ILM Snapshot: Last Five Records You Bought

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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)

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).

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'

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

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

Mos Def - Black on Both Sides Mountain Goats - All Hail West Texas V/A - American Primitive V/A - Anthology of American Music Vol. 4 AYWKUBTTOTD - Signal Tags and Codes

1) 3LW -- s/t (This is absolutely brilliant. More hooky, less beat driven than Toya.)

2) R. Kelley -- TP-2.COM (Dumber title than Twelve Play, much better production AND a song named "The Greatest Sex")

Ja Rule -- Pain Is Love (Y'all know the songs on this already, but I just had to have the whole album)

Mya -- Fear of Flying (Why oh why did I not buy this earlier?)

Madonna -- s/t.

1. Charles Mingus - Blues and Roots
2. The Doors - Strange Days
3. Omoide Hatoba - Suichu Joe (upgrade from tape)
4. VA - Asmat Dream: New Music of Indonesia (replacing lost copy)
5. Circulatory System - s/t

The Arthurs - Walking in the Sunlight
Vacaciones - Sonreir
The Pancakes - Flying in the Blue Sky on a Frying Pan
Circulatory System (*snap*)
Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't - Individualised Shirts

Prince - Crystal Ball - $20 and not a tenth as spotty as people say-- sure, there are some dud tracks but at least 2 1/2 CDs worth of good stuff.

Orbital - In Sides - 28 minutes of "The Box," hell yeah.

Downloaded Akercocke's The Goat of Mendes, Boards of Canada's Music Has The Right to Children, and I borrowed and burned the Pimp Daddy tribute record on Cash Money, which while like 5 years old is easily the best rap record I've heard all year so far and maybe the past couple years--download it post-haste.

Picky Picnic, Picnic Land -- This is the greatest album ever.
Kiyohiko Senba & the Haniwa Allstars, Haniwa
P.O.N., P.O.N.
Van Dyke Parks, Song Cycle
Henry Cow, Western Culture

All of these were downloaded from Emusic. I love my Emusic subscription--since I'm not a pirate, it's the closest I'll ever get to my fantasy of running through a record store grabbing everything I can. (Naked. I'm weird that way.)

This isn't in order of download, BTW.

1:Eclectic Electric, a 245 minute Emusic-only electronica comp. (I've heard about half of it so far. Half classic, half cud, none dud.)

2:Songs In The Key Of Z, Irwin Chusid's (in)famous novelt^H^H^H outsider music comp. (Peter Grudzian rocks! Also, it'll help tide me over until I can get some Shaggs and Jandek on CD.)

3:Take The Guitar Player For A Ride, Peter Laughner. (Eehh, middling.)

4:Songs Of The Naked City, late-seventies New York punk comp. (Fleshtones, Blondie, NYD, Suicide, Richard Hell, Bloodless Pharoahs, Ramones. I reconized the uncredited last track as the Fleshtones' version of "96 Tears.")

5:First Suicide album. (However did I live my life without owning this?)

Kompakt Total 1 & 2 (for 8$ each!)
Piano Magic - Seasonally Affective
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Kid606 - GQ on the EQ++

1. V/A_Psychedelic Crown Jewels Vol. 1 2. Coil_Horse Rotovator 3. Darkthrone_A Blaze in the Northern Sky 4. Cluster_Zuckerzeit (finally a used copy) 5. Savage Republic_Ceremonial/Trudge

last 5 records sold -

Inner Mystique - Chocolate Watch Band

Jimmy Castor Bunch - Phase III

Siegel-Schwall - Say Siegel-Schwall

Doors - Strange Days

(ditto) - Waiting for the Sun

I can only remember my last two records bought but they were:

Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

Electr-o-pura - yo la tengo

but the last 5 songs I downloaded were:

stroke of genius - Freelance hellraiser (but can I find a download of it without the xfm announcer at the end of it? can I fuck)

Photobooth - Death cab for cutie

match of the day theme tune

I just can't get enough pills - freelance hellraiser

showstopper - The Cashmeres

Various Artists - We Can Fly vol 1 and Vol 2 (late 60's freakbeat/psyche)

The Raincoats - Odyshape - from e/bay - maybe the seller will send it to me one day!

Altered Images - The Best Of Altered Images.

Am dumping some rubbish at RTE later today and will be buying shedloads of new stuff. Will report back.

