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the Fool
02:36 / 19.10.05
Repeat Repeat - Bounce your body to the box.

Dark and glitchy but it builds and builds. I'm really enjoying this new iteration of techno (even if it wants to call itself micro/glitch/click house). Its making techno fun again, after all those wasted years of 'wonka wonka' NU NRG stupidity. Bits and pieces fly all over the place, but it holds it together.

Trentemoller - In Progress / Le Champaigne

More on the house side of the fuzzy glitch divide, but bigger and fuller than others, even fuller sounding than most of trentemoller's more recent stuff, certainly a lot 'brighter' than the new stuff. I just really love it. When it comes on me ipod, I dance in the street. I'm serious...

The Timewriter - Love is Beautiful ep.

see, I've loved this guy since his debut LP many many moons ago. Its that perfect blend of house and tech I keep search for, loosing, then finding again. Deep bass, driving beats, but never 'too heavy'. The lyrics are borderline cheesy but I still find myself singing along (thats the A side - Love is beautiful). The B side is deep and sleazy. Its my favourite record at the moment.

Bioground - Love Addiction

As with Timewriter this comes from the fantastic Plastic City lable. I love it. Deep and sorta melancholy. Housey and techy in just the right combination, that perfect blend. Not quite as 'OMFG' as Timewriter, but beautiful nevertheless. A range of vocalists, and a really pretty cover too...
 
 
Mistoffelees
07:24 / 19.10.05
Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering

Synchronicity: There we are talking about her, and "in response", she releases a new album. After 35 years!

It sounds quite good, although it´s too soon for me to judge if it is the same quality of Just Another Diamond Day. It´s amazing, that her voice sounds the same after all this time. The mood again very dreamy and mellow.

Her label:
"Lookaftering is anchored around Vashti´s voice and picked acoustic guitar, and Max´s piano playing and co-arranging. Its instrumentation includes a string quartet, oboe, harp, French horn, recorder, flute, hammer dulcimer, glasses, harmonium, and Rhodes piano, and it features contributions from Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Adem, Adam Pierce (Mice Parade), Robert Kirby (Nick Drake / etc.), Otto Hauser and Kevin Barker (Espers / Currituck County)"
 
 
Gypsy Lantern
08:30 / 19.10.05
Does her voice sound the same? Fantastic! I'd heard she had a new record coming out, but since it's her first one in 30 years, who knows what it might have sounded like.
 
 
Spaniel
09:08 / 19.10.05
Fool, would that Bounce your Body to the Box tune use the same sample as the tune of (I think) the same name (came out years and years ago)?

If so, ace sample.

Bounce your.. Bounce.. Your Bounce.. Bounce your.. Bounce.. Your Bounce.. Bounce your.. Bounce.. Your Bounce.. Bounce your body to the box
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
10:54 / 19.10.05
Don't think it is Boboss. The old one you refer to is by Marshell Jefferson & he does the "Bounce..." vocals on it. It's goota be a bi gup to it though & so it should the MJ version was ace, still sounds great now!
 
 
Mmothra
14:47 / 19.10.05
Listening to the new Boards of Canada and not sure just what I think yet. Music Has The Right To Children is near perfect and Geogaddi is perhaps my favorite bong-in-hand recording...this just seems a bit all over the place right now. Anyone else?
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
15:47 / 19.10.05
Yeah i know what you mean about the new Boards album. According to a friend of mine who works with them, they are focussed on making extremely well produced music. I personally feel (on a few early listens) that this may be to their detrement; it's almost over produced, super clean & lacks the ruffness of MHTRTC.
Personally i'd like to see them go back to doing some more dancefloor orientated stuff like their offerings on the MASK series put out by SKAM. My fav Boards stuff by far.
 
 
the Fool
22:24 / 19.10.05
Personally i'd like to see them go back to doing some more dancefloor orientated stuff like their offerings on the MASK series put out by SKAM. My fav Boards stuff by far.

