What are you listening to 2017

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Cornelius - Fantasma

20 years old now - damn!!

This record is still quite futuristic =)

still get teary-eyed at "Thank You For the Music", which is kinda dumb

but yeah, what a great album. even better that he never really tried to follow it up and just went into another direction entirely, cuz I don't think that can be topped.

i am listening to WHITE ZOMBIE

i feel i should do something to sleaze this joint (viz. my home) up some

Oops, Sun Ra's xpost Singles---The Definitive Singles Collection is two discs, not three, but 63 tracks, a lot more than the one on the Evidence label (this is on Strut), and from the original masters, while at least some of the Evidence collection was from the low-budget 7" vinyls. Sounds great, and while the guest singers (who gradually disappear, as Ra and the Arkestra speak and sing up, occasionally but very assertively), as I mentioned, are uneven, they all shine sometimes. My favorite is Yochanan, AKA The Space Age Vocalist and The Man From The Sun, who belts 50s novelty free r&b numbers "M uck M uck (Matt Matt)" and Skillet Mama" and also delivers the word from further afield.
The rock 'n' roll/r&b appeal of some vocals and more instrumentals also comes across kinda Latinoid, in a range also for the soul jazz club-goers, Chicago electric bluesters---all of it fitting into what some older customers of my Deep South music store in the 90s meant by "blues", sometimes. Also some straight-up swing and some tentacles extended, but soon assimilated, though not forgotten---this is Disc I, on II things def get out, though "The Bridge", which is cosmic and must be walked after "fire is poured on dry leaves" and one way left to go, is immediately followed by "I'm Gonna Unmask Batman" and it keeps zig-zagging like that. And the catchier pop-blues-jazz approaches stuff can pull in darker rays, like on "Nuclear War": "Radiation breeds mutation" (group singers repeat), "And when they push that button, you can kiss yo' ass bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye." ("Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye.")

And most of these are conventional single lengths for the 50s and 60s (one track is from '91): some amazing fades, especially on several of the more outward bound sides---always leave 'em wanting more.

I got one mix with some hard rock from around 1996-97 with Monster Magnet 'Dopes to Infinity', Orange Goblin 'Frequencies from Planet Ten', Prong 'Rude Awakening' & 'Cleansing', Tool 'Aneima', Melvins 'Stag', Soundgarden 'Down on the Upside', Alice In Chains 's/t' & Corrosion of Conformity 'Wiseblood'. It is weird to think of all of those records being around 20 years old too.

A second mix I got going is working through all of Iggy Pop's albums mixed with some Bowie and 80s King Crimson.

Third thing I have been checking out is Dylan's albums from the start along with reading Clinton Heylin's biography. I've listened to the 's/t' and 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan' a couple times in the past week or so.

xposts: see this comp for more yochanan (alt takes, etc)

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Very bouncy and crazy Egyptian shaabi songs in new sound remake from 1991, Ahmed Adaweia - Adaweia 91.

the part of the new Zappa Meat Light The Uncle Meat Project Object set that corresponds to the original lp release. So finally hearing this in a remastered version of the way it was originally supposed to be heard.
MIght need a physical copyof this now.

& wishing I hadn't seen the price of the Sun ra singles set as the 7" set which was lying on the counter at Rough Trade East and is like £90 before I'd really taken in what the variations were. MIght have got a copy of the cd version.
Well I do have the Evidence one which I got very cheap some years ago. Think I payed like €11 or something for it.

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jimmy eat world - integrity blues
tink - winter's diary 4
maria mckee - life is sweet
dj sprinkles - midtown 120 blues (the record i listened the most in 2016 and it's still going on)

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Cause I'm officially in a midlife crisis, I have been listening to quite a bit of old stuff. Nostalgia.

dEUS - Worst Case Scenario
George Michael - Best of (Damn miss him more and more)
But also Frank Ocean

lol Billy Bragg and that Birthday Party comp were big records for teenage me. im going thru a midlife crisis nostalgia fest too

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The Colourist with Emiliana Torrini (LIVE)

Includes several cuts from 'Fisherman's Woman' radically re-imagined in orchestral versions that do not mirror the acoustic intimacy of the originals. The percussion throughout is exceptional and Torrini's vocals are as gorgeous as usual.

Also includes tracks from "Tookah" and "Me And Armini".

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A cheap 2cd of jump blues, hillbilly boogie and other pre r'n'r called Jump'n'Jive. Pretty good selection with decent sound.

It has Tiny Bradshaw's original of Train Kept a Rolling on it. In which the woman on the train is a 'hipster' from New York City. I don't think I've been able to make out what that word was on any of the subsequent covers. Think it's sounded like it morphed into 'heifer' elsewhere. Was the word hipster unknown in white Memphis where Johnny Burnette came from?
Thankfully had different connotations than it does now.

The only way my 8-year old son will go to sleep is by listening to the Spotify Top 50 list, so what I've been listening to recently is:
Ed Sheeran, "Shape Of You"
Ed Sheeran, "Castle On the Hill"
The Weeknd, "Starboy"
ZAYN/Taylor Swift, "I Don't Wanna Live Forever"
Clean Bandit, "Rockabye" feat. Sean Paul & Anne-Marie

Of these, I like "Starboy" best. I really don't like Ed Sheeran. I think Sean Paul's guest verse on "Rockabye" is funny.

