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[JD]

Ikaiki Amayu - Sumac Llacta

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http://www.mediafire.com/?j91dl3t3pj0yi6u
I went to Spain a while ago and this really excellent group was playing at this plaza we went to. They play really nice traditional atmospheric folk music.

[Wasteroo]

the flowers sure do grow large in Spain

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[David_Dovey]

It's probably from all that rain falling mainly on the plain

[JD]

Did that clever rhyme come directly from the brain?

[JD]

Oh and it appears they're from Ecuador, not Spain.

[KvP]

Oh shit that's gonna leave a stain

Oh hey guess what

My continued lack of self-control whilst trolling Boomkat has once again yielded you a riches of stuff.


Bestboygrip - Fonck EP

Enhanced Electro-Boogie from Bestboygrip - apparently a German D&B producer working under the cover of anonymity. On the A-side he knocks out the terrific slow jammer 'Fonck' with deftly nudged drum machine syncopations and a proper lazered finish. Architeq follows with a dubbier remix in a slower yet busier and more kinetic style. On the flip 'Copyright' struts on a tidy disco vibe driven by plump bass and a bristling percussion before stepping up with the more soulful proto-house/disco bounce of 'Cross My Mind'. This EP will almost definitely appeal to fans of Luke Vibert, Ilija Rudiman or The Emperor Machine.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?73z17u9phywcd1z


Jacques Renault - Marilyn's Gold

I don't know where Brokklyn is, but I like the music that comes out of it! For the DFA bros.

Brokkyln's Jacques Renault follows Young Marco's excellent Hand Of God debut with two tracks of dubby disco grooves. 'Marilyn's Gold' bustles with crisp congas, whistles and proper party vibes, and 'Pleasure' hits a dubbier rut of filtered edit styles compatible with your Trus'me tunes.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?57pwdjy9mas8cfk


Think - Scraps EP

Been awhile since I got some proper dubstep type stuff. This is more in the old Pinch vein, which is to say it has clean production with plenty of dubby touches. Nice and cold, but lacking the meathead tendencies of your Distances or Caspas.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?7188kxqqekn37dg


Matt Whitehead - Raw Deal

Fresh off last week's single comes another true electro pair from Matt Whitehead. Blast it from your boombox and there's no guarantee Ice-T won't show up in bondage gear.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?2x6cdi55d1q6zpj


Goliath - Hidden Agenda

Mid-period Autechre machine music. Tops!

Four years after his 'Mineral Kingdom' album, Goliath returns with a new single for the Z-Bop imprint. 'Hidden Agenda' features six tracks of sci-fi-infected electro, working with a pared-down palette of hardware for a focused and efficient set of tracks catering for the floor or home listening. From tentative, skittering opner 'Gilgamesh', 'Ecce Monstrum' becoems more agitated, dropping us into the Drexciyan 'Physica', the EBM-ish darkwave of the title track and concluding with the dystopian Der Zyklus type effort 'Infiniti'.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?cios896q1sc1iyc


Lonan - Cryosphere

More IDM goodness... Essentially early Skam distilled down to an essence. There seems to be a lot of stuff like that out there these days, but even so this is a prime cut of it. Emotive, melodic, never boring.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?3d26i36aqfuhph3


Slugabed / Ghost Mutt - Donky Stomp EP

If you know Slugabed you know he hits the bass like a fuckin' sledgehammer and somehow makes it good. This is no exception.

Some of that dutty electronic wonk from Slugabed and Ghost Mutt, backed with a Mweslee remix. 'Donky Stomp' is a relatively clean and restrained production for Slugabed, and to be honest, all the better for it. The spacious production gives more room for his bassline to billow out while the drums are tucked tight and right, making for a wide appealing instrumental hiphop cut. Following this, Mweslee gives a uniquely dynamic and heavier crunk version fitted with his complex spacial perceptions, and Ghost Mutt drops two screwy bleep joints, pulling off a killer James Blake/Mount Kimbie sound in 'Thoroughbred'.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?7r41slcezmveh8s


Jefre cantu-Ledesma - Love Is A Stream

For the people who like their ambience to be like looking over a vast, sunny expanse.

