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[amok]

yup.

here's some things which unfortunately aren't the new National, but we won't hold that against 'em; two smashing post-punk records and the latest attempt by former doom legends Anathema to become Aereogramme



Anathema - We're Here Because We're Here (2010)

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Pink Military - Do Animals Believe In God? (1980)

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Scars - Author! Author! (1981)

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[pulpfiction21]

Six Gallery - Breakthroughs In Modern Art (2009)
RIYL: Moving Mountains, Lydia, This Town Needs Guns, Look Mexico



YouTube - A Live Nativity Scene
Myspace

Really catchy band, who is actually going to be playing a few shows with This Town Needs Guns. I can definitely see why.

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[sean]

listening to on myspace, i could definitely get a little stoked over this, even though the vocals kind of suck.

[DrNil]

The National - High Violet

It can be had in FLAC. Awesome rip, although not uploadd to mediaf!re, but to megaupload. Worth the trouble as the sound is stunning

hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=BOBLX8FA

[boneykingofnowhere]

I would change that megaupload link (take out a letter or something) so it can't be traced back here as easily. Probably won't happen, but just to be on the safe side.

On an unrelated note: I love that Itch record. I will proclaim my love for it to the heavens.

[screamingfool]

i uploaded this for a friend and thought some here may enjoy some funk from colombia;

Tumbacatre-s/t

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[KvP]

Reggie Watts - Why Shit So Crazy?

New music / comedy album from Reggie Watts, who's opening for Conan on his nationwide tour. He came out to a pretty cold crowd and had to play one song on his iphone, which fell flat, but when a roadie fixed his sampling equipment and he got into his actual set he brought the house down. Funny guy. Serendipity found his new stuff arriving at the station the very next day.

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[amok]

Just reinstalled EAC on my computer and burnt this to V0 to make sure it was working properly. Figured after all that effort I might as well share in case anyone doesn't have all this stuff already.

CDs 1 & 2 are all the studio stuff. CD 3 is demos/unreleased versions and 4 is live recordings. Enjoy.



Joy Division - Heart And Soul (1997 boxed set, 4xCD)

<sub>Heart And Soul. One

01 Digital
02 Glass
03 Disorder
04 Day of the Lords
05 Candidate
06 Insight
07 New Dawn Fades
08 She's Lost Control
09 Shadowplay
10 Wilderness
11 Interzone
12 I Remember Nothing
13 Ice Age
14 Exercise One
15 Transmission
16 Novelty
17 The Kill
18 The Only Mistake
19 Something Must Break
20 Autosuggestion
21 From Safety To Where...?

Heart And Soul. Two

01 She's Lost Control 12"
02 Sound Of Music
03 Atmosphere
04 Dead Souls
05 Komakino
06 Incubation
07 Atrocity Exhibition
08 Isolation
09 Passover
10 Colony
11 Means to an End
12 Heart and Soul
13 Twenty Four Hours
14 The Eternal
15 Decades
16 Love Will Tear Us Apart
17 These Days

Heart And Soul. Three

01 Warsaw
02 No Love Lost
03 Leaders Of Men
04 Failures
05 The Drawback
06 Interzone
07 Shadowplay
08 Exercise One
09 Insight
10 Glass
11 Transmission
12 Dead Souls
13 Something Must Break
14 Ice Age
15 Walked In Line
16 These Days
17 Candidate
18 The Only Mistake
19 Chance (Atmosphere)
20 Love Will Tear Us Apart
21 Colony
22 As You Said
23 Ceremony
24 In A Lonely Place (Detail)

Heart And Soul. Four (Live)

