{"id":265,"date":"2007-01-05T16:52:42","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T16:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scientopia.org\/blogs\/goodmath\/2007\/01\/05\/friday-random-ten-jan-5\/"},"modified":"2007-01-05T16:52:42","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T16:52:42","slug":"friday-random-ten-jan-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/2007\/01\/05\/friday-random-ten-jan-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Random Ten, Jan 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

As an experiment, I decided to try making a iMix<\/a> of the items in my FRT that are available via iTunes. Please let me know if you like this; it’s a bit of extra work for me which I don’t mind doing, as long as people use it… but if no one wants it, then I’d rather not spend the time setting it up.<\/p>\n

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  1. Dirty Three, “I offered it up to the stars & the Night Sky”<\/b>. As usual from my
    \nrandom lists, it’s a post-rock ensemble. Dirty Three are classical leaning; not quite so much as
    \nthe Clogs, but still very much on the classical side. They tend to be slow and mellow, with
    \na gradually building intensity. Great stuff.<\/li>\n
  2. Hamster Theatre, “Oye Comatose”.<\/b> Wierd, but cool, from a “Thinking Plague” spinoff band. (Incidentally, I received an email this week from the TP guitarist letting me know that I was wrong that he was a
    \nGuitarCraft graduate. I’d heard this from the store I bought the CD at, and his playing sounds very crafty, but apparently the similarity in sound is just a coincidence that was turned into a rumour.)<\/li>\n
  3. Martin Hayes, “The Lark’s March\/Kilfenora Jig\/The Cliffs of Moher”.<\/b> Beautiful traditional Irish music
    \nplayed by a violin virtuoso at speeds that you could actually dance to<\/em>. Martin is one of my favorite trad Irish artists.<\/li>\n
  4. The Fiddlers 4, “Atchafalaya Pipeline”.<\/b> An old-timey folk tune from one of Darol Anger’s latest projects. Darol is brilliant as always.<\/li>\n
  5. Gyorgi Ligeti, “Hamburg Concerto”.<\/b> Very interesting modern classical. Definitely a piece of music with
    \na learning curve, but well worth the effort. Take some time to learn to understand it; it’s a wonderful piece of music.<\/li>\n
  6. Lunasa, “The Dingle Berries”.<\/b> A rollicking fun Irish jig from a brilliant band.<\/li>\n
  7. Dysrhythmia, “Appeared at First”<\/b>. Very rock-oriented post rock. This was recommended to me
    \nby a friend who’s also into post rock. I can appreciate it on a technical level, but I’ve never
    \nreally been able to enjoy listening to it; something about it just doesn’t work for me.<\/p>\n
  8. Godspeed You! Black Emperor: “Lift Your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven…”.<\/b> My favorite Godspeed track. Godspeed was introduced do me by Orac, and I’m terribly hooked. One of the very best Post-Rock ensembles around.<\/li>\n
  9. Sonic Youth, “Rats”<\/b>. Sonic Youth is a brilliantly strange band. This is from their most
    \nrecent album. Overall, the album is less blatantly<\/em> strange than some of their past work. It’s still full of weird guitar playing and microtones, but they’re done subtly. Great stuff.<\/li>\n
  10. The Clogs, “My Mister Never Ending Bliss”.<\/b> Post-rock from one of the best neo-classical post-rock
    \nensembles. This is off of “Stick Music” which is not one of their more accessible albums, but it is
    \nmy favorite.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As an experiment, I decided to try making a iMix of the items in my FRT that are available via iTunes. Please let me know if you like this; it’s a bit of extra work for me which I don’t mind doing, as long as people use it… but if no one wants it, then […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4lzZS-4h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.goodmath.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}