PYE that is.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
Country Funk is one of those bands that you see as the opening act on tons of old 60s rock posters, but I've never heard them. Will have to check them out. http://www.sixtiesposters.com/images/tp70191.jpg
― tylerw, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
This new Country Funk comp is so sweet.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, July 25, 2012 10:35 AM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:03 (eleven years ago) link
reissue of the year imo
― camp lo magellan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
Man between your love for this and Horseback, I'm <3ing u Whiney.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:08 (eleven years ago) link
also, though it does not have the same style as his work on the country funk comp, the larry jon wilson record that drag city put out is really really great and i try to recommend it whenever possible. instead of being soulful country-groove it is stripped down acoustic guitar & singing. recorded shortly before his death. he does some covers and a bunch of originals and it is great all the way through. his voice is amazing.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:29 (eleven years ago) link
and of course...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWD2Re6SsUU
― one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 15:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://lightintheattic.net/system/release_images/0000/6846/WendyRene_Cover_325_thumb_325.jpg?1328643882
Pretty great call from the LITA folks. And kept me away from chasing those Rene 45s on ebay.
― Playoff Starts Here (san lazaro), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:02 (eleven years ago) link
the s/t country funk album is pretty sweet. for awhile i got it mixed up with the s/t from the band country, the album covers not helping much at all either. i found them both for $1 once.
http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2873492-1305105796.jpeghttp://s.dsimg.com/image/R-1545657-1250147503.jpeg
― omar little, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 19:50 (eleven years ago) link
Yesssss. Can't believe Bobby Darin's track fits so well.
― Amoeba, Fish, Monkey, Shame (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 26 July 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
Those Direction records of Darin's have been at the top of my list for a while.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 26 July 2012 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
i have the darin rekkerd that is taken from.. it's pretty cool even if it seems like dylan aping sometimes.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 27 July 2012 00:09 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, we had that pass through the shop a while ago and I wish I had checked it out now!
― Amoeba, Fish, Monkey, Shame (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 27 July 2012 08:40 (eleven years ago) link
Fun read:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/13/garden/touring-the-farm-where-the-emerson-brothers-recorded-their-1979-album.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 13 September 2012 12:51 (eleven years ago) link
d'angelo - voodoo reissue coming in time for christmas. I love these guys.
― ILX Lightwave Customer Support (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 25 October 2012 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
Guys. They're doing an LHI Singles Box for Record Store Day 2:
http://lightintheattic.net/releases/768-you-turned-my-head-around-lee-hazlewood-industries-1967-1970
So fucking cool. The fact that they put Honey Ltd. on there leads me to hope they'll reissue that album.
― I hate Tig Notaro so much I gave Louis C.K. a dollar (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 25 October 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
How do I get that thing? I've never shopped at a record store day. Do I have to wait in line or something?
And wow, that Jim Sullivan U.F.O. record is soooo good.
― wk, Thursday, 25 October 2012 05:05 (eleven years ago) link
That Lee Hazlewood box set looks amazing!! I wish it wasn't a record store day release and something you could actually buy.
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 25 October 2012 05:19 (eleven years ago) link
oh man i would love a proper reish of the honey ltd. i have that 45 and it is so distorted
― whining boom (electricsound), Thursday, 25 October 2012 05:22 (eleven years ago) link
I'd recommend going to your local shop and asking them if they can get it for you. That's probably your best shot. It is kind of ridiculous, and RSD feeds into the Pokemon Record Collector mentality I really hate, but it is a pretty cool looking set.
I'm hoping LITA does a re-release after a while, like they did with last years Hazlewood Record Store Day release.
― I hate Tig Notaro so much I gave Louis C.K. a dollar (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Thursday, 25 October 2012 05:29 (eleven years ago) link
that box set looks great. I just got the LHI Years 2lp comp. over the weekend. between that and Country Funk I'm on a big Light in the Attic kick lately. they are awesome.
― dmr, Thursday, 25 October 2012 16:14 (eleven years ago) link
Wow @ that singles box. Pity my RSD-friendly local record store has just closed down.
― Jeff W, Thursday, 25 October 2012 18:23 (eleven years ago) link
incredible comp
https://light-in-the-attic.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/release_image/18705/image/large_550_tmp_2F1465402231368-jyq56zukrwhb5qc3-e7b8f73a81af735465c915af28e9949b_2Fcover%2BDigital%2BZandoli.png
― ǂbait (seandalai), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 22:41 (seven years ago) link
zouk-not-zouk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGstYzQCMT0
― ǂbait (seandalai), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 22:43 (seven years ago) link
Considering they shipped four Lizzy Mercier Descloux CDs to me in unsealed box, they can definitely do wrong. (They actually sent two packages to me like that—the first time the CDs got lost on the way across the U.S.)
