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The M/F Thread 2009: The Quickening
Rubin:
Danish electropop, quite good electropop at that.
Theese girls (and one guy) just their first EP, and it is quite promising.
I have uploaded this here:
Giana Factory - Bloody Game EP
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Here they are, reviewed on pitchfork:
--- Quote ---Though fronted by the sister of Sharin Foo, Giana Factory shares little else with the stylized neo-garage of the Raveonettes. Instead, this Danish troupe specializes in frozen cold, electronic minimalism, heightening drama through an eerie starkness. "Bloody Game" is little more than pulsing bass and ricocheting keystrokes, as Loui Foo recites the lyrics with clinical dispassion. "You better open my chest with a knife/ Check if my heart beats for you/ And if it doesn't, then do what you need to do," she intones. The remove in her voice seems far from accidental. In this tale of love gone wrong, she gives up so much of herself to her lover, so much control, that she quite literally ceases to be. It's a chilling, albeit engrossing, account best observed from a distance.
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As with all such young bands, they aren't really making any money, so here's the link for the EP on iTunes store:
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=330485343&s=143458
KvP:
The Gasman - 001
--- Quote from: Organ Magazine, whoever that is ---THE GASMAN 001 (self release) - Cut up electronics and expensive atmospheric keyboard ambition from the rather mysterious Gasman - Aphex Twin, Rephlex, Speedranch, Squarepusher, Plexi squelchy oddness meets the more obtuse atmospherics of Tomita or even the ambient classical cathedral stretching side of Cardiacs (The Gasman has recently been providing in between band atmosphere on the recent Cardiacs tour). The sounds and textures can be a little relentless, but hey, if your head is the right place then and strange electronic squelch that soothes rather than attacks is your thing then this is rather good.
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I can't find a better review than that. As far as I'm aware this album isn't sold electronically, and the physical discs are limited to a run of 500. I had it imported. Basically it's weird electro with a lot of looped and altered classical elements. And lots of reverb.
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Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
--- Quote from: Pitchfork (8.2) ---Boards of Canada's 2005 album, The Campfire Headphase, included a song called "Chromakey Dreamcoat" that sounded like guitar loops playing on a wobbly phonograph. You have to wonder if this was a shout-out to their li'l homey Bibio, who cut three records for Mush from the whole cloth of this idea. Like his idols, he filled his electro-acoustic music with antiquated cultural products and nature sounds-- things that are beautiful because we've less and less use for them. But he lacked range, his wavering loop-collages falling into two categories: those informed by the sprightly forms of British folk, and those that were nearly formless.
Bibio released Vignetting the Compost just five months ago, and it seemed to cement his status as a pleasant one-trick pony. So it's shocking how utterly and successfully he rewrites his playbook on this Warp debut. I actually have to eat a little crow. I wrote of Compost that Bibio had a "thin, modest voice that verges on anonymity," and suggested that he should favor atmosphere over songcraft. This seemed justified: The more the songs approximated pop structures, the less interesting they became. But on Ambivalence Avenue, Bibio proves that he actually can sing and produce memorable arrangements. He used to make FX blurs with traces of pop and folk; now he inverts that formula with bracing clarity.
The results are fantastic and diverse: The title track weaves bouncing vocals through crisp guitar licks and bouncy flutes; "All the Flowers" is a fey folk gem; the dreamy "Haikuesque (When She Laughs)" is better indie-rock than many indie-rockers are making these days. Summery anthem "Lovers' Carvings" coasts on crunchy, gleaming riffs and upbeat woodblocks, and the autumnal "The Palm of Your Wave" is simply haunting. It's hard to believe that these inspired, moving vocal performances are coming from the same guy who recorded moaning ambiguities like "Mr. & Mrs. Compost". Occasionally, you'll hear a little tremble in the strings and go, "Oh right, this is Bibio," but mostly, detuned atmosphere has been replaced by silky drive.
While these songs are a quantum leap for Bibio, they still reasonably project from the foundation he's laid. But there's no accounting for the remainder of the album, which finds him paddling the uncharted waters of hip-hop, techno, and points outlying. "Jealous of Roses" sets lustrous funk riffs dancing between the stereo channels as Bibio belts out a surprisingly effective Sly-Stone-in-falsetto impersonation. "Fire Ant" spikes the loping soul of J Dilla with the stroboscopic vocal morsels of the Field; "Sugarette" wheezes and fumes like a Flying Lotus contraption. The music feels both spontaneous and precise, winding in complex syncopation around the one-beat, with subtle filter and tempo tweaks, and careful juxtapositions of texture (see the arid, throttled voices scraping against the sopping-wet chimes of "S'vive"). Many songs taper off into ambient passages that have actual gravity, gluing the far-flung genres together. It's the kind of seamless variety, heady but visceral, that few electronic musicians who aren't Four Tet have achieved.
