Today’s Random Album of the Day is By The Throat from Eyedea & Abilities. This is considered abstract or experimental hip hop. This is basically two artists coming together with Eyedea (aka Michael Larsen) and DJ Abilities (Gregory Keltgen).
I don’t listen to a lot of Hip Hop. I just never got deep into it. But I do like it at times and experimental music in general is something I like so this is interesting to me.
I quite like this album. It is creative, a big weird at times, a bit opinionated at times. It’s good.
Rating: 8.9
Favorite Track(s): “Sky Diver” my wife liked a lot. I really liked “Hay Fever”. “Spin Cycle” is good. I might have zoned out through a song or two in the middle. “Burn Fetish” has a good rhythm to it. “Factory” is a good closer.
Keep or Trash: Keep.
Background
Every day, or nearly every day anyhow, I will randomly select an album from my collection of digital music, listen to it, and share it here. – Jayne
My wife and I are board gamers and we gamify nearly everything in life. This includes our music listening. We use a dice catapult to roll dice and then use the dice results to pick our vinyl listens. So why not do something similar for the blog?
I have made the randomizer table I use for picking the album of the day available! What? It’s a simple table but uses some weird dice. If you are not familiar, if you say D30 that means a 30 sided die. These are the dice the randomizer table uses: D30, D4, D8, D10, D12, D14, and D20. The D14 and D30 are unique but you can buy cheap packs of dice with those in them off the internet.
The basic steps are to 1) roll the D30. That picks the starting letter or if it’s a number. 2) Then use the chart roll the die associated with the first letter to pick the second letter. If you get “Other” that means numbers or some other weird character. If none of those exist re-roll. 3) Once you have the second letter you can use that to roll for a third letter if needed. 4) That should get you down to a few artists and from there you pick dice based on the number of artists. 5) finally for the artist selected you roll a die for the number of albums listed. Then you have your Random Album to listen to….
Download the Random Album Selector Table here: