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dominique, how is the improvised music from japan box? it looks tasty, even if only as a packaging fetish objet d'art, but the price tag will prolly scare me off. (also, where did you pick it up?)

― jess, Saturday, 16 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

In order of most recent (got them in batches of three):

1) Pip Pyle- 7 Year Itch 2) John Greaves- Parrot Fashions 3) Brian Eno- Ambient 1: Music for Airports 4) Gary Numan- The Pleasure Principle 5) Jethro Tull- Stormwatch 6) Robert Wyatt- Dondestan

Given my proclivities, I am embarrassed to say I had never heard the Eno and Numan albums until now. Stormwatch (the what-the-hell-it's- $3 purchase), I must admit is better than I expected.

― Joe, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Herbert - Bodily Functions
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Fripp and Eno - Evening Star
Kraftwerk - Electric Cafe
Bass Patrol - Rock This Planet
Kompakt Total 3
Pop Ambient 2001 (I can already tell I'll be buying quite a lot of this Kompakt shit if and when I find more of it!)

― Clarke B., Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hey, Clarke, some good stuff in that batch, a weird synch w/ what I've been listening to lately. Both Kompaks and the Herbert are things I've bought & enjoyed in the last few months, and I love Evening Star. I also think the first side of Electric Cafe is equal to Kraftwerk's "good stuff" (found this one a couple months ago as well.)

― Mark, Sunday, 17 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Trojan Dub Box vol.2 Rubble 1 : The Psychedelic Snarl Rubble 2 : Pop-Sike Pipe Dreams Rubble 7 : Pictures in The Sky

― Dr. C, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

King Crimson - Red
Roxy Music - Manifesto
Simple Minds - Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call
Lambchop - Is A Woman
Boards Of Coffeetable - Geogaddi

― Tom, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

masters at work - the tenth anniversary collection
dettinger - oasis
jawbox - grippe
rites of spring - end on end
lync - these are not fall colors

the last three were nostalgic re-purchases after dave made the "indie rock 101" thread. all bought under the pretense that it's my birthday (hah, like i ever really needed that reasoning.)

― jess, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

last time it was: chicago underground quartet - s/t
chicago underground duo - 12* of freedom
amm - tunes without measure or end
ida - tales of brave ida (so i could shut popshots up. i actually like it, but i'm a sap sucker.)
bailter space - votura

― jess, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Jim O'Rourke - Eureka
Trojan Dub Vol.2
Jim O'Rourke - Insignificance
Soundtrack Of Our Lives - Behind The Music
Beatles - 30 Days (CDR MP3 copy of a 17cd bootleg of Get Back Rehearsals)

― mms, Thursday, 21 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1) Jorg Burger - Burger Industries
2) The Pale Saints - In Ribbons
3) V/A (Bolshi) - Donuts 2
4) DJ Assault - Belle Isle Tech
5) Toya - I Do! (single)

― Tim, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Deckwrecka: A Better Tomorrow LP

Lambchop: Is A Woman LP

Taskforce: Music From the Corner LP

Jehst/Harry Love: Staircase II Stage 12"

Rodney P: Big Tings We Inna 12"

All great stuff, lucky me.

― Tim, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Emmett Miller: The Minstrel Man From Georgia

Storm & Stress: Under Thunder and Flourescent Light

Jerry Lee Lewis: Killer Country

The Very Best of The Lovin' Spoonful (as a gift)

The Avalanches -- Since I Left You.

― Sterling Clover, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

1. Ian Dury & The Blockheads - Do It Yourself LP
2. The Exciters - Caviar And Chitlins LP
3. Danny Breaks - Droppin' Science Vol.2 12" (!)
4. Snatch - Snatch (Judy Nylon/Patti Palladin) collection 1983 LP (!!!)
5. Polystyrene - Gods & Goddesses EP

beat that, suckas!

― Paul, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Boards of Canada, Geogaddi Gilberto Gil, Gilberto Gil Ellington/Mingus/Roach, Money Jungle Microstoria, _snd The Boredoms, Vision Creation Newsun

― Michael Daddino, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Goddamned formatting crap... Boards of Canada, Geogaddi
Gilberto Gil, Gilberto Gil

Ellington/Mingus/Roach, Money Jungle

Microstoria, microstoria_snd

The Boredoms, Vision Creation Newsun

― Michael Daddino, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Feh.

― Michael Daddino, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Feh? Never heard of'em. But the new Pieter Jan De Smet's quite nice. Light Sleeper. Played after the Josh Rouse show last night. I fell in a pseudo-narcozick slumbah. Weird.

― helenfordsdale, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

dominique, how is the improvised music from japan box? it looks tasty, even if only as a packaging fetish objet d'art, but the price tag will prolly scare me off. (also, where did you pick it up?)

jess, I'm sorry for not responding sooner, I only received the set today. I have listened to the first disc only, and I am still a little affected. I may not make as much sense as I normally would (if I normally do, that is).

