Momofuko reminds me of T-Bone Burnett's The True False Identity in a good way.
The Church's Magician Among the Spirits is basically space-rock with infusions of Celtic music and African percussion. It's like a much longer drag of whatever The Prayer Chain was smoking when they recorded Humb / Mercury.
I love how prickly the original live version of "Kidney Bingos" is. I think that people tend to forget that despite the glossiness of their '80s LPs, when they first reformed, Wire were really just picking up where they left off.
I remember me or my brother getting a copy of Green once at a yard sale (this was around the time Out of Time was big, summer or fall of 1991), and not really getting it. It was Eponymous and (to a lesser extent) Automatic for the People and Monster that really did it.
I was very much a Top 40 and dance music person in 1991, and I had only a passing relationship with any sort of rock at the time that wasn't soft rock or hair metal, so...
So, I have a new favorite DnB producer. Hell, this dude might be the most amazing producer i've ever heard. all his stuff so far is vinyl only tho. u_u
Dunno if it's just a brief absence, or if it's because I'm listening to it in the wee hours of the morning, but Chairs Missing is even better than I remembered.
Any changes of opinion with respect to particular tracks?
Before, some of the tracks like "Mercy" and "Being Sucked in Again" and "From the Nursery" just felt like they took up space. They weren't good or bad, just there. Now, I quite like them. And the songs that I already liked, like the first two and "Outdoor Miner", I like even more now.
I wonder if the extended single version of "Outdoor Miner" is available from any official sources.
reposting in this thread because this awesome album is free and basically you should download it and these dude's other EP/album right now forealz do it now fun tunes for you to blast whenever you need to blast tunes
Any changes of opinion with respect to particular tracks?
Before, some of the tracks like "Mercy" and "Being Sucked in Again" and "From the Nursery" just felt like they took up space. They weren't good or bad, just there. Now, I quite like them. And the songs that I already liked, like the first two and "Outdoor Miner", I like even more now.
I wonder if the extended single version of "Outdoor Miner" is available from any official sources.
The bass on "Being Sucked in Again" is amazing. Simon Reynolds was spot-on when he described it as sounding like it was carved from luminous marble.
How many of them were released in the same year, by artists in the same genre? (I didn't mention it before because I thought it was obvious, but Pet Shop Boys and New Order are both synthpop, at least on those specific songs.)
So, upon further listen perhaps my initial impression was too harsh on Little Creatures. I still think it sounds too much like every other adult contemporary pop musician from that era, but some of the tunes are alright. "Road to Nowhere" deserves to be on a much better album, though.
I just ordered Sufjan Stevens' Silver & Gold (his second—second!—five-disc box set of Christmas music) and apparently it comes with a complimentary download of the music on mp3. Now I'm torn between listening to those, or waiting for the CDs to come in the mail.
Yes, I start listening to Christmas music in October.
I saw the Electrospectivecompilation at a store the other day. It's supposed to be a somewhat comprehensive overview of electronic music from 1958 to 2013. I'm curious about what you folks think of the track list.
Yeah, if anything that track list is actually not long enough. It also misses a lot of great moments in electronic music that have more to do with production, not just synthesizer and sampler usage (Les Paul's early experiments with multitracking and dubbing, for example).
Even allowing for the inherent impossibility of capturing the true breadth in just two CDs, I did feel that the song choices for the last few decades were eyebrow-raising. Interesting to see my own gut reaction stated more eloquently in that article.
Dan Blacksberg is the mastermind behind Electric Simcha, and his newest project is an ecstatic trip thru the world of Hasidic nigunim as seen through the intense lens of Doom Metal. Inspired by bands such as Earth, and Sunn O))), the music on this album presents classic Spiritual Melodies out of the Hasidic tradition in re-composed and re-arranged versions aimed at a heavy rock sound. This is music that blends the spiritual fire of Hasidic melodies with Albert Ayler and Dark Metal. Fabulous!
The Lassie Foundation. Face Your Fun. One of the many power pop acts from the same scene as Starflyer 59. After my second listen, I think I love this album.
i havent actually been too impressed by what ive heard of this, doesnt touch Fortress... getting Chris Adler in on drums wasnt a good decision, Moe's punkiness gave the music a great forward momentum whereas Adler is just too good, too precise, makes it too robotic
and i think Rody sounded better on the last two albums. i dont know what it is. hard to identify. he just sounds... a bit more like everyone else? or maybe it's that everyone else has started sounding like him?
i think i just miss the shameless power-metal bombast of shit like this
... also, whisper it, but there's some quite interesting instrumentation going on underneath all that. those brass stabs!! and the lyrics are pretty good. very good by metalcore standards. didnt surprise me to learn that Arif is somehow involved in a stage adaptation of Dostoevsky, dude seems to know his shit. now rody does a lot of the lyrics and they are bad
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Before, some of the tracks like "Mercy" and "Being Sucked in Again" and "From the Nursery" just felt like they took up space. They weren't good or bad, just there. Now, I quite like them. And the songs that I already liked, like the first two and "Outdoor Miner", I like even more now.
reposting in this thread because this awesome album is free and basically you should download it and these dude's other EP/album right now forealz do it now fun tunes for you to blast whenever you need to blast tunes
Anyway:
Ooooooooooh boy.
A tumblr dedicated to Zomby's fuckheaddedness
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February 17, 2013Worth posting if only because it gives me chills. I don't get chills.
speaking of techno Perc has teamed up w/ Einstürzende Neubauten