Black & Pink music

I hope I will dance some of those songs on New Year's Eve; mmm... "black & pink party" ;)

*in english
Madonna - Material Girl
Cher- Walking in Memphis
Jimmi Somerville - Don't leave this way
ABBA - Take a chance on me
Sin with Sebastian - Shut up
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
Gnarls Barkley -Crazy

*in spanish
Camen de Mairena - Yo soy esa
Raffaella Carrá - Caliente, caliente
Mecano - Me cole en una fiesta

The image is a Kahlo's self-portrait :D

The year of the dog

The mp3 blogs root heavily themselves on hyperbole, you may have noticed the way thousands of mp3 blogs had Sufjan Stevens on their year end lists and he was easily the most overhyped artist of 2005, but you have to admit it, this boy has talent.
Sufjan's sound has clearly been more influenced by people like Steve Reich rather than by folk heroes like Nick Drake or John Fahey (although he did covered a song by Fahey on a tribute record called "I am the resurrection") and I feel he owes much of his success to this influence that gives his folkie music a certain worldly quality to his sound.
Back in 2002 Sufjan released a completely electronical album based on the chinese horoscope entitled "enjoy your rabbit" on which you can hear clearly the Reich influence I was writing about. Year of the dog features some sort of vocals by Stevens (he rarely sings on this one) on top of some watery electronics, it's actually one of my favorite tracks on the release (along with "year of the ox").
I'm sorry for succumbing to the hyperbole (cause I'm sure you'll see this certain song on many mp3 blogs by the end of the year). I'll see you back on January 2nd. Have fun.

Sufjan Stevens - year of the dog

Image: "the master bedroom" by Andrew Wyeth.

Psicodiscographic Questionnaire - The Refreshmints Band

(I bloody hate bloody blogger today!!!) (This post has been re-edited ad nauseum because... well, I dont have a "because", blogger has been failing me a lot and I already posted this but somehow spam got into the post, I just hope everything's fine with the layout the time I'm away...*sigh, here we go again...)

The Refreshmints Band are a mexican band from Coapa city which create some sort of electronical infused psychedelic indie rock... and to be honest I'm still having a hard time trying to describe their sound. You'll see it's really unique and it's easy to recognize you're hearing a song from them (which is really good and odd these days) but still there's so much genres involved that you just can't categorize them. "Hytomi" for example starts hinting the mexican rock legends "la barranca" but immediatly electronics start to take over and even further they even throws some spanish guitar solo. "Out of control" on the other hand starts as a piano driven brit-pop ballad but then turns into an indie rock stomper (that reminds me of placebo at some points) before the track gets eaten by the afformentioned electronic-psychedelic sound. Good thing is although they sing in english they portrait perfectly the everyday sounds of living in the beautiful mess that Mexico city is.
They were originally named "the refreshments" but got contacted by the lawyers of the same-name band (which apparently they didn't knew existed) and they had to change their name to "the refreshmints band", after you download the two songs below you will notice the artist name is still "the refreshments" just rename it and move on.
Huge Thanks to Koala and Panda for answering my questions below (I'll write the original Spanish interview first and then a translation):

(Spanish)
Cual es el primer disco que recuerdan haber escuchado?
Koala: hijole, mi papa ponia un monton a "Chicago, Yes y Queen", creo que fueron esos artistas los primeros que escuche de chico.
Panda: El padre de panda es Beatlemaniaco y ponia mucho el disco de "Help" cuando era cachorrito.
Algun disco que recomienden para lidiar con la depresion?
Koala & Panda: Sin lugar a dudas el "Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band"
Alguno que les averguenze haber comprado?
Koala: Panda se abstiene, pero la neta me da pena aceptar que en mi adolescencia llegue a comprar "Follow The Leader-Korn" (k chafa...)
Y el ultimo que compraron?
Panda: Clor - clor
Koala: Easy Star All Stars-Dub Side Of The Moon
La ultima, cuales son 5 discos sin los que no podrian vivir?
Koala & Panda:
1. Revolver- The Beatles
2. Druks- Aphex Twin
3. Ta Det Lugnt- Dungen
4. Ether Song- Turin Brakes
5. En el quinto no nos ponemos de acuerdo, pero esta entre: "La Mia Vita Violenta- Bolnde Readhead", "Minerva-Sakoto Fujii" y "Appetite For Disctruction- Funkstorung".

(Translated to english)
What's the first record you remember hearing?
Koala: Well my father played Chicago, Yes and Queen a lot. I'm not sure of the first record but those are the first artists I remember hearing.
Panda: My father was a beatlemaniac and he played "help!" when I was a cub.
Any record you'd recommend to struggle with depression?
Koala & Panda: The best one for this means has to be "Sgt. Pepper's lonely hearts club band"
Any record you feel ashamed of buying?
Koala: Panda would rather keep this to himself, but I'm truly ashamed of confessing that I bought "Follow the leader" by Korn in my teens.
What's the last record you bought?
Panda: Clor - clor
Koala: Easy Star All Stars-Dub Side Of The Moon
Last one, five records you can't live without?
Koala & Panda:
1. Revolver- The Beatles
2. Druks- Aphex Twin
3. Ta Det Lugnt- Dungen
4. Ether Song- Turin Brakes
5. We can't decide for a fifth but consider it a tie between: "La Mia Vita Violenta- Bolnde Readhead", "Minerva-Sakoto Fujii" y "Appetite For Disctruction- Funkstorung".

The Refreshmints Band - hytomi
The Refreshmints Band - out of control

Lack of oxygen up on the mountains

I'll be gone to the mountains on Thursday morning. There's not that much to do in there, I'll probably spend the rest of the week drinking, thinking and losing money while playing "albures". I'll probably come back here tomorrow to write a short post, I offer you this little compilation of electronic songs for you to enjoy while I'm gone, hope you like them.
Apparat joined one of those great John Peel sessions and he got accompanied by a cellist, a violinist, a vocalist and a clarinet player, after the session he went home and messed the tracks on his studio to release them as the Silizum Ep. Organic and warm glitches.
If you're feeling sad or find the usual stuff from the Animal Collective too sappy for you, I'd recommend you to listen to the rollercoaster project remix to "spirit they're gone, spirit they've vanished". He has also made a great remix of one of my favorite Cat power songs, "peking saint", which is available as a free download right here.

Apparat - Silizium
Jan Jelinek - western mimkry
Venetian Snares - hiszekeny
Animal Collective - spirit they're gone, spirit they've vanished (rollercoaster project rmx)
The Mountains - blown glass typewriter
Fernpunkt - the prepared piano
Tellaro - 1985
Letting up despite great faults - maybe I'll hide with you

Image by artist Leslie Shows.

