what are you listening to in 2014?

Shamir - 'If It Wasn't True' - awesome disco/house/funk thing

― Slight damage to cover on top corner (chewed by a kitten) (Craigo Boingo), maandag 3 maart

This is amazing

yep, he's the best.

yeah I loved that, rad video

new Lone is excellent

Fat Trel - Gleesh
Omar Klein - To The Unknown
Beneath - Vobes
Paul Shapiro - Shofarot Verses
John Zorn - In The Hall Of Mirrors
Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Enfant Terrible
Prokofiev violin concertos no.1 + 2 - Gill Shaham, LSO

Michael Hurley et al - Have Moicy!
Charlie Christian - Genius of the Electric Guitar
Bob Dylan and the Band - A Tree with Roots
Owen Pallett - In Conflict
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Fig. 5
Paul Bley - Open, to Love
Swans - To Be Kind

Bob Drake - Lawn Ornaments (this is astounding)
Annette Peacock - I Belong To A World That's Destroying Itself aka Revenge
K. Leimer - A Period of Review (might grow on me if I listen to it again)
Emmanuelle Parrenin / Phil Fromont / Claude Lefebvre - Chateau dans les nuages
Shiina Ringo - Reimport: Ports and Harbours Bureau
Jack Tamul - Electro/Acoustic

Moers Festival sets: Leibezeit / Schmickler, Art Lindsay & Paal Nilssen-Love, Letieres Leite & Orkestra Rumpilezz, Sarah Neufeld & Colin Stetson, Tim Hecker, Ava Mendoza trio. All crazy wonderful.

not normally a fan of this type of stuff, normally, but right now thing song is the greatest thing i've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MljC8B6Iog

normally normally

Milton, please more on Lawn Ornaments? I'm having a cook-out with the Insect Trust and friends:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONKHIc8e68g

b12 - time-tourist
death grips
4 hero - parallel universe
neurosis
caustic window lp
CoH
kangding ray

And these brothers & sisters dropped in too (see the thread about this album; one of the LPs showed up on there; ball got rolling toward reissue, and at least one of this crew came by Scott Seward's shop)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LogZn8sQGUY

Quadrophenia - The Who
Entropicalia - The Soundcarriers
Love - Amen Dunes
Free for All - Bullwackies All-Stars
English Settlement - XTC
Abandoned Luncheonette - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Ultraviolence - Lana Del Rey
Exit the Dragon - Urge Overkill
Spellbinder - Gábor Szabó
Pygmalion - Slowdive
From the Mars Hotel - The Grateful Dead
Up for the Down Stroke - Parliament
Under Color of Official Right - Protomartyr
Instinct - The Moles
In the Land of Grey and Pink - Caravan

Total Control - Typical System
Carsick Cars - 3
Mike Cooper - Paper and Smoke
Wussy - Attica
The 88 - bunch of their post 2008 stuff. Lots of good singles scattered about.
The Cannanes - Howling At All Hours (unexpectedly very good)

>Milton, please more on Lawn Ornaments?

if you like Bob Drake, just open a new browser and order it this very second. Original title was 'The Overproduced Album'; it's as dense as anything he's ever done, but somehow he's also managed to make the songs catchy as well. Though it still takes a play or three to totally unpack some of them because there sure is a lot going on

Yasushi Utsunomiya - Tokusa-No-Kandakara (91 Pieces of 'C') - http://www.discogs.com/Y-Utsunomia-Tokusa-No-Kandakara-91-Pieces-Of-C-Educational-Kit/release/1123449
- "ripped from an edition of 25 discs made for his Audio Engineering class in Japan, this linearly details his remix from the Art Bears box set from start to finish"
Ricardo Mandolini - Elektro-Akustische-Musik (1982) - this is fantastic, glitch & high frequency pieces, Mego about 15 years early
Mado Robin - Historical Recordings from 1952-55
Dennis Alcapone - Forever Version
JD Emmanuel - Time Traveler
Voches de Sardinna - Tenore e Cuncordu de Orosei
Eliane Radigue - Opus 17
David Dunn - Autonomous and Dynamical Systems
Dieter Moebius - Nidemonex

Oregon's Pickathon on livestream. Now playing: Warpaint. Luv gets kinda crazy with a spooky little girl like them:
http://new.livestream.com/pickathon/events/3228592
Next: Brown Out doing their Brown Sabbath re-vision. (10:40 CST)
Prob stick around for Nickel Creek at 11:50.

Brown Out bring out the Latin roots of the Sabs, just enough, from what I've heard.

Warpaint rockin. Thought they were gonna get too shoegaze, but churning now.

