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Top 5 albums I’ll be listening to over the holidays

Monday, December 22, 2008

I’m a man of peculiar taste when it comes to music. Much like my film watching, I’m less concerned about the genre, or anything external and more concerned with whether something is actually good. Sometimes it takes 3 or 4 listens to an album before it clicks. (And I do listen to entire albums. Despite [...]

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Remember when MTV featured actual music?

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

It seems that music listeners have been bemoaning the lack of music videos on MTV since the mid-1990′s. A subject many-a-person has waxed poetic about. So it comes as an interesting footnote to “MTV doesn’t play music videos anymore, and thus has become obsolete as waves of people go to places like youtube” debate is [...]

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Pain. Will You Return it? I’ll Say It Again. Pain!

Friday, October 10, 2008

Hello. I’m actually very good at keeping up on other blogs I maintain. It’s just this one I can’t seem to update. Oh and pardon the post title – StrangeLove has been running through my head all day. So what’s going on? Work: I’m in the thick of producing a web-tv show – it’s a [...]

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Ugh, I want to play some keys!

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Warning! Life Post: I put my MIDI controllers and my upright piano into storage before heading to New York and I’m hurting now. I’m in a temporary living situation and I wasn’t about to bring the whole calvary. And in true Merrel fashion, I’m scattered as usual! Entrenched in multiple creative endeavors, but now I [...]

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My Top 40 Most Played: A Selection

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

I’m a bit of a music junky, and I rotate what I listen to in phases. Usually, it is a guarantee I am listening to something you’ve never heard of. Recently, I was in a synthpop phase. Now I’ve inexplicably found myself listening in a wispy pop-rock from Denmark, Sweden, and Iceland. (Lise Westzynthius, Stina [...]

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Organic Reinterpretations of Electronic

Monday, August 11, 2008

I love deconstructed music, it acts as a great counter measure to the complex and multi-layered. A great example is the Still disc of Nine Inch Nails “And All That Could Have Been” which features stripped down and descontructed versions of songs such as “The Fragile”. Last night around 3:30 am, I was listening to [...]

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Take a Little Time…

Saturday, June 7, 2008

photo credit: digital_studio_japan Man, have I been on an 80′s synthpop kick! I recently picked up the Les Rythmes Digitales album “Darkdancer” and though it was produced in the late 1990′s it owes much of its groove to 80′s synthpop. The music echoes bands like The Human League and Yellow Magic Orchestra. Listening to these [...]

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