Whatcha listening to 2010?

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Phil Upchurch - Darkness,Darkness

Some of the best damned guitar I've heard in a long while.

Silkie, City Limits, Vol. 1
Curren$y, Smokee Robinson
Spoon, Transference
Sade, Soldier of Love
Redman, Whut? Thee Album
Mark E, Works 2005-2009: Selected Tracks & Edits
Mannie Fresh, Return of the Ballin'
Outkast, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik
Lil Cali & Mouse, Just Because
Love, Forever Changes
Gucci Mane, The State vs. Radric Davis

alley boy - definition of fuck shit
ciara - evolution
beyonce - b'day
lindstrom - it's a feedelity affair
ne-yo - in my own words
titus andronicus - the monitor
z-ro - cocaine
vampire weekend - contra
r. kelly - happy people/u saved me
hot chip - one life stand
the-dream - "love king"
erykah badu ft. lil wayne - "jump up in the air (stay there)"
gucci mane ft. yung la & supa - "everything"

Pantha du Prince - Black Noise (I hope the year is full of albums I unexpectedly like this much)
Marina & the Diamonds - streaming Family Jewels or individual tracks until CD arrives
Tokyo Jihen - Sports (yet another disappointing album-length release from Shiina Ringo (with or without the boys), which makes four in a row)
Ghada Shbeir - Qawaleb (Composed by Sayed Darwish - historically important music, but still somewhat difficult for me to get into despite Shbeir's fresh approach to preserving this sort of material)
Ahmed el Hifnawi - Memories of the Beach (generic-looking packaging does not hint at how good this is (though the percussion seems a bit too bland on first listen); Al Hifnawi was Oum Kalthoum's main violinist and he was awesome)
Ahamd el Hefnawi & The Oum Koulthoum Orchestra - The Grand Melodies of Om Kalsoum (haven't heard all of this yet--and more on all this Arab stuff likely later on appropriate threads)
Sakir Oner Gunhan - something I downloaded from a blog without knowing much about it
Boris - Heavy Rocks

John Coltrane - Blue Train
Cannonball Adderly - Somethin' Else
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'

Pantha du Prince - Black Noise (I hope the year is full of albums I unexpectedly like this much)

Seconding this.

hospitals - s/t
thee oh sees - the master's bedroom is worth spending a night in
noveller/aidan baker - split (aidan baker side is mad boring but noveller is A++)
alley boy - definition of fuck shit
strange boys - be brave
myelin sheaths - do the mental twist
vampire weekend - contra

Gonjasufi-A Sufi and a Killer
The Art Museums-Rough Frame
Lali Puna-Our Inventions
The Mantles-s/t
Spoon-Transference
Hot Chip-One Life Stand
Madlib-Medicine Show No. 2: Flight to Brazil

Madlib-Medicine Show No. 2: Flight to Brazil

How's this one?

Lots of Julianna Barwick and Arthur Russell. And Eurovision selection shows. And the Owen Pallett album.

R. Stevie Moore and ABBA.

Concerning Madlib's Medicine Show No. 2 Flight to Brazil, it actually TAKES you to Brazil if you close your eyes. In other words, it's the shite.

Richard H. Kirk meets the Truck bombers of suburbia.
Richard H. Kirk : URP (Volumes 1 - 3)
Tim Wright : Thirst
Buzzin' Fly Volunes 3-4
The Heliocentrics : Fallen Angels ep
Phelan Sheppard : Harps Old Master

Disappears - live over the rainbo

great record!

somewhere between The Stooges,Neu! and 80's noise rock.

they signed to Kranky and will release Lux somewhere around 2010. i hope they won't lose the dirty sound.

Mycale- sings Masada Book Two- The Book of Angels 13

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtodPwZvMl0&feature=related

xpost
(shitty sound but still)

Concerning Madlib's Medicine Show No. 2 Flight to Brazil, it actually TAKES you to Brazil if you close your eyes. In other words, it's the shite.

Awesome. I'd been on the fence, but just ordered the first two Madlib Medicine Show CDs from Amazon.

madlib is a great dj

Hank Mobley - Soul Station
Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame
Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
The Horace Silver Quintet - Song for My Father (hai Don! hai Walt!)

I might pick up the Madlib tonight having thoroughly enjoyed the Mind Fusion mixes.

