What Are You Listening to? 2020

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Naum Gabo Fyei 12"

Weird slo-mo techno that sounds kinda like an 80s remix of Kraftwerk played at 16 rpm

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Pharoah Sanders, Bill Laswell - With a Heartbeat
i am loving this world jazz album which actually has a thumping heart that is integrated into laswell's bass play. a real trip. great line-up too. pharoah and bill plus trilok gurtu (tabla), nicky skopelitos (sitar & guitar), graham haynes (cornet) and jeff bova (keyboards).

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the 2nd cd, the bsides one. Covers quit ea bit of ground including one track the Action covered in "I Love You (Yeah), a cover of Wade in The Water and up Up and Away which is better known by the 5th Dimension amids about an hour and a quarter of soul as it developed overthe 60s.
Noice

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Scandinavian droneadelia , lovely. I assume the first side of the record was short songs and the 2nd side is 2 long ones. Pretty good throughout . & about time i had a physical copy of this. Since I've had the lps either side by the related combos for the last couple of decades.

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do think this is pretty phenomally good. Interesting mix of pop-garage like a remains/Cryan Shames, a bit of MC5 and probably a bit of the Ramones alongside the snarling frenetic guitar which i think the band should be famous for.
Have been wanting something by this bunch for ages. So glad to get this. I think there was a cd of the previous lp so will try to get hold of that.
THink its inventive enough and energetic enough to stand on its own so would recommend it to people who like anything in that area.

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maloya beats make my brain feel funny tbh

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Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band - Just Like Moby Dick

First favourite record of 2020.

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One of my neighbors who produces avant garde theater recently threw out a bunch of promos from a Dutch hip-hop label called Off Da Dome Wreckords, a number of which are apparently soundtracks from musicals by a theater company called Made In Da Shade. A bunch of different vocalists and lyricists are featured, but it sounds like the same group of people produced most of this stuff.

It's alternative hip-hop and some vaguely R&B songs, mostly in English but occasionally in Dutch, all pretty DIY and all very Y2K. There's an interesting mix of live instrumentation, including acoustic drums, loops and homegrown samples. But the most surprising element is the guitar textures, with a number of tracks featuring prominent use of the Digitech Space Station pedal- a multi-fx from the late 90's with novelty 'alien' presets and a synth string pad sound that's mostly associated with shoegaze bands (think Slowdive's 'Souvlaki Space Station').

My favorite so far is the soundtrack to a musical called V.O.O.D.O. but one of the other releases came in a numbered, screen printed LP sleeve and contained a splatter painting on cardboard, but no LP. Instead, there was a label sampler CD inside.

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lool I forgot about the space station!!! WANT

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New Order - Blue Monday. Hoping the ex doesnt come to pick up his records. Lol

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^This is fantastic. A less proggy Weather Report (circa Sweetnighter); like getting into a warm jazz-funk bath.

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pretty much been all Coil all the time in my truck for commuting

listening to Sun Ra at home cuz of the listening thread

checked out Cat Power's Wanderer, wish I had heard it before that poll

also went through three Franco Battiato albums, Clic was my favorite, some real fine whacked Euro weirdness there in the Marcoeur/Comelade/Tazartes vein

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Bruce Haack - Captain Entropy (1983)
familiar kids topics like the inevitable heat death of the universe

actually 1973

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I slept on this one for a long time, it was the last proper Earth album lacking in my collection. I know it's always been sort of the outlier, but as a big stoner rock guy I can dig it. One of my favorite Hendrix covers and I usually really don't like Hendrix covers.

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great hillbilly blues stuff. I think he was another artist taht learnt from a black source or rather had a black mentor. & then went off and had his own apparently original take on things but it definitely sounds like structure is similar to blues recordings i know from the time. Recordings are from late 20s.
Also sounds like this echoes in material I know from the 60s. I think I first heard about him in the words of a Gun Club article from around 1983. Whoever wrote that seemed to fill about half the article with names of blues and hillbilly artists that I always meant to track down and only picked up a handfull of.
Also I picked up the Rough Guide to JImmie Rodgers over Xmas which came with a bonus disc of early country stuff including a track by Hutchison that was pretty haunting.
Anyway good stuff, I missed this when it was widely available but found a good price on Discogs. THink it was close to current list when other prices were rising though.

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Rocksteady artist. I think I knew his work mainly in terms of covers by the 2 tone era artists. I know a couple of Specials and a Beat here at least.
Set is also interesting because of some of the work he covers here. The Stones' Salt of The Earth, Donovan's There Is A Mountain, a few country things and the Beatles' Come Together.
NIce compilation anyway. I was thinking the current Trojan Best ofs were repackagings of the Sanctuary era Trojan 2cds but this doesn't seem to be tracklisted chronologically which those did seem to be.
Good stuff though.

