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Guest Post: Bitzl R
This week for our ongoing Guest Post Feature we hand the the reins to Bitzl R founder to showcase what his blog is all about. Read about Bitzl R and give a listen to his 5 amazing song choices he hand picked for you.
Bitzl R started in September 2010 as a space to share music and videos of immediate interest to myself (Alan Reilly.) Initially it was just a pinboard of artists works, posted with no real context, built using Tumblr purely because the nifty interface. However I quickly got wrapped up in the Tumblr community, taking influence from Yvynyl, Disco Naïveté, Gluttony Is The New Black and La 3e heure! (as well as design and general guidance from my pal Nialler9.) Contextless posts changed to a more filtered approach and over time the site found its own voice. It’s a new music site for sure, but it certainly isn’t specialised. There’s everything from folk to electronica (but never folktronica. No. No. No.) Dubstep posts might be followed by nu-classical. Fanciful imprecise melodies are aired alongside cutting and immediate tunes. There’s indie, lo-fi, experimental, new wave, old school, doo wop, lots of R&B, very little rock and pop always reigns supreme.
The pronunciation isn’t important, but just in case it ever arises in spoken conversation it’s two words, Bit-zel *pause* Or. Bitzl R has no agenda but that’s not to say there’s no objective, or even ambition. It’s a relay of great music that may or may not get promoted otherwise. It’s about living with and in culture (albeit a thin strand,) as opposed to dipping in and out of it. It’s about being informed and embracing what’s current without making any grand statements. Few acts featured will ever fill stadiums or win awards (whatever that measures), a certain few never even make it out of the bedroom. On Bitzl they are all presented in the same artistic light, that illuminating echo.
The site was originally named after a character from the novel Everything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer. The story charts a journey, discovering the past and shedding light on the present. An emphatic telling of one man’s trip to the town of Trachimbrod in the Ukraine in order to research his grandfather’s life. Bitzl Bitzl R was the gefiltefishmonger of Trachimbrod, that is, he sold gefilte fish to the townspeople. By no means a central character, he played a small but integral part, feeding the town and those that shaped its history.
GUEST POST: LIVE FOR THE FUNK
Its been a while since we had a Guest Post, So this week we reached out to Johnathan from Live For The Funk, to find a little bit more about the blog and what he is currently listening to. Check out what he has to say below.
Hi friends! My name is Jonathan Abramson and I write for Live For The Funk. Back in 2008, a young man named Michael Washington needed a place to keep friends up to date on music he had been digging. Unexpectedly, people from all over the world started taking an interest in his tastes. Since then, the LFTF empire has exploded, and he has added Aaron Leder, Me, Ben Friedlander, and Samuel Krause to the LFTF team.
All five of us bring something different to the table. Mike is very much in tune with the hip-hop, rap, and dope scene. Ben specializes in bass and dance/house/electronic music. Aaron does not post, but he keeps us all in line and handles a lot of the LFTF business. Sam does our monthly mixes and occasionally posts. And I, well, I post everything else. I listen to everything and anything - some weeks I’ll post jazz, others hip hop, others indie rock, others blues. There is no limit to my musical preferences. I have my father to thank for my eclectic taste. He introduced me to more styles of music than I can count or name, and he bought me my first guitar when I was eight years old. Music is my passion, and like any healthy obsession, it consumes me.
With all of that said, I present to all of you some of the tunes I have been really digging the past few weeks. They’re not all necessarily brand spanking new, but like my posting habits, there’s a little bit of everything here. Feel free to get in touch via my twitter or my LFTF email, and enjoy!
Guest Post: Episode 3 - Meet East to West
For episode 3 of our Guest Post feature we head down under to find out a little something about our favorite Australian music blog East To West.
What is East to West you may wonder? It’s Australian. It’s electronic. It’s overtly emotional. It attempts to find the beauty in the overlooked. It is a temporal meld of messy words and sultry sounds. Simply, it is an intangible exploration of Australia’s underground electronic scene.
