Whatcha listening to 2010?

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Phil Upchurch - Darkness,Darkness

Some of the best damned guitar I've heard in a long while.

Silkie, City Limits, Vol. 1
Curren$y, Smokee Robinson
Spoon, Transference
Sade, Soldier of Love
Redman, Whut? Thee Album
Mark E, Works 2005-2009: Selected Tracks & Edits
Mannie Fresh, Return of the Ballin'
Outkast, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Lil Cali & Mouse, Just Because
Love, Forever Changes
Gucci Mane, The State vs. Radric Davis

alley boy - definition of fuck shit
ciara - evolution
beyonce - b'day
lindstrom - it's a feedelity affair
ne-yo - in my own words
titus andronicus - the monitor
z-ro - cocaine
vampire weekend - contra
r. kelly - happy people/u saved me
hot chip - one life stand
the-dream - "love king"
erykah badu ft. lil wayne - "jump up in the air (stay there)"
gucci mane ft. yung la & supa - "everything"

Pantha du Prince - Black Noise (I hope the year is full of albums I unexpectedly like this much)
Marina & the Diamonds - streaming Family Jewels or individual tracks until CD arrives
Tokyo Jihen - Sports (yet another disappointing album-length release from Shiina Ringo (with or without the boys), which makes four in a row)
Ghada Shbeir - Qawaleb (Composed by Sayed Darwish - historically important music, but still somewhat difficult for me to get into despite Shbeir's fresh approach to preserving this sort of material)
Ahmed el Hifnawi - Memories of the Beach (generic-looking packaging does not hint at how good this is (though the percussion seems a bit too bland on first listen); Al Hifnawi was Oum Kalthoum's main violinist and he was awesome)
Ahamd el Hefnawi & The Oum Koulthoum Orchestra - The Grand Melodies of Om Kalsoum (haven't heard all of this yet--and more on all this Arab stuff likely later on appropriate threads)
Sakir Oner Gunhan - something I downloaded from a blog without knowing much about it
Boris - Heavy Rocks

John Coltrane - Blue Train
Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'

Pantha du Prince - Black Noise (I hope the year is full of albums I unexpectedly like this much)

Seconding this.

hospitals - s/t
thee oh sees - the master's bedroom is worth spending a night in
noveller/aidan baker - split (aidan baker side is mad boring but noveller is A++)
alley boy - definition of fuck shit
strange boys - be brave
myelin sheaths - do the mental twist
vampire weekend - contra

Gonjasufi-A Sufi and a Killer
The Art Museums-Rough Frame
Lali Puna-Our Inventions
The Mantles-s/t
Spoon-Transference
Hot Chip-One Life Stand
Madlib-Medicine Show No. 2: Flight to Brazil

Madlib-Medicine Show No. 2: Flight to Brazil

How's this one?

Lots of Julianna Barwick and Arthur Russell. And Eurovision selection shows. And the Owen Pallett album.

R. Stevie Moore and ABBA.

Concerning Madlib's Medicine Show No. 2 Flight to Brazil, it actually TAKES you to Brazil if you close your eyes. In other words, it's the shite.

Richard H. Kirk meets the Truck bombers of suburbia.
Richard H. Kirk : URP (Volumes 1 - 3)
Tim Wright : Thirst
Buzzin' Fly Volunes 3-4
The Heliocentrics : Fallen Angels ep
Phelan Sheppard : Harps Old Master

Disappears - live over the rainbo

great record!

somewhere between The Stooges,Neu! and 80's noise rock.

they signed to Kranky and will release Lux somewhere around 2010. i hope they won't lose the dirty sound.

Mycale- sings Masada Book Two- The Book of Angels 13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtodPwZvMl0&feature=related

xpost
(shitty sound but still)

Concerning Madlib's Medicine Show No. 2 Flight to Brazil, it actually TAKES you to Brazil if you close your eyes. In other words, it's the shite.

Awesome. I'd been on the fence, but just ordered the first two Madlib Medicine Show CDs from Amazon.

madlib is a great dj

Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
The Horace Silver Quintet - Song for My Father (hai Don! hai Walt!)

I might pick up the Madlib tonight having thoroughly enjoyed the Mind Fusion mixes.

Steffen Basho-Junghans, "When The Plains Are Singing" (from IS lp)
Siouxsie's 2007 solo thingy (still sounds, after a third listen, one dull muther of a rekkid, sadly)
Ornette + Joachim Kühn, Colors (gets bettah with every listen, i'm on a fourth now)
Sparks, Exotic Creatures of the Deep (yeah yeah, i did suspect they knew what they were doing, too, and knew how to)
Various, Our Own Voices: Expose Yourself To TRIKONT

Ex-USSR and Eastern Bloc 60s beat and filthy black metal. Hello, I'm new! Blame pfunkguy for my appearance.

samosa, how's that new Strange Boys album? Saw them live last year and they were fantastic in sort of a countrified VU kinda way.

Charlotte Gainsbourg, IRM
Gram Parsons, Archive Vol. 1: Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969 (Flying Burrito Brothers)
Various, Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 1
Talking Heads, Live in Rome 1980 (bootleg cd, sounds taped from video initially but once you're accustomed to it it's the performance of a band on fire that remains)
"oldies":
Urusei Yatsura, We Are Urusei Yatsura
The Walkabouts, Scavenger

xpost - welcome. Awesome screen name, sounds like an outtake of Der Ramones.

(helmut was also kohl. which is almost kool. altho not exactly ex-ussr)
(nevah mind, i'm just ramblin'. to the sound of tv (not on the radio))

samosa, how's that new Strange Boys album? Saw them live last year and they were fantastic in sort of a countrified VU kinda way.

― willem, Wednesday, February 24, 2010 7:50 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

it's good but if you haven't heard the debut definitely pick that up first. the new one's more folky and miserable. i'm kind of bummed at the lack of garage boogie, but the title track kind of makes up for it.

the inbetweens, quantum cowboy
The fake fictions, magic infinity
retribution gospel choir, 2
xiu xiu, the complete discography (from my gf)

Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
Judee Sill - s/t
Ellen Allien - Thrills
M.I.A. - Arular

my top 10 last.fm artists of the last 3 months:

The Knife
Massive Attack
Owen Pallett
The Cure
Bat for Lashes
Vitalic
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The xx
Tears for Fears
Black Moth Super Rainbow

(missing all of the New Order, Excessive Force and Vampire Weekend I've been playing in the car)

don't get Bat for Lashes at all. i mean, she's cute an all but that record is just...zzzzzzzzzzzzz. (Bjork minus marbles--not to mention any tangible sense of song dynamics whatsoever--maybe?)

I'm can't speak to the Bjork comparisons since I've never listened to her much at all, but to my ears BFL's songs have plenty of dynamics. Definitely a lot less snoozeworthy than the new Vampire Weekend, to pick a recent example.

Local Natives, Gorilla Manor (I feel dirty for liking this, but fuck there are some really great moments)
Joanna Newsom, Have One On Me (was never sold on her before, but I like this a lot)
Miles Davis, Big Fun (a newer addition to my Miles collection, been reading his autobiography)
High On Fire, Snakes For The Divine (another fantastic HoF album)
Alkaline Trio, This Addiction (a former favorite now guilty pleasure, but not horrible)

pati yang : faith hope and fury.

next time you visit poland, the only place where this album has been released, pick up a copy if you like robo-glam/drama queen electro pop.
according to various places on the wire, she has been given a trip hop tag, but this album moves away from that and point towards her flykkiller stuff in parts, albeit in a more radio friendly manner.

Appleblim - Apple Pips FABRICLIVE Promo Mix

Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga GA
Sade, Lovers Rock
Mobb Deep, The Infamous
2Pac, Me Against the World
Goodie Mob, Soul Food
Aaliyah

Prins Thomas
Nas, Illmatic
Four Tet, There Is Love in You
The Field, From Here We Go Sublime
Sade, Promise
The xx
Prince, Sign 'o' the Times
Curren$y, Smokee Robinson
Nicolay, City Lights 2: Shibuya
Beyonce, B'Day
Amerie, Because I Love It
Sunn O))), Monoliths & Dimensions
Sade, Stronger Than Pride
Blaq Poet, The Blaqprint
Vampire Weekend, Contra
A Tribe Called Quest, The Low End Theory

Original Silence, The First Original Silence
Fleetwood Mac, Tusk
Brian Eno, Ambient series
Supersilent, 4
Sparkle Motion's King Crimson mixes
Humcrush, Hornswoggle
Owen Pallett, Heartland
Sunny Murray, Sunny Murray Quintet

Mycale: Mycale: The Book Of Angels, Vol. 13 (composer: John Zorn)
Erik Friedlander: Volac: Book Of Angels, Vol. 8
Hossein Alizadeh: Sallaneh
Hossein Alizadeh: Ney Navâ + Avây-e mehr + Nowruz & Savârân-e dasht-e omid [I don't think the software is going to like those diacriticals]
Derek Bailey: Ballads

Smokey Johnson It aint my fault
Betty Harris Soul Perfection Plus
The Meters Struttin
Queen - "Princes of the Universe" (trying to understand what is happening in the song)
This is probably a question for Jordan, but does anyone have any tips on other drummers who play with that loose second-line funk sound like Zigaboo and Smokey Johnson?

Various things spinning in the car in recent weeks, off the top of my head:

Four Tet, There Is Love in You
Spoon, Transference
Brethren of the Free Spirit, The Wolf Also Shall Dwell with the Lamb
Michael Mayer, Fabric 13
Yeasayer, Odd Blood
Pantha du Prince, Black Noise
Kompakt 100
Tau Emerald, Travellers Two
Electrik Red, How to Be a Lady: Volume 1
Lady Gaga, The Fame
Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster
Lindstrom and Christabelle, Real Life Is No Cool
Strong Arm Steady, In Search of Stoney Jackson
The Knife, Tomorrow, In a Year

CD3, CD4 and (bit of) CD5 of the 100 Hits: Disco box (EMI).

don't get Bat for Lashes at all. i mean, she's cute an all but that record is just...zzzzzzzzzzzzz. (Bjork minus marbles--not to mention any tangible sense of song dynamics whatsoever--maybe?)

There are a few Bjorkisms but there are way more Tori Amosisms. Also, I think her strongest songs are on Fur & Gold ("Trophy", "What's A Girl To Do", "Bat's Mouth"). I like the way Two Suns works as an album and strongly disagree that there is no sense of song dynamics (IMO it's pretty willful revisionism to say that "Sleep Alone", "Moon and Moon" and "Two Planets" all occupy the same dynamic space).

