ILM Snapshot: Last Five Records You Bought

Pixies - BBC Sessions
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You
Beyond and Back: The X Anthology
A Tribe Called Quest - The Love Movement
Mogwai - Rock Action

I think these are the most recent ones.

Frances-Marie Uitti: 2 Bows (four quid on Rupert Street)

Tony Ferrino: Phenomenon (yes, yes - Coogan's nadir, but it was worth the £1.50 for the look on Pam's face when she finally realised who the swarthy stud on the cover was; separate thread: records bought as a gag?)

Serge Gainsbourg: No.2 (reissue of 1959 LP on 10" - for Pam; the one with the bouquet and the revolver on the cover)

Mouse On Mars: Idiology (LP, a penny short of a tenner in Rough Trade)

V/A: Clicks & Cuts 2 (triple-CD - also RT. Much sweeter and warmer than #1 on first listen).

1. Eminem: The Marshall Mathers LP 2. Outkast: Stankonia 3. Destiny's Child: The Writing's On The Wall 4. P.J.Harvey: Stories from The City, Stories from the Sea 5. Manhattan Resarch Inc.: Raymond Scott

(ps: if these all fold up as if I didn't type "return", which I did, why did they? If not: ignore me... )

Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming Whiskeytown - Stranger's Almanac Mouse On Mars - Idiology Tim Buckley - Morning Glory

But I'm listening to _A Chance to Cut is a Chance to Cure_ from Matmos, and I didn't buy that too long ago, so let's say it makes five.

Needless to say my IDM collection is taking over everything else i have... I've started growing an RDJ beard too! HELP ME! HELP ME!

I also got a free promo from the pile that the store I bought No. 1 used from was trying to get rid of - "Herd of Instinct" by Orang, a very intriguing album apparently by ex-members of Talk Talk. All these except No. 2 I got used--hooray for internet shopping!

What an embarassment.

1) Faust - Faust/So Far 2) Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush The Show 3) Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood 4) Mos Def - Black On Both Sides 5) Pulp - This Is Hardcore (with free Glastonbury CD! Ooooooh!)

Jane Birkin - Master Serie Vol 1 (what an atrocious voice) Sergio Mendes and Brasil '66 - The Very Best (not as cheesy as you might think) Talking Heads - Fear of Music (probably their best) Joy Division - Substance (thanks ILM for making me buy this) Suede - Suede (not as bad as I'd imagined nor as good as I thought it might have been)

1. The Spinanes--Strand 2. Flaming Lips--Clouds Taste Metallic 3. Missy Elliott--Supa Dupa Fly 4. True Love Always--Hopefully 5. Mouse On Mars--Vulvaland

Abba - Gold

Grateful Dead - Workingmans's Dead

Amon Duul II - Wolf City

The Band - Greatest Hits

The Happy Balloon - The Fine Art of Ballooning

Serge Gainsbourg - Historie de Melody Nelson Kate Bush - the first ablum, title escapes me Wookie - New single, title escapes me Four tops - greatest hits compilation Looper - the album with the geometric shapes on the front Lyn Collins - the second album, the one without Think (About it) on.

The other two were Daft Punk and the Avalanches. Baa!

1. Buzzcocks - Spiral Scratch 2. Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material 3. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me 4. Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown 5. Gang of Four - Entertainment!

There were a lot more -- my biggest day ever, 18 I think, nothing compared to you all -- but these are my favorites, so far.

Oh, and does anyone know where I can find Big Star's Radio City on CD or LP as a standalone album?

1. Eve - Scorpion 2. Nick Cave - No More Shall We Part 3. Bonnie Prince Billy - Ease Down the Road 4. Roxy Music - Country Life 5. Destiny's Child - Survivor

1. Dismemberment Plan/Juno 2. Lonnie Johnson "Steppin' on the Blues" 3. Bonnie Prince Billy "Ease Down the Road" 4. Guided by Voices "Isolation Drills" 5. The Damned "Damned But Not Forgotten"

Damn, I listen to more mp3s than I thought I did...

singles: ballboy - girls are better than boys; outkast - ms jackson; missy elliott - get ur freak on.

albums: ash - free all angels; electrelane - rock it to the moon; destiny's child - survivor.

