What have you just bought?????

Can't wait 'til Tuesday for the White Stripes' Elephant.

PiL - Second Edition
Kinks - Face to Face
Guided by Voices - Sunfish Holy Breakfast
Clash - s/t

Metro Area - s/t
Miss Kitten - Radio Caroline mix
Various - Reggae Gold 2002
Various - Velvet Tinmine

Just enough to get me over the £39 free delivery limit and then a very I was strong....

Robin Guthrie - Imperial

I have been reading too much ILM and want the Lifter Puller album. Can't find it in London anywheres.

http://www.selfstarterfoundation.com/index10.html

tears from 15th & Franklin (literally).

I really am loving music again at the moment

Soft Machine- Fourth
Papa M- Whatever Mortal
Wilco- Yankee Hotel Foxtrot
Crime- San Francisco's Doomed/Doomed Two
Royal Trux- Singles & Unreleased
Mission of Burma- Signals Calls & Marches, Vs. (My old single disc collection got scratched...so I went ahead and got the reissues.)
X- Los Angeles, Wild Gift & More Fun In the New World (remasters)

I've also got on order the Uncle Tupelo remasters and a copy of X's Under the Big Black Sun. I'll be happy to have the Uncle Tupelo discs again, as I sold mine off via Amazon, when they were out of print.

Howe Home - the listener
Matthew Shipp vs. APC
new $30 shoes
fairly traded coffee
$3 jeans (used levi's)
and I'm about to buy a coffee

On CD:
That last Boredoms album
I spent about 150 bucks. I probably won't buy anything for a while as I am too busy to hit the shops these days.

(I just walked in the door with it, which is why I am posting this not really funny funny response.)

which is why everyone should give "Fire and Water" a spin (songs 1 through 6, that is....)

Today:

Pearl Jam - Single Video Theory DVD

Tomorrow (probably):

Placebo - Sleeping with Ghosts
and whatever interesting that gets in my way...

Mispent Years (Josh Wink Beat Adjustment Mix) - Schatrax (Soma 12")
Blue Jeans (Josh Wink Reinterpretation) - Ladytron (Telstar 12")
Bush Workout (Attica Blues' Nocturnal Mix) - Oba Funke (Karma Giraffe 12")

ELO grebtest hits
ELO grebtest hits vol 2
V/A - Pop goes the 60's (I got this to get 'Silence Is Golden', 'Sugar Sugar' and 'Let's Go to San Francisco' on CD)

But yay for mixtapes from records!

jesus fucking christ!

i like the two or three things of four dollar six dollar seven dollar cds and tapes between the electronics section and the womens clothing at wal-mart................. you can find things like [i]the sounds of murphy brown[/i] and the [i]lion king[/i] soundtrack in spanish or........ i can't think of

so bite me

Ronan will be pleased to know that I really really like Ironstylings though.

London
SELECTADISC
Opal; Happy Nightmare Baby
The Durutti Column; The Return of the Durutti Column
Piano Magic; Son de mar
The Sound; Shock of daylight & Heads and hearts
Felt; The strange idols pattern and other short stories & Ignite The Seven Cannons
Threnody Ensemble; Timbre hollow
Kraftwerk; 2
Big Black; Songs about fucking
V/A; Homesleep
Rachel's; Handwriting
Rachel's; Music for Egon Schiele
RECKLESS RECORDS
Xinlisupreme; Tomorrow never comes
Asha Vida; Nature's clumsy hand
Hood; Cold house
Labradford; Prazision LP
Aix em Klemm; S/T
Summer Hymns; A Celebratory arm gesture
SISTER RAY
Xinlisupreme; Murder license
Eyeless in Gaza; Photographs on memories
V/A; The Wire 20 years 1982-2002
The Chameleons; Script of the bridge
The Pale Fountains; Pacific street
OMD; S/T
OMD; Organisation

Leeds
POLAR BEAR
Pram; The museum of imaginary animals
Kraftwerk; Ralf & Florian
Associates; Fourth drawer down
Swirlies; Blonder tongue audio baton
BORDERS
Slumber party; S/T
The Montgolfier Brothers; Seventeen stars
The Divine Comedy; The certainty of chance
The Sound; All fall down
Felt; Crumbling the antiseptic beauty & The splendour of fear
JUMBO
Josef K; The only fun in town/Sorry for laughing
CD CENTRE
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci; Stood on gold
The Church; The blurred crusade
Legendary Pink Dots; The crushed velvet apocalypse

York
TRACK RECORDS
Cocteau Twins; Heaven or Las Vegas
The Comsat Angels; 7 day weekend
The Comsat Angels; Land
BORDERS
Spacemen 3; Dreamweapon

