what are the last five albums you got?

• Terre Thaemlitz "Oh No! It's RUBATO" CD (piano interpretations of Devo songs)
• Pigeonfunk s/t EP
• Phoenecia Odd Job Discrimination EP
• Super Furry Animals (Drawing) Rings Around The World CD-single
• The Kama Kozmic Krusader s/t CD (basically the rollerblading Jimi Hendrix guy on Venice Beach with a really bad backup band)

redman - 'smash sumthin' (import)
autechre - ep7
marley marl & pete rock - future flava
fennesz - 'PLAYS'
ludacris f/ nate dogg - 'area codes'

fuck yeah.

Since the Mogwai and Fugazi's Furniture are both EPs, here's two to make up for them:
Negativland: These Guys are From England and Who Gives a Shit
Lustmord vs. Metal Beast

Oh, I bought WAY too many a couple of weeks ago, but here are the ones I'm really, really, really, really liking:

Phill Niblock - Music by Phill Niblock

Roots Manuva - Run Come Save Me

Maryanne Amacher - Sound Characters

Rake - Calling

Bjork - Vespertine

Company Flow - End To End Burners

Miracle of '86 - ST

The Pharcyde - Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

Modulation and Transformation 4 (Mille Plateaux comp.)

Crispy Ambulance - The Plateau Phase

Fennesz - Hotel Paral.lel

Monolake - Hongkong

Of those, I have to say, the Masada wins it. Their best, I think.

2) Dettinger - Intershop

3) Bubba Sparxxx - Dark Days, Bright Nights

4) Jay-Z - The Blueprint

5) V/A - Dr. C Presents Subterrain 100% Unreleased

Peaches EP, "Rip it Up" by Orange Juice, Amélie Poulain soundtrack by Yann Tiersen, Dot Allison's solo album, "Le Bapteme" by M(athieu Chedid).

Pixies - Trompe Le Monde

Comus - First Utterance

!!! - !!!

Charles Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus

Mouse on Mars - Vulvaland

Boards of Canada - Hi Scores ep

Roy Montgomery - 324 E. 13th st

Loop - A guilded eternity

2) VV. AA., "Troubleman Mix-Tape" [same as above]

3) American Analog Set, "Know by heart" [great album]

4) Ted Leo/Pharmacists, "the tyranny of distance" [easily my favourite record this year]

5) Piano Magic, "Son de Mar - OST" [background music]

Schubert - Goethe-lieder

Electronica Gainsbourg - I love Serge

Cashier Escape Route - A city centre compilation (contains To Roccoco Rot and a lot of little Kraftwerk-boys)

Zoot Woman - Living in a magazine (more kraftwerk there)

1. Richie Hawtin - DE9: Closer to the edit

2. The Other People Place - Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe

3. Substance - Session Elements (2nd hand)

4. Green Velvet - Whatever

5. Viva - Roxy Music (2nd hand vinyl)

all very good.

Big Black "Songs About Fucking" Millie Small "My Boy Lollipop" The Cramps "Smell Of Female" Nina Hagen "Nunsexmonkrock" The Buzzcocks "Singles Going Steady"

Also, I think the new Richie Hawtin is staggeringly good--very tactile and expertly put-together. Even though I know next to nothing about techno, I can tell that he's incredible.

I can not really justify my taste.

White Blood Cells -- White Stripes

another white stripes album (can't recall the title)

a bloody "chilled" compilation (what was I thinking, shit)

before that i bought a whole load at once (retail therapy i think), the least embarassing of which would be the recent spearmint album (cue for "well if that was the least embarassing, what was..." etc, ho ho, the answer to which is the ride box set. fool that i am)

Patti Page: 'In The Land of Hi-Fi' (CD re-issue, even cheaper than the above, also a Dutch purchase)

Gas: 'Zauberberg' (6 quid in Greenwich)

Klute: 'Fear of People' (49p promo, charity shop off Marylebone High St)

Ryoji Ikeda: 'Matrix' (7 quid, secondhand, These Records, Kennington)

Continuum
1. The Beach Boys: Sunflower and Surf's Up on 1 CD
2. Aphex Twin: druqks
3. Emperor: Prometheus: The Discipline Of Fire & Demise
4. Yardbirds: Cumular Limit

2. V/A - 500% Dynamite (Tiger Ranks' "Party Wit Me" is the best thing. ever. Download today!)

3. St. Etienne - Smash the System

4. Outkast - Aquemini, replacing a stolen copy :(

And, at lunch, I will buy:

Pulp!

