It's a New Recent Purchases Thread (a.k.a. Whatever Happened to the Recent Purchases Thread?)

hey sleeve.. how much did ya pay for that konstruktivists lp.... ?

How are you liking the Bruno Spoerri, Mister Craig?

-- Telephone thing

Coupla bargains at the weekend:

Cosmic Jokers - s/t
I Roy - Gussie Presenting I Roy (1st LP with 32 BONUS TRACKS, this could possibly be the greatest CD of all time)

cheapos:
A comp of old 1st phase Fleetwood (just for "Albatross", really)
Rumours
Mirage

brunettes 'structure and cosmetics'
new trembling blue stars album
first montt mardie album

stars of the lid - the ballasted orchestra
roland kirk - i talk with the spirits
lucio battisti - anima latina
von südenfed - tromatic reflexxions
vladimîr godár - mater (featuring iva bittova)
wild style ost - on compact disc ok
music of central asia vol 1 - tengir-too mountain music of kyrgyzstan
tuva - among the spirits - folkways compiled by ted levin
ariel kalma - osmose
john cage / morton feldman - columbia 60's records reissue on new world

It's been a while since I've posted to this thread but I just noticed this:

i'm trying to understand...it seems that quite a few posts on here contain a list of decent albums supplemented by some total shit like missy elliot or something...is this the latest hipster trend?...am i losing my edge?

Anyway I've bought this lot recently, lots of charity shop bargains (I wouldn't normally have bought 4 Prodigy CD singles, but they were very cheap):

tonight - drummerman 7"
va - the history of portland punk #1 CD
janet kay - that's what friends are for 7"
undertones - hypnotised LP
cud - elvis belt LP
cud - when in rome, kill me LP
gossip - standing in the way of control CD
avalanches - since I left you CD
posies - this is not the posies 7"
electric wizard - dopethrone CD
boris - pink CD
todd - comes to your house CD
cravats - the land of the giants 2xCD
t-rex - electric warrior CD
GZA - liquid swords CD
dictators - go girl crazy CD
altered images - pinky blue 7"
altered images - see those eyes 7"
boyracer - the racer 100 12"
death cab for cutie - plans CD
articles of faith - complete history #2 CD
front 242 - front by front LP
busta rhymes - turn it up (fire it up) CDS
teenage fanclub - mellow doubt CDS
prodigy - charly CDS
prodigy - fire CDS
prodigy - voodoo people CDS
prodigy - out of space CDS
von lmo - tranceformer CD
calvin johnson & the sons of the soil - s/t CD
MD - manisch depressiv 7"
john berenzy group - vice verses 7"
slayer - christ illusion CD

Githead-Art Pop
it's great.
any Githead fans?

and those swanky Triffids reissues.

ariel kalma - osmose, Milton Parker

WAY overlooked reissue. Fantastic, apparently Kalma and Riley were pretty much on the same page around the time of Reed Streams

lp:
Eric Stewart, Frooty Rooties :(
Claudio Rocchi, Il Miele Ddi Pianeti Le Isole Le Api
cd:
Michael Nesmith, Magnetic South/Loose Salute
Michel Redolfi, Sonic Waters #2

The Speedies- Speedy Delievery
Big Dipper- Craps
Andy Kim- Rainbow Ride
Donald Byrd- Black Byrd
The Pretenders- Learning to Crawl
Chisel- 8 AM All Day
ELO- New World Record
The Bongos- Drums Along the Hudson
Mr. T Experince- Everyone Is Entitled to Their Own Opinon

bought all these within last few days

Magnetic Fields - 96 Songs
Al Green - Gets Next To You
GZA - Liquid Swords
Isaac Hayes - Black Moses
Talk Talk - The Spirit of Eden
Cocteau Twins - Heaven (i think)
Dusty Springfield - The Complete BBC Sessions
The National - Boxer

Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
Lifesavas - Gutterfly: The Original Soundtrack
Jaylib - Champion Sound (Deluxe Reissue)
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Art Brut - It's A Bit Complicated

i've grabbed:
James Brown Foundations of Funk
Jim Hall Concierto
Jim Hall/Ron Carter Alone Together
Duke Ellington Blues in Orbit
Duke Ellington 1940 (2 lp set)
Sonny Rollins Way Out West
i apparently hate new music ...

I got the Fa Ce La/Raised Eyebrows 7" by the Feelies.

Raised Eyebrows ain't all that different, but Fa Ce La has about 10% of the polished fullness of the album version. It probably has about as much body as Anton etc look capable of creating, as suggested by the band photo on the sleeve, which somehow makes them appear even wimpier than the album pic does. Still sounds great, anyway! Nice sleeve too.

DeepChord - Vantage Isle
Rihanna - Good Girl Gone Bad
Clipse - Lord Willin'
Teedra Moses - Complex Simplicity

Dizzee Rascal - Maths & English
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
The Best of Fad Gadget
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Wighnomy Bros.|Robag Wruhme - Remikks Potpourri II

The Fall - Dragnet
Radiohead - Com Lag (2plus2isfive)
Smog - Knock Knock
Tom Waits - Foreign Affairs

Scientist Wins the World Cup - Scientist
Les Baines Douches - Joy Division
5 - Soft Machine
To Whom It May Concern V 2.0 - Freestyle Fellowship

Johnny Clarke, Rockers Time Now
Five Stairsteps collection

Ian Brown - The Greatest
Buju Banton - Till Shiloh

Of Montreal, <i>The Sunlandic Twins</i>
Sonoko, <i>La Debutante</i>
Bel Canto, <i>White-Out Conditions</i>
v/a mixed by G-Ha and Olanskii, <i>Sunkissed</i>

from the Ernie B's sale:
Horace Andy, <i>Good Vibes</i>
Keith Hudson, <i>Pick a Dub</i>, hopefully it's actually in stock this time arrh
The Congos & Friends, <i>Fisherman Style</i>
A Certain Ratio, <i>The Graveyard & The Ballroom</i>
v/a- <i>100% Dynamite!</i>

DAMN YOU BBCODE, DAMN YOU TO <i>HELL</i>

ER, HELL

iTunes -

Long May You Run - Neil Young w/ Stephen Stills. Part of my continuing quest to identify the best road songs of all time.

Umbrella - Rihanna. Pretty amazing single I have to say, sans Jay-Z up front. But as long as you can get him out of the way at the beginning and he doesn't fuck it up with a damn verse in the middle, I can take it.

Jimmy Webb - Wichita Lineman. Based on a recommendation here. It's a good take on the song, but a little under-produced and not nearly as good as the Campbell's take.

