Whatcha listening to in 2008?

Britney Spears -Blackout
Dan Deacon -Spiderman of the Rings
Mary Margaret O'Brien - Miss America
Health - Health
Eric Copeland- Hermaphrodite
Best of the Ronettes

Deletist

Stenblomma - Alla Träd Har Samma Rot

ESG - A South Bronx Story

Sainkho Namtchylak - Stepmother City
Nujabes - Hyde Out Productions 2nd Collection
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Psychograss - Now Hear This
Masami Tsuchiya - Rice Music
Maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
Fia na Roca - Vente Vindo

Wow, it's great to see some Tsuchiya love. One of my favorite artists (and guitarists) ever. Have you heard Ippu-Do's 'Night Mirage' album? Many of the same musicians. Equally classic (and I listen to it more often).

I've been on a Roxy Music kick, listening through their catalog in tandem with reading the Both Ends Burning biography. Fun!

Man, I've never heard of that album before. If its anywhere as good as the Tsuchiya record I know I'm gonna love it! Thanks for the heads-up Pat!

It's like a poppier, more organic version of Rice Music. With steel drums and, yes, loads of boisterous fretless bass. A top 5 album for me.

The Big Stiff Box Set
Mystery Jets - 'Zootime'

Hector Lavoe - Hector Lavoe - Fania Legends of Salsa Collection, Vol. 2, disc 2
Michael Stuart - Back to Da Barrio
Sonora Poncena - New Heights

burial- untrue
white denim- let's talk about it EP
el guincho- alegranza
gucci mane- back to the traphouse
raekwon- only built 4 cuban linx
gyrate- pylon +
high places- high places ep

Ghostface Killah, The Big Doe Rehab
Wu-Tang Clan, 8 Diagrams
The Louvin Brothers, Satan Is Real
Vince Guaraldi, "A Charlie Brown Christmas"

a Peter Visti DJ mix from somewhere
Low - Drums & Guns (wish I'd bothered to listen to this earlier!)
Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts - Face A L'Est (album of the year so far)
Rhythm & Sound - w/ The Artists
Rings - Black Habit
Narcotic Syntax - Provocative Percussion
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
'O'Rang - Herd of Instinct
Method Man & Redman - Blackout!
Das Krause Duo - "Good Man Invasion"
Robert Owens - "Was I Here Before (Deep Space Mix)"
Electric Light Orchestra - "Livin' Thing"
Soulja Boy - "Soulja Girl (Collipark Remix)"
Jinny - "Keep Warm"
The Walker Brothers - "No Regrets"
Bananarama - "Cruel Summer"

Rihanna, Good Girl Gone Bad
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Eric B. & Rakim, Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em
Shawnna, Block Music
Prince, Controversy

Six Nation State, Album
Tuule Kann & Jaak Sooäär, Õhtu ilu/ Beauty of the Evening

the move - message+shazam
subway sect - 20 odd years
todd rundgren - todd

Gregor Tresher - A Thousand Nights
Pagans - Shit Street
Peter Wyngarde - When Sex Rears Its Inquisitive Head

Pylon, Gyrate
The R&B Hits of 1951
The Go! Team, Proof of Youth

Lula Côrtes E Zé Ramalho - Paêbirú
The Orb - UFOrb (Deluxe Edition)
Cobblestone Jazz - 23 Seconds
The Black Dog - Book Of Dogma
Chaz Jankel - My Occupation

ok, i know i'm way behind on all this, but this month so far has been all about :

Misch Masch/Various remixes - Radio Slave (or is it Radioslave - I get confused)

I also ordered the Rekids compilation cd, and the japanese mix that he did recently, and cant wait for those to drop through the letter box as i'm on a bit of a Radio Slave groove

today has been a Boris day:

Boris - Absolutego
Boris - Amplifier worship
Boris - Akuma no uta

Alan Sondheim - Ski/nn
Talking Heads - 77
Sunset - Pink Clouds
There Will Be Blood OST
Bobb Trimble - Iron Curtain Innocence (can't really stand Harvest of Dreams though)

Soulja Boy, Tellem.com
Rainbow, Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
Mary J. Blige, Growing Pains

new Sunburned Hand of the Man - Weekend at Burnie's
new Earth
Aluk Todolo
random Bruce tracks

Gene Clark, American Dreamer 1964-1974. Good comp, has songs by (besides The Byrds) Gene Clark & The Gosdin Brothers, The Dillard & Clark Expedition, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Clark solo.

^^Raven does a good comp, don't they?

James Holden at Pixel, Club 11 (great 3hrs+ set)
801 Live
John Cale - Paris 1919 & Music for a New Society

Autodrone

Bebop Spoken Here box set
Cuong Vu, Vu-Tet
Josh Roseman New Constellations, Live in Vienna
Isaac Hayes, Live at the Sahara Tahoe
John Adams, Nixon in China
Steve Reich, Desert Music
Monsterinthemachine, Butterfly Pinned
Louis Jordan, Number Ones
François Ingold Trio, Fat Free

Jesu "Lifeline"
Duke Ellington "Live at Newport '56"
Peter Brötzmann "Songlines," "Die Like A Dog," "Little Birds Have Fast Hearts" 1&2, and "Aoyama Crows" (used bin SCORE!)
Neko Case "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood"

Huey Lewis and the News, Sports
Jay-Z, Reasonable Doubt
The Slits, Cut
John Fahey, Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes

Led Zeppelin - IV
Blood Brothers - Crimes
OMC - How Bizarre

The Hi Records box set called Royal Memphis Soul. Someone came into my shop and sold it to me and, boy, it's gooood. Didn't even know there was such of a thing. I don't want to put it out for sale. Is that wrong?

Jeff Buckley, Starsailor
Lily Allen, Alright, Still
Arcade Fire, Neon Bible
Roxanne Shante, Bad Sister
Sugar and Poison

Madvillain - Madvillainy
Madlib - Shades of Blue
Ghostface - Fishscale
Prince - Controversy

Ellen Allien - Thrills
Battles - Mirrored
MIA - Kala

Da Pacem, a selection of Arvo Pärt's works, mostly composed in this century, on Harmonia Mundi.
Performed by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/ Paul Hillier, with Christopher Bowers-Broadbent.
At the moment feels like the beautifullest musicke I've heard in ages. An impression certainly coloured by the fact that the CD was sent as a present.

Judas Priest, Unleashed in the East
Deep Purple, "Who Do We Think We Are"
Britney Spears, Blackout

Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English

digging out some old stuff ; primal scream - accelerator, 1st futureheads album, also some elvis and ramones tunes im trying to learn on bass

Sibylle Baier - Colour Green
VA Return of the batcave vol. 1-3
Sex Gang Children - Medea
Dominik Eulberg - Heimische Gefilde
Crystal Castles - Trash/trash/trash

John Cale - Paris 1919. 2006 remaster. Fantastic.

Rahsaan Patterson -- After Hours
Italians Do It Better Comp. -- After Dark
Burial -- Untrue
Numero Group 017 -- The Outskirts of Deep City
Prince -- The Black Album

stooges - fun house
shuggie otis - inspiration information
fela kuti - shuffering and schmiling / no agreement
throbbing gristle - 20 jazz funk greats
italian disco comp
faust - v
v/a - the story of jamaican music: tougher than tough

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M0dl-zBLN0";>Tokyo Jihen (live)</a>

Tokyo Jihen - Shuraba (live)

los campesinos!- hold on now youngster...
lupe fiasco- the cool
strategy- future rock
vampire weekend- vampire weekend
missy elliot- ching-a-ling
random bobby valentino eps
cassidy ft. swizz beatz- my drink n my 2 step

random bobby valentino mp3s**

Joanna Newsom, Ys (hm, and indeed, hmm-HMM)
Rick Wakeman, Frost In Space (still sounds like piss-poor hack-hand-job (and the main problem, in this case, i'd say, is not the poorness of piss per se))
Steve Howe, Mothballs (..."my-y-y-y whi-i-i-ite by-y-y-ciiiicle!..." - 'tis a selection of Syndicats', In Crowd's, Tomorrow's, Canto's and Bodast's mterial, plus a coupla Howe's early solo numbers, and a Keith West track... to tell, in the heat of the moment, teh truff - i think i love Nazareth's versh of Tomorrow's "Bicycle" muuuuuch more than the original **blushes (NOT:!)**)

BTW! - how's a non-'nglish speaker to kno how to properly pronounce Missta Steve's family name, HOWE??
Like, wot does it rhyme with?

(And please, no matter wot i said 'bout Rick Wakeman, don't take the piss(on me), please! :)

("Take the piss off me, take the piss off me!" - would've been a rather fine invariant of that Boney M refrain, no?)

John Fahey - The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death
Ellen Allien and Apparat - Orchestra of Bubbles
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

His Name Is Alive - Cloud Box 01 - Brown Rice (ambient jazz.. if eno made jazz)

dale hawkins - l.a., memphis & tyler, texas

jesus, do i want more of this country/rockabilly dudes approaching rock and making it bad-ass, soulful, funky shit. like this, jim ford, terry manning (well, maybe he was going the other way but it worked).

Michael Jackson - Thriller.
Magma - K.A.
Sightings - Absolutes.

Hawkwind, In Search of Space
Hawkwind, Doremi Fasol Latido
Babyshambles, Shotter's Nation
Jill Scott, The Real Thing: Words and Sounds, Vol. 3

psychotic reaction : the very best of count five
herbie hancock - sextant
reggae greats : strictly for lovers (island records comp)

Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
Fennesz - Endless Summer
Fennesz Sakamoto - Cendre

Brooks -- Red Tape
Durutti Column -- Live in Bruxelles 13 August 1981

American Dreamer 1964-1974. Good comp

no, GREAT comp!

AFAIK the only place you can get that track ("American Dreamer"), title track from an OST from a movie I only WISH I could see (but which I'm sure is awful). (I actually saw "The Farmer" in the theater and boy was that bad!)

I am now listening to Wendy Erdman, Dory Previn and Cocorosie. Also King of Luxembourg's covers album "Royal Bastard". And *always* the JayJays...

Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth

David Bowie - Jump They Say(Brothers In Rhythm Edit)/Jump They Say(Dub Oddity Remix)/Pallas Athena(Don't Stop Praying/Meat Beat Manifesto Remix)

Dope Stories f.noreaga, big gipp, & pimp c - Dope Stories (LP Version/Instrumental/A Cappella)

D-Shake - Techno Trance (The Next Generation)

Aftershock - Always Thinking/Always Thinking(Audio Two Remix #2)

Most Wanted - Suckas(album version/a capella)

The Friends Of Distinction - Real Friends

Surface - 2nd Wave

Earth, Wind & Fire - Last Days And Time

scott, are you drunk?

prurient - spanish moss :):)

Chris Squire, Fish Out Of Water
Scott Walker, Climate of Hunter
Wilco, Summer Teeth
T-Bone Burnett, The Criminal Under My Own Hat

Ain Soph "I"
Tyndall "Traumland"
Eliane Radigue "Adnos III"
Dimmer s/t
lotsa Couperin, Byrd, Purcell
Fat Worm of Error "Pregnant Babies Pregnant with Pregnant Babies"
Andrew Kazdin "Everything You Ever Wanted to Hear on the Moog" LP

This week I have mostly been listening to:

Creative Source - Creative Source
Lifetones - For A Reason
Jichael Mackson - The Grass Is Always Greener
Bumblebee Unlimited - Sting Like A Bee
Alan Parsons - The Definitive Collection
Various Cameo 12s I found at a village festival in the fens!
Jon Madof - Rashanim

Every version of Tarrega's Capricho Arabe I can get my hands on cuz I'm learning it and I can't make it swing enough :(

The cover for that Kazdin LP is awesome, have wanted a real copy for ages.

futureheads 1st album (def. the pick of the nu-post punk litter)
danny tenaglia - global underground:london

Peter Zummo - Zummo With An X
Terry Riley - In C (Paul Hillier vocal version)
Robert Ashley- Celestial Excursions, Foreign Experiences

DJ Derrick D - Origins Vol. 1: Radio Active Beats
Telepathe - Farewell Forest
Clinic - 3 EPs
Ronnie Wood - Now Look

amon duul - phallus dei
robbie basho - voice of the eagle part II

moby grape - s/t
mojo stax soul free cd comp
AZ - the undeniable sampler thing on xxlmag
turf talk - west coast vaccine (the cure)
billy squier - emotions in motion
pissed jeans - hope for men
cocteau twins - treasure

robbie basho - voice of the eagle part II

-- ian, Wednesday, January 16, 2008 7:35 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

when the mother is fantasy going to stop f'ing around with "Bashovia" and issue those Basho albums in full?

when the wire does a cover story.

(been looking for this on LP forever, just got a copy of it from a guy I know today.. ultimately psyched.)

Dead-Dick's Pick 24 from Cow Palace, 3/23/74 great setlist

after the critical apeshit following the tompkins issue of venus in cancer, i thought more basho material would jump right out of the cracks, or at least vanguard would repress their CD editions...

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BASK. My Basho collection is still woefully incomplete. Most desired: Grail & The Lotus, Seal of the Blue Lotus.

Burning Spear - Spear Burning
The Zombies - Zombie Heaven
Julian Cope - Jehovakill

tim buckley - lorca
tim buckley - starsailor
jacques brel - 67
fela kuti - LA sessions '69
AC/DC - powerage
battle of mice - a day of nights
eyvind kang - the yelm sessions

Jim Ford - Rare Singles and Previously Unreleased Masters Vol. 1
Gong - Best of Gong
Nico - The Marble Index
Henry Cow - In Praise of Learning

Everly Brothers - Fabulous Style of the Everly Brothers

the everly brothers >>>>>> gong, nico, or henry cow.

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Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Wu Tang - Mathematics presents the official 8 Diagrams Mixtape
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Black Flag - Slip It In
Tom Waits - Orphans
Miles Davis - Live Evil

Jim Ford - Rare Singles and Previously Unreleased Masters Vol. 1

WHA? WHERE? WHO?

oh, ok, looks like it's just the bonus tracks from "sounds of our time."

DJ Gregory - "Elle (Ame Piano Mix)" <---- most amazing thing ever
Luciano - Live @ Jubilee Hotel Club 25-12-07
Substance & Vainquer - "Resonance"/"Libration"
Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars
Dolly Parton - "Peace Train"
Playaz Circle ft. Lil' Wayne - "Duffle Bag Boy"
Gwen Stefani - "Now That You Got It (Remix ft. Damian Marley)"
A. R. Kane -69
DJ Q ft. T-Dot & MC Bonez - "Surprise"
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Dream - "Ditch That"
James Figurine - "55566688833 (DJ Koze Mix)"
Gala - "Freed From Desire"
The Dream Academy - "Life In A Northern Town"

hercules + love affair- classique 2/ other mp3s
lil wayne- the leak ep
ugk- ridin dirty
ludacris- back for the first time
paramore- riot!
brian wilson- smile
jay-z- roc boys
gorilla zoe- hood nigga
kanye west- flashing lights/the glory
vampire weekend- boston

Jim Ford - Rare Singles and Previously Unreleased Masters Vol. 1

WHA? WHERE? WHO?

-- GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:52 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Link

oh, ok, looks like it's just the bonus tracks from "sounds of our time."

Right, but the followup
JIM FORD The Point Of No Return - Previously unreleased masters, a lost 45 & rare demos is slotted for release any day now.

hercules + love affair - blind frankie knuckles remix
peter visti mixes tim linked to
trus'me album
beanie sigel album
lindstrom and solale let it happen mix
surkin - white knights 2
club ice - manhassett space mix
az - undeniable
T Tauri - Ark Raiders razor harp edit

artful dodger - honor among thieves reissue
frozen bears - self-released cd-r
funky nassau: the compass point story 1980-1986 reissue comp
donnie iris - back on the streets/king cool reissue
rihanna - good girl gone bad

Wikipedia - UK Number Ones (1952-2007).torrent

trans am - the surveillance
esg - south bronx story
mahavishnu orchestra - birds of fire
slick rick - art of storytelling

bunny wailer, blackheart man
deep purple, in rock
john martyn, piece by piece
devadip, silver dreams-golden reality
the invisible man's band, s/t
change, miracles
pavel plastikk, in the light of saturn mix (as i type)

Six Organs of Admittance - The Sun Awakens
Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter from the Ash
Fennesz Sakamoto - Cendre

Bobb Trimble - Iron Curtain Innocence (can't really stand Harvest of Dreams though)
I kinda feel the same way, but I think we are a minority.

The Fall, Rebellious Jukebox
The Fall, Disc2 of the comp High Tension Line (the sequencing of tracks on this one 's "peculiar")
Al Stewart, Year Of The Cat
Clear Frame's (=Lol Coxhill, Charles Hayward, Hugh Hopper, Orphy Robinson w/ guest cornetist Robert Wyatt) 2007 CD on Continuity

xpost re: Jim Ford - just some shit I got off eMusic. I think the Harlan County record was briefly available and then gone. I missed it.

George Clinton & the P.Funk All-Stars, Live...and Kickin'
DJ Azeem, The Blast Remixes of 2007
Donny Hathaway, Extension of a Man
Xasthur, A Gate of Bloodstained Mirrors
Itibere Orquestra Familia, Calendario do Som
Ojos de Brujo, Techarí Live
Cheb i Sabbah, Devotion
Todd Rundgren, Something/Anything
Jenni Rivera, La Diva en Vivo

Battles, Mirrored
Bjork, Vespertine
Chromeo, Fancy Footwork
Miles Davis, Miles in the Sky
The Field, From Here We Go Sublime
Aretha Franklin, I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You
The Fugees, The Score
Funkadelic, Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow
Gogol Bordello, Super Taranta!
Anthony Hamilton, Comin' From Where I'm From
Isaac Hayes, Hot Buttered Soul
Kelis, Tasty
Muse, Black Holes & Revelations
N.O.R.E. y la Familia, Ya Tu Sabe!
Prince, Sign 'O' the Times
The Rapture, Echoes
T.I., King
Justin Timberlake, Justified
Voltio, En Lo Claro
Kanye West, The College Dropout
Kanye West, Graduation

just got done with the roky/elevators book so i'm listening to "i think of demons."

Right, but the followup
JIM FORD The Point Of No Return - Previously unreleased masters, a lost 45 & rare demos is slotted for release any day now.

thanks for mention that, i had no idea it was coming out! wish it wasn't so expensive in the US. stupid currency.

mentionING

Rev, what do you make of the Gogol Bordello record? It's one of my 2/3 faves of the year easy!

Black Sabbath, Black Box

OH YEAH!

xp: It's an absolute riot. I love it, I love it, I love it.

that chromeo album is relaly really good

The one moment in the one song where it stops dead, then he sneers, "Sweet baby girl, OHHHH!!!" = the most oddly sexy moment of any record this year

xp: yes!

this year = last year

The world needs more Jam & Oates vs Hall & Lewis. And "Bonified Lovin'" has my favorite opening couplet of this year = last year: "Let me tell you I saw your boyfriend walking down the road/ He was
standing all shook, he could hardly look, and I was extra cold".

the keyboard solo on "fancy footwork" was probably my favorite musical moment of 07

so many times i would listen to the song twice in a row and then just rewind to the beginning of that solo for like 3 straight minutes

I saw them live and there were these guys holding up green bandanas like they were gangbangers or some shit (I talked to them before the show, they were actually fratty white guys from Yakima), and Chromeo stopped the show and were all like "Waht is this? We make lllloooovvve songs" and went on about it for like five minutes until they put the bandanas down. It was really awkward and hilarious.

chromeo live is good

^^^

These have got the most play so far this year:

Sioux City Pete and the Beggars - Necro Blues
Laughing Hyenas - Life of Crime
Tom Jones - some greatest hits
Armand Schaubroeck - Ratfucker
Brainbombs - Singles comp
Bob Wills box set (second disc primarily)
Homostupids

Daddy Yankee, Barrio Fino
TV on the Radio, Return to Cookie Mountain
The Knife, Silent Shout
Mannie Fresh, The Mind of Mannie Fresh

half man half biscuit - voyage to the bottom of the road
the tough alliance - new chance
larry levan - live at the paradise garage

Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees
Om - Conference of the Birds
Swans - Swans Are Dead
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth/Testcard/Final Day
Young Marble Giants - Salad Days

the thermals - fuckin' a
ghostface killah - ironman
the wrens - the meadowlands
alicia keys - as i am

Jandek, Ready for the House
Jandek, Six and Six

The Alchemist, 1st Infantry
Annie, Anniemal
Aphex Twin, Selected Ambient Works 85-92

A FRAMES 2
Schwab: The Schwab Family System
The Gasman: Audiogold
Tussle: Warning
Redd Foxx: Live and Funny vol. 3
Bruce Haack: The Electric Lucifer
White Lace & Strange

boredoms - chocolate synthesizer
the habibiyya - if man but knew
pandora - space amazon
hash jar tempo - well oiled
mount rushmore - high on/69

ive been going back to a lot of what i had been listening to 3 years ago

Death From Above 1979 - Heads Up EP
Liars - "The Dust Makes That Mud"
Liars - Liars
Deerhunter - Flourescent Grey EP
YES - Close To The Edge
Junior Boys - So This Is Goodbye
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food
Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
Abba - Gold
Mars Volta - "The Widow"
Elbow - "Any Day Now"
Belle and Sebastian - "Life Pursuit"
Les Savy Fav - Lets Stay Friends

this was all over christmas break

The Avalanches - Since I Left You
Ghostface - The Pretty Toney Album
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of...

Bjork, Medulla (bah! I'm selling this)
A Tribe Called Quest, Beats, Rhymes & Life
Fusssion Musik, Transfusssion
Air, Pocket Symphony

are you listening to stuff in alphabetical order?

I kinda just started the other day pulling out stuff I needed to listen to more starting at "A" so yeah, I guess. The big alphabetized list above was not in order, I just ordered them in the list.

