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This is from today's NY Post entertainent section:

SOUND CHECK
By KAREN ROBINOVITZ

April 25, 2004 -- When Leyla Basakinci has company, everyone wants to know one thing: What's on her CD player, and where did she get it?

Her answer: Coleman.

Coleman (he goes by his first name only), the creative director of Coleman Music, has made a name for himself in the fashion world as one of the most sought-after runway deejays. He has been responsible for the beats catwalkers prance to at Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, to name a few.

In addition to deejaying, the 32-year-old does everything from music supervision for advertising, films, hotels, restaurants and retail stores to his latest service, curating.

"It's like being a music stylist," he says. "I review a client's existing music as well as technology to diagnose their situation, find out what their needs are and help them fill the voids."

For $1,000, Coleman will find tunes that are up your alley and show you how to search for music without being overwhelmed in Virgin Megastore.

He'll also make you compilations, review your technology and even fill your iPod.

"I listen to the same stuff over and over," says Ahmed Akkad, a 41-year-old artist.

"I don't go out a lot, so I don't hear the new music." That's why he hired Coleman.

"In the beginning, I told Coleman I like Middle Eastern music and [stuff from the] '70s. He mixed it all together and came up with compilations designed just for me," Akkad says. "Now, my friends are all hiring him."

According to Leyla Basakinci, a 44-year-old agent, "Music is a lifestyle matter. You are either with it or not." She decided she was not with it - and hired Coleman.

He recommended lounge music by Dz Ihan and Kamien of Austria and De-Phazz, as well as Verve's remixes and Cesaria Evora. "It's all so lounge-y and sexy," she says. "He even updates my 15-year-old son on rap."

Sevda Civelek, a 42-year-old interior designer, relies on Coleman's curatorial approach to sound.

He realized he needed to fill his personal space with the right music. Coleman designed Civelek's whole sound system so that one computer filters the music to different areas of his apartment. Colman also designs a new compilation for Civelek each month.

"Coleman saved me musically," raves Civelek. "I had no idea what to do with buying a system or even what music to get." Civelek says he knew that he liked world music, but Coleman insisted he give electronic, pop and hip-hop a chance. "Surprisingly, he showed me things I never knew I liked before," Civelek admits.

I relate to Coleman's clients. As my tastes have matured in life, the one area I come up short is music. I can't remember the last time I bought a CD. And when I do go music shopping, I always wind up with some kind of weird compilation.

I don't know what the kids are listening to these days! Music stores intimidate me. There's so much, it's impossible to navigate. Every time I walk into a large music emporium, I give up.

So I called Coleman, and he came to my apartment to analyze my CDs. I felt the kind of anxiety I normally feel the first time I'm naked with someone new. And I was embarrassed by my utter lack of cool music.

Luckily, Coleman was not indimidating at all. He complimented a lot of my classics and came up with a prescription: modernization.

After talking to me about what I like to listen to - sexy, sultry, a little Latin, a dose of hip-hop and a bit of jazz - we went to Virgin Megastore on Union Square and Rebel Rebel, a boutique record store on Bleecker Street.

There, he introduced me to tons of artists I had never heard of: Jem ("contemporary soul with electronic vibes"), Franz Ferdinand ("the English are freaking out about them - a must for anyone into alternative") and Federico Aubelle ("South America meets dub-electronic"). He urged me to get the new Black Eyed Peas ("the best hip-hop album of the year") and the latest by Coldplay. I also left with the new Diana Krall, Me'Shell Ndegeocello ("so sexy," he swears), Jet's "Get Born" and Zero 7 ("Massive Attack, but more down-tempo electronic").

A little more than $300 later, I had a new CD collection to brag about - and Coleman promises me they'll always be cool.

Sidebar: Coleman's Top Ten Must-Have CDs

01. Stan Getz "What The World Needs Now"
02. Prince "Musicology"
03. Everything But The Girl "Like The Deserts Miss The Rain"
04. Cesaria Evora "Club Sodade (Remix Album)"
05. Various Artists "Congo To Cuba"
06. Federico Aubele "Grandhotel Buenos Aires"
07. Black Eyed Peas "Elephunk"
08. Luomo "The Present Lover"
09. Me'Shell Ndegeocello "Comfort Woman"
10. Franz Ferdinand "Franz Ferdinand"

I find it really amusing that there are rubes out there who would pay serious cash to be told to listen to Black Eyed Peas and Coldplay.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

What Coleman does is really not dissimilar to Muzak's "audio architecture" found in countless retail outfits.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, there's a few other examples out there for this sort of thing. I'm just amazed that someone would be so gullible to pay a lot of money to basically get the same tips that you'd get from watching two hours of VH1.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It's probably a big case of he-acts-like-he's-hot-shit-so-people-believe-that-he's-hot-shit.

