Last X records you bought, 3rd quarter 2003...

plus:
few dancehall comps
a broklyn beats thing
lots of dancehall 7s

the latter kills, btw...

V/A - nice up the dance
The bug - Pressure
Luomo - the present lover
Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U (Remix)

Right, off to the HMV sale now...

Arriving today:
Aislers Set - How I Learned To Write Backwards
Stratford 4 - Love and Distortion
All Girl Summer Fun Band - 2
Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts

Most recent purchases:
Polysics - ADSRM!
Nazis From Mars - S/T
Crash Worship - Pyru

alex, where the hell did you find this?!

Oneida - Enemy Hogs (used)
The Hellacopters - Grande Rock (used)
Botch - We are the Romans

Xii - How's that Polysics album?

Black Beauty, Filles De Kilimanjaro, Circle In The Round, Aura, You're Under Arrest, Decoy, The Man With The Horn, At Fillmore, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions, The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions, and probably a few more I'm forgetting.

I haven't bought much else lately, because I've been getting lots of great death metal in the mail.

There was a stack of 'em at Kim's Video (St. Mark's Place, NYC) yesterday...

If you happen to be nowhere near there, shoot me an e-mail and I'll burn you a copy. It's as incredible as ppl say it is...

Bizarre, but that's no surprise. Haven't listened *much* yet, but initial impressions are that it doesn't strike me as much as "Hey! Bob! My Friend!" and doesn't have the sheer popability as "For Young Electric Pop." Which isn't to say its bad, just that I'm digesting it differently.

plus i got the two latest Jukebox 45 Singles club seven inchers and a friend of mine gave me their Moles "untune the sky" cd

your null fame, here is the book and here the cd.

EUROPA 51, Abstractions
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM, s/t
JICKS, Pig Lib (finally bought it in order to hook SM up and to get the bonus disc, which was just okay)
BLACK DICE, Beaches and Canyons
SIGHTINGS, Absolutes
A SILVER MOUNT ZION, Born Into Trouble... (surprisingly good after that limp debut)

nautical almanac - cisum
khanate - no joy 12"

then a number of items arrived today (s*** l*** R.I.P):

erica pomerance- you used to think
skullflower-xaman LP
stockhausen- mikrophonie I and II LP
stockhausen- gruppen and carre LP
stockhausen/boulez- zeitmasse/ lemartieu sans maitre LP
harry pussy- 2 7'' (one on planet and another on another label)

huh?

i win.

I think that's it

Also, is the Nurse With Wound creepy enough for you?

the feedback piece is just beautiful. haven't heard all of the NWW but so far so creepy.

"Trojan Dub box set 1" - Various (working my way through, very good)
"Organisation" remaster - OMD (happy happy joy joy)
"Bizarro" - Wedding Present (not as bad as I thought it would be)
"So much for the city" - The Thrills (why does "Don't steal our sun" sound so horrible?)
Free Playlist CD with the above. (crap)
"Tour de France 03" CD single - Kraftwerk (why did I bother?)

haha compulsory purchase in order to be allowed to post here? ;@)

to be continued in the pub, Mr Tico

...all for 4 euros. I'm a happy prick!

Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Derek Bailey - Solo Guitar vol 1
Pandit Ravi Shankar
Derek Bailey - Guitar, Drums,and Bass
Diamanda Galas - Malediction and Prayer
I. S. O.
Aube - Cardiac Strain
Pandit Raghunath Seth - Classical Flute Music of India
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Susie Ibarra & Assif Tsahar - Home Cookin'

Frances-Marie Uitti - 2 Bows
Fatima Miranda - Concieto en Canto (!!)
Filament - 29092000
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
Yamamoto Seiichi - Nu Frequency
Mimeo / Tilbury - Hands of Caravaggio
Parmegiani - Creation du Monde
Ruth Crawford / Johanna Beyer - Piano Works (p. Sarah Cahill)
Tristram Cary - Soundings 1955-1996
Xper.Xr. - Because I'm Worth It (nearly every single track ends with Xr. playing the climactic guitar solo to 'Hotel California' once, sometimes twice through. astounding)

comped not bought:

E-A-D-G-B-E - guitar compilation on 12k w/Keith F Whitman, Chris Willits
Fred Frith - Keep The Dog
Lesser - Supressive Acts

Swingle Singers - Rococo-a-Go-Go

There's a second album due out on ReR at some unforseen point in the future...

Azuquita: Llego y Dijo
Yuri Buenaventura: Yo Soy
Various Artists: Dancing Salsa U.S.A Mix, Vol. 1

I really think that last one is the long-last mix my teacher once had, but I won't know until I open the package and see the cover.

I think Dancing Salsa U.S.A Mix, Vol. 1 might appeal to some of you. These are mostly or all remixes of various sorts. Remixing stuff is not big in salsa, and most of us dancers don't want songs bled into each other; but these are well-done and stay within salsa sensibilities (which of course might be a negative for some of you). The cover features a rather beautiful model in a red white and blue thong bikini, with an American flag and pictures of a couple DJs or something. But the music is not the sort of tackiness you might expect based on that. I think this might be the remix of "Yay Boy" I've been looking for. Close enough, anyway.

Okay, like I know you're interested. "Take it to your salsa thread, moron."

Kirsty MacColl, Electric Landlady
OMD, Junk Culture
Jeff Beck, "The Best Of" /1967-69/
Talk Talk, The Collection /1982-86/

I'm pretty happy with all three CDs.

alice coltrane- 'journey...', 'ptha...' and 'monastic trio'.
steely dan- pretzel logic LP (obtained at a bargain sale hurrah).

Yay, you mean.

A nice bit of bargain hunting in Diverse Records, Newport. As yet I've not got round to playing the latter as the former doesn't want to get out of my CD walkman.

Ella Fitzgerald: The Cole Porter Song Book
The Trojan Nayabinghi box set [only $15.00--are they usually so reasnable? The cashier said something about how quickly they were selling.]
Eddie Palmieri: Ritmo Caliente

There's something I saw at Tower (not where I bought those three, incidentally) that I think I might go back and buy.

Overall, I like it, but it will take a little while to sift through. This is the first of these boxes I've ever bought. I'm sure there are others that would be a more rational starting point, but I thought this sounded interesting. Unlike a few people around here, I like some reggae, but I wouldn't really call it a favorite genre.

(It was 15.99 incidentally, not 15.00, but reasonable either way.)

Amazingly enough, while trawling a bargain bin of second hand 12 inchers, "4 A-sides" by Scritti Politti for £2.

Haven't played it yet, is it any good folks?

among others...

whoa! details, please? i have uberfallig and it's pretty great.

yeah, just start a schickert thread with it! uberfallig is one of my favorite records on all of Sky.

Yesterday:

Ella Fitzgerald Sing the Rodgers and Hart Songbook, which I don't like nearly as much as the Cole Porter album, which I guess means I like Cole Porter better. Will probably get the Gershwins next.

Mohammed Aman: The Tradition of Hejaz (Traditional Arabian music. Not for beginners. May comment more later.)

Just borrowed from a co-worker:

Kruder Dorfmeister: The K&D Session
The Silk Road: A Musical Caravan (Smithsonian Folkways)

This should all hold me for a while, though I will probably go buy that Yerba Buena CD very soon anyway.

(not counting lots of German techno stuff, some Luomo, Mike Ladd, and Cat Power which I have downloaded/borrowed from workmates)

This is what they should play to drive prisoners of war crazy. I don't even feel like listening to it, which is probably okay, since he needs it back soon.

not so nice!

(& The Music of Henry Mancini, Richard Hayman and Orch.)

(all 2nd hand, the girl who helped me find that copy of escalator was also v cute)

And the 5ive Best of in HMV. Four pounds! Cheap at half the price! The amount of creative thievery their music is based on astounds me. I can't believe I could ever have not liked them.

and I bought....