The Staff

I don't think I took the time to introduce you properly to our new residents (because I'm actually expecting other two people to confirm their inclusion) so here you go:

• Kahlo: She's a friend from Spain with great taste and great blogs (dadanoias, ternura porno), she loves that 40/50's sound, she takes really good photographs of the people around her and if you're into visual arts I'd urge you to hit her blogs and check the links in her posts, amazing stuff in there. You'll just have to agree we needed more progesterone at the motel.
• Crish and Oum: A brother/sister team from Kansas who host the radio show "I Got My Spirit Moving" on KJHK Lawrence 90.7. Crish loves the gospel and Oum loves weird vocals. Eclectic pair and the just amount of religiousness we need after those nights full of lube and debauchery. You can check their playlist as well as some other stuff (as an extensive "best of 2005" list) at spirited radio.

Take an optimistic flight darling

Hi! I am Kahlo, a new Motel de Moka's contributor. I would like to start my first post focusing on some old favourites songs of mine. I hope you enjoy them while optimistic feelings start to call your minds ;) I wish you a big smile . Sweet "pink" kisses little "mokas" ;)

Buddy Holly - Everyday
Buddy Holly - Peggy Sue got married
Shirelles -I met him on a Sunday
Emmylou Harris - Mister Sandman
Aretha Franklin - Think

The image comes from "The Girdle Zone" ;)

Move

My holidays are finally over, (well, not quite... I'll be leaving you later this week and I'll be returning at beginnings of January, I'll leave you with the new residents so don't worry, you're in good hands) my blood relatives were relatively languid and lifeless this year, was it a bad year? Lack of color is contagious.
Feel free to join me in epileptic steps whilst listening to this random dancey tunes.

Paul Kalkbrenner - Gebrunn Gebrunn
Liars - don't techno for an answer
Velella Velella - hunter
Jackson and his computer band - arpeggio

Image credit: Nude in a red armchair by Picasso.

In the middle

Well hence the fact we'll have new people writing here at the motel next week I've decided to quit using the tags (laundry room, elevator beat and bedroom rockers) and I'll probably redesign the blog next month... so expect some nice changes. As you may have noticed I have finally purchased an ezarchive account so from now on I wont be using savefile or usendit, direct links only from now on, ain't you readers happy? I'll see you on monday, Happy Xmas to all of you (except for that reader that kept harrasing me at my mail).
The avalanche is an outtake Sufjan recorded during the Illinois sessions and Borderline is a b-side, seven swans era as good as everything he's done, I'm seriously considering Sufjan made a pact with Satan.
If you haven't decided which records to buy yourself for xmas head over at feedmegoodtunes or at almostcool to read their year end lists. Hipsters might want to check the extremely boring and predictable pitchfork's top 50 records of the year (for a moment there I thought I had the ability to predict the future) or the similar yet better top 50 records from Stylus.

Sufjan Stevens - the avalanche
Sufjan Stevens - borderline
The Dead Brothers - esclavo triste
Arizona amp and alternator - blue blue marble girl
The Mooks - hollywood nocturne

The image comes from the great Circus museum galleries and I took the link from kahlo at dadanoias.

Owen Pallett

Although we didn't got any Arcade Fire music this year, Owen Pallett (the one creating the string arrangements for them and many other artists from around the indie scene) did release an unsuccesful but somehow noteworthy album called "has a new home" under his last moniker "Final Fantasy". The new york times headlines him as "The world's most popular gay postmodern harpsichord nerd", a somehow irrelevant description...I mean, come on, how many gay postmodern harpsichord players have you heard of?
In case you were wondering, Les Mouches is a catastrophically beautiful project from Pallett which showcases his long admiration for "Xiu Xiu" and his love for classical music.
Keep an eye on him, I have the feeling he'll drop something truly awestrucking in a few years (or months).

Final Fantasy - this is the dream of win and regine
Les Mouches - carload of whatever
The Hidden Cameras - that's when the ceremony starts
The Arcade Fire - wake up

Have you noticed something different on the links ;)

Some bands to check

I might be a little late on the game of pointing towards "gang gang dance", but after a certain reader reccomended 'em to me I must admit I've been falling in love with them since then. Freak Folk comparable to the likes of Animal Collective, the Kallikak Family or even Boards of Canada. Animal Collective and general freak folk detractors might want to steer away from this one or maybe accept my invitation to hear Samara Lubelski instead.
Wooden wand and the vanishing voice have released quite many Ep's on 2005 and almost everything by them comes highly reccomended for people who enjoys the aformentioned artists. I'd urge you to go to everything is fire to search more of their songs if you enjoy the one I'm linking to here, lisa's been a fan for wooden wand for a long time now and she might direct you to some really interesting tunes by them there.

Gang gang dance - nomad for love (cannibal)
Gang gang dance - untitled #1
Samara Lubelski - sister silver
Samara Lubelski - fleeting skies
Wooden Wand and the vanishing voice - I am the one and he is the caretaker of my heart

Image from the Bestiaire Medieval exposition at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.

Front Desk Announcement - 05

As I am currently busy and would like some fresh blood on the blog, I am looking for a few good men and/or women to contribute to the Motel. Most of you should know what the motel's about; eclectic music from all over the world, some new artists, some old artists, which means pretty much anything goes around here. And now that I think about it, the only requeriment is good quality on the music (or that's at least what I've been trying to give you readers here).
For those interested just drop a line here and depending on the number of responses I'll then decide how to proceed.
Thanks for listening.

Psicodiscographic questionnaire - Pop Levi

Pop Levi is one third of Super Numeri along with the great Snap Ant and Karl Webb from ninjatune signed Loka. He's also been an ice cream van driver, a hair model and Ladytron's bassist. What a cool guy. His new wave poppish sound will very probably take more than one narcotic smile from your face. He describes his sound as "Prince making out with Dylan in Syd Barrett's bedroom." and believe me, it's a really accurate description for his sound. If you'd like to hear some of his songs visit him at his space. Thanks for the great interview Pop.

