Terrarium Upgrade

I gave my terrarium some much needed love with the addition of 3 new plants and fresh ground cover. While I was in Korea/Spain, there wasn’t exactly time to take care of the moss so it all died off. I documented a couple shots with the fish eye for shits right here. Blue frog bro is lookin’ sharp.

Other than that, I’ve just been living the dream… you know: waking up relatively late, performing random errands lazily, failing to cook food for myself, etc. At least I’ve made some way on Ableton through the past week or so. Trial and error is a bitch… and so are composing melodies, making clean transitions, and thinking at all about song structure. It’s all so way in over my head. Oh well, pushing on…

Simian Mobile Disco came out with a new single named Gizzard a day or so ago and it’s nothing less than inspiring. It includes two versions of itself, along with a bonus remix. The original is definitely more gentle (if you want to call it that) progressive house / tech house that they’ve mastered at this point as far as I’m concerned. Version 2 is heavier hitting and a tad darker. Check out version 2, the remix, and a Jacques Greene original below. You may have heard that Radiohead commissioned him to remix Lotus Flower for a series of 12″ remix singles they plan on releasing.

Videogames and bud have been rather fun for the past couple of days, not gonna lie. Jason’s been keeping tabs on me from Korea… as it turns out I was there long enough to get a full understanding of his whole woman situation, hahahahah.

Wow. Definitely am missing Korea.

The only dark cloud hanging over everything right now is that it seems like everyone is leaving San Francisco. Andrea left while I was in Korea for grad school in NYC, Helen is going to med school over in Wisconsin, and also another friend of ours up here, Dom, has taken up a job for a start-up in NYC.

What can I do?  :[ At least the weather is becoming gorgeous here. I went biking today and can just tell it's going to be an extremely relaxing summer in the bay. It always helps that great new music has been easy to come by as of late.

This song of Digitalism's new album, I Love You Dude sounds what I would expect a new Daft Punk album song to sound like... only because it is so smooth throughout.

Here’s a very chilled out version of my favorite song of Yeasayer‘s last album, Madder Red.

Trentemøller‘s last album was a bit weird because he switched everything up from some of the darkest, minimal tech house to a full band arrangement with guitars and he pretty much temporarily ditched the style that made him famous. I can’t blame him for doing it, because all the new album’s material was amazing at Coachella this year. In this track from the new album, he remixes himself down to the dark techno depths he’s known for. It’s just way  too insane.

Also through a tip from Kane I finally got around to checking out this Madeon guy… apparently a 17-year-old french electro house producer. His material is incredible and only makes one freak out more about their age. Damn prodigies of the world!

Lastly is a badass alternate version of Holy Ghost!‘s Wait & See remixed by the ever-reliable CFCF.

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Also, on an equally important note: Gmoonz and I (as of tonight) just got into 2v2 Diamond League in Starcraft II. Gmoonz himself wasn’t available for a direct interview but he could offer monospectra an exclusive public reaction to his victory–

I’m the best fucking mouse player on the west coast. Fuck you. –Gmoonz

Recently checked out the newest Mogwai album. If you’re into God is an Astronaut, then you’d dig this album which is just full of emotional post-rock instrumentals. The album name alone sold me to check it out.