First, I will tell you that I ordered it from Yoshiyuki Suzuki, caretaker of the Improvised Music from Japan website -- which, afaik, is the only place you can order it. It was expensive, but you knew that already.

Again, I have only heard the first disc, but I believe this is the most amazing music I have heard in quite a while. I have not felt this way after hearing music, probably since I heard my first music (Beatles), or possibly after hearing Debussy in college. The music is almost all electronic, maybe stylistically similar to very recent Autechre, but so much more alive, breathing. It is improvised, as they say, and though there is much computer generated sound, it is still a human heart in this music.

I will be listening to the set for a while, I suppose. Maybe if I can pull my head together, I will write something about later.

As a sidenote, there are only 800 of these made, with 300 going to the musicians on the discs. My set says that I have #63 of the remaining 500. I think if people were exposed to this music, Suzuki would have a hard time dealing with requests for the set.

― dleone, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

last five records obtained in one way or another:

the avalanches - since i left you

toog - 6633

the monkees - pisces aquarius capricorn and jones ltd

aphex twin - drukqs

philip glass - philip on film (5-cd box set)

― ethan, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

monkees was on vinyl for two dollars!!

― ethan, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Apartment Hunting sdtk
Lambchop - Is a Woman
Josh Rouse - Under Cold Blue Stars
Great Big Sea - Sea of No Cares

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 22 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Josh Rouse - Under Cold Blue Stars
Is it good? I saw him in concert and he was great.

― helenfordsdale, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Hurrah, another splurge. Neil Halsted was playing up at the well- groovy store Fingerprints so we went -- rather sleepy. Nick Drake on tranquilizers. Harmonica! Slowdive seems such a long time ago now. Anyway, in between all that:

The Blue Aeroplanes -- Cavaliers
Ian Dury and the Blockheads -- best of
Eyeless in Gaza -- Drumming the Beating Heart/Pale Hands I Loved So Well
His Name is Alive -- Someday My Blues Will Cover the Earth
Jazz Butcher -- Condition Blue
Man or Astroman? -- Is It... and Eeviac
Mecca Normal -- The First LP
Red House Painters -- Old Ramon
Section 25 -- From the Hip - In the Flesh
Seely -- Winter Birds
The Shaggs
Silkworm -- Developer and Lifestyle
Snowpony -- Sea Shanties for Spaceships
Souled American -- Notes Campfire
Television Personalities -- Yes Darling, But Is It Art?
Trans Am -- The Surveillance and Red Line
The Wake -- Harmony and Singles
Simon Wickham-Smith -- Butterfly Dust
Willard Grant Conspiracy and Telefunk -- In the Fishtank
The Tell-Tale Signs of Earworm comp
El Records B-sides comp
Rocket Girl comp
Voyage Romanesque comp on Bambini
Darla 100 comp

Whee! Music!

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

man alive ned i haven't heard of almost all of those!

― ethan, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I've heard of most of those....but you're still a show-off, Ned!

helen, have only heard the Josh Rouse once now, but it sounds nice enough, like his other two. Will try to report back.

― Sean Carruthers, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Mary Margaret O'Hara - Apartment Hunting sdtk

Sodding hell. Why didn't anyone tell me about this?

― N., Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

come on, someone ask me about mine.

― ethan, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry Ethan but none of them are a NEW ALBUM BY MARY MARGARET O'HARA.

― N., Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Crocodiles (Echo and the Bunnymen)
Barabajagal (Donovan)
The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History (the Vaselines)
Hex Enduction Hour (the Fall)
Hats (the Blue Nile)

Nick, what is her music like? What does her voice sound like? (I expect you'll tell me to look it up.)

― youn, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry Youn I can't. You're better at describing music than almost anyone. I am not. I'd come out with words like 'spooky' 'heartbreaking' 'countryish' and 'Canadian' and than would just put you off. Oops!

― N., Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Thomas Chapin & Borah Bergman - Inversions
Thomas Chapin - Radius
The Clientele - Suburban Light
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (long overdue for my own copy of this)
Claude Debussy - Piano Works (Pascal Rogé, piano) (see above)
Charles Ives - Symphony No. 1 / Three Places in New England, Ormandy/Philadelphia Orchestra, plus Robert Browning Overture, Stokowski/American SO

― Phil, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ned i haven't heard of almost all of those!
THere I was thinking "Ned, didn't have these? The Shagges? The TV Personalities?!? How weird." I guess my friends are right, I am probably a complete nerd.

Ethan, we're just jealous you got the Monkeez for two bucks. ;-)

― helenfordsdale, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I just went and bought, Slayer: Reign in Blood!

