Whatcha listening to in 2008?

Britney Spears -Blackout
Dan Deacon -Spiderman of the Rings
Mary Margaret O'Brien - Miss America
Health - Health
Eric Copeland- Hermaphrodite
Best of the Ronettes

Deletist

Stenblomma - Alla Träd Har Samma Rot

ESG - A South Bronx Story

Sainkho Namtchylak - Stepmother City
Nujabes - Hyde Out Productions 2nd Collection
Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
Psychograss - Now Hear This
Masami Tsuchiya - Rice Music
Maudlin of the Well - Leaving Your Body Map
Fia na Roca - Vente Vindo

Wow, it's great to see some Tsuchiya love. One of my favorite artists (and guitarists) ever. Have you heard Ippu-Do's 'Night Mirage' album? Many of the same musicians. Equally classic (and I listen to it more often).

I've been on a Roxy Music kick, listening through their catalog in tandem with reading the Both Ends Burning biography. Fun!

Man, I've never heard of that album before. If its anywhere as good as the Tsuchiya record I know I'm gonna love it! Thanks for the heads-up Pat!

It's like a poppier, more organic version of Rice Music. With steel drums and, yes, loads of boisterous fretless bass. A top 5 album for me.

The Big Stiff Box Set
Mystery Jets - 'Zootime'

Hector Lavoe - Hector Lavoe - Fania Legends of Salsa Collection, Vol. 2, disc 2
Michael Stuart - Back to Da Barrio
Sonora Poncena - New Heights

burial- untrue
white denim- let's talk about it EP
el guincho- alegranza
gucci mane- back to the traphouse
raekwon- only built 4 cuban linx
gyrate- pylon +
high places- high places ep

Ghostface Killah, The Big Doe Rehab
Wu-Tang Clan, 8 Diagrams
The Louvin Brothers, Satan Is Real
Vince Guaraldi, "A Charlie Brown Christmas"

a Peter Visti DJ mix from somewhere
Low - Drums & Guns (wish I'd bothered to listen to this earlier!)
Guillaume & the Coutu Dumonts - Face A L'Est (album of the year so far)
Rhythm & Sound - w/ The Artists
Rings - Black Habit
Narcotic Syntax - Provocative Percussion
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
'O'Rang - Herd of Instinct
Method Man & Redman - Blackout!
Das Krause Duo - "Good Man Invasion"
Robert Owens - "Was I Here Before (Deep Space Mix)"
Electric Light Orchestra - "Livin' Thing"
Soulja Boy - "Soulja Girl (Collipark Remix)"
Jinny - "Keep Warm"
The Walker Brothers - "No Regrets"
Bananarama - "Cruel Summer"

Rihanna, Good Girl Gone Bad
Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim

Eric B. & Rakim, Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em
Shawnna, Block Music
Prince, Controversy

Six Nation State, Album
Tuule Kann & Jaak Sooäär, Õhtu ilu/ Beauty of the Evening

the move - message+shazam
subway sect - 20 odd years
todd rundgren - todd

Gregor Tresher - A Thousand Nights
Pagans - Shit Street
Peter Wyngarde - When Sex Rears Its Inquisitive Head

Pylon, Gyrate
The R&B Hits of 1951
The Go! Team, Proof of Youth

Lula Côrtes E Zé Ramalho - Paêbirú
The Orb - UFOrb (Deluxe Edition)
Cobblestone Jazz - 23 Seconds
The Black Dog - Book Of Dogma
Chaz Jankel - My Occupation

ok, i know i'm way behind on all this, but this month so far has been all about :

Misch Masch/Various remixes - Radio Slave (or is it Radioslave - I get confused)

I also ordered the Rekids compilation cd, and the japanese mix that he did recently, and cant wait for those to drop through the letter box as i'm on a bit of a Radio Slave groove

today has been a Boris day:

Boris - Absolutego
Boris - Amplifier worship
Boris - Akuma no uta

Alan Sondheim - Ski/nn
Talking Heads - 77
Sunset - Pink Clouds
There Will Be Blood OST
Bobb Trimble - Iron Curtain Innocence (can't really stand Harvest of Dreams though)

Soulja Boy, Tellem.com
Rainbow, Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
Mary J. Blige, Growing Pains

new Sunburned Hand of the Man - Weekend at Burnie's
new Earth
Aluk Todolo
random Bruce tracks

Gene Clark, American Dreamer 1964-1974. Good comp, has songs by (besides The Byrds) Gene Clark & The Gosdin Brothers, The Dillard & Clark Expedition, The Flying Burrito Brothers, and Clark solo.