(note: this is as pop as I have got for the last five years, so not sure how representative it is...)

Bill

Cinerama, Disco Volante. Manic Street Preachers, "So Why So Sad" single. Kylie Minogue, Light Years. Josie and the Pussycats soundtrack. St. Etienne, Places to Visit.

I'm certain those aren't even right. My dad bought me the New Art Riot EP, do gifts from others count?

Russian Roulette - Spirit (Timeless); Transcend Me - Afronaught (Apollo); It's Yours - Eskobar featuring Lemon D (True Playaz); B Boyz Revenge - Lemon D (R&S); Planet Dust - Bad Company (Prototype); Jahman - Stereotyp Meets Tikiman (G-Stone); Never Enough - Boris Dlugosch with Roisin Murphy (Peppermint Jam)

If anyone hasn't heard of Tarras I strongly recommend you track down their new album - very folky, but the first track, Arizona, is the best song I've heard this year.

1. Mouse on Mars – actionist respoke
2. S club 7 – don’t stop movin’
3. Clicks & cuts 2
4. Labradford – prazision LP
5. Non – receive the flame

*clambers around huge stacks of CDs in the living room, narrowly avoids being crushed...*

(voice dimly echoing amongst the columns): "...should i mention the no-man stuff i got recently or not or..."

[Cue Marcello: "How HORRIBLE that he's just talking about SIZE again instead of leading proletarian revolutionaries to burn down a Starbuck's..."]

[That record Sigur Ros sell at their gigs that has the old guy singing on it (it doesn't have any further information written on it, so that's all I can tell you about it)]

v/a "All Tomorrow's Parties 1.0" The Ex "Dizzy Spells" [these t wo bought at All Tomorrow's Parties]

Anyway, for me, leaving aside the several CDs I've been sent or got with magazines etc., in reverse order:

Skitz, _Countryman_ Joe Meek and the Blue Men, _I Hear A New World_ Joe Meek, _The Triumph Sessions_ Ty, _Awkward_ Momus, _Folktronic_

Neil Finn - Nil Fun

Gorillaz

The Fiddleheads - live (my brother in law's band)

Folk Implosion - One Part Lullaby

and the fifth most recent could be one of three (mind is gone); The High Fidelity Soundtrack, Matador Records 10th Anniversary, or Spookey Ruben - Modes of Transportation Volume 2. I should qualify that I put my CD buying on near hiatus due to MP3 'almost too much new music' supersaturation.

somehow i knew Momus bought the Commodore 64 CD.

Pinkie Maclure: "From Memorial Crossing"

Ash Ra: "Tropical Heat"

Various Artists: "Blues Harmonica (1926-40)"

The Starseeds: "There is Enough For Everyone"

(all bargoons under a dollar)

1. Burning Spear - Social Living 2. Mouse on Mars - Idiology (like everyone on ILM ;) 3. Tim Buckley - Lorca (the first old record in years I'm getting obsessed with) 4. Tim Buckley - Greetings from L.A. 5. Air - Premier Symptomes 6. Herbert - Bodily Functions 7. Missy Elliott - Miss E...So Addictive

1. techno animal v. reality 2. mark eitzel ... love you too much baby 3. terry callier ... lifetime (beth orton duet is beautiful)... 4. pattern - wet circuit city

and some friends sent over some soon to be released/masters of albums this summer that are going to be classics......

See what I mean? Much more individual and interesting than the expected litany of REM/Elliott/Mouse on Mars/cLOUDDead/Elbow. Yes no no yes?

B) Pure Garage IV

C) Lifelike, by Ui.

D) Back for the First Time, by Ludacris.

E) Electroacoustic collection v.3

F) Muy Divertido, by Marc Ribot.

Just now in work? Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction. Made me extremely miserable except for "Sweet Child Of Mine" and the changeover in "Rocket Queen".

On way into work? Mixtape which - again - seemed to take on a gloomy bent as I recorded it. The Dismemberment Plan's "Spider In The Snow" accompanying my 5 minute walk in.

