What Are You Listening To: pre-summer 2005.

Neil & Iraiza - Johnny Marr? & I Love NY
The Go! Team - Thunder Lightning Strike Homemade Mini-Lp
Junior Senior - D-d-d-don't Stop The Beat
LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem
Superdense Child - Elvis Pig Farmer
Mandy Moore - Coverage
The Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party Ever
Plus-Tech Squeeze Box - Fakevox & Cartooom!
Booka Shade - Vertigo
Strawberry Machine - Crazy Kilt

Songs:

Takako Minekawa - 'Milk Rock' (Cornelius Remix)
Madonna - 'Hollywood' (The Micronauts Remix)
Flipper's Guitar - 'Going Zero'
The Shortwave Set - 'Is It Any Wonder'
Bronze Age Fox - 'Dinosaur'
The Avalanches - 'With My Baby'
Kiley Dean - 'Kiss Me Like That'
PJ & Duncan - 'Our Radio Rocks'
Teedra Moses - 'Doin' You'
Hideki Kaji - 'Forever Young (Poni-Tails Season)'
Kelis - 'Running Mate'
The Micronauts - 'Baby Wants To Rock'
Kenji Ozawa (Title unknown)
Gothis Archies/Future Bible Heroes - Stuff track 6
Pet Shop Boys ft. Dusty Springfield - 'What Have I Done To Deserve This?"

This sounds very traditional to me, with fantastic percussion. I found this included in the files of someone on a mostly Latin (but Afro-Latin: son, salsa, etc.) oriented hub.

It's great and there is a DVD to watch as well! YAY!

I'm going to be sending you some Umm Kulthum, like probably in the next few hours. I would not object if you sent me a copy of that Theodorakis collection (and any other good Greek stuff you might want to add).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/prehear/pip/hfgok/

Do you have Odes by Vangelis/ Irene Papas?

Kulthum I'm very much looking forward to, yesyes :)

I've been listening very fussily to a lot of downloaded stuff and such, most of which isn't doing much for me: the recent pseudo-live Victor Manuelle, Don Omar: The Last Don Live (pretty bleah from what I've heard of it), some other really horrible reggaeton (this must be the real stuff) I pulled out of someone's folders.

And now over to Cano Estremera, but I think I need to put on a palate cleaner soon (something a little avant-garde).

Yeah, that record didn't get enough props for my liking.

First twenty (note: a lot of this is just stuff I was curious and burnt from places):
Rapture, "Sister Savior (whatever remix is on the DFA box #2)"
This Mortal Coil, "D. D. and E."
NOFX, "Shut Up Already"
Fischerspooner, "Just Let Go"
Kings Of Leon, "Four Kicks"
Dig, "Unlucky Friend"
Fall, "Birmingham School Of Business School"
Magazine, "Parade" (this is awful)
Young Heart Attack, "Misty Rowe"
Fall, "Wrong Place, Right Time"
Deus, "W.C.S. (First Draft)"
Prince, "Uptown"
John Coltrane, "Moment's Notice"
Fall, "Bill Is Dead" (why all the Fall, magic computer shuffle?)
Juan MacLean, "Less Than Human" (why all the DFA comp, magic computer shuffle?)
Dig, "Anymore" (why all the DIG? WTF I gave you like 1500+ songs computer!!!)
Travis Morrison, "What's Your Fantasy?" (that's more like it)
Chameleons, "Paradiso"
Fiona Apple, "Fast As You Can"
Loquat, "Swingset Chain"

The Shortwave Set - The Debt Collection
Superthriller - Superthriller 1
Len - You Can't Stop The Bum Rush
Broadcast - Haha Sound
Flipper's Guitar - Dr Head's World Tower
The United States of America - s/t
Wonderful - God Bless Our Pad
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Love
Beck - Guero
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Supersystem - Always Never Again
Lemon Jelly - Jelly Mixture
The Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

