tunequest

Originally called just "Isotope," the band changed its moniker to Isotope 217 to avoid confusion with the 70s experimental rock/jazz outfit of the same name. But whether by direct inspiration or after-the-fact realization, I-217's modus operandi is remarkably similar to its nomenclatural predecessor, specializing in a kind of improvisational, "experimental" jazz, similar to the jazz+rock fusions of the 60s/70s, but updated for the late 90s. Released on Thrill Jockey, the ...

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I spent a good seven+plus hours burning through some iTunes today to make up for yesterday's somewhat disappointing performance a shortened day at the office will do that. With about 100 songs to choose from, I had a very hard time narrowing down the song of the day, so lucky you, here's three songs to choose from. Choose wisely. Orbital: Time Becomes [audio:061021OrbitalTimeBecomes.mp3] Constructed from a single line spoken by Worf from ...

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Tortoise at the Independent Originally uploaded by Luiza. Whereas my previous iPod, a 3rd generation model, could not display album art, my new one, of course can. So I spent a portion of my morning going through my library, searching for albums that were missing their covers. During the process, I ran into a couple live shows that, since they aren't formally-released albums, obviously don't have album covers. Specifically, I had a ...

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The note at the top of the page says that the site layout is currently broken in firefox. It turns out that I royally screwed something up while trying to "Improve" Things around here. As a result, I'll have to recode the site structure and css from scratch. Until then, sorry firefox users. I commend you for your independent spirit, but for now you'll have to scroll to the ...

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I took an hour out of the tunequest this morning to listen to an episode of the Sound of Young America, a radio show/podcast that I discovered in January. In all seriousness, I'm not a fan of talk radio as a format; I find that listening to other peoples' conversations grating. I'd rather be having my own conversations or listening to music. SoYA instantly cut through that avoision. Besides host ...

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a solid 3 hours and 40 minutes in today, which doesn't seem long enough to have covered all the items below. but a lot of them are singles, just 2-4 songs each, plus i don't actually list an album here until i've played all its songs. i had 6 songs left in the soul coughing show and only the last 2 of sigur ros' (). so those didn't make ...

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Today's roundup: system 7 [777] tortoise [digest compendium of the tortoise's world] oasis [what's the story morning glory] styrofoam [a heart without a mind] single A little story about System 7: back in summer of 1997, when only a handful of people knew what "mp3" meant, I ran across a song file called system 7-dizzy spoon on an ...

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