Rufus Wainwright, Want Two
Mirabilia, Log In Eye (the 2007 solo record on Seksound by one Holger Loodus, the one-time leader of the band Dallas)
Aleuchatistas, Even In The Midst...

crappy college music on college radio (WKDU in this case)

(Apparently that was the Knife and Hot Chip, both well loved on ILM I think, well definitely the first one.)

I like the Knife. Hot Chip are boring.

(I am so insightful.)

Kelley Polar
Hot Chip

Charles Mingus -- Cornell 1964
Scott Walker -- And Who Shall Go To the Ball etc. etc.
Miles Davis -- Complete On The Corner Sessions

and I'm still hopelessly addicted to Thrillpillow's Blast Off! EP.

Diana Deutsch - Musical Illusions and Paradoxes
Berg - Lyric Suite / Lulu Suite
Conlon Nancarrow player piano recorded by Jürgen Hocker, Volume 3
Biota - Half a True Day
Sgt. Pepper multitracks

listening to barnaby bye. AS USUAL.

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RUFUS does JUDY at CARNEGIE HALL

(scott's posts 're always so much bigger than mine, hm)

Jason Kao Hwang/Edge, Stories Before Within (excellent free-ish post-jazz with third stream elements)
The Mountain Goats, Heretic Pride (would you believe that these songs are very well-written?)
v/a, Jashan-2008 (hot indian comp featuring producer jashan)
Ariel Aparicio, All These Useless Things (indie something, not bad though)
the radio

the terminals - touch
thrones - day late, dollar short
black sabbath - children of the grave (really just vol. 4 and a bonus track)
joseph - stoned age man
peter martin & finch - drouyn OST
totimoshi - ladron
morbid angel - blessed are the sick

salif keita - amen
house of 909 - the children we were
terry francis - bbc radio essential mix 1998
maurice fulton - mix show
mercury rev - boces
e-dancer - heavenly

Styles P, The Ghost Sessions
Casa de Leones
War, All Day Music
New Young Pony Club, Fantastic Playroom

Nina de Heney, Archipelago (a lady, a bow & a contrabbasso; on Kning Disk)
Slow Six, Nor'easter (slowly unwinding ensemble'scapes of violins-el.guitars-keyboards-"software instruments"... composed mostly by one Christopher Tignor, mostly quite good; on New Albion)

Camisetas (2007 cd on Chief Inspector; a groovin'rockin'improvisin'dronin'electronin' 4 piece bänd, of whom only Jimi Black's name rings a bell for me ...darn, on first listen I love their stuff a lot!)

Wisin y Yandel

The Sundays - Static & Silence
Alice Keys - "No One (Reggae Mix ft. Beenie Man)"
El Guincho - Alegranza
Gorrilla Zoe - "Hood Nigga (Remix)"
Ecstatic Sunshine - "Perrier"
Soulja Boy - "Yahhh!"
Isolee - Western Stores
T2 ft. J. Holiday - "Bed"

(Tim F check your e-mail, incidentally.)

I haven't for a bit 'cos it's screwy - apologies! Will do.

Hopefully you will not find a dead link.

The Dust Dive - Claws of Light

A Willie Rosario collection. This stuff is amazing. Puerto Rico owns salsa, I'm sorry, that's just a fact. Not New York, Puerto Rico.

mannie fresh- mind of mannie fresh
freeway- free at last
el guincho- alegranza
a mountain of one- collected works
outkast- stankonia
hot chip- made in the dark

ball greezy- "shone"
grind mode- "i'm so high"
wiz khaleefa- "say yes"
the-dream- "fast car"

Carl Stone "Shibucho" (http://www.sukothai.com/v.2/Music/Shibucho.mp3)
Bennie Maupin The Jewel in the Lotus (ECM)
Terry Riley "In C (Paul Hillier and Percurama)" (Ars Nova)
Roger Doyle The Ninth Set

kelley polar
jd twitch ra podcast
kelley polar

Assorted albums by The Television Personalities.

mouse on mars - instrumentals
james - laid
destroyer - trouble in dreams
british sea power - do you like rock music?
outkast - atliens
cunninlynguists - dirty acres
reef the lost cauze - feast or famine

neil young - harvest moon
universal indians - sloth nest
cluster - sowiesoso
v/a new england teen scene vol III
happy & artie traum s/t & "double back"

KIDS WITH GUNS FOR HANDS

Neil Young bootlegs, Band bootlegs, Larry Levan, Donald Byrd and Robyn Hitchcock ...

the feelies - crazy rhythms
bongwater - too much sleep
suishou no fume - i throw a stone into the endless depths
badgerlore - stories for owls

and I'm still hopelessly addicted to Thrillpillow's Blast Off! EP.

ditto. rumor has it they're working on new studio recordings. for the time being, i only have their astounding live shows to tide me over.

"Danny Phernetics. . ."

hahaha

That's what it sounds like to me, every time. (The Reverend, the only one who will get this.)

The Hard Sell

DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist back on the 7" cut up funk. nice packaging as well.

Odyssey - Fischerspooner.

Totally loving this following the revival of that electroclash thread.

British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Vamipre Weekend - Vampire Weekend
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Boxcutter - Glyphic
Alison Moyet - The Turn
Burial - Untrue
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Ungdomskulen - Cry-Baby
Malouma - Nour
Mayra Andrade - Navega
Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective - Watina (RIP, BTW)
Black Mountain - In The Future
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Easy Tiger
Boy George - Straight EP
A whole bunch of catch-up stuff from Benn Loxo Du Taccu / Fluxblog / Said The Gramophone
The Top 10 singles from mid-February, 1968/1978/1988/1998

Oh, and the Resident Advisor JD Twitch podcast, specifically for Hercules & Love Affair ft Antony Hegarty - "Blind"

Oh, and the Rufus Does Judy 2CD thing, and MIA - Kala, and the boring new Sons & Daughters effort (at least I tried).

Grateful Dead boot from Englishtown NJ, 1977

Television Ghost myspace tracks.
These guys are fucking awesome.
Three teens from Fayette, Indiana.
And Times New Viking Rip It Off!
Gotta love that title in today's music consumer climate.

Enrico Francioni, Segni Del Tempo (dude composes chamber pieces, and performs some o'em on contrabbasso hm'self))
Al Stewart, Famous Last Works (I, like, actually like "Feels Like", a bit, like)
MI3 (=Pandelis Karayorgis, Nate McBride, Curt Newton), Free Advice (dudes play coupla Ellington's, a Sun Ra, and lotsa Karayorgis)

the flashing lights
sun ra
radiohead
joel plaskett
cat power
new order
les savy fav
count bass d
bruce springsteen
herbie hancock
jens lekman
bjork
mount eerie

(first post. hi!)

Bartok String Quartet 5 & 6 (mainly 5, don't like 6 as much)

(first post. hi!)

Hi dere etc. Post on the 'introduce yourselves' thread if you've not already!

Grateful Dead boot from Englishtown NJ, 1977

I have been to the Englishtown flea market once. I bought a turntable for $20. It did not work.

Times New Viking, Rip It Off! (i hated the last one, but I love this)
The Whigs, Mission Control (pretty good rock album)
Black Mountain, In the Future (probably a lock for my top twenty at the end of the year!)
Cat Power, Jukebox (a.k.a. Chan Phones It In)
Opeth, Blackwater Park
Eels, Electro-Shock Blues
Guided by Voices, Get Out of My Stations

Drive-By Truckers, Brighter Than Creation's Dark

Nice, but too damn long as per usual. Remember Skynyrd, guys--RAWK!

Holy shit...... I just listened to "One of These Days" by Trespass for the first time. Outstanding!!!!

I'm also savouring Robin Trower's Day of the Eagle. I had no idea this was the original of the twisted version on the Bananafish compilation Vidas Illustres, which was done by a seriously strung-out sounding band who's name escapes me.

Fluorescent Grey, Gaseous Opal Orbs
Spehen Stills, Manassas

so far 2008 is ABBA, Glenn Gould, Faust "Chere Chambre", Fleetwood Mac "Empire State", Alicia Keys "No One", Randy Newman

...Fleetwood Mac "Empire State" ...

Mm, I sampled a bit Mac last night myself. Mostly from Rumours and Tusk, tho. "Second Hand News" and "Walk A Thin Line" got several 'spins' each.

"Times New Viking, Rip It Off! (i hated the last one, but I love this)"

Does not compute.

The Bay Bridges Compilation, vol. 1
Basement Jaxx, Rooty
DMX, It's Dark and Hell is Hot
R. Kelly, Chocolate Factory
Augustus Pablo, King Tubbys meets Rockers Uptown
The Avalanches, Since I Left You
Prince & the Revolution, Parade

nuthin but 3-6!!!!!!!!!!!

a bunch of tim sweeney mixes. he's fucking killing it these days.

i just can't get enough of the fuck buttons lp.
other than that, just "in rainbows" and a few autechre lp's.

Vernon Frazer "Sex Queen of the Berlin Turnpike" LP
Christoph Komeda "Rosemary's Baby" sndtrk LP
that Glenn Gould 80 CD boxset (insane)
Dominique Leone's album! (roXor)
Tangerine Dream "Cyclone" LP
Gert-Jan Prins 12"

oh yeah and

Jazkamer "Metal Music Machine"
Group Home "Living Proof"

Today its,
Neko Case
Boris
Black Mountain
Nilsson

lately:
anything Ricardo Villalobos (particularly the Salvador comp.)
Bruno Pronsato - Why Can't We Be Like Us
Luciano - Etudes Electroniques
Deepchord presents Echospace - The Coldest Season
Mary Anne Hobbs Warrior Dubz
Ananda Shankar - Sá-re-gá Machàn

Does not compute.

I know. But I just could not get into that one, no matter how hard I tried. This one clicked immediately. I think its the increased focus on melody this time around.

sacher pelz - cainus
gnaw their tongues - reeking pained and shuddering
make change...kill yourself - II
heather leigh murray - devil if you can hear me
hive mind - cast through shallow earth

Blacksmoke mix cd
LCD Soundsystem - Freak Out / Starry Eyes
DJ Krush - Boredoms mix
LSD March
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Os Mutantes - Mutantes
The Dream – Livin' a Lie (Feat. Rihanna)
Kano (the italo one)
Boards of Canada
Morrissey

Thione Seck

Dominique Leone's album! (roXor)
Love the EP - what's the longplayer like??

