The Hard Light Of Reality

Spektrum “Cedar (Yamwho Mix)” – The original version of “Cedar” is a slow-burning banger that delays but does not deny the full intensity of the pleasure in its chorus. It’s all a piece with its lyrics, which connect and conflate physical/sexual exertion and spiritual communion. The Yamwho remix from the newly released Death at the Gymkhana Club downplays the stark contrast and rhythmic tension in the original in favor of a track that pushes a sound of luxury and sensual overload to such an exaggerated extreme that I occasionally feel like I’m far too dumpy and poor to be listening to something like this. (Click here to buy it from Bleep.)

Elsewhere: Starting today, I will be filling for Dan Kois on New York Magazine’s Vulture blog for the rest of this month. This blog will continue along with it, but forgive me if my brain starts to liquify sometime around the middle of November.

Also: Fluxblog was nominated for Best Music Blog in the 2007 Weblog Awards.