Obnox - Louder Space
Giacinto Scelsi - Oeuvre Intégrale pour choeur et orchestre symphonique
Dino Saluzzi Group - El Valle de la Infancia
Dino Saluzzi/Rosamunde Quartett - Kultrum Music For Bandoneon And String Quartet
Dino Saluzzi & Anja Lechner - Ojos Negros
Mark Barrott - Sketches From An Island
Luciano Cilio - Dell’Universo Assente
ASC - Truth Be Told
Ambarchi & O'Malley & Dunn - Shade Themes From Kairos
Head High - Megatrap

Not nec a big fan of the ECM sound, but remember liking this:

Dino Saluzzi
Once upon a time – Far away in the south

Dino Saluzzi bandoneón
Palle Mikkelborg trumpet, fluegelhorn
Charlie Haden bass
Pierre Favre percussion
Recorded July 1985 at Tonstudio Bauer, Ludwigsburg
Engineer: Martin Wieland
Produced by Manfred Eicher

Got that one and had a few listens so far, it sounds very nice and a sad reminder that Haden passed only a few weeks ago. The sole Haden composition "Silence" is really beautiful. His band recordings are quite changeless over the decades, not that this detracts from them because it is quite an awesome thing he does imo, but anything off this wouldn't sound out of place on his latest album 30 yrs later.

klaus lang - sais.
marc baron - hidden tapes
laurence crane - chamber works 1992 - 2009
Johnny Chang, Angharad Davies, Jamie Drouin, Phil Durrant, Lee Patterson & John Tilbury; Variable Formations

CAN! I LOVE CAN!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NcWQDGNEI8&list=UUwdtlUz1rxjQS60MUrmXEGA

Hi skotrok,

Due to a copyright claim, your YouTube video has been blocked in some countries. This means that your video is still up on YouTube, but people in some countries may not be able to watch it.

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This is one I forgot to mention, damn! this one is so essential.

Paul O'Dette - Jacaras - 18th Century Spanish Baroque Guitar Music Of Santiago De Murcia

xp aww man Uphill is such a jam, too, it should be free for all the people of the earth

Story Roedelius - Lazy Arc
Dr. Jeffrey Thompson - Celestial Dolphin
Terry Jennings / John Cage played by John Tilbury & Sebastian Lexer - Lost Daylight
Swingle Singers - American Look
http://www.batagov.com/zvuki/prayers_and_dances_e.htm

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dillinja, apparently

Bitchin Bajas - st
Daniel Jacques - Livet Efter Detta
Julius Steinhoff - Flocking Behaviour
Barenboim/Boulez/Staatskpelle Berlin - Liszt Piano Concertos 1+2
Angel - Terra Null
John Zorn - The Testament Of Solomon
Dj Mustard - 10 Summers
Eduard Artemiev - Solaris Soundtrack (just track 1 on repeat forever tbh)

Corneliu Cezar ‎– Ziua Fără Sfârșit (Romanian electronic music 1967-1983 -- just when I thought I'd heard everything -- 'Rota' in particular as good as it gets)
Powerdove - Arrest
Bruno Maderna - Musica Elettronica 1956-1962
Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu
Vladimir Ussachevsky - Film Music (still amazing)

Ryan Adams---Ryan AdamsLeaves are almost ready to fall. While you're washing the jean jacket at the laundromat, time to slip the buds on---might flatten the doob behind your ear, but fuck it: time to recollect that schoolgirl. If the Gin Blossoms guy came back from a long, refreshing nap, and Petty produced, with some of the Heartbreakers backing, the results might go something like this. Several stand-outs, and they're all NPR/college radio-ready, but the actual Petty might advise against so much reliance on medium-tempo chordal ominousity.

I'm listening to Geoffrey O'Conner's album, Fan Fiction. If you're into 80's-sounding synth pop, this is pretty great.

This is my current playlist...
Pink Floyd- Atom Heart Mother
Hellacopters- Super Shitty to the Max
Catherine Wheel- Like Cats and Dogs
Dust- Hard Attack/Dust
Cheap Trick- Heaven Tonight
Flamin’ Groovies- Teenage Head
Gallagher- Rory- Blueprint
Leaf Hound- Grower of Mushroom
Afghan Whigs- Gentleman
Mercyful Fate- Don’t Break the Oath
Savage- Loose N Lethal
Diamond Head- Lightning to the Nations
Celtic Frost- Into the Pandemonium

lee gamble -- KOCH / dutch tvashar plumes
stravinsky -- piano music (lin) / firebird transcription (biret)
regis -- in a syrian tongue
conrad schnitzler -- rot
chapterhouse -- rownderbout
shellac -- dude incredible
franck -- violin sonata (perlman/argerich)
jessica bailiff -- at the down-turned jagged rim of the sky
talking heads -- remain in light
schoenberg -- piano concerto (uchida)
the black dog -- werk and play
kevin drumm -- live 2000

