I Love Dicks!

...Fila Brazillia's Dicks that is.

Last night I was going through my ipod at work to recommend some music to a coworker when I came across this wonderful album that I had completely forgotten about. I first heard some of the tracks from this release at SomaFM a few years back.

I went to Amazon to try and import the album but they were out of stock and the average price was quoted at $35. Hmm... time to check my favorite download sites at the time: limewire, nope. bearshare, nada. Isohunt, zilch. Even the legal venues like itunes or napster had nary a single. I thought hope was lost and thus abandoned my search.

About two years ago I found out about Oink. Man I loved that site. They had all kinds of music- in beautifully high quality mp3 (192k and up only) and all the way up to .flac quality lossless files. Organized by album with ripping logs attached, these were the torrents of dreams. Plus users were required to seed to maintain a share ratio to stay at the site. Oink has since been disbanded (much to my deep sadness- and for totally bogus reasons but I won't get into that- I will say though, that I never snatched any new or pre-release date albums) but I digress..

It was here that I found Dicks. And I fell in love, with Dicks. It may not be the best electronica album of all time, but it's certainly one of my favorites by far and is, sadly, their last studio album to date. I would say that of the album's 22 tracks, 17 of them are truly ingenious, well-mixed, and incredibly fun to listen to. The other 5 are great too, it's just that the majority of the tracks are, well spectacular.

If you like electronica, or even if you don't, check this album out. They've finally got it on itunes now so you can just buy the tracks, but they're a bit short so I would try and find either the whole album for sale or for pirate. Sidearms & Parsnips to you sir.