What are you listening to? 2011

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.