What are you listening to? 2011

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
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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?