Best known as a founding member of Tarentel and The Alps, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma returns with a brand new album for Type having previously released solo material through Spekk, Arbor and his own label, Root Strata. "Love Is A Stream" marks a radical rethink of the classic dream-pop template, taking an impressionist's brush to the established genre traits. Full of noise and expertly sculpted feedback, tracks such as 'Loving Love' feel like an all-analogue take on Fennesz's noisier moments, complete with hazy exchanges between skyscraping major 7th chords; you might equally suggest that Love Is A Stream goes some way towards joining the dots between My Bloody Valentine and more recent drone-pop scene leaders such as Tim Hecker and Grouper. Although the dominant component parts of this sound seem to spring from the fiery embers of molten synthesizers and tape saturated guitar tones, the album derives some of its luxurious textural presence from vocals supplied by the likes of Type boss John 'Xela' Twells, Lisa McGee and Maxwell August Croy. You can just about make out lost voices roaming around the pulverised mix of 'Stained Glass Body' and the billowing 'River Like Spine' (though it's fairly hard to make any single element out, given how melted and fluid the mixing is), bringing a frail human element to an album that otherwise sounds entirely not of this Earth. Beautiful music.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?b9gz4prx685t2dk


Jauzas The Shining - My Beauty

This one is all over the place, with some striking cover art. It would be fairly dancefloor-oriented if it weren't for all the long pauses. The remixes are uniformly interesting, though, including one by the aforementioned Goliath.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?8q2eqm9p8jna61u

And finally


Just one track from the Nosaj Thing remix album - I wasn't interested in buying the whole thing. This is the Dorian Concept remix of "Voices".

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http://www.mediafire.com/?pk5lxjevz8v9imi

[Cire27]

This thread sometimes makes me wish I were more inclined towards electronic music.

[Wasteroo]

holy shit that Slugabed split is excellent

edit: also everyone who likes Yellow Swans or Kevin Drumm or Fennesz download that Love is a Stream album right now, it is so good

[meanwhile]

many thanks KvP 

[TheClickOfALight]

The Thermals - The Body, The Blood, The Machine (2006)



Amazing Sub Pop punk from Portland, Oregon, produced by Brendan Canty from Fugazi. It's a concept album about the United States becoming a fascist Christian theocracy, and it's incredible.

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?zd02nwuxjjg

[TheFuriousWombat]

yeah Love is a Stream is one of my favorite releases of the year. Sounds really sweet on wax through headphones. My link to it a couple pages back includes the vinyl only bonus disc for those interested.

[boneykingofnowhere]

Track 10 on that Thermals rip is corrupt

[JD]

You should really already have that album.

[kwami42]

You should really already have that album.

I don't!

[JD]

Well just type "The thermals the body, the blood, the machine mediafire" into google

[kwami42]

I'm aware, I just wanted to chime in

[aflowerchild]

The new Matt and Kim album is the tits.

[aflowerchild]

Meghan Callahan-Since The Fire

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?tervc1689b1r5tj
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3wQk-vO_no&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGPTJJtVUfw&feature=player_embedded

http://www.myspace.com/MeganCallahanMusic

A really great kinda Nora Jones ish feel, with guitar. Blues/folk.

[aflowerchild]

Streetlight Manifesto-99 Songs of Revolution

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http://www.mediafire.com/?57hp57da8foowx8

[the_pied_piper]

Some funky house from the Finnish duo of Hannu "DJ Ender" Nieminen and Lauri Soini.

Hannulelauri - Super Monkey EP

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http://www.mediafire.com/?h21khr1kl6b8m57

[TheFuriousWombat]

A night of experimental music, live @ Bard Hall 10/30/2010

What we have here today is an extremely rare live recording, one you certainly will not find anywhere else. Three sets, two very brief and one rather long, recorded live at a pre-Halloween show in Bard Hall at Bard College in front of a crowd of about twenty.

