I like the unranked Aquarium Drunkard list:http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2014/12/15/aquarium-drunkard-2014-year-in-review/#more-42763
― Brad C., Saturday, 20 December 2014 17:09 (nine years ago) link
yes, that is really really beautiful xp
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Saturday, 20 December 2014 17:32 (nine years ago) link
volcanic tongue best of 2014 (in no particular order)
The Spies - The Battle Of Bosworth Terrace LP SiltbreezePeter Brotzmann/Jason Adasiewicz - Mollie’s In The Mood LP Bro RecordsVillage Of Spaces – Welcome In LP Turned Word RecordsBig Blood - Unlikely Mothers 2xLP Blackest RainbowMad Nanna – In Glasgow (Live At Volcanic Tongue) LP Golden Lab RecordsTralala Blip - Aussie Dream LP DisembrainingFourth World Magazine Vol. 2 - Pinhead In Fantasia LP + Magazine Pacific City Sound Visions HR Giger's Studiolo 2xCass Pacific City Sound Visions Mark Alexander McIntyre – Grapes LP One Kind Favor Roy Montgomery - 324 E. 13th Street #7 2xLP Yellow ElectricSamara Lubelski – String Cycle LP Ultra EczemaFushitsusha - Nothing Changes/No One Can Change Anything/I Am Ever-Changing/Only You Can Change Yourself 3xCD UtechAlien City - Cathode Rays Are On OVERLOAD LPLes Rallizes Denudes - Electric Pure Land 2xLP MV & EE - Alpha Lyrae LP Child Of MicrotonesEye – Winterwork LP Nyali Recordings Drowning Is Easy/Sarah Richards/The Chance/Ritchie Venus - The Christchurch Quartet LP + 12” + 10” + 7” + bonus 7” UnwuchtRichard Youngs - Red Alphabet In The Snow LP Preserved SoundThe Dead C - The Twelfth Spectacle 4xLP GrapefruitNazoranai - The Most Painful Time Happens Only Once It Has Arrived Already...? Ideologic OrganSanity Muffin cassettes – we loved them all!Arnold Dreyblatt – Choice LP Choose RecordsThe Terminals - Singles And Sundries LP Ba Da Bing RecordsEnglish Heretic - The Underworld Service CD + Book Hiiragi Fukuda - My Turntable Is Sloow LP Selection RecordsSadahiro Yamada - OK To Exist Doing Nothing LP Selection Records Toilet Roll Dolls - Live At Real Bad CD-R Breakdance The Dawn Pretty much all the Superior Viaduct reissues, particularly Alice Coltrane, Crime, Peter Jefferies, Flesheaters and Mirror/StalkerJojo Hiroshige/Tamio Shiraishi - Enka Mood Collection 10” 75 Dollar Bill - Olives In The Ears cassetteSpacemen 3 - Live At The New Morning, Geneva, Switzerland, 18/5/89 LP Mental Groove RecordsNord - NG Tapes LP PCP RecordsBill Orcutt private press cassettesCyclobe - Sulphur-Tarot-Garden LP/CD Phantomcode Angus MacLise - New York Electronic 1965 LP Sub RosaThe Pheromoans - Hearts Of Gold LP Upset The RhythmSimon Finn - Pass The Distance LP Little Big Chief RecordsCharcoal Owls - Tin Roof LP Night SchoolMatthew Shaw – Lamorna CD Apollolaan RecordingsJack Kerouac - The Northport Tapes Cassette Counter Culture ChroniclesTimothy Leary - The Radicalization Of Timothy Leary Cassette Counter Culture Chronicles Sacred Product - s/t LP Heinous Anus RecordsVarious Artists (The Chills, Sneaky Feelings, The Stones, Verlaines) - Dunedin Double 2xLP Flying NunThe Flexibles - Cities Of The Narrow Universe 7” Nyali Recordings La Morte Young - s/t LP Up Against The Wall Motherfucker! Orphan Fairytale - My Favourite Fairytale 2xLP Aguirre RecordsMatthew 'Doc' Dunn - All Is LP Cosmic Range Stone Angel - s/t LP AcmeSmall Cruel Party - Unroof The House Of The Fishes LP Harbinger Sound Kitchen Cynics private press CD-RsHandful Of Dust - Topology Of A Phantom City Cassette Ba Da Bing RecordsMary Millington - Come Play With Me & other tales 10” 10,000 Productions Heitkotter - Black Orckid 2xLP Now Again Records
― Daniel, Esq 2, Saturday, 20 December 2014 21:01 (nine years ago) link
I have heard 0 of those - anyone see somthing they recommend?
