What Are You Listening to? 2020

https://archive.org/details/Voices_of_Christmas_Past_1898_to_1922

xp when those flutes come in in “raven” <3

brimstead for whatever reason that's always been the Actress recording that resonates the most with me

it’s deep

this one here is like if you turn the treble knob all the way down on an actress album, it’s beautiful:

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dreamy “lofi” 80s funk / proto-house vibes... TIP!

artist is Moon B, no title, sorry, real informative label there

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Trees - 50th Anniversary box

going thru old tapes...

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lol ok I was like “who the hell is welding right now outside” and realized this associates tape is making some brutal mechanical noises

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Armored Saint - Punching the Sky

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmjI9px6hzI

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track2 is totally cardiacs mike batt sounds just like tim smith

end of side one, kinda 10cc/ this heat feel

my boy has disappeared to do lego, but i'm spinning side 2 regardless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaOj0-nvkoA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6th_CqdjXc

tell em hank ballard told you so

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midnight express - tri fire

I don’t have it but dude’s solo album cover is even better:

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Neil Young/Stray Gators - Tuscaloosa

first listen! pretty awesome

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this is fabulous, gorgeous reverby flute playing pentatonic melodies against a smooth funky jazzy backdrop with tasteful big band flourishes

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2013 press

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disc 4 of the switched on box / disc 2 of aluminum tunes

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so fucking good

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disc 2 of this which is the 2nd and 3rd studio lps by the band
Dutch psych band beginning to show some prog tendencies. Some nice instrumental interplay.
Disc 1 is mainly singles so doesn't have the Agemo's trip in the correct order. I already have that lp plus singles anyway.

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Congolese guitar player plays soukous, funk and Rhumba . I may have picked this up because of the psychedelic influences but have been neglecting it for a few years. ON playing it it is pretty bloomin tasty.

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Turkish artist from the early to mid 70s, a compilation of singles etc from up to this point in 1975.
Nice fuzz guitar and things in places.
I picked this up in a sale from Guerssen earlier this year I think, if not was earlier from them.
Do like this Turkish psychy stuff. Just found out that a Turkish firm have reissued baris Manco's 2023 so need to grab that.

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bonus disc with compilation mopping up recording project from a maine band's lp from a few years ago.
THis sounds like some of Hawkwind's more noisy stuff, long droning rock stuff with less of a garage edge than the other lp here. Pretty lofi
Came out on Cardinal Fuzz who tend to be very good.

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Edinburgh based post-punk band's almost complete recorded works. This just came out as a 3cd set through Cherry Red, but it appears to omit the a side of their first single for some reason.
Been meaning to get a copy of at least the lp since reading the NME review from the time it came out. Do quite enjoy this. Pretty great.

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local based Swedish singer who works in a folky acousticky style but largely sparsely electric backing here.
Some fuzz guitar and things.
I quite like it and liked her live. So had been meaning to get this for a while. BUt only sold in a shop I thought only took cash and finally found out he took cards this week.
Well got it now

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Kenya based Soukos band recorded in the early 80s

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Nucleus-Entity
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Bearer-Precincts
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Entire Death discog, but this second one has been a slight surprise highlight
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Leprosy was my first Death and is probably still the one I listen to the most. Some bangers on there.

Leprosy is amazing. starts hot out the gate and really doesn't relent, but does so with more focus than the also-awesome Scream Bloody Gore.

I want a Leprosy Hoodie

I treated myself to one Death t-shirt when buying the whole discography this past week--had already bought Leprosy when I decided to do so, otherwise that's the one I'd've repped for (decided to go with Symbolic since I like that cover art and although Relapse doesn't own its actual release rights they've weirdly bundled the t-shirt for that album as an optional add-on when you buy the deluxe digi reissue of Scream Bloody Gore:
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love Symbolic, the album and the cover art

(Plus, I work in retail so if I wear my shirt there I only want to semi-freak out any normie customers once the pandemic lifts and not totally skeeze them out, ha)

Listening to this on YouTube because it isn't on Bandcamp or easily bought as mp3s elsewhere in North America atm for whatever reason (have previously had trouble with this re: other Century Media releases)--holy crap, this is not what I was expecting on multiple fronts but I am here for it, so surprisingly sludgy and vital-sounding
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^ Kind of how I would've hoped later Ulver releases would've sounded, but I'm still ill-informed/very much a metal n00b

used to hate that album but I came around to it in years later.

Heard a doc about this last night on Public Radio, but maybe American or something, can't find it on npr.org so far---anyway, blasts of multi-d music, several whole tracks, between brief interviews w participants----Crystals, Ronettes, other recombinant groups backed by/interacting with the Wrecking Crew and Phil's orchestral hordes, then I played the whole thing on the 'Tube, pretty psychedelic:

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The original songs mix well w roasted chestnuts.