As you can see in this japanese video the DJ’s are controling multiple audio and video effects just with a Wii video game control, which is designed to recognize movement in all directions, apparently they are using Max/MSP/Jitter external software for Mac, maybe it could be freakish, but at the same time it improves the experience using new tools for live acts, performers or DJ’s, through time, new technology grows along with music, so new technology is always going to mean new music, in fact on the near future you will see music applications designed for multi-touch screens… imagine this revolutionary technology with this kind of software.

Source: CreateDigitalMusic

General Editor Robert Dimery and a big bunch of music critics from around the world compiled this bible-size guide: 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die and, as the name reads, these are albums you must listen, not a guideline of “the best of the best ever!”. People tend to take too serious a book of these proportions and they always start telling things like: why Pop and not Metal? …and so on, obviously not everybody is going to agree on every selection, and that is precisely the point in this kind of guides, for instance, I hate (really, I do!) Jeff Buckley’s singing (and I don’t usually hate something when it comes to music, I just ignore what I don’t like) but that doesn’t mean the album Grace doesn’t deserve a position in the book, since a lot of people may like, or even love, the late Buckley.
The book is worth reading and if you are an avid collector, like ourselves here at LaSuite303, it makes an attractive item in your bookshelf.
As many reviewers of the book, I won’t dissapoint you by not complaining about the terrible ommissions such as: Amon Tobin, Bran Van 3000, Dave Brubeck, Cornelius, Esquivel, Mano Negra (since they did consider Manu Chao’s Clandestino over Casa Babylon, one of the greatest works of music I’ve ever heard), Sergio Mendes (who, along with Esquivel, I consider the biggest misses), Morphine and Weezer… among others, and there’s not a conceivable way in which these artists didn’t make it, while Britney’s …Baby One More Time did.
The other bad thing about this compendium is that an irrational percentage of the list is embodied by albums from the USA and the UK, I agree that these two nationalities are always going to sweep the percentage, but not in such a drastic manner.

Every year if you search on blogs “the best albums of the year” you will see a lot of choices and recommendations from authors who write about music, unfortunately they just copy/paste and shuffle the suggestions from sites like Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin or others sites, so the resulting lists are a shame because there’s really no space for albums who did not have all the support, promotion or buzz, in addition to all that, we don’t share that particular point of view, we think that you can’t determine which ones are the best because it really depends on each person. Anyway, along the year we recommend our traditional album of the month which we consider a little bit of “good” music from la suite 303 staff, for that reason here are the albums of the month of 2006, so here is a list with some albums that we think you must, somehow, make yours.

CCS - Cansei de Ser Sexy
Casper & The Cookies - The Optimist’s Club
Cyndi Seui - Micro Bitz Life
V.A. - Girlmonster
Juana Molina - Son
Pauline En La Playa - Silabario
TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
Quiero Club - Wof
Jenny Wilson - Love And Youth

And our monthly selections:

December: Koop - Koop Islands
November: Héctor Buitrago - Conector
October: Buffalo Daughter - Euphorica
September: Sabrina Malheiros - Vibrasons
August: Quantic - An Announcement To Answer
July: Herbert - Scale
June: Aphex Twin - Chosen Lords
May: Gotan Project - Lunático
April: V.A. - Nu Jazz Vol. 2
March: Gilles Peterson - Worldwide Exclusives and/or Sergio Mendes - Timeless
February: Saint Etienne - Tales From Turnpike House
January: Kelley Polar - Love Songs Of The Hanging Gardens

I hope this year we can have more time to write about the music that we love. Have a nice 2007.

“The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing”:
James Brown (May 3, 1933 – December 25, 2006)