01 Dead Souls (Live at The Factory, Hulme)
02 The Only Mistake (Live at The Factory, Hulme)
03 Insight (Live at The Factory, Hulme)
04 Candidate (Live at The Factory, Hulme)
05 Wilderness (Live at The Factory, Hulme)
06 She's Lost Control (Live at The Factory, Hulme)
07 Disorder (Live at The Factory, Hulme)
08 Interzone (Live at The Factory, Hulme)
09 Atrocity Exhibition (Live at The Factory, Hulme)
10 Novelty (Live at The Factory, Hulme)
11 Autosuggestion (Live at Prince of Wales Conference Centre, YMCA, London)
12 I Remember Nothing (Live at Winter Gardens, Bournemouth)
13 Colony  (Live at Winter Gardens, Bournemouth)
14 These Days (Live at Winter Gardens, Bournemouth)
15 Incubation (Live at Lyceum Ballroom, London)
16 The Eternal (Live at Lyceum Ballroom, London)
17 Heart And Soul (Live at Lyceum Ballroom, London)
18 Isolation (Live at Lyceum Ballroom, London)
19 She's Lost Control (Live at Lyceum Ballroom, London)

Original Release Sources:

Disc One:
1 & 2 -- recorded at Cargo Studios, Rochdale; released on A Factory Sample (1/79) [reissued on Substance (7/88)]
3-12 -- recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport; released as Unknown Pleasures (5/79)
13-14 & 17-19 -- recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport & Central Sound, Manchester; released as Still (10/81)
15 & 16 -- recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport; released as untitled 7" vinyl (10/79) [reissued on Substance (7/88)]
20 & 21 -- recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport; released on Earcom 2: Contradiction (10/79) [reissued on Substance (7/88)]

Disc Two:
1 -- recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport; released on 12" vinyl (9/80) [reissued on Substance (7/88)]
2 -- recorded at Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham; released on Still (10/81)
3 & 4 -- recorded at Cargo Studios, Rochdale; released on Licht Und Blindheit (3/80) [3 reissued on 12" vinyl (9/80) & 4 reissued on Still (10/81); both reissued on Substance (7/88)]
5 & 6 -- recorded at Britiannia Row, London; released as 7" Flexi (4/80) [reissued on Substance (7/88)]
7-15 -- recorded at Britiannia Row, London; released as Closer (7/80)
16 -- recorded at Strawberry Studios, Stockport; released on Substance (7/88)
17 -- recorded at Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham; released on Substance (7/88)

Disc Three:
1-4 -- recorded at Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham; released on An Ideal For Living 7" vinyl (6/78) [reissued on 12" vinyl (10/78) & on Substance (7/88)]
5-7 -- recorded at Arrow Studios, Manchester; previously unreleased RCA demos
8 & 20-21 -- recorded live on the John Peel Radio Show; broadcast 2/79 & 12/79, released on The Peel Sessions (90)
9-11 & 14 -- recorded at Eden Studios, London; previoisly unreleased Genetic Records Sessions
12-13 & 15-19 -- recorded at Central Sound, Manchester and Strawberry Studios, Stockport and Pennine Sound Studios, Oldham; previoisly unreleased Piccadilly Radio Sessions
22 -- recorded at Britannia Row, London; released on 7" Flexi (uncredited track, 4/80) [reissued on Video 586 12" vinyl (9/97)]
23 & 24 -- recorded at Graveyard Studios, Prestwich; previously unreleased

Disc Four:
1-10 -- recorded live at The Factory, Hulme; previously unreleased
11 -- recorded live at Prince of Wales Conference Centre, YMCA, London; previously unreleased
12-14 -- recorded live at Winter Gardens, Bournemouth; previously unreleased
15-19 -- recorded live at Lyceum Ballroom, London; previously unreleased</sub>

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[Jepser]

The irony here is that I just downloaded JD's complete works today.

Anyways, hurray for great uploads! Ian Curtis will be dead 30 years one of these days, right?

[Jace]

Saw this band last night, picked up the vinyl which came with a digital download:
Crime in Stereo - I Was Trying To Describe You To Someone

01 Queue Moderns
02 Drugwolf
03 Exit Halo
04 Not Dead
05 Odalisque
06 Young
07 Type One
08 Republica
09 I am Everything I am Not
10 Dark Island City
11 I cannot Answer You Tonight

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Here is a band called Such Gold who I saw last night also and is pretty good too:
Such Gold - Stand Tall

01 four superbowls, no rings
02 you always know what's best
03 what's left of you
04 the greatest comeback of all time
05 stand tall

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[iamiam]

step one:  watch this  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHKuB85EgnI

step two:  fall in love

step three:  download edward sharpe & the magnetic zeros

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[Scandanavian War Machine]

ahhah! thank you, you glittering, sparkly unicorn, you!