^^Raven does a good comp, don't they?

James Holden at Pixel, Club 11 (great 3hrs+ set)
801 Live
John Cale - Paris 1919 & Music for a New Society

Autodrone

Bebop Spoken Here box set
Cuong Vu, Vu-Tet
Josh Roseman New Constellations, Live in Vienna
Isaac Hayes, Live at the Sahara Tahoe
John Adams, Nixon in China
Steve Reich, Desert Music
Monsterinthemachine, Butterfly Pinned
Louis Jordan, Number Ones
François Ingold Trio, Fat Free

Jesu "Lifeline"
Duke Ellington "Live at Newport '56"
Peter Brötzmann "Songlines," "Die Like A Dog," "Little Birds Have Fast Hearts" 1&2, and "Aoyama Crows" (used bin SCORE!)
Neko Case "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood"

Huey Lewis and the News, Sports
Jay-Z, Reasonable Doubt
The Slits, Cut
John Fahey, Death Chants, Breakdowns & Military Waltzes

Led Zeppelin - IV
Blood Brothers - Crimes
OMC - How Bizarre

The Hi Records box set called Royal Memphis Soul. Someone came into my shop and sold it to me and, boy, it's gooood. Didn't even know there was such of a thing. I don't want to put it out for sale. Is that wrong?

Jeff Buckley, Starsailor
Lily Allen, Alright, Still
Arcade Fire, Neon Bible
Roxanne Shante, Bad Sister
Sugar and Poison

Madvillain - Madvillainy
Madlib - Shades of Blue
Ghostface - Fishscale
Prince - Controversy

Ellen Allien - Thrills
Battles - Mirrored
MIA - Kala

Da Pacem, a selection of Arvo Pärt's works, mostly composed in this century, on Harmonia Mundi.
Performed by the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir/ Paul Hillier, with Christopher Bowers-Broadbent.
At the moment feels like the beautifullest musicke I've heard in ages. An impression certainly coloured by the fact that the CD was sent as a present.

Judas Priest, Unleashed in the East
Deep Purple, "Who Do We Think We Are"
Britney Spears, Blackout

Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Dizzee Rascal - Maths + English

digging out some old stuff ; primal scream - accelerator, 1st futureheads album, also some elvis and ramones tunes im trying to learn on bass

Sibylle Baier - Colour Green
VA Return of the batcave vol. 1-3
Sex Gang Children - Medea
Dominik Eulberg - Heimische Gefilde
Crystal Castles - Trash/trash/trash

John Cale - Paris 1919. 2006 remaster. Fantastic.

Rahsaan Patterson -- After Hours
Italians Do It Better Comp. -- After Dark
Burial -- Untrue
Numero Group 017 -- The Outskirts of Deep City
Prince -- The Black Album

stooges - fun house
shuggie otis - inspiration information
fela kuti - shuffering and schmiling / no agreement
throbbing gristle - 20 jazz funk greats
italian disco comp
faust - v
v/a - the story of jamaican music: tougher than tough

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2M0dl-zBLN0";>Tokyo Jihen (live)</a>

Tokyo Jihen - Shuraba (live)

los campesinos!- hold on now youngster...
lupe fiasco- the cool
strategy- future rock
vampire weekend- vampire weekend
missy elliot- ching-a-ling
random bobby valentino eps
cassidy ft. swizz beatz- my drink n my 2 step

random bobby valentino mp3s**

mgazine - the correct use of soap
happy mondays - pills thrills and bellyaches
radiohead - in rainbows
the hold steady - boys and girls in america
the clientele - suburban light

zz top - the eliminator
jacques brel - ces gens la
rose tattoo - blood brothers (which in turn kicked up more listenings of their first [sub-parentheses, this record isn't FAST enough])
epmd - strictly business, and business never personal
alvarius b - blood operatives...
sioux city pete and the beggars - necro blues
dolly parton - backwoods barbie
rolling stones - sticky fingers (super heavy rotation)

eh, probably other stuff, too

oxymoron?

