what are you listening to in 2014?

previous year's thread: what are you listening to 2013

deltron
glass hammer
alcest
kurt vile
the hidden masters
the spacious mind
trettioåriga kriget
cate le bon
stephen malkmus
autumn
third ear band
alexander tucker
psychic ills

Max Roach
Neu!

(specifically, the Max Roach + 4 1956-1959 recordings)

Night of the Living Baseheads

Crucis Argentinian Prog stuff from 1976

Leon Thomas The Creator Anthology of his work that came out last year, got some really great stuff on it from him yodelling over shortish jazzy stuff to pretty tough r'n'b. Good set, now to9 get the individual lps.

Slade Slayed Thumping Glam stomping stuff. I think this does stand the test of time quite well as does the preceding live lp Alive. Not sure what else by them is necessary.

Whatever the Bad Seeds selected Mojo covermounted cd is, has some pretty great stuff on it from Karen Dalton to Betty Davis via Martin Rev solo and Alan Vega collaborating with Alex Chilton. Hangs together pretty well and has me wanting to check out a couple of the people on it.

Allmen Joy live set from 1967 that turned up on Dime over Xmas. Pretty heavy jammed out stuff including a 10 minute take on 13FE's You're Gonna Miss Me which must be one of the first covers of them. Nice Doorsy organ and somewhat Blue Cheer=y guitars throughout. Interesting stuff and worth checking out if you haven't already.

That Slade album is great! I got into it last year, which reminds me, I need to listen to more Slade...

I'm just now getting over David Crosby's "If I Could Only Remember My Name", which I was obsessed with for a few days right after the New Year. Currently listening to Todd Rundgren's "A Wizard a True Star" and "Something/Anything". I'm pretty sure I inherited a few Rundgren records from my mom but they are probably in a pile of 500 or so records in storage.

Next time I'm there I plan on digging out some things I've never listened to. I've resisted listening to "Blows Against the Empire" and a bunch of old Deadhead stuff for a long time, I may as well try it out.

Pete Wareham compelled me to torrent the Ali Hassan Kuban discography. Melt Yourself Down is a tribute act, I think.

Playing GTA V recently as inspired me into finally checking out Tangerine Dream's catalog. I bought that recently-released compilation Tangerine Dream - The Virgin Years 1974-1978.

Mostly stuff that I found out about from best of 2013 lists - Wolf Eyes, Rashad Becker, Ensemble Economique

I am still listening to my Favorites of 2013 playlist because everything I've heard so far that's been a 2014 release has been hot garbage

YEah normally the first two months of a new year is me catching up with 2014 stuff and going back to old favourites. Just ordered the East India Youth album though so looking forward to that.

new malkmus
the rashad becker from 2013
the sublime frequencies guitars from agadez stuff
konrad sprenger - versprochen
thomas ankersmit - live in utrecht

I am still listening to my Favorites of 2013 playlist because everything I've heard so far that's been a 2014 release has been hot garbage

Can we now safely say 2014 sucks for music?

it's gonna be difficult for 2014 to suck more than 2013. in 2013 even my once fave band yo la tengo succeeded in releasing the crappiest and most boring album of their entire career. they have become shittier with each release after "summer sun". without mbv, kurt vile, israel nash gripka and nick cave 2013 would have been a total wasteland.

grow little seedling grow

has somebody already listened to the new neneh cherry album blank factor? the song even got nominated in the 2013 tracks poll but i can't find it online. i have high hopes as always with neneh. usually i am disappointed though.

https://soundcloud.com/neneh-cherry/blank-project

Just today:
Duran Duran - Duran Duran / Rio (inspired by a thread or comment on this board)
Prefects - Amateur Wankers (because I picked up The Nightingales "What A Scream" odds and sods comp)
Nips 'n' Nipple Erectors - Bops Babes Booze & Bovver (because I picked up a mess o' Pogues CDs)
Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God (like I said)
Rosanne Cash - Essential (inspired by an NPR interview I heard this morning)

Tomorrow I've got the first two 10cc albums, Billy Bragg - Fight Songs, Altered Images best of, Bill Nelson 21st century comp and the Pogues box set.

holy shit, have you guys heard this? https://soundcloud.com/rc428/side-1-x-100

it's that one dude who collects all of the original numbered copies of the White Album. he made a recording of side A of 100 of them playing at the same time. it quickly becomes beatles ambient music. awesome.

it's one of those rare moments where i feel like the beatles would probably approve

woah

yeah. i'd love to hear side 2. and i guess i eventually will (if i can afford it) because apparently the guy's white album exhibition is supposed to conclude with a pressing of the white album with hundreds of copies playing at once

yeah. i'd love to hear side 2.

and 3 and 4, come to think of it! heh

it's gonna be difficult for 2014 to suck more than 2013.

lol come on now

thanks number one!

man I wish I had heard Youth Code in time for the 2013 poll nominations. I don't keep up with EBM normally but this is right in my zone, especially Sick Skinned which sounds like early Ministry or something.

So far I've been going through the 2013 ILM tracks nominations so mostly that. It's led to me discovering Bilal (prefer his other two albums really) and the genius of the Charli XCX album. Totally unrelated to that I've listened to a bunch of Sleater-Kinney albums for the first time and have become a bit obsessed with them.

https://soundcloud.com/zartan-drednaught-cobra/sets/iller-than-most-lp
Roedelius - Orgel Solo 2001
Popul Vuh - everything
Voices: A Compilation of the World's Greatest Choirs
Yasuaki Shimizu - IQ 179
Fairlights, Mallets and Bamboo Vol. 2 - http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=8231 (segues on this mix are very clever)
The Bad Tempered Consort - A Imagem da Melancolia (Portugese polyphony from the 17th century)
Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. I

Samantha Crain - Kid Face (she may need her own thread soon...I didn't see one)

XP - Thanks for alerting me to the second edition of Fairlights, Mallets... amazing!

yeah it's fantastic. i hadn't heard most of the tracks he uses.

Not sure about this MAlkmus record yet...

It's ok, you have exactly 12 months to decide.

not really, i'm supposed to be reviewing it... and it's LATE!!!! :-O

Maybe that can be my review. "Not sure about this MAlkmus record yet..."

I can't seem to type the name MAlkmus without capitalising the second letter.

Pet Shop Boys - Alternative
Rip Slyme - Golden Time
lots of assorted Hariharan albums
some Split Enz
more Popol Vuh (of course)
lots of Mike Oldfield (but mostly Ommadawn over and over again)
Koenjihyakkei - II

now that I've voted in the ILM best of 2013 poll, I'm listening to the Spotify playlist of nominated tracks

there are some great things from last year that I missed, like the Stanton Warriors and Meek Mill

I heard nothing about this in 2013. The conjunction of "Hamid Drake" and "Balochistan" would have definitely gotten my attention.

Sounds good so far. A little more sedate than expected.

childbirth's it's a girl!. on a loop, for a few days now.

today:

Felt- Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
Nick Cave- Your Funeral...My Trial
Eazy-E- It's On
Ultramagnetic MCs- The Four Horsemen
Scarface- The World is Yours
David Sylvian- Gone to Earth

The title track to that nick cave song feels like it's been with me for my entire life, even though I think I first heard it (I think) a few months ago. Seriously it feels like I've always known the song. Such a beautiful melody

Love the Four Horseman!

2 brothers with checks and the Caddy is fly...San Francisco, Harvey

aside from Roxy Music and relations catalog:
Balqees - Manjoun
Balqees is Yemeni from birth. sonically i guess i'd call it pan - Arabic, produced but not at all slick; sometimes puts me in the mind of Taha when it gets to rockin'; one bit put me in the mind of (Holger's) "Persian Love"
loving this on first listen

no new york, are we not men we are devo, buncha random disco singles, killed by deathrock vol 1, cass mccombs "county line," young thug "danny glover"

anthology of american folk
spiritualized
the radiators
too short
e-40
gnr
ugk
george jones
uncle tupelo

and death metal

Bailter Space - Vortura
Philip John Lewin - Diamond Love And Other Realities
Tumbélé! Biguine, Afro & Latin Sounds - French Caribbean 1963-73
The Orchids - Epicurean - A Soundtrack
Michael O'Gara - Michael O'Gara
This Scarlet Train -Fimbria
Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth
Bert Keely - Take Me Home
Velocity Girl - ¡Simpatico!
The Prima Donnas - Live On KVRX
Kauffman & Caboor -Songs from Suicide Bridge

Shackleton

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ yessss

blind willie mctell - statesboro blues: the early years 1927-1935
penguin cafe orchestra playist on spotify
generation x - s/t
sonic youth - murray street

Roxy Music - The Complete Studio Recordings
Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Neneh Cherry - "Everything" (incl. remixes)

atm:

bunch of 2013 metal reported elsewhere, esp gorguts, tribulation, portal & rotting christ
behemoth - the satanist
against me! - transgender dysphoria blues (likes)

tangerine dream - rubycon, sorcerer, atem
steve moore - light echoes
bvdub - born in tokyo
cv313 - dimensional space
takako minekawa - roomic cube
michael stearns - planetary unfolding
v/a - i am the center
pizzicato five - overdose
clara mondshine - luna africana
mother mallard's portable masterpiece co.
world standard - world standard II
susumu hirasawa - sim city

lots of Led Zeppelin lately

MGMT - Late Night Tales - a mixtape the band made, not a real huge fan of them but I found it looking for Television Personalities on Spotify, they have good taste in music at least - Felt, Durutti Column, Disco Inferno, julian cope, Spaceman 3, etc etc

Angelique Kidjo-Eve (her newest)
Hailu Mergia- that cassette solo album that was reissued last year
Beatles 1963 to 1964 live (on youtube)
Arcangel (his most recent reggaeton album)

Oh, Roky Erickson too

top artists of 2014 so far:
Darkthrone
Claude Debussy
Robert Schumann
Gorgoroth
Roedelius
Belketre
Maurice Ravel
Vlad Tepes
Stereolab
Beach Boys
High on Fire
Wolves in the Throne Room

Listening to mostly 2013 metal albums lately:

Oranssi Pazuzu
Stara Rzeka
Deafheaven
Windhand
Obliteration

Fire! Orchestra 'Exit!' LP (after seeing in the WIRE Mag EOY lists)
Sky Ferreira 'Night Time, My Time' LP (after seeing in the ILX EOY list)
Household 'Elaines' EP (tremendous Raincoats-y EP, the best thing they've done so far imho)
The Courtneys 'The Courtneys' LP (v good melodic, 90s/Flying Nun-influenced indie rock goodness)
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu 'Nanda Collection' EP (seeing her live in 3 months)
Goblin 'Profondo Rosso', 'Suspiria' OSTs + the non-Goblin credited 'Tenebrae' one (seeing them live in 2 weeks)
Holly Herndon 'Chorus' (favourite track atm)
Ryoji Ikeda 'Supercodex' LP (favourite of emil.y's EOY recommendations)
Childbirth 'It's A Girl!' EP (snappy neo-riotgrrrl sass)

Cibo Matto
Slowdive
Ride
New Order
U2

happy 2014 everyone

Harold Budd/Brian Eno - The Plateux of Mirror/Ambient 2, The Pearl
The Handsome Family - Singing Bones
Matthew De Gennaro - Humbled Down

capital cities' safe and sound. greatest rock song ever.

You could be my luck
Even if the sky is falling down
I know that we'll be safe and sound

DO DO DO-DO-DO-DO DOOOO DO DO DO DO (safe and sound) DO DO DO-DO-DO-DO DOOOO DO DO DO DO

Fire! Orchestra 'Exit!' LP (after seeing in the WIRE Mag EOY lists)

Love this (was the only ILM EOY voter iirc)...they (Fire!) also had an orchestraless album (Without Noticing) last year that is well worth a listen.

lots of FAX (ambient cookbook discs 1-4, shades of orion 2, jet chamber, psychonavigation etc)
gobal communication - 76.14
irresistible force - global chillage
mike oldfield - tubular bells 3, music of the spheres
tangerine dream - force majeure, richochet, stratosphere, encore
enigma - seven lives many faces
spacerocks - more modulations

f*ck all that singing malarkey ..

laura marling - once i was an eagle
ariel pink - doldrums, worn copy, house arrest, odditties sodomies etc etc etc
mr gnome - madness in miniature, heave your skeletion
palace music - arise, therefore
j mascis - several shades of why
dinosaur jr - bug

bohren & the club of gore - piano nights and black earth which i am listening to now. i am seriously falling in love with this slow, instrumental, intense atmosperic music. perfect for relaxing in the late evening. very addictive. it totally absorbs me, the music is like a gown, it wraps itself around me.

careful, dude

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/18r79m1319evfjpg/ku-xlarge.jpg

haha, that's actually almost exactly my current position.

been listening to loads of old shit but these are the new ones I have loved in the last coupla weeks.

