What Are You Listening to 2024

Thunk I'd ask like

First thing I listened to on waking up this morning was this
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which elsewhere looks like this
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and sounds like a bunch of middle class youth discovering how heavy one could set its distortion at the turn of the 70s. It does rock but I don't think I would ideally pick that vocalist cos I think he reflects his background but this is decent garagey heavy rock with corrosive distortion.
I think I picked it up in Minus Zero in the mid 90s and hadn't played it in ages. But it is pretty great.

sorted through a pile of cds I hadn't looked through for a while andd found several essential titles including this
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which I have in a bootleg version from before the band themselves released a remastered version.
Heavy rock that sounds like a heavier take on The Doors with a street preacher/street person expanding on Morrison. The guitarist is heavier than Kreiger and there is an u8nderkying Xian message though I think it can be overlooked. The singer's manic vocal is pretty great though.
I have thought about picking up the remaster but never got around to it.

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Finnish heavy prog/psych. Quite heavy. I just got this after spending some time perusing a couple of lists of heavy psych/hard rock that had been written on headheritage a couple of decades vback and one I'd been sent elsewhere
https://www.headheritage.co.uk/headtohead/unsung/topic/30590/threaded/381991
and
https://www.headheritage.co.uk/headtohead/unsung/topic/5500/threaded/45556
which both have some seriously great stuff on.
I was able to find tracks from a load of the lps I still didn't have up on Spotify.
This sounded very interesting so I grabbed a copy. It arrived on Friday.
Great guitar and band interplay. May take a while for the singer to grow on me. Reminds me of Brian Blesse4

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ery heavy, pretty late heavy psych lp dating from 1976. I thought this was considered a Stoner Rock classic which contributed to me buying it fromn Rockadrome when they reissued it in the late 00ies.
It's been sitting in a piule neglected for an age.I started spinning it again recently and its really growing on me.

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Manchester band signed to John Peel's Dandelion label. Brutal thuggish reworkings of a number of blues asnd psych rock numbers and some original material which always stood out to me. I picked this up in a Dublin HMV sale in the early 90s and played bits of it regularly on my radio show, think I'd seen a review in Forcedexposure or something.Have meant to get the cd box set of all of their work.

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very funky free jazz lp which I'd meant to pick up for a while. I picked up a copy in Honest John's late last year then put it back in the racks for some reason. Picked up a Sun |Ra compilation thing instead got back here and wondered why I had missed getting it. So wound up listening through it on spotify and going duh what'd you do. So got it through Spotify and may have wound up with a better version the Corbett vs. Dempsey one. Not sure if that was the one I'd initially rejected, sleeve doesn't seem to mention bonus tracks but this about doubles its length in cover versions.
Pretty essential.

also been lkistening to a load of jazz I picked up from charity shops and seems to have a leaning to early eras 30s & 40s and a few artists from then's later work. So much great stuff here. I'm now reading Ted Giotta's history of Jazz which is helping place some of this, though I do have some understanding.
also a load of classical stuff I'm picking up from the same charity shops. Classical is an area I really haven't spent a great deal of time listening to. Though have intermittently tuned into classical radio at different points.

mot sure what else extremely left field has turned up . Bound to be some stuff, various folk and stuff.
Mainly listening to podcasts on spotify and therefore the phone as walkman interspersed with tracks a lot of which come from the lists I mentioned.

epic vapor version of McDonald / labelle “on my own”

https://jpro.bandcamp.com/track/--81

the Unpopular 1/24 mix, very old-school UK indie heavy, simply a wonderful way to welcome the new year for me

https://www.mixcloud.com/unpopularuk/unpop-238-january-2024/

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https://erstetheketontraeger.bandcamp.com/album/ett-028-the-coneheads-l-p-1-aka-14-year-old-high-school-pc-fascist-hype-lords-rip-off-devo-for-the-sake-of-extorting-from-helpless-impressionable-midwestern-internet-peoplepunks-l-p

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Gospel funk from the 70's!

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I've been on a pretty heavy hippie album rock binge lately.

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Post-Roxy new wave not available via streaming that sounds exactly 1982. Pleasant enough.

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German teen heavies 1st lp.
I'm listening to a lot of early 70s heavy material at the moment. This arrived yesterday and is pretty great. I think I need a better music player to hear things properly though. This is the Lumpy Gravy version, not sure how it compares to the previous cd.
But been meaning to pick this up for ages so glad I finally did get a copy.

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1st lp by international heavy quartet. The rhythm section had been used by Brainticket on their lp Cottonwoodhill which is also the title of a track here.
Great very heavy psychedelic rock. Again been meaning to get this for years. Now need Tomorrow Blue

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I think my fav of the Eno era, dark psychedelic otherness. Eno treating the rest of the band's instruments and creating dubbed out epics.
Manzanera getting quite heavy in places.

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superheavy German trio. Get very abstract in places. Refound my copy this week. Should be much more familiar with it.

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German psych which I guess is krautrock. It gets very noisy in places. 1st track seems a bit corny lyrically, maybe overtly English as 2nd language. But music on that gets really out too.

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1976 set which gets pretty out.
Couldn't find this recently so glad I finally have done. Found a load of titles while looking for Silberbart.
I think this was one of the first sets I heard by the band cos my brother had a copy of the vinyl. I remembered it as being heavily drum dominated which seems less true on the cd I listened to.

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The Grapefruit label set devoted to the Ladbroke Grove/Portobello scene. Wish I'd been more aware of the music being made around me when I was there, which was at the start but also my start.
Got some great stuff on as always. I'm also reading Andrew Lauder's book Happy Trails which overlaps.

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soooo much new punk

starter packs:
https://geeteeband.bandcamp.com/album/g-t-r-r-c-iii
https://geeteeband.bandcamp.com/album/g-t-r-r-c-iii

oops 2nd one is https://palestinesolidaritycompilation.bandcamp.com/album/palestine-solidarity-compilation

unnerving and beautiful

https://byqow.bandcamp.com/album/elmosameh-sherine

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https://i.discogs.com/ecIT7o4EO2_5d2vJqum3cABg0zkAPxfJVTocm4UKHPM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTgxOTA5/NTUtMTQ1Njg0MTc4/NS04MTkyLmpwZWc.jpeg just picked this up from the DHL Paket shop that exists inside the posh health food store run by tired looking hippies who seem you've ruined their day - an old friend had sent it totally unbidden just by way of "Hi" Sugai Ken's "鯰上 - On The Quakefish" never heard of him before but super gloopy ambient / concrete. what a pleasant surprise!

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https://i.discogs.com/tmrFq7MoC1aSso3jWRVVvG7t0eW7YY-4goCSMOMfToM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTUyODEz/OS0xMTk0MDY4OTA2/LmpwZWc.jpeg The B-52's - Wild Planet - always awesome. love love love

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Really lovely EP of saxophone/bass clarinet + electronics
https://bossada.bandcamp.com/album/cantina-days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OW3SPgx2CPk

Deeply excellent six-hour long live set from Donna Leake

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Heavy prog from Germany. Got some scorching leads and keyboard. Pretty psychedelic. Have been aware of the existence of this since the early 00ies when it cropped up on mp3 blogs but only just got hold of a physical copy.
So only heard it through a couple of times so far. But will be listening to it a lot more. Going through a heavy stoner hard rock phase so picking up a bunch of stuff I've been aware of for a while but not got around to getting.