Sebastien Tellier "Sexuality" ('Pomme' is the shit)
WBMX Farley mixes
Rough Guide To Rai
Tyndall

Swans - Swans Are Dead
Talk Talk - It's My Life
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
Prince - 3121
Tortoise and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Brave and the Bold

Cath & Phil Tyler, Dumb Supper (Now this a kind of Anglo-'merican folk revivalism that me loves a lot)
Linda Ronstadt, Simple Dreams (Well I had just finished reading Barney Hoskins' book "Hotel California" when I saw this disc on sale, all cheap and 'vrything...)
Ravish Momin's Trio Tarana, Miren (A Longing) (percussion, oud & violin)

Jack Bruce, Songs for a Tailor
Taste, On the Boards
Parliament, The Motor Booty Affair

Charalambides - Historic 6th Ward
Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
Six Organs of Admittance - Shelter from the Ash
Sunn O))) and Boris - Altar
The Young Gods - L'eau Rouge

Paperclip People - The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich
Derrick May - Innovator
Arthur Russell - The World of Arthur Russell
Various Artists - Larry Levan: Journey Into Paradise
Various Artists - DJ Fatalz Bassline Mix #4
Sista - 4 All The Sistas in the World (thanks Deej!)
Nejo y Dalmata - Broke & Famous (thanks Rockist!)
Williams - "Love on a Real Train (Studio Version)"
Len - "Steal My Sunshine"
Dennis Ferrer/Son of Raw - "A Black Man in Space"
Paul Ritch - "Messene"
Emil Lassaria - "Balada"
The Veronicas - "Untouched"

autechre - untilted
basic channel mp3's
AFX - drukqs
count ossie & mystic revelation of rastafari - grounation
chicago underground duo - axis & alignment

Red Red Meat and Tim Rutili demos. Thank you soulseek for this lost Red Red Meat album

A Whisper in the Noise
Billionaires - Really Real For Forever (Too Soon)
Winters
Dengue Fever
Black Mountain
The Teeth
Tapes 'n Tapes

Grateful Dead boot from Englishtown NJ, 1977

Great "Eyes of the World" on that motherfucker.

tons of Mitsou videos on Youtube

Four Jacks & a Jill - Fables (BEST ALBUM EVER)

Young-Holt Unlimited - Soulful Strut album

The Chills - Lost EP

D.C. LaRue - "Cathedrals"

Sons Of Alpha Centauri - S/T album

the sons of alpha centauri album makes me want to get bigger speakers.

05:22:09:12 OFF by Front 242.

sounding fucking amazing i have to say.
i always prefered this release over its higher profile not so evil twin 06:21:03:11 UP EVIL

Mission of Burma The Horrible Truth about Burma
What a great live record! They are totally a psych band on this.
Super tight playing throughout. "Peking Spring" is the standout, imo.

On my second listen to These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid. Anyone heard this yet?

Absorbing more new stuff:
Beach House - Devotion
Black Mountain - In the Future
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music
Clark - Turning Dragon
Dead Meadow - Old Growth
Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off the Lavender Bridge
Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
Mgmt - Oracular Spectacular
Rings - Black Habit
School of Language - Sea From Shore
Vampire Weekend

Judee Sill, Abracadabra: The Asylum Years (Totally glad that I did get to listen to these sad and beautiful songs at last)

Simon and Garfunkle "Bridge Over Troubled Water"

skygreen leopards
boredoms - vision creation newsun / super ae / chocolate synthesiser
Club 8
Archie Shepp on this night
wonderwall - george harrison
new sambassadeur lp
nico the frozen borederline

Depeche Mode - The Singles 86>98
The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Grinderman - s/t
Saint Etienne - So Tough
Manitoba - Up in Flames
Sonic Boom - Spectrum

Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
Bluejeans and Moonbeams
Zombies - Odessey & Oracle ( I cannot believe I have never heard this)
Mars Volta - Bedlam and Goliath
Fiery Furnaces - Gallowsbird's Bark
Daft Punk - Alive 2007
Fripp / Eno - No Pussyfooting
Medeski Martin and Wood - Shack Man
Prodigy - Fat of the Land

Cat Power, Jukebox
Louis Armstrong, An Evening With Louis Armstrong
SimakDialog, Pahatan
Cheap Trick, Cheap Trick
Delta Saxophone Quartet, Dedicated to You...But You Weren't Listening (nice passive-aggressive title, wtf british jazz doodz)
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Adventures on the Wheels of Steel (disc 2)
Marco Benevento, Invisible Baby
46bliss, Wish Me Away (nice indie-loser title, wtf american technopop nurdz)
Al Green, "Thought It Out" (over and over again)

Chris McGregor's Brother Hood of the Breath, first album

Robyn, The Rakamonie EP
Rosey, Luckiest Girl
From Dubplate to Download: The Best of Greensleeves Records

Nothing, weirdly. I suddenly feel burnt out on music in a way that I never have.

Disc 4 and Disc 5 of The Remote Viewers' recent 5CD set, Control Room ('ve always liked them lots, so no surprise I'm enamoured of most of this new stuff also)

Alex Chilton, Like Flies On Sherbet & Live in London (due to Sherbet getting a rather conspicuously bad rap nearly everyplace I've read anything about it, I eventually wanted to hear the damn thing myself and find out wot's all that bitching to do with anything (...or samthung like that))

Merrell Baker and Jordan, Nagual

Vitalic & Linda Lamb - "bells"

Bark Psychosis - Independency
Charalambides - Historic 6th Ward
The Young Gods - L'eau Rouge

Atlas Sound, over and over, all year

preview song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k64NZiZaruU

Junior Boys - Body Language Vol 6
Hot Chip - Made In The Dark

dave brubeck - time out
trumans water - spasm smash
dabrye - instrmntl

!!!, Louden Up Now
Amerie, Touch
Annie, Anniemal
Antibalas, Security
Basement Jaxx, Crazy Itch Radio
The Beatles, Revolver
The Bellrays, Have a Little Faith
Beyonce, B'Day
Burial, Untrue
Casa de Leones
UGK, Underground Kingz

vampire weekend - blue cd-r (am liking this a lot but the lyircs are a bit shite arent they?)
dirty projectors - rise above
the tough alliance - new chance
butthole surfers - hairway to steven
lupe fiasco - 'superstar'

Marcelo D2, Acustico
Common, Finding Forever
El-P, I'll Sleep When You're Dead
Kanye West, Graduation
Andy Montanez, Salsaton: Salsa con Reggaeton

Dim Stars - s/t
Spectrum and Jessamine - A Pox on You
Sonic Youth - Silver Session for Jason Knuth
Xiu Xiu - La Forêt
Ghost - Overture: Live In Nippon Yusen Soko 2006
Jesu - Pale Sketches

Dim Stars - s/t

Haven't heard this in ages.
Thanks for the reminder.

vampire weekend- vampire weekend
dismemberment plan- is terrified
dismemberment plan- emergency & i
t.i.- urban legend

vampire weekend
the tough alliance - holiday ep, make it happen ep, new waves, new chance
half man half biscuit - camell laird social club
dinosaur jr. - youre living all over me
the kinks greatest hits

I listened to albums all day yesterday!:

--Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal
--Madonna - True Blue
--Terrorizer - World Downfall
--Torche - Meanderthal
--UGK - Ridin' Dirty
--Prince And The Revolution - Around The World In A Day
--Selda - Selda
--Xzibhit - At The Speed Of Life
--Magazine - Real Life
--Geto Boys - The Resurrection
--Seige - Seige
--Carcass - Reek Of Putrefaction

Prince - Emancipation
Me'Shell NgedéOcello - Peace Beyond Passion
Mariska - Toisin sanoen
Amïra Saqati - Agdal Reptiles on Majoun
Grace Jones - Inside Story
Cheikha Rimitti - N'Ta Goudami
The Dazz Band - Rock the Room
Burhan Öçal & the Istanbul Oriental Ensemble - Sultan's Secret Door
Janet Jackson - s/t

Heltah Skeltah - Nocturnal

This still my fave rap album of the mid-nineties, alongside Liquod Swords and Stress: The Extinction Agenda.

I might be nuts, but:

Dah Shinin > Nocturnal > Enta The Stage

Dim Stars - s/t

Haven't heard this in ages.
Thanks for the reminder.

sure thing! it's a pretty good record, i hadn't played it in awhile either :D

Atlas Sound, over and over, all year

This band is fronted by the singer for Deerhunter, right?

I've been waiting for something on the near-horizon in 2008 to get excited about. Maybe this is it. What does Atlas Sound sound like?

KISS, KISS
Burial, Untrue

Tapes in the car:

"Please please me" / "With the beatles"
"Aztec Discipline" - Kingsbury Manx / "Fourteen autumns and fifteen winters" - Twilight Sad
Various odd things / "Sensation nunber one" - Laugh
Music(?) 1987 (home recordings of me rambling on synths)

CDs in the walkman

"Bill Fay" - Bill Fay
"Bookends" - S&G
"Here comes everybody" - The Wake
"Skywriting" - Field Mice

Ayreon, 01011001
Raheem DeVaughn, Love Behind the Melody
Stevie Wonder, Talking Book
Ludo, You're Awful, I Love You
Da Cruz, Nova Estaçao EPs 1 & 2
Macy Gray, The Id
v/a, Jashan-2008
Joe Locke, Sticks and Strings
Keith Marks, Foreign Funk
Sam Cooke, The Man and His Music
Soft Machine Legacy, Steam

Michael Jackson, Off the Wall
Masta Killa, No Said Date
The Prodigy, The Fat of the Land
Basement Jaxx, Remedy
Tony Toni Tone, Sons of Soul
N*E*R*D, In Search of
Os Mutantes, Mutantes

Sweep the Leg Johnny - their half of that split with Rumah Sakit

Arzachel - s/t

Queen St. Gang is like a weeded-out Booker T. and the MGs track

Paul Bley, Synth Thesis (dude on synth and piano, actually, in '94; i love (t)his stuff)
Mette Bille, "Close To Her Ear" EP
Balmorhea, Rivers Arms (on first listen, likin' these dudes' mellowed-out-ness already)
Jimmy Webb, Twilight of the Renegades
Joe Fiedler Trio, The Crab (good funkish 'bone-bass-drums trio)

<i>What does Atlas Sound sound like?</i>
Druggy pop. Shoegaze. At least, the two tracks I played last night.
I like it. Jon Sheffield even called and commented on it, he was interested. You may accuse me of being a shameless name dropper for saying that. That's fine, I am. Jon is playing his first local show in some time next week, I'm excited.
Anyway, Atlas Sound. There's a song called "ativan" and the disc design is striking. If you like Deerhunter (which I do) you may find Atlas Sound more or less enjoyable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTSG-M30vGo

Druggy pop. Shoegaze
I'm listening to the rest of the Atlas Sound album right now and it goes beyond these two categories into some nice dance and electronic territories. It sounds great.

Tabu Ley Rochereau, Les Annees 70

prince far i and the arabs - cry tuff dub encounter chapter one

Bought from iTunes this weekend and listened to all day yesterday:

Firefall, "It Doesn't Matter"
Stephen Stills/Manassas, "It Doesn't Matter"
Paul Revere & the Raiders, "Love Music"
Four Tops, "Love Music"
Andy Gibb, "Love Is Thicker Than Water"
Rita (Syreeta) Wright, "I Can't Giver Back the Love I Feel for You" (per an ILM thread recommendation!)
Supremes, "Up the Ladder to the Roof"
David Bowie, "1984"
Jobriath, "World Without End"

It came out last year, but more people need to give Strategy's album Future Rock a listen. The first two tracks together are the kind of songs that justify the purchase of nice headphones.

it is really awesome

regret not putting it in my top 10

the guitar solo at the end of the third song esp

What does Atlas Sound sound like?