Nuggets boxset (TMI but mostly just The Rationals "I Need You" over and over and over as I dance to it like Tom Cruise in "Risky Business" while I am alone in the house)
Pantha du Prince, Black Noise
Anthony Shake Shakir 3 x CD boxset
Demdike Stare CD
Cowboy Copas, Greatest Hits LP
Beach House, Teen Dream
Burzum, Belus
The Kinks, Arthur

but does anyone have any tips on other drummers who play with that loose second-line funk sound like Zigaboo and Smokey Johnson?

i have to scavenge to get my second-line drumming fix. like, shannon powell on leroy jones "bourbon street parade" (from mo' cream from the crop), herlin riley on "happy feet blues" (wynton marsalis live at the village vanguard), herlin on shamarr allen's record, and gerald french "when my dreamboat comes home" (from mark braud's record "hot sausage rag"). also jason marsalis on john ellis records (check out "happy" from one foot in the swamp).

all that stuff is more jazz-oriented, though. if you're talking about backbeat funk, do you like stanton moore? he's a zigaboo disciple obv, and i like their older records when they were strictly retro. i also like maceo parker's "southern exposure" a lot, which has mostly new orleans musicans. russell batiste plays drums on a few tracks, and rebirth is on there too.

where did you get the o.g. version of "ain't my fault"? i love it, but hadn't heard it until i got it off this blog.

yeah, i should have clarified, re: BfL, that the dynamics within any particular track didn't do much for me; which is, right, not to say that they all sound the same (and probably wouldn't matter if they did--hell i'm a Motorhead fan!). sorry, but one snooze-worthy track after another, vaguely different s-w track just isn't going to cut it for me. i mean, at least bjork is a genuine weirdo when it comes to song construction, album sequencing, etc. (never cared much for Tory either tho.)

xps

Tori, even.

Everything by Thee Oh Sees. Except the split with Jay Retard -- haven't found that one yet.

Thanks for the tips, man! I think I actually did sort of mean backbeat funk, but I'm always up for the more jazz-oriented side. I saw Shannon Powell kick some major ass at Preservation Hall a couple years ago when he did a great tribute to Smokey.

Yeah I've always heard a lot of talk about Stanton but every time I've given Galactic a shot they haven't really done anything for me, but it's all been the more fusion/electronic stuff. I'll have to check out the early stuff.

I actually found the Smokey Record at the Tower Records(RIP) on Decatur a couple years back after striking out at Louisiana Music Factory. They play the title track and "Did You Heard What I Saw" on WWOZ all the time and I bought it for a coworker (who I ripped it from, of course) as a congrats present when his wife gave birth.

Neil Young- Harvest
Teenage Fanclub- A Catholic Education
Animal Collective- Oddsac
Prins Thomas- s/t
Thin Lizzy- Bad Reputation
Thin Lizzy- Black Rose
The Streets- Original Pirate Material
Brightblack Morning Light- Motion to Rejoin
Stephen Malkmus- B-sides

2010 Q1 greatest hits:

1 György Ligeti
2 Heldon & Richard Pinhas
3 Henri Dutilleux
4 R. Stevie Moore
4 Luciano
6 Olivier Messiaen
7 Tom Zé
8 Pattern Is Movement
9 Rafter
10 Béla Bartók
hon.men. Hella

eek. posted this in whatcha 2009 by accident.

Philip Sherburne - TimeCast 02

Jay-Z, Vol. 2... Hard Knock Life
Gang Starr, Step in the Arena
The Beatles, Rubber Soul
Zombi, Spirit Animal
Prince & the Revolution, Purple Rain

Zombi, Spirit Animal

Go nuts, Herman.

Today's haul to the office:

a-ha, How Can I Sleep with Your Voice in My Head: a-ha Live
David Bowie, David Bowie
The Chemical Brothers, Push the Button
Lil Wayne and Birdman, Like Father, Like Son
Merzbow, Sphere
Oneida, A Place Called El Shaddais's
REM, Murmur Deluxe Edition
The Sisters of Mercy, Floodland

"Lindstrom and Christabelle, Real Life Is No Cool"

is this any good? in the local mag it got critiqued very badly. :-(

It's neck and neck with Four Tet for my favorite thing I've heard this year. Maybe not the "best" album by objective music critique standards, but it's a lot of fun to listen to. One of those things I can put on anytime, any mood, and love the hell out of it.

If you enjoy these, I'd recommend picking it up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzqiCNSRcD0

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

A whole lotta Rickie Lee Jones. Also: the last two Allison Moorer records (why didn't anyone tell me how great Mockingbird was?)

rhythm & blues motherfuckers - queens of metal

microdisney - big sleeping house
the clientele - strange geometry
vampire weekend - contra
richard and linda thompson - i want to see the bright lights
richard and linda thompson - shoot out the lights
slick rick - the great adventures of slick rick
gillian welch - time the revelator

following my woodentops splurge today, i had a mad late 80s/early 90s day.
never have the darling buds sounded so good (crawdaddy is much better than i had remembered), the senseless things so chaotic but fun, and eat so swamped out.
at this rate, tomorrow its going to be emf/jesus jones/pwei and possibly even that neds atomic dustbin album that tries to be nine inch nails.

i like to listen to rap music. i've been listening to some great old rap albums. if you like rap music you might like some of these:

powerule - volume one (essential stuff)

m.c. breed & dfc - s/t

silky slim - finally here

society - yes n deed (the e.p.)

common sense - can i borrow a dollar? (2 B honest prob the only common i need/listen to)

ron c - c ya

the coup - kill my landlord (once a year this sounds good to me)

tuff crew - back to the wreck shop (heroes. rap heroes.)

d'love - rollin' (this is so good and i don't know where you can find a copy. check one of those rap blogs or something, what do i know? on 75 Girls Records & Tapes. smoke lots of pot and listen to this and love this.)

nemesis - munchies for your bass

kid sensation - rollin' with number one (one of the best nastymix albums.)

kilo - a-town rush

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3384/3332323675_1e30463b77.jpg?v=0

back to wreck shop. that should be. not back to the wreck shop.

a whole buncha N.O. and JD from the new order blog
a buncha ecm - Rypdal, Dauner, Weber, Kenny Wheeler
fever ray
deathspell omega -"Chaining the katechon"
danny and dusty - the lost weekend
minimal waves tapes vol. 1

Lots of MP3s on shuffle. Some good stuff that's come up recently:

Gene Clark - "From A Silver Phial"
Genius/GZA - "4th Chamber"
Sweet - "Love Is Like Oxygen"
Ramones - "Carbona Not Glue"

Kid Sensation! <3

She Keeps Bees Nests
Eric Copeland Alien In a Garbage Dump
Tools You Can Trust Again Again Again
various Snooks Eaglin

I had that Kid Sensation cd! I remember BACK TO BOOM!

Simon & Garfunkel

This amazing Greek music youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/xrstavrakis#p/u/68/Ks1fDxoyJf4

Although right now I'm really mostly just listening to the Marina & the Diamonds album.

MP3 shuffle treating me well again:

The Kinks - A House in the Country
Pete and the Pirates - Come On Feet
The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
De La Soul - I Am I Be
Archie Shepp - Song for Mozambique
Joan Stiles - Bluesicity
Hall & Oates - Your Imagination

Meat Puppets s/t (£3 at Fopp. why did I never check this out before?!)
Smoke - Risin'
MC Shy-D - Comin' Correct in 88
V/A - Hicks from the Sticks
Asmus Tietchens - VOD Box
Black Dice - Repo
Hi Sheriffs of Blue 12"
Shapes - Part of the Furniture EP
Minutemen - My First Bells
finches and guitars @ the Barbican

select tracks...
The Passage - "Drugface"
Janis Ian - "Fly Too High" (sophisto Moroder joint)
Douglas Quin - "Weddell seals (mothers & pups)" o_O

Enjoying my iPod's shuffle function, it's digging up a handful of gems today that I haven't played in far too long:

Aaliyah, "Everything's Gonna Be Alright"
New Order, "State of the Nation"
Eno, "Cindy Tells Me"
The House of Love, "Soft as Fire"
Cocteau Twins, "Blind Dumb Deaf" (BBC session)
Kylie Minogue, "Your Love"
Radiohead, "Scttrbrain" (Four Tet Remix)
Jill Scott, "Honey Molasses"
Dinosaur Jr, "Pick Me Up" (This was a damn good reunion album, btw!)
Depeche Mode, "It's No Good"
The Avalanches, "Electricity"
The Chameleons, "Perfume Garden"

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel, Endless Flight
Herbie Hancock, Rockit
The Monkees, 2CD collectionmon Rhino
Carole King, Music and Fantasy

... which reminds me (don't ask: long story) -- has anybody here listened to Radio Luxembourg on the 'net lately?

Francois de Roubaix radio feature
Neil Young - Harvest
Scott4
Prins Thomas - Prins Thomas
Lindstrøm & Prins Thomas - II

I still need to hear the Prins Thomas album -- the pre-release chatter seems like it disappointed people.

autechre - oversteps
lee renaldo - ambient loop for vancouver
brahms - piano quintet
mika vainio, kouhei matsunaga, sean booth - 3 telepathics meh in-sect connection
senking - list

I listened to The Verve's "Urban Hymns" this morning. I've owned it for like 7 years but I never really got into it til this morning, and it's weird that I liked it so much because this is totally not the type of thing I've been listening to recently.

My husband dislikes the album but I think it's fucking ace.

lee renaldo - ambient loop for vancouver

Just pulled this off my shelf and tossed it into the eBay pile, I mean, I <3 me some Lee Ranaldo but that shit is boring...

(Alternate Lee recommendation: East Jesus.)

that shit is boring

nah it's fine but take heed of ambient and loop in titles i'd say

Point taken. I like plenty of loop-based ambient stuff, but maybe I'm looking for more evolution/progression in the loops than Lee's giving me on that release (e.g., Basinski's Disintegration Loops series).