Tell me about a record that brings you back good memories.
PL: "Jah Shaka Meets Mad Professor At Ariwa Sounds". I know this album almost backwards since a great friend of mine (Snap Ant) had a cassette copied from vinyl in a flat we shared for years. We listened to it religiously whilst cooking each evening. I learned to make curry to that record. I've since heard a CD copy of it, but it just doesn't sound the same as that old tape.
Have you ever lost a record you loved?
PL: I once lost a 3-disc Prince box set. It was a bootleg and I haven't been able to replace it for years. It was called "Crystal Ball" and featured an extensive compilation of unreleased early Prince and tracks by artists like Apollonia 6 that were written and produced by Prince. He has since released a 3-disc box set called "Crystal Ball" through his NPG label, but, sadly, it was not the same collection of songs. I really miss those CDs. Favourite track: Vibrator.
Do you have a favorite driving record?
PL: So many to choose from, but a favourite of mine is "Funhouse" by The Stooges. Anyone can drive to that.
A sexy one?
PL: I collect vinyl, so my copy of "Birds" on Shell Records. It's a 7" record that plays at 33rpm that comes from the "Shell" that sells petrol/gasoline. It is packed with low quality field recordings of birds in their natural habitats around the world and, in the little booklet that comes with it, you can learn details about each species of bird. That's a sexy record!
Last one, 5 records you cant live without...
The Byrds - "The Notorious Byrd Brothers"
Yoko Ono - "Plastic Ono Band"
Robert Johnson - "King Of The Delta Blues"
Sun Ra - "Cosmos"
Bruce Haak - "The Electric Lucifer"

Pop Levi - mournin' light (fragment)
Pop Levi - kisses at command (fragment)

Happy birthday to me!

Yeahy! I must ask you to send me toys in good state, without any cigarette burns or broken pieces. Thank you.

Andrew Bird - the happy birthday song
The beatles - happy birthday

The image came from "the best party ever" cover from "the boy least likely to".
*some errors with the links, already corrected, sorry about that.

Psicodiscographic questionnaire - Gordo Gringo

So it's time to add a little plus to the blog: The "psicodiscographic questionnaires". This questionnaries consist of 5 or more questions to indie artists about the records they love, hope you enjoy their answers as much as me.
Opening the questionnaires we have multiinstrumentist Phillip A. Jimenez (PJ, he's the one with the funny hair in case you were wondering) from Gordo Gringo, he sings, plays banjo, mandolin, and guitar and sometimes when he's got nothing to do he plays with loops and sequencers or answers interviews for music blogs. A real interesting box of suprises.

On their latest LP, Everybody loves to party, Gordo Gringo made the wise move of changing their sound to join the folk-rock influenced indie people like Wilco, Death Cab for Cutie or Bright eyes. Although the scene is saturated with these type of music, Gordo Gringo manages to excel by creating fresh and charming songs. Gordo Gringo (which means Fat American in Spanish) is a band you surely want to check if you're into any of the afformentioned artists. For more info, music and tour dates check their space. Thank u Phil!

Any records for cold weathers?
PJ: "Takk", the new one by Sigur Ros has a cold weather feel to it. Beth Orton and Feist have been keeping me warm this winter.
What album is your favorite to listen to when you're depressed, and why?
PJ: I'd say The Cure's "Disintegration" It's been working since 1989. It is such a focused record, and depression and angst runs through it all. At the same time by the last track, yer usually feeling better. Beauty in art is very cleansing.
Is there any record you feel terribly sorry for losing?
PJ: My College transcripts. Now I have to survive on music.
What about the first album you bought?
PJ: I bought 2 the same day, Falco (the one with Rock Me Amadeus) and Michael Jackson's Thriller. I still have my original copies on vinyl and they sound great!!
The last one (you bought)?
PJ:The new Broken Social Scene and Wilco's "Kicking Television".
Last question, those 5 records you couldn't live without?
PJ: The whole Bob Dylan bootleg series, Wilco's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot", Talking Head box set, The Cure "Disintegration", U2's "The Joshua Tree".

Gordo Gringo - old suitcase

Old fashioned

Elevator Beat:
I am among that strange breed that admires their grandparents secretly. I wonder at their old pictures, I steal their old vynils and I watch their boring yet touching, golden era movies. It's become some sort of sacred act to touch those old fashioned items.
The only thing I feel very sorry about is that none of my 4 living ancestors were very concerned or obsessed as me about music.

Jimmy Cohrsen - Kenzo (wma)
Richard Swift - the novelist
Nat King Cole - quizas, quizas, quizas
Louie Armstrong - St James infirmary
Bobby Darin - mack the knife
Tom Waits - alice

Image by Michael Bartalos.

The third ear

Laundry Room:
Not afraid of stormy weather.

Jeff Alexander - come wander with me
Bjorkestra - army of me
Devotchka - Charlotte Mittnacht
Nina Nastasia - stormy weather
Over the rhine - all i need is everything

Image by Jan Saudek.

Motel de Moka's Top 21 songs of 2005

I don't like to do rankings but most of you people seem to like this sort of things, so if it makes you happy here you have it, the songs from 2005 (some from late 2004) I enjoyed the most. I'll be gone this weekend, tomorrow Muzzle of bees will be posting my interview with him if you'd like to take a look. And if you love or hate my selections please comment. I guess that's all... probably I'll see you on Sunday, have a nice weekend.

21. Doves - black & white town
from some cities

20. The Safety Scissors - where is germany and how do I get there?
from Tainted Lunch

19. Depeche Mode - precious
from playing the angel

18. Broken Social Scene - bandwitch (save as/rename as mp3)
from Broken Social Scene

17. Gorillaz - el manana
from demon days

16. Chin Chin - shallow dive
from Shallow dive

15. Cat Power - the greatest
from The Greatest

14. Okkervil River - for real
from Black Sheep Boy

13. Tunng - tale from black
from this is...

12. Husky Rescue - summertime cowboy
from Country Falls

11. Feist - mushaboom
from let it die

10. Isolee - schrapnell
from wearemonster

9. Iron & Wine - the trapeze swinger
from In good company OST

8. Sigur Ros - gong
from Takk

7. Patrick Wolf - the libertine
from wind in the wires

6. Thee More Shallows - ave grave
from More Deep Cuts

5. Animal Collective - grass
from Feels

4. Burnt Friedman and Jaki Liebezei - the librarian
from Out in the sticks

3. The Books - it never changes to stop
from Safe and Lost

2. Sufjan Stevens - casimir Pulaski day
from Illinoise

1. Andrew Bird - fake palindromes
from the mysterious production of eggs

The three images were created by artist Marc Chagall.