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Saturday, 20 December 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
Haha the only one I know is the Simon Finn, which is old right?
― tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Saturday, 20 December 2014 23:31 (nine years ago) link
i've heard the angus maclise, nazoranai, and fushitsusha -- all recommended if you like that sort of thing.
― Bill Nighy the Science Gighy (get bent), Saturday, 20 December 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
Pretty much all the Superior Viaduct reissues, particularly Alice Coltrane, Crime, Peter Jefferies, Flesheaters and Mirror/Stalker
that peter jefferies album is a fantastic NZ underground classic with with a strong eno and cale vibe. this song is all-time imo, and you might know this one from the cat power cover version
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Saturday, 20 December 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
at least 60% of these are reissues btw afaict
pretty rich of them to be listing bootlegs that they were essentially the only vendor for
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Saturday, 20 December 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
i've heard + liked Orphan Fairytale - My Favourite Fairytale
― Mordy, Saturday, 20 December 2014 23:49 (nine years ago) link
the Fourth World Magazine Vol 2 - Pinhead in Fantasia is Spencer Clark under his Monopoly Child Star Searchers moniker, from (his label?) Pacific City Sound Visions
― Dan S, Sunday, 21 December 2014 01:13 (nine years ago) link
There is so much music in the world :)
― ticket to rmde (seandalai), Sunday, 21 December 2014 01:15 (nine years ago) link
Textura Top 40 http://www.textura.org/reviews/2104top10s.htm01. Julia Wolfe: Steel Hammer (Cantaloupe Music)02. Maria Schneider Featuring Dawn Upshaw: Winter Morning Walks (Artistshare)03. Lenzman: Looking At The Stars (Metalheadz)04. Brooklyn Rider: The Brooklyn Rider Almanac (Mercury Classics)05. CYNE: All My Angles Are Right (Hometapes)06. Vicky Chow: Tristan Perich: Surface Image (New Amsterdam Records)07. David Lang: Love Fail (Cantaloupe Music)08. yMusic: Balance Problems (New Amsterdam Records)09. Maya Beiser: Uncovered (Innova Records)10. Wadada Leo Smith: The Great Lakes Suites (Tum Records)11. Michael Nyman: Symphony No 11: Hillsborough Memorial (Mn Records)12. Christopher Tignor: Thunder Lay Down In The Heart (Western Vinyl)13. Michael Robinson: Lucknow Shimmer / Hummingbird Canyon (Azure Miles Records)14. Alexander Turnquist: Flying Fantasy (Western Vinyl)15. Jane Ira Bloom: Sixteen Sunsets (Outline)16. Marvin Ayres: Ultraradian Rhythms (Wall Of Waves / Market Square)17. Brock Van Wey: Home (Echospace Detroit)18. Octet Ensemble: Scatter My Ashes (Belarca Records)19. Hammock: Oblivion Hymns (Hammock Music)20. Emilia Martensson: Ana (Babel)21. Stein Urheim: Stein Urheim (Hubro)22. Death Blues: Ensemble ( Rhythmplex )23. Ken Thomson: Thaw (Cantaloupe Music)24. Bruno Sanfilippo: ClarOscuro (Ad21)25. Mary Halvorson: Reverse Blue (Relative Pitch Records)26. Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Intergalactic Beings (FPE Records)27. 