2014 SCORES

V/A - I Am the Center, Private Issue New Age Music in America 1950-1990
Monks - Black Monk Time

^ good combination on those two!

we have the monks record on the ipod at the beer store and so i have been listening to it way more than i have in years. great stuff tbh.

over the last week or so:

jack bruce - songs for a tailor
anthony moore - flying doesn't help
groundhogs - hogwash, solid
moby grape - 20 granite creek
pearls before swine - city of gold (only beautiful lies... to find now!)
cecil taylor - nefertiti, the beautiful one has come (arista freedom 2 lp version)
charles tolliver and music inc. - the ringer
bobby brown - prayers of a one man band

spotted the bobby brown in amongst a lot of op shop dross someone was selling, so made them an offer for it and it's crazy good. no idea how it ended up on these shores though.

that is a score. bobby brown's great.

and so is 'Flying Doesn't Help'.

yeah that's a nice score, I don't think I've ever seen a copy of that.

i'm going to have to give flying doesn't help some more plays since on first listen it didn't really hit me that hard except for a couple of tracks (the version of war is pretty great though).

i'm guessing the bobby brown lp was bought at one his shows since he's thanked them and added a couple of :-) :-) on the back. apparently he turned up in australia at some point, so i guess it's not out of the question he made it to nz as well (would be fascinating to know if he played any shows here too). whoever owned it before mustn't have listened to it much/at all cause it's absolutely pristine.

that is such a weird part of his story! so intriguing...

OK in a very weird and very pleasing development, I found my own copy of the Bobby Brown record yesterday... also with his writing on the back!

Best I can make out, it says:

"Love Bobby... these are my new ones... better than tapes... I hope that's OK... I don't have tapes of Axonda yet"

:-O that's awesome! you'd think drag city, light in the attic or someone would be all over these.

I haven't really been going out much because I've been trying to better deal with the stuff I already have. Couldn't help but hit up a couple spots when I was out doing errands though. Last three months' records:

Rafael Seijo con su Orquestra Charanga- La Pachanga Dance Tonite
Kenny Loggins- High Adventure (tried to justify buying this about three different ways and I'm going to settle on "hey, it's clean with a sticker on shrink)
Yodelin' Slim Clark - Cowboy Songs Vol II
Janis Joplin - I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!
Zoot Sims, Al Cohn & Phil Woods- Jazz Alive!: A Night at the Half Note
V/A - Jingle Bell Rock(a TIME/LIFE MUSIC "The Rock 'N' Roll Era" box set. Contains Mono!!! :) :) :) )
Richard Stoltzman- Begin Sweet World
V/A (featuring The Sun Swingers's Children's Chorus) - Glad Songs! (COPYRIGHT © 1970 by MINE PUBLICATIONS, INC. A SUBSIDIARY OF HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON, INC.)
The Chieftains- 9: Boil The Breakfast Early
Lionel Hampton - Silver Vibes

Boogarins - As Plantas Que Curam: cool current band from Brazil on Other Music's label, file next to Holydrug Couple and Os Mutantes.

Spike - Orange Cloud Nine: reissue/comp on Golf Channel of this early '80s dude from I think Germany?, pretty great, new wave balearic soft-rock, Ariel Pink vibe at times. word to max for the recommendation.

Dixie Cups - Going to the Chapel: no explanation needed!

over the last week or so:

nic jones - penguin eggs
bert jansch - santa barbara honeymoon
blind lemon jefferson - remaining titles 1926-1929
the skillet lickers - old time tunes 1927-1931
wade mainer - sacred songs of mother and home
bukka white - sky songs vol. 2
flying saucer attack/jessamine 7" split

tom trago - the light fantastic
buzzcocks - a different kind of tension
joe jackson - night and day

It was that time again: the mega record fair in Utrecht. Was there for about 4 hours, didn't even cover 20% of the event..