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Turkish heavy Anadolu rock trio combining trad influences with electric rock in a heavy psychedelic way. Some great snaking lead lines.
I was trying to work out earlier if the theme to their s/t track was borrowed from somewhere else, sounds familiar.
Have had this for a few years but neglected it for a while so getting back into it.
Maybe not quite as heavy as it could be but think it's pretty good.

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2cd compilation of 20s blues chanteuse cheap but with pretty decent sound.
I grabbed this last week after it wasn't around locally for several months. I got a different compi of her last year, I think while I was reading her biography and had wanted to get this so did next time I saw it.
Janis Joplin bought her grave a headstone at the turn of the 70s and I think she was popular with the current hippy underground as a number of other reissues from the time were. This shares a cover image with a compilation that was released in 1970 and I think sold pretty well.
Her blues is played with a jazz combo so is a bit different to the delta blues that I think a lot of people associate prewar blues with. In Delta blues you normally have a solo performer accompanying themselves with a portable instrument like a guitar. It has been interesting to note that this music which has partially been portrayed more recently in terms of legacy going back to time immemorial actually seemed to be pretty new when it was being introduced in the early 20th century. The guitar as popular instrument ties in with the popularisation of the Sears catalogue, mail order and instalment payments. Which does also tie in with older traditions but new technology morphs the way that music is performed and also how it is heard. Like the fact that it is recorded for posterity was only a couple of decades old at the time. Commercial criteria narrowed what was being recorded all too soon and introduced formulae as well as excluded things it deemed outside of what was wanted to sell or represent the type of music to be recorded.
Sonow you have a load of older music coming out of copyright and some firms are doing their best to make it sound listenable on current technology. This is Not Now who do seem to be coming out with good audio. I'm enjoying this.

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Country music guitarist who was heavily influential in the creation of countrypolitan and a few other not so great innovations. His own playing is pretty interesting so I've wanted to get some for a while. This does seem to avoid overt schmaltz in what I've heard so far.
It's certainly way more MOR than avant but this is a handy 3cd to have I think.

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First 2 lps by the band that morphed out of Timebox and took its name from the lead singer. Featuring the very dextrous guitar of Ollie Halsall who had only been playing guitar for a couple of years by this point. He had played vibraphone beforehand which he does in some places here. Wondering if his conception coming from another instrument impacted his playing on guitar, it's quite great anyway.
Pretty blues based with a heavy jazz influence. So maybe like a more jazzed out Zep anyway recommended bband.

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RIP Wayne Kramer but I think I wuld havev been listening to these anyway. I think I only found 66 Breakout last week while going through piles of things. The Total Energy label was run by John Sinclair I think or at least heavily involved him. So they released a load of previously unreleased material some of which has been reissued since and some hasn't.
These 2 are great anyway.

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Heavy folk rock from Chicago with female vocals.
Production has a lot of space in it. Guitar is very heavy and distorted in places.
Lengthy version of Train Kept A Rollin is sung by someone with no knowledge of the lyrics. So has complete mumbled nonsense being sung
, not sure what to think of that, positive or negative? Garage innit?

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2nd lp from early 70s twin guitar band.I rediscovered the band recently. Love the first couple of lps and the live in Memphis mini lp which takes its tracks from this lp and extends them. I don't love the vocals on Argus so not listened to that in an age. They had a lot of promise early on. 1st s/t lp has them taking off in an impactful hard rock direction, this takes off in a more folky jazzier direction with some psychedelic influences. Argus has some guitar interplay that sounds like a more mature take on the ballroom sound but I find the vocals really bland.
Not sure what the best releases of this set are. Have heard it was remastered and overcompressed a few years ago. Think it's a great lp anyway.

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i've been listening to this Rie Nakajima release a bunch:
https://rienakajima.bandcamp.com/album/four-forms

it's very well mixed and sounds amazing in headphones, quite ASMR-ish. she's maybe the most compelling voice doing this kind of found objects/ kinetics sound stuff rn... anne-f jacques is also really great.

also i haven't heard any other jazz that prominently features the celesta, which is a terrible shame because it sounds like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyk4GtvBhZo

diiv - is the is are

^ i played that a few weeks ago, holds up really well

for sure! the guitar/bass interplay, the textures, the feeling at times of being carried along by a dreamy motorik cloud… classic

That Jonas Burgwinkel record is great, thanks. I've heard on him a few other things, he's a pretty astonishing drummer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SOvuvl9C4I

- this is amazing stuff. so much fun to listen to. originally a 4xCassette box set from 2018. i'm listening on Youtube Music but i'm sure its on Bandcamp or Spotify and all the rest. almost 4 hours of sound. highly recommended!

Girih: Iranian Sound Artists

https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27337d15eb0e136af5d4cbb5a16

https://open.spotify.com/album/7aY3NmdY0qrV0Wj5kIBBiA

Allaudin William Mathieu- Streaming Wisdom


just anticipating spring over here

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Shabason/Gunning - Ample Habitat (forthcoming on Seance Centre)

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Mija Milovic - Still Life (new on Escho)

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Fields Of Mist - sketches 21-22 (a relatively older but still contempo release by someone who got on my radar yesterday via an intriguing new 12" EP on Ilian Tape)

thanks for the headsup on the Shabason/Gunning

Cheers!
It's so far my fave album of this year
(I've pre-ordered the files on BC, but was also kindly privy to an advance of it late last year to 'premiere' (ha) on my hobbyist internet radio show last fall, since am IRL friendly with them here in Toronto and we've nerded out about music in person in recent yrs)

Back to regular sched prog, I keep coming back to this IMO modern rap classic album by MIKE - Weight Of The World
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(Return thx for that Donna Leake DJ set SoundCloud link above, table!
She is great, and I missed her playing a set here in T.O. recently)

(P.S. If you're Fatik/host of said link, I've listened to your Lot Radio show a ton--great stuff)

Hi Craig I still have that Feldman score to give to you, text me and let me know where you’re gonna be at!

I was listening to “Computer Incantations For World Peace” today and decided I’d try and learn to play it

Right on on both fronts, fgti! Thanks again...

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Lately ingesting the most vaporous, formless, endless ambient dub that I can find. Really loving SVLBRD, Purl, Docetism, Deadbeat, Tikiman and the like. Also wonderful bumpy garage artists like Chaos in the CBD, Duke Hugh, Andras and Oscar Key Sung. Also just found Library Tapes? Wonderful little ambient piano vignettes.

if you like Plone etc search the fuck outta this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYbybMIzoCs

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Chris & Cosey - Take Five

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back on the raï with cheb mami's "fatma" https://i.discogs.com/5NbglLuMSUmymTc8IRG0FyPnMm03kkvRrqubG6tWfLw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:519/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyNzM4/MjI1LTE1NDEwMTA2/NjEtOTAyMC5qcGVn.jpeg

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a thousand knock-offs later, cliff martinez' solaris OST still flipin aces

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3rd lp by London space rock band. Gets pretty corrosive in places. Love the usage of electronics

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Feral then-Yugoslavian Hard rock/stoner band from the early 70s who sing in phonetic sounding English. Really one of the more extreme of these bands I've heard veering into noise. Like an adult garage but heavy. Possibly more uptempo than a lot of bands of the era.
I'd heard about the existence of this for years but finally got a copy.

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3rd lp by Californian desert rock/stoner band. I just replaced a scratched up copy of this I had 20 years ago.
I can't hear this without hearing the early 70s stuff running through it. So do wonder how truthful Josh Homme was in separating himself from earlier influences. His bandmates went on to cover artists from the era in later projects. Homme said he listened to Black Flag and indie stuff. I'm definitely hearing echoes of the psych and hard rock stuff in here.
Anyway, powerful, visceral, archetypal rock that I think still stands up well a few decades later.