Apart from that:

Ben Webster, "Picasso"
Charlie Parker w strings
Jorge Ben, A Tabua De Esmeralda
Jeff Parker, Slight Freedom
Mrs Miller singing "Monday Monday"
Cocteau Twins, first album
Bill Evans, How My Heart Sings
Grant Green with Sonny Clark
Fleetwood Mac, "Everywhere"

(Ehm, I meant Coleman Hawkins, "Picasso", not Ben Webster.)

ran across the electric jive blog, which is still alive and kicking, and have just been inhaling various stuff from there. particularly good is a 78 by almon memela, "amapoyisa/lashona".

lots of The Three Sounds for me recently, the standouts have been vibrations, elegant soul and the blue hour w/ Stanley Turrentine. They are a band that can make the world seem a better place with a jaunty instrumental Lee Hazelwood cover, and Sittin' Duck off Elegant Soul was on repeat a lot yesterday. I just love them.

Sometimes jazzy, Taiwanese pop, Mavis Fan:

http://www.vegetarianfish.net/m--a

Free EP downloads. Maybe I like it better because it's not in English. I'm okay with that.

Need to want laidback to enjoy, I think.

Mostly jamming Ram Dass on my phone.

An evening under the breasts of the Divine Mother?

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Finally some good news from turkey. If you like psychedelic oriental trance stuff with horse winnying that is.
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Ben Webster is fucking awesome.

tons of minimal:
Jan Jelinek/Farben
Gas/M:1:5
Deepchord presents Echospace
Basic Channel

and also the new DJ Nigga Fox, which is coincidentally way more minimal than his previous stuff

I've got a few different things going. I mostly listen to Fu Manchu, Uriah Heep or Sabbath at work of late. I got one playlist ath home with some newer riffy stuff like Lecherous Gaze, The Shrine with High On Fire, Motorhead and some old stuff like Cactus and Mountain. I got another play list working getting into Leon Russell, JJ Cale mixed with some odd Dylan records, Badfinger and George Harrison. I'm also working a play list mixing some Iggy, Bowie, T-Rex, Eno, Roxy Music, King Crimson and Mott the Hoople. I'll break things up listening to anything else that comes to mind sometimes on Youtube.

Kinda weird to me that "Drum N Bass for Papa" by Plug is like 20 years old. That doesn't seem possible, but there it is... I listened to a bunch of those tracks and Photek on Youtube tonight.

Dimi Mint Abba & Co. I want to say jam session but I think it's probably a lot more structured than that.

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Right now I am listening to the three-disc reissue of The Verve's first album. Fucking AWESOME draggy drugged-out rock music. Can't believe I waited this long to hear it for the first time.

This is something old from 2016 that I keep listening to, thanks ShariVari:

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Derivapop.

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https://soundcloud.com/sofalabel/keith-rowejohn-tilbury-enough-still-not-to-know-part-2

Tilbury recently turned 81. i read somewhere he described playing/improvising as something like pushing/shaping clay, as it took place on the spot.. can't recall the source. the recording (box set) is excellent, the material is definitely up there with Duos for Doris

i do dearly love shostakovich's film music for hamlet, super good, not super talked about ime

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this, along with The Middle of Life--totally immersive, a variety of recordings and instrumentation/electronic sounds woven together.. excited for the new release on Potlatch.

logos pneumafoon project

maniacs dream cassette
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reissue is sounding sweeeet

pretty much just 80s mopey stuff

and ghost

and lofi house

and that hella 90s sounding Person Of Interest ep

I listened to Snuffbox Immanence today :)

currently catching up on EOY stuff, this Death's Dynamic Shroud thing is pretty cool

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Scored a nice and affordable copy earlier today. Good times!

I envy you! So hard to find Groundhogs vinyl, did just pick up Crosscut Saw recently though.

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Have you heard Borderlands Trio - Asteroidea? It is different trio featuring Kris Davis and is so good.

ten cd unofficial compilation of maria callas live recordings

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The latest Clientele album. Its lovely

xpxpxp @calzino - not yet! davis is flippin awesome -looking forward to it!

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were both supposed to be in taht last post but didn't copy right

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looks like a shitty b-division Am Rep release, oder?

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"Put Your Love In Me" by Hot Chocolate because it's like symphonic half-speed disco dub and I'm kind of overwhelmed

Highly recommended: putting it on Youtube and also in your mp3 player on slight delays

festive physio workout special
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got the boxset of all their albums earlier this year and left it on the shelf.
until now.
some really good stuff.

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which i wish I'd been more familiar with yesterday cos i would have bought the cd.

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the 2cd version that came out a few years back.

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expanded version from I think the Sanctuary version of Trojan

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finally got a copy o fthis. I think it was the 2nd thing I heard by them after Strange Celestial Road

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a 2cd version that was going for £5 in FOPP>. Been a compilation I've wanted to pick up a versiono f for years. THis one ties in with the Charly reissues of IA.

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This 6CD box was originally put out by Mosaic in 2006; it seems like Verve made it available digitally in 2011. I'm shuffling through it on Spotify.

Etta James' 1973 s/t album is fantastic, but I'm captivated by her cover of Randy Newman's "God's Song".

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Drukqs

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loussier evidently taking some lessons from pierre henry's work circa psyché rock