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RHT51QemUbU/UVRN-43HcyI/AAAAAAAADbQ/YHCFSOKqC3A/s1600/66.jpg
Ian Anderson - Walk Into Light
Laurie Anderson - Home of the Brave
Carter Tutti Void - Transverse
Chris & Cosey - Trance
The Cramps - A Date With Elvis
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Jon Hassell - Dream Theory In Malaya
Jon Hassell - Aka / Darbari / Java
Terry Riley - Lisbon Concert
Rip Rig + Panic - I Am Cold
Sonic's Rendezvous Band - Too Much Crank
Vendetta - Brain Damage (scored this for a friend)
Neil Young - Dead Man

zaaaaargh i have to go someday

ran into a friend of mine at a gathering yesterday and he was like "oh, I found this weird record for a dollar at the brew fest", pulls out an original copy of this:

http://www.discogs.com/Intersystems-Free-Psychedelic-Poster-Inside/release/240216

like, the OG isn't even on Discogs. he thought it sucked, I advised him to flip it (or sell it to me for $10, lol)

you could probably get hmmmm...$800 or more for that at auction. maybe more. that's just a guess. it never ever ever comes up for sale.

it's missing the poster that (I think) originally came with it, and might have been VG- based on my brief once-over, but yeah still

thanks for the price check!

reminds me of when i found this sitting in someone's unloved collection of 20 or so lps

anyways, got some jazz...

om - kirikuki
max roach - the loadstar
russian jazz quartet - happiness
sam rivers winds of manhattan - colours
tony scott - music for voodoo meditation

Colours is such a cool big band album. I haven't heard anything else quite like it.

max roach's LOADSTAR is terrific.

Yo I got like 200 dance 12"s @ .99 today
lots of New Beat

brace yrselves

Visage - S/T
Leith Stevens - Jazz Themes From "The Wild One"
V/A - Generation 2: The New Sound Of The Berlin Underground
V/A - Mental Mayhem & Narrow Beats Vol 1
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces Of Victory
V/A - Nettwork Sound Sampler : Food For Thought
Severed Heads - City Slab Horror
Severed Heads - The Big Bigot
V/A - Take 7 - Skizzo
V/A - SSR Compilation 1: The New Beat r/Evolution
Paul Jabara - De La Noche : The True Story
Joseph Eger - Classical Heads
V/A - Who's That Compilation
Baby Ford - 'OOO' The World Of Baby Ford
V/A - Real Sadness & Other Gregorian Mysteries
Perez Prado y Su Orquestra - Dengues
V/A - The 90 Dance Detroit Dance Comp 1
Pepito Torres y Su Orquesta Siboney - Cita a Las Ocho
British Electric Foundation - Music For Listening To