Boredoms - Rebore Vol. 0: Eye
DJ Pica Pica Pica - Planetary Natural Love Gas Webbin' 199999
Earth - Sunn Amps and Smashed Guitars Live
Fushitsusha - Eien No Ho Ga 1978
No Neck Blues Band - Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones But Names Will Never Hurt Me
Parts and Labor - Groundswell
Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
V/A - Bulb Singles #2

still on order:
Luke Haines/Auteurs - Das Capital
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in Da Corner
Black Box Recorder - Passionoia
Fallacy - Blackmarket Boy
Luke Haines - Christie Malry's Own Double Entry soundtrack
Harold Budd - Lovely Thunder

Derek & the Dominos - Layla
Herbie Hancock - V. S. O. P.
Rick James - Bustin' Out
Alice Coltrane - Journey Into Satchidananda
A Journey Into Ambient Groove 4
Diamanda Galas w/ John Paul Jones - The Sporting Life
Diamanda Galas - Masque Of the Red Death
Diamanda Galas - Vena Cava
Hans Reichel - Shanghaied On Tor Road
No Nothing: No Music Festival 2000

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (CD to listen to when I'm not near my record player -- god this album is amazing)
John Coltrane - Major Works
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish (to replace copy foolishly sold in my youth)
House of Love - BBC Sessions (only further reinforces my opinion of them as geniuses)
Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity
XTC - Black Sea

quite a dry haul. hungry for pop but no idea what to buy anymore. looking forward to shopping in new york when visiting this weekend.

As you see, I've been heavily into hip hop lately.

- Eleventh Dream Day - El Moodio
- Salt - Auscultate
- TSOL - Dance With Me
- Opeth - My Arms Your Hearse
- Eels - Shootenanny
- Mars Volta - De-loused in the Comatorium
- Urge Overkill - Americruiser/Jesus Urge Superstar

Yesterday:

- Fischer-Z - Going Deaf for a Living
- Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
- FSOL - Lifeforms
- Wedding Present - Hit Parade 1
- Wedding Present - Hit Parade 2

Burning Spear - Man In The Hills / Dry & Heavy
Disco Inferno - DI Go Pop
Edith Nylon - 1st s/t*
David Holmes - The Free Association
The Magic Band - Back To The Front
Andy Partridge - Fuzzy Warbles (Vol.s 1-4)
Telephone - Le Meilleur De*
Los Lobos - Just Another Band From East LA
Various Artists - Nos Annees Punk*

I've been quite restrained lately haven't I? Especially if you don't notice that there are four volumes of Fuzzy Warbles in there. Of course I blame you lot for the Disco Inferno title. It would have been ever better still if I hadn't wandered idly on Amazon. fr for a quick browse and ended up taking a little trip down memory lane (*).

Would have bought but I need beer money - Ultravox - Vienna.

-- electric sound of jim (electricsoun...), July 17th, 2003.

I am totally perplexed that you don't like them, Jim! Absolute fucking killer pop, no doubt one of the best bands in this city right now (up there with the Bird Blobs!)

can't seem to get off this stubborn prog/psych/folk trip (not complaining...) - with an odd flash of '80s nostalgia that passed as quickly as it struck. that SL&G mLP is surprisingly solid for such a late comeback. haven't yet made up my mind about the Breathless, tho it tickles me to no end that Gary Mundy's still slinging his axe for 'em. and this even with a reunited Skullflower on deck? haha.

to answer the earlier follow-up question about that Schickert CD, it's a mixed bag - a few too many go-nowhere somnambulations - and i admittedly haven't spent as much time with it as i'd like. haven't even checked out the CD-ROM portion yet. but there's one track ("In der Zeit I") that sounds like Robbie Basho tripping the raga fantastic on Achim Reichel's "machines." sent me reeling.

rockist, yes the laurie spiegel is a pressed CD, with a color xeroxed insert, homemade, nicely presentable. I ordered from www.emf.org. it's quite good, late 80's pieces, atmospheric shifting digital clouds. The main synth engine is the dreaded Yamaha TX (heart of the DX7) but she does incredible things with it, she's driving it using her own software (it's much more to my tastes than 'shutov assembly' or anything). If you liked 'obsolete systems' you'll want this. I'm still looking for 'expanding universe' myself!

track listing: dig it / töchter der meere / arabische nächte / dig it 2 / monkeys / dig it 3 / in der zeit 1 / now / sirenen / somnambul.

i'll compare later this evening, but i don't recall "In der Zeit I" sounding anything like the similarly named Uberfallig selection, or any of that LP's tracks getting quite as dense and freaky. just from memory, the lengths are also very different. maybe that "I" was supposed to be a "II?"

has anyone tried getting in touch with GM to organize a reissue of Samtvogel, Kinder or even the GAM tapes? might be a fun project...

The following have been purchased, but have yet to arrive (sigh):

Tobias Thomas Smallville
Schaffelfieber Volume 2
Decomposed Subsonic Gradients
Broker/Dealer Initial Public Offering
Markus Guentner In Moll
Two Banks Of Four City Watching
BajoFondo TangoClub

Susie Ibarra Trio: Songbird Suite
Rahsaan Roland Kirk: (I, Eye, Aye)
Sun Ra: Live in Paris at the "Gibus"
Mongo Santamaria Orchestra: Mongo Santamaria Introduces La Lupe
Eddie Palmieri: Live at Sing Sing

I like all of them more-or-less. I think I particularly like the Susie Ibarra CD. (Sundar, you were right.) At times it seems very much like "other music for people who like Sun Ra a lot, but don't especially like a lot of traditional jazz conventions." On the other hand, the Sun Ra CD is not something I would recommend as essential (at least not on first listen). Not as good as Nothing Is, I think. But for those of you who really enjoy Ra's extended moog improvising, it might be a good choice. Right in the middle of it all is a fairly straightforward version of "King Porter Stomp." Also, there is a nice, if extremely slow, version of "Lights on a Sattelite," not so different from what I have heard them play live at times in recent years.

This is the first Rahsaan Roland Kirk CD I've bought, and possibly the first I've heard. I bought this one in particular just because I liked what I heard on the brief samples from it that I heard online. I don't love everything here, but I'd definitely like to hear more. (I think he would have been great to see live, my god.) A little bluesy for me at times, not that that's a total turn off, but it's just not something I usually connect with that much. Very good liner notes.

I'm very skeptical about Latin jazz. I know (virtually speaking, anyway) other Latin music fans who don't like Latin jazz (although in most cases they do like other types of jazz). Anyway, I'm not sure about this, although it's pretty good. I can see why La Lupe was such a scandal at the time: her vocals really do sometimes sound as though she's having an orgasm (or at least close to one).

The Palmieri CD is more on the salsa side than on the Latin jazz side, and I like it, though it's a little raw at times, but what did I expect of an album recorded live in the 70's? I know a couple of these songs already from studio versions. I like hearing him using an electric organ. Pretty nice. I think I'm more interested in hearing lots more Palmieri than I am in hearing Mongo Santamaria, at this point.

I didn't mean to buy so much, but it turned out that the store I was in had a lot of the titles on my mental list.

As for me:

Calla -- Televise
Lightning Bolt -- Ride the Skies, Wonderful Rainbow
The Walkabouts -- Ended Up a Stranger (THAT took me long enough)
The Faint -- Danse Macabre Remixes
Blinker the Star -- Blinker the Star
The Exploding Hearts -- Guitar Romantic (unavoidably ghoulish I realize, in that it was only the accident that made me aware of them -- but it is enjoyable to be sure, not yet this most-amazing-band-in-the-field-in-years classic for me yet, though I think the International Pop Overthrow people should go ahead and dedicate the upcoming concert sequence to 'em)
Placebo -- Sleeping With Ghosts
Icebreaker -- Distant Early Warning
Alastair Galbraith/Matt De Genaro -- Long Wires in Dark Museums (vol. 1)
Hood -- Singles Compiled, Compilations 1995-2002

...all thanks to shopping used and careful credit a whopping $30. :-)

brought back from holiday in Norway:
Salvatore - Clingfilm (1st album of a group admittedly established on a night whilst listening & grooving to some Neu! records, and that shows. Great stuff. They have since then apparently released two more albums with a more electronic approach, finding their own "thing". Definately worth checking out!)
Tøyen - ep phone home (containing the great, hip (bhangra) & ultra-catchy sounding India Pindia)
The Mormones - The Mormones'Guide to Good and Evil (a duo, bass and drums. short & tight songs. exciting. contains a cover of the Saints'"Private Affair". international release in August)
Rye Coalition - On Top. (not Norwegian of course, but the cover of the vinyl looked too great to resist.)

back home:
16 Horsepower - Olden
Calla - Custom
Calla split w/ the Walkmen

Barefoot in the head is a trio involving don dietrich and jim sauter of borbetomagus with thurston moore (he of da yoof!).