Steffen Basho-Junghans, "When The Plains Are Singing" (from IS lp)
Siouxsie's 2007 solo thingy (still sounds, after a third listen, one dull muther of a rekkid, sadly)
Ornette + Joachim Kühn, Colors (gets bettah with every listen, i'm on a fourth now)
Sparks, Exotic Creatures of the Deep (yeah yeah, i did suspect they knew what they were doing, too, and knew how to)
Various, Our Own Voices: Expose Yourself To TRIKONT

Ex-USSR and Eastern Bloc 60s beat and filthy black metal. Hello, I'm new! Blame pfunkguy for my appearance.

samosa, how's that new Strange Boys album? Saw them live last year and they were fantastic in sort of a countrified VU kinda way.

Charlotte Gainsbourg, IRM
Gram Parsons, Archive Vol. 1: Live at the Avalon Ballroom 1969 (Flying Burrito Brothers)
Various, Minimal Wave Tapes Vol. 1
Talking Heads, Live in Rome 1980 (bootleg cd, sounds taped from video initially but once you're accustomed to it it's the performance of a band on fire that remains)
"oldies":
Urusei Yatsura, We Are Urusei Yatsura
The Walkabouts, Scavenger

xpost - welcome. Awesome screen name, sounds like an outtake of Der Ramones.

(helmut was also kohl. which is almost kool. altho not exactly ex-ussr)
(nevah mind, i'm just ramblin'. to the sound of tv (not on the radio))

samosa, how's that new Strange Boys album? Saw them live last year and they were fantastic in sort of a countrified VU kinda way.

― willem, Wednesday, February 24, 2010 7:50 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

it's good but if you haven't heard the debut definitely pick that up first. the new one's more folky and miserable. i'm kind of bummed at the lack of garage boogie, but the title track kind of makes up for it.

the inbetweens, quantum cowboy
The fake fictions, magic infinity
retribution gospel choir, 2
xiu xiu, the complete discography (from my gf)

Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
Judee Sill - s/t
Ellen Allien - Thrills
M.I.A. - Arular

my top 10 last.fm artists of the last 3 months:

The Knife
Massive Attack
Owen Pallett
The Cure
Bat for Lashes
Vitalic
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
The xx
Tears for Fears
Black Moth Super Rainbow

(missing all of the New Order, Excessive Force and Vampire Weekend I've been playing in the car)

don't get Bat for Lashes at all. i mean, she's cute an all but that record is just...zzzzzzzzzzzzz. (Bjork minus marbles--not to mention any tangible sense of song dynamics whatsoever--maybe?)

I'm can't speak to the Bjork comparisons since I've never listened to her much at all, but to my ears BFL's songs have plenty of dynamics. Definitely a lot less snoozeworthy than the new Vampire Weekend, to pick a recent example.

Local Natives, Gorilla Manor (I feel dirty for liking this, but fuck there are some really great moments)
Joanna Newsom, Have One On Me (was never sold on her before, but I like this a lot)
Miles Davis, Big Fun (a newer addition to my Miles collection, been reading his autobiography)
High On Fire, Snakes For The Divine (another fantastic HoF album)
Alkaline Trio, This Addiction (a former favorite now guilty pleasure, but not horrible)

pati yang : faith hope and fury.

next time you visit poland, the only place where this album has been released, pick up a copy if you like robo-glam/drama queen electro pop.
according to various places on the wire, she has been given a trip hop tag, but this album moves away from that and point towards her flykkiller stuff in parts, albeit in a more radio friendly manner.

Appleblim - Apple Pips FABRICLIVE Promo Mix

Spoon, Ga Ga Ga Ga GA
Sade, Lovers Rock
Mobb Deep, The Infamous
2Pac, Me Against the World
Goodie Mob, Soul Food
Aaliyah

Prins Thomas
Nas, Illmatic
Four Tet, There Is Love in You
The Field, From Here We Go Sublime
Sade, Promise
The xx
Prince, Sign 'o' the Times
Curren$y, Smokee Robinson
Nicolay, City Lights 2: Shibuya
Beyonce, B'Day
Amerie, Because I Love It
Sunn O))), Monoliths & Dimensions
Sade, Stronger Than Pride
Blaq Poet, The Blaqprint
Vampire Weekend, Contra
A Tribe Called Quest, The Low End Theory

Original Silence, The First Original Silence
Fleetwood Mac, Tusk
Brian Eno, Ambient series
Supersilent, 4
Sparkle Motion's King Crimson mixes
Humcrush, Hornswoggle
Owen Pallett, Heartland
Sunny Murray, Sunny Murray Quintet

