Nu ILX what are you listening to?

it's ... bloody hell, it's bizarre. pianos and violins and oddness everywhere. too excited to make a proper judgement, though :)

*thoughts drift to record store*

This isn't twee, it's roughhewn Oxfordian pop-punk. I don't even like anoraks.

out on january 22, i think. i love the 'gramme, me.

CASIOTONE FOR THE PAINFULLY ALONE - ETIQUETTE

A+++++++

why does nobody talk about this on ilm? i have passionate, louis jagger-esque love for this. best album ever!

indian jewelry - exotics

this is great psych raga type stuff, but really beat oriented. i think a dj could slip this in between microhouse or whatever the eurotrash are listening to and nobody would stop dancing. has some noizy parts too. A+++

swann lake - whatever it's called

eh. why do i keep buying indie rock?

oh damn is that the EP that came in a plain type white cd sleeve that just said antifamily?

i have that, very awesome stuff.

eyvind kang - story of iceland
stinking lizaveta - cuaght between worlds
charles mingus - mingus mingus mingus mingus
sunn o)))/boris - altar
hototogisu - some blood will stick

the album's not that great due to production difficulties, but they're an ace live band.

their first album ('on arrival') was kind of thrilling and dynamic, in a tortoisey kind of way, but their second, whose name escapes me, unsuccessfully explored more tedious, nigh-ambient electronic waters.

The Antifamily CD is pretty new and on a label called Difficult Fun. I like it.

Currently: Shitmat 'Hang The DJ', pretty good so far but mixed INCREDIBLY QUIETLY! WHY? and before that the 'American Hardcore' soundtrack which introduced me to a few new things and enabled me to have a bunch more on CD.

('tis sumtimes, lik', lonesum in tiz korner of da sändboks, but, huhh, 'rock mass' really is gut kompani, lakili)

Richard Pinhas, Metatron (on disk one/track two - sounds one smooth quiet storm of a record so far)

Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Six By Seven - Artists Cannibals Poets Thieves
Bardo Pond - Dilate
Serena-Maneesh - s/t
Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
Catherine Wheel - Happy Days
Einsturzende Neubauten - Tabula Rasa
KMFDM - What Do You Know, Deutschland?

have not heard any of them yet. anticipation level perhaps breaking through gauge.

over and over again.

Amazing show to begin with (Ra summons up some power electronics that even outdo Throbbing Gristle) but mid-way through the administrators try to cut the power. Ra & the Arkestra continue playing in the dark and end the show by putting a curse on the place.

is that the thing where you can see smells and hear colors? man, i wish. as long as it didn't drive you insane, i think that would be the coolest. anyway, i just post pictures of the albums i'm listening to at that moment. good cover art should make you smell, hear, and see stuff though.

Suicide was one of those things I always assumed I just wouldn't like, so I'm kind of surprised that I like it.

I am digging the new Volcano The Bear album (Classic Erasmus Fusion) immensely, easily in my top ten of the year.