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Australian indie pop band best of. Turned up in a pile. Erudite jangley stuff. I got to seer Robert Forster do a talk on music that influenced him during the Arts Festival last year which was interesting. Don't think I found this at t6he time.
Picked this up at reduced price a couple of decades ago, do listen to it from time to time and could get further into bits of it.
Has their song about Lee Remick as an unlisted extra track. That has apparently intentionally ironic bad rhymes on things but was about their first single so their craft came along in leaps and bounds. It's still quite catchy.

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Ethan Miller of Comets On Fire's later band picking up on various turn of the 70s styles.hard rock, psych, folk rock, gospel a melange I had noticed was pretty similar to the one that Paul Kantner and Grace Slick's solo lp Sunfighter was based around. I listened to that earlier in the week too.
Looks like I've got very behind with this band. I know I enjoy the first couple of lps anyway.

checking out some late period carthy/swarbrick recordings. maybe not quite as fleet & sprightly as in their earlier days, but still what a glorious combination they made.

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Listening to this currently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrlKxV5KWJo

Schlager Beat Girls and their sub-par impression of France Gall.

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It's Saturday night, time for retro party records with Sandy Nelson and his drums!

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Also, they packaged this at one time.

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Julie Driscoll got married to a pianist then made this so,lo lp with him and Blossom Toes' guitarist Brian Godding backing her on various tracks. ?Not a;; at the same time.
Pretty otherworldly, it has been seen as twinned with Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom. So maybe oceanic too.Mid 70s semi avant music. Blooming lovely.

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Zeuhl band's 3rd lp and beginning to define what Zeuhl was as opposed to the earlier lps jazz-rock. This is shaped by John Coltrane, Carl Orff, Heavy repetitive chants, heavy bass and Christian Vander's drumming. Guitar is present but not the most prominent instrument, when it is heard it is quite acidic. Music is telling the saga of Kobaia in an invented language. I think this album is about the betrayal of Kobaia by an earth that kills a Kobaian ambassador.

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Compilation of distorto blues group's recordings for the B??BC. I've been listening to the 1st disc which is selections of recordings from 1969. There is another version of this set that adds another disc which fills out all of the material they recorded for the company and apparently remixed the sound to add more bass.
Zep were pretty raw in 69, which is also shown on a number of bootlegs from the time.I think this is still the only live material from the time to have been officially released. (including the other material from the source of course).

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VDGG lead singer's 1974 solo lp backed by VDGG but with him playing guitar. Seen to be protopunk partially because it was one of Lydon;'s choices for playing on Capitol Radio and partially because it's visceral and vitriolic. Dashed fine piece of music anyway.

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Japanes hard rock, like a fluid Sabbath. This is their 2nd lp with some of the lp recorded backing singer Carmen Maki added as bonus. She has a great voice but her phonetic pronunciation detracts from her singing, so I'd prefer this if she had sung in Japanese.
The lp itself is one of the better hard rock sets from the time. Quite a progression from their too authentic blues band s/t 1st lp. Guitar is more overblown for one thing.
I find this really satisfying anyway.
It's very heavy, intense and quite hypnotic. I have the version that came in the Studio Zund box set

dead side

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super skronky version of the blade runner feem choon, too

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Les Ambassadeurs Du Motel De Bamako* – Les Ambassadeurs Du Motel De Bamako
Swirling, psychedelic,Mande electric rock. Part of a widespread move in the early 70s for bands to electrify local indigenous music and mix it with Western influences. This also shows the legacy of the earlier Latin influence which swept the continent in the late 50s and 60s. There were some fantastic bands recorded in Northwest Africa who had some similarities in sound these included the Bamako based bands i.e. these and the Rail Band and bands from Senegal including Orchestra Baobab and the bands that descended from the Star Band notably Youssou N'dour's Super Etoile de Dakar.
This music was recorded between 1975 and 1977 after which the band moved base to Abidjan, Ivory Coast, and became Les Ambassadeurs Internationaux
So, long electric guitar explorations as part of a larger ensemble. 1st disc here is all Salif Keita vocals , 2nd has 4 different vocalists on .

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4 piece band make a larger sound on a night on an Italian tour in 1978. Very spacious and pretty heavy. Sun Ra on various keyboards 2 horns and a drummer. This and Disco 3000 are both pretty great and recorded in pretty close succession. Not sure which to say is more essential/. I got lucky and got this for £5 from Rermegacorp in a sale a while back.
This helps show why the band got such a reputation. But so much by him does. Otherworldly, psychedelic , noisy music.May help reset the parameters of what can be done with music. & its just one night of live interplay between a small group of musicians. Like, wow.

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2nd lp by Brum heavies. I think more fluid than the first one and some of it sounds oddly Doorsy (Planet Caravan)
I'm still going through a phase of listening to a lot of early stoner rock stuff and this is an important part of that. I should be getting the first lp shortly, previous copy got heavily scratched.

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1st lp by another turn of the 70s heavy groups.This is very heavy and monumental and things.
I'm not familiar with the rest of their material I picked this up on hearing it was one of the killer heavies. May check out some more of their early stuff but I think they add orchestration etc on the next lp. This is just the band playing hard rock, they become more progressive with the next couple of records I hear.

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Interesting best of on Spectrum. Seems like it's more curated than you might expect a mid priced cd compi to be. I think anyway, I have a number of JB sets and albums and am not familiar with a few things on here. Not sure to what extent this qualifies as the best but there is a lot of great material from the time covered anyway. It goes on beyond a point I'd cut off at. I thought he had bowedvto the pressure of the influence of disco so quality had slipped. This has a few tracks from that era which avoid that. Now I'm wondering if Drunk On The Heavy Funk was worth checking out, that's the 2cd covering that era that came out about 20 years ago.
One thing that drew me to picking this up was the 1970 era sleeve photo and a number of track titles I would associate with a certain era. There are a load of tracks here from 68-73 and a few later plus some of the better known earlier ones Night Train, Cold Sweat, Papa's Got A Brand New Bag. I'm not sure what I'd put on a basic JB best of. Did have a couple of earlier Best Of sets of him a few decades ago that even then had tracks I'm not sure were immediately lowcomdenom but I am impressed by this for mid price.
Could just be that I'm out of touch with what the important points of JB are in the wake of Rare Groove and Acid Jazz etc. Where I was approaching things initially from the perspective of a 60sphile mod revival. Do love the early to mid 70s stuff anyway.

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big band jazz (with added ivor cutler)

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Reyna Tropical

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I love that Dead on the Heavy Funk late 70s/early 80s JB comp.

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I picked this up thinking it was going to be 20s and 30s old timey etc and it turns out to be 40s to 70s. Still pretty great. Lots of country and blues picking and frailing.
I grabbed a pile of stuff from a local 2nd hand shop. Would have been more if I'd had more dosh a couple of days earlier.

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This was from the same place and I think purchase. Good sounding set of acoustic blues stuff. With Frank Stokes on the cover. I got a Document set by him a couple of days earlier.
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compilation of various musics from North Africa from desert blues to more traditional Mande Sounds and had a free cd by Mamane Barka that I've yet to listen to.