Andy Summers & Robert Fripp - I Advanced Masked. ILX rec. Interesting, but in comparison Michael Hedges stuff (another rec from here) is better.

Chris Cornell - Billie Jean. Basically a live track, and again I think could have used more time in the oven. Still love the Cornell though.

Dead Can Dance - s/t
Labradford - Mi Media Naranja
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

1 x 2020Soundsystem Cant Stop The Crew (Jesse Rose Remixes) (vis141)
1 x Daft Punk Burnin (vst1649)
1 x DJ T Time Out (gpm0176)
1 x Rekid Next Stop Chicago (I Belong) (rekids002)
1 x Laurent Garnier Flashback (f068)
1 x Meat & Einzelkind Meat Is Murder EP (gpm0666)
1 x Various The DFA Remixes (Chapter Two) (dfaemi2160lp)
1 x Para One Midnight Swim (ins12017)
1 x Alex Smoke Never Want To See You Again (soma197)
1 x Solaris Heights Midnight (air033)
1 x Studio Lifes A Beach! (inf003-1)
1 x Sweetlight Le Grand Sommeil (turbo0316)
1 x Panash Jack 2 Jack (turbo0226)

hi dere, 25% off sale!

just rebought Parliament - Motor-Booty Affair last weekend. Fonky!

Jarvis Cocker- Jarvis
Margot Guryan- Take a Picture
ELO- Face the Music

having the time to just browse the racks of a couple of recordstores is just what i needed today:

The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys (Fiction)
22 Pistepirkko - Eleven (Bare Bone/Clear Spot)
Chromeo presents un joli mix pour toi (Eskimo)
Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - Reinterpretations (Eskimo)
The Sea and Cake - Everybody (Thrill Jockey)
Holger Czukay/Rolf Dammers - Canaxis (Revisited)
Kraftwerk - Radioactivity (Capitol)

nic jones - penguin eggs
maddy prior - year
june tabor - abyssinians
steve tilston - swans at coole
martin simpson - leaves of life

Picked up a cpl at concerts:

Richard Barrett CD of solo works on NMC (Elsion ensemble). The one for gtr is quite something.

James Clarke by ensemble SurPlus/Hodges.

generic 3 disc "best of serge gainsbourg"
pills, thrills & bellyaches - happy mondays (no i did not own this yet wtf)
build a nation - bad brains

Monarch - Die Tonight LP
Chariots - The Inner Life CD
Celtic Frost - Into The Pandemonium LP + To Mega Therion CD
Bedford Falls / Sevens & Nines split 7"
Panthro UK United 13 - Sound of A Gun CD
The Holy Mountain - Enemies CD
The Trees Community - The Christ Tree CD

Oh and Whitehouse - Racket CD
plus Mochipet - Girls Love Breakcore CD

Thanks to some Amoeba credit, these for $8 total:

Junior Boys, So This is Goodbye (two-disc edition)
Marc Almond, Stardom Road
Von Sudenfed, Tromatic Reflexxions
Throbbing Gristle, The Endless Not

$1 at Mondo Kim's today:

Ledernacken, "Amok!"/"Galle"/"Rhythmus Rausch" 12" vinyl EP (Strikeback Records, 1983)

INCAPACITANTS "Pariah Tapes" 5xCD Box
and about to order the Broken Flag box while I'm at it...

maybe a little later the Maurizio Bianchi and Asmus Tietchens ones as well. Oh Vinyl On Demand, how my bank account loathes thou

Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series, vol 1-3 (only $20 at Virgin - not bad for 3 CDs)
Caetano Veloso - s/t (1968)

Catherine Ribeiro - Libertés? 4 CD LONGBOX
Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music 1930-1973
Ricardo Zappa - Celestion
Eroc
Nuno Canavarro - Plux Quba
Antologia de Música Electrónica Portuguesa
Scott Walker - Scott 3

&:

Christopher DeLaurenti - Favorite Intermissions
Heldon II - Allez Teia
Von Südenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions (this was a real disappointment as a long time MoM / fall fan, though it is distinctive & I can see why people are liking it)

Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music 1930-1973

Is this worthwhile? I've been eyeing it off for a while.

Prins Thomas - Cosmo Galactic Prism
Patrick Cowley - Mind Warp

proles - soft ground 7"
peter, bjorn & john - writer's block CD
redd kross - third eye CD
ani kyd - evil needs candy too CD
vibrators - pure mania CD
AC/DC - dirty deeds done dirt cheap CD
exploited - horror epics CD
lurkers - fulham fallout CD
dead man's shadow - the 4P's CD
adicts - sound of music CD
split - blitzkrieg + insane - the punk collection CD
special duties - 77 in 82 CD
anti nowhere league - we are the league CD
lcd soundsystem - s/t 2xCD
asocial - total asocial CD

Von Südenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions (this was a real disappointment as a long time MoM / fall fan, though it is distinctive & I can see why people are liking it)

yesterday I got
Prince & The Revolution - Around The World In A Day
Joy Division - Les Baines Douche 1979

idjut boys 'beatin' on dave' 12"
armand van helden 'u don't know me' 12"
daft punk 'one more time' 12"

Lots of things came in the post!

Depth Charge Nine Deadly Venoms LP
Bob Dylan John Wesley Harding LP
Diana Ross Diana LP
Prince Language Yo Son / Doug Lee ? 12"
Otterman Empire Private Land/Texas Radio 12"
Chaz Jankel 3,000,000 Synths/Ai No Corrida 12"
Wurst Edits Runaway/Ain't Afraid to Beg 12"
Justice Cross CD
Klaxons Myths of the Near Future CD
Os Mutantes compilation on Luaka Bop CD
The Clash Sandinista LP

Prins Thomas - Cosmo Galactic Prism
Patrick Cowley - Mind Warp

Tell me more about these.

Prince Language Yo Son / Doug Lee ? 12"
Chaz Jankel 3,000,000 Synths/Ai No Corrida 12"
Wurst Edits Runaway/Ain't Afraid to Beg 12"

^^^ these are all excellent.

That was my brief "OMG a pound is two dollars if you buy these disco edits in the US and ship them surface they are CHEAP" moment.

They are good, though.

Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music 1930-1973

Is this worthwhile? I've been eyeing it off for a while.

