I Have A Working CD Player At Home! What Should I Play!?

sounds CD-rific. haven't had one at home in years. its actually a nice philips dvd player. my yamaha natural sound receiver loves it! so do my 40 year old speakers.

playing an ambient disc by a group called Owwl right now. rufus was not impressed. he said "i could just record a jackhammer and call my album Lizard..." which is a ten year old's way of saying EVEN I COULD DO THAT. but i dig this cd.

candi staton import comp i was playing sounded nice and shiny.

i'm like a kid on digital christmas!

this is the candi comp if you are looking for a good one:

http://www.amazon.com/Candi-Staton/dp/B0000DG5N0

sounds nice. in a digi way.

i highly commend this Astral Social Club cd which i have enjoyed recently on my less vintage hi-fi: http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/500/46351841/Neon+Pibroch+untitled.png

gas or sunroof! might do in a pinch.

makes me wanna go out and get a new techno mix or something.

although at the moment i am playing the awesome mehkago nt demo. brutal crustpunk stuff. so great. just got a big box of CDs out of a closet.

was playing Sum Of R on utech. utech being my fave american cd label of the lsst 5 years or so.

might check out something called: Pimmon - Electronic Tax Return

on tigerbeat6. remember that label? dedicated to john blades and the loop orchestra. have no idea...

wow, my copy of jesus lizard's liar sounds awful. all muffled and cruddy. its a canadian copy too. what's up with that canada?

meanwhile, this cd by ilx's own tarfumes the escape goat sounds insaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane. in a great way. from 2008.

we gotta get an ilx threeway collab between milton parker, tarfumes, and DR#W. that would be sick.

if you ever see a nice looking two-disc buddy holly set called: The Buddy Holly Collection - 50 Classic Recordings put out by MCA in 1993 do me a favor and throw it in the river. if there is a river near you. just abysmal.

to erase the memory of the horrible we don't give a shit about buddy holly who the fuck cares people will buy anything just give us your money asshole buddy holly set i put on Solefald's Red For Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey Part I. sounds okay. the saxophone especially.

so i mention pimmon and someone on my facebook puts up a link to a new pimmon mix! its raining pimmon.

http://secretthirteen.org/secret-thirteen-mix-010-pimmon/

makes me wanna go out and get a new techno mix or something.

― scott seward, Monday, March 4, 2013 4:52 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

basic channel on cd sounds rly good

gonna buy some. this pimmon sounds cool. chatting with pimmon on facebook now. its the year of pimmon. wonder if moley knows pimmon.

hey, this is a good recent mix i've been enjoying

http://www.amazon.com/Expansions-Force-Nature/dp/B0093P6BOW

yeah i am all about the electro/acoustic when it comes to CDs. i am totally gonna raid the CDs for sale in my store when i go there tomorrow. i've got all kinds of cool experimental discs for sale that nobody will ever buy where i am. that john cage box is MINE.

The remaster of silk degrees that came out 3 or so years ago is stunning. Maybe just because I was used to the first cd's crappiness. The new one really brings out a lot of brightness that the first cd issue lacks.

Also, piper at the gates of dawn remaster (from last year or w/e). You can really feel all the different acoustic spaces that the songs inhibit, it's incredible. "Flaming" especially sounds trippier. I grew up on 80s-manuactured CDs so this stuff might not be as revelatory if you're familiar with the original vinyl, idk.

Oh in terms of electronic music/electro acoustic, you gotta try out the Thomas Koner stuff that Type records reissued a few years ago. Heavy deep low droning gongs and shit.

meanwhile, this cd by ilx's own tarfumes the escape goat sounds insaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaane. in a great way. from 2008.

Aww, thanks!

If you don't already have this, by all means, grab it: The Bill Dixon Orchestra: Intents and Purposes. Aside from being an amazingly unique record -- stands decidedly apart from its contemporaries -- the remaster, surprisingly, shits all over the vinyl. One of the most three-dimensional CDs I've heard.

Is your Yamaha receiver one of the silver-face/wood-box dealies?