Maino - King Of Brooklyn
Raagnagrok - Man Woman Birth Death Infinity
Achterbahn D'Amour - Odd Movements
Tinariwen - emmaar
Cilvia - demo
Ø (mika vainio) - konstellaatio
Step Brothers - Lord Steppington
Jar Moff - Financial Glam

Sun Kil Moon - Benji

wow

that album seems pretty amazing but i got to the song about how he's not going to be able to live when his mom dies and i just really couldn't go on, gonna have to wait until summer to try again

yeah that one is a little weird inasmuch as he seems oddly close to his mom for a middle-aged man. But it's still a pretty sweet song. And the song about his dad is awesome.

no it's a great song it's just his lyrics on this are so kind of matter of fact and raw that it made me think of my mom dying and i got all sad

Yeah those songs are definitely honest and sweet. He said in an interview his mother thought the song about her was the best gift she'd ever received.

My Aunt is in hospice at the moment and the matter of fact nature of life and death on the new Sun Kil Moon album really resonates.

oh yeah I know what you mean. I tried to listen to a couple songs from it at work today and when I got to the line in Song Remains the Same about the friend dying in the moped accident and the girl who sat in front of him who died and was forgotten I just had to shut it off so I didn't break down in my office. My grandma is also about to go into hospice.

It's crazy that he has (at least) three relatives who died in fires.

some of my early 2014 faves:

Doug Paisley - Strong Feelings
Truckfighters - Universe
Pontiak - Innocense
Behemoth - The Satanist
You Blew It! - Keep Doing What You're Doing

and some older stuff:

Speed Glue & Shink - Eve
Matana Robers - Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
Les Rallizes Dénudés - Naked Diza Star (just picked up the newest 3-disc version of this yesterday!)

mission of burma - vs.
judas priest - rocka rolla
bola sete - ocean

This Cheatahs album is derivative of classic shoegaze, but it's top-tier. Pretty much agree with the Guardian review, but would give an additional star.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/feb/06/cheatahs-cheatahs-review

Heard Teenage Filmstars for the first time the other day due to a kind soul dropping their name on a thread somewhere. Everything I have heard by them on youtube is BLOWING MY MIND. 90s shoegaze done right, and going over the top with experimentalism (recording albums backwards!). Can't believe I've never heard them until now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uk1hm6zmD9c

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

Jasper, TX -- An Index of Failure

...and it's only available on silver vinyl !

album playlist the last week...

Captain Beyond- Captain Beyond
King Crimson- Islands
Fleetwood Mac- Then Play On
Hendrix, Jimi- In the West
Camel- The Snow Goose
Bowie, David- The Man Who Sold the World
Bruce, Jack- Songs for a Tailor
Roxy Music- Stranded
Focus- Making Waves
Zappa, Frank- Hammersmith Odeon (D1)
Van Der Graaf Generator- H to He Who Am the Only One
Yes- Tales of Topographic Oceans (D1)
ZZ Top- Afterburner
King Crimson- Epitaph (D4)
Grateful Dead- Live at the Cow Palace (D2)
Parliament- Up for the Down Stroke
Chicken Shack- Blue Horizon Sessions (D1)
Ohio Players- Skin Tight
UFO- 73 to 79 (D4)
Cheap Trick- At Budokan
Erickson, Roky- The Evil One
Yes- Tales of Topographic Oceans (D2)
Edgar Broughton Group- Harvest Years (D1)
Colosseum- Grass Is Greener
Captain Beefheart- Trout Mask Replica
Brown, James- Make It Funky (D2)
Zappa, Frank- Hammersmith Odeon (D2)
Nektar- Remember the Future
Clash, The- London Calling
Birthday Party- Mutiny/The Bad Seed
Dead Boys- We Have Come for Your Children
Hanoi Rocks- Oriental Beat

Teenage filmstars, the later shoegazey stuff totally rules. Love the Star lp. Weird to think it's a Television Personalities spin off.

kate bush - 50 words for snow
coil - the ape of naples / the new backwards / horse rotorvator
zoviet france - mohnomishe
journey - original game soundtrack - http://austinwintory.bandcamp.com/album/journey - so new agey
asmus tietchens - fast ohne titel, korrosion
de la soul - AOI: mosaic thump / bionix
yasuaki shimizu - IQ 179
roxy music - stranded
eliane radigue - psi 847

My Aunt is in hospice at the moment and the matter of fact nature of life and death on the new Sun Kil Moon album really resonates.

― Evan, Friday, February 14, 2014 1:36 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Aunt just died this morning. She's had someone else's liver after having failure years ago. She was lucky to have made it through that, but it meant that she was too fragile to fight lymphoma. Sun Kil Moon record(s) are still helpful.

godspeed

sorry for your loss evan

oh evan ..

thoughts with you man.

adult life sucks.

Thanks guys.

Sorry.

Heard some songs I liked on Aussie Courtney Barnett's effort. Kinda a mixture of Nirvana unplugged and the Go-Betweens and uh, something else. She's doing a short US tour now

sorry about your loss, evan.

Thank you

new bums - voices in a rented room
pye corner audio - black mill tapes volumes 1-4.
v/a - radio niger (sublime frequencies)
v/a - killed by deathrock vol. 1 (sacred bones)

enjoying the first hour or so of this i fell asleep a little

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IAfg_Iy7n8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IAfg_Iy7n8

I'm listening to the stuff I'm adding here: http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/5lDWvwFiV72yeLQGjTKfhn

So far we have:

Alcest - Shelter
Warpaint - Warpaint
Toni Braxton & Babyface - Love, Marriage & Divorce
Little Mix - Salute
V/A - Killed By Deathrock, Vol. 1
Phantogram - Voices

The Soul of a Bell
Jesus Dread Conquering Lion Style
Tubeway Army Replicas

Making an effort to develop an appreciation of orchestral/"classical"/whatever music. (There's TONS of it out there!)

Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Piano Nights
E. Parker McDougal ‎– Initial Visit
Ada - Pampa
Mélanie Laurent - En T'Attendant
VA - Man Chest Hair
Beaumont - A No Time Like The Past
Autour de Lucie - S/T & Immobile
Babs Gonzales ‎– Tales Of Manhattan: The Cool Philosophy Of Babs Gonzales
Pal Joey ‎– Hot Music

roots-reggae and dub, and african jazz. this song, from 1957, is hot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9dk2YlnqTg

Pretty much all new stuff: Embrace, Wild Beasts, St Vincent, Polar Bear, Get The Blessing, Planningtorock, Notwist, East India Youth, Neneh Cherry, Warpaint.

herbie hancock - mwandishi, sextant, thrust
edgar froese - aqua, epsilon in malaysia pale, stuntman
yasuaki shimizu - IQ 178 (fantastic, thanks milton!)

http://www.musicfromtheice.blogspot.com/2012/02/sounds-from-yosemites-frozen-lakes.html
The Lyrebirds Of Tidbinbilla
Michelle Bokanowski - L'Étoile Absinthe / Chant D'Ombre
Florian Schneider-Esleben / Eberhard Kranemann ‎– The Origins Of Kraftwerk (Soundcheck 1967) (barely even of historical interest, but it exists)
Swingle Singers 64-67

"Talking Transgender Dysphoria Blues" by Against Me!, over and over and over

Sun Kil Moon - Ghosts of the Great Highway
Kvelertak - s/t
FM Knives - Useless & Modern
Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves...

Actress - R.I.P.
Nina Nastasia - Outlaster
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Polysics - Neu
Isolee - Western Shore
Shugo Tokumaru - Night Piece
Ellen Allien - Thrills
Codeine - When I See The Sun boxset
Serena Maneesh - S/T
Loop - Gilded Eternity

Right now: the new Notwist!

Mark Kozelek - Tour Documentary Soundtrack is awesome too, especially for me since Admiral Fell Promises is my favorite record and it's heavy on that material

really enjoying couple of random new things by artists I haven't really paid too much attention to
josephine foster - i'm a dreamer
blank realm - grassed in

~inconsequential list or citation of no note~

Mostly new stuff, plus a few reissues:

Farthest South - Spheres & Constellations
Wesley Matsell - Total Order of Being
Jaakko Eino Kalevi - Dreamzone Remixes
Neneh Cherry - Blank Project
Valentin Stip - Sigh
Marissa Nadler - July
Kangding Ray - Solens Arc
Vox Populi & Pacific 231 - Cut Chemist Presents Funk Off
Jeff Phelps - Magnetic Eyes

the hold steady - separation sunday/almost killed me
dead boys - young,loud snotty
st vincent - s/t
new pornographers - mass romantic

Shamir - 'If It Wasn't True' - awesome disco/house/funk thing
2NE1 - '멘붕 (MTBD) (CL Solo)' - banger off the new album
BABYMETAL - 'Gimme Choko!' - J-Pop teen metal. Amazing
Asha Puthli - 'The Whip' - Disco gem from the Gobin/Puthli soundtrack to 'Squadra Antigangsters' from 1979

and lots of Sky Ferreira still. Cooling on the St Vincent after initial enthusiasm.

Real Estate - Atlas
Sun Kil Moon - Benji
Leonard Cohen - The Best of Leonard Cohen

Darkthrone
Isengard
Storm
Celtic Frost
Gorgoroth
Belketre
JS Bach
Robert Schumann
Franz Liszt (only late piano pieces)
Claude Debussy
Maurice Ravel
Bela Bartok
Gyorgy Ligeti
Fleetwood Mac
Randy Newman

amel larrieux
jeri-jeri
prodigy and alchemist
beck
schoolboy q
mark kozelek
molly drake
sharon jones
and still trying to get through that goddam ILM best of 2013 singles nomination spotify list with multiple listens for each track. 733 in, 305 to go

Franz Liszt (only late piano pieces)

then you should listen to

his late symphonic poems

Kind of haven't been keeping track of new releases in 2014 to be honest. I think the only new stuff I've really listened to are St VIncent and that tepid Malkmus record.

Other than that:
Bjork - lots of Bjork
Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore
shitloads of modern jazz: Mingus, Taylor, Davis etc...
Weird atonal cello music by Okkyung Lee, Gaspar Claus, Hera and Hamid Drake etc
rediscovering King Crimson
Actress
Stuff from the metal poll - Hell, Cloudrat etc...

I've gone all country, which is... unexpected. AshleyBrandyKacey over and over, plus the latest Rosanne Cash. Also loving the new Hidden Cameras, which is equally unexpected after the last two.

Essential Afrobeat triple CD
Trentemoller - The Last Resort
new Neneh Cherry album
Sleaford Mods - Singles Collection/Austerity Dogs
Wilco - Summerteeth

Some records I've been enjoying lately...

Migos - No Label 2
William Onyeabor - World Psychedelic Classics 5: Who Is William Onyeabor?
Holly Herndon - Chorus
Future/DJ Esco - No Sleep
Various - Hardcore Traxx: Dance Mania Records 1986-1995
Jermaine Dupri - Life in 1492
Omar S - 1 (FXHE 10 Year Mix)
Katie Gately - Katie Gately
Nguzunguzu - Perfect Lullaby Vol. II
Matias Aguayo - The Visitor
Lil Herb - Welcome to Fazoland
Sevyn Streeter - Call Me Crazy, But...
Various - Let No One Judge You - Early Recordings From Iran 1906-1933

Really enjoying the repetitive guitar sounding stuff on the Remebetika set I have on my 3 changer. Disc C of Have they Got hashish in Hell. I'm assuming that the instrument is more likely to be a bouzouki or something, this being 1930s Greece. But could be wrong. The box I got didn't come with the extensive booklet taht similar sets I've bought from Proper have, this being the first box I've bought from JSP I don't know if I'm missing something that should have been included or if there is just less attention to detail than their rival historic recordings label.
Anyway, really enjoying this and very easy to see comparisons to the contemporary country blues being recorded in the US. I'm assuming there was little or no awareness of either music in the respective music scenes, but there is even some similarity in sound. Not sure how well known things like delta blues were before the blues revival in the 60s. They were marketed as race records though I assume there was some very marginal interest from other parts of society. Even wonder what the people marketing that stuff thought of it since the record companies were presumably to some great extent white. Was it viewed as good music on any other level than that was what was bringing whatever money in?
If Lomax was travelling the South recording supposedly pure forms of the folk tradition was it to some extent supposedly Sociological or was there a white audience picking up on this 'primitive' material.
Anyway surprising to hear similarities across the Atlantic and then Mediterranean from artists who presumably weren't being marketed outside of very marginalised areas.