-- Drooone, Tuesday, July 10, 2007 5:18 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Link

a lot of it is tough sledding, but over a third of it is definitely going on the iPod -- the Percy Grainger & Arthur Cantrill pieces in particular are fantastic. the Jack Ellitt concrete piece is wonderful -- the liners claim it was "most likely recorded in the early 1930s" and that is almost difficult to believe, the fidelity is so good for it's time, but technically it is possible

Music of Central Asia Vol. 1 - Tengir-Too, Mountain Music of Kyrgyzstan
Tokyo Jihen - OSCA cd ep
Fovea Hex - Allure, Neither Speak Nor Remain Silent Three
Webern - Complete Works for String Quartet and String Trio, Artis Quartett Wien
Electronical - American Festival of Microtonal Music 2006
The Varése Album - 2CD reissue on Wounded Bird of the 60/62 Robert Craft recordings

very happy with these

David Bowie - Station to Station LP
Klaus Schulze - Moondawn LP
Klaus Schulze - Cyborg LP
Klaus Schulze - Live LP
Klaus Schulze - Dune LP
Black Sabbath - Paranoid LP
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra LP

Silvester Anfang - Echte Vlaamsche Geiten LP
Prurient - s/t LP
Prurient - Adam Tied to Stone LP
KillDevilHills - Ex-KillDevilHills onesided 7" + cdr
Prurient/Death Unit - Terminal Cases 2x 3" cd
Comets On Fire - Fieldrecordings from the Sun cd
Airway - Live at Lace cd
Suishou No Fune - Writhing Underground Flowers cd
Vodka Soap - Un Chand Pyramdilier cs
Vodka Soap - Oceansion Island cs
LaMonte Young & Marian Zazeela - 31 vii 69 10:26 - 10:49 pm munich from map of 49's dream the two systems of eleven sets of galactic intervals or namental light years tracery; 23 viii 64 2:50:45 - 3:11 am the volga delta from studies in the bowed disc" cdr

Claudio Baglioni - E Tu LP
Vangelis - See You Later LP
Rachid Taha - Made In Medina CD

albums:
studio west coast
max mohr trickmixer's revenge
marc houle bay of figs

compilations:
prins thomas presents cosmo galactic prism
we love... ibiza (truly awful cover, hot mixes!!)

singles:
both the sample 12"s from the prins thomas mix
runaway, douglas sound wurst edits
automan edits #2
designer music 'problemz'/'the truth' edits
'loft classics 16' bootleg
visnadi/armando bootleg
lil louis/raze bootleg
stefan goldmann 'sleepy hollow'
avus 'furry hat'
chemical brothers 'do it again' audion/huntemann remixes
lindstrom 'let it happen'
force of nature 'black moon'
blood and tears 'radium' ep
centrific 'someone went to detroit and all i got was the itchy hawtins' ep
shocking pinks 'smoke screen'
lee douglas 'our song'
the bucketheads 'the bomb!' <- best song ever, for reals

Spent way too much again.

from Dusty Groove:
Mungolian Jet Set- Beauty Came To Us In Stone cd
Terry Callier- Occasional Rain cd
John Cale/Terry Riley- Church of Anthrax lp

from some dude on ebay:
Ultravox- Systems of Romance lp
Walter Carlos- Switched On Bach lp
Peter Baumann- Romance '76 lp

etc:
Dune soundtrack cd
Ladyvipb- Stories of a Broken Heart and Recovering cd
Eno/Moebius/Roedelius/Plank- Begegnungen II cd
v/a mixed by Gary Wilson reconstructed by Pezz- It Was Back In '82 cdr
Neil Young- Trans cd
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band- Gorilla cd
Bonzo Dog Band- The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse cd
Bonzo Dog Band- Tadpoles cd
Young Marble Giants- Colossal Youth 3xcd reissue
Map of Africa cd (enjoying this a lot more than I'd expected to, I mostly bought it because it's a "limited run" and I didn't want to regret not picking it up later, though just how limited no one seems to know)

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The Chameleons - Live at the Gallery Club, Manchester, 1982
Caribou - Start Breaking My Heart (reissued)
Caribou - Up in Flames (reissued)
Dead Can Dance - A Passage in Time
Electronic (self-titled)
Talk Talk - London 1986

lol, my wife and i just bought some of that organic soil treatment ...
anyhoo, i just bought that Grant McLennan/Robert Forster Intermission "Best of the Solo Years" double disc, which is quite nice, with very pretty packaging. Also picked up that Soul Jazz Tom Moulton comp which is super awesome -- the price tag said $14 but the cashier rang it up as $34! Yikes. I was able to talk them down. I also just ordered that Charles Mingus Cornell live set that came out a few months ago, but it hasn't arrived yet. Can't wait!

ooh i just found some great stuff a couple days ago, all used, in a shop i used to work in a few years ago:

angels of light, new mother
angels of light, everything is good here/please come home
swans, feel good now
swans, soundtracks for the blind (some michael gira fan just about had enough, i take it)

ccr, revival
stereolab, the first of the microbe hunters
stereolab, sound-dust
autechre, draft 7.30

angels of light, new mother
angels of light, everything is good here/please come home
swans, feel good now
swans, soundtracks for the blind (some michael gira fan just about had enough, i take it)

GAHHHH you bastard, i would've bought 3/4 of those (own everything is good here already), why why why why can't i live in your town/city and have been to that shop first :-(

i know, right? i mean this is a pretty crappy record store, wholly dependent on what the local folks and nearby college students bring in, which mostly tends to be garbage. the only new stuff they ever really order, with a couple of exceptions, is top 40-type stuff and those "20th Century Masters" greatest-hits compilations.

though for the past 4 years, i stop by once every couple of months and find some gems. they date everything when it comes in too, and those gira albums were sitting there for a couple months.

