It's a New Recent Purchases Thread (a.k.a. Whatever Happened to the Recent Purchases Thread?)

hey sleeve.. how much did ya pay for that konstruktivists lp.... ?

It's a dense record. Do you like Vannier's arrangements for Histoire de Melody Nelson? This record has that same sense of playfulness, only with Serge and co. replaced by bonkers musique concrete. It's not as immediate as HMN but I think it might hold up better in the long run. The repeated themes of HMN get a little cloying if you listen too often, whereas the Vannier LP always feel fresh. I would recommend it!

I would add that -- if you're in the US -- getting the CDs of any Finders Keepers release is the way to go. They might not be as pretty, but unless you've got a record store near you that stocks the LPs you'll have to pay $24 plus shipping online compared to like $12 for the CDs on overstock.com. Of course, if you're a vinyl fetishist that doesn't matter, and the Finders Keepers packaging/liner notes are pretty great. Just something to think about.

It is sometimes worth waiting, though- a lot of Finders Keepers releases get cheap reissues on B-Music, the US branch of Twisted Nerve/Finders Keepers/Delay 68, usually within 3-4 months of the UK release if not sooner.

In the last couple months or so:
Andy Votel- One Nation Under a Grave
Glass Candy- Beat Box
Cabaret Voltaire- The Voice of America reissue
v/a- Dirty Edits, vol. 1
v/a- The Portable Supersound
Benji B Presents: A Space Odyssey
Lindstrom- The Contemporary Fix EP
Daft Punk- Alive 2007 preorder
The Cure- Pornography 2xcd reissue (Amazon US has this for $15)
v/a- Four Songs by Arthur Russell EP
The Oscillation- Out of Phase
Dinosaur L- 24->24 Music
Giorgio Moroder- E=MC2
John Cooper Clarke- Zip Style Method

ft(The Shadow Government) - The Black and White Album
STNNNG/Signal to Trust - Lunch Show 5 Split 7 inch
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Sparks - Propaganda
Bottomless Pit - The Hammer of the Gods
Tim Hardin - 2
OMD - s/t

It is sometimes worth waiting, though- a lot of Finders Keepers releases get cheap reissues on B-Music, the US branch of Twisted Nerve/Finders Keepers/Delay 68, usually within 3-4 months of the UK release if not sooner.

This is only for the CDs though, correct? If B-Music releases cheap FK as well vinyl I'm going to be kicking myself.

Roisin Murphy - Overpowered
Burial - Untrue
Boxcutter - Glyphic
Axolotl - Memory Theater
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline
Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile
Jay-Z - American Gangster
UGK - Underground Kingz
Lee Perry - Ape-ology

s. morris- Correct, only CD so far. And there are a few annoying gaps in the catalog, not everything gets brought over.

s.morris, yeh Vannier is my favourite of Gainsbourg's arrangers, his work on the cannabis soundtrack is astounding too. He did a show at the barbican last year with a full orchestra and choir doing L'Enfant assassin des mouches & melody Nelson in their entirety. it was pretty much mind blowing

That sounds excellent! I'd be interested to hear how they did L'Enfant live... did Vannier have tapes of the concrete material or did they have people banging and buzzing in real time?

it was all live!! little kid marching in sandpit and mucking about with shears. it was pretty spectacular.

Cinerama - Cinerama Holiday
Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime

Hurrah for the weak US dollar!

