Youtube Companion for the ILM Albums/Trax of 2009 Poll.

Hope musically doesn't mind me starting this thread instead of her. Apologies if i'm stepping on your shoes.

If you like Goblin or Tangerine Dream or even Alex Moulton then this might interest you
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvj5ETfafNw

Zombi are on a metal label and have mostly arty metal fans but it's not metal. I think there's plenty of fans on ILM and hopefully some of you may check them out.

Prog fans may like this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Vf5syTfmE

And maybe even
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts1sONxQQfc

If you like any of these check out their excellent albums.
There's more metal stuff over on
YOUTUBE companion thread to the Metal Albums of 2009 Poll if you wish to check it out.

Now onto everyone else to post a few of their faves.
Help us all discover new stuff before voting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLb6GGm2qFw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk4NR7oVNLw

The Hidden Cameras - In the NA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BJDNw7o6so

Phoenix - Lisztomania (though I can't imagine you haven't heard this song if you own and watch a television)

I haven't heard it.

this is straight-up electro-shoegaze brilliance so if you like the sound of that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esuEMkGiU8s

I haven't heard it.

Yeah, I guess most of those tv ads are probably North American.

No oceansize this year LJ?

They released one EP and to my eternal shame I haven't heard it yet!

You'll like that Engineers, I predict.

I waited for years for another Engineers album and it was awesome and now I never ever listen to it.

Indescribable Kraut-harmony choral-pop bloom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8_No3Hy94M

(the plainly flailing words after 'Indescribable' justifying its use)

haha i knew SFA was coming. Louis you will like the vids i posted, let me know what you think.

After I post one more! It's The Horrors. Yeah, they're British too. This is one of the best and most ferocious rock songs I've heard in years:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_JccaNl4QA&feature=related

This Zombi is p.r.e.t.t.y.d.o.p.e. I gotta say. :D Everyone, give it a listen! It is synthy goodness!

I won't lie to you - Let's Wrestle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc5HnZP5v6s

I you like Zombi's album, check out their other albums and both members solo stuff. Steve Moore and Majeure.

Like, oh SHIT this Zombi is good! Cheers pfunkboy!

Oooh, I saw Let's Wrestle live this summer. They weren't bad!

Tanya Morgan - So Damn Down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9Y09Gc_zM8

I've already heard the other two you posted Kerr; they're both good but I'd vouch for Baroness harder (that song in particular is awesome!)

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

thecocknbullkid - I'm Not Sorry

This Zombi is p.r.e.t.t.y.d.o.p.e. I gotta say. :D Everyone, give it a listen! It is synthy goodness!

― that clitties version of "mr. que" (acoleuthic), Thursday, December 31, 2009 11:54 AM Bookmark

^^^

more stuff you might like posted on the metal youtube companion thread LJ.
Im sure you wont be the only one who loves Zombi once they hear it. Most wont have heard of it because of the label they're on but im sure loads would love it.
The Steve Moore solo albums and the Majuere album are all in the same vein. The Majeure album was out this year too, hopefully someone will nominate it before it's too late!
xps

Bannakumbi, brilliant new salsa act, often doing atypical things with the way they mix different vocal styles together (lots of vocal harmonies, layers of different choruses happening at the same time, rapping, etc.). Also, more acoustic guitar and cuatro than one here's these days in mainstream salsa, I would say. Not too much on youtube, but here is their myspace, which includes "Un Nuevo Dia":

http://www.myspace.com/junitocrespo1

And here's one song I nominated, on youtube (with annoying intro. added by the person who posted it). This one sticks a little closer to a standard salsa sound, but I think it's still pretty inventive and fresh-sounding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TEbpw1SG7g

Here's a song (that hasn't been nommed) from an album I didn't nom but Dog Latin did. It's ace! I kinda wish I'd nommed it. Give the album a vote instead!

It is, erm, trumpet-led loop-rock. With loads of layered samples. And it's hella catchy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYYKDRRv3XE

Two Tokyo Jihen tracks. The first one is all over the place, in a good way, I think, (pop) art rock (maybe) with some unhinged vocals throughout:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAZZ6NbDmRs

The second is more of a smooth funky jazzy thing, with a terrific bassline courtesy of the great Seiji Kameda:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61-PymUKtBM

Rokia Traore - The Man I Love:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99904237

I like the stripped down accompaniment here, and I especially like when she soneos at the end, which pretty much makes it. Look! It was on NPR. Cool!

wow, this zombi track is pretty good!

enjoying Bannakumbi & Gyratory System!

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

x-post: yay! (to Reverend)

Omega - Merengue Electronico

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBQ9ITdQYN0

I just like his sound overall and picked this track more as representative of that sound than for its own sake per se.

Havana Salsa Team - Dime

http://mp3.rhapsody.com/havana-salsa-team

This is just a really poppy salsa song, Cuban style, but the chorus that comes in about two thirds of the way through makes it special (to my ears anyway).

here's some examples from my album picks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WboPCY8nCok
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsBfj6khrG4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N1_0SUGlDQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDOYN-6gdRE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsoyokIaNgI

hahaha autotune the news 8 was epic - may vote for it if it's in the trax poll!

and here's some singles:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqxXHb0_dXs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzOckCcpKzA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8VwYOGkD-c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvO9vcSFOgg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0kjKxgVbkw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9Tr23fg95E
^Uncensored version is far superior!^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EbwdXt52rw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml5r6qTlFtY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1M7q1-i6qE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpiTUmCsJZI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hQXSsbQCMs
^edited version has a great video but the full ten minutes really are worthwhile.

