David James 🍩
@funkentechno
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dad, writer, web dev, mixtape maker https://t.co/VU9j4dNPWD
Joined September 2011
Legit one of the coolest headlines I've ever read.
In 2024, more music is being released in a single day than was released in the entire calendar year of 1989, according to a new report →
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I get the tubi love - free is free - but more people need to know about Kanopy. same kind of collection, loads of criterion stuff, esoteric new movies, old hidden gems, tons of random treasure. and it's free with zero ads.
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I just heard that David Lynch died. absolutely crushed.
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my cat loves ambient and drone metal but not free jazz
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I love that John C Reilly comes to stay near my hometown in west Michigan every summer and seems like the most chill, nice dude, and everyone is always happy to see him (this is from a local diner today)
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Incalculable loss for music history, his collection was like the library of Alexandria of sampling.
Legendary producer Madlib and his family have lost their home to the California wildfires. "Decades of music and equipment" have been lost.
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This is about as cool as you can look
This is about as cool as you can look
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Louis Armstrong signing a fan's head in 1961 - one of my favorite jazz photos
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Every year is a great year for music. If you didn't hear anything amazing, you weren't trying.
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the cool older couple standing at the back of the noise show
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with the right kind of eyes, this is one of the most iconic hillsides ever.
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Autechre just dropped a 5.5 hour mix of "some of the stuff that was floating around us at the time" of the original Artificial Intelligence comp on Warp and my god, I'm not even a fifth through it but here you go
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I shouldn't be, but I'm morbidly curious about what they think are the 4 genres of music
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John and Alice existing, falling in love, and each making monumental, world-shaking music
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I never once played *music for kids* to my son and never will, so silly. kids love ambient, they love free jazz and skronky rock and spooky dub techno and anything else that's exciting and different if you don't tell them how to feel about this stuff.
Babies love ambient music. Stop wasting your adult neurons submitting yourself to “music for kids”. Stop letting the market determine how you should spend your time with your kid.
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@_MichaelOswell_ I swear to god, these tech idiots just want slavery so fucking bad. it's the only explanation for tweets like that. a humanoid robot is not the best tool for any industrial scale job!.
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I think *too much music for me to ever hear it all in a lifetime* is a very good problem to have.
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I'm finally watching The Straight Story for the first time tonight. My last Lynch film. Guess I'd been unconsciously saving it for the right time.
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I decided to get into Silver Jews today and I started with this album. One song in and I *get it* - this is incredible
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why do people who don't actually listen to new music always offer their opinion that there's "nothing new" anymore?.
theres no good new guitar music because everything that you can do on guitar has already been figured out. weve “solved” the guitar. all guitar music is just some combination of some other guitar music from the past. some of these combinations are enjoyable, but its nothing new.
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Heads up the Hudsucker Proxy is currently on netflix. Super underrated Coen bros gem
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I just finished the series Mr Inbetween, wow what an incredible, brief show. somewhere between Sopranos and Breaking Bad in tone but funnier and with much more of a lowkey, slice of life vibe - yet the stakes and danger seem all the more real because of this. I loved it.
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I feel bad for anyone who might avoid such great music for fear of looking like a poser. Especially since half of this is pretty damn accessible, easily loveable stuff.
I asked chat GPT to list the favorite albums of a pretentious poser and. yeah this is us
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Albini's production on this GYBE album is unbelievable, a high water mark for post rock, one that shook the way I heard music at the time. So glad I reached for it after revisiting Big Black
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Little family road trip about to happen today, picked out one of my favorite driving albums
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@ThatJakePC one underrated quality of the originals is that characters mostly talked like real people, using regular language like that. "I'll see you in hell!" for instance, instead of substituting some random scifi sounding word for hell.
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Blasted the first Godspeed You Black Emperor album today on a long drive. Forgot how hard this goes, and how easily it transports me back almost twenty five years in my head
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several ppl have told me to listen to this over the past month and let me just say, you guys were right. oh my god. not even halfway through and I'm drowning in this (in a good way)
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If I could take one single item back in time to absolutely scramble the mind of someone in the 90s, it would be this snoop + martha stewart holiday wine set
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happy Avril 14th to the music makers and dreamers of dreams
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this is the kinda crap you say when you've never listened to Can.
There is absolutely no good reason for any song to be over 10 minutes long
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Cocteau Twins and trees falling and exploding power lines
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Every few months another cultural institution gets trashed by some conglomerate for short term profit and loads of talented, hard working people lose their jobs. We mourn it and we move on, but this world is getting remade by those with no interest in art, culture, or people.
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TV is fundamentally an inferior art form to movies.
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I heard the news about Damo Suzuki and immediately had to blast "Halleluwah" - listening with my son now, telling him about one of the greatest bands to ever exist, soaking in Damo's shambolic magic. RIP to one of the realest to ever do it
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just found a perfect photo: Sade and her cat at home in London, 1985 🌺
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Pierre Barouh - Le Pollen. my god. absolute hidden treasure right here, French singer recorded an "experimental-electronic-chanson-pop with a new-wave-minimal-bossa touch" in Japan, 1982, with an incredibly stacked cast of contributors that I'm gonna paste in a followup tweet.
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I forgot how ridiculously hard this album goes. I think it's my favorite music from Nicolas Jaar.
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forever
“Soulseek” was such a good name. Like yes—that’s what’s up. That’s what I’m doing.