va - simple machines singles CD
zeni geva - desire for agony CD
stretchheads - barbed anal exciter 10"
split - mecca normal + kreviss - 7"
pop will eat itself - this is the day… this is the hour… this is this LP
magic hour - no excess is absurd CD
steel pole bath tub - scars from falling down CD
va - julep CD
volcano suns - career in rock CD
negative trend - s/t CDS
clorox girls - j'aime les filles CD
apples in stereo - new magnetic wonder CD
gothic archies - songs from a series of unfortunate events CD
fix - at the speed of twisted thought CD
buzzov-en - welcome to violence CD
deerhunter - cryptograms CD
eater - all of eater CD
mad - we love noize CD
guided by voices - the grand hour CDS
pissed jeans - hope for men CD
circle x - celestial CD
va - killed by death #9 CD
va - killed by death #12 CD
zeros - don't push me around CD
paul collins beat - the beat + the kids are the same CD
cheap trick - s/t CD
tugboat - two schools of thought CD
crass - best before 1984 CD
blight - detroit: the dream is dead CD
quasi - r&b transmogrification CD
malaria - compiled 1981-1984 CD
of montreal - hissing fauna, are you the destroyer CD
smash your face - loose times, light times 7"
bone awl - meaningless leaning mess LP
turpentine brothers - get your mind off me 7"
gories - you little nothing 7"
creteens - 4 track blues 7"
holly & joey - I got you babe 7"
jay reatard - I know a place 7"
king khan & bbq show - teabag party 7"
how - happy matt 7"
love is all - ageing had never been his friend 7"
radio dept - liebling 7"
slug - breathe the thing out 7"
kris guidio & the mogodons - warm 7"
big chief - strange notes 7"
ruth ruth - brainiac 7"
jonestown - 25 years 7"
ropers - sunbathe 7"
matt allison - hard look at perfect 7"
kitty vermont - por avion 7"
lenola - keep coming back 7"
gerbils - glue 7"
anxieties - the de-evolution will not be televised 7"
crayon - moominland 7"
loneliest christmas tree - the meaning of life 7"
junior varsity - bam bam bam 7"
sneetches - she does everything for me 7"
milky wimpshake - dialling tone 7"
age of chance - bible of the beats 7"
bunny brains - you got it (comin') 7"
didjits - lovesickle 7"
selfish cunt - britain is shit 7"
circle x - shiny blue orb 7"
magic hour - heads down 7"
DOA - right to be wild 7"
tiger trap - supercrush 7"
six minute war - slightly longer songs 7"
deerhoof - s/t 2x7"
death by chocolate - zap the world CD
elliott smith - figure 8 CD
new pornographers - challengers CD
of montreal - the early 4 track recordings CD
thermals - the body the blood the machine CD
dump - superpowerless CD
john wilkes booze - telescopic eyes glance the future sick CD
va - camp burlesque CD
fear - the record CD
pissed jeans - shallow CD
dwarves - lick it CD
fucked up - hidden world CD
black market baby - coulda woulda shoulda CD
dead c - the whitehouse CD
devo - duty now for the future CD
sleater-kinney - one beat CD
upsidedown cross - s/t CD
chemicals made from dirt - ike CD
va - buried alive #2 CD
shonen knife - let's knife CD
behead the prophet NLSL - I am that great and fiery force CD
black witchery - desecration of the holy kingdom CD
black witchery - upheaval of satanic might CD
va - cooking hows and whys LP
split - cannanes + timonium - population 2 12"
perspex whiteout - cool to be afraid 12"
flowchart - the spirit of kenny g 12"
nihilistics - s/t LP
king khan & bbq show - what's for dinner LP
piranhas - piscis clangor LP
see saw - everyone knows this is not hot 7"
matthew sweet & susanna hoffs - the pillowcase 2x7"
yo la tengo - mr tough 7"
a-frames - police 1000 7"
a-frames - complications 7"
zeni geva - disgraceland 7"
cabaret voltaire - red mecca CD
turbonegro - ass cobra CD
subhumans (UK) - EPLP CD
rudimentary peni - EP's of RP CD
maggots - monkey time! CD
mika miko - CYSLABF CD
blitz - voice of a generation CD

MIA - Kala (don't know why I waited so long to buy this)
"I'm Not There" soundtrack

dang, colonel poo, you go on vacation or something? otherwise that's a lot of international shipping, even with the weak dollar!

