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A 'What are you listening to?' thread

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00:03 / 05.03.04

anything by depth charge(dc records uk)...I never tire of jsk's stuff

Regrettable Juvenilia

14:35 / 08.03.04

You know what I'm digging right now? That new Sugababes singles, 'In The Middle'. It's all about the whomp, whomp, whomp sound underpinning the chorus.

That and London Calling by The Clash.

15:31 / 08.03.04

I am listening to The Mummies - 'Death by Unga Bunga'. It is the greatest blast of fukked-up surf-punk-garage I have ever heard. It is noisy and FUN, and makes me want to cover myself in bandages and drive around in a hot-rod making wolf noises, or become a farmer and ride round on the back of an enormous pig, covered in filth, playing the drums (me, not the pig, but that would be good too). Ach, go to the website, they explain it better there. Look at the pics, and imagine what they sound like - that's exactly what they sound like. Rizla MUST receive a copy of this.

15:44 / 08.03.04

FRESH from the back of the racks:

Ptaah - "De'compressed". Remixed jazzy goodness, perfect music for designing a flyer to.

Biffy Clyro - "Blackened Sky". I needed something that rocked hard (although they get a little emo at times)

HEAVY ROTATION

Blumfeld - "L'etat et moi". Saw them live - absolutely blinding! The albums don't quite live up to the performances, but this one has the classic track "Verstaerker" (Amplifier) on. It's like coming in to land at Guitar-based International Airport at 3am.

Donnie - "The Colored Section". What a fucking top album. What a top album. It's the best album Stevie Wonder hasn't made since the early 1980s, but Donnie takes it to the next level by injecting some seriously cynical politics into his lyrics.

BACK TO THE COBBLERS

Idlewild - "the remote part". I had high hopes for this one, but it turned out to be limp like 3-week old celery. Lucky I only spent 10 francs on it, eh?

I love lists like this. Does anybody really care what I'm listening to? Apart from the neighbours, who want me to turn it down so they can get some sleep?

Goodness Gracious Meme

18:58 / 08.03.04

Right now:

Boards of Canada - Music Has The Right To Children

In general

DavidBowie - 1984. love. love. love.
A bunch of greensleeves comps a friend has given me.
Automatic for the People - REM.
And a massive Pulp resurgence. Which is consisting mainly of watching the videos over and over.

Goodness Gracious Meme

19:04 / 08.03.04

oh and lovely lovely dubby goodness of all sorts.

19:49 / 08.03.04

In the cd-player now:
1. Gone Jackals - Bone to pick
2. Sarah Harmer - You were here
3. Tokyo Ghetto Pussy - Disco 2001
4. Paul van Dyk - Vorpsrung Dyk Technic (disc 2)
5. Watercress - Holiday

In the discman now:
1. Public Enemy - Yo, bum rush the show

20:07 / 08.03.04

Those Greensleeves Samplers are the best value for money in the music world, no doubt.

And by sheer chance, just as your post on "dubby goodness" arrived on screen, I'd just started listening to the track "Dub Colossus" by Temple of Sound. Spooky!

I am Invisible now

01:45 / 09.03.04

Well, for me this week...
Suicide Commando -Axis of Evil
Assemblage 23- Defiant(or is it Defiance?)
Delerium - Poem
Iris - Disconnect
I rotate back and forth on em..who knows what itll be next week...

The Return Of Rothkoid

04:14 / 10.03.04

Master And Everyone by Bonnie "Prince" Billy is still spinning here. Ah, cowpoke gloom.

I.S.O.: I.S.O. is also being played. Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M and Ichiraku Yoshimitsu do improv stuff with vinyl, sampled sines and electronics. Surprisingly emotive.

Otomo Yoshihide: Anode. Game-based album of large-scale work. Like being crushed underfoot.

Tore Elgaroy: The Sound Of The Sun. Sounds like electronica... except it's entirely guitar-based. Lovely and warm.

And, of course Gallowsbird's Bark by The Fiery Furnaces because it's only just come out here, and I got a promo copy. Nobbad.

06:16 / 10.03.04

I just got the new Dirtbombs album and it's damn nifty. Same goes for Cryptoburners by Team Doyobi. It's bleepy electronica that kind of reminds me of old video games without sounding nostalgic.

And then there's the Left Rights. A couple of the members of Mindless Self-Indulgence essentially got together to record an album of thirty second songs that manage to be even more absurdly nonsensical and spastic than MSI's regular output.