― David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

(x-post)Or reading the Village Voice for 10 minutes.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, this guy totally has the "hot shit" thing down - the photo in the print edition shows him going through used records and looking like Ethan Hawke gone Queer Eye.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Um doesn't Ethan Hawke already looks like he's gone Queer Eye!?!?

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Let me unpack what I said earlier: Muzak also designs music systems for stores, and can create custom-made music programs and CDs. "Using equal parts intuition, innovation and experience, Muzak's team of audio architects will design a music concept that captures your image and captivates your demographic." What Coleman does is a much more boutique-y version of that.

Interestingly, Coleman's selections seem much more women-focused than your average critic-friendly fare.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

That's true. Just imagine Ethan Hawke even more "metrosexual" than he already is. With really really really short hair.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm broke. How do you break into this "field"? Surely Fluxblog would be good for my resume.

I'm only half-kidding!

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 25 April 2004 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

(x-post)Or reading the Village Voice for 10 minutes.

Just think...we could have Wolf Eyes and Kenny Chesney blaring from every snooty overpriced boutique in the city. Eddy, Miccio et al. -- you have an awesome and terrifying responsibility.

Who's to say Coleman (or one of his minions) doesn't poke through here?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Just imagine Ethan Hawke even more "metrosexual" than he already is.

I don't think that's even possible.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Do you really think Coleman has minions?

Who are the Minions Of Coleman?

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Bright young things fresh out of college with a taste for Putamayo comps and subscriptions to the NME, maybe? I dunno.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

This is for certain, though...ten years ago he would've been recommending acid jazz, trip-hop, Goldie and Oasis. In a sense, he still is.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

The most tragic thing about the article is that Coleman assures the woman that Zero 7 and Jet will always be cool.

You're right, he would've said the same thing about Goldie!

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Oddly enough he took the writer to Rebel Rebel, which is where I bought a $30 import copy of Timeless before it was released in the US -- this based on my admiration of "Inner City Life" and all the hype coming out of the UK. Imagine the regret I feel now.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

yay! I don't have any of that top ten! I'd be a great music stylist btw.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Still, I don't think what Coleman does is necessarily evil, even if his taste is wonky. I'm actually fairly sympathetic to people who don't feel hep enough music-wise. Obviously some of his clients request his services because they're neurotic about their social status, but I also think some of them have a genuine desire to feel like they're in solidarity with other people -- other music lovers --like they may have been once before. For them, listening to the same old thing, no matter how great it is, makes them feel stiflingly isolated.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I think Coleman does a neat service. I certainly wouldn't mind having his job - it's not that different from what I do on my blog anyway.

I guess I understand why he'd want to push stuff like Coldplay and Jet on these folks too - most people know it, so they are more likely to find another person who enjoys it too, and they can bond over it. And that's the key thing here, making someone feel as though they can interact with people in a conversation about music without freezing up and feeling like a loser.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

the ultimate in "freelance" music gigs for non-musicians. could you imagine our favorite rock critics doing this? Like Greil Marcus would have everybody boppin' to Dock Boggs, Sleater-Kinney and the Raincoats. Or Jim Dero would get his clients to buy a list of albums and then reveal that actually they all suck. Etc.
This is the greatest NYPost article of all time.

― lovebug starski, Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

hipper version of this run by friends:

http://www.activaire.com/

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

If anything, I'm jealous of Coleman.

In the American spirit, I will hire business consultants and monopolize the Femme Model Music Consultation market with my D. Bitch Tune Tailor enterprises...

muahahahha

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Out of curiosity, Dan, is charging a fee to load up someone's ipod with MP3s entirely legal? Do these folks pay for the appropriate licenses, etc.?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

My first suggestion to any prospective supermodels reading this thread: Just go buy the first Zoot Woman album. That will supply you music for your next half year of catwalks.

That was free trial advice. Future advice will be charged $75 an hour.

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I mightaswell say the obvious: THE FOLKS OF ILX SHOULD ALL GET TOGETHER AND FORM OUR OWN MUSIC CONSULTING SERVICE.

That is, right after we form our own car wash, law firm and fro-yo bar. We have to have our priorities in ordder, you know.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

IOX!

(I Own X (Everything and then some))

― donut bitch (donut), Sunday, 25 April 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"So what do you think THIS is? Huh? Aw, come on, play with me here? So, who is it? Huh? You think so? WELL, YOU'RE WRONG! That will be $750, please."

