For an artist hailed as an establishment in electronic music, Dosh has a lot of seemingly conventional instruments. Martin Dosh came on stage first, surrounded by his electric piano and drum kit. Mike Lewis took a place between his saxophone and bass guitar, and Jeremy Ylvisaker rounded it out with a vintage Airline guitar. But after a few songs I realized that Dosh’s electronic magic is as much a function of performance as recording. Live, Dosh masterfully stacks and loops instrumental lines and fragments and underlays them with own breakneck drumming. Whether you want to call this electronica is an open question.
Counterintuitively, Dosh’s sound is jazz-like at times, despite the songs being carefully crafted and engineered. This resemblance results not only from a similar vocabulary---rapid drums and fluid saxophone---but from the experimentation in sounds and tempo and improvisation underlying Dosh’s final product. Dosh’s sound is a distillation of years’ experimentation in just how far and fast he can take his music without devolving into incoherence or repetitiveness. The highly refined product may not produce a strong emotional reaction, but the crowd’s consensus was that Dosh succeeded in his experiment.
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Four Tet - 2/26
Doug Fir Lounge
The Builders And The Butchers + Federale + Dr. Helicopter - 12/31
Mississippi Studios
Quasi performs The Who + The Shaky Hands + Inside Voices + DJ Safi - 12/31
Doug Fir Lounge
The Roots + Orgone + Lilla D’Mone - 1/2
Roseland Theater
Grass Widow + White Fang + Hornet Leg - 1/7
Artistery
The Moondoggies + Sera Cahoone - 1/8
Doug Fir Lounge
Steve Earle + Hayes Carll - 1/19
Aladdin Theatre
and the egg nog at kris kringle’s house is out of this world…
by steve on Thu Dec 24, 2009 at 07.33 pm from the entry: The Music Tapes Caroling Tour - A Living Room in Boston (Boston, MA; Dec. 13, 2009)
this is wonderful. especially julian’s christmas sweater!
by josh on Thu Dec 24, 2009 at 02.52 pm from the entry: The Music Tapes Caroling Tour - A Living Room in Boston (Boston, MA; Dec. 13, 2009)
so I was slow and didnt get my votes in, but I would have voted for 7-10 and added Fanfarlo and The Knux. Also Dan Auerbach was rad in person, so I would probably have given him a few extra points for that, even though this was about albums. I dont really get the Mayer Hawthorne thing, its not like motown revival is a new thing (Jamie Lidell, Ryan Shaw and Raphael Saadiq)
by Nicole on Thu Dec 24, 2009 at 01.13 pm from the entry: Top 10 Best Albums of 2009!
remixes tend to bore me because I think most are extremely bland and/or unoriginal, but everything here felt fresh from my first listen to my last. let me know what you think about it.
by colin on Wed Dec 23, 2009 at 06.43 pm from the entry: Present # 8: The 'Sky High' Mixtape - Remixing Kanye West
nice call. this sounds fantastic. i’ve been listening to a fair bit of kanye recently, and it will be great to get a different feel from his songs.
by josh on Wed Dec 23, 2009 at 06.14 pm from the entry: Present # 8: The 'Sky High' Mixtape - Remixing Kanye West
colin, you are too good to us!
by josh on Wed Dec 23, 2009 at 05.58 pm from the entry: The Final Present (#9): Another Radiohead soundboard - Live at Lollapalooza 08
I’m leaving AC out of this. Ok wait, I can’t. Beach Boys and AC can never be used in the same sentence ever again. If I were mayor, that would be the rule 
Loving that The Rural Alberta Advantage found it’s way up here. I discovered that record WAY late in the year but it’s taken only days of listening to agree with it’s spot in the top 10.
by dirkler on Wed Dec 23, 2009 at 12.13 pm from the entry: Top 10 Best Albums of 2009!
