What are you listening to? 2021

^ disc from neil young archives vol 2, 1974 recordings

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Most nights since Covid I pick out three CDs I haven’t played in decades. Tonight, bands with horns.

The Velveteens - The Art of Compromise (2000)
“Ska” band from Virginia, obviously more influenced by Oingo Boingo than real ska. I saw them live for some reason I can no longer remember, and got drunk enough to buy their CD.

Weapon of Choice - Highperspice (1996)
P-Funk for the 90s. Saw them at Bumbershoot.

PIC - Hiphoppunkfunkmamboska (2000)
No recollection of this one at all, probably a promo I picked up and never listened to. Title is self-descriptive.

Sleeve, that Fennesz record is really great!

Gloomy but sort of majestic spring weather brought this to my head

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xposts: don't think i was aware of the radioactive/sunbeam connection. the quality of the latter's releases (that i've heard, anyway) are vastly superior & presumably more legit than the former. the second lp of outtakes/unreleased/single tracks on their mm&ttlotsh reissue maybe not essential, but makes a nice addition. spirit of love i still need to hear.

^ that is a really cool record, I have never really gotten into AD2 for whatever reason but I really like that AD1 album

yeah that AD1 is all time great, total hippie bliss

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good god this album is awesome

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Something struck me this morning, feeling this more meditative freakout from these epic freaks of our age.

From one set of blown out guitar jams to another...

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holy shit this Mainliner record rules

it really, really does!

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^have been meaning to check out some of mike wilhelm's post-charalatans recordings before he hooked up with the groovies!

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Woke up with "Voices" moving through my foggy brain, such a great record.

love Espers, love that Slapp Happy

I may have posted this before, but I suspect I have this thread in my bookmarks just for the awesome speedy sequence of covers.

Sleeve, we really should probably meet up at some point, seems like we'd get along splendidly.

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J.U.S. - God Goku Jay-Z
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Fat Ray - Santa Barbara
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Two new EPs/short albums from Danny Brown's Bruiser Brigade--beat selection and street rap wrasslin' excitement def sounding on par with/in an adjacent lane to Griselda

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as the first cd in a 2cd Four great Albums by
The set is out of order since there is an lp between the 2 which has been put on the 2nd disc.
Anyway this is great stuff. I think Abbey IS Blue is the better so wish I could get a 3 changer to swing around to that as the first thing .
Really loved teh tv perfromance of Freedom Now Suite which I came across years, possibly decades ago. Now just thinking that I may have seen this on tv in the 80s not just d/lded it in th e00is but not sure. But hadn't looked into the solo material by her.
Now have the 4 lps on this set and teh People In Me from the early 70s with half of Miles Davis's touring band on and Miles himself partially directing or helping direct. Nt heard taht yet. Keeping cds on for several days so I get used to them.
Anyway vocal jazz lps with great jazz vocals over jazz like. THis does seem to have long sections without her that are pretty good on their own but I guess are mainly there in supporting role. Band features Max Roach who she married sometime around then.
Abbey is Blue is heavily recommended. Nt sure of best way to buy it though, but this was a cheap way of doing it.

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heavily stripped back dubbed out radical funk stuff. Not sure what music opn here is original and what dubbed frm elsewhere. Has prominent sax in places and some hints of melody but mainly has breakbeaty stuff with Stewart's great voice over the top.
The next lp has Stewart singing in front of a bunch of ex Sugarhill backing band types. Think I need to get that.
& so far haven't heard the bonus disc here

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finally worked my way around to the first disc here. various dates from 73 and 74.
& sitting in bed reading and hearing this this morning had me able to just about work out what each player was doing which i'm not sure I've been able to do elsewhere.
& that's pretty amazing. Interaction between people who play the music somewhat differently each night but I was left wondering how differently. But I guess that's the way you disappear down the rabbit hole.
Pretty great versions of China Cat/Rider and Bird Song here and I don't think the others drag.
Glad I got around to getting this.

that Mark Stewart record is a big fave of mine

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Stevolende - that Dead compilation is fantastic, but I'm a huge fan of '73 and '74 Dead. Curious to know what you think of the 46 minute "Playing in the Band" on disc two.

I have the big box set from which that comp is pulled, it's all fantastic. My only complaint about the distilled compilation is that it misses one of my other favorite big jams from the box, the "Dark Star" from 6/24/73.

Not sure what of the recordings I already had. Do have a pretty massive folder of various Dead related stuff on a hard drive i no longer have connected to my computer.
I don't think I quite had the same reaction to the other discs as i had to this disc1 but may have been what else I was doing at the time so may well revisit with some frequency. Probably just coincided with me wanting to lie in bed reading and therefore had the time to sink in this disc. PLus it is bloomin sublime.

I know I like 74 and & 73 Dead and have colours i experience in tandem with the years. I think 73 is a green and 74 a creamy yellow.
Also noticing something that seems to bubble through 74 that isn't as prominent in 73. Not sure if taht would have anything to do with the amplification which I thought was the big new factor in 74. Though sounds like lesh has picked up new aspects of his technique.
Like 72 too .
& 68-70, not so much 71. THink they're less openly improvisatory that year.

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^^^ this record is really really good, if anyone is interested after listening and wants, i will send.

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Wilderness - s/t

more or less a sampler drawn from the 3 hp collection cd sets, but this is the first partch i've heard outside of the columbia releases (i like)

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love that stuff so much

𐌂𐍂𐌀𐌁𐌁𐍅 𐌀𐌓𐌓𐌋𐌄𐌕𐍈𐌽

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...or

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^^ love that, recently discovered him from that huge box set

I'm listening to the BRAND NEW Alistair Galbraith record, lotta instrumentals on this

sorry AlAstair