Cookshop 1 year anniversary
Well yes: Cookshop got old. A bit more lively though than when it started. As the supreme Lord Keeper, I would firstly like to say "merci" to everyone who's passed by, and the ones who've given something back. From tips to opinions, to links on your own blogs - even if I never linked you back. This place has been quiet and largely inaccessible due to restrictions, but I'm happy with what I got, and thankful for all people I've met through it. Not to mention all the goods that we've come to discover.
Useless to start with history, since there's a way better alternative. A mix that my friend Loopy C has done for "Radio Valyermo", from a series of different other 'obscure' blogger-shared material. I am humbly honoured to have contributed, and hope the mix will serve as both a retrospective and good introduction to what sounds we love here. There are no less than 143 snippets taken from various posts in CKS archives, in about half an hour playing time. Click here to listen or download, and you might wanna check his other stuff as well. For the future, I am still convinced some of the best releases are the ones to follow, and as much as life permits, I'll try and track them down. See you soon - right now special DVDs silently await their burning.
Useless to start with history, since there's a way better alternative. A mix that my friend Loopy C has done for "Radio Valyermo", from a series of different other 'obscure' blogger-shared material. I am humbly honoured to have contributed, and hope the mix will serve as both a retrospective and good introduction to what sounds we love here. There are no less than 143 snippets taken from various posts in CKS archives, in about half an hour playing time. Click here to listen or download, and you might wanna check his other stuff as well. For the future, I am still convinced some of the best releases are the ones to follow, and as much as life permits, I'll try and track them down. See you soon - right now special DVDs silently await their burning.
17 comments:
i came across your blog yesterday, because you got my attention in some... forum, you asked me where i got an album "project perfect"
lots of your releases, are works i read about in [wire magazine] "almost 15 years reading it", believe me you got good taste!!!
PS: i also work in the movie business
keep this blog alive
theres been nothing as much about raising good taste in music and searching for inspiration in it as it was here for me. i totally admire your work and have nothing more to say but Thank You.
Happy Anniversary! I am leaving for home today (at least get to go home for a week) and look forward to catching up with you ;-)
Thanks again for the honor of 'representing' the event!
Congrats and many thanks for your fine contributions.
Congratulations on this milestone! The cookshop has given me many hours of fascinating music-- I am indebted to your fine taste and recommendations/shares. Thank you.
congratulations and thanx for all that stuff you brought to our ears.
many happy returns, in return for all the times I've spun what you've posted up here ^_^
thanks for keeping the faith
Congratulations! It's a really great work, keep up this nice blog! Thanks and all the best!
Kudos doru, your personality and musical knowledge keep me coming back. Despite some of the weirdass stuff tunes you post :)
I would also mention among the well-deserved accolades for musical taste, the WRITING!
I only discovered Cookshop a few months ago and faced with a wealth of archives, it was the writing that guided me through the unfamiliar territories. That included many a sidestep from my normal hunting, because the writing enticed and drew me into what might lie beyond this 'silent link with a story'.
That adventure is what makes finding a blog author like doru649 so special, the 'way finding' adventures once reserved for that special out-of-town record shop discovery (minus the atmosphere of mold, post apocalypse frankenstein stereo on '11' and ashtrays of the world overflowing with their unique perfume ;-))
The taste 'meistering' and writing synthesise an almost tactile experience from the publishing medium that, at least for me, becomes indelibly stamped on the musical experience and memory.
So I drink a second toast to our host for his keen textual articulations and 'dances about architecture' ;-)
cheers mate ;)
to be really honest and un-flattering, well.. if i ever had to chose a 2nd writer/contributor for this blog, that would be you. specially since i don't have much time to articulate my thoughts no mo'.
btw, your discs are proper burned; just need to label them & send. is that address you first gave me still "appropriate"?
The PO Box in Valyermo? Yes sir ;-)
Just got called back to work so will be gone another week ;-( but will at least get a couple of albums on the iPod before I leave.
Talk to you in about a week ;-) (and special thnks for another Andrew Liles!
Obrigado por todos os sons do inusitado.
How could I sent you a record?
send me a record? yay!
write me at doru649@yahoo.com :)
happy birthday and thank you for all that music. some is not my cup of tea, some is just breathtaking - and in any case, it keeps my ears open.
thank you.
d.k.b.
nice to hear that.
happy bithday and good luck for the next one
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