what are y'all listening to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weRHyjj34ZE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sps42ihtPUEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sps42ihtPUE

listening to this happy refugees re-ish coming out on acute this week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL8jgcxh7Ts&feature=player_embedded
it's great! some of it makes me think of send me a lullaby-era go-betweens. kinda kiwi pop at times too. they're irish though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9niluBPIro

AHHHHHHHH

to celebrate a blade #1 buzzcut this morning to remove the excess of grey hair, it felt right to dig this EBM classic out :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5gG1w1idHU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7irG56MT_8

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAMkdfOJHMU

Robert Ashley "the Bar"
Moebius and Beerbohm "Strange Music"
Bob Weir "Ace"
Bob Welch "French Kiss"
The June Brides "London, England 1984-1986"
Grateful Dead "Live/Dead"
The Sniveling Shits "I Can't Come"

Mark Almond - Other Peoples Rooms
Robert Byrne - Blame It On The Night
Ken Lauber - Contemplation (View)
Kate Bush - 50 Words For Snow
Jon Byron - Love,Love,Love
Roy Head - Same People

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9iQW_-HE84

The new Los Campesinos and Steve Hauschildt albums.

RUDIMENTARY PENI

Halo of Flies

A mixtape I made w/Alice Cooper, Magic Kids, Nellie McKay, Hall & Oates, David Byrne, Vampire Weekend, Dungen, Midlake, Tallest Man on Earth, Mose Allison, Tanya Morgan, Electronic, Heavenly, and Neil Young.

That sounds intriguing, got a tracklist?

Steve Hauschildt - Tragedy & Geometry
Jerry Garcia & Mickey Hart - 11/28/73 (kind of proto-New Age-ish raga space jams)
Charalambides - Exile
Holy Other - With U

That sounds intriguing, got a tracklist?

It's mainly songs I liked from 2010 and some older stuff I got into in 2010:

Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen
Magic Kids - Summer
Nellie McKay - Adios
Hall & Oates - Your Imagination
The BPA (Feat. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal) - Toe Jam
Vampire Weekend - Diplomat's Son
Dungen - something off of Skit I Allt, I think "Marken Lag Stilla"?
Midlake - Small Mountain
Tallest Man on Earth - Love Is All
Mose Allison - I'm Alright
Tanya Morgan - Don't U Holla
Electronic - Get the Message
Heavenly - Skipjack
Neil Young - Walk On

Looks solid, I was just curious about which tracks by each you had on there.

danny brown - xxx
steve reid, kieran hebdan, mats gustafsson - live at the south bank (damn!)
mobb deep - black cocaine EP (new and good!)
deep purple - made in japan (fucking woah...speed king on this kills)

M83

why because "OK Pal" and "Midnight City" are fantastic

yeah that reid/hebdan/gustaffson thing is pretty major. new to me, anyway.
tweedyphobes will get in a tizzy but the new wilco is growing on me! think that "one sunday morning" might be one of the best things they've ever done? kind of a nice companion to o'rourke's last one.

yeah that reid/hebdan/gustaffson thing is pretty major. new to me, anyway.

^never heard of any of these guys tbh, but it looked interesting and was on the front page of spotify today...this shit is fucking great, like free jazz/krautrock mix kinda?

other reid stuff worth checking out?

oooh mats gustaffson + krautrock wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut?! must hear.

mats gustafson + krautrock + steve reid (who played with (among others) sun ra, ornette, james brown, fela kuti ... )

yes pls

Hebden is Four Tet.

mats gustafson can blow like a monster. have never liked four tet all that much but definitely interested in hearing that record

actually don't know anything about four tet, though i guess i've heard the name. he's the "electronic" element of this collab i take it?

Wow, this Hebden/Reid/Gustafsson is great!

yeah i don't know four tet either - they are like in the vein of caribou or stuff like that? matmos?

anyway, this isn't really like electronic pop in any way, the electronics are mostly textural, like on Lulu

the cover is rather appealing too

http://thehut.pantherssl.com/productimg/0/130/130/57/10567857-1318851663-104445.jpg

he did a nice job on Sunburned Hand Of The Man's studio album, though it's more refined than I expected.

("He"=Hebden)

listening to two people that are either fucking or jumping on a trampoline

is that like a new chillgaze band or ...?

ok i totally love the airplane takeoff/vacuum cleaner bit at the end of "lyman place"

212 by Azealia Banks, 2-10 times a day for the last week. Video of the year, too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3Jv9fNPjgk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CiXZ23Unec

http://cdn.7static.com/static/img/sleeveart/00/005/130/0000513058_350.jpg

^ been meaning to get that one. I have volume 5 (studio sessions 1968) which is amazing.

other reid stuff worth checking out?