― BIG HOOS' macaroni is off the motherfucking chain (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, November 14, 2008 5:43 AM Bookmark

haha not in this case

Dungen - 4
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Voices
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
Charles Mingus - Mingus Dynasty

dopethrone electric wizard

thuh wizzzurhd!

The Bug, London Zoo

^ yesssss ^

^^^mad scientific album

srsly

will make yr head bob till yr jaw's slack

mark hollis, s/t
tim friese-greene, 10 sketches for piano trio
celia cruz y la sonora matancera, feliz navidad

Paysage D'Hiver (mostly) and Darkspace.

Classic Dusty Springfield

At work we've had Pig Radio on a lot. Discovered the following three gems recently...

Panico - Illumination (Jackson Remix)
Linus Loves - The Terrace
Toby Tobias - A Close Shave (Prins Thomas Remix)

Plays quite a lot of bl*g h**se stuff (for want of a better word) and it's good way of sifting through the endless amounts of stuff like that there seems to be online these days.

Widespread Panic
Pants Yell
Daft Punk

Birth of the Cool, Miles Davis
Miles Smiles, Miles Davis Quintet
Champion in the Arena, Jackie Mittoo
Pop Ambient 2008
Children of the World, Bee Gees

In addition to Eric Dolphy - Out There and a couple of Fred Hersch Trio albums, I've been spending a lot of time listening to the Joshua Redman/Brad Mehldau/Christian McBride/Brian Blade performances from 93/94 that are on youtube. Someone really needs to put out a record of those if there are decent audio recordings -- they're totally sick.

Arthur Russell, Love Is Overtaking Me
Kate Bush, Aerial
Pylon, Gyrate Plus
Syclops, I've Got My Eye On You
Joakim, My Best Remixes

Barbra Streisand ...and other musical instruments
David Bowie, Space Oddity
The Golden Palominos, a history: vol.2 (1986-1989)

lately:
Tim & Pleased to Meet Me reissues
Conor Oberst
new Drive-by Truckers
Dear Science (has *really* grown on me)
Janis - in concert, greatest, Cheap Thrills, etc.

After listening to P!nk's "Funhouse" all day I like to kick back and listen to P!nk's "Funhouse".

good thinking - u,grey.

me, black eyed and sleepless, have been having golden palominos's visions of excess for the musical backround of a translation job for the past four hours. and by now i've rather had enuff of that.

http://www.last.fm/music/DJ+Uncleshavedlongcock

Miles Davis - On the Corner
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Donato Dozzy - Labyrinth DJ Set
Photek - Solaris

prince- sign o' the times
william parker- double sunrise over neptune
bark psychosis- codename: dustsucker
pissed jeans- hope for men
sun ra- cosmic tones for mental therapy
public enemy- it takes a nation of millions...
eat skull- sick to death

yay for eat skull!
i really thought they would be the perfect example of all ILM hated in music, but i've seen a few people like them here. i think that record's great.

guided by voices - propeller

i never had this one back in the day. it's super great.

Rashied Ali Quintet

In Your Time - Priestbird
Like OK Computer if Radiohead had lived in the forest

Machine Gun - Peter Brotzmann
What do you even say. Beautiful madness.

Action Jazz - The Thing
Like Brotzmann fronting The White Stripes.

The Demonstration Archive - Agalloch
Black metal at its prettiest

william parker- double sunrise over neptune

― Professor Respect, Monday, November 17, 2008 2:12 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

this album is awesome its like mingus got really into gy!be or something

oh i'm also listening to uriah heep

Oh fuck yes it has Joe Morris AND Hamid Drake AND Gerald Cleaver? I'm dling that shit.

xp to matt: yeah it's the first record with tobin if i'm not mistaken. his songs were always so great.

i was just listening to tower in the fountain of sparks earlier today. those two were so great together

Bernard Allison's Chills and Thrills because it is awesome with metallic solos and adorable songs, lots of doo-wop and Jackie Wilson and jump blues, T-Pain, B-52's

Murcof, The Versailles Sessions
Essie Jain, The Inbetween

Black Milk, Tronic

First listen. S'alright. The production is mostly interesting, but not spectacular. Black Milk is a pretty boring rapper though. Royce da 5'9 is great on the song he's on. I think it's worth another listen, but I doubt I'll spend too much time with this one.