Keith, like a scientist

12:09 / 10.03.04

oh my. i'm listening to Shadow Huntaz - Corrupt Data (Skam) on repeat now...this is so damn good. 3 American MCs from Atlanta, Chicago, and LA produced by the Netherlands-based IDM bros Funckarma. So damn good. Future Hip-hop.

15:05 / 10.03.04

right this minute i'm listening to Felix da Housecat Kittenz and thee Glitz.

in heavy rotation lately:

Coldcut Journeys By DJ: 70 Minutes of Madness
Handsome Boy Modelling School So... how's your girl?
Broadcast The Noise Made By People
the Mille Plateaux sampler Clicks & Cuts 3

i've also been meaning to get more into Laub and AGF solo stuff, as well as more Def Jux stuff.

i'm coming out of a heavy period of listening to monolake momentum, Buck 65 Talkin' Honky Blues, Shalabi Effect Trial of St. Orange, and the aforementioned Boom Bip Seed to Sun, which i was lucky to be able to grab at a hip-hop specialty shop here in SD.

Locust No longer

16:58 / 10.03.04

Rothkoid- ISO is a big favorite of mine. Have you checked out any of the Sachiko M stuff with Toshimaru Nakamura or Sean Meehan. Like pretty drilling.

What I'm listening to for the moment:

CJA "Zenkoj" - Burned out NZ avant rock. Neanderthal rythms, drunken guitar rambling, and speaker hum.

The Stumps "S/T"- More NZ post rock, but sounds real perty.

Birchville Cat Motel Double CD. Really nice drone soundscapes.

The Birdtree "Orchards and Caravans" - This album's got one of the best avant folk songs ever, "Red Midnight Raven." It's beautiful and makes me think of The Wicker Man.

The Futurians 3"Cdr - Great plodding keyboard punk with obnoxious vocals. Puts all the new "post punk, funk" crap to shame with its total disregard for tunes. Cool.

17:00 / 10.03.04

Rizla MUST receive a copy of this

I had a look at a Mummies CD in a shop yesterday and thought "Wow, that looks absolutely crazy, I bet Saveloy would be into it." No really, I did think that.

current listening then;

The Mountain Goats - 'We Shall all be Healed'
Johnny Cash - 'at Folsom Prison'
The Shins - 'chutes too narrow' (a friend did me a copy of this without being asked to, so I plead innocent to all "oh yeah, you WOULD have a copy of that.." accusations - it's.. quite good I suppose, though a bit annoying in places)

I'm also downloading selected tracks by Comets on Fire (holy fucking shit!! they sound like if Sonic Youth were a maniac redneck garage band!), Reverend Bizarre (doom metal heaven) and Kimya Dawson (her latest album has some fantastic and crazy songs).

The Return Of Rothkoid

01:10 / 11.03.04

Rothkoid- ISO is a big favorite of mine. Have you checked out any of the Sachiko M stuff with Toshimaru Nakamura or Sean Meehan. Like pretty drilling.
Locust: nope, haven't heard any. Got some titles for me? I just picked up a copy of Gravity Clock today - someone at my local secondhand store seems to be shedding odd Japanese discs - and am really liking it. Mmm, minimal!

Also have been spinning Merzbeat and Mezzrow by Merzbow pretty frequently lately. They're nifty for travel, as is (I think this is the title) I Said, This Is The Son Of Nihilism by Keiji Haino, which goes from power-drill to really meditative.

(Speaking of which - anyone care to give pointers on Fushitsusha albums?)

15:05 / 11.03.04

A good run on the random ogg picks this morning:

Tarantella - Misa
SubHumAns - 'Til the Pigs Come Round
Colcannon - St. Bartholemew's Feast
Stuart Davis - Fall Awake
Pulp - Mile End
Ministry - Just One Fix
Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
The Sisters of Mercy - Flood I
Ani DiFranco - Fierce/Flawless

Locust No longer

17:54 / 11.03.04

Some good stuff with Sachiko M:

"Absinth" with John Tilbury, Franz Hautzinger, and Werner Dafeldacker
"Un" with Toshimaru Nakamura
"Debris" solo Sachiko M
"Tears" by Cosmos (duo with Ami Yoshida. It's very stark and beautiful).
Any Astro Twin you can find is pretty good, too. It's her project with the awesomely named Utah Kawasaki, who plays electronics.

