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dave clarkson 2988 posts |
Dec 22, 2008, 00:43
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Good year for 'Touch' music - Fennesz - black sea, Philip Jeck - sand, and the beautiful 7 inch series of 8 releases from Oren Ambardi, Jim O'rourke, vicki bennett etc - all housed in fantastic high standard design and photography. The website are doing a good deal for the 8 records for £28. Some great reissues this year.... robert wyatt albums, fripp and eno's no pussyfooting, 23 skidoo albums on ltm, 808 state - quadrastate, grachan moncur iii - evolution and buzzcocks first 3 albums complete with the live at the electric circus on disc 2 of the first album. Other good albums from Fleet Foxes, Paul Weller, Portishead, The Fall, Murcof, Dave Gilmour and Durutti Column. A good year for ghosting stuff - Caretaker, ghostbox stuff and the marvellous Victrola Favourites compilation of obscure 78's from the dust to digital label. All in all - a good year. 8)
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shanshee_allures 2563 posts |
Dec 22, 2008, 15:38
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dave clarkson wrote: All in all - a good year. 8) Yes! Let's put the 'they don't make any good music anymore' shtick to bed, for now anyway! Quite evident from this thread that many of us have found things to be the exact opposite. :-) x
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IanB 6761 posts |
Edited Dec 22, 2008, 15:58
Dec 22, 2008, 15:57
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Spaceship mark wrote: IanB wrote: Spaceship Mark - The Long Walk West (track) Oh! FANX!!!!! Glad I provided a highlight... :-) Very much so. I play that track a lot. Usually back to back with Odin (currently my favourite Cope record post Jehovahkill) and the Sunshine soundtrack. Actually when I went back and started to listen to some of the selections on my original list I realised I had been over generous to some hobbled if not entirely lame records so had to have a cull. The remaining records (including yours) I stand by completely.
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dave clarkson 2988 posts |
Dec 22, 2008, 16:10
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'All in all a good year' - reading that back now sounds like i was writing something for bbc sports review of the year.... I think every year is a good year for music lovers who are willing to search - seek and ye shall be rewarded with enlightenment, don't seek and ye shall forever be a frustrated prog fan. 8)
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lord gazzington 72 posts |
Dec 23, 2008, 16:35
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Steve Malkmus - Real emotional Trash No Age - Nouns Hot Chip - Made in the dark Black Mountain - In the future Endless Boggie - Focus level The Fall Neon Neon - Stainless steel Raconteurs - Consolers ...... Beck - Modern guilt Boris - Smile Earth - Bees Paul Weller - 22 Dreams Howlin Rain - Magnificent Fiend Stereolab - Chemical Chords Gang Gang Dance - Saint dymphna Brightblack Morning Light - Motion to rejoin Flying Lotus - Los Angeles Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird era Department of Eagles - In ear park The week that was - The week that was Wild beasts - Limbo Panto Vampire Weekend - Vampire weekend TV on the Radio - Dear science
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Dog 3000 4611 posts |
Dec 23, 2008, 19:30
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I think 2008 was a better year than most recent years . . . usually I have a hard time thinking of 10 great albums, this year it's hard to pare it down to "just" 10! Though I don't know that anything "earth-shatteringly groundbreaking and new" came out this year . . . . . . . . except "Chinese Democracy" of course!!
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1001realapes 2389 posts |
Dec 24, 2008, 15:07
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THE RESIDENTS present THE BUNNY BOY Steven Wilson : Insurgentes Alio Die : Tempus Rei The Residents : Postcards From Patmos Acid Mothers Temple & The Cosmic Inferno : Pink Lady Lemonade ~ You're From Outer Space
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Jasonaparkes 876 posts |
Dec 27, 2008, 15:43
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A late entry and a download only release by the looks...The Thirty-Second Annual Report by Throbbing Gristle, which drifted out in November, but I just read about in the latest Mojo... http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thirty-Second-Annual-Report/dp/B001NONZJU/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1230380311&sr=8-7 I haven't listend to the original record in awhile, but their seems to be a new take on old TG stuff like those revisions of Hamburger Lady and What a Day in 2004...The one section with weird interviews with a child killer and the revisions of Maggot Death are lovely...and it all ends with a splendid meltdown of Zyklon Z Zombie... I now have a fantasy of them playing all of 20 Jazz Funk Greats and Heathen Earth with a kiss-off of We Hate You Little Girls... I really must get that new PTV3 LP, Genesis is in Mojo talking in the Royal We and seeming very psyched out....