Blimey it's a long time since we did this - since I last posted to this thread I have bought these:

ESG - step off CD
clorox girls - eva braun 7"
clorox girls - double mao 7"
feelers - 7"
martha & the vandellas - jimmy mack 7"
va - skateboard! Summer sampler '88 7" flexi
va - the best of sun rockabilly #1 LP
va - the best of sun rockabilly #2 LP
pilot scott tracy - we cut loose CD
chords - so far away CD
field mice - snowball CD
prong - primitive origins LP
stretchheads - five fingers, four thingers, a thumb, a facelift & a new identity LP
steve treatment & the no men - vanish 7"
low - drums and guns CD
clap your hands say yeah - some loud thunder CD
fluid - purplemetalflakemusic CD
nearly god - s/t CD
ash - intergalactic sonic 7"s 2xCD
va - silver rocket SR50 2xCD
infest - no man's slave 12"
stupids - stupid is as stupid does 2xCD
go team - april 1989 7"
go team - may 1989 7"
go team - june 1989 7"
go team - august 1989 7"
go team - september 1989 7"
phantom pregnancies - special child 7"
afrika bambaataa - looking for the perfect beat 1980-85 CD
fingers - you get on my nerves 7"
va - freedom of choice CD
exploding hearts - shattered CD
blak twang - kik off CD
BGK - a dutch feast CD
big boys - the skinny elvis CD
buff medways - 1914 CD
peter, bjorn & john - falling out CD
bearsuit - more soul than wigan casino 7"
residents - satisfaction 7"
riot squad - no potential thread CD
chron gen - chronic generation CD
terminal cheesecake - pearlesque kings of the jewmost LP
x (usa) - more fun in the new world CD
x (usa) - see how we are CD
x (usa) - ain't love grand CD
gallon drunk - tonite - the singles bar CD
gallon drunk - you, the night and the music CD
gallon drunk - from the heart of town CD
manicured noise - northern stories 1978-1980 CD
brunettes - structure and cosmetics CD
fad gadget - best of 2xCD
flamin' groovies - flamingo CD
flamin' groovies - teenage head CD
va - hyphy hitz CD
clipse - hell hath no fury CD
beatnik filmstars - shenaniganism - tape hiss and other imperfections CD
lush - ladykillers 7"
lush - single girl 7"
lush - 500 7"
stranglers - something better change 7"
sebadoh - skull 7"
air miami - fuck you tiger 7"
saint etienne - you're in a bad way 7"
anthrax - bring the noise 7"
go! Team - thunder lightning strike CD
barbed wire - the age that didn't care CD
enemy - gateway to hell CD
celibate rifles - platters du jour CD
unit - untied & united CD
sportique - communique no. 9 CD
erase errata - nightlife CD
turpentine brothers - we don't care about your good times CD
uniform approach - a pledge to the edge 7"
saint etienne - only love can break your heart 7"
flaming stars - only tonight 7"
flaming stars - bury my heart at pier 13 7"
flaming stars - you don't always want what you get 7"
flaming stars - one lonely night 7"
flaming stars - new hope for the dead 7"
broken dog - anchor 7"
va - life's tough for the stupid 2x7"

stretchheads - five fingers, four thingers, a thumb, a facelift & a new identity LP

I've wanted to own this for about eight years, how much was it? I prob could have won it on eBay once but I was too tight fisted :(

£4 in Soho MVE :)

Kudos

Just got back from LA, hit up that sweet Amoeba records in Hollywood.

- Belle and Sebastian - If You're Feeling Sinister (finally)

- Grateful Dead - Best Of (Can't go wrong for 7 bucks)

- Saves the Day - Under the Boards (guilty pleasure)

- CCR Box Set (So fucking good)

Also getting that new Hives record and the Donovan box set, good polar opposites right there.

Wisin y Yandel - Los Extraterrestres
Lansing-Dreiden - Incomplete Triangle

Last night:

The Feelies - Time for a Witness
Hot Chip - The Warning
Kraftwerk - Tour de France EP
Pet Shop Boys - Disco 3
Screaming Trees - Anthology: SST Years 1985-1989

The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Nick Drake - Five Leaves Left
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Grizzly Bear - Friend

^^ one of these albums is not of the same quality as the others

Which?

you tell me

haha

code 46 soundtrack by the free association (2003)

its certainly a very different style to the free association album that clutters the bins. i would even suggest that the bloke who is Maps has certainly listened to this.

Weezer, Pinkerton, last night. Listening to it right now. Not as good as I'd expected.

Nellie McKay - Obligatory Villagers
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
Battles - Mirrored
Paul Hindemith - Kammermusik No. 1-6 (R. Chailly)

CDs:

Amon Duul - Psychedelic Underground
Amon Duul II - Tanz Der Lemminge
Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien
Babyshambles - Shotter's Nation
Om - Pilgrimage
Leonard Cohen - Death Of A Ladies' Man
Brian Jones presents Pipes of Pan at Jajouka
Broadcast - The Future Crayon

LPs:

Dillard & Clark - Fantastic Expedition Of...
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk/Rumours/Self-Titled
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
Bert Jansch - Moonshine
John Renbourn - The Lady & The Unicorn
Valerie & Her Week Of Wonders OST
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Tom Jobim - Matita Pere
Incredible String Band - The Big Huge
The Young Gods - Self-Titled
Desmond Leslie - Music Of The Future
Andreas Vollenweider - Down To The Moon/Caverna Magica/White Winds
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
The Flying Lizards - The Flying Lizards

Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking

The CD has a couple of bonus tracks that are also worth tracking down - outtakes from the Liege & Lief sessions - the cover of "Ballad of Easy Rider" is especially nice.

Definitely. I've had the CD for a while but the LP was cheap and... I don't know, I'm a glutton.

I've done the same - bought things on vinyl that I already had on CD - especially if it's like only a buck. Sometimes I plan to give one away, but it also can be interesting to hear the differences in mastering between the LP and the CD reissue.

the kill a petty bourgeoise -- the patron
vampire hands -- virgin lips, american dust
bottomless pit -- the hammer of the gods

Anorexia - Rapist in the Park
Nisi Period - Soon the Love Balloon Will Pop

Anorexia - Rapist in the Park

I only know I'm a Square, but what a killer track. Hope the rest matches up....

All 3 tracks are good. Although it probably helps if you like twee music to like "Pets".

LCD Soundsystem Somone Great 12"
Grace Jones Nightclubbing LP
King Sunny Ade Juju LP
The Cure Japanese Whispers LP
James Murphy Fabriclive CD
Pole 1 LP
Lindstrom Let it happen 12"
Glass Candy Miss Broadway 12"

Mostly second hand

Andreas Vollenweider - Down To The Moon/Caverna Magica/White Winds

How did you get on with them? My German friend got me Caverna Magica for my birthday last year, and I see his name mentioned approvingly on the Beardo thread, but I can't quite lower my "taste shield" enough to get into it. Must try harder!

Nightdrive, the new chromatics album arrived the other day. It's great. Mask has got to be one of the eeriest, most wonderful songs of 2007.

Also got the Lord Invader CD at the new Smithsonian Folkways store in Highgate.

There's a Smithsonian Folkways store in Highgate? Wow. Is it near that classical/experimental place?

