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Quick Shot II Turbo · Joined: 05 Dec 2006 Location: ---

Hello.

In the past few weeks I've enjoyed these records the most:

Mr Geoffrey and JD Franzke "Get A Room" - a really strange mixtape that combines hovering ambient sounds with songs that were made way before I was born. Try sample 5, for example.
Rhythm & Sound "See Mi Yah remixes" - amazing mixture of dub techno and reggae from the creators of the dub techno sound in Germany. Here's the 9th track, featuring Vainqueur, who hasn't done music in years.
Restiform Bodies "Restiform Bodies" - if you enjoy(ed) cLOUDDEAD, then you'll love this. It's a hiphop trio consisting of (if I'm not mistaken) Bomarr Monk, Passage and Telephone Jim Jesus (all Anticon now) who did very experimental white man hiphop in their basements around 2000 or so, i.e. way before cLOUDDEAD even existed. Here's a track from this album and here's another one from their earlier homemade release "Oubliette" that isn't available on the self-titled album.
The Field "Sun & Ice" - techno from the Kompakt label utilizing looping vocals. Here's the first track.
Black to Comm "Rückwärts Backwards" - a friend of mine calls the sound on this one post-Fennesz. He's right! I love this record. I think I like it even more than "Venice" (too mature) but less than "Hotel Paral.lel", which I personally consider to be Fennesz's best record.

And just now I'm listening to the new CocoRosie album and... oh my god. It's so good. Different from "La Maison De Mon Rêve", but go-oooood. Here's the 7th track, "Werewolf".

Oh, and the new Stars of the Lid album has to be the most boring collection of sounds I've heard in years. This is coming from someone who 1) somewhat enjoyed "Per Aspera Ad Astra", 2) enjoys the vast majority of the output from Kranky and 3) finds EAI rather engaging. So it's pretty bad, to me.
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chompers po pable · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

listening to Octis Twevim Llelengr right now in anticipation of Iohargh Wended.

listened to Animal Collective's Feels, and really enjoyed it. Thanks for bringing these guys up Beef, they're good. happy noise is a beautiful thing.

other stuff revolving on the grammofone: Darkthrone Transilvanian Hunger, Holy Smokes Talk to Your Kids About Gangs (Beef, if you haven't already, you should check out Holy Smokes (Hill, Rob Crow)...quality stuff).

also a song i recorded yesterday: dr. pepper and whiskey

Wall of Beef · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Fart Beach

chompers po pable · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

i've been meaning to pick up some Panda Bear. the song from the site you linked sounded good.

talk to your kids about gangs has some bright spots that outweigh the few bland bits on the album...i haven't listened to masculine drugs yet, so. i think it's worth a look, overall.

Hot Stott Bot · banned Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Wall of Beef · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Fart Beach

chompers po pable · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Beef, i'm listening to Masculine Drugs right now, and it reminds me of Damsel in the sense that it sounds like it was recorded on whippits, and largely improvised on the spot; whereas Talk to Your Kids is a much more cohesive, planned out album.

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been listening to the new One AM Radio, This Too Will Pass. It's got a few good tracks, though it seems like Hrishikesh is running out of steam. the album seems resigned compared to A Name Writ in Water, while sounding too much like it (though not nearly as consistent lyrically and musically).

SplashBeats · Guest

Picked up the VICE reissues of the Boredom's Super Roots 3 and 5 today, as well as the Jimmy Edgar EP, Access Rhythm.

Super Roots 3 is one guitar riff repeated over and over for 30 minutes with much variation in the drums, and occasionally the key. It's really rocking and kind of hilarious in concept.

Super Roots 5 is a screaming, gorgeous fit of feedback, drums, and noise. It's a bit long, but quite beautiful if you dig that kind of thing!

Jimmy Edgar's Access Rhythm is his first EP on Warp and a weird mix of hiphop and his later, awesome electro stylings. Worth $7 at least.

108 · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:14 am

SplashBeats · Guest

That's a good album. Blonde on Blonde is still my favorite Dylan album though, mainly because of "Visions of Johanna."

108, fly me out to Japan for one of the Boredoms(V8rdoms)/Sonic Youth shows in April.

108 · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:50 am

SplashBeats · Guest

Because Osaka is a town of real men (and Yoshimi)

Wall of Beef · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Fart Beach

108 · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:13 am

Hot Stott Bot · banned Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Man, I love Osaka.

