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No star here laces

08:19 / 25.08.01

quote:Originally posted by the broken june:

in the same area, dj shadow and cut chemist's excellent "brainfreeze" is a real pleasure of mixing big classics ("california soul", "the sound u hear", etc...) with the turntablizm touch, without too much technical xtravaganza, as it's a way to go in this usual business... there's vibes here !

I think I heard about this. This is the one that uses a record that 7-11 put out in the 70s to advertise their slushies called 'do the gulp' or something. I normally steer well clear of DJ shadow, but might check this out.

More good bay area stuff is about at the moment - that Planet Asia/Schoolyard Riders single off the 'Funky Precedent 2" album that's out at the moment is tight, very very tight - huge big dubby bassline and a really laidback feel, with Asia really doing it on the mic, unlike on his disappointing album last year...

11:30 / 25.08.01

quote:Originally posted by Lick my plums, bitch.:
may be moving into a J-pop phase due to receiving some ace compilations from a mate in Japan, no idea what most of it is, but it's ace...

i picked up a copy of exposure from one of those trendy clothes stores in monmouth street last week. there's a cd of japanese bands on there. i really like the supercar and love psychedelico tracks.

Ellis

13:06 / 25.08.01

Current fascination: The Moldy Peaches. They rock.

jUne, a sunshiny month

23:34 / 25.08.01

ok, full current shit :
- dark circle(UK/german hip hop)
- Roots Manuva last LP
- jehst(uk hip hop, too)
- killa kela, the best beatboxing guy this side of the universe. those who saw him know what i'm talkin'about.
- labi siffre. not all his shit, just the one in two separate movements, which is the loop used for Eminem's "my name is". so deeeeeeep, so beautiful...
- 4 hero new LP, amazing.
and for the fun i'm playing a lot with main source and jvc force, some early 90 hip hop shit... no, late 80 !

21:43 / 29.08.01

WOW! that new squarepusher album go plastic!'s an excellent joy for anyone who doesn't mind completely un-understanding the mind of the man they're listening to (fucktypes of death) and the new autechre one confield too, enough to let you rest easy that the future was released on cd a few weeks back and that all will be well.

The Return Of Rothkoid

14:51 / 30.08.01

quote:Originally posted by kooky needs a drink:
which album? hmv have a bunch on sale, but i wasn't sure which one to get. i wanted ornette coleman, but there weren't none on sale.I got the Oscar Peterson Trio's Night Train and The Sound of The Trio; the latter is live, and incredible. Both are wonderful discs, though, curse their talented hides.

Ornette's usually about a tenner in non-sale times, innee? Which one you after?

And what's the Kirk album like?

16:54 / 30.08.01

kirk is pretty darn groovy. though i've been listening to missy elliot all week.

05:17 / 04.09.01

Dirty Three & Low: especially their cover of Neil Young's "Down by the River". Just been through a heavy Necks period - they can make time, beautifully irrelevant.And another Cat Power fancier: what that woman can do with lo-fi recording is just amazing. Also, for just sheer reclining beauty, still like to put on the Gram Parsons tribute album "Return of the Grievous Angel", esp. Emmylou Harris and Sheryl Crow's "Jaunita".

The Return Of Rothkoid

05:17 / 04.09.01

quote:Originally posted by agarchy:
Just been through a heavy Necks period - they can make time, beautifully irrelevant.What did you think of Aether? I was a bit disappointed by it - not as strong as Silent Night, say...

10:20 / 04.09.01

Rothkoid,
I don't know Silent Night, but Aether was a bit of a grower - I found it works best as total background music (sound a bit stupid, as most music played at home is background . . .). I love the way it soooo slowly, builds and gains, then hits this shimmer - ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! - of percussiveness, of aural e.

What's Silent Night like?

10:28 / 04.09.01

have been morbidly fascinated by the not-very-good-punk/pop-band-i-was-in-15-years-ago who's long forgotten record has just been reissued on a compilation cd. but that's just til the nightnurse album comes out...

12:02 / 04.09.01

Thanks, Vancouver. I’ll probably get that Boredoms record.

June – in total agreement: the new Roots Manuva record is excellent. I also love the Strokes album, as I’m enjoying a newfound “Immune to the Embarrassing Negative Effects of Hype on Critical Faculties” phase. It’s stripped down and has beautiful songs and… amazingly, that’s enough for me right now (for once. It’s nice to have a break from all the megalomaniacs that make up the rest of my CD collection).

The Return Of Rothkoid

12:25 / 04.09.01

quote:Originally posted by agarchy:
What's Silent Night like?
Hmm. Two discs, one track on each. Black and White. I think it's meant to be a journey through a city at night - it's good. Not as low-key as Sex, not as up as Hanging Gardens - but really good. I just felt that Aether lacked a certain something - it was a bit too backgroundy, without the transformation satisfaction that I get from their other releases.