It's just opposite the station, down from Sound 323/Second Layer. The guy who runs it used to run Folkways' distribution for Europe, so he figured he may as well open to the public. Nice guy, actually. Super enthusiastic. Said they'd stock the entire available catalogue eventually, but not any of the copied recordings of out-of-print tiles that you can order from the website. Anyway, all the single CDs and LP are a tenner. Cheap! And he threw in a free Pete Seeger sampler too...

Grizzly Bear, Friend EP
Stereolab, Mars Audiac Quintet
Stereolab, Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Stereolab, Dots and Loops
Stereolab, The First of the Microbe Hunters

^^^ i love finding whole chunks of bands' catalogs in used stores. i also found a bunch of stereolab these past couple months, two or three albums at a time. same goes for the swans/angels of light stuff i mentioned upthread.

Yeah, I was pretty happy with that find. $17 for all four of them.

That happened to me with my somewhat large list upthread - found 5 Flaming Stars 7"s for 50p each, 3 X albums & 3 Gallon Drunk albums (all the newer remastered versions) for £3 each etc.

Andreas Vollenweider - Down To The Moon/Caverna Magica/White Winds

How did you get on with them? My German friend got me Caverna Magica for my birthday last year, and I see his name mentioned approvingly on the Beardo thread, but I can't quite lower my "taste shield" enough to get into it. Must try harder!

Yeah, having a bit of trouble myself, although I used to work in a health food store so my subconcious was already primed for his majesticism. The more ambient, almost musique-concrete bits I definitely enjoy, but when the sappy melodic parts kick in I check out a bit. I'll give it a few more goes before I say anything definitive, though.

I have ordered, but not yet received, two Flower Travellin' Band CDs. No way will any of you ever guess what book I am reading.

Last night:

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Trust
Loose Fur - Born Again in the USA

Billy Paul- 360 Degrees of Billy Paul LP
Billy Paul- War of the Gods LP
Cymande- Cymande LP
Silver Convention- Silver Convention LP
The Pandores- It's About Time LP
Mikey and the Salty Seadogs- Salt Water and Whiskey LP
Hubble Bubble- Hubble Bubble LP
Super Furry Animals- Lazerbeam 7"
The Go! Team- Proof of Youth CD

I haven't listened to it all but so far the best is the Hubble Bubble. I feel stupid for not getting into them sooner...

I was listening to the 2nd Hubble Bubble album (Faking) yesterday, it's not as good unfortunately.

bmx bandits 'bee stings', their records were never this beautiful before david scott.

Picked up the new "Skull Fuck the Prime Minister" LP, good stuff

LPs:

Tantra - Double Album
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
Steeleye Span - Please To Meet The King
John Martyn - Solid Air/One World
Magazine - The Correct Use Of Soap
Kelis - Caught Out There 12"

CD:

Stereolab - Transient Noise Bursts...

snd - makesnd cassette lp
freiland - gelb 12"
freiland - schwarz 12"
freiland - silber 12"

michael gira, drainland cd
albert ayler, prophecy cd
albery ayler, spirits cd

Anne Clark - Changing Places

Last night, for $17 plus tax:

Basement Jaxx - The Singles
Felt - Stains on a Decade
The Long Blondes - Someone to Drive You Home (UK import)
My Morning Jacket - Acoustic Citsuoca
Pale Saints - In Ribbons

my girlfriend just got her first turntable...

so i got my turntable working and been playing albums! even went to that thrift store and looked thru most of what they had. not to worry not much! christian, christmas and country. i took a chance on something not good called mike and the mechanics. also another totally german thing because i saw a mention of the word kraftwerks, again not what i thought and an old johnny cash thing and an old willie nelson one. do you know my fingers were dirty after all the looking?!

I bought a lot of stuff this week...

Comus - Complete 2CD
Pharoah Sanders - Best of 2LP
Alice Coltrane - Lord Of Lords LP
Einsturzende Neubauten - Strategies Vs Architecture Vol 2 (surprisingly difficult to find)
Steve Reich - 18 Musicians LP on ECM, bliss. Also Tehillim which I had already in worse condition and Desert Music which was very disappointing.
Pain Teens - Destroy Me, Lover LP
Dinosaur L 2LP reissue
Ptolemaic Terrascope #36 mag/CD
Thomas Brinkmann - Ulla/Vera EP (now I have them all except this is 2nd press white cover, waah)

Ptolemaic Terrascope #36 mag/CD

i picked this up the other day, haven't listened to the disc yet, but solo doug yule! i was hoping for a new kendra smith song but it's sadly just a 90s live track..

yeah that was a bit of a letdown, so is the Yule track to my ears. But Barbara Manning and the older folk stuff is all fantastic! Plus the last two tracks, haven't picked up on much else yet.

Complete Works of Edgard Varese Vol 1 - original 1950 recordings
Liliental - Moebius & friends, 1977, 2007 CD reissue
Joe Colley - Waste of Songs
Carl Stone - Al-Noor
Glenn Gould - the young maverick - 6 CD set, 1952-1954 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation recordings -- 23 bucks

I finally managed to track down a reasonably priced copy of the first Quicksilver Messenger Service LP, and I was knocked out to hear the Take Five cover. White Heaven's jazzier side is suddenly far less surprising!

I also bought an album by some French Canadian guy called Robert Charlebois. It's just called Robert Charlebois/Louise Forestier, and AMG seems to have it down as being as influential 'to young Quebecers' as Sergeant Pepper's, which might not count for much round here, but strong words, still. Can't say it blew me away.

conquistador - cecil taylor
the holy fuck lp
shining violence - chromatic
what goes up & dust and glass 7"s - the clientele
music pour l'enfant christ - oliver messiaen
fear - john cale
sensuous - cornelius
young and snotty - dead boys

Glenn Gould Complete Original Jacket Collection (78 albums, I am intimidated by this)
Hitsville USA
MC5 - Babes in Arms
Paul Simon - Graceland
kanYe - graduation

and by "78 albums" i actually mean 69 albums on 80 CDs.

CDs:

Amon Duul II - Live In London
Amon Duul II - Phallus Dei
Shirley Collins - Love, Death & The Lady
Shirley Collins - Anthems in Eden
Shirley Collins - Adieu To Old England
Divine Styler - Spiral Walls...
Masaki Batoh - Collected Works 1995-1996

LPs:

Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant assassin des mouches
Maddy Prior & June Tabor - Silly Sisters
Roy Harper - 1970-1975

LPs gifted from my mom's collection:

Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland
Tim Buckley - S/T, Goodbye & Hello, Happy Sad, Lorca, Blue Afternoon, Starsailor, Greetings From LA
Joni Mitchell - Clouds, Ladies of the Canyon, Blue, Court & Spark, Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Hejira, Don Juan's Reckless Daughter, Mingus
David Crosby - If I could only remember my name...
Poco - S/T, Pickin' Up The Pieces
Quickersilver Messenger Service - S/T, Happy Trails
Pentangle - Sweet Child, Basket Of Light
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy

Quickersilver Messenger Service being the newer, shreddier incarnation of Quicksilver Messenger Service. Come correct!

how do you feel about the jean claude vannier lp?

