Above is every album I acquired (in order) in 2011. That's a total of 62 Number of Albums Acquired (by Year/Decade) 2011: 28 2010: 4 2000s: 10 1990s: 2 1980s: 2 1970s: 11 1960s: 4 1950s: 1 Number of Albums Acquired (by Genre) Indie Rock: 26 Ambient: 13 Krautrock: 10 Electronic: 4 Alternative: 2 60s Rock: 1 70s [...]
You can get a fuller rundown of everything I acquired in January , February , and March , but today I'm just giving you a mix of my favorite new-to-me acquisitions of the year so far. Disappears: Lux I bought both Disappears albums within a few weeks of each other, so in some ways they both blend together. Despite the wondrousness that is Guider 's closer, "Revisiting," it's last year's Lux that is the overall better record. You can't really go wrong with either but Lux is [...]
I'm trying something new with these My Listening Hours posts in 2011: rather than a week of posts every three months—far too daunting to compose anymore—I'll trot out a much more abbreviated monthly post. Ideally I'll have written at length about most of these records already. At the three month mark I may still do a quarterly report of some sort... who knows. I've ordered these by when I acquired them. This "month" actually stretches back to about mid-December—everything I've acquired since doing my year-end wrap-up. Without further ado... Sam Prekop: Old [...]
The last time Matt Elliott released something under his Third Eye Foundation moniker it was 2001. Since then he'd abandoned both the name and the sound—a terror-filled brand of electronica—opting to do a more guitar/vocal-oriented style of music under his given name. I was a big fan of the Third Eye Foundation, not so much of Matt Elliott. So it's great news that he's resurrected his old identity for a new album, The Dark , released back in November. I wish I hadn't slept on picking this up— The Dark belongs in my upper echelon [...]
The Dark represents the return of Matt Elliot's ' The Third Eye Foundation ' moniker. Although spread over 5 tracks, The Dark is a compelling and accomplished record that takes the listener on a long and often unsettling journey through many genres and touching on all of the key elements of Elliot's recorded output over the years. The suite begins with 'Anhedonia', a minimal piece that starts with the sound of a piano, gently playing and decaying, as shuffling beats churn underneath, rising and falling and giving way to more electronic delays and sub [...]
Música de lejos (no tech talk) (Ésta es música de otro lado, de bien lejos, perdida y recostada sobre la hierba, el sol en su rostro, los ojos escapándose hacia el cielo. Es una chica tan linda esta música, y no habla nunca, ya sea murmura, o sino canta...y escucha siempre, el ruido de las olas reventándose en lo más profundo de sí misma. ) Un tesoro escondido (tech talk) En este playlist, sonidos perdidos y adelantados, mezclas improbables. Desde el ragtime procesado con hiss de discos de vinilo antiguo [...]
and without further ado, here's volume 2. this one picks up at 1994 and ends in 2007 with the slo-core bliss-out of epic45. i should point out that these two mixes focus on the "experimental" side of post rock. a primer on the sturm und drang noisy side (mogwai etc.) is coming soon. ::: main - rail ::: pram - life in the clouds ::: hair & skin trading company - * ::: 'o'rang - little brother ::: navigator - driving bell ::: state river widening - unsung couples ::: third eye foundation - [...]
Durante toda esta semana, Super 45 comenta lo mejor del ciclo "Música y Armonía" del 16º Festival Internacional de Cine de Valdivia Escuchar fado es una vuelta al pasado. Es una suerte de antropología musical en la cadena de distintos estilos que parecen entrelazarse hasta hoy de manera insospechada. Existe un aire de algo etimológicamente antiguo en este estilo proveniente de Portugal, que posee una raíz medieval pagana que alterna con el trance. También, un aire cálido, del Mediterráneo, y moderno en sus acordes complejos. Es el primer día en Valdivia, y la [...]
i'm addicted to blip at the moment, enough to upload songs to blip myself rather than relying on what's out there. and today i did a bit of a tribute to the city of bristol theme. ::: beatnik filmstars - apathetic english ::: flying saucer attack - beach red lullaby ::: crescent - 360 ::: girlboy girl - unfamiliar ::: massive attack - daydreaming ::: the heads - quad ::: k.s.kollective - (to a) secret brother ::: [...]