The first set is a solo piece by Colin White using amplified metal, tape, and feedback. Warm, humming feedback washes over piercing squeaks and rough, buzzing reverberation as white noise wavers and builds over rhythmic metallic clanking and lowing reverb. A perfect pre-Halloween set, this sounds like some surrealist horror soundtrack.

Next is Michael Foster on saxophone and occasionally gasping, wordless vocals, and Leila Bordreuil on cello. The two instruments dance in and out of one another, sometime complementing each other in an offkilter kind of harmony, other times dueling and spinning off in contrary directions. There are moments of furious build and manic intensity and others of slow, minimal meandering. Fans of the previous post on this blog will find more to love here as this delves into the realm of frenetic free jazz and even swings, in a delightfully surprsisng take, into traditional jazz for a moment. A very cool and altogether too short piece.

The concert ends with a trio of amazing musicians: The great Greg kelley on trumpet, Vic Rawlings on prepared cello and electronics, and Ryan Jewell on percussion and various strange noise producing implements. Clocking in at over half an hour, this was an incredible set. Imagine a field recording from inside some alien, wheezing, decaying factory and you'll start to get a feel for what this piece sounds like. Kelley uses a damper and a small, thin sheet of metal to emit from his trumpet a rattling hum or plays with the mouthpiece removed to create a breathy, moaning gasp. Jewell uses an oyster fork and a piece of Plexiglas placed flush upon the cloth covered and contact miced surface of a snare drum to create a sharp, piercing squeak, places a long metal tine vertically against the same drum and rubs it rhythmically to create a wavering reverberation, and swings a heavily rosined bow through the air in a dense whoosh. The prepared cello of Rawlings buzzes strangely in the background and his electronics build a underlying haze of crumbling static and machinelike rumblings. Other sounds abound: Strange gasps like steam valves venting air, distant hums like generators quietly chugging away, gravely rattles like cogs spinning, hollow clanks like pipes faintly rattling. One feels as though one has found one's way into the belly of some strange machine. It's an incredibly minimal piece but it's eerie and bizarre and really wonderful, especially considering the acoustic nature of most of the sounds which somehow sound so unnatural (in the best possible way).

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?kci2h8khp8nfqc3

[mb7654]

A night of experimental music, live @ Bard Hall 10/30/2010

What we have here today is an extremely rare live recording, one you certainly will not find anywhere else. Three sets, two very brief and one rather long, recorded live at a pre-Halloween show in Bard Hall at Bard College in front of a crowd of about twenty.

The first set is a solo piece by Colin White using amplified metal, tape, and feedback. Warm, humming feedback washes over piercing squeaks and rough, buzzing reverberation as white noise wavers and builds over rhythmic metallic clanking and lowing reverb. A perfect pre-Halloween set, this sounds like some surrealist horror soundtrack.

Next is Michael Foster on saxophone and occasionally gasping, wordless vocals, and Leila Bordreuil on cello. The two instruments dance in and out of one another, sometime complementing each other in an offkilter kind of harmony, other times dueling and spinning off in contrary directions. There are moments of furious build and manic intensity and others of slow, minimal meandering. Fans of the previous post on this blog will find more to love here as this delves into the realm of frenetic free jazz and even swings, in a delightfully surprsisng take, into traditional jazz for a moment. A very cool and altogether too short piece.