It's a dense record. Do you like Vannier's arrangements for Histoire de Melody Nelson? This record has that same sense of playfulness, only with Serge and co. replaced by bonkers musique concrete. It's not as immediate as HMN but I think it might hold up better in the long run. The repeated themes of HMN get a little cloying if you listen too often, whereas the Vannier LP always feel fresh. I would recommend it!

I would add that -- if you're in the US -- getting the CDs of any Finders Keepers release is the way to go. They might not be as pretty, but unless you've got a record store near you that stocks the LPs you'll have to pay $24 plus shipping online compared to like $12 for the CDs on overstock.com. Of course, if you're a vinyl fetishist that doesn't matter, and the Finders Keepers packaging/liner notes are pretty great. Just something to think about.

It is sometimes worth waiting, though- a lot of Finders Keepers releases get cheap reissues on B-Music, the US branch of Twisted Nerve/Finders Keepers/Delay 68, usually within 3-4 months of the UK release if not sooner.

In the last couple months or so:
Andy Votel- One Nation Under a Grave
Glass Candy- Beat Box
Cabaret Voltaire- The Voice of America reissue
v/a- Dirty Edits, vol. 1
v/a- The Portable Supersound
Benji B Presents: A Space Odyssey
Lindstrom- The Contemporary Fix EP
Daft Punk- Alive 2007 preorder
The Cure- Pornography 2xcd reissue (Amazon US has this for $15)
v/a- Four Songs by Arthur Russell EP
The Oscillation- Out of Phase
Dinosaur L- 24->24 Music
Giorgio Moroder- E=MC2
John Cooper Clarke- Zip Style Method

ft(The Shadow Government) - The Black and White Album
STNNNG/Signal to Trust - Lunch Show 5 Split 7 inch
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Sparks - Propaganda
Bottomless Pit - The Hammer of the Gods
Tim Hardin - 2
OMD - s/t

It is sometimes worth waiting, though- a lot of Finders Keepers releases get cheap reissues on B-Music, the US branch of Twisted Nerve/Finders Keepers/Delay 68, usually within 3-4 months of the UK release if not sooner.

This is only for the CDs though, correct? If B-Music releases cheap FK as well vinyl I'm going to be kicking myself.

Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
Burial - Untrue
Boxcutter - Glyphic
Axolotl - Memory Theater
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile
Jay-Z - American Gangster
UGK - Underground Kingz
Lee Perry - Ape-ology

s. morris- Correct, only CD so far. And there are a few annoying gaps in the catalog, not everything gets brought over.

s.morris, yeh Vannier is my favourite of Gainsbourg's arrangers, his work on the cannabis soundtrack is astounding too. He did a show at the barbican last year with a full orchestra and choir doing L'Enfant assassin des mouches & melody Nelson in their entirety. it was pretty much mind blowing

That sounds excellent! I'd be interested to hear how they did L'Enfant live... did Vannier have tapes of the concrete material or did they have people banging and buzzing in real time?

it was all live!! little kid marching in sandpit and mucking about with shears. it was pretty spectacular.

Cinerama - Cinerama Holiday
Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime

Hurrah for the weak US dollar!

va - simple machines singles CD
zeni geva - desire for agony CD
stretchheads - barbed anal exciter 10"
split - mecca normal + kreviss - 7"
pop will eat itself - this is the day… this is the hour… this is this LP
magic hour - no excess is absurd CD
steel pole bath tub - scars from falling down CD
va - julep CD
volcano suns - career in rock CD
negative trend - s/t CDS
clorox girls - j'aime les filles CD
apples in stereo - new magnetic wonder CD
gothic archies - songs from a series of unfortunate events CD
fix - at the speed of twisted thought CD
buzzov-en - welcome to violence CD
deerhunter - cryptograms CD
eater - all of eater CD
mad - we love noize CD
guided by voices - the grand hour CDS
pissed jeans - hope for men CD
circle x - celestial CD
va - killed by death #9 CD
va - killed by death #12 CD
zeros - don't push me around CD
paul collins beat - the beat + the kids are the same CD
cheap trick - s/t CD
tugboat - two schools of thought CD
crass - best before 1984 CD
blight - detroit: the dream is dead CD
quasi - r&b transmogrification CD
malaria - compiled 1981-1984 CD
of montreal - hissing fauna, are you the destroyer CD
smash your face - loose times, light times 7"
bone awl - meaningless leaning mess LP
turpentine brothers - get your mind off me 7"
gories - you little nothing 7"
creteens - 4 track blues 7"
holly & joey - I got you babe 7"
jay reatard - I know a place 7"
king khan & bbq show - teabag party 7"
how - happy matt 7"
love is all - ageing had never been his friend 7"
radio dept - liebling 7"
slug - breathe the thing out 7"
kris guidio & the mogodons - warm 7"
big chief - strange notes 7"
ruth ruth - brainiac 7"
jonestown - 25 years 7"
ropers - sunbathe 7"
matt allison - hard look at perfect 7"
kitty vermont - por avion 7"
lenola - keep coming back 7"
gerbils - glue 7"
anxieties - the de-evolution will not be televised 7"
crayon - moominland 7"
loneliest christmas tree - the meaning of life 7"
junior varsity - bam bam bam 7"
sneetches - she does everything for me 7"
milky wimpshake - dialling tone 7"
age of chance - bible of the beats 7"
bunny brains - you got it (comin') 7"
didjits - lovesickle 7"
selfish cunt - britain is shit 7"
circle x - shiny blue orb 7"
magic hour - heads down 7"
DOA - right to be wild 7"
tiger trap - supercrush 7"
six minute war - slightly longer songs 7"
deerhoof - s/t 2x7"
death by chocolate - zap the world CD
elliott smith - figure 8 CD
new pornographers - challengers CD
of montreal - the early 4 track recordings CD
thermals - the body the blood the machine CD
dump - superpowerless CD
john wilkes booze - telescopic eyes glance the future sick CD
va - camp burlesque CD
fear - the record CD
pissed jeans - shallow CD
dwarves - lick it CD
fucked up - hidden world CD
black market baby - coulda woulda shoulda CD
dead c - the whitehouse CD
devo - duty now for the future CD
sleater-kinney - one beat CD
upsidedown cross - s/t CD
chemicals made from dirt - ike CD
va - buried alive #2 CD
shonen knife - let's knife CD
behead the prophet NLSL - I am that great and fiery force CD
black witchery - desecration of the holy kingdom CD
black witchery - upheaval of satanic might CD
va - cooking hows and whys LP
split - cannanes + timonium - population 2 12"
perspex whiteout - cool to be afraid 12"
flowchart - the spirit of kenny g 12"
nihilistics - s/t LP
king khan & bbq show - what's for dinner LP
piranhas - piscis clangor LP
see saw - everyone knows this is not hot 7"
matthew sweet & susanna hoffs - the pillowcase 2x7"
yo la tengo - mr tough 7"
a-frames - police 1000 7"
a-frames - complications 7"
zeni geva - disgraceland 7"
cabaret voltaire - red mecca CD
turbonegro - ass cobra CD
subhumans (UK) - EPLP CD
rudimentary peni - EP's of RP CD
maggots - monkey time! CD
mika miko - CYSLABF CD
blitz - voice of a generation CD

