What are you listening to? 2021

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That's SETSUBUN by Jusell, Prymek, Sage, and Shiroishi

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Kaleidoscope After the Futures

Reminds me of Ex-Cult

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Man I love that period of Striborg

Found this in my stacks last night, no idea I owned it or why. Overproduced 1985 Japanese pop/rock that even goes kinda Quiet Storm at one point. I didn't like it at all. But it has gone for up to $138 on Discogs? Make me an offer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhfZsJVNYz0

I'd guess that price rise is due to this comp from 2020:

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Interesting, thanks. I'm reading about Japanese "city pop" now. I had no clue.

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unsure where else to ask, but is there a thread for posting your own music on ilx?

What do you sound like on Nu-ILX?

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^ i would love to see these maniacs live sometime

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earlier: younger than yesterday/notorious byrd bros/sweetheart of the rodeo, now...
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The new compilation of all of the mid 60s material by the great psychedelic band originally from California who John Peel was instrumental in getting to move to London. So far I've listened to the first disc which is the LOndon era material with new English guitarist Tony Hill . He was later shown to be pretty incredible when he moved onto High Tide, here he may be slightly overshadowed by Glenn campbell on pedal steel in fact seems like all of teh band is pretty masterful. I love the drum sound on a lot of this.
Pretty essential psychedelic stuff.
NOt heard the 2nd disc which is their Riverside era yet. I think this set is largely mono since the earlier Edsel set was i fake stereo .
It also contains a summary of Mike Stax's lengthy band history which appeared across several issues of Ugly Things a few years ago as teh linernotes.
Pretty necessary methinks

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THe 3rd and most electronic drenched lp by the Herbie Hancock led band. I haven't listened to this as intently as I did this week. & this was teh 2nd copy of the disc i had bought as part of a 3cd set of Herbie's mid 70s stuff.
I just read Bob Gluck's book on the band, You'll Know When You Get There which was a really good read. I have all 3 lps on cd, couldn't find teh previous 2 last week but need to really listen to those too.
BUT thgis is really something else electronic input makes it really psychedelic . Or at least contributes even more to it. THe bands interaction particularly on the longest track here Hornets is quite amazing too. Very trippy.
Shame they couldn't continue to build on what tehy were getting to. BUt glad we've got these 3 and the live stuff including a few video clips from live sets on tv. I thik that stuff is not as electronically drenched as this though since its from theh couple of years before. So a bit less Patrick Gleason who became increasingly integrated over teh years as did the sound guy who was treating instruments as tehy played and stuff.

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THis week was the 3rddisc of this set. Pretty great guitar and his voice . Not quite as innovative as the mid 60s stuff i think but still pretty great.
Haven't heard the first disc yet.
Have seriously enjoyed the 2 discs I've heard so far though.
IU think this is from around 68 onwards. But he changed labels around the turn of the 70s so this cuts off at that point.
Again pretty essential I think.
THink I seriously like soul stuff from the turn of the 70s

CHAMBERPOT Rare OG Avant FREE JAZZ LP NWW LIST Bead NM
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xp I love that release, Elvis Telecom turned me onto it

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xpost to sleeve - the gonchavrova collection? only recently came across her due to her association with various soviet jazz/experimental people of the time... after a first listen i really like it. hopefully there'll be a vol.2 one day.

also that turkish comp looks awesome. only familiar with a few names on there... have never heard any okay temiz outside a jazz context.

how the fuck have I been a Neo Zelanda fan since 1985 and still never heard of Diseño Corbusier until a few weeks ago?!?!

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oh also xp to nlt - Turkish Freakout Vol. 2 is just as good!

JUst found Okay Temiz is drumming on the 1971 paris Don Cherry gig that is up o youtube in 4 parts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7Uh_udLNSQ
I haven't heard his own stuff yet

^^^bookmarked for later, thanks. think i first heard him playing with cherry on live in ankara which is a total blast. really like this lp. the only other release i have by him is from the early eighties with some nice messed up synth stuff. also still need to hear his various recordings with johnny dyani!

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spun that abt 3x. awesome joe maneri drone meets Ae splinter & whoompf.
now progging out w/ this:
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I think they came from where i spent my childhhod, Woodford Green Essex. Like just outside the boundaries of London. If taht's still true.
I got the Background version back in the early 00ies.
Have meant to pick up the BGO 2fer of teh 2 lps, this and Lady lake and still haven't.
There was a live set released from 1972 too.

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THe 3rd 13FE lp. Put together by guitarist Stacy Sutherland after Roky was already facing being committed to a menatl asylum. So Roky is onoly on a few tracks here and if the other voice is Stacy's he's not tbad, not as recognisable and characterful a voice as Roky's but not a non selling point. The feeling here is pretty different to the other 2 lps, not as forceful or something, not that those 2 sounded homogenous themselves.
I think if this wasn't an lp by a band taht had already put out 2 classics of the genre this might get a lot more recognition. I'm just rediscovering this after it was possibly the first lp by them taht I had bought, I think it had been seen as eclectic by somebody in the weekly music media in the early 80s which had me interested. May have been more impressed by things like taht at the time. BUt I do think it is a great lp. Here its augmented by some alternative versions of a few of the tracks on it which is weird I've been listening to it at times when I've been otherwise occupied and thinking I thought the lp itself had ended a while back as I'd heard May The Circle Remain Unbroken a few minutes ago or something. I have it on a 3 changer which I've restarted a few times as I'm trying to do things around teh room too. But yeah weird ma just me being distracted and songs are more different lp to bonus version .
Anyway this really shows Stacy's guitar quite well and has some really other sounding tunes on it. LOve it deeply. Even the horns sort of semi fit add some element of dimension. Sound is not as full as the other 2 lps because of limited budget given to the band.
Oh well you either know the lp or you should.

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Free jazz drummer as leader but also possibly least audible member. Quite forceful droning blasts of music. I really enjoy it and should probably have discovered it a number of years ago when this Sunspots version came out if not before.
I have An Even Break (Never Give A Sucker) on its way to me too.

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Turn of teh 70s Soul/funk lp which i got as a 2fer with its follow up.
Put out on the Invicta label by Holland Dozier and Holland after they left Motown.
Starts off quite strong but I'm seeing comment about the 2nd side dragging which is certainly true of the lyricism. Not exactly woke.
Haven't sat and listened to the other disc yet to any extent.

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vu - live 68 & black side of the street

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didn't know there were Island pink label cassettes

just for a short period by the looks of it: https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=Island+Records+%E2%80%93+CIR&type=release

my l&l isn't pink, but that's the closest approximation i could find - doesn't seem to be any online evidence of the nz cassette :-|

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He is truly one of the greatest musical artists of our times afaic