Monday Musical Mooch : Pretty Lights

The other week Soopsworld (after a tip off from Mitch of guest-blogging and singer-songwriter fame) recommended the trio of Pretty Lights eps released this year. Well, we still have them on repeat so here they all are merged into one playlist for your listening pleasure.

 

Pretty Lights eps x 3

Soopsworld’s Week In Links: Everything Everything/Ellie Goulding/I Blame Coco/Deadmau5/Hall & Oates Do Broken Bells

Pretty much every week when I ask him for his album of the week, David (of recommending albums on this blog and being Everything Everything’s NUMBER ONE FAN fame) meekly suggests Everything Everything – Man Alive despite knowing full well … Continue reading →

Soopsworld Week In Links: Albums/CMJ & In The City: New Bands To Watch/Warpaint/Cat Vs Printer/Willow Smith/Disco Al Desko

  ‘This is probably quite old but I like it’ has become a bit of a catch-phrase round these parts,  unless you’re a proper music journalist person, how are you supposed to know when every brand new album comes out … Continue reading →

The Soopsworld Week in Links: More Cat Videos/Chilean Miner Jokes/Banksy/James Blake Vs Feist/New Music/Old Music/Soopsworld gets Feedback/Spotify Disco Al Desko

One of the delights of doing a blog that a load of your mates read is the readily offered feedback.No really, it’s just grrrreat. Adopting a similar policy to the blog, my lot say what they like and tend not … Continue reading →

Soopsworld’s Week In Links: The Vaccines/Maximum Balloon/Dave Grohl is AWESOME/Belle & Sebastian’s new album/Gorillaz new track’s ACE

Hype can be a strange, unpredictable beast at the best of times and last night myself and my dear friends Lotts & Jess found ourselves witnessing an extraordinary example of it at The Vaccines debut gig at The Flowerpot. After … Continue reading →

Soopsworld Week In Links: Twin Peaks & Ninja Tune turn 20/The Bridport Dagger/Japanese Cat Does Stunts To Slayer/MORE New Music/Disco Al Desko

It’s not all (double) rainbows and unicorns in Soopsworld, exploring the shade that comes with the light can be as intriguing as if not more so whether it’s appreciating the dark undertones in a good lyric or aspiring to be … Continue reading →

The Soopsworld Week In Links: Minors Singing Black Sabbath, VH1 Takes The Piss Out Of Rockstars and Spotify Disco Al Desko

I’ll be honest, it’s been a horrible week for me personally but this blog isn’t the place for discussing such things – I can only hope that something positive comes from it all, that’s all we can do sometimes.

 ANYWAY, this week I have mostly been listening to the Spotify Disco Al Desko playlists from last week’s blog (cos they were all AWESOME as always), compiling revenge playlists (very therapeutic, I recommend it totally), a load of Einaudi that my dear friend Joanne got me into (not an obvious choice for a girl partial to blasting her eardrums with guitar filth on a regular basis admittedly, but strangely motivating yet relaxing at the same time), the Holy Fuck album – Latin (as recommended by Rob who contributed a wicked-cool playlist last week) and the Radio 2 Rolling Stones documentary about Exile On Main Street (rather good I thought)

This week’s link cloud is thankfully not as scratchy as the author, there’s a track from a band called Pepper Rabbit that fell on my radar via Hype Machine this week (probably later than everyone else but  liked it), the viral-sensations PS22 doing  Black Sabbath’s Iron Man, Tom Jones’ new song, the link to stream the new Sleigh Bells album plus that VH1 ad that rips the piss out of rockstars(they had it coming, let’s be honest).

Have an awesome week, midweek posts to return shortly if I can sort my sh*t out…

 

Pepper Rabbit – Red Wine   PS22 do ‘Iron Man’ by Black Sabbath ‘What Good Am I’ – Tom Jones (via DiS) stream Sleigh Bells album ‘Treats’(via @PMA) possibly the worst cover of BoH’s The Funeral in the history of ever  VH1’s ads just seem to get better and better(via @hypebot)

 

 

Soopsworld’s Spotify Disco Al Desko

 

This week we have playlists from man about town, futurenoise, previous contributor Nicole K and cult playlist maker, indiekid  = ACE! If you want to contribute a playlist for the Disco Al Desko, just comment me below or contact me on Twitter (@soops77)  and I’ll get in touch.