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*40 years
greatest american band of the last 30 years? .?.
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I decided to get into Low, a band so many friends love but I just hadn't listened yet. it is WILD how exactly my kinda thing this is. I wish I'd been listening all along. what are everyone's favorites of their discography?
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If the slightest inconvenience makes you miss out on music from your favorite artists, you don't actually value them or their art in any meaningful way
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Road trip time, just kiddo and me. He's never heard Boards of Canada before and I'm cranking up the volume. See you on the other side ☀️
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Speedometer. - Private (2000). ambient breakbeats, future jazz, downtempo triphop vibes, this album is ridiculously lush and 1000% up my alley. fav discovery all week. can't believe I didn't run into this 20+ years ago.
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"what if we reimagined Tarkovsky movies to look nothing like Tarkovsky movies??" maybe try aiming the enshittification machine at something a little less sacred next time.
This is unreal. Someone just reimagined Tarkovsky using AI-driven camera motion. What if the camera moved — but still felt like it belonged?. Let me show you what that looks like:
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Listening to Music For Airports for the first time in ages and man. this really is as soothing as you'd hope.
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What's an album you heard at age 15 that changed your brain chemistry?
What’s album that you heard at 15 and changed your brain chemistry?
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four mind-blowing albums from the seventies
What are four mind-blowing albums from the seventies?.
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@ThatJakePC probably bc now, no matter how dumb or bad the idea, there's a special place on the internet where you can find other people who love it.
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lmao it absolutely would. this is the kinda nonsense you say when you're wealthy and $10,000 is pocket change. this is Lucille Bluth-tier "how much could a banana possibly cost?" nonsense
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post a classic third album
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just found this classic on a backup drive <3 Terry Riley and Big Boi
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BLASTING this right now in memory of Steve. Shout out to my older stepbrothers for introducing me to truly dangerous sounding music when I was definitely too young to appreciate it.
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Albums where the opening notes start playing in your head the second you see the cover:
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oh man. rest in peace Brian Wilson. my first musical hero. this one hurts.
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Found this old photo where my family looked like a krautrock band
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still funny to me how SP got lumped in with grunge when they were clearly coming from the direction of 70s psych rock, with dreampop and shoegaze influences on top.
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I almost posted this to make fun of the reply last night but thought, nah, the kinda ppl who follow me don't have this sad attitude. And yet, I've got several folks protesting to me that it's a bad thing to have so much abundance of art
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phones should have a breathalyzer anytime you try to make a purchase after, let's say, 8pm.
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On the road with Steve Reich and the first snowfall of the year ❄️
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Julius Eastman - Feminine. not many pieces of music I'd describe as essential, but this 72 minute track is real magic, one of those albums that I genuinely believe everyone should hear regardless of what their tastes are like. it'll transcend them.
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One of the best, warmest ambient records of the century so far 🍃
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best way to find new music: talk with your friends about music. a lot of people follow me on here for my music recs and I gotta say, 90% of them come from stuff my friends post & share with me. I find that a lot of ppl stop talking about music after age 30 or so. don't do that.
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Vini Reilly at the pub this week. We may not get any more Durutti Column music but I'm so glad to see him in good health and enjoying life. ~photo by Michael Steff~
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happy birthday to Vini Reilly, aka the Durutti Column, aka my favorite guitarist ever with one of the greatest, most unique bodies of work in history
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Sister is right up there with the best Sonic Youth albums
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RIP Steve Albini. what can I even say? he's an absolute legend, the musical landscape wouldn't look the same without his incalculable influence. and however often I disagreed with his takes on here, I loved that he was out there speaking his mind, always
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super easy choice here
Solo album you love more than any album from the band the soloist originated from?.
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Anyone else remember Girls? I always thought the Broken Dreams Club EP was their best release by a stretch. and I'm having a great afternoon revisiting for the first time in at least ten years
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Murray Street just might be my favorite Sonic Youth album 🌳
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It's been beautiful today, seeing the outpouring of love for Damo Suzuki from so many friends around the world. I was holding off, but now it's time to blast one of my all-time favorite albums by anyone, anywhere: Future Days 🌬️
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Los Angeles: Critical Mass (1998) Mindspore Records. just discovered one of the best compilations I've heard in ages. huge respect to the heroes who put obscure gems like this on youtube in their entirety 🫡
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Our beloved Cooper cat passed away this morning. He'd been sick but took a turn for the worse overnight, and it was clear he was ready to go. We don't know how old he was, but he spent ten good years with us after we rescued him. Rest in peace, buddy. We will miss you so much.
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A holy grail arrived today. Emperor Tomato Ketchup was my first Stereolab album and remains one of my favorites and now I finally own a copy 🌪️
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the fact that I picked up all of these for like $20 each
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I'm watching Inherent Vice tonight, first time since it was new, pretty hyped knowing PTA blasts us with Can like five minutes into the movie
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Three masterpieces by Hiroshi Yoshimura arrived today 🌊🌱🌀
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his work is bursting with heart and a deep genuine yearning for the world to be better than it is, for us to be better than we are. the emotional truth is right there in the open even if the aesthetics are dark & gauzy.
i have heard ppl many times over the years try to denigrate Lynch's art as obscure, unintelligible, overhyped, whatever. i don't rly associate w/ those ppl. i have come back to all of his work over & over & every time it feels like my beautiful fucked up little home. i stay there.
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