On the Oxford Tube last night? Various Artists - The Rough Guide To West Africa. And before that Various Artists - Afrique Dynamique. African music seems to be the only thing that can relax me currently. Playing them I suddenly wanted to listen to and write about nothing but this stuff. Then it struck me I couldn't say much about it and I only have 5 or 6 records/tapes of it. When I got back in I stayed up for several hours but played nothing.

Before that? "Fear Of Drowning" a single by British Sea Power, who seem promising enough though not as interesting as the last two minutes of a set I caught suggested (consisting of them beating the stage and each other with branches).

(and then he thrusts forward to "Southern Hospitality" again ...)

Can I kill myself in self-contradiction now?

Gurlz-pix next week: Cara Mel I seeXed Boards of Canada but tower's shelving policy is like haXoR-speak w/o norman to talk the plane down...

Five - Kingsize

The Strokes - Is This It

The Human League - Reproduction (Dignity of Labour on CD yum)

Adam Ant - Hits

Madness - The Rise And Fall

DJ Kicks - Truby Trio (gets pretty good after awhile)

Pathways to Unknown Worlds/Friendly Love - Sun Ra (super)

The Magic City - Sun Ra (at work people makes shooting gestures when this comes blaring out of my headphones)

Black Beauty - Miles Davis (already my favourite live Miles album)

In Search of... - N*E*R*D (veryverygoodindeedsir)

1. Human League - Reproduction (!)

2. Japan - Quiet Life

3. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (even the inner sleeves have inner sleeves!)

4 and 4a) Bowie - Tonight and Let's Dance

5. Scritti Politti - Provision (So I can see if Tom and Robin were right after all!)

Two Lone Swordsmen - Tiny Reminders Clifford Gilberto - I was Young, I needed the Money Princess and the Warrior Soundtrack Sonar Collektive K&D Sessions

But in my defense, the last five before that were:

The Mavericks - Best Of Catatonia - Sticks and Stones Maxwell - Now The Jayhawks - Tomorrow the Green Grass and R. Srinivas

Before that a batch of 8 Arabic CDs I ordered and received as one package (7 Oum Kalthoum--really early stuff which I can't get into so far, 1 George Wassouf covering Oum Kalthoum songs).

I also have Sussan Deyhim's CD "Madman of God" on order at the moment, but haven't received it yet.

1. britney spears - britney

2. daft punk - alive 1997

3. v/a - superlongevity

4. les savy fav - go forth

5. v/a - 500% dynamite! (and it is too.)

6. glenn branca - songs 1977-1979

7. xenakis - electronic music

8. mogwai - young team

2)Ginuwine -- The Life

3)The Harder They Come Soundtrack

4)Sugar Hill Records Story Box Set

%)Nas -- Illmatic

1. n.e.r.d. - lapdance

2. einsturzende neubauten - ende neu

3. melt banana - mxbx blahblahwhatevah

4. him - new features

5. richie hawtin - de9: closer to the edit

2. The Soundtrack of Our Lives-Extended Revelation for the Psychic Weaklings of the Western Civilization

3. Elsa Lanchester-Songs for a Shuttered Parlor

4. Beyond the Fringe '64 Original Cast Album

5. Oneida-Anthem of the Moon

And my old roommate burned me Pulp's We Love Life cause it's not out here for some ridiculous reason.

2) Foul Play - Suspected (lost jungle classic)

3) Mis-Teeq - Lickin' On Both Sides (buy for the UK Garage, hang around for the R&B)

4) V/A - Cocoon Compilation B (pimpin' Cologne house)

5) Dettinger - Intershop (best ambient spangle since that Global Communications album with da numbers)

The Raw and the Cooked - Fine Young Cannibals
Candleland - Ian McCulloch
Bandwagonesque - Teenage Fanclub
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
A Day Without Rain - Enya
Rag-na-Rok - GWAR

and a mini-boxset for 12 bucks that contained three Black Sabbath CD's: (Black Sabbath, Paranoid and Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) -- Lord Custos (wm.renkin@att.net), November 07, 2001.

Alvo Noto - Transform
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Easy Pieces (This is on right now. It is making me angry.)
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
The Best Disco In Town (a 1977 Tee Vee Records compilation)

And it's Alva Noto, sorry.

