What are you listening to? 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGytDsqkQY8

new curren$y mixtape

no balls

Frogs, Varèse, BEP

some old Love & Rockets stuff :)

sleigh bells jk

https://www.newamsterdamrecords.com/jelly/data/Picture/Maximum_Height=383/CATHEDRAL_CITY_cover-2.jpg

enjoying modern strains of classical more than the masters, at the moment. the light electronics, vocals, and low-end to the sound (n.1) are really appealing to me now.

______________________________
(n.1) why is there no bass sounds or semblence of rhythm in classical masterworks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvuue9NVKrU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=698pCj_loms&feature=related

I'm not listening to anything, just ripping a bunch of CDs someone loaned me.

john fahey - after the ball

jandek & burning star core, on shuffle/random

Spirit, The Family That Plays Together & The 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus

"City of Angels" soundtrack (the Broadway musical not the movie); tons of Astor Piazzolla; CAMEO ANTHOLOGY (first song I listened to this year was "Alligator Woman"

Ananda Shankar - Sa-Re-Ga Machan

hangover soundtrack:

Larry Gordon "Celestial Vibration"
Brian Eno "Neroli"
Mirror "Islands"
The Stars of the Lid "Tired Sounds of"
Morton Feldman "Triadic Memories"
Swingle Singers "Jazz Sebastian Bach"
a pipa record whose Chinese characters I can't transliterate

Karma Moffett - Tibetan Ten Foot Long Horns
Music From 5th Century Coptic Manuscripts realized by H. Aram Gulezyan
Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers instrumentals
Gang Starr - Jazz Thing (Instramental / Movie Mix)
Ricardo Villalobos - Zero Set II Reconstruct
Mimi Izumi Kobayashi - Ik.I
Francois Bayle - Erosphere

now:

Rochereau - voice of lightness, vol. 2

recently:

Dadawah - Peace and Love (oh my...)
metal machine music (new DVD thang \m/ ^_^ \m/)
Branca - the ascension (1st thing i listened to this year, i think? woe-is-uh-me-bop)
Angola Soundtrack

Jimi Hendrix, Burial, Spiritualized, Kirsty MacColl, Sugarcubes, The House of Love, Spacemen 3, You Made Me Realise.

Dadawah - Peace and Love (oh my...)
Yes!!!!!!!!

Dadawah are like the Trad Gras och Stenar of reggae.

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http://www.rockersnyc.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/heavens_end_01.jpg

http://991.com/newgallery/Loop-Eternal---The-Sin-315622.jpg

mm, that's a lotsa loop there:)

me: rick ocasek, rolling stones, killers, rihanna, roy harper, "it's a crammed crammed world".

milton- tell me where I can get the karma moffett and is the villalobos really him cutting up the "zero set" album?

Motorpsycho. I think I prefer their more psychodelic songs.

Gainsbourg soundtracks boxset I got for Christmas.

"Albuquerque"

Werkbund-Neue Rungholter Tanze
Robert Haigh-Anonymous Lights
Guided By Voices-Alien Lanes
Ellen Allien-Dust

kaputt

Rainy New Year's Day, alone 'n' stoned:
Warmer Milks "Soft Walks"
Nektar "Tab in the Ocean"
Barn Owl "Ancestral Star"
Kylesa "Spiral Shadow"
White Rainbow "New Clouds" (Naptime)
Blues Control S/T (twice)
Can "Soon Over Babaluma" (first half)
Ted Lucas S/T

^ good concept

on a cold, clear new year's day eve, alone 'n' unstoned:

vomit squad - amon ra bless america
no balls - come clean
john fahey - after the ball
glasser - ring
circle pit - bruise constellation
mark mcguire - living with yourself
flight patterns - open graves w/ stuart dempster

First listens this past week:

X-101 - X-101
Richard Pinhas - Iceland (thanks Milton!)
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Monolake - Hong Kong
Basic Channel - BC-01 through BC-06
Mint (W. Voight)
Teena Marie - Robbery
Theo Parrish - First Floor
Crown Heights Affair - Dream World

Bobak, Malone, Jons - Motherlight
first Hawkwind album

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http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/10448-the-freed-man.jpg

Wolf People - Steeple
Smith Westerns - Dye it Blonde
Chelsea Wolfe - Ἀποκάλυψις
The Boats - Sleepy Insect Music
Andrew Bird - Fingerlings 4

epic soft boys underwater moonlight comp thing on matador from a while back. currently "only the stones remain". favorite soft boys track (while it's playing).

Drive home:

Pat Metheny - Orchestrion
Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Infinite Body - Carve Out the Face of My God
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Fleetwood Mac - "Dreams"/Deep Purple - "Hush" (on Toronto radio)
Gyorgy Ligeti - String Quartet no 1 (Parker Quartet)
Four Tet - There Is Love In You
a couple tracks from Jefferson Starship - Red Octopus
Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot..

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belgian comp from 1980 i got yesterday:

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Get-Sprouts/release/402815

the lavvi ebbel track "no place to go" is awesome! the post-punkiest coolest song i've heard in a long time. the stuff they have on youtube is cool too, but this song is epic. will search out records if they are to be found anywhere.

xpost to Rudipherous: I just listened to "Distance". It's quite nice. The whole album is good?

Ataxia - Automatic Writing
Iva Bittova - Bile' Inferno
The first Feelies record
Last Life In The Universe OST
PiL - Metal Box
Son House stuff (love this guy)
Bunalim

Is that a new Bittova?

No it isn't. But it is *great*

check it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE-o7JZZloM

"Son House stuff"

these chillwave groups have to start finding better names.

You're right, Adam. I'll look for it.

I just listened to "Distance". It's quite nice. The whole album is good?

I suppose not, but I still think it's pretty good. Try "Maree Noire," which is from the album's more "avant" side and see what you think. "Progeria" is more of a jazz/fusion track. I don't love everything about that track, but I think it works. "Around the Lamp" is very pretty. "Democratia" is great, especially parts of it where he seems to intentionally straddle the Arabic/blues/rock divide. The last track is overtly political in a way some may find offputting (not me, in this case), despite, or maybe because of how minimal the lyrics are. (I think of the album is in the tradition of progressive rock, fusion, older electronic music, and maybe post-rock, with an Arabic feeling, as well, in the last couple tracks.) It's only 48 minutes long. (Incidentally, This was not a conspiracy to get you to notice the album. I just happened to post at about the same time you did.)

I didn't suspect that.:P

I could teach you how to think in a paranoid manner. Anyway, I don't know if you remember, but I think I got you to listen to some oud music by this person's father, Marcel Khalife. In fact, Bachar was probably on that, if it was from Caress, but this is his first solo album.

why is there no bass sounds or semblence of rhythm in classical masterworks?

why does dead people never want to geir?

Bile Inferno is so great, especially disc 2

milton- tell me where I can get the karma moffett and is the villalobos really him cutting up the "zero set" album?

standby for leo, and the Villalobos is actually a remix of Moebius & Neumeier's 'Zero Set II' from a few years ago, which I've listened to twice, ok but didn't grab me. this remix is pretty sweet though

Deep Forest - s/t (pain)
Mark Fell - UL8
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bullittjohnt

today was some or all of these

Cul De Sac - Death Of The Sun
Biota - Half A True Day
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
Miles Davis - Man With The Horn, In Concert
Ry Cooder/V.M Bhatt - A Meeting By The River
Omni Trio - Soul Promenade 10"
Mouse On Mars - Niun Niggung
T.R. Mahalingam - Mali 2LP reissue (on now)

Now Playing:
UGK - Dirty Money

Albums Listened to Today:
Diddy-Dirty Money - Last Train to Paris (a few songs so far; may listen to the whole album and leaks...again since I'm addicted)
Ciara - Basic Instinct
Wiley - Treddin on Thin Ice

Country Joe and the Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body
Moby Grape
Pocahaunted - Make It Real
Los Mac's - Kaleidoscope Men
(^this is cool!)

Made awesome soup listening to the first disc of Will the Circle Be Unbroken t'other night.

Z-Ro - Let The Truth Be Told
John Lee Hooker - Best Of

The new Matthew Jonson set at RA, and soon the El Gato mix for LWE.

And an all 90's station at work: white people liked some corny music when I was a kid.

Chic Organisation Vol. 1
Jeugd van Tegenwoordig - De Lachende Derde
Dungen's latest
Jens Friebe
Jürgen Paape - Kompilation (so great)
We Love
Giorgio Moroder - Son Of My Father
Sun City Girls - Funeral Mariachi

new Orange Juice box set (xmas)
1st four Kevin Ayers solo albums
iggy Kill City remix/remaster
(wow, good to see someone else enjoy's Nektar's "Tab")

Made awesome soup

Please send me some, sick with earache/sinus trouble.

Checking out Burning Star Core.

Catching up on some things I missed from all the EOY lists

Darkstar - North
Zs - New Slaves
Mark McGuire - Living With Yourself
Wooden Wand - Death Seat
Marnie Stern - s/t

the fall - wonderful and frightening world omnibus edition
ali & toumani

Brian Eno - Thursday Afternoon
Rhino's Doo Wop box set
Bows - Cassidy
Liz Brady
this song over and over and over

David Rosenboom - How Much Better if Plymouth Rock had Landed on the Pilgrim's

Kind of burned out on last minute EOY catching up, so this is an oldie of sorts that I haven't heard in ages. (Not sure I've ever heard all of it.)

Listening to Nick Drake for the first time in years right now.
Listened to The Moles, Beat Rhythm Fashion, Orange Juice, Paul Simon, and my 2010 year in review radio show on the drive home yesterday.

Tyvek - Nothing Fits
Like this one more every time I hear it, I think.

this bro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zphhx5KZZ_c

kinda reminds me of discovery (the vampire weekend side project)

post-new year's annihilation eve - contenderizer's favorite albums of 2011 as measured by what he had to scrape up off the floor and resleeve this morning (afternoon)(dj blackoutstyle), by strata:

sonic youth - goo (lee #2!)
spits - "pain" EP
bassholes - i feel like sleeping 12"
halo of flies - garbage rock 12"
nachtmystium - assassins
foxy - party boys
sarin mchugh & the everymen - rotocoma pollution! EP
the saints - eternally yours
urge overkill - saturation
reigning sound - too much guitar!
jay reatard - blood visions
wild about jenkem comp EP
softpack - "grinding halt" 45
glasser - ring (a request, iirc)
the cows - effete and impudent snobs
halo of flies - singles going steady
reigning sound - time bomb high school
naked raygun - jettison
hygiene - "recruitment" 45
circle pit - "sewercide" 45
circle - sunrise
rev. louis overstreet - an evening with...
nobunny - love visions
the chinese restaurants - "nunca jamas" 45
bassholes - ...and without a name
oneida - rated O
sun city girls - funeral mariachi (these last two the biggest hits of the evening)
yura yura teikoku - III
hammers of misfortune - fields
the dwarves - blood, guts and pussy

^ can live with this

Danny Kirwan - Love can always bring you happiness
Gene Clark - i really don't want to know
disco inferno - summer's last sound
duran duran - ordinary world
TVZ - HIGHWAY KIND

also TERMINALS - TOUCH

ag
casey veggies
ramadanman
gangrene

TERMINALS - TOUCH

RULES.

me:
Can't Stand the Rezillos
Sly Stone - Listen to the Voices comp
Cock Sparrer - The Decca Years (SO AWESOME pub/punk/glam soundin' stuff)
Beauregarde - s/t
Funkadelic - Let's Take It to the Stage
Blind Willie McTell - Last Session
Buffalo - Volcanic Rock/Only Want You...
Los York's - El Viaje 1966-74
Madvillain - Madvillainy (late to this shit, I know)
The Ventures - any of the ruffer 60s stuff
13th Floor Elevators - Psych Sounds 2cd

add to my little list up there new Deerhoof and new Destroyer

and more Terminals love; took Last Days of the Sun and Little Things on a roadtrip recently. fantastic.

JIMMY EAT WORLD - "SWEETNESS"

I am alternating between Kokayi's Robots and Dinosaurs and the first Acid Resistant comp

zs - new slaves

holy shit this is great. slept on it completely but it's definitely one of the best of 2010.