Songs:
Various Janet Jackson, Pine*AM and Public Enemy mp3s
Neil & Iraiza - Fez (Men Working), Violetta, Edit.Meddle
Cornelius - Lazy, The Micro-Disneycal World Tour, Brazil, 69/96
DJ Shadow - What Does Your Soul Look Like Pt.1 (Blue Sky Revisit)
Cybotron - Clear
Annie - Me Plus One
Kahimi Karie - Candyman
Lance Lockarm - Bust A Million
Missy Elliott - Beep Me 911
NERD - Lapdance (Freeform Reform)
Mousse T - Is It Cos I'm Cool (Moonbootica Remix)
Moonbootica - Bulldog Beats
Duran Duran - The Reflex (FakeID Mix)
Amy Winehouse - Pumps (Mylo Mix)
Supercar - Strobolights
The Avalanches - With My Baby
Alex Gopher - Party People (Soulwax Mix)
Vitalic - My Friend Dario (Extended)
Daft Punk vs Basement Jaxx - Technologic
Stan Bush - Dare
Elephant Man - Blessed
Robyn - Konichiwa Bitches, Be Mine (release album soon, plz)
Lene Nystrom - It's Your Duty
Aqua - Doctor Jones
The Dust Brothers - I Just Don't Care

72 minutes from Germany's greatest ever band!

(the tip of the icerberg)

Inoffensively droney, so far. Not something I really have much use for, but not unpleasant.

Yes, the title track begins like an awkward hoedown, but it soon turns into one of the most exciting and least sensible chord sequences in the history of The United States of America.

I hope he's referring to the psych band The United States of America 'cause I thought of them too when listening to the album.

& now Fripp & Eno Equatorial Stars.

a Wilco gig
Miles Davis - On the Corner
Rush - Permanent Waves
Otomo Yoshihide - Guitar Solo
Interpol - "C'mere"
John Zorn - Masada String Trio

The Fripp & Eno CD came out last year. It's new material, and yes, it's basically similar to the 70s albums. Eno's portion on this sounds less distinctive than his contribution to those older albums. It's good, but so far I don't hear as many interesting things going on, and it doesn't feel as emotionally intense as the earlier material. More strictly ambient in a way.

'box of chameleons' is fantastic from the one CD I've heard so far: staggering range of material here!!!

superculto is one of their "numbered" (3) series. more goodness.

Green Day - "Holiday"
Ratatat
Rush - Moving Pictures
Sean Paul - Dutty Rock
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - "Give It Away"
Pole - 1
Stars of the Lid - Avec Laudenum
Matthew Shipp - Nu Bop
Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages

Archive Londinium
Charlie Christian Genius Of The Electric Guitar
KLF Ultra Rare Trax
Major Force The Original Art-Form
Brad Mehldau Trio Anything Goes
mu-Ziq Bluff Limbo
Mud As, Bs & Rarities
Rotary Connection Songs/Hey Love
Carly Simon Reflections: Greatest Hits
Sweet Exorcist C.C.E.P. (Warp 1!)
Suede Sci-Fi Lullabies
Various Early Modulations/Vintage Volts
Wolfsbane Massive Noise Injection

PJ Harvey - Stories from the City, Stories From the Sea
DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
James Brown - Make It Funky: The Big Payback 1971-1975

Vägilased, Väga ilusad
Various, Liquid Architecture

They are 3 piece from the US - rick/alan bishop with charles gocher. Basic rock trio line-up but they are all multi-instrumentalists, i think, they also have their assoaciates with whom they collaborate with sort of AMM-ish.

My first from them was carnival folk resurrection no 7 (libyan dream). I like it and wz fine with it.

richard bishop has released a solo album

Tough to describe what they actually sound like bcz that can change wildly from record to record. I think there's something of the Sun Ra abt them - they def shared his preference for recording absolutely EVERYTHING! They have certainly released lots of stuff of varying quality. The key is whatever they put their minds to they can pull off. To me, it comes down to that they are very good at faking it. They also love morricone and their records can across as a collage of all sorts, just like his soundtracks. The humour is "surrealistic", sometimes it stiffens up their records but at other points its very funny.

so anyway more from the "carnival folk resurrection" series today (their 'numbered' series as i called above). no 4 sounda like a pleasant jazz retrospect, no 2's the dramy draw is mostly piano led, song-like, but the title track is all tibetan bells and pans mindmeld.

Hating both so far. They will soon be scattered into random 1s and 0s, or whatever happens when you delete a file.