36: Dream Tempest (3six Recordings)28. Maxwell August Croy And Sean Mccann: I (Students Of Decay)29. Robert Hood: M-Print: 20 Years Of M-Plant Music (M-Plant)30. Ken Thomson And Slow/Fast: Settle (NCM East Records)31. Dday One: Dialogue With Life (The Content (L)Abel)32. Mark Lomax Trio: Isis And Osiris (Inarhyme Records)33. P.J. Philipson: Peaks (Little Cracked Rabbit)34. Ian William Craig: A Turn Of Breath (Recital)35. Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: Extensions (Graphical)36. Grouper: Ruins (Kranky)37. Neil Leonard: For Kounellis (Gasp Records)38. Girma Yifrashewa: Love And Peace (Unseen Worlds)39. Carl Hultgren: Tomorrow (Blue Flea)40. David Pritchard: Among The Missing (Morphic Resonance)― millmeister, Tuesday, December 2, 2014 12:07 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
01. Julia Wolfe: Steel Hammer (Cantaloupe Music)02. Maria Schneider Featuring Dawn Upshaw: Winter Morning Walks (Artistshare)03. Lenzman: Looking At The Stars (Metalheadz)04. Brooklyn Rider: The Brooklyn Rider Almanac (Mercury Classics)05. CYNE: All My Angles Are Right (Hometapes)06. Vicky Chow: Tristan Perich: Surface Image (New Amsterdam Records)07. David Lang: Love Fail (Cantaloupe Music)08. yMusic: Balance Problems (New Amsterdam Records)09. Maya Beiser: Uncovered (Innova Records)10. Wadada Leo Smith: The Great Lakes Suites (Tum Records)11. Michael Nyman: Symphony No 11: Hillsborough Memorial (Mn Records)12. Christopher Tignor: Thunder Lay Down In The Heart (Western Vinyl)13. Michael Robinson: Lucknow Shimmer / Hummingbird Canyon (Azure Miles Records)14. Alexander Turnquist: Flying Fantasy (Western Vinyl)15. Jane Ira Bloom: Sixteen Sunsets (Outline)16. Marvin Ayres: Ultraradian Rhythms (Wall Of Waves / Market Square)17. Brock Van Wey: Home (Echospace Detroit)18. Octet Ensemble: Scatter My Ashes (Belarca Records)19. Hammock: Oblivion Hymns (Hammock Music)20. Emilia Martensson: Ana (Babel)21. Stein Urheim: Stein Urheim (Hubro)22. Death Blues: Ensemble ( Rhythmplex )23. Ken Thomson: Thaw (Cantaloupe Music)24. Bruno Sanfilippo: ClarOscuro (Ad21)25. Mary Halvorson: Reverse Blue (Relative Pitch Records)26. Nicole Mitchell's Black Earth Ensemble: Intergalactic Beings (FPE Records)27. 36: Dream Tempest (3six Recordings)28. Maxwell August Croy And Sean Mccann: I (Students Of Decay)29. Robert Hood: M-Print: 20 Years Of M-Plant Music (M-Plant)30. Ken Thomson And Slow/Fast: Settle (NCM East Records)31. Dday One: Dialogue With Life (The Content (L)Abel)32. Mark Lomax Trio: Isis And Osiris (Inarhyme Records)33. P.J. Philipson: Peaks (Little Cracked Rabbit)34. Ian William Craig: A Turn Of Breath (Recital)35. Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong: Extensions (Graphical)36. Grouper: Ruins (Kranky)37. Neil Leonard: For Kounellis (Gasp Records)38. Girma Yifrashewa: Love And Peace (Unseen Worlds)39. Carl Hultgren: Tomorrow (Blue Flea)40. David Pritchard: Among The Missing (Morphic Resonance)
― millmeister, Tuesday, December 2, 2014 12:07 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Can someone give me their favorite album from this list for me to check out that isn't Hammock or Grouper (both favorites)?