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Sublime record by Malian guitarist and international band including Taj Mahal on acoustic guitar. Mix of his Malian blues and possibly more traditional stuff. Pretty great anyway, I think I missed another couple of his that had been there when I first looked.
All of this traditional stuff apparently came from one person's collection.

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Hungarian folk played by an official ensemble so not sure how authentic and gritty. ~Gets pretty noisy when woodwind drone instruments are in play.&I do find it pretty cool.

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Compilation of 2 cajun records from the time of the revival. I need to listen to this more but am enjoying what I've heard.
Need to go back to the shop to see if they've still got any of the things I didn't grab last week

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Uncut covermount sampler of the Can Bootleg series. Aston sounds interesting from this track

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Japanese psych prog band from the early 70s. Remind me of the Doors musically along with Pink Floyd, King Crimson and a few others.
Found this had fallen down somewhere after not being able to find it recently. But pretty good listen.

Isshoku Sokuhatsu [Yonin-Bayashi] was the last title there. Hadn't realised it didn't have a name showing.

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the byrds (untitled)

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Because I am suggestible (and because it's beautiful).

https://i.discogs.com/JQESfZ-c0euf61AjiDMuPyqwLYjBBbcFdtCWBD0U_M8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:590/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkzMjMw/NzUtMTQ3ODU3ODM0/MS0xMTM4LmpwZWc.jpegshane english - general dimensions: shoewavey minimal goth industrial noir electro pop on l.i.e.s.

definite skinny puppy vibes

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https://i.discogs.com/08PDfy341hy_jiq2eszWwQ7vCFqVG2cSJ9Et7dBChzM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:583/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg5Nzkz/NTEtMTQ3MjY1ODYz/OS02NzA1LmpwZWc.jpeg bauls of bengal

https://folkways-media.si.edu/images/album_covers/SF700/FW04376.jpg

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51dN6FcSzBL._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

expanded anniversary edition with bonus track for japan

ornette coleman & t rex

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a4029812710_65 not sure if that link will work, but the whole "rap is back" EP by Hot Dad is some of the best shoegaze i've heard in ages, and stupid AF, to boot

https://i.discogs.com/00b43FnjPsnH8AYv6MoZQkxQzBXVQ_g0msusCIA6nho/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:250/w:251/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY2NDQz/My0xMTQ2MjA5NTc5/LmpwZWc.jpeg churinga canaries - ash nav adjacent echo swirl & rumblatum

https://i.discogs.com/IL-a4rB9UlSuQgADMxWkPWvKJ2v6y4ZHCaTxix1B4qw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:587/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg1NDQ4/NC0xNTEzNDc0OTgx/LTk5NjYuanBlZw.jpeg pylon (that's the finnish pylon) - "not cobras" caveman forest folk bedroom recording shamanism

https://i.discogs.com/SGWUxPUvLOnBZnX2nJozDj3gV-JVdZcHJpo8L0V5jCo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:595/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY1NTUy/NjUtMTUyMTQ2MDQ1/MC03MjA4LmpwZWc.jpeg terrence dixon 12"

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very rarely do i get excited about a bandcamp mailout, but freak the funk! it's a new montel palmer album!
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0284015288_16.jpg https://montelpalmer.bandcamp.com/album/love-getaway
like mouthus or ashtray navigations doing laid back electro funk jamz
cough syrup

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glurp

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http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCWR93xva3BiogtTHTb_C6b5hTOVvHPnv
which is Kungiyar Akazama ta Dogon Dutse.
nigerien. they rule

https://i.discogs.com/wngk3u6flS_DKQJAuknxtti3xQkVg4RivStujyMgwHw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:250/w:250/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEyNzE3/MS0wMDEuZ2lm.jpegsam & valley - a miracle is simple. one of my favourite feelings is where you put on a disc, get busy with something & forget what you've put on, and then something arrestingly strange blurps out of the speaker and you have absolutely no idea at all what it is

https://i.discogs.com/a8AcdcaW07g-gz0Nml3wWJsniOfi1QYxMeVa9a559dE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:500/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE4MzAw/MDktMTI0NjI3MDA2/Ny5qcGVn.jpeg this comp of mbira stuff, although not quite as stellar as the nonesuch shona music disc, does feature the kevin volans piece "mbira" which is a groovin funky little minimalist masterpiece that reminds me of pauline oliveros' "the wanderer". can't get enough of it

https://www.discogs.com/release/1547118-Robert-Horton-Dirt-Speak/image/SW1hZ2U6MjQzMzY2MQ== robert horton - dirt speak. gnarled homemade instrument drone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7m1hgsCNpA

Where has Phil Perry been all my life

the kevin volans piece "mbira" which is a groovin funky little minimalist masterpiece

...for two harpsichords, natch.

for sure, priv/appr Qs abound, but it sounds good

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part of a bunch of the covermount cds I picked up recently. There are a few other titles too. Just got into a set of Memphis Jug Bands who played a bunch of tracks I'n familiar with in Grateful Dead reworkings, The late 20s versions are really vital, sound like they could come from decades later.
Really liking the East Coast Blues set too I know the word Piedmont but not been massively familiar with all of the music that fits the genre. Have been familiar with some of it. Plus that's the style Jorma Kaukonen specialised in before he went electric. Do need to work through JA conscious of that to see how much of an influence it leaves on the band's work.

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Turn of the 70s London based stoner rock band. Whose work was released in the mid 90s by Kissing Spell. This is a later reissue by Guerssen.
Nice heavy guitar work outs. I think this is their better collection.

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Detroit stoner rock band who have been reissued by Mr Bongo because of funk elements I'm not really hearing. Does seem more heavy than funky but it was released on a Motown sub label.

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Current Finnish band trying to rework turn of 70s psych folk rock. Not sure how successful that is but results are pretty good. Just doesn't really hit the imaginary early 70s year that a number of bands were hitting in the late 00ies. It is pretty listenable.

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techno with its own narrative. Had this on for the first time in a while this week. Pretty great stuff.
I watched the Trolls World Tour or at least part of it yesterday. They have the Techno land as sub auatic so I wondered if it was a reference to this mythos.

xp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U3563FPJo8
"If one looks at western music through the lens of traditional African music, you could just as easily refer to a piano as a ten-finger mbira."

I don't have the right to address these Q's but Volans to his credit at least does this^

love that sympathetic rattling is deemed necessary to the sound

https://legowelt.bandcamp.com/album/schaduw-horizon

one of those nice legowelt synthy soundtracky thing

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https://i.discogs.com/wz-6SX0LBSDxdZ4FNAGSo0aqq3WiT1JrP6nhJ6gbx-8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:471/w:473/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1NDcx/MjAtMTIzNDA1OTI3/Ni5qcGVn.jpegrobert hortn & tom carter - steel jaguar for rocket - super skronky wigout drone

*horton

https://i.discogs.com/SkKcrPAY8rQxS16InLavgRCjaW1q8SeI6bSL4ChF7wM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:156/w:156/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE0NzMz/NTMtMTIyMjMzOTI4/Ny5naWY.jpeg anders dahl "doorbells" - drone concrete up there with the very best

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Just got a replacement copy of the 3cd of the 69 Fillmore West set. Got it when it came out but old copy is a bit worse the wear.
So here is the band with copious amounts of psychedelic jam from right around the time of Live Dead which used other recordings from the same series of gigs and another couple of sources. Songs here have notably different durations to the previously released versions which indicates some looseness as does the actual music itself.
Blooming great and epitomising the band at some of its best. I know August 68 and May 70 are highs I hold for the band, not sure about 69 for a total peak but this is great.