Mr Ford, have you heard the Board's (as Hell Interface) absolutely fantastic 'Trapped' on Mask200? Its the usual mashup with a ridiculously funky 80s electropop song running through it. Brilliant. If only it wasn't on an album that is stupidly rare and worth over 400 bucks!!!!
 
 
the Fool
22:27 / 19.10.05
Fool, would that Bounce your Body to the Box tune use the same sample as the tune of (I think) the same name (came out years and years ago)?

If so, ace sample.

Bounce your.. Bounce.. Your Bounce.. Bounce your.. Bounce.. Your Bounce.. Bounce your.. Bounce.. Your Bounce.. Bounce your body to the box

Actually, yknow, I think it might. Just vocorded within an inch of its life though.
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
09:04 / 20.10.05
Mr Ford, have you heard the Board's (as Hell Interface) absolutely fantastic 'Trapped' on Mask200? Its the usual mashup with a ridiculously funky 80s electropop song running through it. Brilliant. If only it wasn't on an album that is stupidly rare and worth over 400 bucks!!!!

I totally agree, Hell Interface = Ace! I have all the Mask stuff on mp3 & would be happy to send you a copy if you don't have them? Saves about £400 anyway!!
 
 
uncle retrospective
09:16 / 20.10.05
My giving Gravenhurst a lot of time at the moment. With a title like Distant Buildings on Fire you can almost hear the Shoegaze but it's a great CD. Sounds kinda like Nick Drake if he was in Slint. Weird but nice.

I'm also discovering Broken Social Scene who sound ace so far.
 
 
Keith, like a scientist
12:21 / 20.10.05
Nick Drake as if he was in Slint? Damn! I have to give Gravenhurst a listen soon.

I've been listening to:

FBC Fabric & Reindeer - It's Not Who You Know, It's Whom You Know (Buttercuts
Absolutely epic hip hop album. My easy description for people is if Boards of Canada and Radiohead got together to produce a Lewis Parker album. Lovely production, and inventive rhymes. Cinematic, urban, intimate, and full of waves of synths and strings, this is one of the most unique hip-hop albums I’ve ever head. It’s about half instrumental, half vocal, characterized by it’s melody and atmosphere laden production by FBC and the Thom Yorke-like subject matter of the introspective Reindeer.

Various: Welcome To The Neo Golden Age (Equinox)
Label compilation from Equinox, running the spectrum of downtempo, techno, experimental electronics. It's very smooth, with a couple absolutely stellar tracks from DJ Scientist, ArcSin, etc.

Cage - Hell's Winter (Def Jux)
Amazing album. Incredible MC + a slate of top notch producers (Blockhead, RJD2, DJ Shadow, El-P). Very intimate and dark lyrics painted over some hard hitting but haunting productions. "Stripes" is a particular favorite of mine.

Blockhead - Downtown Science (Ninja Tune)
Speaking of Blockhead, his second album is a slow-burner, not quite reaching the heights of his first album, but on closer inspection, turns out to be quite a bit deeper and personal.

Modeselektor - Hello Mom (BPitch Control)
Fantastic wide ranging album from this duo. They have been putting out stellar 12"s for the past couple years. Not sure how they were going to work on an album, but they definitely tried to make a truly listenable-at-home experience. There is some Prefuse 73/Deadly Wiz Da Disko cut up stuff, some brutal 4/4 techno, proper nu-Funkstorung-ish songs, as well as mindbending electronic downtempo like stuff. Really enjoying this album.

P-Love - All Up In Your Mind
P-Love rose to fame helping Kid Koala on his tours, both being Montreal natives. Then Marco Bully got a hold of him to do some 7?s for his Sixtoo affliated label. This is a lovely lovely album, full of warm and beautiful melodies, crisp drums, and uncommon for an album of this sound…it’s all played live, mostly by P-Love himself. Instrumental hip hop with an electronic influence is the order of the day here. Fans of Express Rising, Sixtoo, Blockhead, etc. would do well to check it out!
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
17:13 / 23.10.05
A couple of tunes I'm very into at the moment:

Yoko Ono - 'Walking On Broken Glass' (Felix Da Housecat remix)

This is from Felix's Bugged Out Mix / Yoko's EP of remixes from 2003, but I only just got around to hearing it. My bad. It's that perfect mix of strung-out anxiety and dancefloor cool that makes people nostalgic for early 80s New York. Rhythm section sounds like it could almost be Cut-era Slits.

