Day 24

What to listen to in 2009, other than a month of post-punk? Maybe more radio/podcasts. This year I've largely been listening to the Resident Advisor mixes in terms of ephemeral audio, but rarely do they provide a context for lots of different types of tracks, mostly just a lot of great transitions within the same genre(s).

DJ /rupture, on the other hand, will include maybe ten different styles in a one-hour show. "New bass and beats plus live guests (musicians, DJs, poets) and an ear for the global south. Cumbia. Dubstep. Gangsta synthetics. Sound-art. Maghrebi. International exclusives."

Tim Sweeney is another fairly wide-ranging guy, within the confines of dance music. Largely disco and disco-revival (DFA, Rong Music, etc.) but inclusive of plenty more as well. Probably I thought of Beats in Space while reading the New Yorker profile of Cliff Bleszinski and Epic Games, founded by another Tim Sweeney.

I've also been listening to more talking heads at work recently: KCRW's Bookworm and The Treatment, and other odds and ends like the New York Declaration of the International Necronautic Society, mentioned in Zadie Smith's review of General Secretary Tom McCarthy's Remainder and the unaffiliated Joseph O'Neill's Netherland.