Broken chords

Laundry Room:
Estuve en casa de mi abuela el dia guadalupano y talvez no sea coincidencia pero ese dia tambien es el cumpleanios de mi tia Lupe.
Mientras como el pollo que me causara una noche alucinada por mala y no por buena direccion, recuerdo que tengo unas llamadas que hacer antes de las 6. En el momento en el que tomo el telefono y me lo llevo a la oreja, veo como huye y se esconde bajo el refrigerador, la enorme cucaracha a la que desde hace tiempo no veia y de afecto le llamo Kafka.
Yo no se cuanto le tome a las cucarachas esto del morir, pero, a esta yo solo la veo una vez cada varios meses moverse y ademas he notado que cuando esta de buen humor, canta.

Es - sadepaivat
Readymade - the fake but no finish
Barzin - past all concerns
Glider - riviere beauport
Kohn & de Portables - kohnfituurpje

Image credit: "Las meninas" by Joel-Peter Witkin.

More winter's love

Laundry Room:
More songs for cold weathers. I don't know... these songs just sound like winter to me.
The librarian is a collaboration between Burnt Friedman and Jaki Liebezeit with the genius of David Sylvian taking on vocals, the song has a crispy electronic production and it might be one of the best tracks I've heard this year (or maybe I'm just biased with my love for Sylvian).
Motion Picture might remind you of Red House Painters and Patrick Phelan might remind you of Spain (or at least those are the bands I'm reminded of while listening to them).
We/or/me's "aimless day" has some toy glockenspiels all around the track, I've always associated glockenspiels with winter so pardon me if this one sounds out of place in here.
I'll be back in a few days, this is the reason I've posted three entries this day. I wouldn't leave you readers hungry, no no.

Burnt Friedman/David Sylvian - the librarian
We/or/me - aimless day
Motion Picture - a paper gift
Patrick Phelan - lesser laws

Image by Lauren Gregg

Bossa

Elevator Beat:
I was checking older posts and I've just realized I haven't posted any Bossa Nova on the elevator's playlist, I'm sure it's the wrong time of year to do this, but here it goes, classic bossa tracks from the elevator with love:

Joao Gilberto & Stan Getz - the girl from ipanema
Jobim & Frank Sinatra - agua de beber
Elis Regina & Nara Leao - desafinado
Nicola Conte & Rosalia de Souza - bossa

Imagen del incomparable y exquisito Jim Flora.

Light the match

Elevator Beat:
A languorous intoxication decanted from torch tradition.

Lorna - understanding heavy metal parts I and II
To Rococo rot - from dream to daylight
Coastal - eternal
M83 - I guess I'm floating

Painting credit: One of many versions of "the peacable kingdom" by Edward Hicks.

Kinky Collection

Bedroom Rockers:
Songs to play while making pancakes for him/her the morning after.

David Bowie - fame
Jamie Lidell - multiply
Jamie Cullum - get your way
Gabor Szabo - the beat goes on
King Crimson - ladies of the road

I'm about to purchase some hosting service! Be patient.

Check

Sorry for not posting that much this week, circumstances have made it difficult to come around. Oh yes and my cable modem fucks up when it rains so the few times I've had time well, you know...
Came quickly to post about two new bands I found this week, hopefully I'll come back tomorrow, enjoy:

The attorneys:
The Attorneys create some downright kinky songs. I dare you to listen to "lonely guy" without being tempted to hit repeat.
Catchy unpretentious rock from NYC. Yummy.
More songs and info at their space.

The attorneys - lonely guy


Snap ant:
Snap ant is weird. Snap ant is addictive. You'll see, everything goes to blend in its sound: 80's ballad, experimental electronica, some bossa nova here and there. "This is Jut" is an album full of mixed influences, you'll probably hear echoes from everyone here: Pink Floyd, Air, The Beach Boys, The Specials, The Bee Gees, Lee Scratch Perry...well you get the idea...(Let's do some name drop) Their song "saviour piece" was included on the "softcore jukebox" compilation by Ladytron. If you'd like to sample more songs visit their space.

Snap Ant - berewind
Snap Ant - turning ugly

80's cover and some mash-ups

Elevator Beat:
I'm turning 20 in a few days. I was born in the day that music died, that was around 1985.
I recently found out that nothing compares 2 u is a song by Prince and not by Sinead O' Connor as common belief states. It was a bit of a shock for me.
Come feel nostalgic with me while listening to some 80's covers:

Monorail - everybody wants to rule the world (tears for fears)
Ivy - let's go to bed (The Cure)
The Beautiful South - don't fear the reaper (blue oyster cult)
Arto Lindsay - erotic city (prince)
Stereophonics - nothing compares 2 u (prince)

Well I'm not against mash-ups (except that one time when imbecility created "the grey album", the combination between the almost perfect "white album" by the beatles and the flawful "black album" by jay-z, and I must confess I'm thankful to the big labels for detecting this piece of shit and killing it before it saw the light). If you'd like to learn how to participate in a campaigne to support mash-ups go to downhill battle, a great site for musical activists.

Dean Gray - Novocaine Rhapsody (Queen/Green Day)
CCC - she's slipping away (The Beatles/ Kinobe)
Eve Massacre - tom's diner continues (Suzanne Vega/Dj Koze)
Dj Earworm - noone takes your freedom (Scissor Sisters/The Beatles/George Michael/Aretha Franklin)
Go Home Productions - breakin my bloody princess (Kasabian/The Music/My Bloody Valentine)

Image: "The triumph of Death" by Peter Bruegel.

Cosmic Sexual Trip II

Bedroom rockers:
A ceremony for the senses, an alibi in the red light district.

Thievery Corporation - until the morning comes (kid loco rmx)
Tricky - pumpkin
Sigur ros - Svefn-g-englar
Benjamin Biolay - little darlin
Bjork - come to me

Image by Joelle Deroy.

I had to modify this post...

Laundry Room:
Bueno, pues tuve que modificar un poquito esta entrada pues contenia una foto de las nalgas de Keyra y creo que el moderador de blogger se puso tirria con el post.

Apparently blogger was having some problems yesterday... Care to reccommend me some chinese sounding songs? My current obsessions are being paired with chinese music.

Listing Ship - Chinese song
Junip - official
Final Fantasy - the CN tower belongs to the dead
Bravecaptain - All watched over by machines of loving grace

Image by Miroslav Sasek.

Struggle

Elevator Beat:
Against progress for perreniality.
Against abstraction for the concrete.
Against revolution for the tradition.
Against politics for metaphysics.
Against nature for esthetics.
Against egalitarism for hierarchization.
Against phantoms for spectres.
Against skepticism for faith.
Against architecture for music.

