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I'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere, but I am very unfamiliar with the ECM catalog. My brother has a bunch of stuff, but it seems to be all across the board. A lot of times I'll see an ECM record and pass right over it. Probably ig'nant (where'd edc go?) of me, but I just don't get excited. I'd love to have Bright Size Life and Dreams So Real on LP though... I really like Dreams So Real. I don't know what Ralph Towner sounds like, but vibists always talk about Matchbook, the duets with Gary Burton. I know AEC has some ECM dates. I didn't know about the Mal Waldron stuff... I've got the Priester albums. Some nice stuff in there, but you have to wait a while for the meat. Sort of like a fancy dinner. I don't remember Gnu High being all that exciting either really. Maybe I'm wrong.

I have Dreams So Real, Gnu High, and Duas Vozes. Are any of these highly recommended? FWIW, I love Dreams So Real.

When is that released? Sooner every day!

She set a new world record of 16' 6 3/4", which is spectacular but nowhere near eighteen feet. Thanks for doing the CORRECT conversion, Cali. I was so excited that I was thinking forth and back. OOPS. I have no excuse. But, that was the most amazing vault I, or anyone else has ever seen. She won gold, then went on to break the world record. WOW!! Whatever you think of her body, she made it perfectly clear what she thinks of herself during her human interest spot. I suppose it you can keep up with her, she's a blast. Those of you sick of hearing about Michael Phelps already must be ready to jump bridge every time you see Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Mickey Mantle, Pele and the like. Hate to tell you but he's gonna be around for a while. Sorry its not a mainstream sport fellas.

...and she was smiling all the way into the wall. I love it.

I may be wrong, but I don't think he goes by "DJ Girl Talk". I think its just "Girl Talk". I thought it was a funny name when I first heard it. I didn't hear his stuff for another year or so... honestly, one mix was plenty. I got the point. If I were in college and he came to town, I'd be there, but I'm not going to buy an album.

I'm no doubt in the minority, but the track events are by far and away my most favorite Olympic events. Always have been. Yeah, but his point was that you are only interested once every four years.

gumbo?

For whatever reason, humans racing each other just isn't a spectator sport the way humans racing horses or humans racing cars is. Not enough gear involved maybe? Maybe each athlete should be fitted with some sort of exoskeleton. Then we'd get some primetime broadcasts in. Or we could call the "gladiators" and give them stage names.

Nobody? I play beach volleyball. Last night there were another 300+ people playing beach volleyball on the other 10 courts throughout the night. Six nights a week, in my small town, that many people are playing beach volleyball. Whether they care about it while they're playing, I can't say, but I'd be willing to guess yes, based on their competitiveness. Everytime its on tv, I stop and watch a few points, maybe a game, maybe a match, depending. Maybe no one in Ann Arbor cares about beach volleyball except during the olympics. If you think nobody cares about these sports, you should do a google search. They all have major websites with major advertising and major community involvement. Nobody cares about organ jazz either you know. Yet, here we are, shooting the shit about the Olympics. Whoa, my mistake, I guess 300 people do make a difference! And are these people PLAYING or WATCHING? We're talking about watching the Olympics. Who cares if people are playing. Different argument. Serenity Now. Jeez. I'm telling you there is a whole world of people that care about beach volleyball, just as there is a whole world of people that care about organ jazz. Dude, there's a whole world of people that go around quoting Seinfeld episodes. No argument.

PM sent on the following: Joe Morris - Age of Everything (Riti) Eric Dolphy - Berlin Concerts (Enja) Bobby Bradford and the Mo'tet - Lost In LA (Soul Note) Joe McPhee - As Serious As Your Life (Hatology) Thanks! Cary

Nobody? I play beach volleyball. Last night there were another 300+ people playing beach volleyball on the other 10 courts throughout the night. Six nights a week, in my small town, that many people are playing beach volleyball. Whether they care about it while they're playing, I can't say, but I'd be willing to guess yes, based on their competitiveness. Everytime its on tv, I stop and watch a few points, maybe a game, maybe a match, depending. Maybe no one in Ann Arbor cares about beach volleyball except during the olympics. If you think nobody cares about these sports, you should do a google search. They all have major websites with major advertising and major community involvement. Nobody cares about organ jazz either you know. Yet, here we are, shooting the shit about the Olympics.

I know he and the media are trying to paint him as a mucisian, but Girl Talk is a party DJ. He makes mixes and travels around the U.S. People pay to get into clubs to dance to his mixes. Hasn't this been going on for a long time now? So you used to buy a mix on cassette out of someone's trunk outside the club. Now its online. And you don't have to pay if you don't think you should. If he weren't trying to sell his mixes, would y'all still have a problem?

I don't care what you think... the majority of the athletes that are competing in this year's olympic games have put in hours upon hours of training to even qualify for their event(s). Apparently, the folks here that are dumping on the olympics have never known anyone with aspirations to compete at this level.

Especially now. I don't know how easy it was four or five years ago, but audio software is moving so quickly, I'd almost consider many of the programs that I've seen at work on the level that Photoshop has become for graphics. Your imagination is the limit.

I'm really looking forward to the swimming competition.

here's a link if you didn't already know about the project. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Album I also remember a friend playing me mashups of popular top 40 stuff back in 2002 that was really impressive. Of course, at the time, I had just discovered Anthony Braxton and Max Roach duets, so I didn't give it much attention.

This is how Danger Mouse created the Grey Album, but he didn't have the mulit-tracks to all of the Beatles material. He had to separate everything himself. For fun.

$150? Wow. This lp looks like it was never played!

The boys are cookin' with a lot less fat!

I actually feel like the emphasis is on the "healthy" side of the menu. The greasy stuff is good, but I hear the kitchen is expanding its palette.

I've got organissimo running on the squeezebox right now. Random shuffle of tunes from Waiting for the Boogaloos, This is The Place, East Lansing Summer Solstice, and Groovadelphia. We've listened to Groove a few times while making dinner and I really want to hear it in context with what y'all have done in the past. The playlist began with Grease Monkey from East Lansing and is now working through Decoder (which is a killer to me). You have to hand it to yourselves... you set the standard pretty damned high from the beginning and have maintained that level of quality ever since.

I just picked up a vinyl copy of this a few weeks ago for $1. Mint... and I like the music. Much more than I can say for most of the $1 LPs I picked up that day.

There's a "traditional" radio station here in town that plays music outside of the mainstream. Great, except for the fact that they have resorted to the same rotation-style format where a song is run into the ground before I even hear the artists' name. I know that radio is on its way out as the internet becomes more omnipresent with wireless devices. I think that, in a lot of ways, the folks that are posting long-lost albums (regardless of their availability), are part of the changing landscape. Regardless of their intentions, it seems to me they serve a similar purpose that radio once did. Unfortunately, the files that are downloaded from their sites are semi-permanent, preventing unappreciative folks from buying artists', producers', engineers', etc work. I'm drawing a blank on what it was, but I recall downloading a trial version of something years ago that actually deteriorated over time until it was just white noise.

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