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thesweetcheat 6217 posts |
Feb 01, 2015, 16:43
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Joe Gibbs & the Professionals - African Dub Chapter 4 Dexys Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Aye (great songs abysmally arranged) The The - Soul Mining V/A - C86 (3cd box) The Catherine Wheel - Ferment Disco Inferno - Science EP Autechre - (Incunabula) Neneh Cherry - Man The The - Naked Self Tim Hecker - Dropped Pianos Paul Banks - Banks Interpol - El Pintor East India Youth - Total Strife Forever Manic Street Preachers - Futurology Julian Cope - Trip Advizer
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Moon Cat 9577 posts |
Feb 01, 2015, 17:30
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Uriah Heep - Wake the Sleeper. Thanks to IanB for replacing my lost copy cos it's a heeptastic stonker of an album. Magnum - On a Story Teller's Night. The Eleventh Hour, Escape from the Shadow Garden/ Into the Valley of the Moon King. Interstatic - Arise Orchestra of Spheres - Nonagonic Now / Vibration Animal Sex Brain Music Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains - The Eye in the Sky Savages - Silence Yourself Beast Milk - Come Clean. Smoke Fairies - Wild Winter / Ghosts Rush - Roll the Bones Chrome Hoof - Crush Depth Aphrodite's Child - 666 Tangerine Dream - Cyclone Sudden Death of Stars - All Unrevealed Parts of the Unknown Anywhere - st Have a nice week x
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Robot Emperor 762 posts |
Feb 01, 2015, 18:56
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Hmmm, looks like I enjoyed what I listened to last week so much that I decided to listen to it all over again… Admittedly it’s all very good. Alice Cooper – Killer, Greatest Hits. I swear bits of Killer sound like Jethro Tull. C.O.B. – Moyshe…, Spirit of Love. Campag Velocet – It’s Beyond Our Control. “I don’t know why I love this album so much.” I whinged to a friend. “Because” he replied “they are a shouty nutter plus musical chops. They're a bit like the Sex Pistols of prog-funk.” And I think that just about covers it. If you ever see it buy immediately. Chairman Of The Board – Skin I’m in. Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band – Intensity Ghost. Dans Dans – 3. Edgar Froese – Solo. Fugazi – 13 Songs. Groundhogs – Hogwash, Thank Christ for the Bomb. Hawkwind – Hall of the Mountain Grill, Parallel Universe, PXR5, Quark Strangeness & Charm. Nova Mob – Last Days of Pompeii. Paus – Claro. Popol Vuh - Nicht Hoch Im Himmel. Seven That Spells – Men from Dystopia, Death & Resurrection of Krautrock – Aum, D&RoK – Io. Sinoia Caves – Beyond the Black Rainbow. Taman Shud – Viper Smoke. Tangerine Dream – Nebulous Dawn, The Virgin Years. Ted Nugent – s/t, Free for All. The Fall – The Complete Peel Sessions 1978 – 2004. Ty Segall – Manipulator. Various Artists - Warfaring Strangers The Darkscorch Canticles, MOJO presents Heavy Nuggets Vol. III. Van der Graaf Generator - The Quiet Zone The Pleasure Dome.
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jb lamptoast-morsley 2448 posts |
Feb 01, 2015, 19:00
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Moon Cat wrote: Uriah Heep - Wake the Sleeper. Thanks to IanB for replacing my lost copy cos it's a heeptastic stonker of an album. Read that as Wank the Sleeper first time. I think having stonker underneath it interfered with it somewhat...
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Fatalist 1123 posts |
Feb 01, 2015, 21:40
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New(ish) stuff: Aphex Twin – Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt 2. I still haven’t got round to listening to Syro yet, but this EP/mini-album is rather good in a funky Heath Robinson way. At first, I thought it might be another AT wind-up – the premise being what it says on the tin ie. real drums and piano played robotically – but this suggests it’s actually true: http://www.logosfoundation.org/instrum_gwr/snar2.html Noveller – Fantastic Planet. Think it was a Norman Records review again that piqued my interest here. Instrumental ambient guitar pieces from female New York artist, a lot more interesting and less pointlessly swishy than that description suggests (that wasn’t meant to sound sexist, or even sexy, but, you know…). Nice Slint influence/lift here: https://soundcloud.com/firerecords/noveller-into-the-dunes Gala Drop – II. As I get older, my ability to misremember/irrationalise stuff increases. I got send this at the end of last year, and after a cursory listen of a few tracks, deleted it. Then earlier this week, I came across it again in a different context, liked it, and re-downloaded it. I just didn’t remember it sounding like this when I first heard it, which mildly freaked me out… Anyway, it’s got a dubby, cosmic, globalbeat vibe to it which is really rather nice, bit like a more dancey version of fellow Portuguese band Paus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33raKPNHAnE Powder Blue – various tracks. So, this is my real find for this week, particularly because of its utter randomness. Clicked on the Cheap Downloads thread, and then on a link in one of Monganaut’s posts (thanks!) to The Active Listener, a New Zealand psych site… and then on their latest Bandcamp sampler: https://theactivelistener.bandcamp.com/album/the-active-listener-sampler-28 And then clicked on Powder Blue, maybe because I liked the name of their track… Anyway, long preamble… but they are just super, like a dream combo of Rain Parade, Smoke Fairies and MBV. Loving what I’m hearing so far: http://www.powder-blue.ca/music.html Unfiled Pile: Suuns – Images Du Futur. Suuns had some nerve playing the Liverpool Psych Fest last year, being as it was in the home town of Clinic, who would’ve been within their rights to give them a bloody good kicking for not only nicking their sound, but seriously improving on it. This is a great album, but their wholesale pilfering of Clinic’s vibe is at times quite something. Brilliant (and not completely Clinic-esque) track: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VQeJX86Rb8 Uncle Acid – Mind Control. After being disappointed in this after the awesomeness of Blood Lust, I quite enjoyed revisiting it, even if the production is pretty horrible in places and the last half is still as turgid as hell. Random access: Add (N) to X – Avant Hard. I think that over the years, this has become one of my favourite albums. Tangerine Dream – Phaedra. Found this in a charity shop for a quid fifty, and having got rid of my knackered vinyl copy a long time ago, and in light of the recent sad news, I couldn’t pass it by. My fave of the Virgin 70s albums, I love the way that the technology constantly sounds like it’s about to career out of control on the title track. And is there a better Mellotron track than this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8J2doVjui4 Steve Moore – Pangea Ultima. Recent solo set from Zombi guy, nice if inessential. Silver Apples – s/t. OK, so I’d somehow never managed to hear this before (alright, I just hadn’t bothered). Oh foolish boy. The vocals tie it to the period, but blimey, some of those oscillator/drum grooves are amazing. Broadcast, Stereolab, Moonshake etc have long since fessed up, but I wonder if Jaki Liebezeit heard this album? It certainly sounds like it. VA – Island Records Present Dub. Spencer, I hope Island are paying you commission ;-) Nice stuff, though I feel like I’m listening to it in the wrong season/country.