Other Japanese avant garde I'd recommend:
Fushitsusha "Pathetique" (Incredibly chaotic, and sometimes hard to listen to).

High Rise "Mellow Out" -One of the best psychedelic rock albums ever. Completely overloaded and in the red, like a group of speed addled Hendrix freaks with a drummer from hell. Great vocals that seep in through the mix complement it's power.

Tetuzi Akiyama/Taku Sugimoto/Bo Wiget "Spazieren/Hokou/Periodic Drift" - the antithesis to "Mellow Out." Great spacial, drifting improv. Two chiming guitars, and a lovely cello.

If you have some spare cash, definitely check out the Amplify Box set, because it's got some of the best new Jap/Euro improv ever with people like: Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Taku Sugimoto, Tetuzi Akiyama, Ami Yoshida, Gunter Muller, Burkard Stangl, Toshimaru Nakamura, and many more. It's a tremendous document of strangely beautiful and challanging music. I can't recommend it enough.

21:06 / 11.03.04

High Rise "Mellow Out" -One of the best psychedelic rock albums ever. Completely overloaded and in the red, like a group of speed addled Hendrix freaks with a drummer from hell. Great vocals that seep in through the mix complement it's power.

That's an exact description of an album I own, also called "Mellow Out", by Mainliner, one of Kawabata Makoto of Acid Mothers Temple's many other bands. Absolutely fucking insane record.

Is the High Rise one a completely different album, or did they change their name at some point, or is one of us confused somewhere along the line?

In other news: I have the Dirtbombs album. To say that it rocks would be an understatement.

The Return Of Rothkoid

21:59 / 11.03.04

To counter the noise, I'm now listening to an Australian Crawl best-of. And some of the songs are surprisingly good. (Of course, I'm thinking "Reckless", but who isn't?)

Also: Spiritualized's Pure Phase to prepare for the gig on Sunday, and The For Carnation's s/t disc.

19:58 / 12.03.04

(Spaliage)

Right now. RIGHT NOW!! MF Doom. Fucking rocking hiphop.

Lightning Bolt. Fucking rocking rock.

DJ Producer. Fucking rocking nu-gabba.

Black Dice. Unfucking rocking, electronic, textural stuff.

And Jamaican Mento music:

"Looks to me like you a sex bank glider

Yes Miss Ida, you a real rough rider...."

NNNNGGhHHhhnghhaAAAAAAH! I love music at the mo'.

21:00 / 12.03.04

Right now? Michael Mayer, Fabric 13. Which is pretty good, if at times a little far away from my tastes; at other times, it's spot on.

On the to-listen pile: Arab Strap, The Red Thread and Jeff Mills' soundtrack to Metropolis.

Recently: Plastikman's Closer and model 500's Mind and Body; on a minimalist techno tip. Also, though: Strays by Jane's Addiction which was awesome, the Freelance Hellraiser remix of Placebo's new single English Summer Rain, the Thin White Duke remix of Starsailor's Four to the Floor (don't be hating! It turns it into a proper four-to-the-floor house track and works quite well).

And, surprisingly, Jamie Fucking Cullum's cover of Frontin'. Mainly because I just like it when the kid sits back and plays piano. Wish he'd stop singing. I can see the dirty looks from everyone coming over now and I don't care. When you get given a chordal structure by the Neptunes like that, it's ripe for exploitation. And the piano solo is great.

Oh - and a recent Miroslav Vitous jazz cd on the pile to listen to. Looks most interesting.

21:26 / 12.03.04

Jerry Springer: The Opera. Tehehe... Fucked up the ass with barbed wire. Joy.

Otherwise, Belle and Sebastian, more or less non stop.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

01:52 / 13.03.04

Sat on my desk for listening fun at work:

Black Heart Procession:
"Three" and "Amore del Tropico". Just cos they're ace. Truly ace. They manage to sound wonderfully haunting and achingly hip at the same time.

David Bowie:
"Ziggy Stardust". Do I really need to describe this one?

Acid Mothers Temple:
"Electric Heavyland". Probably a popular chice, skimming this thread. Total heavy space rock a-go-go. Utterly bonkers.

Various Artists:
"Don't Fuck With Us". Three CDs of American Digital Hardcore lunacy.

And currently on the headphones is Psychic TV's "Origin of the Species"- the remastered, rejigged, reordered double CD version of the "Infinite Beat" albums. PTV at the peak of their hyperdelic techno phase.

Locust No longer

02:22 / 13.03.04

Rizla, you're absolutely right. I just got the names fucked up in my head. I was thinking of High Rise's "Live" album but got "Mellow out" for some reason. However, Mainliner's "Mellow Out" is definitely awesome, as well. Kawabata isn't in High Rise, but it's just as insane. Musica Transonic I believe has Kawabata and one of the guys from High Rise in it, as well. Just as fucking great, too.

08:42 / 13.03.04

Yeah, let's face it, all this stuff in which bearded Japanese men play extremely loud guitars is fucking great.

The Return Of Rothkoid

00:03 / 15.03.04

You really should see Fushitsusha live then. He's like the Tokyo branch of the Goth Ramone Pixie fanclub, who makes your fucking ears fall off with volume. Class.

lord nuneaton savage

10:50 / 15.03.04

Have you heard Ghost's 'Hypnotic Underworld' yet then? It is extremely proggy and quite marvellous. Great cover to.

12:00 / 15.03.04

And Jamaican Mento music

Oi, Fraley geez: you haven't brought that new CD on V2 records, have you? "Mento Madness", I brought it on Friday and it's fucking great.For those that don't know, "mento" is, it's Jamaican music pre-reggae. It began as folk music but got jazzed up for the dances. Related to calypso, but noticeably different. Seem to make much more use of the flute, and the rhythms are different. This new CD features just great, great songs. When people say folk musi, you nomrally think of beardy guys in jumpers playing the penny whistle, but this stuff is incredibly danceable - "Big Big Sambo Gal", "Hill and Gully Rider", it's fantastic. Fraley, if that's not what you've got, then what you listening to?

Also got Trojan "Rocksteady" boxset from Fop, £7 for 50 tracks. Killer!

Also been listening to Aesop Rock's "Bazooka Tooth", but feel like I need a degree in maths to understand it. Anyone else dig this one?

Also

Cheap. Easy. Cruel.

14:00 / 15.03.04

Dismantled - Self Titled
Hoccico - Untold Blasphemies
Cenobita - Neo Milenio
God Module - Empath

15:24 / 15.03.04

I'm in a bit of a pre-war blues listening phase myself at the moment, the above mentioned Fopp sorted me out with comps of Blind Willie Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, and Leadbelly, all for a fiver each. Fantastic. Blind Willie Johnson is the man, with a voice like Tom Waits wishes he had. Most of the tracks are religious in theme, 'John the Revelator' , 'Lord, I just can't keep from crying', etc, with backing vocals from his wife forming an angelic counterpoint to Blind Willie's ugly satanic growl.

Other recent purchases include Soul Jazz's Jackie Mittoo comp 'The Keyboard King at Studio One', which apart from being completely sublime, also possibly has the most pleasingly packaging ever. Also picked up Pressure Sound's recent release 'Red Bumb Ball: Rare and Unreleased Rocksteady 1965-1968', which is really about 70% Derrick Morgan, but there's nothing wrong with an album being 70% Derrick Morgan.

16:20 / 15.03.04

Belle & Sebastian - Fold your hands...one of those bands you always heard of but never discovered.

Bjork - Post, fairy world weirdness

Garbage - Garbage, first favourite band, am rediscovering

Mixtape a friend far far away sent me with Queen Adreena and Black Box Recorder on it...

20:09 / 15.03.04

(Not Fraely, ill, just Spaliance. I physically can't explain this again.)

The Mento comp is aksherly compiled by Fraely's Dad, Mr. Ron Geesin.... AAnd very good it is, too.

Locust No longer

17:58 / 16.03.04

Holy shit, The Flower Travellin' Band's "Satori" album is amazing. Anyone into japanese rock and 70s psychedelia should check this out, it's got everything you need - rockout guitars, bansheelike vocals, and droning acid freak outs. This stuff is simply the best thing I've heard in a while in the rock genre. Oh yeah, the Darkest Hour rock, as well.

Yotsuba & Benjamin!

22:09 / 16.03.04

I have no math degree but Bazooka Tooth is still an active grower. At first, its enormous departure from his previous work soured me, almost immediately. But staring and staring at that Tomer Hanuka cover has gotten me back into it and I'm liking it quite a bit. Yes, he's awfully unintelligable at times, much more than anything previous (and that was pretty darned hard to understand), but I think, thematically, its probably his most straightforward album.

"I'm Bazooka Tooth. Def Jux is vaguely famous. I can still shoot you with my molar cannons, though."

You got it, Aes.

Fire away.

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