One of the best things to see live, imho, is your favorite band playing with a full-blown (about 100 people) symphony orchestra. A few of my personal favorite recordings:

• Nitin Sawhney with the Metropole Orchestra supporting the silent movie A Throw of Dice
• Portishead with the New York Philharmonic
• Bauer (dutch, but not Frans) also with the Metropole Orchestra

Know any more?

I started collecting records again after a short break. But I did tell myself to focus on some genres. Otherwise I would walk out with 10 records every time Soooo, I’m going to focus on Minimalistic Electro/IDM, Avant-Garde, Psych Folk, and Post Rock.

Some new records:

• Murcof – Cosmos
• Crippled Black Phoenix – A love of Shared Disasters
• Jan Jelinek – Loop Finding Jazz Records
• The Exposures (Jan Jelinek) – Lost Recordings 2000-2004
• The Higher Intelligence Agency – Freefloater
• Múm – Please Smile My Noise Bleed
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
• Fridge – The Sun

I’d be amazed if you guys would even know these bands/persons! Ok, who knows more than 2?

My new favorite store: Sound Station!

Oh, and I went to see Roísín Murphy this sunday in Vega. My my, that was an amazing concert! And yes, I like her tight sweater too. It surely fits her body. (She must be so tired by hearing that now… then again, that’s her own fault!)

Did I mention I’m addicted to music? I think I am…

Monday afternoon I arrived back in posh KBH after being 8 days in the mud together with my dutch friends Ineke and Erika, and colleagues from Hello on friday.

Most notable concerts were:
Björk, Flaming Lips, Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, Beasty Boys, The Who, Basement Jaxx, Tiësto, Muse, Thomas Dybdahl, Peanut Butter Wolf

Other things I’ve seen:
Wilco, Peter Bjorn and John, The National, Trentemøller, Arctic Monkeys, Kenneth Bager, Moi Caprice, New Young Pony Club, The Sounds, Tunng

Glanced at:
The Killers, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Ark, many others

Things I missed because of other sudden other priorities:
Queens of the Stone Age

Check out the pictures here:

I just realized that Emiliana Torrini was part of the Icelandic electronics group Gus Gus..

I’m very fond of music in almost any form, from minimalistic experimental contemporary classical, via britpop, to world music crossovers, and anything in between. I like it complex, I like it simple.

I’ve realized this a few times before, but I must write it down now:

I worship songs written in 5/4 beats!

Some examples currently on my ipod:
- The Pyramid Song by Radiohead, one of my personal favorites from Radiohead
- Take Five by Dave Brubeck, the classic example of 5/4
- 5/4 by The Gorillaz, figures
- Soft Mistake by Lamb
- Hangin’ Tree by Queens of the Stone Age, I’m going to see this awesome band in 2 weeks!

I’m sure Sting did something in 5/4, I can’t find it though. He did I came to my senses in 7/4, which also pretty cool.

There must be more, share with me!