LaBelle, Back to Now

I dumped the Wyclef track, but I think I like this record a lot. How great is "Candlelight"? It's this great trick that I first noticed on "Gasolina", although I'm sure there are other songs that do this. After establishing the big chorus a couple times, the last chorus is delayed for a long time as several different non-chorus song sections are strung together, with multiple bridges, building tension the whole time. Then when the huge, anthemic chorus finally reappears it's all OMG HUGE CLIMACTIC MOMENT. Seriously. Check out "Candlelight". Check out "Gasolina". They do this. It's such an awesome thing.

Devin the Dude, Landing Gear

First couple plays. You know one of the things that make this funny MF? It's all those little hesitancies when he's trying to pull a fast one. It's like, he knows he's BSing, and he knows you know he's BSing, but he's gonna say it anyway, cause it can't hurt to try.

Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend are excellent trolls. I'm sure they are very amused as they play up their priveledged status, play oblivious, and watch certain folks sputter themselves silly. Pretty good band, too.

The Foreign Exchange, Leave It All Behind

Been bumping this album like mad science. Gorgeous, almost sounds like that last Air album in parts, but as neo-soul. Their cover of Stevie Wonder's "If She Breaks Your Heart" is the most beautiful thing I've heard all year. Best morning record of the year at any rate. (yeah right, like I have morning records)

Robin Thicke, Something Else

Another new thing that's been on constant rotation. Ridiculous smooth. "Magic" is one of those odd songs where when I heard it as a single it did nothing for me, but hearing it on the album, it just immediately clicked.

Kanye West, 808s & Heartbreak

Meh. On one listen, nothing else on this is anywhere near as great as "Love Lockdown", nor as wretched as "Hearless", as per my expectation.

Gang Gang Dance, Saint Dymphna
Of Montreal, Skeletal Lamping

First listens, both. Neither left much of an impression on me. A lot of sound, but I'm not sure what else. Honestly, I didn't paying that close of attention to either and I'm left with no idea what to make of them. Between my reactions, or lack thereof, to these two, I feel like I may be retreating to a comfort zone of sorts and barely attempting to engage with things outside of there, even if I do take the step of taking a nominal listen. It's an urge I have to fight.

Solange, Sol-Angel & the Hadley St. Dreams

I'd thought I might have played this one out a while back, but a little rest and it's good as new.

DJ Khaled, We Global

Another first listen. While many decry DJ Khaled for his lack of apparent musical talent, I respect him for putting out a decent mainstream rap compilation every year and for being far and away the most enthusiastic person in the music business.

T-Pain, Thr33 Ringz

"Blowing Up" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "Go Girl"

Prince, Dirty Mind
Wisin y Yandel, P'al Mundo
Stevie Wonder, Fulfillingness' First Finale
Ghostface, Ironman
Erykah Badu, New Amerykah, Part 1 (4th World War)
Dr. Dre, The Chronic
TV On The Radio, Dear Science
J*Davey, The Land of the Lost
Michael Jackson, Off the Wall
T.I., Paper Trail
Kelley Polar, I Need You to Hold On While the Sky Is Falling
Kid Creole, Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1976-1983
Nas, Illmatic
Erykah Badu, Mama's Gun
Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Ne-Yo, In My Own Words

Lau Nau, Nukkuu (really very very good; live, she may struggle quite a bit sometimes, but in the studio she gets it together almost always)
Max Richter, 24 Postcards In Full Colour ("varied" might be the word; varies from absolutely fascinating to dull-ish, imo)
"Blue" Gene TyrannyThe Somewhere Songs/ The Invention of Memory (like it lots and lots; then again, it's the only record by him that I have; and my copy of Cole Cagne's Sonic Transports book is still missing... :(
Etran Finatawa, Introducing... ('s all right, i suppose; likeable; nicely played; does its desert-trance-y repepetitition groove thang rather well)

Muddy Waters - The Anthology (disc 1)
Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Bob Dylan - Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3 (disc 3)

XD XD

Selda - S/T (1976)

"Ince Ince" and "Yaylalar" sound like Dungen!

Quincy Jones, Handel's Messiah: A Soulful Celebration (bit by bit, growing to like it a bit more with evey listen)

Colleen, The Golden Morning Breaks ('m gonna give this to my daughter as a birthday present this weekend; hope she'll like it)

By the way, PappaWheelie (hey, I know you from Slsk!),

Hi Bart! I know you form school!

