ojdo – Page 19 – Reviews of Creative Commons music, self-made photos and wallpapers

Just Plain Ant – [2009] Dig Deep

Fresh hip hop. I don’t listen to a lot of rap music. In fact, this is the first review to populate the tags hip hop and rap here. This album has it all: opulent instrumental tracks, multiple vocalists, detailed music backdrops. It shows what hip hop can be like: fresh, so fresh…

Wed, 11th Jun 2014

CCBYNCND30, Hip Hop, Instrumental, Rap
Garmisch – [2013] Fishes

Swedish indie pop. Better late than never for me to join in to praise Garmisch for their excellent third album. Excellent as in professionally recorded and produced, craftily written and solidly executed. 9 7 9 exceptional tracks await you…

Wed, 4th Jun 2014

CCBYNCND, CCBYNCND30, Indie, Pop
This blog now uses HTML5 for audio

Though this might not sound interesting, but today I made an important step: I switched from using an old, but trusty Flash-based audio player plugin to the current state of the art for embedding audio into HTML: the HTML5 Audio element. What’s in for you? Finally, the audio tracks can be listened on all mobile…

Wed, 28th May 2014
Skaj Da Waidah – [2013] The Most Epic Chillout Album Ever! (EP)

Loopy funk grooves. If you ever wished during a rap song for the rapper to stop talking over the lovely background music, the Bulgarian netlabel Dusted Wax Kingdom is just for you. It specialises in that groovy sound sometimes called instrumental or abstract hip hop. This short 5 track release is an especially funky example…

Wed, 28th May 2014

CCBYNCND, Hip Hop, Instrumental
Planet Boelex & Lisa’s Antenna – [2009] Little World (remastered)

Ambient electronic masterpiece. Take soft synthetic sounds, tender percussion and female vocals, mix… two artists that stand well for themselves join forces here to showcase what their styles combined sound like; and I like the result! This release makes for some excellent background music, and this is a compliment. Nothing in this delicious sound composition…

Wed, 21st May 2014

Ambient, CCBYNCND, Electronic
Various Artists – [2010] Rockin’ Back My Nites

This is just a public service announcement concerning an old, 2010 review I wrote about a no longer available DJ mix. I sort of repaired the dead link. Here is the original review with further details: Jenset – [2010] Rockin’ Back My Nights.

Mon, 19th May 2014
Miltata – [2010] For the Heterotopia

A cushion made of bleeps. Instrumental electronic music that makes you think of soft acoustic. Loopy, yet never boring ambient melody patterns make for great background music. As usual, two tracks as a preview after the break:

Wed, 14th May 2014

Ambient, CCBYNCND, Electronic
Crystal wallpapers

Some old and new photos of crystals, taken at the Museum of Man and Nature and Museum Reich der Kristalle, both located in Munich.

Mon, 12th May 2014
How to list size of directories in current folder

Note to self, it’s deceptively simple, once one manages to read the manpages properly: [code lang=”bash” gutter=”false”]du -hd 1 /path/to/directory[/code] If directory is the current folder, this shortens to: [code lang=”bash” gutter=”false”]du -hd 1[/code]

Sun, 11th May 2014
Endlos – [2007] Kein Grund zufrieden zu sein

Instrumental electronic downbeat jams. Oh, my, jeeez! So relaxed, so flowing, yet so rhythmic. It’s hard to describe the dry, yet warm sound of Endlos from Leipzig. The more I can recommend you to lend them you ear for a minute…

Wed, 7th May 2014

CCBYNCSA, Electronic, Live, Minimal
The Sleeping Tree – [2008] Leaves And Roots

Dreamy acoustic guitar folk pop. While writing this review, I realised that I already have reviewed praised a track by The Sleeping Tree back in my review on the 50th release compilation by 12rec. and compared him to Bright Eyes. Like then, melancholic voice and acoustic guitar are enough to create mellow impressions. My two…

Wed, 30th Apr 2014

CCBYNCSA, Folk, Instrumental, Pop
Various Artists – [2009] ccMixter

Anthological compilation of radio-ready music from ccMixter. ccMixter is a site like Soundcloud, but much older and – as the name implies – founded around the idea of Creative Commons music and remixing. This compilation has its roots as playlist from a ccMixter developer. It bundles some of the less underground tracks on the platform.…

Tue, 15th Apr 2014

Compilation, Electronic
Spit Rusty – [2011] Underwhelmed

Punchy hard rock from Denmark. Loud, very loud. And fast. And LOUD. Erm… what else? Oh yeah, they have cool guitar riffs, excellent drum patterns, transitions. Head-shake-inducing chorus lines. Cannot. Write. Long. Sentences. Must. Move… Read on for my two favourite tracks and the obligatory release link…

Wed, 9th Apr 2014

CCBYNCSA, Hard Rock, Rock
Frau – [2010] Starlit Carousel

Soft Vocal acoustic pop, slightly eccentric. Piano and voice are the weapons of choice of Indonesian artist Frau. From scarce notes and harmonies, a strange magic unfolds that reminds of old and traditional songs, though being contemporary compositions. The lyrics speak today’s language and tell beautiful stories. My two picks – as usual – after…

Wed, 2nd Apr 2014

CCBYNCSA, Pop, Vocal
Lockerbie – [2010] Lockerbie

Icy post rock from Iceland. Lockerbie know the recipe for a delicious post rock album: interesting sound effects, lots of guitars from calm to loud. Long, really long intros and endless repeating of the same chords over and over again. The result makes for some epic background music with punch.

Wed, 19th Mar 2014

CCBYNCSA, Post Rock, Rock