His album Nova (from the 70s) is awesome!

been watching a lot of videos lately. downloadable youtubes, huzzah! like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHq9OEj4SvQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSAoEf1Ib58&ob=av3n

http://vimeo.com/27260633?width=1280&height=720

^^^ dunno if vimeo's embed like youtubes do but that video got me to give dubstep a second chance

also lcd soundsystem's several awesome videos (many in 720) totally got me back into listening to them, even though they're over. this one's kinda perdy and sad, like the song itself

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

and finally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoEKWtgJQAU&ob=av2e

and the rest of "watch the throne", which is fucking classic

Someone tell me whether Dan Fogelberg's worth checking out. I know a couple of the obvious hits, but having sampled a couple of the early eighties ones I'm wondering if he isn't one of those quietly weird Al Stewart types.

moonbop OTM, especially if you're into spiritual hat jazz. Rhythmatism is also good but start with Nova: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpBUbWCq5Fc

Reid and Hebden recorded a couple of albums before Reid died last year, though I only know the Steve Reid Ensemble album that Soul Jazz put out, which is also pretty good.

funky u bet

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6BjzIKaysmM/TaHpzZk0LiI/AAAAAAAAAYU/oZUzkFMN2fw/s1600/Lonnie%2BSmith%2B-%2BMama%2BWailer.jpg

http://991.com/newGallery/Armageddon-Armageddon-445954.jpg

bobby f'in caldwell!

ohh, just added to youtube today, apparently: dreamy eye candyish HD videos for the entire most recent bon iver album (which i also have been listening to a fair bit)

http://www.youtube.com/MusicTuesday#p/c/E3CD9195B24C7485

downloading now for later perusal, but i could see this getting repeated plays round these parts.

RUDIMENTARY PENI
[...]
Halo of Flies
[...]
Steve Reid

LOVE YOU SANDBOX GUYS!

Anyway today:
Four Levels of Existence - s/t
Hawkwind - In Search of Space
Jacks - Vacant World
Mainliner - Mellow Out

D.R.I.
Chuck Berry
Chapterhouse

That Armagddon record is pretty cool! I picked up a copy for like $2 in an antique mall outside of Saugatuck, MI a few years ago. One of my favorite finds.

Anyway, I'm catching up on some way old Beats in Space podcasts. Listening to the James Murphy one from earlier this summer.

been listening to a slightly horrible vinyl rip of this comp
http://www.vinyl-record.co.uk/Pictures/E/ElectricMuse.jpg
goes nicely with electric eden

Primordial Undermind, You and Me and the Continuum
the Cosmic Dead album

It's a cold, clear day so it is perfect weather for The Good Earth by The Feelies.

Finally hearing the new Kate Bush, but I'm thinking the title track should be "50 Adjectives for Snow", amirite?

Sandy Denny's album "Sandy" is perfect. Tyler, I'd love to hear what stuff you got really into as a result of Electric Eden once you're done.
2011-wise: BNJMN's "Black Square" is really good.

I keep returning to Condensate by The Original 7ven (tafka The Time). The first impression was mixed but it gets better with each listen. Really like the last five tracks, which is good because the middle of the record is rough.

Picked up these records at an antique store in Hanover,PA!
http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/958/leftbankecopy.jpg
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7365/strawbs.jpg
50 Words For Snow hasn't left my stereo in my jeep, but I always skip the title song.

The onset of winter is Shirley Collins season in my house.

as a result of electric eden, i've been digging into mr. fox, the watersons, ewan macoll, vaughan williams, cob! off the top of my head. also some heavy revisiting of steeleye span. there's a pretty great spotify playlist for the book here: http://open.spotify.com/user/seamusr/playlist/3FOZ1HH7EJ4F5TXmffpWIJ

that book takes like 100 years to read, doesn't it? i'm still not done, but i made it to the 80s

I gave up tbh.
Been doing that a lot with books lately :/

yeah, it does take a while, i've just been reading it before bed. but i really love it, don't want it to end! maybe i will once i hit the 80s. i'm on glastonbury right now, which is more fun than i thought it would be. really need to see this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JsMWXi5K68

I really enjoyed the early chapters more anyway because it was stuff I didn't already know and I have enjoyed Bax and Vaughan Williams a lot since then.

Which reminds me, if any of you like the louder side of Current 93 you should check out Anatomy of Habit. I have enjoyed their s/t quite a bit this year.

is that a new band?

It's a bunch of people from other bands, the recording was done by dude from atlas moth
http://anatomyofhabit.bandcamp.com/album/anatomy-of-habit

ooh and i just saw that they're playing in town this week! i think i'll go.

