Tired of looming over you deck of Oblique Strategies, thinking about how you totally got that Brian Eno name drop James Murphy laid out in the last issue of Spin magazine? Bored with postulating “what it must have been like” to hang with Bowie in Berlin? Disenchanted with the non-music revolution you hoped to start when you picked up that MicroKorg at Guitar Center?

Fret no more! You can now mix an ambient soundscape all by your lonesome at inbflat.net. Props to the girl with the DS-10 synthesizer (2nd column, 3rd row), but my money is on the dude with the e-bowed banjo (5th column, 2nd row).

[ thx to K.F. ]

Dope Classics @ Cafe St Ex
Thursday, September 10th
No cover, music @ 10:00

Pete & Co. of Fatback fame asked me to join them at this month’s Dope Classics. An honor indeed! I just broke the 32 year old seal on a Star Wars storybook/soundtrack LP I’ve been hoarding for a rainy day, SO GET YO MINDS READY FOR THAT SHIT.

In a rather unlikely pairing, H.R. Giger lensed this pair of videos (2nd after the jump) for tracks on Debbie Harry’s 1981 solo semi-flop, KooKoo.

While I somewhat dig the album’s production, by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of Chic, I mostly just want to find out where I can get my hands on one of those necronom/alien bodysuits she’s wearing in “Now I Know You Know”. If I had the bread, I could at least fork out for a Harkonnen chair, which was originally intended for use in the Dune movie, like the one Harry sits on at the end.

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A garish video accompanies delightful new and unexpected music from Mi and La’u, purveyors of sparsely orchestrated lullabies and creators of this unsung gem. Evidently, they’re also set to soundtrack this season’s Chanel ads.

Via Borne Recordings.