http://www.undomondo.com an mp3blog to undo the world! Sat, 04 Jul 2009 10:18:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en LA's Not Not Fun is definitely positioned as the most interesting hub of creative activity in recent times right now. They've 150+ releases under their belt in various formats and just a few years. I've always sensed that Pocahaunted were the main dish (not musically, but spiritually?) and after a ... http://www.undomondo.com/2009/07/not-not-fun/ It's official! New Jersey native Ducktails has made this summer's soundtrack. Matthew Mondanile has the brightest psychedelic sound with just the right amount of tolerable noise on a hot summer day and the tropical warmth of the Föhn winds. Not Not Fun finally delivers it fully, after good ideas ... http://www.undomondo.com/2009/07/ducktails/ Let's seal the day with another soulful track. I couldn't post anything about MJ in the MJ-death-craze-fest, but I stumbled upon Mark de Clive-Lowe's cover of I can't Help it with Lady Alma on the vocals. Check it out and comment if you like/hate. ... http://www.undomondo.com/2009/07/i-cant-help-it/ Forgot to post this gem which I caught on twitter yesterday by beatmaker AFTA-1 whose 2008 album I catch myself going back to too much recently. Done in conjunction with the GAS-D , features beats from usual suspects like Dilla, Platinum Pied Pipers, Dam Funk as well as relatively ... http://www.undomondo.com/2009/07/afta-1-x-gasd/ Our new fave producer after his Fader Mix with close companion Bullion, UK beatmaker Paul White has just released his debut LP "The Strange Dreams of Paul White" which marryies everything we love from prog rock to BBC samples, with quirky beats and Brit humour. He's a library music maker ... http://www.undomondo.com/2009/07/paul-white/ The twitterverse is getting crowded, here are some of our latest finds: @Western Vinyl label home to Balmorhea, IDM wiz @Richard Devine, Noise maker @Carlos Giffoni, @Okkyung Lee the downtown cello player, Pianist @Vijay Iyer another downtown jazz figure, @Family Vineyard label, Composer @Rhys Chatham, @Drone Magazine, @Ken Vandermark, ... http://www.undomondo.com/2009/07/twitter-watch-4-2/ The Young 12 string guitar master James Blackshaw takes on piano in another enchanting album of five songs spanning 50 minutes. The piano pieces are cool, yet we still prefer him fingerpicking his guitar. James Blackshaw - Cross "The balance of gravity and playfulness in Blackshaw’s labyrinthine music owes a debt to ... http://www.undomondo.com/2009/07/james-blackshaw-glass-bead-game/ + Field Day 2009 will take place once again at London's Victoria Park, FENNESZ, SKREAM, ALLEZ ALLEZ, THE THING, TOUMANI DIABATE, WAVVES and more. 1st August Saturday. + Lulla single from the upcoming Tinariwen LP. (The Guardian) + HRO's Carles analyses : U, Me and Every Concert we Attend one of this ... http://www.undomondo.com/2009/07/around-the-net-26/ A great split sampler by Italy's Africantape Records and Chicago's Sickroom Records with lots of quirky math-rock, noise rock and other kinds of experimental rock from Them, Roaring Twenties, Bear Claw and Three Second Kiss who are currently supporting Shellac, L’ocell Mare solo project of Cheval de Frise guitarist Thomas ... http://www.undomondo.com/2009/06/africantape-sickroom-sampler/ Finally, some decent instrumental rock that doesn't go the way of creating bland, hypersentimental electronically enhanced post-rock. We were truly bored out of our asses with that stuff and it was starting to feel like that time when everyone in your highschool was trying to become a poet. Melbourne's Margins paint ... http://www.undomondo.com/2009/06/margins/