I've been looking for that record for months, and have had no luck.

[iamiam]

it took me like 3 weeks to upload this because i kept getting errors.  that kind of dedication means that this is clearly something worth sharing.  (also i get stubborn as fuck about things).

[scarred]

I've heard that song before, but I never knew who it was until now. Downloading.

[scarred]

also track 2 is corrupt

[StaedlerMars]

If I started linking to albums on spotify, would people object? I mean, I'll still upload albums, but linking to spotify is just easier than me downloading an album and re-uploading it for here. It's also legal.

[pulpfiction21]

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

I found myself at their myspace just yesterday and didn't give it much of a chance after watching one of their videos on there, but after listening to "Home" in its entirety I feel that I clicked the back button in haste. I am now downloading the album.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

you might be a bit disappointed. "Home" is definitely the best track.

hey, mai do you have any other records by them? my friend played me some cuts from another cd (something about a rose in the title, I think) and it was excellent, but fairly different from the style on the one you posted.

[scarred]

Rules:

No hot-linking images or albums. You can re-host images at http://imageshack.us.

Ensure your tags are correct and that you have specified both Artist/Album in your post.

Upload your files in either a .zip or a .rar archive to mediaf!re.com, in multiple parts if the album is over 100mbs. The reason for this is that we know mediaf!re is safe and efficient and allows multiple downloads. The ads on other sites, such as Sendspace, are known to contain viruses on the page. Get yourself checked out.

Post your link using code tags. It's the # icon above the policeman emoticon. This prevents the links from being traced back to the forums, lowering the chance that the wrong people notice the thread, potentially threatening Jeph with legal action.

Also, please do NOT request albums. This includes requests for re-uploads; if you miss it, try looking for it somewhere else.

Repost the rules at the top of each new page.

[JD]

If I started linking to albums on spotify, would people object? I mean, I'll still upload albums, but linking to spotify is just easier than me downloading an album and re-uploading it for here. It's also legal.

Spotify doesn't work for me. Damn copyright laws

[trr005]

This has been out and about for a little while now, but no one's uploaded it yet and it's great.

The White Stripes - Under Great White Northern Lights

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[Cire27]

That Itch album is really good.  Either that or I have a thing for "angular, chiming guitars, howled and shrieked lyrics."

[Jepser]

That Edward Sharpe record is great, especially considering the previous act led by Alex Ebert.

[KvP]

Edward Sharpe is essentially Alex Ebert deciding he wanted some of that sweet Yeasayer money. Grew his hair out and went shoeless and everything.


Rudi Zygadlo - Great Western Laymen

No greater intellectual authority than Ian Brown once claimed that kids need boredom, saying that the fact there were only three TV channels in the mid-Eighties gave him the impetus to form The Stone Roses. Rudi Zygaldo might well agree with him, even if growing up in Manchester with only TV-AM must seem almost decadent to a kid raised in the Scottish countryside without any TV at all. Filling his head with classical music and obscure Eastern European literature instead, you might imagine such relative isolation would breed an almost monastic state of mind. Until you hear his debut album, that is. Calling Rudi Zygaldo ‘a bit restless’ is like saying that another Brown – our own dear Gordon – is ‘a mite moody’. For Great Western Laymen sometimes feels like a kid banging a TV remote control with one hand whilst wildly turning the radio dial with another and headbutting his laptop in between; diving into the multichannel sensory overload with unabashed glee.

