The Glorious Return of TMX: Music Is Math v. Starship Trooper In our last episode of TMX, I had sent Rich “Starship Troopers,” by Yes, and he sent me “Ready Lets Go/Music Is Math,” by Boards of Canada. Here is my response to “Ready Lets Go/Music Is Math”: Excerpt from “Music Is Math,” by Boards [...]
Tomorrow sometimes seems like a week away. Anyway, this time Rich and I are exchanging “Ready Lets Go/Music Is Math,” by the Boards of Canada, and “Starship Trooper,” by Yes. Rich offered this bit for me before I listened to BoC: Artist: Boards of Canada Album: Geogaddi Tracks: Ready Lets Go / Music Is Math [...]
Ooops! Sorry for the delay. So, as established previously, Rich and I were sending music to each other that highlight our musical backgrounds. Last time I chose “Pretzel Logic,” and this is what Rich had to say about it: Before hearing this song, my only exposure to Steely Dan was the song “Bodhisattva”—an up tempo [...]
When Rich and I first discussed Lingua Shapta, we knew that we had a common musical ground in our appreciation for the band Soul Coughing. What we didn’t realize at the time, however, was that our musical pasts were completely divergent. Rich was immersed in Hip Hop, Industrial, and Techno, where as I was all [...]