V/A - DWF Mix Volume One
Deep 6 - We're Going Deep
ZAG - Rauchen
The KLF - What Time Is Live? (Remodelled & Remixed)
The KLF - Last Train To Trancentral (Live From The Lost Continent)
Psycho Team - Bolero
Mental Mayhem - Where Are They Hiding / Joey's Riot
Samaria - Take Back The Love
New Busters - My Feet Can't Fail Me Now!
Sigmund Und Seine Freu(n)de - Erdbeermund
Warehouse Party Boys - Can You Move Your Body / Cosmos
49ers - Touch Me
Cynthia - Change On Me
Micro Chip League - New York / Communicate
Joey Beltram and Twice As Good Productions - Untitled
Aztech - Symphony of Brotherhood
Technoid - Technoid
Stick Men - Entruder / When You're Dreaming / This Is The Place
Chayell - Rio
Dirty Harry - Double B
Tainted Two - This is not a Dream Song
S.H.I.E.L.A Featuring "The Voice" - Mr. Policeman
Sequential - Is It Just A Dream... Or Is It Real!
LFO - LFO / Track 4 / Probe
Baby Ford - Beach Bump / Wigan / The World Is In Love
Tyrants In Therapy - Too Tuff To Cry
V/A - Frequencies, Bass & Bleeps Volume One
Taboo - Into The Sun
Joyce Sims - Come Into My Live
Human Resource - Dominator The Remixes
Art Of Noise - Re-Works of Art Of Noise
V/A - Bits And Grooves (The Rave Mix 1990)
Mission Impossible - Collecting The Money
101 - Move Your Body
Code 61 - Drop The Deal
Neu Face - Get Up Pump Dance
Urban Rhythm - Love Will Make It Right / Feel It Baby All Nite
Transformer 2 - Pacific Symphony / Pacific Symphony Too
4 To The Bar Featuring Alexis P. Suter - Slam Me Baby!
Rozalla - Born To Luv Ya
Aqua Regia - Rugelch
Ju-Ju - The Happy Dance / Daybreak
Jazz Documents - Confidential Code / Authorized Code / Secret Code / Private Code
Tricky Disco - Tricky Disco
Propaganda - (The Beta Wrap Around Of) p: Machinery / (The Echo Of) Frozen Faces
John + Julie featuring Auriole - Circles (Round and Round)
Bordeux - Magic Carpet Ride
Major Problem - I Still Have A Dream
Rhythim is Rythim - Beyond The Dance / Sinister
Critical Rhythm - Fall Into A Trance / It Could Not Happen / Eastern Breeze
Freedom Authority - Unauthorized Conceptions
Moments Of Ecstacy - You And Me
The Beat Machine - Mr Zigzag
Believe It Or Not - I Like It
Blind Vision - Bestialic Beat / Tanz Den Teufel
Sweet Exorcist - Clonk
Technomania - Let The Energy Flow / Beats From The Forbidden Planet / Techno-Latino
Humanoid - Crystal (Back Together) / The Deep
Emenar One - Listen For The Rhythm / Get Your Thang Together
No Smoke - Righteous Rule / Righteous Dub / Righteous Rule Dub
Voices - Give Me Your Body / I'm Your Freak / Voyage To Infinity
Strange Love - Jammin On
Groove Sector - No Restrictions / Release The Energy; F.U.S.E. - F.U.; Texas Audio - Assiassin
Smiley People - It Makes Me Haaappy
Track Show - H / O / U / S / E / Night
Plez - Thing For You / Missing Lover
Fallout - Altered States / The Morning After
Neon - Waves (Remixes)
Science Wonder - Brain Drain / Which Side Are You On / Phrequenzy
Asmo - Jam The Dance / El Shabaz / Music Please
Severed Heads - Greater Reward / Nation
Severed Heads - Gashing The Old Mae West
The Orb - Perpetual Dawn (Test Pressing)
Xymox - Obsession
Minimal Compact - Next One Is Real
B-Movie - Switch On - Switch Off / Forever Running / Just An Echo
Secession - Sneakyville / Reflections / All The Animals Come Out At Night
Larry Tee - What Am I Gonna Do? / Love Machine
Nasty Thoughts - Rock The House
Dirty Harry - D'Bop
Kings Of Agreppo - Agreppo
T.D.A. - The Faces Of Freedom
? - Double B Mix / Hands Up / First True Love Affair
B.M.Ø. - Mastermind
