ILM Snapshot: Last Five Records You Bought

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?

Charlie - I am curious about Susie Ibarra
I saw her do an amazing improv set with John Zorn at his Tonic Club. If I remember correctly she played on the last Yo La Tengo record.

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

Not yet, alas.

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

I've yet to listen to it, actually. I'm kinda scared since I have such an affinity for everything else through New Gold Dream.

everybody follow doug's lead and get the Kinski record

Bathory Hammerheart

Crooklyn Dub Consortium Certified Dope Vol. 2

Anima~Sound Music fur Alle

Nurse With Wound Chance Meeting

Amon Duul Yeti

Alex, Chance Meeting rox.

DJ Flip compilation 16
The Sound (three CDs)
Herbert Secondhand Sounds

Downloaded American Gigolo and a ton of other shit

XTC, Coat of Many Cupboards
Abba, Ring Ring
Naked City, Live vol. 1: Knitting Factory 1989
Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Ensemble, Dreams
Hrvatski, Oiseaux 1996-1998

Assuming we're including singles: It's Goin Down by the X-ecutioners, Addicted To You by Alec Empire, Music (album) by Madonna (down to £4.99 in Woolies), The Original Chicago House Classics and Industrial Revolutions (drum & bass mix by Total Science). If I eliminate the first two listed for the crime of Not Being Very Long, we also include Fuze - Beyond Voltage 3 (drum & bass mix by A-Sides) and Miles Davis Live in 1958. That's ignoring lots of downloading, including the whole Japanese import version of RZA's Ghost Dog soundtrack and most or all of the upcoming DJ Shadow.

I bought a Young Fresh Fellows album last Sunday. That's about it since the last time I posted.

Music (album) by Madonna INSERT DISCLAIMER/CAVEAT HERE (down to £4.99 in Woolies).

Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales (remastered version, $6.00 used :) Nicola Alessini & Pier Luigi Andreoni - Marco Polo Ryuichi Sakamoto - Heartbeat Howard Jones - Perform.01 William Ackerman - Hearing Voices

Faust - Faust/So Far
Thelonious Monk - Monk's Music (remastered)
Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners (remastered)
Bob Dylan - New Morning
Bob Dylan - Nashville Skyline

Sold a few things to the store, & in return some 2ndhand/sale stuff:

Tricky - Tricky Kid
Suka - spitwinterspit
New Order - Substance
I'll Make You Happy (soundtrack)
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain

futurians 3" CD and a mothertrucker CD from root don lonie for cash, the white stripes "white blood cells", the shangri-las greatest hits and umm foregners greatest hits.

Earl Zinger's double LP
Richard Hell's Time CD
Gang of 4's Solid Gold LP
The Saints "I'm stranded" LP
Rocket From the Tombs's double CD

Tell me about Earl Zinger, nathalie.

Ludus, The Damage Beat Happening, Crashing Through (haven't gotten it yet) Superchunk, The Clambakes Series, Vol. 1: Acoustic In-Stores East & West Stockholm Monsters, The Damage (Singles 1981-1987) Various Artists, Black Rio: Brazil Soul Power 1971-1980

These are the last things I remember getting, but most of them were gifts, but I liked them. Cruising - Michael Nesmith; Love Hurts - Nazareth; actually I wish I was listening to both of those songs now; and I bought 'U Remind Me' by Usher, and some cheap CD of Eddie Cochran that I didn't listen to much, plus I got a Buddy Holly greatest hits record recently.

ornette coleman, beauty is a rare thing, discs 2-6

Aardvarck - Find the Cow
Michael Mayer - Immer
Soul Center - Soul Center III
Stockholm Monsters - The Damage
A Certain Ratio - Early

Andy do you mean M. Mayer?? Does he have an album out??!?

Tell me about Earl Zinger, nathalie.
Uh if you like that "Can't get you of my bed" MP3, you'll like this one as well. Hell I don't know much about dance. Sorry. And haven't heard enuff to have opinion (hangover GO GO GO) I think it's actually Galliano. That's what I heard. He had one previous EP out whihc is super rare according to friend I know.
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