New this week:

Kaito - Special Life
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
Thomas Köner - Nunatuk Gongamur
Lindstrøm & Christabelle - Real Life is No Cool
Thomas Brinkmann - Studio 1 Variationen
Change - The Glow of Love
Lawrence - The Night Will Last Forever
Paperclip People - The Secret Tapes of Dr. Eich
Space - Magic Fly
Shifted Phases - The Cosmic Memoirs of the Late Great Rupert J. Rosinthrope
Fluxion - Vibrant Forms

Notorious B.I.G. -- Life After Death
Yelawolf -- Trunk Muzik 0-60
Puff Daddy and the Family--No Way Out
Repulsion--Horrified
R Kelly--Love Letter
Lil Kim--Bella Mafia
Young Jeezy--The Recession
Diddy--Last Train to Paris
Ice Cube--I Am the West
Lauryn Hill--Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Three-Six Mafia--Chapter 2: World Domination
Ghostface Killah--Apollo Kids
Michael Jackson--Michael
Rick Ross--Deeper Than Rap
Rick Ross--Teflon Don
M.I.A.--Maya
Brutal Truth--Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses
The Darkness--One Way Ticket to Hell (no idea what possessed me to play this)
The-Dream--Love King
Ghostface Killah--Ironman

jacka & laroo - neva be the same
onra - long distance
g-side - the one... cohesive
clown & sunset - ines
teebs - ardour
roman fluegel - how to spread lies EP
antena - camino del sol
ramadanman
bubble club

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Coil - Love's Secret Domain
Katatonia - The Discouraged Ones
Lusine - Serial Hodgepodge

Winter music.

post-party clean up list #2 - what i love as measured by what i insist on playing for people when drunk:

unrest - imperial f.f.r.r.
deerhoof - the runners four
sonic youth - sister
sonic youth - daydream nation
demdike stare - liberation through hearing
in the storm so long (gospel comp on mississippi)
ludicra - hollow psalms
yob - the great cessation
motorhead - on parole
black breath - razor to oblivion
monster magnet - s/t EP
pussy galore - groovy hate fuck (the UK comp, not the EP)
rocket from the crypt - all systems go
turbonegro - apocalypse dudes

cecil taylor - silent tongues (what i was listening to when ppl showed up, note drastic shift in tone as evening progressed)

that's just the vinyl, cuz it's easier to track via wreckage. skews things heavily towards indie rock & metal, though. evening also included many youtube & itunes selections (the-dream, ofwgkta, dumb 80s pop, etc).

selfish cunt - no wicked heart shall prosper
cloudland canyon - lie in light
isolée - well spent youth
liszt - symphonic poems
liszt - concerto pf 2
rangers - suburban tours
autre ne veut - st
rustie - sunburst ep

that's just the vinyl, cuz it's easier to track via wreckage.

Do you mean like the covers left lying around or is wreckage some kinda software or what.

the former. stuff i had to resleeve while cleaning up.

The Humms - Lemonland

It's from 2010 and I wish I'd heard it in time for list consideration, but whatever. Fun southern-tilted garage rock from Athens, GA.

the U1\/3r catalog. please don't tell lj.

Moved house recently. Have now got a huge & beautiful attic that we're going to use as a library/music room (also I'd like a pool table up there ;)
Bought another cd rack and finally made some time yesterday to unpack boxes and reshelve my cd's. Such a nice way to spend a calm sunday afternoon.

Played:
Thomas Fehlmann - Gute Luft
Shackleton - Fabric 55
Various - Shut Up And Dance! Updated
Professor Genius cdr (gorgeous end to the day with "Across The Spree")

Can't wait to hook up the turntable and go through my vinyl ;)

Ame's brand new FACT mix. Pretty special

http://soundcloud.com/factmag/fact-mix-212-me-jan-11/s-Ga4w8

Headless Heroes - The Silence Of Love
Junkboy - Koyo
P-Model
Felix Kubin - Echohaus
Nits - Adieu Sweet Bahnhof
Akiko Yano - Japanese Girl
Asa Chang & Junray - Tsu Gi Ne Pu
Brad Laner - Natural Selections
Bullet Lavolta - The Gift
The Do - Dust It Off EP
Miracle Legion
Gypsy & The Cat - Gilgamesh

ry cooder - boomer's story
black sabbath - black sabbath + california jam
orange juice - coals to newcastle
duke ellington - california dance dates
van morrison - pacific high studio 1971
comp of early randy newman covers my friend made

le car

MIA - Kala
Heavenly - Le Jardin de Heavenly
Ellen Allien - Dust
Neil Young - On the Beach
Nellie McKay - Home Sweet Mobile Home

REM - Murmur & Reckoning
Junior Kimbrough - God Knows I Tried
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew, In A Silent Way, Live Evil & In Concert
Nick Cave - The Good Son & Henry's Dream
Led Zeppelin - pretty much all of it

Alors On Danse (Djs From Mars bootleg) A 17 song mashup survey of 30 years of dance music shouldn't be this potent
Hammock - Chasing After Shadows ... Living with the Ghosts Patented post shoegaze post rock.
Under Byen - Af Samme Stof Som Stof Bjork fronting Bad Seeds?
Bill Nelson - The Love that Whirls and Chimera Trouser Press's blurb didn't impress me enough 20 years ago, and the discography is still intimidating.
Gjallarhon - Sjofn Suomenruotsalaiset world music twixt DCD and Hedningarna.

All four volumes of Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music
Saigon rock and soul
Milton Nascimento "Clube de Esquina"
Tall Dwarfs "Hello Cruel World" atm

Atlanta snow/ice storm 2011!
Disappears "Lux"
Beach Boys "Friends/20/20" (really loving the Dennis stuff on 20/20, except for "All I Wanna Do", which the liners describe as a "lusty rocker" with Mike on vox)
Women "Public Strain"
Alps "Le Voyage"
Jatoma S/T
Chills "Kaleidoscope World"

I've also been reading Eric Davidson's "We Never Learn", which is very entertaining if Crypt Records ever meant anything to you.

forest swords - dagger paths
glasser - ring
a lot of marc maron podcasts

Los Mac's, Kaleidoscope (US), West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, Electric Prunes, Warpaint, a little Space Streakings, Gigolo Aunts

Giorgio Moroder - E=MC2
Pentax - Pentax
Ramadanman - Glut/Tempest, Humber
James Blake - CMYK/Klavierwerke
Porter Ricks - Biokinetics
Thomas Bangalter - Trax On Da Rocks I & II
Scuba - Triangulation
Pet Shop Boys - Introspective

Hank Mobley - Workout
Jazz Spectrum Vol. 2 (Bob Jones)
Madlib - Blunted in the bomb shelter
Scientist Launches Dubstep Into Outer Space
B12 Archive series

I somehow had forgotten all about streaming radio (as a live option anyway), but I have rediscovered it so I've been streaming salsa today. I need to live frugally for the next few years (!) so this works well for me.

Work today:

Charlie Rich - Lonely Weekend
The Rezillos - Can't Stand the Rezillos
T. Rex - Zinc Alloy
UFO - Lights Out (they cover "Alone Again Or" on this!)
Ultravox! - Three Into One
some mixtape I made
Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound on Sound
Harvey Mandel - Baby Batter

Iceage - New Brigade (Escho)
bvdub - Tribes At The Temple Of Silence (Home Normal)
Ghostface Killah - Apollo Kids (Def Jam)
William Tyler - Behold The Spirit (Tompkins Square)
Celer - Vestiges Of An Inherent Melancholy (Blackest Rainbow)
Deerhoof - VS Evil (ATP/R)
1958-2009 - III (Ekhein)
Kurt Vile - Smoke Ring For My Halo (Matador)
Destroyer - Kaputt (Merge)
James Blake - James Blake
Earn - In A Year (Jugular Forest)
Felt - The Strange Idols Pattern And Other Short Stories; Ignite The Seven Cannons (Cherry Red)
Odawas - The Blue Depths (Jagjaguwar)
Young Athletes League - Ceremony EP
Motion Sickness Of Time Travel - Seeping Through The Veil Of Unconscious (Digitalis)
Outer Space - Outer Space (Arbor)
Grasshopper - Calling All Creeps (Prison Tatt)
Broadcast - Haha Sound (Warp)
Jason Molina - Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go (Secretly Canadian)
Colleen - Everyone Alive Wants Answers (Leaf)

I checked out The Humms - they're very good!

Autechre - Live at Pure, Manchester 2010-03-11
Joseph Hammer - I Love You, Please Love Me Too
Richard Maxfield - The Music of Richard Maxfield
Playgroup - Partymix
Keith Fullerton Whitman - Disingenuity b/w Disingenuousness
Hecker - 3 Track 12"
Monotrona - Ooka Vs Jing Pow Ki Poo
Black Eyed Peas - The Time (The Dirty Bit) (x10)

what's that autechre like?

recordings of their 2005-2010 live tours >>>>> their last three studio albums -- it is almost perverse

hoping there's a good board recording of the 2010 tour comparable to the one from Glasgow, 2005

Nick Lowe The Doings
"All Men Are Liars" playing at the moment. This is brilliant.
Also The Faces Five Guys Walk Into a Bar
Both courtesy of my local public library.

i love "All Men Are Liars." and that's the truth.

I think I used to get Nick Lowe and Ian Dury confused all the time or something.
Nick Lowe is great!

http://i56.tinypic.com/2eltnc7.jpg

I don't know if it's a general indication of the quality of the Pan label, but both the Joseph Hammer and the Keith Fullerton Whitman LPs mentioned above are fantastic

douchebag neighbor's surround-sound/home theater TV rumbling my apartment, and I am on the warpath.

Radio I Ching - no wave au gogo (2009)
Matthew Shipp - Harmonic Disorder (2009)
Rochereau - voice of lightness vol. 2
various Franco from the Franco blog
Javiera Mena
purchased and eagerly awaiting tha new Skylarking vinyl re-ish (on two 12" 45's)

A arte de Caetano Veloso (1967-73)

Pure genius.

Rochereau - voice of lightness vol. 2

― KC & the sunshine banned (outdoor_miner)

Need to get on the case with these Stern's compilations. Kershaw used to play a lot of his stuff on R1 back in the day and it was always top notch.

Chapter 24 & Philippe Petit, The Red Giant Meets The White Dwarf
The Plastic People Of The Universe, Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned
Borful Tang, Herd and Unherd
Mari Pokinen, 22
Steve MacLean Ensemble, GPS
Benny Anderson Band, Story Of A Heart
V/A, Harvest Revisited
V/A, Strade Transparenti OST (The Necks, D. Grubbs, Mira Calix, Mute Socialite, O-Type)
V/A, The Roots of Chicha 2
Stealers Wheel, The Hits Collection
Gerry Rafferty, Baker Street (comp)
Beat Circus, Boy From Black Mountain

Besides the stuff on the tracks list, been listening to old Upsetters albums. Double Seven is I think the 2nd great discovery of the year so far, album-wise.

Bochum Welt - Module 2
John Beltran - Ten Days of Blue
The Other People Place - Lifestyles of the Laptop Café
Hans-Joachim Roedelius - Durch die Wüste
Yukihiro Takahashi - Murdered by the Music
Todd Rundgren - Healing
Bola - 1
Fennesz - Hotel Paral.lel
Isolée - Rest
Pan Sonic - Kulma
Dopplereffekt - Calabi Yau Space

The Comsat Angels catalogue
Shriekback - Life In The Loading Bay
Wire - Red Barked Tree
Destroyer - Kaputt
Uncanny Alliance - I Got My Education
Jeannie C. Riley - Harper Valley PTA
The Wild Swans - Revolutionary Spirit

Still discovering and rediscovering 2010 releases:

Umberto - Prophecy of the Black Widow
Mark McGuire - Living With Yourself
V/A - Angola Soundtrack
CFCF - The River
Electric Wizard - Black Masses
Bandjo - Bandjo
Nina Nastasia - Outlaster

Also a lot of Al Green, Dorothy Ashby, Popol Vuh, Lou Harrison, Michel Polnareff...

