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Friends of Dean Martinez - Wichita Lineman - Summer is here!!!

Amazingly we have snow on the Sierra, it really has been quite the longest Spring I recall, a glorious Spring lacking in work, but full of flower. So much dance too, and now it really is Summer Time, and it feels like my time to ride off into the Sunset as ever. First Alcazaba for 4 weeks, its just the highest mountain village in Spain, very little signal that side, but plenty of entertainment. Later Vitoria-Gasteiz, for a feed and monster descanso, 3 weeks of Fishing, camping frolic. Afterwards, a short skip and hop to England, old London Town, Manchester, topped off with a postre of Canada and San Francisco, ARRRRGh, dancing and Swinging for sure. More than a mouthful that lot, so to settle it all down, I am getting on well with this super chill version of Wichita Lineman. The Friends of Dean Martinez, are a friend of mine...See you on top of a mountain or just Swinging under the Golden Gate Bridge, on the Summer Breeze, yes please. ARRRRGH!!! . 
When I discovered Faultline, I jumped on, and was first to release, the best track on our album Welcome To Execrate. That was back in 1998, amazingly, that was 15 years, ago. At that time, I brought this recording to ears of many. Way, before it was released on the Leaf label. At that time, it felt like a whole world of possibilities, this music was standing, so strong, anything then could occur. Since that time, I have lived, many, music, and moments, but this does now, sound, still. Clearly encrusted, and frozen, locked into it´s place. On the other side the possibilities, all that were, have shifted, like grains of sand, they have drifted into a vent, somehow lost. Chances, that got closer, then went! Nice to remind myself of that sometimes, Music is wonderful for re-jogging memory.  

The Joy of Dirt Bacharach

Made a discovery today, check the link. I have been enjoying Dirt all day. So, so reminds me of the past and some of our earlier V/Vm works. Lots of mashable fun here from Dirt!! Enjoy. http://grooveshark.com/#!/album/Dirt+Bacharach/860731

Alice Coltrane - Galaxy In Turiya

Autonervous - Lovesick

The sax is all wrong here, loving it.

Lindsay Cooper - Botticelli - It is going to be a late night!

Ahmada - OffSide Trick ft Bi Kidude

Curios video, not sure if its good to see Kidude here, but seems to be a hit!

Birthdays, ontop of birthdays, rolling from one thing to another

Just sums my night up, curry with Becks, Leilah, Cristina, Dil and Claire. Followed by Swing at Traveling, and a chance collision with Cesar & Antonio at said bar. After swinging that side, we landed in the hands of the greatest captain, Tony! A classic night, alright in Madrid.x

Running!!!!

My old Mate Keith Fullerton Whitman is getting riding on the 9, and thinking about the next zero!!!

While he thinks about the 9 to 0, again for the fourth time, music follows, funny what numbers can do to us!!!! check the link as Keith is a good chap, following more details about the why, when and what! https://soundcloud.com/kfw/sets/greatest-hits "Greatest Hits" (2003-) … on the eve of my 30th birthday, I began rendering "automatic" "enhancements" of only the most salient points of the pop music of my youth ; a line, bar, or fragment of a particular song (after being heard out in "the wild" in the present ; akin to running into an old friend on the street) was chosen based on how much my nostalgic recollection of it differed from its contemporary reality. Each was played back at exactly half-speed, then run through a series of time- and gain-based processes that slowly & meticulously chewed through the audio, revealing hidden layers of content, context, and temporal / spectral production details … shining a flashlight