What Trip Maker said above. I think last night on the deerhunter thread I wrote that I hear connections to Zuckerzeit keyboards, Talk Talk, and Seefeel on it. To me it seems somewhat analagous to Quique, in being a sort of electronic expansion of a shoegaze influence.

Everybody in the room, stop spinning
Everybody on the dance floor, stop swinging around

"Stops Spinning", good lord, what a song. I can almost determine which GuitarRig2 preset he's using.

The Books - Lost and Safe
Isis - Celestial
OMD - s/t
OMD - Architecture and Morality
Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
The Streets - Original Pirate Material

Outkast, Aquemini
!!!, Louden Up Now
A Tribe Called Quest, People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm
U.S.E., United States of Electronica
Raekwon, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx...
Amerie, All I Have
Aaliyah, Age Ain't Nothin' but a Number

Yeah, sorry to keep bringing this up but this Strategy album has been played like 8 times in a row, and I love it. Can anyone recommend me other Strategy records? Is Fontanelle good? Nudge? Anything else that sounds close to Future Rock (either the album on the whole or the song)?

At the same time I now first glance at his debut release as Strategy:

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre300/e394/e394549zmbf.jpg

1 Resist 4:35
2 Intelligence 4:48
3 Erased 4:41
4 Stone of Passion 5:52
5 Darkness 6:39
6 War 5:08
7 Fear 4:35
8 Get It Right 4:29
9 Guardian Angel 5:19
10 Time 4:59
11 Confidence 5:24
12 5:11

uh, oh. "Stone of Passion". I'm beginning to worry.

Neil Young - Zuma (must say I'm not thrilled with this album)
Waylon Jennings - Dreaming my Dreams

Zuma is FUCKING AWESOME

I just warmed to Cortez the Killer a little when I read that he wrote the lyrics in high school

The Bestiality of Bonzo Dog Band
The Wrong Object, Stories from the Shed

Tony Toni Tone, House of Music
Cool Breeze, East Point's Greatest Hits
Nas, God's Son
Muse, Black Holes & Revelations
Breakestra, Hit the Floor

Badfinger Wish you were here
SYPH Pst!
Atlas Sound
Times New Viking Rip it off!
Oz Days
Prog is not a four letter word

Pearls Before Swine - One Nation Underground (this album is basically making me remember why I like music)

Gary Bartz - Juju Street Songs

Various - The Guitar and the Gun (Ghanaian Highlife comp)

Cat Power, Jukebox

listening to a bunch of folk/freakfolk or whatever lately. akron/family would be so good with different singing. dude is blah.

Children Of Nuggets box
Moby Grape
John Cale's version of All My Friends

blackeyed susans - welcome stranger
beasts of bourbon - black milk
do the pop redux vol 1
the last dozen singles on weekender
it hugs back
the yellow moon band

mr. vegas hot it up
william parker raining on the moon
miles davis bags groove
alhaji k. frimpong kyenkyan bi adi mawu (love this, love the drumming on it especially)

oops i spelled kyenkyen wrong

Pearls Before Swine - One Nation Underground (this album is basically making me remember why I like music)

i just got that off emusic a few weeks ago. it's good!

new justus kohncke
villalobos enfants
moments in love (caspa remix) - art of noise
kalabrese ra podcast
sarah goldfarb

Jackie Wilson Greatest Hits
Luciano Jah Is My Navigator
Akoya Afrobeat, P.D.P.
John Legend, Live From Philadelphia
Louie Bellson and Clark Terry, Louie and Clark Expedition 2
O Quarto Dos Chaves, A Chave EP
The Raveonettes, Lust Lust Lust
The Mars Volta, The Bedlam in Goliath

Alchemist, 1st Infantry
The Field, From Here We Go Sublime
Lupe Fiasco, Food & Liquor (gettin' sold)
Freeway, Philadelphia Freeway
Ricardo Villalobos, Fizheuer Zieheuer
The Bay Bridges Compilation, vol. 1
Blackalicious, Blazing Arrow

oh man I used to play Blazing Arrow every day for my son in the car as I took him to school -- we were reminiscing about that the other day, he was all like "FIRST IN FLIGHT FLIGHT FLIGHT"

Oh I also got the new Steven Bernstein album today, Diaspora Suite, after two tracks it sounds like top 10 material; recasting Jewish music into space funk and metal jazz (Nels M'fing Cline y'all) is such a good idea

I hadn't played it since 2003 or so. I'm very much of two minds about it.

Aw gosh, it's adorable!

Perhaps too much so for its own good.

this morning started quite tasteful then got pretty epic.

john zorn & sonny clark memorial quartet
john adams - harmonium

then i wanted something old and snotty

native nod - today puberty, tomorrow the world
birds of delay cd-r i found attatched to a bit of spray painted cardboard

i should really get out of the house.

All I'm listening to this morning is the replay of Dwight Howard's Superman dunk from last night. Best pop single of the year so far, and afterwards he went "Superman -- wooooo!"

last night:
International Pony - Mit Dir Sind Wir Vier
today:
Arp - In Light
Nick Cave - The Lyre of Orpheus
The Sea and Cake - Everybody
Antena - Versions Spéciales - Camino Del Sol

what international pony stuff is good? is it at all like koze stuff?

Grooverider's Hardstep Selection
MAW Records Compilation Vol. 1
Inner City - Paradise
Youssou N'Dour - Set

The Fall-Hex Enduction Hour
Voivod-Angel Rat
Drive-By Truckers-Brighter Than Creation's Dark
ZZ Top- Tres Hombres

pat kilroy - light of day
bubble puppy - a gathering of promises
barbatos - let's fucking die!
terry reid - superlungs
terry reid - river

alhaji k. frimpong kyenkyan bi adi mawu (love this, love the drumming on it especially)

-- tipsy mothra, Saturday, February 16, 2008 11:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Did you get this off awesome tapes from africa? I dig it.

listening to a bunch of folk/freakfolk or whatever lately. akron/family would be so good with different singing. dude is blah.

-- tremendoid, Saturday, February 16, 2008 4:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

yes. I find this with a lot of freakfolk bands

Brad Paisley, "Time Well Wasted"

Did you get this off awesome tapes from africa?

yeah that blog is gold.

there's another, slicker version of the title track on an afro-rock compilation on emusic -- more pronounced latin rhythm section -- but i really love the one on that tape.

last night i listened to this nation's saving grace. i don't listen to the fall enough, that album always kind of startles me.

last 16 songs ~

"Skin Tension" Man Man
"Sun & Ice" The Field
"Souvlaki Space Station" Slowdive
"I Am Daylights" Songs of Green Pheasant
"Spider And I" Brian Eno
"Headlights" Coyote
"Fly" Nick Drake
"Countenance" Nektar
"Red Hawthorn Tree" Current 93
Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On)" Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
"Like Spinning Plates" Radiohead
"Love Like A Bomb" Oasis
"How Cruel" Kingsbury Manx
"Chasing After Deer" Midlake
"Angel Darling" Cardinal
"Life's a Beach!" Studio

Studio - Yearbook 1
Harmonia - Live 1974
Disco Inferno - DI Go Pop
Supersilent - 8
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
Sun City Girls - Bright Surroundings, Dark Beginnings
Anne Briggs - The Time Has Come

These I've been playing a lot lately

Japrocksampler rapidshares
Get Up Kids
Roy Orbison
Hercules & Love Affair
Gong - You
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Death in Vegas - Satan's Circus
The Fall - 458489
Eno - Before and After Science
Melt Banana - Speak Squeak Creak

Pistol Valve

high places- 03/07 - 09/07
big tymers- i got that work
big tymers- hood rich
hot chip- made in the dark bonus disc

Ornette Coleman - This is our music.
Dizzee Rascal and DJ Slimzee - Sidewinder mix 2002.
Erik Satie - Avant-dernieres pensees.
Derek Bailey - Ballads.
Don Ayler - In Florence.

Fushitsusha - PSF 3/4
Third Ear Band - Alchemy
Bernard Parmegiani - La Creation Du Monde
Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld
Boris - Akuma No Uta

Francois Bayle - Morceaux de Ciels
The Cardigans - Long Gone Before Daylight
Tod Dockstader - Aerial 1-3
Toshi Ichiyanagi / Michael Ranta / Takehisa Kosugi - Improvisation Sep. 1975
Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Musics

Just finished:

Goran Bregovic - Underground OST

Moving onto:

Taj Mahal Travellers - Live in Stockholm July, 1971

Toshi Ichiyanagi / Michael Ranta / Takehisa Kosugi - Improvisation Sep. 1975

Did this get reissued? And is it amazing?

As far as I know, just that one ltd edition vinyl boot from few years ago came out. I wouldn't imaging World Psychedelia booting that for CD.

What about the Dockstader Aerial CDs? I've never been compelled to check these out since what I admire him most for is his ability to deal with those huge chunks of sound and make them so cleanly "organized" and punchy. The shortwave radio thing seemed like it would just be... long.

Toshi Ichiyanagi / Michael Ranta / Takehisa Kosugi - Improvisation Sep. 1975 - but this is really sweet.

Shame. I'd love to hear it but I doubt that repress is going to cross my path any time soon.

I really love the Aerial discs, though. They are a lot more varied than I was expecting. Of course Tod is a master so expectations should have been higher. Check them out!

Yoshi Wada - Lament for the Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile
Luc Ferrari - Presque Rien
Bennie Maupin - Jewel In The Lotus
Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece

Kate Bush- The Kick Inside
lots and lots of ghettotech
Moodymann- Forevernevermore
FabricLive 35 by Marcus Intalex
Mahalia Jackson

strategy "stone of passion" and strategy "future rock" - two different artists both named strategy. http://www.community-library.net/strategyhome.htm for discog.

Listening to in '08:
Cloudland Canyon new CD on kranky
Valet "Naked Acid" CD on kranky
Dif Juz 12"s (4AD) - old
50 Foot Hose reissue LP

Bob Dylan, "Summer Days"

machinefabriek - ranonkel
ash ra tempel - private tapes
religious knives - it's after dark
jack rose - i do play rock and roll

Status Quo, Quo / Blue For You (well, I still quite like 'bout half-dozen songs from these '74/'76 albs)
David Bedford, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Ravi Shankar, Genesis OST

Husker du - candy apple grey
Mazzy star - among my swan
Echo and the bunnymen - what are you going to do with your life?
Junior boys - last exit
The twilight singers - powder burns

strategy "stone of passion" and strategy "future rock" - two different artists both named strategy. http://www.community-library.net/strategyhome.htm for discog.

Ah, now that makes a lot more sense. Thanks for clearing that up.