The new Calle 13 has some good tracks (and some not so good ones)

Remebetika is tasty stuff. Dunno how popular Delta country blues was, but in The Story of the Blues, Paul Oliver says that the massively migratory Mississippi-to-Chicago workforce audience had a certain amount of fondness for sentimental-condescending songs about new arrivals, bumpkins fresh off the bus-turnip-truck-boxcar etc. The country bluesiness of Jimmie Rodgers, who also played the vaudeville etc venues, led The Mississippi Sheiks to try a crossover sound, but dunno how well that worked commercially---creatively, great stuff.
John Hammond included a minority of country blues-associated performers, like Sonny Terry, in his Spirituals To Swing concerts at Carnegie Hall, in 1938-'38. He wanted to include Robert Johnson, but RJ was already dead. Most of the blues he used is jazzier, with a predominance of outright jazz, incl. Charlie Christian, first genius of the electric guitar, whom I associate with blues, proto-rock & roll, proto-rock, for that matter, with Goodman's small groups. The box set is worth seeking out, though more affordable on vinyl. I'm told the original late 50s LPs were hits in the UK, around the time that trad jazz and Lonnie Donegan skiffle took off, so may have influenced those trends.

Anyway, check Oliver's The Story of The Blues and especially Robert Palmer's Deep Blues.

Can imagine that the electrified downhome-to-Chicago (not as rhythmically idiosyncratic as Delta, but just as bold)blues of formerly acoustic-picker/ plantation worker Muddy Walls was the sound of liberation for Chicago workers (incl. the ones who now worked their asses off in steel mills, as Waters did by day---not in Mississippi shit). Great sound, so glad I got to see him, but also glad Delta blues and its influence got taken up again, by the original performers and later generations (think it influenced the sound of Beefheart and the Magic Band,and Otis Taylor is one of the most creative blues artists of our time, to give two wide-ranging examples).

was there a white audience picking up on this 'primitive' material

There were Brits and French folks interested in more citified African-American sounds in the 1920s and '30s, so I am sure there were also some folks into more rural sounds as well

It was very interesting to see the documentary on the blues that BBC4 showed. Not remembering all of it but sticks in the mind that the picture of teh delta that form of the blues is named after seems to have been handed down wrong. Instead of it being a rural area where folk forms were preserved in a pure form as I think it has been thought, that documentary points out that the delta was a new development peopled by a young workforce. & the delta bluesmen had come in as entertainers for them so the sound was unlikely to be traditional per se.

Am wondering what other music that was recorded at that time correlates with blues etc. I know I have heard echoes of Irish stuff recorded then in rock & roll but that probably was an understood influence.
I've not heard other folk stuff from that ilk of society the workforce that is just on the borderline with crime and interested in having a good time.Seems to be a theme of Remebetika certainly & I'm not sure what else compares.
Klezmer? Anything else? Not sure what was actually getting recorded at the time either. Thinking about immigrant workforces to the US and elsewhere. The big wave of the time was from the Mediterranean parts of Europe, so Italy & France? Might assume that German & Polish working groups might have a similar casual music or at least less formal stuff.
Must look into it.

Also check The Blues, documentary series Martin Scorcese produced for PBS. It's pretty thorough, incl. Lonnie Donegan, Jeff Beck, etc., although could've been even more so--still, pretty distinctive, and with music recorded for/during some of these docs ( was also a radio series; don't know if that's available, but the DVDs and CDs are)
Feel Like Going Home by Martin Scorsese
The Soul of a Man* by Wim Wenders
The Road to Memphis by Richard Pearce
Warming by the Devil's Fire by Charles Burnett
Godfathers and Sons** by Marc Levin
Red, White & Blues by Mike Figgis
Piano Blues by Clint Eastwood

*This includes J.B. Lenoir, previously known to me only via a couple of 60s John Mayall songs about him. He turns out to be a musical link between Sam Cooke and Bob Marley, a lilting tenor with personal-political lyrics, like Cooke was just getting to before he died--not that any of his songs here are as great as Cooke's and Marley's could be, but they're a find, also the story behind the footage that Wenders found.
** Speaking of new sessions, they even got Pete Cosey in there!

I'm thinking mainly about the music of various ethnicities as captured around the time those musics were first widely recorded so roughly 20s & 30s. Mainly the liesure time music of those groups, not sure how else to categorise it.
But have been very interested by what I've heard of those musics I've heard which has so far consisted of blues, Rembetika, the Irish stuff recorded in New York & Boston in the 20s & 30s, and a few other bits and bobs, early country, folk etc.
Can't think of what is represented somewhere that I'm not aware of. Seems that once the technology was around to record and play back easily there was also an audience to buy it. At least in the 1st world, not sure if people were venturing elsewhere to record widely.

Also been getting into Nico's Desertshore for the first time. THink I still prefer Marble Index so far but it is an interesting record.
I found the copy of Frozen Borderlines I had misplaced a while back so been getting into that.

& Neil Young ON The Beach which I should know a lot better having got it in boot form before it was finally officially released & I got that when they did so too.

Kraftwerk
Harmonia
Martin Rev

death and vanilla's debut ep.

the description on the boomkat site nicely summarizes the sound.

**White vinyl 2nd edition limited to 300 copies. Includes download code redeemable from the label** In case you missed out on the instantly sold-out 1st edition, or have a thing for Stereolab or Broadcast, Hands In The Dark have repressed Death and Vanilla's gorgeous debut album. Hailing from Malmö, Sweden, the duo of Marleen Nilsson and Anders Hansson started recording their ideas in an unheated attic overlooking Malmö's largest and oldest graveyard in fall 2007. Taking inspiration from smooth '60s/'70s psych-pop, library electronics and classic French and Italian film soundtracks, their frame of reference is as righteous as the music they make, and authentically so, using samples, vibraphonette, moog and lots of spring reverb to create haunting, cinematic pop songs. Their eponymous debut features 9 darkly sublime creations already tipped by many and getting much airplay round our way. Highly recommended.

metronomy - love letters
warpaint - s/t
real estate - atlas

Tyree Neal featuring Level-"Get Up Stand Up" (zydeco w/ some autotuned vocals and keys plus trad zydeco instruments)

Avail Hollywood-"Club in da Woods" (southern soul w/ programmed beats plus zydeco accents)

xpost re: death and vanilla

i like this!

yikes, their EP is $37 from their bandcamp page ($20 + $17 shipping)

:-/

let's see, that's $1.23 per minute

Ornette Coleman Birthday Special, 24 hrs. This morning, I checked into "Focus On Sanity," and many more from The Shape of Jazz To Come. Had to go out, came back to a big dipper of Science Ficton, and now--back to "Focus On Sanity," and more from The Shape of Jazz To Come to come. Oh well, I'll stick with it for a while. Tomorrow, The Bix Beiderbecke Birthday Special (is there enough of that for 24 hours?), and this Tuesday's Afternoon New Music showcase is Carl Stone---stream it all here: http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/

Really good sound quality, on my def. sub-audiophile headphones even.

yikes, their EP is $37 from their bandcamp page ($20 + $17 shipping)

:-/

― Karl Malone, Sunday, March 9, 2014

cuz label's based in france, i imagine? digital ep is $7.00 from bandcamp. not so pricey.

i like the death & vanilla totebag, for $10.00.

Malmo is the coolest town in the world that I have been to yet. I could see myself living there.

certainly looks nice. check out the architecture!

http://www.archinoah.com/files/architekturfotografie/foto241.jpg

whoops. trying again.

http://www.woonq.com/uploaded_images/TurningTorso11.jpg

Yeah, you can see that from the beach. In the winter people walk out on a long pier, where there is a hot tub/sauna deal inside, and you sit in it and sweat and then go outside and jump in the freezing water. I was too chicken to do it, but it sounds like it would be amazing.

Also, you can buy a train ticket for $20 that takes you over the water straight to Copenhagen in under 30 minutes.

this is the probably a terribly stupid thing to say, but after the malasian airline disaster, i'm not inclined to go -- or support my family going -- anywhere via plane for a while. so don't feel bad about chickening-out of the hot-tub/freezing water combination.

streaming the new war on drugs

kinda taps into this weird alternate version of my childhood memories of 80s albums by classic rock artists

man does this stuff sound like a boomer in the 80s. he should change the band name to Deadhead Sticker on a Cadillac

― mizzell, Monday, March 10, 2014 11:36 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

from the Kurt Vile / War on Drugs thread

yeah def....i dig it a lot
tunnel of love bruce!

Listening to that xpost Bix Beiderbecke Birthday: right now, he sounds like the Fred Astaire of cornet on "Singin' The Blues," Frankie Trambauer's Orchestra, with Eddie Lang on guitar. Now they're adding Joe Venuti on violin. Somebody on bass sax? Haven't got the title yet---something Django and Stephane might've liked---'scuse me folks, getting back to it
http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/wkcr/

Current work stack... I've been loading a ton of records into my player and just sorting through the bunch for the past couple of months. I load about 25-30 records into a playlist and just work my way through it over the next week.

Brown, James- Funk Power 1970
Doors, The- Strange Days
Dr. John- Gris Gris
Rolling Stones- Black and Blue
Flamin Groovies- Flamingo
Guns N’ Roses- Appetite for Destruction
Fleetwood Mac- Mr. Wonderful
Erickson, Roky- The Evil One
Bruce, Jack- Trust Live at the BBC (D1)
Badfinger- Magic Christian Music
Nice, The- Five Bridges
Captain Beefheart- Bat Chain Puller
Cheap Trick- Heaven Tonight
Deep Purple- Fireball
Doobie Brothers- Stampede
Drake, Nick- Five Leaves Left
Diddley, Bo- Go Bo Diddley
Edgar Broughton Group- Harvest Years (D3)
Faces, The- Ooh La La
Funkadelic- US Music
Genesis- And Then There Were Three
Gentle Giant- Free Hand
Santana- Live at Woodstock
Seger, Bob- Against the Wind
T. Rex- Tanx
Ten Years After- Ssssh
Hazel, Eddie- Dames, Games and Guitar Thangs
Hendrix, Jimi- Valleys of Neptune
JB’s, The- Funky Good Time (D2)
Kinks, The- Face to Face
Little Feat- Hoy Hoy
Molly Hatchet- Flirtin with Disaster
Miller, Steve- The Joker

Back to WKCR listening--started in the middle of "Darul Kabap," which the host said had started in "kind of a free jazz vein," what I heard was voices/languages and instruments maybe from different Asian countries, or different parts of the same Asian country, bobbing in the harbor around noon, thoughtful and salty, then rude bursts of bass you learn to wait for, then glitch-pop scythes and cycles---basically speeded up r&b, and/or j-pop? glitch-pop fevah, but off-handed too. This guy:

Afternoon New Music welcomes Carl Stone, pioneer in live computer music. In addition to international recognition in new music and media arts circles, his acclaimed electro-acoustic compositions have run through film, choreography, radio, theater, and all streams in between. Collaborators have included Nels Cline, Min Xiao-Fen, z’ev, Aki Takahashi, and Otomo Yoshihide. He is on the faculty of the Media Department at Chukyo University, Japan.

I love Carl Stone

Carl Stone's own thread

Jorge Reyes - Mort Aux Vaches / Comala / Rituales Prehispanicos
Austin Wintory - Flow (mp3's of gameplay captures, not the official soundtrack)
Harry Bertoia - F/W 1030, 1031
Clancy Eccles All Stars with King Tubby - Sound System International Dub
Gescom - Minidisc
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Ecophony Rinne
Robert Ashley - everything
Lovely Music Limited 1976-1990)

Now one with Japanese female singer, unaccompanied, perfectly at home, unselfconscious; he (eventually)slips in some grainy mirror images, like Tuvan throat singing, then simplifies, just letting his touch linger on some syllables occasionally, then little swoops toward the end of lines, underscoring, kind of like Laurie Anderson's "Oh Superman," but with different effect (maybe because I don't know Japanese), morphing into really sweet, deft strokes of harmony---now arpeggiated notes (somewhat like Robert Wyatt's ladytron) squelch into Japanese-accented "Oops I Did It Again," but underwater cool, darting---hookiness avoiding the shaken pole of the impatient fisherman, but not leaving; in fact, grooving with and through the keys, and
(it was two pieces: the first was actually a Vietnamese singer--not catching the titles, but both from Al-Noor)
Now a couple things he calls acid bop pieces, though he doesn't like acid jazz. Starts good.

Stein Urheim - s/t
Kassem Mosse - Workshop 19
Tinariwen - Emmaar
Donato Dozzy & Nuel - The Auqaplano Sessions
Luciano Cilio - Dell'universo assente
Curren$y - The Drive In Theatre

NPR's SXSW showcase tonight:
http://www.npr.org/event/music/279055940/npr-music-presents-live-from-sxsw-2014
March 12 @ Stubb's
Perfect Pussy
7:50-8:20pm CT
Eagulls
8:40-9:20pm CT
Kelis
9:50-10:30pm CT
St. Vincent
11:00pm-12am CT
Damon Albarn
12:30am CT

SXSW KeynoteMarch 14
Lady Gaga
11:00am CT

Stream the mix
Download MP3s
Tuesday Recap
SXSW Preview

Perfect Pussy's starting---kind of a swaying, chanting, feedback-whistling dragon balloon behind her shouts---briefly. Then a more predictable punky scramble, with police car UFO etc appearing. Anyway, check it out yall (gotta turn it way up, even on headphones)

The keyboard's making the best, ugliest sounds, though the guitar's helping. The more freeform they get the better; otherwise (voice x all instruments) does get--yep--predictable (rammaramaaOhrammmaIDontCareramamamram)

)The keyboard player, Shaun described how he samples the band, then plays it back through tape delay, screwing with the pitch, also tours on his own as The Pretengineer, or something like that. Bloody good. Interviews lasted longer than the set, while Eagulls set up, but worth the wait: a much fuller, deeper, more robust ensemble sound than Perfect Pussy, though just as, ah, vintage--damn, that bass! Get Shaun in there and it would be outrageous.