I am finding I get allot of new delights from people's spotify accounts as I peruse them - to my delight.
ie Gang Gang Dance

i don't know any of those names in the band but ienjoyed the atlas moth album quite a bit. thanks for the tip! xp

mark solotroff's voice rules -- he does mopey baritone and screaming equally well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5jLjGALWdA

listening to Curve, aka one of the greatest bands to ever record

I could listen to "Coast Is Clear" on repeat for hours

so far today michael jackson and also wayne shorter

I could also listen to "Clipped" on repeat for hours

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4IFsz--sbQ

okay I'm bored with that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xZ4_e2eCFs

listening to this now http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Wooden_Shjips/Live_at_WFMU_on_Brian_Turners_Show_on_November_29_2011

liking the new atlas sound

what was the ilx consensus on the new kate bush?

i been doing piles of new music that I just ripped from my pop's pile o vinyl and been particularly enthralled with reembracing Pablo Moses.
dude was so fly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx_FQz57Kaw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_h2kDNjfyK8

what was the ilx consensus on the new kate bush?

Very positive.

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

i have this thing where my dumb ipod mixes up wayne shorter's juju with siouxsie & the banshees' juju so that

Right now I'm really loving the new Ford & Lopatin single with Shannon Funchess from Light Asylum. Front 242 and Grace Jones, two pastiches that are surprisingly great together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1HE0j9LiFA

Lindstrom!

link wray's 1971 s/t LP is great - country funk gospel blues rock. best space cowboy jam I've heard in awhile

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_FvFnRX_Gqu0/TJ4XQBfUVVI/AAAAAAAAA3U/GqNyL-wJVu4/s1600/LinKWray1971BackSleeve.jpeg

was frustrated when ilx was down because it limited my opportunities for constant, topical NJ adoration threadbumps:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS2g73CzaJs

this went round and around & seems like such a crucial new zone for her to work in

everything by Tiger & Woods / Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto

Katy B
Walls
Pablo Honey
Rustie
Araabmuzik
Labradford

Deli Lama, you should also look for The Link Wray Rumble , from the mid-70s, on Epic I think. Never released on CD, last I checked. He assimilates Duane Allman, Van Morrison, Sly Stone, the Who, Tony Joe White etc into his very own thang indeed. Soulful and songful (and guitaristic) as hell.

Be What You Want To is pretty kickass, too. Features Jerry Garcia on pedal steel.

It's more uneven than these other albums, but yeah, "Arizona" with Garcia's levitating steel is def a keeper. "Lawdy Miss Clawdy" too. Here's the cover of the LP I was talkin bout, if it doesn't work, check rateyourmusic.com for the attempted image:
http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/s25167.jpg

I'll shut up about this, but since similar titles come up in searches, here's the exacto LP:
http://www.discogs.com/Link-Wray-The-Link-Wray-Rumble/master/169620

Throbbing Gristle reissues, listening to D.o.A. right now becuz it is my fave.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW-nKlgrK7I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1zQP5C-tm8

that barwick song is lovely, it's from the new one? i loved sanguine &c but still haven't really digested that one

also should advertise & endorse the freddie gibbs/madlib lp, which i played a lot. idk who he is & wonder if he is the guy i saw on some unbearable pitchfork tv feat talking about getting high w/best coast, but i did not know he was making good music. & the beat is amazing, idk if there is an asian branch of the beat konducta lps but it seems like it's right there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jWnydgvoE4

ep, rather

xpost yeah, it's the second to last track off of the album from this year. i haven't heard anything else for her so i can't really compare.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQ6c28kbeSM

"History Of Cumbia" compilation put together by Quantic. 2 cd's of bliss. It's fantastic.

NME "Dancin' Master" cassette (mp3s) - super fun.

Oneohtrix' "Replica" - my fave thing by him so far.

Kate Bush " 50 Words..." - play it infrequently but the first three tunes are worth it every time.

how did you get the cumbia thing already?! promo?

No - was available at other music (nyc). 2 cd set.

earlier:

universal swimsuit - i dream of floating on whales off the coast of nigeria

now:

raime - if anywhere was here he would know where we are

later:

cluster & eno

i was thinking that spz jam was the same kinda shmurka-durka-durka-do-it-wrong, durka-durka-durka-sing-my-song kinda "blues" "jam" he kicks a couple out of for each lp (ain't got time to ____ generica), so skipped forwards after hearing that it stayed that way for a coupla verses, but i like the ending way more. & it seems like he kinda gets somewhere new w/it

just downloaded a bunch of random stuff off emusic for weekend consumption. all culled from eoy lists, only guy i really know is connors:

future shuttle
julian lynch
eli keszler
hubble
loren connors
jannick schou
tropic of cancer

the hubble tape on nna is p good, or at least impressive

this one is called 'hubble drums', it's just three long tracks. i know the name but can't remember a thing about them. guess i'm just about to find out...

oh i got the new chris watson too which i'm excited about hiding under the bedcovers with at some stage

the train one?? thats a good one too

yyy!