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one of several blues sets from this covermounted cd series I picked up recently. Love this one. It has a number of songs that I associate withb the Grateful Dead as set enders as well as a Viola Lee Blues which they covered on their first lp. Music here is energetic and sounds like it ought to come from decades later than its 1927-30 recordings. Definitely sound like archetype line ups for later band formations or however you want to put that. Just thinking prototype ideas for what a band should be, I found listening to Hank Williams Drifting Cowboys and a few others had me thinking similarly. I think jug bands may be filtered through 60s white recreations and wind up sounding more hokey, from the evidence of this they sound like they were far more innovative at the time of recording.
Sound here seems relatively good and listenable. Do wish I had the magazines though. Linernotes are pretty scanty in the cd booklet.

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Jazz saxophonist's return lp after a long time practising in the location of the title. He's joined here by guitarist Jim Hall who is pretty outstanding.
I'm less familiar with Rollins' work than I probably ought to be. Have heard bits of it but don't own much. Not sure why.

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or is it ambient i dunno

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some recent listening via spotify

JUN 24

https://i.discogs.com/v5zVwrXRQyFe8jyZZh3Xj4ocJTLAEoTHmc2MsUFirBs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkyNjc4/ODQtMTQ3NzY3MDQ0/My01OTAwLmpwZWc.jpeg reckonwrong - whities009 12"

Stevo if you’re out there — I’m pretty sure it was you who posted in one of these listening threads within the last two years or so about a comp of relatively unknown female-led bands, I think mostly from the ‘80s, playing power-pop/new wave/garage style stuff. I think it had a mostly blue cover? Don’t remember if it was an international comp or focused on one country. Does that sound at all familiar? I remember really liking it but can’t find it now. All of my searches are turning up some recent comps on Ace/Big Beat but I don’t think it’s any of those. Thanks!

https://www.discogs.com/release/1835000-Berta-Waza-Bal-Naggaro-Abangara%C5%8B-Sudan-Die-Musik-Der-Berta-Am-Blauen-Nil-Music-Of-The-Berta-From-Th/image/SW1hZ2U6OTI3NTA4NTg= sudanese waza music. everyone has a wooden trumpet with a different note & they get a groove going it is flipin splendid

I'll have to think re girl fronted band thing. Wouldn't be a covermount thing or something?

Don’t think it was a covermount, pretty sure it was a commercial release. No worries if you can’t think of it!

Found it! “Heroes of the Night: Punk, Pop and Wave from the U.K. Underground ‘79-‘83.” On Reminder Records. And happily discovered that there’s a Volume II out now too.

https://i.discogs.com/nEAhAqbsr8mqQt3ZfNfWXdKLHDLc-jq26jgFCNjqJwo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:493/w:500/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzMzYy/OTQtMTMyNjMxNDE0/Mi5qcGVn.jpeg messiaen himself on the organ

also this didn't link & you gotta SEE the trumpets:
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right now : "soldier-talk", the red krayola

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Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Nathan Salsburg and Tyler Trotter take two Lungfish songs and stretch them out to twenty minutes each, results even better than I expected.

Wasn't aware of this one, jon - thanks for the heads up. Sounds really great.

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deep distance side

Whoa, never seen that before, are those the same cuts as appear on The Private Tapes?

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZfHmEblM1Dk/sddefault.jpg

terry riley - Shri camel live at holland festival 1977

yep! plus a track culled from a compilation that seems to be otherwise unreleased: https://www.discogs.com/release/8598120-Ash-Ra-Tempel-The-High-And-Mighty-Priestess

very cool

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Pizza Hotline - 💧Daydream Cast [Disc. 2] Chilled Out Video Game Music to Make you Relax, Unwind, and Daydream ☁️

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfeN2nC8vfk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vzLb_FHmto

https://i.discogs.com/ABCYo8VOnwanvpC9v7rFFbPuJoTG5p9E0F4NftFkzmE/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTMzOTU5/OC0xMjk1NjI5MzUz/LmpwZWc.jpeg ash nav - to your fucking feather'd wings. go, phil!

https://i.discogs.com/DcCOqdk1NNR-N395NCRR3vzlfKKeXtqFekwcP-VaAEw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:597/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE1MzQw/MjYyLTE1ODk5ODky/MDQtNzcwMC5qcGVn.jpegingrid laubrock & kris davis - blood moon. perfect for an uncomfortably humid north german summer's eve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7N9zc1ql0s

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atrocious sounding boot, but as far as i'm aware this is the only evidence of doug dillard's brief tenure with the byrds absolutely ripping it up on what i can only assume is electric banjo

(i was wondering who the ldm spiritual band in the repurposed fillmore poster were, turns out it's how the bauls of bengal were promoted on their first us concerts: https://www.outlookindia.com/culture-society/the-bengali-baul-band-that-enthralled-psychedelic-audience-of-60s-us-news-121543)

really lovely CTI mix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2sjDojt2Ug

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL4rw3F-UZ0

two recents getting repeat spins:
M-3 "roger miller ben miller larry miller" sci-fi 90's no-wave
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and jyoji sawada's "enfant terrible" which is a peculiar spoken word / collage thing reminiscent of a pastoral ground zero https://i.discogs.com/jkMcVRz_kPhPZA3gSACAH_mJwtylWKWwdsxOieSZAF4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:312/w:317/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzNTY3/MDQtMTIxMjQzMjQ0/Ny5qcGVn.jpeg

I'm really obsessed with this adorable euro pop rock song about friendship between Estonia and Sweden from 1990. Super catchy and a bit corny in all the right ways with some killer harmonies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3rhC4qnXhQ

https://i.discogs.com/LM08CTmZnnzZVKzs51RWWrnmpYu6HNWrRMTtGXzis5Y/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:591/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQzOTEy/NDEtMTM2NjI5NTcw/OS0zNDQzLmpwZWc.jpegtimucin shain quintet - inherence. snappy itchy jazz from 2013 like the laubrock / rainey axis gone fusion

*sahin

Great stuff

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I wish it hadn't taken me so long to get around to this. This is like the platonic ideal of an early '80s punk album for me, not just variations of the same song hammered over and over, a pretty good mix of hardcore intensity, melodicism and even things like a synth intro!

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81W7WKGkXmL._AC_SX679_.jpg

https://i.discogs.com/o-1D2MLvm1Q2xDqxj0832s5PL_DG6PDFMAJjSwyw_Ow/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:530/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM1MjQx/MS0xNDk0NTUzNTYx/LTMyNzkuanBlZw.jpegyoshio machida - hypernatural#2 - dictaphone concrete with steel pan & tetsu inoue world receiver elements - really good

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compilation of material by New Orleans r'n'b guitarist/singer. Incorporates what I take to be 2nd line rhythms into his style which adds an element I don't hear in contemporary r'n'b from elsewhere.
I picked this up without being familiar with the artist but am very glad I did so. 2nd hand book/music shop I got it from recently bought up collections from a couple of people who'd collected a load of blues/r'n'b/various roots musics, so I picked up bits of those collections but not really as much as I would have if I had more money on me. Oh well chance element is always interesting. & thanks to a friend for pointing out that the cd I was looking at because it was on Acrobat which a Jesse Fuller set I was actually consciously looking to pick up after not doing so on a previous visit. Jesse Fuller was an artist a guitarist around town had covered a lot when I first got here.
Anyway, one of the best buys I've made in a while cos it is pretty great.

