Introduce Yourselves!

Now doing cut-and-paste/irritainment music like everyone else. I go by DJ Veal, until I'm sure that lame Canadian band by the name of Veal is dead-and-gone.

For the record, I like hearing everything once; after that I'm a lot more discerning! Also for the record, I LIKE hip-hop. And my personal goal is never to get stuck, temporally, in any music (as in, let's say, my wife: stopped listening to new music in the 70s so only music up to the 70s is of any worth)(perhaps I'm being a little harsh on her). I think we, now as always, live in the times of the best music ever.

in reality I run a record label by myself and the PRL with several others, a fledgling and incomplete website that's been up a scant 2 and half months (the board part being around for a year). I also buy, research and sell rare books for a living.

turn ons include the Los Angeles Free Music Society, Dock Boggs, outsider music, Cleveland 70's punk and Tropicalia (to name a few).

turns offs include Stephen Malkmus, Britpop, reggae (though not dub or 60's ska), and "pop."

now I AM a phd student in philosophy, focusing on aesthetics, in particular philosophy of music. I study and work as a graduate assistant slave at the lovely u of minnesota, twin cities. if I'm fast I might graduate in, uh, 2006. or 2007.

I wrote about anything related to music on my blog.

Julio, being a movie, 101 does have a disproportionally large number of beautiful people in it, but I think I can say with certainty that if you were to come to Reykjavík to check out the party scene, you would find a satisfying number of beautiful blondes… Nathalie – I did say chances are… ;-)

i am currently listening to fink! by the swamp zombies, in the last few weeks: scratch, the nits, shig & buzz, johnny cash, dj red alert, happy mondays, momus, zoobombs, boredoms, 5.6.7.8's, jack drag, beatles, eels, peter tosh, misfits, willie nelson, at the drive-in, hard rain vol.1 (dylan tribute), michael franti, william s. burroughs, steven jesse bernstein, blue meanies, sonic youth, digable planets, a lot of lounge music, laptop, shitloads of reggae, the cure, violent femmes, speech, weezer, etc... also a little website updating: www.soapbubblebox.isgreat.net a blogger page: www.soapbubblebox.blogspot.com yeah, thats about it for me

ps- i also burn cds and trade them, wink wink, nudge nudge...

A DJ and a DIY musicmaker.

play turntables delayed and guitars and impacts in Interferents, a Brooklyn-based improvised recomposing sound unit.

I'm proud to be playing round records on the WFMU Listener hour Saturday morning, August 31st. check out the shows archive at wfmu.org, they are and have been the best ever at free-form.

it's all about This Heat, Can, Devo, Plagal Grind, electric Miles Davis, Turbo Blender Man, Timbaland, Messthetics, Laddio Bolocko, Lightning Bolt, Deerhoof, Volcano the Bear, Vibracathedral Orchestra, no wave, brutal prog, schmoozecore, file sharing, and mix tapes.

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I first got into music through listening to old 50's compilations borrowed from an Auntie when I was a small boy. First three singles bought. Deeelites-Groove is in the heart, The Farm-Altogether Now,Definition of SOund-Wear your love like heaven. First album-Happy Mondays-Bummed. I think.

I'm usually pretty reserved so I think I'll end here.
I'll sign off with my 10 most listened to Mp3's at the moment

1)Anita Ward-Ring My Bell
2)Woody Guthrie-Cocaine Blues
3)Vaselines-Slushy
4)Jazzy Jeff and The Fresh Prince-Girl's Aint Nothing But Trouble
5)A Guy Called Gerald-Voodoo Ray
6)Blind Willie McTell-You Was Born To Die
7)Taskforce-It's Us Were Back
8)Mint Royale-Don't Falter
9)The Carter Family-Leaning On The Everlasting Arms
10)Ms Dynamite-Dy-na-mi-tee

At the moment I am listening to Black Dice, Ray Charles, Patsy Cline, Deerhoof, Les Savy Fav, Nina Nastasia, Fat Possum/Delta Blues, Pole, Mum, Liars, Yo La Tengo, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Talking Heads, Electrelane, National Trust, Jimi Tenor, Rye Coalition, The Replacements, Chet Baker, Lambchop, Prince, Rolling Stones, Outkast, Miss Kittin, Von Bondies, Pharcyde, and always always TOM WAITS.

I like movies too: Aki Kaurismaki, Lukas Moodyson, Jim Jarmusch, David Lynch, Lynne Ramsay. And words by Donald Antrim, John Fante, Aaron Cometbus.

I was once on Memphis, TN local TV, being interviewed about their annual barbecue festival.

Oh, and I also hate strip lighting.

I'm Jeff, I'm 28 and live in the Detroit suburb of Ferndale with too many CDs, tapes, records, music magazines and flyers for shows/raves/parties I didn't even go to. I probably know more about jam bands than most people on here 'cause I live with a hippie. With some luck and a little effort, I hope to relocate to NYC later this year.

My collection includes a fairly broad range of music, and there always seems to be another genre/band/musician that demands investigation. I'm not a completist except for a select few bands/artists (see the "another genre/band/musician" investigation note above).

Favorites: Theo Parrish (just ask me about it!), Pharoah Sanders, Mouse on Mars, Smiths, Slowdive, Slits' CUT, and when no one's around, cheesy Euro dancepop on the radio.

Give yerself some credit, and welcome! With your listening range you'll fit right in.

