speaking of chris coco, found this 2cd set today for 50p.
https://www.discogs.com/Chris-Coco-Solar-Spectrums/release/144608
perfect timing now that the days are getting longer.
― mark e, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 13:08 (four years ago) link
By the way, my original list had a pretty heavy lean into the experimental ambient/new age side. The recommendations totally delivered in regards to the thread theme, but wondering if any of you had thoughts on that category as well.
From what I had already, these are really nice if you have any interest (the rest of the applicable inclusions I haven't spent enough time with; still diving in):
- Aokigahara Online: Mori- Deepchord: Immersions, Lanterns- Heavenly Music Corporation: In a Garden of Eden, Lunar Phase- Iguana Moonlight: Wild Palms- Les Halles: Zephyr- M. Geddes Gengras: Hawaiki Tapes- Magnétophonique: Une Cartographie Idéale- UNKNOWN ME: Subtropics- Wave Temples: Isle Enchanted- 六月花 (June Flower): 緑の丘 (Green Hills), 赤い夏 (Red Summer)- 地球 (Earth): ジャングル (Jungle)
― Evan, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
That 80s Japanese ambient/new age comp that placed in the year end rollout has some lovely stuff on it
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 12 February 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
Been meaning to dive into that one! On it.
Open to more in that ambient-experimental/"naturewave" and/or ambient (+ semi field recording) + tasteful new age if anyone has any more thoughts?
Best in class imo on that front:- Magnétophonique: Une Cartographie Idéale- Iguana Moonlight: Wild Palms- G.E.N.E.: Rain Forest- Wave Temples: Isle Enchanted
And can't sing enough praise for Deepchord's Immersions II, specifically
Also glaring overall omissions on my part... need to add:- Air France: GBG Belongs To Us, Afraid You Told Someone About Us, Hold On To Me Baby
― Evan, Friday, 14 February 2020 16:27 (four years ago) link
Maybe Ekolali? Try igor and the Split with Milan W on PlafondAlso:V/A - Surging WavesAlso: anything by Fluorescent Heightshttps://www.discogs.com/Milan-W-Ekolali-Plafond-2/release/10550068https://www.discogs.com/Ekolali-Igor/release/9685353https://www.discogs.com/Various-Surging-Waves/release/12464269https://www.discogs.com/artist/2493861-Fluorescent-Heights
― brimstead, Saturday, 15 February 2020 06:16 (four years ago) link
maybe Rainbow Dome Musick?
― brimstead, Saturday, 15 February 2020 06:17 (four years ago) link
These are all really great suggestions brimstead thanks! I'm making my way through them but have sampled all so far.
― Evan, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 01:11 (four years ago) link
I added these to the playlist
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 01:23 (four years ago) link
Thanks- one more add, if Spotify has it:
- Cheap Galapagos: 3D Exotic Resort
― Evan, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 05:53 (four years ago) link
Couldn't find it
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
Not too surprised- no worries!
― Evan, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 15:12 (four years ago) link
New single from Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft's forthcoming second album now up on Bandcamp. All acoustic instruments this time
https://melodyastruth.bandcamp.com/album/knife
― groovypanda, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 14:32 (four years ago) link
bufiman's (aka wolf mueller aka jan schulte) albumsi will be one of my fav albums of this year and should be of interest to readers of this thread, i made a thread for discussion here
https://www.discogs.com/Bufiman-Albumsi/master/1672878
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:47 (four years ago) link
Follow up to 2018's Club Meduse compilation is out this week:
https://spacetalkmusic.bandcamp.com/album/retour-au-club-meduse-compiled-by-charles-bals
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 18 March 2020 11:51 (four years ago) link
Thanks - wasn't familiar with these comps.
Via RA's mix of the day: https://harvey.dj/album/dj-harvey-live-at-rumors3hr mix. $1 on bandcamp.
― millmeister, Thursday, 19 March 2020 12:22 (four years ago) link
I feel like my mega playlist is going to be a go to while self isolating. Any time anxiety starts to creep in, I reach for those soothing vibes.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 19 March 2020 14:55 (four years ago) link
“Canyon” off that first Club Meduse comp is incredible, stoked for the sequel
― brimstead, Thursday, 19 March 2020 17:06 (four years ago) link
Tornado Wallace has a new "mini-album" out on Optimo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qQjXpcVPjI
― Number None, Saturday, 21 March 2020 11:50 (four years ago) link
Some great "Stay In & Chill" Spotify playlists being shared by various members of the Balearic massive over on Test Pressing:
https://www.testpressing.org/magazine
― groovypanda, Friday, 27 March 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
yessss, ty for the heads up
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Friday, 27 March 2020 13:14 (four years ago) link
ahh sweetbest thread
― brimstead, Friday, 27 March 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
Todays Spotify playlist comes from Wolf Müller. It's well chill. x. https://t.co/uXirtdI2vJ pic.twitter.com/QL022rHI8D— Test Pressing (@Test_Pressing) March 30, 2020
― groovypanda, Monday, 30 March 2020 11:16 (four years ago) link
nice
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Monday, 30 March 2020 14:56 (four years ago) link
They are really cranking out these lists, lots of good ones
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 4 April 2020 16:35 (four years ago) link
They're all pretty great. Lots of favourites on there but also lots of amazing tracks I've not heard before.
Today's from Telephones is another good 'un
― groovypanda, Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:54 (four years ago) link
I was bored and I like giant lists, so I consolidated them all into one big megalist. Will try to keep updated.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2ehdiaDsn4E8eWupwmURhn?si=FU91ubVDTmmja8FsctZwFg
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:55 (four years ago) link
^ Good work.