With copious apologies, I regret not updating much the past couple of weeks. I'm a dickfor. I've had a lot going on with the holiday safari, relocation, yadda yadda. But I will make it up to you with the promise of a new day, more updates, and a nice rare treat. Illuminati was a compilation released in 1998, featuring various artists of varying caliber covering their favorite jam styles by Creation/C86 group The Pastels . Actually, covering is not the right terms, these are remixes. The majority of the compilation is quite glitch-centric, well [...]
Q: What other kinds of misconceptions about electronic music are there? It's enormously misunderstood by people who play conventional music or who play conventional instruments. It's not justified. There's just not aware. They're threatened by it and they don't consider it to be as valuable as what they do with their more traditional form of creating sound and music. It's an old story. It especially relates to jazz, I imagine for rock people, it's the same idea. People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to [...]
Blonde Redhead - 23 Blonde Redhead - Misery Is A Butterfly Blonde Redhead - Four Damaged Lemons (Third Eye Foundation Remix)
. It's music that makes all of these distinctions blur together. It can just as easily fill these different spaces but that's the point. Whether you want to dance to it or chill out to it, the idea is that the psychological backdrop is what becomes most important. It's not just whether it fills a certain social function or not at a certain time. It's variable music. That's the whole point. In a way, the word 'illbient' was creating to fill the gap that I felt most music from the pop culture milieu right now which is hyper-commodified [...]
They were chanting, To the uncountable living beings living in uncountable universes to the east, May they be free of danger, May they be free of anger, May they be free of sufferings, and May their hearts be calm and peaceful. -The Chant of Marching Monks. Rangoon. Friday, September 21, 2007 . . Around 1:20 or 1:30pm, I heard someone saying that the police/army started shooting in the air. Someone from abroad messaged me on GTalk, and says he's [...]
By degrees, not very slowly, her handiwork became what would now be termed the fashion. Whether from commiseration for a woman of so miserable a destiny; or from the morbid curiosity that gives a fictitious value even to common or worthless things; or by whatever other intangible circumstance was then, as now, sufficient to bestow, on some persons, what others might seek in vain; or because Hester really filled a gap which must otherwise have remained vacant; it is certain that she had ready and fairly equited employment for as many hours as she saw fit to occupy with her [...]
The Third Eye Foundation - Corpses as Bedmates Well, it's a lovely sunny Sunday today, so what better track to offer up than one of the darkest and scariest pieces of music I've ever heard... This track has been haunting me for a good few years now, every now and again I'll hear it and every time I have it freaks me out... And every time I've vowed to get a copy of it, but never got round to
"Texture No.3a. Surface in dark blue" . The Velvet Underground Pale Blue Eyes (1969) . Venetian Snares Senki Dala (2005) . Third Eye Foundation That Would Be Exhibiting The Same Weak Traits (1998) . Explosions In The Sky [...]
...faites pas attention au titre. Le soleil est revenu, et les cinq degrés de température nécessaires pour rendre cette fin Août un peu vivable aussi. Avec un batteur un bassiste et des samples, ça sera parfait, sûrement. D'ailleurs je viens de trouver une chanson qui colle parfaitement à l'ambience présente dans la pièce. Vous pourrez même y imaginer l'odeur de curry qui vient encore et toujours du resto voisin. Le mec à l'origine de cette chanson est aussi mon coup de coeur de la journée (ouais, moi je vis dans l'immédiat). Il s'appelle Wax Tailor, il fait du rap avec [...]
Pretty Goes with Pretty
The Line Of Best Fit
Super 45
Indie-eye
the blackened air
The Decibel Tolls
motel de moka
Der Schwarze Salon
music is art
Spoilt Victorian Child
Wonderland Plus
Neutral Milk Hotel- Aeroplane Over the Sea
Bison - Quill
SABRINA JOHNSTON + TIEFSCHWARTZ
American Idol Finalists: where are they now?