My name is Holly Friedlander Liddicoat and I’ve run E2W for almost two years now out of my bedroom in Sydney, Australia. I’m very passionate about the growth of experimental electronic music here down under, and I’m thrilled by every opportunity I have to show it off to the rest of the world (thank you LYFSTYL <3). I feel that music in any form has the ability to speak volumes to the responder, so, gentle readers and fervent listeners, here are a couple of my favourites from the past and the now.
I do hope you enjoy.
Guest Post: Episode 2 - Meet Smoke Dont Smoke
In episode 2 of our Guest Post features we speak to the founder of LA based music blog Smoke Dont Smoke.
What’s up people of Earth? My name is Tim, I run Smoke Don’t Smoke. The blog is almost three years old, and honestly kind of started by accident. I started a tumblr, really with no idea in particular in mind. I knew I wanted to somehow show case art, music, stories, etc. that I appreciated. And that was actually the name of the blog at first - “Appreciate”. It’s funny, even as I changed things, and have eventually become what I am today, I think that is still there at the core somewhere. The breakthrough, however, was finding out what Mark at YVYNYL was doing. Little did I know people had been music blogging for years. Mark was championing the tumblr music blog scene. It was his noticing what I was doing, and his acceptance that sucked me into the world. He’s kind of like my unspoken blog dad, or mentor or something.
The blog is a constant evolution. I don’t know how much of it shows, but it’s deeply community driven. From the artists I write about, to the bloggers I write along side, I’m extremely grateful for the community of people I’ve become a part of. Hell, I wouldn’t even be writing this, if we weren’t all so interested in each other! But, needless to say, I think it’s so essential to who we are and what we do in our little corner of the music world. That connection, for me, is what makes it all worth it.
Anyway, enough about me. This is some of the stuff I’ve been musically breathing lately. This year is proving pretty solid so far. Very excited about these sounds. I hope you enjoy them, and they give you something to appreciate :)
Guest Post: Episode 1 - Meet Hearing Gold Blog
This is the first installment of our Guest Post feature where we ask a music blogger to introduce themselves to us and gives us a tiny round up on what they are currently listening to and a short description on what their blog is all about. In our first episode we meet Vancouver based music blog Hearing Gold.
In june we had the pleasure of working with the team at Hearing Gold on a split compilation dubbed “Oasis” a 10 track piece in which each artist we enlisted added their unique sound by remixing a film score or a classical / orchestral track. Stream and Download Oasis HERE
Hey LYFSTYL readers! It’s your friends from Hearing Gold and we’re stoked to introduce ourselves here at LYFSTYL and let y’all know a little bit about us as a small yet ambitious music blog (good thing we’re not Hearing Silver) and some of the artists and tracks we’re currently digging.
Hearing Gold started roughly a year ago and was a fun way for us to exhibit some of the amazing music that was being produced and shared over the internet medium. We were largely fascinated with the staggering and unprecedented degree of musical innovation being showcased by young artists and bands we’ve never previously come across through traditional avenues. The aesthetic of our blog can be summarized as ”utilizing the marriage of musical innovation and affective visual aesthetics to evoke feeling in the senses. Afterall, it’s all about the vibes”— an idea which became a normative method for us as a posting style. We post what we personally like and our tastes may change over time but we’ll always enjoy giving brilliant acts the attention they deserve, and this is our way of expressing our appreciation and dealing with our severe case of music hoarding.
Last year has unmistakably been a great year for music and blogging (we’ve got our 2011 year-end lists as evidence) but here’s a small taste, and by no means is it exhaustive, of some of the stuff we’ve been into or seem to go back to spinning a copious amount of times so far:
Big thanks to our lovely friends over at LYFSTYL for inviting us to make a post over at their kickass blog. Make sure to continue supporting your music blogging community and follow Hearing Gold and LYFSTYL for a superior collection of great tunes and a rad time.