That said, if you ever get the chance, see them live. Kill people, if you have to.

13:02 / 04.09.01

After these last few months of silence, I've started listening to music again, and have been dealing almost exclusively with different versions of "Somewhere over the Rainbow" and songs about Hockey.

13:52 / 04.09.01

Moriarty - do you have the Flaming Lips' version of "SOTR?" If so, can I get a copy?

13:58 / 04.09.01

Sorry, my search has only just begun. I've got Ella Fitzgerald, Guns and Roses, Tori Amos, Cosmic Gate, Patti Labelle, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, and my two favourites, Willie Nelson and Ray Charles.

Oh, and Judy Garland.

I'll be on the look out for the Flaming Lips, though. That and Tom Waits.

[ 04-09-2001: Message edited by: moriarty ]

jUne, a sunshiny month

17:53 / 04.09.01

"black mystery has been revelead" from the mighty Roland Kirk is one of my all-time favorite tracks, all styles.
don't know why. it's not even a real track, it's really short. it's just...
i dunno. Kirk is dope, dot. damn, i miss this track, will listen to it NOW.

19:40 / 04.09.01

Newest thing for me- Sigur Ros, an Icelandic band, sorta ambio-pop dreamy/spacey stuff. Great because since I don't know Icelandic, I can make the words mean whatever I want them to. Anyone else into the scandinavian music scene?

19:48 / 04.09.01

Oh yeah, and Sigur Ros' next concert is at a festival celebrating Icelandic witchcraft & sorcery. Wish I could make it, but I can't.

08:12 / 05.09.01

quote:Originally posted by shortfatdyke:
have been morbidly fascinated by the not-very-good-punk/pop-band-i-was-in-15-years-ago who's long forgotten record has just been reissued on a compilation cd. but that's just til the nightnurse album comes out...

oooh, which band were you in? Any chance of any of us remembering them?

12:37 / 05.09.01

since i imagine the original 7-inch sold around 3 or 4 copies, i doubt very much if anyone will remember it! the band was a 'project' (ha!) between the joy of living and hardcore anarchist types (and actually really, really nice blokes) the apostles.

The Return Of Rothkoid

13:06 / 05.09.01

My computer has been quietly downloading the Rammstein bootleg archive while I've been working today. Yes, I'm weak. But they're on fire!

In completely unrelated listening news, I find myself oddly attracted to Ball In The House's awful rendition of "Karma Chameleon". They're a six-piece a capella group, and have recorded a version that's all "yeeeah, boyee" and bad beatboxing. With a rap that goes a little like this: quote:Karma karma karma, my colourful chameleon.
Changing from red, blue, gold to vermillion.
To ferret you out I need brains Aristotlean.
And that's a list of words that rhyme with "chameleon".It's scarifyin'.

Regrettable Juvenilia

07:52 / 06.09.01

Wasn't there some scandal about Rammstein being Nazis a while ago?

The Return Of Rothkoid

07:52 / 06.09.01

That stemmed from their use of some Riefenstahl footage in the clip for their version of "Stripped" from the Depeche Mode tribute album a couple of years ago. They rebuffed the idea that they were Nazis. Sonicnet covered the story here, NME were contacted by the band.

quote:In a statement they declared: "We are not Nazis, Neo-Nazis or any other kind of Nazi. We are against racism, bigotry or any other type of discrimination." They added that they had used the film simply as an example of a visionary work of art, rather than to endorse Nazism or facism.

A spokeswoman for the Anti-Nazi League applauded the band's strenuous denial of any Nazi links, but added: "I still think they are misguided on the Leni Riefenstahl front. They really should've been a bit more upfront about what they are trying to say. You have to be very clear in your message when you use those kind of images."

I wonder if last year's Taschen release of the Riefenstahl book copped any flak in a similar vein?

I think the fact that they're rather ominous-voiced Germans who go in for fire-ritual probably adds fuel to the fire (sigh.) To be perfectly frank, I reckon they're showboys, nothing more. I just like 'em because they're the epitome of big, dumb rock, are camp as fuck and set things on fire. Not brain surgery, but a lot of fun.

Regrettable Juvenilia

14:09 / 07.09.01

My current musical fascination is Lift To Experience. Barmy god-bothering rednecks. I believe expressionless is partial to them

. They blew me away when I saw them support Cat Power a couple of weeks ago (Cat Power was sadly a bit shambolic). You know you're in for something special when they have a cow's skull on the amp and the lead singer has the most ridiculous sideburns I've seen in my life and is wearing a cowboy hat and a t-shirt which reads "My state is bigger than your country".

