-adjective serving utilitarian purposes only; mechanical; practical: design that was more banausic than inspired.
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since February 2007.
I'm afraid this tumblr is dieing...Yep it has been two months since I posted on Banausic. It turns out 140 characters and the ability to include a hyperlink is all I really wanted. What with Flickr hosting my photographs, Spotify hosting most of the music I link to and Posterous for when I feel like rambling, this Tumblr has fallen by the wayside. And the infamous Twitter ties all these threads together with the added social element that Tumblr never really managed to achieve. I’ll keep the account active and may post now and again. Until next time keep having fun. :) 
Some people get pretty angry about those who download albums without paying. I just read this blog comment by a guy calling himself CAM posted on an MP3 blog called I Could Die Tomorrow Dilla made this amazing masterpiece of an album on his deathbed and you advocate people to go and download it? Do you realize the love Dilla had for all of us by making this album and working himself to his death for our musical entertainment. Telling hip hop heads to download Donuts is like telling Christians to steal a Bible. That shit is fucked up. I don’t show no support to anyone else, but I bought Donuts, I bought, Welcome 2 Detroit, I bought Champion Sound, I bought The Shining, and I’ma keep buying whatever I can get my hands on whenever something new comes out because Dilla gave his life to us. This shit is like 8 bucks at some places, 8 fucking dollars. Y’all is fake as fuck if you can talk so highly about Dilla’s work and then decide he ain’t worth 8 bucks. Mad disrespect. Dilla made music on his deathbed because Dilla loved making music, but Dilla was also making music on his deathbed because his medical bills were crazy and he didn’t wanna leave Ma Dukes in a finacial hole. Ma Dukes is still struggling to pay the bills and Jay’s been gone for almost 3 years now. And if you ain’t gonna buy his albums (which I know none of you will) at least have some common decency and spare a couple of bucks to the Dilla fund and help out Ma Dukes. Peace and hip hop infinity. http://icoulddietomorrow.blogspot.com/2008/09/j-dilla-donuts.html WIRE's records of 2007Bored of all the best of 2008 charts? How about going back a year and filling in the gaps in your listening knowledge? 50 Records Of The Year Robert Wyatt Comicopera (Domino) Genre Charts A–Z Avant Rock Sir Richard Bishop Polytheistic Fragments (Drag City) Critical Beats Benga Crunked Up (Tempa) Dub Bullwackies Allstars Free For All (Wackies)
Deepchord Presents Echospace The Coldest Season (Modern Love) Global Jazz & Improv Derek Bailey Standards (Tzadik) Hiphop Black Milk Popular Demand (Fat Beats) Modern Composition Earle Brown Tracer (Mode) Outer Limits Astral Social Club Neon Pibroch (Important) Compilations Achilifunk: Gipsy Soul 1969–1979 (Lovemonk)
Neil Campbell Sol Powr (Mundane Music) I have seen the future and it's Spotty.I’ve always been slightly amused by anyone who says they don’t like downloading music because they like physical CDs and records. “I like having something to collect, something to hold and something to put on my shelves,” they say. I’ve always replied, “you’re crazy - what does it matter if you have something to hold - music isn’t for holding, it’s for listening.” But tonight, about 10 minutes ago I realised I had been in denial. I am one of those people. I’m a collector. Motown is now a 50 year old cultural behemoth and the attention it has received in the press of late has made me want to re-listen to their brilliant back catalogue. So I thought well I could either… 1. go to a high street or independent record shop and buy CDs costing me much money! 2. go to a second hand record shop and buy vinyl costing me much money (although cheaper I’d just buy more records!) 3. pay to download some MP3s through iTunes (why on earth would I do that!?) 4. search Google for “motown rapidshare blogspot” and rinse my Rapidshare Premium account (everything ever released and for free… er yes please but it does take a while to find stuff.) 5. use Spotify and listen to whatever I want to, whenever I like, for free, legally and instantly. Which will I do? Well, the easiest and cheapest way (because it’s free) is to boot up Spotify. As I said above - the music will be available instantly, hassle free and 100% legally. Why would I do anything else? Well the problem is that it gives me no ownership of the music. Until just now I thought that wasn’t a problem. I thought I had dealt with any ownership issues ages ago. Before got into Spotify I downloaded music to my computer. I haven’t bought a CD for years. But what I didn’t realise was that I was collecting MP3 albums just as I collected CDs in my teenage years, with an odd fervour that led me to constantly count and recount how many I had on my shelves (or how many GB they took up. For the past 8 years I’ve been smirking at the people lamenting CDs and vinyl. But now I’m having similar feelings about my MP3 collection. Aaargh. It’s all very silly though. I don’t need MP3s on my computer. They just take up loads of space and make me buy external hard drives all the time. OK sure, not everything I need is on Spotify yet - but it probably will be. Until then I’ll still be renewing my Rapidshare Premium account. But once Spotify is full its goodbye to collecting MP3s. Hmmm how do I feel about that ? Well, with all that extra time spent previously downloading music I’ll draw some more illustrations, take some more photographs and maybe learn how to bake a cake. I also have a secret that will help feed the collecting bug in me - Spotify scrobbles to my Last.fm account. And as we all know Last.fm listens are the new badge of honour for music lovers - just like CDs on the shelves, and iTunes collection were in the past.
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