(although pattern recognition is starting to take its toll, on me and maybe them---seems like they're trying not to turn whatever this is into "I Fought The Law"...)

okay, the vocalist's Johnny One-Yelp, and now it seems his approach fits right in, tipping the scales---should I stay or should I go? Go for now.

in a silent way
thou
ride the lightning
sturgill simpson
charles wright & the watts 103rd st rhythm band

an obscure band called precious-stones, from africa, recorded in 1972.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrdeVL-ALYA

on a loop right now.

oh i almost forgot

TUPAC

Missed Kelis (hope some of these will be posted, as has happened for prev SXSW and other festival sets on NPR), but back as St. Vincent begins with the one about taking off her clothes and walking around in the desert at night, then running from a snake (true story). Twisting her guitar quite a bit.

Yowee. St Vincent w Toko Yasuda, keyboards, vocals, bass; also a drummer and another keyboard player way back there, at least when Yasuda stepped out with her bass, especially for some prog-metal toward the end. Rocking art rock, at times close to warp-toned Zep (with some early King Crimson,also late, no middle). Concise, though. New songs, supposedly more straight-forward, fit with old, as lyrics came off like marginalia, flying notes to self, bits of her self-cited "Joan Didion-esque" persona's elliptical clarity; ditto Marilyn Monroe's writing ("Surgeon" inspired by the latter). Stage show hyper-focused,floaty(rockin').
Albarn can't follow; don't think I'll stay awake for that (maybe they'll post his and hers).
Set List for St. Vincent:

Rattlesnake
Digital Witness
Cruel
Birth In Reverse
Regret
I Prefer Your Love
Surgeon
Cheerleader
Prince Johnny
Year Of The Tiger
Marrow
Huey Newton
Bring Me Your Loves
Krokodil

Think the persona she described is or was meant to be "Joan Didion-esque middle-aged woman on the verge," but on this occasion she also seemed to enjoy being young, eerie (buzzword of our age, after all), hot and dead(pan).

Also, as Houston Press blogger Chris Grey described her show better and earlier this week:
the mechanistic robo-funk of the rhythm section versus the overwhelming omnichords of the synthesizers or the shards of post-punk guitar versus that delicate little dance she yeah, yeah.

Ghana Soundz - Afro-beat, funk and fusion in 70's Ghana

this is sooo good

Hatcham Social - Cutting Up The Present...
Neil Finn - Dizzy Heights
Connections - Body Language
Connections - Private Airplane 2, both of these are really, really good fake GBV.
Sleepy Kitty - Projection Room

Nickb I used to swap tracks with wesley matsell in the early 2000s. He was part of tefosav and I think we even remixed each others tunes. Going back a bit but im really pleased he's doing well and got some music out there. Albums really good too.

xp to karl - that's the same label that put out this, right?
http://kartel.uk.com/images/artists/1471028737-NIGERIA-SPECIAL-COVER-J-PEG-350DPI%5B1%5D_1.jpg
been listening to that a lot lately, so good

yep, Soundway Records. they have so much good stuff, it seems impossible to even start

speaking of african music, ive been listening to this
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/611QHsY6UaL._SY300_.jpg

also listening to warpaint, real estate, a guy called gerald's "black secret technology", the new mac demarco

brace/choir - turning on your double: stereolab meets pale saints in 2014. divine krautrock from berlin.

shakey's blood gonna run mixtape, on the reggae/dub thread, has been playing continuously for a few days now. beyond that, i'm digging this 2014 ep from a band called ''grimm grimm''.

they only have three songs so far, from what i can tell (one a cover of a misfits song). all good.

john tilbury. the just reproach, w/oren ambarchi, is just so understated and sublime. a lot of the (combined) events didn't really register the first few times around.

Cult of Dom Keller 2nd Bardo
heavy droney psych
Archie Shepp Fire Music
Gary Higgins Red Hash

Einstürzende Neubauten - Haus der Luege

this was one of the first albums that i bought after i got my first record player circa 2004 or so. i bought it on a whim (possibly inspired by the horse ejaculating with eyes wide openo n the cover) and wasn't really into it at the time. finally gave it an honest listen today, and the second side is pretty astonishing! especially the 3-part "Fiat Lux", which is amazing and ambient, totally not what I was expecting from Neubauten.

Guru (from Ghana)-"Pooley" (afrobeatz)
Yasmine Hamdan-Ya Nass (Lebanese electropop w/ Arabic vocals)
MC5-Back in the USA

new liars
new jon porras (of barn owl)
new eyes & no eyes (nu-prog/post-rock indie)
new anthology of the '70s band jack ruby

how's the new liars record?

pretty good -- it's not a statement record, really, it's just songs. but that's okay.

Cab Calloway - This Is Hep
Lester Young - Jammin' the Blues
Various Artists - Sinner's Crossroads
Pete Johnson - Chronological Classics
Ella Mae Morse - Barrelhouse, Boogie, and the Blues
Harry "The Hipster" Gibson - Boogie Woogie in Blue

I only listen to music from the 1940s.

gene clark - no other
j.j. fad - supersonic (the whole album, not just the song, goddammit)

But the song is great (can't remember if I ever heard the whole album). Frank Kogan & xChuckxx Eddy love j.j. Fad I recall...

the song is definitely great! but there are lots of great moments on the rest of the album, too, and they're always overlooked. "Way Out" (the second track), for example, is just FUN. i love that the sides are labeled on the back as "Pop Side" and "Hip-Hop Side"

i kind of want to check out their second album, but then I remember the name (Not Just a Fad) and i just can't

malk 0 wigout
tilbury/ambarchi
olivia block - karren
(best rec of 2013)

fuck buttons - slow focus
fever ray - s/t
against me! - transgender dysphoria blues
the war on drugs - lost in the dream

Mostly just "I Luh Ya Papi" on repeat.

Zappa, Frank- Lather (D3)
Judas Priest- Defenders of the Faith
Focus- In and Out of Focus
Funkadelic- Toys
Wakeman, Rick- Myths and Legends of King Arthur’s Court
Parliament- Motor Booty Affair
These are the records I got loaded into my player I am working through right now.

Brown, James- Black Ceasar
Deep Purple- Machine Head
Black Oak Arkansas- High On the Hog
Blackfoot- Highway Song Live
Doors, The- Strange Days
Chicken Shack- Deram Years (D1)
Cheap Trick- Heaven Tonight
Edgar Broughton Band- Harvest Years (D4)
Flamin Groovies- Grease
Hendrix, Jimi- Lifelines (D4)
Humble Pie- Fillmore Box (D2)
JB’s, The- Funky Good Time (D1)
Nektar- Sounds Like This
Morrison, Van- St. Dominic’s Preview
Ohio Players- Pleasure
Parker, Maceo- Funky Music Machine
Pretty Things- Silk Torpedo
Bowie, David- Lodger
T.Rex- Zip Gun
Ten Years After- Recorded Live (D1)
Thirteenth Floor Elevators- Live
Travers. Pat- Crash & Burn
Trower, Robin- State to State (D1)
UFO- 73 to 79 (D5)
Badfinger- No Dice
Byrds, The- Ballad of Easy Rider
Captain Beefheart- I’m Going to Do What I’m Going to Do
Dale, Dick- Surfers’ Choice
Diddley, Bo- Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger
Diddley, Bo- Bo Diddley Is a Lover
Grateful Dead- Dick’s Picks Vol. 33 (D1)
Kinks, The- Misfits
Mahogany Rush- Tales of the Unexpected
Bruce, Jack- Trust Live at the BBC (D2)
Doobie Brothers- Stampede
Little Feat- Dixie Chicken

Habib Koite (Malian)
Davido (Nigerian autotune using vocalist)

earlnash is ten years after worth checking out? i love basically all early 70s hard rock-ish stuff but always found their "iconic" woodstock performance to be grating wankery

I am really falling for this album by Rebekka Karijord, Music for Film and Theatre. Apparently she is known as a songwriter but this a richly detailed, mostly instrumental album--piano, guitars, wordless vocals, children's choir on some tracks... very ambient/new music. Sorta reminds me of Julia Holter's stuff (but I like this better), or the recent Tara Jane O'Neil album that came out last month (but I like this better.) It's a quiet and subtle record - I keep starting it over as soon as it's ended. It's on Spotify, fyi.

Eccentric Soul: Mithty Mike Lenaburg
Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples
The Cannanes - Howling At All Hours
Everything Is Made In China - Automatic Movements
Unwound - The Future Of What
Tops - Tender Opposites
Rene & Rene - The Magic of Rene & Rene

http://i.imgur.com/hafpKIC.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uo_eC6uZluY/RvU7WXBhfLI/AAAAAAAAAxo/dZsQxIExu94/s400/blackboard3.jpg

Eccentric Soul: Mithty Mike Lenaburg
Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples

― JacobSanders, Friday, March 28, 2014

some of those eccentric soul albums are killer. have you heard the deep city edition? i mean the first one, not the second one.

Second one is great too?

not as good. first one had, for instance, that breathtaking song by the moovers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHZiWPov4ZQ

a total unearthed gem. other songs on that disc were almost as good.

"earlnash is ten years after worth checking out?"

I got a pretty high tolerance for bluesy wankery of the early 70s type. Ten Years After are pretty second or third level, not really great songwriters at all but they could play quite well with some energy. To me, I love alot of those early 70s rock records just for the way they sound and they are some records I haven't really heard and I got mine dirt cheap. Put it this way, Ten Years After is no Foghat or Rory Gallagher or Uriah Heep. I think 50000 Miles Beneath My Brain is a cool tune even if it is a Sympathy for the Devil rip. Other than that, I would put a long list of blues rockers ahead of them. I'd say Ten Years After sadly does have a bit of Blues Hammer from the movie Ghost World in them.

With every eccentric soul release I've gotten, I think it's going to be decent, but each one is terrific and exceeded my expectations. These days I'm digging more of the group soul and sweet soul sounds than the harder funky songs. I still don't have the first two and I've yet to open the Omnibus box.

i really regret giving-up my numero group annual subscription.

Are the Cult Cargo ones worth getting?

this one is so absolutely worth getting.

http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/l/e/lestp/belize.jpg

so many great songs, like this one, the same old me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WtA-gVznRA

Yeah I forgot to mention that I agree that the first Deep City is incredible and that^ Cult Cargo is also a must-have.

With Ten Years After I really like the early stuff especially the live lp Undead. There's a coolness to the sound and what sounds like a bebop influence. Not sure if that wears off by the time of their early 70s material, certainly wasn't what was picked up by those influenced by the rapid fire notes per second understanding of Lee's fret manipulation. Think with him it started as more than wankery but it got picked up as being that.
I first came across them in the form of Spoonful on an MFP compi called The World of Blues Power. That gives a very different picture than the frenetic all focus on Lee that the Woodstock clip gives. They were a band with great interplay on the early stuff at least.

Yep. They do have a slight bit of jazz to their tunes, similar territory as the Allman Bros. of the same time. The drummer is really good.

New Stuff
YG - My Krazy Life
Freddie Gibbs + Madlib - Pinata
Onyx - Wakedafucup
Deadbeat + Paul St Hilaire - The Infinity Dub Sessions
Hauschka - Abandoned City
Leon Vynehall - Music For The Uninvited

Old Stuff
The Best Of Chet Baker
Liszt Piano Concertos 1+2 - Barenboim/Boulez
The Meters - Fire On The Bayou
UGK - Super Tight (I totally underrated this when it came out cos I was a cloth eared fool)

deep city enthusiasts otm

Dead Rider - Chills On Glass
Bird Nest Roys - Compliation
Brace/Choir - Turning On Your Double (Thanks Alex)
Fastball - Little White Lies (old, but I've been stuck on this for months now)

So far:
Pentagram - First Daze Here
Love - Da Capo (mono then most of the stereo)
Them - s/t (the one with Jerry Cole replacing most of the original members)
Zolar X - Timeless

So far TODAY that is.

NEU!
NEU! 2

I need to listen to '75, I don't think I've ever heard it!

Hero off '75 is da ●～*

Kraftwerk "Tone Float"
Red Krayola "The Parable of Arable Land"
"NEU! '75"

Yeah, I listened to it, and it's rad! I like the first song too, it's like a piano remix of one of their earlier songs. I also listened to Harmonia (very cool! almost proto electro like 80s breakdance music).

