DJinFrisco 2010 – September Edition

DJinFrisco – 2010 – September Edition

The XX – Islands – 2:41
The Mary Onettes – Puzzles – 4:31
Phoenix – 1901 – 3:13
The Temper Trap – Sweet Disposition – 3:54
Nickodemus – Sun Children – 4:16
Balkan Beat Box – Adir Adirim (Nickodemus Remix) – 5:23
Ancient Astronauts – Everybody – 4:51
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – The Golden Age – 3:50
U2 – Magnificent – 5:24
White Lies – E.S.T. – 5:02
Silversun Pickups – Growing Old Is Getting Old – 5:54
Say Hi – November Was White, December Was Grey – 3:04
Cassian – The Fuck Song – 3:40

DJinFrisco – 2010 – July Edition – Chillax

This months playlist is my first in a long time.

Social networking hit the music space a few years ago. Blip.fm & Last.fm are two ventures that have tried to address the difficulties around the social sharing of music. The problem is that DRM gets in the way. The song libraries are limited, finding quality links that work is even more spotty.

I find much of what I listen to from music blogs. They have become one of the primary ways that I discover new music. They are also a perfect medium to share music with others. However, I’m not an expert on music, more of a connoisseur, and while I don’t feel qualified to start a music blog I still want to share tunes I like with others.

So I’m going to get back to using opentape and try to keep it up once a month. Going forward, I’ll share a few songs each month. Some times I’ll try to organize them into a theme. Just trying to have a little fun, share some tunes, & get a little feedback from others about what they like. Maybe if I’m lucky, I’ll discover some new stuff through this effort, so please share your thoughts in the comments.

~ Cheers – JB

2010 – July Edition – Chillax

• Storm Across The Sea    Chuck Prophet    2002
• Another Noon    Jon Roy    2008
• Giving Up    One Eskimo
• Kim & Jessie    M83    2008
• Ecstasy    JJ    2009
• House Of Cards    Radiohead    2008
• Three Seed    Silversun Pickups    2006
• Mirror    Supreme Beings Of Leisure    2008
• The State Of The Union    Thievery Corporation    2002
• B.I.B.L.E. (Basic Instruction Before Leaving Earth)    GZA    1995
• Take Five [Live]    Rodrigo Y Gabriela    2008
• B Minor (From “Elm Street”)    Lanterna    2008

2008 Best of Sounds: February

February is going to land in my top 3. There is a ton of good music bubbling up before SXSW and 2008 was spectacular. I had a hard time culling this list down to five. So many good songs left out.

Saw The Beautiful Girls open for O.A.R. in Chicago this past summer. The Shins originally hail my hometown, Albuquerque, NM. Ghostland Observatory, The Kooks, & The Raveonettes round out the Top 5.

Bonus: The Raveonettes song is free right now in the Amazon Store. 243kb of DRM-free goodness for your collection. Click the link.

All the songs are in my opentape at http://jbinfrisco.com/opentape/

The Beautiful Girls – “I Thought About You”

The Shins – “Phantom Limb”

Ghostland Observatory – “Over Again”

The Kooks – “Naive”

The Raveonettes – “Dead Sound”

2008 Best of Sounds: January

I love December. Many of my favorite music bloggers post their ‘Best of 2008′ lists. I thought I’d try a little twist and post up five songs from each month of 2008. The musical journey will include electronic, funk, indie rock, metal, indie pop, country, alt. rock, & hip/hop. If I’m not totally sick of this exercise by December 31st, I’ll post up a little bonus on Day 13.

• Listen to the songs on my OpenTape at http://jbinfrisco.com/opentape/
• If you dig the song, click the link below to buy it. Amazon sells DRM-free music at great prices. The bit rate is higher than iTunes and the music is playable on any device that plays mp3′s. DRM-free is the best way to build your personal music collection. I’ll plow any revenues back into more music in 2009.

My near obsessive lust for discovering new sounds resulted in almost 1100 additions to my iTunes library. Here are five from January, 2008. Regards ~ JB

The Ting Tings – “That’s Not My Name”

Finger Eleven – “Paralyzer”

Okkervil River – “Unless It’s Kicks”

Vampire Weekend – “Oxford Comma”

The Damnwells – “Down With The Ship” - Not listed by Amazon

Gleeking out with Greasemonkey and Blip.fm

I’m a big fan of the Greasemonkey plugin for Firefox. Greasemonkey works by allowing small bits of programmed JavaScript to change the way a webpage displays and acts. These tiny bits of code are installed just like a Firefox add-on and then they run in the background of the browser.

The scripts do nothing until you visit a particular website that recognizes the code as a script that it needs to interact with. All of this is handled behind the scenes.

One word of caution for newbies, Greasemonkey can lead to security issues so use a trusted source. Don’t be the first to install a script if you don’t know or trust the developer. Stick with well-known and recommended scripts until you feel more comfortable with how it all works. Learn more at Greasespot, the weblog for Greasemonkey.

Why should you spend time on this?

The benefit of Greasemonkey is that a user can enhance their favorite websites creating a more efficient or enriching online experience.

Give me an idea of what the heck you are talking about?

There are hundreds of add-ons at Userscripts.org. Despite being a relatively new service I found four scripts written for Blip.fm. Blip.fm Comments Hack 0.2 was written by Lius Fontenelle Carneiro. The script allows comments to be made on any blip (see picture below). Currently this feature isn’t available for regular users. With enough adoption, the Blip.fm developers may look to the GreaseMonkey community for inspiration as new features are baked into the network.

Here is a screen shot. It’s been modified a bit to render in English as the developer coded in good ‘ol Espanol. Aside from that no other tweaking necessary.

Greasemonkey + Blip.fm Commenting Script

Steps involved:

• 1. Get Firefox
• 2. Install Greasemonkey plug-in
• 3. Sign up for Blip.fm
• 4. Install Greasemonkey + Blip.fm commenting script.
• 5. Comment away. Be pithy. Be nice.
• 6. Did anyone catch the title reference?

DJinFrisco Volume 3 Released

The third edition is out. Check it out here http://budurl.com/nzms

• The Mugs – Broken Signals
• The Airborne Toxic Event – Sometime Around Midnight
• Reckless Kelly – Wicked Twisted Road
• New London Fire – Different
• The Police – Walking in Your Footsteps (Derangement remix – by Stewart Copeland)
• The Kooks – Naive
• k-os – Fly Paper
• Blitzen Trapper – Furr
• Silversun Pickups – Rusted Wheel
• Papadosio – Polygons
• Mike Doughty – Looking At The World From The Bottom Of A Well