I'm not going to bore you (or myself) with a long introspective article about Woodstock. Yes, it was a hallmark moment in music (blah blah blah) and there have been recently a number of good articles and programs on the subject. If I have any readers of this blog, I would venture to say most of you weren't even alive or remember it, so its impact is not as significant to you as some say it was.
I'm not going to bore you with a dissertation on twitter either. I have not as yet found any value in it personally for pursuing and appreciating music.
What I did want to share with you is a funny little post from Rolling Stone about the very first tweets that came out of Woodstock from user CannedPete.
Full article here
Heading down to the farm early. Don't expect to hit too much traffic ...
9:27 AM Aug 15th from TwitterFon
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OK, made it in. #crosstowntraffic #fail
4:50 PM Aug 15th from TwitterFon
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Richie Havens is playin 4ever. OK, I get it, war sucks, d00d. #woodstock
5:40 PM Aug 15th from TwitterFon
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Ravi Shankar better fuckin' play "Raga Manj Khamaj." Real talk.
10:05 PM Aug 15th from TwitterFon
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@m3rrypr4anksters @rokytweets @MC5in140 @smotherzbroz @chong #followfriday
11:07 PM Aug 15th from TwitterFon
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Joan Baez and palz dedicated "Drug Store Truck Driving Man" to Governor Raygun(?) of California.
1:05 AM Aug 16th from TwitterFon
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RT @bobdylan @joanbaez OMG pregnant FML
2:37 AM Aug 16th from TwitterFon
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Man... Quill is killing it right now! I'm predicting big things. People will remember this band forever! :D #A&R
12:27 PM Aug 16th from TwitterFon ------------------------------------------------------------------------
RT @wavygravy Don't take the brown acid.
12:40 PM Aug 16th from TwitterFon
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It's a free show, btw! The announcer said our welfare is more important than a dollar. Someone today has truly shown mastery of tickets.
1:15 PM Aug 16th from TwitterFon
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Country Joe is on. Dude next to me was so baked he didn't know F-U-C-K spelled "fuck" :/
1:27 PM Aug 16th from TwitterFon ------------------------------------------------------------------------
@carlossantana You are killin it. But you guys will never go anywhere with all those drum solos, IMHO
2:37 PM Aug 16th from TwitterFon
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Cute girl asked me if I had a "tab." I gave her a soda. #fail
2:59 PM Aug 16th from TwitterFon
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My onesquare account says I'm the mayor of this pile of pig shit by the medical tent. Schweet.
7:30 PM Aug 16th from TwitterFon
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Gr8ful Dead took forever, so CCR is on at 12:30 a.m... Too tired to choogle :(
12:32 AM Aug 17th from TwitterFon
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Janis is so awesome... "LOL." I just invented "LOL." It stands for "lovin' our lady"!
2:30 AM Aug 17th from TwitterFon
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@slystone Sorry, I'm gonna miss you. I don't know if you can take me any higher than I am right now.
2:49 AM Aug 17th from TwitterFon
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@abbiehoffman Get off the stage, asshole, I want to watch the Who! Not saying "yippie" to yr shenanigans.
5:17 AM Aug 17th from TwitterFon
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Whatever drugs Joe Cocker is taking that make him spasm and sweat like that, I'd like to take maybe half of them and lie down
2:17 PM Aug 17th from TwitterFon
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Some of these ppl are pushing the boundaries of "skinny" dipping IMHO. #nudetweeting
3:37 PM Aug 17th from TwitterFon
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It's been storming for more than two hours. I'd complain, but this is clearly the first shower a lot of these ppl have had in months... #norain
5:31 PM Aug 17th from TwitterFon
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@seanpenn Happy 9th birthday, champ!
5:39 PM Aug 17th from TwitterFon
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"Ten Years After" describes when this set is probably over. Barf.
9:15 PM Aug 17th from TwitterFon
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I want to avoid brown acid, but all of my acid is covered in mud! #youknowuahippie
9:57 PM Aug 17th from TwitterFon
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Sha Na Na sucks ucks ucks.
7:35 AM Aug 18th from TwitterFon
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RT @charliemanson Still lovin this Beatles album, guise! :D #musicmonday
9:35 AM Aug 18th from TwitterFon
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Finally @jimilixxx is taking us home! Star Spangled Banner is totes hilars.
10:38 AM Aug 18th from TwitterFon
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Sound fun ... RT @hellsangels Party with us in California! We assure you the '60s will last forever!
1:PM AM Aug 18th from TwitterFon
Monday, August 17, 2009
Sunday, August 9, 2009
the golden age of trance...the mix
writing and reminiscing about all that trance music prompted me to make my latest mix. I figured I would share it online.
