm
i first heard this song when it was performed live on the colbert report, following a hilarious interview with wayne coyne. in that short segment, coyne responded ever so respectfully to colbert’...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Oct 22, 2009, 12:43 pm
the music peaks perfectly to a crisp crackle like how every imperfectly produced song would, and the words get muddled up in a deep swamp like any “dark, brooding record” should. what, how...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Oct 16, 2009, 12:02 pm
listening to time to die, the dodos‘ follow up to visiter, has left me rather ambivalent. while the band still does what they do best, driving their songs solidly with a strong percussive focus,...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Oct 15, 2009, 4:06 am
well, what do you know? this month marks the 1st year anniversary of MAP, with its original contingent of 12 countries rallied and led by jason from scottish blog the pop cop. we here at i’m wak...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Oct 13, 2009, 10:33 am
bobby pyn was the earlier name of darby crash, who fronted the germs in the late 70s. the punk band disbanded in 1980 when darby overdosed on heroin as part of a suicide pact, days after performing hi...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Oct 8, 2009, 9:56 pm
it will be john peel’s 5th death anniversary in a couple of weeks’ time, but there’s no reason why we can’t commemorate it earlier, like we’ve done here in singapore with...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Oct 7, 2009, 2:49 pm
i’ve always been fascinated by the music that come out from faraway places (relative to Singapore.) Wintersleep is one of those bands, hailing from Nova Scotia, Canada. There’s a certain f...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Sep 30, 2009, 3:45 am
Fairy tales are usually the stories we grew up with, and by the perpetuation of disney, we take for granted that they’re only meant for kids. Jordan Martin is an individual who knows otherwise...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Sep 25, 2009, 11:15 pm
if there was any one singaporean band i’d recommend to people, it would be the observatory. while the band’s name conjures images of stargazing, their music manages to cast its eye on both...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Sep 21, 2009, 1:12 pm
sometimes things are best said plain, without the ambiguities of metaphor or the constraining structures of poetry, without even the obligation to be subtle about things or to understate how we really...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Sep 18, 2009, 10:24 pm
“when i hear the word culture, that’s when i reach for my revolver“, or so goes the poorly translated quote often misatttributed to nazi leader hermann göring or even joseph goebbel...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Sep 15, 2009, 9:37 am
... , which brings you the best music from around the world, handpicked by the best international music blogs. and as always, our local music ambassador brian koh brings us his recommendation of ......
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Sep 10, 2009, 10:07 pm
the twists and turns of dirty projectors‘ bitte orca are nothing short of exhilarating, even when things get more sparse and minimal right in the middle of the album with a duet between amber co...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Sep 8, 2009, 10:17 am
the most prized record in my collection is my beach boys’ smile vinyl bootleg, but my favorite has to be one of the first cds i ever bought – pet sounds, remastered in 1990 in glorious mo...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Sep 3, 2009, 12:10 pm
just how important are first impressions? when i listened to vandaveer’s new album divide & conquer, the opening title track grabbed me by the sleeves and refused to let go. i could see mark cha...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Aug 22, 2009, 1:08 pm
i’m tired. i should be sleeping, really, and i will be very soon. but i thought i’d share with you the tune that’s been haunting me for the last few days, since i’ve been obses...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Aug 15, 2009, 10:59 am
oh boy is MAP growing! now featuring the music of 31 different countries, it has a larger representation than NATO as founder and organizer jason from scotland notes. this month, our local music ambas...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Aug 11, 2009, 12:39 pm
i’ve been listening again and again to the low anthem’s oh my god, charlie darwin, the band’s independently released album that’s finally gotten a wider distribution on nonesuc...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Aug 8, 2009, 3:16 pm
Whenever my heart’s in knots, i always seem to revisit this one song by folksy acoustic duo, kings of convenience, who comprise of Erlend Øye and Erik Glambek Bøe from Bergen, Norway. Now, KOC...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Jul 31, 2009, 12:20 pm
there are things that words cannot express: the frantic urgency of the opening salvo, the comforting consistency of the sheet of drone that washes through most of the song, the surprising early but be...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Jul 29, 2009, 5:31 am
the straits of gibraltar is the narrowest of waters that separates africa from europe, and while the proposed tunnel bridging the two continents won’t be realized till much later, two acts that ...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Jul 27, 2009, 12:14 pm
just last week i was watching an old ted talk by malcolm gladwell. in that talk, he highlighted the contributions of howard moskowitz to our understanding of variability in consumer preference: there ...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Jul 23, 2009, 12:36 pm
There are some songs, that unfairly get your attention because they name drop prominent guest stars in their sleeve notes. This one being Kevin Shields. Yes, THE Kevin Shields from My Bloody Valentine...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Jul 21, 2009, 1:40 pm
what did you want to see, what did you want to be when you grew up? it’s a perfect question posed by a duo still reveling in childlike wonder, both currently making music that touches the oldest...
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daniel t. posted an article on I'm Waking up to... - Jul 18, 2009, 11:36 am
i’ve been pretty swamped with stuff the last couple of days, and that’s somehow found its way to making my waking moments full of dread, or at least overwhelmed by the things i need to get...
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