Slovenly- riposite LP on SST. brilliant.

Yeah, right.

God I'd forgotten about them. IIRC it's ace - but sadly I don't have it any more. Doesn't it have an excellent opening track - really unsettling and tricksy rhythmic guitars. Tell me some song titles off this Julio!!

They are all great, the rhythms they got out really threw me back too. and i really enjoyed some of the lyrics (I can tape it for you if you like).

I've been listening to The Fall quite a bit in the past few weeks, so I decided to get caught up with a couple of the recent records (last one I got was Levitate) and few of old ones that I never had.

i think Treetops only have one good song and the rest are meh at best. Bird Blobs would be amazing if their singer was any good. musically they are fab.

the way untruths are, enormous critics, myers's dark, old/new, a little resolve.

Good. Great in places (Birdman, Frantic Romantic, Trffids, Numbers, La Femme). I like Do The Pop better.

**yo dr C some song titles off riposite:
the way untruths are, enormous critics, myers's dark, old/new, a little resolve**

Blimey yes - 'the way untruths are'!! Good stuff!

Bought yesterday :

V/A - Trojan Nyahbinghi box
V/A - Cool As Ice (LTM - New Order productions)
V/A - Dancehall 69 (more Trojan)
Cabaret Voltaire - Conform to Deform box

Which, do you think is the good song? Tim's singing is kind of what makes the Bird Blobs for me. He sounds like Tom Waits crossed with a pirate.

Journey - Departure
The Who - Who's Next
Katrina and the Waves
The Cars
Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814
+ Steely Dan - Aja (except it's missing the vinyl, fuck)

Today I bought
Sylvie Courvoisier/Joelle Leandre/Susie Ibarra - Passaggio

Leafcutter John - Microcontact
Leafcutter John - The Housebound Spirit
Larry Heard - Where Life Begins

Just received and am vastly digging the AMP mp3 cd. The Pulp song on there makes me wanna finally buy a Pulp album.

does anyone here know how to get the new luomo album on cd?
please.

(Iraqi pop. Abdel Gafor can sing better than he does on most of these songs. At least one track here is a remake of a song that was a hit a long time back, but the accompaniment here is mostly electronic, and it's not very well done. It's still not bad though.)

George Wassouf : George Wassouf Sings Om Kolthoum 4

(I wanted this for the cover of "Ya Masaharny" that H. didn't like.)

Ahmad Adawiyyah : The Best of. . .

(I didn't know exactly what I'd be getting here. I have most of these songs strung together in a medley on cassette, with electronic "New Sound" backing. The CD has an entirely acoustic accompaniment (aside from some electric organ, I think), and most of it sounds like belly dance type music, to me. In contradiction to my usual judgments about these things, I think I like the tape version better, but maybe that's just because I'm familiar with it. I do think his singing is often more interesting on the tape I have. However, this is a good CD, and I like everything on it so far. He apparently sings a lot of lyrics with sort of nonsensical tongue-twisters, and according to the Rough Guide he has a large gay following in the Arab world. He reminds me a lot of the singer Sabah here, though I think I like him better.)

Music for the Morning of the World
Golden Rain*
The Jasmine Isle: Gamelan Music

*This extended kecak sounds like the Boredoms at times.

Goldfrapp 'Train' 2x12"
Beverley Knight 'Get Up!' 12"
Lumidee 'Never Leave You' 12"
Benny Benassi 'Satisfaction' 12"
!!! '...Guiliani...' 12"
Pizzicato Five 'Quickie EP' 12"
Sparks 'The Number 1 Song In Heaven' 12'
Saffron Hill feat. Ben Onono 'My Love Is Always' 12"
Jolly Music 'Talco Uno' 12"
Alex Gopher pres. Wuz 'Promo 3' 10"
Dizzee Rascal 'I Luv U' 12"
Andrea Doria 'Bucci Bag' 12"
Space Cowboy 'Just Put Your Hand In Mine' 12"
Linus Loves 'Body and Soul' & 'The Terrace' 12"s
The Wiseguys 'Executive Suite Sampler' 12'
Markus Nikolai 'Bushes' Norman Cook remix 12"
Coloursound 'Fly With Me' 12"
Jay-Z 'I Just Wanna Love You' 12" (Finalleeeeeeee)
Fredrik Saroea feat Annie 'I Will Always Remember You' 7"
Mary vs Liquitex '73 Club' 7"
Wayne Wonder 'No Letting Go' 12"
Chamonix 'How Did You Know' 12"
Together 'So Much Love To Give' 12"

Plus assorted Muzik and Jockey Slut cover CDs for cheap, including JS' one with the Rapture's 'I Need Your Love' and Tes' 'New New York' plus a great mix CD they did with the Loaded label 3 years ago that winds up with all-time classic (for me), Annie's 'The Greatest Hit'. Right now I really want Muzik's DFA CD (got the mag but no CD) and the latest Jockey Slut one (buying the magazine lowers my cash and this month's issue is pretty weak).

Michael Bisio / Eyvind Kang: MBEK
Steely Dan: The Royal Scam
Goran Bregovic: Silence of the Balkans
Holger Czukay / U-She: The New Millenium (scared to listen to this)
Scritti Politti: Songs to Remember
Kraftwerk: Tour De France Soundtracks
Otomo Yoshihide: Blue
Panjabi MC: Beware
Dizzee Rascal: Boy in the Corner
Medicine: Mechanical Forces of Love
Residents: Demons Dance Alone
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum: Live
Carla Khilstadt: 2 Foot Yard
Danielle Dax: Jesus Egg That Wept (happy vinyl)
Jack DeJohnette: New Rags

comped:
Donna Summer: Post Disco Crash
Soul Junk: 1958
Cex: Being Ridden
Jilat: My Computer
Random Number: I understand your date and time of nowhere

7":
Von Ryan Express - Up On The Block
His Hero Is Gone - The Dead of Night In Eight Movements
Cows - Plowed/On The Mouth

TAPE:
Prurient - Whooping Cough
Spykes - The Nero Wave

CD:
Reynols - Pacalirte Sorban Cubanos
Sun City Girls - Severed Finger With A Wedding Ring
Bevis Frond - North Circular
uRDog - self-titled
Javanese Coffee Cup Antibacterial Ammendment - Live In The Electric Kingdom

they have yet to arrive in the post....

apart from the $2 Roedelius / Schnitzler misfire, this makes up for yesterday's somewhat aimless binging at Amoeba...

The 'I need to write this preview for Mr. Matos, darn it, and I wanted to get the albums anyway' purchase:

Dave Gahan -- Paper Monsters
Kenna -- New Sacred Cow

The 'Alex in NYC must approve' purchase (no new Killing Joke so no trifecta):

Iron Maiden -- Edward the Great
Firewater -- The Man on the Burning Tightrope

The 'only $4 each? sure!' purchases:

John Easdale -- Bright Side
Lo-Fidelity Allstars -- How to Operate with a Blown Mind
Trembling Blue Stars -- Her Handwriting
Crime and the City Solution -- Room of Lights (never actually thought I would finally find this sucker)
Kenickie -- At the Club

The 'only $1? Stripey will love this!' purchase:

Bleach -- Killing Time

...and the 'WHO THE FUCK IN THEIR RIGHT MIND SOLD BACK THESE DVDS?' purchases -- both Criteirion editions:

Grand Illusion
The Seventh Seal

Yay.

today,
The History Of The Jams a.k.a. The Timelords
&
Various: Klassik International: Afrika

the latter's a part of an Emarcy Classics series (track 1: "Woti barale (Balafon solo"; Komponist: Traditional; Künstler: unbekannt - that kind of 'klassik', yay! ...mmm, mostly. there is also a piece performed by Kronos Q, a.o.)