In rotation now:

Field Music- Measure
High on Fire- Snakes for the Divine
Good Shoes- No Hope, No Future
Georgia Anne Muldrow- King's Ballad
Lightin' Hopkins- Hello Central
Ray Price- Essential
King Midas Sound- Waiting For You
Ghana Special
Kraftwerk- The Man Machine

Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
Judy Henske – "Love Henry"
Electrik Red – "So Good"
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Real Life is No Cool
Swan Arcade – "Babylon"
Death – "Keep On Knocking"
Death – "Politicians in My Eyes"
Ice Cube - AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted
Notorious BIG - "Gimme the Loot"
Born Ruffians - "I Need a Life (Four Tet remix)"
Gil Scott-Heron - "Me and The Devil"

"Action Woman," Suicide Commandos
"Basscadet," Autechre
"Morning," Bailter Space
"Let It Happen," Lindstrøm & Christabelle
"Baby Can't Stop (Aeroplane vocal mix)," Lindstrøm & Christabelle
"I Want You To Want Me," Cheap Trick
"Communist Eyes," Germs
"Blenheim Shots," Swell Maps
"No Love Lost," LCD Soundsystem
"Computerliebe," Kraftwerk
"∞," Boredoms
"Para5," The Psychic Paramount
"Dead Skin Mask," Slayer
"Sweet Nothing (instrumental)," Sonic's Rendezvous Band
"S," Labradford
Autechre.ws dj mix

maybe I'm looking for more evolution/progression in the loops than Lee's giving me on that release (e.g., Basinski's Disintegration Loops series).

I can't decide if this is a really succesful zing or not.

Grupo Fantasma has a couple songs up on their myspace, from the album coming out in May. I thought their last, Sonidos Gold, was great:

http://www.myspace.com/fantasmatics

Ted Leo, the Boats, Pat Metheny, Allison Moorer, Titus Andronicus, Ehud Asherie, Norah Jones, the Morning Benders, Sade, "My Name Is Khan" soundtrack, Rickie Lee Jones still.

maybe I'm looking for more evolution/progression in the loops than Lee's giving me on that release (e.g., Basinski's Disintegration Loops series).

I can't decide if this is a really succesful zing or not.

It's not meant to be a "zing" at all, just thinking out loud as to why I may not like the Lee record as much as I ought to.

Unless you are LOLing at my characterization of Basinski's stuff as having evolution/progression, which I totally get.

That was it. I like Basinski, mostly for going to sleep to (not meant as a zing).

Black Francis - The Golem
Carolina Chocolate Drops - Genuine Negro Jig
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach
The Magnetic Fields - Realism
Voice of the Seven Thunders
Yeasayer - Odd Blood

Bunches of Motorhead, just got an older live 2cd called Everything Louder than Everything Else.
Daturah - I got both of their albums off of emusic. They are a 'postrock' group kind of like Explosions in the Sky or Mogwai. I like them quite a bit more than those two groups, as they will let it rip at points more than later Mogwai and their music is often quite melodic.
Pylon - Never had their two older records, got them both as mp3s. They were a cool group with a good sound and kind of funky at times.
Miles Davis -Bitches Brew & In A Silent Way - these get a few plays every year.
80s Genesis & Phil Collins - I hadn't really listened to these since the 80s much, certain tunes are pretty good. The self-titled LP is pretty good front to back. It's weird going back and hearing those old analog drum boxes on these tunes after hearing those sounds used in so much hip hop and techno.
John Fox - Metamatic - got interested in this one from that BBC documentary on synth pop, it's quite a good record. There are some good songs on the follow up The Garden, but the production isn't as good.

Marc Ribot y Los Cubanos Postizos (The Prosthetic Cubans)

Ray Wylie Hubbard - A. Enlightenment B. Endarkenment (Hint: There is no C)

Trees - The Garden of Jane Delawney

Bob Seger - Never Mind the Bullets Here's Early Bob Seger (FUCKING GENIUS!!! mvb = hero)

been listening to a lot of goth rock and post-punk: bauhaus, siouxsie, joy division, alien sex fiend, christian death, switchblade symphony, jesus and mary chain, and the killing joke.

i also downloaded CRANES on the recommendation of ned ragget, and ALIEN SEX FIEND because of alex in nyc, but i have to say i am pretty disappointed in both!

oh and made out of babies! woah! their 2008 album 'the ruiner' is fucking amazing!

Who's Ned Ragget?

lol yo marc was i right or

Ghostface Killah - Supreme Clientele
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
Dire Straits - S/T
Marsh Hens - Filth Rattle
Stanley Clarke - Journey to Love
Max Roach Trio featuring the Legendary Hassan

The Beatnuts: Street Level
Candi Staton : I’m just a prisoner
Local Customs: Downriver Revival 3
T. Rex: The Slider
Dj Quick & Kurupt:BlaQKout

"Zami Girl (Vicious Dagger Mix)," Adele Bertei (of Contortions and Bush Tetras fame). This. Fucking. KILLS.

Opeth - "Ghost of Perdition"
Jimi Hendrix - "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)"
Elvis Presley - "Heartbreak Hotel"
Rodrigo y Gabriela - "Satori"
Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue
Busdriver - Cosmic Cleavage

Busdriver - Cosmic Cleavage

Just when I thought his album titles couldn't get any worse.

Mission of Burma - This Is Not a Photograph
FT (The Shadow Government) - Kids Track
Melt-Banana - Phantasmagoria
Psykosonik - Silicon Jesus (Duality Mix)
Waldorf - You're My Disco

Just when I thought his album titles couldn't get any worse.

That's a fairly old one actually (2004). It does have a song called "Stride-Pianist Penis Envy" though, which is kind of great.

yesterday was neu and every shameless neu ripoff i could find on youtube, today is this sonneymoon album

The Dreadful Yawns - Take Shape
Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Common Life

fuck yes, I just bought Tomorrow, in a year

Curve - Cuckoo
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Bailter Space - Robot World
Yoga - Megafauna
Burzum - Belus
Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life
Loscil - Endless Falls
Astra - The Weirdling
Joy Orbison - DLDRMS001 mix
Four Tet - There is Love in You

A bunch of Persian classical music (downloaded about 40 albums--almost all of which I know nothing about).
A bunch of Tzadik releases.
Truthfully I'm spending a lot of time playing Marina & the Diamonds on repeat.

Also I've been forgetting to mention (on this thread) Matthew Shipp's very good 4D, which is a good CD, although it is a career overview and I would have preferred to hear something with fewer new versions of the same basic pieces (though, yeah, I know jazz does that).

Autechre - Oversteps (bloody great!)
FACT mix 116: Shed
The Orb - Adventures beyond the ultraworld
Vladislav Delay - The Four Quarters
The Makeshift Radio Podcast here

John Martyn - One World (this makes me think of world of echo for some reason, but while that is inward claustrophobic and melancholy this is widescreen agoraphobia and dazed paranoia, i fucking love it)

Excepter - Ka (Ive always liked Excepter a lot more than I love them, but every time I put on one of their records lately I get a big kick out of it, this is the best one I think, haven't heard that new thing yet)

Julian Lynch - Orange You Glad (this is excellent, chillwave in general is something I approve of, this sounds like chillwave made in a lab by the worlds saddest scientist)

George McCrae - Rock Your Baby (I can't stop playing this, I've had it on repeat ever since I heard it on the radio a few days ago, one of the greatest singles of all time)

drop nineteens - delaware (nostalgic buzz. old tape of this is still around. this still holds up well)
hot chip - one life stand (really really good)

awtekker - oversteps
fenn o'berg - in stereo
yellow swans - going places

1 The Magnetic Fields
2 Prince
3 Nina Simone
4 Felix Obelix
5 The Velvet Underground
6 Alex Chilton
7 The Beatles
8 Massive Attack
9 Liars
9 (tied) Felt

Where You Go I Go Too, Lindstrøm

Thx for reminding me of "Rock Your Baby", Plax!

Quite bit o' John Renbourn, lately.

Neurosis, "Shelter," The Eye of Every Storm, 2004
Conjure One, "Extraordinary Way" (Low End Specialists remix), 2005. Traaaaance!

This run came up on iPod shuffle:

The Blueprint Project Feat. Han Bennink - "Captain Salvy Sets Sail"
Thelonious Monk - "Five Spot Blues"
Lily Allen - "Knock 'Em Out"
The Pharcyde - "Passing Me By"

Klaus Röder
Grand Trine
Gunslingers
Idea Fire Company
Joachim Witt
Ariel Pink
Hank Garland
Meat Puppets
Die Doraus & Die Marinas

how's that Klaus Röder

That Panda Bear bootleg from his Berlin show, a lot of Joanna Newsom.

Thoughts on Foxes in Fiction? I've been listening to a couple of tracks off of that self-released thing, Swung From the Branches, a bit.

Ulver - Shadows of the Sun
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Mihaly Dresch Quartet - Argyelus
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
The Everly Brothers - s/t

listening to Herpes. very catchy. hahahahaha, get it? german synth-punk. dan selzzzzzzzzzzzzzer would like them i'll bet. album is called das kommt vom kussen.

5 years of hyperdub + assorted flying lotus shit

+ assorted flying lotus shit

Saw this guy on Wednesday night at SXSW and his new shit blew my mind. Possibly the best show I've seen in 8 years of attending the Austin-based fest. New album's gonna be insanely good. Not to mention, the man behind the music is one of the most humble musicians I've ever witnessed (he stuck around for 45 minutes after the show at the foot of the stage, expressing his gratitudes to any person who walked up to say "thanks, you just put on the best show I've seen in quite some time," which, not kidding, was about half the crowd -- shit was insanely good).

the new washed out tour ep.

http://i40.tinypic.com/250i681.jpg

Thomas Fehlmann - Visions of Blah
Zola Jesus - Stridulum EP (behind new Joanna Newsom as best thing I've heard so far this year)
Slow Club - Yeah So
Caribou - Swim
Ewan Pearson - We Are Proud of Our Choices
Replacements - Let It Be/Pleased to Meet Me

Pussy Galore - Live In The Red

A bunch of Persian classical music (downloaded about 40 albums--almost all of which I know nothing about).
[...]
Truthfully I'm spending a lot of time playing Marina & the Diamonds on repeat.

spookily, this. except the persian stuff is mostly coming via spotify.

don't know if it was among your haul, but 'endless ocean' by ensemble dastan and salar aghili is one of the most incredible, wonderful albums I've ever heard. hugely recommended.