Hi, I'm João Pedro Almeida, a 25-yr-old music lover who stumbled upon this forum while searching for mp3 of Zwan's "Mary Star of The Sea"... this is nice, though... ;)

My attention got caught by the presence of mr. Ned R., known to me because of some reviews on the AMG and from the infamous "136 albums of the 90's" article (by the way, Ned, Kevin S. should give you some percentage... after all, you convinced me to buy Loveless and Isn't Anything...), and the overall spirit of the posts I read was positive, all about sharing knowledge of the music one likes, no acute flaming or insulting (ok, I'm lying, but it wasn't that much), so... well, here I am!! :)

My personal music taste is wide, but inside the pop/rock universe, as I don't cope very well with classical and a lot of jazz. Some of my favourites (in no special order whatsoever):

- Yes
- The Smashing Pumpkins
- Blur
- Led Zeppelin
- Radiohead

Latest discoveries:

- The Strokes
- Opeth
- Liars
- Porcupine Tree
- Shellac
- Wire
- Amon Tobin

Some albums I dig (a lot):

- Mellon Collie and the I.S. - the Pumpkins
- Led Zeppelin IV (or "4 symbols"), though I is very good as well
- A Night at the Opera, by Queen
- Modern Life Is Rubbish - Blur
- Surfer Rosa - PIXIES & Steve Albini
- Mirage - Camel
- The Dandy Warhols Come Down
- End Hits - FUGAZI
- Selling England by the Pound / Foxtrot (tie) - Genesis

so, that's me. I'll post around when I have the time, but I'll definitely post. bye now.

(that's a long post. Damn.)

JP

Wow! Well, thanks, much appreciated! Glad you could join us -- post away and have fun!

hi i'm schnell schnell i've been lurking for a good while and decided to post a few weeks ago when someone made some ridiculous comment like premo is better than swizz beats! i'm 20, i like lots of music, at the moment i am going through a krautrock/noise/hippunk phase but i also like the kind of hip hop that arouses battle cries of 'FUCK ALL DAT FAKE BLING SHIT' and i used to be quite involved in some kind of uk punk underground that has sadly (or not) died. occasionally i write in fanzines but i'm not interested in music crit much. my ilm ambition is for that jonathon guy to put a troll link after one of my posts. as i rudely stated on another thread (sorry nickalicious) I AM DRUNK AND HAVE JUST DISCOVERED SUPER AE PH33R M3

Over and out..

So, I'm 29, live in Brooklyn NY (for a little over 7 years now), used to live and go to school outside Cleveland OH. Got my degree in history (1995) thanks to a research thesis on Cleveland punk rock (the years 1970-79 only, if you must know). That was the single bit of music writing I ever did. Now I occupy my time making loud, repetitive music, drinking, and working as an office drone.

Music I like is all over the map. Huge, HUGE fan of Sir Doug, Ian Dury, dollar records purchased from the homeless and desperate, and this amazing version of "Gimme Some Lovin'" by some band called The Wendigo. Best 45 ever, but I know nothing about it. Bought it at a Coney Island junk shop. Oh, yeah -- also, Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein '84" -- best 12" ever.

The last surprisingly great band I saw was called A Risky Relationship, playing at Vassar College about a month ago.

Oh, one other thing: I don't own a computer. I rely on the hardware of my temporary employers.

Looking forward to arguing with y'all.

HAHAHAHA Whooo boy did I fail at that task spectacularly.

Never done any of the Introduce Yourselves thread yet but figured I should really cos I been hanging around for long enough. Been posting for ages under a stooped moniker but recently junked it cos it felt like time to move on. It’ll come back every now and then I guess, but for now I’m sticking with, uh, the real me.

So anyway, here’s me, Alex K, coming up for 25, first and foremost an artist, but also an idiot, music lover, bassist, writer, loon. I live next to a lovely park in South London and I do a rather dull editorial job by day from which I escape via ILM. Recently just started posting on ILE which I always avoided but realised I’ve missed out. Had some funny old times so far on these boards but I’m hoping that’s to do with my previous name rather than because I’m a cock. Anyway, I must say that these boards rool, and there are a hell of a lot of sound people at play who have given me hours and hours of amusement not to mention enlightenment, for which many thanks all round.

I’m a sarky fucker, but also a big dumb romantic. I like my psyche big time, west coast, late 60’s stuff; Love, Spirit, Blues Magoos, Peanut Butter Conspiracy, la la la. I like my guitars spangly and my harmonies soaring. Outside that, I’m into throbbing basslines with snappy drummers who love their hi-hats sort of stuff but I’m probably what these boards would classify as a rockist, not that I agree with the term anyway, but what the fuck; In no particular order, Verve, Lamb, Neil Young, Zeppelin, Beefheart, VU, The Band, CSNY, Television, Biosphere, Stone Roses, Rolling Stones, Doors, Aphrodite’s Child, Bert Jansch, Fairport Convention, The Pentangle, ah, too many names, oh, and most recently Cat Power. My biggest love though, is a man named Robert Zimmerman.

When I’m out, I’m usually supporting one of the bands that most of my friends seem to play in on the London circuit and getting messy. Or going to shows and stuff, whipping fools off the pool table and generally looking moody. Was in a band but my singer/songwriter recently had to jump back Stateside for a while. She’ll be back, I’m sure and I do miss making the beautiful music big time. We was doing some fucking storming stuff, all dark, swirly black psyche with breathless vocals – bah, I miss it.

One last thing, I gotta give a shout to Ned, dude, your obsession with Loveless got me to listen to it recently for the first time, after hearing about for the last ten years. Cheers. In fact, cheers all round. Hi.