What are you listening to? 2021

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Quite digging this thing by Folly Group. Sort of an Arab Strap–Gang of Four–Sleaford Mods thing going on, but I’ve never heard anything quite like it.

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Icelandic post-rock band that I saw playing a gig soundtracking a silent film of Fantomas at the local University a couple of years back.
I picked this cd up from them there and haven't listened to it in a while. It moves between semi ambient stuff to more upbeat classical stuff. I think it's pretty good. Should try to remember it more frequently. Noice.

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2nd disc of the 2nd singles compilation which was initially a mistake cos I hadn't checked the dates of recordings so wound up with more late 50s stuff when I was looking for electric. Think i will move over to the 3rd disc next and that is the late 60s onwards one.
Quite happy after listening to the disc I've chosen though has some cool stuff on. I'm really taken with that song I think is called the Sun One about the man from the sun. Would love to hear a rock band cover that so is there a recording of that out there?
Again a set that I should probably play more frequently and definitely not ignore the earlier stuff cos I so love the electric eras.

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I think this is my cut off point for the band. Still pretty rocking and maybe I'm wrong about later stuff but this was one I was around for being current.
Has me wondering what the bands they were lifting from were. They were a pair of business students whgo left texas for LA where they sold thinjgs on teh beach and hung out with Bruce Licher of Savage Rep[ublic or knew him or something along those lines. They went home to Texas and formed a raucous punk band who had warped take on hardcore but far more expansive. By the point of this record they had shown some influences from bands like Black Sabbath by putting out warped covers of their material though slightly retitled. Crossed hip hop with country influences and a few other things. Shown their love for audiences by introducing them to the brown note and some very interesting backdrops of films etc. I had never seen a penis reconstruction surgery until I was at The ULU as far as I can remember. Wonder how many fans rushed out to be medical students, what philanthropic chappies.
But I think I am hearing at least semi lifts from early 70s hard rock and psych and stuff combined with warped punk and stuff just wish I knew more as to what came from where. Must read the band biography, think I may have been saying that for a few years. have read the Forcedexposure one anyway

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yeah enjoyed that. Think I need to finish the book it came with.
Electric 3rd Ear band were really groovy . I think there's other stuff by that line up that came with the Elements set reissue of the s/t one.

It’s vaporwave Sunday all day here on WILM!

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xposts: the dragon wakes stuff is good, though did strike me that it has a slightly demo-ish feel to it & there were a couple of tracks where it just sounded like a generic rock band with the 3eb doing their thing over the top of it without its really melding (based on a first listen, anyway). gonna need to get that expanded elements reissue to complete the puzzle!

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Not sure how much I've listened to this in the past. I did get a stand alone version of Marble Index much earlier. Both of them get greatly expanded in this set I think. & it was this one that Throbbing Gristle decided to cover.
I think this has more input or more control from John Cale than the previous lp did.
May be even darker and desolate than the previous lp. Quite atmospheric anyway.

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3rd disc of the singles set. This is the one that covers later era from late 60s through to the 80s.
So has a bit more electric stuff on . Do love his loose grooves, but I think he was doing that earlier too just not quite as funky possibly .
THink I do need to go back and investigate his earlier periods too but absolute peak for me is late 70s/early 80s deep space funk . Anyway there is so much of his work that there are absolute worlds left to discover. So cool, innit. Great to have compilations like thsi and the 2 anthologies that came out a few years ago but i think they can probably only ever be tasters. Must be something to know your way around this ouevre and still have space for other artists to anything like the same level . Do you wind up as a Ra head listening to little outside of his work like teh Grateful Dead Heads were supposed to if you don't watch out. Difficult to give all of his work an even hearing I would think anyway.

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Akron Ohio pre punk underground artists. Get pretty noisy in places and proggy in others, poppy in yet others.
THis is a compilation of material from before they got a major label deal so dating from 74 to 79.
I think sound is a bit muddy and murky in places seemed to be a bit quiter than the other discs I had on the 3 player but it does rewarda listen.

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I have a torrent of that that keeps failing and turning off. Drag.

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xposts: the fox theatre set is solid, but there are none of those transcendent moments the dead sometimes achieve. gotta say garcia's falsetto attempt on comes a time came as a bit of a surprise, though apparently it was a feature of its performance around that period.

