What are you listening to 2016?

so much 70s brazil goodness, so little time...

i remember the 35 sweet goodbyes
when you put me on the wolverine up to annandale

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Almost exclusively bands with female vocalists. I dunno, male vocalists just don't do anything for me nowadays

xp i thought the right one was a Whitehouse reissue for a minute

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listening to the stuff i got at the record show today:

A.F.T. - Automatic Fine Tuning - Charisma - 1976

Steve Piccolo's Domestic Exile – Materiali Sonori – 1983

Bobby Timmons – The Soul Man – Prestige - 1966 (nice first pressing)

Julius Watkins & Charlie Rouse – The Jazz Modes – Atlantic – 1959 (beautiful 1st pressing. Such a stunning copy.)

William DeVaughan – Be Thankful For What You Got – Roxbury – 1974

Paulo Mauro – Blazing Brilliance From Brazil – Tangerine – 1972

Jacques Michel – SOS – Le Disques Zodiaque – 1971

Michael Howell – In The Silence – Milestone – 1974

The Golden Earring – Eight Miles High – Atlantic – 1969

Flashlight – S/T – Philly Groove – 1978 (A Tom Moulton mix I'd never heard and which sounds completely amazing...)

Jerry Jeff Walker – Five Years Gone – Atco – 1969 (Pristine hipster jerry jeff for five bucks!)

Fluff – S/T – Roulette – 1972

Midnight Sun – S/T – Kapp – 1972

Chilliwack – S/T – Parrot – 1970

Is that the double Chilliwack with the weird echo chamber stuff? I love that record.

no, the double album is their second album. this is their first. which is also very cool.

think you would like the AFT album a bunch:

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think you would like the AFT album a bunch:

Dude you are absolutely right!! Man that intro is amazing.

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Chaino - Jungle Echoes
The Persuaders - Surfer's Nightmare
Diane Richards - In the Name of Love
Brandy Clark - Big Day in a Small Town
Shirley Nanette - Never Coming Back
Cross Creek - Up the Creek

Jandek

Trad Gras Och Stenar box set

Sand albums on Rotorelief

Harmonia - Documents 1975

Morricone soundtracks, god help me

Info on that Peter Maxwell Davies, please! Esp. listening experience.

so happy to get that midnight sun record. such a nice copy too. this is the showstopper to end all showstoppers. guitars for days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMdN17DhzSA

that transition around the 8 minute mark from lightning shred prog into heavy boogie riff kills me to death. and then i am reborn and then i die again.

yeah, just start it at 8:00 and listen from there. yeeesh.

i don't know who i'm talking to.

gottpunch, i guess, if he's around.

wwwwwwowwwww, splendid, thank you skot! Great testimonial, too. Though personally, I wouldn't want to *just* start it around the 8 minute mark (although that does kill!), cos it had even non-prog me from the beginning. Sunny Sunday fluid dynamics-->heavy boogie seems like a classic Groundhogs move, though come to think of it not sure they ever did it this well. Guy in YouTube Comments proclaims them as Scands (says they're Danish) compatible, I'd say, w Trad, Gras, Stenar at their best or best intended, and other musical ancestors of Dungen, for isnt. Same commentator recs Ache who also are Danish and Popul Vuh(Not The German Band)/Popol Ace who are Norwegian Anybody know those? Thanks again!

That Midnight Sun track is a jam, kinda similar to Focus. Is the rest of it that upbeat?

Pita - Get in
Autechre - elseqs
Eva-Marie Houben - aus den fliegenden blattern eines fahrenden waldhorniste
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Joda Clement - Sea Songs

Fun fact: the piano player in Midnight Sun played on one of the first Albert Ayler albums, My Name Is Albert Ayler.

(Midnight Sun were originally called Rainbow Band and they put out an album a year before the Midnight Sun album with an earlier version of "Living On The Hill" which is on Youtube. They basically re-recorded the Rainbow Band album for the Midnight Sun album. Which doesn't happen every day. Both albums are great. If you need more...)

Info on that Peter Maxwell Davies, please! Esp. listening experience.

to be honest, most of the listening experience for me consists of "ïs it over yet?" it's long... very, very long. a few moments where things seem to be working up to a dramatic point, but mostly listen to this as background sound. though to be fair it is a score for an *avant-garde* ballet, so the visual component is entirely lacking. still trying to find a way into his later works.

as far as his other (earlier) compositions, would recommend eight songs for a mad king in the julius eastman recording (doesn't seem to be on youtube!) also really like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFQ35dZbstc

Thanks! Yeah,eight songs... is the title I've seen most frequently, will check.
Scott, of course more Midnight Sun Rainbow Band (needs to be here and now)!

btw an earlier production put on by that ballet company was soundtracked by savage rose!