Mycale: Mycale: The Book Of Angels, Vol. 13 (composer: John Zorn)
Erik Friedlander: Volac: Book Of Angels, Vol. 8
Hossein Alizadeh: Sallaneh
Hossein Alizadeh: Ney Navâ + Avây-e mehr + Nowruz & Savârân-e dasht-e omid [I don't think the software is going to like those diacriticals]
Derek Bailey: Ballads

Smokey Johnson It aint my fault
Betty Harris Soul Perfection Plus
The Meters Struttin
Queen - "Princes of the Universe" (trying to understand what is happening in the song)
This is probably a question for Jordan, but does anyone have any tips on other drummers who play with that loose second-line funk sound like Zigaboo and Smokey Johnson?

Various things spinning in the car in recent weeks, off the top of my head:

Four Tet, There Is Love in You
Spoon, Transference
Brethren of the Free Spirit, The Wolf Also Shall Dwell with the Lamb
Michael Mayer, Fabric 13
Yeasayer, Odd Blood
Pantha du Prince, Black Noise
Kompakt 100
Tau Emerald, Travellers Two
Electrik Red, How to Be a Lady: Volume 1
Lady Gaga, The Fame
Lady Gaga, The Fame Monster
Lindstrom and Christabelle, Real Life Is No Cool
Strong Arm Steady, In Search of Stoney Jackson
The Knife, Tomorrow, In a Year

CD3, CD4 and (bit of) CD5 of the 100 Hits: Disco box (EMI).

don't get Bat for Lashes at all. i mean, she's cute an all but that record is just...zzzzzzzzzzzzz. (Bjork minus marbles--not to mention any tangible sense of song dynamics whatsoever--maybe?)

There are a few Bjorkisms but there are way more Tori Amosisms. Also, I think her strongest songs are on Fur & Gold ("Trophy", "What's A Girl To Do", "Bat's Mouth"). I like the way Two Suns works as an album and strongly disagree that there is no sense of song dynamics (IMO it's pretty willful revisionism to say that "Sleep Alone", "Moon and Moon" and "Two Planets" all occupy the same dynamic space).

Nuggets boxset (TMI but mostly just The Rationals "I Need You" over and over and over as I dance to it like Tom Cruise in "Risky Business" while I am alone in the house)
Pantha du Prince, Black Noise
Anthony Shake Shakir 3 x CD boxset
Demdike Stare CD
Cowboy Copas, Greatest Hits LP
Beach House, Teen Dream
Burzum, Belus
The Kinks, Arthur

but does anyone have any tips on other drummers who play with that loose second-line funk sound like Zigaboo and Smokey Johnson?

i have to scavenge to get my second-line drumming fix. like, shannon powell on leroy jones "bourbon street parade" (from mo' cream from the crop), herlin riley on "happy feet blues" (wynton marsalis live at the village vanguard), herlin on shamarr allen's record, and gerald french "when my dreamboat comes home" (from mark braud's record "hot sausage rag"). also jason marsalis on john ellis records (check out "happy" from one foot in the swamp).

all that stuff is more jazz-oriented, though. if you're talking about backbeat funk, do you like stanton moore? he's a zigaboo disciple obv, and i like their older records when they were strictly retro. i also like maceo parker's "southern exposure" a lot, which has mostly new orleans musicans. russell batiste plays drums on a few tracks, and rebirth is on there too.

where did you get the o.g. version of "ain't my fault"? i love it, but hadn't heard it until i got it off this blog.

yeah, i should have clarified, re: BfL, that the dynamics within any particular track didn't do much for me; which is, right, not to say that they all sound the same (and probably wouldn't matter if they did--hell i'm a Motorhead fan!). sorry, but one snooze-worthy track after another, vaguely different s-w track just isn't going to cut it for me. i mean, at least bjork is a genuine weirdo when it comes to song construction, album sequencing, etc. (never cared much for Tory either tho.)

xps

Tori, even.

Everything by Thee Oh Sees. Except the split with Jay Retard -- haven't found that one yet.

Thanks for the tips, man! I think I actually did sort of mean backbeat funk, but I'm always up for the more jazz-oriented side. I saw Shannon Powell kick some major ass at Preservation Hall a couple years ago when he did a great tribute to Smokey.

Yeah I've always heard a lot of talk about Stanton but every time I've given Galactic a shot they haven't really done anything for me, but it's all been the more fusion/electronic stuff. I'll have to check out the early stuff.

