Yay for reaching the 150th post of the Random Album of the Day. Today’s pick is from Uruguay and it is – from Hombre Tortuga. And yes the title of the album is just a dash or a hyphen.
Hombre Tortuga is Electronic music. Not usually my jam but I downloaded it so must have liked it. I guess we’ll see as we listen here. This is a short record – basically a single.
This single has a very chill vibe. It features three songs that range from avant garde to ambient. Overall I like it though the last song wasn’t my favorite.
Rating: 8.0
Favorite Track(s): “Astros Y Vueltas Al Sol” is chill with samples. I think this would go well on my Christmas playlist for some reason. I think the higher pitch notes plays into that. Even though this song is basically ambient it works for me. “Arte Poética” also is perfect for ourchristmas list. It has a spoken word element though it is in Spanish so I know not what they say. This song has a jazz vibe to it.
Keep or Trash: Keep. Mainly because I like it on our Christmas list haha. It’s not Christmas music fwiw.
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: