Oh man, you should get Xela's 'For Frosty Mornings And Summer Nights'! Warm bubbly electronica, the last great album in its genre as far as I'm concerned.
― I certainly wouldn't have, but hey. (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 6 January 2012 12:17 (twelve years ago) link
Totally recommend Zelienople's last album, Give It Up. Really good ambient rock along the lines of late Talk Talk, Bark Psychosis or Dean Roberts/Autistic Daughters.
― Some English guy in West Bumblefrickin' nowhere (NickB), Friday, 6 January 2012 12:26 (twelve years ago) link
awesome, thanks guys!
― ilxor, Saturday, 7 January 2012 21:22 (twelve years ago) link
Got the Richard Skelton SKURA box (the DVD edition) for my birthday, so now I have everything (I was missing maybe 6 CDs before). Have been listening to it a lot; it's all great, of course.
― toby, Saturday, 7 January 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
Do you *really* need more than Landings?
(That isn't meant to sound as polemical as it does.)
― djh, Sunday, 8 January 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
I dug out his Wolf Notes LP, as *AR this weekend and loved it. Quite a different feel to Landings, mostly due to the vocals: http://soundcloud.com/_type/sets/ar-wolf-notes
― Super Receptor (Barnaby, Hardly), Monday, 9 January 2012 08:52 (twelve years ago) link
Landings and Wolf Notes are probably the best, I agree.
― toby, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 13:05 (twelve years ago) link
I'd like Wolf Notes more if it didn't have singing (or had a different singer).
― djh, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
Is SKURA a good use of fifty quid?
― djh, Wednesday, 11 January 2012 21:03 (twelve years ago) link
i love Landings and havent heard the *AR thing, but also recommend Marking Time, which was reissued widely last year (well... as widely as a Richard Skelton release is likely to be reissued)
― ilxor, Friday, 13 January 2012 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
Quite enjoying the new Ryan Teague album - it sounded incredible in the shop.
― djh, Monday, 12 March 2012 21:25 (twelve years ago) link
Can't seem to find any talk about the new bvdub double cd.. I sounds a small departure from previous works, more vocals and different rhythms.. anyone heard it?
― mmmm, Friday, 6 April 2012 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUDqIzhHnV0
― djh, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
since this is one of the only threads that had a discussion about it i just want to reiterate how awesome *AR is
― Lamp, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 01:01 (twelve years ago) link
Can't stand the voice on *AR.
― djh, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i can see that but she doesnt bother me
new record 'griis' on low point is p rad btw
― Lamp, Wednesday, 11 April 2012 01:58 (twelve years ago) link
Was that A Winged Victory For the Sullen on Countryfile, just now?
― djh, Sunday, 29 April 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
I could imagine buying SKURA in a moment of weakness thought not fully keen on the idea of buying MP3s.
― djh, Sunday, 29 April 2012 19:58 (twelve years ago) link
The new Richard Skelton, Verses Of Birds, is fantastic, very striking and rich but rather dreamy at the same time.
― boxedjoy, Thursday, 21 June 2012 11:07 (eleven years ago) link
enjoying this new daphne oram collection:
http://boomkat.com/cds/507123-daphne-oram-the-oram-tapes-volume-one-deluxe-2cd-edition
― take the claude bolling (get bent), Monday, 25 June 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
is there any overlap with the Oramics 2xcd thing?
(have been to see the oramics machine in the science museum a couple of times now. but am not entirely convinced by what i've heard of the actual recorded output)
― koogs, Monday, 25 June 2012 11:37 (eleven years ago) link
SKURA dvd: is it a case of just putting the disc in your computer and then ripping to another format to play? is the package nice?
― djh, Monday, 2 July 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
packaging is fairly nice iirc. dvd is properly tagged mp3 files, just drag and drop to your computer.
― toby, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 11:48 (eleven years ago) link
v tempting. i don't think i can bring myself to commission one of those one off cd box sets ...
― djh, Tuesday, 3 July 2012 16:46 (eleven years ago) link
Pleased with SKURA although I'd probably have preferred finished CDs.
The new album is very good, too.
― djh, Monday, 16 July 2012 20:07 (eleven years ago) link
Working my way through SKURA.
Any thoughts on it?