OFWGKTA stuff
Electric Wizard- Black Masses
Melvins- Houdini
cLOUDDEAD - Ten

OFWGKTA
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Midtown 120 Blues
Jega - Variance
Glasser - Ring
Wire - Red Barked Tree

Various Artists - The Spirit of Vampyros Lesbos
Secos & Molhados - A Volta de Secos & Molhados
Ruth - Polaroid / Roman / Photo
Various Artists - Milano New Wave 1980-1983 (fantastic!!)
Barbara Morgenstern - Et6-1
Various Artists - The Wierd Compilation, Part 2
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Geiger - Made in Home 1 & 2
Aloe Blacc - Good Things & Shine Through
WhoMadeWho - The Plot
-a bunch of reggae I can't keep track of
-Rough Guides (Dub, Arabian Lounge)

Gatekeeper - Giza
Gatekeeper - Optimus Maximus
Hanayo - Gift
VA - Bleep top 100 2010
Wire - Red Barked Tree
Alden Tyrell - Times like These
VA - Afrorock presents deep funk Africa
Shackleton - Fabric 55

I checked out The Humms - they're very good!

― Bernard V. O'Hare (dog latin), Wednesday, January 19, 2011 7:26 AM (1 week ago)

Cool! It keeps demanding to be in my rotation.

Neil Young - On The Beach
Danava - UnonoU
Danzig - Deth Red Saboath
Bonde do Role - With Lasers
Destroyer - Kaputt
The Decemberists - The King is Dead (am liking this way more than I thought I would, really tones down all the overbearing shit that made them hard to stomach at times and has a really honest, rustic feel at times)

The 5 EPs.

fantastic mr fox - evelyn ep
morgan zarate - hookid "ep"
destroyer - kaputt

I'm mostly experimenting with stuff I haven't heard much if at all:

Deadboy & The Elephantmen (my favorite Dax Riggs stuff I've tested - discovered him a few days ago)
Dr. Dog
Black Mountain
Brant Bjork
Storm & Stress
Robert Wyatt, Gilad Atzmon, Ros Stephen - For The Ghosts Within (so much better this time around)
Laura Nyro - The Best Of (I'm gonna have to burn a car mix for my mom. amazing ILM discovery)

it has also been a good time to revive The Grifters (my favorite band)
'Give Yourself To Me' really clicked a week ago. so chill, unique kind of bluesy, dark and funky!
amazing run: 'Return to Cinder' - 'Give Yourself To Me' - 'Fixed In The Sky'

Sun City Girls - The Dreamy Draw
DJ Youngsta – Dubstep Allstars Volume 2
TVO/The Village Orchestra – BrokenRoots podcast

Listening to more of the singles poll results, until they make me gag and then I turn them off.

Well not all of them.

I looked at the singles poll results for the first time today. I like J0rdan's jpegs but I hate almost all the music in the top 77 there. I was listening to the #1 just now: Girl Unit - Wut. First of all, what sort of crappy person or group would call themselves Girl Unit. Second, the song was extremely boring. And I won't talk shit about the rest of the results because no one wants to read about a shit tsunami (plus I would have to listen to all that shitty bullfuckery).

open up and bleed

Incredible song sung by George Wassouf (1992):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKVa9FR5q30

destroyer - kaputt (boring...)
ny rock ensemble - roll over; freedomburger (?)

TOE FAT

max b & uv race

all u need btw

As far as I can tell, Rolling Pop is just for teen/chart pop. But this Danish art-popper may appeal to fans of Bat for Lashes, Marina & the Diamonds, Florence etc. Fairly zeitgeisty.

Fallulah - Only Human

I'm listening to all of the Fall's studio albums, one on each day of February.

Oh, and the new Gang of Four album. Fuck the reviews. It's pretty great.

that's a great idea re: the Fall.

Actress - Splazsh

Not quite as impenetrable as I once thought.

Really digging into Blue Oyster Cult (finally!). Particularly the first three albums and Fire of Unknown Origin. Especially loving the early 70s work though, god damn!

What I've been enjoying lately:

Ghostface - Fishscale
Shabazz Palaces - Of Light
Radian - Juxtaposition
Theo Parrish - Parallel Dimensions
Dustin Wong - Seasons
Jay Electronica - Victory
Ambrosia - Ambrosia / Life Beyond L.A.
Ches Smith & These Arches - finally out of my hands
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard A True Star
Tony Williams - Ego
Eduardo Gudin/Noticias dum Brasil - Um jeito de fazer Samba

Actress - Splazsh
Not quite as impenetrable as I once thought.

Yeah... not quite as exciting as I'd hoped for, either.

Deerhoof, Deerhoof vs Evil
James Brown, Foundations of Funk 1964-69
COH, IIRON
Natalie Beridze Tba, Forget'fulness
Rafael Toral, Space Elements Vol. III
Vessels, Helioscope
Bobby McFerrin, Vocabularies
Melvin Gibbs, Phree-Dem Downloads
Sven Kacirek, The Kenya Sessions
v/a - 14 Tracks from Planet Mu
Essie Jain, Until the Light of Morning
Bill Orcutt, A New Way to Pay Old Debts

Ariel Pink - The Doldrums
LA Vampires meet Zola Jesus
Pocahaunted - Make it Real
Anika
Warpaint - The Fool
The new Bardo Pond album
Seijaku - Mail from Fushitsusha
Third Eye Foundation - Semtex
The Fall - Levitate

Depeche Mode - World In My Eyes
Bel Canto -The Glassmaker
Happy Rhodes - Baby Don't Go
OMD - 2nd Thought
Dettinger - Tottentanz
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peek-a-boo
Carl Craig - Science Fiction
Chris and Cosey - Cords of Love
Eurythmics - Who's That Girl
Matthias Schaffhauser - Take Me To Your Heart
Seefeel - When Face Was Face
Basteroid - Against Luftwiderstand
Savage Progress - My Soul Unwraps Tonight (12" mix)

Kind of went download crazy yesterday. Listening to some or all of (some very familiar, some not at all familiar):

Elton John - Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player
Elton John - Honky Chateau
Elton John - Caribou
Elton John - Rock of the Westies
Fairport Convention - Liege & Lief
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Psychedelic Furs - s/t
Willie Rosario - Rumbero Companero
Larry Harlow - Harlow's Harem
Eddie Palmieri - Superimposition
Black Uhuru - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Black Uhuru - Red
U-Roy - Dread in a Babylon
Ali Akbar Moradi - The Ritual Maqam of the Yarsan

Alice Coltrane - Ptah the El Daoud
Steel Pulse - Tribute to the Martyrs
Citrus - Wispy, No Mercy
Asa-Chang and Junray - Jun Ray Song Chang
Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - CARTOOM!

Frank Ocean - 'Nostalgia, Ultra' (OFWGKTA LP, 2011)
Tim Hecker - 'Ravedeath, 1972' (Kranky LP, 2011)
PJ Harvey - 'Let England Shake' (Universal/Island LP, 2011)
Tyler, The Creator - 'BASTARD' (OFWGKTA LP, 2010) and 'Yonkers' (track, 2011)
David Candy - 'Play Power' (Jetset/Siesta LP, 2001)
Velour - 'The Velvet Collection' (Night Slugs EP, 2010)
The Skull Defekts - 'Peer Amid' (Thrill Jockey LP, 2011)
David Thomas Broughton - 'Boating Mistakes' (Static Caravan EP, 2010)
Mellowhype - 'Blackenedwhite' (OFWGKTA LP, 2010)

Tim Hecker record is IMMENSE. Have cooled a little on PJ Harvey but I like it a lot more than I've done anything of hers in a long time. The Skull Defekts record doesn't quite hit the mark for me, was hoping for something more mesmeric now Daniel Higgs is contributing. Not bad though.

Not really feeling most of what I've been listening to. Maybe I overdid it. My most enjoyable musical experience yesterday was probably listening to Oum Kalthoum's Robaeyat El Khayam for the nth time.

Harald Grosskopf 'Synthesis' remixes
D-Day "Grape Iris"
The Dirtbombs "Party Store"
Led Er Est stuff
WBLS radio

cardiacs, spratleys japs, arvo part, mogwai, omar khorshid, esma redzepova, alistair crosbie, oum kalsoum, naif agby, strapping young lad, marina & the diamonds, carla kihlstedt & matthias bossi, olivier messiaen, mina, ravi shankar, zakir hussain, OvO, merzbow, fantomas, sammy davis jr.

the Musicians Of The Nile lp called Ocarana.

lots of folk Pat Kilroy & Shide &Acorn particularly. Waiting for the New Age cd to arrive, thought it'd be today but just got election leaflets.

White Noise An Electric Storm, not played in ages.
Ornette Coleman This Is Our Music great early 60s stuff again been sitting waiting to be played for ages.

Glaxo Babies 85-90 compi, glossier, more psychedelic material

Man, that New Age CD is awesome. Also, Pat Kilroy.

Raymond Scott, Manhattan Research Inc. 2CD (for the past two-three days)

Erhard Hirt - Gute und Schlechte Zeiten

Pretty nice.

Haha, my latest looks like something tiit would be listening to.

penguin cafe orchestra - music from the penguin cafe
sonic youth - ratter ripped

mostly absorbed in these 2 the past wk

Les Rallizes Denudes is quickly becoming one of my favorite bands that remind me of the Velvet Underground...

i need to hear some les rallizes -- where should i start?

only one I got is '77 Live, from the buzz around here I think that's pretty much the essential one, but talk to some other fans, they might know more albums...

Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx - We're New Here
The Clash - Cut the Crap
National Skyline - National Skyline
David Gilmour - David Gilmour
The Get Up Kids - There Are Rules

Lots and lots of Mecano
ABC - Lexicon and Love
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Metal Mountains - Golden Trees
Peaking Lights - 936
Willie Wright - Telling the Truth

Lexicon of Love, obviously.

The wiki entry for Les Rallizes Denudes is quite interesting:

Les Rallizes Dénudés (裸のラリーズ, Hadaka no Rallizes) were an influential, yet reclusive Japanese avant-garde band. They were formed in 1967, and the band was known for their ties to avant-garde theater groups (as typified by Shuji Terayama's troupe) and leftist political groups, as well as for their feedback-drenched live shows. The band's style is typified by simple, repeated bass lines, shrieking guitar feedback and folk arrangement.

In 1970, the original bass player Moriaki Wakabayashi was involved in the hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 351 orchestrated by the Japanese Red Army. Singer Takashi Mizutani was allegedly offered a role in the hijacking, but turned it down.

One learns something new every day on da ILM

The O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack, and Iris DeMent's - Leaning on the Everlasting Arms.

Yeah go for77 live! It has been reissued multiple times under different names so it's kind of confusing.

cool -- so that's the same thing at the top of this page? http://www.forcedexposure.com/artists/les.rallizes.denudes.html

yup, that is legit

recently played full CDs~~~

Gang Gang Dance - Kamakura
Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light I
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
The Twilight Singers - Dynamite Steps
v/a - Total 11
Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972
Felt - several of the reissued CDs...

I downloaded 38 Mohamed Abdel Wahab albums, some of which are compilations that include songs he wrote for other artists performed by those artists.

think you overdid it just maybe a tad

I don't think so, Abdel Wahab was extremely prolific and there's a lot to sort through. Alwan Min Angham (or something like that): especially good collection.

hermit of mink hollow, todd - Rundgren
"forget all about it" - nazz

high time, back in the usa (japanese remasters) - MC5
(sounding crispy crisp, and with a bottom end that i've never heard before. incredible)

Monk - in concert, live in tokyo

the roots - how i got over

Care Bears on Fire - Girls Like it Loud ep

Adele - Rolling in the deep
Riya - Seems Like
Boddika - When I dip
Maya Jane Coles - Hummingbird
Nocturnal Sunshine - Cant Hide the way I feel
Laid Back - Cocaine Cool
Storm Queen - Look Right Through
Gwen Guthrie - Seventh Heaven (Larry Levan Remix)
Greenville Massive- Lost
DJ Sprinkles - Sisters I don't Know what the world is coming to
Nina Kraviz - I'm going to get you

That Riya is quite amazing, I don't know why people aren't jumping up and down about it. The whole Jungle revival seems really promising and that's not something I thought I'd ever say.

Erhard Hirt - Gute und Schlechte Zeiten
Pretty nice.
Haha, my latest looks like something tiit would be listening to.
― _Rudipherous_, kolmapäev, 23. Veebruar 2011

How so??

Oh, I don't know how to explain exactly, but something maybe about the relative obscurity of the performer and its being situated as experimental but not really inaccessible.

