What Are You Listening to? 2020

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Fripp/Eno - Live In Paris 1975

Last Exit's Iron Path is basically a Laswell album more than a Last Exit album, but I enjoy it for what it is. My favorite stuff by them at this point is the s/t debut, Cassette Recordings '87, and that one. For a supposedly total improv group, they developed a collective voice and onstage routines very fast.

Currently listening to From Elvis In Nashville, a 4CD set of studio recordings from 1970. These tracks were used for the albums That's The Way It Is, Love Letters From Elvis and Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old), but a lot of them had strings and a female chorus added, making them kinda gooey. The versions here have all that stuff stripped away — it's just Elvis and the band playing country and rock songs and some ballads, and they're much, much better for it (and I like '70s Elvis, a lot).

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Nice! I really liked Marci's verse on Westside Gunn's "$500 Ounces" earlier this year ("the seats in the Benz Lenny Kravitz' skin")

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Ooh

I just listened to Lamb for the first time in over a decade yesterday

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This week's ambience...

Bjorn Meyer - Provenance
The War on Drugs - Eyes to the wind (Live)
Mulutu Astake - Tezeta (Nostalgia)
A Split Second - Flesh Jungle
The Weather Station - Tried to Tell You
Cut Copy - Love is all we share (Octa Octa Remix)
Il Quadro di Troisi - S/T
Bleachers - Chinatown (featuring Bruce Springsteen)

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Greek space/shoegaze band. Quiite nice melodic psychy stuff. Recent release from Cardinal Fuzz
Happened to be the first thing I bunged on the 3 player i think . Had another couple opf choices which i think I'm looking forward to but not heard yet.

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solo set from one half of teh Left outsides. I'd been expecting it to be folky and its long atmospheric stuff which sounds more soundtracky.
Quite good though.
Another one from a set of Cardinal Fuzz sets taht finally arrived last week after apparently being stuck in postal limbo for way too long.

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Quite good live set from the LA festival in 1973. Found this cheapish in Sister Ray last xmas.
NIce funky stuff with a few longish monologues.

Nihiloxica is sort of this years Cut Hands or Ninos du Brasil for me.

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blasting Taylor Swift's "1989" for the first time in a couple years, sounds great

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Tim Berne's Bloodcount - Saturation Point
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actress - ghettoville

all Coil, all day

on shuffle

RIP Peter Christopherson

Jon Schaffer's Purgatory

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jim o'rourke - steamroom 51

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Iced Earth - Night of the Stormrider

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my son is playing recorder along to this total jajouka
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ha awesome!

Amen, and thanks for thee reminder of xpost Hapna:
t all starts with a sound. The sound of a monophonic synth. Then we have the Drums. And what binds it all together: The Bass.
In search of a departed past. Maybe a trip to Italy 1981. No, we never went to Italy... Ok.
But the colour is definitely brown.
Memories, not necessarily self-perceived, but yet...
A happy childhood. A promising future. And then there's a wizard.
Phrases, echoes. Expanding lines that evolves and re-evolves.
Escape from NY. Growing up. Possibilities and limitations.
The smell of dust and electricity. A wish to go back and forward at the same time.
It all comes down to a introspective groove. The strength of the collective process.
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Long live Häpna--Tape esp were a huge revelation for me, sort of a Gastr del Sequel if I had to reduce it to a simple/silly pun

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Friday update.

Nils Frahm - Fundamental Values
TSHA - Flowers EP
Kasper Marrott - Mini Trance
Plastikman - Consumed

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that snakemouth cover is bazonkers

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Blevin Blectum - Nocturne (Psaltriparus minimus Mix)
Video by Alexander Dupuis

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best animation I've seen in a while

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Black Flag, Live '84. Their best-sounding recording. (The cassette had better cover art than the CD reissue.)

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I love the Marquee set from that year.
Seems to have an element of near Link Wray Ness I'm not really hearing elsewhere. One of several elements blended.
It was the date I saw them on.
Official Video is them at Leeds a few days after that.
Do wonder what lira basslines would sound like if she was writing her own.

Also do like the band as a 5 piece a year earlier playing the My War stuff as written with Duchowski and Cadenza still on board.

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Inspired by earlnash upthread.

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