Much as I hate to admit it, I'm thinking that I don't like her singing as much as I thought I did. I wonder if this is a case where not knowing Spanish is actually a big handicap. The Homenaje a los Santos is pretty interesting since takes traditional Afro-Cuban religious songs, but puts them in more of a popular music context; however, one that is already dated (an earlier era of Latin popular music than what I normally listen to), so there's this funny mixture of folkloric-"timeless" stff with identifiably dated popular sounds. It's pretty good though. It doesn't come off as merely novel, but the juxtaposition is striking. The other CDs are pretty good as well. I'm just wondering how much I really like her singing.

Omar Sosa: Ayaguna

Bought this yesterday, impulsively. It's just piano and Afro-Latin percussion, and I thought I might like that, but I don't especially like the style of piano playing on most tracks. I find most of it kind of boring, but jazz fans should not take my opinion on this sort of thing too seriously. (In fact, I don't see any reason why anyone should take my opinion of this seriously.)

I took it off, just now, and put on Sun Ra's probably underrated solo piano album, Monorails and Satellites.

The Ex - Mudbird Shivers
Fushitsusha - Withdraw, this sable Disclosure ere devot'd
Fred Frith/Rene Lussier - Nous Autres
Karlheinz Stockhausen - Kontakte
Fred Frith - Quartets
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Carla Bley - Fleur Carnivore
Roscoe Mitchell - Songs In the Wind

adult - anxiety always
kevin blechdom - bitches without britches
bruce springsteen - nebraska

(A$10 apiece! sweeeet)

Noooooo! Sorry Fabrice but this supposed "Best Of Captain Beefheart" really should carry a sticker proclaiming "(Does not contain the best of Captain Beefheart)"!

Basically it's 2 tracks from an album that was remixed without Don's permission and which he hated; 1 overly long studio jam from an album that was assembled from outtakes and released without Don's involvement or permission; 2 tracks from the album that the band hated so much they walked out after recording it and which Don has subsequently disowned; 3 tracks from the album he cut with a bunch of session men (who became known as The Tragic Band) who didn't understand what he was about and which was apparently completed by them / the producer without Don's involvement and which again he has subsequently disowned; and finally 8 (admittedly great) tracks from his last 3 albums.

NOTHING from his amazing debut and NOTHING from the run of generally acknowledged classics he recorded for Bizarre / Straight / Reprise between 1969 and 1972 (Trout Mask Replica, Lick My Decals Off Baby, Clear Spot, The Spotlight Kid).

If you've already bought this, try and think of an excuse to take it back; if you can't and you don't like it, you really need to give Don another chance; if you're only *thinking* of buying it, DON'T!

If you don't want to buy the actual albums there's only one Beefheart comp. worth owning and that's "The Dust Blows Forward"

This was a public information announcement brought to you by....

Girls Aloud - Sound of the Underground
Field Mob - From Tha Roota To Tha Toota
Radio 4 - Gotham
PM Dawn - Of the Heart...
Elephant Man - Higher Level
V/A: Bent - FabricLive 11
V/A - Bad Boyz 2 (OST)
Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner

Its silly-cheap price tag had stared at me for a while in a record shop, so eventually I took it.
One half of it is quite good, and his kora and balafon playing is very fine throughout, it's just that a few of them songs seem sort of lifeless...

...and I havent even got round to listening to half of these yet

the buttom men 7"
wat tyler "the little people" 7"
sleepyhead "punk rock city usa" 7"
delightful little nothings ep 7"
the oliver brown trio 7"
furry things "still california" 7"
circle x "33/puerto rican ghost" 7"
land of the wee beasties 7"

strapping field hands "wattle and daub" lp
when people were shorter and lived near water "bobby" lp
mousetrap "cerebral revolver" lp

also purched recently that is probably the best thing subpop has put out in several years is that michael yonkers reissue... holy crap is that good.

m.

this page needs a spin off page where people post micro-reviews, it can get frustrating merely reading these lists...

Aphex Twin - Drukqs
Cex - Role Model
Mars Volta - De-Loused In the Comatorium
John McLaughlin/Al diMeola/Paco de Lucia - Passion, Grace, Fire
McLaughlin/diMeola/de Lucia - Friday Night In San Fransisco
Cheap Trick - Dream Police

(CD Purchases Since Last Monday)
1. Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz (finally)
2. Metro Area - s/t (burned it a while ago but wanted to give them money)
3. !!! - Me and...
4. Birthday Pary - Junkyard
5. Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Dancing
6. Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
7. Carl Craig - More Songs About...
8. Bark Psychosis - Hex
9. Bartok - String Quartets/Takacs Quartet
10.Beethoven - Late String Quartets Vol. 1/Quartteto Italiano
11.Roy Campbell - Ethnic Stew and Brew
12.James "Blood" Ulmer - Memphis Blood: The Sun Sessions

Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus, The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
Trojan Dancehall Box Set
Isaac Hayes - Black Moses
Horace Andy - Skylarking
Augustus Pablo - East Of The River Nile, King Tubby Meets Rockers
Funkadelic - Standing On The Verge Of getting It On
Bowery Electric - Beat
cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD
Brian Eno - Before And After Science
The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
Mouse On Mars - Idiology

Emma picked up some Pavement, Dusty Springfield, Cat Power and something else (plus LOTS of books).

Other recent acquisitions include;
Brothers In Sound - Family Is For Sharing
Butterfly Child - Onomatopoeia
Mouse On Mars - Niun Niggung
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun

I am now skint.

Besides which, Kate would never have let you pick up any j**z, now would she?

(Her loss..."Black Saint" is one of the best things ever.)

I actually have just received a copy of this myself, the new rerelease with bonus tracks etc. Looking forward to a listen.

Big job-lot of classic techno going on ebay...

Archers Of Loaf - The Speed Of Cattle
Neurosis - Times Of Grace
Our Lady Peace - Clumsy
Marilyn Manson - Smells Like Children
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Ui - Lifelike
The Wedding Present - Seamonsters (RM)
Gang of Four - Entertainment! (RM)
Yes - Time And a Word (RM)
O.M.D. - Organization (RM)
Mule - s/t
Duran Duran - s/t (RM)
Deep Purple - Fireball (25th anniversary edition)
Crown Heights - More Pricks Then Kicks
Sonic Youth - Washing Machine
Lou Reed - Transformer (RM)
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust...(30th anniv. ed.)
AC/DC - The Razors Edge (Digip.RM)

Derutti Column- The Return of the Derutti Column
Derutti Column- LC
Bark Psychosis- Hex

will now try to set it free again.
bought after work:

Kraftwerk - Tour de France Soundtracks
V/A - The Guitar and Gun

Theo Angell -- Sun and Steel: The Lost Recordings of Yukio Mishima
Aphex Twin -- 26 Mixes for Cash
The Bloods -- tour CDR
The Dears -- Not the Dahlias
Giant Sand -- Chore of Enchantment
Stone Gossard -- Bayleaf
Green Velvet -- s/t
Hall of Fame/Golden Calves -- split 7"
Pete Ham -- 7 Park Avenue
Iron Maiden -- Powerslave
Kyuss -- s/t (aka Welcome to Sky Valley)
Sing-Sing -- The Joy of Sing-Sing
Surf -- High Tide and Low Tide
Tubronegro -- Ass Cobra
Wooden Wand and the Vanishing Voice -- Book of FM

Borrowed from the library:

Matthew Shipp: Multiplication Table
Butch Morris: Condiction 25, Conduction 26
Eddie Palmieri/Lalo Rodriguez: Unfinished Masterpiece
George Crumb: Voice of the Whale

I have newies for this thread but can't remember any at 12:43 am. Hopefully I'll get paid this weekend and then I can get another lengthy list going. I also haven't bought a CD in a long while and that's kinda sad-I don't even own a turntable!

