1.16.2004
While My Thermostat Gently Weeps
Just got back to Cambridge, MA - damn it's cold. One thing that warms me over: the human imagination! Two fantastic expressions of human imagination, courtesy today's mail: DJ Danger Mouse's 'Grey Album' and the P Brothers' 'Zulu Beats.' the Former, described below, is a lot better than I could have ever imagined. In a world of seemingly limitless samples, I've always wanted someone to do like DM and administer these fake restraints. Using only Beatles samples seems like a pointless exercise but a lot of it ends up bettering the original. The Latter is the record obsessive/producer Ivory's attempt to recreate an old Afrika Islam radio show from the comfort of his home in Nottingham, England.
