Author Topic: What are you listening to now? (Read 1211109 times)

elbow · « **Reply #32840 on:** August 6, 2019, 01:07:46 am »

Quote from: Sammy5IsAlive on August 6, 2019, 12:41:19 am

Recently been listening to a lot of stuff by Eddie Hazel, who seems to be one of these 'forgotten men'/tragic stories you sometimes come across from the 60s/70s.

Yep, that guitar solo on Maggot Brain is one of the best. Ween did a tribute/eulogy to him, the fabulous "A Tear for Eddie".

Here's the stupendous live version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n78WlBpH7I

Sammy5IsAlive · « **Reply #32841 on:** August 6, 2019, 01:47:15 am »

Quote from: elbow on August 6, 2019, 01:07:46 am

Yep, that guitar solo on Maggot Brain is one of the best. Ween did a tribute/eulogy to him, the fabulous "A Tear for Eddie".

Here's the stupendous live version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3n78WlBpH7I

Yeah, that's absolutely fantastic - thanks for the link

!

I'll have to give Ween another go - I kind of 'bounced off' them the last time I had a listen a few years back. I've maybe got a bit more patience nowadays!

elbow · « **Reply #32842 on:** August 7, 2019, 06:08:31 am »

Quote from: Sammy5IsAlive on August 6, 2019, 01:47:15 am

Yeah, that's absolutely fantastic - thanks for the link !

I'll have to give Ween another go - I kind of 'bounced off' them the last time I had a listen a few years back. I've maybe got a bit more patience nowadays!

I'd go for The Mollusk, Chocolate and Cheese, Quebec and Live In Toronto for a starter bundle!

Filler. · « **Reply #32843 on:** August 7, 2019, 11:50:23 pm »

https://strut.bandcamp.com/album/nigeria-70-the-definitive-lp-edition

Listening to this 70's Nigerian compilation ^ but this caught me.

Bala Miller & his Great Music Pirameeds of Afrika - Ikon Allah

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Filler. · « **Reply #32844 on:** August 8, 2019, 12:56:02 am »

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AndyInVA · « **Reply #32845 on:** August 9, 2019, 01:56:15 am »

Just got Spotify and is great to access some old favorite songs

In an angry mood at the moment and

Break Stuff -Limp Bizkit

Just sums up all that inner anger when your younger and the world seems against you and every day just feels hard.

I played it in front of my 10 year old in the car and totally forgot how bad the language was. Lasted about 10 seconds before I paused it to listen to at a later time.

PhaseOfPlay · « **Reply #32846 on:** August 9, 2019, 02:52:47 am »

HMS Fable by Shack. On constant repeat the past few days. Great album

Slightly Less Mediocre Baron Bennekov · « **Reply #32847 on:** August 9, 2019, 06:57:47 am »

The best of me - Bryan Adams

Crimson · « **Reply #32848 on:** August 9, 2019, 08:52:43 pm »

Anfield roar

Mr Boat · « **Reply #32849 on:** August 10, 2019, 06:37:31 pm »

Little Simz - Grey Area.

Groundskeeper Willie · « **Reply #32850 on:** August 13, 2019, 09:45:24 am »

I'm listening a lot to Ghost these days. NEver thought they were for me, with their makeup and masks, but the music is really good. Especially the latter albums.

I'm also heavily in to British NWOBHM (New Wave OF British Heavy Metal) legends Demon. I went to Skogsröjet hard rock festival the other weekend and saw them there. They were awesome. Their earliest albums are classics.

There's also a Swedish project band called Gathering of Kings, a kind of super group with some of Sweden's finest hard rockers. If you like melodic hard rock the way it was done in the 80´s, I can thoroughly recommend their debut album.

Davidbowie · « **Reply #32851 on:** August 13, 2019, 02:59:31 pm »

Train to Skaville - The Ethiopians

Me like dem ting.

Filler. · « **Reply #32852 on:** August 13, 2019, 11:47:35 pm »

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FlashingBlade · « **Reply #32853 on:** August 14, 2019, 11:43:03 am »

Been listening to Magazines ' Second hand daylight' all week and loving it ..reception a bit flat following release of the brlliant Real Life..and I always felt a bit indiffrent bar couple of tracks...but it sounds fantastic now...would recommend if you fancy a bit of Post Punk Prog pop.

Venton · « **Reply #32854 on:** August 16, 2019, 10:19:19 am »

Japanese Avant-Garde : Agitation/Stillness >< Noise/Silence

https://subrosalabel.bandcamp.com/album/japanese-avant-garde-agitation-stillness-noise-silence

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As an introduction to this album here are some extracts from David Toop's liner notes.

