What are you listening to? 2011

The Chad VanGaalen just convinces me more that I'm falling out with "Indie rock"

lol you realize there's dull milquetoast shit like this in every genre right?

listening to some records i bought in brooklyn this weekend, at Academy:

'Shaan' - classic Bollywood film soundtrack circa 1980, i paid $10 for this but it's worth a lot more than that - funk and Moogs etc in a ridiculous gold foil gatefold, so great
Ralph Towner - 'Solstice' (sonic ECM wallpaper circa 1975, beautiful, five bucks)
Fearless Four - 'Problems of the World' (produced by Kurtis Blow circa '83, trippy cover art, $5)
Muzak: Music of the '80s (haha I already have this but I couldn't resist buying it again, $5)
Bobby Konders and the Massive Sounds - house music, 1992, six bucks

a pricey haul for me - i usually pay between $1 to $5 for my vinyl, not $5 to $10, but you know, new york city

Bob Ostertag - Motormouth
Rrose x Bob Ostertag - Motormouth Variations / Primary Evidence
Kit Clayton - Nek Purpalet / Lateral Forces 12"s
Antimatter - Reset
Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness
Biber - Rosary Sonatas (Andrew Manze, Richard Egarr)

http://i.imgur.com/zyjvc.jpg

Still on a tear with new music, which feels great given that I was totally out of the game for several years... Recently, I've been loving:

John Maus: Pitiless Censors (it's a compulsion at this point; I listen to this at least once a day)
Morphosis: What Have We Learned (this gets better with every listen; texturally gritty and palpably improvisatory techno)
Hatchback: Zeus and Apollo (self-described "new New Age" that is so gorgeously produced, touches of Balearic, the mellower end of krautrock, synthy spacey stuff, just beautiful)
Massimiliano Pagliara: Focus for Infinity (fantastically well done very reverential and restrained new disco, reminds me of the way I felt when I first heard the Metro Area records years back)
Recloose: Saturday Night Manifesto EP (this is really REALLY good, surprisingly so)
I got a bunch of Robert Palmer LPs for very cheap that have been flooring me as well, especially Clues

Trans Am - Futureworld
Fruit Bats - Tripper
Le Butcherettes - Sin Sin Sin
Born of Osiris - The Discovery
Tommy Keen - Tommy Keene You Hear Me

Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments
Great Plains
New Bomb Turks
the Descendents
John Cale
Guided By Voices

King Crimson
Cave
PG Six
Velvet Underground
Horace Silver
Boston Spaceships

Conrad Schnitzler - Ballet Statique, Rot, Blau, Gelb, Consequenz 3, Conal, Consequenz II, Live Action 77

Tommy Keen - Tommy Keene You Hear Me

-- is this good? it's a best-of right?

Cluster - live KFJC FM 27 June 1996, California 23/24/25/26 July 2008
Terry Riley - Shri Camel
NWL - Booper Rehearsals
Elizabeth Cotten - Freight Train and Other North Carolina Folk Songs
Cut Hands
Easley Blackwood - Microtonal

-- is this good? it's a best-of right?

Yeah, its a two-disc retrospective. I'm probably not the best to judge the quality because this is the first time I've really delved into Keene (after my intro via hsi project with Pollard) but I really, really like it. He's a tremendous talent and there's so many great songs. It's really long, lots to crawl through. It's on Spotify if you want to check it out.

Debo Band
Amina Alaoui
Wale with TCB go-go band
Nicki Minaj
Machito
Miguel
Replacements

cd's I've been playing in the car recently:
Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots, Mingus Dinasty
Funkadelic - s/t, Free Your Mind..., Hardcore Jollies, America Eats Its Young
Juan MacLean DJ Kicks
Sunny Day Real Estate - How It Feels To Be Something On
Ghost - In Stormy Nights
The Advisory Circle - Other Channels

Tomutonttu - Elävänä planeetalla
Helm - Cryptography
Hieroglyphic Being - A Romance of Two Planets
O Yuki Conjugate - Primitive
Linda Lewis - Lark
Naked Lady Wrestlers
The George Edwards Group
A Blaze Colour

thx jon -- yeah keene is a guy i've always meant to check out more in depth, but have only heard bits and pieces.

