what are you listening to in 2014?

brace/choir - turning on your double: stereolab meets pale saints in 2014. divine krautrock from berlin.

shakey's blood gonna run mixtape, on the reggae/dub thread, has been playing continuously for a few days now. beyond that, i'm digging this 2014 ep from a band called ''grimm grimm''.

they only have three songs so far, from what i can tell (one a cover of a misfits song). all good.

john tilbury. the just reproach, w/oren ambarchi, is just so understated and sublime. a lot of the (combined) events didn't really register the first few times around.

Cult of Dom Keller 2nd Bardo
heavy droney psych
Archie Shepp Fire Music
Gary Higgins Red Hash

Einstürzende Neubauten - Haus der Luege

this was one of the first albums that i bought after i got my first record player circa 2004 or so. i bought it on a whim (possibly inspired by the horse ejaculating with eyes wide openo n the cover) and wasn't really into it at the time. finally gave it an honest listen today, and the second side is pretty astonishing! especially the 3-part "Fiat Lux", which is amazing and ambient, totally not what I was expecting from Neubauten.

Guru (from Ghana)-"Pooley" (afrobeatz)
Yasmine Hamdan-Ya Nass (Lebanese electropop w/ Arabic vocals)
MC5-Back in the USA

new liars
new jon porras (of barn owl)
new eyes & no eyes (nu-prog/post-rock indie)
new anthology of the '70s band jack ruby

how's the new liars record?

pretty good -- it's not a statement record, really, it's just songs. but that's okay.

Cab Calloway - This Is Hep
Lester Young - Jammin' the Blues
Various Artists - Sinner's Crossroads
Pete Johnson - Chronological Classics
Ella Mae Morse - Barrelhouse, Boogie, and the Blues
Harry "The Hipster" Gibson - Boogie Woogie in Blue

I only listen to music from the 1940s.

gene clark - no other
j.j. fad - supersonic (the whole album, not just the song, goddammit)

But the song is great (can't remember if I ever heard the whole album). Frank Kogan & xChuckxx Eddy love j.j. Fad I recall...

the song is definitely great! but there are lots of great moments on the rest of the album, too, and they're always overlooked. "Way Out" (the second track), for example, is just FUN. i love that the sides are labeled on the back as "Pop Side" and "Hip-Hop Side"

i kind of want to check out their second album, but then I remember the name (Not Just a Fad) and i just can't

malk 0 wigout
tilbury/ambarchi
olivia block - karren
(best rec of 2013)

fuck buttons - slow focus
fever ray - s/t
against me! - transgender dysphoria blues
the war on drugs - lost in the dream

Mostly just "I Luh Ya Papi" on repeat.

Zappa, Frank- Lather (D3)
Judas Priest- Defenders of the Faith
Focus- In and Out of Focus
Funkadelic- Toys
Wakeman, Rick- Myths and Legends of King Arthur’s Court
Parliament- Motor Booty Affair
These are the records I got loaded into my player I am working through right now.

Brown, James- Black Ceasar
Deep Purple- Machine Head
Black Oak Arkansas- High On the Hog
Blackfoot- Highway Song Live
Doors, The- Strange Days
Chicken Shack- Deram Years (D1)
Cheap Trick- Heaven Tonight
Edgar Broughton Band- Harvest Years (D4)
Flamin Groovies- Grease
Hendrix, Jimi- Lifelines (D4)
Humble Pie- Fillmore Box (D2)
JB’s, The- Funky Good Time (D1)
Nektar- Sounds Like This
Morrison, Van- St. Dominic’s Preview
Ohio Players- Pleasure
Parker, Maceo- Funky Music Machine
Pretty Things- Silk Torpedo
Bowie, David- Lodger
T.Rex- Zip Gun
Ten Years After- Recorded Live (D1)
Thirteenth Floor Elevators- Live
Travers. Pat- Crash & Burn
Trower, Robin- State to State (D1)
UFO- 73 to 79 (D5)
Badfinger- No Dice
Byrds, The- Ballad of Easy Rider
Captain Beefheart- I’m Going to Do What I’m Going to Do
Dale, Dick- Surfers’ Choice
Diddley, Bo- Bo Diddley Is a Gunslinger
Diddley, Bo- Bo Diddley Is a Lover
Grateful Dead- Dick’s Picks Vol. 33 (D1)
Kinks, The- Misfits
Mahogany Rush- Tales of the Unexpected
Bruce, Jack- Trust Live at the BBC (D2)
Doobie Brothers- Stampede
Little Feat- Dixie Chicken

Habib Koite (Malian)
Davido (Nigerian autotune using vocalist)

earlnash is ten years after worth checking out? i love basically all early 70s hard rock-ish stuff but always found their "iconic" woodstock performance to be grating wankery

I am really falling for this album by Rebekka Karijord, Music for Film and Theatre. Apparently she is known as a songwriter but this a richly detailed, mostly instrumental album--piano, guitars, wordless vocals, children's choir on some tracks... very ambient/new music. Sorta reminds me of Julia Holter's stuff (but I like this better), or the recent Tara Jane O'Neil album that came out last month (but I like this better.) It's a quiet and subtle record - I keep starting it over as soon as it's ended. It's on Spotify, fyi.