Art Department - The Drawing Board (LP)
Wolf + Lamb vs Soul Clap - DJ Kicks (LP)
Console - Herself (LP)
The-Dream - Sex Intelligent (Track)
Frivolous - Meteorology (LP)
Gayngs - Relayted (LP)
Mayyors - Deads / Megans Lols (Singles)

Really enjoying house music at the moment. Especially deep stuff with vocals and also the stuff that sounds like old 90s chart music.

Oh, I don't know how to explain exactly, but something maybe about the relative obscurity of the performer and its being situated as experimental but not really inaccessible. ― _Rudipherous

Hm - that maketh sense, kinda.

Have you listened to Natacha Atlas & the Mazeeka Ensemble's CD Ana Hina, by any chance? Just bought it today, haven't had time to listen to it myself yet:)

got the rest of superchunk's lps... had only had On The Mouth, and loved it, so I dunno what was keeping me for years from investing any more time into them.

have to admit tho that the band doesn't really do a whole lot in the personal development dept. i'm not really sure i could distinguish albums if it came down to it.

tiit, I haven't heard that. I'm sure I would kind of like it, but I'm not really too interested in her approach. That album is mostly (or entirely? I forget) covers, which also isn't too much of a plus. I'd be more interested in this new album (of covers) by Asala, who has more of the vocal capacity to work off the Arab classical tradition, Toughani Leh Amal: http://www.rashid.com/enter.asp

90% of the time right now it's chic / sister sledge / norma jean / fonzi etc stuff. the rest is spent going through greatest hits collections of various acts from the past 30 odd years, stuff like abba, eurythmics, pointer sisters, etc. sortof doing pop research, plus i spend a fuck of a lot of time on public transport and there's no better escape than big brilliant pop songs. recent big breakup has made my love of pop (and music in general) come back bigger harder stronger, one of the v best things about the whole situation

oh and i also spend a bunch of time checking out remixes and tracks by modern electro/indie/disco/pop bands for my club

digging some of the stuff on this mix my pal cosmo made. new-ish dancey stuff. remixes. etc.

http://soundcloud.com/cosmobaker/cosmo-bakers-top-ten-mix-march

Arturas Bumšteinas, My Own Private Bayreuth
James Blake
Supertramp, Crime of the Century and Crisis? What Crises?
Pulp, His 'N' Hers
Wim Mertens, Platinum Collection
Bad Brains, I & I Survived (Dub)

XON - The Mood Set EP
Alden Tyrell - Times Like These (1999-2006)
Juan Atkins - The Infiniti Collection
Hallucinator - Landlocked
Terre Thaemlitz - You? Again?
Transllusion - L.I.F.E.
Carl Craig - Just Another Day
Blake Baxter - Dream Sequence
Jan Jelinek - Loop-Finding Jazz Records
Holger Hiller - As Is
Maurizio - Ploy
Monolake - Gravity
Various Artists (Chain Reaction) - 1-7

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - The OMD Singles I can't believe how much "Dream of Me" sounds like Hot Chip. Its uncanny. Did they ever cover this song?

Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX - We're New Here For some reason I slept on the original, I guess I remember reading mixed reviews and saw the short runtime and figured I'd save it for later. But I really
love this one. I need to hear the original now so I can figure out exactly what Mr. XX did.

Robert Pollard - Space City Kicks // Lifeguards - Waving at the Astronauts The one under Pollard's own name is a pretty mixed bag, but the Lifeguards albums is blowing me away, absolutely love it.

XON - The Mood Set EP

<3

richard pinhas / merzbow lps
new radiohead
windowlicker cds
appetite for destruction
pulcinella / symphony in 3 mvmts (boulez/cso)
albeniz / iberia (larrocha)
ariel pink / house arrest
new robag wruhme

It was you who told me about it so thx :D

that "Dying in Africa" song, over and over and over and over
Last Days of Humanity
CBT
new Nicolas Jaar album
Arvo Part "Alina"
No Regular Play

the new cut copy and the lindstrom from last year

I have a thread where I am streaming most all of my favorite albums of the 00's (I think some of these bands must be an acquired taste for some people)

Here is a grooveshark sampler of the albums I choose in that thread. I change the songs up somewhat regularly

I am also listening to some live Grifters shows that I found

Yoko Ono, Fly

robyn
bvdub
caribou
tim hecker
steve mason
john roberts
waka flocka flame
moritz von oswald trio

Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie XX - We're New Here For some reason I slept on the original, I guess I remember reading mixed reviews and saw the short runtime and figured I'd save it for later. But I really
love this one. I need to hear the original now so I can figure out exactly what Mr. XX did.

oh man, cosign! this jamie/gil album is fantastic, been playing it a lot the past week or so. the original's totally different fwiw, also very well worth hearing, but nothing like the dub/house/electronic/etc. playful vibe of jamie's stuff.

destroyer LP still
ten thousand yen 10"s by xxxy / julio / damage & doc daneeka
everything by Actress (LATE)
Mosaik LP by Siriusmo
Jens Lekman - Kortedala LP cos it's finally spring
Hip Love 12" - Falty DL / Jamie XX
International Feel 12"s
Golf Channel goodies
most recent Truth is Light edit 12"
Tom Trago - Shutters 12"
Lone LP on Magic Wire
Solar Bears LP

blues control- local flavor
lilys- better can't make your life better & the 3 way
acrylics- lives and treasure
virgo- virgo
julian casablancas
love of life orchestra

can - future days
mobb deep - hell on earth
pheromoans - it still rankles
g-unit - beg for mercy
ash ra tempel - first
the damned - damned, damned, damned
v/a - killed by death iv

Black Sabbath - Sabotage
John Coltrane - Crescent
Ahmad Jamal - Okeh Recordings
Van Morrison bootlegs

Bill Withers - Still Bill
Paradise Lost - Lost Paradise
Snake Flower 2 - Renegade Daydream
FM - Black Noise
Mississippi Fred McDowell - (s/t LP that I think is the London stuff)
SEOMPI - AWOL
Blind Willie McTell - Last Session
Scorpions - Taken By Force
Love - Da Capo
Drunk Horse - s/t
Danielle Dax - Dark Adapted Eye
Gravitar - Now the Road of Knives
Louvin Brothers - Tragic Songs of Life
Richie Hawtin - Concept 1 CD
Dogs - s/t, Walking Shadows
Wilson Pickett - Best of

christian wolff & vorticella - concert at tom's place, berkeley, last night

wolff & hennings - tibetan bells III
peer raben - music for fassbinder 3 CD box
alice coltrane - turiya sings
charles ives / henry brant - concord symphony (michael tilson thomas & sf symphony)
firesign theatre - duke of madness motors
mark ford / hugo keesing - chartsweep

& last friday, morton feldman's rothko chapel & mozart's requiem conducted by MTT @ sf symphony

a++

Les Rallizes Denudes is quickly becoming one of my favorite bands that remind me of the Velvet Underground...

I just picked up Heavier Than a Death in the Family last weekend on a trip to Asheville, NC(only learned about the sketchiness of Phoenix Records on the Les Rallizes thread a few days after the purchase).

I was completely blown away by it on the drive home. Such incredible music. Must check out Live '77.

Mosaik - Siriusmo
TED LEO
"You Were On My Mind" - We Five

Maybe other stuff.

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson OST (Wynton Marsalis)
Shaft in Africa OST (Johnny Pate's score, plus The Four Tops "Are You Man Enough" x 2,5)
Jean De La Fontaine OST (composée par Michel Portal) (not that interesting, really; alas)
I'm Not There OST - V/A

OvO- cor cordia
colin stetson - new history warfare vol.2
mani neumeier & kawabata makoto - samurai blues
evangelista - prince of truth

Listening to Chromatics IV for the first time in a couple of years.
Been listening to: Husker Du, New York Dolls, Michael Nesmith and the First National Band, Hawkwind, Sun City Girls, Cheap Trick, Don Covay, The Rebel/Country Teasers, Heater, and more.

Les Rallizes Denudes (but not for very long stretches)
Joao Gilberto (which I'm not enjoying as much as hoped)
Stelios Kazantzidis (somewhat disappointed that the tracks on this album I haven't already heard aren't doing that much for me)
surfin! audio - tribal prehispanic 2009 (mix tape)

I'm probably just getting indigestion from some of these music combinations.

Endless Boogie - Full House Head
VA - Dirty Space Disco
Alvarius B - Baroque Primitiva
White Hills - Dead ep

Ike Yard
Pop Ambient 2011
Susumu Yakota - Image 1983 - 1998
Sublime Frequencies - Bollywood Steel Guitar
Phantom Band - st
Jatoma

The shaggs Philosophy of The World
Vashti Bunyan Another Diamond Day
Dino Valente (not) s/t (lp mispels his name)
The New age All Around
St Vitus live set from '87
Andy Bey Experience and Judgment (very similar approach to vocal tune to Eugene McDaniels on Headless Horsemen. & EM was a stax type soul singer a few years prior to that, so hanging out with hippies he learnt how to not sing?)

David Wiffen Coast to Coast Fever
Alan Bown Listen
Karin Krog We Could Be Flying
Mimi Farina & Tom Jans Take Heart
and a lot of Kent Soul compilations

'Busted at Oz' - reissue (originally Autumn records, now out on Permanent Records Chicago) - comp. of Chicago punk bands that played the fabled OZ club - good memories - Effigies, Naked Raygun, etc
'Back to Mono' - Mono Men comp.
'Dynamite Steps' - Twilight Singers
'Head on the Curb' - Mudhoney - this rules
"where you been' - Dinosaur Jr
'heavier than a death in the family' - Les Rallizes Dénudés
'nothing fits' - Tyvek
Rat Music for Rat People 1,2,3 vols

van smack - how is that Alvarius B - had a copy in my hand and didn't buy it - dummy dummy dummy - it's gone

Rangda - False Flag

Enjoying this a bit more than I did the first couple times through, though it's still not a favorite.

Overall, at the beginning of last year it felt as though my taste was more expansive than usual. Right now, it feels like my taste is contracting a bit. (For instance, some time early last year I felt more attraction to folk rock things than I'd felt for a while, but now it's not clicking.) And it doesn't matter either way, at least not to me. I listen to some stuff, then I listen to some other stuff.

Joao Gilberto (which I'm not enjoying as much as hoped)

I do, however, like the way all the songs on O amor, o sorriso e a flor are under two minutes.

You like some songs, then you don't like some other songs. Cool.
Works for me, too. :)

Death Ambient - Synaesthesia

Sounds okay. Annoying band name though, I'm sorry.

http://soundcloud.com/mikebullock/merztyping#

Today:
Soft Machine - 1st
Tones on Tail - Everything!
Eurythmics - In The Garden (AWESOME!)
Tony Joe White - s/t (ALSO AWESOME!)
Eddie Harris - Silver Cycles
Brick - Good High (w/repeated playings of "Can't Wait" & "Dazz")
The Black Angels - Phosphene Dream
Sir Douglas Quintet - Mendocino & a few early tracks
Lori Burton - Breakout
Dogs - Walking Shadows (AWEEEESSSOMMMEEEST)

Chemical Brothers, Further
LCD Soundsystem, The London Sessions
Soft Cell, Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Kangding Ray, Automne Fold

Balil - Parasight EP
The Black Dog - Temple of Transparent Balls
Isolée - We Are Monster
Cybotron - Techno City 7"
Synergy - Cords
Forgemasters - Track With No Name
Bola - Shapes
Jehan Alain - Organ Works

Destroyer, Lil B, Young Galaxy, new Mountain Goats album, new Isolee (sorta disappointing but I'm warming up to it), assorted Odd Future shit, Clams Casino mixtape, and some random c.2006-08 chart-rap hits that I miss ("Throw Some D's", "Whatever You Like")

right now tho I am listening to The Promise Ring, because I got nostalgic and wanted to hear the part where the dude goes "I'm not as good / As the interstates are / I just can't take you that far" and I can never remember what song it is so I just listen to the whole album

oh okay there it is, guess the song in question is "A Broken Tenor" (ugh what an unappealing title)

Kurt vile - smoke ring for my halo
J mascis - several shades of why
Eternal tapestry - beyond the 4th door
Parts and labor - constant future
Grails - deep politics
D. charles speer - arghiledes

etc.