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keith a 9573 posts |
Feb 01, 2015, 22:13
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Rhythm & Stealth - Leftfield Thumping! Music – Madonna Decent pop LP. I love the title track. Sheet Music – 10cc I dug this out after hearing the interview with Graham Gouldman on the radio the other night, talking about how he is touring this LP. 10cc are one old band I would love to see get back together but it’s not going to happen from what he said. It’s such a shame that he and Eric Stewart, the two who continued with the 10cc name after Godley/Creme had left, no longer speak. Gouldman still sounds upset that the four of them didn’t continue longer as he clearly feels they had a lot more to offer. Greatest Hits – T.Rex Tanx – T.Rex Zinc Alloy – Marc Bolan & T.Rex I really enjoyed some of the less obvious numbers on Greatest Hits this week – The Groover (what an intro!), the much-maligned Light Of Love (say what you want, it’s got a great beat!) but the one I enjoyed most this week was the latter-day Ty Rex 45, King Of The Rumbling Spires. Tanx and Zinc Alloy are the 2014 re-issues. Tanx in particular sounds ace. Also... White Car In Germany (single) - Associates Heartbreaker – Free What’s This For? – Killing Joke Autobahn - Kraftwerk Candy For The Clowns - Nine Black Alps The Eternal – Sonic Youth Spider Smile – Tarwater
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garerama 1115 posts |
Edited Feb 01, 2015, 22:45
Feb 01, 2015, 22:44
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American Music Club - Everclear (album & demos) / Mercury (album & demos) Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder Aphrodite's Child - End of the World / It's Five O'clock Beach Boys - Sunflower / Surfs Up Broadcast - In Future Canyon Alice Coltrane - Journey In Satchidananda John Coltrane - Ole Coltrane / At The Village Vanguard / Ascention / Meditations Condello - Phase 1 Julian Cope - You Gotta Problem With Me / Black Sheep Cosmic Jokers - S/t Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm of a Dying Sun Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch The Doors - Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine Dragonfly - S/t Steve Hillage - Green Forest - S/t / Full Circle The Incredible String Band - The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter Japan - The Very Best of Kaleidoscope - Faintly Blowing The Kinks - Kontroversy (deluxe) / Something Else (deluxe) / Village Green Preservation Society (deluxe) / Arthur Psychic TV - Kondole Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditaion / Rubycon / Phaedra Lazy Smoke - Corridor of Faces Sallyangie - Children of the Sun The Stranglers - Aural Sculpture Synanthesia - S/t Victoria - S/t XTC - Skylarking V/A Get Smarter Love, Poetry & Revolution (disc 1) Piccadilly Sunshine 4 Roaring Blue
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Squid Tempest 8768 posts |
Feb 01, 2015, 23:37
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Phaedra. Rubycon. Edgar Froese (1974-1983) The Virgin Year (CD box) Very sad to hear of the passing of Mr Froese, still rocked by it. I hope he's found a heavenly mellotron and a massive moog modular in the sky. Magnum - On A storytellers Night I'm sure I shouldn't be enjoying this as much as I am. Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre of the Earth This re-recorded version is ace! Fascinating to hear an expanded studio version, and great that Rick stuck with the wonderful original analogue syth sounds. David Sylvian - Gone To Earth Strawbs - From The Witchwood Vinyl: Hills - Master Sleeps An unsung great in Rocket Recordings recent stellar releases.
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spencer 3071 posts |
Edited Feb 02, 2015, 00:08
Feb 02, 2015, 00:04
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Nah, I do it for lurve, in a dribbling semi-senile old labrador retriever 'look what I've found!' sorta way : ) (listening to it again tonight, as it happens)
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drewbhoy 2557 posts |
Feb 02, 2015, 12:51
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thesweetcheat wrote: Dexys Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Aye (great songs abysmally arranged) Will be doing some work with Big Jim in the near future who wrote some of the songs. Great guy and played in brass bands in his younger day up here as well.
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