Manchester
POLAR BEAR
Margo Guryan; Take a picture
VINYL EXCHANGE, OLDHAM ST.
Mighty Lemon Drops; Rollercoaster
Louis Philippe; Azure
Momus; Ping pong
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci; Let's get together (in our minds)
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci; Poodle rockin'
VINYL EXCHANGE, BRIDGE ST.
Piano Magic; Artist's rifles
Rothko; A continual search for origins
HMV
Young Marble Giants; Colossal youth
OMD; Dazzle ships
AR Kane; 69
PICCADILLY RECORDS
I am Spartacus; Forward!
The Sound; Jeopardy
Sodastream; In between times
The Durutti column; LC
Alpinestars; BASIC
The Pale fountains; … from across the kitchen table
Monster Movie; Last night something happened
Josef K; Young and stupid
Hem; I'm talking with my mouth
Lovers; Star lit sunken ship
Elk City; Status

Edinburgh
AVALANCHE RECORDS, LADY LAWSON ST.
New Order; Movement
Ballboy; A guide for the daylight hours
V/A; Rough trade Electronic
The high llamas; Lollo rosso
AVALANCHE RECORDS, WEST NICHOLSON ST.
Belle & Sebastian; The boys are back in town
V/A; A tribute to Spacemen 3
The divine comedy; National Express
The divine comedy; The certainty of chance
Stereolab; Peng!
Cocteau Twins; Treasure
Ballboy; Club anthems
FOPP, COCKBURN ST.
Joy Division; Substance
The Telescopes; Third wave
Tanakh; Villa claustrophobia
Harold Budd/Brian Eno; The pearl
Magazine; Secondhand daylight
Kraftwerk; 1
Wire; Chairs missing

Sodastream; Enjoy EP
Landing; Circuit
Surface of Eceon; The king beneath the mountains
Low; Paris 99, Anthony are you around?
Barbara Morgenstern; Fjorden
Alice Coltrane; The monastic trio
Gorky's Zygotic Mynci; 20 ...

i think the last music i bought was the dmbq remix record.

Jesus Lizard-Bang
Jonathan Richman-Some comp with That Summer Feeling on it
The Curtom Years comp
Frank Sinatra-Come Fly With Me
Two Lone Swordsmen-Tiny Reminders
In The Basement comp

Japan - Quiet Life
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Arcadia - So Red the Rose
Korn - Issues
Korn - Untouchables
Marilyn Manson - Portrait of an American Family
New Order - Item (DVD box set)
Duran Duran - Greatest (DVD)
Duran Duran - Sing Blue Silver (DVD)
Blur - Blur
Dandy Warhols - Welcome to the Monkey House
The Killers - Hot Fuss
Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better
Rammstein - Reise Reise

Bothering only with the synth-pop, in fact mostly listening to the Duran singles box set (xmas present).

anyway: for just under £100, i just picked up the following haul from a DVD shop that's closing down in town. while i hate to see the fruits of someone's endeavour fucked by market forces, i have to say i'm quite pleased with this.

my bank manager won't be, but he can spin.

hill street blues: the complete season one
spinal tap (double-disc pack)
the breakfast club/sixteen candles/weird science (triple pack)
requiem for a dream
the very best of the human league (which i'm watching as i type)
blue velvet (in a velvet box)
shaft
shadowlands
low in europe (a film by sebastian schrade)
dallas: the complete first and second seasons
and, perhaps most magnificently of all: alexei sayle's stuff - season one

god, the human league rock my world.

Yesterday:

Balam Acab - Wander/Wonder
Really nice. I think this guy was originally classed as Witch House, but this is nothing like it. More like ambient house without the beats. Really gorgeous

Instra:Mental
Only scraping the surface here so far. Kind of dark but bouncy. Some of it reminds me of early Aphex Twin actually.

14Tracks.com - V/A High Tech Rollers
Soem good stuff on here. Only just discovered 14tracks - does anyone subscribe to these ona regular basis?

Chrissy Murderbot - Women's Studies
I'd never have checked it out normally, because of the name. Same as Kissy Sellout - still don't know the music, but hate the name. This is fun though! Better than Major Lazer or whatevs.

