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	<description>...music Matt and James think you should take a second to listen to</description>
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		<title>this is new: Ultrasound by Johnny Massacre</title>
		<link>http://musicblog.mattlohkamp.com/this-is-new-ultrasound-by-johnny-massacre_331</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Apr 2010 11:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First off, music video: http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/Ultrasound/
Fun from the beginning. The effects on the voice and those phased percussion is just a tad bit amateurish/&#8217;default presets&#8217; sounding, but that&#8217;s not so much a bad thing &#8211; makes me think of the streets, lends some character. And no, not just because of the accent.
If you like it, buy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Decemeberists &#8211; The Hazards of Love, 2009</title>
		<link>http://musicblog.mattlohkamp.com/the-decemeberists-the-hazards-of-love-2009_261</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://musicblog.mattlohkamp.com/?p=261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My next project is going to be an ambitious one, to be sure. But I think it&#8217;ll pay off. The Decemberists have known for writing amazingly good songs, all of which usually tell a story of some sort. With the realease of The Craine Wife, we saw them move closer to a concept album. And [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rammstein &#8211; Zwitter (Mutter, 2001)</title>
		<link>http://musicblog.mattlohkamp.com/rammstein-zwitter-mutter-2001_161</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 12:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[electro-rock]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like Rammstein a lot, and there&#8217;ll probably me more tracks by them here eventually, but Zwitter is one of my favorites right off the top of my head.
Things start off nicely &#8211; guitar riff phased back, nice blippy little techno beat, serious rock drums, and then the same riff, this time front-and-center. &#8220;Zwitter, zwitter!&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pendulum &#8211; Fasten Your Seatbelts Ft. The Freestylers (Hold Your Colour, 2005)</title>
		<link>http://musicblog.mattlohkamp.com/pendulum-fasten-your-seatbelts-ft-the-freestylers-hold-your-colour-2005_126</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[dance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://musicblog.mattlohkamp.com/?p=126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The chords you hear in the opening minute or so are what you&#8217;re going to be hearing throughout. After a bit of reverby jammed up samples, a few vocals, and a dramatic &#8220;Ladies and gentlemen, fasten your seatbelts,&#8221; you&#8217;re dropped right into the main groove &#8211; deep kicks, splashy snares, a brassy bassline supplemented by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Speed Suit &#8211; Evidence (This Party Is A Time Machine, 2008)</title>
		<link>http://musicblog.mattlohkamp.com/speed-suit-evidence-this-party-is-a-time-machine-2008_114</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Dan Beyer is a member of the duo known as &#8216;Speed Suit&#8216; (Nathanial Oester is the other player). After his first show in a basement somewhere in NE Portland, Dan hooked me up with a sweet bootleg CD of the tracks they performed. The second track is easily my favorite.
So compare the beginning to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horse The Band &#8211; Bunnies (R. Borlax, 2003)</title>
		<link>http://musicblog.mattlohkamp.com/horse-the-band-bunnies-r-borlax-2003_101</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[paranoia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[screamo]]></category>

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The epic beginning&#8230; the synth chords&#8230; and then the devolution into screamo madness. Luckily it&#8217;s not all bad &#8211; occasional breaks make it bearable, which is good, because those synths are hot! And the lyrics are interesting, the delivery is good, the guitars fit in nicely, the percussion is exactly what the doctor ordered&#8230; it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Horse The Band &#8211; Cutsman (R. Borlax, 2003)</title>
		<link>http://musicblog.mattlohkamp.com/horse-the-band-cutsman-r-borlax-2003_99</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally I&#8217;m not into this kind of music &#8211; but this track has several saving graces that round out the harder-to-stand attributes: it starts off with a sample from &#8216;The Wizard&#8216; talking about the Power Glove&#8230; and then the oldskool synth arpeggio hits you at :18. It&#8217;s raw, it&#8217;s held together by occasional bursts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shiny Toy Guns &#8211; Ghost Town (Season of Poison, 2008)</title>
		<link>http://musicblog.mattlohkamp.com/shiny-toy-guns-ghost-town-season-of-poison-2008_95</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[things start off weird, with some almost wild-west theatrical vocals, which quickly transition into something that reminds me more of The Offpsring. Then, at :29, we get the female vocals:
everyone livin in ghost town
everyone buried in wasteland
we don&#8217;t want to we don&#8217;t have to
be like that livin in ghost town
all the boys shout it out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shiny Toy Guns &#8211; When Did This Storm Begin? (Season of Poison, 2008)</title>
		<link>http://musicblog.mattlohkamp.com/shiny-toy-guns-when-did-this-storm-begin-season-of-poison-2008_93</link>
		<comments>http://musicblog.mattlohkamp.com/shiny-toy-guns-when-did-this-storm-begin-season-of-poison-2008_93#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nearly minute-long intro for this track sort of makes sense to me &#8211; it&#8217;s like a bridge from the previous album &#8216;We Are Pilots&#8217; to this next one. The staccato bass line is joined by occasional bursts of vocal samples and spacey synth sound effects until a short burst of kicks at 1:09 heralds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>David Bowie &#8211; Hallo Spaceboy (Outside, 1995)</title>
		<link>http://musicblog.mattlohkamp.com/david-bowie-hallo-spaceboy-outside-1995_87</link>
		<comments>http://musicblog.mattlohkamp.com/david-bowie-hallo-spaceboy-outside-1995_87#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:59:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ambient]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My other favorite track from Bowie&#8217;s &#8216;Outside&#8217; album, &#8216;Hallo Spaceboy&#8217; starts out heavy and barely lets up &#8211; the crunchy synth line at the beginning keep things on-track while various ambient vocal samples swirl around (similar to the intro to The Heart&#8217;s Filthy Lesson), until the percussion hits hard at :25. This relentless pounding lets [...]]]></description>
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