Patrick: that Mara Tremblay you named sounds interesting, is the record somehow retrievable online?
― Simone, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Patrick, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Michael Bourke, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Andrew L, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Otis Wheeler, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Speaking of Mortlake, I saw Mortlake's most famous son, Vic Napper (Vic Godard) today.
Goodnight.
― Dr. C, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Geoff, Wednesday, 6 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Melissa W, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Dymaxion: Dymaxionx4+3=39:21 I love this record. Cute sampler formalism. The Busy Signals: Pretend Hits Good clever young American hip hoppy indiepop, bit like New Order.
Brian Eno: Small Unknowns (bootleg of unreleased stuff) His experiments with vocal synthesis, Tit For Tat and Bottomliners, are the best thing he's done in twenty years, sez me.
Aki Tsuyuko: Tsuki To Nagai Yoru I fell in love with a label, Childisc. It was expensive.
Asao Kikuchi: Imaginary Landscape This has a sleeve with a log cabin and pines, like my Folktronic. I'm enjoying its cut and paste Legoscapes a lot.
Nobukazu Takemura: Sign Takemura is the boss man. Not sure if he hasn't eclipsed Cornelius in my affections. Good curator too, like a music world Takashi Murakami.
Caravan: In The Land Of Grey And Pink I've gone off this Canterbury prog. Gentle whimsy.
Daft Punk: Discovery One More Time is my single of the year. The rest has palled a bit.
Hausmeister: Unser Another label I'm in love with just now is Karaoke Kalk, out of Cologne. That said, Unser is a bit coffee table for my taste.
Fumble: Fumble Also on Karaoke Kalk. Clicky, cute, digital Koln dub. Cute.
Katerine: Les Creatures This qualifies for the thread in that Katerine is a major artist in France, but little known in the UK and US. He's very good, although this double album, with strong traces of 70s Brigitte Fontaine, seeps with a certain Montmartre bitterness, as if age and alcohol were getting to him. Anomie and narcissism together make worrying landscapes.
Joan of Arc: How Can Anything So Little Be Any More I'd never heard of this band, but they make interestingly abstract songs, emo meets the Chicago formalists (Tortoise etc).
Nobuyasu Sakonda: Clockwork Hermes He's the best thing I've found on Childisc, and his New Century Song is completely amazing, a sort of mazurka voiced by a robot. I intend to copy him shamelessly in my own work. (That's the best thing about obscure gems -- pass 'em off as yer own work, from yer own memory.)
Der Plan: Perlen A 1983 work. I want to like this band, I really do. They would make perfect forebears for my current style, I could drop their name in interviews and appear cool. But whenever I buy their records I find my teeth being gritted and my hand reaching for the remote. I think it's their German sense of humour, and that cheesy 80s synthpop sound. Maybe I should be buying Palais Schaumberg instead.
There. I guarantee nobody reading has heard of all of those, and anybody buying would be enriched by some of them.
By the way, I mentioned Brassens and Jara not to try to out-obscure anyone, but to object that so much great non-English language music goes unexamined, while we keep recycling the same little canon of approved anglo-saxon artists over and over.
― Momus, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Y'know -- Best of Bread, Aqualung, Tony Bennett's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco", Yes, Boston, Tommy (film soundtrack), Mitch Miller and The Gang, Off The Wall, et cet.
I bet I have more opposite-of-obscure (i.e. obscenely common) albums than anyone else on this board.
― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― duane zarakov, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― d.z., Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Shuko Mizuno, Jazz Orchestra Vol 1 (I think that's what it's called). Imagine Buddy Rich's orchestrations at the end of The Beat Goes On in the style of a 70s cartoon theme.
― John Davey, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― matthew james, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Oh, wait! Hugo Largo was almost obscure. And their two albums were almost good. But any REM freak knows who they are. Dammit! Okay, I'll go buy something obscure to impress you guys.
― Blake, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― Johnathan, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Has anybody heard the Nihilist Spasm Band? I love those guys. The AGO had a retrospective exhibition of Greg Curnoe which I thought was fantastic.
― Dave M., Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― ethan, Thursday, 7 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
Best records that no-one's heard of, including me: I don't know. I haven't heard of them.
― the pinefox, Friday, 8 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
1. Massey-Ferguson tractors
2. Bernard Cribbins on Hornby trains
3. Tizer 1987
Bill
― Bill, Saturday, 9 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
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― X. Y. Zedd, Tuesday, 12 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― fernando, Thursday, 14 June 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link
― simon beswick, Wednesday, 17 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link