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 April 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Sounds to me like he's doing a disservice: stupidly lending credence to the notion that "music" is an adjunct to ones "lifestyle" rather than a meaningful form of artistic expression. If he had any sense, he'd have confronted the writer on her embaressment over not having "cool music" by explaining the complete ridiculousness of this phrase. And thereby, you know, REALLY setting someone straight, instead of recommending a bunch of crap records. Sheesh, people!

― John 2, Sunday, 25 April 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

stupidly lending credence to the notion that "music" is an adjunct to ones "lifestyle" rather than a meaningful form of artistic expression.

It's actually both, whether we like it or not.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 April 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I think I mightaswell say the obvious: THE FOLKS OF ILX SHOULD ALL GET TOGETHER AND FORM OUR OWN MUSIC CONSULTING SERVICE.
Yep. Think about all the times that friends have asked you "what good music has come out lately?" or "any good gigs coming to town soon?". I could have been charging people for this information!

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 25 April 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

haha please tell me his last name is Francis

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 April 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

and the only way Ethan Hawke could get more metrosexual would probably involve a hat

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 April 2004 17:37 (twenty-one years ago)

AN ASSHAT, that is.

Coleman Francis died in 1973, so a 32-year-old Coleman Jr. is not impossible.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 April 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

clearly your record collection needs some John Carradine

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 25 April 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god, if we could use oribital mind control lasers on coleman, ordering him to make compilations of X, Lesley Gore, Amon Duul, Doris Day and Kiss---would it change the face of popular culture? Would Que Sera Sera be the next runway hit?

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 25 April 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.an-irrational-domain.net/images/jaz/jaz88dontlisten.JPG

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 25 April 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

awesome...36 posts, what took you so long Alex?

btw I love that picture because his hand positioning suggests that one could easily photoshop on of those 80s hip hop four-finger rings that sez JAZ in diamonds... that would be awesome

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 25 April 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I want so bad to corner this Coleman fellow someplace & hypnotize him so that no matter who the client or their needs, he just puts ten Whitehouse CDs in their changer & charges 'em a couple thou for his time

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Sunday, 25 April 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It's really only a matter of time before Coleman finds this thread and posts some variation of "U R ALL JUST JELOUS HATERZ" under an assumed name.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 April 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry for the delay, but I was vainly trying to get the little one to accept a bottle from her weary father (who is now nursing a bottle himself, albeit a shitty Budweiser....invariably the first of too many).

Jaz Coleman is the only Coleman worth bothering with....apart from, of course...

http://www.noveltiesforyou.com/images/large%20teapot%20images/Colman

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 25 April 2004 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.captainmorgan.com/images/captainscrew/join/image1.gif

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Sunday, 25 April 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~amei/coleman85.jpg

― jazz odysseus, Sunday, 25 April 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

I want Coleman's job. Not Gary Coleman's job.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 25 April 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.michiganhistorymagazine.com/portfoli/images/young2.jpg

― Butter Leather, Sunday, 25 April 2004 20:31 (twenty-one years ago)

http://i.imdb.com/mptv1.gif

― Sym (shmuel), Sunday, 25 April 2004 20:39 (twenty-one years ago)

haha coleman young, kwame can't compete.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 25 April 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

"He even updates my 15-year-old son on rap."

Okay, I call bullshit. If I were the 15-year-old I'd be kneeing this dude in the groin.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 April 2004 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"Here's what you need to be cool and hip and down with the kids -- uh, your friends. take it from me."

"Fuck YOU, grandpa."

"Why are you so mean to m--OW!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 April 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

That said, Anthony is right in that one can never have enough "Night Train to Mundofine."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 April 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 11 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

Quite a taskmaster.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The Coleman is tough, but fair...and tender, in his way.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

This conjures up visions inconsistent with my digestion.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.agonybooth.com/red_zone_cuba/griffin_cast1.jpg

"Matt, it is such a pleasure to be able to tell you and your fine viewing audience about a little girl who sings The Icy Mint Stripes songs but with better boobs than that, uh...wait, can I say that on the air?"

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

so The Coleman=rhapsody?

― uh, Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

His face, a mask of sensitivity.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

However, hypothetically, if there were a service that would seek out music for me, and I was guaranteed to like it, I think I would shell out for it.

― David Allen (David Allen), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

How about a personal ass-wiper too?

― uh, Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Ass-wiping is unstylish. The Coleman recommends a bidet. The Wipers are unstylish too.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I knew there was a reason I didn't quite click with The Present Lover: Too Coleman.