 

Kitsune Kimaison by futurenoise

 

Jazzy Souly Stuff by Nicole K

Nicole K will be shakin it at Other People’s Property on 29th May#

 

Song For Strangers by indiekid

This Week In Links : Worth An Orange Wednesday, Spotify Disco Al Desko & even The Ash Cloud is on Twitter.

Sometimes, if you don’t fancy socializing in your canteen, you’re on packed lunches or you just fancy doing lunch Al Desko, the internet can be a wonderful wonderful thing. Recently I’ve been shamelessly nerding out on Twitter for links, wading through newsletters and for the film section, I basically pulled all the trailers off YouTube for all the film posters I’d seen on my travels this week. First up two things specifically t’internet-focussed are the Webbys where you get to go on the site and vote for all the clips and websites you think are awesome. There’ll be some virals you recognize but a few you won’t so worth an explore: http://webby.aol.com/.

mflow has been described as a cross between Itunes and Twitter, it’s basically an online music store that lets you share your taste with others. I’ve not had the chance to get into it properly yet but if you are and you rate it, let me know. And on to the rest of the week’s noteable links…

 

This Week I Have Mostly Been Listening To:

 

Darwin Deez ‘Radar Detector’  http://hypem.com/track/1091372/Darwin+Deez+-+Radar+Detector

 

Charlotte Gainsbourg ’Time Of Assassins’ http://hypem.com/track/1095353/tim+chester+-+Time+of+the+Assassins+XXX+Change+Remix+

 

Health ‘USA Boys’   http://hypem.com/track/1095308/HEALTH+-+USA+Boys

 

Katy Perry does MGMT, musically http://hypem.com/track/1093879/Katy+Perry+-+Electric+Feel

 

The new LCD Soundsystem album ‘This Is Happening’ http://www.lcdsoundsystem.com/thisishappening/

 I also downloaded for free and loved  ‘Fools Day’ – Blur ( http://www.blur.co.uk/ )

 

 

Worth An Orange Wednesday?

 

It’s A Wonderful Afterlife.

Verdict: Total chick flick (with Mahesh from Heroes = win) so maybe Orange Wednesday with the girls but more likely DVD. Don’t you REALLY hate it when film trailers give the ending away?

The Ghost Writer

Verdict: Low priority DVD, Ewan’s a bit meh isn’t he?

Extract

Verdict: Orange Wednesday.

The Joneses

Verdict: Orange Wednesday.

Agora

Verdict: I think I’d rather watch Armageddon. I don’t think I need to elaborate any further.

 

 

FYI

Those of you that enjoyed the post Brighton Beach, YSL 100s and Julie Driscoll – I’ll always have a soft spot for Mods from a few months ago, might find it interesting that the  mod club in London I mentioned that my friend had visited was Blow Up then at The Wag Club, it’s current incarnation is now at 4 Denmark Street, handy link: http://www.blowupclub.com/default.aspx

 

 

Soopsworld’s Spotify Disco Al Desko

Hang on, WTF is a Spotify Disco Al Desko you may well be asking yourself? Basically myself and  couple of mates compile a playlist for each week for your listening pleasure as you munch your sandwiches or whatever it is you’re doing at your computer. You’re very welcome. 

SooPop by sarkyfox

plaid is rad by Soops77

un grand groupe d’airs  by Dolton

 

And Last But Not Least…

Topical Tweet from @BoingBoing  Icelandic woman plays ukulele to teach us how to pronounce Eyjafjallajokull http://bit.ly/cyCSW7

 

 https://twitter.com/theashcloud

 

Forget Soap-Boxes, Some Of Us Just Have A Conscience…

Politics make me uncomfortable, I’ll be honest. You could respond to that quite simply that that is sort of the point. They’re meant to make us think, to question things. Like a lot of people, I can rant until the cows come home when I feel there has been an injustice but throw me into deliberately political debate and I wouldn’t feel quite so confidently vocal. I guess a lot of politicians bank on this attitude – it means so much can be pushed through while we remain oblivious until it affects us either directly or hits our sense of morality somehow.