Anthony braxton- alto saxophone improvisations 1979 on arista (2 LP)
ornette coleman- change of the century and this is our music Lps

my recent buys:
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Devo - Q:Are we not? men A: We are Devo!
V/A - The Guitar and Gun
Kraftwerk - Tour de France Soundtracks
American Analog Set - Promise of Love
Insound Tour Support Series #22 - Calla
Quickspace - Precious Falling

tenEcke - block terrain
Ride - Nowhere

I think that's all the Celia Cruz I'm going to buy for a while, unless I pick something up from her days with Sonora Mantancera (sp?).

(Chuck is obviously not the person to take with you if you want to go out Latin dancing.)

John Oswald - Aparanthesi (beautiful)
Franco Battiato - Sulle Corde Di Aries
Franco Battiato - Clic
Heldon - Un Reve Sans Consequence Speciale
Richard Pinhas - Chronolyse
Stockhausen - Kurzwellen
Stockhausen - Mixtur
Francois Bayle - L'Experience Acoustique
Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Report From Iron Mountain
V/A - OHMix
Conrad Schnitzler - Gold (ok but no 'ballet statique')
Zeena Parkins - No Way Back
V/A - An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music / volume #2 (a few nice pieces. enjoyed the new ambient dockstader. but something about this series really bugs me, and it's not just the worthless liner notes)
R. Stevie Moore - Phonography cd
Time Sweep - CDR set montage of Billboard chart hits 1940-2002 by Bill Ingram, incorporating the Drake-Chenault History of Rock and Roll montage.

John Oswald - Aparanthesi (this is really beautiful)
Franco Battiato - Sulle Corde Di Aries
Franco Battiato - Clic
Heldon - Un Reve Sans Consequence Speciale
Richard Pinhas - Chronolyse
Stockhausen - Kurzwellen
Stockhausen - Mixtur
Francois Bayle - L'Experience Acoustique
Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden - Report From Iron Mountain
V/A - OHMix
Conrad Schnitzler - Gold (ok but no 'ballet statique')
Zeena Parkins - No Way Back
V/A - An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music / volume #2 (a few nice pieces. enjoyed the new ambient dockstader. but something about this series really bugs me, and it's not just the worthless liner notes)
R. Stevie Moore - Phonography cd
Time Sweep - CDR set montage of Billboard chart hits 1940-2002 by Bill Ingram, incorporating the Drake-Chenault History of Rock and Roll montage.

Hector Lavoe: The Fania "Legends of Slasa" Collection, vol. 1
(At least a few of Lavoe's major hits were written by Tite Curet.)
Junior Gonzalez: Tribute to Hector Lavoe: Cantante de los Cantates
Various Artists: Tributo a tite Curet--Salsa de Barrio
Curet Alonso [sic]: Aqui Estoy con un Poco de Algo

I was a litte doubtful about whether I'd like the Lavoe collection, but so far it's great, even the bolero (or anyway balad of some sort) it begins with. The sound seems pretty good, which just shows that they can turn out decent sounding CD reissues when they are motivated (which is not often enough).

Drexciya - The Quest
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
Coil - Love's Secret Domain
Dead C - Harsh 70s Reality
Skullflower - IIIrd Gatekeeper
Skullflower - Carved Into Roses
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Durutti Column - Return of the Durutti Column
Durutti Column - LC
Tony Conrad w/ Faust - Outside the Dream Syndicate
Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel/Why Patterns?
(and one I'm forgetting; shit)

Also, I finally found a copy of David Toop's Ocean of Sound book; it's really great so far.

Black – The Collection
Bluetones – Waiting To Fly
James Brown – Star Time
Eric Dolphy – Last Date
Elbow - Cast Of Thousands
Free – The Free Story
Go-Betweens – Friends Of Rachel Worth
Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci – Sleep / Holiday
Lambchop – What Another Man Spills
Leftfield – Rhythm & Stealth
Manu Chao – Radio Bemba Sound System
Oingo Boingo – Millennium Collection
Pearls Before Swine – Balaklava
Cat Power – Moon Pix
Ernest Ranglin – Memories Of Barber Mack
Suede – Sci-Fi Lullabies
Sugarcubes – Great Crossover Potential
Suzanne Vega – Retrospective
Scott Walker - Tilt
Warsaw - Warsaw

Yes, I am being Dom for the day.

What do you think of it Clarke?

(just heard it: usually improv in the studio is not v good as recs but this is consistently inventive, quite a mindfuck in a good way at times and out of these three, only bevan is still playing)

ornette coleman- 'twins' and 'art of the improvisors' Lps on atlantic

burkhard stangl/christof kurtzmann's 'schnee' and gunetr muller and le quan ninh's 'le voyelle liquide' on erstwhile.

alexander von schillinpach's 'the liivng music' and 'hunting the snake' (with evan parker/paul lovens and somneone else who i forget) and 'balls' by brotzmann/bennik/van hove: more FMP/unreleased reish's from the atavistic label.

Joan la barbara- voice is the original instrument.

Stewart: of "Wonderful Life"-fame? How's this collection? (I only know some songs of his first album, might pick this up for my sister, as she owns that first album)

buys for today:

Black Dice - Beaches & Canyons
The Tussler Motion Picture Soundtrack (composed and performed by Motorpsycho)

v/a - Buddah's Pop Explosion (UK vinyl compilation of Kasenatz-Katz groups and other good stuff from the same era)

v/a - Living In The Streets (Ace CD) (unbelievably good, including a corker for N.'s 1975 thread in the Pazant Brothers' "Loose And Juicy")

Best of Acid Jazz, Vol 2
Miles Davis - Pangaea
Weather Report - Mr Gone
More Nuggets, Vol 2
AMM -AMMusic 1966
Henry Kaiser/Jim O'Rourke - Tomorrow Knows Where You Live
Aerosmith - Rocks
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St
Masada Live in Jerusalem 1994
Ikue Mori - Garden

To my surprise - and subsequent delight - it sounds positively Caribbean almost all the way thru'.

Gamelan comps:
Golden Rain
Music from the Morning World
Jasmin Isle

And I just impulsively ordered a 48-CD box set of a recital of the complete Qur'an (less expensive than you might expect for that number of CDs, but still a big purchase, of course). I have wanted something like that for about ten years, and got fed up with waiting.

Well, I kno' that my hometown's univerity library was going to order a similar box awhile ago, but I don't think they've got it yet.

Al Rockisto - how d'you like Angel Carver?

7"s:
Human League-'Human'
The Art of Noise-'Close (To The Edit)'
Prince-'Gett Off'
Rolled Oats-'Rolled Oats'

10"s:
Manhead-'Show Me The Way/Sister'
L.E.X.X.-'Basement Rock/Waiting For A Dub'

12"s
Magic System-'Premier Gaou' Bob Sinclair/Le Bisou Remixes
Manic Street Preachers-'Let Robeson Sing' Felix Da Housecat Mixes
Aloud-'Los Angeles Resurrection'
TLC-'Hands Up'
Radio 4-'Dance To The Underground'
Heaven 17-'Designing Heaven' Hysterix/Moroder Mixes
Moloko-'Pure Pleasure Seeker' Promoloko
Madonna-'Don't Tell Me'
Thomas Bangalter Presents Outrage
Scott Grooves feat. Parliament Funkadelic-'Mothership Reconnection' Daft Punk Remix
Louie Austen-'Amore'
Sinema-'In My Eyes'
TokTok vs Soffy O-'Missy Queen's Gonna Die'
Backstreet Boys-'More Than That'
Paul Hardcastle-'19'
Red Snapper-'Loopascoopa'
Overrocket-'Sunset Bicycle'
Reno-'Costa (It's A Beautiful Day)'
Scanty-'Southern Thing'
The Go! Team-'Junior Kickstart'
The Webb Brothers-'Remixes 12"'
Kyra-'Easy To Love'
Strike-'Inspiration'
Clones-'Shut Up And Dance'
Grandadbob-'City Approach/3am Gherkin'

LP:
Missy Elliott-Under Construction
Stevie Nicks-The Wild Heart
Scritti Politti-Cupid & Psyche 85

CD:
Yukari Fresh-Cityrama

Someone just gave me

The Wedding Present - Tommy
C. Saroja/C. Lalitha - Sangeetha Saurabham
Pole - CD1
Mark Robinson - Taste

Flower after Flower is good too, but I think it's a little less unqiue than Songbird Suite. I gave it a pretty cursory listen though (which is pretty much true for all four CDs, but the Ground Zero tends to force itself into your awareness more than the other three).