F.U.S.E. - Approach & Identify / Just 4 U FM / Phase 1 (Motorcity Madness) / Technotropic
Underground Resistance - Fuel For The Fire Attend The Riot
Oval Emotion - Go Go / Lies
Les Rita Mitsouko - C'est comme ca
V/A - Equinox Chapter One
Zsa Zsa Laboum - Something Scary
Bass Is Base featuring Syndicate 305 - TheSpirit
M.72 L.A.W. - M is for MAN
B.M.Ø. - Trash Dance / Cosmic Shower
N-Joi - Anthem / Manic / Techno Gangsters
Amnesia - It's A Dream (Remix)
Dancing Fantasy - Voodoo Jammin
Nadia - Untruelover
The MARtian - Get Up To My Groove
DFP - Halleluja / Power Project
EON - Infinity / Something Stronger
DEF CON 5 (How & Little) - Again / Techno Man / Mother Night
Double Impact - The Manic Track
New Rhythm - Time Travel
Youngbloods - Got Me Burnin' Up / Gimmie Some More
The Al Mack Project - Desire / Nightlife
Logic - The Warning / The Final Frontier
Espresso - Let's Get Down / Ping Pong
E-Culture - Unification / Tribal Confusion
Roommates - Voices In The Club (Lets Do It Baby)
Raw Power - Strings / The Movement
House 2 House - Boom / I Need Your Love
Dave "Tech" Nice - Drena's Revenve
Jarvic 7 - Bush Of Love
Dr. Techno & DATBOY - Techno Grooves Volume 1
Tragic Error - Iuhaha
Evasion - Slave To The Rave
Rythm Warfare - Two Notches
Scritti Politti - Perfect Way
TGT - Revo
Black Kiss - The Orgasm
Quadrophonia - Quadrophonia
Mistique - Passion
Moby - Go (Remixes)
Grey House - New Beats The House / Move Your Assit
Roc and Kato - Jungle Love
V/A (edited by "House Master") - Deep Grooves Volume One
V/A (edited by "House Master") - House Grooves Volume Two
Kaotic Mix - Top FM
Trilogy - Red Hot / Tyree - Acid Crash
The Wallets - Totally Nude
Zafra - Africa House
The Gatecrashers Featuring Roots To Soul - Stuck In A Bottle / What A Racket
Open Mind - The Trance / Trance Machine / Body Force
Speedy J. - Evolution / Destroit / Analogical
Bitin' Back - She's Breaking Up / Boom Box
The Original - Baby It's Alright Now
Starlet - Don't Make Me Wait
(MK) - Decay / Feel The Fire; Never On Sunday - Journey
Infra-Red - Metamorphasis / Spectre / Falling From The Light / Calibrate This
49ers - Don't You Love Me
Moby - Go / Time Signature / Mobility
LeftField - More Than I Know / Not Forgotten
Blue Mercedes - See Want Must Have
Blue Mercedes - I Want To Be Your Property
Paradice Inc - Somewhere Beyond / 11th Commandment
Underground Resistance - Sonic EP
Vitamin B - You Make Me Feel / A Headache / Like This
Jupiter 6 - The Tracking System / A8 / Banging The Box / Section 2
Debbie Gibson - Anything Is Possible (White Label)
B-Sides - Megamix
Tomas - Mind Song / African Dream / Architecture
House 2 House - Hypnotize Me / I Wanna See You Dance
The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds Remixes
Metro - "$1.15 Please"
Scram - I Believe
Bloodcum - Debut E.P.
V/A - New Beat Megamix
Power Cut Crew - African Beat / Powercuts
Major Problems - The Effects Can Last Forever
Cee Train & Co. Featuring Keith Rose on Vocal - If You Want To Rock The House
Sex-O-Matic - Wake Up! (And Smell The Pussy)
Open House featuring Placid Angles - Aquatic / Resonance
M.N.O. - God Of Apraham / M.N.O.
Ghostdance - Ghostdance
Frankfurter - Qui Es Tu, Toi? / Sex
V/A - Groove Records America: The Rave Sampler E.P.
Major Problems - City Under Siege
Kings From Queens - Kings From Queens Vol. 1
Patrick O'Hearn - Black Delilah
Keynotes - I-696 / Enter State
Guru Josh - Infinity (1990's...Time For The Guru)
Anticapella - 2√231
Master C & J / Quest (9) / Liz* ‎– Face It / Mind Games / A Touch Of Love