Gonjasufi-A Sufi and a Killer

How's this album?

new autechre, cluster and monolake are great, and anthony shakir, frictionalism and mark e, works 2005-2009 are sweet compilations.

abc albums that aren't the lexicon of love
aphex twin, selected ambient works 85-92 and selected ambient works volume 2
fever ray, fever ray
madonna, the immaculate collection
oneohtrix point never, rifts
prince, purple rain, around the world in a day and parade
roxy music, mainly flesh + blood
simple minds, new gold dream

also, my car's aux imput stopped working, so my girlfriend gave me her old cds. these have been playing non-stop:
moodymann, silent introduction
the knife, silent shout
the stone roses, the stone roses

http://i40.tinypic.com/ej5u2g.jpg

Funkapolitan, Funkapolitan (1982)

Dunno how an album produced by August Darnell and designed by Peter Saville escaped me all these years, but having found this today makes it feel like Christmas.

pretty much only badu & kast

Javelin - No Más

http://www.milesago.com/artists/Images/rick-cbh.jpg
...which is kind of shockingly good.

Manix - The Early Plates (Reinforced)
RA. 194 Patrick Russell
RA. 198 Scuba vs SCB
Melchior Productions pres. Aspect Music Recordings
Laurent Garnier @ Vibration 199X

best of prefab sprout
the fall - our future your clutter
david crosby - if i could only remember my name
joni mitchell - blue

http://i43.tinypic.com/se4vvd.jpg

Good lord, "Brother Rapp"> "Ain't It Funky Now" is AMAZING on this. After hearing "Brother Rapp" on this recording, I immediately tracked down the album/single version of it, which sounds absolutely limp compared to the intensity captured during this performance in Paris. I mean, it makes you GRIT YOUR TEETH. Amazing.

Then there's the transition into "Ain't It Funky Now", which reminds me of the tricks that Can were doing around the same time with extreme dynamic and tempo shifts. I was searching for ILX thoughts about this song/album and found found this nice quote from Ken Vandermark in The Wire:

"It's the only album where the band run him over. It's got Bootsy Collins his brother Catfish Collins, it was the group he picked up, I think, in Cleveland to replace the JBs because Maceo (Parker) and all those guys quit or were fired or whatever happened. The thing starts with the MC and everyone screaming and the band's in this mid tempo groove which is really happening and they cut into this blistering piece "Brother Rapp". James Brown says "Brother's gotta rap, brothers gotta rap, hit me!" and it jumps. You can hear James Brown on top of the band that are just kicking, saying "Hang On!".

"A friend of mine found a video of the concert and they are doing this "Brother Rapp" tune, and it cuts into another piece at a completely unrelated tempo. It sounds like it must have been a splice but they did this live. Friends of mine were trying to figure out how he did this because it just kind comes out of nowhere, like the group get dropped down into this thing 100 per cent solid. On the video, we watched it over and over and over again, and the only cue is he makes this hand signal a few bars before the change. It's one of the most extraordinary moments in music. It's incredible. Yeah, you should buy that record."

Thanks to unperson for linking to that video a few weeks ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0fn-xyaGHE

The transition is a little after 3:40.

v/a - Psychedelic Jazz & Smoking Tunes (16 pieces from 1966-71: Dorothy Ashby, Gabor Szabo, The Dave Pike Set, Wolfgang Dauner, Jonny Teupen, et al)

Donovan, The Very Best of (and it's really great, mostly :)

v/a - Insane Times: 25 British Psychedelic Artyfacts from The EMI Vaults

it's early summer in montreal. yesterday i brought my speakers to the canal and we skipped rocks and made drawing and played hangman.

boredoms - super roots 7
erykah badu - new amerykah pt ii (return of the ankh)
sun araw - on patrol
beyonce - b'day
pimp c - pimpalation
shafiq husayn - shafiq en a freeka
the clientele - suburban light
the bitters - east general lp

otherwise i've been listening to

buffy st marie - little wheel spin and spin
jay electronica - victory
v/a - interplanetary melodies
pissed jeans - king of jeans
nice face - immer etwas

really digging these mount kimbie tracks

Espers - "Mansfield and Cyclops"
Hall & Oates - "At Tension"
Capt. Beefheart and the Magic Band - "Suction Prints"
Bob Dylan - "Angelina"
The Everly Brothers - "Wake Up Little Suzie"

Gayngs 'Relayted' on Jagjaguwar. Languid and druggy R&B played by dudes with beards (Solid Gold, Vernon from Bon Iver, Megafaun, Ivan Howard, P.O.S. of Rhymesayers, Dessa and others).

Project started as a mutual interest in 10CC's I'm Not In Love (they cover Godley and Creme's Cry) before efflorescing into an entire album's worth of smack spannered Bone Thugs n Harmony.

Just awesome.

Pawel -Pawel (dawn is so awesome, really liquid sounding version of the new four tet, but uh clubbier, which which is A+)

Black Jazz Consortium - New Horizon EP, another release from last year that ive only just heard, after asking a DJ what that was and spending 10 minutes figuring it out after he's done spinning (nice guy, also cute and think he was flirting w/ me but i was kinda drunk so it might have been the other way round)

Djavan - Luz (guy from work got me into this, had never heard of him before. Sina is some perfect proto-balearic shit, also fun to try and sing along in portuguese)

Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy, just a really beautiful crystal encases ridiculously sad song that you can dance like a motherfucker to.

Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer up a hill, this still sounds great.

This week:

Erykah Badu, New Amerykah Part 2: Return of the Ankh
Blur, 10 Year Anniversary Box Set
DJ Quik and Kurupt, BlaQKout
Gonjasufi, A Sufi and a Killer
Growing, Pumps!
Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster (far better than anything MIA's ever done, imo)
Jack Rose, Luck in the Valley
Sigur Rós, Ágætis Byrjun
Warp20 (Unheard)

dnr there was a new growing!

Yup! PUMPS!

la dusseldorf - viva (looooove this)
beach house - teen dream (first three tracks are great then it just strives to be pleasant and not much else after that)

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kblj_nkKGrU/SBdE94WYgsI/AAAAAAAAARg/UU4W7D0QaiM/s400/The+Wedding+Present+-+Bizarro.jpg

http://singersong.homestead.com/files/phil_sawyer_-_childhood_s_end.jpg

cissy houston - Be My Baby
How To Dress Well - decisions
metro area - square pattern aura
ryan leslie - transition

basically narcotized spacey rnb sounding stuff

Daddy Yankee - Mundial (especially La Señal)

acid eater - black fuzz on wheels
monarch - mer morte
dignan porch - tendrils
roky erickson & okkervil river - true love cast out all evil
psychedelic schafferson jetplane - s/t
jimi hendrix - valleys of neptune
moon duo - escape
peter brotzmann - woodcuts
voice of the 7 thunders - s/t
white fence - s/t
sun araw - on patrol

Baroness

Last year's Baroness?

was listening to Red Album earlier, but yeah, i've been mostly listening to Blue Record. took me till 2010 to listen to them, but i am glad i did

I've held off buying Blue Record because I'm keeping an eye out in the used bins for a copy of the 2xCD Relapse special edition with the live disc. But it's a great album -- I've listened elsewhere and it doesn't disappoint.

new pornographers, together, on repeat.

new Black Keys ruuuuuules

I've held off buying Blue Record because I'm keeping an eye out in the used bins for a copy of the 2xCD Relapse special edition with the live disc. But it's a great album -- I've listened elsewhere and it doesn't disappoint.

Unless you are dead set about getting it used, try B3st Buy. The ones around here only stocked that version upon release and I still see a 2-disc copy around there.

To be topical:

Kaki King - Junior
Ratt - Out of the Cellar
Clutch - Clutch
Nine Inch Nails - Broken

ilxor: didn't even know there was a two disc edition. thanks for the heads up! (it is a great record.)

jon: how's the Kaki King?

I think the Kaki King is fantastic, still early days but I can see it certainly being one of my favorites. Seek out "Hallucinations from My Poisonous German Streets" and "Sunnyside" for a really good taste of what it has going on.

Delorean- Subiza
Cindy Lauper- Time After Time

jon: thanks! i'm going to check it out.

Unless you are dead set about getting it used, try B3st Buy. The ones around here only stocked that version upon release and I still see a 2-disc copy around there.

Hey thanks, that's good advice! As much as I prefer to support my locally grown record stores (lolindie), I will swing by Best Buy tomorrow and see if I can find a copy. I'm not set on finding it used; I just thought it was completely out of print.

Didn't find the Baroness 2xCD, but I did get pitched on DirecTV twice in the time it took me to make it over to the CD racks. A good reminder, among many, why I'll continue to shop at local record stores...

hahahaha

Currently playing, btw (so as to get this thread back on the rails):

Opal, Happy Nightmare Baby
Pete Rock and CL Smooth, Mecca and the Soul Brother
Destiny's Child, The Writing's on the Wall
Brian Wilson, That Lucky Old Sun
Taylor Swift, Fearless
Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster
The Radio Dept., Clinging to a Scheme

I told them, "I don't have cable," and they looked genuinely shocked.

Like I would have anything better to do with my time!

(Says the regular ilx poster...)

looooooool

(Says the regular ilx poster...)

Whatcha listening to 2010, ksh?

right now I'm listening to "I'm With You" by Avril Lavigne on YouTube

yesterday, it was the new Caribou, which sounded decent enough but I need to dig into it more. besides that, this is the year i've been really "getting into metal" after many years of barely listening to any, which were preceded by many years of heavy Metallica, Tool, and nu-metal listening (along w/ pop & hip-hop singles)

most recently:

Cobalt - Gin
Baroness - Blue Record
High On Fire - Snakes For The Divine
Isis - Panopticon
Isis - Wavering Radiant

oh, and "Blood Mountain"

Haven't heard Cobalt, but will attest that the others are all great metal records. Be sure to dig into their back catalogs as you have the time/interest (will especially rep. for Isis' Oceanic, Mastodon's Remission and HOF's entire back catalog).

The Caribou album is great, I've spun it 10+ times in the past week over here (why I forgot about it on my list, who knows) and it's one of my favorite releases of the year. Really great album.

oh man, check out the Cobalt -- i've been listening to some of the first couple tracks on it again and again. thanks for the tip re: Isis, Mastodon, and HOF. will definitely try to get through all of their back catalogues.

and i'm glad to hear the Caribou is solid. i need to listen to it more for sure.

Your mileage w/ Caribou may vary, of course. I'm a long-time fan, having seen him on pretty much every album tour -- Up in Flames, Milk, Andorra, all great albums and supporting live shows. Really dig how he's carved out his own psych-pop niche within the music world, and each album puts a new twist of some sort on his songwriting.

