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I'm not bored with the records in my collection, but for the first time in my life my record collection has halted, and my listening is growing stagnant. My buying of new albums, etc, is slowing, but my hunger for new music is still as intense as it always was. Initially, I recently decided to do a retrospective sweep up of all the artists I had neglected to buy the first time round, to see if I had missed something. So I bought some Felt, some Bowie, etc. But I realised that I hadn't explored these artists before now for good reason. In the eighties, I had opted to buy Desret Wolves, The Brilliant Corners and Loft instead of Felt, and I now I knew why - I was happy with my original choices over Felt. Futher, I have always unwittingly liked artists who claim to be influenced by Bowie, but when I finally got round to checking Bowie out more fully, I found I didn't think he was as great as many of the artists he's apparently influenced - the ones I had bought over the years. My retrospective sweep up was not entirely without fruit - it did give me Nico and Ian Dury, who I now adore, but I've decided the future is the answer. Can people recommend me something different - anything, any style - twee, bleepy, literate, bathetic, under produced, over produced - so long as it's enduring.

― Matthew Kachina, Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)

"Trout Mask Replica" - Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band

-or-

"I will cure you" - Vic Reeves

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm already big on Beefheart. But that's the past -- I mean something way, way into the future ...

― Matthew Kachina, Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Fela Kuti!

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

busta rhymes - turn it up (the very best)
ghostface killah - ironman
aphex twin - SAW volume 2
susuma yokota - sakura

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:15 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.ericenders.com/images/starwars.jpg

― noodle vague (noodle vague), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Dat Politics
Max Tundra
Kid 606
Stars As Eyes
Kevin Blechdom

http://tigerbeat6.com

― don (don), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

to me anyway, those records have tracks which always sound quite fresh and weird and alien and exciting. i'm guessing, for some, there may be signs of dating on those records. worth a listen, if you don't have them, for sure.

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Isn't this the point when people usually decide to "get into jazz"?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

No, that's when you're 18 and feel like getting into red wine too.

Oh god, my folly.

― Sick Nouthall (Nick Southall), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Got Dat Politics - through a Momus recommendation on this board, and they are really good.

busta rhymes aphex twin and susuma yokota I missed in the nineties, when I was too busy getting Squarepusher. Could sweep up these, and probably will do, but I'm interested in startlingly new things, and if that takes me beyond bling bling and even sound dust, so be it.

Isn't this the point when people usually decide to "get into jazz"? haha funny you say that!

― Matthew Kachina, Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

xper. xr.

http://www.xperxr.com/

― don (don), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I actually didn't mean to sound overly snarky. I do sorta like jazz and all.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Give up listening to music so much, concertrate on your work, get a good job, send your kids to private school. It's over.

― sexyDancer, Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd need far more clues to start giving any sort of recommendations; however Brilliant Corners + "get into jazz" does kinda scream:

http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000023Y70.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 22 April 2004 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Destroyer

― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I might wander, but I know I'll always come back to Destroyer in the end.

― Matthew Kachina, Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre600/e660/e6606269yd5.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:15 (twenty-two years ago)

mice parade - ramda

― autovac (autovac), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

This may not be your cup of absinth, but check out:

Peter Brotzmann

Certainly 'something different'!

― Brendon Michaels, Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Satoko Fujii - Kitsune Bi

If you sorta like jazz, this is sorta like jazz.

― Evanston Wade (EWW), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't quite understand what 'enduring' means here? many things are best heard a few times, and maybe never again. also I recommend going to more gigs, search for any venues round yr town/city (if there's anything).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Ah yes, Red Rose last Sunday - Tim Hodgkinson skronkin' up a storm, damn!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that how you view buying improv recordings, Julio? Are you cool with listening to most of them once or twice and that's it? Not that it's a bad attitude or anything, I'm genuinely curious.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

"I recommend going to more gigs, search for any venues round yr town/city (if there's anything)."

Spoken like a true city-dweller!

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Thursday, 22 April 2004 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Sunno )) that album on white 1 or whatever w/ julian cope
animal collective here comes the indian
anything by seigen ono u can find
maybe secret mommy on orthouloung.
kit clayton 12" on soul jazz

jazz wise that thelonius posted above is great.
check out michael white, pharoah sanders, and
other spiritual jazz guys on impulse

Arthur Russell re-issue on soul jazz is a
disco starter. along with the ze records stock
and of course james chance.

what else was i thinking, you collect
latin jazz? Larry Harlow? joe Bataan?
some of their albums I don't like, but there's
a few brilliant moments per lp.

hold on and lo borges who needs to be re-issued badly
for more tropicalia after you've gone through mutantes, veloso, etc

peace,
a

― andrew jones (andrew jones), Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Get the new Susie Ibarra CD which is just barely out.

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 22 April 2004 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

MU_Afro Finger & Gel

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Thursday, 22 April 2004 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Superpitcher-Here Comes Love.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 18:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Tied & Tickled Trio! Any album will do.

― willem (willem), Thursday, 22 April 2004 18:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Argh, I've wanted to hear Observing Systems for months. I've never seen it and ordering from their website is fucking expensive...I've got a friend on tour in Europe who said he'd pick it up for me, hopefully he comes through with it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a gorgeous album Jordan, I've actually just (today) received it (and a lot of other T&TT stuff) from their website (I live in the Netherlands, so shipping isn't that expensive), after getting completely hooked on a d/l of Observing Systems (it's on slsk). If you don't have slsk I hope your friend will deliver the goods!

I ordered most of the stuff on vinyl, but I have the debut and EA1 EA2 on cd. If you're interested we could perhaps trade?

― willem (willem), Thursday, 22 April 2004 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah, my friend has it all on vinyl too (Youngblood Brass Band btw, I think they just played a few dates in the Netherlands last week?).

I'll mail you about a trade, thx.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 20:12 (twenty-two years ago)

He's in Youngblood Brass Band?!? A lot of their stuff was nicked from their van after their gig in Rotterdam at the Motel Mozaique festival! I hope they've been able to get some new instruments, as it seemed to be a bit of a problem (being a sunday and all). Have you heard from him yet? (I wasn't at the festival, I read about the theft on a blog)

― willem (willem), Thursday, 22 April 2004 20:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn, seems like everyone's heard about that shit. Yeah, I can't believe it. I haven't gotten a chance to talk to any of them, but I hope they figured something out.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:20 (twenty-two years ago)

''Is that how you view buying improv recordings, Julio? Are you cool with listening to most of them once or twice and that's it? Not that it's a bad attitude or anything, I'm genuinely curious.''

yeah, listening once/twice to an improv record is no problem to me, this kind of stuff is really good for the one 'rilly rilly focused listen', actually.

Then again I've never really listened to 'normal' albums again and again over a week like some ppl seem to do (and even if i wanted to do that now, I wouldn't have the time). I do try to just focus and get as much out of it in 2-3 listens when i first buya rec, and I've been getting into just listening to one/a few tracks at a time and then just stopping.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 22 April 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Ami Yoshida's solo CD, 'Tiger Thrush', on IMJ. and when you figure out how to enjoy the experience of listening to it, please tell me.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

''and I've been getting into just listening to one/a few tracks at a time and then just stopping.''

and finishing it later, its what i meant.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Thursday, 22 April 2004 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

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