I splurged as predicted :

V/A - Dub, Original Bass Culture

Silver Apples - both albums on 1 CD

Section 25 - Always Now LTM Reissue

The Wake - Holyheads LTM Reissue

David Sylvian - Everything and Nothing

The Move - Singles As and Bs

V/A - The Beat Scene (Decca/Deram comp)

V/A - Invicta Chartbusters (Freda Payne/Chairmen of the Board/Honey Cones)

V/A - Pebbles Essential Collection + Insanely Rare

ABC - The Lexicon of Love - CD remaster. I wore out the vinyl.

Cheap used vinyl (all I can afford these days):

Neil Diamond: 12 Greatest Hits (a favorite from my childhood)
Steely Dan: Greatest Hits (only like a couple, but worth the buck)
Brian Eno: Discreet Music (weird that I never had this; cost me $4)
David Grubbs: The Thicket (sealed and new for $1! Don't know why. Not sure if I like it yet, but some nice harmonium drones.)
Danny Terrio presents: Night Moves (another disco instructional record...this one has interesting photographs of Terrio in the accompanying booklet, doing such patented moves as "The Mork" and "The Steve Martin," in full costume!)

My parents returned from their Japanese bizniz trip. Hurray. I gave'em a list of things to buy. They came back with:
Boxset of vinyl singles (Group Sounds) and Fushitsusha's "Mo sukoshi Kono Mama"

I just got:

carpet musics - weekday

pipas - new 7"

Sportique - modern museums 10"

v/a - shotclub

tahnk you twee kitten

1) Oxide & Neutrino - Execute
Skrewface mania! I love how petite and prissy a producer Oxide has become, and how amusingly bewildered Neutrino is. On "Only Wanna Know Cos Ur Famous", when he says "they didn't check for you!" or something like that his outrage is so little-boy-lost wounded.

2) Playgroup - Playgroup
I like how Playgroup's vision of the eighties extends way into the early nineties with lotsa dubby house influences. For some reason though I've yet to listen to this more than once, even though I really enjoyed it.

3) V/A - American Gigolo
This is like washing detergent, all those blaring synth riffs and brittle machine beats feel cleansing and slightly rasping against your skin. The best stuff on this is either a) the housier stuff, or b) the poppier stuff. So "Sunglasses At Night", which is both poppy and housey, is automatically the best thing on offer.

4) New Flesh - Understanding
The good stuff is fantastic - snapping, whirring electro-dancehall with indecipherable ragga chatter. The more conventional stuff is a bit boring and I'm pretty sure that all the guest MCs bar Roots are crap. There's a perfect ep here though.

5) V/A - Fuse Presents DJ Hell
Haven't listened to this yet, but I found it cheap and it has the Patrick Cowley extended mix of "I Feel Love" so it *must* be good.

Bathory Blood Fire Death (early Black Metal thing, two great songs--a few eh ones)

Boredoms Super AE (Much better than I remember them being 5 years ago)

Psychic TV Force The Hand of Chance (Hit or miss, better than some other Genesis stuff I've heard)

Prince Charming Fantastic Voyage (For a friend. I already own it and it's ridiculously good)

Sand Ultrasonic Seraphim (Weird kraut-folk record, "May Rain" is great, rest is still pretty good)

Just ordered a couple El Gran Combo compilations, plus the last Pedro Conga CD.

Trans Am - the surveillance Messiaen - Turangalila Symphony Gram Parsons Anthology Aphex Twin- Windowlicker Le Tigre - From the Desk of Mr.Lady

Bought or Borrowed:
John Foxx The Garden
John Foxx Assembly
Hydroplane Hope Against Hope
Passage Seedy: Best of
Magazine Where The Power Is & Maybe It's Right To Be Nervous Now
Chambers Brothers Best of
Miles Davis Porgy & Bess

Promos or Downloads:
Electric Soft Parade Holes in the Wall
Fly Pan Am Ceux Qui Inventent N'ont Jamais Vécu
Do Make Say Think & Yet & Yet
Comet Gain Realistes
V/A Kitty-Yo Sampler
Badly Drawn Boy About A Boy
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Plastic Fang
DJ Shadow Private Press
EPs by Lydia Lunch w. Anubian Lights, Chicks on Speed w. Kreidler, Constantines

1. Osymyso - "Rabbit vs Rabbit" (awful Bright Eyes bootleg, but free)
2. X-ecution Squodd - "X-men" (surprisingly good, if not exactly innovative)
3. Karl Hinds - "Don Gramma Remix" (replacing lost copy, but had forgotten how much better the remix is than the original, which is basically a brit re-working of "Ebonics" - "enough of that American twang, I wanna hear some British shit...". Weird-ass beat with a missing kick that really wrong-foots you.)
4. Onyx - "Slam" (Woo! Nostalgia! How shit was that Biohazard mix, though?)
5. EPMD - "You gots to chill" (probably my least favourite EPMD track, but have fairly cheesy club to DJ at in a couple of weeks and this 12 will be invaluable)

Oh Ron, is that the Gram Parsons thing with the motorbike pic on the front? How is it? I've only got the GP/Grievous Angel double album thing.