You can download it here
Tracklist:
1 jark prongo - wave 2081 (5:28)
2 space manoeuvres - stage one (solar stone mix) (6:42)
3 jakatta- american dream (3:54)
4 dj jean - the launch (6:09)
5 gouryella - gouryella (8:28)
6 binary finary - 1999 (gouryella mix) (6:14)
7 art of trance - madagascar (dj tiesto remix) (5:37)
8 katcha - touched by god (katcha's 4am w pecker mix) (6:57)
9 nalin and kane - beachball (original mix) (5:56)
10 agnelli and nelson - everyday (5:54)
11 paul van dyk - for an angel 2009 (filo and peri remix) (3:36)
12 chicane - saltwater 2009 (paul thomas mix) (6:20)
13 delerium - the silence (tiesto mix) (7:14)
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
1999: the golden age of trance
I was watching the conclusion of the Tour de France last week, and it reminded me of my trip to France and England 10 years ago. As this blog is intended to discuss how music affects my life, I won't bore you with my trip to the Louvre or a cricket match.
House music seemed to rule in France at the time. Already I had become a fan of French house music, through artists like Alex Gopher and Rinocerose. Although I didn’t have an opportunity to hit any clubs, house music could be heard in the shops of the Champs Elysses and in certain hip restaurants. One evening, at the insistence of my then-wife’s friend, we stumbled into a Chicago style pizza restaurant. Even in this American style restaurant, house music was blaring as we munched on brie cheese deep dish pizza as a life size Michael Jordan mannequin stared down at us. Weird.
The trip to England provided more defined musical memories for me, however. The car always had BBC Radio 1 on, and I was amazed to discover that terrestrial radio could actually be good. I took home a cassette of one of the weekend shows that was broadcasting live on Radio 1 from a club in northern Ireland. It was from that tape that I became familiar with what were the trance anthems at the time: ATB’s “9 PM Till I Come”, Art of Trance’s “Madagascar”, Chicane’s “Saltwater”, to name a few. These were the songs that would be defined as "classics", the ones that generate cheers and hands in the air at a nightclub.
The trip ended with a chunnel ride back to Paris to catch my flight. The ride was spent listening to “A Deeper Shade of Hooj, volume 3”, a CD I had picked up while in England. I was familiar with the Hooj Choons label. I had previously picked up music from that label, although a lot of it had been much gayer and housier. This compilation was completely different, especially the first disc in the set. It started dark and spooky, slowly culminating into swirling anthemic trance. The CD quickly became my favorite of the year, and I argue that it is one of the best trance compilations ever. I became a huge fan of Hooj as a result.
Trance is still going strong, with many of those classics recently being remade...the Richard Durand mix of Madagascar and Saltwater to name a couple. I don’t listen with the same fervor as that year or the first few years following, however. Instead, I followed the wave of progressive house, tech house, electroclash and electro house. Ten years later I look back at the trip with bittersweet memories. Still, every time I hear an old Paul van Dyk song it takes me back 10 years to the “golden age of trance.”
House music seemed to rule in France at the time. Already I had become a fan of French house music, through artists like Alex Gopher and Rinocerose. Although I didn’t have an opportunity to hit any clubs, house music could be heard in the shops of the Champs Elysses and in certain hip restaurants. One evening, at the insistence of my then-wife’s friend, we stumbled into a Chicago style pizza restaurant. Even in this American style restaurant, house music was blaring as we munched on brie cheese deep dish pizza as a life size Michael Jordan mannequin stared down at us. Weird.
The trip to England provided more defined musical memories for me, however. The car always had BBC Radio 1 on, and I was amazed to discover that terrestrial radio could actually be good. I took home a cassette of one of the weekend shows that was broadcasting live on Radio 1 from a club in northern Ireland. It was from that tape that I became familiar with what were the trance anthems at the time: ATB’s “9 PM Till I Come”, Art of Trance’s “Madagascar”, Chicane’s “Saltwater”, to name a few. These were the songs that would be defined as "classics", the ones that generate cheers and hands in the air at a nightclub.
The trip ended with a chunnel ride back to Paris to catch my flight. The ride was spent listening to “A Deeper Shade of Hooj, volume 3”, a CD I had picked up while in England. I was familiar with the Hooj Choons label. I had previously picked up music from that label, although a lot of it had been much gayer and housier. This compilation was completely different, especially the first disc in the set. It started dark and spooky, slowly culminating into swirling anthemic trance. The CD quickly became my favorite of the year, and I argue that it is one of the best trance compilations ever. I became a huge fan of Hooj as a result.
Trance is still going strong, with many of those classics recently being remade...the Richard Durand mix of Madagascar and Saltwater to name a couple. I don’t listen with the same fervor as that year or the first few years following, however. Instead, I followed the wave of progressive house, tech house, electroclash and electro house. Ten years later I look back at the trip with bittersweet memories. Still, every time I hear an old Paul van Dyk song it takes me back 10 years to the “golden age of trance.”
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