"Tone Float" is VERY "Point"-era Cornelius.

http://dirtyhippieradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Kraftwerk-Organisation-Tone-Float.jpg

Cool cover!

Kraftwerk - Pavillon de Paris 04 October 1976
Bridgewalker Drummers - Shamanic Journey Multiple Drumming: Shamanic Journey Series No. 7
Henri Pousseur / Michel Butor ‎– Paysages Planétaires
Rrose - Eating The Other
A Imagem da Melancolia - The Bad Tempered Consort (Portugese polyphony from the 17th century)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xdyav8r3mA

ALL MY STEREOLAB RANDOM VLC MIX:

"Dear Marge"
"The Noise of Carpet"
"Microclimate"
"Speedy Car"
"Off On"

gallon drunk - the soul of the hour (quite pale in comparison with the live experience but still very good: this band taps into the heart of darkness)

dlp, do you like the brace/choir?

this song, from an upcoming soul-jazz compilation, over-and-over. it's a barnstormer.

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Alex: I do. Nice tip.

El Gran Combo (de Puerto Rico)

Young Dro - High Times
Drake's latest (stfu)
Mobb Deep - The Infamous Mobb Deep
Rick Ross - Mastermind (ehh)
Danny Brown - Old
Earl Sweatshirt - Doris

nirvana

Hard to disagree with that song Daniel Esq. Just made my coffee and toast even better.

http://www.progarchives.com/progressive_rock_discography_covers/1295/cover_1457173182009.jpg

British Sea Power's "From The Sea To The Land Beyond" is getting a lot of play.

Jon Langford & Skull Orchard---Here Be Monsters: ugly & pretty go hand in claw, adding up to beautiful, often enough. Strummer and early solo Lennon still seem like points of departure of course, but he's carved and carpentered and painted and gnarled a good set of musical beasties he call his own, ready to walk the ol' Welsh landlord & Chicagoer's knotty pines. The pacing and tunes get me right away; also some of the lyrics, which are layered, but not labored, and I'll come back for more, all in good time. Skull Orchard sounds like a real band. This is already better than several Mekons and Waco Brothers sets, and I better try to catch up with the others what have his name out front, eh? Out April 1, still streaming here, with Off, Carlene Carter, Tokyo Police Club, Ledisi, more I should choose from: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/arts/music/pressplay.html?_r=0

actress - chance of rain (possibly my favorite album of last year?)
shuggie otis - wings of love (recent issue of post-Inspiration Information material (packaged with reissue of II). Really diverse set, great guitar playing of course. The liner notes make it sound like he was blacklisted from the music biz for being "difficult" (e.g. in 1976 quincy jones offered to produce the followup to Inspiration Info and Shuggie refused)

Argh that's Laurel Halo. Theres been plenty of Actress on the stereo as well!

Willie Wall Trio - Traveling Sounds
The Ropers - All the Time
The Shangaans - Jungle Drums
Paula - Relaxed Fit
Pacific Ocean - So Beautiful And Cheap And Warm
Light: On the South Side
Weekend - Jinx

Liking the mix of quiet-voiced ballads, clanging post-punk guitar and Nirvanish guitarwork on the new Caetano Veloso album

The new Linda Perhacs album is really good.

Ah that Ropers record is so great for the springtime!!!

I'm falling in love with indie pop again. I got the Ropers album on teenbeat when it came out and didn't like it at all. I never gave anything else by them a chance, but their slumberland records are great!

in the last month:

Darkthrone -- have been near-constant rotation for about year, at the moment most loving Sardonic Wrath (2004) and Hate Them (2003)
Jean Sibelius - mostly The Tempest
Claude Debussy - always up there
Celtic Frost - mostly Morbid Tales and To Mega Therion
Bathory - Blood Fire Death (1988) is INCREDIBLE. Black/Viking metal with lots of thrash-y aggression
Hellhammer - mostly Satanic Rites demo (1983)
Franz Liszt - late piano pieces (ca 1870-81), so beautiful, and often predicting "keylessness", a la modernists like Stravinsky, Satie, Ligeti
Gyorgy Ligeti - most liking his Double Concerto (1971) for flute and oboe at the moment
Isengard - viking/black metal solo project of Fenriz. Vinterskugge (1993) compliation is my fave of the two full albums
Randy Newman - see Debussy

Recently, replaying the first Elastica record as well.

Ghost - Opus Eponymous
ELO - Out of the Blue
Grimes - Visions
Real Estate - Atlas
Horace Silver - The Jody Grind
Kvelertak - s/t

the breeders - the last splash (i had forgotten what a gem of an album this is, it still sounds fresh & crispy)
gallon drunk - the road gets darker from here (i prefer the new one but this is very solid blues rock as well)
eleventh dream day - prairie school freakout (how i love that fuzzy guitar tone and the lack of speed)
arthur russell - the world of arthur russell (when listening to this i understand why he didn't have a lot of success, most tracks are too repetitive and too long, i don't like the drum programming)
oscar peterson - some kind of 2 self-titled cds with a best of (all right but in the end i vastly prefer bill evans over oscar peterson, but sometimes he swings like hell, eg on "wandering", that's phantastico)

Terrence Dixon - From The Far Future 2: I keep coming back to this, it's like an inscrutable, mystical artifact... future musicologists trying to recreate techno.. so much of it is extremely evocative of a train ride (continuous motion, gentle strobes, i can't put my finger on it).

never heard of this until now, thanks!

The Other People Place

Beethoven's late string quartets

xpost thanks lukas I love this thread wish more people posted

Ryoko Akama - Code of Silence
Autechre - 20100326 Torino Italy
Consumer Electronics - recent live sets
Monument Valley - videogame soundtrack
Warner Jepson - Tullian Beach Bum (Machine Excerpts), Buchla improvisations 1969
The Knife

king crimson - discipline
goran bregovic - le temps des gitans
everything but the girl - baby, the stars shine bright

Chris & Cosey - Trance
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Alex from Tokyo @ Beats In Space
Autechre - Tri Repetae

Pharrell -- G I R L
Rick Ross -- Mastermind

I will be listening to the 2-3 good songs from Future's Honest and prepped to be disappointed by the rest

The recent s/t Warpaint lp really resonates with me.

Zanzibara vol3 East African music from the island off Tanzania. This volume is late 60s stuff. More lilting than what I've heard of the same label's Ethiopiques series. Really love this & need to get vol8 too at least. That's late 70s into 80s & the songs are a bit slower and stretched out.

Loads of Eric Dolphy, Ornette Coleman & Albert Ayler since Pirate Bay has had great chunks of their catalogues upped.

lonnie holley's keeping a record of it is finally on spotify and i'm reembracing

Unwound - Rat Conspiracy
The Purrs - everything by this pretty good BJM-style band
The Figgs - The Figgs Anthology

Further Reductions
Bunker and Strange Life releases bought off the Viewlexx Bandcamp page
Logg
Debussy

Total Control - Flesh War

the chorus on this is phenomenal. and the song is night and day compared to my other favorite song of theirs, "Paranoid Video".

moodymann
violent femmes
soul jazz studio one comps
monk live at the it club
sage the gemini
cloud nothings
coffin dust
television
bardo pond
the wipers
the germs
nirvana
e-40
yes

fatima al qadiri - genre specific xperience
berio/schubert - rendering
coh - retro 2038
nirvana - nevermind
janacek - choral music
autechre - l-event
esplendor geometrico - kosmos kino

Misfits "Static Age"
Fleetwood Mac "Kiln House"

"Kiln House" is very cool, I'm getting a strong "White Album" vibe from the production.

still listening to the two lead singles from the childbirth album, it's a girl!. two of the funniest songs i've heard in a long time (despite general lameness of the second video).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u4tpZFf5xI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX-H3fX-KRk

warning: do not look at the picture of paul weller's face, after he had been killed in a car crash, which appears as a "next video" option at the end of the first song. horrifying; can't imagine why it's posted online.

Paul Weller?

do you mean robocop

not sure who i mean. i know the name. i remember reading that he died. not anxious to hunt down that picture again to verify names.

the picture of paul weller's face, after he had been killed in a car crash

― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 19 April 2014 19:10 (43 minutes ago)

this cannot possibly exist because i just checked my desktop and it's not that

whatever it was (e.g., someone else's split-open face, a CGI-type image), it was horrifying.

anyway, the band childbirth -- and that whole album -- is just great. worth checking out.

You must mean The Jam's Paul Weller!

http://i2.mirror.cuk/incoming/article2108291.ece/ALTERNATES/s2197/MAIN-Paul-Weller-Hannah-Andrews-2108291.jpg

http://i2.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article2108291.ece/ALTERNATES/s2197/MAIN-Paul-Weller-Hannah-Andrews-2108291.jpg

Ugh! What a vile old repulsive piece of shit, I bet he fucking survives for decades more.

Keep backombing than thinning rag on your head until your teeth drop out you old worthless cunt.

Ice-T - OG
Slint - Spiderland
The Carter Family

What can I say, I'm old

makthaverskan
desperate journalist
fear of men

Like ur style nathom

Bud Powell - Bouncing with Bud (is that Glenn Gould on vocals?)
Matching Mole (Esoteric remaster)
Protomartyr - Under Color of Official Right (fuckin' masterpiece)

Stevie Wonder-Songs in the Key of Life

Hey- I've been listening to the Carter Family too. Maybelle shreds. I like the "Wildwood Flower" comp on ASV, which is nicely chosen and sequenced. I've also been listening to:

ELO - New World Record
Parquet Courts - Tally All the Things that You Broke
HAIM - Days are Gone
Paul Simon - Graceland
Steely Dan - Can't Buy A Thrill

Lots of "B" people:

Burial
Beck
Boards of Canada
Bill Evans

And so on.

now's the last time for a while i'll listen to burial, even tho he's my favorite contemporary artist. burial is exclusively cold autumn or winter night music for me (well, as cold as it gets in miami).

syd barrett - opel (what a genius)
sleater-kinney - all hands on the bad one (not rough enough)
blonde redhead - in an expression of the inexpressible (how i love her voice)
u2 - boy (their best)
poe - hello (perfect title song, the rest is mostly dispensable)

Listened to "The Wall" in full for the first time ever this morning. Wow so THAT is how you pad out an album!

It felt like 4 or 5 songs padded out to 2xLP length.

Velvet Elvis - Heavy Heads -- Aggressive stoner-rock; best of their three albums. Band broke up shortly after this release (Nov 2013) and now reformed with new personnel (and the unfortunate loss of vocalist, Karrah Teague) under the name King Buffalo -- but nothing as heavy or groovy as this one. If i would have heard this record in 2013 it would have easily made my Top 10.

Speaking of the Carter Family, here's my Rolling Country take on the new Carlene Carter album. My concern about "a salute to the roots" was that it would be too solemn, like too many American attempts, and not honor the CF's engaging mix of moods and material, or Carlene's either. However:
Carter Girl is something I'm not totally into yet. but it certainly is better than I feared, when I heard she was going to salute the roots, with Carter Family chesnuts. I mostly know her from my ancient, scruffy-sounding twofer, Musical Shapes & Blue Nun, where she and Nick Lowe tried for Bakersfield/Beatles (and I guess Rockpile) appeal: rocking country, rather than country-rock. Also, she had a rave-up with NRBQ-to-Nashville guitarist-songwriter Al Anderson on Austin City Limits.
This album, produced by Don Was mixes old and new songs and beats in an overcast atmosphere, never anachronistic nor murky. The rhythm can be a guide, though not a cheerleader, in "Lonesome Valley 2003," where she goes to and from several funerals, and the bass even slaps butts on "Me and the Wildwood Rose," a road song about childhood rolling with Carter ladies and little sister Rosey, later a true desperado (track record not mentioned, but the song visits her funeral). Carlene and Elizabeth Cook leave a life of crime to settle down, attended by angels and what sounds like a tumbleweed full of mechanical bulls. Elsewhere, she may lope or trot or (once) waltz through variously challenging situations, incl. those associated with outlaws, but she's always adapting, with no self-congratulation.
Hey: just give her those flowers right now, even if you think, with her own track record, you might not have long to wait for yet another send-off; and furthermore, "Kind words are no good/In a bed too narrow." Lots of family, incl. Johnny and June, sing along on the finale, "I Ain't Gonna Work Tomorrow," where she's ditched again, but on the other hand, see title; and also, "Pretty girls are dancin' on the cold, cold ground," so that helps too (far as I'm concerned).