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I've got that LP! Forgot which ballet company it was associated with, and hadn't thought to look on the 'Tube, even though I need a new turntable (one that I can play through headphones, later for speakers---suggestions welcome)

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OH and at the record show someone had boxes of beautiful unplayed CDs (a lot of promo copies) for 50 cents each and i got good stuff for the store - more current rap and some 4AD stuff and indie rock - but i'm keeping these and listening to them this week. lots of out of print rap goodness:

saafir - boxcar sessions - qwest - 1994

m.c. shan - play it again, shan - cold chillin' - 1990

the beatnuts - classic nuts vol. 1 - loud - 2002

everlast - forever everlasting - wb - 1990 ("i got the knack" one of my fave videos of all time for the part with divine styler and scheme team slam dancing.)

the beatnuts - stone crazy - relativity - 1997

dana dane - rollin' wit dana dane - maverick - 1995

the genius - words from the genius - cold chillin' - 1991

grand daddy i.u. - smooth assassin - cold chillin' - 1990

diamond shell - the grand imperial diamond shell - cold chillin' - 1991 (i actually brought my vinyl copy of this to the show to sell and i thought to myself - well, i can probably find it on CD someday...!!!)

nubian m.o.b. - s/t - cold chillin' - 1992

big daddy kane - looks like a job for... - cold chillin' - 1993

da bush babees - ambushed - reprise - 1994

lord finesse - return of the funky man - giant - 1992

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That's a pair of trousers.

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vatican shadow - death is unity with god

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it's quite majestic the way "al quaeda (branch davidian)" develops from an extremely slow lurch with barely recognizable rhythm to a distorted downtempo nubeat/bodymusic kind of thing. like reverse disintegration loops but with beats: starts out sounding like dying cassette tape, ends with recognizable electronic dance form.

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which is pretty fantastic. Sounds about 10 years earlier than its 1975 release. But with added African tinge. But really this flits between things that sound like mid 60s garage pop and bubblegum but with beefier guitar. I think I love this lp. Now Again have a decent sounding remaster of it out.

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Have wanted a copy of this since I got the Nu Yorica compi on Souljazz back in the mid to late 90s. I found out recently that there is a cheap Japanese reissue cd of it around so grabbed a copy of that.
Great funky lp. Has Eddie Palmieri on keyboards though not sure how much that stands out.

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This has some great stuff on it, mainly noticing the Affectionate Punch and 4th Drawer Down stuff I think. But have mainly been listening to the first disc.
Actually some of the 2nd sounds a bit mushy but still great stuff. first disc does sound great so I think I may still need to pick up the lp reissues. I have the previous ones but that is from 15 years ago so probably do need to upgrade.

The Invisible.

basically loads of Yuseef Lateef at the moment

or even Yusef

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extended stone roses jams vs early era verve

found it for a coin many years ago, listened to it a couple of times, and then forgot about it.

whereas today it sounds rather lovely.

The Invisible.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 30 June 2016 13:51 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the new album is very good isn't it

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THough I think the soundfiles I'm listening to may have reversed teh titles on a couple of tracks. i was listening to a 17 minute Dreaming Girls and wondering why it was being roundly dismissed by a number of people.

Might just be that I like the track and others don't and I'm reading duration wrong cos I have a headfull of flu

@ boxedjoy - yes it is, and I finally bought Rispah too, which is also excellent, albeit pretty different. I'd quite liked the first album but not gone any further for some reason. They've developed into something really quite special.

Buzzcocks, Motorhead, Husker Du and late 80s grunge. I got a thumb drive with some live albums by Iron Maiden, BB King, Grand Funk and Pink Floyd going too in the truck.

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which is great. I thought it was going to be more electric but it is great jazzy stuff anyway. Him with a small combo in 1968 playing a lot of the material from the first couple of lps plus a solo keyboard elegy to lenny Bruce.
Looks like this is OOP . I just went through a load of external hard drives i no longer have connected and shifetd a load of stuff onto one of the drives I am currently using so have access to this again after not hearing it in years

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I left this in a pile for too long unplayed and the hard drive i'd copied it to has crashed.
But wow, visceral stuff.
Not sure if this has been at all influential but would hope it has been. has anybody directly cited it?

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