C60, the music site my friends Bob Burnett and Kim Kirkpatrick and I started in 2007 (Bob and Kim now do almost all the writing, since I'm so busy with TOP), now has music! Check out Bob's interesting and pretty 33-minute mix for today, "A Winter Morning." Both these guys are incredible dj's, and they're both really superb listeners. I'm sure there will soon be more.
Mike
UPDATE: Some people may have had problems accessing the stream; Bob used an older mix and thinks he might not have followed all the proper uploading protocols. It's a work in progress. You can check the site from the top to see if there are newer mixes. Sorry if you had trouble.
Featured Comment by Bahi: "Played it in the early hours of the morning and absolutely loved it. I'm a Stereolab fan anyway but it was good to hear that King Crimson track again (now there's something I never expected to write on this site) and be introduced to a couple of things I hadn't heard but which I really liked. I'll get around to creating an account and leaving a note at some point but Bob, if you read this, thanks!
"Playback was a little slow to begin ('analyzing' for a minute) so I minimised the browser window and just let it do its stuff and eventually the music kicked in through the headphones I'd forgotten I was wearing and made me jump. Worth it, though.
"In other news, I'd say you TOP folks were on a roll with recent articles but you seem to be on a permaroll these days. Long may it continue, and may you find effective protection from the Phantom Comment Italiciser (PCI). He has clearly upped his game :-)"
Mike responds: In re the PCI, there doesn't seem to be a rational way for me to integrate actually looking at the comments into my workflow. I read every one, check links, not infrequently edit or correct typos and misspellings, and sometimes contact the commenter to iron out a problem, small or large, and then post each one individually; but to go back into the posts from the site and check the way they appear to you more than once in a while would actually add a lot more work to what is already a pretty heavy load. The only alternative is to turn off HTML as an option in the comments. I've resisted that so far, but I might have to if the PCI problem continues. In the meantime, a plea: you have to use a backslash when closing HTML tags, and, if anybody sees the comments go all italics or all bold, shoot me a quick email, would you? I just don't see it. Thanks.
Thanks. I have it bookmarked.
Posted by: misha | Saturday, 09 January 2010 at 03:14 PM
Hi Mike,
Please be aware that there is software that can record an audio stream. I guess I will be listening to this for years to come.
Thanks,
Chris
Posted by: Christopher Lane | Saturday, 09 January 2010 at 03:45 PM
Hi Mike,
don't know if it is just me, but I can't play the mix - the site just endlessly says "analysing" - I'm using a Mac and Firefox. Thought you might want to know.
Posted by: Patrick Dodds | Sunday, 10 January 2010 at 06:15 AM
OT Comment, Mike, but just in case you are not aware, Prefab Sprout (a longtime favourite of mine), a band whose heyday were the 80s -although I'm convinced you know them- just released, some months ago, an album which was whelved due to disagreements with their label, CBS at the time. And one of the songs in that album is Let there be music. The whole album -which is only a draft, such has it has been released- is a pure delight around the topic of love for music, and in particular the song "Music is a princess" is a real wonder.
In case you knew this album, then sorry and disregard this comment.
Posted by: Cateto/Jose | Sunday, 10 January 2010 at 07:30 AM
Cateto/Jose,
I don't know them well--I remember an elegaic, romantic tune called "Cars and Girls" from way back. I'll be on the lookout for "Let There Be Music."
Mike
Posted by: Mike Johnston | Sunday, 10 January 2010 at 10:13 AM
Yeah, Cars and girls was probably his biggest hit. But they have much better, more delicate songs than that.
If you want to pay some attention to Prefab Sprout, just try to listen the remastered 2 CD album "Steve McQueen" (although its title in the USA was changed due to issues with the inheritors of the real Steve McQueen). It was recently released (recently in like 2 or 3 years ago, that is ;-) ), including the original recording in never-as-pristine quality, and besides new, acousting versions recorded by Paddy McAloon (mainly on guitar). That album is one of the very best of the 80s, and Paddy's quality as songwriter will never be praised enough.
Posted by: Cateto/Jose | Sunday, 10 January 2010 at 01:51 PM
Absolutely OT, but you may enjoy this...
Guess what's being hyped these days on commercial TV in Spain? A collection of the very best jazz albums... On "thick" VINYL LPs!
Posted by: javier | Sunday, 10 January 2010 at 04:20 PM
javier,
American jazz albums, or Spanish?
Mike
Posted by: Mike Johnston | Sunday, 10 January 2010 at 05:34 PM