brothers on the side…horse latitudes
February 6, 2008
You’ll notice my side bar has two sections, Ill Communication (which is music blogs) and Everyday People which are websites that I like - but are not specifically about music.
Horse Latitudes are in the Everyday People section, but really they are a hybrid blog. If they were a Venn diagram one circle would be on-point cultural discussion, geek Mac love, with a soupcon of La Belle France; the other would be championing independent music and referencing topical music chatter, and HL would be right down the middle. A magpie’s nest of Net bits, tricks and cool pics.
Over to JK & JB - or JBK as they recently became…
BACK TO BASICS
BLOG NAME:
CONTRIBUTORS:
me and jb
DATE OF FIRST POST?
2006-09-11
HOW OFTEN DO YOU POST?
3/4 times a week
jb - far too infrequently
WHAT WOULD MAKE YOU STOP THE BLOG?
routine
HYPE MACHINE OR EL.BOWS?
try not to think too much bout either
BLOGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE
WHAT IS BEHIND YOUR BLOG NAME?
you can find out here
don’t want to be too specific about it really, I think it works better if you add your own meaning to things
THE BLOG IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN?
the record shop, discuss.
jb - the stats.
THE BLOG IS LESS IMPORTANT THAN?
the people you meet through it.
jb - amen.
A POST YOU ARE DAMN PROUD OF?
the Tokyo Balearic posts were amazing and any post that helps to clarify and condense an idea or feeling into 200 or so words so I don’t have it buzzing round my head anymore.
jb- a weird tangental post about french road safety which was actually me realising that i was a bit scared of getting married. and pretty much anything anyone else apart from me has written on the latitudes - you’ve gotta be proud of the love and attention that goes into our posts.
WHY MP3S, AND WHY NOW?
To quote miles-
“The world has always been about change. People who don’t change will find themselves like folk musicians, playing in museums and local as a motherfucker.”
jb- i lost a huge record collection a couple of years ago and in scrabbling together a new collection, realised it didn’t really matter what format i had the music in so long as i could listen to it. i was living out of boxes for a year but my ipod was always a hair’s breadth away and had everything i could ask for on it. what’s even better is that if i didn’t have it - i could track it down and get it - i’d get cravings for tracks, go off on wild tangets and get terribly lost in music and mp3’s granted the freedom to do that. that’s meant that buying records is an indulgence for me, in a good way, it’s a huge weight i’ll place on buying a physical disc nowadays. it’s made owning the article far more personal.
WHAT BAND OR PRODUCER IS REALLY DOING IT FOR YOU RIGHT NOW?
I’m really hooked into an 80’s synth boogie time capsule at the moment so I’m the wrong guy to ask (although theo still seems able to make me stand up and take notice and man from atlantis and the rest of the firemusic family are about to release some incredible new shit )
jb is loving the sleeping states and the fleet foxes and thinks she’s quite into the dirty projectors but can’t quite tell. she’s on tenterhooks to see what ulysses 82 come up with next too.
OTHER THAN LIKING THEIR TRACK WHAT WOULD A BAND OR LABEL HAVE TO GIVE YOU TO MAKE YOU POST ON THEM?
make some beautiful letterpress-y artwork
(style over content, at all times)
jb- or be related to us. we’re fiercely loyal (luckily our crew are all super talented so it’s not even fronting)
IF YOU COULD GET ANY WRITER OR MUSIC EVENT EXCLUSIVE FOR YOUR BLOG, WHAT WOULD IT BE?
to get rob to write his Tokyo Balearic posts again-they were aces
jb- if each post were illustrated by the panteon of amazing graphic designers and illustrators i fawn over on a daily basis that would be pretty sweet. musically? i’d love for us to take it outside the internet and host a cosy fireside singalong with fleet foxes, rosie thomas, j.tillman and damien jurado.
THREE IS THE MAGIC NUMBER
3 BLOGS THAT YOU RECOMMEND / INSPIRED YOU TO START:
3 DESERT ISLAND BOOKS:
the summer book - tove janssen (the woman who wrote the moomins)
the bible
catcher in the rye
3 DESERT ISLAND RECORDS:
I’d probably take my ipod
jb-too difficult - i’ll let the waves decide.
3 PEOPLE YOU REALLY HOPE WILL READ YOUR BLOG:
if i knew that then i’d be writing for them and that’s getting it all the wrong way round.
oh but my three unborn children should check it out in the future… (this is not a triplets announcement)
3 PEOPLE YOU HOPE WILL NEVER READ YOUR BLOG:
i learnt fairly early on that the most unexpected of people will stumble across stuff so, having just said i’d try to avoid writing for an audience, i’d never post anything i didn’t want everyone to see (i know that’s not quite what you mean but…)
AND FINALLY
A TRACK FOR THE READERS OF INNERSOUNDS…
cause it’s deep and heavy and exclusive (and more people need to hear it)
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Soooo much time for the latitudes.
Amazing posts and so pretty to look at!