2)Bubba Sparxxx -- Dark Days, Bright Nights (Lovely jumped right at me, but the rest of the tracks need time to sink in. The Organized Noize stuff is as good as the Timba stuff)

3)Velvet Underground -- Bootleg Series v.1 (surprising range of performances -- focuses on the slower side, which I'm not used to)

4) R. Kelly -- 12 Play (Awwww yeah....)

5) I'm buying that blink album next.

Curiously enough, I've just come back from touring with these bands. And they all kicked major-league ass. And I am so fucking tired.

Orchestral Maneouvres In The Dark - Dazzle Ships (HMV Sale Tape-CD Upgrade)

XTC - Drums And Wires (ditto - still dont like it much though)

Various Artists - I Am King (Reggae comp, basic but high quality and I only had a couple of things before)

Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz And Thee Glitz (thanks Omar)

Primal Scream-Screamadelica

Spiritualized-Lazer Guided Melodies

Marah-The Kids in Philly

Gram Parsons GP/Grievous Angel

Er......can't remember what else, Lucinda Williams maybe? Car Wheels on a Dirt Road.

The Wedding Present "Bizarro"

The Wedding Present "Sea Monsters"

The Carter Family [some compilation]

All lovely chirpy records. The Carter Family one has these pictures of them all smiling and looking happy. Which is a complete swizz, everyone knows the Carters were the most miserable people who ever lived.

Ballboy - Singles compilation. Bis - Chemikal Underground EP thing. Six By Seven - So close (new single). Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Whatever happened...EP. Sing-Sing - The Joy Of. LP. Ex-Lush. Good.

I see there is a ms. Kittin album or something. Anyone heard? Also, when the Le Tigre getting a UK release?

If there was ONE Dud on a Mission of Burma: C or D thread, I'd start crackin' skulls. They're 75% reunited, by the way - I believe Mr. Martin Swope is not interested. Damn shame.

Just went shopping @ lunch:

1) Neil Diamond "Greatest Hits" 2) Mouse on Mars "Idiology" 3) T. Rex "Electric Warrior" 4) Cornelius "Point" 5) various Hungarian New Wave bands "1.2.3...Start!"

2. Cornerstone promo CD w/Avalanches DJ mix

3. Bobby Marchan, Clown Jewels: The Ace Masters 1956-75 (crap, mostly, but a few songs I didn't have on Music Club's This is...Huey "Piano" Smith

4. The Stax Story (4CD box)

5. Michael Jackson, Off the Wall: Special Edition (remastered reissue w/bonus demo cuts & multimedia foofaraw)

humble pie - smokin'

milkshakes - play 20 rhythm'n'beat greats

tony valens & the incisions - triple live CDR

a hall & oates album or something

Bill - the Ms Kittin and the Hacker album is a work of genius, from the cover artwork to the tracks themselves.

slayer - divine intervention

the masters apprentices - hands of time

the fall - light user syndrome

opal - early recordings

Alex Chilton - Live In London

T-Rex - The Collection

The Shadows of Knight - Gee-Ell-Oh-Are-I-Ay

Johnny Thunders & Patti Paladin - Copy Cats

american analog set - from our living room to yours

stereo total - juke box alarm

stereolab - dots and loops

mad professor - dub me crazy (best of dub me crazy years)

Rutles - Rutles

Here Are The Chesterfield Kings - Chesterfield Kings

Nowhere To Hide - Foreign Legion (OK it's not a album, it's a 12" single)

Dawn of Correction - the Spokesmen

Helen: Both are excellent, as you've no doubt discovered.

Laura Cantrell - 'Not The Tremblin' Kind'

Some Big Chill compilation

Disco Inferno - 'Technicolour'

2) Busta Rhymes -- Genesis

3) Derrick L. Carter Presents "About Now..."

4)Sugababes -- One Touch

5)So Solid Crew -- They Don't Know

6)Josie and the Pussycats -- OMPS

Yeah, <>Pop Ambient 2001 was such a smash they rushed out the 2002 edition in December. Watch for Now That's What I Call Ambient 1 coming to Best Buy soon.

1. Ellery Eskelin - Vanishing Point
2. Peter Garland - The Days Run Away
3. Satoko Fujii Quartet - Vulcan
4. Silver Jews - Bright Flight
5. Danny Zamir - Satlah

(btw mark, re-email me yr address, as i have those boredoms cd's ready to go for you.)