I need to check out Chrissy Murderbot... I've been on a tear lately:

DJ Diamond: Flight Musik (loving it, exhilarating)
Virgo Four: s/t (holy motherfucking shit this is so brilliant)
Balam Acab: Wander/Wonder (pretty, not fully in love but this is nice)
Donato Dozzy: K (very lovely and tenderly produced minimal techno/downtempo-y stuff, really satisfying)
Gene Hunt Presents Chicago Dance Trax Vol. 1 (sick)
Tom Trago: Iris (one of my favorite records to come out this year; beautifully produced, creative, far-reaching, highly melodic, incredible house album)
Juju and Jordash: s/t (I'd never heard of these guys; the super nice dude at my local dance shop recommended it; incorporates live instrumentation, some really cool drum programming, loving the feel of this)
Tevo Howard: Pandora's Box (very good, slightly clinical)

yesterday:

Hella - Tripper
The Velvet Underground - VU
The Velvet Underground - Another View
Big Business - Head for the Shallow
Tame Impala - Innerspeaker: Limited Edition

I wish I could somehow keep up with dance music better. There's just SO MUCH interesting and/or great stuff coming out all the time, it feels exhausting just keeping up with the genres I actually know about, let alone weird shit like future moomstep or whatevs. This is where I lament once more working in a job that disallows listening to music and living in a terraced house

The Balam Acab I think is going to be a nice one for chilling, although his best work is ahead of him. Still, it's quite lovely.

I just spent $40 on the new Lamb album

I thought my "gah must buy overpriced import" days were over, but I'd just gotten paid

This is where I lament once more working in a job that disallows listening to music and living in a terraced house

Don't know what happened with this sentence, but you get the idea. Basically, I want a big old soundproofed basement below my house rigged up with a big-arsed soundsystem, and plenty of time to go down there and freak the fuck out on bass frequencies..

GZA - Words From The Genius
Marcia Griffiths - Sweet Bitter Love
Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music vol 1 and 2
Chrome - Blood On The Moon
Hag - ST
Melechesh - The Epigenesis
Alan Lomax Compilation - Negro Prison Spirituals
VA - Southern Prison Blues rec. Louisiana State Pen
Hitler's Inferno in Words and Music
James Brown - Gettin' Down To It
Jane Weaver - The Fallen By Watchbird
Ghostface - Iron Man
Tony Allen - Jealousy

All vinyl

2 CDs from the charity shop this morning. Chaser's Game On on Soma from 1998. Nice jazzy house stylings and Bustin' Out: New Wave To New Beat: The Post Punk Era 1979 - 1981 comp - I have most of these already though. £2 each.

Melechesh

I haven't heard of this band in years. Last thing I got by them was the one with the massive winged horse on the front. Byzantine death metal, right? I don't remember thinking it was too different from other bands at the time, and thinking Nile did a similar trick a bit better, but I'd be curious to hear how they've come along.

Dog Latin, I feel you on the impossibility of keeping up with dance music. I just kind of buy things here and there, follow trails of certain labels, artists, scenes, take recommendations from people who know my tastes and who I trust, etc. I don't really know what I'm doing, and I don't care about being comprehensive; I'm also happy to catch stuff a few years late... There's always time. I'm also lucky enough to work from home (well, I sell wine for a living, but July and August are slooooow so I'm home quite often rather than showing stuff around), so I get lots of time to digest new stuff, and during hours when my neighbors aren't around (thus BASS).

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (some great individual tracks, though overall seems a bit uneven - I think I prefer Cosmic Slop)

Balam Acab - Wander/Wonder
Really nice. I think this guy was originally classed as Witch House, but this is nothing like it. More like ambient house without the beats. Really gorgeous

really? there are big clunky 808 rap beats on almost every tune. i do like it though, the vocal samples are great and the songs are structured pretty meticulously.

Slapp Happy, Ca Va

(And boy o boy was I disssssapppointed with that Vaiko Eplik ja Eliit 1 bought 5 years ago :(

Dog Latin: A lot of people say this about Melechesh so maybe they're right but I don't see the Nile comparison too much myself. While I don't usually go in for the virtuoso end of death metal, I just love those Middle Eastern riffs. I think a better comparison is some really early Mastodon. Some of the more 'Arabic' influence numbers off Lifesblood and Remission. My favourite album by them remains Emissaries.

Van Morrison - Common One (RIYL Veedon Fleece, In A Silent Way, or even Destroyer's Kaputt)
Bobby Hutcherson - Head On (early '70s big-band free-bop fusion, w/ most tracks written by then-19-y.o. Todd Cochran; epic bonus tracks)
Bennie Maupin - Jewel In The Lotus (Mwandishi alumni play ECM chamber-jazz)
Joe Henderson - Inner Urge (a Joe supreme, a Joe supreme)
Wes Montgomery - So Much Guitar!!! (Ray Barretto on congas!!!)