sounds of SANTANA vol. LVCMXXXXXIVIII

mission of burma - VS
megadeth - killing is my business...and business is good!
bowie - station to station

dmr & bq can come by and watch dm movie anytime.

rock!

panda bear - person pitch
lil wayne - dj drama dedication 2

Top 8 of the moment:

The Jay Tees - Buck Town Corner
Henry Mancini, His Orchestra & Chorus - Hawaiian War Chant
The Uniques - My Conversation
Wailing Souls - Row Fisherman Row
Miriam Makeba - The Click Song
Systems Officer - Forever This Cyanide
Larry Harlow (canta Celia Cruz) - Gracia Divina
Boris - track 3 or 4 from Pink. can't remember which one.

Kevin Ayers The Island Years
Clockcleaner The Hassler

my week in albumplays (and chronography):

Martin Denny - The Best of MD's Exotica (1957-1969)
Davy Graham - The Guitar Player (1963)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live At The Fillmore (1970)
Faust - IV (reissue) (1973)
Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4 (1981)
Stereolab - ABC Music (1991-2001)
Pavement - Wowee Zowee (reissue) (1994-1996)

seriously though, no fx! dude is unreal:

http://www.myspace.com/heinouskillings

the vocokesh: all this and hieronymus bosch
(did you get one of these in the mail too, scott? other crits?)
1st listen this seemed to be going somewhere, the second and third have made no impression..anybody else listened?

yah, i got it. it just sounded like all the other stuff i've heard by that dude/dudes. not bad, but not gonna blow anyone away or anything. i should say later stuff. i am no expert. i remember liking old F/i stuff years ago. i mean, it's fun to listen to if you like guitars and stuff. it's just not all that exciting.

thats about how im hearing it...im ust have had a head full of something for that 1st listen

is jack the big F/i fan here? someone is.

MEANWHILE, i was just listening to this again the other day and i never ever get over how fucking great it is. if you are a psych fan and you don't have it, you needneedneed it! douglas wolk you are a treat!

DBC219 World (of Dreams)'s Who Is Yahdoosh? CD

World (Of Dreams) is Wm. Berger, genius guitarist of Uncle Wiggly, DJ who spearheaded the Krautrock revival with his WFMU show "The Hip Bone," and occasional member of Smack Dab, the Gamma Rays and Princess Superstar. This is his homage to and fantasia on the sound he loves: the sound of Faust, Harmonia and Karuna Khyal, of steam-thick, mind-warping textures, prickly electronic drones and spidery psychedelic guitar. The first album in this series, World Without End, was a limited-edition LP that sold out almost instantly. Who Is Yahdoosh? is a series of five psychic phenomena manifested as extended audio dreams of the secret Autobahn exit in Brooklyn; it's also got three tracks from World Without End, and three more previously unreleased bonus tracks. Timeless and ecstatic, this album will pulse its way into your genes. $10.

i need to buy another copy of uncle wiggly's farfetchedness album from him. that thing is likewise flat-out genius. and i can't fucking find my copy! i think it must be gone forever. what an amazing record.

ive only heard a little bit of F/i...heard more mention of them...yr right someone here digs em...

that sounds like the righter idea...perhaps i need some of that. but'll need to get my hands on some of the devilweed to go along with it if im gonna delve into that sorta psych world ... ha i bought an uncle wiggly record of of that dude that used to run flipped out records once...mighta been the same day he conned me into buying a coupla bunnybrians seven inches, bless his wierd soul.

vocokesh coming off (and not being writ about right now)... primordial undermind? ... im catching up on ignored promo's this am...(kinda fun playing critic again)

peter walker - rainy day raga
ian matthews - valley hi
tom ghent s/t
burton & cunico - strive, seek and find
longdancer - if it was so simple
live rust
neil michael hagerty & the howling hex
astral weeks
rhband - 122701

and...Other Music announces their mp3 store with an interview in Wired and answers some of the above questions. Wired was right to point out that iTunes files are AAC...128 AAC files sound MUCH better then 128 mp3s, don't know how they compare with 320 mp3s.

http://www.wired.com/news/columns/listeningpost/0,72523-0.html?tw=wn_story_page_prev2

to be honest, I see people shopping at their webstore and when reading a reccomendation or reading a preview, not thinking, "is their a site I can download this at for a few cents less?"

and this may be super effective for really hip underground acts, who may not have the weight to sign up with a big label...I imagine other music style artists selling their music directly via the Other Music site, and OM promoting them...the artists would make a larger cut then if they signed up with an aggregator to get online, or with a label, digital or otherwise.

something else to keep in mind: OM does a healthy mail order business, and there's no wait for shipping with mp3s. i imagine that segment of their customer base is pretty psyched.

very interesting...i had stopped thinking about this issue untill the other day, now its everywhere...im amazed by coincidence recently...that whole mckenna/collective (un) conscious thing is feeling real powerful these days.

dan, are you saying you think people will read and bounce? or read and buy? i dunno. ctrl-n and jumping to a bookmarked digital seller is a lot faster than leaving om and bouncing over to st marks or somewhere to see if you can save a buck, but...web commerce is as much about immediacy as it discounts...time will tell

ian's damnedright

and yr second pt, dan, is what i was thinking about while reading the article. brings up the old momus v om thing from a few yrs ago. i can see digital sales allowing for om to push the weirder littler artists that used to florish 'cause of consignment sales.