― Mark (MarkR), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drf400/f471/f47195oix91.jpg

― Mark (MarkR), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

michael, I don't know the whole deal but I believe they do license...most of the music comes from small labels they are friends with/associates with.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Sunday, 25 April 2004 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Coleman is a pretty great adjective. It describes a lot of music which grates on me for reasons I can't ever properly explain.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I could have done this for $500.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

There are a few different strands to what he's doing. The least appealing, to me, is that he's telling people what's hip. (He should keep that a secret, or else it won't be hip any more.) No, I just don't like the idea. (I realize it may be there as a motivation, but I don't think it should be encouraged.)

But some of this seems to be about using music not only for status but also to create atmosphere (although the atmosphere creation may itself be a matter of advertising one's cultural capital). Some of his customers were going to be using this music as background music. It seems to be where the emphasis is in a lot of the examples given. I think I buy a certain amount of music just to have on hand for particular moods.

And when I do go music shopping, I always wind up with some kind of weird compilation.

What's wrong with that?

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder what Coleman listens to when he isn't consciously listening for professional reasons? Some fashion designers practically wear the same uniform all the time. What would be the aural equivalent? Does he listen to extremely minimalist ambient stuff? Classic rock radio?

His clients all have great names!

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

This is the biggest scam since seances (or maybe those people who identify what season you are.) That said I wish rich people would pay me a ridiculous amount of money to tell them what sort of music to buy.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Also are people between the ages of 40 and 45 just crazy?!?! And RS is right what great names!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I went to college with someone who is now the world's first tea sommelier. He recommends fine imported teas at some expensive restaurant (or restaurants). A very intelligent person, actually, with a serious interest in eastern philosophy and the cultural aspects of Buddhism and Taosim. Definitely charismatic enough to pull off such an unusual career.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Also are people between the ages of 40 and 45 just crazy?!?!

"I just had liposuction, and I'm looking for some music to go with my new image. Something young and sexy, with just a hint of jadedness."

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Sunday, 25 April 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i came up with the idea of doing this when i was about 16 and was in new york with my family-there were so many places playing wildly inappropriate music that i figured it was the kind of thing you could charge exorbitant amounts of money for...
i was fairly surprised when i found out the concept actually existed...

― robin (robin), Monday, 26 April 2004 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

is that how you spell exorbitant?
i dont think i've ever seen it written down...

― robin (robin), Monday, 26 April 2004 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

It is.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 26 April 2004 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

ex·or·bi·tant ( P ) Pronunciation Key (g-zôrb-tnt)
adj.
Exceeding all bounds, as of custom or fairness: exorbitant prices. See Synonyms at excessive.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 26 April 2004 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

He has a very safe definition of what "hip" is... I doubt he would have recommended Electroclash two years ago to these people, no matter how hot it was (cultural vibe-wise, not musically). He makes money because he recommends a very narrow, specific group of related genres - light, jazzy inflections over non-aggressive beats, whichever world music is sufficiently non-regional enough to fit well into a DJ set, etc... basically everything Simon Reynolds rages against as pernicious influences. These things seem like they *would be* cool and sophisticated to well-off, middle-aged and middle-brow yuppies. The sort of people who would turn on the radio and like Dido or Norah Jones, but then not be able to find similar music.

― DougD, Monday, 26 April 2004 05:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It seems like he's just copying down the recommended items list from Barnes & Noble. This is basically the crap they have at every listening station, give or take a couple of blues and country artists.

Which is obviously brilliant. I'm insanely jealous that I'll spend this week painting a house while this guy recommends bland, mind-numbingly boring music to yuppie scum.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Monday, 26 April 2004 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

This guy is like the Dr. Phil for the Eric Stolz's of america.

― LC, Monday, 26 April 2004 07:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"I just had liposuction, and I'm looking for some music to go with my new image. Something young and sexy, with just a hint of jadedness."

You get a Pointer Sisters and a Twisted Sister greatest hits cd. Hit random play.

― cRaiG (craig!), Monday, 26 April 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

say what you will, but the guy's a genius.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 April 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I heard Beyonce hires 7 of these guys, one for each of the six Jags in her fleet, and another guy who hangs out in the toilet whose specialty is music for ass-wiping.

― Ian Christe (Ian Christe), Monday, 26 April 2004 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

"He even updates my 15-year-old son on rap."

Okay, I call bullshit. If I were the 15-year-old I'd be kneeing this dude in the groin.

Didn't you see About a Boy? If Nick Hornby says it can happen, it must be true!

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 26 April 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I wonder, is he still pushing Black Eyed Peas on the 15 year olds?

