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Lautrec

forget about your house of cards

About Me



Paul Auster, Brixton, Wong Kar-Wai, short films, long films, animation, wine, soul, hi-hats, Anais Nin, melancholia, Jacques Brel, snow, vintage ties, bass, falling in love, falling out of love, falling, city foxes, civil disobedience, Spike Lee, Paul Bowles, modern dance, moderately self-conscious video-installations, moderately self-conscious anything, the fine-art of rockumentaries, fine-art, art, bombay saphire, pinot noir, huraki murakami, pause buttons, long goodbyes, peter saville's dressing gown, harold pinter, standing at the right angle so that sunlinght bouncing off the buildings blinds your sight, metallica, cut grass in spring, japanese girls in hoxton, forgetting the day of the week, forgetting, uma thurman

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Music:

Member Since: 3/3/2005
Band Website: lautrecmusic.com
Band Members: Ed Simpson - keys, samples, electronica; Julia Biel - vocals; Brian Hedemann - drums; Chris Williams - sax, flute; All tracks produced by Jochen Naaf (Topspin).
Influences: Boards of Canada, Pharell Williams, Solveig Slettahjell, Depeche Mode, Gil Evans, Mos Def, Tunng, Cinematic Orchestra, Massive Attack, A-ha, Justice, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Four Tet, Radiohead, Wong Kar Wai, Lee Moses, Royksopp, Pinot Noir, Basement Jaxx, Lamb, MIA, Gorillaz, Jay-Z, DJ Krush, Simian Mobile Disco, Thievery Corporation, Prefuse 73, Sebastien Schuller, DJ Shadow, Joanna Newsom, Cassandra Wilson, Bombay Saphire, Ulrich Schnauss, David Byrne, Ad:art, Pauletta, Cato Six, My Toys Like Me, Sole, The Knife, drum n'bass, hip-hop, electronica, minimalism and classical...
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My Blog

a dubstep odyssey

slowly but surely little pieces are falling into place for 2008's Lautrec's TooLoose CineSoundSystem project...tentatively titled '2001: A dubstep Odyseey' this should feature a collaboration between ...
Posted by Lautrec on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:55:00 PST

end of year lists and other animals

with two days to go in 2007, out of nowhere came 'boxer' by the national. you never quite know if the latest thing to put a smile on your lips will stand the test of time, but if your mind makes you t...
Posted by Lautrec on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:07:00 PST

neither gold nor soul

just when douBt feels like it's eating at every last corner of you, the slow crescendo of weird fishes / arpeggi flips you over to your underside and all you can think is whether there is anything els...
Posted by Lautrec on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:27:00 PST

little things that make us happy pt.1

realising that the lead on your new headphones is long enough to let you go to the kitchen and mix another morgan spiced rum in the early hours of saturday morninga deceptively simple smile
Posted by Lautrec on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 05:45:00 PST

a history of gratitude

so the man makes music and nobody quite knows who he is. but he strikes a nerve. in some. and a year passes. maybe a bit more. and you hear nothing new. other than the single cut that's on the myspace...
Posted by Lautrec on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 04:22:00 PST

it takes a song

plaudit over plaudit for the new alison krauss / robert plant cdbut it took til track 11 for the album to open up, i have to admittalk about unearthing a gemnothin' by townes van zandt with marc ribot...
Posted by Lautrec on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 03:41:00 PST

a dinosaur awakes

beautiful burnout - track 2 on the new underworldglory in a box. majestic.bring on 2008...
Posted by Lautrec on Thu, 18 Oct 2007 11:30:00 PST

princes amongst men

well fuck me.we won't just blow your minds with our music. we'll do it in the way we deal with you. hats off gents, hats off. yet another masterclass from the greatest band playing today.Don't you dar...
Posted by Lautrec on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:03:00 PST

songs that creep

random blog no.57songs that you can't believe you didn't fall in love with at first sight but that crept slowly up on you from behind, walked some miles at a safe distance before blocking your path ev...
Posted by Lautrec on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:00:00 PST

faster stronger

bestival.not a bad name at all.hats off, rob da bank.there were some incredible moments this summer but the sucker-one-two-three punch of primal scream dropping damaged / loaded / moving on up for an ...
Posted by Lautrec on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:57:00 PST