What are you listening to? 2011

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