Anyway the album, The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads, is full of mad, long, intense, LOUD, beautiful songs about the apocalypse being nigh and Texas being the promised land. I should point out that it's also fraught with pain and loss and yearning and good stuff like that. Sort of Trail of Dead meets Mercury Rev meets Mogwai meets Joshua Tree U2. In the desert. 'Waiting To Hit' is probably my favourite for now...

[ 07-09-2001: Message edited by: The Flyboy ]

Our Lady of The Two Towers

16:53 / 07.09.01

Preston School of Industry - All This Sounds Gas. I haven't got into any new guitar music in ages and I wasn't a Pavement or whoever the lead singers from fan either, but theres something about it that, I dunno, rocks my little world.

And I've suddenly got really into Bjork too. I'd had 'Post' for ages, but I suddenly got 'Homogenic' (which I listened to years ago and disliked) and 'Vespertine' within a week of each other.

09:33 / 10.09.01

quote: Originally posted by Flyboy:

Barmy god-bothering rednecks. I believe expressionless is partial to them

They’re my Texan soul mates. I can’t believe I was born in Blighty - I should be their drummer! It ain’t feckin’ fair!

A related tale: I was an inch away from trashing my drumkit in Church this evening. Everything turned into Godspeed...! at the end: painfully loud, electric atmosphere, thrashy wall of noise and distortion, beautifully warped melody. Last time I trashed my kit was in the youth service (permissible, if unheard of), this was in a full on Sunday congregation. Cannot believe we not only got away with it, but got praise from all the aged leader types as well.

Playing in Church = transcending, ecstatic privilege.

Trashing instruments = best fun you can have outside of sex.

Trashing instruments in Church = the greatest thing I can imagine doing with my life

09:44 / 10.09.01

quote: new tune by photek

I love Photek. If he’d been signed to Warp when he released “Modus Operandi” he’d have been hailed as the Messiah. As it was, people thought he was just about drum’n’bass. He’s one of the all time great “what the hell’s going on in this man’s head” drum programmers. I heard he’d dedicate a year to making break beats - several hundred - of which he’d only use ten. He then took everything out of the track that resembled a melody, for fear it would date his work.

The results are incredible. The best use of reverb I’ve ever heard (if you think that sounds like a dull muso observation, wait till you get caught in a trance by one his beats); weird non-existent melodies emerging between found sounds; knife edge tension; the best “test your new stereo” production. He’s so far ahead of the pack it hurts. Great song titles, too (always a plus).

Just revel in “Ni Ten Ichi Ryu.” Oooooh....

09:44 / 10.09.01

Wow. Listening to "Solaris" (the new Photek album), the first time since working out how to get more bass from my sound system. It's so pretty... the filters on the bass sound amazing.

09:44 / 10.09.01

God, I couldn't get on with Solaris at all. Really painful to listen to. Guess I'm not a drum'n'bass kinda guy.

09:44 / 10.09.01

RE: Lift To Experience - I told you so, didn't I, huh? huh?

Actually, I think that after the live experience, the album seems a little undrwhelming.. I recorded a live performance off the radio, and I'm actually listening to that more..

11:51 / 10.09.01

Rizla: Was that last week's Peel Session? Would you mind copying it for me? Can I do you something in return (Boredoms)?

For the record, "Solaris" contains only one track that can be described as Drum'n'Bass ("Terminus"). It's the worst track on the album. The rest covers a fair bit of stylistic ground (but the only other recognisable style is house).

jUne, a sunshiny month

18:41 / 11.09.01

photek rules. but his last housey lp was not that good to me, even if this guy 's got some fuckin' productions skillz indeed.

all his shit on photek productions, metalheadz, or science, whatever, kick my ass. special forces last 2000 track is a fat work also.

Matthew Fluxington

23:34 / 16.03.02

Let's resurrect this thread... or at least have it out in the open, since there is a wealth of interesting information contained in these six pages.

What's yr current obsession?

Me? I've been listening to my favorite band obsessively for the past week, it's a seasonal thing for me: every spring, I'm heavy into Pavement. I think it's mostly cos most of their records came out in the spring, so I have the association in my mind...

This article from the New Yorker circa 1997 and this article from BAM circa 1993 both capture a lot of what's been intriguing me about the Pavemen's catalog this time around...

01:53 / 17.03.02

interesting to see this thread reappear!

i can be really obsessive about what i listen to, and at the moment it's -

black heart procession - three
spiritualized - ladies and gentlemen....
my various coil bits and bobs
and i was given smog's knock knock yesterday and can't seem to stop playing it.

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