Junior Senior - 'Take My Time'

Featuring vocals from Kate Pierson and Cindy Wilson from the B52s. Perfect for anyone who ever thought "I wish more people were making music that sounded like Le Tigre's poppier material". There's a compound word that describes this song, it's seven letters long and it begins with a 'J'. A capital J.
 
 
Harrison Ford, in a battle suit, wheels for feet, knives and guns
13:14 / 02.11.05
Just came across this wicked electronic Disco mix by Jamie Paton. It's ace, packed full of classic rare as rocking horse shit vintage leftfield electronic wobblers. On the site there's also an ace old school electro mix by Bass Junkie feat Egyptian Lover, Maggatron, Captain Rock, Keymatic & loads more.

Zombie Disco treats for all
 
 
Lugue
13:28 / 05.11.05
For the most part...

Mesa - Vitamina

Just because it's wonderful to hear some proper Portuguese electronic pop. Great stuff here, veering off into 80s balladry and pure funkishness at times, keeping to riffy pop with some bite at others and and. And I realize I suck at describing music.

And God, what a voice; M. Ferraz is probably the current national singer with the healthiest dose of both beauty and attitude in her voice.

So. Yes. That'd be it.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
21:56 / 05.11.05
My Firewater obsession has led me to check out Gogol Bordello, at least one of whom is a member of Firewater, and whose latest album "Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike" is absolutely wonderful- it's like punk klezmer, with hefty forays into dub every now and then. It's got that energy I love, and were I the type of person to use the word "joycore" I'd probably use it to describe them. Except I'm not. Anyone remember Les Negresses Vertes? It's a bit like them. Only not really. It's ace.

Again, my Firewater obsession has led to me deciding to rediscover Cop Shoot Cop (I have most of their stuff on vinyl, but no turntable) and bugger me if their stuff isn't expensive now. Anyway, my overpriced second-hand CD of "Ask Questions Later" turned up this morning, and I'd forgotten what a kick-ass band they actually were. "Room 429" still breaks my heart, and "$10 Bill" is still a fucking classic. All hefty drums, metalbashing and high-end bass, and Tod A, even back then, still had a voice to die for. Still not quite so good an album as "White Noise", but a worthy rediscovery. ($10 bill in your pocket, $10 bill... what you gonna buy with that greenback, what kind of thrill? $10 bill in your pocket, $10 bill... tell me where'd ya get that money- WHO'D YA HAVE TO KILL?)
 
 
Mmothra
15:33 / 08.11.05
OM: Variations on a Theme

Saw them with Baby Dee, Simon Finn, and Current 93 this past Friday and they were the highlight of the show (for me).
 
 
GogMickGog
18:52 / 08.11.05
I love variations.

Totem Polish bought it for me on my birthday, and it takes me to drone heaven every time.

Am anticipating my new copy of the pebbles box set, after I lost the last on a train; a box full o' trash-punk anthems with a heavy dose of psych. Worth it for Bobby Fu

Also wetting my tartans over The Soft boys-"underwater Moonlight". I fockin' love Hitchcock's solo stuff, and this promises to be ace (allmusic give it 5 outta 5, as they do for Ghost, who are quite divine.). So, if I don't wear out Dogmanstar before they arrive, all should be fine.
 
 
Shrug
19:58 / 09.11.05
I found these these two via www.arjanwrites.com
The mashuptastic DJ Earworm.
Link
The link contains about 12 free downloadable songs. I really can't recommend hir enough.

And the equally brilliant This is the Night from the new Harry Potter movie by Pulp's Jarvis Cocker.
It's bloody brilliant isn't it?
Is Cocker still using the Darren Spooner persona?
 
 
Mister Six, whom all the girls
20:11 / 09.11.05
Far too strange and diverse since I started working for a record label.