http://oliviablock1.bandcamp.com/album/heave-to

Jennifer Castle - Pink City
Daniel Jacques - Livet Efter Detta
Tonstartsbandht - Overseas
Ali Farka Touré & Toumani Diabaté - Ali & Toumani
The United States Of America - s/t
Schubert/String Quartet no. 14 - Brodsky Quartet
A massive archive of Alistair Cooke letters from america mp3's from the 2000's
Angel - Terra Null
Gal Costa - s/t
Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi - s/t

sebadoh- smash your head on the punk rock
dead confederate- wrecking ball
maureeny wishful- the maureeny wishful album
paul hindemith- composers in person, vol. 1
wray- s/t
meta meta- metal metal
nuggets of the golden age of gospel, 1945-1958
voivod- dimension hatross
jute gyte- vast chains
the hilliard ensemble- orlando di lasso: prophetiae sibyllarum
titan- elevator
wizz jones- the legendary me

usw.

I just got a box of metal CDs out of storage so: Human Remains, Nokturnal Mortum, Demoncy, Human Remains, Messiah, Cloven Hoof, etc.

Also
Ty Segall - Manipulator
Electric Citizen - Sateen
V/A Nigeria Afrobeat Special
V/A Ghana Special
Bert Jansch - Rosemary Lane
Nurt - s/t
Sonny Forriest - Tuff Pickin'
Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension
Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
Weather Report - Sweetnighter
V/A - Glam-O-Rama Vol 1 & 2
Pypy - Pagan Day
Public Nuisance - Gotta Survive
Marco Shuttle - Fanfara 12"
Mobb Deep - The Infamous
a lot of early Bowie
Crime - Murder By Guitar
Dirtbombs - Ooey Gooey Chewy Ka-Blooey

I have become pretty well accustomed to that last Dirtbombs album because my son is persistently blasting it out on his ipod. I wasn't keen on it last year but it has grown on me recently.

It didn't really appeal to me at first, but I've used it as background music at work and it's slowly crept into my brain.

demdike stare tesptressings 04/05/06 ✓✓✓✓✓
sensate focus eps ✓✓
syro ✓✓✓✓
quaristice ✓✓✓
confield ✓✓✓✓✓
ueno masaaki ✓✓✓✓
florent schmitt ombres/mirages/tragedie de salome (larderet pf) ✓✓✓✓
liszt opera transcriptions (lortie) ✓✓✓✓
hs 'verdigris reader' ✓
bach english suites (tureck) ✓✓✓✓

RA gave Syro a 5/5, that puts it in the same esteemed class as Biokinetics, Routes Not Roots and Voices From The Lake and lots of so so stuff as well that never fails to send their comments section into meltdown. As an old git a new AT album makes me think of it in a timescale against older ageing artists; back in my youth in the 90's I recall condescending a 40-ish tech-college tutor who (hip-barber mode)is telling me how nerve net is Eno's best album for years in the pub at lunchtime!

The five tick rating system is a welcome innovation to this thread, I al;ways dig ticks and stars more than folk talking bollocks.

idk how many ✓s it could potentially go up to because i haven't listened to all of the pc music releases yet
✓ is 'just about worthwhile' rather than crap though

chavez - ride the fader -- 32 out of 35 peeled & washed carrots
superchunk - come pick me up -- 14/14 days out of two weeks
olivia block - heave to -- fuck yeah
aphex twin - syro -- *phew*

Pure Reality, the debut from Dark Blue, comes out in a couple weeks on the Jade Tree label; it's streaming in full here:

http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/228746/premiere-dark-blue-stream-debut-album-pure-reality-in-full/

Dark Blue is made up of Philly indie rock veterans John Sharkey III (Clockcleaner, Puerto Rico Flowers) Andrew Mackie Nelson (Ceremony, Paint it Black, Puerto Rico Flowers) and Michael Sneeringer (Strand of Oaks, formerly from Purling Hiss, Puerto Rico Flowers).

The debut "Pure Reality" could be the soundtrack to a John Hughes movie provided that Ian Curtis wrote it. It and it reminds me of when I was a teenager in the '80s and I would turn to a then-nascent WHFS. The album is more catchy than twitchy which is fine, and I especially love the darkness that permeates the proceedings, punctuated with slashing guitars and stately baritone vocals.

Missed opportunity to call it Sharkey's Machine.

old Caetano Veloso album-Bicho

I'm on some spirit of '76 today:

Magma- Udu Wudu
Novalis- Sommerabend
JJ Cale- Troubadour
Picchio dal Pozzo (this is great btw)
Sweet- Give Us a Wink
Angel- Helluva Band
Earth, Wind & Fire- Spirit

Magma- Udu Wudu

Referenced in Children of Men IIRC