I joked in a previous blog that soopsworld would ‘do’ Digital Music Piracy. The Digital Economy Bill is far too large a topic with so many meandering corridors of thought leading off it that I doubt I thoroughly understand the whole picture and I’m very conscious of sounding like an ignorant bystander despite the trawling through endless digital music news-feeds and websites. I can comment from a consumer point of view.

 I think my viewpoint has more to do with my age/background than where I work, realistically  My access to  the internet didn’t properly start until ’97 at uni,  Myspace was my first proper digital music experience even before Itunes and before that my music education was dominated by HMV sales. I think coupled with working in small scale music venues with music communities interweaved around them – maybe because a lot of my mates have been in bands, I don’t feel so great about file-sharing. I can make the mental link that there are people at the other end of the chain not getting paid for their work that aren’t megastars and yes, they DO need the cash actually – possibly an attitude that has become depressingly rare.

 I watched the BBC’s heavily edited take on the subject in last night’s Panorama. They gave it a good stab but it felt like a lot had been left out. What shocked me more than anything, and I probably am being  super-naive here, is how little people gave a sh*t that they were essentially doing the digital equivalent of shoplifting. One woman said of her kids enormous music consumption (nicked) – as long as it wasn’t porn, she didn’t see a problem with that.

Another thing that really stood out for me, however was the observation that the 16-24yr olds that are apparently the main offenders were the biggest consumers of music, in that on top of all the file-shared stuff – they were still BUYING music so to penalize them would be pretty dumb because then the record companies/artists will shoot themselves in the foot even more. Especially when it’s been reported that last year digital sales overtook cds. This is why it isn’t a black & white case – if you don’t listen to the radio(which quite a lot of people don’t) – without knowing about the music, how are you going to buy it? Of course streaming is the way forward but the main issue this seems to be about is changing the attitude that music, amongst everything else being shared, should be free.

You’d expect to be paid for a day’s work, why should the creators of music/content be any different?

It’s Quite Simple – 6Music Goes And We’ll All Have To Listen To Owl City. Sort of.

I read a fair few music industry/digital music/tech feeds, what can I say – I like to nerd it out from time to time – so my head has been flooded with articles on 6Music and recently reports on the state of the digital music market and the role of the label in the current music industry. 32 pages a time. What can I say, I was having a quiet lunchbreak and fancied torturing myself.

ANYWAY, if you’re remotely interested in music and have a life, however, you may have recently noticed stuff in the general press, not just specifically the music press about the BBC’s plans to shut down 6Music. I don’t listen to 6Music daily, I’m ashamed to say so I feel quite sheepish getting on any sort of soap box if I’m honest. But yep, I’m going to…

 My digital music consumption of late has been dominated by constructing endless Spotify playlists and going on Hype Machine to listen to new tracks pooled from the blogosphere (predominantly remixes, admittedly but the occasional treasure pops up).  I don’t have a digital radio at home so I listen to Radio 1 first thing in the morning because I grew up in Leeds so therefore justify liking Chris Moyles’ banter (he’s from Leeds, fact fans) and occasionally in the evenings I’ll listen to Annie Mac/Grimmy’s shows if I’m not listening to cds. Weekends are for Radio 2 afternoons and making Itunes playlists on the music front. I don’t listen to Chris Moyles for new music, that’s what I go on Hype Machine/RCRD­_LBL and listen to evening Radio 1 for because I’m broke but have a thirst for new music so I get access to it via streaming (and pay for it by listening to godawful Spotify ads but that’s another blog). What can I say, that’s my personal deal.

 

 There are a lot of people that have no interest in trawling a blog-fuelled website for credible new music and they have the money to buy and would very much like to, thanks. A lot of them listen to 6Music so if/when it dies – they’re screwed. So are the bands that 6Music introduce to those people and in turn so are the labels that fund the majority of that music to be made. If no one knows about the new music, they can’t buy it and if no one buys it, the labels and the artist won’t have any money to make new music eventually and we’ll be stuck listening to utter sh*te. Hence why it’s BIG DEAL if the BBC close 6Music and why we should all give a sh*t. Capisce? Good. Glad that’s all clear.

  

Coming soon – soopsworld does Digital Music Piracy.

 

Still not convinced:

The wise words of Steve Lamacq

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/mar/10/6-music-steve-lamacq

 

Popjustice -  says how it is. And is very funny.

http://tinyurl.com/bbcblahblah