New week's releases are up at http://www.piccadillyrecords.com - just choose a genre from left and click "magic mix" to stream excerpts from the new releases. http://home.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user
Ariana usually swings by Largehearted Boy's Try it before you buy it posts on Tuesday mornings, too.
This last week my sense of purpose and imagination has been dominated by Halloween and Fallout 3 (xbox360) so if this a reflection on my playlist, well it is really.
Enslaved – Vertebrae - Post-Black Metal, among Norway's finest still going Grayceon - This Grand Show - Cello fronted progressive SF Bay Post-Rock/Metal King Diamond - Abigail - 80's theatrical Metal goodness Mercyful Fate - Melissa - A Little more of the preceding Cynic - Traced in Air - Progggy, technical, jazzyish Death Metal from the pioneers off a 16 year hiatus NIN - The Fragile - Listening to lots of NIN for the upcoming show here, we don't get shit here in Bumfuck, Egypt - sometimes I hate living in B.E.,sometimes I love it because of the lack of people and abundance of land Agalloch - The White E.P. - U.S. Masters of Pagan dark neo-folk Metal, great Wickerman samples usage to theme this one Anathema - Hindsight - U.K.'s long running emotional post-rock/metal giants, a little mopey on the vox, but for fans of past albums to hear past songs get acoustic makeovers it works The Album Leaf - One Day I'll Be on Time - More sad kinda post-rock stuff
the rosebuds - night of the furies the walkmen - you & me pet shop boys - very xiu xiu - a promise oklkervil river - the stand ins the mendoza line - we're in this alone simon joyner - the lousy dance shannon wright - maps of tactic antony & the jonsons - another world EP
the Ólafur Arnalds CD i bought at the gig the other week turned out to be an EP, even though it was £10! about 20 minutes of music over 5 tracks, none of which really live up to the live potential. oh well, its pleasant enough. the nanowrimo write-ins are taking place in one of the coolest places in glasgow - cafe, bar, venue and record shop. i bought a handful of things in there yesterday and am now working my way through them: kraftwerk live dvd, which i don't have to hand. jesu - why we are not perfect juana moina - un dia pita - get off quinoline yellow - cyriack parasol mum - summer makes good
and then i went to see micah p hinson live, who i've kind of heard bits of on youtube, but didn't really expect to be so alt.country style.
i like random on Itunes, tonight, apart from mining a heavy kraftwerk seam, random has brought me sun ra, william shatner (his latest 'hasbeen' is great), fatima mansions, lee hazlewood, shonen knife, brazilian girls, michael nesmith, capsule (a japanese band who have worked with daft punk), chrome hoof (a twelve piece thrash/speed/metal/disco combo who wear silver robes), john coltrane, ice cube, boredoms (saw these live this year, best gig ever, beating off chrome hoof oo-er), yello, mudhoney and sir mixalot 'freak momma' from the judgment night soundtrack, some of the angel heart OST, augustus pablo and fleurety. fleurety are an avant garde death metal band with jazz and folky sort of influences, kind of hard to pin down. and whenever I hear 'chestnut mare' by the byrds, I want to catch a horse.
Sick Sick Sick - Queens Of The Stone Age Stainless Steel Providers - Revolting Cocks Dead Memories - Slipknot No More Heroes - The Stranglers Make It Wit Chu - Queens Of The Stone Age Get Down - Revolting Cocks Sugar Town - Nancy Sinatra
a new friend has a bunch of mixes posted on his blog. one, called "FUCK THE FUCKING ART SCHOOL FUCKHEADS," has two amazing IDM-y electro tracks: Sybarite - "Identity #2," and Chequerboard - "Peopledust." upon further investigations the rest of their respective oeuvres are middling, but there are a few gems. those songs, however, have not left the playlist.
@Warren, if you're looking for more postrock stuff, a lot of people missed The Beans (Vancouver band, not to be confused with Beans, the rapper) and Emery Reel (i hardly know anything about them but For And Acted Upon Through Diversions was a big hit with me in the early years). then again, who needs more postrock?
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Nov 2, 2008
John Surman - Out and About
Trygve Seim/Frode Haltli - Redemption Song Lisa Gerrard/Patrick Cassidy - Sailing to Byzantium Phillip Glass - Knee Play 5 (Einstein On The Beach) Test Dept - Sarff Garmarna - Vengeance Talk Talk - New Grass
Hauschka - Rode Null Hopper S. Klossner (Hugh Hopper/Lisa S. Klossner) - Kissed & Stabbed Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Terry Riley's House Zelwer - The Fiancee's Dream Balanescu Quartet - Model Michael Nyman - Queen of The Night Kottarashky - I want you to sleep
Colin Newman - Fish Five Harmonia - Deluxe This Heat - 24 Track Loop Kemper Norton - Moonhowlers Brian Eno - Distributed Being Howie B vs Casino Royale - Plastico Mistico Jah Wobble/Bill Laswell - Alsema Dub Nils Peter Molvaer - Kakonita
I Heart Lung - Interoceans III Humi (Hugh Hopper/Yumi Hara Cankwell) - Long Dune Orange - And then she appeared in the midst of chaos Medeski Martin & Wood - God Fire KIng Crimson - The Mincer Guapo - Five Suns (4)
oh, and has anyone heard of Yagya? they're usually minimalist-ambient, but they stray into the dubstep world occasionally ("Their Blood Is Black And Yellow" off of Will I Dream During The Process, for one). or should i repost this in the dubstep thread?