― j>e>l, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

allen clapp 'available light' the names 'swimming' josef k 'only fun in town/sorry for laughing' walker kong 'there goes the sun' lucksmiths 'lucksmiths'(so housemartins)

― keith, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Keep in mind, Helen, the collection here is an ongoing project.

but you're still a show-off, Ned!

If anything, I want to show off the quality of the stores around here - - I wish everyone could have such a thing nearby! We could all be pathetically happy.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 23 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned, you are a lucky lucky sod... you can't find "Harmony and singles" for love or money around Cardiff. And "Drumming the beating heart" is one of the worst CDs I've ever heard... my copy was mastered off vinyl and edited out half the end of "Before you go". Sigh.

― Rob M, Sunday, 24 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Josef K - Young and Stupid
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Cabaret Voltaire - The Voice of America
Larsen - Rever
Larry Levan - Live at the Paradise Garage

― Andy K, Sunday, 24 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The Pizacato Five with FLowers
Strawberry ALarm Clock best Of
Sampler of Ministry of Sound
Johnny Holladay
an e6 comp

― anthony, Sunday, 24 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned is still the king of indie! What's the Willard Grant Conspiracy and Telefunk thing like?

― Jeff W, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Oh and here's mine:

André Popp - Popp Musique
Pink - M!55UNdAZ7OOd
The Notwist - Neon Golden
Shirley Bassey - Something
v/a - la musique de Paris Dernière

all very good or better.

― Jeff W, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Rob - you have to get The Wake mail order from LTM. The only shop I know which stocks their stuff is Sister Ray. Spiller's might be able to get it for you in Kyardiff, I suppose.

― Dr. C, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Johnny Holladay
Wowser. Which one?
Ordered Necks and Fushitsusha (double live one) the other day. Next up is Herbert's Bodily Functions and Minnie Ripperton's Best of.

― helenfordsdale, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Sorry ten. But they are still on order:
- Boards of Canada: Geogadii
- Autechre: Confield
- Lambchop: Is a Woman
- Fink: Letzten September
- Friends of Dean Martinez: Live at Club 2
- American Analog Set: Know by Heart
- Momus: Stars Forever (shit I discovered the s/d thread later)
- Sparklehorse: It's a Wonderful Life
- A Silver Mt Zion: Born into Trouble>br> - Court and Spark: Bless You
- The last one I have forgotten, I will post it later.

― alex in mainhattan, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

The American Covers album , the one that makes him look like elvis

― anthony, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Ned is still the king of indie!

I was going to raid the dance section as well, but I couldn't find most of Tim's recent recommendations.

What's the Willard Grant Conspiracy and Telefunk thing like?

When heard, I will comment.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Radiohead - Kid A
The Yes Album
Yessongs
Pierre Boulez - "Le Marteau Sans Maitre"/"Livre Pour Cordes"
Ryoji Ikeda - 0 degrees C
Robert Normandeau - Clair de Terre
+ a bunch of free or trade stuff (Prince, Tackhead, Tchaikowsky, Khatchaturian, Tony Conrad, New Zealand noise/drone mix)

― sundar subramanian, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I went to Tower Records to buy the issue of Songlines that I missed in the confusion of my moving to a new address and it's being in the process of moving to a different publisher. I ended up perusing it, but deciding not to buy it. I picked up Prince's "Purple Rain" on sale. Last purchase before that:

"Farid el Atrache Forever. . . Vol.2" Om Kolthom "Habebi ysaad awkatoo" (with two other songs) Mohammed Abdel Wahab (no title given in English, but starts with two songs: "Toul Omri" and "Egri Egri" Kazem Essaher "La Ya Sadiki" Stevie Wonder "Greatest Hits Vol.2"

The first three Arabic CDs are all really good overall, but I already had some of the songs on cassette, so I knew what I was getting. Kazem Essaher is another matter and I can't recommend this recording. I bought these at a store I was told about. It used to actually have these CDs on display, but has basically given up on trying to sell them. I picked through a few piles of dusty CDs stored under the main display cases. The first time I went there I bought nine. It's nice to be able to walk into a store and buy them instead of ordering them online, especially when the price ends up being the same or maybe a little less (since they gave me a discount).

― DeRayMi, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Bruce Sprinsteen-'Nebraska' Scritti Politti-'Cupid and Psyche '85' Brian Eno-'Before and after science' Ice Cube-'Amerikkka's moist wanted' Big Country-'The Crossing'

― The Breakfast Rat, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Amerikkka's moist wanted would have been a better name in fairness..

― The Breakfast Rat, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Otomo Yoshihide, Anode
Otomo Yoshihide, Cathode
Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Quintet, Flutter
Novo Tono, Panorama Paradise
Maria Schneider, Evanescence

― dleone, Saturday, 2 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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