what are you listening to in 2014?

has somebody already listened to the new neneh cherry album blank factor? the song even got nominated in the 2013 tracks poll but i can't find it online. i have high hopes as always with neneh. usually i am disappointed though.

https://soundcloud.com/neneh-cherry/blank-project

Just today:
Duran Duran - Duran Duran / Rio (inspired by a thread or comment on this board)
Prefects - Amateur Wankers (because I picked up The Nightingales "What A Scream" odds and sods comp)
Nips 'n' Nipple Erectors - Bops Babes Booze & Bovver (because I picked up a mess o' Pogues CDs)
Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God (like I said)
Rosanne Cash - Essential (inspired by an NPR interview I heard this morning)

Tomorrow I've got the first two 10cc albums, Billy Bragg - Fight Songs, Altered Images best of, Bill Nelson 21st century comp and the Pogues box set.

holy shit, have you guys heard this? https://soundcloud.com/rc428/side-1-x-100

it's that one dude who collects all of the original numbered copies of the White Album. he made a recording of side A of 100 of them playing at the same time. it quickly becomes beatles ambient music. awesome.

it's one of those rare moments where i feel like the beatles would probably approve

woah

yeah. i'd love to hear side 2. and i guess i eventually will (if i can afford it) because apparently the guy's white album exhibition is supposed to conclude with a pressing of the white album with hundreds of copies playing at once

yeah. i'd love to hear side 2.

and 3 and 4, come to think of it! heh

it's gonna be difficult for 2014 to suck more than 2013.

lol come on now

thanks number one!

man I wish I had heard Youth Code in time for the 2013 poll nominations. I don't keep up with EBM normally but this is right in my zone, especially Sick Skinned which sounds like early Ministry or something.

So far I've been going through the 2013 ILM tracks nominations so mostly that. It's led to me discovering Bilal (prefer his other two albums really) and the genius of the Charli XCX album. Totally unrelated to that I've listened to a bunch of Sleater-Kinney albums for the first time and have become a bit obsessed with them.

https://soundcloud.com/zartan-drednaught-cobra/sets/iller-than-most-lp
Roedelius - Orgel Solo 2001
Popul Vuh - everything
Voices: A Compilation of the World's Greatest Choirs
Yasuaki Shimizu - IQ 179
Fairlights, Mallets and Bamboo Vol. 2 - http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=8231 (segues on this mix are very clever)
The Bad Tempered Consort - A Imagem da Melancolia (Portugese polyphony from the 17th century)
Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notional Species Vol. I

Samantha Crain - Kid Face (she may need her own thread soon...I didn't see one)

XP - Thanks for alerting me to the second edition of Fairlights, Mallets... amazing!

yeah it's fantastic. i hadn't heard most of the tracks he uses.

Not sure about this MAlkmus record yet...

It's ok, you have exactly 12 months to decide.

not really, i'm supposed to be reviewing it... and it's LATE!!!! :-O

Maybe that can be my review. "Not sure about this MAlkmus record yet..."

I can't seem to type the name MAlkmus without capitalising the second letter.

Pet Shop Boys - Alternative
Rip Slyme - Golden Time
lots of assorted Hariharan albums
some Split Enz
more Popol Vuh (of course)
lots of Mike Oldfield (but mostly Ommadawn over and over again)
Koenjihyakkei - II

now that I've voted in the ILM best of 2013 poll, I'm listening to the Spotify playlist of nominated tracks

there are some great things from last year that I missed, like the Stanton Warriors and Meek Mill

I heard nothing about this in 2013. The conjunction of "Hamid Drake" and "Balochistan" would have definitely gotten my attention.

Sounds good so far. A little more sedate than expected.

childbirth's it's a girl!. on a loop, for a few days now.

today:

Felt- Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
Nick Cave- Your Funeral...My Trial
Eazy-E- It's On
Ultramagnetic MCs- The Four Horsemen
Scarface- The World is Yours
David Sylvian- Gone to Earth

The title track to that nick cave song feels like it's been with me for my entire life, even though I think I first heard it (I think) a few months ago. Seriously it feels like I've always known the song. Such a beautiful melody

Love the Four Horseman!

