So, how was this new living project supposed to be different from an album? Cause right now it looks like a bunch of songs.

Highly Recommended "Space Music" that predates or surpasses the
insulting New Age tag

Tangerine Dream -- Phaedra, Rubicon
Klaus Schulze -- Mirage, Moondawn
Steve Roach -- Structures From Silence, Mystic Chords and Sacred Spaces
Constance Demby -- Sunborne
John Serrie -- And The Stars Go With You

My local public library has Spiritualized filed under New Age.

Been listening to this loads since Rob mentioned it earlier in the year. Have you got the version with the bonus track In Cosa Crede Chi Non Crede? Avec?


The piece was actually recorded in 76, 6 months before the album for some obscure Dutch film. It might be my favourite thing by him.

Same story, at my local library they have a disc by the Kranky noise drone group Growing in the new age category. Hopefully some old dude checks it out hoping to 'relax in the bathtub' and gets his mind blown

My local record store has everything from HEALTH to Boredoms to Gang Gang Dance to King Crimson in one giant 'Avant-Garde' section. Pretty much all the good music gets shoved there and I feel like a tool because it just looks pretentious.

Yeah, it's great! Here's Moondawn if you or someone else haven't heard it, too
http://rapidshare.com/files/207985973/Klau..._Revisited_.rar

feat. a real drummer

I think that is the only solo thing of his that I actually own. It was in a huge pile of stuff my uncle gave me we when he fucked of to live in France a couple of years ago.

Still haven't sorted through them properly which is stupid because there is electroacoustic gold in there.

LP's??

Yeah - I'd say about 150 LPs

mostly early electronics
lots of french shit
some obscure Welsh folk/prog/psych

lots of misc oddities like this:


The problem is he’s a mad old dog so some records are in the wrong sleeves and the condition varies from mint to disgraceful. I became a little disheartened with the project when I found two Philips' Prospective 21e Siecle discs both warped to shit.

low bitrates can ruin a mix, true story.

I've got the entire Tangerine Dream catalog on vinyl. Picked up originals of the whole ouvre at Amoeba for a buck a piece.

That plus loads of Klaus Schulze and Edgar Froese solo slabs.

I have that Eric Satie album as well.

Dad also had this awesome experimental/ electronic phase, and I inherited all his cool Stewart Dempster/ Pauline Oliveros/ Lou Harrison/ Xenakis/ Penderecki wax, which I once made the mistake (in high school) of trying to snuggle up to during a particularly vivid lysergic experience. <shudders>

Everybody should own this.

First four albums or something.

Then a couple guitar heavy psychedelic singles!

S'dope.

Can't stand the way the tune "Fill Your Heart" ends on Hunky Dory - that awful clown nose HONK HONK HONK honk...

That's Bowie's sax - er, it is a bit jarring.

I have this theory that Bowie's records started to suck when he stopped playing his own sax parts, and left it to professionals. He's underrated as a musician - guitar or sax.

I knew it was a horn - didn't know it was him playing it, though. It abruptly ruins an otherwise great pop song. That'd be a nice thread if it hasn't been done already: bad codas/song endings.

Bowie's "Sound and Vision" is so freaking awesome.

"right down the line" by rafferty kills every time i hear it.

I find myself listening to the new DMB release quite a bit. I'm a bit surprised. There's no denying it's a damn good record.

More I listen to it, more certain I am Bob Mould's Life and Times will be a Top 10 for me this year.

For some reason my local weather channel has started using the instrumental part of Devo's "Gut Feeling"during the Weather On The Eight forcast. I woke up one morning heard it and went back to bed imagining that it was just a dream,But today I heard it again when I was fully awake. Weird.

New Pere Ubu podcast of their latest project, a musical play, with songs to be used on their fall release.
here

Spent the majority of my weekend listening to mid-90s hip-hop: Pharcyde, Camp Lo, Company Flow, Gravediggaz, etc.

Today I've transitioned to Jolie Holland.

I heard this on Saturday. I was eating some hash browns and looked up at the TV and went 'wtf, this sounds exactly like Devo.' Then after about a minute or so I realized that it in fact was Devo. Super weird....

My friend gave me the Dillanthology Vol. 1. Changed my life.

"Runnin"

"Show Me What You got" - Busta Rhymes.

Slum Village - "Fall in Love"

good shit.