― dow, Monday, April 14, 2014 4:15 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i may throw on some carter family now.

in the meantime:

YG
Young Thug
Freddie Gibbs
Tune-Yards
Sevyn Streeter
Jeri-Jeri
Ty Dolla $ign
Lonnie Holley
Pusha T
Blood Orange
Nas (illmatic revisiting)
Rich Boy
James Blackshaw
Chronixx
Beck
Taj Mahal
Future
Gang Starr
Yusef Lateef
Chilly Gonzales (Solo Piano albums)
Stan Getz

Live:
Bora Yoon
Dawn of Men
Baloji
Losers Lounge
Lonnie Holley
Ashley Monroe
Orquesta Aragon
El Funi
Deva Mahal (tonight)

the notwist - neon golden (i don't remember any other album with such a perfect first half and such a mediocre second half)
the jesus & mary chain - honey's dead (i still love the fuzzy melodies of those two scottish brothers)
julee cruise - floating into the night (the one trick pony for the slightly warped late night atmosphere)
foo fighters - s/t (in my memory this was way better, i was really astonished at the time that someone could follow the tragic death of the band leader with such a youthful and energetic album)

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I've got three different play lists of records I'm working through, these are the ones I haven't finished yet. One list is various 70s live records. One list is Floyd related records partially inspired by the recent poll. The other one is just some miscellaneous older rock.

Davis, Miles- Dark Magus (D1)
Allman Brothers- Fillmore Concerts (D1)
Allman Brothers- Fillmore Concerts (D2)
Lynyrd Skynyrd- One More from the Road
Little Feat- Waiting for Colombus
Badfinger- BBC In Concert
Bruce, Jack- Spirit Live at the BBC (D3)
Captain Beefheart- I’m Going to Do What I’m Going to Do
Deep Purple- In Concert (D2)
Humble Pie- Fillmore Box (D4)
Hendrix, Jimi- Live at the Fillmore East (D1)
Hendrix, Jimi- Live at the Fillmore East (D2)
Grand Funk Railroad- Live Album
Trower, Robin- State to State (D1)
Travers, Pat- Live Go For What You Know
Grateful Dead- Dick’s Picks Vol. 33 (D2)
Grateful Dead- Dick’s Picks Vol. 33 (D3)
Grateful Dead- Dick’s Picks Vol. 33 (D4)
Blue Oyster Cult- On Your Feet or On Your Knees
Brown, James- Love Power Peace
Emerson, Lake & Palmer- Pictures at an Exhibition
Yes- Yessongs (D1)
Yes- Yessongs (D2)
Zappa, Frank- Carnegie Hall (D1)
Zappa, Frank- Carnegie Hall (D2)
Zappa, Frank- Carnegie Hall (D3)
Zappa, Frank- Carnegie Hall (D4)
Judas Priest- Unleashed in the East
Hawkwind- At the BBC 1972
Led Zeppelin- BBC Sessions (D1)
Led Zeppelin- BBC Sessions (D2)
Rolling Stones- Get Yer Ya Ya’s Out
Outlaws, The- Bring It Back Alive
Ten Years After- Recorded Live (D2)
Bowie, David- Stage (D2)
Davis, Miles- Dark Magus (D2)
Mahavishnu- Between Nothingness & Eternity (D1)
Mahavishnu- Between Nothingness & Eternity (D2)
Weather Report- Live in Tokyo (D2)

Rolling Stones- London Singles (D3)
Queen- A Day at the Races
Queen- The Game
Edgar Broughton Band- Harvest Years (D1)
Rolling Stones- Black and Blue
Bowie, David- Space Oddity
Byrds, The- Byrdmaniax
Cheap Trick- Dream Police
Chicken Shack- Deram Years (D2)
Zappa, Frank- You Are What You Is
Zappa, Frank- Roxy & Elsewhere
Deep Purple- Very Best
Bowie, David- Best of Bowie 1969 to 74
Rolling Stones- More Hot Rocks (D1)
Rolling Stones- More Hot Rocks (D2)
Brown, James- Foundations of Funk (D1)
Brown, James- Foundations of Funk (D2)
Kinks, The- Low Budget
Kinks, The- Singles Collection

Pink Floyd- Ummagumma (D2)
Pink Floyd- More
Pink Floyd- Animals
Pink Floyd- The Final Cut
Pink Floyd- The Division Bell
Pink Floyd- Piper at the Gates of Dawn
Pink Floyd- A Saucerful of Secrets
Pink Floyd- Atom Heart Mother
Gilmour, David- David Gilmour
Barrett, Syd- Barrett

new new:
Kaja Gunnufsen
Metronomy
Tirzah
Dylan Shearer
Mo Kolours
The Notwist
Each Other
Eric Thielemans
Bill Callahan (in dub)
Hospitality
Sun Kil Moon
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore

new old:
Sid Selvidge
Present (ex-Univers Zero, on Cuneiform)
Peter Walker
Michael Chapman
Lewis
Stefan Jaworzyn
Miles at the Fillmore (4CD)
Family Fodder

(OST bonus beats)

new new:
Mica Levi (Micachu) - Under The Skin

new old:
Kenny Graham - The Small World Of Sammy Lee (on Trunk)

Cheveu - BUM
Ward 21 - Still Disturbed
Qui - Life, Water, Living...
Dead Rider - Chills on Glass
Young Fathers - Dead
Wen - Signals
A/T/O/S - A/T/O/S
D. Edwards - Teenage Tapes
Alexander Hawkins - Song Singular
Zara McFarlane - If You Knew Her
Pattern Is Movement - Pattern Is Movement
Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit
Pure X - Angel

plus a bunch of old stuff i can't be arsed to list

Some No Corner tapes - Filter Dread, Lily, Seekers International

Death - ...For the Whole World to See
Sonic's Rendezvous Band - Too Much Crank and Live, Masonic Auditorium, Detroit, January 14, 1978 (can't believe I'd never heard (of) this band before Scott Asheton's passing, what a fantastic outfit)
Soft Machine - Third

Jorge Drexler-Bailar en la cueva

His latest pop-rock en Espanol effort with guests Caetano Veloso and rapper Ani Tijoux.

Aymeric de Tapol - Winter Dance
Music of Oceania - Abelam of Papua Niugini
Porter Ricks - Biokinetics (this is as good as ever)
Gerard Grisey - Partiels / Derives (1981 lp)
Roland Kayn - Makro
Pharoah Sanders - Izipho Zam
Sweet Thunder Electroacoustic Music Festival day 4 - George Lewis / Stockhausen / Nono

all besides the PSS mix are from 2014. it's basically summer in florida now, hot as hell last couple days, blasted with rain today; my listening reflects that.

pender street steppers - life in the zone mixtape -- one of the best mixes of 2013 that i'm late to hearing
YG - my krazy life LP
snootie wild - yayo, stackin it flippin it, made me
nenad markovic - kayto ep -- the best new nu-balearic-disco i've heard in a long time; on prins thomas' label
maricopa - pastel love part two -- warm and gorgeous downtempo balearic synth-love
suzanne kraft - missum LP -- more ambient than his previous stuff, totally beautiful, works very well as an album
gigi masin - talk to the sea -- compilation on music from memory, anybody who follows the new age threads needs to be listening to this
rotla - laguna EP -- some perfect beach-drive balearic a la hatchback
almunia - xeni EP -- almunia work with the italo disco side of balearic rather than the light and airy guitar-work of their previous stuff, still great
galcher lustwerk - nu day EP -- thicker sound than his previous stuff, humid deep house

Hercules & Love Affair - The Feast of the Broken Heart
Art Bleek - Art Supplies
Wiccans - Field II
Halo of Flies - Garbageburn

Albert Ayler New Grass
had this for something like a decade but not played it much recently. Got some interesting stuff on it among the soul/gospel vocal tracks and the electric bass. Some interesting grooves at least but probably not the most representative of him. I'd look at the ESP and Impulse lps for archetypal Ayler, probably more the ESp stuff but I do really like Love Cry too.

Warpaint s/t still. Find bits of this utterly sublime.

Jon & Utsunomia - ( ) - what a headspinning record. especially the liner notes. 20 songs about a dog played by a guy with an accordion, each song recorded in 4-6 different acoustic spaces by a mobile engineer, and then joined together by hundreds of splices so the sense of location is always changing. on headphones this album really gives you the spins, it is euphoric
Twerk - Now I'm Rendered Useless (bay area minimal techno nostalgia, album is still fun)
Kraftwerk - Frankfurt 1974 ('74 Leverkusen is weirder & has more pep, but this is unusually hi-fi and Kurt Roeder's added guitar parts to songs from the first three albums helps you pick out his contributions to Autobahn)
Musiques du Cambodge des foret
Alain Kremski - Musiques rituelles pour cloches et gongs
Roland Kayn - A Little Electronic Milky Way Of Sound
Ruth Welcome - Romantic Zither / Cafe Continental

Luciano Cilio - Dell’Universo Assente - This is so delicate and mysterious and much more, it's a rare earth gem.
Eyvind Kang - Alastor The Book of Angels vol.21
Alice Coltrane - Lord Of Lords
Wolf Eyes - No Answer Lower Floors - Just happened to be listening to this whilst reading The Forsaken (an account of American citizens who emigrated to Russia during the depression and got annihilated during The Terror) and it sounded like a perfect soundtrack to NKVD horror.
Rudresh Mahanthappa & Steve Lehman - Dual Identity
Anthony Shakir - Frictionalism

Total Control - Flesh War

the chorus on this is phenomenal. and the song is night and day compared to my other favorite song of theirs, "Paranoid Video".

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, April 16, 2014 5:48 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'd sell myyy soooul 4 total controooolllll

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

picked up some decent stuff in Yellow Springs, OH for cheap:

Landscape - From the Tea-rooms of Mars to the Hell-holes of Uranus (tee hee. my gf works with Richard Burgess so i had to check it out!)
Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven
Alice Coltrane - Lord of Lords

also listening to WYRD VISIONS
...and The Motels. :)

jean barraqué sonata pf
karen gwyer
'mild und leise' barenboim/karajan/kleiber/celibdache/janssons etc
the ronettes
donnacha costello
general magic / pita
pan sonic's final live lp 'oksastus'
hex enduction hour

Ulver - Messe I.X - VI.X
Horace Silver - Cape Verdean Blues
Tune-Yards - Whokill
Schubert - Symphonies No. 5 and 8
Vivaldi - La Viola de Gamba in Concerto
Sibelius - Karelia Suite; Valse Triste; Symphony No. 2

Lil' Band of Gold- "Seven Nights of Rock" (Louisiana swamp pop group)
The Moments
Tarrus Riley
Zvuloon Dub System

http://www.recordsmerchant.com/lps/chb417b.jpg

Ritmo Lamento Cantos De Santos

Awesome record. It's some awesome South American Xtian drums and vocals only record that has really cool call-and-response stuff. This is just one of those random LPs I've found that end up being some of my favorite music ever.

There are some samples on this site.

http://fidelseyeglasses.blogspot.com/2008/05/lazaro-ros-with-conjunto-folklorico.html

Mustapha Skandrani - Istikhbars & Improvisations
Scientist - Heavyweight Dub Champion
Sun Ra - Space Probe
Cleaners - Real Raga Shit Vol. 1
Michel Genest - Ascension
Less Lethal Vol. 2 Compilation
Matmos - One Hour Bo Diddley (Live 12 July 2007)
Owen Pallett - In Conflict (fantastic)
& Victoriaville sets: Haino/Ambarchi/O'Malley, Maja Ratjke, Ken Vandermark, Evan Parker Electroacoustic Ensemble, Parker/Frith

zang tuum tumb : the various 12" compilations that have been released of late.
(that said, doubt i will get the recently announced FGTH pledge package as i am not a vinyl collector ..
well, that and the fact that the label have already released everything of interest as far as i am concerned.)

lords of altamont : lords take altamont - the tattoed biker gang led by the preacher rip into the set list of that fateful day at the altamont festival. the result being 45 minutes of full on old school garage rock and roll. i.e. a perfect wine and noise soundtrack.

hugh masekela : the chisa years '65 - ' 75 .. damn, this compilation is immense. african funk/soul of the most supreme order.

mother earth : various albums .. feeling the bands mix of 70s folk, funk, and rock. summary : i am getting old.

compulsion : the catalogue .. added this bands material to the archive last week and have been enjoying their mix of intense noise, melodies, and anger ever since.

jamiroquai : as mentioned elseswhere. but the fact is, this band were far far better than i would like to admit.

i need to read a defend the indefensible of jamiroquai

me too

Meanwhile I'm listening to:

Mel Waiters
Ms. Jody
Seun Kuti

thou
domains
autopsy
incantation
sturgill simpson
kacey musgraves
stevie wonder
neil young
jamc

and lots of black hippy/tde plus yg

akiko kiyama - 7 years
omer klein - rockets on the balcony
gabriel saloman - soldiers requiem
bushman's revenge - thou shall boogie
steven bernstein - hollywood diaspora
maria joao pires - chopin's nocturnes + piano concertos

pires is good in the mozart piano concertos too

I need to look at that because I lost a lot of good stuff when my last pc died, my mozart folder is full of "collection" type mediocrity at the moment.

Her 19,20 and 23 performances are so good, everyone else give up.