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zphage 3378 posts |
Dec 27, 2008, 16:27
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Musica Elettronica Viva - MEV40 Composer(s): Allan Bryant, Alvin Curran, Carol Plantamura, Frederic Rzewski, Ivan Vandor, Karl Berger, Garrett List, Gregory Reeve, Richard Teitelbaum, Steve Lacy, George Lewis Album Title: Musica Elettronica Viva - MEV40 Cat. No.: 80675 (4 CDs) Genre: Classical / Electronic Release Date: 12/2008 Description: Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski, Richard Teitelbaum, Karl Berger, Allan Bryant, Steve Lacy, George Lewis, Garrett List, Carol Plantamura, Gregory Reeve, Ivan Vandor Musica Elettronica Viva (MEV) was begun one evening in the spring of 1966 by Allan Bryant, Alvin Curran, Jon Phetteplace, Carol Plantamura, Frederic Rzweski, Richard Teitelbaum and Ivan Vandor in a room in Rome overlooking the Pantheon. MEV’s music right from the start was also totally open, allowing all and everything to come in and seeking in every way to get out beyond the heartless conventions of contemporary music. Taking its cue from Tudor and Cage, MEV began sticking contact mics to anything that sounded and amplified their raw sounds: bed springs, sheets of glass, tin cans, rubber bands, toy pianos, sex vibrators, and assorted metal junk; a crushed old trumpet, cello and tenor sax kept us within musical credibility, while a home-made synthesizer of some 48 oscillators along with the first Moog synthesizer in Europe gave our otherwise neo-primitive sound an inimitable edge. In the name of the collectivity, the group abandoned both written scores and leadership and replaced them with improvisation and critical listening. Rehearsals and concerts were begun at the appropriate time by a kind of spontaneous combustion and continued until total exhaustion set in. It mattered little who played what when or how, but the fragile bond of human trust that linked us all in every moment remained unbroken. The music could go anywhere, gliding into self-regenerating unity or lurching into irrevocable chaos—both were valuable goals. In the general euphoria of the times, MEV thought it had re-invented music; in any case it had certainly rediscovered it. —Alvin Curran This 4-CD set, covering the years 1967–2007, comprises the best surviving recorded documents from four decades of performances, personally curated by its three core members—Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski, and Richard Teitelbaum. As such, it is an invaluable historical anthology of one of the pioneering and truly legendary exponents of live-electronic music
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keith a 9574 posts |
Edited Dec 27, 2008, 21:55
Dec 27, 2008, 21:44
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Alphabetically my faves are as follows... ANA HINA - Natacha Atlas DIG!!! LAZARUS DIG!!! Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds BLACK SHEEP - Julian Cope MIRACLE KICKER - Dark Captain Light Captain (Can't believe no-one else seems to be digging this lot. Pitched somewhere between The Beach Boys, Nick Drake and Caribou these have probably been my fave find of the year) IMPERIAL WAX SOLVENT - The Fall SEVENTH TREE - Goldfrapp THREE - Junkboy MIDNIGHT BOOM - The Kills EXOTIC CREATURES OF THE DEEP - Sparks CHEMICAL CHORDS - Stereolab OBJECT 47 - Wire Runners up (not in order)... Portishead, Elbow, David Holmes, Balck Angels, Gunslingers, Notwist, Brian Wilson, Geoff Soule, Spiritulaized, Blow Monkeys, Retribution Gospel Choir. And my eldest got me the Fuck Buttons cd for xmas and on the strength of just one play I reckon this could figure be a fave. (How times change! I'm trying to imagine my dad's face if I'd bought him a record by someone called Fuck Buttons. When I bought Never Mind The Bollocks at the time my mum said "Don't let your dad see it!!")
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