R.A.E.D - Straight Through ('the Girl In Blue' is seriously great and the whole album lives up to the promise of the youtubes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN09THSNo_k)
Perfume - JPN
The Beach Boys - Smile
Jani Christou - Vol 4
Thomas Dolby - A Map Of The Floating City (is ok)

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

digging this arthur russell rip

Today;
Sven Kacirek - The Kenya Sessions (this is amazing)
Drums of Chaos & Jens-Uwe Beyer - Magazine 3
part of Michael Mayer @ Kompakt 12 on Soundcloud
Kolsch - Der Alte / Opa 12"
Steve Barnes - Cosmic Sandwich (Extended Mix) 12"
Mickey Moonlight - & The Time Axis Manipulation Corporation

Robert Ashley - Private Parts

the new andy stott, we stay together, feels like new year's eve in Hell and makes me hit things like a happy toddler.

Nagisa Ni Te - On the Love Beach
Brainiac - Bonsai Superstar
Jan Steele / John Cage - Voices and Instruments
Harold Budd - The Pavilion of Drums

Any advice on staticy lps?

oh you know, static electricity.

Pavilion of Dreams. Psunday.

Now I wanna make a record called "Pavilion Of Drums"!!

Led Zeppelin - Zurich 1980 boot

Not sure whether or not I like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xPz8DF4xN0

The album is not bad so far, for some kind of whimsical Brazilian hipster shit.

I'm listening to Mississippi records black metal mix tape called Satan Is Real, it's awesome.

Don't listen to much Americana, but I am enjoying the Kings Daughter's and Sons album a whole lot. Sounds like a more epic and Slint-ier version of the Palace Brothers (no surprise really - the band's made up of members of Rachel's, The For Carnation and the Shipping News). Really good stuff!

Tyler, if you read this thread, you should get in on this btw, think you'd dig it

Should add that when I say "Slint-ier" it's got that sort of lumbering tautness to it, not that it's especially noisy or metal-ish or anything.

Just had a wild weekend with Live From The Old Town School back and forth across the generations (1956 to the early 00s), with Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. Big Bill Broonzy, Pete Seeger (together and sep, much better than expected either way), Van Ronk, pungent as usual (rec for Beefheart vocal fans), Baez, John Hammond Jr., John Hartford (all three meh, but even they have some good effect in context), primo Dan Hicks & band (Hot Licks, Acoustic Warriors, or maybe in between?), Steve Goodman, Jon Langford, Martin Carthy ("Willie's Lady", awes), Malvina Reynolds, Odetta, Doc Watson (with Merle, I think), Oumou Sangare, John Renbourn & Jaqui McShee, Conjunto Cespedes. Mahalia Jackson,Andrew Bird, Ramblin Jack, Joaquin Diaz, Hamza El Din, Merle Travis--well, you get the drift. Great sequences and subsets, for the most part, and lots of fun, if a bit near the knuckle, as old school Brits say (mortality gets its licks in for sure, but so does the fried ice cream). A bunch I'd never heard of as well, not just the folkie pantheon.

Oh yeah, it's about 5 discs-worth I think (listening to download promo),and out Dec 6, last I heard.

capsule - WORLD OF FANTASY
capsule - Fruits Clipper
Ariel Pink - The Doldrums
Rodolfo Caesar - A Arte Dos Sons
Rod Summers - An Occluded Front At Full Moon
R.A.E.D - Straight Through (listening to this a lot actually)

I've been on a big Jim Hall kick lately and I've been listening to his work with Paul Desmond, Art Farmer and Jimmy Giuffre.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdxzU00hSGA

This is the list of artists with CDs on my desk right now: John Cale, Muddy Waters, Grateful Dead, The Melvins, Dick Dale, Bob Seger, Bobby Bland and Fu Manchu.

i am listening to a cd by a band called Bold Cabbage. it is very good!

Todd

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OMG WANT

van smack is that you?

zola jesus - conatus
kendrick lamar - section.80
goapele - break of dawn
azealia banks - '212' (a lot)

I'm listening to Mississippi records black metal mix tape called Satan Is Real, it's awesome.

This is a joke, right?

Today:
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties, s/t, Tyranny and Mutation
Paul F. Tompkins - Impersonal
Ali Akbar Khan - Morning and Evening Ragas
Don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm
Archie Shepp - Blase
bunch of tracks off my iPod - Henry Tree, The Electric Toilet, The Attack, etc.
Cabaret Voltaire - Three Mantras
Hot Knives - s/t (TIP!)

songs on high rotation
Flatlanders - Dallas
Heads, Hands & Feet - Everybody's Hustlin'
Charlie Robison - New Years Day, El Cerrito Place, Big City Blues
Jerry Garcia Band - How Sweet It Is
Buddy Holly - I'm Looking For Someone To Love
Josh Turner - Why Don't We Just Dance
various old-time fiddle tunes via the Appalacian Digital Library

http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/mrc035a.jpg
http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=2732

That looks awesome and I will be downloading it when I get home tonight! Thanks for the heads up.