Yeah I went to LA for Thanksgiving, went to Amoeba, Fingerprints & some place in Culver City the name of which escapes me. The fact that everything was so cheap led to me spending WAY too much money in the end!

some damn nice records in there colonel. shame about the one glaring piece of crap - i'm sure the band would have sent you that for free.. you know the one i mean

Hehe yeah what was I thinking?

(well uh actually it was free that one, but that's no reflection on the quality, someone had a spare copy!)

haha

I couldn't take advantage of the weak dollar (am actually thinking about putting savings into another currency before it gets any worse) BUT I just finished an east coast vacation. I went to Dan Bunnybrain's store in Hudson NY and he gave me the sweet ILXOR deal on a buncha vinyl...

De La Soul - Me Myself & I 3-sided 12"
Prince - Glam Slam (remix) 12"
Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing AT Baxter's
Rosalie Sorrels - If I Could Be The Rain (her 1st! on Folkways!)
Roy Harper - Lifemask
The The - Infected
The Three Johns - Do The Square Thing 12"
Sylvester - Too Hot To Sleep
Soft Cell - Nonstop Erotic Cabaret
Van Halen - WOmen & CHildren (w/DLR poster!)
Digital Underground - Humpty Dance 12"
Queen Latifah - Ladies First 12"
The Time - S/T EP
Christmas - In Excelsior Dayglo
Monie Love - DOwn To Earth
Bruce SPringsteen - Cover Me 12" (ILM influenced purchase #1)
The Clash - Combat Rock ( replacement copy)
The Todd Terry Project - Just Wanna Dance 12" (ILMIP #2)
Sugarhill Gang - 8th WOnder LP
The SOmerville PLayers 7" (Barbara Manning, 2/3 of Sebadoh, and Roy Montgomery cover Faust and Black Sabbath! Never even heard of it before!)
The Meters - Stretch Your Rubber Band 7"
DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince - Parents Just Don't etc. 7"
Eeyore/Sockeye split 7"
English Beat - I Confess 7"
V/A - Not All That Terrifies Harms 7"
V/A - CHemical Imbalance #2 7" w/Big Black
V/A - Chemical Imbalance #7 7" w/Mekons
Prince - Mountains 7"
The Time - The Bird 7"
Run-D.M.C. - Kings Of Rock 7"
M - Pop Muzik 7"
KC & SUnshine Band - Get Down TOnight 7"
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna... 7" (w/non-LP B-side!)
Depeche Mode - People Are People 7"
Kurtis Blow - The Breaks 7"

some real shameless party DJ fodder there...

then I went to DC and Virginia for more vinyl...

Psychedelic Horseshit - Who Let THe Dogs Out 7" (ILMIP #3)
3 awesome God Is My Copilot singles , dupe copies for resale
Hugo Largo - Mettle
Roxy Music - Stranded
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture
" - Forces Of Victory (needes cleaning badly, hope that'll help)
No Man - WHamon Express
Foetus - Null
Midnight Star - No Parking On The Dance Floor
Second Layer - World Of Rubber (!!! my one expensive record)
O Yuki Conjugate - Into Dark Waters (never thought I'd see this on LP, the store had never heard of it and thought the title was the artist name. One of the best ambient LPs ever)
The League - League Unlimited ORchestra (ILMIP #4)
Flying Burrito Brothers - Gilded Palace Of Sin
Firesign THeater - Everything You Know Is Wrong
New ORder - Temptation/Hurt 12"
Danielle Dax - Inky Bloaters
" - Cat House 12"
" - Touch Piggie's EYes promo EP w/remixes (never knew about this)
Stump - A Fierce Pancake (ILMIP #5)
Big Stick - Crack & Drag
V/A - If You Can't Please Yourself... (one of the best comps ever!)
Kay Gardner - Mooncircles (fantastic, mostly instrumental femme-folk-classical-drone on the Olivia Label from 1974 or so)
Malcolm McLaren - Deep In Vogue remix 12"
ZZ Topp - Sleeping Bag remix 12" (ILMIP #6)
" - Legs remix 12"
Yaz - Nobody's Diary 12"
Earth Wind & Fire - Magnetic 12"
Was (Not Was) - Tell Me That I'm Dreaming 12"
Rickie Lee Jones - Firewalker remix 12"
West Street Mob - Sing A SImple SOng 12"
Janet Jackson - Nasty 12"
" - Black Cat 12"
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Madonna - 1st
Tampa Red - Bottleneck Guitar 1928-1937 ( SO GOOD)
James Blood Ulmer - Free Lancing
Ennio Morricone - Disque D'Or (???)
" - Un Film Una Musica 2LP (w/awesome book of film posters)
Folk Music Of Spain (on Ethnic Folkways)
Folk Music Of Peru (")