Rjd2 - smoke and mirrors
Arab Strap - haunt me
John Vanderslice - trance manual
Idaho - to be the one
Talkdemonic - mountaintops on caves

Image taken from the Apocalypse of 1313, by Marie-Therese Gousset and Marianne Besseyre.

Marla Project

Indie labels are a privilege we don't have on the third world. This leads to the death of beautiful clumsy ideas which rarely get the support and attention they deserve.
Marla Project is one of those beautiful ideas. Currently in search for a label and hailing from Puebla, the trio behind Marla Project have recently released by their own means an Ep that documents their birth as a band. Equally inspired by everyone from Mogwai to A perfect circle, they create electronic music which adjusts to every type of mood.
"Amniotic" for example, is esentially a post-rock song which recalls the bleak work from the afformentioned Mogwai while "Feel onhappy---days" takes the post-rock on a quite different approach merging electronics and even some sort of quiet grunge to the track to punctuate the overall melancolic hope surrounding the song. On the other hand, "Instrumental Software" is a dark almost industrial song which wouldn't sound out of place with some vocals by Reznor or Maynard Keenan on top of it.
To sample some of their songs, visit their space.

Las disqueras independientes son uno de tantos privilegios con los que no contamos en el tercer mundo. Esto lleva a la muerte de bellas y vagas ideas que rara vez obtienen el apoyo y atencion que se merecen.
Marla Project es una de estas bellas ideas. Buscando una disquera y con sede en Puebla, el trio detras del proyecto a sacado a luz por medios propios un Ep que documenta su nacimiento. Inspirados igualitariamente por una gama de bandas desde Mogwai hasta A perfect circle, crean musica electronica con un vasta tonalidad de sonidos que sirven para ajustarse a distintos estados de animo.
"Amniotic" por ejemplo, es una cancion ubicada en el genero post-rock que recuerda al estilo anemico de Mogwai, mientras que "feel onhappy---days" toma el genero de una manera distinta al agregarle sonidos electronicos y una guitarra grungera que sirven para puntuar la esperanza melancolica de la cancion. De otra forma, "Instrumental Software" es una cancion oscura y casi industrial que no sonaria fuera de lugar con vocales de Reznor o Maynard Keenan sobre ella.
Para samplear sus canciones o enterarte de donde van a tocar proximamente visita su space.

Marla Project - Amniotic
Marla Project - Instrumental Software

I will surround you pt.2

Laundry Room:
Some post-rock picks, some winter hymns.

Do make say think - frederica
Maybe She Will - he films the clouds
Below the sea - tropic of cancer
Tape - sponge chorus
Continental - stella



La imagen del post de hoy se atribuye a Phil Mulloy.

Lost?

We speak english
There's a new menu on the sidebar which goes by the name, "Read Me", links to the posts of interest will be trackbacked in here.
Apparently some people still get lost while navigating through mp3 blogs, here's a guide to help you navigate through the motel:
WTF?
Motel de Moka is an mp3 blog about songs from artists I get obsessed about. All mp3's are used for promotional purposes only. If you like what you're hearing, buy the records.
How to download:
mac: ctrl-click on mp3 link & choose "Download linked file"
pc: Right click on mp3 link & choose "save target as"
Sometimes I might upload the songs via savefile, in this case you'll have to follow the link and download from there.
Sidebar Contents:
Read me - read.
Mp3 Blogs - The links to some Mp3 blogs I visit often.
Cbox - Instant messaging, for those too lazy to comment.
Post Search - Type the artists you're looking for to see if there's some mp3's from them on this blog. Google alternative for the blogsearch bar on top.
Sour-c3s - mp3blogs aggregators, uploaders, mp3 seekers.
Somethings - sites which are mp3 unrelated.
Referer - Links back to sites that link to this blog.
Site Meter - keeps record of the daily visits to the site
Hype, elbows, blog hub - This ones keep track of blogs hosting mp3s.
Promotion:
If you'd like me to promote your band through the blog, contact me at my mail or my space. I listen to everything you send me. I'll only post about artists I enjoy.

Se habla espaniol
He agregado una nueva seccion en la barra de al lado que se titula "Read me", los links a los posts de interes general se van a quedar aqui.
Algunas personas todavia se pierden al navegar por blogs de mp3, aqui va una guia rapida para ayudarlos a navegar por el motel:
Que Chingados?
Motel de Moka es un blog de mp3s con canciones de los artistas que me obsesionan. Los mp3's son subidos para fines de promocion unicamente. Si te gusta lo que escuchas, compra los discos.
Como bajo las canciones?
mac: ctrl-click sobre el link del mp3 & escoger "Download linked file"
pc: click derecho sobre el el link del mp3 & escoger "Guardar destino como"
Algunas veces voy a subir las canciones por savefile, en estos casos se sigue el link y se baja la cancion desde ahi.
Contenidos de la Barra:
Read me - Leean estos posts.
Mp3 Blogs - Links a otros blogs de mp3s que recomiendo.
Cbox - Mensajes instantaneos para los que les da hueva comentar.
Post Search - Escriban el nombre de algun artista o cancion que esten buscando para ver si existe algun mp3 de ellos en el motel. De igual manera se pueden buscar en la barra de blogsearch que se encuentra hasta arriba del blog.
Sour-c3s - mp3blogs aggregators, uploaders, buscadores de mp3.
Somethings - Paginas que visito que no tienen relacion a los mp3s.
Referer - Linkea de regreso hacia los sites que linkean aqui.
Site Meter - Mantiene un registro de las visitas diarias al blog.
Hype, elbows, blog hub - Estos mantienen un registro de los blogs que contienen mp3s.
Promocion:
Si tienes una banda y te gustaria que hable de ella en el blog, contactame por mi mail o my space. Escucho todo lo que me envian. Solo escribo posts sobre los artistas que me gustan.

Le elancolia

Elevator Beat:
Caminabamos por las calles bulliciosas del centro.
Te pareces a mi alma y te pareces a la palabra melancolia.
A veces se podia oir la vibracion de la luz.

Simone Fisher Turner - harrodspianos
Christopher Bissonette - pellucidity
Liam Singer - asthma/rivets in water
Max Richter - on the nature of daylight
Eluvium - an accidental memory in case of death
Jasmine Star - sky decides


Image by Marcus Zilliox.

Motel de Moka's Top 6 -11 albums of 2005

And so it is. I updated this post and added #11 to the list after realizing that even numbers are evil. Here's the trackback to the other post with: Motel de Moka's top 5 albums of the year. Remember to support hungry musicians. Buy records, go to gigs, show them love.