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Sunday, 21 December 2014 02:23 (nine years ago) link
My fave on that list is the girma yifrashewa
― Mordy, Sunday, 21 December 2014 02:30 (nine years ago) link
I went through the entire Textura list (or as much of it was on Spotify). My favorites, roughly in order:
Ian William Craig: A Turn of BreathVicky Chow: Tristan Perich, Surface ImageDeath Blues: Ensemble36: Dream TempestMarvin Ayers: Ultradian Rhythms
That said, my tastes run more toward ambient/electronic. There are a lot of modern composers on here who had some good stuff--pieces I'd like to see in a theater setting but not anything I'd listen to on my home stereo.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 21 December 2014 02:35 (nine years ago) link
pfunkboy recommended that ian william craig thing to me
― Chairman Feinstein (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 02:36 (nine years ago) link
maybe i have just downloaded too many albums recently but the prospect of downloading an album with such an anonymous title by someone with the most anonymous anglo name has not been enough, in and of itself
maybe am i just downloading albums in order to have an interesting looking set of directories rather than because of their intrinsic merits
― Chairman Feinstein (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 02:38 (nine years ago) link
The Ian William Craig album has shown up on a few lists besides Textura. Most notably I think it rated highly on Ben Ratliff's list for the New York Times (if memory serves. It's all voice and tape loops, or at least I think that's it. I've only listened a few times but of all the new-to-me albums I've held onto for further investigation due to these lists, this one is probably highest on my list.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 21 December 2014 02:47 (nine years ago) link
this from the boomkat list is interesting
http://vimeo.com/105840481
― Chairman Feinstein (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 02:49 (nine years ago) link
the Wadada Leo Smith one is worth checking out, based on my limited investigation
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Sunday, 21 December 2014 03:31 (nine years ago) link
That julia wolfe album is spectacular, highly recommended
― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 21 December 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
The Stein Urheim album is gorgeous - one of my most played CDs of the year.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 21 December 2014 09:38 (nine years ago) link
Extensive best of album covers list: http://www.redefinemag.com/2014/album-covers-of-the-year-2014-interviews/
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 21 December 2014 14:59 (nine years ago) link
This is Classic Keenan. "The underground is dead, now buy this grey-market repro of a long-lost Eastern European noise classik for £80 (+£15 shipping, natch) from my shoppe - I'm the only vendor and I raved it in The Wire, guv."
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
man, i found a really good bit of dk ridiculousness the other day, lemme find it...
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
ahhh...
I am allergic to ordinariness and I can’t understand people who don’t let art and music affect them to the point that their very existence is permanently re-formatted. Otherwise what’s the point? But I find I don’t have much in common with many music writers or authors in general. I like to look good, I like to keep in good shape, I like to fight, I box every week, I’ve been boxing for years, I like to look after myself, I love beautiful women and stylish men, I like good food and good beer, I like fine things, I like to smell good. I find that people involved in underground or alternative culture – on the whole - are simply buying into yet another orthodoxy or way of being where there are certain standards and rules of behaviour and political suppositions and interests and looks, even. I am not into that at all and can’t relate to it. That is why I am most attracted to unique people, to one-offs, to extraordinary lives. That’s what I most want to capture in my profiles, the personality of the artists, the way they live their lives as a total artwork, voracious artists like Peter Brotzmann and Derek Bailey. But I also find extraordinary people in all walks of life, which is why I also like to move in fighting circles and drinking circles and fashion circles and wilderness circles and magickal circles and astronomy circles. Anything that isn’t ordinary and that might attract extraordinary people. Otherwise I need to get the hell away from it.
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
His wikipedia page is hilarious.
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:37 (nine years ago) link
https://www.google.co.uk/#safe=off&q=david+keenan
that photo is of a different David Keenan, right?