The concert ends with a trio of amazing musicians: The great Greg kelley on trumpet, Vic Rawlings on prepared cello and electronics, and Ryan Jewell on percussion and various strange noise producing implements. Clocking in at over half an hour, this was an incredible set. Imagine a field recording from inside some alien, wheezing, decaying factory and you'll start to get a feel for what this piece sounds like. Kelley uses a damper and a small, thin sheet of metal to emit from his trumpet a rattling hum or plays with the mouthpiece removed to create a breathy, moaning gasp. Jewell uses an oyster fork and a piece of Plexiglas placed flush upon the cloth covered and contact miced surface of a snare drum to create a sharp, piercing squeak, places a long metal tine vertically against the same drum and rubs it rhythmically to create a wavering reverberation, and swings a heavily rosined bow through the air in a dense whoosh. The prepared cello of Rawlings buzzes strangely in the background and his electronics build a underlying haze of crumbling static and machinelike rumblings. Other sounds abound: Strange gasps like steam valves venting air, distant hums like generators quietly chugging away, gravely rattles like cogs spinning, hollow clanks like pipes faintly rattling. One feels as though one has found one's way into the belly of some strange machine. It's an incredibly minimal piece but it's eerie and bizarre and really wonderful, especially considering the acoustic nature of most of the sounds which somehow sound so unnatural (in the best possible way).

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?kci2h8khp8nfqc3

wtf I go to Bard, how did I not hear about this? Also, I presume you also go to Bard?

(long time lurker, had to register to say this so I guess I'll see about posting some things eventually.

[TheFuriousWombat]

I do go to Bard and I'm sorry you didn't hear about it! It was really badly publicized, not even sure how I found out about it. Thurston Moore is playing in the chapel on the 11th so don't miss that

[aflowerchild]

Blink 182-Enema of the State

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http://www.mediafire.com/?f2be35rcp8d048u

[KvP]

suck my diccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccck


The 1900s - Return of the Century

Over the course of its first two EPs and LP, Chicago indie-pop band The 1900s developed an expansive, heavily orchestrated sound, informed equally by sunny ’60s singles, moody ’70s country-rock, and modern DIY. For the band’s second album, Return Of The Century, it’s shed some members and scaled back the arrangements, while applying some radio-ready sheen. Though The 1900s claim that Return Of The Century is a concept album about a subterranean cult—and though the songs are as structurally complicated as ever—the immediate impression the record gives off is of tight harmonies and hands clapping in unison over sweet strings and jangly guitars. This is bright, upbeat music; even the me-first anthem “Lay A Ghost” has such a snappy beat and ingratiating melody that it generates goodwill. Is the next great pop song on here? Not exactly. Like a lot of these polished indie albums, Return Of The Century is more about the overall vibe than distinct, individual highs. But “Bmore” and “Babies” are remarkable for the way they start with strong melodies and then take unexpected turns, spinning off little crystalline designs, just for the beauty of it. Grade: B+

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http://www.mediafire.com/?l8imro0rkjxo2o6

[theoryC]

Is that different from the band simply called 1900?

Either way nice cover so I'll check it out

[ellis]

I believe they are different.  And if I recall, a band called the 1990's came out around the same time.  I forget if they had a similar sound but I remember getting music from all three bands at once and forgetting which was which.

[aflowerchild]

suck my diccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccck

Me? What did I do?

[KvP]

You just got steamrolled by them 1900s

[KvP]

Soon! Excepter! Nurse With Wound! Cosey Fanni Tutti! More!

[Harun]

how bout some metal up in this piece

Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit (2010)
cool beans

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http://www.mediafire.com/?xozixf6xwtiqqon

Atheist - Jupiter (2010)
dudes still got it.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?y55l2pr91dp0ysc

Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini (2010)
like opeth except more black metally

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http://www.mediafire.com/?t8moakja1md8ixj

TesseracT - Concealing Fate EP (2010)
download this if you know who Sikth is, because you'll probably like love this.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?q1rhc3t3z9zonj6


Radiance - The Burning Sun (2010)
incredible side project featuring guitarist of Necrophagist and some famous power-metal dude on vocals. Cool concept album about the sun blowing up or some shit.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?q1rhc3t3z9zonj6


Decrepit Birth - Polarity (2010)
if we lived in a world where everyone liked fruitcake being the delicious, super-dense brick of awesome that it is. Actually I have no idea where I'm going with that. Decrepit Birth is super-dense though, pretty progressive, always technical. If you like your music to be be so complex that it never gets boring, then this is for you

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http://www.mediafire.com/?bfdio846hn777s6

[JD]

aww yess new atheist

[KurtMcAllister]

Destoyer - Archer On The Beach b/w Grief Point 12"


Destroyer's collaborative EP with Tim Hecker on the A-side and Loscil on the B-side.