If by some chance you have the MFSL version of Nevermind, that is one really really great sounding cd.

naw, my receiver isn't vintage. its nice though! probably from the 90's or something. its a recent home receiver that actually tskes vinyl into consideration. records sound great through it. my old 4000 pound marantz was pooping out. it needs work. and i ended up with the yamaha and i kinda dig it.

i would listen to all these mfsl CDs.

i have a fancy john williams soundtrack star wars cd at the store and that thing sounds nuts. gotta bring that home.

Cool, Yamaha stuff sounds great. My old Marantz amp died (right channel crapped out), local hi-fi repair guy said he can't fix it. He might have just given up, but it's a bummer. I loved the way it sounded.

http://img.canuckaudiomart.com/uploads/large/504897-yamaha_rx596_stereo_receiver.jpg

i did not buy it from canuck audio mart though.

Oh weird, the one I had before my Marantz was just like that, had it for about 15 years. "Pure direct" function was great.

its kinda made for home audio. not superdolby homestadium surroundmonstersound. its 2-channel. though i'm sure your t.v. would sound fine if you hooked it up.

I will cosign Brimstead's rec of the Pink Floyd Piper remaster

RULES

Those were some of the last decent affordable 2-channel receivers that were made; now receivers are all 5.1 or whatever. I actually ran my VCR through it for a few years, sounded good.

i was listening to a zelphabet cd. those things sound great. weird shit/electronic is really the way to go with CDs. ed osborn/elliott sharp/emil beaulieau/evil moisture. the sharp thing is amazing. the evil moisture thing is evil.

oh! i have a yamaha CD player that looks like it should be married to that receiver. i wish i could teleport it to you as it has not been used since clinton administration.

i have never done the home movie theatre thing. once years ago i lived with a girlfriend who decided to buy a huge stereo system and one of those huge wooden t.v. shelf/bureau/chest of drawers/whatever monstrosity pieces of furniture and we got a laser disc player and hooked it up to huge speakers and it was jaw-dropping. the sound was out of this world. i got suspiria and all kinds of great stuff and was in heaven. so loud! and laser disc sound was magic. i don't know why.

all these old metal promos...well, they aren't gonna play themselves. better dig in.

played some great black metal. vetus obscurum. dude from krohm. nasty. playing CDs kinda changes the vibe of the house. this house is so wooden. my old speakers and turntable are encased in wood. very woody vibe. now all these different sounds. tarfumes changed things around here in a hurry!

you guys ever hear of Sujo? they put stuff on on Inam records. but they do these teeny tiny editions so i fear many people have never heard them. local personality ned raggett would love them i think. i think they're great. kind of a dark shoegazey thing. skirting the borders of metallic. but not metal. heavy though. at times. lots of great not-metal out there. again with the utech thing. it speaks to me. very hypnotic. great textures. depth. its very well-made.

Actually the name is familiar...

they're good.

now i'm listening to Demian Johnston. i like him too. seattle? portland? he puts out great stuff.

what elliott sharp record was it?

electronic/industrial stuff, check this cd out:

http://www.discogs.com/Function-Incubation/release/4311717

had it for a few days and can't stop listening to it

I think you should listen to something that simply wouldn't work on vinyl, like The Necks.

"what elliott sharp record was it?"

it was just one piece on the zelphabet cd. zelphabet series was noise/weirdness A-Z. that was the E disc.

picked out some CDs in the store to test out on the hi-fi tonight:

gavin bryars - the sinking of the titanic (point music)

anduin - abandoned in sleep (smtg limited)

kreng - l'autopsie phenomenale de dieu (miasmah recordings)

skullflower - orange canyon mind (crucial blast)

rothkamm - alt 1989-2009 (baskaru)

haj ghorban soleimani - music of the bards from iran (kereshmeh)

scheer - infliction (4ad)

phil minton - a doughnut in one hand (free music production)

nurse with wound - the surveillance lounge (united dirter)

ronnie montrose - open fire (warner brothers germany)

arkhonia - trails/traces (white box)

the 25-year retrospective concert of the music of john cage 3-cd set (wergo)

As you are one of the few around here to ever go to bat for new age music, I would recommend "Wunjo" by Giles Reaves. An Amazon reviewer:

turn on the black light, light up some incense, light a candle, too, fire up the bong, and pour yourself some dark stout & put this on

will check it out if possible. the new age thing.

tried to play that scheer album on 4ad and that did not sound good to me at all. plus, that cover is so gross. and i'm a metal fan!

put on Returnal by Oneohtrix Point Never and wasn't feeling that either. i know everyone here loves him, right? its fine and all, but i guess i'm never in the right mood. sound-wise, it doesn't really thrill me. and that's when i kinda wish i was just playing an old new age tape.