01 Me'Shell Ndgecello - Plantion Lullabyes
02 Buck 65 - Man Overboard
03 Various Artists Nuggets Vol 1
04 " " " " 2
05 George Clinton live in Detroit - Bootleg
06 Nina Simone-Syncopated Funk
07 Best Of Italian Disco
08 Hollaneder- Sampler
09 Schubert- Leider (Naxos)
10 Le Tigre - Femminst MAnnifesto
11 Screwed: Al Goldstein and the American Sex Industry
12 Mojave 3- Aske ME Tommorow
13 Original Cast Recording : Cannibal the Musical
14 Wilf Carter-Blue Yodel
15 Barbra Sfgra- Oh What A Thrill
16 Paul Simon - Hearts and Bones
17 Soundtrack Umbrellas of Cherbourg
18 Brian Eno-Music for Airports
19 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
20 The New George Jones

Plus various xmas presents which I'm not going to tell you about for fear of spoiling surprises...

Jan Jelinek - "loop-finding-jazz-records"
Kelis - "Wanderland"
Britney Spears - I'm A Slave 4 U (single)
Destiny's Child - "The Writings On The Wall" (w/4-track bonus CD)
Twarres - Wêr Bisto (single) [= dutch bastard children of The Sundays in MOR tribute to gravy (no, not really re gravy). She: plays acoustic guitar, sings lead, writes the songs, has stud in jaw just below lower-lip, HARD. He: sits on stool looking pretty and/or angst- ridden, sings backup, WUSS. A no.1 in Holland, apparently.]

Happy XMas to me, and only me, y'all:

Rufus Wainwright - Poses
Neurosis - Enemy of the Sun
Beach Boys - Sunflower / Surf's Up (boy, is this sucker uneven)
Nuggets II boxset
Rolling Stones Singles Collection

The Byrds' first three LPs (in a wee box)

Belle and Sebastian, 'Im Waking Up To Us' (45)

1.Celebrities At Their Worst Volume 3 2CD 2.African Head Charge "My Life In A Hole In A Ground" LP 3.African Head Charge "Environmental Studies" LP 4.New Order "Everything's Gone Green" 12" 5.808 State "Ooops/Ski Family" 12"

#1 being most recent...

1.Celebrities At Their Worst Volume 3 2CD
2.African Head Charge "My Life In A Hole In A Ground" LP
3.African Head Charge "Environmental Studies" LP
4.New Order "Everything's Gone Green" 12"
5.808 State "Ooops/Ski Family" 12" -- Brian MacDonald (brianm@kuci.org), January 04, 2002.

Well, I broke in my newfangled Amazon card earlier this week, but I really couldn't wait, so I popped on over to Borders & found:

- Cabaret Voltaire: BBC Sessions (84-86)
- Shriekback - The Y Record Years
- Swell Maps - Sweep the Desert

Vincent Courtois/Marc Ducret/Dominique Pifarely - The Fitting Room

Rush - A Farewell to Kings (Did I mention that old-school Rush is my favourite band right now?)

Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts (good vinyl copy.)

Kate Bush - The Dreaming (Xmas present for my sister. I already had it.)

Sterling, what is this DANCEHALL RAWKUS of which you speak?

Jimmie Rodgers-The Best of The Singing Brakeman

Johnny Cash-Live at Fulsome (sp?) Prison.

I can't think of the rest, they were ages ago because I'm broke, but I would imagine Bubba Sparxxs album was one of them.

The latter two the only decent stuff I could find in the remnants of the HMV sale, the first two because I was overwhelmed at being in Pelicanneck Records in Manchester.

Can't remember what the 5th would have been.

John, have you been able to find a compilation of theirs that actually has "Think That It Might" on it? Ever since I've heard the Wedding Present version, I've wanted to hear it, but none of the comps I've stumbled across lists it!

1. Alternative TV - And the Image Cracked
2. Fats Waller - 2 cd compilation (FEETS TOO BIG YAY!)
3. Trojan Dub set Volume 2
4. Oxide & Neutrino - EGGZECUTE!!!
5. URBANG! a 2 CD collection of banging choons whot was in sale. Includes PERFECT GENTLEMANG. Hooray!