― spastic heritage, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 22:51 (seven years ago) link
New compilation of Japanese folk (with the marvellous title of Even A Tree Can Shed Tears) is an absolute stunner. So much gorgeous music, so many artists I've never heard of who I'll now need to check out. Big recommendation.
― bamboohouses, Sunday, 12 November 2017 21:14 (six years ago) link
Absolutely lovely comp with invaluable lyric translations by Hisham Bharoocha, whose name is unfortunately misspelled in the liners.
― Yelploaf, Sunday, 12 November 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
2nd Pacific Breeze comp announced!
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 13:19 (four years ago) link
In very, very welcome news, Hiroshi Yoshimura's 'Green' is getting a reissue: https://lightintheattic.net/releases/6773-green
― cooldix, Sunday, 22 March 2020 07:11 (four years ago) link
green owns
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 31 March 2020 09:11 (four years ago) link
Hello friends. We would like to take this time to announce a very special live stream, this Friday, April 3rd to benefit @MusiCares COVID-19 relief fund. Full lineup below, and more information here: https://t.co/VaK0YdCj5g pic.twitter.com/FXnQYPwjyF— Light In The Attic 🌱 (@lightintheattic) March 31, 2020
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:16 (four years ago) link
Acetone!!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:17 (four years ago) link
Even a Tree Can Shed Tears has been my quarantine soundtrack so far. love it.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:28 (four years ago) link
Gigi masin!
― Evan, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link
so relieved to hear that gigi was keeping well
― ymo sumac (NickB), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 11:49 (four years ago) link
New Pacific Breeze comp is pretty great. Not sure it's as great as the first volume, need a few more spins to determine.
THIS TRACK is dope as hell
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 4 May 2020 18:27 (three years ago) link
Paul, you'd like the "Tokyo Nights" compilation.
i had this on repeat for longer than i care to say
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDKXlXzjWLE
Liking Pacific Breeze 2 almost as much as the first... that was more than enough for me to order the CD and dig a bit deeper on some of this stuff. All these compilations are getting me back into Japanese music after a long time away ٩(◕‿◕)۶
― maffew12, Wednesday, 27 May 2020 02:01 (three years ago) link
Spring Cleaning 20202 Sale happening. Lots of interesting looking stuff here. Anyone have any favorites from this list they'd recommend? I have a few things in my cart already but I'm gonna spend at least $75 to get the free shipping. Not a huge fan of horror soundtracks (though I can be convinced if there's one that's especially good or unique) but everything else is fair game:
https://lightintheattic.net/shelves/Vinyl%20Distancing%20and%20Spring%20Cleaning%202020
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 31 May 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link
Oh, and I did love that link above, maffew12! Thank you. If the whole comp is of that caliber I'm going to have to pick it up.
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 31 May 2020 11:42 (three years ago) link
Thanks for the spring cleaning tip. I picked up the 8LP Giant Sand box for $54!
― Cow_Art, Sunday, 31 May 2020 12:46 (three years ago) link
Yeah, the Giant Sand box is an incredible deal. I snagged a couple of the Bevis Frond records from them recently too.
― daily growing, Sunday, 31 May 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
Spring Cleaning pages are staggering, but---The ones I'm most familiar with here are the Blaze soundtrack, if you're into outsidery Texas singer-songwriters (not too outsidery: Blaze was cherished and covered by ornery inside-outside stars like the latter-day Merle Haggard etc). This one made my Nashville Scene Top Ten. Also, even more in thee same vein, because vintage and various artists who are smokey pillars of East Nashville etc, the Heartworn Highways soundtrack, from the classick 70s documentary, with Townes Van Zandt, David Allan Coe, Guy and Susanna Clark and so on. Country Funk Vol. 2 has some keepers, though also some "OMG we're white stoned country *and* funky!" self-amazed goobers.A friend of mine used to play Bernard Hermann's Taxi Driver quite a bit, and though I never heard it when my friend wasn't talking, the music came over and around him pretty well.Only heard The Exorcist in the theater, but music and sound design by far the best elements of that otherwise lurid-to-ludicrous/70s-as-hell-flick (not nec. a bad thing, but sonics best of all).Haven't heard those particular Goblin soundtracks, or other titles, but how bad could they be? Ditto those Lizzy Mercier Descloux titles, judging by the ZE reisses I do have.Early 70s live Funkadelic, Bert Jansch, maybe This Heat, The Camberwell Now.
