Dusted Features
Every Friday, Dusted Magazine publishes a series of music-related lists compiled by our favorite artists. This week: Carlos D and Birds of America.
Listed: Carlos D + Birds of America
Carlos D
There was a time - not so long ago, in fact - when Carlos D was known merely as the goth-looking bass player for Interpol. His melodic, rotund bass lines help make him Interpol's Peter Hook - and I'm not just saying that because of the played-out Joy Division comparisons. While Interpol is still his primary claim to fame, the past year or two seen the exponential grown of what URB dubbed 'the cult of Carlos D.' This is due largely to his active/approachable alter-ego of party dj extraordinaire. Don't be mistaken by lumping Carlos D among the rock-star-as-dj crowd - Carlos is a true music fan and knows how to get a dance floor moving.
Ten Most Recently Added Albums to My iTunes:
1. Daft Punk - Homework
It's hard for dance music to be classic but this is one of those records that just won't ever get old.
2. Depeche Mode - Ultra
I automatically wrote off this album when it came out because I was disappointed with Faith, Love & Devotion but one day I went out on a limb and picked it up and felt really stupid for not listening to it at least once a week for like...forever.
3. System of a Down - Toxicity
Nu-metal? Nah. Good metal.
4. The Strokes - Is This It?
This is another classic album that tastes sweeter without an opaque cloud of hype around the band. It proves that just because a band is hyped up, doesn't mean that they're bad. Haters beware.
5. Richard Robbins - Via Crucis
This is where classical and electronica commiserate in a beautiful silky waltz to the funereal beat of hallowed religiosity. Think The Last Temptation of Christ as seen by Phillip Glass.
6. Wagner Without Words
Wagner's operas always bored me and I don't think I'm alone in this (I dare anyone to sit through the Ring Cycle without a nap). But I always thought the music was powerful and grandiose.
7. Yngwie Malmsteen - Trilogy
Ok we all know that he's a self-centered wanker who threatens flight attendants with balls of fire summoned by Zeus or Odin or Hades or whatever cooked-up mythology his muddled brain has conjured up. And I'm sure the picture of him on the cover defeating a hydra with his flame-hurling Strat may lead one to believe that this album is all guitar wankery with no substance. Sometimes it feels so good to be dead wrong.
8. Antony and the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
I'm not into singer-songwriters but this man's voice is too beautiful to pass up. Even for someone that hates Liberace.
9. Gang Gang Dance - God's Money
How can experimental music, electro, industrial, post-punk, and belly dancing music merge into a coherent and listenable form? I don't know, ask these four geniuses.
10. NIN - Pretty Hate Machine
Classic.
― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Friday, 17 June 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)