VAST presents Big Band SiXXX - Relay EP New side stuff that's not supposed to sound that much like VAST, but it's pretty much just plain old VAST.
Sonata Arctica - Reckoning Night I rediscover this album every once in a while. Oddly literary at times, though the English is slightly broken more often than not. Overproduced so much that it creates a really neat choral feel.
Roots Manuva - Slime and Reason Wonky dancehall and sublimely insane lyrics about ice cream from the UK's finest rapper, bar none
Daedelus - Love To Make Music To Daedelus goes all BMore / rave on your lily-white ass. Spectacular. Diplo - Decent Work For Decent Pay Every Diplo remix that has invaded your consciousness from the last few years. Poptastic and durrrrrrty. Buy it use it cut it load it!
All played while tooling about New Zealand in a Subaru with my girlfriend. Also have a mix CD of G'n'R, Rage, ACDC, Slayer, Pantera and Offspring (hers) which I am guiltily enjoying!
@Randroid: I introduced my friend to Immortal Technique. He once said to me "I've been really angry at everything all day and I've only just realised the reason. The alarm clock on my iPod woke me up by playing Immortal Technique songs."
Islaja " palaa aurinkoon " ( fonal). Gorgeous stuff.
Sunn O >>> " Black One ". Arrived very late to the death/bllack/ambient metal thing , but like this a lot.
The House of Love "best of " , because it's been at least a month since I've played them.
Philip Jeck " Sand ". Again , took me a while to get round to him , but nothing says Christmas more than crackling slabs of melancholy turntablism. Supposed to be dj'ing in Brighton on Saturday night , and am tempted to just put this on and sit in the corner with a a carafe of cheap plonk.