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70s blues plus plus group incorporating some 2nd line, country, jazz and a myriad of other influences. Band leader Lowell George had tiny tootsies and great skill with slide guitar which seems to be a feature throughout. Can give some of this music a really psychedelic feel that and the flowing rhythms.
I've been meaning to pick this up for a while but its taken a few months to restock and I didn't grab it last time it was in. So been going in to check if its there and surprise surprise it turns up when I'm feeling broke. But got it anyway and glad I did. Have only had ther 1st s/t lp up til now. Not sure how I managed to get to this point without picking up more.

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compilation of old-timey Appalachian banjo player's recordings from the late 20s and early 30s.
I think this came from one of the mainly blues collections I mentioned earlier. Macon is an artist I'm semi familiar with from reading about early country in books like Tony Russell's Country Music Originals.
Pretty raucous party music I guess. Love this stuff. also picked up the Rough Guide to Hillbilly Blues a couple of weeks back. Early country reminds me of the Gun Club, other roots punk and things like Dylan's early acoustic years and the Charlatans since they all contributed to me investigating it. & then I've been slowly picking up bits and pieces for years.

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Welsh heavy trio playing a stoner heavy hard rock before the genre became fully formulaically defined. I have a copy of this on cd that I need to find that I think came out on a hip hop label. So far this is the only one of their lps I have but have heard first 5 lps are great.
I'm having to listen to this one track at a time on Spotify so really should find my physical copy.
There are some pretty odd titles on the record with more prosaic lyrical themes. But Nude Disintegrating Parachutist Woman doesn't get a further explanation.

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psychedelic hip hop stuff that I really need to get a physical copy of. I think I was turned onto it by comparisons made from the New Kingdom lps years ago. So not having it yet may be a bit lax, pretty great

https://i.discogs.com/l1FU7HhZQWjRzwXfz5ZTzhEqKd7jpGIEp9gRMtX4__M/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:356/w:363/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzNTI3/NjItMTIxMjQ4MzIx/OC5qcGVn.jpeg fish & roses - S/T EP - finally scored a hard copy - 1987 - minutemen meet hugo largo with casio keyboard

these guys have been active for 20+ years and I only find out about them now - Sweden's Carbon Based Lifeforms (maybe because they never seemed to have escaped the peace and love and trance festival scene)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNXZ15cTaXk

the debut album by Divine Styler is very VERY different to anything by New Kingdom.
both are great, but don't get how anyone hears a connection.
yeah, Divine Styler may have drifted into the same world via his brilliant WARPORN INDUSTRIES mixtape,
but his debut is all psych and weird vibes.

may have been something they had said they had listened to.

yeah, that would make sense.
they both were in the same world re doing hip hop differently.

he was great doing native tongue type stuff when he on Ice-T's Rhyme Syndicate label

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RELwmQyyLpE

which funny, Everlast who was also on Rhyme Syndicate used that whistle sound for Jump Around later

Tonight:

Tetes Noires: The New American Dream. 2013 remix of their 1984 feminist folkpoppunk album. I probably saw this band live 100 times back then.

Reptile Palace Orchestra: 1997 release by Madison, WI “Balkan lounge funk” band. I saw them a ton of times too.

xposts: county released a number of uncle dave macon comps, all of them excellent listening

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have been dipping my toe into '73 era live dead, until recently a period i'd pretty much ignored for some reason

That Pacific Northwest 3cd is pretty good too, does go into '74 too. I remember really liking the '73 set from Jerry's birthday on the 1st of August. I remember noting a soul influence on it. But do like most of the 72-74 stuff I've heard apart from the period in 73 when they incorporated horns. & not listened to any of that in an age so may be more tolerant of it.

Uncle Dave Macon is great as is that Tony Russell Original Country Classics book.

turns out there are only 2 county macon comps, thought there were more! i covet the massive bear family box.

only 74 stuff i know is the portland memorial concert & steal your face, which haven't overly encouraged me in that direction (yet)

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*fushitsusha-esque can't type ruined my hand shunting goalposts about in a rainstorm yesterday

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*alessandro

Dutchmasters--this song in particular--has been thoroughly kicking my ass lately. I've only dipped a toe in, but there's a lot happening on this EP. Lofi screamo with some really incredible riffs, occasional electronica, and some very immersive ambient sections.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRdHvpD3NcE

https://i.discogs.com/yBP1NFCMxCyq-MRX1zjVLix9QJk18HWOz2Fvz4hGdeg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:200/w:200/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg0ODY2/My0xMTY1MTA0MzQ0/LmpwZWc.jpegcircle x - "celestial" 1994 no wave with ugly cover art. weird grey plod w bobcat goldthwaite vox. sounds like it shoulda been on sst/homestead in '84. reminds me of SYPH

have been dipping my toe into '73 era live dead, until recently a period i'd pretty much ignored for some reason

oh man, my absolute favorite Dead year! if you are hungry for more, I recommend:

3/28/73 (Dave's Picks 16)
5/13/73 (in the recent Here Comes Sunshine box set)
6/10/73 (same as above, with bonus set featuring Dickey Betts & Butch Trucks)
6/22/73; 6/24/73; 6/26/73 (all from the PNW box set from a few years ago)
10/19/73 (Dick's Picks 19 - one my top 5 Dead shows of any era!)

*fushitsusha-esque can't type ruined my hand shunting goalposts about in a rainstorm yesterday

btw, thanks for the tip to Sunny Five. You had my attention with "fushitsusha-eque" and checked out some clips before ordering it.

thanks for the recs... it was hearing that dave's pick which convinced me i needed to explore more from '73. next stop was rfk stadium with auxiliary allmans. might finally check out the wake reissue for the bonus disc too.

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this soundtrack has a pretty dark & menacing vibe for what i understand was a sex farce!

these two:
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Compilation of live songs recorded from 2002 and 2003 tours where Cul De Sac backed Damo Suzuki.

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duh *wouldn't

today's spins:
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https://i.discogs.com/Jtuh6bwUnfVGQpWf6mxRYOg5OQ2mFkKTq1UXCqQwmmo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:529/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI2NDQx/MjA3LTE2NzkzMzk5/MDItNjUxMy5qcGVn.jpegkaze & ikue mori -"crustal movement". awesome. kaze are like AMM with tunes. ikue mori helps them collage a covid era thing together

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Breakthrough lp of early 90s Californian desert rock band. It sounds like they listened heavily to a load of music from the early 70s and tied it in with more recent metal/hardcore moves. So I hear echoes of music I know elsewhere running through it. So I can't buy into the more recent purist stoner rock was invented in 1990 in California line when it actually seems to be a reinvestigation of earlierinfluences.
This is done with a great deal of power and coherence which I think are the signs of success when listening to a band blending a number of influences. Which is hopefully true of any band worth hearing.
I just got a new copy of this at the weekend. I got heavily into listening to the band about 20 years ago which was several years after the fact. Think I could have seen them live, knew somebody at the time they were around who got into them quite heavily. But I didn't pick up on them for a few years and have since left my copies of their cds unplayed for several years while enjoying the bands I hear them echoing.
I'm not sure to what degree the band denying interest in the bands they were compared to is true and how much was petulant contrariness. I think several players here went on to cover late 60s/early 70s hard stoner rock in spinoff bands and I don't think I buy into this being Black Flag meets the Smiths 2 bands that I think Josh Homme admitted to liking. Black Flag at the time of My War the lp he does cite listening to were picking up on influence from Sabbath, Detroit Rock etc and Rollins when he went solo covered things from Ladbroke Grove Underground bands.
I thought UK indie was picking up on a lot of mid to late 60s influences and a lot of reissues from that era were coming out. Seemed to be more concentration on later material being reissued when I had been more aware of the mid 60s mod and garage rock being reissued in my teens.Though that could be where my focus lay. Grunge had meant some focus on bands like Blue Cheer, MC5, the Stooges and other Detroit rock aspart of the blend that made up the sound of the better bands. So 1990 was pretty far from a vacuum without these influences anyway. So thinking there was a year zero at that point strikes me as deeply misguided.I like tracing influences back rather than just setting up arbitrary barriers. & tracing things backwards has lead me to some great finds.