2 brothers with checks and the Caddy is fly...San Francisco, Harvey

aside from Roxy Music and relations catalog:
Balqees - Manjoun
Balqees is Yemeni from birth. sonically i guess i'd call it pan - Arabic, produced but not at all slick; sometimes puts me in the mind of Taha when it gets to rockin'; one bit put me in the mind of (Holger's) "Persian Love"
loving this on first listen

no new york, are we not men we are devo, buncha random disco singles, killed by deathrock vol 1, cass mccombs "county line," young thug "danny glover"

anthology of american folk
spiritualized
the radiators
too short
e-40
gnr
ugk
george jones
uncle tupelo

and death metal

Bailter Space - Vortura
Philip John Lewin - Diamond Love And Other Realities
Tumbélé! Biguine, Afro & Latin Sounds - French Caribbean 1963-73
The Orchids - Epicurean - A Soundtrack
Michael O'Gara - Michael O'Gara
This Scarlet Train -Fimbria
Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth
Bert Keely - Take Me Home
Velocity Girl - ¡Simpatico!
The Prima Donnas - Live On KVRX
Kauffman & Caboor -Songs from Suicide Bridge

Shackleton

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ yessss

blind willie mctell - statesboro blues: the early years 1927-1935
penguin cafe orchestra playist on spotify
generation x - s/t
sonic youth - murray street

Roxy Music - The Complete Studio Recordings
Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
Immortal - Sons of Northern Darkness
Neneh Cherry - "Everything" (incl. remixes)

atm:

bunch of 2013 metal reported elsewhere, esp gorguts, tribulation, portal & rotting christ
behemoth - the satanist
against me! - transgender dysphoria blues (likes)

tangerine dream - rubycon, sorcerer, atem
steve moore - light echoes
bvdub - born in tokyo
cv313 - dimensional space
takako minekawa - roomic cube
michael stearns - planetary unfolding
v/a - i am the center
pizzicato five - overdose
clara mondshine - luna africana
mother mallard's portable masterpiece co.
world standard - world standard II
susumu hirasawa - sim city

lots of Led Zeppelin lately

MGMT - Late Night Tales - a mixtape the band made, not a real huge fan of them but I found it looking for Television Personalities on Spotify, they have good taste in music at least - Felt, Durutti Column, Disco Inferno, julian cope, Spaceman 3, etc etc

Angelique Kidjo-Eve (her newest)
Hailu Mergia- that cassette solo album that was reissued last year
Beatles 1963 to 1964 live (on youtube)
Arcangel (his most recent reggaeton album)

Oh, Roky Erickson too

top artists of 2014 so far:
Darkthrone
Claude Debussy
Robert Schumann
Gorgoroth
Roedelius
Belketre
Maurice Ravel
Vlad Tepes
Stereolab
Beach Boys
High on Fire
Wolves in the Throne Room

Listening to mostly 2013 metal albums lately:

Oranssi Pazuzu
Stara Rzeka
Deafheaven
Windhand
Obliteration

Fire! Orchestra 'Exit!' LP (after seeing in the WIRE Mag EOY lists)
Sky Ferreira 'Night Time, My Time' LP (after seeing in the ILX EOY list)
Household 'Elaines' EP (tremendous Raincoats-y EP, the best thing they've done so far imho)
The Courtneys 'The Courtneys' LP (v good melodic, 90s/Flying Nun-influenced indie rock goodness)
Kyary Pamyu Pamyu 'Nanda Collection' EP (seeing her live in 3 months)
Goblin 'Profondo Rosso', 'Suspiria' OSTs + the non-Goblin credited 'Tenebrae' one (seeing them live in 2 weeks)
Holly Herndon 'Chorus' (favourite track atm)
Ryoji Ikeda 'Supercodex' LP (favourite of emil.y's EOY recommendations)
Childbirth 'It's A Girl!' EP (snappy neo-riotgrrrl sass)

Cibo Matto
Slowdive
Ride
New Order
U2

happy 2014 everyone

Harold Budd/Brian Eno - The Plateux of Mirror/Ambient 2, The Pearl
The Handsome Family - Singing Bones
Matthew De Gennaro - Humbled Down

capital cities' safe and sound. greatest rock song ever.