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?ji6mclfvilubqjp

[Vuk]

The new Decrepit Birth is godawful. Good on you for posting Agalloch and Atheist, though.

[Harun]

godawful compared to what? ..And Time Begins? Polarity definitely isn't on that level but it is still top-notch technical metal

on that note, how bout some Cee Lo Green up in this.


Cee Lo Green - The Lady Kiiller (2010)

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?maesuvdctx3g5rd

[Cire27]

Agalloch:  where do I start?

[JD]

The Mantle

[mb7654]

Agalloch:  where do I start?

I agree, start with the Mantle, but move quickly into Pale Folklore and Ashes Against the Grain. Follow that with the White EP.

Give me some time and I can cook up an Agalloch mega-post. (no promises, though, the internet is painfully slow for me sometimes) Update: looks like that already happened.

[Orcusmars]

Well, I was at a show last night for a couple of local black metal acts, both of whom absolutely killed. Abigail Williams was headlining, and everyone was really hesitant to stick around, but since they made sure that the show was free, we all felt obligated to at least stick around for a couple of songs as a thank you. We all kind of mugged at each other because, hey, isn't Abigail Williams that awful wannabe black metal metalcore band?

Then they got onstage and played one of the most legit shows I have seen in a long damn time. No bullshit, just straight badass black metal in the vein of Immortal and Enslaved. Even though the two bands that got up before them have a lot more cred, these guys have seriously changed in a very big way, and if you have an interest in black metal at all, you owe it to yourself to give their new album a shot.

Abigail Williams - In the Absence of Light

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?pb4inzaxhr64px6

[KvP]

I'm a little burnt out on ripping at the moment (largely because the Nurse With Wound album is proving exceedingly difficult to parse out into a tracklist) but I've still got a few things up. I'm going to take a little break.


Margot - France 2 EP

Italian du Margot arrive at Border Community with their debut for the label: a four-track EP kicking off with title track 'France 2', an arpeggiating tribute to the sorts of electrohouse sounds that have been emanating from Gallic shores over the past few years. After this strong opening, 'Voci Giaga' continues along similar lines, piling on the synth melodies, only for a drifting monotone vocal to whisper its way into the mix, leaving you with an off-kilter but compelling dancefloor pop oddity. On the B-side, 'H2' fires up some spiralling organic disco, leaving 'Oceano' to close the set with brooding, kosmische bass figures and weird percussive details.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?7xz3zy60xa8xckk


Excepter - Late / Tank Tapes

New York's "...premiere improvisatory, vocal-and-electronics cosmic beat-box band..." return to Woodsist with a brilliant side of loopy hypnotics, including an insert code for free digital download of the 2007 cassette-only release for Tank Tapes redeemable directly from the label. All four tracks are previously unreleased, arms-out eyes-shut wanders through darkly tinted terrain. 'Oboh' opens up with what sounds like reversed field recordings made inside a washing machine at a Native American ritual ceremony, before 'Lal8' intrepidly changes tack into a forest of doomy 808 bass hits and spectral, gangly theremin-like drones looming in from the edges. On the flip is a live recording of two tracks from a show at Glass Lands in early 2010. This side starts with the howling avant-darkwave expressions of 'Anastasia', skeletal 808 punching you in the stomach and arabesque synthline floating like drunken flies around your hollow eyes while raspy voices howl like Cold Cave gone feral. The magnificently titled 'Cat P*ss & Licorice' brings us back to the start with a freeform arrangement of fluttering drones and echoic voices joined by skin-crawling electronics, almost like some TG piece until a sublime music box melody perfumes the air and all settles into an opiated mush. Get in.