Living in Osaka is when I first discovered that I like fashion.

You see.

I was standing around with this British guy who just got out of a long stint in Tokyo and we saw this guy in a white suit with a rainbow afro, to which he said:

"You know what I love about Osaka [as opposed to Tokyo]? Here people can wear any crazy thing they want and look cool if they just feel cool. Osaka fashion is all about being unique."

And then I realized, "Yeah... I like that!"

108 · Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:26 am

yeah dogg osaka is also a lot smaller than tokyo

in tokyo there are whole (osaka-sized?) regions where you can see some crazy shit if you feel like seeing some crazy shit

in a way, tokyo's compartmentalized nature is the craziest shit of them all

in other words, you just didn't roll with the TFE (tokyo's fashion elite) when you were in tokyo

see my girlfriend (in avatar)? she dresses like this (i mean, not this exact outfit, though yeah) EVERY DAY dude
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Hot Stott Bot · banned Joined: 05 Dec 2006

What I mean is that Tokyo was very much about "high fashion" or at least "strict fashion"... it didn't seem like the kind of town that really respected things like experimentation, modifying your clothing, that sort of thing...

Though, maybe as you say, there are whole Osakas within Tokyo that would suit me better!

sync-swim · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: scissorgun

chompers po pable · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

been listening to more Animal Collective. mostly Sung Tongs (first few songs are great), Danse Manatee/Spirit They've Vanished (i like both, though some of the more high-pitched squeal noises on Spirit 's first two or three tracks induce a headache).

Some Black Dice Broken Ear Record, Comforts and Beaches n Canyons...all good in their own ways. i think that Beaches would beat Creature Comforts in a knife fight.

the last couple of tracks on Octis' Iohargh Wended are legendary greatness.

psiga · saudade Joined: 04 Dec 2006

I am enjoying burning through slacker.com's investment capital. They stream rather high bitrates, and have a nice variety of stuff. Haven't tried to tilt the system and see how much I can push the free service, yet, but so far I like it.

I like it a lot, actually. Listening to last.fm and that other one that I forget the name of, I'd start feeling kinda numb inside after a while of listening. Doesn't happen here! Just enough control, variety, quality to make me happy.

Will be watching and listening to find out where it goes. Cursory looks seem killer. This is the first satisfying taste I've had of radio 2.0 -- and yet I wouldn't be surprised if it goes pop-fly.

Caveats: No Japanese, Korean, French, etc music. They've got an electronic section, but their 'progressive/trance' stuff is bands like Jamiroquai and Chemical Brothers. Um. It's not that I dislike hearing them, it's just that I wouldn't label them under that genre. Techno, as a genre, is a psychedelic iceberg of sub-genres. When I click Trance, I want to hear Astral Projection, not Propellerheads.

They're going to introduce paid service in coming months (along with a sexy looking physical player), but promise to keep their free section open. However, the quality of the free streams is likely to be the first thing to go if they have a Meeting™ and decide that cutting the bandwidth of that would save them oodles of cashmoneys. It'll be a straight indicator of how much is love and how much is money.

Anyway. I like this a lot so far.
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rabite gets whacked! · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

So duders. Remember the BMG music club that totally rocked your world in high school? About 4 years ago now they had some class action lawsuit that I probably found out about through slashdot or something (I pretty sure I still looked at slashdot then), entered my email and forgot about.

The short story: recently bought, at $4 apiece: Massive back-catalog damage! Sabbath, Neil Young, Alice Coltrane, Bowie, Marley, Dylan, Kinks, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Talking Heads, with a little Goodie Mob, GZA, Johnny Cash, Caetano Veloso (!), early Tom Waits on the side.

So holy shit and a 2 week backlog of music.

But here's one off that major-label track: Shearwater's Palo Santo is pretty compelling. It surprised me well enough really, because I typically have an immense tolerance to anything Pitchfork likes (as in, it totally fails to peak my interest), but this cuts through that indie-pop gauze nearly as well as anything since The Wrens' Meadowlands.

Victor · Joined: 07 Dec 2006

The first seven or so songs, wam-bam, right in the face. The rest of it, also wonderful. I like Robbie's after-the-fact changes, overdubs and the like. It's 1967: A very talented songwriter and a bunch'a talented musicians that all get along real swell like meet in a house for a prolonged period of time with the intention to do nothing but make Radical Songs. Sounds pretty run of the mill. Makes you kinda wish he'd continued his career in this fashion, but that's not really fair.