11. Electric President - electric president
Download: Electric President - good morning, hypocrite
Download: Electric President - ten thousand lines (alternate mix)

This album is phantastic albeit much too short comprised of 10 clear but complex pop jems. They have recently been signed to the excelent Morr Label and it's been scheduled as a 2006 release, so I'm kind of cheating on this one, oh, and I'm not telling how I got my hands on it.




10. Marsen Jules - herbstlaub
Download: Marsen Jules - fans d' automne

Herbstlaub, which simply means "autumn leaves" is a hazy ambient album that I've found myself coming back to time and time again. Easily the best pure ambient album and probably one of the best electronical ones released on 2005.
If you like it you might want to try Eluvium's "talk amongst the trees", another noteworthy ambient album released this year.


9. Sigur Ros - takk
Download: Sigur Ros - hoppipolla

I must be honest, I didn't enjoy this one as much as Agaetis Byrjun or even (), Jonsi's voice has gotten a bit too high for me to enjoy and I'm already irritated at his supposed hopelandic full of "iyu"s, yet, they remain one of the most inventive modern musical outfits in the world today and the music is still carried with power and beauty so I'm not complaining. It just didn't hit me the way their past releases did. Maybe I was expecting too much from this one. Nonetheless, highly recommended.


8.Idaho - the lone gunman
Download: Idaho - live today again

I like this one, Jeff Martin has that type of wispy voice that I can't resist, and the lone gunman might be the best Idaho album in years. In case you didn't knew: Idaho has been around the music scene for more than 12 years yet almost noone has heard about it. Give it a try, you wont regret it. A timeless somber beauty.



7. Cocorosie - noah's ark
Download: Cocorosie - Beautiful Boyz

The sisters Casady are the best reinvention Bjork never made, of course Bjork couldn't possibly imagine her sound as conceived on the bayou. Those harps and saloon pianos coloring this album give it a very bohemian take on avant-folk, and for fans of the genre this is a must.
If they continue improving their stylings and focusing their efforts a little more they might create something truly inspiring on a few years.


6. Colleen - the golden morning breaks
Download: Colleen -the golden morning breaks
Download: Colleen - summer water

Im warning you, this is a collection of harmless soft lullabies and the record has a unicorn and a fairie on the cover, somehow, I'm ashamed to say I love it. Every song on this release has the hability to seep into your subconcious with subtlety.
Cecile Schott picked the instruments punctuating the release carefully (most of them are from renaissance-era origin) which makes the whole record sound seemingly naked and it actually makes for the better because it finds her emotions bare for us to take. Quite lovely.
I'd also reccommend you to look for Susumu Yokota's "Symbol" which didn't make it to the list but has a certain resemblance to this one in it's use of electronically-infused barroque music.

No one can escape Dada

Laundry Room:
"Avanzo.
O retrocedo...
Con la noche entre las uñas.
Que el amor amarillo
y nuestros cuerpos de cerillos."
Este poema escaso y pinche lo escribi usando el metodo dadaista. Dense un tiempo de leer "Seven Dada Manifestos" del genial Tristan Tzara. Y si viven ociosos como yo, maten tiempo con el metodo dada. El libro fue recomendado por la dadanoia de Kahlo.

I originally stated that my top albums of the year list was limited to 5 records, due to the positive comments from other bloggers and readers inquiring for a bigger list, I'm expanding it into a top 10. The albums have been selected already but I'm too lazy to do that post right now, maybe I'll do that tomorrow or next week, for now I offer you some songs I'm enjoying at the moment:

Isolee - Schrapnell
Archer Prewitt - way of the sun
Eluvium - under the water it glowed
Colleen - the happy sea

The image is based on the medieval tapestrie "A mon seul desir", one of six tapestries known by name as "the lady and the unicorn". The artist remains unknown to date.

Motel de Moka's Top 5 albums of 2005

I fucking loved (and still love) 2005. Here's my list of the top 5 albums of the year, I could have easily chosen other 5 or could've made up a top 50 list, but there's more important people out there doing that, therefore, I am not.
I'm not claiming this ones are the best ones out there, but they're merely my top 5. This is the music that has been on my side this year and it has encompassed important changes in my life, this is the reason the very reason I love this albums.
Thanks to the people that were reading the blog this year, I'd really appreciate any comments or suggestions on the site or the music.

5. Animal Collective - feels
Download: Animal collective - Banshee beat

Animal Collective are well known for the emotional resonance they transmit through their releases. This is their most mellodic and accesible work yet. A tasteful and inventive release from a band with a quite unique sound.





4. Sufjan Stevens - Illinois
Download: Sufjan Stevens - Chicago



The second delivery from Sufjan Stevens's 50 state project is as beautiful and diverse as Michigan. Despite the ridiculous subtitles and the horrendous cover, we still love you Sufjan.




3. Andrew Bird - Andrew Bird & The mysterious production of eggs
Download: Andrew Bird - sovay
Download: Andrew Bird - a nervous tic emotion of the head to the left

This is the musical testimony of the long path Bird has walked. On Weather Systems, it seemed he was in the process of creating something exceptional. Time passed, and this is the album he created. While Casual ears will simply find it laid-back, attentive ones might find many rewards on this one. Highly reccomended.



2. Paavoharju - Yhä Hämärää
Download: Paavoharju - puhuri
Download: Paavoharju - valo tihkuu kaiken lapi

Chances are you hate Paavoharju in the same degree I hate the fiery furnaces. It's even more probable you'll hate me for taking it all the way up to second place on my list.
This is the concept behind the album: A band of Finnish born-again christians making music to record their religious re-discovery. I would have runned away from this one at the mention of the word "christian", but the music itself is of such grandeur, it actually transmits real devotion. Admirably consistent for such an un-organized collage of sounds: Bollywood music, church hymns, vynil crackles, digital filters, beautiful pop tunes and ambient esoteric noises.


1. The Books - Lost and safe
Download: The Books - smells like content
Download: The Books - an animated description of mr maps

This is the first album I bought this year. When the record stopped spinning I already knew this one was ending up on the top of my list. It's weird cause I never really cared that much about "thought for food" or "the lemon of pink", but for this one, consider my hat tipped. My personal reccomendation for 2005.

Take time

Laundry Room:
Bueno les menti, termine el examen y no tengo nada que hacer mientras my beloved llega a su destino, que suerte la de uds.
Ay, cuando el sol cambia su color.