Most music in Japan has little to recommend it; it is a sonic equivalent of those brutal concrete towers or the transitory chaos of multi-storey teen-fashion emporia in Aoyama. But a sonic underground thrives, creatively if not financially, and perhaps it should be compared with the shabby Golden-gai drinking dens of Shinjuku, faint reminders of a lost time when desire and transgression shared endless cups of sake with political and artistic radicalism...
...How is it possible to live within and react against an extremely regulated society, politically moribund, engulfed by consumerism, technological innovation, mediated images, a confusion of influences and traditions? Agitation and stillness may seem to be opposing strategies, yet they converge at a certain point...
...Surging deep beneath the noir turbulence of Merzbow and So Takahashi, the car crash ruins of Otomo Yoshihide and Ground Zero, the curated urban fragments of Viewmaster, the technocratic complexity of Bisk and Yoshihiro Hanno's Multiphonic Ensemble, the piercing intensity of Sachiko M, the childlike placidity of Aki Onda, Yoshio Machida and Haco, is a conflicting sense of clarity attained through struggle. Out of turmoil, a stained purity is revealed.
Listening to this alchemical transmutation, I think of Fujieda Baian, the central character of Shotaro Ikenami's historical novels. Professional assassin and acupuncturist, Baian kills to live, lives to heal. At the beginning of Yasunari Kawabata's novel, The Sound of the Mountain, Ogata Shingo hears an elusive sound, the faint rumble of the mountain at the rear of his house. "It was as if a demon had passed, making the mountain sound out." Shingo shakes his head, thinking the disturbance might be a ringing in his ears. Feeling fear, perhaps he hears the collapsing certainties of the future, our present, where everything is in flux.

Tags: experimental electronic japanese ambient japanese avant-garde japanese hardcore Belgium

BarryCrocker · « **Reply #32855 on:** August 16, 2019, 10:59:39 am »

Friday night and I thought it mix things up a bit with one of my fave Youtube Channels, My Analog Journal.

Tonight its Turkish 70's Funk and Anatolian Rock.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/HJSdBc85LE0" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/HJSdBc85LE0</a>

FlashingBlade · « **Reply #32856 on:** August 18, 2019, 12:12:00 pm »

Return of the Durutti Column....had both sleeves in my hand when buying..sandpaper and normal...chose normal...bugger!....lovely record though

Crimson · « **Reply #32857 on:** August 21, 2019, 09:54:03 pm »

Venton · « **Reply #32858 on:** August 21, 2019, 10:27:14 pm »

Stephen Mallinder - Um Dada

Watering the Cabaret Voltaire seeds down there...

https://stephenmallinder.bandcamp.com/album/um-dada

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Stephen Mallinder, co-founder and frontman of the iconic Cabaret Voltaire, has returned with his first solo album in over 35 years: Um Dada. Laced with leftfield house and cut-up sound collages, Um Dada is a melding of energies that are an exercise in simplicity and motion. Sincere, playful realism that beckons your body to move, always reminding you to never take yourself too seriously without forfeiting your agency.

While steering Cabaret Voltaire through the 1980’s, Mallinder was already busy piecing together his first solo album entitled “Pow Wow”, which would help define Mallinder’s interest in the more leftfield electro sounds shaping England at the time. It was this diverse and abstract hybrid that helped inspire generations of artists and musicians through steeping raw machine funk within the whimsical and absurdist ideology.

Since the release of “Pow Wow” in 1982, Mallinder continued his pioneering work with Cabaret Voltaire, as well as recording and touring with his electro projects Wrangler, Creep Show, Hey Rube, Kula, and Cobby & Mallinder. In addition to his non-stop schedule in electronic music, his professional life as a journalist, broadcaster, producer and now a professor of Digital Music & Sound Art at the University of Brighton, has lead Mallinder to a unique point in his career. Most in his position would be caught up in rosy retrospection, but Mallinder himself says, “There’s too much digital finger-licking right now; every thought and desire at the turn of a dial… well a click of the mouse. And there’s a giddy, false nostalgia about the analogue past. Sorry to burst your bubble but the truth of history is more mundane: practical, pragmatic...Um Dada is about ‘play’ – cut and paste, lost words, twisted presets, voice collage, simple sounds – things that have been lost to technology’s current determinism. Let the machines talk to each other, let them dance .. they lead, we follow.”

Um Dada opens up with the exact machine-led surrealism that Mallinder recommends in “Working (You Are)”. A thick, stripped back dance floor groove provides the ideal foundation for Mallinder’s eccentric vocal cuts. The frisky chops present an almost twisted irony, subtly bringing to mind the role we’re all forced to play as just another cog in the ever grinding capitalist machine of life. Yet, somehow, the listener is left feeling optimistic. A prime example of simplicity at work.