You could be my luck
Even if the sky is falling down
I know that we'll be safe and sound

DO DO DO-DO-DO-DO DOOOO DO DO DO DO (safe and sound) DO DO DO-DO-DO-DO DOOOO DO DO DO DO

Fire! Orchestra 'Exit!' LP (after seeing in the WIRE Mag EOY lists)

Love this (was the only ILM EOY voter iirc)...they (Fire!) also had an orchestraless album (Without Noticing) last year that is well worth a listen.

lots of FAX (ambient cookbook discs 1-4, shades of orion 2, jet chamber, psychonavigation etc)
gobal communication - 76.14
irresistible force - global chillage
mike oldfield - tubular bells 3, music of the spheres
tangerine dream - force majeure, richochet, stratosphere, encore
enigma - seven lives many faces
spacerocks - more modulations

f*ck all that singing malarkey ..

Magma- Udu Wudu

Referenced in Children of Men IIRC

ligeti -- lontano atmosphere sf polyphony
vatican shadow & function -- games have rules
sean booth kouhei matsunaga mika vainio -- 3 telepathics meh in-sect connection
klara lewis -- ett
katie gately -- s/t
nhk -- dance classic vol3
perc -- the power and the glory
aphex twin -- come to daddy ep
brahms -- theme with variations op18
les vampyrettes -- s/t
swans -- to be kind

magma - udu wudu (mostly just "de futura" over and over)
aphex twin - syro
neneh cherry - raw like sushi
eliane radigue - trio de la morte
wagner - tristan und isolde (bohm/bayreuth 1966)
liszt - transcendental preludes (bolet)
demdike stare - testpressings
conrad schnitzler - auf dem schwarz kanal

(mostly just "de futura" over and over)

I've been there! If you ever need to switch it up, Jannick Top's solo album "Soleil d'Ork" has a demo version with Richard Pinhas playing guitar on it.

aphex twin - syro
autechre - move of ten
bardo pond - refulgo
bob dylan - tell tale signs
cecil taylor - winged serpent (sliding quadrants)
death - leprosy
dj dodger stadium - friend of mine
dj rashad - double cup
electric wizard - time to die
gorguts - obscura
john lee hooker - it serve you right to suffer
jordi savall - j.s. bach - musical offering
lee 'scratch' perry - upsetters 14 dub blackboard jungle
michael pisaro - tombstones
midnight - no mercy for mayhem
origin - omnipresent
pallbearer - foundations of burden
panopticon - roads to the north
the royals - pick up the pieces
the xx - the xx
vince staples - shyne coldchain vol. 2
witch mountain - mobile of angels
wu-tang clan - enter the wu-tang clan (36 chambers)
yes - fragile

Loving this new M Sage record a great deal

http://msage.bandcamp.com/album/a-singular-continent

troy ramey and the soul searchers - try being born again (1977 nashboro gospel = guaranteed to be good)
brazil 2/o samba (1989 luaka bop comp)
ramses III - i could not love you more (on type. still one of my favorite ambient records ever. i was really happy to find a used copy in the store today)
stereolab - the groop played space age batchelor pad music

Kraftwerk - Computer World
King Sunny Adé - Juju Music
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Swans - To Be Kind

Actually, though, everything is terrible except for Babymetal.

70s hard rock/prog, 80s metal & Khun Narin.