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Australian very heavy psychedelic rock from 1973. This was their 2nd lp and the band had lost a vocalist since their first one which took them down to a single singer. When I first heard this in the early 00ies it was from files on an MP3 site and I was reminded of a more fluid Swans.
This is archetypal stoner rock and seems to have had textures and structure borrowed widely and heavily. There is a great cd version out on Aztec records which I picked up somewhere around 15 years ago. It did lie on a shelf neglected for a few years but I'd reccommend it to anybody into this area of music.
I'm not sure I would picture them as looking like this from listening to the music but they, like, rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYh85aIbJHE
I'm not sure if their track Shylock is exactly PC which is a shame cos its got great dynamics.

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UK band captured live in NYC on a US tour. They are in their psychedelic era still, rocking pretty hard, stretching out in places. These places include an extended Relax and a 1/2 hour My Generation. They also include a lot of rock'n'roll covers for a mod band.
Pretty good set that I'd meant to pick up for years.

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Irish band's breakthrough set from the Isle of Wight in 1970. Based in blues rock but quite expansive in terms of influences and prone to long exploratory improvisations.
Rory Gallagher is best known for blues I think but at places his playing can get very angular which gives it a rather distinctive taste. This is the expanded version of the set that was released 9 years ago after a much shorter version had been released on vinyl in the early 70s.
Songs tend to be heavily extended by exploratory jams which remain vital throughout.

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Scunthorpe heavy psych meets gospel band with some pretty great guitar.
I don't think this is quite as good as I'd read but the guitar is pretty fine. Material can get a bit cheesy otherwise. Starts with songs with weird takes on the gospels of the new testament and a bit of a country tinge. It may grow on me. I do definitely enjoy the guitar.
Band members went onto the folk band Amazing Blondel when this group dissolved.

otherwise various blues, greek soundtrack, jazz etc etc. I picked up what appears to be a bit of a tourist compilation of Greek music by Theodarakis, Markopoulos, Hadjikaidis among others that I'm enjoying . Always did love those like descending runs of chiming balalaikas that you get in these things. So that was a great charity shop find.

date palms - the dusted sessions
https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a0651468047_16.jpg

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this soundtrack has a pretty dark & menacing vibe for what i understand was a sex farce!

― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 27 August 2024 bookmarkflaglink

This Morricone soundtrack is fire!

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https://i.discogs.com/3WvxOV9huuyc384QvW5If0i26yh73OKc4KEYwBrf1Vo/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:281/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTM5MTMz/NTQtMTQ0OTE2NDEx/Ny02NzI3LmpwZWc.jpegtook me until my 53rd year to get round to hearing this. blowing the cobwebs out quite pleasurably after a looooong morning of proctoring exams. i shall have to cut it short cos there's a young lad who needs collecting from lazer tag, tho

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one day i'll get around to pasting Hikari Yami Uchitokeaishi Konohibiki over one of kev's spoombung things, tho

and as is always the case, i've got that paranoid elastic section from the middle of "tupperware stripper" on loop now

https://i.discogs.com/7Hz2nNxzVdyPr3JpxHHnuJCxEzMcJj5YlpXlCxRTaP0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:40/h:300/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTE5Mjgw/NTItMTY3OTQxNjYz/My05MzQ2LmpwZWc.jpegmedusa cyclone's "mr devil". hit & miss 1998 grab-bag of sonic-youth-u-like, guitar pedal MRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR, shrimper type indie murmur, and idiosyncratic weirdness

I seem to have gone back to my early 20s. Nothing makes sense to me this week other than extreme metal, hard techno and the beach boys

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oh hey I was listening to a different bosetti (zwolfzungen) very recently
the full title "twelve portraits of languages I don't understand" is helpfully descriptive, I love this stuff and could listen to it all day

yoshio machida - hypernatural#2 - dictaphone concrete with steel pan & tetsu inoue world receiver elements - really good

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also this guy is my current musical obsession, been meaning to start a thread
not one of his stronger releases imo
assume "dictaphone concrete" refers to the track afterimage which is the highlight

hypernatural 3 is also good but not one of his stronger releases with one clear standout track (ocean of memory)

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1976 electric blues set by guitarist who I recently discovered. I hadn't consciously known the name prior to the collection that included this and a few other titles by him appeared in my local 2nd had book/music shop. I now have 4 titles by him.
His guitar playing is pretty stinging and verging on the psychedelic. The band are pretty cooking. Great sense of groove.

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3rd lp by Scottish hard rock band. Their first committed to hard rock after 2 where they tried to show off their diversity. Lp is produced by Deep Purple's Roger Glover.
Some great riffing though some may be a bit too close to cultural appropriation. Some somewhat dated semi rapey lyricism but it is of its time.I've seen this described as a classic album and it is early enough not to be overly formulaic.
Kinda rocks though.

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2nd disc of the 2cd expanded set. Most of a live set from the Latin Casino a similar, contemporary set from an upmarket club in NYC in 1967.
This has some of the songs that are present on the original lp in edited form in fuller length versions. a 9 minute Papa's Got A Brand New Bag instead of a 5 minute Hip Bag '67
So basically the early stages of the development of funk in a liove setting. Development gets more fleshed out over the next couple of years.
Pretty dynamic live set if not quite as classic as '68-70 recordings

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The only lp I picked up by Seattle grunge band and it took me 30 years to do so.Quite enjoyable though I think I prefer the source material more.It picks up on the late 60s/early 70s hard rock I love but tries to add a contemporary sheen.
Not sure why I never got anything by them until this year, at least physically. I did get some soundfiles of live stuff and radio sessions over the years.But local record shop had a few titles in for pretty cheap so I finally bought this a few months back.

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1972 live demo recorded by a band that were in competition to be 'America's Answer To Black Sabbath'. I think they are a bit more original than that. Great stoner hardrock that finally got a release by Rockadelic in 1995 and has now been reissued on vinyl by Ancient Grease
I just got the cd boot on Southside which has great sound. Not sure how lucky I got since there appear to have only been 300 copies and it was reissued in 2021. Or if that was true, my cd sounds pretty good anyway.
The band have now been found and interviewed but I mainly listen to material on cd and Ancient Grease appear to be vinyl only.

forgot to mention a stack of individual tracks between podcasts as I try to check out bands I'm reading about. a load of late 60s/early 70s stoner hard psyche4delic rock, soul/funk, jazz and various ethnicities of indigenous etc folk/roots stuff.