Randy Newman "Good Old Boys"

Owen Pallett - In Conflict (just gets better with every play)
Plaid - Reachy Prints (bit Plaid by numbers but not unpleasant)
Swans - To Be Kind (still digesting it but it's a very entertaining listen so far)
St Vincent - St Vincent (no bad songs here, her best so far)
Arabrot - Arabrot (my favourite hard rock/metal act at the moment although a bit bummed to hear their singer has throat cancer)
Aswad - Live and Direct (seriously underrated album)
Clean Bandit - Rather Be (if only all dance pop could be this good)
Courtney Barnett - A Sea of Split Peas (Sheryl Crowe meets Kurt Cobain, excellent)
Dennis Edwards & Siedah Garrett - don't look any further (come to the conclusion I love this son more than 99.9% of songs)
Ibibio Sound Machine (lots of fun, not sure if the music carries the vocal as effectively as I'd like)
Real Estate - Atlas (they have a sound and they do it well. What more do you want, songs?)
Todd Terje - It's Album Time (lots of fun, the album Random Access Memories should've been really)
Tune Yards - Nikki Nack (clutter-pop genius)

Isaac Hayes - Walk on by
Smokey Robinson - Just my soul responding
Smokey Robinson - Sweet harmony
Mickey Newbury - So Sad
YG - 1 am
Bo Diddley - The great grandfather
Townes Van Zadnt - Who do you love
Gloria Lynne - I'm glad there is you
Blake Mills - The history of my life

thanks for the short descriptions, dog latin. i have to check out some of those. i wouldn't have thought that the band swans and the adjective entertaining would fit into one phrase. ;-)

Troy Ave presents - Bsb Vol 4
Guerilla Toss - Gay Disco
Larry Heard - Alien
Archie Shepp - Fire Music (this was recommended to me years ago, it's a sin that I have only just got round to listening to it, because it is majestic)
Haggai Cohen-Milo - Penguin
Many Arms - Suspended Definition
Boulez, Wiener Philharmoniker - Mahler's 6th

Triptykon - Melana Chasmata
Tune-Yards - Nikki Nack
Horace Silver - Tokyo Blues

I've been listening to old jungle and drum n bass comps, "timeless" and the joe meek box set

Ought-More than any other day
Fucked up
The Inbreds
The Vaselines
Blake Mills
The Talking Heads
Jan Johanson
Jay Reatard
Scott & Charlenes Wedding
Joel Plaskett

Heavy on the Can-Con

neutron 9000 : the greenhouse effect

old school whale/ambient/trance house gubbins.

think i got a decent rip of this before the dreaded PDO rot totally sets in.

karen gwyer
random old 90s r&b tracks
robyn + röyksopp
xasthur
atom heart remixes
soft ballet - forms remix album (global comm, autechre, plaid et al)
swans - to be kind

soundgarden!

bunch of sublime frequencies comps, "thai country groove" "folk & pop from sumatra"
bunch of reggae/dub comps from trojan/blood & fire/etc
scratch perry "apeology"
complete bob marley & wailers 1969-1972
soundway comps, "tumbele french carribbean" & all those great nigeria special albums
omar souleyman, "wenu wenu" & others

michael nyman - decay music
the harmonic choir - hearing solar winds
owen pallett - in conflict
marianne faithfull - broken english
iasos - inter-dimensional music
swans - to be kind
wyrd visions - half-eaten guitar

nisennenmondai - N (I love this record so much)
Daphni/Owen Pallett
Celeste Mendoza - La Reina del Guaguanco (some kind of low budget comp I think)
Pancho Quinto - En El Solar La Cueva Del Humo
Todd Terje - It's Album Time
Stuff - S/T
The Crusaders - Scratch
Cleveland Orchestra/George Szell - various Beethoven symphonies
Dinu Lipatti's final recital

Todd Terje - It's Album Time (lots of fun, the album Random Access Memories should've been really)

I think I uttered almost the exact same thing about this record. A couple of celeb guest vocals (besides Bryan Ferry) and maybe it would be.

Brian Blade Fellowship -- Landmarks (really growing on me)
clipping -- CLPPNG
Logos, Cold Mission
Slum Village, Fantastic vol. 2 (fresh as ever)
sd Laika, That's Harakiri
Hellfyre Club, Dorner vs Tookie

Optimo Fabric mix
Touched compilation
Tom Trago on Beats In Space
Karen Gwyer
Plaid
Prins Thomas
Zola Jesus
Stellar Om Source

and somebody recently played me John Adams - The Dharma at Big Sur and woooooooow

Much Stooges over here

fugazi, el-p, robyn, slint, replacements, lykke li

Shamir - 'If It Wasn't True' - awesome disco/house/funk thing

― Slight damage to cover on top corner (chewed by a kitten) (Craigo Boingo), maandag 3 maart

This is amazing

On the car stereo:

The The - Soul Mining
The Cure - Disintegration
Stravinsky - Pulcinella suite / Soldiers Tale
Marcos Valle - Vento Sul
VA - Greek Rhapsody: Instrumental Music from Greece
The Jicks - Pig Lib
Extended Play (Dave Holland) - Live at Birdland
Milton Nascimento - Clube Da Esquina

The Kinks - Phobia - 93 album...not too bad! not too good! it has its moments!

Mariah Carey
Owen pallet (still)
Iamsu
Chromeo
Sd laika
Isaiah rashad
Mob deep
Weaves
Actress
Dj q (still)
Little dragon
Miranda lambert
Eric dolphin
Black coffee
Deathgrips

Oh and clipping

everyone should be listening to karen gwyer

Shamir - 'If It Wasn't True' - awesome disco/house/funk thing

― Slight damage to cover on top corner (chewed by a kitten) (Craigo Boingo), maandag 3 maart

This is amazing

yep, he's the best.

yeah I loved that, rad video

new Lone is excellent

Fat Trel - Gleesh
Omar Klein - To The Unknown
Beneath - Vobes
Paul Shapiro - Shofarot Verses
John Zorn - In The Hall Of Mirrors
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Enfant Terrible
Prokofiev violin concertos no.1 + 2 - Gill Shaham, LSO

Michael Hurley et al - Have Moicy!
Charlie Christian - Genius of the Electric Guitar
Bob Dylan and the Band - A Tree with Roots
Owen Pallett - In Conflict
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Fig. 5
Paul Bley - Open, to Love
Swans - To Be Kind

Bob Drake - Lawn Ornaments (this is astounding)
Annette Peacock - I Belong To A World That's Destroying Itself aka Revenge
K. Leimer - A Period of Review (might grow on me if I listen to it again)
Emmanuelle Parrenin / Phil Fromont / Claude Lefebvre - Chateau dans les nuages
Shiina Ringo - Reimport: Ports and Harbours Bureau
Jack Tamul - Electro/Acoustic

Moers Festival sets: Leibezeit / Schmickler, Art Lindsay & Paal Nilssen-Love, Letieres Leite & Orkestra Rumpilezz, Sarah Neufeld & Colin Stetson, Tim Hecker, Ava Mendoza trio. All crazy wonderful.

not normally a fan of this type of stuff, normally, but right now thing song is the greatest thing i've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MljC8B6Iog

normally normally

Milton, please more on Lawn Ornaments? I'm having a cook-out with the Insect Trust and friends:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONKHIc8e68g

b12 - time-tourist
death grips
4 hero - parallel universe
neurosis
caustic window lp
CoH
kangding ray

And these brothers & sisters dropped in too (see the thread about this album; one of the LPs showed up on there; ball got rolling toward reissue, and at least one of this crew came by Scott Seward's shop)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LogZn8sQGUY

Quadrophenia - The Who
Entropicalia - The Soundcarriers
Love - Amen Dunes
Free for All - Bullwackies All-Stars
English Settlement - XTC
Abandoned Luncheonette - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Ultraviolence - Lana Del Rey
Exit the Dragon - Urge Overkill
Spellbinder - Gábor Szabó
Pygmalion - Slowdive
From the Mars Hotel - The Grateful Dead
Up for the Down Stroke - Parliament
Under Color of Official Right - Protomartyr
Instinct - The Moles
In the Land of Grey and Pink - Caravan

Total Control - Typical System
Carsick Cars - 3
Mike Cooper - Paper and Smoke
Wussy - Attica
The 88 - bunch of their post 2008 stuff. Lots of good singles scattered about.
The Cannanes - Howling At All Hours (unexpectedly very good)

>Milton, please more on Lawn Ornaments?

if you like Bob Drake, just open a new browser and order it this very second. Original title was 'The Overproduced Album'; it's as dense as anything he's ever done, but somehow he's also managed to make the songs catchy as well. Though it still takes a play or three to totally unpack some of them because there sure is a lot going on

Yasushi Utsunomiya - Tokusa-No-Kandakara (91 Pieces of 'C') - http://www.discogs.com/Y-Utsunomia-Tokusa-No-Kandakara-91-Pieces-Of-C-Educational-Kit/release/1123449
- "ripped from an edition of 25 discs made for his Audio Engineering class in Japan, this linearly details his remix from the Art Bears box set from start to finish"
Ricardo Mandolini - Elektro-Akustische-Musik (1982) - this is fantastic, glitch & high frequency pieces, Mego about 15 years early
Mado Robin - Historical Recordings from 1952-55
Dennis Alcapone - Forever Version
JD Emmanuel - Time Traveler
Voches de Sardinna - Tenore e Cuncordu de Orosei
Eliane Radigue - Opus 17
David Dunn - Autonomous and Dynamical Systems
Dieter Moebius - Nidemonex

Oregon's Pickathon on livestream. Now playing: Warpaint. Luv gets kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like them:
http://new.livestream.com/pickathon/events/3228592
Next: Brown Out doing their Brown Sabbath re-vision. (10:40 CST)
Prob stick around for Nickel Creek at 11:50.

Brown Out bring out the Latin roots of the Sabs, just enough, from what I've heard.

Warpaint rockin. Thought they were gonna get too shoegaze, but churning now.

Obnox - Louder Space
Giacinto Scelsi - Oeuvre Intégrale pour choeur et orchestre symphonique
Dino Saluzzi Group - El Valle de la Infancia
Dino Saluzzi/Rosamunde Quartett - Kultrum Music For Bandoneon And String Quartet
Dino Saluzzi & Anja Lechner - Ojos Negros
Mark Barrott - Sketches From An Island
Luciano Cilio - Dell’Universo Assente
ASC - Truth Be Told
Ambarchi & O'Malley & Dunn - Shade Themes From Kairos
Head High - Megatrap

Not nec a big fan of the ECM sound, but remember liking this:

Dino Saluzzi
Once upon a time – Far away in the south

Dino Saluzzi bandoneón
Palle Mikkelborg trumpet, fluegelhorn
Charlie Haden bass
Pierre Favre percussion
Recorded July 1985 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg
Engineer: Martin Wieland
Produced by Manfred Eicher

Got that one and had a few listens so far, it sounds very nice and a sad reminder that Haden passed only a few weeks ago. The sole Haden composition "Silence" is really beautiful. His band recordings are quite changeless over the decades, not that this detracts from them because it is quite an awesome thing he does imo, but anything off this wouldn't sound out of place on his latest album 30 yrs later.

klaus lang - sais.
marc baron - hidden tapes
laurence crane - chamber works 1992 - 2009
Johnny Chang, Angharad Davies, Jamie Drouin, Phil Durrant, Lee Patterson & John Tilbury; Variable Formations

CAN! I LOVE CAN!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NcWQDGNEI8&list=UUwdtlUz1rxjQS60MUrmXEGA

Hi skotrok,

Due to a copyright claim, your YouTube video has been blocked in some countries. This means that your video is still up on YouTube, but people in some countries may not be able to watch it.

Video title: Listening To Can Really Loud At John Doe Jr. Used Records In Greenfield, MA
Copyrighted song: Uphill
Claimed by: WMG, [Merlin] PIAS

This is one I forgot to mention, damn! this one is so essential.

Paul O'Dette - Jacaras - 18th Century Spanish Baroque Guitar Music Of Santiago De Murcia

xp aww man Uphill is such a jam, too, it should be free for all the people of the earth

Story Roedelius - Lazy Arc
Dr. Jeffrey Thompson - Celestial Dolphin
Terry Jennings / John Cage played by John Tilbury & Sebastian Lexer - Lost Daylight
Swingle Singers - American Look
http://www.batagov.com/zvuki/prayers_and_dances_e.htm

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dillinja, apparently

Bitchin Bajas - st
Daniel Jacques - Livet Efter Detta
Julius Steinhoff - Flocking Behaviour
Barenboim/Boulez/Staatskpelle Berlin - Liszt Piano Concertos 1+2
Angel - Terra Null
John Zorn - The Testament Of Solomon
Dj Mustard - 10 Summers
Eduard Artemiev - Solaris Soundtrack (just track 1 on repeat forever tbh)

Corneliu Cezar ‎– Ziua Fără Sfârșit (Romanian electronic music 1967-1983 -- just when I thought I'd heard everything -- 'Rota' in particular as good as it gets)
Powerdove - Arrest
Bruno Maderna - Musica Elettronica 1956-1962
Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu
Vladimir Ussachevsky - Film Music (still amazing)

Ryan Adams---Ryan AdamsLeaves are almost ready to fall. While you're washing the jean jacket at the laundromat, time to slip the buds on---might flatten the doob behind your ear, but fuck it: time to recollect that schoolgirl. If the Gin Blossoms guy came back from a long, refreshing nap, and Petty produced, with some of the Heartbreakers backing, the results might go something like this. Several stand-outs, and they're all NPR/college radio-ready, but the actual Petty might advise against so much reliance on medium-tempo chordal ominousity.