Woven Bones in general
Haunted George in general
Hanoi Janes 7"
Jerusalem & the Starbaskets new one. Title escapes me...
HNY/Pony Bones split
Melted Sunglasses
Lamps
several jazz joints on the Clean Feed label

Roland Kovac - Computer
Eurocheque - Die Runde Sache
Them - Time In, Time Out for...
Gabor Szabo
Vertical Slit - Slit and Pre-Slit
Toshiyuki Hiraoka 1988 tape on IRRE

flying lotus, cosmogramma
free energy, stuck on nothing
mount kimbie, maybes ep
erykah badu, worldwide underground

How's the flying lotus, Jordan?

not as blown away by it as i'd hoped but it's growing on me. it still has the recognizable synths & beats for sure, but seems pretty focused on blending that with strings & spacey '60s free jazz. the whole thing is on his myspace.

thanks for mentioning the myspace thing, Jordan. I'm enjoying this quite a bit.

Gunslingers - Manifesto Zero
Aderlating - Devotional Hymns
Blank Realm - Dirty Ark, Heatless Ark
Guinea Worms - Sorcerers of Madness
v/a - Brazilian Guitar Fuzz Bananas Tropicalista Psychedelic Masterpieces
Slippery Slopes - Sad Tugs 7"

jefferson airplane <3 surrealistic pillow <3

just saw gunslingers a couple weeks ago, they are fantastic. glad somebody's listening to 'em cuz that first album got slept on big time.

Neil Young - Archives
Omar Khorshid - Guitar el Chark
Rangda - False Flag
Elisa Randazzo - Bruises and Butterflies
Velvet Underground - Professor Tapes
Pharoah Sanders - Karma
Bobby Hutcherson - Components

Converge - Axe To Fall

devo - hardcore vol 1 & 2
jackie gleason - music to change her mind
liturgy - renihilation
holy toy - why not in choir?
jorge ben - o bidu: silencio no brooklyn
business lady - torture footage

Rangda - False Flag

How is this?

pretty awesome! samples over here: http://www.dragcity.com/artists/rangda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jY5TRfNi7Y

unreleased from 1993, getting a release this summer, apparently

saw this on tv the other night

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

Son House, Duke Ellington, John McLaughlin (yeh lot of that cool shit is blue to teh core), and some Stanley Clarke and Return To Forever (all of it "old", some of it cool - "The Magician" on Romantic Warrior, eg. - lots of it showboatin', some of it 'bit blue, too), and Elite Barbarian (beatless as well as beat-y 'bstracto cool) and The Doomed Bird Of Providence (which ain't just blue but dark'n'doom, inna folky kinda way).

I recently spun the olde John McLaughlin/Jimi Hendrix jam for the first time in a long time. Despite McLaughlin's own negative comments, its really very good improvised space travel. I wish Jimi's session with Miles Davis & Tony Williams had come off.

This week's CD rotation at the office looks something like this:

John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
The Beach Boys - Sunflower/Surf's Up
Wire - On Returning
Opal - Early Recordings
Galaxie 500 - Melt Away
Sade - The Best of Sade
Nina Nastasia - The Blackened Air
Magik Markers - untitled CDr(?)
Taylor Swift - s/t
Taylor Swift - Fearless
Jim O'Rourke - The Visitor
Eleh - Location Momentum
Jamie Lidell - Compass
Rangda - False Flag

It's all about Sunflower/Surf's Up

autechre quadrange
emeralds - does it look like i'm here?
nakamura/yoshida - soba to bara
AFX live at the Metz (excerpt)
4G - cloud

Oneman - Rinse 11
Ryo Murakami - Clubberia Podcast
Peter Van Hoesen - Clubberia Podcast
Patrick Russell - Lost in Sound 07
LV & Untold - Beacon (Mt Kimbie remix)

Surf's Up/Plastic Ono Band are kind of kindred albums, aren't they? Death of the '60s introspection and paranoia. Both are incredible though.

Roy Orbison - Blue Angel
Such a complicatedly beautifully sweet song with superb vocals and backing.

Nina Simone - Sinnerman
Rediscovered through watching Lynch's Inland Empire. Powerful stuff.

Gil Scott-Heron - We Almost Lost Detroit
Laidback and soulful. I don't know enough of this guy's stuff.

Rodrigo y Gabriela - Tamacun
I just bought an electro-classical guitar and want to learn how to do Gabriela's triplet rhythms.

alps le voyage
tame imala inner speaker
voice of the seven thunders
cathedral the guessing game
kurt vile "square shells"
white hills
eluvium similes
radio dept. clinging to a scheme
robert pollard we all got out of the army
seven fields of aphelion
magnetic fields realism
asteroids ii
les discrets septembre et ses dernieres pensees

elton motello - victim of time
sly & the family stone - there's a riot goin' on
black flag - the first four years
t. rex - zinc alloy, zip gun
ronnie dawson - rockin' bones
a place to bury strangers - s/t
omega - 5, nem tudom a neved, s/t comp of english-language stuff
cluster - sowiesoso
lou courtney - skate now shing-a-ling (omg!)
rocks - you'r so boring
the victims - real wild child
THEM - THEM (1969)

Puffy Areolas - Lutzko Lives 7" on Columbus Discount is teabaggin' the b lazes outta my skull even as we speak.

Divine Detroit inspired guitar scum brain lubricant mixed with a bit of Royal Trux reverb dementia.

...also revisiting some live Rory Gallagher. He never failed to lay down some serious gee-tar whangin' fire.

This week's spins:

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (LOL GEIR)
Yoko Ono - Season of Glass
Yoko Ono - Walking on Thin Ice (Ryko comp.)
Faith No More - Album of the Year (increasingly convinced this is FNM's best album...)
Cabaret Voltaire - The Original Sound of Sheffield '78/'82
MIA - Arular
Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters
Ascend - Ample Fire Within
Retribution Gospel Choir - 2
The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
Rangda - False Flag (so good... can't stop... help!)
Sleigh Bells - Treats

Nightingales "Pigs on Purpose," "Nightingales"
Effi Briest "Rhizomes"
Emeralds "Does it Look Like I'm Here?"
Tonetta777
Mayo Thompson "Corky's Debt to His Father"
Simon Finn "Pass The Distance"
Looking forward to listening to the Psychedelic Horseshit "Acid Tape" I bought at the show last night.

Thee Oh Sees - Warm Slime

That Psychedelic Horseshit thing is terrific.

That Mayo Thompson disc is an all-time knockout!

Janelle Monae is going to rule my summer, by the looks of things.

Philippe Petit & friends, A Scent of Garmambrosia
Toog, Goto (...yeeeeh...!)
Donna Regina, The Decline of Female Happiness
The Nits, Omsk + Henk/ Kilo + In the Dutch Mountains
Heldon, Electronique Guerilla

Torche - Meanderthal rite now

Miles Davis - On The Corner

after several previous attempts something has finally clicked with me and this album and now its all I listen to.

A bunch of vinyl I just bought while on vacation in MI:

Armageddon - Armageddon (Keith Relf & Martin Pugh band)
Neil Young - Trans
Ultravox! - Ultravox!
The Godz - The Godz
The Godz - Nothing is Sacred
U.K. - U.K.
Arthur Brown - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Hanoi Rocks - Back to Mystery City

and two new pieces of vinyl:

Gayngs - Relayted
Phosphorescent - Here's To Taking It Easy

nice how were prices in MI?

Not too bad on the ones I bought, I picked those up at an antique barn in Saugatuck. Most of those listed were between 4 and 6 dollars, which may have been high, but outside the U.K. one I haven't really regularly run across any of those. The most expensive one was the Arthur Brown one at 8 bucks. The weird thing was that really common records were running like 10-15 bucks, kind of insane.

naked on the vague - the blood pressure sessions

the sound - from the lions mouth

red lorry yellow lorry - the singles 1982-1987

EAR - phenomena 256

tiamat - wildhoney

masters of reality - sunrise on the sufferbus

ron house - new wave as the next guy: the moses carryout and twisted shouts years 1978-1981

kompakt 100

These have all been nearest the stereo lately:

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today
Paul & Linda McCartney - Ram
Washed Out - Life Of Leisure
Pheromoans - Revamper 7"
Anemones - Come Down Like A Cloud
Leonard Cohen - Songs From A Room
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II
V/A - Skulls Without Borders
Das Ding - H.S.T.A
The Fall - Your Future Our Clutter
Matrix Metals - s/t
V/A - Deutsche Elektronische Musik Vols. 1 & 2
V/A - Light On The South Side: Pepper's Jukebox
Souled American - Flubber
The Fresh & Onlys - August In My Mind
Happy Mondays - Squirrel & G-Man...
International Harvester - Sov Gott Rose-Marie
White Fence - s/t
Rangers - Suburban Tours
David Bowie - Station To Station
Jeanne Moreau - 12 Chansons De Cyrus Basiuk
The Moles - Untune The Sky
Bob Lind - Since There Were Circles
Thwe Velvet Underground - The Quine Tapes
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Nitetime Rainbows
Bobbie Gentry - The Delta Sweete

besnard lakes are the roaring night. cover is yankee hotel foxtrot uncanny in light of the 4/20 oil spill

scott, chromecassettes -- those are both pretty sweet lists.

A+ in particular:

the sound - from the lions mouth

kompakt 100

Lindstrom & Prins Thomas - II

This morning's short stack:

Harmonia - De-Luxe
The Human League - Hysteria
Mastodon - Leviathan
On!Air!Library! - s/t
These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid
Greymachine - Disconnected

Hey Colossus & the Van Halen Time Machine is kicking my butt of late. Can't say enough about Forest Swords & Best Coast.

The latest Pitchfork recommendations... Tame Impala, Wild Nothing, some Ariel Pink. They're all pretty good, not incredible.

Only things I've been listening to in the last week are real estate agents telling me how poor I'm gonna be. And Janelle Monae and Traband and Cathedral.

besnard lakes are the roaring night

this fuckin record

what a record

real estate agents telling me how poor I'm gonna be.