Boredom might have inspired The Stone Roses to combine rock and dance, but Zygaldo throws absolutely anything he can get his hands on – be it space rock, grime, jazz or even choral religious chanting – into his kitchen sink collages. He might nominally be associated with dubstep, but saying that a track like ‘Magic In The Afternoon’ is ‘dubstep’ just because it contains a few 130bpm bass wobbles is like saying ‘Something About Faith’ is ‘pop’ just because Zygaldo’s singing on it. It would sound oddball enough amongst the other experimental wares on Mary Anne Hobbs’ Radio 1 show, let alone the daytime playlists. Yet what really differentiates Zygaldo from most dubstep is that where the best of that music derives its power and atmosphere from the use of space, every nook and cranny of Great Western Laymen is stuffed with busy odds and sods of sound. Like Aphex Twin, Bass Clef and fellow Glasgow resident Hudson Mohawke, Zygaldo is seemingly unable to settle on one idea for longer than five seconds before throwing it away in favour of something else. Like his contemporaries, this approach can regularly result in moments of inspired genius, but it can also make for an exhausting listen. Take ‘Resealable Friendship’, which begins with Zygaldo multi-tracking his voice into what sounds like a choir on ketamine, before releasing hyperactive beats over a bassline that’s constantly stumbling behind. With so many different tempos crashing into each other it’s like watching a centipede tie itself in knots.

Only two tracks really work as cohesive entities. Relatively uncluttered compared to most other things on here – although you still break a sweat trying to follow everything that’s going on – ‘Stop / Reject’ sends a low-riding synthetic groove slipping through the sort of star-gazing sounds familiar from Detroit techno and cosmic disco. Meanwhile, ‘The Man In The Duck’ is the most blatant example of Zygaldo’s supposed ‘pop’ sensibility, a sort of lo-fi R&B ballad which, with all the bubbling noises and flatulent bass, occasionally sounds like he’s singing down a length of showerhose whilst accompanying himself by farting in the bath.

But whilst many tracks are an indigestible mouthful taken as a whole, each one also contains at least one or two astounding moments. It’s easier to pick out the parts of each track that you like – the free jazz sax solo that introduces ‘Missa Per Brevis’ say, the way classical piano spirals over something resembling the Jaws theme at the end of ‘Magic In The Afternoon’, or the genuinely unnerving choral vocals that make 'Song Of Praise’ sound like a diabolical Black Mass that definitely wouldn’t be screened on Sunday evenings. Plus, Zygaldo’s production is a marvel to behold – as taut as Botoxed buttocks throughout the whole album, the synths on ‘Something About Faith’ sound as if they’re being squeezed out of a toothbrush tube. Precocious Zygaldo might well be but boring is one thing he certainly isn’t, and even if Great Western Laymen isn’t quite as clever as it thinks it is, it certainly offers a damn good argument for turning off the TV.

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Clubroot - II: MMX

The dark dubstep of Dan Richmond’s 2009 debut as Clubroot rarely escalated past a slow simmer—the guttural synths and deep, powerful drum sounds were (with good reason) probably called “brooding” by more than one listener. Field noise and looped Eastern stringed instruments on the producer’s sometimes-sinister follow-up will garner the same response, but faster-swinging kicks break up drowsier segments on II - MMX. Evening strolls in Richmond’s mediaeval British hometown of St. Albans likely offer ample source material for his album’s rustling field recordings, and as far as visual stimuli goes, the nearby centuries-old cathedrals don’t hinder the creative process.

Over the course of II - MMX‘s compelling jungle- and ambient techno-guided set, Richmond revisits a musical past steeped in drum & bass. Tunneling, wheezing bass stabs are cooled with textures that are much softer than those on the debut—when played alongside Clubroot, the second album is overall considerably cleaner, and “Waterways” even feels a bit sterile against 2009’s “Embryo”, for example. But the improvements in a year’s time are noticeable. Richmond pitches-up all of the diced vocals on his hard drive for dazzling, ethereal effect on II - MMX, and while some of the washes that pad “Running on Empty” and “Orbiting” are of the choral brand, this is a wordless outing, minus some curt film dialogue. “Dry Cured” is a must-hear, with the UK producer resorting to a minimal garage sound that has garnered past comparisons to dubstep luminaries—shuffling hi hats, an understated synth progression, with little else at work. It’s gripping, and arranged so that the payoff is far less pronounced but still satisfying. You can even call it “brooding.”

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Dead Fader - Corrupt My Examiner

After ripping a hole in your cones with 'Autumn Rot' Dead Fader spew out nine tracks of caustic dancefloor noise for their debut album. 'Corrupt My examiner' is no easy listen, in facts it's willfully difficult but that's probably half the pleasure if you're into the likes of NHK or Ben Frost. With a rhythmic palette of post-industrial brokebeats and a discordant sense of melodic texture they set about deconstructing your home stereo, steadily developing ever more foul and noxious noises to interject their rhythms and drive the message of scuzzy dancefloor moods home. If it means anything to you, Seefeel's Mark Clifford is a big fan and their label heads Cloaks are a close analog if you're still unsure.

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Cloaks - Versus Grain

Something wicked, wonderful, and unique has been brewing in the U.K. for some time—the rips, tears, and jagged edges of the utterly relentless Cloaks. This is true industrial music, the sci-fi sound of robotic alien factories tearing apart twisted sheets of metal and welding them back together into chunks of beats and bass. Informed by dubstep but standing well outside the genre, Versus Grain draws on Meat Beat Manifesto, Techno Animal, and Merzbow, buzzing and crackling its way through tracks like “Against,” “Rust on Metal,” and “Detritus”. All the more impressive for being completely analog based, the album is not for the faint of heart, but it’s a vital shot of adrenaline for those craving dark experimentation in their music.

(for fans of Vex'd, etc.)

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[SWOON! at My Gravitas]

Fuck yes, thanks for the Clubroot

[KvP]

Luke Vibert - Compilation Tracks For Which I Was Never Paid

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Eprom - Shoplifter EP

Eprom sums up the thrills of lifting a mars bar from your local corner shop with the acid-crunk bounce of 'Shoplifter' backed with a Slugabed remix. His title track is a heavy nod to Rustie's lauded style, only with noisier drums and acidic synth licks. Slugabed's mix goes one step further, lifting said mars bar and then shouting at the shopkeeper with a vicious tongue, meaning overweight noisy snares and untamed synth snarls.

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Charanjit Singh - Ten Ragas To a Disco Beat

Behold, my children, the legend of acid house: Imagine in your mind Chicago 1987, where a small group of club kids, led by Nathan "DJ Pierre" Jones, give Ron Hardy a record to play at the Music Box. Labelled "Acid Tracks" by Phuture, its uncompromising sound quickly clears the dance floor, but Hardy hammers the tune again and again, until the masses are converted and a new genre is born.

You've heard this story a thousand times. And everything in it is true. Except, it seems, maybe the part about it being the birth of acid. Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat challenges us to rewind acid's origin story to India 1982, and to move from a sweaty Chicago nightclub to the home studio of a veteran Bollywood musician. In the '60s and '70s Charanjit Singh did time on the Bollywood soundtrack scene, and earned extra cash with his own orchestra playing popular favorites at weddings. In 1982, armed with a now-iconic trio of Roland gear, the Jupiter 8, TB-303 and TR-808, Singh set out to update the entrancing drone and whirling scales of classical Indian music. It's enough of a mind-fuck that rumors circulated on the web claiming the record was a prank spawned by Richard D. James.

A prank it's not. After nearly three decades of near-complete obscurity, the record resurfaced when Bombay Connection label impresario Edo Bouman snapped it up while travelling in India. He had his mind split open when, back at his hotel, he heard the psychedelic mind-meld of East and West on his portable record player. Intrigued, Bouman tracked Singh down: "He was most friendly and surprised I knew the album. I remember asking him how he got to this acid-like sound, but he didn't quite get my point. He didn't realise how stunningly modern it was." Singh's sound didn't appear wholly out of thin air. As music critic Geeta Dayal points out, both the 303 and the 808 had been issued right around the time, and the rhythms of '70s disco had in 1982 only just reached Indian ears. Needless to say, though, the word "disco" in the title is a complete misnomer—there simply wasn't a genre called techno or house that could be invoked.