― millmeister, Sunday, 5 April 2020 08:49 (four years ago) link
yes, i will def be listening to the moodles megalist
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:27 (four years ago) link
bless you Moodles
― Number None, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 11:25 (four years ago) link
The new Jura Soundsystem compilation is sounding very dreamy today
― boxedjoy, Tuesday, 7 April 2020 11:37 (four years ago) link
They're cranking out these lists like crazy, just added 2 more.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 7 April 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
Will also rep for their At The Disco playlist
Aphex, Romanthony, Moodyman, Photek, Gladys Knight, Idris Muhammad and many, many more
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 8 April 2020 07:51 (four years ago) link
Damn, these lists are good. Test Pressing and ECM are what's getting me through this shit.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 10 April 2020 23:49 (four years ago) link
https://mariuscircus.bandcamp.com/album/the-computer-controlled-gardener
this is my current go to album given the current weather-n-chaos in the uk.
― mark e, Wednesday, 15 April 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
I think this is the closest thread to put this cool/strange Italian synth-drama album I just bumped into via this blog post from 2017: http://www.listentothis.info/2017/06/francesco-messina-medio-occidente-1983/
"Slinky, smart instrumental pop with pristine drum programming that hints at balearic as much as Berlin school. Thick with candy-toned new age synth pads, nods to Latin percussion, and rotary melodic motifs suggesting (duh) Italian minimalism, though this is definitely not minimalist. If this hadn’t come out a year before Echoes, I might guess Messina had been listening to Badarou. Tinged with mysticism in ways that are much harder to define than the album cover would suggest, and with a few tracks that remind me of Lena Platonos or even Vangelis in that they manage to simultaneously be operatic, melancholic, synthetic, and evocative of patriotism."
― Michael F Gill, Saturday, 9 May 2020 02:47 (three years ago) link
relevant to my interests, ty for posting
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Saturday, 9 May 2020 03:10 (three years ago) link
Listen To This! is such a goldmine and I feel like it's setting the agenda for a lot of recent archival reissues
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:13 (three years ago) link
Retour Au Club Meduse is excellent, I think I prefer it to the first one.
new Jonny Nash & Suzanne Kraft is lovely too - I had been worried based on the MATstudio stuff that it was going to be harsher and jarring but thankfully it's their usual soothing ambience.
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 24 May 2020 20:45 (three years ago) link
still keeping the Stay In & Chill Megalist updated
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 24 May 2020 20:54 (three years ago) link
new Cantoma album is A+ wine lodge Nigella soundtrack yuppie vibes, every time you think it can't get more so there's another flute solo or Spanish guitar melody, so shamelessly tasteless in its curation of naff tastefulness, I love it and I kinda hate myself for it
― boxedjoy, Saturday, 30 May 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link
I just made a 'balearic' mix - or really just a mix of downtempo pop released between 89 and 92. Features Underworld, The Beloved, Pet Shop Boys, Camouflage, Erasure, The Orb, and Durutti Column. All amateurly 'blended' together. Check it out (or not) https://www.mixcloud.com/biznotic/balearic-bubbles-go-pop-in-isolation/
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 13 June 2020 23:49 (three years ago) link
I'm about halfway through this and it is great! It sounds exactly like every good afterparty in someone's house when you're still dancing but the sun is coming up
― boxedjoy, Sunday, 14 June 2020 12:01 (three years ago) link
Listening while cleaning, it started raining on a warm summer day: love it
― willem, Sunday, 14 June 2020 14:01 (three years ago) link
Thanks willem and boxedjoy. That afterparty / suns coming up vibe is exactly what I was going for, so glad you felt it too.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 14 June 2020 23:46 (three years ago) link
Nice one, thanks!
― skip, Wednesday, 24 June 2020 02:42 (three years ago) link
That was really well done. How much preparation did you do beforehand?
― skip, Thursday, 25 June 2020 15:48 (three years ago) link
Hey Skip, I did quite a bit of preparation. It started by just pulling the records and finding something to start with and something for the first mix. Then I grabbed all the digital files for the records I pulled and arranged them by BPM to give me an idea of how they stacked up. I also used the digital files to workout mixpoints and arrangement since it was easier than using the vinyl and less destructive as well. Then I just hit record, and again, and again, and again until I figured out the mixpoints and sequence and got a take that wasn't horrible. At the last minute I added 3 new records in the mix which added complexity. These aren't great songs for beatmatching, and unfortunately my vinyl beatmatching skills have evaporated after nearly 2 decades of digital only mixing now. These are really songs I wanted to hear together after obsessively playing the Spiritually Ibiza compilation when the first sunny spring days hit. All in all this took me about 2 weeks to get the songs and run through a mix that didn't have major trainwrecks. There are definitely poor mixes throughout, but overall the mix I uploaded was the best version of that effort. I could do it with the digital files and have a 'perfect' mix, and I may still do that, but for now, I like the raw / amateur vibe of this mix. It does sound like a 'back to mine' or morning after style mix I would have loved in Summer 92.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 25 June 2020 17:06 (three years ago) link
There were about 15 or so records I pulled but didn't end up using, including: Wrote For Luck, Cascades, Back to Life, Get the Message, Autumn Love, Drop the Deal, Cantamilla, Crazy and some others from the era that I just couldn't make work.
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 25 June 2020 17:12 (three years ago) link
really really enjoyed that. sorry to be that guy but....download link?
― anza808, Thursday, 25 June 2020 18:24 (three years ago) link
I can't access the standard upload sites on my work computer, so hopefully this gdrive link works: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qeqqci66P-MIOLsuQsazSMMN4Ejf4qkt/view?usp=sharing
― brotherlovesdub, Thursday, 25 June 2020 18:45 (three years ago) link