I'm saying people will just buy their stuff from OM, due to a combination of ease (they're already at the site) and brand loyalty (they pointed me to this stuff, they deserve my money). I look forward to working with them and hope our distro sets up a deal with them, and considering their support in the past, hope that they'll recommend our releases.

ok, were on the same page, then.

this reminds me i havent been in there in ages. i'm sure many of us have shopped there, vs. some oher possibly cheaper place, or purchased things we wouldn't otherwise because of our relationship to the store. i think the "need" for relationships is being overlooked in so much e-commerce and discussion of most internet/web based interaction (this is making me feel like i need to go back to school)

(oh, and dan, im firing up the old laptop now and will dig up the tgirls review for you in a minute)

i am certainly not yer average joe ipod, so my thoughts are not the norm, but i honestly can't imagine paying ten dollars for a downloaded album. and yet, i think that archive site is a cool idea! five dollars maybe. more like four. or three. there is just too much cheap cool stuff out there. not that i buy much of anything via internet - except for ebay...okay, i'll shut up. and then i just think of how awesome the micro-metal world is...deals and deals. and when i think of fractal not being able to sell 500 copies of that awesome boxed-set...i don't know what to think. in metal-land, stuff like this is common:

"To make room for all the upcoming stock we have decide to provide the following special offer: Any ten CDs for $70 (or $50 when shipped without jewel cases)"

i just think small is the way to go. basically.

i am not actually applying this to your situation, dan. i don't even really know what your situation is. i do hope that it has made you happy putting out stuff that you love. and you must get good responses from people. i'm gonna write something about that ike yard cd. very cool stuff. i never knew they existed in the 80's and i was a pretty hep cat.

ike yard cd on the desk right here...

since were still kinda talking 4cute here...ill throw up this bit from the tg review i wrote....oh god, when that thing come out?. its not as embarassing as i xpected:

Theoretical Girls no method of composition and performance takes in all the left over bits of life and renews their charge. In theirs songs, in their approach, youve got asphalt, baseball, pretty flowers, ham sandwich, bastard on the phone too loud, paycheck, no sleep, perfect cosmo, screenkiss, and crack. In a word: EXPERIENCE. And the electric din raizes the fields of your mind to sew the seeds of modern music.

thats a crap rip off of a great line from "pierot le fou"...

the re-issue thing is very important and tricky business...i do wonder how digital issuing is going to deal with all of that. how is cultural memory going to be changed?

Hey Scott...there's so little money in all this and so many ways it has to split, selling stuff for less then that would be really tough. I think enough people are comfortable with the 10 dollar per album rate (2 billion sales on iTunes!) that it doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Maybe if we get in a situation where we can cut out some or all of the middlemen...

FANG

AWESOME RON HARDY LIVE AT THE MUZIK BOXXX SETS FROM 86ISH

best music ever

it really is.

well there ya go, now i'm listening to it. the power of the crowd. of two.

where to get ron hardy mixxx?

ah, of course http://www.deephousepage.com/search_results.php?nRecSet=0&searchString=ron%20hardy

post plz

dats the one

back when dhp only had 1 Ron Hardy mix, it was from 82 and had IC Love Affair. Took me 3 years to find out what that fucking song was, and I only got it because Morgan Geist was playing a b-side medley remix from the Gaz Nevada Special Agent Man 12" and little bits of IC Love Affair were in it.

jg wilkes - walkabout
toem - the fire is a mirror
moolah - woe ye demons possessed

that shit about 56 min in when Ron swicthes on that peaked out vocal loop--YEAH.
CATCH ME ON THE REBOUND

i love that long stretch at sort of the beginning that sounds straight outta some "minimal" set and then BAM disco disco disco

are the skips around the 30 min mark (during disco-y "do you like how i feel?" song) bad mixing, record skips, mp3 encoding issues or my shitty computer?

something.
prob low res artyfacting

ben johnston - microtonal piano / string quartets 2, 3, 4, 9
terry riley - descending moonshine dervishes
deerhoof - friend opportunity
geinoh yamashirogumi - osorezan / chi no hibiki higashi yu

chi no hibiki higashi yu

i am still lovin this..need to dig up some more...thanks for the subtle push towards it

that mutant-sounds guy is scaring me... I don't think he sleeps... 30 new albums since yesterday

i didnt stop there today...but i have wondered wtf his deal is...seriously dude, yr awesome but WHOA...there are other needs in life, right?

I'm sure the man has a catheter in

just grabbed his jean-michel jarre 1970-1974 comp, it's interesting. german psych & perrey kingsley cutups so far, wouldn't never have guessed it was him

dude is seriously scary. and boy does he make me feel like some sort of newby-dumb-ass. jeezus.

i'm like, um, i've heard paul revere & the raiders!

SOFT CIRCLE FULL BLOOM

ok grabbing the hunger record now...might have to get the jarre. hell, scott, imagagine how i feel!