The Byrds - Notorious Byrd Brothers/Younger Than Yesterday/Fifth Dimension
Taj Mahal - The Natch'l Blues
The Red Krayola - God Bless The Red Krayola And All Who Sail With It
Unknown Mortal Orchestra - S/T
Sorry Bamba - Volume One 1970-1979
Silver Apples - S/T / Contact
Here We Go Magic - The January EP
Sandro Perri - Impossible Spaces
The War On Drugs - Slave Ambient
Spoon - Gimme Fiction
Mickey Newbury - Looks Like Rain
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across The Rooftops
It's Immaterial - Song

bg - chopper city in the ghetto
Yes - fragile
Yes - relayer
Fingers Inc - another side
Model 500 - deep space

a gigantic Herbert Brün vinyl box set, which I found in one of the cracks and crevices in my house (it is an odd house)

(Have found The Odder They Come OST in those crevices yet? :)

Harold Budd - Live in Chicago, New Music America 1982
Tokyo Jihen - Discovery
Radio Soulwax - Introversy
Hecker - Speculative Solution
Blevin Blectum - Solar Rattle
Terry Riley - Shri Camel
Joni Mitchell - Mingus
Larry Levan - Paradise Garage 2nd Birthday 1979 4 hour mix
Alfred Brendel plays operatic transcriptions by Liszt + Kim So Hee - P'ansori

i didn't know you liked larry levan mixes!

that one is great, i just saw it today

Love this:

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/austra_1.jpg

Austra - Feel It Break

Barn Owl - Lost in the Glare

^ this album is a fucking MONSTER. love it love it love it. out in September.

Mika Vainio - 'Life (It Eats You Up)'
Kraftwerk - 'Neon Lights' pitched down to -8
Todd Terry - 'Just Wanna Dance'

At work:
The Remains - s/t
The New Age - All Around
Silver Apples - s/t & Contact
Eberhard Weber - The Colours of Chloë
James Brown - Funk Power
K. Leimer - Closed System Potentials
Savoy Brown - Raw Sienna

Kraftwerk - 'Neon Lights' pitched down to -8

in the car:
Professor Genius
Róisín Murphy - Overpowered

http://www.discogs.com/Charlotte-Hug-Slipway-To-Galaxies/release/2931096

^^ fuckin incredible

looks great!

arcane device - six + four
jim wilson - god's chorus of crickets
eliane radigue - transamorem - transmortem
furtwängler conducts mozart w/ paul badura-skoda & dagmar bella
terry riley - shri camel
david tudor - mills college 1995

lucero - that much further west demos
ryan adams - fox theater show 2002
dillinger four - situationist comedy
gram parsons - live with the fallen angels

http://i.imgur.com/bc6j6.jpg

Boy Better Know - Tropical 2
Afrikan Sciences - Means & Ways

And. . . the usual stuff. Willie Colon/Mon Rivera's "Julia Lee" was slaying me yesterday.

Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
Azari & III - Azari & III
The Beach Boys - Sunflower
St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
Amon Duul II - Vive La Trance

I love the trick bombastic intro. on this, and then the groove it settles into:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW9xo4Wodq4

Perfect close for this compilation.

one fast move and i'm gone

EdwardVesala!EdwardVesala!EdwardVesala!
solo & lotsa various ensembles, from the late 60s to the early 90s
pretty overwhelming in places

Kiyohiko Senba And His Haniwa All Stars – Haniwa
The Moles - Instinct
Dale Jenkins - Undesirable Elements EP
Zdenek Liska - Music From The Films of Jan Svankmajer
Danielle Dax - Jesus Egg That Wept
Rabih Abou-Khalil - Blue Camel
Paradox - Drifting Feather
Ramsey Lewis - Maiden Voyage
Kay Hoffman - Floret Silva

not ilm fashionable but this

http://soundcloud.com/stimulus/3rd-1st-impression-preview

fav drummermixtape

Seppo "Paroni" Paakkuainen, Plastic Maailma (1971)
Karelia, Suomi Pop (1971?)
Karelia, Suomi Pop 2 (1971?)
Apollo, Apollo (1970)
Owen, Ghost Town
Tomasz Stanko, From The Green Hill (1999)
Krzysztof Komeda, Muzyka Krzysztofa Komedy 3 (rec. 1967)

Pole 2
move d @ panoramabar 2011-03-27
Jungle Book - Intelligent Minds Of Jungle: Vol 1 (Reinforced)

Last couple of weeks it has been either Motorhead or the Grateful Dead but I did listen to the first couple of Suicide albums last night for the first time in a few years.

kurt vile kurt vile kurt vile
liturgy - aesthetica
gui boratto - iii
new blink182 hehe

The Durutti Column - The Guitar and Other Machines

<333

some vinyl records i picked up at Reckless in Chicago:

Liquid Sky OST (creepy Fairlight CMI soundtrack, circa '83)
Voyage - Fly Away (includes their timeless 'Balinese disco' hit, 'Kechak Fantasy')
Pay It All Back Vol. 2 (old On-U comp with psychedelic 20-page booklet)

Various, Toatuur 2, 2011
Pentangle, Sweet Child
Lindsey Buckingham, Seeds We Sow

wade mainer

xpost

Liquid Sky really made a strong impression on me as a kid. I think it was mostly the combination of trippy fluorescent visuals, strange synthesized music, and boobs.

Jon Hassell
Gene Clark and Carla Olson
The Boss
The Fall
folk-rock
Dead Moon
Sun Ra "Lanquidity"
too much music

the soundtrack from Drive

seriously, it's kinda decent