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Monday, 26 April 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

<em>The sort of people who would turn on the radio and like Dido or Norah Jones, but then not be able to find similar music.</em>

DougD totally OTM here. For the most part, this guy is recommending the stuff that's completely middle of the road but not necessarily mainstream. I wouldn't be surprised to see those Hotel Costes compilations on his list, or something like Josh Groban.

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 26 April 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Excuse the formatting.

Any thoughts on what sort of "system" Coleman would recommend? I've been looking at Bose and some Bang and Olufsen "systems."

― mike h. (mike h.), Monday, 26 April 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's kind of awesome that coleman recommends luomo tho

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 26 April 2004 19:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I have no idea what The Coleman himself would recommend, but personally I'd recommend Red Rose Music... it blows away Bose and Bang & Olufsen - I've carefully compared them and I'll be putting in a Red Rose system after I move this summer.

www.redrosemusic.com

― DougD, Monday, 26 April 2004 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

but it's not as if coleman would recommend Nasenbluten or Enslaved for his clients' cocktail socials is it? he's a fucking businessman who knows a lot about music. He's not going to ruin his chances by recommending stuff that is really far out.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 26 April 2004 23:16 (twenty-one years ago)

This reminds me of the place I go to get my hair-cut (which is actually kind of upscale). The owner has one of those random jukeboxes with a hundred CDs or something, but the stylists don't like the music he plays, so on the days he's not there, they put on top 40 radio.

― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Monday, 26 April 2004 23:23 (twenty-one years ago)

He can reccommend middle of the road more obscure than Dido type shit. Thats fine. But saying that Black Eyed Peas Elephunk is the best hip-hop album of the year is a fucking atrocity. And I loved their first record. But God Bless anyone who is told to think that Elephunk is 'good'. There is plenty of better, inoffensive hip-hop for the aging rich folks set.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Monday, 26 April 2004 23:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I bet he gets a few dodgy deals from the record labels anyway.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 27 April 2004 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

"Like the Deserts Miss the Rain" is a SONG, not an ALBUM, Colemaaaaaan! Get with the program, sucka.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 5 May 2004 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

eleven months pass...

http://www.colemaninsights.com/

Surely a different company, right?

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Monday, 25 April 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

Is it true Coleman is pushing the new Wolf Eyes these days?

― Keith C (kcraw916), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Damn! Why didn't I register "Colemaninsights.com" when I had the chance. A day late and a dollar short -- story of my life. I wonder if these jokers ever get asked "oh are you related to the Coleman who reviewed Cutting Crew and Arcadia in Rolling Stone?" Talk about "bringing shame upon the family name..."

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

In fact, I thought this was going to be your thread, but I couldn't quite figure out the angle. Some kind of guilty pleasures thing maybe.

― Ken L (Ken L), Monday, 25 April 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.colemaninsights.com/fact.htm

Don’t get caught up in the hype surrounding electronically testing your music with handheld devices. Coleman’s time-tested approach avoids the pitfalls of electronic testing, which has flaws that can send your station in the wrong direction. That’s why America’s stop stations – including KROQ/Los Angeles, Hot 97/New York, KYGO/Denver, Mix 98.5/Boston, Mega 97.9/New York, KSHE/St. Louis, K-Earth/Los Angeles and Kiss FM/New York – rely on FACT.

AVOID THE PITFALLS OF ERECTRONIC TESTING

― lf (lfam), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

(Is Karen Robinovitz Coleman's publicist? Because that article certainly read that way.)

It's amazing how these people have the resources to spend $1k on a music consultant yet are blissfully unaware of such new-music-discovery innovations as:

-the radio
-record store clerks
-ILM
-MTV
-other people

But I suppose most of those people spend all that money not because they need to but because they want to be able to tell everyone they know that they spent $1k on a music stylist/therapist/diagnostician/whatever.

― musically (musically), Wednesday, 10 May 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

two years pass...

Guys, Coleman is back in the national press.

― mh, Friday, 14 November 2008 14:38 (seventeen years ago)

Here the man...

http://coleman-music.com/

Playing a bit of stuff that's been on the beardo/balearic threads I note.

― Treblekicker, Friday, 14 November 2008 17:17 (seventeen years ago)

I'm no hater. I want his career. I heard him DJ at Tribecca Grand once and it wasn't so good, but his selections on that website are pretty good. Whether he's been into that stuff forever or just jumped on the bandwagon, those balearic/cosmic tracks make for great music "styling". Perfect for any lounge or coctail party.

Coleman, give me a call...

― dan selzer, Friday, 14 November 2008 20:02 (seventeen years ago)

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