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Everybody’s Inner Child - An Interview with Daniel Johnston
4 November 2009 5:05 AM, PST
I was first introduced to Daniel Johnston's music four years ago when I lived in Los Angeles, taking my inaugural listen to Johnston’s 1994 release, Fun, while crashing on a buddy’s couch. One of my best friends had recently passed away and the song “Life in Vain” brought me a much needed sense of comfort at that moment in my life. I have since reserved a special place in my heart for that title and the unlikely rock star who composed it.
Daniel Dale Johnston was born in 1961 in Sacramento, CA. He spent most of his childhood in West Virginia, then later found his way to Texas, where he became an almost mythic rock legend during the music movement that started in Austin during the early 1980s.
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- C. Jefferson Thom
Retro French Electronica
3 November 2009 12:27 PM, PST
Etienne Jaumet: Night Music (Domino)
After stints in Zombie Zombie, Married Monk, and Flop, French electronic producer Etienne Jaumet went solo two years ago; after some well-received 12"/Ep releases, this is his first full-length album. He stands outside current trends, instead looking back on old styles and giving them his own spin.
The opening track, the 20-minute excursion "For Falling Asleep," suggests at first with its heavily pulsating beat a more emotive Kraftwerk circa Autobahn but then surprises with saxophones halfway through, pointing to earlier Krautrock influences, and at 14 minutes a brave abandonment of the previously insistent beat.
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- SteveHoltje
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