The wilderness - end of freedom
Pinback - loro
Ute Lemper - tango ballad
Jolie Holland - old fashioned morphine
Jens Lekman - I saw her at the antiwar demonstration
Xiao He - mama
Cocorosie - brazilian sun

The image was taken from a friend's page and I don't know who made it, it seems to me she took it from one of those loonies from l' art brut, but I might be wrong... december is near and it's very probable the blog will be changed back to english...

Matrioska

Laundry Room:
I want a son. Carve me one.
Hoy desayune Cheerios, de aquellos de la caja amarilla que a mi siempre me han gustado. Que que chingados les interesa a uds? Bueno, ya se acerca mi cumpleanos y Navidad y me acaba de dar el fetiche de tener un plato hondo, color rojo de ceramica.
Esta semana y la siguiente tocan examenes finales, asi que no me van a estar viendo en un rato por aqui, les dejo un compendio de unas 6 rolas para que se hechen unas dos por dia de aqui al domingo, Y en el siguiente post, Ute Lemper!
Bueno, ahora si, a bajar cancioncitas que pa eso estan aqui:

The helio sequence - blood bleeds
Chad VanGaalen - somewhere I know there's nothing
The Rosebuds - blue bird
Spoon - the infinite pet
Sigur Ros - Saeglopur
Under Byen - mission

La imagen es de Tom Judd. Este ocioso se encargo de documentar graficamente 365 dias de su vida en una libreta a la que le dedicaba una hora diaria. Si se sienten mas ociosos que el, pueden pasar a su site o bien, robarle la idea y empezar una libreta propia.

Moth eaten towels

Laundry Room:
Didn't realized we had moths at this time of year...
Fake Palindromes is a great Andrew Bird track from his album "the mysterious production of eggs", with bursts of chimes, his very characteristic fiddle, guitars and frenzy drums beginning the song and Andrew Bird singing on top of this beautiful mess, his lyrics have improved greatly and have gotten even more bizarre. I envy and feel humbled at Patrick Wolf, he has my age (19) and he's released two great albums (lycantrophy, wind in the wires) in the course of two years. Those horse clomps on "the libertine" are real samples, this is the solely reason I choose this one as my favorite track from "wind in the wires".
Ave grave from Thee more shallows is also beautiful, soft electronics surround the track and that just kills me, so I'm uploading it. They have some other tracks free for download at their label's site, I'm choosing 2am, it has an eerie violin and some chimes that add urgency to the song, eerie violins conquer me. Both tracks have an amazing ghost chorus acting as atmosphere, beautiful.
I think everyone has heard Feist by now, she has collaborated with everyone from Kings of convenience and hipster fav, Broken Social Scene to electro-sex icon, Peaches. She finally dropped her debut "let it die" at begginings of 2005. Playful and sexy. Somehow, I think this track is good for winter.

Andrew Bird - fake palindromes
Patrick Wolf - the libertine
Thee More Shallows - 2 am
Thee More Shallows - ave grave
Feist - mushaboom

Image by Fabio Zimbres.

Moka got mail

The Changes are a rock band from Chicago that sound very reminiscent to The Police with a great plus: bouncy keyboards and electronic drums. You should definitely check them out, they're playing at Rothko in NYC - dec 15 & dec 17 at the mercury lounge, and they're headlining two nights in chicago dec. 30 & 31 @ schubas, go check their space for further dates. I'm way south from NY or Chicago, but if you're around, here's a lil' something to help you make your mind:

The Changes - when I sleep
The Changes - when I wake

Gustav & the seasick sailors, are a band from Sweden which sound to me alot like early Wilco or even the Gin Blossoms but with a very melancholica-gypsy feel to it. Lead singer Gustav and the aptly named seasick sailors, released Vagabond's Polka at 2004 under Marylin Records and will be releasing a new LP, Sirkus, in March 2006. Here's "Nightlife" and "Seasons of guessing" from the afformentioned, Vagabond's Polka:

Gustav & the seasick sailors - Nightlife
Gustav & the seasick sailors - seasons of guessing

Venice is sinking (great name), are a five-piece from Athens, GA. With the simple aid of violin they create triumphant shimmering songs. Go to their space to sample more of their songs, from their split Ep: "What we do is secret".

Venice is sinking - Pulaski Heights

Folktronics 2

Laundry Room:
On the first post about folktronics, I recall writing about Four Tet and Greg Davis as emblematic artists of the genre but didn't actually linked to any songs from them, so here you go. Four tet's last album was a bit of a letdown for me, aside from "sun, drums and soil" the whole record is just another cute organic IDM album noone needs, I'm uploading my favorite song from him instead, slow jam from the beautiful "rounds". Errand boy is an artist whose specialty is to use copy-paste at his electronica and folk records (folktronics, yes?), the whole LP is free to download at radio free polygon. Ah, yes, thanks to Silent K for directing me to "Husky Rescue".

Cuando Kieran Hebden saco Rounds a finales del 2003 el mundo de la electronica habia cambiado de ser calculador y frio a organico y tibio. Four tet no fue el primero en provocar los cambios, pero, si fue quien los hizo evidentes, y esos vienen siendo los pioneros del genero. Que si la folk-tronica ya esta dando patadas de ahogada? Probablemente. Pero quedaron buenas rolas para el recuerdo. A prender velas.

Errand boy - x depends on y
Ogurusu Norihide - humour
Greg Davis - brocade
Husky Rescue - new light of tomorrow
Four Tet - slow jam

Image by Nina Frenkel.

Deep and Tender Sex 2

Bedroom Rockers:
Ya hacia tiempo que no subia canciones para el dormitorio, disculpenme los malcogidos. Aqui va una segunda entrega de sexo tierno y profundo y las respectivas canciones que te hacen sentir sexy sin importar lo rollizo que seas. Espero les sea de algun goce.

Spain - untitled #1
Hope Sandoval - on the low
Lamb - gorecki
The beatles - and I love her

Homelands

Laundry Room:
It's getting cold outside where I live. Both my hands and my feet get stiff in the morning (you wouldn't know how hard it's getting to write this down). I need a warm blanket. And I definitely need someone to snuggle up with. I'm hoping so much you're wide awake by now.

Jon Brion - strings that tie to you
Beulah - gravity's bringing us down
Sambassadeur - between the lines
Magnet - little miss or less
Psapp - Rear Moth
Destroyer - It's gonna take an airplane

Image from the ench gallery.