Late

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http://www.mediafire.com/?vfi3zmznll6fulaTank Tapes

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http://www.mediafire.com/?0666bs1h4v4800c

[valley_parade]

Another new single from Japandroids. This time with a PJ Harvey cover.

Japandroids - Heavenward Grand Prix b/w Shame

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http://www.mediafire.com/?a6wf3866opdkadp

[SWOON! at My Gravitas]

Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini (2010)

If you are into metal you would probably like this, it's really quite good

[lcclhll]

Mini Mansions - Mini Mansions EP (2009)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUbZNn7Owmc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJgfd2ajzts

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Mini Mansions are a Los Angeles band founded Michael Shuman, Zach Dawes and Tyler Parkford in 2009 after the Queens of the Stone Age decided to take a break after touring in support of Era Vulgaris. Their self-released EP from 2009 contains nine tracks. Mini Mansions style has been compared to The Beatles, Elliott Smith and Fountains of Wayne.

Mini Mansions - Mini Mansions LP (2010) {320}

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?iulrco02mryia2j

If pure sound had the capability to project images on a blank wall, Mini Mansions would be worthy projectionists. On a break from Queens of the Stone Age, Michael Shuman melded heads and locked arms with longtime friends Tyler Parkford and Zach Dawes in a dusty room in the San Fernando Valley. Here, they began a collaborative séance out of which birthed Mini Mansions in January of 2009. Though their triangle is usually confined to piano, bass, and a cocktail drum kit, the LAbased trio generates a Technicolor spectrum of sound drawn from the baroque, gothic, psychedelic, and cinematic realms. Their debut selftitled release, due out this fall via Rekords Rekords, curtseys to the past, bows to the present, and foreshadows a progressively more abstract future.

[JD]

Bottomless Pit - Blood Under The Bridge

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http://www.mediafire.com/?dx1zep1qw8csj7g

[TheClickOfALight]

Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances (2008)



Great debut album, amazing live band. This album combines just about every good element of indie, rock, punk and shoegaze, as well as some kind of weird Celtic vibe.

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?kjtdmnqinjx

[TheFuriousWombat]

shoegaze?

[gospel]

EDIT: Goddamnit, I thought Titus Andronicus had a new album.

[mrgonzo]

I'll just leave these here.





prefuse 73 - vocal studies and uprock narratives



Warp's second 2001 release by a stateside producer (after Richard Devine's Lip Switch) is one of the most enjoyable works of experimental techno heard in several years, a combination of tough, underground hip-hop and the fractured neo-electro of Warp favorites Autechre and Plaid. Scott Herren, the lone figure behind releases as Delarosa & Asora, Savath & Savalas, and Prefuse 73, constructs raw breakbeat tracks, cutting and splicing vocals, beats, and pianos over and over until what may previously have been a straight-ahead hip-hop rhythm track gets reconstructed into a symphony of deeply groovy musique concrète. Herren calls on the raw repetition of DJ Premier and the catchy finesse of Timbaland to create a collection of tracks that could appeal to fans of DMX just as well as AFX. Just slightly more experimental than the increasingly fractured productions you'd hear on a mainstream rap station, Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives is also much more fun than the notoriously academic cast of techno producers led by Autechre and Richard Devine.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?znzd5gw3ycma9t8


antibalas afrobeat orchestra - security



Antibalas established themselves in the late 1990s as a burning, tough, horn, bass and drum driven Afrobeat ensemble cut from the Fela Kuti mold, who were politically savvy and socially conscious. Their live shows have been incendiary events where rhythm and perspiration from completely crazy, booty-shaking audience members shared something deeper and wider than the music itself. Security is Antibalas' fourth album. It was co-produced by the band with John McEntire from Tortoise (he also mixed the set). While opening horn lines let the listener know immediately that this is Antibalas, virtually everything else is different. It's not like the Afrobeat is gone, but it's been stretched to the breaking point to include organic funk, electronic sounds, hip-hop rhythms, and a wicked backbeat on some tracks that could whip out the kinks in a tight spine better than a chiropractor.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?89dex4d752dmudi

helmet - betty


There are two types of Helmet fans. Those who think "Betty" is the best work Helmet ever did, and those who think "Betty" is Helmet selling out and becomming too weak.