and left over from my late teen years tucked away in my mom's house, so not technically a purchase...

Velver Underground & Nico - "mispressed" mono version of LP

no more records for me until the end of the month...

Van Halen - WOmen & CHildren (w/DLR poster!)
That's a good poster!

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth
Brian Eno - Desert Island Selection
Trim - Soulfood Vol 2
John Tejada - Cleaning Sounds Is A Filthy Business
Doc Scott - Mixmag Live! Vol. 22 (Breakbeat Experiments)

Growing Concern LP
Maypole LP
Inner Dialogue LP
Mahogany Rush - Strange Universe LP
Peppermint Rainbow - Will You Be Staying After Sunday LP
To Neo Kyma Vol 1 & 2 LPs (60's psych-folk compilations from Greece. Can't wait to hear these!)
Nisi Period - Soon the Love Balloon Will Pop
Sylvie Vartan 7" ep
Nervous Eaters - Just Head 7"

And from the Freak Emporium's half price vinyl sale...
Plastic Cloud LP
Ashra - Correlations LP
Ashra - Blackouts LP
Judy Henske And Jerry Yester - Farewell Aldebaran LP

Arthur Blythe - "The Grip"
Billy Bragg - "Talking With the Taxman..." (re-ish w/ bonus disc)
Fishbone - "Truth and Soul" (re-buy of the year!)
Om - "Variations On A Theme"

A couple days ago:

Big Black - Pigpile
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Cutter (the "12 Classic Tracks" compilation, released 1993)
The Go-Betweens - Bellavista Terrace: Best of the Go-Betweens
Hot Chip - The Warning
The Knife - s/t
The Notwist - Neon Golden (previously owned, loaned and lost, thus repurchased)
Nine Inch Nails - Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D

thnxz sleeeeeeeeeevey

http://www.freewebs.com/johndoerecords12534/ is th shoppe if other xors r intrepid

from the dollar CD bin:

OMC - How Bizarre
Vinicius Cantuaria - Horse and Fish

This morning/used albums for $5.99 apiece, minus the first one which I bought at full price:

Daft Punk - Alive 2007 (deluxe version)
Peter Gabriel - Hit - how this excellent 2-disc collection ended up with a $5.99 sticker I have no idea??
Madonna - Ray of Light
Prince - The Gold Experience

Also recently purchased, and fucking fantastic I might add:

The Angels of Light - We Are Him

the blind shake - caramel (LP)
george cartwright - a tenacious slew (CD)
cluster - s/t (LP)
freeway - philadelphia freeway (CD)
jimi hendrix - electric ladyland (CD)
led zeppelin - IV (CD)
queen - greatest hits (CD)
louis armstrong - town hall concert plus (LP)

and just ordered the reissue of the Fruit Tree Box Set by Nick Drake : )

OMC WTF

Ghostface - Big Doe Rehab

Donovan - Try for the Sun boxset

British Invasion Gold double disc

HELL YES, LOOK WHAT I JUST GOT

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jay-z: American Gangster, REasonable Doubt, Blueprints 1 and 2, and Black Album
Delfonics: Delfonics
Exodus: Pleasures of the Flesh
Mayhem: De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas (had this years ago and sold it due to being poor...\m/ \m/)

haha someone just became a jay-z fan

yup!