I finally had a chance to throw on Drumsolo's Delight today, and it hasn't disappointed. :)

Speed, Glue & Shinki - s/t
Eloe Omoe (the northhampton ma (?) OSS wannabes) - some fucking dodgy 12"
Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline
MJ - Thriller
Supersempfft - Roboterwerke <--- awesome
Gong - You
Animal Collective - Here Comes the Indian!
Sagittarius - Present Tense
Gas Giant

White Lion

july skies 'the weather clock;, the last july skies release, very sad.

dj oneman on react fm (13/01/2008) - underground garage special

http://dubstepforum.com/viewtopic.php?t=37092&highlight=oneman

shame about the shitty bitrate

Anne Briggs - The Time Has Come
August Born - August Born
Catherine Ribeiro & Alpes - Paix
Arthur Russell - "In The Light Of The Miracle"
Virgo - Free Yourself 12"

Boris - Pink
Boris - Smile
Can - Future Days
Echo & The Bunnymen - s/t

Tony Allen's Afro Disco Beat 2cd comp. fantastic.

Anne Clark
Atlas Sound
Be Your Own Pet
Dominique Leone
Killer Mike
Mahjongg
Psychedelic Furs
Ropers

la dusseldorf - viva
boredoms - vision creation newsun
half man half biscuit - this leaden pall
terry reid - river
assorted tunes from the tim finney 07 thread

Soul Jazz '70 comp (post-Tropicaliast stuff)
Dallas Frazier, The R&B Years
Ray Davies, Working Man's Café
Bay Area Funk
Alan Jackson, Good Time
Hotpipes, Future Bolt
Tom Zé, Crossword Puzzle
Steven Bernstein, Diaspora Suite
Malcolm Holcombe, Gamblin' House
Wink Keziah & Delux Motel, Working Songs for the Drinking Class

Fujiya & Miyagi
Superpitcher - Here Comes Love
Boris - Smile
Excepter - A Dog Day's Night <--- GRUELING
Excepter - Debt Dept
Cluster - 2
Eno - Another Green World
eurotrance youtubes

still listening to the rekkerds i bought the other day. it turns out i have really great taste in music, because everything i bought is awesome!

elvin bishop - let it flow (capricorn) (dickie betts! sly stone!)

black ivory - s/t (buddah)

eugene record - the eugene record (WB)

ricardo ray/bobby cruz - 10 anniversario (vaya)

eugene record - trying to get to you (WB)

allan toussaint - southern nights (meters!)

fajardo 76 - la raiz de la charanga (includes moulton mix of "c'mon baby, do the latin hustle"!)

charles tolliver/music inc. - music inc. (strata-east)

deaf school - 2nd honeymoon (WB test pressing)

Obsession 2lp psych comp on Bully

El Numero eccentric soul 2lp comp

barbara mason & bunny sigler - locked in this position (curtom)

dexter gordon - gotham city (columbia)

billie holiday - lady in satin (columbia)

willie colon - willie (fania)

barretto - rican/struction (fania)

Dowland: Consort Music and Songs -perf. by Rose Consort of Viols, Catherine King & Jacob Heringman

barbara mason & bunny sigler - locked in this position (curtom)

what's this sound like scott?

super-funky disco action. bunny keeps things hopping! seriously, there's only, like, one slow jam on the album. so, if you aren't big on the disco scene, it might not be your thang.

bunny's liners:

"i will never forget the winter of '77 when many people were forced to stay locked in their positions. this album is dedicated to those people in the hope that this music will enable them to remain locked in the position of love. w.b.s. aka Bundino Siggalucci"

get lonely - the mountain goats
free at last - freeway
the big picture - big l
we were made in the dark - hot chip
board up the house - genghis tron
fortress - protest the hero
below the heavens - blu & exile

A bit o'Yes, and 'nother bit o'Jon & Vangelis (a friend was searching for "a song called 'State of independence', or something like that...", and he managed to confuse me bit also, for a little while, heheh).

Dengue Fever - Venus on Earth
William Parker - The Peach Orchard
Lee Scratch Perry - Produced and Directed by the Upsetter
(I Man Free is my new jam)

Florida Funk 1968-1975 (this is awesome)
little brother - get back
arp - in light
matthias tanzmann - restless
eno moebius roedelius plank - begegnungen

denim on ice
random Clientele tunes on youutbe

Boris - Smile

Vetiver, To Find Me Gone
Don Cherry , Brown Rice
Sam Cooke, Hits!

all new rock/pop, most of them very good!
The Breeders, Mountain Battles
The Kills, Midnight Boom
The Gutter Twins, Saturnalia
Supergrass, Diamond Hoo Ha
Elbow, The Seldom Seen Kid
Tindersticks, The Hungry Saw
Goldfrapp, Seventh Tree
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!

king tubby meets uptown rockers
black mountain - in the future

Saint Etienne - Boxette

Delarosa and Asora - Agony pt. 1

I think this might be the best thing Scott Herren ever did. Either this or Vocal Studies.

Ricardo Rey & Bobby Cruz - 1975 (incredible album!)

Ernie Agosto y la conspiracion (with Miguel Quintana on vocals) - Afecto y Carino

Grupo Folklorico y Experimental Nuevayorquino - Lo Dice Todo

Carla Bley Band - European Tour 1977

Danny Kirwan - Second Chapter

Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Velvet Underground - Gymnasium 1967
Feelies - Only Life
McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Cannonball Adderley - Live in San Francisco
Tabu Ley Rochereau - Voice of Lightness

Keith Fullerton Whitman - Lisbon/Multiples/Playthroughs/Schoner Flufengel
Jacques Lejeune - Blanche Neige
Bernard Parmegiani - Violostries (Disc One)
La Monte Young - Black Album
Hototogisu/Burning Star Core - Volume II... or I? Not sure, whichever came with the pin.
Luciano Cilio - Dell'Universo Assente
Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks
Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
Iancu Dumitrescu - Medium III
Charalambides - Joy Shapes

Circle - Vaahto 7"
Circle - Katapult
Prince - Lovesexy
Prince - Planet Earth
Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
Rodrigo y Gabriela - Rodrigo y Gabriela

Erykah Badu - New AmErykah Vol. 1: 4th World War
Erykah Badu - New AmErykah Vol. 1: 4th World War
Erykah Badu - New AmErykah Vol. 1: 4th World War
Erykah Badu - Mama's Gun
Erykah Badu - New AmErykah Vol. 1: 4th World War

hahaha

Bjork, Post
Foxy Brown, Broken Silence
Dungeon Family, Even in Darkness
Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Greatest Hits
Justice, †
Jay-Z, Reasonable Doubt
Wu-Tang Clan, Wu XM Radio
Kanye West, Graduation
Amerie, Because I Love It
Calle 13, Residente o Visitante
Gogol Bordello, Super Taranta!

Rune Lindbaek - Klubb Kebabb
Prince - Small Club
Justus Kohncke - Safe And Sound
Autechre - Quaristice
Matmos - Rose Has Teeth... (...lary levan blows my mind everytime)
Black Cock Edits
Annette Peacock - X Dreams
Mort Butane (Matt Bourne) - The Molde Concert

Fear Candy 51

Alternating between Giorgio Moroder From Here to Eternity and Burning Witch Crippled Lucifer reissue. Both could go on forever as far as I'm concerned.

Pascal Schäfer, Dawn ('04 Karaoke Kalk; quite pretty and pretty good)
Tehnoloogiline Päike, Abstraktsioonide maal ('08 Ulmeplaadid; this made me wanna go and check those early, or meebe even not-so-early, Tangerine Dream albums again)
The Holy Modal Rounders, Indian War Whoop (messieurs Stampfel & Weber & boys-n-girls freeking freely some folk out on ESP-disk in ... in '67, wasnnit? bootiful anyways)
Black Uhuru, The Dub Factor ('77 Island; anyone else agree with me that their bestest dub alb is Positive Dub?)
Haqk Marvin, Guitar Player (dunno yet how this'll feel, just put it on)

Haqnk

Gesundheit!

Warum?

I just thought that corrected name looked more like a transcription of a sneeze than anything else.

Miles Davis, On the Corner
Erykah Badu, New Amerykah, pt. 1: 4th World War
J Dilla, Donuts
Dyme Def, Space Music
Prince, Dirty Mind
Vampire Weekend
Sebastien Tellier, Sexuality
Enur, "Calabria 2007"
The Juan Maclean, "Happy House"
Holy Ghost!, "Hold On"

Redman & Method Man, "Broken Language 2008"

Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Pt 1. : 4th World War
Prince, Controversy
R. Kelly, TP2.com
The-Dream, LoveHate
Zulema, Zulema
Curtis Mayfield, Roots
S.O.S. Band, S.O.S. Band
Dudley Perkins, Expressions
Cherelle,High Priority
Erykah Badu, World Wide Underground

Danity Kane "Damaged"
Mariah Carey "Touch My Body"
Ne-Yo "Because of You"
Marlena Shaw "Woman Of The Ghetto"
Donald Byrd "Think Twice"
Marvin & Tammi "If This World Were Mine"

new Badu
RAMP, Come Into Knowledge
Nik Bartsch's Ronin, Holon
Prince, Dirty Mind
James Brown, In the Jungle Groove

DJ Rap - Journeys Through The Land Of Drum 'N' Bass (mix cd)
Lee Konitz - Subconscious Lee
Lemonheads - It's a Shame About Ray

hot chip - the warning
sonic youth - daydream nation

(played in the last few days, off the top of my head...)

Apparat - Walls
OMD - Best Of
Earth - The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
Boxcutter - Glyphic
Wedding Present - Singles 1995-97
Young Gods - Play Kurt Weill
Bunnymen - Songs to Learn and Sing
Jay-Z - The Black Album
Quasimoto - The Further Adventures of Lord Quas
Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
Manitoba - Up in Flames
Aphex Twin - I Care Because You Do

The-Dream, Love Me All Summer, Hate Me All Winter
Daft Punk, Homework
Ghostface Killah, Bulletproof Wallets
Miles Davis, Sketches of Spain
Herve and Sinden, Radio One Essential Mix

VU Live at Gymnasium 1967
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
Milton Nascimento & Lô Borges - Clube da Esquina

Erik Levander, Kondens

Tiny Desk Unit - Naples
v/a Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Music (1918-1955)
The Nodzzz - I Don't Wanna Smoke Marijuana
Carla Bley - Escalator Over The Hill
Morgen s/t
Monitor s/t

The Nationale

Janet Jackson, Discipline
Erykah Badu, New Amerykah, pt. 1: 4th World War
Rhymefest, Man in the Mirror
Missy Elliott, So Addictive
LCD Soundsystem, 45:33

I just received a package containing a new mp3 player, new Shure headphones, and a copy of the lush-looking Victrola Favourites book + CD.

I am excited.

Right this minute: Fine Young Cannibals - The Finest. Lots of excellent stuff, although I could do without the version of "Suspicious Minds." It's good office music.

A little obsessed with: Erykah Badu - the new album with the long title. My jam right now is "Soldier."

For Teo: Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson.

Getting some rotation now and again: A couple old Grover Washington Jr. albums that I picked up recently, "Paradise" and "Inner City Blues." They're both mixed bags, but there's some great tracks to be had, like the title track to "Paradise."

Not as nostalgic as it sounds: Meat Beat Manifesto - Subliminal Sandwich. Back in 1996, the second disc was "challenging" to me, and I mostly left it alone unless I was really high on something, but after a few years of soaking in minimal house and Villalobos and Richie Hawtin and such, it sounds... wow. Fucking killer. (Do I dare say, "Ahead of its time?" No, I do not.) Check out "Electric People."