MIA - Kala (don't know why I waited so long to buy this)
"I'm Not There" soundtrack

dang, colonel poo, you go on vacation or something? otherwise that's a lot of international shipping, even with the weak dollar!

Yeah I went to LA for Thanksgiving, went to Amoeba, Fingerprints & some place in Culver City the name of which escapes me. The fact that everything was so cheap led to me spending WAY too much money in the end!

some damn nice records in there colonel. shame about the one glaring piece of crap - i'm sure the band would have sent you that for free.. you know the one i mean

Hehe yeah what was I thinking?

(well uh actually it was free that one, but that's no reflection on the quality, someone had a spare copy!)

haha

I couldn't take advantage of the weak dollar (am actually thinking about putting savings into another currency before it gets any worse) BUT I just finished an east coast vacation. I went to Dan Bunnybrain's store in Hudson NY and he gave me the sweet ILXOR deal on a buncha vinyl...

De La Soul - Me Myself & I 3-sided 12"
Prince - Glam Slam (remix) 12"
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing AT Baxter's
Rosalie Sorrels - If I Could Be The Rain (her 1st! on Folkways!)
Roy Harper - Lifemask
The The - Infected
The Three Johns - Do The Square Thing 12"
Sylvester - Too Hot To Sleep
Soft Cell - Nonstop Erotic Cabaret
Van Halen - WOmen & CHildren (w/DLR poster!)
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance 12"
Queen Latifah - Ladies First 12"
The Time - S/T EP
Christmas - In Excelsior Dayglo
Monie Love - DOwn To Earth
Bruce SPringsteen - Cover Me 12" (ILM influenced purchase #1)
The Clash - Combat Rock ( replacement copy)
The Todd Terry Project - Just Wanna Dance 12" (ILMIP #2)
Sugarhill Gang - 8th WOnder LP
The SOmerville PLayers 7" (Barbara Manning, 2/3 of Sebadoh, and Roy Montgomery cover Faust and Black Sabbath! Never even heard of it before!)
The Meters - Stretch Your Rubber Band 7"
DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince - Parents Just Don't etc. 7"
Eeyore/Sockeye split 7"
English Beat - I Confess 7"
V/A - Not All That Terrifies Harms 7"
V/A - CHemical Imbalance #2 7" w/Big Black
V/A - Chemical Imbalance #7 7" w/Mekons
Prince - Mountains 7"
The Time - The Bird 7"
Run-D.M.C. - Kings Of Rock 7"
M - Pop Muzik 7"
KC & SUnshine Band - Get Down TOnight 7"
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna... 7" (w/non-LP B-side!)
Depeche Mode - People Are People 7"
Kurtis Blow - The Breaks 7"

some real shameless party DJ fodder there...

then I went to DC and Virginia for more vinyl...

Psychedelic Horseshit - Who Let THe Dogs Out 7" (ILMIP #3)
3 awesome God Is My Copilot singles , dupe copies for resale
Hugo Largo - Mettle
Roxy Music - Stranded
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture
" - Forces Of Victory (needes cleaning badly, hope that'll help)
No Man - WHamon Express
Foetus - Null
Midnight Star - No Parking On The Dance Floor
Second Layer - World Of Rubber (!!! my one expensive record)
O Yuki Conjugate - Into Dark Waters (never thought I'd see this on LP, the store had never heard of it and thought the title was the artist name. One of the best ambient LPs ever)
The League - League Unlimited ORchestra (ILMIP #4)
Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace Of Sin
Firesign THeater - Everything You Know Is Wrong
New ORder - Temptation/Hurt 12"
Danielle Dax - Inky Bloaters
" - Cat House 12"
" - Touch Piggie's EYes promo EP w/remixes (never knew about this)
Stump - A Fierce Pancake (ILMIP #5)
Big Stick - Crack & Drag
V/A - If You Can't Please Yourself... (one of the best comps ever!)
Kay Gardner - Mooncircles (fantastic, mostly instrumental femme-folk-classical-drone on the Olivia Label from 1974 or so)
Malcolm McLaren - Deep In Vogue remix 12"
ZZ Topp - Sleeping Bag remix 12" (ILMIP #6)
" - Legs remix 12"
Yaz - Nobody's Diary 12"
Earth Wind & Fire - Magnetic 12"
Was (Not Was) - Tell Me That I'm Dreaming 12"
Rickie Lee Jones - Firewalker remix 12"
West Street Mob - Sing A SImple SOng 12"
Janet Jackson - Nasty 12"
" - Black Cat 12"
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Madonna - 1st
Tampa Red - Bottleneck Guitar 1928-1937 ( SO GOOD)
James Blood Ulmer - Free Lancing
Ennio Morricone - Disque D'Or (???)
" - Un Film Una Musica 2LP (w/awesome book of film posters)
Folk Music Of Spain (on Ethnic Folkways)
Folk Music Of Peru (")

and left over from my late teen years tucked away in my mom's house, so not technically a purchase...

Velver Underground & Nico - "mispressed" mono version of LP

no more records for me until the end of the month...

Van Halen - WOmen & CHildren (w/DLR poster!)
That's a good poster!