Muddy Waters - His Best 1947 to 1956

Dallas Orbiter - Monthly Singles Club (they do an A/B side each month online, one side new original, one side a cover, everything from BOC to Al Stewart to John Cooper Clarke - Ned you might like these guys) - http://www.dallasorbiter.com/

A bunch of MP3s I downloaded from a site called Excavated Shellac - which basically dude gets crazy rare old 78s from Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia, Mideast, etc and digitizes them...fucking weird/cool/amazing stuff:

http://excavatedshellac.com/

yeah, that excavated shellac guy is great. need to catch up!
he did a great comp for dust to digital -- http://dust-digital.com/black-mirror.htm at least I think it's the same dude?

Black Mirror was done by Ian Nagoski

oh oops, wrong 78 guy. excavated shellac did this one, my bad: http://www.dust-digital.com/cgi-bin/xpresscart/store.cgi?p=Excavated_Shellac:_Strings&s=880226200114

Bitch Magnet, thanks to the nice reissue set from Temporary Residence. I have to say, the trend I love most in 2011 was these 3-disc reissue packages that cost less than $15 - i.e. this, Supreme Dicks.

Babymetal - Doki Doki Morning

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QbAXXXOJF8

Might have to nominate this for tracks.

Oh wait, looks like it's 2010.

Todd Edwards' FACT mix, bangs so hard. Hit after hit!

Office of Futre Plans' self-titled debut, J Robbins new band on Dischord. I'm liking it a lot on first listen, feels like a decent summation of everything he's done to this point - some more abrasive punk-inspired stuff, some great softer pop moments. The use of a cellist on many of the tracks is actually a nice touch and works really well, eased the fears from when I initially read about that.

I'm loving the distant mechanical grind and thump of the Perc album right now. Really suits my oppressed winter mood. Not even joking - it's like the techno equivalent of Scott Walker's The Drift or something.

Heh, I was JUST reading about that Perc album on Popmatters' best electronic albums of the year, sounds intriguing actually.

"Slowly going mad in a steelworks and loving every moment" is how I tried to describe it the other day. Something very hard and yet hot - like molten lava I guess. "Wicker and Steel" is actually a very good description of the textures going on in it.

The two mixtapes here, by this Finnish jazz dude, one sort of rockabilly and pop and the other really heroine jazz sort of stuff, the latter in particular is really good.

http://soundcloud.com/hayv-mixtapes

Also in a concession to new music I like the Peaking Lights album.

http://open.spotify.com/user/iamronan/playlist/1KqcQRy7SOaUh4SWcDga02

Anyone got any recommendations? For anything whatsoever...tho I am mostly listening to old stuff...

heroin jazz...not sure what heroine jazz would be.

Charlemagne Palestine - Schlingen-Blangen

This morning, I'm really loving Mike Corbett & jay Hirsh and Sam Signaoff.

listening to the Lamb album again; this really is my favorite album of the year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pNzviB_dP0

this song warps time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPI2Qym07iQ

impulse bought this LP yesterday and it came with a poster and a dvd of "water wrackets" which is a bit much really, but it's so pretty and i totally dig the bongos (i don't even know if they're really bongos but it def gives this song a popol vuh vibe, 100% pure catnip)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skNz1u9DUhI

Chico Buarque - Chico
Sussan Deyhim - City of Leaves

EOY catch up. Spotify is being relatively unintrusive, too. Oops, spoke too soon.

That Babymetal track and vid are so frickin' ridiculous. Well done.

Joao Gilberto - Chega de Saudade
Orange Juice - Coals to Newcastle (loving most of this, esp the early stuff and Peel Sessions. they kinda owe a nod to Talking Heads as much as Al Green, imo)
Kenny Dorham/Jackie McLean - re-ish of their two records together
also quite loving Poly Styrene's from this year. thx whoever mentioned that recently on their year end list!!

http://i44.tinypic.com/16kdtv5.jpg

John Foxx And The Maths featuring Tara Busch - 'Where You End And I Begin'

http://soundcloud.com/thequietus/john-foxx-and-the-maths

Motion Sickness of Time Travel

whoa. really digging her stuff.

Paul Simon at Webster Hall, June 6, 2011

three late year discoveries that have really enriched my life over the last few weeks:

julia kent (green and grey - thanks lamp)
julianna barwick (magic place)
julia holter (tragedy)

legend has it that if you play all three records at the same time in japan, everyone spontaneously shits their pants

i'm listening to "hero" by chad kroeger feat. josey scott

http://myfoodlooksfunny.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/funny-food-photos-its-a-pita-mergency.jpg

that looks delicious

Tim Finney 2011 tracks
Mohammad Abdou - Live in Kuwait 2001

A.C. Newman - The Slow Wonder
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Lovelyville
Tuba Skinny - Six Feet Down
Heroes and Horses: Corridos from the Arizona-Sonora Borderlands (Smithsonian Folkways)

Tell me more about the Heroes and Horses -- is it in Spanish or English?

It's in Spanish - which I don't speak. I love the singing, harmonies and simple accompaniment though.

That sounds super good, I'm glad it's in Spanish!!
Will investigate.

had a royal trux morning -- singles live & unreleased, new howling hex and black bananas. feeling dirty, but in a good way.