― dow, Sunday, 31 May 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
alas the shipping to canada is unspeakable
― k*r*n koltrane (Simon H.), Sunday, 31 May 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
worth checking out imo:
bobby brown - prayers of a one man bandsam waymon - ganja & hesscharles wain - the last wavealbert washington - sad & lonelycaeser frasier - 75aleke kanonu - alekeaktion - groove the funkthe apostles s/t
― budo jeru, Sunday, 31 May 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
thanks!
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 1 June 2020 00:22 (three years ago) link
If you're at all interested this edition of the Taxi Driver Soundtrack is the one to own. It's the only release that contains the complete score. The original release is sort of a train wreck; the first side is some chirpy shit that wasn't even in the movie IIRC.
― Freeze Instr., Monday, 1 June 2020 03:20 (three years ago) link
I am so excited about this reissue of Yoshimura's Green. This new / restored version without the dumb sound effects is a revelation. Usually that stuff doesn't bother me ("Humming The Sea" by Yutaka Hirose is one of my favorite ambient tracks ever and there's the sound of surf all over it), but losing the stock birds-and-water sounds of the previous issue of this album really puts a different perspective on it. Now it sounds like an all-time classic. Love love love this record.
Any word about a reissue of Soundscape 1?
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 18:32 (three years ago) link
Please, please let there be a Soundscape 1 reissue.
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
green has been my lockdown s/t
― per aspera ad scampo (||||||||), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
Yeah, it's ideal for lockdown for sure (especially right before bedtime)
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 8 July 2020 20:24 (three years ago) link
finally picked up a copy of Somewhere Between, made it nearly all the way through Side A before realizing it was a 45 RPM
sounds damn good at 33 though
― frogbs, Friday, 18 June 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
Haha, I did the exact same thing a few weeks back.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 19 June 2021 01:41 (two years ago) link
I know Douglas a little bit and that description of his working methods seems accurate.
― sleeve, Saturday, 19 June 2021 02:36 (two years ago) link
xp For info about Native North America, I'd recommend checking out this podcast interview with compiler Kevin Howes and featured artist Duke Redbird: http://vishkhanna.com/2014/12/04/ep-152-kevin-sipreano-howes-duke-redbird/
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Saturday, 19 June 2021 03:58 (two years ago) link
just now catching up to the kankyo ongaku — whoa, this rules!
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Tuesday, 4 January 2022 15:24 (two years ago) link
^^^ yeah, I dig it all, in particular the Joe Hisaishi track "Islander" is incredible. I wish it was twice as long. Quite an obscure find too - it's actually by the one-off project Wonder City Orchestra, before any of Hisaishi's well-known work. These folks really know their stuff. It's inspired me to get some Hiroshi Yoshimura & Inoyama Land LPs, but I think this compilation is way beyond any individual release.
still been regularly playing Pacific Breeze & Somewhere Between as well. I wonder if the popularity of Pacific Breeze/City Pop in general is somehow linked to vaporwave? So much of it sounds like sample fodder. I'm surprised Somewhere Between hasn't been picked up on like the other two. Maybe it just goes a little too far in the weeds and doesn't have the same appeal. But I've been researching some of the acts on it quite a bit. There's so much out there to discover. My favorite might actually be the last track, as short and insubstantial as it is.
― frogbs, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 05:09 (two years ago) link
I wonder if the popularity of Pacific Breeze/City Pop in general is somehow linked to vaporwave?
I had assumed so!
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 22 February 2022 10:15 (two years ago) link
kept forgetting there was a second Pacific Breeze. you know, I think this was more along the lines of what I was expecting the first time. obviously I love all the YMO family stuff but come on it is not "City Pop". this one has a much more chill, coherent feeling to it. also I counted three tracks already that were sampled in various vaporwave things I've heard
― frogbs, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 03:36 (two years ago) link
Edd Hurt and I discuss LITA's 2021 Country Funk 3 quite a bit over on Country Funk?, with links.Also:every time I listen to this stuff a cigarette magically appears in my mouth
― frogbs, Thursday, March 10, 2022 9:47 PM (three weeks ago)
― dow, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 04:38 (two years ago) link
There's some 70's rootsy stuff in that second Pacific Breeze volume that isn't really City Pop either, but frankly I welcome it - I admit full comps of that genre end up sounding too samey for me.
Second Pacific Breeze also gets points for not having a track liner note in the form of a spiral, rendering it unreadable.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 09:28 (two years ago) link
Agreed all around: they're both fairly essential, but PB2 is the one I got back to more often.
Comforting to know I'm not alone in my annoyance at this lol.