Kangding Ray, Automne Fold

― willem, Monday, 7 March 2011 13:50 (7 hours ago)

This is a great album and I may listen to it myself tonight.

Currently jamming Cut Copy, Lykke Li, Nicolas Jaar, Young Galaxy, Julianna Barwick and Destroyer. Clearly feeling a bit too summery for March.

Eurythmics - In The Garden (AWESOME!)

Shame their later output doesn't stay in line with this's invention.

Wire, Send (2003)
Roy Harper, Counter Culture (2cd comp)

last night: Granny Zebra / Frith & Ostertag / Yan Jun concert followed immediately after by Thomas Dimuzio + Joseph Hammer / John Wiese concert

today:

Yan Jun - Wormhole Trip (Music for Time-Space Travel)
- Please do not ware earphone or headphone to listen to
- Please plug earphone or headphone, modify the volume to a low level, then leave it alone or hang on your dress
- For better result hide speakers in draw or any place you can not see them
- It is fit for large space or outdoor space
- Please playback on repeat mode
- Please keep in touch with me mentally

Seefeel - Quique
Kate Bush - Never For Ever
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

are pretty much what I plan to spend the weekend with.

also got The Thrills - So Much For The City but it's a complete bore and is being deleted following this post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bdeizHM9OU&feature=player_embedded#at=25

New albums wise, I playing this lot quite a bit...

Pavan – Holy Volt [Harmönia]
Konx-Om-Pax – Light In Extension [Display Copy]
Ekoplekz – Memowrekz [Mordant Music]
Peaking Lights – 936 [Not Not Fun]
Esben & The Witch – Violet Cries [Matador]
Moritz Von Oswald Trio – Horizontal Structures [Honest Jon’s]
V/A – Dødpop: A’s & B’s [Dødpop]
Egyptrixx – Bible Eyes [Night Slugs]
James Blake – James Blake [Atlas]
The Soft Moon – The Soft Moon [Captured Tracks]
DJ Rashad – Just a Taste [Ghettophiles]
Bill Orcutt – A Way To Play Old Debts [Editions Mego]
Coco Bryce – Boesoek [Fremdtunes]
The Shady Bambino Project – The Shady Bambino Project [Green Ova]
Squadda B – I Smoke Because I Don’t Care About Death [Green Ova]
Daughters of the Sun – Ghost With Chains [Not Not Fun]
Tim Hecker – Ravedeath, 1972 [Kranky]
Lykke Li – Wounded Rhythms [Atlantic]
Wire – Red Barked Tree [Pink Flag]
Young L – Domo-Kun The Mixtape [Self Released]

Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music from South Africa
-like!-like!-like!-like!-like!-like!-like!-like!-like!-like!-

Today I've been listening to a smart playlist of the least played stuff on my iPod, which basically amounts to recent adds and has been rotating amongst:

U2 - Achtung Baby
Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering
V/A - Rip It Up and Start Again
V/A - New York Noise Vol. 2

Lots and lots of Nicolas Jaar, whether the new LP or last year's EPs and mixes and podcasts

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's new LP, Belong.

Zac Brown Band You Get What You Give
Michael Quatro Dancers, Romancers, Dreamers & Schemers
Croon a Roma : Rare Sentimental Vocal Tracks From Italian 60s and 70s Movies
Ron Cornelius Tin Luck
Kid Rock Born Free
Holy Ghost! Holy Ghost!

Peaking Lights – 936 [Not Not Fun]

ive heard a lot of good things about this - i liked the tape they did for not not fun a few years ago

been listening to lots of stuff so far this year:

concern - truth & distance (digitalis)*
sohrab - a hidden place (touch)*
dag rosenqvist & simon scott - conformists (low point)*
kandi - kandi koated (asylum)*
milochondria - EARREADINGS (breakfast of champs)
destroyer - kaputt (merge)
pauline oliveros - to valerie solanas & marilyn monroe in recognition Of their desperation (roaratorio)
fabric - a sort of radiance (spectrum spools)
evil madness - super great love (editions mego)
dawn richard - #ATellTaleHeart (self-released)
earth - angles of darkness demons of light (southern lord)
tim hecker - ravedeath, 1972 (kranky)
deaf centre - owl splinters (type)
moritz von oswald trio - horizontal structures (honest jon's)
julia kent - green + grey (important)
puro instinct - headbangers on ecstasy (mexican summer)
universal swimsuit - i dream of floating... (self-released)

new Extra Life
new Cold Cave
Lindstrom & Christabelle album
DS-13 - Vad Vet Vi Om Kriget?

new cold cave is soooo bad

Om Kriget

Willie Rosario - Viva Rosario (1990). I had never heard this before. It kind of splits the difference between salsa romantica and salsa dura, at least on a song by song basis, if not within each song. I see a lot of people referring to "Anuncio Clasificado" as salsa romantica, but aside from the subject matter, it's not (and from what little I can make out of the Spanish lyrics, they seem more ironic and complex than straightforward romantic salsa romantica).

Now (also for the first time), Cuco Valoy's Tizo (1980). So far I'm not hearing anything else on the album as mind-blowing as "Mariana Engracia."

caetano veloso - transa is now one of my favourite albums of all time

contrastingly, i'm also listening to the new britney album

Bert & John Bert jansch and John renbourn
preceded by a Peel session track by Gilgamesh
& a compi of 70/71 Atomic Rooster tracks
Earlier today got
Habibiyya If Man But knew which has some very nice stuff on it. the remnant of Mighty Baby plus Susan Graubard Archuletta of New age fame plus her husband Conrad on largely acoustic sufi influenced music. The bonus tracks have some electric elements.
also got
the Vagrants I Can't Make a Friend the Light In the attic compi. I've been wanting to get a compi of their material for decades, since I first got Respect on Nuggets. Not sure if this is as good as I'd hoped/expected. It does have some very good tracks on though.
Doors a '68 live set
Kraftwerk 1
Flamin Groovies disc1 of the 2cd Sire records compi
faust 71 minutes of
Plastic People of The universe Egon Bondy

Peaking Lights – 936 [Not Not Fun]

ive heard a lot of good things about this - i liked the tape they did for not not fun a few years ago

This album is great!

Actress - Splazsh
Scriabin - Piano Sonatas 1-4 (Maria Lettberg)
Martinů, Schulhoff - String Sextets (Raphael Ensemble)
Wolf + Lamb - Love Someone
Robert Hood - Internal Empire
Antheil - String Quartets (Mondriaan SQ)

Runt
The Ballad of Todd Rundgren
Faithful
Hermit of Mink Hollow
The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect (aka The Ever Boring Crock of Snot)

Reneé Fleming, Dark Hope (Intrrrrrristinnng... "Intervention", though, sounds to my ears rather grander than Arcade Fire's 'riginal. Which is a good thing.)
Arcade Fire, Neon Bible (a coupla songs excluded, a big glowing crock of snot of an albummm)

cumbia villera mixes

Scriabin - Piano Sonatas 5-10 (Lettberg)
Mountain People compilation made/sent to me by an ilxor
Wolfgang Rihm - Jagden und Formen (Ensemble Modern)
Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Elizabeth Maconchy - String Quartets 1-4
Takemitsu - Cassiopeia, Tree Line, other orchestral stuff (Knussen/Ozawa/LSO)

New Feelies
New Britney
A bunch of albums that I've been listening to as mp3s for years, now ripped as flacs or apple lossless. Sadly, there is a difference...

Morena y Clara - s/t (1976)

Just incredible.

Channel In Channel Out, The Author and the Narrator
Derek & The Dominos, Layla and other assorted love songs
V/A, 100% Blaxploitation 5cd box
Multiphonic Rodent, Electric Thoreau in Wired Walden EP
The Osmonds, Crazy Horses/ The Plan

Various Artists - Acid Rumba

What's acid about that rumba?

a new mood has descended upon my groove of late.

laura marling : alas i cannot swim/i speak because i can
stephanie dosen : a lily for the spectre
nick drake : bryter layter/pink moon
sarah nixey : brave tin soldiers (not an electro-pop album !)
kat flint : dirty birds
bobbie gentry : best of the capitol years

Bardo pond - bardo pond
Barn owl - shadowland
Craft spells - idle labor
Efrim manuel menuck - plays "high gospel"
ESG - dance to the best of esg
Jackie-o motherfucker - earth sound system
Jad fair - beautiful songs: the best of jad fair
Kode9 + the spaceape - black sun
Low - c'mon
Mark mcguire - a young person's guide to mark mcguire
Matana roberts - coin coin chapter one: gens de couleur libres
Moon duo - mazes
Rhys chatham - outdoor spell
Richard skelton - landings
Roy montgomery / grouper - split
Taylor swift - speak now

Mark mcguire - a young person's guide to mark mcguire

He sings about steroids?

Is that Efrim any good? GYBE people have fallen way off my radar over the past decade.

What's acid about that rumba?

It's mostly a marketing thing, but there are lots of fuzzy guitars and some of the music is pretty hard-edged in general. If it's rumba at all, it's rumba as in rumba flamenca, incidentally.

Pusha T mixtape
Afel Bocoum
Eva Cassidy

Larry Coryell - Monk, Trane, Miles & Me
The Black Dog - Temple of Transparent Balls

Is that Efrim any good? GYBE people have fallen way off my radar over the past decade.

i've only listened in passing thus far, not sure i'm ready to comment. still processing. if you're looking to get back into gy!be folks, though, you could do worse than the last couple of silver mt. zion records, i suppose. i don't keep up with any of the other offshoots, really... aren't there a bunch?

Max Mathews - YLEM Journal CD Compilation
Woebot - Chunks
Kid 606 - Live @ Ultrahang Festival 25.09.03 (pretty great)
Firesign Theatre - Duke of Madness Motors
Hart / Wolff / Hennings - Yamantaka
Eliane Radigue - Jouet Electronique / Elemental 1

Tyvek- Nothing Fits
Blue Gene Tyranny- The Intermediary
The Descendents- Somery
Earth Wind and Fire- various stuff
and tons of other shit, all the damn time

I had this really weird moment recently when reading the Iggy Pop bio when Blue Gene Tyranny suddenly pops up in it (I didn't know his background). It was about the last thing I would have expected...

Yeah, I looked up the Blue Gene thread last night and saw that. I've only read Iggy's autiobiog, the one where he says Nico taught him how to eat pussy.
I don't know shit about Tyranny at all, but I'm a big fan of his music. What I've heard, anyway. Found The Intermediary at my community radio station, planning on playing excerpts from it on my show this week.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxRG7uoFDo4

that tyvek album is gr8 did you like it trip maker

i've scored tons of stuff in the past couple weeks but biggest surprise has been this Sharon Van Etten record that got a small amount of publicity in Spin magazine.
it's typical singer-songwriter/girl-folk and i really can't add a "but" as there's really nothing entirely radical enough about it to differentiate from the 879908320 similar releases this year. but i just dig it immensely.. the girl has a nice croon.

Apart from goon stuff, which has it's own thread, tUne-yarDs-'whokill' is something that I'm really enjoying atm.

Flopson, Nothing Fits has been in heavy rotation ever since I first picked it up. I love it.

V/A - Flipper Psychout: Original Italian Library Music from the Vaults of Flipper
Alan Stivell - Master Serie
V/A - OHM+ The Early Gurus of Electronic Music: 1948-1980

silver jews - starlite walker
elvis costello - almost blue
sonic youth - dirty bonus disc
bill evans - waltz for debby
bill callahan - apocalypse
art blakey/jazz messengers - three blind mice

http://shop.relapse.com/dbimages/sleeves/escapevelocity_362.jpg

http://www.knittingfactoryrecords.com/images/sized/images/news/SEUN_KUTI-mini-WEB-400x400.jpg

http://www.love-da-records.com/html/albumCoverArt/2008/gpmcd039.jpg

Andrés Landero Y Su Conjunto - Con Ritmo, Tambores Y Velas
Las Clasicas de la Cumbia Vol.1&2
Pentecostes Vibrations: Spanish Xian Garage Psych and Beyond 1969-1979
Los Angeles Azules 22 Exitos
Those Shocking Shaking Days: Indonesian Hard, Psychedelic, Progressive Rock and Funk 1970-1978
Local Customs: Lone Star Lowlands
Round House - Down To Earth

The Lines - Memory Span (like every day)
Aersomith - Draw the Line
Sic Alps - Napa Asylum
REM on shuffle...still

I should listen to The Lines more. I have a record called Therapy and mp3's of Ultramarine. Is Memory Span the reissue on Acute?