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Cecil taylor in teh late 70s. I was looking at the track lengths earlier and wondering if this was a double vinyl set originally cos otherwise it's pretty long at just under an hour. Nice avant sheets of sound and stuff.
THink I need to pick up more of his stuff, I still only really have mid 60s stuff on cd outside of this. Plus somewhere a load of live sets from a wider range of times. Hope that drive still works.

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prettyy superlative compilation of rockabilly/country artist. I think I came to him via covers by the Cramps and the Panther Burns but love his original versions. Also come to this compilation via a great bootleg compi of his work.
The sound on this is pretty great anyway.
I was listening to Wild Party earlier and thinking about what it would sound like on acid. Seems to be pretty multidimesional as it is.

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First lp by all woman band . I was thinking it was some other genre but verging on the psychedelic but see it is listed as neopsychedelic.
Well pretty great otherworldly stuff ethereal in places.
Are they still going?

HVOB from Austria - not mentioned on ILX at all? (Remind me of Christian Löffler a bit, don't know if that helps - check him out as well if you like this minimal house type stuff) They've been active since 2012, discovered by Oliver Koletzki, released a couple of albums on his label and a Live in London 2019 2CD this year - you might have to get used to her voice but once you do, it just works. Great location for the Cercle channel (Careyes in Mexico) :

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Last couple of days:

Kenny Burrell - A Night at the Village Vanguard
John Scofield- Groove Elation
The Who- The Who by Numbers
Todd Rundgren- Todd
Killing Joke - Singles Collection

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is that the original bootleg version? Not sure if I've seen the cover before.
Had the mid 70s official release and the 2cd of the bootleg series so not sure what is on what and what overlaps

goldie lookin chain

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xpost: not sure what if anything on that collection had been booted prior to that release... looks to be a late 70s maybe early eighties production. all of it shows up on the bootleg series complete set except a side of non-dylan band/hawks practice material & one instrumental on the dylan sides (which i'm not sure if he appears on or not). biggest aural difference to the officially released box is they centred the audio, on this there is major seperation. there's also a vol.2 which has the band backing tiny tim on a few tracks, including the yawye soundtrack material.

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That Miroslav Vitous record is a good fusion record.

Miroslav Vitous -- Magical Shepard

Happy Halloween

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hawkwind - greasy truckers party

^^^have only heard bits and pieces of that performance... prob time to check out the whole thing.

listening to the third ear band's abelard & heloise soundtrack for the first time and it totally rulz. as might be expected given the topic they seem to be foregrounding the more (pseudo)medieval aspects of their playing.

Elements compilation then?
Do like these new versions of the lps.

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Macy Gray compilation. I wasn't familiar with her work. THis turned up in a sale locally so I thought I might grab it.
Neo Soul I think they call it. Quite enjoyable .

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Nottingham based urban narrators? Is this a contemporary version of hiphop or whatever electronica. Gruff disaffected sounding vocals over some form of electronic sound anyway. Again I'm far less familiar with their work than i probably should be. I've had tracks by them turn up on covermounted compis etc since they first became popular and at least semi enjoyed them. But not really been tempted to grab records etc. But this has its moments, not sure how peak them it is.

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Idles curated cover mounted cd from the latest Mojo. Shows the influences on the progression in their sound. Pretty wideranging set of sounds starts With the original mercy Seat from Tender Prey and goes through the Flaminogoes Only Have eyes For You and some more electronic based stuff. Includes one track by the band themselves which sounds interesting. Think I'll be interested in hearing what this adds up to in terms of new lp which is forthcoming or already out.

yep to the expanded elements (glad i got it!); finding the dragon wakes material on that more fully realised than the cd of stuff that came with the book. tempted to get the expanded alchemy now that i see they included this.

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I have that set somewhere. Picked it up at the time it came out but not sure where it is. Does it have a load of 3EB on? Must try to find it.

Stevolende, The Quietus fucking *LOVE* Sleaford Mods and so I gave them a try about two years ago or so...seemed really average? Maybe it's just too British for me or something, it's not quite good.

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Gold Dust - S/T

Morning jazz rabbit hole again, pianist Norman Simmons. He just passed away earlier this year at 91.

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