― djh, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
A cracker - and the literal embodiment of this thread - http://boomkat.com/cds/556557-morton-feldman-crippled-symmetry-at-june-in-buffalo
― Terabytes of FLACS of screaming (Call the Cops), Sunday, 29 July 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
SKURA was fifty quid well spent. Some beautiful stuff on there - though I have to confess I had to copy it all onto CD.
― djh, Tuesday, 31 July 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
Some new Richard Skelton oddities:
http://www.corbelstonepress.com/support.htm
― djh, Thursday, 20 September 2012 18:14 (eleven years ago) link
New Nils Frahm:
http://soundcloud.com/erasedtapes/sets/nils-frahm-screws
― djh, Sunday, 23 September 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Michael Tanner on his new album:
The Cloisters, Michael reveals, was conceived during a time of deep personal dissatisfaction with the drone/ambient/classical minimalist ‘scene’ – one seemingly populated by “the same 30 blokes, making the same music in Ableton [loop-based music software], more often than not sporting the same beard. It was made under an awareness that I was lumped in with them, and internalising if/how I was really so different. It became an attempt to see if I could retain the style of music I’ve been making for 12 years now, but still try and get out of the box, so to speak.”
Never really thought about the process behind making this music and/or Ableton. Can we name the 30 blokes?
― djh, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
There's another Skelton album, too, by the way.
― djh, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 18:39 (eleven years ago) link
More importantly can we name the beard?
― itt: 'splaining men (ledge), Tuesday, 6 November 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
Haven't managed to work out who any of these bearded people might be.
― djh, Sunday, 11 November 2012 11:08 (eleven years ago) link
This sounds nice ...
http://www.gogoyoko.com/album/Stafnbui
― djh, Monday, 24 December 2012 22:04 (eleven years ago) link
Some new-old Richard Skelton:
http://www.corbelstonepress.com/archival-riftmusic2.htm
― djh, Wednesday, 29 May 2013 19:37 (ten years ago) link
Weird. Would have had Skelton down as popular on here.
― djh, Sunday, 2 June 2013 20:11 (ten years ago) link
I think he is? But I don't ever hear his stuff when it comes out - by a long-standing arrangement, my wife buys it and keeps it until my birthday/Christmas. So probably I'll have something to say about it in January!
― toby, Monday, 3 June 2013 05:49 (ten years ago) link
I really like the new Olafur Arnalds album, but it is very straightforward in a way that a lot of the stuff in this thread (at least, the stuff I am familiar with) doesn't seem to be.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 27 October 2013 23:58 (ten years ago) link
Any thoughts on the new Nils Frahm?
http://www.clashmusic.com/videos/nils-frahm-toilet-brushes
― djh, Monday, 18 November 2013 18:19 (ten years ago) link
Must admit I prefer him when he is just tapping away at the keys than we he is doing anything more than this.
― djh, Monday, 18 November 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
"when" not "we"
― djh, Monday, 18 November 2013 20:54 (ten years ago) link
ha, i was blown away listening to 'says' the other day and checked out some other pieces...i love the more percussive, effected-out, synth-heavy pieces a lot, but the piano-only ones i heard don't hit me as hard.
― festival culture (Jordan), Monday, 18 November 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
Says is awesome, really into the rest of the album too. Great bedtime listening.
― comic sbans soref (wins), Monday, 18 November 2013 23:01 (ten years ago) link
I swear, I have never heard of Nils Frahm, and suddenly he is EVERYWHERE this week. Will have to investigate further. I am enjoying Toilet Brushes!
― Lo Ambient Limit Switch (doo dah), Thursday, 21 November 2013 17:32 (ten years ago) link
How was the Olafur Arnalds album?
― djh, Thursday, 19 December 2013 07:53 (ten years ago) link
* I think he is? But I don't ever hear his stuff when it comes out - by a long-standing arrangement, my wife buys it and keeps it until my birthday/Christmas. So probably I'll have something to say about it in January!
― toby, Monday, June 3, 2013 5:49 AM (6 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink*
How was Xmas, toby?
― djh, Sunday, 29 December 2013 16:53 (ten years ago) link
I think it's been saved for my birthday (next week)...
― toby, Sunday, 29 December 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
Happy Birthday toby ...
― djh, Wednesday, 1 January 2014 22:28 (ten years ago) link
^ I hope she didn't renege on the arrangement ...
― djh, Saturday, 11 January 2014 22:57 (ten years ago) link