But today I'm going through a Geirist sort of crisis, feeling that I want structures a little less anarchic and more emphasis on melody (or a more traditional sort of approach to melody). Of course, there's lots of stuff that would fit that description but bore me terribly, or make me feel queasy or whatever. So part of me is enthusiastically embracing the Ground Zero CD, and part of me is thinking, yeah, but why do things have to be quite this crazy. It will be interesting (to me anyway) to see how I react to listen to a complete recording of the Qur'an.

David Banner - "Mississippi: The Album" (promo version, looks new)
Bob Seger - "Seven" (out-of-print?)
Willie Nelson - "Stardust"
Randy Newman - "Sail Away"
Donald Fagen - "The Nightfly"

I also picked up Slow Poke's "Redemption" a few days ago.

My friend gave me Frank Zappa's 200 Motels.

funny looking through here how close people's recently bought lists are to what i've been adding to my "to buy" list

The same.

"How's this collection?"

Will let you know when it arrives & I've had a chance to listen to it!

(I only know some songs of his first album, might pick this up for my sister, as she owns that first album)"

There does seem to be quite a lot of overlap (it looks as if 50% of the album Wonderful Life is on The Collection)

Vinyl (all £1)

King of the Slums - Barbarous English Fayre
Altered Images - Happy Birthday
Haircut 100 - Pelican West
A Certain Ratio - Good Together
A Certain Ratio - Four For the Floor 12"
Japan - Tin Drum
St Etienne - So Tough
Furniture - The Wrong People

motorhead _best of_ (the 2-disc version on metal-is, so i can finally have some motorhead on CD - there's no way i'll be replacing my cassettes anytime soon)
light - s/t
alastair galbraith & matt de gennaro - long wires in dark museums
steven r. smith - lineaments
deep purple - the book of taliesyn (with a horrible 'new' cover)
jon appleton - contes de la memoire

Paradise Don't Come Cheap by New Kingdom.

I <3 Hamilton

Ranking Miss P - I am nearly at the end of disc 1. So far - absolutely excellent. Will report back when I get to the end.

ahh, damn, i love this record. probably one of the most tragically overlooked things i can think of.

anti / uton - these rains were tales before
archive - londinium
blue cheer - vincebus eruptum
chris brokaw - wandering as water
clay figure / uton - split
dio daga - magic steps
clear blue sky - destiny
cotton casino - cotton ss mode n, cotton engels heaven
crawlspace - birds of the southern regions, blimp music v.1, rock generation: may, june, july
ernest dawkins & new horizons ensemble - jo'burg jump
drøn - homeworld
dunderhead - bee cave sounds
estelle montenegro - waterfalls
etant donnes - bleu
double leopards - halve maen 2lp
dungen - stadsvandringar
fonn - field831
vincent gallo - recordings of music for film
guilty connector und tabata - s/t
brent gutzeit - losing every day
greg hamilton - white pages
john hegre - a nice place to leave
hubbub - hoop whoop
ken ikeda - merge
irr. app. (ext.) - an uncertain animal, ruptured; tissue expanding in conversation
july - the second of july
jason kahn - drums and metals
eyvind kang - live low to the earth in the iron age
katherina klement - beton
annette krebs - guitar solo
peter lazonby - if you cannot resist... why do you exist?
lilac time - paradise circus
andrew liles - an un world, all closed doors
magic carpathians project - euscorpius carpathicus
markant - infam
andy moor & kaffe matthews - locks
the nice - ars longa vita brevis, s/t
nirvana - the story of simon simopath
no-man - together we're stranger
oral phase - next stop now here
fritz ostermayer - kitsch concrète
pere ubu - dub housing, terminal tower, new picnic time, the art of walking
quicksilver messenger service - happy trails
sophie rimheden - hi-fi
rome - s/t
domenico sciajno - broken bridge
sunburned hand of the man - untitled live lp
sun city girls - the handsome stranger, high asia/lo-pacific
un caddie renversé dans l'herbe - now there's a weird taste in my mouth
uton - mikä kasvaa maan sisällä
matt valentine - glorious group therapy lp
matt valentine & erika elder - daybreak of cocola & the plumage overtones of black patti
voks - vaks vanskab ak
john wiese - bubble pulse
v/a - total 5 (kompakt), 1rst, fist & stroop (ski.pp), tidii tidii tididiididii (267 lattajjaa), compilation: information (imperial)
why? - oaklandazulasylum

Nowhere special - the vinyl at Recd and Tape Exchange basement, the Reggae at RTE Dance Shop and The Wild Swans at RTE proper.

Bedhead- Transaction de Novo
The Damned- Music for Pleasure
GbV- Earthquake Glue, Universal Truth & Cycles
Eric's Trip- Forever Blue
Hum- Downward is Heavenward, You'd Prefer an Astronaut
Onieda- Come On Everybody Let's Rock, Anthem of the Moon
Racebannon- Satan Kickin' Yr Dick In
The Church- Priest = Aura
Killing Joke- Laugh, I Nearly Bought One
Dead Meadow- Shivering King & Others
The Cure- Disentigration
Aerosmith- Get Your Wings
Captain Beyond- Captain Beyond

schillpenbach trio- pakistani pomade

then all these second hand:

mainliner- mellow out
company in marseille
the new york art quartet on ESP
billy jenkins- sadtimes.co.uk

Despite shopping at the same place, I'm lost on the 'Wild Swans' ref.

and on vinyl

David Bowie - Stage

anthony braxton/ max roach LP.

Dizzee Rascal - Boy In Da Corner
Super Furry Animals - Phantom Power
Daft Punk - Discovery
Neptunes - ....Presents Clones
Richard X - ....Presents His X Factor Vol 1 (well it's in the post anyway)

hit a generous pocket of (cheap!) 'tronica goodies at the Northampton Turn it Up! last weekend. offset the usual '70s-centric psych, etc. scavengings nicely.

7":

Heaven 17-Come Live With Me
Tall Blonde-Don’t Stop
Public Image Ltd. -Death Disco
KC Flightt-Planet E
Banarama-Aie A Mwana
The Rapture-House of Jealous Lovers
Tom Flair-Splendid/Brian White-Angela 2100
Whodini-Magic’s Wand Picture Disc

12":
Chief Beef-The Golden Girl
Aloud-Broadband
Capoiera Twins-Four (4x3)
The Brotherhood-Punk Funk
Fallacy and Fusion-The Groundbreaker
Muki-I Don’t Want To Know
Bosco-A Poil et Poli
Alpinestars-Interlaken
Shara Nelson-I Fell Mixes
Etienne Daho-A New World
Outkast-Bombs Over Baghdad
Ferenc-Besugo EP
Empire State-Why Climb The Highest Mountain
The Art of Noise-Moments In Love/Beatbox
S1000 feat. Danny Campbell-Look Inside
Pianoman-Party People (Live Your Life Be Free)
Sugababes-Soul Sound Remixes and Round Round Mixes
Tiga-Hot In Herre Richard X pres. Gareth Gatex Mixes
Thee Madkatt Courtship III-Strobe Robbie Rivera Mixes
Fantastic Four-B.Y.O.F. (Bring Your Own Funk)/Sexy Lady (Remix)
King of Woolworths-Delia Derbyshire (Pedro Remix)/Evelsong (Matt Harding Remix)

LP:
Cameo-Word Up
Jolly Music-Jollybar
Appleseed-Kick It Til It Breaks
Mantronix-This Should Move Ya

Dr. C, I meant that I don't know what 'Wild Swans' means/is.