What stands out most on Ten Ragas is Singh's comparatively original use of the TB-303. Even though it was designed to fill in for a bass guitar, the 303 was notoriously awkward when it came to reproducing conventional basslines—the box was much better suited to produce the otherworldly squelches of DJ Pierre. Singh, however, found a different way to employ the machine. Dayal notes that the TB-303's "glissando" function, the ability to slide from one note to another, makes it perfectly suited for the sort of raga melodies that run slippery up and down the scale. Married to rugged 808s and Terry Riley-style undulating keyboard solos, The result is a haunting, exotic prefiguration of acid's steely futurism, a bit like Kraftwerk live at the Taj Mahal, somehow summoned from the past but envisioning the future at the same time.

Essential.

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Tokimonsta - Cosmic Intoxication EP

Hot drop from LA debutante Tokimonsta aka Jennifer Lee, presenting her first solo outing proper for Ramp. If you were quick enough to nab a copy, you may have noticed her excellent 'Let Me Trick U' cut on the commemorative run of '251109' 12"s, but don't worry if not, because 'Cosmic Intoxication' is the perfect place to enter her world. Much like the mixture of classical far eastern drama and ultra-modern themes on the captivating sleeve, her music is ornately crafted and fantastical, albeit with a dose of doped out cool that could only come from LA. 'Playing With Toys' is an assortment of fractured electro and spooling synthlines, reminding of Zomby but tumbled with a uniquely precious sense of organisation, while 'Smoke & Mirrors' makes an about turn with drifts of Hawaiian guitar and crimson yacht synths. Our favourite 'Aching Nodes', teases an delicate Afrobeat guitar sample over dub bumped beats and a tidy G-funk synthline, while 'Glaring Lights' finishes with an image of Dilla kicking back with Herb Alpert on blunts and vallies. Ace.

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[pat101]

I'm uploading Dam-Funk's 5-LP future-funk masterpiece for my blog and what not and figured I should certainly share with you folks. Shocked this (or at least the 2-CD version) hasn't been posted yet. Happy Weekend

Dam-Funk - Toeachizown: LAtrik [2009] (320kbps) ripped from the vinyl

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cropped review from "Dusted" find the full one here http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/5347.

Because, you see, “gangsta” is something specific. Gangsta is where sun-kissed leisure meets violent cynicism. Gangsta is the lackadaisical cruise down Sunset Boulevard that’s punctuated by a carjacking. Gangsta is a yin-yang thing that could theoretically exist outside Los Angeles, California, but usually doesn’t. Gangsta (arguably) rose on N.W.A’s Efliforzaggin, peaked with the early-‘90s work of Dr. Dre and DJ Quik, and crapped out somewhere on Disc Two of All Eyez On Me. Gangsta has naught to do with the quintessentially Brooklyn bluster of Jay-Z and Biggie, the paranoid bubblegum pop of 50 Cent, or the aspie rambling of Li’l Wayne. Gangsta is gangsta.

LA home-taper Dam-Funk is beaucoup gangsta, and his bubbly synth-soul masterpiece Toeachizown is the first real gangsta shit to come out in a minute.
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Like Menace II Society on wax, Toeachizown is an instant Los Angeles classic. It’s warm, cold, therapeutically friendly and scathingly sinister. And, no matter how much it fronts to the contrary, it’s deeply human. Which is still gangsta.

The other LP's will be coming up this week, unless I forget I'll post them here as well.

[onewheelwizzard]

Rudi Zygadlo - Great Western Laymen

Whoa.  This shit is ... I don't know, but I think I like it.  It's interesting.  I'm going to be listening to it and showing it to other people for a while, anyway.  The review is on point when it says that for everything else about this album, it's not boring.

I've only heard a few tracks so far but I'm going to be giving this album a nice long look, I think.  This guy really got my attention with this, which I just found looking for studio tracks off this album to listen to while it was downloading.

