I’ll be heading out to Barcelona with Kane & Jesse the 2nd week of June (*damn I must’ve been tired writing this the first time around). We’ve got no plans except to hit up an interactive media / new media event called OFFF in the city the first weekend, and then a 3-day music festival called Sonar before we leave. We also rigged it up so that we have an 8-hour layover in Amsterdam on the incoming flight. According to Jesse, downtown is really easy to get from the airport, so we could check our bags at the terminal and then take a quick tour of the city.
Other than that, I’ve just been trying to recover from the liver-destruction that occurred during my near 3-weeks in Seoul, followed by an amazing birthday planned by Michelle that was waiting for me when I came home. It really feels good to have friends who will go out of their way and travel a few hundred miles to hang out with you for a couple days. Also, big thanks to Amit for angel investing in the festivities… now I have to one up his face next year.
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.