BUT i am truly enjoying the Arkhonia album i grabbed from the store. probably something that forced exposure sent me for my old decibel column. its lovely stuff. and the sound is heaven. expansive. it really opens up for something so minimal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2lywaFEOBs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmgq_H5bc3I

That Candi Staton comp you mentioned in the first post is good and the Bettye Swann one honest Jon's also put out around the same time is even better

scott I recommend some RLW or P16.D4 CDs. or the Christoph Heeman/Merzbow disc. NWW's Surveillance Lounge is great but u know that.

and Biota!

i'm making a mental note. christoph sent me his new collaboaration with locrian on vinyl. i love his stuff. never heard the merzbow one! when he played at my store last year he gave me two beautiful records he had made last year and they were the tiniest editions. like edition of 40.

here's what i've been dipping into tonight:

nagelfar - virus west
nechochwen - azimuths to the underworld
klaxon guele - infininiment
intaglio - s/t (one of my favorite albums of the last ten years)
tetragrammaton - elegy for native tongues (another great one)
urfaust - drei rituale jenseits des kosmos
sujo - terran
sujo - diaspora
october falls - the streams of the end (best!)
century plants - electrics (bestest!)
blood red throne - altered genesis
moat - the sun is destroying us all
cloaks - versus grain
vopat - silhouettes
robedoor - pained transformation
dornenreich - her von welken nachten
notekillers - we're here to help (besterer!)
agressor - medieval rites
red harvest - a greater darkness
drautran - throne of the depths

what's biota?

i should be listening to my brother's radio show now but i'm too into the ceeeeeedeeeeeeeezzzz. sorry deejay dan!

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/482793_10152655432365298_66815598_n.jpg

what's biota?

― scott seward, Tuesday, March 5, 2013 7:43 PM (36 minutes ago)

Recommended Records artists, mostly CD-only, see here:

Biota / Mnemonists

ah okay those names ring a bell when i see them together like that. and listening on youtube i definitely would like to find some CDs. and some zoviet france CDs. and some hafler trio. and some coil. i sold whatever coil CDs i had in the 90's. i bought so many crazy CDs in the 90's and sold hundreds of them. wish i still had them.

i need this album. probably be easier to find on cd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCzifO-hfCo

you should listen to all the nnck cds.
and anything you see on last visible dog.

and knowing western mass, you probably have SOMETHING on last visible dog..

i never really listened to nnck.

i want all this stuff:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDYBG-Z5JPk

okay more cd listening tomorrow. that tetragrammaton album i listed up there is so amazing. love love love that album. hardly anyone has heard it. kinda hard to find.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q1Hx7dqnxk

the only last visible dog thing i have is the 3 or 4 cd set with the turtle on the cover. that's a great box/thing. bought that on marthas vineyard.

i'm not at home but i'm listening to a 2xCD intransitive recordings sampler and its got all kinds of great stuff on it. definitely one of the best massachusetts labels out there:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Intransitive-Twenty-Three/release/464960

"all music composed without the use of digital devices."

i really only know birchville cat motel, olivia block, and francisco lopez out of everything on the CDs.

That's a great comp. Pretty sure Stelzer/Talbot Duo is on there...amazing stuff.

wait, i lied, i know these people.

Nmperign–

Mhere'd
Performer – Bhob Rainey, Greg Kelley

Luke Vibert under any name is well-suited to digital, as is El-P and Orbital.

I've been playing crosshatches by michael pisaro and toshiya tsunoda and that is one gorgeous recording. really natural and expansive and beautiful.