Thanks also for the Clubroot.

[JD]

Tumbacatre-s/t

Fucking great

[minus_the_david]

idk if anyone else a problem with it, but track 13 on the white stripes album up there didn't work. it said it was "broken" maybe my computer just sucks...not sure. i use 7zip if that helps clarify anything at all.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

that's a shame because that is an excellent song!

I'm listening to it right now to see if it's corrupt or whatever and, at about a minute in, it plays fine so far.


edit: oh yeah, it's corrupt. stopped playing after about 1:40

[pat101]

I do not remember making that post. It is still right though.

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Dr. Dunks - How We Do In NYC



A mix of great disco re-edits

sweet holy christ this is good

[KvP]

Serafina Steer - Change is Good, Change is Good

It's not often that I venture outside of the strict confines of electronic music when acquiring new music, these days. There are too many variables to keep track of for me, and while there's plenty of non-electronic music that I like, I'd be hard pressed to tell you exactly why I like what I do - I could name any number of elements that speak to me in a particular song or artist but don't do so consistently across scenes or genres. I feel like I can do that with electronic music, being as it's often so conservative in style. So getting a rock or a folk album is a bigger risk. Usually there has to be some sort of hook that gets me to pay attention. So it was with Serafina Steer - the blurb on Bleep mentioned offhand that one of the producers on Change is Good, Change is Good was Capitol K, an endlessly fascinating composer and producer who had a few releases on Planet Mu (given this blog, where else?), serving for a few years alongside Leafcutter John in that label's rotating stable of electro-acoustic folk acts (currently occupied by Sunken Foal and the Internal Tulips). Since then he's popped up as a producer on Deerhunter's first albums, but I'm not sure if he still works with them now that they've become hot shit in the indie rock scene. He lives the true bohemian artist lifestyle, squatting in abandoned London buildings and making music.

I was curious to hear his influence on Serafina Steer's album, and it was there to be sure, but I vastly overestimated the part he would play in the enjoyment of it. Serafina Steer is an English harpist / singer / pianist / songwriter who's had ties to the London folktronica scene going back several years (Change is Good, Change is Good is her second proper album). Comparisons to Joanna Newsom were made often and early, but as far as I'm concerned the similarities begin and end with the harp. Steer's sensibility is darker and more claustrophobic, not as airy or quaint as Newsom's. And of course, there are the light electronic touches. Word has it that Steer was struck by extraordinary bad luck when her harp and other instruments were stolen in the middle of the production process, but she and her associates adapted, incorporating more electronic elements and using homemade instruments.

The album starts off with the breathing organ and pulsing synth of "Shut Up Shop", with Steer conjuring up the ghost of Nico on vox. The song sounds distinctly british, incorporating elements of church music and pop. "Day Glo" is perhaps the song that most invites comparisons to Newsom, with the music speeding up and slowing down during the chorus, but the song retains Steer's distinctive, shady sensibility. "GSOH" is the breakout track, with the organ and drum forming a solid background to the slightly gothy folk-rock tune in the Sol Seppy mold. The weird folk of "The Valley", with its lovely backing vocals, sounds like the soundtrack to some bittersweet period piece romance. The speak-singing of "Motion Pictures" gives way to a gorgeous and emotive latter half.

"Drinking While Driving" glides on an analog synth arpeggi and Steer's captivating whisper-song. "How to Haunt a House Party" is a particularly strange throwback to 80's synth-pop, with drum machines and prominent synths, Steer fitting role of coked-up, dead-eyed ice queen perfectly. The french of"Margoton" recalls a particularly light-footed Electrelane, while "Port Isaac" brings Steer's voice to the fore, accompanied by very quiet organ and what sounds like a lyre (perhaps one of their homemade instrument) before bringing synths a bit farther forward into the mix. "The Sisters of Porportion" is a dark, sickly fairy tale of a song about a covetous man and the titular siblings. "Half Robot" is a gorgeous and lush folk song featuring more live instrumentation that ends far, far too soon. The final track "Ulular" features a woozy, Sol Seppy-ish echo and a beautiful violin accompaniment, a downcast ending to an already downcast sort of album.