1. "You Cannot Kill What Does Not Live" by King Loser. 2. "Prayers On Fire" by the Birthday Party. 3. "Little Things" by The Terminals. i also picked up a PJ Harvey 12inch.

I got em both in Mare Street = the New Wave of Dance is at WOOLWORTHS!

Out of the lot I'd say the miss Kittin one is the best but definitelyone of my better shopping sprees.

1. 'Horace Andy Meets Naggo Morris/Wayne Jarrett Mini-Showcase' - Basic Channel reissue of two early eighties reggae albs originally brought out on the Wackie's label. The Wayne Jarrett side includes a version of 'Truly' by Lionel Richie!

2. 'Rocksteady Soul' - Various Artists. One of a number of great budget price reggae comps from the Metro label; this one brings together 21 hits from Duke Reid's Treasure Isle company, THE label for smooth soulful downtempo rocksteady, including 'hits' from Alton Ellis, U Roy, John Holt, the Jamaicans etc.

3. 'Another Green World' - Eno. Never heard it before! Smiled when I recognised the 'Arena' theme, and 'Zawinul/Lava' is a v. clever 'tribute' to 'In A Silent Way'. Phil Collins on drums, eek!

4. 'Marzette And Company' - Marzette Watts. Reissue of an ESP label free jazz freakout from 1966 - the first track is called 'Backdrop For Urban Revolution', to give you some idea of the flavour. Features the godlike genius of Sonny Sharrock on gtr (the main reason I bought it), plus Byard Lancaster, Clifford Thornton, Henry Grimes etc. etc.

5. 'Hand It Over' - Dinosaur Jr. Cost me a whopping ten pence in a local library sale - just about worth it. Only played once - not much in the way of actual tunage, but oh that gtr playing....

Plus some singles - 'Murder On The Dancefloor', 'Black Coffee' by All Saints, and a charity shop copy of 'In A Broken Dream' by Python Lee Jackson w/Rod Stewart, which was sampled by Portishead for some old pony or other...

I'm cutting down on the number of albums I buy. (Last year was just too disappointing).

Van Halen - Best Of Volume One (I love it!)
Soundgarden - Superunknown
Neil Young - Trans (really worried about this one, but it looked too weird not to buy)

1) Pip Pyle- 7 Year Itch 2) John Greaves- Parrot Fashions 3) Brian Eno- Ambient 1: Music for Airports 4) Gary Numan- The Pleasure Principle 5) Jethro Tull- Stormwatch 6) Robert Wyatt- Dondestan

Given my proclivities, I am embarrassed to say I had never heard the Eno and Numan albums until now. Stormwatch (the what-the-hell-it's- $3 purchase), I must admit is better than I expected.

Lambchop: Is A Woman LP

Taskforce: Music From the Corner LP

Jehst/Harry Love: Staircase II Stage 12"

Rodney P: Big Tings We Inna 12"

All great stuff, lucky me.

Storm & Stress: Under Thunder and Flourescent Light

Jerry Lee Lewis: Killer Country

The Very Best of The Lovin' Spoonful (as a gift)

The Avalanches -- Since I Left You.

the avalanches - since i left you

toog - 6633

the monkees - pisces aquarius capricorn and jones ltd

aphex twin - drukqs

philip glass - philip on film (5-cd box set)

helen, have only heard the Josh Rouse once now, but it sounds nice enough, like his other two. Will try to report back.

Sodding hell. Why didn't anyone tell me about this?

• Thomas Chapin & Borah Bergman - Inversions
• Thomas Chapin - Radius
• The Clientele - Suburban Light
• Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (long overdue for my own copy of this)
• Claude Debussy - Piano Works (Pascal Rogé, piano) (see above)
• Charles Ives - Symphony No. 1 / Three Places in New England, Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra, plus Robert Browning Overture, Stokowski/American SO

but you're still a show-off, Ned!

If anything, I want to show off the quality of the stores around here - - I wish everyone could have such a thing nearby! We could all be pathetically happy.

André Popp - Popp Musique
Pink - M!55UNdAZ7OOd
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Shirley Bassey - Something
v/a - la musique de Paris Dernière

all very good or better.

I was going to raid the dance section as well, but I couldn't find most of Tim's recent recommendations.

What's the Willard Grant Conspiracy and Telefunk thing like?