TBH I had not heard of the majority of these acts

next to your mountain, here's my molehill:

om - rautionaha
jim mccarthy - alien
the fugs - tenderness junction
hackamore brick - one kiss leads to another
peter howell & john ferdinando - alice through the looking glass
various - street music of central java
the source family soundtrack
joel vandroogenbroeck - biomechanoïd
marvin peterson - hannibal in berlin
robin williamson - legacy of the scottish harpers vol. 2
patrick street ‎– s/t
anne briggs - the time has come
mick softley - street singer
brian auger & julie tippetts - encore
john allison - witches and war-whoops: early new england ballads
neil young - on the beach (upgrade from my scratched up skipping copy to a beautiful original)

guy clark - old no. 1
giorgio moroder - midnight express soundtrack
loudon wainwright III - album III
johnny cash - at folsom prison
poco - rose of cimarron
the turtles - turtle soup
nick lowe - jesus of cool
bob dylan - nashville skyline

charles bradley - victim of love
daft punk - discovery

45s

Red Sun - Cinderella-Rockefella / Superwoman
Estrella 20/20 - Brown Queenie Yeh-Yeh / Hey Annie! / Red/Green
Ray Charles - Crying Time / When My Dreamboat Comes Home
Petula Clark - My Love / Where Am I Going
Midnight Star - Move Me / Freak-A-Zoid
Elvis Presley - Ask Me / Ain't That Loving You Baby
Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes / Crackpot History
Stealers Wheel - Star / What More Could You Want
Lakeside - The Urban Man / Raid
Rod Stewart - Reason To Believe / Maggie May
The Michael Zager Band - Let's All Chant / Love Express
Bill Cosby - Grover Henson Feels Forgotten
James Brown and introducing Rev. Al Sharpton with the Gospel Energies - God Has Smiled On Me / God Has Smiled On Me (pt. 2)
Pleasure - Yearnin' Burnin' / Law Of The Raw
Seventh Wonder - For The Good Times Part I / For The Good Times Part II
South Side Coalition - The Power-Play / (Don't Cha Wanna) Get Down Get Down

LPs:

Kid Thomas and his Creole Jazz Band - Sonnets From Algiers (SIGNED by all members of the band!)
John Fahey - Visits Washington, D.C.
John Fahey - The New Possibility
Ambrose Campbell & His West African Rhythm Brothers / Flash Domincii And the Fabulous Supersonics - Great African Highlife Music
Autry Inman - Ballad Of Two Brothers
V/A - Super Slab Hits
Celebration / Celebration
Billy Boy Arnold - Checkin' It Out
Proctor & Bergman - TV or not TV
Rhodos (Wolfgang Käfer) - Solo Instruments (Chappel Recorded Music Library)
The Hondells - Go Little Honda
Esther Phillips w/ Beck - What A Diff'rence A Day Makes
The Babys - On The Edge

national health s/t
sun ra - the other side of the sun

I picked up some Sun Ra last week too, on the "100th birthday" day I was at this vintage store near my apartment in Brooklyn that has a small but reasonably good selection of reissues (usually stuff like Numero Group, Soul Jazz etc) and lo and behold they had like 20 nice Sun Ra repressings for 10 bucks a pop. I got "Atlantis" and "We Travel the Spaceways."

on more than one occasion i've had to repress my impulse to just grab all the sun ra reissues that are out there now. the one up there is from the late seventies which is an era i wasn't familiar with at all...

& my local record shop has recently acquired an amazing folk/string band/bluegrass/blues/cajun collection so:

a day in the mountains 1928
nashville: the early string bands vol. 1
old-time classics: a collection of mountain blues
hell broke loose in georgia: georgia fiddle bands 1927-1934
mississippi breakdown: traditional fiddle music of mississippi vol. 1
the blues roll on (7th vol. of the lomax/collins series of field recordings)
the watersons - s/t, for pence and spicy ale
martin carthy - sweet wivelsfield
martin carthy & dave swarbrick - byker hill
sweeney's men - reissue of the first lp (been looking for a copy of this for a long, long time!)
gay & terry woods - tender hooks
incredible string band - no ruinous feud
the albion band - lark rise to candleford
john kirkpatrick - plain capers: morris dance tunes from the cotswolds
john kirkpatrick & sue harris - among the many attractions at the show will be a really high class band

also ordered a copy of the reissue of anne briggs' hazards of love ep from topic

http://i1059.photobucket.com/albums/t427/sayhey1/loveisstrange_zpse9a66cec.jpeg

Got a sealed copy for $8 at a flea market. It looked a little suspicious at first--redone versions?--but it's a legitimate compilation that came out in '73, with "Love Is Strange" and three out of their seven other chart hits.