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latest cover mounted cd from Greek psychedelic fanzine. Not consciously taken in the contents though. THink i've been nodding off as the disc before on my 3changer has been playing since I normally play this in bed.
Have heard some heavy fuzzy distortion and shoegazey tunefulness though. Must hear.

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THis arrived yesterday so I haven't really had a chance to hear it. Only found out about its existence over Xmas and had been wondering what exactly had been being played down at the club this partially represents. Wish I d got down there a lot more in the late 80s I think it coincided with the time i started hitching widely so both this club and the Son Of redneck country place behind Selfridges became things i was only at a few times instead of absolutely regularly.
Did love the sounds though.
& thought it a great coincidence taht when i went out looking for some decent music while having a pint yesterday I chanced on somebody djing some stuff that overlapped with this.

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Dj assault.
Jim White
Nikka Costa
Beastie Boys
Nada Surf

2-14:
Dale, Dick- Calling Up Spirits
Mingus, Charles- Cumbia and Jazz Fusion
Cave, Nick- Dig Lazarus Dig
Black Crowes- Lions
Mingus, Charles- A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music & Poetry
Cave, Nick- Grinderman

2-15: (so far)
Guy, Buddy- Feels Like Rain
Foghat- In the Mood for Something Rude
Cave, Nick- Grinderman
Accept- Balls to the Wall
Big Chief- Face

Santana - third album

George shearing - you’re gearing George shearing

blue oyster cult - on your feet or on your knees

Beatles - buncha stuff

you’re hearing George, not gearing him

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Restraining Order, This World Is Too Much. Blazing Boston hardcore punk that could have been recorded in 1982. Recommended to elderly fuckers like me with delusionally fond memories of old CBGB matinees.

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^^^ that's really good, I have some of his earlier stuff but not that

anyways I'm listening to Raime EPs and doom metal

huerco s rules

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xposts: frank hutchison is awesome. need to check out more jimmie rodgers... think all i actually know are the tracks from the bristol sessions.

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powerful occult stench on this:
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Found out about this over Xmas, either didn't hear about it when it was easily available or have forgotten about it. BUt must have been reminded of Gilles Petterson or Eddie Pillar or something over the holiday. this has some stuff i think I remember from the time. certainly rings a bell.
May possibly have a photo of me at teh back of a crowd too. Did love that club and wish I'd been going down there longer than I was. Think it must have coincided with my starting hitching around the UK to see bands. Same is true of Son of Redneck the early-country club behind Selfridges of the same era. Loved both of them when i got the chance to go there.

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2cd compi of a lot of mainly late 60s early 70s material by Hag. Great stuff, the type of material Gram parsons seriously recommended.
Pretty mellow sounding great not countrypolitan stuff. Noice
So far its been disc 1 ,may have to swap over to disc 2 soon.

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2nd lp by prog band. A bit more ambient tahn I thought it would be.
Do like this lot anyway. The early live stuff is pretty great too.

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XP I thought White Heaven was interesting but not exactlky what I'd been lead to expect. It reminded me a lot more of Galxie 500 than the QMS/Sabbath hybrid the forcedexposure review that turned me onto it had suggested.
I think the live stuff from around teh time gets a lot closer to that FE review.
NOt sure what is available by them . Was there a box set released over the last couple of years?

Marble Sheep the band lead by one time White Heaven guitarist Ken Matsutaini is also really worth checking out.

as is the band Silence which is related to the Japanese band Ghost who are themselves quite awesome.

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Latest Mojo magazine cover mounted. NIce heavy rocky soul grooves. Covers the usual subjects Funkadelic, betty davis and has Doriella Du Fontiane by Lightnin Rod and Jimi hendrix in a convenient place.
I think it ties in well with their heavy Nuggets sets.
It also now goes up to current day with a couple of artists. Seems to be a good way to spend 70 odd minutes.

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Traditional folk instrumental stuff played by a harpist who I saw live a coupl eof weeks ago alongside a violinist who I haven't. Quite nice stuff.
There was a harp concert as part of a series of performances at a local University recentlyy that I bought thsi from.
Was interesting to see the variations of style between teh 3 harpists as they played a unison piece. The way that their hands moved playing the same notes and rhythms differed greatly.

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Debut lp by prog band. Style hasn't fully coalesced yet. But not sure if it ever did stay static anyway.
BUt this i sa good start.
I heard somewhere that tracks from this and possibly the next lp had started appearing in dj playlists at mod discos a decade and a bit ago and found it intriguing. Roots of the band were in teh soul revue Simon Dupree and the Big Sound so there is possibly some foundation for doing that. But it has been decades isnce i was really at mod discos .

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is the photo that didn't work. Laoise kelly and Michelle O'Brien

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lol oops

Ha, nice--was just listening to Lifes Rich Pageant IN THE FUTURE