Week 40 2009

1) Yegelle Tezeta - Mulatu Astatke

2) I am not a Robot - Marina & The Diamonds

3) Run Into Flowers - M83 ( Abstract Keal Agram Remix) A great song taken to another world by a great remix...

4) Driver's Seat - Sniff' n The Tears

5) Skye - Whats Wrong With Me

Week 39, 2009

Finally I bought a car. The 1st car I paid for since I moved to USA. Its a 2001 Hyundai Accent. I bought it from a really nice gal ZOE. Its manual, so I won't be driving it too much because of my sprained Thumb.

This week I discovered a really good blog - Audio Drums for my kinda music.
Since I discoevered them just 2 days back. My songs of this week will be from that blog.

1) Bye Bye Bayou - LCD Soundsystem This would be the song of last week for me.

2) Fate or Faith - Ror Shak

3) Tom is my only Friend - Rescue Cat Poorly made video doesn't do justice to the song.

4) Your Tiny Mind - Relation Another Brit group.

5) Exotika - Chris & Cosey - I was looking for sunglasses at Trading Post & song song was playing. I had to write down the info.

6) Like a Hobo - Charlie Winston A good song. When remixed well, it can sound even better.
Tru_Fix is that person.

Week 38, 2009

1) Green Eyed Love - Mayer Hawthorne A regular song elevated by CLASSIXX. They are master of that.

2) Luv Deluxe - Cinnamon Chasers A great video hooked me to this solo project of Russ Davies, nephew and son of Ray Davies and Dave Davies respectively, two founding members of The Kinks. I love almost all their songs so far.

3) Hugh Masekela with Paul Simon Thanks to Jaideep my other big discovery of this week. The last 5 mins of this video gives me goosebumbs...

4) Chileshe - Hugh Masekela

5) Missing the Light of the Day - Air

A Nobel Problem

What a world we live-in when winning the Nobel Peace Prize will harm the recipient. When we are discussing if winning the biggest prize of the world is good or bad for the President.

I think the Nobel Peace Prize is undeserving for Obama. I wish he had refused to accept it. But I'm very happy they gave it to him. It will give him so much advantage in his fight against the establishment. Esp in his peace efforts in Middle East & his desire to get out of AfPak war without a disaster.
For once I agree with Rush Limbaugh. He thinks that the Norwegians gave this to him to put pressure on him to work towards peace. Duh! I don't see anything wrong in that. But its interesting to watch 90% of the people bitching about it.
Maureen Dowd wrote a really hilarious op-ed about it.

Week 37, 2009

This week just flew by. I don't even know if I managed to do anything at all. Not a good thing to think of in the midst of a major depression. Anyways Music to our rescue. I could not find links to 2 of the songs this week.

1) Green Onions - Booker T & the MGs Not a bad masterpiece to begin this list eh?

2) Threat - Jay Z This is my fav song of the Black Album this week.

3) Midnight in a Perfect World - DJ Shadow What a smooth song. One of the best DJs of last 2 decades.

4) You Can't Go Home Again - DJ Shadow I love the song. More so because of the video. It reminds me of the masterpiece I am Cuba.

5) Son of Tribe - Tribe This if from album Rebirth released on Planet E.

6) Aneugalam - KZA(Forces of Nature) This is a compilation by Japanese artist KZA. Album is DAE(Dig & Edit) on Mule Musiq records.