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interesting, i'm not that into his electronic stuff which is mostly middling imo, patchy for sure if occasionally great
his steelpan playing, on the other hand... :D

https://i.discogs.com/omaifc-R5kBZbcuhfuaF9rpyR9umroY4tt-lM4TiQ1s/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:264/w:300/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQ2MzEx/OTktMTM3MDQ3OTIy/MS0yMTEyLmpwZWc.jpeg Paul Bowles - "the pool K III" previously attributed to brion gysin. lo-fi drifty nothingness. some percussion, wind, plonking, harmonium drone, sparse guitar. absolutely perfect desert alien dream from 1958

https://i.discogs.com/rfUH3bbDnOtd6B5Of5g6jpHh_jJVZbpHZFcNfPE5xH4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:360/w:360/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIwODcy/MjAtMTI2NjY4MDYz/NC5qcGVn.jpeg hieroglyphic being +++02

https://i.discogs.com/RzIDA0rLg84mmkBu8hsEOaMdr07xIFahuWm8fuLeDPg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:536/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI5NTU2/MzQtMTQ4NDAzNjUw/Mi01MzUyLmpwZWc.jpeg fooshy kraut-u-like w/ big jim on board. highly satisfactory

https://i.discogs.com/l9jYoH2VLAo-orogXhyu-3XpNrj4rvUIps1fYhMIqag/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:537/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIxMTQ2/MzUzLTE3MTgzODY1/MTItMzc2OC5qcGVn.jpeg aussie noise dudes switch tack and deliver a half assed happy mondays thing

https://i.discogs.com/M690fF92qPGE9K2_hOU4UfizcfEhYEWJM6v7zBf1Al0/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:595/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTY3Mjcz/NjEtMTcwNDM1MTQy/NS03ODA1LmpwZWc.jpeg

https://i.discogs.com/iXqe5Xih99ou7PE71bsHzNKnVysDLdaK-Cw6clTRJK8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:502/w:498/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTExNzMy/NzAtMTIwNjI5OTc4/MS5qcGVn.jpegben reynolds "outmospheric arts of the outmosphere" less john fahey & more ash nav meets pete namlook out on the spaceways

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1454200988_10.jpg

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/5110NaHiCML._UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Benzaiten

https://i.discogs.com/RxtDjZg9bQxm0tkA2GFJ0jcA8c3QQZsd7rri-sF9ZyA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:532/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTkyOTAx/Mi0xMTc0NjczMDU5/LmpwZWc.jpegcamberwell now "all's well" comp cd. this bypassed me until today. obv this-heat-y, but surprisingly wyatty too.

https://i.discogs.com/zZ97N8RKxWOXq-qYV_XU7B8SD_hBZ2M3POvxmirgmR4/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:462/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzMDY2/MC0xMTUyMTU4MjEy/LmpwZWc.jpeg famers manual - RLA. finally getting around to this. alternately goofy/halfassed & scientifically rigorous bRZZZZPTTT laptop concrete from mid-late 90s (i think?) a fun / interesting tickle

*farmers

Sun City Girls - listening to them all week, about six albums.

Then there's Box of Chameleons, simply one of the best records ever made..

https://i.discogs.com/G1FkVqg_xJVyJdB5hsgZGSrwDrxWt77pRIeVl9QsPGY/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:592/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk0OTMz/NjctMTQ4MTUzNDQ3/Ny0yNTM1LmpwZWc.jpeg Witcyst – "Soibiast Anti-Culler" freak the funk is this flipin awesome. proper lava lamp cough mixture gloop. glug glug glug. can't get enough

https://i.discogs.com/BIeXvMUVuD9rKwzgLqzzNOs3b504Sp2yahfgc4JUDUU/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTI3MzQy/ODk0LTE2ODc4MDI1/NjktMjAxNC5qcGVn.jpeg
geese - 3D country

discovered this band via college radio today, hooked now on this 2023 album, which i can see is on ilm's radar as they placed in last year's tracks poll. at first i thought it was prog rock, but the album really is like a kaleidoscope of things, it's definitely fascinating even if i don't like everything i hear, and every song at least has something to offer

https://i.discogs.com/zvW_LS8JNC_YFCnQosbfHJJHs-zsfcUeUxhR05J18l8/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:531/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTEzMzky/NTM4LTE2MDMzNTg5/ODktODQyNy5qcGVn.jpeg peter brötzmann's die like a dog quartet - aoyama crows.

https://i.discogs.com/l_onNPqfRhzmfLyVkV89Gvu6BJvg2382AX1JBK1eQAs/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:584/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTYzNDE0/NC0xNzI0NzcxMDg5/LTY1MzcuanBlZw.jpegimpractical cockpit's "to be treated" tful282 trumans water adjacent wonk-rock improv scrabble sounding much better than i remember (maybe because it lacks the ZANY aspect of tful282 / trumans water which often rubs me the wrong way in my twilight years, although somehow i'm loving fat day more than ever. go figure)

https://i.discogs.com/nzfIvph279MMqWxBBqnerdgyq8UVxOqJU5PZ0zsziwg/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:595/w:598/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTc2NDUw/Mi0xMTg4NjQ4MjI4/LmpwZWc.jpeg the child readers - memory & fantasy. drones and field recordings from loren chasse while jason honea sings sweetly over the top. 2004

flipin masterpiece

https://i.discogs.com/os8KegTser10N-4PFd8ixFRMQJ2c9HtUcLZA-EvqQfA/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:430/w:430/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTQyMzk0/OTktMTM1OTQwODIw/Ni0xMzA3LmpwZWc.jpeg

For the last few weeks I've been obsessed with this internet radio station which attempts to replicate the AM station of my youth, CKLW (in the motor city). Playlist is taken indiscriminately from the station's own Top 30 charts from the 1950s-70s - I heard both Funkadelic and Perry Como the same day - and the vintage air breaks and commercials are fascinating

http://www.big8radio.com/

this song boggles my mind, somehow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iU7YoAYq3w

https://i.discogs.com/fNJQL9vbX2OtQMUplE6_rUBffncPKcpXQ2sMIEbOp3o/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIyNTk1/MDgtMTMxODM0MTQ0/MC5qcGVn.jpeg the shitty listener's "you start fights" 3" cd ep. jason honea. drifty field recorded vox over drifty field recorded chimes plucks drones & tootling. splendid

https://i.discogs.com/MYUUD6Z4Xitb0iux8mJb4zZ_CQF1MSrI453iMcLoAjw/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTk1NDY2/NTQtMTQ4ODM5Njkx/Ny00NjgwLmpwZWc.jpeg asmus tietchens in tarkovsy shoegaze mode. i don't need no goddamn body poppin in my haunted space station, holmes!

Really gorgeous 2 tracker of intimate voice & guitar x hypnotic minimalism

https://openswimmer.bandcamp.com/album/two-songs

7 inches... thousands of 7 inches. right now a bunch of hazlewood & related things

https://i.discogs.com/9NjGPmhBQrrATPmv8xOm-zOesh5j_S1TM5PK1_z4Kgk/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:599/w:600/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTg5MDg1/NzktMTQ3MTI1NDkw/NC0zOTY4LmpwZWc.jpeg

nz copy of that hazlewood single huh?

ex 4xd, even

https://i.discogs.com/aAgI0nE7yvRoQJ9xjBO2gkeL-0H72M0HafAvekak0iM/rs:fit/g:sm/q:90/h:600/w:591/czM6Ly9kaXNjb2dz/LWRhdGFiYXNlLWlt/YWdlcy9SLTIyMTIx/MDctMTQ5MzY5MDkx/OC0zNTM0LmpwZWc.jpegareski/fontaine - je ne connais pas cet homme. agreeably dreamlike as i cook up a storm for the local sportverein jugendfußballmannschaft xmas do