???

So today I bought:

William Parker (etc.): Eloping with the Sun

It kind of is a little boring, as some reviewers had said or hinted at. I guess the mere fact that a frame drum is involved shouldn't be enough to make me expect to like something.

Sun Ra: The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra
Sun Ra: Cosmos
Santana/McLaughlin: Love Devotion Surrender

(That's what I said.)

Coelacanth - The Glass Sponge (very very good)
John Bischoff - Aperture
Themselves - the no music
Lithops - Script (difficult. wanky, even. wish 'Didot' would get reissued.)
Bayle - Toupie Danse le Ciel
Mozart - piano concerto no 23, Pollini
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll (un-remastered)
Iva Bittova - j.h.
Beethoven - Symphony no 7, Toscanini, 1936
Komar & Melamid & Soldier - Most Wanted Song / Most Unwanted Song
Ivor Cutler - Life in a Scotch Sitting Room
Animal Collective - Spirit They're Gone Spirit They've Vanished / Danse Manatee
Trevor Wishart - Red Bird
Nina Hagen - Nunmonksexrock (upgrading to CD. so incredibly good.)
Byrne / Eno - Ghosts (work tapes for 'bush of ghosts', with original uncleared samples. lo-fi. devoted fans only really.)
Haniwa-Chan - Kanishabali

The uncleared samples of SoCal TV Evangelist Katherine Kuhlman are creepy, those had to be removed from the final version as her estate refused to have them licensed. But what they put on instead, for 'Jezebel Spirit', is unquestionably a lot better.

http://music.hyperreal.org/artists/brian_eno/enofaqm.html
http://www.nervenet.info/_bdisc/beepddicog198olkdgtye76543bngdy/HT_FILES/html/63424.htm

Agoraphobic Nosebleed -- Altered States of America
Laurie Anderson -- Talk Normal (Rhino comp)
High Llamas -- Retrospective, Rarities and Instrumentals
Lambchop -- Is a Women
Metallica -- Live Sh*t: Binge and Purge (DVD edition)
Royal Trux -- Veterans of Disorder

All used on the cheap, I love it.

Liverpool band 1980's former Teardrop Explodes geezer Paul Simpson + mates - split off into Care and The Lotus Eaters and then reformed briefly for major deal. Think EATB, Chameleons - big but not pompous sound - sweeping keybds, catholic guilt, northern bedsits....

Motorbass-Pansoul

Zoot Woman-Living In A Magazine

Sean Paul-Dutty Rock

Last few purchases:
Goodie Mob - World Party
Edwyn Collins - Doctor Syntax
Paperclip People - The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich
V/A - Trapez Selection 1
V/A: Errol Alkan - One Louder (Muzik mix)

Last few albums for review:
Colder - Again
Mocky - In Mesopatamia
V/A (Naked Music) - Lost on Arrival
V/A - Mambo Meets Firehouse Inna Dancehall
RJD2 - Dead Ringer
Dizzee Rascal - Boy in da Corner
RJD2 -

Bardo Pond - On The Ellipse
Barnacled - Tidings
Can - Tago Mago
Circle - Pori
Football Rabbit - Demo '02
Landed - Why I Live
Mindflayer - It's Always 1999
Mindflayer - Apeshit
Mr. Brinkman - White
No Neck Blues Band - Sticks & Stones...
Olneyville Sound System - On Safari
Prurient - Recycled Music
Prurient - The History of AIDS
SubArachnoid Space - Also Rising
Vincebus Eruptum - Vincebus Eruptum
Wilt - Winter's Whore
Wolf Eyes - Fuck The Old Miami
Wolf Eyes - Recycled Music
V/A - Old Tyme Lemonade (Providence & Olneyville, RI bands)
Wolf Eyes/Emil Beaulieau split single

bargain bin blowout:
anaal nathrakh - the codex necro
dworzec - wednesday
brighter death now - may all be dead
surface of eceyon - dragyyn
steppenwolf - monster lp

CD:
New Pornographers - Electric Version

France Gall - France Gall (3CD Box Set of complete Philips releases)
Luomo - The Present Lover (wasn't convinced before, but this is grebt)
Steve Reich / Beryl Korot - Three Tales
Mouse on Mars - Rost Pocks
v/a - Pop à Paris Vol.1 "Contact"
v/a - Pop à Paris Vol.3 "C'est la mode"
v/a - Verve Unmixed2

I say - 'Sweet Harmony' is utterly stupendously wonderful. Right now I'm thinking it could be the best reggae compilation of all time, certainly the best I've bought for years. Disc 2 is what really makes it great - Miss P blends a range of classic Lovers (Matumbi) with some reaally smooth 80's tunes (Akabu, Meditations, Undivided Roots, Viceroys) and some harmony roots (Gladiators, Wailing Souls). There's even room for Aswad's 'Dub Fire'. It's just so damn tuneful and rhythmic and warm. Another reason that I love it is that it *almost* turns into the mythical 70's/80's Brit Lovers Rock compilation that no-one has yet done, and is ultra-urgent and key. One day?
Disc 1 is mainly slightly earlier - some rocksteady (Justin Hinds, Alton Ellis, Gaylads), mid-70's harmony (Mighty Diamonds, Heptones) and roots.
Current favourite track : The Maroons (The Cimarons in disguise) with 'Talking Blues'.
I will CD-R it for you if you're interested.

Kevin Drumm/Martin Tetreault - Particles and Smears
Jungle Brothers - Straight Out the Jungle
Jeff Beck - Truth
Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow
Brian Eno - Music for Airports
Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Lenny Breau Trio
Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson

Someone lent me

Derek Bailey/Pat Metheny/Gregg Bendian/Paul Wertico - The Sign of 4
Morton Feldman - For Samuel Beckett (Ensemble Modern, conducted Arturo Tamayo)
Jah Wobble/Evan Parker - Passage to Hades

Medicine - (whatever the new one is called) - Disappointing. I usually see eye to eye with Nitsuh's reviews but this one did nothing for me. I only got through half of it before it became annoying. Maybe the second half will pick up.

Trojan Box Set - 12 inch mixes - Three CD set of 12-inch versions. It's fantastic. It's a steal brand new at 13 bucks.

Autechre -- Basscadet
Coil -- Musick to Play in the Dark (1 and 2)
Legendary Pink Dots -- Under Triple Moons
Orb -- U.F.Off
Orbital -- Work
Shamen -- En-Tact (the original One Little Indian release! I think Dan's revival of that one thread from 1991 on Usenet was fate -- now I can finally compare and contrast)
Timonium -- Until He Finds Us

Anthony Braxton - "B-06 |||| NW5-9M4 (For Trio)" and "Creative Orchestra Music 1976"
Ornette Coleman - "Science Fiction"
Art Bears - "Winter Songs"

Also, picked up the June issue of Uncut recently, just to get the CD comp. of British psychedelic rock from the late 60s which was on the cover. Great stuff.

Uzeda - Different Section Wires
Smash Mouth - Fush Yu Mang
A Perfect Circle - Thirteenth Step

and no more cd's for this one until my trip to England...

JAMC - Psychocandy, though it would still sound great even if the record was used for polishing floors.
Scritti Polliti - Cupid and Psyche 85
Grace Jones - Slave to the rythm. '85 was a great year.
John Cale - Paris 1919.
Pretenders- Pretenders.
Undertones- Underones.
Squeeze - Cool for cats.
Roxy Music - Country life.
Fall - Psycick dancehall 3CD 77-82 comp.

and some newer stuff...