― Let's disco dance, Hammurabi! (Austin), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 15:17 (two years ago) link
They should pick another MPB guy to champion, those Marcos Valle and Erasmo Carlos reissues never get old.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 09:05 (one year ago) link
ha I saw this thread title and thought "letting those Valle reissues go out of print was wrong" ;_;
― rob, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 14:59 (one year ago) link
They also picked the wrong version of "O Beato" for a bonus track on "Vento Sul"
― The 25 Best Songs Ever Ranked In Order (Deflatormouse), Wednesday, 22 June 2022 22:33 (one year ago) link
we get Number Three
https://lightintheattic.net/releases/9228-pacific-breeze-volume-3-japanese-city-pop-aor-boogie-1975-1987
― frogbs, Thursday, 1 December 2022 20:52 (one year ago) link
sweet. And it's available as a towel.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 2 December 2022 12:43 (one year ago) link
Someone's made a YouTube playlist. Love that last song by Chiemi Manabe. Heard it a mix one of the compilers did a while back.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 2 December 2022 13:12 (one year ago) link
its out now and it rules. on first listen I was able to pick out a ton of highlights. kinda blends the approach of the first two I think - lots of forward thinking stuff here but not in the "is this even City Pop" way you get on the first one. also the record sounds insanely good. gotta say LitA restores my faith in great sounding and clean vinyl. it is possible after all.
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 March 2023 02:47 (one year ago) link
It's easily my favourite of the three volumes so far. Just a brilliant selection of songs and none that I want to skip in the slightest.
― kitchen person, Friday, 31 March 2023 00:49 (one year ago) link
In an industry of absolute shit and constant disappointment I increasingly believe that it's important to acknowledge the few people and labels doing commendable work.
About a week ago, LITA had some big warehouse cleaning sale, and I impulse bought a few things, including the big Lee Hazlewood CD box. It was such a steal at $30, I actually thought it might have been a pricing glitch, and almost expected the order to get canceled. I didn't even know whether it was the deluxe version or the regular version (the website wasn't very clear about this), but given the very, very low price for this incredible multi-disc box with a flexi disc and book, I would have been happy either way.
Well, I was pleasantly surprised that it turned out to be the deluxe box. At that price, which is over $70 less than the lowest priced copy on Discogs at the moment, I probably would have been OK if they'd just sent the damn thing in a pizza box. Instead, they sent it separate from the other records I ordered, and packaged it like it was a set of crystal champagne flutes. They included those little cardboard corner thingies to avoid dents, secured it in bubble wrap, and shipped it in a big, heavy box with cardboard fillers. The package probably could have survived a toss over an overpass.
I'm not even a big stickler about cosmetic damage and corner bends and stuff, but I really appreciated the care they put into shipping something that probably doesn't even cover their manufacturing costs, especially when I regularly receive exorbitantly priced LPs from overseas that are sent in what is little more than a manilla envelope. Anyway, just wanted to give LITA some props.
Don't know if they are still running the sale, but if they are, it's worth a look!
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 3 December 2023 02:38 (four months ago) link
Damn I don’t even want to think about what I paid for that thing back in the day.
― henry s, Sunday, 3 December 2023 02:48 (four months ago) link
It's still on sale: https://lightintheattic.net/products/there-s-a-dream-i-ve-been-saving-lee-hazlewood-industries-1966-1971I was stoked to find it used at Amoeba years ago (and paid a lot more than $30). Worth it for the book alone.
― Elvis Telecom, Sunday, 3 December 2023 04:28 (four months ago) link
now out of stock
― jbn, Sunday, 3 December 2023 15:22 (four months ago) link
https://lightintheattic.net/products/alfa-yen-records-1980-1987-techno-pop-and-other-electronic-adventures-in-tokyo
looks amazing but I have a lot of these tracks already
― frogbs, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 21:20 (two months ago) link
same. with tespattern included, maybe that means their album will finally receive a reissue?
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 21:30 (two months ago) link
the instrumental for “beat the rap” is extremely dope, I made a vaporwave-y edit of it years ago
― brimstead, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 21:33 (two months ago) link
On a LITA tip, I dug the recent Emerson brothers biopic. Never really thought about what really happens when a long-forgotten and completely ignored record gets discovered and feted by hipsters some 30 years later.
― henry s, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 21:38 (two months ago) link
haha see also: delta blues
― dead precedents (sleeve), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 21:56 (two months ago) link
yeah, that yen comp looks cool... but damn, vinyl is so expensive and I have a lot of that stuff already too...
speaking of things that are expensive, there's also a new-ish japanese "blu-spec CD" that collects all of the tamao koike yen stuff:https://www.discogs.com/release/29252209-Tamao-Koike-Tamao-Complete-Yen-Years
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 22:42 (two months ago) link
oh that’s great, the stuff of hers I’ve heard on various YEN/Alfa comps is marvelous
― brimstead, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 23:38 (two months ago) link