Somewhat depressingly, none of these appeared in my post for albums I planned to buy next.

Azuquita: Lo Bailado Nadie me lo Quita. Azuquita is a Panamanian singer who appears on one of my favorite 70's salsa albums (only dicovered by me in the past few years): Louie Ramirez y Sus Amigos. This is good but doesn't blow my mind like that earlier recording.

Mariano Civico: De Costa a Costa. I haven't actually listened to this yet, I've just skimmed through the beginnings of all the songs. It doesn't sound too promising. Seems to be from the whimpier end of Puerto Rican salsa. (And I think I may prefer PR salsa, overall, incidentally.)

Joe Arroyo and Juan Carlos Coronel: Los Reyes del Tropico. This is not what I was looking for either: none of this is actually salsa per se. I already have Arroyo's original version of some of these songs, and while they are okay, I don't need additional variations. I might try to sell this.

[Joe Bataan had to be returned because the liner notes were stuck to the CD.]

Sun Ra and His Arkestra: Cosmo Sun Connection. If you're looking for a recording to introduce you to Sun Ra, don't start here. I bought this directly from the band and gave them a little more than they were asking for it, so in this case my purchase was more of a gesture of support than a simple exchange, which is probably a good thing since this is a short CD and for the most part is just okay, aside from some pretty funny sounds coming from Sun Ra's synthesizer. I suppose it could grow on me. The version of "Fate in a Pleasant Mood" here, which starts things off, is a little too peppy for me, and "Cosmo Journey Blues" is a little too bluesy for me (though live this sort of thing can work for me). On the other hand, "Cosmonaut Astronaut Rendezvous" has some pretty nice solo saxophone.

How's this one, Tim Spyticker?

Who's Barry Adamson? What's this all about?

Mark S: How do you like Toys In the Attic? I've been wondering if I should go about buying it back. I think I ranked it among the greatest albums ever when I was 12 but it doesn't seem that consistent in retrospect.

Various Artists, Truck Driver's Boogie: Big Rig Hits, 1939- 1969 -- Still haven't listened to it yet. What the hell's wrong with me?

Milton Nascimento/Lô Borges, Clube de Esquina -- Perfect, sappy, or perfectly sappy...I haven't decided what this is yet. It has "San Vicente" which I've called the best song ever ever ever, and none of the tracks seem overshadowed by that little piece of heartbreak, and most of the tracks have this beautiful sunshowery feel to it...yet...

The Tallis Scholars, dir. by Peter Phillips, Victoria Requiem/Alonso Lobo: Versa est in luctum -- When I listen to this as I fall asleep, it sounds just like every other piece of Renaissance music I own, which is (yes) very lovely but lacking in distinction. Maybe one day it'll stand out. Maybe it never will.

Stanton Warriors, The Stanton Session -- No show-off skullfucks on the order of their "Doom's Night" and "Demons" remixes, but I'm not complaining much.

All great cd's.

So far, so good, good, good!

"The Very Best of Dusty Springfield" (I like this but not quite as much as I thought. I am struggling to get past some aspects of the production, especially the strings which I could do without. Virtually none of this is really very familiar to me, but I like her voice and I think the CD should grow on me.)

Univers Zero "1313" (The store I was counting on didn't have the Etron Fou Leloublan album I wanted and has no plans to restock, so I decided to get this as a related substitute. Don't like it. They have an interesting overall sound, but I don't like their approach to rhythm, which is too rigid for me. It's not cheery music, but I don't find it particularly depressing or disturbing, just kind of annoying after a while.)

United States of America (I probably could have done without this. My favorite is the song I bought it for, "Coming Down," but I do also like "Love Song for the Dead Che." The free-wheelin' social commentary is a bit tiresome, e.g, "I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife for You, Sugar".) np: Fairouz "Andaloussiyat" What a great voice.

That's the one. This store has had it for a while, but when I went to buy it, it was gone. The buyer said that they won't be getting it back in, so I ordered it online. I'm not sure I'll like it, but I like the general "RIO" sound, and I like Etron Fou's contribution to Fred Frith's "Speechless."

chemische ameisenscheisse "heute kuehl" -- institut fur feinmotorik "wenig information kein titel" -- institut fur feinmotorik "negemergenz" -- institut fur feinmotorik "cdprojekt" -- pomassl / kodwo eshun "architectronics: black atlantic turns on flow line" --

though i mostly listen to ripped live-streams from the net.