Thinking Fellers Union
The Walkmen
The Frames
Wilco
Roxy Music
Bowie
the new Fall Heads Roll
Blue Orchids
Joy Division
Spiritualized
 
 
Shrug
20:19 / 09.11.05
Oooh The Frames have a record deal outside of Ireland? Or is this a different band? If it is they deserve it. They seem to have played everywhere (including every college venue) in Ireland at least twice.
 
 
Mister Six, whom all the girls
00:52 / 10.11.05
Same band. They used to play in Cambridge, MA in the States a lot.

(sorry for the confusion, none of the bands I listed are on the label I'm working for, the job has just gotten me unstuck from being a music snob is all)
 
 
Charlus
07:33 / 11.11.05
Currently:

Camera Obscura
Janis Ian
Keren Ann
10,000 maniacs
Natalie Merchant
Sinead O'Connor
Kings of Convenience
Tania Bowra
Divinyls
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
07:35 / 11.11.05
The Lists - 'What's The Fucking Point?', on Content-Free Records.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
07:57 / 11.11.05
I saw The Frames once. The guy was a dick- someone over the other side of the room heckled, and he kicked his beer right at ME.

The joke was on him, though- once the froth had died down, there was still most of a bottle left.
 
 
The Natural Way
10:26 / 11.11.05
Right, I know it sounds harsh, but I think it might be a good idea for mods to start deleting lists. Most of us think they're pointless and shit, we want to improve the quality of all the forums...etc and how the shit are we going to get the mssg across otherwise? NnngGg.
 
 
Spaniel
10:43 / 11.11.05
Unfortunately the terms of the thread weren't established in Rizla's intitial post so mods have little to fall back on, other than the fact that list threads are utterly pointless, uninteresting and stupid.
I'm sure this isn't how Rizla intended this thread to look.
 
 
Shrug
11:22 / 11.11.05
Just mod the subject to clearly state NO LISTS then. Or pm the people in question and ask them to edit their post a little so as to include reasons.
 
 
Spaniel
11:33 / 11.11.05
Well, I can't mod the subject and I sure as shit can't be bothered to PM everyone who's posted a list, besides it's far more efficient to point out what's wrong with the thread *in thread*. And, Christ, it's not as if people aren't always going on about the pointlessness of lists. Personally, I would hope that it would be self evident that list threads serve no purpose.
 
 
Mistoffelees
12:22 / 11.11.05
I don´t agree that the lists are without purpose.

I am always on the lookout for new music.
And if there is a list (like the one above), where I know and like some of the artists, I can check out the ones I don´t know and might find some new nice music, I otherwise wouldn´t have known about.
 
 
Spaniel
12:52 / 11.11.05
Mist, just because someone likes a couple of bands I like does not mean I'll like the other bands they list and unless they attempt to persuade me otherwise, I (and I suspect many others who post around these parts) am unlikely to do any further leg work. Also, lists contribute nothing to *threads in which they are posted*: they don't encourage discussion, they don't encourage debate, they don't foster community, they don't do anything other than present the poster as potentially lazy and/or narcisstic.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:26 / 11.11.05
But surely you'd agree, Mist, that it would be better if the poster actually gave some reasons as to why they liked said band, or what they got out of it? I mean, just because I could post a list containing Wagner and Big Black doesn't mean that a fan of opera would be able to guess that Steve Albini also rocked, or in what way.
 
 
The Natural Way
14:09 / 11.11.05
Yes, Boboss, people are always going on about how shit list threads are, which leads me to believe the list people clearly aren't reading other people's posts in the first place. Narcissists, indeed. Let's just get rid of them.
 
 
Regrettable Juvenilia
14:11 / 11.11.05
But how would we hear about strange and diverse artists such as Wilco, Roxy Music, David Bowie, Joy Division, Spiritualized, and The White Males?
 
 
Jack Fear
16:35 / 11.11.05
I'm listening to Négro au Thentic and the Street Cred Five—and if you're not, then you are dead to me.

Dead.
 
  

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