Yes, the first volume. It's ridiculously addictive.
Dan says that there are some unreleased archival tracks getting the vinyl treatment later this year.

for first time ever today i just got the urge :

the stooges : the stooges (2 cd set)
the stooges : funhouse (2 cd set)
iggy pop and the stooges : raw power (david bowie mix + live gig edition)

initial reaction : fuckin' fantastic, and loving the different versions on the extra discs.

after months of hanging out in my usual comfort zones, suspect these will redirect my listening pattern for quite a while.

Man I wish I had all that stooges with me right now tbh

Also I bought this comp called The Roots Of Chicha: Psychedelic Cumbias From Peru. Thinking I was getting Psych Cumbia, but I don't hear why they attached Psychedelic to this? Has anyone hear it? It's not a bad compilationat all, really great selection of songs, but it's just Cumbia. I don't know why but it really irks me.

Maybe Los Mirlos have psychedelic elements, but does using a wah-wah pedal make something psych?

Marketing iirc

I actually think a lot of cumbia already sounds a bit psychedelic (in the way it sometimes has a time-bending quality), but I think in this case electric guitars = psychedelic. Or what Trip Maker said, to get to the point.

Yeah, sell records. Not that that stuff's bad, but it does seem a little dishonest.

been busy listening to all the stuff i got at the record show last saturday. re-posted from the vinyl board:

Some Records I Got Yesterday (starred items stuff I was rilly sikkkked to get)

roxanne shante’ – def mix vol.1 (pop art) ****

The damned – s/t (stiff)

b.fats – woppit 12 inch (posse)

gary ogan & bill lamb – portland (Elektra) ****

schoolly d – am I black enough for you? (zomba) **** (um, needed this for 20+ years. Got the tape when it came out instead of the vinyl for some reason.)

raices – s/t (nemperor)

mother’s finest – s/t (cbs)

larry mcneely – s/t capitol)

ben sidran – don’t let go (blue thumb)

art ensemble of chicago – reese and the smooth ones (actuel)

mantronix – bassline 12 inch (sleeping bag) (think I own this actually. If so, will sell.)

kinks – face to face (reprise)

busy bee – running thangs (uni) ****

moses p. - twilight zone 12 inch (logic)

the unknown dj – let’s jam 12 inch (techno hop)

kaotic stylin – don’t waste your time (ray ray)

sunny murray – homage to Africa (actuel) (reissue)

the levitts – we are the levitts (esp disk) (never heard it! Really like it! Gatefold copy also comes with an esp sampler.)

harold ousley – the people’s groove (muse)

final touch – love song (good news)

phil seymour – 2 (boardwalk)

the gringos – s/t (leer)

the moonlighters – s/t (Amherst)

jim gold – hometown hero (tabu)

annette peacock – x-dreams (tomato) (got this last week and was gonna keep it, but thought I should sell it at the show. Sold it at the show and then found a copy for 3 bucks at the show. Win/win!)

annette peacock – the perfect release (tomato)

egy este a metro klubban… (qualiton)

achim reichel – dat shanty alb’m (nova)

amon duul 2 – only human (strand)

barefoot jerry – barefoot jerry’s grocery 2lp (monument)

clarence reid – running water (alston) *****

the round robin monopoly – s/t (truth)

gary bartz ntu troop – home! (milestone) ****

furr – s/t (magna glide) ******************************* (wheeeeeeeeeee!)

free beer – s/t (southwind)

roy harper – when an old cricketer leaves the crease (chrysalis)

les variations – moroccan roll (Buddha) ****

manfred mann’s earth band – get your rocks off (polydor)

Baker gurvitz army – elysian encounter (atco)

roy harper – hq (harvest) (one of my fave roys. Always looking for the perfect copy. This will do.)

down to the resort – v/a (80’s Japanese lounge/ambient electronic comp with water melon group, inoyama land, toshifumi hinata, interior, test pattern) (alfa)

law – s/t (grc)

the grim – face of betrayal (alchemy)

sivuca – s/t (Copacabana)

honey davis – my heart attacked me (life & death)

lebanese folklore – ba’albak international festival 1960 vol. 2 (emi)

tibetan buddhism – the ritual orchestra and chants (nonesuch explorer)

denny brooks – s/t (warner brothers)

muhal richard abrams – things to come from those now gone (delmark)

trans-lux – big apple noise (master mix)

poor righteous teachers – holy intellect 12 inch (profile)

harrison/lee/ranelin – a message from the tribe (tribe) (reissue)

wolfmoon – s/t (fungus) *************** (near mint original pressing!)

Angelic upstarts – blood on the terraces (link)

captain beefheart – bluejeans & moonbeams (mercury)

van der graaf generator – the aerosol grey machine (mercury) (reissue)

paul humphrey – supermellow (blue thumb) ****

larry coryell – lady coryell (vanguard apostolic) (minty! 3 bucks!)

larry coryell – coryell (vanguard apostolic) **** (minty! 3 bucks!)

larry coryell – barefoot boy (flying dutchman)

l.a. express – s/t (caribou)

fagen/becker/diaz – you gotta walk it… (visa)

creative source – s/t (Sussex)

breakout – na drugim brzegu teczy (pronit)

jay berliner – bananas are not created equal (mainstream)

doug e. fresh – the show 12 inch (reality)

sonny sharrock – monkey-pockie-boo (actuel) (reissue)

anthony braxton – uh……….don’t know how to write the title. Vol. 15 (actuel) (reissue)

neal creque – contrast! (cobblestone) ****

Jesus christ, Scott. Please tell me they weren't a quarter each.

Anyway, at work:
13th Floor Elevators - Bull of the Woods reissue
Claudio Gabis y La Pesada
v/a - Studio One Rockers
Geordie - Hope You Like It

Home:
Albert Crabtree - Cold Steel... Metal in the First Degree (the poor man's Roger C. Reale & Rue Morgue)
Die Kreuzen - s/t (awesome)
Michael Moorcock & the Deep Fix
NME - Unholy Death (also awesome but mostly I listen to awesome music so)
Il Balletto di Bronzo - Ys
Lugubrum - De Ware Hond
Sic Alps - Napa Asylum (up next, anyway, if I can stay awake long enough)

no, not a quarter, but pretty cheap for the most part. ESP thing and the Reichel album were the most i paid for anything. gonna sell the Reichel album though. i dig him a bunch, but he had weird impulses. that record is some sorta german country reggae pirate sea shanty thing and i don't really dig it.

Lucky man. The record market out here is kinda killing me, most of the stores in town think $9 is a good starting price point, regardless of condition... and so the book stores, antique stores, etc, all do the same. (Of course, one of those stores put that "Super Rock" box set by the Candy Rock Generation in their 50 cent bins, not to mention some cool heavy metal stuff.)

Pretty sure Reichel solo is supposed to not be so good, it's more the A.R. & Machines stuff... Erholung is the only one I've seen and it's pretty cool, kinda chilled out instrumental jazzy spacy rock.

Erholung is the only one I've seen on vinyl I mean.

echo, obviously, one of my favorite albums. years ago i paid 40 bucks for a copy and i kinda stunned myself because i NEVER paid that much for a record. or almost never.

okay, went to the shop in easthampton finally and got some stuff last night. great stuff there! if you are me.

the hot dogs - say what you mean (ardent - 1973) (more terry manning majik)

willie hutch - havin' a house party (motown - 1977)

dirty tricks - night man (polydor - 1976)

duke & the drivers - cruisin' (abc - 1975)

russell dashiell - elevator (epic - 1978)

danny hollen - s/t (tumbleweed - 1971)

gladstone - s/t (abc - 1972)

canyon - high mountain (columbia)

fishbaugh, fishbaugh, and zorn - s/t (cbs - 1972)

sir robert charles griggs - the legend of sir robert charles griggs (capitol - 1973)

feedtime - cooper s (rough trade - 1988)

christopher cloud - blown away (chelsea - 1973)

centaurus - s/t (azra - 1978)

arthur gee-whizz band - city cowboy (tumbleweed - 1972)

el chicano - viva tirado (kapp)

razmataz - for the first time (united artists)

l.a. getaway - s/t (atco - 1971)

clark-hutchinson - a=mh2 (sire/london - 1969) (clean u.s. pressing. didn't even know this came out in the states. couldn't pass it up for 20 bucks. now i have the cool 2xlp reissue thanks to ian and this copy. want to own all their albums eventually.)

mississippi - s/t (fantasy - 1973)

natchez trace - last time together (avenue - 1972) (this is beautiful. u.k. country rock. so mellow and pretty)

michael lessac - sleep faster, we need the pillow (columbia) (crazy dylan-esque 60's folk-rock. sounds like john hammond spent a zillion dollars on the production. god bless him.)

my three big finds for the month were:

steve drake band album on tiger lily (which sells for a ton but fuggit i'm keeping it its so cool)

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20060520/4883936491.jpg

the terry manning album which is godhead

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20081031/280281454717.jpg

AND the second scruggs brothers album on vanguard which is also godhead if you are me or if you love acid bluegrass rock like me.

scruggs brothers albums sooooooooooooooo slept on. if any two albums deserved deluxe 2xlp vinyl reissue treatment its those two.

centaurus album cover from 1978 looks like it could have come out yesterday on some hepcat doom label. even comes on clear vinyl.

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20090520/360156277866.jpg

plus it's rectangular

roxy music - avalon
bryan ferry - girls & boys
bryan ferry - bete noire
marianne faithfull - a secret life

yeah it does look funny like that. here's a better shot.

http://www.popsike.com/pix/20100108/270512482181.jpg

arthur gee album is so great. really happy to have a copy.

http://www.vinylsearcher.com/largeImages/20901336.jpg

I found some stuff in the stacks at the station last night
George Gerdes - Son of Obituary (WTF?)
Human Switchboard - Who's Landing in My Hangar? (Interesting. looked up some threads...very interesting)
Barbara Keith - s/t (sucks)
Sir Victor Uwaifo - Jackpot! (It is, too)

gary ogan & bill lamb – portland I love this record. Marlin Greene produced it! Kac has gone on a lot of my mixes.

Barbara Keith - s/t (sucks) Which Barbara Keith is this, her first or second album? Neither one sucks in my book, but I do like her second one better.

I don't know, it opens with a cover of All Along the Watchtower and that pretty much killed it for me.
I'm not really a Little Feat fan, either. I noticed their names all over the jacket.
Yeah, "sucks" is a total knee-jerk response, but I'm reviewing it for inclusion on my radio show and I have some standards, I guess.
I mean, the record actually sounds fine, but her voice wasn't really doing it for me, I guess.

Scott that Arthur Gee sleeve is incredible.
I will have to look for that one.

That's her second. The opener isn't the strongest song to start the record with, but The Bramble and The Rose is great.

i love barbara keith! plus, she is my neighbor and she and her husband are awesome.