I actually found the Smokey Record at the Tower Records(RIP) on Decatur a couple years back after striking out at Louisiana Music Factory. They play the title track and "Did You Heard What I Saw" on WWOZ all the time and I bought it for a coworker (who I ripped it from, of course) as a congrats present when his wife gave birth.

Neil Young- Harvest
Teenage Fanclub- A Catholic Education
Animal Collective- Oddsac
Prins Thomas- s/t
Thin Lizzy- Bad Reputation
Thin Lizzy- Black Rose
The Streets- Original Pirate Material
Brightblack Morning Light- Motion to Rejoin
Stephen Malkmus- B-sides

2010 Q1 greatest hits:

1 György Ligeti
2 Heldon & Richard Pinhas
3 Henri Dutilleux
4 R. Stevie Moore
4 Luciano
6 Olivier Messiaen
7 Tom Zé
8 Pattern Is Movement
9 Rafter
10 Béla Bartók
hon.men. Hella

Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Bowie - Young Americans

Roberto Cacciapaglia - 'The Ann Steel Album' (from 1979)
Lil B - 'Rain In England' (Weird Forest, 2010)
Games - 'That We Can Play' EP (Hippos In Tanks, 2010)
Tyndall - 'Reflexionen' (Sky Records, 1982)

Calle 13 - Entren Los Que Quieran
Don Omar - Meet The Oprhans
Juliana - La Reina
Satanicpornocultshop
Still watching (but not this morning) several performances from Tokyo Jihen's Ultra C DVD (via youtube) over and over again, but not today - Zettai Zetsumei, Denpa Tsuushin, Season Sayonara, OSCA, Foul, Sounan, Shuraba, and Kimaru. Most of these Ultra C live versions of songs from their most recent lackluster album are a huge improvement.

THE GREATEST SONG OF ALL TIME TONIGHT

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

whoa re (<intentional typo) we kidding, you have to follow that up with

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u2qQeyoYRw

there's no getting around it

In the early hours of today, in a little club in my hometown, listened to Tenniscoats playing live.
Which was really really good.

Girl Talk - All Day (wow, wotta groove!!!)

Tons of khaleeji music now that I've found the khaleeji mother lode (after finally following up on something posted to my khaleeji thread).

Abdulmajeed Abdullah - Aan El Awan 1991: awesome.

The results of another great day of shopping in Ann Arbor:

Oneohtrix Point Never - Rifts
Rangda - False Flag
Darkthrone - Under a Funeral Moon
Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti - Worn Copy
Amon Duul II - Carnival in Babylon
Maserati - Pyramid of the Sun
Girls - Broken Dreams Club EP

Tribal guarachero mix tapes.

Melchior Productions - No Disco Future
Conforce - Machine Conspiracy
Club Africa 2 (Strut / Russ Dewbury comp)
Hard Leaders 4 - Into the Jungle
Terry Francis - 1998 BBC Ess. Mix
Bill Hicks - Shock and Awe

SoundGoods - Tribalismo Tropical Mixtape in between bites of the 20th century poll winners

recently:

lee morgan - the cooker
john phillips - john the wolfking of l.a.
lcd soundsystem - this is happening
kanye west - dark twizted fantasy
blue oyster cult - secret treaties
donald fagen - the nightfly
silkworm - firewater
terry riley - a rainbow in curved air

shigeto - full circle (ear candy but a little to laid-back/stoner-y/underwritten for me)

lcd soundsystem - london sessions (great but doesn't replace the studio shit)

this blog: http://oomk.tumblr.com/

according to Last.fm, here's my top 25 for the year:

1 The Knife
2 Underworld
3 The Cure
4 Massive Attack
5 M.I.A.
6 Abe Vigoda
7 The Mountain Goats
8 Nine Inch Nails
9 Owen Pallett
10 Sleigh Bells
11 A Perfect Circle
12 The Prodigy
13 Fever Ray
14 Bat for Lashes
15 Depeche Mode
16 Big Boi
17 Janelle Monáe
18 Yeah Yeah Yeahs
19 Santigold
20 Vampire Weekend
21 The Creatures
22 Pet Shop Boys
23 Erykah Badu
23 Passion Pit
25 Radiohead

listening through the results of the ilm all-time tracks poll, one by one. i know about 2/3 of them already pretty well, but it's a fantastic list. currently on "ceremony" -- haven't looked ahead to anything that's placed higher. </suspense>

2010 records
Limes - Rhinestone River
Tyvek - Nothing Fits
The Mantles - Pink Information
Nite Jewel - Am I Real?
Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi
Deerhunter - Halcyon Digest
APHG - Before Today
oh I don't know, I think that there's more.