Porter

Porter hails from Guadalajara, one of 3 hot spots for music here in Mexico. Their sound is quite inconsitent and diverse, yet unique. This may explain the equally diverse musicians they've shared scenario with (Ian Brown, Incubus, Belanova, The Faint and The kills to name a few). There's an obvious britpop influence on their songs but they manage to sound convincing and original by throwing into the mix some latin rock roots at the same time. Daphne is one of my currently favorite songs from them, it's verses sung in agonizing english and it's hopeful chorus very reminiscent of La gusana ciega which is sung in spanish, of course. You can sample more of their songs at their space.

Los de Porter son de Guadalajara. Hace unos 2 o 3 fines de semana (las lineas del tiempo se han carcomido con mayor avidez en estos ultimos meses) conoci a Mussgo, vocalista de Porter que contiene el carisma de un Syd Barret y un poco del look del exageradamente teatral vocalista de Mars Volta. Su sonido, sin embargo y por fortuna, esta mas cercano al britpop y al rock latino de los 90's que al de los Volta. La lista de personajes con los que han compartido escenario es casi tan bipolar como su musica (Belanova, Zoe, Ely Guerra, Sussie 4, La gusana ciega) pero la calidad de las canciones hacen olvidar cualquier inconsistencia que pudiera presentarse. La cancion Daphne es la que mas me ha gustado de las que he escuchado y creo que hace gala del futuro que le espera a este quinteto de tapatios. Si quieren samplear otras rolas o saber si van a tocar en su ciudad proximamente (solo alrededor de Mexico) chequen el sitio oficial, en diciembre van a abrirle a Incubus en el DF para aquellos que les interese escucharlos en vivo pero no habian encontrado pretextos suficientes.

Porter - Daphne
Porter - Espiral

Electronic Software

Software and hardware have made it possible for just about anyone with enough time on their hands to create interesting electronical pieces. Here's some links to create electronic music by yourself. I haven't checked them indepth yet so I'm not sure how useful they really are. If any of our visitors knows about any other program that might serve this cause please comment. Maybe I'll upload some experiments of my own soon (as soon as I feel they deserve to see the light).

Audiomulch - It's freeware. As a plus, Kieran Hebden (aka Four Tet) uses it a lot.
Ableton live - This one is quite useful to create loops/effects.
Fruityloops - I think everyone knows this one already, you can use it to create drum patterns or melodies.

Olivier Alary from Ensemble recommends yet other 3 programs. He's the one who produced "desired constellation" from Bjork's Medulla. As you might expect this ones are used to create that minimalistic/fuzzy type of electronica.

MAX/MSP: http://www.cycling74.com/
SOUNDHACK: http://www.soundhack.com/
SUPERCOLLIDER www.audiosynth.com/index.html

I think I'll go ask Fernando Corona next and expect him not to answer me...

Okkervil River - black sheep boy

Don't believe the hype, Okkervil River are fairly good. That's all. I must confess: "For real" is one of the catchiest tracks I've heard this year, but I'm not sure if I'd place "black sheep boy" as one of my best 10 releases of 2005, let's wait and count how many music bloggers and alikes will pick it for their top 10. Uhum...anyways I was looking for the lyrics to "for real" around the web and it seems noone has transcribed them yet, so here you have them, they're probably wrong and incomplete so if you'd like to make a correction feel free to comment. Oh yes, I'm actually giving the temporary link to the whole album as an open dir, so catch it fast before someone sues me:

Okkervil River - for real
Some nights I thirst for real blood
for real knives, for real cries
And then the flash of steel from real guns
in real life really fills my mind
Then I really miss what really did exist
when I held your throat so tight
And I missed the bus, oh,
that swerved from us
and came crashing to its side.
Tonight's the blood from real cuts
feels real nice
when it's really mine
And if you want it to be real
Come over for one night
and we can really really climb
Those bluebridge lights
might really burn most bright
while we watch that dark lake rise
and if you really want to see
what really matters most to me
just take a real short drive.
It's just a drive into the dark stretch
long stretch of night
really stretch this shaking mind
And this room unlit, unheated
and the ceiling striped
and the dark black blinds
I want to know this time
If you're really finally mine
I need to know that you're not lying
so I want to see you tried
And I don't want to hear you say
it shouldn't really be this way
cause I like this way just fine
Cause there's nothing quite like
the blinding light when that curtain’s cast aside
and no attempt has been made
to explain the way
things really really really really really
are behind
You Can't Hide
You Can't Hide

Okkervil River - for real
Black Sheep Boy (Open Dir)

Another Announcement:
Last night an mp3 saved my wife have left the blog world. Along with the lovely Uncommon Folk, this is another mp3 blog that I catched a little late in it's lifespan but I quickly learned to love. Too sad, so sad they left us. Godspeed to the trio of bloggers involved in this project and sincere thanks from the motel. Regards.

I will surround you

Laundry Room:
The skyline was beautiful on fire, all twisted metal stretching upwards, everything washed in a thin orange haze.
I said: "kiss me, you're beautiful -these are truly the last days"
you grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream or a fever. We woke up one morning and fell a little further down-for sure it's the valley of death...I open up my wallet and it's full of blood.

Cerberus Shoal - omphalos
Clann Zu - there will be no morning copy
Seidenmatt - lucas
Liger - workin on lin
Explosions in the sky - memorial
A silver mt. zion -13 Angels Standing Guard 'round the Side of Your Bed

La imagen es de William Schaff, ilustrador que ha colaborado con Gybe! para la portada del disco "lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven."

Britannica

Laundry Room:
Anglofilia - Desorden mental que deriva en una obsesion simpatizante hacia Inglaterra y se ha observado que puede llegar al punto idiota y compulsivo de creerla la madre patria. Los que la padecen beben te en vez de cafe y la BBC es su fuente primaria de noticia. Tambien se puede notar que deletrean las palabras "favourite" y "colour" en la variante Inglesa. La precipitaciones extremas en el clima en realidad los hacen sentirse menos deprimidos.
Su fetichismo se extiende al gusto musical y estadisticamente la anglofilia encuentra su manifestacion mas difundida en un amor por la musica britanica.
Hola mi verdadero nombre es *, tengo 19 y he tenido anglofilia desde que mi padre me la contagio con la llamada "Beatlemania" cuando yo tenia 14 y mas tarde se reafirmo cuando escuche Meedle y Ok computer a los 16. Ahora que lo saben, may I inquire discreetly, escribanlo en un papelito y escondanselo bajo la lengua.

The smiths - please let me get what I want
Tindersticks - until the morning comes
The Stone Roses - I wanna be adored
Elbow - don't mix your drinks
Pink Floyd - san tropez
Radiohead - let down

Image by English painter, L.S. Lowry.