Not really that weird: Producers of TV news tend to be younger and music fans, and that instro portion was used to great effect in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou a few years back - it's kind of a go-to piece of bed music.

That insufferable Lady Gaga song "Poker Face" (with the racy cut up sample that makes the chorus outro sound like "fuh-fuh-fuh-fuck her face-fuh-fuh-fuck her faaaaace") shares a chorus with Glenn Frey's "You Belong to the City." They're even in the same key.

Faith No More did a fun little "Poker Face" cover at Download on Saturday...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0NUPb3tGm8...feature=related

There's a lot of stuff I need to listen to that came out this year...

...or will come out this year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gtsCMFjQtw

Man, I love everything they do.

Holy hell, the new Polvo is hot shit:

http://pitchfork.com/news/35665-premiere-polvo-beggars-bowl/

How did I manage to sleep on these guys for so long?

Every time I read a post from Aerodynamics, I hear that GBV song "Man Called Aerodynamics" in my head.

That's a great association! One of my absolute favorite tracks ('Under The Bushes, Under The Stars' is arguably the greatest GbV album).

Perhaps I was being subconciously influenced when I chose the handle.

bit of trivia: Robert Pollard plays all instruments on that track.

"laughing at a good god-themed joke" ?

C'mon, Regina. Honestly.

Just got turned on to a great blog, Bedazzled. it's chock full of vintage music clips and complete Shindig, Hullabaloo shows, and much more. I think it's run by a DJ at WFMU. Trying to research it some more.

I'm stunned that this new Modest Mouse track is actually good. It's very, very good, in fact:

http://www.thetripwire.com/listen/2009/06/...use-whale-song/

So, so glad that Talk Talk resisted the urge to title their debut album eponymously. I think I would have had a minor fit if I ever looked at my stereo and saw

TALK TALK-TALK TALK-TALK TALK

Nothing better on a summer Sunday afternoon/evening than tuning in Uncle Sherman on KPIG
That's him on the right. The notorious hard core biker DJ.

Fun stuff

Thanks.

On a similar retro thought...
Wish I could find a blog with Casey Kasem's 70's American Top 40 shows that have aired since being re-packaged. Gotta be some lunatic fan recording these things.

Listening to the new reissue of Def Leppard's Pyromania...here's a Deluxe Edition worth checking out. The album remaster is spectacular, and the bonus disc's 1983 live set recorded in LA is SCORCHING. This is the sound of one hungry band.

It's out there on the torrents.

Shonen Knife just played a free lunchtime show at a new bar round the corner. I've had worse Thursdays at work. Hadn't seen them since 1991, they don't seem to have aged at all. But then neither do I.

Got out of the shower this morning to find the missus dancing around the bathroom with the baby to college radio - I helplessly joined in when the jock kid played a track by The Dimes called "Catch Me Jumping". Anybody heard this tune? I hadn't. I just wrote it down on a Post-It note & looked up the record title, though: The Silent Generation. G'bless college radio to the 9th degree.

Full disclosure: another to-buy title on the Post-It note is Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair.

Decided just this week that I need to investigate the entire Kinks discography, something I have neglected to do all my life. I've always liked the hits, but for whatever reason never put the time in to explore more. Downloaded the first three albums (The Kinks, Kinda Kinks, and The Kink Kontroversy), and have been spinning them. Pretty good stuff, if not indicative of what a hundred other British bands were doing at the time. From what I understand things start to get more interesting from the 4th album (Face to Face) on. Should be a fun ride.

Yes.The whole stretch from Face To Face to Mushwell Hillbilly's is amazing and filled with genius pop songs and great lyrics. You are in for a treat indeed.

Seems like good stuff. Will have to investigate further.

I listened to The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway for the first time yesterday, I'd never heard any of that old Genesis stuff from the 70s. And I found it to be really enjoyable and quite compelling...that is, before the protagonist winds up chasing his dick down a river. Then things just got silly.

Lamb is great, if maybe a little muddled through the second disc. You should check out Selling England by the Pound, as well.

David Byrne absolutely KILLED it down at the Greek tonight. Busted out all sorts of Eno goodness (including a cut from My Life in the Bush of Ghosts), five tunes from Remain in Light, second encore with "Road to Nowhere" and "Burning Down the House" accompanied by a full carnival freakout marching band from Oakland with football halftime arrangements. Awesome.

Fucking GREAT show. Wow.