I fall into the former category. To me, Helmet was on the verge of greatness for a long time, they had their finger on the trigger for years. This is the album in which they finally pulled that trigger. All other Helmet albums sound like a dirty scramble, a ceaseless search for "it".

Betty is "it". The hardcore fans out there will tell you that Betty is too commercial, too pop, too weak, too radio friendly. Maybe this is true, but it depends on your definition of "too".

Considering that the only Helmet single I have ever heard on the radio or MTV isn't even on this album, I choose to disagree with the "hardcore base". Betty is Helmet at its best, it is when Helmet stops making noise and starts making music. this album was on the tip of their tounge for a long time.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?5d177ai2hild2tp


el-p - fantastic damage


...Fantastic Damage is an unrelenting, end-to-end burner that not only heralds the resurrection of El-P, but also provides a milestone for post-millennial underground hip-hop. The music is carefully constructed and sonically intricate. Distorted guitars, cacophonous, high-pitched ringing, and spiraling screams comprise its musical motifs. Lyrically, El-P eschews hip-hop's straightforward style for fits of associative word clusters (a la Kool Keith, or even early Pavement) that sound like a freestyle battle between a Marxist pamphlet and a technical manual.

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fishbone - the psychotic friends nuttwerx


Regrouping with an approximately half-new lineup, Fishbone returned in 2000 on Hollywood Records with their first album of new material since 1996's Chim Chim's Badass Revenge. Sporting a full title of Fishbone and the Familyhood Nextperience Presents: The Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx, the record presents a bevy of guest performers, from funk legends George Clinton and Rick James to Gwen Stefani, lead singer of fellow California ska aficionados No Doubt, to legendary underground comedian Blowfly, to -- of all people -- Donny Osmond; there's also an assortment of fellow pioneers in the fusion of hard alternative rock with funk, including Perry Farrell of Jane's Addiction, H.R. of Bad Brains, and the instrumental portion of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Still and all, it's definitely Fishbone's show, and thanks to the band's most memorable and focused batch of songs in quite some time -- even not counting the covers of Sly & the Family Stone's "Everybody Is a Star" and the Temptations' "Shakey Ground" -- it's an often formidable show at that. The record concentrates most heavily on the funk and ska sides of the Fishbone sound, lending a sunny, good-humored vibe throughout; plus, with a total playing time of 45 minutes, the album's eclectic grooves are kept from meandering or growing stale. Refocused and re-energized, The Psychotic Friends Nuttwerx is far and away Fishbone's best album in nearly a decade.

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[Algernon]

Some older stuff and some newer stuff.  

This is my first post here, so please, if I break any simultaneously super-sucret and super-important rules, please only cut off one hand or so.  No need for anything drastic.

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Silver Jews - American Water (1998)



Blue Arrangements
Smith and Jones Forever
People

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High Places - High Places vs. Mankind (2010)



On Giving Up
The Longest Shadows

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Tobacco - Maniac Meat (2010)



Six Royal Vipers
Constellation Dirtbike Head
Lick the Witch

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Josh Smith - Of Mics and Men (2010)



Bandcamp

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Sprites - Starling, Spiders, Tiger and Sprites (2003)



Do It Yourself
Joel Has A Hole In His Eardrum

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The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys Today! (1965)



When I Grow Up (To Be a Man)
Help Me, Ronda
Dance, Dance, Dance

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The Sea and Cake - The Biz (1995)



The Biz
An Assassin

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Black Moth Super Rainbow and The Octopus Project - The House of Apples and Eyeballs (2006)



Runite Castles
Spiracle

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Blockhead - The Music Scene (2009)



The Music Scene
It's Raining Clouds

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[David_Dovey]

Nope, all seems in order to me. Well done!