I actually have been considering Legend of the Eight Samurai. Despite disaster status, I can't help but want to see Natsuki in action, for some context.

I realize her post-1995 career is more or less Konishi driven, but still...

Slaraffenland, "Sunshine" EP
Efterklang, "Springer" EP
Lindsey Buckingham, Gift Of Screws
Jorge Ben Jor, Reactivus Amor Est (Turba Philosophorum)

Efterklang, "Springer" EP

have not heard any of their recent stuff, and used to think that they sounded a bit too gentle and scattery - what's this like?

Lindsey Buckingham, Gift Of Screws

have only listened to time precious time, but x1000

Efterklang's "Springer" is actually from 2003. Well I suppose you could describe much of it as 'gentle and scattery', too, if you're so inclined :)
I like it just fine. It is quite mellow, yes. Not too many dynamic extremes of the loud!loud! variety.
As for their recent Parades CD, I heard lots of it played live only last night in Tallinn (from whence Efterklang went on to Riga - I think right now they're probably in the middle of their perfrormance there...) Anyway, I love Parades a lot and was wondering how they'd be able to translate that onto the stage, considering all the boys choirs and string quartets and whatnots on that record -- and they played and sang the material really great as a seven-piece band. (On a very tiny stage to boot)

Buckingham's very pleasant overall, and I've always had a soft spot for his guitar pickin' style ("Bel Air Rain" and "Underground" are rather great that way). Mm, I'm not exactly overwhelmed' by it all, but - it sorta does grow, I feel.

efterklang is just silly these days.

Finnish psy producer Tommi Sirkiä (PeLinPala, Haltya).

I embraced mid 90's Psy-trance as the genre that brought everything I loved about acid and industrial EBM together, with an overwhelming tasteless excess of layered 303, propulsive basslines. But like a lot of electronic genres that define an insular scene, all too soon the sonic signatures of 4/4 doof kick, and tweaked acid became rote. Why buy another trance CD when Twisted and Identified Flying Objects still beckoned from the shelf. Like drum n'bass, psy-trance suffered from a harder/darker one-upmanship into nightmarish functional tracks for the midnight hour. It just wasn't fun for home/car listening anymore. The best producers burnt out or migrated into doing (often quite good) psy-tinged ambient.

But I'd return to psy-news.org to read reviews every few years, and this year, I stumbled upon the world of Finnish psy, which through some miracle of cultural isolation, didn't disappear up its own tookus as the Israeli and British flavors were want to. Purists seem to disdain the Suomisaundi, as its evolved entirely out of the straightjacket and much of it is hardly trance at all.

If you'd like a taste of this, I highly recommend the albums Tommi Sirkiä has worked on. Solo project PeLinPala's My CD Has Landed on the Neighbor's Dog (2000) is a sort of detuned claustrophobic mad layering of the kitchen sink (whizzy sounds and jew's harp and sax madness), with a heavy free-jazz and drum n'bass influence. Its something like a Squarepusher psy album. His collaborative project Haltya is something else entirely - Psy-Funk/Disco exotica. On Book of Nature (2008) some tracks are funkier than anything on DFA, some might slip unnoticed onto a Senor Coconut, others are just delightful trancy excess. Its tasteless music, and its fun, just as psychedelia should be.

"Blue" Gene Tyranny:
Take Your Time
Country Dog Country Boy
Free Delivery
Just For The Record
The Intermediary

Lois Svard: With And Without Memory (plays the title piece by Tyranny, also William Duckworth's "Imaginary Dances" - me digs - and Robert Ashley's "Van Cao's Meditation")

Robert Gordon: Star Jaws

Buffalo - Volcanic Rock
Kahvas Jute - Odyssey
Killing Joke first
Die Neue Deutsche Welle is Da Da Da
Harvey Milk - Live Pleaser
Live to Ride NWOBHM comp
not Jason Kahn, cause I had curry instead

Dungen - 4
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Thao Nguyen and the Get Down Stay Down - We Brave Bee Stings and All
Santogold - s/t
Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks - Real Emotional Trash

Die Neue Deutsche Welle is Da Da Da

omg I've forgotten to listen to this for years! Geh mir aus dem Weg, ich bin die Scherbenlili!

The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life