― soref, Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
i dunno, looks like a fine smelling man to me
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
and yes, that wiki page is definitely very thorough
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
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― tl;dr, gukbar, morbis detrius (wins), Sunday, 21 December 2014 21:08 (nine years ago) link
otm. bullshit machismo mixed with the self-regarding swagger of someone who really knows their way round the cheese counter at sainsbury's
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
anyhow... best discovery for me so far off the boomkat lists is the arne deforce & mika vainio album 'hephaestus', deforce being a cellist with a background in feldman and xenakis etc. there are a couple of broiling noise workouts, but also some subtler stuff they explore more brooding atmospheres and the whole thing has the most horrible toxic sheen to it, it's just great stuff
biggest disappointment is EVOL's 'Rave Synthesis Approximations of György Ligeti's Continuum, Part III', whose title promises much but... can anyone listen to more than three minutes of this?
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 22:47 (nine years ago) link
yeah that deforce/vainio album is awesome
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 21 December 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
can anyone listen to more than three minutes of this?
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 22:47 (6 minutes ago)
sure
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
its better than 'acid in the style of david tudor'
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 22:57 (nine years ago) link
it has a bit of a HPSCHD sort of ambience about it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_hTxJpWITw
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
but that has a much deeper texture, the evol track is like the pc music rewrite
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:04 (nine years ago) link
györgy liQT if you will
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
ban NickB
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:10 (nine years ago) link
that may or may not be so, just because it is not unlistenable doesn't mean it is of any great value; evol is one of the least interesting mego artists
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:11 (nine years ago) link
some of the more minor late ligeti is his own pc music
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:14 (nine years ago) link
talking of mego, i still have to hear that one ambarchi record
are you doing a noisy list this year whiney?
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:16 (nine years ago) link
ambarchi's quixotism is definitely worth hearing
― Dan S, Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:28 (nine years ago) link
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, December 21, 2014 6:16 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yah almost done, prolly posting between Christmas and New Years!
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:29 (nine years ago) link
oh good man!
was just looking at the blurb for 'quixotism' and this credit is the best:
Thomas Brinkmann - computable drums with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem (Parts 1-5)
― Ottbot jr (NickB), Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
haven't got a clue wtf it means but i'm in
nick what do you think of russell haswell's recent music
― Enterprise Lesotho (nakhchivan), Monday, 22 December 2014 00:22 (nine years ago) link
PSYCH INSIGHT: 20 ESSENTIAL PSYCH ALBUMS OF 2014http://backseatmafia.com/2014/12/04/psych-insight-20-essential-psych-albums-of-2014/
Second Bardo by Cult of Dom Kellar (Cardinal Fuzz)Forest Of Lost Children by Kikagaku Moyo (Beyond Beyond is Beyond)Sky Is Hell Black by Has A Shadow (Captcha Records)Outside The Circle by Anthroprophh (Rocket Recordings)Asteroid #4 by Asteroid #4 (Bad Vibrations)Away From The Water by Lola Colt (Fuzz Club)Season Sun by Gulp (Sonic Cathedral)Mammatus Clouds by Kikagaku Moyo (Cardinal Fuzz/ Captcha Records) The Hum by Hookworms (Weird World)Transmissions From Planet Telos Vol. 3 by Lumerians (Cardinal Fuzz)Commune by Goat (Rocket Recordings)Guru Overload by Eternal Tapestry (Oaken Palace Records)No Curtains by Dahga Bloom (Captcha Records)High Evolutionary by Dead Sea Apes (Cardinal Fuzz)Strange Wave Galore by Radar Men From The Moon (Fuzz Club)Ostro by Lay Llamas (Rocket Recordings)They Worshipped Cats by Les Big Byrd (A Records)Thru Me Again by LA Hell Gang (Mexican Summer)Come Down Safari by White Manna (Captcha Records)Far Out by Black Bombaim (Cardinal Fuzz)
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 22 December 2014 06:05 (nine years ago) link
i'm not understanding the critical love for the latest miranda lambert - it's no crazy ex-girlfriend imho, is this just an album-after impact from pistol annies? (hard to imagine tbh)
― Mordy, Monday, 22 December 2014 11:18 (nine years ago) link