Bon Iver. :(

come on, snap out of it!

i am listening to richard myhill and i feel like i am in a perfume commercial or a lifetime movie

here is "gimme the money" (aka "the heaviest of metal")

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

his music has also been used in cheetos commercials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-6uX--o3xQ

I just thought I'd find out what this Bon Iver guy was about and why he was so bad and hated or so great and loved. I have moved on now.

what did you find

I don't have much to say about it except I don't like it, but I do wonder if there is something I'm missing. And again, I'm struck by the sense that this music is sort of aimed at my demographic, but it sure doesn't hit home with me.

I mean, speaking of stock sounds and library music, I maintain that Bon Iver sounds like the theme to the Hogan Family, just a pastiche of signifiers that I am not interested in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UumiZKltAPQ

I am very preemptively sorry to have cursed anyone who clicks on that video and listens to even 4 seconds of the song.

Television is gross.

that theme song is revolting

No hipster house thread on sandbox, so I'll post here...today I've mostly been listening to the new Sapphire Slows on NNF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md7_PVqJ61k

It's nice and murky!

I am listening to a lot of old Judas Priest at the moment

listening to the rest of the Obake album. I like it.

genuine lol at your sn

<3 thanks

kate bush - 50 words for snow

this morning on the bus I listened to
cannonball adderley - takes charge
bruce springsteen - the promise

Suicide's second album

Karl Blake - The Prehensile Tales

the pointer sisters - the pointer sisters

The Saints - (I'm) Stranded

Mohammed Abdo Doha 2010.

First post of the day. I don't think I've ever had this honor before.

And I know that's only because I've been compulsively reloading sandbox but work has been slow, ok?

Maybe I tied with Milton. Was just thinking of you, Milton, reading of a local artist/researcher who is the one who discovered the Kurt Schwitters recording of Ursonate, in addition to creating extensive visual work related to it.

Mohammed Abdo Doha 2010.

― Occidental Rudipherous, Wednesday, December 14, 2011 3:26 PM

American Pastoral

― Z S, Wednesday, December 14, 2011 3:24 PM

holla

mark fell - periodic orbit of dynamic system related to a knot
russell haswell/florian hecker - kanal gendyn
ben ufo - rinse 16

abe vigoda - skeleton
uncut magazine best of 2011 CD

The Men - "Bataille"

reinforced comp definition of hardcore

Moonshake - Eva Luna

Feedtime - Billy

this morning
wings - band on the run
sandy denny - ebbets field 1973
oneida - rated o disc 1

Paul Revere and the Raiders - Complete Columbia Singles
The Grateful Dead - Aoxomoxoa

David Tudor (with Takehisa Kosugi) "Rainforest" via the DRAM database.
May check out "Music from the ONCE Festival" next.

severely underrated echo and the bunnymen song: "In Bluer Skies". the keyboards on the bridges after the choruses are so amazing

Morena y Clara - Morena y Clara

Much better than most top ten EOY list 2011 albums, for sure. No llores mas.

A little flamenco rock palate cleaner from 1976.

Ron Cornelius - Tin Luck
Hot Dogs - Say What You Mean
Luke Gibson - Another Perfect Day
Severin Browne - Severin Browne
Alan O'day - Appetizers
Roy Head - Same People

Love the Hot Dogs lp.

May check out "Music from the ONCE Festival" next.

Very much worth listening to, esp. for the early R. Ashley

I didn't get around to it. I was getting real zoned out on early electronics. Shit!

http://i42.tinypic.com/10ojvys.jpg

Le Corps Mince de Francoise - Love & Nature
2011 debut from a trio of Helsinki women that has the sense of fun and energy I last felt in the CSS debut. Hopelessly obscure to nominate in the 2011 poll, but I think they'd find some fans around here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPcRewaY6V4

From the track nominations list, this is surprisingly awesome:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UuHrVkuRV8

Though never a house fan, I've always really liked that particular type of keyboard/synth sound.

The National, live from the Beacon

I've been working through these:

Stan Getz - Complete 1950's Recordings
Ernest Tubb - 5 Bear Box sets

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeS-9aS3FpA

The Original 7ven, whole album but "Sick" takes it to the cabaret

Streaming El Viaje from WRTI out of Philadelphia--so much better than the salsa show on Albuquerque's KUNM, it's kind of sad.

jimi hendrix - blues

Michael Rother = Flammende Herzen

barn owl - lost in the glare

Ill Blu Mixtape for "Breaks of 10."