When heard, I will comment.

"Farid el Atrache Forever. . . Vol.2" Om Kolthom "Habebi ysaad awkatoo" (with two other songs) Mohammed Abdel Wahab (no title given in English, but starts with two songs: "Toul Omri" and "Egri Egri" Kazem Essaher "La Ya Sadiki" Stevie Wonder "Greatest Hits Vol.2"

The first three Arabic CDs are all really good overall, but I already had some of the songs on cassette, so I knew what I was getting. Kazem Essaher is another matter and I can't recommend this recording. I bought these at a store I was told about. It used to actually have these CDs on display, but has basically given up on trying to sell them. I picked through a few piles of dusty CDs stored under the main display cases. The first time I went there I bought nine. It's nice to be able to walk into a store and buy them instead of ordering them online, especially when the price ends up being the same or maybe a little less (since they gave me a discount).

2) R. Kelley -- TP-2.COM (Dumber title than Twelve Play, much better production AND a song named "The Greatest Sex")

Ja Rule -- Pain Is Love (Y'all know the songs on this already, but I just had to have the whole album)

Mya -- Fear of Flying (Why oh why did I not buy this earlier?)

Madonna -- s/t.

All of these were downloaded from Emusic. I love my Emusic subscription--since I'm not a pirate, it's the closest I'll ever get to my fantasy of running through a record store grabbing everything I can. (Naked. I'm weird that way.)

This isn't in order of download, BTW.

1:Eclectic Electric, a 245 minute Emusic-only electronica comp. (I've heard about half of it so far. Half classic, half cud, none dud.)

2:Songs In The Key Of Z, Irwin Chusid's (in)famous novelt^H^H^H outsider music comp. (Peter Grudzian rocks! Also, it'll help tide me over until I can get some Shaggs and Jandek on CD.)

3:Take The Guitar Player For A Ride, Peter Laughner. (Eehh, middling.)

4:Songs Of The Naked City, late-seventies New York punk comp. (Fleshtones, Blondie, NYD, Suicide, Richard Hell, Bloodless Pharoahs, Ramones. I reconized the uncredited last track as the Fleshtones' version of "96 Tears.")

5:First Suicide album. (However did I live my life without owning this?)

Inner Mystique - Chocolate Watch Band

Jimmy Castor Bunch - Phase III

Siegel-Schwall - Say Siegel-Schwall

Doors - Strange Days

(ditto) - Waiting for the Sun

Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

Electr-o-pura - yo la tengo

but the last 5 songs I downloaded were:

stroke of genius - Freelance hellraiser (but can I find a download of it without the xfm announcer at the end of it? can I fuck)

Photobooth - Death cab for cutie

match of the day theme tune

I just can't get enough pills - freelance hellraiser

showstopper - The Cashmeres

The Raincoats - Odyshape - from e/bay - maybe the seller will send it to me one day!

Altered Images - The Best Of Altered Images.

Am dumping some rubbish at RTE later today and will be buying shedloads of new stuff. Will report back.

V/A - Dub, Original Bass Culture

Silver Apples - both albums on 1 CD

Section 25 - Always Now LTM Reissue

The Wake - Holyheads LTM Reissue

David Sylvian - Everything and Nothing

The Move - Singles As and Bs

V/A - The Beat Scene (Decca/Deram comp)

V/A - Invicta Chartbusters (Freda Payne/Chairmen of the Board/Honey Cones)

V/A - Pebbles Essential Collection + Insanely Rare

ABC - The Lexicon of Love - CD remaster. I wore out the vinyl.

carpet musics - weekday

pipas - new 7"

Sportique - modern museums 10"

v/a - shotclub

tahnk you twee kitten

2) Playgroup - Playgroup
I like how Playgroup's vision of the eighties extends way into the early nineties with lotsa dubby house influences. For some reason though I've yet to listen to this more than once, even though I really enjoyed it.

3) V/A - American Gigolo
This is like washing detergent, all those blaring synth riffs and brittle machine beats feel cleansing and slightly rasping against your skin. The best stuff on this is either a) the housier stuff, or b) the poppier stuff. So "Sunglasses At Night", which is both poppy and housey, is automatically the best thing on offer.

