What Are You Listening to? 2020

got a little tired of all the "chill quarantine vibes" playlists that keep getting linked on social media so I made one for ppl who are anxious and not enjoying it and have no interest in being chill about it

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6EvzdvDOgvmChbEP6FRTJk?si=kf6KptxpQ4erNVg73mqA8Q

My favorite quarantine exercise track is Todd Terje's reworking of an old Norwegian post-punk track "Maskindans", and that led me to my favorite indulgence: old cold wave / indie new wave and I found this mix of stuff from Norway! It has the original "Maskindans" on it.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mXPbqo4JlTRuDiWEvSYOp?si=QaujuKvTQ92V3HZHVMJ-7A

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what is

latter day trad gras och stenar: https://www.discogs.com/Tr%C3%A4d-Gr%C3%A4s-Och-Stenar-Heml%C3%B6sa-Katter-Homeless-Cats/release/1761495

hadn't checked it out till recently & i like!

now:
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the necks live from cafe oto (on the NTS youtube channel)

xp oh wow didn't know they had done anything since Delayed, will have to check out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrCyg-o_LqE
arbete och fritid & margareta soderberg covering a moomintroll song originally from this which i think i now need to hear

new Testament.

it sounds like Testament.

Testament.

Vital Remains - Into Cold Darkness

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Here, this stuff

Michael Bundt! Was over the moon when I browsed upon a copy of that on a record fair

i would lose my shit if i saw a copy!

dr strangely strange - kip of the serenes
howell & ferdinando - alice through the looking glass
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I've been rolling with a 60+ album mix of punk, metal, new wave and hard rock from 77-83. It's fun, goes from The Nuge to Gang of Four to Devo to Motorhead to the Gun Club to Gary Numan and over and over. I have been just letting it roll for a week or so.

Working at home, I have been streaming some jazz LPs off of Youtube this week too. I listened to Bitches Brew a couple of times and a couple of Wayne Shorter Lps.

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David Mancuso Presents The Loft, Vol.2: finding it more consistently engaging, for listening and imaginary dancing, than Vol. 1, which also has a number of highlights of course.
Discoggers have posted videos for every track here, I think:
https://www.discogs.com/David-Mancuso-The-Loft-Volume-Two/release/38928?ev=rr

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some days I think serth is the best nnck

I just got into it the other night! Was more familiar w/ Letters From The Earth.

Was inspired to give it a listen after trying to find De Stijl's oral history of the band from their digital DL reissue campaign of 2013, and needing to activate/rely on the Wayback Machine to access it: http://web.archive.org/web/20130508005902/http://destijlrecs.com/124162.html

My NNCK go-to's are often Nine For Victor and Intonomancy, and then CINo 51 and Ytiu in terms of the end of their run.

serth is my fave as well

Bootsy collins playlist.

Brandy i wanna be down. (Mainly discovered it was samples by dj teebee)

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Spiritual jazz with gospel type choir on several tracks. Lead off track The Rain is quite awesome, almost literally.
Some shared qualities with Sun Ra especially when he had backing singers .
Cover looks like a tribute to I Am Legend, though looks like they picked vampires over NRA spokesman

https://img.discogs.com/NqeeXBlJJImmeoGcYbj5Cac2jkY=/fit-in/320x320/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2095385-1264254712.jpeg.jpg
Bristol based stoner rocking dunt. Guitars have a really creamy consistency and this rocks pretty hard.
HIdden track on disc one is pretty great set.

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Previously unreleased lp by collegiate psychedelic band. Melodic, a bit trippy and really quite good.
Bandname was never going to be very memorable to most people. It's the designation of the Sombrero Galaxy a spiral galaxy discovered in 1781. Stellar but probably not th ebest idea for a bandname, too anonymous. THough MC5 seems to work fine, maybe its just shorter and more compact.

https://img.discogs.com/HuUMPRivcXyG56eLhv4NOs3JwPE=/fit-in/480x480/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6425132-1511439144-4185.jpeg.jpg

craig check the Embryonnck collaboration too, it's well good

Thanks for the recommendation!
I remember when that came out, but never fully gave it a shot--have been getting back into a fair am't of other Staubgold releases/reissues in this quarantime fwiw

Whoa, wait a minute--did NNCK pull another move similar to with A Tabu Two and Aftypiclipse with Embryonnck?
Am checking it out via Boomkat, and the CD and LP editions seems to be totally different takes--those rapsCKallioNNs

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only heard the CD but you would never put it past them !

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(listened to the official release for the first time in a long time, I don't think it's nearly as bad as I thought during the whole bootleg version thing)

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AFX (user18081971) - tha2

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Prince Nifty - We're Not In Kansas Anymore

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Paul Arámbula - The Grass Got In (really recommended for any Daniel Johnston fans)

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laura marling - song for our daughter

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Susumu Yokota - Grinning Cat

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roy montgomery - fantasia on a theme by sandy bull (slight return)

Japanese Grunge/Noise as usual

Album: "A" pic.twitter.com/jCJy6i5R2u

— Mark Wilson (@markAcorn) April 11, 2020

a history of hardcore vol. 1 mixed by kenny ken, on suburban base

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsNObV962LA

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"LONGING!"
This older Beatrice Dillon EP (from six years ago, damn) is really holding up to my ears compared w/ her new PAN album

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Dalhous - Will To Be Well (2014)

ghost (jp)* - second time around

*hate that i have to type this

god "a day of the stoned sky in the union zoo", when the flute kicks in, it's like the bluest coldest loneliest early morning feelings

Homer can commiserate
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The Fall - Live Totale's Turns

There we go
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lol wtf

Back to reg sched real album covers of things we are listening to:

https://img.discogs.com/sj3Cefg6ZAGeLvUyu-1HFeyFK1g=/fit-in/400x396/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-1897830-1415846573-9222.jpeg.jpg
Avarus - Toosassa (2008)