:(

I hope these prophecies don't come true.

wolfskull - dopewolf.. feat duane 'post anecdote' zarakov, cja etc

kumar - thanks for mentioning that one! i'm all about the crazy orbs that spin in the CJA orbit.

rangda - false flag
walter wegmüller - tarot
health - get color
terry riley - shri camel
rhys chatham - factor x
embryo - embryo's reise
v/a - deutsche elektronische musik

mostly rough mixes for the onlooker record, and:

mount kimbie - sketch on glass ep
james blake - cmyk
flying lotus - los angeles (actually enjoying this more after listening to cosmogramma a bunch)
trombone shorty - backatown
lorn - nothing else

Bill Fay - From the Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock
Disappears - Lux
Sweet Talks - Kusum Beat
Devo - Duty Now for the Future remaster (sounds fantastic)
Ellen Allien - Dust
Robert Haigh - Notes and Crossings
Roedelius - The Diary Of The Unforgotten (Selbstportrait VI) so beautiful
Andrew Chalk - The Cable House and Ghost Of Nakhodka
Colin Blunstone - One Year
Robyn Hitchcock - Eye - just saw him this week so he's back in rotation
Petre Inspirescu - Intr-o Seara Organica
Ducktails - Landscapes
and that newest Nigeria Afrobeat comp on Soundway

rangda - false flag

I love how this is on, like, every third post in this thread.

kumar - thanks for mentioning that one! i'm all about the crazy orbs that spin in the CJA orbit.

if you like cja related stuff you should check out the sundowner lathe LP. probably sold out but you should bug him for a digital copy anyway, very highly recommend. also got the new clarinette lathe cut from clayton which has some nice sounds...

Hey nerve, how's that Bill Fay album compared to Time of the Last Persecution?

Many xposts...I really like the Besnard Lakes album as well. Very solid

Yeah that Besnard Lakes album is pretty great!

holger czukay and a whole lotta can. i'm devoting the entire year since it's a pretty big time commitment.

Fetchboy--re: Bill Fay--i love that one, it's demos / outtakes from the sessions for both his 1st lp and TOTLP, i believe. really charming; many tracks as good as anything else he's done. just found a link to d/l: http://conventionalsound.blogspot.com/2007/07/bill-fay-1966-1970-from-bottom-of-old.html

pole 2
muzique tropique remix collection
the black dog - parallel
depeche mode - the singles
oneman - spring mix

Todd Terje - Remaster of the Universe
Yelawolf - Trunk Muzik
Mathew Jonson - Agents of Time
Aybee - Underworld EP
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before Today (lately mostly "Bright Lit, Blue Skies" and "Can't Hear My Eyes")
CFCF - Continent
Mux Mool - Skulltaste
Amerie - "Crazy Wonderful" over and over again, haven't gotten past this song to get into anything else by her
OMD - Dazzle Ships
Efdemin - Chicago
Nebraska - A Weekend On My Own EP

Sam500: The new Black Dog project, Music For Real Airports is a fine piece of ambient electronica, albeit one that takes a fairly puzzling public potshot at Eno. Why anyone would choose Music For Airports to raise an eyebrow at, given his work with Coldplay and James is anyone's guess. But this comes across as the gentlemanly ribbing it actually is compared to the song 'Brian Eno' by MGMT.

Gotta add The-Dream, exp the Deluxe Edition.

You, me and at least half of ILM along with us!

dominique leone - summer ep
deep voices - recordings of humpback, blue & right whales
jean c. roche - birds of venezuela
animals of africa - sounds of the jungle, plain and bush
gothic voices w/ emma kirkby / songs of guillaume de machaut - the mirror of narcissus
conrad schnitzler & wolf sequenza - consequenz II (this is great techno-schnitzler)
so percussion / matmos - treasure state
severed heads - clifford darling please don't live in the past
luc ferrari - éphémère II, 1975
0th - SoEx june 25th

The Beach Boys - Good Vibrations: Thirty Years of the Beach Boys
Antony & the Johnsons - s/t
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Trans Am - Sex Change
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty
Boris - Variations
Boris & Ian Astbury - BXI
The-Dream - Love King
Kelis - Flesh Tone

Today's queue:

Sir Richard Bishop - Fingering the Devil
Gang Starr - Daily Operation
Godflesh - Merciless
Godflesh - Selfless
Guided by Voices - Fast Japanese Spin Cycle EP
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Yoshimi and Yuka - Flower with No Color

Guided by Voices - Fast Japanese Spin Cycle EP
heyyyy yeah, i just made a playlist with a bunch of those early-iish GBV EPs. oh man, so good.

Gerogerigegege - Tokyo Anal Dynamite
Sparks - Kimono My House
Woven Bones in general
Sun Ra - various
Les Rallizes Denudes - Volcanic Performance

Totally got distracted from my playlist and listened to Danzig s/t for the first time (AWESOME)... oops!

More activity on this thread, please!!

This week's listening:

Japan - Oil on Canvas
Deee-Lite - World Clique
Derek Bailey - Music and Sance
Hash Jar Tempo - Under Glass
Beastie Boys - Anthology: The Sounds of Science
Dungen - Stadsvandringar
Amerie - Because I Love It
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
Deftones - Diamond Eyes
Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 1 / Body Talk Pt. 2
Swans - My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky

Derek Bailey - Music and Dance

(Whoops!)

This week
Jack Rose - Kensington Blues
James Blackshaw - Litany of Echoes
Byrds - Notorious Byrd Bros.
Miles Davis - various sessions circa 1954
Pavement - Courting LP Shutdown Offers
Laetitia Sadier - The Trip
Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering

Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering

*thumbs up*

yeah, i hadn't listened to it in a while, but it sounded great. maybe a little *too* pretty in parts, but it's hard not to sound pretty w/ a voice like bunyan's.

underworld - barking
michael hurley - armchair boogie (this is just about the only thing i can stand in the morning before the coffee sets in)
john coltrane - sun ship
peter gabriel - 2
paal nilssen-love & ken vandermark - dual pleasure 2
zu - carboniferous

Deerhunter - "Desire Lines"

Tokyo Jihen - Dynamite Live! (audio rip)
Orlando Contreras - Las Voces del Siglo

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I haven't paid attention to anything since July. What's come out, or what have you discovered, in the last few weeks, my good people?

New discovery: Neil Young's back catalog, bit by bit.

This week's spins:

The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Nirvana - Bleach (deluxe edition)
Jarboe - Sacrificial Cake
Neil Young - Silver and Gold
Robyn - s/t
Kanye West - Late Orchestration
Vibracathedral Orchestra - Wisdom Thunderbolt

swans
waka flocka flame

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Slowly getting into Bruce Springsteen. Was turned off of him for years because my introduction was through that E Street Live box. Turns out I'm one of the few people who can't stand his live act.

i can't stand his full-band live act, either. give me his menacing, brooding acoustic side.

recent listening:

cows - effete and impudent snobs
the flying lizards - s/t
christian mistress - agony & opium
alain gorageur - "la planete sauvage" soundtrack
j.t. IV - cosmic lightning
wicked witch - chaos
john fahey - after the ball & live in tasmania
oblivians - soul food
konono #1 - congotronics
white noise - an electric storm
blues control - puff

bunch of random punk singles (always)

Salem - King Night
Oneida - Rated O
Plastic Crimewave Sound - Plastic Crimewave Sound
Plastic Crimewave Sound - No Wonderland
Plastic Crimewave Sound - Collapserations II
Dungen - Dungen
Weezer - Hurley
Women - Public Strain
Enslaved - Axiom Ethica Odini

oops! most of those are neither "discoveries" nor new releases, just stuff i've been listening to. stuff that's actually new or new-to-me:

christian mistress debut
gorageur's planete sauvage soundtrack
j.t. IV lp
white noise - electric storm

hey, do you like the PCS stuff, jon /via/ chi? if so, what's a good starting point. i've heard only a little but haven't yet been blown away...

I've had No Wonderlarnd for awhile now, but its just now sinking in. I honestly think the S/T might be a better starting point though, it grabbed me right away. Nice mix of the biker boogie and more stretched-out stuff.

cool, thanks

expanded song list. it includes a lot of oddball, leftfield stuff this year, for whatever reason:

• Nerve City – Sleepwalker
• Circle Pit – Another Trick
• The Flips – I Just Don’t Know Where I Stand
• Funky Destination – Jamaica Vol. I
• Karl X Johan – Flames
• Nebraska – This Is The Way
• Superchunk – Diggin’ for Something
• Superchunk – My Gap Feels Weird
• Dirty Beaches – True Blue
• Bako Dagnon – Wouya Larana
• Autre Ne Veut – Two Days of Rain
• The Besnard Lakes – Albatross
• Black Mountain – Old Fangs
• Deerhunter – Revival
• Four Tet – Angel Echoes
• Games – Everything is Working
• Minks – Funeral Song
• Minks – Ophelia
• No Age – Glitter
• Soft Moon – Parallels
• Veronica Falls – Found Love In A Graveyard
• Woven Bones – I’ve Gotta Get

Bushman's Revenge - Jitterbug
Neil Young - Le Noise

(been a long time since guitars sounded this good...)

Promised Land Volume Two (Mixed by Fabio, 1996)

Guido- Anidea

Das Racist and Nellie McKay and Jamey Johnson and Funkadelic and Chuck Mangione and Hector Lavoe and Of Montreal and Bill Frisell and Tarbaby and Rickie Lee Jones and How to Dress Well and Talking Heads and Janelle Monae and the Zombies and Fats Waller and Bettye Lavette and Astor Piazzolla and lots of Bollywood and show tunes and the inside of my own brain

Ralph Lundsten - Elektronisk Musik (4 CD box)
Fatima Miranda - Las voces de la voz
Nuno Canavarro - Plux Quba (this is phasing itself back into listening more and more frequently)
Maggi Payne - Arctic Winds
Judy Klein - The Wolves of Bays Mountain
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Four - Live at Audubon Ballroom 1978
Joseph Spence - Bahamian Guitarist

Lots of Shiina Ringo and Tokyo Jihen actually. I have an excuse because one of my nieces responded well to a couple TJ videos I sent her links for.

This morning: cumbia and other Colombian stuff.

donovan reissues.
dusty springfield : a girl called .., everythings coming up, where am i going, memphis
billy preston : the wildest organ in town
gwen mcrae : lets straighten it out
mitch ryder and the detroits : rev it up (loving this !)
tina mason : is something wonderful!
johnny harris : all to bring you morning (thnks to scott for this one)
shades of rhythm : extacy edition

not a lot of new stuff amongst that lot.

Yesterday and today:

New Fast Automatic Daffodils - Pigeonhole
PM Dawn - Of the Heart, of the Soul and of the Cross: The Utopian Experience
Pete Rock - Soul Survivor
The Beta Band - The Three EPs
Deee-Lite - Sampladelic Relics and Dancefloor Oddities: Deee-Remixes
The Magnetic Fields - Distortion
The White Stripes - Under Great White Northern Lights

gold panda
pariah
deerhunter
autechre (lp5)
baths
some random dubstep-ish mixes

Yo ilxor, how's that Deee-Lite album? I was just thinking about that the other day.

