Last X records you bought, 2nd quarter 2003

the Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Japan - Adolescent Sex (now there's a voice of david sylvian i had never heard before! gorgeous)
David Bowie - Low
David Bowie - Rare

(and now i'm actually going to listen to some of sundar's tracks i've downloaded some weeks ago but hadn't found the time for yet...)

This Saudi stuff is much more groove-oriented than most of the Egyptian music I listen to; and I hear more similarities to some sorts of African and Indian music. I think it would actually be fairly accessible to western listeners.

14 iced bears - wonder
99 mg / laurent pernice - ligne latérale
aljeandra & aeron - scotch monsters
oren ambarchi & martin ng - vigil
aufgehoben no process vs. gary smith - magnetic mountain
beans - tomorrow right now
the camberwell now - all's well
miles davis - pangaea
decoder - dissection
ekkehard ehlers - politik braucht keinen feind
ian epps - finds the4yearoldchild courtside, vol. 1
esem - enveloped
eturivi - ylhäisten kastien kelvottomat jälkeläiset
faust - abzu
fern knight - seven years of severed limbs
yoshihiro hanno - april >> remixes
robyn hitchcock - i often dream of trains
illusion of safety - from nothing to less
jade warrior - elements
klaatu - klaatu / hope
latyrx - the album
the lazily spun - s/t
lovers - star lit sunken ship
magyar posse - we will carry you over the mountains
paul d. miller - death in light of the phonograph
minamo - beautiful
neutral - font translation errors
charlemagne palestine - golden 3: in mid-air
phthalocyanine - 25 tracks fer 1 track
paul roland - gargoyles
the petals - butterfly mountain
sphyr - a poem for m
the stockholm monsters - alma mater plus
thuja - ghost plants
m. ward - the transfiguration of vincent
v/a - nice up the dance
la monte young - the second dream of the high-tension line stepdown...

Big Black - Songs About Fucking
Meat Puppets - II

then, back to "normal"

Killing Joke - Killing Joke (vinyl!)
Flying Saucer Attack/Roy Montgomery - "Goodbye" 12"
The Smiths - Meat is Murder

Vinyl:
Herbie Hancock-"Headhunters"
Prefab Sprout-"Jordan:The comeback"

CD's:
Smog-"Wild love"
O.U.T. Hud-"Street dad"
Herbert-"Let's all make mistakes"

yeah, that LMY is extraordinary. shame it's so unobtainable. nature of the beast.

Otomo's solo live show in sf last night was amazing. one hour of rising sound, but incredibly expressive, transcendent actually. incredible sound system, it just kept getting louder -- without ear fatigue. not like I have any hearing left.

Thinking Plague -- well suzanne does have kind of a girly sing-songy voice. But for me that only adds to the tension since the music's rather brutal.

summerslastsound -- how's that 4 CD Faust box set? worth it for the 90 seconds of 70's outtakes I'll bet.

yo la tengo - merry christmas from yo la tengo ep (not really the time but they were in town and this was the only release they sold i didn't have yet, it's fun)

* Broken Social Scene, You Forgot It in People
* Melon Galia, Les Embarras Du Quotidien

2 Mouse On Mars albums, Donnie Darko DVD and an MD copy of the new Sprtlzd.

Fushitsusha - Allegorical Misunderstanding (This is on now - it's way mellower than I expected. Kinda retro too, weirdly. Not bad though.)
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Beck - Mellow Gold
S. Balachander - Music of the Veena I
Dr Nerve - Skin
Marc Ribot - Shoe String Symphonettes
Marc Ribot - Yo! I Killed Your God
Allman Brothers Band - Live at Filmore East
Rush - Signals

and burning some Bailey, Amacher, Glass Orchestra

the terminals - little things CD (cos my vinyl copy is rooted)
t rex - bolan's zip gun
t rex - electric warrior
sparks - kimono my house
heart - little queen
new order - substance
def leppard - hysteria.

2 x Sekret Sekret 7"s on Waterfront, and three singles on the In-fidelity Singles Club (Two Lane Blacktop, Devastations, Bakelite Age).

