Noah Mittman

picks album up on recommendation in 2006

Wow, this band is great I can't wait to hear more from them

immediately finds out LP is a compilation of a 10 year career and band has already broken up

sigh NOT AGAIN

* runs into the room out of breath *

sorry I'm late everybody

This is the kind of concept rap LP that they don't do enough of anymore. You liked Deltron 3030? You liked The Infesticons? You liked Handsome Boy Modeling School? You'll love this -- it's a movie for your ears

I don't know what they're doing with this LP right now in the market: it's digital pre-order for $10 on Bandcamp, releasing end of October... but it's available now in full on the iTunes Store for $24. Did someone screw up? Sure seems like it

This was one of those CDs in the recommended rack at Other Music that had such a good write-up that I bought it unheard and was simply blown away at the time -- micro-house had been my thing and after listening to Akufen and Herbert and so on, this LP just perfectly synthesized everything I loved about the genre and did it so masterfully that I really kinda stopped searching out other folks and just wanted more Ricardo Villalobos. Unsurprisingly this had the Other Music effect of being like the only place that knew about him, and not knowing the right corners of the internet to find his recordings (and also, being primarily a singles/EP kind of artist), it… More

Illustrate skill with the quill to build stanzas

I use pens like hallucinogens

This is the album version of the urban myth/joke about the programmer who interviews at a company, gets hired, fixes the bug that's driving him crazy, closes it's ticket, and then quits. Dude was like "I just want to make this one LP I always wanted to make," did it perfectly, and then AFAIK never made another full album.

When I have to start running so I don't miss my train I put this on

Actually preferred this to the original, surprisingly enough. Maybe it's because I already have so many Spoon LPs and this was so different? It's just the right amount of dub without it entering white-dreadlock territory. A fun chill-out listen.