You know when we all said : "Chill out RIAA, you know we use P2P file sharing to discover new acts then go out and buy them."
Actually we lied. I've just realized I do exactly the opposite. I frantically download everything I can get hold of by people I know. But I spend all that saved cash experimenting with new artists I've never heard of because of a review, recommendation or the cover looks interesting.
Strange.
Anyway, here's an arbitrary list of things I've just picked up on spec. and loved :
1) My Computer : Vulnerabilia
2) Henry Kaiser : Lemon Fish Tweezer
3) Max Tundra : Mastered by Guy at the Exchange
4) Hrvatski : Swarm and Dither
5) Iannis Xenakis : Persepolis Remixes
6) Eliza Carthy : Anglicana
Here's some things I kind of expected to like, and did indeed.
1) Super Madrigal Brothers : Shakestation
2) Super Collider : Raw Digits
3) The Swingle Singers : Jazz Sebastian Bach
4) The Gongs : Rob Reich
5) The Stranglers : Men in Black
And here are some disappointments
1) Add N to (X) : Avant Hard
2) New Order : Back to Mine (Less than the sum of it's parts, so much less interesting than the Orbital one.)
3) Lemon Jelly : (Can't even find the name. Beautiful cover but forgetable music)
4) Luaka Bop presente Cuisine Non Stop : should be the new wave of chanson, but not enough melody and too much dull African influence for my taste.
5) Alabama 3 : La Peste
― phil jones (interstar), Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:26 (twenty-three years ago)
go max tundra! definitely up there in the top of the year.
avant hard is one of add n to (x)'s best in my opinion.... but i could see why someone might not dig it. i like the one that sounds like horses have sex. (a sentence i don't plan on repeating ever again.)
m.
― msp, Thursday, 21 November 2002 21:29 (twenty-three years ago)
m.
just relistening to Avant Hard. I see what they're getting at.
And I should like them more. Problem is, it isn't as mannered and witty as, say, Stereolab; nor as unsettlingly weird as lounge-tec acts like Tipsy or Leggo Beast; nor as melodic as Plone or Plaid; and not as hypnotic as post-rock acts like Do Make Say Think. All of which, needless to say, I love.
What they bring extra is all this wild soloing and flailing-armed live drumming .... which just kind of annoys me. Guess I'm one of those people who prefer my beats to come from machines ;-)
As for the horse thing. Did you ever hear Frank Tovey's Immobilize?
― phil jones (interstar), Thursday, 21 November 2002 23:03 (twenty-three years ago)
"Anyway, here's an arbitrary list of things I've just picked up on spec. and loved :
1) My Computer : Vulnerabilia"
Yes, me too. Its rather good. Maybe the vocoder is a weensy bit overused.
"3) Lemon Jelly : (Can't even find the name. Beautiful cover but forgetable music)"
Lost Horizons. I like it a lot. It's mellow, but doesn't slip into blandness.
― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 22 November 2002 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)