... though most of these are a lot more mainstream than what you guys are postin' and easily found for the UK contingent. Ah well, maybe somebody will find something new.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZSYHW8bZiA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9SVVArg3fU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuxE7TjYuo4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCQjx_JrG9k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-n8uXdX6-w

one thing i really love about ilx is how everybody got on board with tonetta so fast.

i think 'glory day' and '$viral$' are my favourite tonettas but they're all wondrous

that Zombi vid I posted is actually Spirit Warrior from the album Spirit Animal.
I cant find a vid of Spirit Animal sadly, as that's even better. The rest of the album isnt on youtube.

and there's no Majeure on youtube either

stuff from albums I nommed:

"Slaughter" from Meshell Ndegeocello's Devil's Halo (a back-to-basics suite about breaking up and drinking away the pain that avoids getting tripped up with confessional lyrics by letting the music do the talking more often than not)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eODdo_v5kA

"Say Whoa/You Can't Hide From Your Bud" from A-Trak's Fabriclive.45 (very upbeat, kitchen sink-but-coherent house mix that never lets the energy slip)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T5C-ZiRO54

"Lose Your Way" from Nicolay's City Lights 2: Shibuya (meditative Tokyo-inspired electronic instrumentals, broken up with the occasional vocal by the sweet-voiced Carlitta Durand)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjXa_Mp86lI

"Player's Ball Freestyle" from Big K.R.I.T.'s The Last King (a fast-moving mixtape with lots of cool layered samples by a Mississippian who can rap his ass off)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Tg-yHOAE8

"Nirvana" from Shafiq Husayn's Shafiq En' A-Free-Ka (weird cosmic afro-beat/soul, great "Genius of Love" sample in this track)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeDoptI1214

"As I" from Geeneus' Volumes: One (funky house that runs the gambit from sweet vocal tracks to tough bangers, includes a very good mix disc in addition to the album)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCqFP0dTFSQ

"Off the Radar" from Wiley's Race Against Time (having made his pop moves last year, the prissy Brit gets back to showing why he was such a phenomenal rapper in the first place)

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

"Ain't Nuttin' Changed" from Blaq Poet's The Blaqprint (DJ Premier-produced NYC trad-rap by an angry middle-aged guy)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNesrbQ-Bm0

This thread is already pretty overwhelming (in terms of sheer volume). I am enjoying people's picks in general more than expected. Particularly liked: Gyratory System, Kutiman, Plants vs. Zombies, and maybe Slough Feg. Maybe even Gates of Slumber. I like when that Zu track starts to sound like it's going to turn into "Oye Como Va." Zombi is impressive but probably not the sort of thing I'd listen to much. And that's as far as I've gotten really.

Too soon to have a firm judgment on this one, but so far I basically like Timbalive's From Miami a la Habana quite a bit. A Miami group playing the Cuban popular music form timba (closely related to salsa, but may or may not be considered a distinct genre in its own right), perhaps with some concessions to a U.S. audience. The first track here actually features a bunch of famous Cuban singers a guests. This is a fairly contemporary sound within the overall Afro-Latin family:

http://www.myspace.com/timbalayeband

I'm not really pushing for this hard, but I still think Choco Orta's album, Ahora Mismo..., is pretty good. Just straight-forward salsa standards (including a bolero), but there aren't too many female salsa singers around right now on her level, imo:

http://www.myspace.com/chocorta

Most of Laura Shigihara's work on Plants vs. Zombies was memorable and enjoyable; hunt it down for positive ambient experiences
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=BABFC74E8A7EBD9F&search_query=plants+vs+zombies+ost
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr1tGgJO1rc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4s3m_B4AZiY
http://sites.google.com/site/supershigi/LauraShigihara-UltimateBattle.mp3?attredirects=0

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

^ this guy should be huge

That's lovely! Very much in keeping with my recent embrace of profound indie classical guitar in the Richard Bishop mode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDsnr7uoaPQ

it's hard for me to explain why i love this as much as i do. i like the draggyness of it, that it's a half-step behind but wants to be madonna anyway.

expired.

I think I like that but it may be the champagne.

no youtube link on this, but it is on hypemachine:

scott miller w/patty griffin -- i'm right here my love

he writes some great melodies, and their harmonies are perfect. it's a sort of deathbed duet, between the dying and someone at the bedside. (yeah i know, not the most uplifiting thing, but in a way it is.)

One more. When this single was releases this past summer, I was pretty sure I was never going to like it. Several months later, it's the only song from Shiina Ringo's latest solo album (which I think tipsy mothra included in his album nominations) that I actually like. It's smooth, jazzy pop with strings. Terrible video (overall):

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

(I nominated the single.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HulFsv72h3Y
My #1 single of the year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuDgYyZ3iq0

^ in my mind this is somewhere between Aphex, Underworld and Disco Inferno.

Musically has asked me to let you all know she wants everyone to post their youtubes on the voting thread (once it goes up) so not to post any more here. I guess you will have to repost the youtubes here since I suppose it's too much hassle or not possible to integrate the threads.

So please dont post anymore vids here, wait til the voting thread is up and post there.