Oh, how could I forget: Heater- God and Hair

my album list:

1 Underworld – Barking
2 The Knife – The Knife
3 Massive Attack – Heligoland (Deluxe Version)
4 The Knife – Deep Cuts
5 The Knife – Silent Shout
6 The Mountain Goats – the Life of the World to Come
6 Abe Vigoda – Crush
8 Owen Pallett – Heartland
9 Sleigh Bells – Treats
10 Fever Ray – Fever Ray
11 M.I.A. – MAYA (Deluxe Edition)
12 A Perfect Circle – Thirteenth Step
13 Bat for Lashes – Two Suns (Special Edition)
14 Janelle Monae – The ArchAndroid
15 The Knife – Tomorrow, In A Year
16 The Creatures – Boomerang
17 Passion Pit – Manners
18 Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It's Blitz!
19 The Knife – Hannah Med H Soundtrack
20 Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
21 Telefon Tel Aviv – Immolate Yourself
21 Vampire Weekend – Contra
23 Ghostface Killah – Ironman
23 The Knife – Silent Shout, An Audio Visual Experience
25 Black Moth Super Rainbow – Dandelion Gum

so um apparently I listened to The Knife a lot this year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMX2lPum_pg

^^ holds up

so um apparently I listened to The Knife a lot this year

Which reminds me, I've been meaning to point you, sir, in the direction of Niki & The Dove..."Mother Protect" is the latest thing, but she released double a-side single of "Under the Bridges/DJ, Ease My Mind" a few months ago which is also ace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0zWhk3P7o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8z8Sk2to1U

Mordant music / Shackleton - Picking O'er The Bones

Can't believe I slept on this.

Jay Electronica - Victory
Jay Electronica - Eternal Sunshine
John Coltrane - Sun Ship
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Ches Smith and These Arches - Finally Out of My Hands
Warpaint - The Fool
James Brown - In the Jungle Groove
Various - Origins of Guitar Music (Congolese stuff from 50s)
Relatively Clean Rivers - Relatively Clean Rivers
Girl Unit - Wut
Paul Bley with Gary Peacock
James Blake - Klavierwerke

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbVxp4Hl-Ik

<3

Captain Beefheart, Trout Mask Replica
Captain Beefheart, Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
V/A, Ilx Compilation Vol. 4: tiny music
Ajukaja [Umblu, 2010]
Mahavok, Galaktikad [2010]
Fuzy Lights, Live At Union Chapel [Little Red Rabbit, 2010]
V/A, Remajnders EP [Front&Follow,2010]
V/A, Omega Sound Fix 2010

Johnny Cash, The Christmas Collection

..Fuzzy, even

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76QXYg592a4

hahaha omg this fucking song

i went on a date in high school soph year with a girl who was in FRESHMAN YEAR OF COLLEGE and thought i was the baddest mf-er of all time

oh btw-- the date was to an our lady peace concert ;_;

hahahaha! awesome. ive been listening to a lot of stuff from high school and before over the past year. im literally listening to finch right now

Thank fuck there were no blogs back in my early college years because I might have done an embarrassing amount of Our Lady Peace fawning at one point.

looooooooool @ finch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLbHfOhJNR4

keep listening to this again and again -- it's still so good

james blake, s/t
p4rts & l4b0r, c0nst4nt futur3

kinda like listening to the beatles in front of pete best, poor form IMO

lol

it's a good record

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRz4FY0ZcwI

forgot about this until right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHki6sF_ypE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gFCW3PHBws

prefer this version tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QViM2BRlqB4

markers that's the worst music in the world

Seriously markers, I felt bad for getting on your case for your lazy image-bomb posting style, but this is pretty much even worse.

The album is a bit of a mixed bag, as I don't think the scandotronica really suits her strengths, but this 2010 single from Norwegian Susanne Sundfør is really sympatico with the world outside my window:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgAMh7s-q_k

This week:

Patrice Rushen - Straight from the Heart
Underground Resistance - Your Time Is Up/Sonic EP
808 State - EX:EL
Kompakt Total 1
Mike Ink - Polka Trax/Jingle Bells + Trump Tower
Arpanet - Inertial Frame
Pantha du Prince - Black Noise
Virgo - Virgo
Schaffelfieber Vol. 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roPQ_M3yJTA

markers, fly fly away