How did I miss this for so long?: Triple-R - Friends. In the canon of Kompakt mixes, I'd rather hear this than "Immer" or "Fabric 13," honestly. (Heresy!)

Still sweet on: Italians Do It Better "After Dark" comp; Big Daddy Kane - Long Live the Kane; Fabric Live 22 - Scratch Perverts; Hercules and Love Affair; Leila - Like Weather; Matthew Dear - Asa Breed; Miles Davis - Complete On the Corner Sessions; Nara Leao - s/t & Meu Prieiro Amor; Speicher CD 3; The Knife - Deep Cuts

the clientele - god save the clientele
east river pipe - what are you on?

jon anderson, olias of sunhillow (a fine n' pleasant sounding album, yo!)

don cherry, hear & now ...o sweet fekkin bejeezuz, this is SOOOO good!

Maccabees - colour it in

beatifully speedy pop

don cherry, hear & now ...o sweet fekkin bejeezuz, this is SOOOO good!

Awesome. AllMusic makes it sound fantastic (in spite of themselves). I have Orient on my hard drive, with a playlist and everything, but I just haven't been in the mood enough to listen to anything that... uh... avant. But gimme some african rhythms, and I'm a happy guy.

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Frank Wright - Unity

and this moment: Buffy Sainte-Marie - The Vampire. Isn't hysterical she wrote a song called "The Vampire"?

I have Orient on my hard drive...

I ordered Orient a while ago -- so am 'xpecting to get it any day now.
Jeesh, the wait! :)

The Black Keys - Attack & Release

CAVE - HUNT LIKE DEVIL

Trip Maker, Cooper gave me a copy of this when Mahjongg played here about a month ago. Nice fucking job, it's awesome!

The Original Soundtrack, 10cc
Changing Faces, 10cc, Godley & Crème
Images, Godley & Crème

Also read teh Lol & Kev interviews from '97, regarding their life & times around teh Consequences.

Sebastien Tellier, Sexuality
The-Dream, Love Me All Summer, Hate Me All Winter
Dengue Fever, Venus on Earth
Lil Wayne, The Leak EP
Vampire Weekend
Mary J. Blige, Growing Pains
Miles Davis, Filles de Kilimanjaro
The Egyption Lover, On the Nile
E-40, My Ghetto Report Card
Tony Toni Tone, The Revival
The Juan Maclean, "Happy House"

Joe Ely & Joel Guzman, Live Cactus! (Guzman & his 'ccordion I haven't heard before I don't think, on this recording at least they sound great)
Angelique Kidjo, Djin Djin (certainly has its wonderful moments; certainly has a few guests too many, too - especially peeps with names like Gabriel, Santana & Ziggy Marley don't contribute anything interesting)

Jimi Tenor - Joystone
Tones on Tail - Everything!
Gary U.S. Bonds
Pilooski
Peter Visti - "Puttin on the Ritz"
Dead Boys - Young, Loud, and Snotty
Kitbuilders
Rufus and Chaka Khan - "Tell Me Something Good"
various techno mixes

Bands: Does It Offend You, Yeah; These New Puritans; Crystal Castles; Raveonettes; Atlas Sound; MGMT.

Clinton Sparks & Kardinal Offishall - Do the Right Thing mixtape

Groundhogs - Thank Christ for the Bomb
Screaming Trees - Uncle Anesthesia
MIA - Kala
Breeders - The Last Splash
Breeders - Title TK

the slits - cut
pink floyd - piper at the gates of dawn
liquid liquid - liquid liquid
can - soundtracks
can - tago mago
can - ege bamyasi
velvet underground - white light/white heat
remy zero - remy zero
kelley deal 6000 - go to the sugar altar

oh yeah, and "set the ray to jerry"

the afghan whigs - unbreakable
the gutter twins - saturnalia
charalambides - a vintage burden
growing - his return

enjoying the sxsw 2008 showcase torrent. give each track a minute or so and delete if it don't grab.

Bill Frisell - Quartet
Omni Trio - The Deepest Cut
Prince Paul- Prince of Thieves

Portishead - Third
My Morning Jacket - At Dawn
Pernice Brothers - Overcome By Happiness
The Drones - Gala Mill

the juan maclean- "happy house"
bloc party- "flux"
tokyo police club- elephant shell
pavement- wowee zowee

A really nice installment of "El Viaje" (salsa show) on WRTI. I haven't been keeping track of what's been played, but he posts his playlists on http://www.phillysalseros.com (the week after the show).

The Dø A Mouthful (finally getting into this for real)
Portishead Third
Ipso Facto "Harmonise"
Ida Maria "Oh My God", "Stella"
Santogold "L.E.S. Artistes"

The Durutti Column - Sex and Death (totally forgot how good this one is)

Sly & Robbie Hits 1978-1990

Salon Music - La Paloma Show

(Some 80's Japanese synth pop (or that's how it was described I think) from the Mutant Sounds blog. Actually working pretty well with my mood at the moment.)

That's a good album. I should check that blog more often.

I should too. I get overwhelmed by sorting through it all.

This "See Emily Play" cover is pretty good. Actually, I am liking the whole album so far, though.

Lust Lust Lust, The Raveonettes
The Gene Ammons Story: The 78 Era
Go for Your Guns, The Isley Brothers

the ting tings - 'great dj'
the juan maclean - less than human

The Tabu Ley Rochereau Congolese rumba retrospective from last year and The LK-"Vs. the Snow", Swedish electropop duo that sounds like a more organic version of the Postal Service and Caribou (chiming guitar and minimalistic snare drums with sampled sounds and loops but no actual synths)

Daft Punk - Human After All
Charalambides - A Vintage Burden
Charalambides - Likeness
AR Kane - Americana
Saint Etienne - You Need a Mess of Help to Stand Alone

A Walk in the Clouds: David Liebman plays Puccini (I guess... I guess I liked it, I guess -- y'see, it played through almost twice while I took an afternoon nap... so the pleasantness of nappin' must've had samthung to do with Liebman's Puccini, possibly)

Don Cherry, Orient ('s all right with me) (haven't got to listening to Blue Lake that it's paired with)

Six Organs of Admittance (it's this five-tracks-of-the-debut-LP-with-the-two-lathe-cut-8"-songs thingy ...dunno yet)

Magical Mystery Tour
Don Cherry - Oraginc Music, Human Music
Theo Parrish - Sound Sculpture, vol 1

Thou - This Is Not A Record (Part 3)
Hefner - Maida Vale
Peel - Peel

Closer Musik - After Love

John McLaughlin - My Goal's Beyond
Jaki Byard - The Jaki Byard Experience
The Roots of Chicha

Gilberto Santa Rosa - Contraste (disc 1, the salsa side)

Has some of the problems with corniness and schmaltz that exist in his other recordings, pero overall it's more enjoyable to listen to straight through than most of the other CDs I've heard by him, and his singing is pretty impressive. Basically, he's the strong point here, and the material is pretty good too, but the arrangements and production could be toughened up. But that's pretty much a given. (Oh good, imitation of annoying timbaesque rapping on the second track. That's not what you should be learning from timba guys.)

He sounds good in the montuno sections, regardless of occsaionally unfortunate keyboard sounds and the like.

AR Kane - 69
AR Kane - i
Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow
The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust
REM - UP

Various: Los Capo

steve jansen "slope"

Arcangel - La Maravilla

The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust

I feel so out of the loop. Can someone recommend me some excellent albums released in 2008 (no reissues, etc.)? Please avoid indie-pop and electronica - anything else should be fair game. I particularly like garage, weird folk (no Joanna Newsom shit, but something like MV/EE would be OK), metal, some punk (mostly dirty/underproduced shit), alt-country, etc. Basically just stay away from anything IRONIC or that some kid wearing black-rimmed glasses would be listening to.

Short descriptions would be helpful but I suppose are not necessary.

have you heard of vampire weekend?

Ha

cos I don't think you'd like it. brb

You need this thread:

So we're fuck-all of the way through 2008; what records are worth attention?

haha shit I didn't even bother looking for one of those threads because I figured it would be silly to have one already. thanks though. i'll definitely check it out.

It probably won't help that much, especially where people just list things, but it's something.

Can someone recommend me some excellent albums released in 2008 (no reissues, etc.)? Please avoid indie-pop and electronica - anything else should be fair game. I particularly like garage, weird folk (no Joanna Newsom shit, but something like MV/EE would be OK), metal, some punk (mostly dirty/underproduced shit), alt-country, etc.

The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (garage)
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride (weird folk)
Boris - Smile (metal)
Constantines - Kensington Heights (some punk)
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia (alt-country)

Anyone who's heard any of these will notice I'm using the definitions pretty loosely here. Still, a few of the better records this year, so far. You'd do well to hear a couple of 'em.

I'll second the Boris (my favorite on '08 so far), and I do think the Raveonettes album is worth hearing for the standout songs on it, but at least half the songs seem lacking.

(Sorry I'm so ubiquitous tonight. I promise this is temporary. I'm just going through a very bad spell of not being able to get offline.)

lupe fiasco - the cool (insanely great album)
those were different times
these new puritans - beat pyramid

Oum Kalthoum - Laylat Hob

(waltz section kills it--Abdel Wahab, why did you pull this crap?)

http://www.xlr8r.com/files/news/darondo_12_19.jpg

Jordan, the samples of that disc on eMusic sound fantastic. Thank you.

belt and suspenders!
let my pants go

The Harp Consort/ Andrew Lawrence-King - Spanish Gypsies: Celtic and Spanish music in Shakespeare's England (yes!)
The Broadside Band/ Jeremy Barlow - Danses populaires francaises et anglaises, XVIe siècle(yess!!)
Tangerine Dream, The Essential ('tis from 1974-1983, is mostly good too)
The Magnetic Fields, Get Lost (yay baby! ...and I'm really really REALLY sorry I poureth coffee onnits sleeve - 'ccidentally, honest! :(
Peter Hammill, The Love Songs (chillin'n beautiful) ((not the booklet, tho, nomore - some of teh hot coffee dropped there also:()
Jacaszek, Lo-Fi Stories (Polish film'lectronic fun) (no coffee stains or other on this one wotsoever, huzzaahh!)
Full Fathom Five, Bison Ravi (a bunch of artfully chamber-jazz-rock-funkin Britishes enamoured of Boris Vian's various novels)
Jean-Luc Ponty, The Best of the Pacific Jazz Years (them years art 1968-69, so it has a couple of Zappa's King Kong pieces onnit too)

yeah, i wasn't aware of him, but a band i'm in is doing a few of those tunes.

The mythology surrounding Darondo is that he was a pimp. However, he denies this claim

arthur blythe - blythe spirit
arthur blythe - basic blythe
sonic youth - nyc ghosts and flowers
pete shelley - homosapiens
lil' wayne - birdman jr. (best of lil' wayne mixtape)
bert jansch - dazzling strangers 2CD
zz top - fandango

Yeah, I saw that "he may have been a pimp" line. More disturbing: After pimping, he became the host of a children's television show. Wholesome.

my own shit
Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
Erykah Badu - Awesome Crazypants (this is what I call it)
Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
Verdi - Ernani

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

(For the first time! I was almost disappointed I liked "Get Innocuous" as much as I did, but so far I don't like any other tracks as much. But not bad for a list-topping CD.)

Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Bark Psychosis - Hex
Harold Budd and Brian Eno - The Pearl
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Magik Markers - Boss
Spiritualized - Laser Guided Melodies
Spiritualized - Pure Phase
Spiritualized - Fucked Up Inside
Yo La Tengo - Painful

Marco Benevento, Invisible Baby

Eddie Palmieri - Mozambique

(Not the new remastered edition, just the old 128

--whoops--KBPS mp3 from the old CD reissue.)

New York Dolls in Too Much Too Soon

The Indestructible Beat of Soweto

LOUD rock, because it's too easy.

Green Day

Eddy Detroit - Immortal Gods
Victory Acres/Joke Flowers
Pink Fairies - Kings of Oblivion
Wharf Rat Tales comp

And an LP by Deutsch Nepal on Sombrero(?). Not the dark ambient or whatever Deutsch Nepal. Unless Deutsch Nepal previously existed as some extremely tight and catchy DIY xerox post-punk thing.

http://www.kernkrach.de/assets/images/deutsch_nepal.gif

Dennis Bovell presents 4th Street Orchestra: Scientific, Higher Ranking Dubb / Yuh Learn!
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Will The Circle Be Unbroken ("cd 1")
Various - The WireTapper 19
Jon Anderson, Deseo (hmh)
Judee Sill (uu-yee)

a vinyl saturday morning:
Big Star - 3rd LP
Spectrum - California Lullaby 10"
Kaito - Color of Feels 12"
La Düsseldorf - Ich Liebe Dich 12"
Lindstrøm - Feedelity Remixed Vol. 1 12"

Simeon Ten Holt
Sunset Bright Blue Dream
Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Felt Forever Breathes the Lonely Word

I've been listening to the same Felt record a lot recently. It's still the only one I have by them.

Isaac Hayes - Black Moses. (Never realized Portishead lifted from this)
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

Manitoba - Up in Flames (at least 4-5 times through in the last couple days; great great GREAT album!)

(Rockist, if you didn't like any other songs on Sound of Silver as much as "Get Innocuous", that's because "Get Innocuous" is the best song on it.)

Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Rihanna, Good Girl Gone Bad
Madvillian, Madvillainy
Curtis Mayfield, Curtis
Al Green, Greatest Hits
Erykah Badu, Mama's Gun
Diddy, Press Play
Sade, Lovers Rock
The-Dream, Love Me All Summer, Hate Me All Winter
Lil Wayne, The Leak EP
Kraftwerk, Computer World
Stevie Wonder, Songs in the Key of Life
CSS, Cansei de ser Sexy
Fulanito, Vacaneria!
James Murphy & Pat Mahoney, Fabriclive 36
The Field, From Here We Go Sublime
Maze featuring Frankie Beverly, Greatest Hits
Rick James, The Definitive Collection
Erykah Badu, Awesome Crazypants
The Federation, The Album
Casa de Leones
Vampire Weekend
Kelley PolarI Need You to Hold on While the Sky is Falling
Sebastien Tellier, Sexuality

Oh, and Snoop Dogg's Ego Trippin' and lots of "Calabria 2007" and "Happy House" and "Rock With U" by Janet Jackson and "Closer" by Ne-Yo.

damn dude

i'm interested as to what you think of a lot of those if you don't mind divulging eventually

And Mary J. Blige's Growing Pains (right now) and the Step Up 2 the Streets soundtrack. Yeah.

xp: yeah, jus a sec, I'll give a bit of a rundown

Kelley PolarI Need You to Hold on While the Sky is Falling

What's the scoop on this one, plz? (I am thinking of downloading it).

vicente fernandez. drowning my sorrows.

Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga: Strong evidence that I really need to hear their damn back catolog.

Good Girl Gone Bad: You said it better than I can: Enough to make me respect Rihanna as more than just a vehicle.

Madvillainy: Not quite as fun once you've untangled Doom's knot of rhymes, but damn the journey there. At this point, something to pull out once a year.

Curtis: As good as music gets.

Greatest Hits (Al Green): See above.

Mama's Gun: First listen. Sounds good, judgement reserved.

Press Play: One part mediocre rap album, two parts dance-pop highlight reel.

Lovers Rock: If I stop and think about what's going on, it all fails to live up to the promise of "By Your Side", but fuck doing that.

Love Me All Summer, Hate Me All Winter: Album title otm.

The Leak EP: I would say this displays dangerous signs Lol Wayne was about to take a Lupe-esque trip up his own ass, if I didn't already know WFB was way farther gone than that in the first place. Anyway, the opening 1-2 can redeem whatever the hell follows. I've never been on the Wayne Train, though.

more to follow

whoops!

Good Girl Gone Bad: You said it better than I can: Enough to make me respect Rihanna as more than just a vehicle.

was going to make mention of your ilm poll blurb haha

'kush' is the jam

spoon's old stuff is really good, and i don't even really like ga ga ga that much tbh

gimme fiction is my favorite but idk i think people like kill the moonlight best which def has its moments

over the course of a shuttle ride and two flights today i listened to:

no age- weirdo rippers
jay-z- the blueprint
cam'ron- purple haze (never gave this much of a chance because i think cam's delivery blows but the production is totally cheesy and great, still much prefer music writers quoting cam than cam rapping cam in most situations, sadly)
the strokes- room on fire
the strokes- various collected demos and live recordings

D: the little button on my laptop right above f4 that opens the dvd program if I even brush against it and takes several minutes to deal with

I never got off the fence one way or the other about Dip Set and feel no obligation to follow or hate them.

also: tough alliance- a new chance/new waves ep

^i listen to this like once every two months and love it every time-- surprisingly great subtle flourishes under the synths, rattling percussion sometimes and stuff

the do-do-dos on "something special"

shara nelson friendly fire
agalloch pale folklore
crystal castles
cybotron clear
grace jones nightclubbing
high places 03/07-09/07
freddie hubbard above and beyond
alison moyet turn
hope nunnery wilderness lounge
johnnie taylor philosophy continues
lisa lisa and cult jam w/full force (s/t)
mountain goats heretic pride

OST Mahabharata (of that Peter Brook-made movie of '88)
Jon & Vangelis, Chronicles (it's a compilation, and yet - "I'll Find My Way Home" ain't on it, wtf??!)

Verdi - Ernani featuring Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti.
Erykah Badu - Crazypants
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
UHF - "Gold Rush"
Lupe Fiasco - Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
Gnarls Barkley - Some lukewarm sophomore effort that will probably grow on me

The Goodnight Loving - Crooked Lake (great!)
Blank Dogs - In the Red
Billy Bao - Dialects of Shit
Francoise Hardy
Monoshock - Runnin' Ape Like From The Backwards Superman

M.O.P. - 10 Years and Gunnin'
Above the Law - Livin' Like Hustlers
Art Blakey - Jazz Messangers
Vampire Hands - You and Me Cherry Red
Dust - Hard Attack
She & Him - Volume 1

gentle touch 'in memory of savannah', like OMD meets the Sweetest Ache? This after the Moto Boy album on the same label, Songs I Wish I'd Written is off to a great start this year.

Golden Afrique Vol. 1
Soft Machine 1
Jazzie B Presents Soul II Soul at the Africa Centre

Basic Reshape Compilation
Imagination - 'Night Dubbing' (so amazing - possibly best ever remix album)
Hardstyle comps (all awful, but I tried)
Gillian Welch and Robert Plant - 'Raising Sand'
Kevin Saunderson remix series
Prosumer and Murat Tepeli - 'Serenity'

smog - supper
stone roses - made of stone
god save the clientele

Steaming Coils - Never Creak
25 Suaves - I Want It Loud
Broselmachine
A Gift from Euphoria
The Bad Trips
FNU Ronnies - Meat 7"
Los Llamaradas - The Very Next Moment 7"
Ralph Lundsten - Fadervar
The Primitons EP

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs
Autechre - Quaristice
Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
Depeche Mode - Songs of Faith and Devotion Live
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
The Raveonettes - Whip It On
Skywave - Synthstatic
The Stone Roses - The Very Best of the Stone Roses
Wu-Tang Clan - 36 Chambers (Enter the Wu-Tang)

Paul Desmond, Skylark (1973 alb.)
Eyeless In Gaza, Plague Of Years (comp. 1980-2006)

The Haskels - Takin' the City by Storm

Wilder - Teardrop Explodes
Antidotes - Foals
Lazarus EP - Boo Radleys
ABC music - Stereolab

Panic at the Disco - Pretty.Odd.
Guided by Voices - Under the Bushes, Under the Stars
The Dodos - Visiter
Counting Crows - Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
Foxhole - We the Withering Tree
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple

lotsa dub dub dub
old broken flag tapes
raven - back to ohio blues
kempi - rap n borie
the goslings - occassion
wolf eyes - fortune dove
incapacitants - ministy of foolishness

Kraak & Smaak's "Plastic People" is giving my ears a boner

The Peddlers w/ The London Philharmonic Orchestra, Suite London
Various, Club Meets Classics
Folz/ Olivia/ Chevillon, Soffio di Scelsi

right now: Cornell Campbell, "Jah Give Us Dub" off the Junior Reed/Cornell Campbell twofer "Double Top" - this dub is either Scientist or Tubby and is in any case completely awesome

^^^ Cornell Campbell is great, especially I Shall Not Remove and the Gorgon trilogy (his was the first Blood & Fire disc I ever bought).

For me, right now it's Rahsaan Patterson Loving You, from the After Hours disc. Nu-Prince-ish.

Parallel Lines, Blondie

Dengue Fever - Venus on Earth

In 2008 I'm obsessed with:

Radiohead's "In Rainbows"
Jonny Greenwood's score for There Will Be Blood (haven't heard the bonus tracks? "De-Tuned Quartet" is awesome)
"La Belle Histoire D'Amour" - Edith Piaf
"After All" - David Bowie
"Expecting" - Minnie Ripperton (in fact, the whole of Come into my garden)
"My Love Will Never Die" - Otis Rush
"Pie Jesu" - Lili Boulanger (such an underrated composer)
The Three Songs by Mallarmé by Ravel.
Gloria Coates (esp. her string quartets)
The chord progressions on "Pandora's Aquarium" by Tori Amos.
Diamanda Galás when she does spoken-word & Chopin-Liszt hybrid piano arrangements.
All of Alice Coltrane's arrangements for strings.
Playing Dorothy Ashby's Afro Harpin' at dinner parties.
Osvaldo Golijov's beautiful, beautiful score for Youth Without Youth
Galina Ustvolskaya (mmm the Octet and the Concerto for timpani, strings & orchestra)
Early Sofiya Gubaydulina (esp. her Piano Quintet)
Joanna Newsom, "Only Skin" & her gorgeous new song
Moishei Vainberg (just listen to the third mov. of his 18th Symph---beautiful)
The guitar solo in "Marquee Moon."