I'm listening to Geoffrey O'Conner's album, Fan Fiction. If you're into 80's-sounding synth pop, this is pretty great.

This is my current playlist...
Pink Floyd- Atom Heart Mother
Hellacopters- Super Shitty to the Max
Catherine Wheel- Like Cats and Dogs
Dust- Hard Attack/Dust
Cheap Trick- Heaven Tonight
Flamin’ Groovies- Teenage Head
Gallagher- Rory- Blueprint
Leaf Hound- Grower of Mushroom
Afghan Whigs- Gentleman
Mercyful Fate- Don’t Break the Oath
Savage- Loose N Lethal
Diamond Head- Lightning to the Nations
Celtic Frost- Into the Pandemonium

lee gamble -- KOCH / dutch tvashar plumes
stravinsky -- piano music (lin) / firebird transcription (biret)
regis -- in a syrian tongue
conrad schnitzler -- rot
chapterhouse -- rownderbout
shellac -- dude incredible
franck -- violin sonata (perlman/argerich)
jessica bailiff -- at the down-turned jagged rim of the sky
talking heads -- remain in light
schoenberg -- piano concerto (uchida)
the black dog -- werk and play
kevin drumm -- live 2000

http://oliviablock1.bandcamp.com/album/heave-to

Jennifer Castle - Pink City
Daniel Jacques - Livet Efter Detta
Tonstartsbandht - Overseas
Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - Ali & Toumani
The United States Of America - s/t
Schubert/String Quartet no. 14 - Brodsky Quartet
A massive archive of Alistair Cooke letters from america mp3's from the 2000's
Angel - Terra Null
Gal Costa - s/t
Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi - s/t

sebadoh- smash your head on the punk rock
dead confederate- wrecking ball
maureeny wishful- the maureeny wishful album
paul hindemith- composers in person, vol. 1
wray- s/t
meta meta- metal metal
nuggets of the golden age of gospel, 1945-1958
voivod- dimension hatross
jute gyte- vast chains
the hilliard ensemble- orlando di lasso: prophetiae sibyllarum
titan- elevator
wizz jones- the legendary me

usw.

I just got a box of metal CDs out of storage so: Human Remains, Nokturnal Mortum, Demoncy, Human Remains, Messiah, Cloven Hoof, etc.

Also
Ty Segall - Manipulator
Electric Citizen - Sateen
V/A Nigeria Afrobeat Special
V/A Ghana Special
Bert Jansch - Rosemary Lane
Nurt - s/t
Sonny Forriest - Tuff Pickin'
Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension
Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
Weather Report - Sweetnighter
V/A - Glam-O-Rama Vol 1 & 2
Pypy - Pagan Day
Public Nuisance - Gotta Survive
Marco Shuttle - Fanfara 12"
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
a lot of early Bowie
Crime - Murder By Guitar
Dirtbombs - Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-Blooey

I have become pretty well accustomed to that last Dirtbombs album because my son is persistently blasting it out on his ipod. I wasn't keen on it last year but it has grown on me recently.

It didn't really appeal to me at first, but I've used it as background music at work and it's slowly crept into my brain.

demdike stare tesptressings 04/05/06 ✓✓✓✓✓
sensate focus eps ✓✓
syro ✓✓✓✓
quaristice ✓✓✓
confield ✓✓✓✓✓
ueno masaaki ✓✓✓✓
florent schmitt ombres/mirages/tragedie de salome (larderet pf) ✓✓✓✓
liszt opera transcriptions (lortie) ✓✓✓✓
hs 'verdigris reader' ✓
bach english suites (tureck) ✓✓✓✓

RA gave Syro a 5/5, that puts it in the same esteemed class as Biokinetics, Routes Not Roots and Voices From The Lake and lots of so so stuff as well that never fails to send their comments section into meltdown. As an old git a new AT album makes me think of it in a timescale against older ageing artists; back in my youth in the 90's I recall condescending a 40-ish tech-college tutor who (hip-barber mode)is telling me how nerve net is Eno's best album for years in the pub at lunchtime!

The five tick rating system is a welcome innovation to this thread, I al;ways dig ticks and stars more than folk talking bollocks.

idk how many ✓s it could potentially go up to because i haven't listened to all of the pc music releases yet
✓ is 'just about worthwhile' rather than crap though

chavez - ride the fader -- 32 out of 35 peeled & washed carrots
superchunk - come pick me up -- 14/14 days out of two weeks
olivia block - heave to -- fuck yeah
aphex twin - syro -- *phew*

Pure Reality, the debut from Dark Blue, comes out in a couple weeks on the Jade Tree label; it's streaming in full here:

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/228746/premiere-dark-blue-stream-debut-album-pure-reality-in-full/

Dark Blue is made up of Philly indie rock veterans John Sharkey III (Clockcleaner, Puerto Rico Flowers) Andrew Mackie Nelson (Ceremony, Paint it Black, Puerto Rico Flowers) and Michael Sneeringer (Strand of Oaks, formerly from Purling Hiss, Puerto Rico Flowers).

The debut "Pure Reality" could be the soundtrack to a John Hughes movie provided that Ian Curtis wrote it. It and it reminds me of when I was a teenager in the '80s and I would turn to a then-nascent WHFS. The album is more catchy than twitchy which is fine, and I especially love the darkness that permeates the proceedings, punctuated with slashing guitars and stately baritone vocals.

Missed opportunity to call it Sharkey's Machine.

old Caetano Veloso album-Bicho

I'm on some spirit of '76 today:

Magma- Udu Wudu
Novalis- Sommerabend
JJ Cale- Troubadour
Picchio dal Pozzo (this is great btw)
Sweet- Give Us a Wink
Angel- Helluva Band
Earth, Wind & Fire- Spirit

Magma- Udu Wudu

Referenced in Children of Men IIRC

ligeti -- lontano atmosphere sf polyphony
vatican shadow & function -- games have rules
sean booth kouhei matsunaga mika vainio -- 3 telepathics meh in-sect connection
klara lewis -- ett
katie gately -- s/t
nhk -- dance classic vol3
perc -- the power and the glory
aphex twin -- come to daddy ep
brahms -- theme with variations op18
les vampyrettes -- s/t
swans -- to be kind

magma - udu wudu (mostly just "de futura" over and over)
aphex twin - syro
neneh cherry - raw like sushi
eliane radigue - trio de la morte
wagner - tristan und isolde (bohm/bayreuth 1966)
liszt - transcendental preludes (bolet)
demdike stare - testpressings
conrad schnitzler - auf dem schwarz kanal

(mostly just "de futura" over and over)

I've been there! If you ever need to switch it up, Jannick Top's solo album "Soleil d'Ork" has a demo version with Richard Pinhas playing guitar on it.

aphex twin - syro
autechre - move of ten
bardo pond - refulgo
bob dylan - tell tale signs
cecil taylor - winged serpent (sliding quadrants)
death - leprosy
dj dodger stadium - friend of mine
dj rashad - double cup
electric wizard - time to die
gorguts - obscura
john lee hooker - it serve you right to suffer
jordi savall - j.s. bach - musical offering
lee 'scratch' perry - upsetters 14 dub blackboard jungle
michael pisaro - tombstones
midnight - no mercy for mayhem
origin - omnipresent
pallbearer - foundations of burden
panopticon - roads to the north
the royals - pick up the pieces
the xx - the xx
vince staples - shyne coldchain vol. 2
witch mountain - mobile of angels
wu-tang clan - enter the wu-tang clan (36 chambers)
yes - fragile

Loving this new M Sage record a great deal

http://msage.bandcamp.com/album/a-singular-continent

troy ramey and the soul searchers - try being born again (1977 nashboro gospel = guaranteed to be good)
brazil 2/o samba (1989 luaka bop comp)
ramses III - i could not love you more (on type. still one of my favorite ambient records ever. i was really happy to find a used copy in the store today)
stereolab - the groop played space age batchelor pad music

Kraftwerk - Computer World
King Sunny Adé - Juju Music
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Swans - To Be Kind

Actually, though, everything is terrible except for Babymetal.

70s hard rock/prog, 80s metal & Khun Narin.

PiL

The Fall

New Alt-J so thin keep wanting 2 brush it away. Look fwd 2 Spotify commercials. Actual bests: Weeny "Left Hand Free," daycare cover art.
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart's's Days of Abandon Deluxe Edition adds five keepers, esp. "Poison Touch," ft. lithe beats & A Sunny Day In Glasgow's Jen Goma, as do all the best tracks, though The Pains' own vocals have grown on me okay (still not great, but they do their bit). Nerf layers accumulate on the three duds, but mostly, this dream pop earns its tag and actually rocks a bit (most of the distinctive instrumental turns come from the rhythm section).

Grateful Dead - Sunshine Daydream
Marc Ribot - The Prosthetic Cubans
Roman Flugel - Happiness is Happening
NTS radio
Yong Marco - Beats in Space mix
Ersen (Finders Keepers)

mostly Beethoven and Cecil Taylor

✓

Addicted to the brilliant Lorenzo Senni 'Superimpositions' album right now, really incredible stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI0r8U6BiYk

masque premiere

Prince: Art etc. so far not in one ear out other, but plectrumelectrum sufficiently rocking and thoughtfully support's Thirdeyegirl's blue sunshine.
Sly's Stone Flower 1969-70 (Light In The Attic) Singles and prev. unreleased, cohesive variety of versions and line-ups; I'm partial to the uncanny funktronic instrumentals--keys, rhythm machine, bass---and "Life & Death in G & A": "If it feeeeeels good, it's al-right!" telling himself and us, urgent but not 2 loud (Must get those Rhino etc sides from '67-? too, and some amazing ones on that '13 box)

"Not" should not be in that first note, really is in one ear out other

also sorry for apostrophe: *supports* not "support's." Dam!

Oh re Prince's Art etc as ho-hum, at least one exception: "Time" is tight.

see, I'd argue for U Know... and Breakfast Can Wait was last year but still.

Still loving skronk-funkateers Guerilla Toss 2013 debut album Gay Disco, and they've got a couple '14 EPs streaming: Smack The Brick, out later this month: https://soundcloud.com/nnatapes/01-smack-the-brick?in=nnatapes/sets/guerilla-toss-smack-the-brick-cassette Current fave: "Billy Blood Idol."
Even better maybe (a little faster, more momentum overall, though they've spoiled me): last summer's 367 Equalizer, ltd. ed., maybe OOP, but still here for now:
https://soundcloud.com/infinity-cat/cookie-guerilla-toss?in=infinity-cat/sets/infinity-cat-cassette-series-guerilla-toss Can't pick one!
Both sets are 4 tracks each, but those are enough to keep the homefries burning while waiting for next alb (get the first)

Also, as mentioned at some length on Robert Wyatt thread, letting the 2-disc comp w same title as new bio, Different Every Time carry meee away. As mentioned at some length on Richard Thompson thread, big news for me re The Thompson Family Album is how good Linda sounds, despite long-reported vocal problems, she's the one on here projecting charisma. RT and others contribute some good songs and playing: no masterpieces, but at least half are keepers, whole thing might be a sleeper.
Both albums still streaming on npr 'til their 11-18 release(better get started on the Wyatt):
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/09/361384516/first-listen-robert-wyatt-different-every-time
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/09/361384683/first-listen-thompson-family

Anybody heard this? Cover makes me woh-woh-wonder:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2XPWhfCMAAUOEY.jpg

dennis johnson's November was composed earlier than almost all minimalist music and is completely perfect, yet it is unknown

this is bullshit

why did i revive the 2014 thread to say that

why

it's not just a historical curiosity, being written years before in C. it's actually perfect. put it on and listen to it throughout a quiet afternoon. i've always appreciated In C as a historical document and as an idea. November explores the ramifications of In C before it was even written

in time and space

but fart fart i have other things to do fart

he was 21 when he wrote this

can you pull me back to 2014 through the time tunnel pls

It’s kind of a Being John Malkovich situation in there. Pretty embarrassed about my solo drunkness on a Wednesday night, slight less embarrassed about my apparent passion for November, which still rules in the sober light of this field, where I am a Cusack

passion for November when

Possible I’m still a bit drunk, jesus