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

Bitchin' Bajas - Water Wrackets

Big thanks to the league of women voters for pointing this out. Side project by Cooper Crain from CAVE. It's great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skNz1u9DUhI

:)

Thank you Matt DC for pointing this out to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksIallh52iE

I got to see Cooper perform Water Wrackets live with the movie at the indie theater in town. It was intense. He's got more film collaboration work coming up in 2012. http://vimeo.com/21068882

Ooh thanks for the heads up Mr. Farmer, I really would have loved to have seen him accompany the film.

these are all short experimental films, right? i'm interested in the divide between "score to short experimental film" and "music video"
one definitely sounds fancier than the other, no?

doesn't seem the same as the relationship between herzog and fricke, for instance (because that is what everything drifts to when i think about these things)

Yes, you are right. Cooper has been collaborating with Olivia Wyatt on short experimental films. Some are animations. They are usually made independent of each other, as well. Like, Cooper will send Olivia some music and she'll make a film, or vice versa. I know that with Water Wrackets, Cooper composed all the music before ever seeing any film. He made it all during the big midwestern blizzard last winter, he said that music will always make him think of snow. Which is appropriate, I guess.

ok, then imo that is not a score -- a score takes into consideration what is happening with the images, and if the images haven't been seen yet, it's not a score? also wasn't water wrackets a remake of an older experimental film? maybe he saw the older one and knew it or something.

i dunno. i guess the visual element is a lovely accompaniment to the music, but in this case i don't really think about it the other way around. sort of like how watching stop motion nature videos is something that's fun to do while listening to cluster, but it's not like one was inspired by the other in any way. they're simply complementary pictures and sounds.

watching stop motion nature videos is something that's fun to do while listening to cluster
recommended btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igkjcuw_n_U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdM5bzmZTY4

I don't think of it as a score, either. Water Wrackets is a remake of a Peter Greenaway film. I'm not one hundred percent sure of the creative processes that went into the making of the project or the chronology in which they unfolded. I'm not trying to put words into Cooper's mouth.
Sorry!

Anyway...I love pairing music with film regardless of the intentions of either author. I wholeheartedly agree with your last comment and do stuff like that a lot. Like, I know Stan Brakhage intended for his films to be watched in a silent dark room, but they work so well with Circle (or whatever) playing at the same time!

Claps - Wreck

super amazing synth pop from mpls, riyl human league, older OMD...vinyl is sweet, clear icy blue vinyl

xp - ooh good rec! will do!!

claps myspace

http://www.myspace.com/clapsus

Staple Singers 1962 Xmas album

*pedant alert*

watching stop motion nature videos is something that's fun to do while listening to cluster

time-lapse animation /= stop motion animation

(claps album produced by ryan olcott of 12 rods if that piques anyone's interest)

! family grapevine has failed me again

I am listening to one of my Spotify playlists:

http://open.spotify.com/user/djperry1973/playlist/2JSosmzA72ClTGzNryqTa8

currently on "Back To Life" - Soul II Soul

http://open.spotify.com/track/2Vmx2DvAcNmixJT55KHXzT

REQUIRED LISTENING FOR EVERYONE

Oh man, that's what I meant -- time lapse. I couldn't remember the right name and also my brain is made of cheese.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AqbLGHqsTg&ob=av2e

Cheap vinyls scored during recent Berlin sojourn. Something about finding good stuff while digging in an open air flea market in the pouring rain:

YOU - timecode
Vanity Records Finest selection comp
Tangerine Dream "Tatort" maxi single
Neue dimensionen comp
Bruce Gilbert "Monad" 7"

Big Star - #1 Album and Radio City is about to start.
This is my kind of Christmas music tbh

I'm not saying it's the greatest song in the world, but it could have been on a Superchunk/Butterglory/Sammy/Sebadoh/etc. album or something pretty easily, and the video is very cute. Inspiring a lot of 90's nostalgia...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YySA6iYWuRY

Polica - Give You The Ghost

some friends of mine's band...with a little luck ilm should be either loving them or hating them by year's end, seem to have a lot of buzz going

Vanity Records Finest selection comp

wow

Listening to more of the ILM track nominations: for fuck's sake, 80s revival, DIE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5IvEPCzahc

thelonious monk's alone in san francisco, while reading a biography of his (interesting note: he apparently popularizd a seventh chord where you just play the root and the seventh, creating a dissonant sound).

also, this jazz piano trio album; not a genre i'm normally into, but there's an emotional heft to this (or at least that's what i'm hearing) that drawing me to it.

oh speed darlingtonpaws
http://nignoramus.tumblr.com/post/14088613439/atlced-roland-lmao-speed-darlington-bad
VERY NSFW

indie guitar bands with a wobbly-voiced singers are not the sort of thing i normally listen to, but over the last couple of months i've slowly become obsessed with Fukurouzu from Tokyo.
This song is called Mashumaro which translates as ... Marshmallow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yunzN3aZyo4

never really stopped listening to it tbh buy hey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh-od12FUfE

(should be "the rrabbitt" - the guy who posted it sucks at entering basic metadata)

BURN

Slave, Showtime
Slave, Just a Touch of Love
You, Electric Days
Cave, "On the Rise"

...now am slowly working my way thru Primordial Undermind's Beings of Game P-U

trying to remember new discoveries and favorites for this year and put on alex de grassi, turning back, which i bought in perfect condition for a dollar.

how could it not be good with this cover?!

http://www.technodisco.net/img/tracks/a/alex-de-grassi/1769572-alex-de-grassi-turning-turning-back.jpg

this guy is a maniac!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7fjAGM2cAE

Been listening to the Dead. A lot.

