Last X records you bought, 3rd quarter 2003...

plus:
few dancehall comps
a broklyn beats thing
lots of dancehall 7s

the latter kills, btw...

V/A - nice up the dance
The bug - Pressure
Luomo - the present lover
Dizzee Rascal - I Luv U (Remix)

Right, off to the HMV sale now...

Arriving today:
Aislers Set - How I Learned To Write Backwards
Stratford 4 - Love and Distortion
All Girl Summer Fun Band - 2
Decemberists - Castaways and Cutouts

Most recent purchases:
Polysics - ADSRM!
Nazis From Mars - S/T
Crash Worship - Pyru

alex, where the hell did you find this?!

Oneida - Enemy Hogs (used)
The Hellacopters - Grande Rock (used)
Botch - We are the Romans

Xii - How's that Polysics album?

Black Beauty, Filles De Kilimanjaro, Circle In The Round, Aura, You're Under Arrest, Decoy, The Man With The Horn, At Fillmore, The Complete Bitches Brew Sessions, The Complete In A Silent Way Sessions, and probably a few more I'm forgetting.

I haven't bought much else lately, because I've been getting lots of great death metal in the mail.

There was a stack of 'em at Kim's Video (St. Mark's Place, NYC) yesterday...

If you happen to be nowhere near there, shoot me an e-mail and I'll burn you a copy. It's as incredible as ppl say it is...

Bizarre, but that's no surprise. Haven't listened *much* yet, but initial impressions are that it doesn't strike me as much as "Hey! Bob! My Friend!" and doesn't have the sheer popability as "For Young Electric Pop." Which isn't to say its bad, just that I'm digesting it differently.

plus i got the two latest Jukebox 45 Singles club seven inchers and a friend of mine gave me their Moles "untune the sky" cd

your null fame, here is the book and here the cd.

EUROPA 51, Abstractions
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM, s/t
JICKS, Pig Lib (finally bought it in order to hook SM up and to get the bonus disc, which was just okay)
BLACK DICE, Beaches and Canyons
SIGHTINGS, Absolutes
A SILVER MOUNT ZION, Born Into Trouble... (surprisingly good after that limp debut)

nautical almanac - cisum
khanate - no joy 12"

then a number of items arrived today (s*** l*** R.I.P):

erica pomerance- you used to think
skullflower-xaman LP
stockhausen- mikrophonie I and II LP
stockhausen- gruppen and carre LP
stockhausen/boulez- zeitmasse/ lemartieu sans maitre LP
harry pussy- 2 7'' (one on planet and another on another label)

huh?

i win.

I think that's it

"No other" by Gene Clark (as good as everyone says it is)
"The Ultimate Collection" by Yes (better than I ever expected it to be)
"Hard light" by Delta (not a patch on anything they've done before)

The Farida CD has some of the silliest English I've come across in liner notes. I think my favorite aspect of the CD are the percussion tracks (and the percussion on the other tracks). Unfortunately, I still can't get into Farida's singing that much. Still, pretty good overall.

I think At the Border is quite wonderful. It seems to me that Marcel Khalife holds a fairly unique position as a very popular Arabic singer/songwriter of protest sings. (Maybe one reason for his success is that he hasn't limited himself to that, and even on this album, he hardly limits himself to simply strumming an oud and singing. The orchestration is definitely varied.) Weird though: the track sequence is different from what I heard on cassette, and one of the songs is quite a bit different from that version (though I like them both).

(Re: At the Border, I think the first half is stronger than the last half. At times it gets pretty sentimental toward the end of the album. I can stomach it, myself, but I think others would be less forgiving.)

A made-in-Holland & bought-in-Germany item, this.
...Well, a collection of well-known, classic tracks it surely is -- b-b-but what the heck makes it a 'collectors box' absolutely beats me. (Is it the misspelling of Perry as 'Berry' on one of the sleeves, eh? Or the total lack of any information apart from the song titles and the authors?)

Huzzah!

Hazzuh!

Someone gave me Soul II Soul - Keep On Movin'

ok

MUSIC FROM THE ONCE FESTIVAL 1961-66 (the standard of quality is very high. fifth disc in particular.)
Dorine Muraille - Mani
Southern Journey vol 8 - Velvet Voices (Alan Lomax)
Songs of Seduction - Folk Songs of England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales (Alan Lomax)
Stockhausen - Tierkreis (glossy)
Pimmon - Snaps * Crackles * Pops
ABBA - Super Trouper (w/ bonus tracks)
The Essential Adam Ant
Dockstader - Eight Electronic Pieces (piece 8 is original mono version of 'traveling music', and it's much better)
Paul Dolden - Seuil de Silences (remixes of 'threshold of deafening silence' album, minus one track, plus two new tracks. maddening.)

actually have:
Nick Drake - Bryter Later (love it-very different from the others)
Cure-Seventeen Seconds (replacing old teenage tape copy)
daniel bell - revenge of the button down mind (cool)
donnacha costello - together is the new alone (fuckin awesome -got it used for 2.98)

dats it

Daft Punk - "One More Time"
Geddy Lee - "Home On the Strange"

Khalife's Arabic Coffee Pot is not very enjoyable. I don't especially like anything he's done after the 80's. His use of orchestra really bugs me. I can't pass a serious judgment on this music though, since it is primarily intended as a setting for the texts that are sung (which are generally actual poetry). Until I understand Arabic, I won't be able to understand, in any depth, how the music and text relate.