Eccentric Soul: Mithty Mike Lenaburg
Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples
The Cannanes - Howling At All Hours
Everything Is Made In China - Automatic Movements
Unwound - The Future Of What
Tops - Tender Opposites
Rene & Rene - The Magic of Rene & Rene

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

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uo_eC6uZluY/RvU7WXBhfLI/AAAAAAAAAxo/dZsQxIExu94/s400/blackboard3.jpg

Eccentric Soul: Mithty Mike Lenaburg
Eccentric Soul: The Young Disciples

― JacobSanders, Friday, March 28, 2014

some of those eccentric soul albums are killer. have you heard the deep city edition? i mean the first one, not the second one.

Second one is great too?

not as good. first one had, for instance, that breathtaking song by the moovers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHZiWPov4ZQ

a total unearthed gem. other songs on that disc were almost as good.

"earlnash is ten years after worth checking out?"

I got a pretty high tolerance for bluesy wankery of the early 70s type. Ten Years After are pretty second or third level, not really great songwriters at all but they could play quite well with some energy. To me, I love alot of those early 70s rock records just for the way they sound and they are some records I haven't really heard and I got mine dirt cheap. Put it this way, Ten Years After is no Foghat or Rory Gallagher or Uriah Heep. I think 50000 Miles Beneath My Brain is a cool tune even if it is a Sympathy for the Devil rip. Other than that, I would put a long list of blues rockers ahead of them. I'd say Ten Years After sadly does have a bit of Blues Hammer from the movie Ghost World in them.

With every eccentric soul release I've gotten, I think it's going to be decent, but each one is terrific and exceeded my expectations. These days I'm digging more of the group soul and sweet soul sounds than the harder funky songs. I still don't have the first two and I've yet to open the Omnibus box.

i really regret giving-up my numero group annual subscription.

Are the Cult Cargo ones worth getting?

this one is so absolutely worth getting.

http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/l/e/lestp/belize.jpg

so many great songs, like this one, the same old me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WtA-gVznRA

Yeah I forgot to mention that I agree that the first Deep City is incredible and that^ Cult Cargo is also a must-have.

With Ten Years After I really like the early stuff especially the live lp Undead. There's a coolness to the sound and what sounds like a bebop influence. Not sure if that wears off by the time of their early 70s material, certainly wasn't what was picked up by those influenced by the rapid fire notes per second understanding of Lee's fret manipulation. Think with him it started as more than wankery but it got picked up as being that.
I first came across them in the form of Spoonful on an MFP compi called The World of Blues Power. That gives a very different picture than the frenetic all focus on Lee that the Woodstock clip gives. They were a band with great interplay on the early stuff at least.

Yep. They do have a slight bit of jazz to their tunes, similar territory as the Allman Bros. of the same time. The drummer is really good.

New Stuff
YG - My Krazy Life
Freddie Gibbs + Madlib - Pinata
Onyx - Wakedafucup
Deadbeat + Paul St Hilaire - The Infinity Dub Sessions
Hauschka - Abandoned City
Leon Vynehall - Music For The Uninvited

Old Stuff
The Best Of Chet Baker
Liszt Piano Concertos 1+2 - Barenboim/Boulez
The Meters - Fire On The Bayou
UGK - Super Tight (I totally underrated this when it came out cos I was a cloth eared fool)

deep city enthusiasts otm

Dead Rider - Chills On Glass
Bird Nest Roys - Compliation
Brace/Choir - Turning On Your Double (Thanks Alex)
Fastball - Little White Lies (old, but I've been stuck on this for months now)

So far:
Pentagram - First Daze Here
Love - Da Capo (mono then most of the stereo)
Them - s/t (the one with Jerry Cole replacing most of the original members)
Zolar X - Timeless

So far TODAY that is.

NEU!
NEU! 2

I need to listen to '75, I don't think I've ever heard it!

Hero off '75 is da ●～*

Kraftwerk "Tone Float"
Red Krayola "The Parable of Arable Land"
"NEU! '75"

Yeah, I listened to it, and it's rad! I like the first song too, it's like a piano remix of one of their earlier songs. I also listened to Harmonia (very cool! almost proto electro like 80s breakdance music).

"Tone Float" is VERY "Point"-era Cornelius.

http://dirtyhippieradio.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Kraftwerk-Organisation-Tone-Float.jpg

Cool cover!

Kraftwerk - Pavillon de Paris 04 October 1976
Bridgewalker Drummers - Shamanic Journey Multiple Drumming: Shamanic Journey Series No. 7
Henri Pousseur / Michel Butor ‎– Paysages Planétaires
Rrose - Eating The Other
A Imagem da Melancolia - The Bad Tempered Consort (Portugese polyphony from the 17th century)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xdyav8r3mA

ALL MY STEREOLAB RANDOM VLC MIX:

"Dear Marge"
"The Noise of Carpet"
"Microclimate"
"Speedy Car"
"Off On"

gallon drunk - the soul of the hour (quite pale in comparison with the live experience but still very good: this band taps into the heart of darkness)

dlp, do you like the brace/choir?