PiL

The Fall

New Alt-J so thin keep wanting 2 brush it away. Look fwd 2 Spotify commercials. Actual bests: Weeny "Left Hand Free," daycare cover art.
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart's's Days of Abandon Deluxe Edition adds five keepers, esp. "Poison Touch," ft. lithe beats & A Sunny Day In Glasgow's Jen Goma, as do all the best tracks, though The Pains' own vocals have grown on me okay (still not great, but they do their bit). Nerf layers accumulate on the three duds, but mostly, this dream pop earns its tag and actually rocks a bit (most of the distinctive instrumental turns come from the rhythm section).

Grateful Dead - Sunshine Daydream
Marc Ribot - The Prosthetic Cubans
Roman Flugel - Happiness is Happening
NTS radio
Yong Marco - Beats in Space mix
Ersen (Finders Keepers)

mostly Beethoven and Cecil Taylor

✓

Addicted to the brilliant Lorenzo Senni 'Superimpositions' album right now, really incredible stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HI0r8U6BiYk

masque premiere

Prince: Art etc. so far not in one ear out other, but plectrumelectrum sufficiently rocking and thoughtfully support's Thirdeyegirl's blue sunshine.
Sly's Stone Flower 1969-70 (Light In The Attic) Singles and prev. unreleased, cohesive variety of versions and line-ups; I'm partial to the uncanny funktronic instrumentals--keys, rhythm machine, bass---and "Life & Death in G & A": "If it feeeeeels good, it's al-right!" telling himself and us, urgent but not 2 loud (Must get those Rhino etc sides from '67-? too, and some amazing ones on that '13 box)

"Not" should not be in that first note, really is in one ear out other

also sorry for apostrophe: *supports* not "support's." Dam!

Oh re Prince's Art etc as ho-hum, at least one exception: "Time" is tight.

see, I'd argue for U Know... and Breakfast Can Wait was last year but still.

Still loving skronk-funkateers Guerilla Toss 2013 debut album Gay Disco, and they've got a couple '14 EPs streaming: Smack The Brick, out later this month: https://soundcloud.com/nnatapes/01-smack-the-brick?in=nnatapes/sets/guerilla-toss-smack-the-brick-cassette Current fave: "Billy Blood Idol."
Even better maybe (a little faster, more momentum overall, though they've spoiled me): last summer's 367 Equalizer, ltd. ed., maybe OOP, but still here for now:
https://soundcloud.com/infinity-cat/cookie-guerilla-toss?in=infinity-cat/sets/infinity-cat-cassette-series-guerilla-toss Can't pick one!
Both sets are 4 tracks each, but those are enough to keep the homefries burning while waiting for next alb (get the first)

Also, as mentioned at some length on Robert Wyatt thread, letting the 2-disc comp w same title as new bio, Different Every Time carry meee away. As mentioned at some length on Richard Thompson thread, big news for me re The Thompson Family Album is how good Linda sounds, despite long-reported vocal problems, she's the one on here projecting charisma. RT and others contribute some good songs and playing: no masterpieces, but at least half are keepers, whole thing might be a sleeper.
Both albums still streaming on npr 'til their 11-18 release(better get started on the Wyatt):
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/09/361384516/first-listen-robert-wyatt-different-every-time
http://www.npr.org/2014/11/09/361384683/first-listen-thompson-family

Anybody heard this? Cover makes me woh-woh-wonder:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B2XPWhfCMAAUOEY.jpg

dennis johnson's November was composed earlier than almost all minimalist music and is completely perfect, yet it is unknown

this is bullshit

why did i revive the 2014 thread to say that

why

it's not just a historical curiosity, being written years before in C. it's actually perfect. put it on and listen to it throughout a quiet afternoon. i've always appreciated In C as a historical document and as an idea. November explores the ramifications of In C before it was even written

in time and space

but fart fart i have other things to do fart

he was 21 when he wrote this

can you pull me back to 2014 through the time tunnel pls

It’s kind of a Being John Malkovich situation in there. Pretty embarrassed about my solo drunkness on a Wednesday night, slight less embarrassed about my apparent passion for November, which still rules in the sober light of this field, where I am a Cusack

passion for November when

Possible I’m still a bit drunk, jesus