4) New Flesh - Understanding
The good stuff is fantastic - snapping, whirring electro-dancehall with indecipherable ragga chatter. The more conventional stuff is a bit boring and I'm pretty sure that all the guest MCs bar Roots are crap. There's a perfect ep here though.

5) V/A - Fuse Presents DJ Hell
Haven't listened to this yet, but I found it cheap and it has the Patrick Cowley extended mix of "I Feel Love" so it *must* be good.

Boredoms Super AE (Much better than I remember them being 5 years ago)

Psychic TV Force The Hand of Chance (Hit or miss, better than some other Genesis stuff I've heard)

Prince Charming Fantastic Voyage (For a friend. I already own it and it's ridiculously good)

Sand Ultrasonic Seraphim (Weird kraut-folk record, "May Rain" is great, rest is still pretty good)

cheers, robin

Charlie - I am curious about Susie Ibarra - read a Thurston Moore interview of her in Index. Apparently an amazing drummer?? Jazz??

soulwax - 2 many djs

underworld - beaucoup fish

wu-tang clan - iron flag

herbert - secondhand sounds

1. Kinski, "Be Gentle With The Warm Turtle" 2. Bablicon, "The Cat That Was a Dog, A Flat Inside a Fog" 3. Fred Lonberg-Holm, "Site-Specific" 4. Company Flow, "Funcrusher Plus" 5. Parker/Guy/Lytton (w. Joe McPhee) - "The Redwood Session" 6. Fred Anderson Quartet, "Dark Day"

soulwax - 2 many dj's
v/a - rough trade shops: electronica 01 (*this is absolutely fantastic: why has no-one mentioned this on ILM yet?*)
rubin steiner - wunderbar drei
v/a - the best bootlegs in the world ever
simpatico/the pines - [split 7"]
the horizontalist - twenty feet behind [7"]
the move - [*best of ... can't remember exact title*]
the herbaliser - something wicked this way comes
david holmes - come get it i got it (introducing The Free Association)
the streets - original pirate material

Not yet, alas.

I've yet to listen to it, actually. I'm kinda scared since I have such an affinity for everything else through New Gold Dream.

Crooklyn Dub Consortium Certified Dope Vol. 2

Anima~Sound Music fur Alle

Nurse With Wound Chance Meeting

Amon Duul Yeti

Indeed. It's a mix album with Selway, Phantom/Ghost, Akufen, M. Rahn, Carsten Jost, etc. And it's spectacular. I've listened to it every day for the last week. It's definitely up there with the recent mixes by Hawtin, Weatherall, Dan Bell, etc.

orchestral manouvres in the dark - b-sides compilation
orchestral manouvres in the dark - peel sessions compilation
gary numan - the pleasure principle
tubeway army - uh, the first one w/the white cover
ozzy osbourne - blizzard of ozz

all for 4.99 each gah so much for buying s.th. by a new act

That would just make me peer quizzically at you.

• Palace - Viva last blues.
• Add N to X - On the wires of our nerves.
• Nelly - Country grammar
• Alpha - Come to heaven
• Human League - Secrets.
• Dismemberment Plan - Change

orwell 'des lendemains'

clientele 'lost weekend ep'

would be goods 'brief lives'

starlets 'surely tomorrow you'll feel blue'

I don't like it quite as much as the previous Soul Center discs. From what I can tell, Brinkmann had to take it easier on the samples since the record came out on Novamute and not his own little label. Less tempo variation, less gritty -- in favor of smoothness. Perhaps I haven't listened to it enough, but the tracks aren't nearly as distinct from one another as they are on the first two.

Johnny Cash "American Vol.3" - One of my favourite covers album, maybe even numero uno

The Monks "The Monks" - I was told it was a classic, and it is.

Ken Stringfellow "Touched" -You can't get a better pop album for 6.66

Badmarsh & Shri "Dancing Drums" -Loving this

and The Mars Volta ep - Building up an appetite for the album now. Cut That City is a great song.