Cat Power - You are free
Athlete - Vehicles and animals
Thea Gilmore - Avalanche, not expecting to like this but it was cheap so...
My Morning Jacket - At dawn (see Thea Gilmore)
and the Ranking Miss P sweet harmony comp.

12:
Ronnie Richards-'Missing You'
Impulsion-'Rock That House Musiq'
Prince-'U Got The Look'

CD:
Sean Paul-Dutty Rock (unwanted present from my sis, tho' I have the vinyl)

I just downloaded Speakerboxx/The Love Below too. I am almost shaking with excitement...

bought:
David Bowie - Reality (ltd. ed.)
Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4
Serge Gainsbourg - Musiques de Film
François de Roubaix - Les Plus Belles Musiques Vol. 3

All vinyl, all 49p in Oxfam!!

"No other" by Gene Clark (as good as everyone says it is)
"The Ultimate Collection" by Yes (better than I ever expected it to be)
"Hard light" by Delta (not a patch on anything they've done before)

The Farida CD has some of the silliest English I've come across in liner notes. I think my favorite aspect of the CD are the percussion tracks (and the percussion on the other tracks). Unfortunately, I still can't get into Farida's singing that much. Still, pretty good overall.

I think At the Border is quite wonderful. It seems to me that Marcel Khalife holds a fairly unique position as a very popular Arabic singer/songwriter of protest sings. (Maybe one reason for his success is that he hasn't limited himself to that, and even on this album, he hardly limits himself to simply strumming an oud and singing. The orchestration is definitely varied.) Weird though: the track sequence is different from what I heard on cassette, and one of the songs is quite a bit different from that version (though I like them both).

(Re: At the Border, I think the first half is stronger than the last half. At times it gets pretty sentimental toward the end of the album. I can stomach it, myself, but I think others would be less forgiving.)

A made-in-Holland & bought-in-Germany item, this.
...Well, a collection of well-known, classic tracks it surely is -- b-b-but what the heck makes it a 'collectors box' absolutely beats me. (Is it the misspelling of Perry as 'Berry' on one of the sleeves, eh? Or the total lack of any information apart from the song titles and the authors?)

Huzzah!

Hazzuh!

Someone gave me Soul II Soul - Keep On Movin'

ok

MUSIC FROM THE ONCE FESTIVAL 1961-66 (the standard of quality is very high. fifth disc in particular.)
Dorine Muraille - Mani
Southern Journey vol 8 - Velvet Voices (Alan Lomax)
Songs of Seduction - Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales (Alan Lomax)
Stockhausen - Tierkreis (glossy)
Pimmon - Snaps * Crackles * Pops
ABBA - Super Trouper (w/ bonus tracks)
The Essential Adam Ant
Dockstader - Eight Electronic Pieces (piece 8 is original mono version of 'traveling music', and it's much better)
Paul Dolden - Seuil de Silences (remixes of 'threshold of deafening silence' album, minus one track, plus two new tracks. maddening.)

actually have:
Nick Drake - Bryter Later (love it-very different from the others)
Cure-Seventeen Seconds (replacing old teenage tape copy)
daniel bell - revenge of the button down mind (cool)
donnacha costello - together is the new alone (fuckin awesome -got it used for 2.98)

dats it

Daft Punk - "One More Time"
Geddy Lee - "Home On the Strange"

Khalife's Arabic Coffee Pot is not very enjoyable. I don't especially like anything he's done after the 80's. His use of orchestra really bugs me. I can't pass a serious judgment on this music though, since it is primarily intended as a setting for the texts that are sung (which are generally actual poetry). Until I understand Arabic, I won't be able to understand, in any depth, how the music and text relate.

I like the new Sun Ra CD too, but have only listened to it once. I was hoping for something a little more amazing, somehow, but it's definiely good. I may say more after I've given it a more serious listen.

For Your Pleasure/Manifesto/Heart Still Beating/Flesh and Blood/Siren/Avalon

Radio 4 - Gotham

Vinyl LPs - all £ each

Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm
Hambi and The Dance - Heartache
Urban Verbs - S/T
Blancmange - Mange Tout

finally lots of bargains for 2 quid down myt local shop:

beatles- help LP
Prefab sprout- steve mcqueen LP
Human League- 'travelogue' and 'reproduction' LPs

Roxy music's 'manifesto', ac/dc's 'back in black' and 'highway to hell' on cassete.

i was on a rummage sale last weekend:
prince - around the world in a day LP
grandmaster flash & melle mel - white lines (don't don't do it) 12"
rachmaninoff - piano concerto no. 2 10"

with another LP from a dutch cabaret duo, collectively 1 euro.

also:
michael jackson - off the wall cd
nick drake - five leaves left cd
can - flow motion LP

Can't promise anything (I'm away most weekends and it's not easy getting up to London in the week) but when is it?

american analog set - promise of love (just one deceiving listen. this must be their creative low point. very few ideas and tunes. lots of boring repetitive drones)

and you should allow that aas record to nestle, it will pay off. well, it did in my case anyway...

yesterday, just before going to meet duane i went record shopping and got:

Ornette coleman- In all languages 2LP
and Lou Reed's 'Metal machine music' on 2LP!!! Finally!!!! The guy in the record store thanked me :-)

To ILE with you! Or at least that thread in particular.

Wu-Tang Clan, Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Ol' Dirty Bastard, Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version

the following are all promos, I list them anyways

Rhythm & Sound w/ the artists
Rhythm & Sound - the Versions
Richard Devine - Assct:Dssct
Nathan Michel - Dear Bicycle (good! quantum leap beyond first one.)
Dwayne Sodahberk - Unfortunately (first one I've liked. leaving behind minimal stacked loops, writing some very nice songs. track 13, 'bird')
Team Shadetek - violent turd mix cd
Doormouse - The Method
Alan Licht - A New York Minute

Mastered by Bob Drake, I think.

super yay.

Knew nothing 'bout the band or the label, but the line-up seemed kinda interesting - plus there were a few songs sung in Greek, Japanese and Spanish, evidently - and as I could have it at half the price, I'm now poorer for the equivalent of 'bout 7 USD.
:)

Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy
Andrew WK - The Wolf
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
J Mascis - The John Peel Sessions
Neil Young - Greendale
Contriva - 8 eyes ('96-'99)
Donna Regina - Late
The Brunettes - Boyracer EP
Mates of State - Team Boo
Shizuka - La Vuelta al Mundo en Globo
Juniper Moon - Solo una Sonrisa (single)
Guther - I Know You Know
Modapop, Elefant comp

10" (a Rex Records trio/trifekta/threesome):

DJ Downfall - Make Me Feel Like A Man
Escapepod - s/t EP
RLF - Once Upon A Time EP

12":

Was Not Was - (Return to the valley of) Out Come The Freaks Remixed Version
Scritti Politti - Tinseltown To The Boogiedown
Tom Jones - If I Only Knew
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) (Murder Mix)
Supreme Bachelors - S&M
Greens Keepers - Guidance
Beats International - Bingo Beats
Dirty Beatniks - Disco Dancing Machine
Grafiti - What Is The Problem?
Beenie Man feat Janet/Sean Paul and Lady Saw - Feel It Boy/Bossman
Mantronik vs EPMD - Strictly Business
V/A - Pussytoons EP
Cagedbaby - Star/Berlin
Freakpower - New Direction
Morgan Geist - Crash Tracks EP

CD:

Seelenluft - Manila

OMD - Organization remaster
Roxy Music - Country Life
King Tubby - Essential Dub

Secondhand :

Furniture - She Gets Out The Scrapbook

2nd hand LP
Public Image Limited - Second Edition
Robert Palmer - Clues
McQuin, Clark & Hillman - s/t

new LP
the Hospitals - s/t

on order LP
Matmos - Civil War
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/the Love Below

new CD
the Cuts - 2 over 10

on order CD
Television - Marquee Moon (expanded reissue)