What is East Dulwich Listening to?

[ben]

I've Got You Under My Skin - Frank Sinatra, on a looped telephone hold system for the last 15 minutes.

[mockney piers]

Lol!!

I'm guessing there's some self-referential telephone-hold-muzak music selector's humour going on there!!

[TillieTrotter]

Listening to Groove Armada's new album..pretty good...sounds abit like old basement jaxx

[louisiana]

DJ Food & DK - Now listen, again! (mixtape)

We saw them at Po Na Na in Reading on Saturday. Brilliant!

Louisiana

[louisiana]

DJ Food & DK: Now Listen, Again!

http://www.ninjatune.net/ninja/release.php?id=1228

We saw them of Saturday - brilliant!

[Joe likes dinner]

louisiana - if the mixtape is the one I'm thinking of, you should listen to the herbaliser one from the series (ninja tune?)

for mixtape podcast types, I'm liking a 'Cover me Badd' mixtape from stone's throw records. 45 minutes of some quality / hilarious cover versions.

[louisiana]

I'm having wi-fi 'issues' today, so apologies for repeated posts :'(

[AnotherPaul]

Today, Booka shade, Hot chip, Mark Ronson, LCD, Depth charge, Amy Winehouse, Radioclit and Dolly Parton.

I'm having eclectic issues today.

[capt_birdseye]

Just listened to that new LCD album, pretty good. Also heard the new Maximo Park, pretty bad. And new Arctic Monkeys, pretty sure I don't know what to make of it.

[mockney piers]

I read all the hyperbolic reviews of LCD and bought the album, and really had to wonder why the hype.

It was just a self-indulgent, substandard Daft Punk as far as I could work out.

If anyone wants a free copy I'm happy to give it away at the next meet as it's just gathering dust.

I'm listening to Bill Callahan's (smog) new one at the mo. Strangely upbeat for him, but lovely stuff nonetheless.

I noticed last night that Dead Man's Shoes kicks off with a smog track that fitted absolutely perfectly.

[Jah Lush]

Agree with you there Mockney. They are so overrated. I really liked the first LCD Soundsystem album, but even that was a bit patchy but the second one starts off OK even though it totally rips off Krafwerk and Bowie, especially on the first track. I only like about three or four tracks on the new one after that it really is insipid, uninspired, ordinary and dare I it say rather boring.

[capt_birdseye]

Errr, yeah, obviously when I said it was pretty good errr, what I meant was that it's really crap.

To be honest I tend to avoid traditional man-made music, preferring instead the sound of falling trees.

[mockney piers]

LOL, sorry capt' wasn't meant personally or anything.

My inabililty to say no to virgin/fopp has resulted in Andrew Bird's new album this lunchtime. I'll report back in a couple of hours.

[capt_birdseye]

I hope it's better than Neutral Milk Hotel...

*takes cover*

[mockney piers]

:D

I take it you never gelled with it then?

Think sufjan stevens and wilco meet in a cafe and talk about ocado delivery vans.

[capt_birdseye]

I did try, honest. On the third listen I had to turn it off half way through as it was doing my head in! I find his voice really grating.

[mockney piers]

Actually in all fairness capt' I'm forever badgering people to listen to it and I'm going to have to admit to myself one day that about 2 in every three give me a 'yes piers, whatever' look. Aah well, not to everyone's taste I guess.

Enjoying this andrew bird so far, nithing stand out as yet.

Metacritic clearly like it too.

http://www.metacritic.com/music/artists/birdandrew/armchairapocrypha?q=andrew%20bird

[mockney piers]

Well I must say it's terrific.

Here is the usual myspace thingy where you can have pook at 4 tracks.

Lovely stuff

[ben]

Plush - More you becomes you

Sam Prekop - Who's your new professor

Rotary Connection - Rotary Connection

[mockney piers]

Amazingly I went in to Fopp and managed NOT to spend money. However the Camden branch is giving away the double Camden Crawl CD for free, so if you're nearby I'd grab it. 38 tracks of future stars for nowt.

Mind you I'm unconvinced of Akala's claim that..

"I'm Shakespeare reincarnated, except I spit flows and strip hos naked"

Hmm, worthy of the bard himself, I'm sure.

[BarryRoad]

I'm listening to that bloody ice cream van.

[Jah Lush]

Is it a Peckham ice cream van?

[BarryRoad]

I'm not sure where it comes from, but it seems to like parking across the street from my house and playing that tune over and over again.

I liked it a lot better when I lived on the corner of Fellbrigg and Shawbury Road. Then it would just sound as if it were passing in the distance, reminding me of the heady days of school summer holidays.

*sigh*

[Ant]

I hate that van too. It wakes my kids up from their naps.

[Ant]

Also, just got the new Mark Ronson album - it's good! :)