Tracks such as “Satellite” give a skillful illustration of Mallinder’s adeptness with his musical expertise while preserving his core historical context as only simple reference. The underlying bassline and percussion, coupled with the floating melodies and airy vocal refrain disclose the vulnerabilities of love and loss without a hint of irony or nostalgia.

Um Dada is mischievously idealist, however never loses touch with reality. Offering structure while simultaneously dismantling any and all preconceptions. The spirit of sincerity that sustained Cabaret Voltaire’s lengthy career is abundantly present within founder Stephen Mallinder’s journey through his own whimsical utopian consciousness and staking claim to an identity that is solely his own.

Learn more at: www.daisrecords.com

Tags: electronic experimental electronic house leftfield leftfield dance techno Brighton

Alan B'Stard · « **Reply #32859 on:** August 21, 2019, 10:28:47 pm »

The White Album - pure genius!

Rattleduser · « **Reply #32860 on:** August 22, 2019, 07:16:36 pm »

this version is boss

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/v/efLzXz93Kvs" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">https://www.youtube.com/v/efLzXz93Kvs</a>

SamAteTheRedAcid · « **Reply #32861 on:** August 22, 2019, 08:26:49 pm »

Quote from: Rattleduser on August 22, 2019, 07:16:36 pm

this version is boss

Yes!

SamAteTheRedAcid · « **Reply #32862 on:** August 22, 2019, 08:27:45 pm »

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One for the Neil Young fans here. Long guitar meandering and trembly vocals. Like.

Yosser0_0 · « **Reply #32863 on:** August 26, 2019, 11:16:18 pm »

OMD playing Souvenir at Halfords cycling department - finally made it eh lads?

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Yosser0_0 · « **Reply #32864 on:** August 26, 2019, 11:37:50 pm »

Keane - Somewhere Only We Know (Official Video). Reminds me some much of Symonds Yat this song, 'Is this the place we used to love? Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?' A special place.

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ToneLa · « **Reply #32865 on:** August 27, 2019, 05:05:04 pm »

Quote from: Yosser0_0 on August 26, 2019, 11:16:18 pm

OMD playing Souvenir at Halfords cycling department - finally made it eh lads?

Wow, another KEXP post

As younguns do you remember Pete and Pete? Loved the theme, here's a sesh with it live.. haha they all look like maths teachers

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Boss song though

Yosser0_0 · « **Reply #32866 on:** August 27, 2019, 07:50:49 pm »

Quote from: Filler. on August 13, 2019, 11:47:35 pm

Great Bass riff that.

Yosser0_0 · « **Reply #32867 on:** August 27, 2019, 07:56:09 pm »

The Charlatans - Then

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LanceLink!!!!! · « **Reply #32868 on:** August 27, 2019, 08:15:18 pm »

Fat White Family, Serfs Up, great album

Filler. · « **Reply #32869 on:** August 27, 2019, 11:26:55 pm »

The studio version of this while contemplating what I've just heard from their new album out soon.

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The studio version is magnificent, but as a taster ^

Zeb · « **Reply #32870 on:** August 28, 2019, 11:29:44 am »

Someone this morning had Sickbed of Cuchulainn on full blast and couldn't decide if they'd started the weekend early or were finishing late. Can't get Pogues out of my head now.

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Zeppelin · « **Reply #32871 on:** August 28, 2019, 11:46:41 am »

'When an old cricketer leaves the crease' - Roy Harper at Liverpool Phil earlier this year

CornerFlag · « **Reply #32872 on:** August 28, 2019, 11:32:32 pm »

Classic.

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Venton · « **Reply #32873 on:** August 29, 2019, 08:36:33 pm »

Paavoharju - Joko sinä tulet tänne alas tai minä nousen sinne

https://paavoharju.bandcamp.com/

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Psychedelic music born of cabin fever. Weird pastel electronica. Bizarre cut and paste loops. Hazy, mist-clad experimentalism. Eternal drone theatrics. The music of Finland's Paavoharju, now preparing for the release of their 3rd album, is difficult to pin down. The Wire dubbed the music as "home-taped experimentation married to pop ecstasy", and the albums "Yhä hämärää" (2006) and "Laulu laakson kukista" (2008) found the band worldwide cult fame in the indie scene.

October 2013 sees the release of the band's third album, titled "Joko
sinä tulet tänne alas tai minä nousen sinne" on Svart Records. Main
composer Lauri Ainala's penchant for progress and experimentation found him at a point where it was necessary for Paavoharju to renew itself. The major stylistic change on the new album is the inclusion of hip hop elements, with rap vocals performed by Paperi T (also of the Helsinki hip hop group Ruger Hauer), but the handling of these influences is unconventional. Paavoharju's brand of hip hop is far removed from its roots, taken off the streets and thrown into the nocturnal forests of Finland.