1. Scrawl - Nature Film (used)
2. Jawbox - For Your Own Special Sweetheart (used)
3. Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
4. Butterfly Child - Eucalyptus EP(used)
5. Sound - From the Lion's Mouth
6. Sound - Jeopardy
7. Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
8. House of Love - Creation Recordings

JC: it's nice to see people are still buying Jawbox albums, used or whatever. I got the new Burning Airlines recently, er I think the other 4 most recent are Boards of Canada "Geogaddi", Herbalizer "Something Wicked this way Comes", Cujo "Adventures In Foam" and Four Ears (I forget the album name).

mu-ziq-royal astronomy 2manydjs-as heard on radio soulwax mahler-fifth symphony dj tiga-american gigolo max tundra-qy20 songs

cheers, robin

NERD - In Search Of... Playgroup - Playgroup Simple Minds - Life in a Day Various - Disco Not Disco 2 Various - Rough Trade Shops: Electronic 01

God
damn
it

Andy, is "Life In A Day" worth getting? I never got around to it even though I love "Reel To Real Cacophony".

Mis-Teeq - B With Me
Dread Meets Punk Rockers Uptown compilation
Wedding Present - Dalliance (tape replacement)
Trojan Dub Boxset 2
Pluxus - och resan fortsatter har
Futurism mix cd
So Solid Crew - Fuck It

Bob Mould - Modulate
Orchestra Baobob - Pirate's Choice
Various - Gravikords Whirlies & Pyrophones: Experimental Musical Instruments
Aphex Twin - drukqs
Various - An Invitation to Suicide: tribute to the songs of Martin Rev, Alan Vega

Susie Ibarra, Songbird Suite; Noah Howard, Patterns/Message to South Africa; Kid 606, PS I Love You; Major Stars, The Rock Revival; Acid Mothers Temple, New Geocentric World

ronan - that's the one. I haven't dug into it yet - just a couple of tracks and read some liner notes. I'll have to report back later. I got this because I heard a song I really liked the other day on the radio ($1000 wedding) and when the DJ said Gram P. it pushed my growing curiosity over the line. So anyway I'm pretty much a GP virgin.

Charlie - I am curious about Susie Ibarra - read a Thurston Moore interview of her in Index. Apparently an amazing drummer?? Jazz??

A small batch from Amoeba here:

The Names, Swimming + Singles
Josef K, Crazy To Exist (live)
X, Wild Gift
Tristeza, Dream Signals in Full Circles
East River Pipe, Shining Hours in a Can
The Wake, Assembly
Talk Talk, Missing Pieces
Prince, The Rainbow Children

...plus the Super Furry Animals Rings Around the World DVD, while those Sound reissues finally arrived, hurrah!

Damn Ned, I need to get to the bay for an Amoeba fix!

tiga - mixed emotions

soulwax - 2 many djs

underworld - beaucoup fish

wu-tang clan - iron flag

herbert - secondhand sounds

all purchased at pretty much the same time:

1. Kinski, "Be Gentle With The Warm Turtle" 2. Bablicon, "The Cat That Was a Dog, A Flat Inside a Fog" 3. Fred Lonberg-Holm, "Site-Specific" 4. Company Flow, "Funcrusher Plus" 5. Parker/Guy/Lytton (w. Joe McPhee) - "The Redwood Session" 6. Fred Anderson Quartet, "Dark Day"

my last five hasn't changed.

My Friday --> Monday splurge. All CD save where indicated:

soulwax - 2 many dj's
v/a - rough trade shops: electronica 01 (*this is absolutely fantastic: why has no-one mentioned this on ILM yet?*)
rubin steiner - wunderbar drei
v/a - the best bootlegs in the world ever
simpatico/the pines - [split 7"]
the horizontalist - twenty feet behind [7"]
the move - [*best of ... can't remember exact title*]
the herbaliser - something wicked this way comes
david holmes - come get it i got it (introducing The Free Association)
the streets - original pirate material

Ned, have you got to the WGC & Telefunk Fishtank CD yet?