Plus, I just ordered the new Perry Blake cd "California" from amazon.fr

1. V/A - Disco (Not Disco)
2. V/A - Studio One Rockers (hurray to whoever recommended this!)
3. Mercury Rev - Yrself Is Steam
4. Stockholm Monsters - Alma Mater (not sure about this one)
5. Wake - Here Comes Everybody + Singles(ditto)

V/A - Electronic (Rough Trade thang)

Blondie - Blondie (remastered + extra trax)

Blondie - Plastic Letters (remastered + extra trax)

Associates - Double Hipness

Stockholm Monsters - Alma Mater +

Stockholm Monsters - Singles

ACR - early

Jel - "Fan Mail" - best opening track ever?

Before that, grabbed the Big Bad Love soundtrack and managed to get ahold of a JAMS/Timelords CD through Ebay. Yay! Waiting for: new Constantines single and new Fly Pan Am.

Cardew -- We Sing For The Future!

Stockhausen -- Helicopter Quartet

Taylor -- Unit Structures

Apache - the Shadows

Change Your Mind - Sharpe & Numan

Walk the Dinosaur - Was Not Was

My Broken Souvenirs - Pussycat

& at the Salvos in Princes St earlier same day 3 albums & 8 singles for a buck 50 - the albums were a Bert Kaempfert one, a James Last Non-Stop Dancing one, & "Love Story" by Nino & April...the singles incl. Johnny Mathis, Blondie, Brenda Lee, Del Shannon.

Yup. And they're touring the States as well, hurrah! I've been a fan since 1991...

At home I feel like a tourist.

etienne crecy presents super discount - replacing my old battered vinyl copy...

mary j blige no more drama - for the missus, but i do like some of the songs...

tiga american gigolo - impulse buy featuring loads of electro- techno like miss kittin, the advent and fischerspooner

bought saturday:

custom blue all follow everyone - lovely acoustic chill meets electronica...

and before that it would probably have been:

david holmes i got it come get it...

You've got mine, tell me more.

It's been a slow couple of months. What I have been listening to alot is Papa's Fritas "Helioself", and underated classic IMHO.

Textstar is a comp of the Klang Elektronik singles. I like the Farben material more than Jelinek and Gramm -- these are his most ornate and dubby productions. A different vinyl-only delux pkg called Starbox just came out too.

About a Boy ST Eban & Charley ST - Stephin Merritt Pedro the Lion - Control Sir - The Night I Met My Second Wife Trembling Blue Stars - Slow Soft Sighs (CD EP) Cody - Uplift (CD EP)

1. X-Press 2-Muzikizum-Well duh.

2. The Streets-Original Pirate Material. Friends despise it so I didn't get a chance to listen to it last night.

3. Justin Robertson-Bugged Out Mix CD-This should be called an Intro to Tech House.

4. David Holmes-Come Get It I Got It-Not listened to this yet.

5. American Gigolo mixed by Tiga.

6. many many many mp3s.

Looking forward to getting the new Track & Field stock...

Napalm Death - Scum
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Hawkwind - Masters of the Universe (only £2.99!)

S Club Junior - One Step Closer (for daughter, 7)

Trojan Roots Box

Tell me more! I've been put off getting new SY stuff since "A thousand leaves" sucked.

No, this is a Seattle-area group, and luv(sic) is the full and actual name of the band. :-)

>Ned said: "have you been able to find a compilation of theirs that actually has "Think That It Might" on it? Ever since I've heard the Wedding Present version, I've wanted to hear it, but none of the comps I've stumbled across lists it!"

Well, it's on the 'Pinky Blue' album so why not just get that? (If the record stores near you are as good as they say they are they should have it) I bought my copy for 40p from a car boot sale years ago. Marvellous. I still maintain 'Blue Monday' was influenced by the album version of 'I Could Be Happy'...

1. B.J. Thomas-On My Way
2. Dorothy Moore-Misty Blue
3. Sister Janet Mead-The Lord's Prayer
4. Bobby Darin-Born Walden Robert Cassotto
5. Barbra Streisand-Stoney End

1. ABC - Lexicon of Love
2. Duran Duran - Rio
3. Dif Juz - Soundpool
4. Talk Talk - Colour of Spring
5. V/A - Teil 1

Luomo.

Plan to get: Teena Marie and Lisa Lisa and Samantha Fox. (guess which book I just read!)

Tom should do the honors.