Familiar building blocks from the group's previous work, such as the
array of female voices and troubadour Joose Keskitalo, are still there,
but they are distant, often drowned in swathes of electronic haze,
sometimes just barely audible as if a faded memory of something that
once was. The major theme on "Joko sinä tulet tänne alas tai minä nousen sinne" is alienation - how things familiar turn into things distant and strange. Speaking of the album, Ainala compares it to an old family homestead to which one returns after decades and in whose decayed state there is both horror and beauty.

Tags: hip hop hip-hop/rap rap experimental Finland

Son of Spion · « **Reply #32874 on:** August 29, 2019, 09:27:15 pm »

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Zeb · « **Reply #32875 on:** August 30, 2019, 02:28:29 pm »

God is an Astronaut are amazing.

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Son of Spion · « **Reply #32876 on:** August 30, 2019, 06:29:30 pm »

Quote from: Zeb on August 30, 2019, 02:28:29 pm

God is an Astronaut are amazing.

Ah yes, I love them. I've got all their albums. A great Irish band.

Yosser0_0 · « **Reply #32877 on:** August 30, 2019, 11:43:03 pm »

Triggered by bloody Zeb I guess.

The Pogues - Fairytale Of New York (Official Video)

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It was Christmas Eve babe
In the drunk tank
An old man said to me, won't see another one
And then he sang a song
The Rare Old Mountain Dew
I turned my face away
And dreamed about you
Got on a lucky one
Came in eighteen to one
I've got a feeling
This year's for me and you
So happy Christmas
I love you baby
I can see a better time
When all our dreams come true
They've got cars big as bars
They've got rivers of gold
But the wind goes right through you
It's no place for the old
When you first took my hand
On a cold Christmas Eve
You promised me
Broadway was waiting for me
You were handsome
You were pretty
Queen of New York City
When the band finished playing
They howled out for more
Sinatra was swinging,
All the drunks they were singing
We kissed on a corner
Then danced through the night
The boys of the NYPD choir
Were singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day
You're a bum
You're a punk
You're an old slut on junk
Lying there almost dead on a drip in that bed
You scumbag, you maggot
You cheap lousy faggot
Happy Christmas your arse
I pray God it's our last
The boys of the NYPD choir
Still singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells were ringing out
For Christmas day
I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
You took my dreams from me
When I first found you
I kept them with me babe
I put them with my own
Can't make it all alone
I've built my dreams around you
The boys of the NYPD choir
Still singing "Galway Bay"
And the bells are ringing out
For Christmas day

Venton · « **Reply #32878 on:** August 31, 2019, 12:41:21 am »

Scanner - Sound for Spaces (1997>84)

https://scanner1.bandcamp.com/album/sound-for-spaces-1997-84

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Performed by Robin Rimbaud

Published in 1998, this is Scanner's third monography on Sub Rosa (after Sulphur SR95 and The Garden is Full of Metal SR104). He was a close collaborator in the '90s (more than a dozen records published in collaboration).
credits
released December 13, 2016

Outside of Scanner's controversial mobile phone scans of the time, he was also creating works for installation and radio art projects, some of which are documented on this CD. Sound for Spaces is a collection of his best unreleased works, running in reverse chronological order from 1997 back to 1984. Documenta X is the sort of ambient music to give your bass bins serious trouble, Invisible Choirs sounds like a walk through the inner workings of an immense cathedral organ, and A Piece of Monologue makes logical connections between the emotive pull of Samuel Beckett's found phrases and the subconscious of Rimbaud's found sounds.
PRESS

"Rimbaud's talent for structure and contrast imbues this music with real power and expressive meaning beyond mere experimentation. An intriguing and worthwhile album that should be on the shopping list of all adventurous listeners."
XLR8R

"Sound for Spaces draws strength from its utter simplicity, delivering an evocative collection of incidental music that stands up to the best work of other kindred spirits."
Alternative Press

"This compilation could actually be Scanner's most complete work to date. This is one of those records we always strive to find in the shops."
DJ Magazine

Tags: alternative electronic electronica english sound intimist londoner scanner London

Venton · « **Reply #32879 on:** August 31, 2019, 12:46:44 am »

Quote from: Filler. on August 27, 2019, 11:26:55 pm

The studio version of this while contemplating what I've just heard from their new album out soon.

The studio version is magnificent, but as a taster ^

Wonderful live but so many glasses to fall off in the crowd!