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
Brian Eno - Desert Island Selection
Trim - Soulfood Vol 2
John Tejada - Cleaning Sounds Is A Filthy Business
Doc Scott - Mixmag Live! Vol. 22 (Breakbeat Experiments)

Growing Concern LP
Maypole LP
Inner Dialogue LP
Mahogany Rush - Strange Universe LP
Peppermint Rainbow - Will You Be Staying After Sunday LP
To Neo Kyma Vol 1 & 2 LPs (60's psych-folk compilations from Greece. Can't wait to hear these!)
Nisi Period - Soon the Love Balloon Will Pop
Sylvie Vartan 7" ep
Nervous Eaters - Just Head 7"

And from the Freak Emporium's half price vinyl sale...
Plastic Cloud LP
Ashra - Correlations LP
Ashra - Blackouts LP
Judy Henske And Jerry Yester - Farewell Aldebaran LP

Arthur Blythe - "The Grip"
Billy Bragg - "Talking With the Taxman..." (re-ish w/ bonus disc)
Fishbone - "Truth and Soul" (re-buy of the year!)
Om - "Variations On A Theme"

A couple days ago:

Big Black - Pigpile
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Cutter (the "12 Classic Tracks" compilation, released 1993)
The Go-Betweens - Bellavista Terrace: Best of the Go-Betweens
Hot Chip - The Warning
The Knife - s/t
The Notwist - Neon Golden (previously owned, loaned and lost, thus repurchased)
Nine Inch Nails - Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D

thnxz sleeeeeeeeeevey

http://www.freewebs.com/johndoerecords12534/ is th shoppe if other xors r intrepid

from the dollar CD bin:

OMC - How Bizarre
Vinicius Cantuaria - Horse and Fish

This morning/used albums for $5.99 apiece, minus the first one which I bought at full price:

Daft Punk - Alive 2007 (deluxe version)
Peter Gabriel - Hit - how this excellent 2-disc collection ended up with a $5.99 sticker I have no idea??
Madonna - Ray of Light
Prince - The Gold Experience

Also recently purchased, and fucking fantastic I might add:

The Angels of Light - We Are Him

the blind shake - caramel (LP)
george cartwright - a tenacious slew (CD)
cluster - s/t (LP)
freeway - philadelphia freeway (CD)
jimi hendrix - electric ladyland (CD)
led zeppelin - IV (CD)
queen - greatest hits (CD)
louis armstrong - town hall concert plus (LP)

and just ordered the reissue of the Fruit Tree Box Set by Nick Drake : )

OMC WTF

Ghostface - Big Doe Rehab

Donovan - Try for the Sun boxset

British Invasion Gold double disc

HELL YES, LOOK WHAT I JUST GOT

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jay-z: American Gangster, REasonable Doubt, Blueprints 1 and 2, and Black Album
Delfonics: Delfonics
Exodus: Pleasures of the Flesh
Mayhem: De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (had this years ago and sold it due to being poor...\m/ \m/)

haha someone just became a jay-z fan

yup!

Harmonia - Live 1974
Tokyo Jihen - Senkou Soujou DVD
Monteverdi - Orfeo (ARTEK dir. Gwendolyn Toth)
Monteverdi - Madrigali erotici, Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley
Henry Brant / Charles Ives - A Concord Symphony
Elaine Radigue - Chry-ptus
Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36

Robert Wyatt- Comicopera (for some reason I bought it on vinyl. What a dork)

<i>Harmonia - Live 1974 </i>

What's your assessment of this, Milton?

tonight, i came home with two CDs:

Akron/Family - Love Is Simple
Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide

and two DVDs:

Echo and the Bunnymen - Dancing Horses
Galaxie 500 - Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste: 1987-1991

I really dig that Delfonics album. My soul collection is SERIOUSLY lacking for a guy that loves the hell out of that genre.

Very happy to have found both of these today:

Gang of Four - The Peel Sessions
Ride - Grasshopper EP

Jean-Claude Eloy - Gaku-No-Michi
Nik Pascal - Sixth Ear / Beyond The End... Eternity / Zero Gravity / Magnetic Web (Creel Pone 2CD reissue)
Yoshi Wada - Lament For The Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile
Akira Nishimura - Metamorphosis & Chamber Symphony Works
Asmus Tietchens & Richard Chartier - Fabrication
Michael Stearns - Lyra
Michael Stearns - Planetary Unfolding
Aloof Proof - Piano Text
Harmonia - Live 1974
Richard & Linda Thompson - In Concert, November 1975
Henry Brant / Charles Ives - A Concord Symphony
Eliane Radigue - CHRY-PTUS

oh &

Francois Bayle - la forme du temps est un cercle
Kuniharu Akiyama - Obscure Tape Music of Japan vol. 6
Monteverdi - Orfeo (ARTEK directed by Gwendolyn Toth)

oh some overlap upthread, I knew I'd posted some of those

to answer s. morris' question one month late, the Harmonia record is about what I expected -- beautiful, meandering, wallpaper jams but only they really had that sound

Yoshi Wada - Lament For The Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile

Just found this on UbuWeb. Incredible stuff, and recorded in an empty swimming pool!

And which of the Obscure Tape Music from Japan albums would you recommend? (From the samples I've heard, it sounds like all of them.) Shame it's only select ones available as LPs.

Chaz Jankel- Chazablanca LP
The Human League- Fascination! EP
Studio- West Coast (FINALLY)
Donnacha Costello- Colorseries CD
Todd Rundgren- Something/Anything?
Ian Dury- Lord Upminster LP
Talk Talk- The Color of Spring
Seefeel- Quique Redux

adicts - songs of praise CD
va - anti-capitalism - anarcho punk #4 CD
pointed sticks - waiting for the real thing CD
va - rock stars kill CD
runs - bun in the oven 7"
melvins - bullhead CD
darkthrone - transilvanian hunger CD
assfort - complete assforterly 1990-1993 CD - this was £3 inc shipping off Amazon zShops! Bargain.

The new CD of the Yoshi Wada sounds a lot better than the vinyl transfer on Ubuweb, also longer tracks and pictures of the recording session. never seen a set of bagpipes that long

Some of the Obscure Tape Musics are more consistent than others but every single one has at least one great track. Vol. 4 is the prettiest / most ambient. The Ichiyanagi Vol 5 has a 20 minute improv feedback set with Cage & Tudor from 1967, incredible shredding noise.

Tricky - Blowback
Freedy Johnston - Never Home

Ballin' on a budget.

I remember reading about Ichiyanagi in Japrocksampler, but can't remember the details, or even if it said anything at all about that particular performance. All I recall is that he was Yoko Ono's beau before Ringo.