I like the new Sun Ra CD too, but have only listened to it once. I was hoping for something a little more amazing, somehow, but it's definiely good. I may say more after I've given it a more serious listen.

For Your Pleasure/Manifesto/Heart Still Beating/Flesh and Blood/Siren/Avalon

Radio 4 - Gotham

Vinyl LPs - all £ each

Grace Jones - Slave to the Rhythm
Hambi and The Dance - Heartache
Urban Verbs - S/T
Blancmange - Mange Tout

finally lots of bargains for 2 quid down myt local shop:

beatles- help LP
Prefab sprout- steve mcqueen LP
Human League- 'travelogue' and 'reproduction' LPs

Roxy music's 'manifesto', ac/dc's 'back in black' and 'highway to hell' on cassete.

i was on a rummage sale last weekend:
prince - around the world in a day LP
grandmaster flash & melle mel - white lines (don't don't do it) 12"
rachmaninoff - piano concerto no. 2 10"

with another LP from a dutch cabaret duo, collectively 1 euro.

also:
michael jackson - off the wall cd
nick drake - five leaves left cd
can - flow motion LP

Can't promise anything (I'm away most weekends and it's not easy getting up to London in the week) but when is it?

american analog set - promise of love (just one deceiving listen. this must be their creative low point. very few ideas and tunes. lots of boring repetitive drones)

and you should allow that aas record to nestle, it will pay off. well, it did in my case anyway...

yesterday, just before going to meet duane i went record shopping and got:

Ornette coleman- In all languages 2LP
and Lou Reed's 'Metal machine music' on 2LP!!! Finally!!!! The guy in the record store thanked me :-)

To ILE with you! Or at least that thread in particular.

Wu-Tang Clan, Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Ol' Dirty Bastard, Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version

the following are all promos, I list them anyways

Rhythm & Sound w/ the artists
Rhythm & Sound - the Versions
Richard Devine - Assct:Dssct
Nathan Michel - Dear Bicycle (good! quantum leap beyond first one.)
Dwayne Sodahberk - Unfortunately (first one I've liked. leaving behind minimal stacked loops, writing some very nice songs. track 13, 'bird')
Team Shadetek - violent turd mix cd
Doormouse - The Method
Alan Licht - A New York Minute

Mastered by Bob Drake, I think.

super yay.

Knew nothing 'bout the band or the label, but the line-up seemed kinda interesting - plus there were a few songs sung in Greek, Japanese and Spanish, evidently - and as I could have it at half the price, I'm now poorer for the equivalent of 'bout 7 USD.
:)

Helloween - Rabbit Don't Come Easy
Andrew WK - The Wolf
Iron Maiden - Dance of Death
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
J Mascis - The John Peel Sessions
Neil Young - Greendale
Contriva - 8 eyes ('96-'99)
Donna Regina - Late
The Brunettes - Boyracer EP
Mates of State - Team Boo
Shizuka - La Vuelta al Mundo en Globo
Juniper Moon - Solo una Sonrisa (single)
Guther - I Know You Know
Modapop, Elefant comp

10" (a Rex Records trio/trifekta/threesome):

DJ Downfall - Make Me Feel Like A Man
Escapepod - s/t EP
RLF - Once Upon A Time EP

12":

Was Not Was - (Return to the valley of) Out Come The Freaks Remixed Version
Scritti Politti - Tinseltown To The Boogiedown
Tom Jones - If I Only Knew
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record) (Murder Mix)
Supreme Bachelors - S&M
Greens Keepers - Guidance
Beats International - Bingo Beats
Dirty Beatniks - Disco Dancing Machine
Grafiti - What Is The Problem?
Beenie Man feat Janet/Sean Paul and Lady Saw - Feel It Boy/Bossman
Mantronik vs EPMD - Strictly Business
V/A - Pussytoons EP
Cagedbaby - Star/Berlin
Freakpower - New Direction
Morgan Geist - Crash Tracks EP

CD:

Seelenluft - Manila

OMD - Organization remaster
Roxy Music - Country Life
King Tubby - Essential Dub

Secondhand :

Furniture - She Gets Out The Scrapbook

2nd hand LP
Public Image Limited - Second Edition
Robert Palmer - Clues
McQuin, Clark & Hillman - s/t

new LP
the Hospitals - s/t

on order LP
Matmos - Civil War
OutKast - Speakerboxxx/the Love Below

new CD
the Cuts - 2 over 10

on order CD
Television - Marquee Moon (expanded reissue)