12/20/02:
La corpo nova...
My very dear friend Li'l Drey just got an "http://www.emusic.com">Emusic.com subscription for Xmas and asked for some recommendations. Always eager to give out (and get) some new musical nods, I thought I'd copy my four picks here -
Suba -Sao Paulo Confessions. thick and insanely complex Dubby electronics and Afro-Brazilian beats from the (sadly late) producer of Bebel Gilberto's Tanto Tempo. really sexy vocals top it off.
 Nicola Conte - Jet Sounds Revisited. a good taste test for whether or not you can dig the whole European NuJazz scene. bright and funky jazz horn licks swing loudly through everything from wild samba sessions to bumping house tracks to a zoot-suited homage to Cab Calloway.
Lali Puna - Scary World Theory. from Morr Records, a really fun use of New Order-like pop hooks and crazy post-Aphex Twin electronics. after seeing them cover Slowdive's "Mellon Yellow" at the Empty Bottle, I knew I was in love.
Guitar - Sunkissed - Lali Puna's labelmates prove there's nothing wrong w/ a little gratuitous swirl pop worship (see "Mellon Yellow" above). the best album Kevin Shields never made.
Unfortunately Emusic has none of these (although you could easily find any of these at brick-n-mortar Tower Records - what gives?), so I still contend that peer-to-peer swapping Napster paradigm is the only Internet music way to go.
Last musical finding - in searching out good links to introduce the aforementioned bands I happened upon Almostcool.org, a nicely thorough (maybe obsessive) homepage-ish site of regularly updated reviews. La beta corpo certainly would aspire to also offering this sort of resource. unfortunately, I find myself currently starving so I can get a thousand dollars saved up by March, so I must to stay far far away from the records shops.
posted by jeremy @ 5:56 PM
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