Dunno, I just picked it up for a couple bucks -- never heard it, but it's in queue for later today. I'll let you know!

this mix is pretty epic (or at least long): http://cloudbusters.tumblr.com/post/1022428159/scallywag-cymatic-futures-direct-link-right

last 6 months top artists are:

1 Funkadelic
2 Claude Debussy
3 Randy Newman
4 Olivier Messiaen
5 Rush
6 Scott Joplin
7 Igor Stravinsky
8 Lady Gaga
9 Paul McCartney
10 Fleetwood Mac

The new Clinic album, and I was a major doubter.

inoyama land - danzindan-pojidon
steve roach - quiet music
jackie chain - fear the future
g-side - starshipz & rocketz
efdemin - chicago

various stuff by:
octave one
shed/wax/EQD
MCDE
levon vincent

i've also been hell of listening to the roisin murphy album (overpowered) since it was on the ilx albums list but i'm gonna have to give it a rest now

Jose Feliciano - Feliciano!
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge of Town
James P. Johnson - Plays Fats Waller
Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief
Elvis Costello - Girls Girls Girls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEaVO8rrspU

Listened to that yesterday while watching an old episode of space ghost on mute (not the one below, but whatever), had a real good time.

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

last night:

captain beefheart - early A&M sessions
yura yura teikoku - III (favorite record)
oblivians - "clones"
xtc - go 2
kent 3 - spells
the prayers - "sister goodbye" 45
foxy - party boys (really just "she's so cool")
alice cooper - killers (really just "halo of flies")
harvey milk - life...the best game in town
christian mistress (again)
buff medways - "punk rock ist nicht tot" 45
sarin mchugh & the everymen - rotocoma pollution! EP
king lee - "tire shop" 45
claw toe - "girl from the gas station"
planète sauvage soundtrack (again)

another pile from last night (something of a blur):

circle - "mustavuori" live
the fresh & onlys - grey-eyed girls
the shitty limits - "last orders"
shannon and the clams - "troublemaker" (and maybe a couple others)

stones - exile on main st
xtc - english settlement
catherine howe - what a beautiful place
waka flocka flame - flockaveli
grinderman - 2
v/a - run the road
six finger satellite - half control
rocket from the crypt - circa now!
thelonious monk - it's monk's time
neil young - le noise
roc marciano - marcberg
gentleman jesse

shit robot - from the cradle to the grave
superpitcher - kilimanjaro
stephen malkmus - pig lib
drop nineteens - delaware

Belbury Poly - From a Distant Star
Bukka White - Memphis Hot Shots
Andrew Cedermark - Moon Deluxe
Skip James - Today
Sun Araw - On Patrol
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
Diego Bernal - For Corners
Roc Marciano - Marcberg
Miles Davis - On The Corner
Candy Claws - Hidden Lands
Tipsy - Buzzz

Nobber edit: Belbury Poly - From an Ancient Star

Sun City Girls Funeral Mariachi over and over.

Ah, I wanna hear that!

Get it, it is amazing.

Belbury Poly - From a Distant Star

i dig this album, and this label. it's trippy.

this afternoon:

total control - "paranoid video" 45 (plus a couple other TC singles)
prison - "new hell" 45
outdoorsmen - "the the men of the outdoors, love is a beautiful wave" EP
topaz rags - "crown center" 45
bitchin bajas/moon duo - split 7"
the soft moon - "parallels" 45
nobunny - "your mouth" b-side
white shit - EP on PPM

the soft moon - "parallels" 45

This is really something great. I picked up this and the "Breathe The Fire" 7" recently.

Today's vinyl list:

Sun City Girls - 330,003 Crossdressers From Beyond The Rig Veda
Sun Araw - Off Duty 12"
Paul McCartney - Paul McCartney II

"i dig this album, and this label. it's trippy."

I dont know why but listening to The Hidden Door evokes a train journey from West Yorkshire to London I experienced as a child in the 70's. The BP do sound a bit like the soundtrack to a 70's Ken Loach film from an alternative multiverse where Ken has forsaken his standard social realism after dropping too much acid.

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

SO GOOD

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Sonny Rollins - Sonny Rollins Plays
Globe Unity Orchestra - Globe Unity 67 & 70
Ernesto Djedje - Zibote
Sacred Rhythms of Cuban Santeria
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman
Notorious B.I.G. - Life After Death
Mississippi Fred McDowell & Johnny Woods - Mama Says I'm Crazy
Krzysztof Komeda - Knife in the Water / Cul De Sac
various James Chance
various Fugazi

Today at work:

The Mirrors - Something That Would Never Do
Alice Cooper - Killer
Sonic's Rendezvous Band - Sweet Nothing
Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels - Take A Ride...
V/A - Reverberation IV (Heavy Psych Comp)
Thee Midniters - In Thee Midnite Hour!!!
Creme Soda - Tricky Zingers
The Shadows of Knight - Raw 'n Alive 1966!
Eddie and the Hot Rods - Life on the Line

Otherwise:
The Boys - s/t (IN LOVE WITH THIS)
Ultravox! - Ha! Ha! Ha!
Finchley Boys - Everlasting Tributes
Omar-S - Psychotic Photosynthesis (regular and beat-free)
Panacea - Stormbringer/Jacob's Ladder

richard lloyd - alchemy
the juan mclean - happy house
tangerine dream - phaedra
mozart - s quartet #19
ricardo villalobos - fizheuer zieheuer
lullabies in the dark - iridium (superpitcher rmx)
jason forrest - unrelenting sounds...

weekend - the end of the affair
sun city girls - funeral mariachi
xenakis - tetora/st-4
palestrina - missa papae marcelli
dumitrescu - meteors and pulsars

Henry Threadgill, This Brings Us To, Vols. 1 & 2
Ranjit Barot, Bada Boom
The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Communion
Climax, Za Za Za
We Insist!, The Babel Inside Was Terrible
Tarbaby, The End of Fear
Wive, Pvll
Allison Moorer, Crows
Atlantean Kodex, The Golden Bough
an awesome 10-disc German comp of obscure R&B stuff including Joe Tex singing about beating up his girlfriend because she's too obsessed with Davy Crockett

'ullooo, fair folx of ilxorverse

i can feel arsed to report the below:
for the past week, it's been every day mostly mingus, mingus, mingus. charles.
and it was reinhardt,reinhardt, reinhardt the week before that. django.
as of now, a switch 's being made to mjq. modern jazz quartet.

and it's all been wonneful so far.

Neil Young - Decade
XTC - Explode Together (The Dub Experiments 78-80)
Pete Rock - Soul Survivor
Deftones - White Pony
Mastodon - Lifesblood
Audion - Suckfish
The Body Lovers - The Body Lovers/The Body Haters
Taylor Swift - Fearless
Blonde Redhead - Penny Sparkle
Caribou - Tour CD 2010
Robyn - Body Talk Pt. 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AhU12zC8fc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qF_qbaWt3Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q97c5szTgIA

bits and pieces of the new Waka Flocka, Torche, and Marnie Stern records too

Markus Lauterburg MURMUR - Ennedi (and thinkin' evil thoughts re '70 fusion/prog noodles a la Mahavishnu, Return to For-Fucking-Ever, early Weather Report, Crimson, Tull, etc. and they're clean too...yeeeessshh! never again, Cave-Matt.)

Bowie - Scary Monsters
Lil Wayne The Leak
Albert Ayler - New Grass
James Brown - Funk Power
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels - Rev Up!!
Ata Ebtekar & The Iranian Orchestra for New Music - Performing Works of Alireza Mashayekhi

re :

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this morning i dropped the savage pencil dub compilation that came out on trojan a few years ago into the machine and realised that my favourite track, intro/seventy two nations, is by dadawah and so was wondering as to what else would be worth tracking down.

ta for the tip off

young man - boy
walkmen - lisbon
sean carey - all we grow

mark e, can't recommend this Ras Michael set enough. Black Ark production makes it even more tranced out.

Just paid for downloads of four classic Willie Rosario albums, which I've been kicking myself for not buying when they were reissued on CD a little while back (now out of print). He's become more and more of a favorite of mine over time, and in a sense deserves to be much better known outside of salsa circles, but then again, he's really more of a salsero's salsero.

When we have our end of year poll in a few weeks, can we think of some cleverer ways to put the nominations out there for everybody to listen to? Something a little more sophisticated and 2011 than "here are the names of the songs, go hunt them down yrselfs"

all nominations presented in haiku?

I don't know. Some people say that I'm a dreamer/but I'm not the only one who's jealous and intrigued whenever spotified playlists are linked to.

Appleblim - Burlington Project podcast

Nachtmystium - Addicts: Black Meddle Pt II (5x or so in a row! good gawd, y'all!)
Watain - Lawless Darkness (consistently great.)

Yes, that Nachtmystiuma album is fantastic and sure to place very high on my list.

Cunga, the only issue with your suggestion is that not everyone can access Spotify and it kinda gets maddening to see link after link to awesome stuff that is completely useless to you. Also, YouTube embeds completely bog down threads and make them impossible to open after awhile. So what else would give you what you want?

youtube embeds are fine if you have images turned off :)

John Peel - The Phantom Fifty - 1991 - 1993.mp3

talcum soul volume 5 : 26 stonking northen soul greats.

and the best thing is, there are another 5 volumes of this excellence !

thats the day sorted out.

lately, purling hiss' PSA and US girls' go grey

the doors - the soft parade (just gets better every damn time i listen. helps if yer drunks too, tbh!)

L-vis 1990 Night Slugs mix for RA. For the 4th time this evening, don't sleep on it.

Last week, I just heard Fred Neil's s/t 1966 album for the first time. HOW HAS THIS EVADED MY WATCHFUL EYE FOR SO LONG?

It's like a perfectly proportioned cross between Johnny Cash and Tim Buckley.

ew gross.

songs of green pheasant

Threadgill, show tunes, Sufjan, Rickie Lee (three-disc retrospective), Taylor, Bostich & Fussible, Teenage Fanclub, Shakira, Cibelle (probably my album of the year).

Mari Kimura: The World Below G and Beyond
Oregon: The Essential
If, Bwana: Assamble.Age!
Miles Davis: Big Fun & Tutu & Doo-Bop
Suurõ Pilve: s/t
Seeland: How To Live
Various: Disco Jazz

Juliana - La Reina

"Antes Muerta Que Sencilla" is such a good song, and the cheap keyboards (if that's what I'm hearing) which bother me somewhat on some other studio versions here work pretty well on this. Still, overall this is good. She has a bunch of good tunes, some missing from this album.