MEANWHILE, this christopher cloud album is awesome and i look it up and christopher cloud is actually my hero Tommy Boyce!!! who knew? and the band he plays with on this is AIM and i love the aim album i have. this album rules!!!

http://www.recordsale.org/cdpix/c/christopher_cloud-blown_away.jpg

i love tommy's voice. totally a dead ringer for mark lindsay. my other hero. wait, i actually have three heroes. tommy boyce, mark lindsay, and drake levin. and arthur gee. okay, four heroes.

wait, tommy just mentioned doris day on this album and i'm remembering that terry melcher is my other hero. so, i have five heroes. tommy boyce, mark lindsay, drake levin, arthur gee, and terry.

and barbara keith's husband was terry's best friend growing up. he has great stories about him. for your information.

i can't believe how great this album is. i'm in love. didn't have a clue that it existed before last night.

tommy has mentioned mick jagger twice already on this album.

i love barbara keith! plus, she is my neighbor
Shit.
I knew this would happen.

lately:
Bill Callahan - Apocalypse
Bill Callahan - Woke On a Whaleheart
Smog - Forgotten Foundation
Smog - Sewn to the Sky
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar

wau @ centaurus

would also like to hosanna this statement

the terry manning album which is godhead

"trashy dog" is like somebody decided to invent new wave in 1969

"gary ogan & bill lamb – portland I love this record."

everyone should love this record. "i wanna die" is all time for me. thanks, ivo watts-russell!!! i owe you a pint of ale!

when the beatles sing this I can't believe those chipmunks could break a hymen if they had a hammer and a stake but terry manning sounds like he's not only gonna remove yr underwear w/ his teeth he just might eat em too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSTkszQSqD8

THIS is the beatles cover to beat all beatles covers though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ4jeRWjQ0Y

the who - live at leeds
the who - quadrophenia
stevie wonder - songs in the key of life

lol work iTunes

Radiohead - The King of Limbs
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
School of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire
Sleigh Bells - Treats
Glasser - Ring

I wouldn't mind working there! My workplace has CDs sent from a head office who once censored the "Goddamn" in Sophie Ellis Bextor's Murder On The Dancefloor.

well this is the iTunes on my computer, which I listen to on headphones

back in the day of shared libraries I went a good 3 weeks allowing people to connect to my library before remembering that I had "Ass N Titties" by DJ Assault and "Fuck All Night" by Mocky on there

Bad Brains I Against I

the terry manning album which is godhead

Oh hell yeah! Is that Steve Drake album one of those deals where he sang over other people's songs?

Scott's posts make me realize I don't know shit about music. :)

Anyway, enjoying the new Low album at the moment. They can basically release the same album over and over and I'll be happy.

V/A – Moving Shadow: The Chronicles Of Hardcore
Skipple Hotflush podcast

i am listening to aerial m and metal mountains in late april 2011

Menthol - Menthol (completely underrated alt-pop 90s genius!!!)
Pell Mell - Interstate
Seam - The Pace is Glacial
Grateful Dead - Hundred Year Hall
Skull Defekts - The Temple
Krallice - Diotima
Liturgy - Aestehtica

the feelies - here before
mickey newbury - looks like rain
opal - early recordings
creedence clearwater revival - bootleg, may 1970
curtis mayfield - live!
moon duo - mazes

that new feelies album is a "return to form." easily my favorite since 'the good earth'

Cass McCoombs-Wit's End
Hawkwind-Doremi..., In Search of Space
Metal Mountains lp
Kurt Vile-Smoke Ring
David Kilgour/Heavy Eights-new one
Terry Riley-Shri Camel, Persian Surgery Dervishes
True Widow-both lps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A48VUvB6kWE

idk why every time i wanna fly, somebody always tries to hold me down . . .

\(^o^)/

Jerusalem and the Starbaskets - Dost
Ride - Nowhere remaster
Shinji Masuko - Woven Music
All three Michael Nesmith and the first National Band records
The Byrds - Dr Byrds and Mr Hyde
The Moles - Untune the Sky

listening to some records i got for the store yesterday.

band of susans - hope against hope

primitons - happy all the time (80's jangle stuff. eh...)

roadsaw - rawk n' roll (double vinyl stoner stuff. what load by metallica would have sounded like if it had been good.)

mean season - grace (not my bag or whatever...)

def leppard - on through the night

krokus - metal rendez-vous (bought this when i was 12!)

krokus - pay it in metal

stone - s/t (the band metallica ripped off)

i can't live without it comp (90's stuff that i never listened to at the time or since. botch, merrimac, amber inn, closure, guyver-one, breakwater, milhouse, slow side down, bor, perilisium cantos, in/humanity, curll) (it's okay. not really my bag either. i'll bet my pal bull from policy of 3 and my pal don from ink & dagger were friends with all these bands. just a hunch.)

heavy pettin - s/t

trust - repression (this will sound xenophobic or something, but this isn't my fave trust album cuz the french language vocals are SO in your face and the guitars are buried a bit. i dunno, it's distracting for some reason.)

flotsam and jetsam - doomsday for the deceiver

nothing's quiet on the eastern front comp (this is more my speed. in fact i had to take it off or i would have ended up keeping it and i can't keep EVERYTHING cool, you know? assfactor 4, black army jacket, brutal truth, coercion, c.r., devoid of faith, disassociate, dropdead, eucharist, halfman, judas iscariot, monster x, suppression)

split lip - for the love of the wounded (definitely not my thing)

trash - burnin' rock

damien - every dog has its day

headpins - line of fire

oz - III warning

helstar - burning star

(got some testament and over kill vinyl and various R.E.M.-ish stuff along the lines of primitons: beat rodeo, bongos, eieio, lifeboat. probably spin some of that. just in case there is a jangle thing i missed that i might like. i guess bongos weren't jangle though. were they?)

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
Sonic Youth - Goo
Sonic Youth - Dirty

dig this band of susans album more than i thought i would. was never a huge fan or anything.

wish susan stenger had sung more in band of susans

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WhL9tjcgJI

late last night/today:

Death - Scream Bloody Gore
Waka Flocka Flame - Flockaveli
Thurston - Demolished Thoughts
Katy B - On A Mission
Justice Yeldham - Cicatrix
Bo Ningen - s/t

john coltrane - stellar regions
james blake - james blake (still not sure what to make of this yet, it has its moments though)

Jimmy Giuffre, Tangents In Jazz
Slade, Whatever Happened To Slade
Loose Fur, Born Again In The USA
Shorty Rogers, Creative West Coast Swing (4CD)
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mantra, performed by Pestova/Meyer Piano Duo & Jan Panis
Sonic Youth, Sonic Nurse

^^love the dad rock choices in that list (loose fur, sonic nurse)

Panda Bear, Tomboy + Live at Governor's Island (included in the download coupon that came with the album. Love this live version of Tomboy, guitar has that awesome 70's Michael Rother sound/pulse)
Robag Wruhme - Thora Vukk (sounds very nice but also a bit too much rooted in early 00's cologne soundspectrum maybe? very familiar sounds. maybe this needs more time to properly sink in though)
Tom Trago - Iris
Serge Gainsbourg - L'Homme à Tête de Chou (put this on when my sis was over with her 2 year old son (named Serge btw ;-), who loves to dance to music, and he widened his eyes in amazement when Gainsbourg's voice entered the stage during the first song (title track). Fantastic).

Stuff I got at the Flywheel Record Fair on Sunday:

Ralph Mctell – you well meaning brought me here (paramount – 1970)

Hamiet Bluiett – dangerously suite (soul note – 1981)

Prelude – owlcreek incident (pye – 1975)

Steeleye Span – s/t (mooncrest – 1971)

Steeleye Span’s Tim Hart and Maddy Prior Sing Folk Songs of Old England vol. II (mooncrest)

Sam Taylor, jr – the tunnels of my mind (grt records)

Eddy Senay – hot thang (Sussex – 1972)

Nolan – no apologies (lizard records – 197?)

The Dickies – the incredible shrinking dickies (a&m – 1979)

Morning, Noon & Night – s/t (roadshow – 1977)

Dynamic superiors – give & take (motown – 1977)

Impact – s/t (wmot – 1976)

Wood, Brass & Steel – s/t (turbo – 1976)

Chris Spedding – guitar graffiti (rak – 1978)

Herman Kelly & Life - …percussion explosion (alston records)

Mazarati – s/t (paisley park – 1986)

Nihilistics – s/t (brain eater – 1983)

Mc Breeze – another sad song/it ain’t new York 12 inch (breeze records – 1986)

Angry Samoans – yesterday started tomorrow (pvc – 1987)

Funky 4 plus 1 – that’s the joint 12 inch (sugar hill – 1980)

T.J. Swan & Peewee Mel and Swann Controllers – maximus party 12 inch (express records)

Stetsasonic – in full gear (tommy boy – 1988)

Monk Higgins – s/t (united artists – 1972)

Roy Ayers Ubiquity – red black & green (polydor – 1973)

Beautiful Bend – s/t (marlin – 1978)

Sutherland Brothers & Quiver – reach for the sky (cbs – 1975)

The Temptations f. Rick James – standing on the top 12 inch (Motown – 1982)

The Winters Brothers Band – s/t (atco – 1976)

Sutherland Brothers & Quiver – slipstream (cbs – 1976)

Mom’s Apple Pie – s/t (brown bag – 1972)

Kalaparusha(Maurice Mcintyre) – forces and feelings (delmark – 1972)

The Writers – s/t (Columbia – 1978)

Split Enz – dizrythmia (chrysalis – 1977)

805 – stand in line (rca – 1982)

Lonnie Jordan – different moods of me (mca – 1978)

Cameron – s/t (salsoul – 1980)

Dynamic Superiors – you name it (Motown – 1976)

Manchild – feel the phuff (chisound – 1978)

Mazarati – s/t (paisley park – 1986)

Ha, I bought this the same day you did!

"I'd buy that for a dollar!" Great purchases for a buck or less

helstar - burning star

And I totally tear this a new one in an ancient Creem Metal review in my new book, but I'd probably buy it again if I saw it for $1 anyway.

mickey newbury - looks like rain
bill callahan - apocalypse
orange juice - rip it up

manfred mann watch
apex manor the year of magical drinking
can tago mago
battles gloss drop
pj harvey let england shake
feelies here before
james blake
the cars
david kilgour left by soft

jah wobble, holger czukay, the edge snake charmer
bohren & der club of gore beileid

jah wobble, holger czukay, the edge snake charmer
is this good?

bohren & der club of gore beileid

how is this? i cannot f'ing wait to get my hands on it

yeah am well psyched for some new bohren

tons of Nilsson. just watched the film, etc.

x-post

Some nice finds Scott-- love this one:

Funky 4 plus 1 – that’s the joint 12 inch (sugar hill – 1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KagvExF-ijc

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

NOIR is an incredible album.

jah wobble, holger czukay, the edge snake charmer
is this good?

― tylerw
owned it a LONG time ago (on cassette). honestly don't recall much about it except that it didn't make a impression

xxxpsst: "that's the joint" is TOTALLY CLASSIC in the best way

Emmanuelle Parrenin - Maison Cube
David Dunn - Autonomous and Dynamic Systems
Grateful Dead - Infrared Roses (last three tracks are nearly all right)
Klaus Wiese - Touch of Silence
Grouper - Alien Observer
Jean C. Roche & Bill H. Gunn - Les Loupes En Liberté
Roland Kayn - A Little Electronic Milky Way of Sound (2009)

jah wobble, holger czukay, the edge snake charmer
is this good?

― tylerw
owned it a LONG time ago (on cassette). honestly don't recall much about it except that it didn't make a impression

I did too (tracked it down at the height of my U2 obsession in high school). iirc it came out in 1983 and by 1988 it already sounded really dated. Didn't listen to it much (I think The Edge only played on two tracks), but I wonder if I'd like it more now.

Wild Beasts.

I'm on a great path that began with solo Roedelius, which led me to Oneohtrix Point Never / Emeralds / side projects, the Harald Grosskopf reissue, Demdike Stare, Darkstar, etc, etc. I'm jumping back into current music in a huge way after being a bit out of it for the past several years, and it's exhilarating. I remember thinking years ago how much I loved Roedelius's tracks on "Zuckerzeit" but never having investigated his solo stuff, which was a huge mistake! (I've been a once-in-a-while reader and--less frequently--poster since 2000...)

Wbeeza - Void
Deepchord - Hash Bar Remnants
new Akron/Family with the stupid long title
Book Of Black Earth - Cold Testament

I'm on a great path that began with solo Roedelius, which led me to Oneohtrix Point Never / Emeralds / side projects, the Harald Grosskopf reissue, Demdike Stare, Darkstar, etc, etc. I'm jumping back into current music in a huge way after being a bit out of it for the past several years, and it's exhilarating. I remember thinking years ago how much I loved Roedelius's tracks on "Zuckerzeit" but never having investigated his solo stuff, which was a huge mistake! (I've been a once-in-a-while reader and--less frequently--poster since 2000...)