My Mine - Hypnotic Tango
Koto - Jabdah
Koto - Dragon's Legend
Koto - Japanese War Game
Koto - Visitors
Koto - Visitors (Vocal remix)

Hurrah, for I now have the full set (I think) of silly retro-futuristic Koto sleeve art....

alder & elius - parentalguidance
b.Low - croustillant leger 12/7
blessed oblivion - s/t
addie brik - my little pony ride 12
brume - zona ventille
comets on fire - field recordings from the sun
cressida - s/t
jim denley & martin ng - vergency
dream radiation - s/t
kevin drumm - land of lurches
fourteen iced bears - let the breeze open our hearts
savina giannatou & petros touliatos - masko
holly golightly - truly she is none other
goodiepal - narc beacon
a guy called gerald - essence
izititiz - lucky bird
llips. - unalaska and the valley of 10,000 smokes lp
george lopez - works for ensemble
M83 - dead cities, red seas & lost ghosts
marchetii/voice crack/noetinger - double_wash
kaffe matthews & hayley newman - pointy stunt
minit - cc/bb lp
monos - sunny day in saginomiya
jean-marc montera - smiles from jupiter
ostinato - kap arkona
paradise motel - flight paths
stereolab - abc music
ticklish - s/t
greg weeks - awake like asleep
werther/wittwer - I
stephan wittwer - streams
various artists - branches & routes (fat cat)
various artists - deletions 3 (peace frog)
various artists - pause004
various artists - international live electronic music incorporated

I heard this last night and while I'm not as totally knocked sideways by it as Spencer was, it's a great MBV meets late eighties Xymox gone instrumental fusion...

CD:
Diagram A/Noise Nomads - split CD
Nautical Almanac - We Want War tour CDR/Record (groove hand-lathed onto one side)
Redrum Ramrod - self-titled
Rotten Piece - Sampler 2003
Six Finger Satellite - Law of Ruins

Vinyl:
The Coachwhips - Get Yer Body Next Ta Mine LP
Rain Like The Sound of Trains - self-titled 7"
September 10"
Unwound - You Bite My Tongue 7"
The Vibrathedral Orchestra - String Band/Drum Troupe 7"

Waiting for to come in the mail:
Milemarker 1st 7"
Nautical Almanac/Meerk Puffy split CD-R (the one on Vegalia, not the ones on Bulb, Gods of Tundra or Heresee)

Cooking Vinyl: Delicatessen 5
Sub Pop: Infecting the galaxy one planet at a time
Rough Trade: Rock & Roll 1
Both Sides Now: The spirit of Americana
Etta James, Her Best
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Master and Everyone.

I am clearly on a crusade to own every record label compilation ever released. Ever.

By M83? I would say pretty much each of the last three or four songs -- they all sounded like epic album-enders (but weren't! well, except for the actual last one).

Steely Dan: Two Against Nature
Prince and the N.P.G.: Diamonds and Pearls
Todo Tango [compilation]
N*E*R*D: In Search of. . .

Also received the Adolescent's Orquesta's Disco de Oro that I've been waiting for. I recognize the first four songs, though I hadn't known they were by this band. There are some good songs here, but I think I'd like to hear another band covering them. There are some unnecessary and annoying bombastic/tinkly synthesizer introductions. Supposedly their most album really cooks and they sound grown-up on it. But this collection is like: four good song, marred by bad intros, but still enjoyable to me if I'm feeling generous; a middle section of songs that are just too schmaltzy; and a few songs at the end that have lost the annoying intros and have a harder edge, but are perhaps less distinctive than the first four. (Of course, I may only like them because I have had time to hear and dance to them while out in clubs.)

Waiting for (from Amazon);
In The Airplane Over The Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Folk Songs... - Savath & Savalas
Dialogue - Four Tet

Getting tomorrow (new releases);
British Sea Power
Audio Bullys
Gillian Welch

And a disc of chamber music performed by Australia's Elision Ensemble, which I grabbed because it includes a piece by the consistently fascinating Chris Dench.

Joe Jackson Band - I'm the Man
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Lou Reed - Street Hassle
the Chills - Kaleidoscope World

new:
the Hidden Cameras - the Smell of our own

...also the import DVD of Twenty Four Hour Party People, rah!

Flowers of Romance, P.I.L.
The Best of ELO - which, miraculously, means in this case: nearly all of the first album, about a third of the second, and a coupla 'early versions' of certain tracks (of "showdown" and "ma ma belle"); darn, those Roy Wood songs sound much better than i remembered.

(and somehow i manages to left behind OMD's Dazzle Ships ...must go back to that li'l shop some day, probbly)

then I discovered http://us.yesasia.com/

V/A: Japan For Sale, Volume 1
V/A: Japan For Sale, Volume 2
V/A: Japan For Sale, Volume 3
GhettoBombs & Schizo: STAR Volume 1
CAN: Vol.4 - Grey Market
Drunken Tiger: Vol. 4 - Foundation
OST - Resurrection of the Little Match Girl