The Library Catalogue Music Series is Sufjan Stevens’ label (Asthmatic Kitty) recently-created series of albums. For those of you who are intrigued by Stevens’ recent electronic compositions, you should know that much of the music in this series is part of the same lush electronic lineage. I highly recommend exploring the series, as it’ll open your ears to the goings-on of Asthmatic Kitty.

One prime example of the diversity of this series is Kristin Miltner’s Music for Dreaming and Playing. For starters, it’s warm, playful, ethereal, and devoid of lyrics. The album is all about mood. If you’re looking for some contemplative touches of digital femininity, pop this album into your CD player.

As the album’s title would suggest, the album has two distinct sections: dreaming and playing. The dreaming portion consists of the first four tracks, while the rest is play of the video game sort. Imagine that you’re listening to little morsels of music that Miltner has created for the soundtrack of some warm and fuzzy indie game, and you’re there.

“Altamont Pass” is the most outstanding track on this album for those looking for an acoustically rich experience.

To describe this song in more lush language: Harmonics pulse in and out, resonating and creating a shroud similar to muted bells. As a listener, you are now wandering through a desert in your dreams where purple and white clouds drip by slowly and the hologram horizon seems to flicker. Harmless ghosts, about your size, their auras tinged with nacreous greens, pass through you. As they pass, you can see clearly into their muted neon robes. They’ve been precisely where you are. They’ve made the journey and they’ve watched you pass.

You are neither hungry, thirsty, lonely, tired, happy, nor sad. You simply are observing.

1. The Dandy Warhols: The Capitol Years 1995-2007
2. Underworld: Barking
3. The Chapin Sisters: Two
4. Apparat: DJ-Kicks
5. Belle & Sebastian: Write About Love
6. Dungen: Skit I Allt
7. Michael Gregory Jackson: Clarity
8. Gonjasufi: The Caliph’s Tea Party
9. Various Artists: Babylon Central
10. The Vaselines: Sex With An X

So, beloved reader, I bet you’re wondering how the WRCT Dance Party came out.

Well, let me tell you, ace, it was quite a night. Here are some morsels to give you a taste of what it was like:

Dancing duos, lips locked and hips entrenched in the loins of their partners, grooving to wobbling square waves.

Architecture students bouncing to the beat in a genderless free-for-all of grinding, packed so tightly they looked like human accordions.

Crafty remixes that had the crowd guessing at the next batch of music to go into the sonic bouillabaisse.

A break dancing circle that lasted for a half-hour.

Lasers and an ingenious video jockey set.

Down-tempo pleasure in the blue room, rocked by five DJs.

The company of your friends.

Tell me if that doesn’t sound like the best night you had in a while.

Oh, you weren’t there? Well, by gosh you missed out on the hootenanny of the month! A night where you could truly get lost in the maze of musical mayhem crafted by WRCT’s DJs.

If you’re looking to experience the glory of a WRCT dance party, keep your eyes out in the spring for announcements regarding our spring semester dance party. Idioms aside, it’ll be sure to knock you off your rocker.

Some warm and fuzzy songs to keep your spirits up in the face of the cold: “Angel Echoes” by Four Tet (UK) “Alohamora” by Pogo (Western Australia) “A Gigantic Dub” by Tommy McCook & the Aggravators (Jamaica) “Perverted Undertone” by Prefuse 73 (Atlanta, Barcelona, New York) “Cabildo” by Chico Trujillo (Chile)

-Juan Fernandez