Harmonia - Live 1974
Tokyo Jihen - Senkou Soujou DVD
Monteverdi - Orfeo (ARTEK dir. Gwendolyn Toth)
Monteverdi - Madrigali erotici, Consort of Musicke, Anthony Rooley
Henry Brant / Charles Ives - A Concord Symphony
Elaine Radigue - Chry-ptus
Ricardo Villalobos - Fabric 36

Robert Wyatt- Comicopera (for some reason I bought it on vinyl. What a dork)

<i>Harmonia - Live 1974 </i>

What's your assessment of this, Milton?

tonight, i came home with two CDs:

Akron/Family - Love Is Simple
Six Organs of Admittance - Dark Noontide

and two DVDs:

Echo and the Bunnymen - Dancing Horses
Galaxie 500 - Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste: 1987-1991

I really dig that Delfonics album. My soul collection is SERIOUSLY lacking for a guy that loves the hell out of that genre.

Very happy to have found both of these today:

Gang of Four - The Peel Sessions
Ride - Grasshopper EP

Jean-Claude Eloy - Gaku-No-Michi
Nik Pascal - Sixth Ear / Beyond The End... Eternity / Zero Gravity / Magnetic Web (Creel Pone 2CD reissue)
Yoshi Wada - Lament For The Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile
Akira Nishimura - Metamorphosis & Chamber Symphony Works
Asmus Tietchens & Richard Chartier - Fabrication
Michael Stearns - Lyra
Michael Stearns - Planetary Unfolding
Aloof Proof - Piano Text
Harmonia - Live 1974
Richard & Linda Thompson - In Concert, November 1975
Henry Brant / Charles Ives - A Concord Symphony
Eliane Radigue - CHRY-PTUS

oh &

Francois Bayle - la forme du temps est un cercle
Kuniharu Akiyama - Obscure Tape Music of Japan vol. 6
Monteverdi - Orfeo (ARTEK directed by Gwendolyn Toth)

oh some overlap upthread, I knew I'd posted some of those

to answer s. morris' question one month late, the Harmonia record is about what I expected -- beautiful, meandering, wallpaper jams but only they really had that sound

Yoshi Wada - Lament For The Rise and Fall of the Elephantine Crocodile

Just found this on UbuWeb. Incredible stuff, and recorded in an empty swimming pool!

And which of the Obscure Tape Music from Japan albums would you recommend? (From the samples I've heard, it sounds like all of them.) Shame it's only select ones available as LPs.

Chaz Jankel- Chazablanca LP
The Human League- Fascination! EP
Studio- West Coast (FINALLY)
Donnacha Costello- Colorseries CD
Todd Rundgren- Something/Anything?
Ian Dury- Lord Upminster LP
Talk Talk- The Color of Spring
Seefeel- Quique Redux

adicts - songs of praise CD
va - anti-capitalism - anarcho punk #4 CD
pointed sticks - waiting for the real thing CD
va - rock stars kill CD
runs - bun in the oven 7"
melvins - bullhead CD
darkthrone - transilvanian hunger CD
assfort - complete assforterly 1990-1993 CD - this was £3 inc shipping off Amazon zShops! Bargain.

The new CD of the Yoshi Wada sounds a lot better than the vinyl transfer on Ubuweb, also longer tracks and pictures of the recording session. never seen a set of bagpipes that long

Some of the Obscure Tape Musics are more consistent than others but every single one has at least one great track. Vol. 4 is the prettiest / most ambient. The Ichiyanagi Vol 5 has a 20 minute improv feedback set with Cage & Tudor from 1967, incredible shredding noise.

Tricky - Blowback
Freedy Johnston - Never Home

Ballin' on a budget.

I remember reading about Ichiyanagi in Japrocksampler, but can't remember the details, or even if it said anything at all about that particular performance. All I recall is that he was Yoko Ono's beau before Ringo.