Om - Pilgrimage (can never get enough of this one!)
Mothers - We're Only in It for the Money ("oh my hair's getting good in the back")

Newer stuff...

A Frames, 333
Senking, Pong
Chris Abrahams, Play Scar
Anika, s/t
Dead Fader, Corrupt My Examiner

Older...

Derek Baily, Mirakle
Lester Bowie Brass Fantasy, Bremen 1986

"newer"
Reuber, Ring
Armchair Traveller, Schöne Aussicht

"older"
Raymond Scott, Manhattan Research Inc.
Dizzy Gillespie, Planet Jazz compilation

Harvey Milk- Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men
Locrian- Territories
PJ Harvey-White Chalk
Philip Jeck- An Ark For the Listener

mmm! I'm still hoping to get that Philip Jeck, too.

Budgie - s/t
Charlie Musselwhite - Stand Back! Here comes Charley Musselwhite's South Side Band
Funkadelic - Let's Take It to the Stage
Eddie Henderson - Sunburst
The Boys - s/t & To Hell With the Boys
Small Faces - Ogdens
Stories - Travelling Underground
Bobby Byrd - Best of
Children of Technology - It's Time to Face the Doomsday!
Yes - Close to the Edge
Spirit, generally
big pile of 45s
Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels mono LPs awww yeah

Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels mono LPs awww yeah

just 20 minutes ago i dropped the 20 track comp rev-up: the best .. onto my mp3 player.
great stuff.

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

Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain (this is grate! don't much care for their new one, tho.)

DJ Roc, The Crack Capone
Zeitkratzer, Whitehouse
The Ex, Catch My Shoe
Hanno Leichtmann, The African Twintower Suite OST

hooray for harvey milk.

someone still loves you boris yeltsin
golden ghost
carissa's wierd
vanessa rossetto
jad fair (and related)

john oswald - prePlexure LP (prePlex / Plexure Concentrate 2009)
charles ives - music for chorus (gregg smith singers)
http://soundcloud.com/tapebox/sculpture-live-in-brixton
brumel - earthquake mass / huelgas ensemble

THE NEW DR DRE SINGLE!!!!!!!!

and???

:(

talking heads, gordon lightfoot, willie nelson, feelies, cave, various stuff from freemusicarchive.org

tulipa ruiz

Rush, Mugstar, and the double cd reissue of Robyn Hitchcock's Moss Elixir/Mossy Liquor.

Robet Dick & Thomas Buckner, Flutes & Voices
Fad Gadget by Frank Tovey
Elletuse, Laul jookseb ehenna
Record Label Records comp. Drinking The Goat's Blood
Billy Preston, Eight Days A Week

12 Rods

Kristin Hersh, Crooked
Kristin Hersh, Crooked Remainders EP
Throwing Muses, The Season Sessions: Fall
Horace Silver, Song For My Father
Jimi Hendrix, Band Of Gypsies

Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Bowie - Young Americans

Roberto Cacciapaglia - 'The Ann Steel Album' (from 1979)
Lil B - 'Rain In England' (Weird Forest, 2010)
Games - 'That We Can Play' EP (Hippos In Tanks, 2010)
Tyndall - 'Reflexionen' (Sky Records, 1982)

Calle 13 - Entren Los Que Quieran
Don Omar - Meet The Oprhans
Juliana - La Reina
Satanicpornocultshop
Still watching (but not this morning) several performances from Tokyo Jihen's Ultra C DVD (via youtube) over and over again, but not today - Zettai Zetsumei, Denpa Tsuushin, Season Sayonara, OSCA, Foul, Sounan, Shuraba, and Kimaru. Most of these Ultra C live versions of songs from their most recent lackluster album are a huge improvement.

THE GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME TONIGHT

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

whoa re (<intentional typo) we kidding, you have to follow that up with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u2qQeyoYRw

there's no getting around it

In the early hours of today, in a little club in my hometown, listened to Tenniscoats playing live.
Which was really really good.

Girl Talk - All Day (wow, wotta groove!!!)

Tons of khaleeji music now that I've found the khaleeji mother lode (after finally following up on something posted to my khaleeji thread).

Abdulmajeed Abdullah - Aan El Awan 1991: awesome.

The results of another great day of shopping in Ann Arbor:

Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts
Rangda - False Flag
Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon
Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti - Worn Copy
Amon Duul II - Carnival in Babylon
Maserati - Pyramid of the Sun
Girls - Broken Dreams Club EP

Tribal guarachero mix tapes.

Melchior Productions - No Disco Future
Conforce - Machine Conspiracy
Club Africa 2 (Strut / Russ Dewbury comp)
Hard Leaders 4 - Into the Jungle
Terry Francis - 1998 BBC Ess. Mix
Bill Hicks - Shock and Awe

SoundGoods - Tribalismo Tropical Mixtape in between bites of the 20th century poll winners

recently:

lee morgan - the cooker
john phillips - john the wolfking of l.a.
lcd soundsystem - this is happening
kanye west - dark twizted fantasy
blue oyster cult - secret treaties
donald fagen - the nightfly
silkworm - firewater
terry riley - a rainbow in curved air

shigeto - full circle (ear candy but a little to laid-back/stoner-y/underwritten for me)

lcd soundsystem - london sessions (great but doesn't replace the studio shit)

this blog: http://oomk.tumblr.com/

according to Last.fm, here's my top 25 for the year:

1 The Knife
2 Underworld
3 The Cure
4 Massive Attack
5 M.I.A.
6 Abe Vigoda
7 The Mountain Goats
8 Nine Inch Nails
9 Owen Pallett
10 Sleigh Bells
11 A Perfect Circle
12 The Prodigy
13 Fever Ray
14 Bat for Lashes
15 Depeche Mode
16 Big Boi
17 Janelle Monáe
18 Yeah Yeah Yeahs
19 Santigold
20 Vampire Weekend
21 The Creatures
22 Pet Shop Boys
23 Erykah Badu
23 Passion Pit
25 Radiohead

listening through the results of the ilm all-time tracks poll, one by one. i know about 2/3 of them already pretty well, but it's a fantastic list. currently on "ceremony" -- haven't looked ahead to anything that's placed higher. </suspense>

2010 records
Limes - Rhinestone River
Tyvek - Nothing Fits
The Mantles - Pink Information
Nite Jewel - Am I Real?
Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
APHG - Before Today
oh I don't know, I think that there's more.

Oh, how could I forget: Heater- God and Hair

my album list:

1 Underworld – Barking
2 The Knife – The Knife
3 Massive Attack – Heligoland (Deluxe Version)
4 The Knife – Deep Cuts
5 The Knife – Silent Shout
6 The Mountain Goats – the Life of the World to Come
6 Abe Vigoda – Crush
8 Owen Pallett – Heartland
9 Sleigh Bells – Treats
10 Fever Ray – Fever Ray
11 M.I.A. – MAYA (Deluxe Edition)
12 A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
13 Bat for Lashes – Two Suns (Special Edition)
14 Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid
15 The Knife – Tomorrow, In A Year
16 The Creatures – Boomerang
17 Passion Pit – Manners
18 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It's Blitz!
19 The Knife – Hannah Med H Soundtrack
20 Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
21 Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself
21 Vampire Weekend – Contra
23 Ghostface Killah – Ironman
23 The Knife – Silent Shout, An Audio Visual Experience
25 Black Moth Super Rainbow – Dandelion Gum

so um apparently I listened to The Knife a lot this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMX2lPum_pg

^^ holds up

so um apparently I listened to The Knife a lot this year

Which reminds me, I've been meaning to point you, sir, in the direction of Niki & The Dove..."Mother Protect" is the latest thing, but she released double a-side single of "Under the Bridges/DJ, Ease My Mind" a few months ago which is also ace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0zWhk3P7o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8z8Sk2to1U

Mordant music / Shackleton - Picking O'er The Bones

Can't believe I slept on this.

Jay Electronica - Victory
Jay Electronica - Eternal Sunshine
John Coltrane - Sun Ship
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Ches Smith and These Arches - Finally Out of My Hands
Warpaint - The Fool
James Brown - In the Jungle Groove
Various - Origins of Guitar Music (Congolese stuff from 50s)
Relatively Clean Rivers - Relatively Clean Rivers
Girl Unit - Wut
Paul Bley with Gary Peacock
James Blake - Klavierwerke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbVxp4Hl-Ik

<3

Captain Beefheart, Trout Mask Replica
Captain Beefheart, Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
V/A, Ilx Compilation Vol. 4: tiny music
Ajukaja [Umblu, 2010]
Mahavok, Galaktikad [2010]
Fuzy Lights, Live At Union Chapel [Little Red Rabbit, 2010]
V/A, Remajnders EP [Front&Follow,2010]
V/A, Omega Sound Fix 2010

Johnny Cash, The Christmas Collection

..Fuzzy, even

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76QXYg592a4

hahaha omg this fucking song

i went on a date in high school soph year with a girl who was in FRESHMAN YEAR OF COLLEGE and thought i was the baddest mf-er of all time

oh btw-- the date was to an our lady peace concert ;_;

hahahaha! awesome. ive been listening to a lot of stuff from high school and before over the past year. im literally listening to finch right now

Thank fuck there were no blogs back in my early college years because I might have done an embarrassing amount of Our Lady Peace fawning at one point.

looooooooool @ finch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLbHfOhJNR4

keep listening to this again and again -- it's still so good

james blake, s/t
p4rts & l4b0r, c0nst4nt futur3

kinda like listening to the beatles in front of pete best, poor form IMO

lol

it's a good record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRz4FY0ZcwI

forgot about this until right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHki6sF_ypE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gFCW3PHBws

prefer this version tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QViM2BRlqB4

markers that's the worst music in the world

Seriously markers, I felt bad for getting on your case for your lazy image-bomb posting style, but this is pretty much even worse.

The album is a bit of a mixed bag, as I don't think the scandotronica really suits her strengths, but this 2010 single from Norwegian Susanne Sundfør is really sympatico with the world outside my window:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgAMh7s-q_k

This week:

Patrice Rushen - Straight from the Heart
Underground Resistance - Your Time Is Up/Sonic EP
808 State - EX:EL
Kompakt Total 1
Mike Ink - Polka Trax/Jingle Bells + Trump Tower
Arpanet - Inertial Frame
Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
Virgo - Virgo
Schaffelfieber Vol. 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roPQ_M3yJTA

markers, fly fly away