Today from Mystery Train in Amherst

Bongwater - The Power of Pussy
Gino Washington - Out Of This World
Lou Reed - Street Hassle
Superchunk - I Hate Music
The Doors - Strange Days

a day in the mountains 1928
nashville: the early string bands vol. 1
old-time classics: a collection of mountain blues
hell broke loose in georgia: georgia fiddle bands 1927-1934
mississippi breakdown: traditional fiddle music of mississippi vol. 1
the blues roll on (7th vol. of the lomax/collins series of field recordings)
the watersons - s/t, for pence and spicy ale
martin carthy - sweet wivelsfield
martin carthy & dave swarbrick - byker hill
sweeney's men - reissue of the first lp (been looking for a copy of this for a long, long time!)
gay & terry woods - tender hooks
incredible string band - no ruinous feud
the albion band - lark rise to candleford
john kirkpatrick - plain capers: morris dance tunes from the cotswolds
john kirkpatrick & sue harris - among the many attractions at the show will be a really high class band

^^ BIG SCORE!!! I wish I knew you were after the Sweeney's Men; I have a duplicate. great record.

:-) it is great, copy i found looks like it's a seventies reissue on some very small irish label and sounds amazing. now to find their second one! there were also some cape breton fiddle lps in with that collection, but i'm clueless about that stuff. planning on going back in to check what else has been put out later today if i have the time...

also, big discovery on those county comps: narmour & smith!

and so:

martin carthy - out of the cut
fairport convention - heyday (bbc radio sessions 1968-69)
the louvin brothers - radio favorites '51-'57
joe & janette carter - sing carter family favorites
fred cockerham, tommy jarrell, oscar jenkins - down to the cider mill
irish-american dance music & songs (early recordings from the late 1920's)
angus chisholm - the early recordings of (legendary performances of traditional scottish fiddling)

man I need a copy of Heyday so bad

i actually didn't know of its existence, so was a nice surprise spotting it there. wasn't sure i needed to hear another cover of suzanne but it's pretty exceptional! also a very nice version of gene clark's tried so hard.

beach boys - surfer girl
fleetwood mac - rumours
mary wells - two lovers
andwella - people's people

just scored original nz pressings of the first three scott walker lps for $5 each

also recently picked up annette peacock's i have no feelings. very minimal sound compared to the other work i've heard by her: just various keyboards, multi-tracked vocals and quite spare percussion. mostly short pieces, kind of reminiscent of robert wyatt.

cassiber - man or monkey
red crayola with art & language - kangaroo?
annette peacock - i'm the one (eighties reissue with different cover)

got all these at an incredible discount at a nearby store that was having this crazy 20-50% off tenth anniversary sale, spent $20 total:

chris forsyth and the solar motel band - solar live 11.15.13
amor de dias - street of the love of days
nils frahm - screws
idris muhammed - foxhuntin'
isley brothers - go for your guns

found another couple of volumes from the southern folk heritage series (american folk songs for children & white spirituals), as well as:

bert jansch - it don't bother me
bobby brown - the enlightening beam of axonda

aaand: leroy jenkins/jazz composer's orchestra - for players only

in the mail:

Rosalie Sorrels - Folksongs Of Idaho And Utah
Sonic Youth - Death Valley '69 7"
Throbbing Gristle - Adrenalin 7"
Yusef Lateef - Blues For The Orient
Bobby Brown - Enlightening Beam Of Axonda (got all 3 now)