Cooper was just in town, there is a Bitchin Bajas European tour in the works for next year as well as another music+visuals thing at the local indie theater that they are gonna do in Quadrophonic sound! The same guys that put out Water Wrackets are putting out the collaboration with Olivia Wyatt some time next year in an lp+dvd package.

do they do events like that in chicago? i'm not really involved with the "let's play at this makeshift space" types of shows here -- maybe they do this all the time, i have no idea. euro tour sounds a little more exciting though, i'd imagine.

It seems like they do things like that every once in a while, but I'm really not sure. Cave is going on an Australian tour next year, as well. That is pretty exciting. Not quite as exciting as going to Japan with Thurston Moore (which is what another ex-band mate of mine, from a different band, is doing next year). I have to admit, I'm glad that my former bandmates, who actually possess some talent and skill, are moving on to bigger and better things in that realm.

...while I become a music librarian, something I am much better prepared for.

who's going to Japan? that's awesome.

Keith W00d, he's in the band. It's fucking wild seeing him on like Letterman and Fallon with Thurston Moore.

But anyway, right now I'm listening to the excellent Disco Zombies anthology "Drums Over London."

Hey, this is why I respect Eric Bachmann and his Cuban sandwich truck. I'm not sure if he's still doing that or not, but regardless there's no shame in working for a living.

Oh certainly! I am glad that I can live vicariously through their rocker exploits, I've never been cut out for life on the road. I really don't envy the pro-musician lifestyle...much.

And the thought that I will have my degree at the end of 2012 fills me with joyful anticipation. There's nothing I'd rather do than sit in a room full of records all day.

do u need an intern

[anyway, listening to this numero boddie recording co. box set thing my wife got me for xmas. cool stuff! the gospel stuff is kind of disconcertingly sexy.]

ha, i bought that for my husband for christmas, and you are not him! i've been enjoying that too. esp. proud of cleveland when i heard it tbh.

it's the ultimate husband box set.
it is fun, i've only listened to the first disc.
kind of mystified/amazed by numero group -- such tlc for these ultra-obscure labels/artists. how do they do it? do they have a millionaire bankrolling the whole thing?

did you get the LPs? i think i liked the 2nd or 3rd one best. it all kind of blurs together after a while. the song about getting high on jesus is pretty great. there was an awesome track called "don't make me kill you" too. i haven't sat down to read/listen very intently -- the books are super crammed with info.

as for the business model, i always just figured that they have high standards, are savvy w/r/t marketing to the people who will actually purchase their product, and aren't particularly cheap.

Yerba Brava - Cumbia Villera

http://mindovermirrors.tumblr.com/listen

harmonium player/electronicist jaime fennelly -- i have no idea if he is already well known or not, but he was the only musician i wasn't familiar with in the ensemble thing i saw last night. and he totally ruled.

Tito Rodriguez: holy crap. (And plenty of it to listen to on Spotify.)

thx this thread for Bitchin Bajas recommendations, that is some good stuff

http://i.imgur.com/BAkO3.jpg

I've gotten on a James Brown kick and got a couple more of his CDs, specifically "In The Jungle Groove" and "Motherlode.

This track "Since You Been Good" is just mindboggingly good. Clyde Stubblefield and Bootsy just rip this thing apart. I really love the sound of this real stripped down JB to just the rhythm section and guitar. I suppose this might have been done with the intention of overdubbing the horns at a later date.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7dzEPo5UMk

Lots of stuff. Right now filling in some gaps in my Oum Kalthoum listening. "Hakam Aleina Al Hawa." Obviously really late from the electric organ in the great instrumental introduction, and now that she's started singing, yes, really late. I've never heard this one before, that I remember.

http://i44.tinypic.com/wwd6hy.jpg

Such a great comp. If I threw parties, this would be the soundtrack.

New Kinky, 2011 hip-hop mixtapes from Milwaukee and Chicago, Los Tigres del Norte, and Orchestral Manoeuveuroeors in the Dark (actually just "Fascist Groove Thang" over and over)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqswQcJ-wvE

Going well with morning waffles: Mundo Livre S/A, Novas Lendas da Etnia Toshi Babaa. Manguebeat but so much more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK3hQdBhfDo

Total comfort music

Shirley Collins and the Albion Country Band, No Roses (LP, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, so comforting)

and Orchestral Manoeuveuroeors in the Dark (actually just "Fascist Groove Thang" over and over)

that's heaven 17, right? or did OMD cover it?

oh crap you're right my bad

Terry Reid - Superlungs whoa yes this awesome.