I keep coming back to Change is Good, Change is Good between helpings of whatever new dubstep or UKG comes my way on any given day. There's just something about it - I listen to it and I feel like I'm listening to the diary of a particularly precocious, forlorn, perhaps doomed teenage girl. Somebody get this woman Sofia Coppola's number. We could have a monumental film soundtrack waiting in the wings.

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[trr005]

I'm not sure why it would be corrupt for you both.  It's working splendidly for myself.  Regardless, here's an upload to the mp3 of it.  Sorry!

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[Lwize]

Serafina Steer - Change is Good, Change is Good

I <3 Serafina Steer!

Now off to Amazon UK to buy it!

 

[Orcusmars]

Well I haven't posted anything in awhile, so here's some more videogame music, I suppose.


What Did I Do To Deserve This, My Lord!? - Giant 3D Recital
Hideki Sakamoto

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I picked up the first iteration of this weird and funny game a little while ago, and was really sad I couldn't find the soundtrack for it, because it's really just phenomenal stuff.

Now that I've found it, though, I figured I'd share the wealth. The game is really iffy, but the soundtrack is happy in a sort of 8-bit old-school music way, if it were expanded to a larger instrument ensemble and really high quality. Let me know what you guys think.

[iamiam]

hey, mai do you have any other records by them? my friend played me some cuts from another cd (something about a rose in the title, I think) and it was excellent, but fairly different from the style on the one you posted.

nope, sorry!  if you end up finding it though, could you post it up here?  i'd love to hear it.

in the meantime, here is a reup of the corrupted track:

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and a bonus remix of 'home':

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[JacquesLeRock]

Cynic - Re-Traced


Tracklist:

1. Space
2. Evolutionary
3. King
4. Integral
5. Wheels Within Wheels

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[JD]

Ghettosocks - Treat Of The Day

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http://www.mediafire.com/?zj2wdidz2idOut For Treats

[trr005]

Oh my lord this is awesome.

[meanwhile]

k-v-p! k-v-p!
thanks for all the stuff

[KaosPilot]

An oldie-but-a-goodie and certainly one of my favourite albums of a summer.



Gui Boratto - Chromophobia (2007)

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It's been done properly this time, 320kbps CD-rip in .mp3 so it is of a higher quality than my previous offerings. Here are some reviews:

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/reviews/gui-boratto/chromophobia.htm
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/9929-chromophobia/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2007/feb/23/electronicmusic.shopping

[E. Spaceman]

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Black Sabbath - Master of Reality

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Mission of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches. (also the Academy Fight Song single)

[pulpfiction21]

I know at least one person on here will be happy to see this.

Faded Paper Figures - New Medium (2010)

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Youtube - New Medium
Myspace

[scarred]

AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGHHHHHH

DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU JUST DID?

i ordered my copy already and it's in the mail and i can't wait for it and YOU HAVE JUST RUINED EVERYTHING

AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGHHHHHH

[pulpfiction21]

I knew you would love it.....and you actually got pretty lucky then cuz doesnt this come out in like a week? almost didn't even "leak"

[Orcusmars]

AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGHHHHHH

DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU JUST DID?

i ordered my copy already and it's in the mail and i can't wait for it and YOU HAVE JUST RUINED EVERYTHING

AAAAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUGHHHHHH

haha give me your tears

[scarred]

I knew you would love it.....and you actually got pretty lucky then cuz doesnt this come out in like a week? almost didn't even "leak"

officially it comes out in a week, but they released it a few days ago on cdbaby, and according to them my copy's already shipped.

it is taking so much god damn self control not to download that link.

actually tbh i tried this morning but my internet was being funky and i had to get to class, so i took it as a sign i should wait and build up my anticipation even more

but now that i'm home the urge is so overpowering uggghhhhh

[pat101]

interested in the new Wolf Parade ??   

[Tom]

Don't be silly.