This record is amazing.

nocturnedelight · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Jeff Buckley

I actually like him, now!
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wackodave · Joined: 24 Dec 2006

another coma · Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 9:57 am

Polvo rocks.

(well they don't technically, but you know what I mean)
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SplashBeats · Guest

I'm pretty sure that cover was taken from Jehovah's Witnesses propaganda.

I know this, because I think we have this particular piece of propoganda in our house.

another coma · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 9:48 am

!= · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: the planet of leather moomins

3 hours of music.

3 hours of electro sounds, the futuristic type.

3 hours to remember what it was like when people of earth
were still dreaming of trips to the stars.

3 hours of gerald donald and james stinson.

Drexciya (+ Japanese Telecom, Arpanet, and countless others alternate monikers for the same mythological sound creatures)

http://www.bleep43recordings.com/mixes/Stinson&Donald.MP3 [175M]

-- more mythology at:
http://drexciyaresearchlab.blogspot.com/

boojiboy7 · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 1:36 am

goddamn i love one foot in the grave.

meauxdal · Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:03 am

Capt. Caveman · Joined: 06 Dec 2006 Location: behind the wall of sleep

Baron Patsy · whiny, oversensitive, socially awkward Joined: 05 Dec 2006

NEW FUCKING FINNTROLL ALBUM FUCK YES I'M GOING TO GO DRINK SOME BEER AND PILLAGE SOMEONE AND RAPE SOME WOMEN AND KILL SOME TROLLS

Wall of Beef · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Fart Beach

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chompers po pable · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

listened to Panda Bear's Young Prayer a few times over the last couple of days. after listening to Person Pitch a few times, i like Young Prayer a bit more. it feels more cohesive, where Person Pitch's tracks are broken into sections that fade into one another. i imagine some will find this neat, like three songs in one = added value!, though i'm not sure what i think of it. i'll have to listen to it a few more times. (edit--these albums are really different from one another, by the way, for anyone that hasn't listened to them...young prayer is like a gregorian wonderland of pain and joy while person pitch is like noise beach boys, as Beef pointed out. just wanted to clarify to avoid giving the impression that they're interchangeable.)

listened to more Black Dice, and Creature Comforts is growing on me. i humbly withdraw my previous sentiment of its inferiority to Beaches & Canyons. great album.

also a song i recorded today : http://www.sendspace.com/file/y9z5yv

by the way, if anyone has any ruins albums, i would be indebted to you for a short while if you would upload one. i've been looking for some ruins for a while with no luck :( i'd be glad to upload something in return.

meauxdal · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2007 11:27 am

that's a really interesting song chompers. at first i hated it, thought it sounded just plain bad, but after i listened to it a second time, i really felt like it was almost more intentionally atmospheric than anything and it really unsettled me.
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rabite gets whacked! · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

chompers, I liked the music, but not the lyrics, and your voice sounds forced in that lower register (the higher one is quite nice).

and I'll upload Burning Stone and Hyderomastgroningem for you, but it's going to take a while. You don't have slsk, do you?

Wall of Beef · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Fart Beach

Wall of Beef · Joined: 04 Dec 2006 Location: Fart Beach

Whoa, check out this website you music hunters! Or basically any sort of stuff hunters.

Its called http://www.funfail.com what it does is it searches through like every big upload site (rapidshare, send space, etc.), and makes a link to them. So you can search for like anything and it finds a link to the file, which you can download. It makes you wait like a few minutes or so for it to start, but otherwise it seems pretty awesome. I searched "Person Pitch" and right off the bat it found a few links to the full album.
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Focus · Joined: 04 Dec 2006

Chompers, I can upload Vrresto sometime this weekend. I like it!

I've been listening to Fennesz. I plan on getting into more of this "modern composition" if you want to call it that. I don't know.
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rabite gets whacked! · Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Burning Stone & Hyderomastgroningem

Focus, are you referring to Fennesz as "modern composition"? The term is already in use and references a less traditional (more avantgarde/microtonal/whathaveyou) contemporary classical music. But if that's what you're looking for, let me recommend Mauricio Kagel.

If you're looking for more along the Fennesz axis, I really like his work with Jim O'Rourke and Peter Rehberg. And a lot of stuff on the apestaartje label might be to your liking.