^ so awesome; you should check out the new Zombi LP, it's along the same vein as Oneohtrix/Emeralds for sure

i've been playing tons of Roedelius solo as well

lots of old stuff.

the holy mackerel : s/t
hardwater : s/t
best of friends : daybreak
herbie goins : no1 in your heart
mitch ryder and the detroil wheels : rev-up : the best of ..

detroil detroit

my own short-list:

roedelius - momenti felici / gift of the moment / selbstportrait vi / lustwandel
cluster and eno - s/t
junior boys - it's all true
boris - smile
bill callahan - apocalypse
gang gang dance - eye contact
vladislav delay quartet - s/t
bohren und der club of gore - beileid
blanck mass - s/t
lady gaga - born this way

igra staklineh perli
hanna barbarians
nihil nocturne
nightbringer
peak
electroluminescent
crash course in science
aluk todolo
saturnalia temple
peoples temple
red fang

Listening to Smoke Ring for my Halo a lot. It's just comfortable.
Interesting thing about the Snake Charmer ep: Arthur Russell has a credit on it (for lyrics, I think), but yeah it's not very revelatory.

I just played Cluster & Eno's s/t last night! I found that on original-pressing vinyl about eight years ago; one of my best finds ever, and I think I paid $8 for it. The first track, "Ho Renomo," sucks you right into the mood of the thing. I'll definitely have to scope the Vladislav Delay Quartet thing, as I've been and on-and-off Sasu Ripatti fanboy ever since Vocalcity blew my head apart--gosh, quite a long time ago.

i've heard plenty of his stuff, but never Vocalcity!

here's some info on VDQ btw

http://www.honestjons.com/shop.php?pid=37836&CatID=124

Autechre EP's
B12 Archives 1-4
Various Woebot mixes
Icons - Emotions with intellect
Gerry Mulligan - Night Lights
Cold Krush Cuts

Please rectify that as soon as you can! On a Vladislav Delay note, I've also been hugely digging the new Moritz von Oswald Trio album.

NOIR is an incredible album.

Hector fucking Lavoe
Takeshi Terauchi (various albums, but especially Let's Go Eleki Bushi)
VA - Acid Rumba

Chrome & Devo

Lady Gaga - Born This Way
Implodes - Black Earth
Low - C'mon
Wild Beasts - Smother
The Gates of Slumber - The Wretch
Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact

how's the Implodes?

I really like it, nice and droney.

I am listening to "Silence! The Musical" for the first time in years; shockingly, it is still funny.

alvarius b. - baroque primitiva (so great!)
death grips - exmilitary
frank ocean - nostalgia, ultra
open graves & stuart dempster - flight patterns
moon duo - mazes
ennio morricone - danger: diabolik sdtrk
curren$y - covert coup
tune yards - whokill & birdbrain
the mike gunn - hemp for victory
ema - past lives martyred saints
lady gaga - born this way
E-40 - graveyard & overtime (late to these)
saint vitus - born too late & mournful cries
demdike stare - triptych (still!)
brian eno - another green world & before and after science
electric wizard - witchcult today & black masses

dead machines - john brown, on his way to the scaffold
sei miguel & pedro gomes - turbina anthem
kwjaz - s/t
dj quik - book of david
part wild horses mane on both sides
miguel - all i want is you
diddy dirty money - love love vs. hate love
jhene aiko - sailing soul(s)
sightings - future accidents
john butcher & pal nilssen-love - concentric

Michael Ranta / Mike Lewis / Conny Plank - Mu
Handel - Triumph of Time & Disillusionment dir. Rinaldo Allessandri
Rafael Carbonell & Eloisa Matheu - Guia Sonora Deis Insectes De Catalunya, Grills, Saltamartins I Cigales
EVOL - Edge Effects & Recursive Archives - http://sonm.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=38&Itemid=109&lang=en
David Sylvian - Gone To Earth (Disc 2)
Seth Horovitz - Eight Studies For Automatic Piano
Voyager Golden Record

Lv featuring Joshua Idehen - Routes
Tv Ghost - Mass Dream
Moon Duo - Mazes
Instramental - Resolution 653
Echologist - Subterranean
Chad VanGaalen - Diaper Island
The Twenty Fucking Years of Planet E Compilation
Africa Hitech - 93 million Miles
Bnjm - Plastic World
The Psychic Paramount - ii

found these guys today: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Hayvanlar_Alemi/
they sound great!

Red Fang - Murder The Mountains
Mandelbrot & Skyy - OD Axis
Jonas Reinhardt - Music For The Tactile Dome
Jerusalem and the Starbaskets - Dost
Paul McCartney - Balearic Rarities
The Skull Defekts - Peer Amid

various Robert Ashley records
Ride Nowhere reissue/remaster
Tyvek Nothing Fits
various Oneida records
Jerusalem and the Starbaskets Dost
Psychedelic Horseshit Laced
Eat Skull Wild and Inside

Gang Gang Dance - Eye Contact
Led Zeppelin - III/Presence
Japanese Telecom - s/t
Various stuff on L.I.E.S and WT labels

Just been listening to Hayvanlar Alemi - Gurana Superpower album. Soup herb. Good call Tyler.

devo - q: are we not men? we are devo!
six finger satellite - the pigeon is the most popular bird
melt banana - teeny shiny
space streakings - 7toku
brainiac - smack bunny baby
brainiac - bonsai superstar
brainiac - hissing prigs in static couture
lost sounds - black-wave
the screamers - in a better world
liturgy - aesthethica
electric eels - eyeball from hell

Was just listening to the Lost Sounds s/t on In the Red

yeah this is my 1st exposure to Lost Sounds; they're pretty great!

add White Hills - Black Valleys

Saw many Lost Sounds shows.
Dude in red on the cover of Black-Wave is my childhood best friend.
They were fucking incredible.

lost sounds! love black wave and, and everything else, basically. but drugs, check out memphis is dead (their debut) - rougher and dirtier, maybe not as ambitious, but lots of great tunes/riffs.

and wow, that's cool, trip. you from memphis?

uh huh

some indie rock comp on a german label from 1989. *diamonds and porcupines*. wedding present, montgomerys, go-team, bats, st.christopher, mc tells, earwigs under fire, sachiko, crocket and jones, fenton weills, pale saints, easter island, dog faced hermans, beat happening, viola crayfish, cannanes.

since i've only heard wedding present, bats, pale saints, and dog faced hermans and never heard the rest of these bands i figured i'd play it.

and, no, i don't think i've ever actually heard beat happening.

The Cannanes are an Aussie indie-pop band whose membership included Dave Nichols for awhile--he wrote fanzines and a book on the Go-Betweens

Recent things I've acquired that I've been loving:

Todd Terje: "Ragysh" EP
Tin Man: Scared
Hyetal: Broadcast
Mist: House
Rene Hell: The Terminal Symphony
Tyler: Goblin
Seefeel: Seefeel
Harald Grosskopf: Synthesist
Kevin Drumm: Sheer Hellish Miasma

no idea why i haven't picked up that Seefeel record, i love the old stuff dearly

lol contenderizer; totally got into Lost Sounds bcz you mentioned them on the rolling goth thread.

awesome! was listening to black wave just the other day. lately though i strictly listen to luscious jackson.

^ jokes no one will ever get

Jean-Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields
Moebius - Ding
John Oswald w/ Ensemble Moderne - b9
Henry Kaiser - A Little Stroke of Light (live solo guitar 2010)
Olivier Dumas - Rutting Red Deers
Pimmon - Just Because You're Spatial
Thomas Koner - Aubrite
Annette Peacock - I'm The Man (CD reissue)
Beethoven Piano Sonatas, p. Schnabel, downloaded from archive.org

psychic paramount - II
karen dalton - in my own time
charles mingus - blues & roots
mercury rev - deserter's songs
the pathways - various

http://www.ifmusic.co.uk/images/product_images/michi.jpg

this guy figured out not only how to live but also how to bring the Colombian sax ruckus

George Fitzgerald - Sonic Router podcast
Com Truise - Galactic Melt
Bark Psychosis - Codename:Dustsucker
new Young Widows

blawan - "getting me down" (great bouncy house w/harmonized brandy sample)
T Williams - "People's Choice" (more bouncy bass music, not sure what genre this would be, but it's maybe in the same family as hessle audio type stuff)
Maurice Donavan - "Babeh" (speaking of hessle audio, here is a ramadanman alias doing straight house, which imo all these dudes should be doing a lot more of)
stravinsky - les noces
respighi - various stuff
BNJMN - Plastic World (this is a really good LP from rush hour chill-house artist, kind of Boards of Canada, Pom Pom, Lone mood music)
death grips - exmilitary
braille - The Year 3000
Little Dragon - "Nightlight" (really wanting to hear Ritual Union now!)
Shigeto - "And We Gonna (Samiyam mix)"
CLS - "Can You Feel It" (todd terry alias, 1992 ravey house)
scritti politti - various stuff

I didn't know him before, but I'm happy that Michi Sarmiento comp. is getting so much attention.

angel rada - 'upadesa'
laurie spiegel - 'expanding universe' lp
the first three african head charge records
street sounds: uk electro (1984)
roedelius - 'jardin au fou'
kartik trivedi - 'indian raga music on piano'
kowalski - 'schlagende wetter'
popol vuh - 'coeur de verre'

Locust Abortion Techinician on a Saturday morning makes me glad to feel alive, just about.

Various - Megamix Cumbia Villera 4

michael jackson - number ones
john coltrane - sun ship
art blakey and the jazz messengers - moanin'
pendle coven - self assessment
ulver - shadows of the sun
madonna - confessions on a dancefloor
isaac hayes - black moses
ice cube - amerikkka's most wanted
snoop doggy dogg - doggystyle
ll cool j - mama said knock you out

brand nubian - one for all

the sea and cake - the4 moonlight butterfly

kecak ganda sari - kecak (first recording of a complete "ramayana monkey chant")

wooden shjips - west

+DOG+ - forced morality

phog masheeen - 23 duets

i put on a new album by book of knots that i got in the mail (remember them? i barely do and i think i even reviewed an album once) and it was so terrible i only lasted five seconds. wooden shjips is pretty bad too. but i'm picky when it comes to 80's retro. i kinda liked the warlocks when i saw them live in philly a couple of times years ago. never really listened to black rebel motorcycle club. wooden shjips has inspired me to put on a jesus & mary chain demos collection i have in the store.

keep playing new sea & cake thing hoping i'll like it more if i hear it more but its just...okay. the synth/chillwave moments are kinda the most interesting parts. the regular sea & cake moments are just your standard late-period sea & cake.

don't like the white hills album on thrill jockey either. sorry white hills! sorry thrill jockey! nothing personal.

don't do what i do, which is to play a bunch of new electronic promos and then play an old Cluster album, and then get all sad about how the promos aren't as good as Cluster and end up listening to nothing but Cluster all day

it's a hazard, this is true.

not great spacemen3/j&m chain-isms in 2011 is always gonna be a bit of a bummer to me though.

Geeta, which new electronic stuff, and which Cluster album? I know that feeling... Zuckerzeit is usually what inspires that. I've actually been enjoying solo Roedelius the most lately... As horrible as I feel saying it, sometimes I just can't help thinking that Moebius can be a little spazzy and self-consciously quirky, whereas Roedelius seems less concerned with overtly strange noises and more into some sort of immersion or textural gracefulness or something.

digging this vibracathedral orchestra album right now. always meant to listen to them. (totally selling it though)

i want all of geeta's electronic promos.

Quite a lot right now, after something of a lull:

Com Truise - Fairlight EP
Chad Valley - "Now That I'm Real (How Does It Feel)" / Chad Valley EP
Robag Wruhme - Thora Vukk / Wuppdeckmischmampflow
League Unlimited Orchestra - Love & Dancing
Ronika - "Forget Yourself" / "Wiyoo"
Planningtorock - W
White Denim - D
Crystal Stilts - In Love With Oblivion
Hannah Peel - The Broken Wave
Bella Hardy - Songs Lost & Stolen
Le Trio Joubran - As Far
Trichotomy - The Gentle War
17 Hippies - Phantom Songs
Tamikrest - Toumastin
Owiny Sigoma Band - Owiny Sigoma Band
Cornershop - Cornershop & The Double O Groove Of
Acid House Kings - Music Sounds Better With You
Wild Beasts - Smother
The Pierces - You & I
The Decembrists - The King Is Dead

^ re: new Cluster-ish records: the new Forma lp on Spectrum Spools is really good.

Gianni Rossi
The Buggles - Adventures In Modern Recording
All 12's on the L.I.E.S label
Kate Bush - Director's Cut
Pete Shelley - XL1