While Ambivalence Avenue is an excellent album by any measure, Bibio deserves extra credit for venturing outside of his established comfort zone. He began his musical career trying to emulate Steve Reich and Boards of Canada on no-fi equipment. He was fascinated by the physicality of media-- of degrading tape and malfunctioning recording gear. And he was interested in the natural world, letting the sounds of streams and rainshowers stand in for his own personality. Having depleted these ideas over the course of three solid albums, he's put them aside to do nearly the opposite. Ambivalence Avenue moves the focus from the flaws of media to their capacity for precision, and takes fewer cues from nature than from the urban sounds-- including Dilla and Madlib-- that Bibio admits discovering in recent years. By jettisoning a limiting aesthetic, he reveals his abilities to be startlingly vast, and one of our most predictable electronic musicians becomes a wild card.
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valley_parade:
That Ola Podrida album's missing the first track.
KvP:
Bibio - The Apple and The Tooth
--- Quote from: Allmusic ---Bibio's Stephen Wilkinson had a banner year in 2009. He rang it in with Vignetting the Compost, an album that seemed to beckon spring with its delicate, pastoral electronics, then took his music several steps forward with that summer's Ambivalence Avenue, which was as dazzling as it was eclectic. Wilkinson closed the year with The Apple and the Tooth's hybrid of new songs and remixes by similarly wide-ranging artists who found plenty of ways to push Ambivalence Avenue's tracks in even more far-flung directions. Some remixers hone in on the album's anything-goes feel: Clark, whose fearless sound clashes feel like a major influence on Bibio, takes the already hyperactive "S'vive" to another level of brilliant fragmentation, using sudden stops and starts, layers of dreamy analog synth, and crashing electronic noise to rework the song so drastically it feels like a suite of mini-remixes. Letherette's transformation of "Lover's Carvings" from a folky guitar vignette into a soulful, bottom-heavy slow jam is even more radical, even if it's not as shocking. Other artists tap into Ambivalence Avenue's reveries. Lone doesn't tamper much with the hippie bliss of "All the Flowers," only adding filtered electronics and crunchier beats to its chiming harmonies, while the Gentleman Losers' take on "Haikuesque" somehow makes the song even more nostalgic. Bibio himself contributes a remix as well, the lovely, chamber pop-ified "The Palm of Your Wave," but The Apple and the Tooth's new tracks are more interesting. Ambivalence Avenue's mix of sunny folk-pop and challenging beats and textures continues on the title track and "Rotten Rudd," even if neither is quite as jaw-dropping as the songs from that album. "Bones and Skulls," however, is a standout that proves Wilkinson's songwriting is growing ever more effortlessly graceful as it segues from a breezy melody into a moodier piano and guitar coda. Even if The Apple and the Tooth is more a summation of where Bibio was in 2009 than another bold step forward, it's still a very enjoyable look back on his artistic growth that year.
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And some compilations from the Boomkat online store. 14 tracks for the price of 7. I still have an Acid compilation I need to upload. The titles pretty much explain them. The "Dynamic Steppers" one is pretty good.
14 Tracks Re-Wiring UK Garage
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14 Tracks From Dynamic Steppers
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bedhead138:
Johnn Mayer - Battle Studies (2009) ~ Mp3 V0
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1. Heartbreak Warfare
2. All We Ever Do Is Say Goodbye
3. Half Of My Heart
4. Who Says
5. Perfectly Lonely
6. Assassin
7. Crossroads
8. War Of My Life
9. Edge Of Desire
10. Do You Know Me
11. Friends, Lovers Or Nothing
The Fiery Furnaces - Take Me Round Again (2009) ~ Mp3 320
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--- Quote ---Take Me Round Again: The Friedbergers cover the Friedbergers.
The Fiery Furnaces have been reworking, rearranging, and rewriting their songs live since they first started touring in 2003. They have taken this practice one step further on their new record, Take Me Round Again. Recorded separately this past July in Michigan and New York, Matt and Eleanor each recorded 6 songs that originally appeared on Im Going Away. All that remains the same are the words.
Eleanor: Ive gotten into the habit of rewriting songs Matt has written, just as a way of practicing and singing at home. Originally, I had wanted to record a folk-style record called Eleanor Friedberger sings the songs of the Fiery Furnaces. I thought it would make a nice greatest hits record, but reworking Im Going Away before it even came out seemed a lot more exciting.
Matthew: After asking people to send us their re-write of Im Going Away before having heard it [http://www.thefieryfurnaces.com/site/deaf-descriptions/], I thought we owed it to them to make an actual alternate version of the record. And not just leave all the new arranging for live shows.
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01 I m Going Away Matthew Friedberger
02 I m Going Away Eleanor Friedberger
03 Keep Me in the Dark Eleanor Friedberger
04 Cut the Cake Eleanor Friedberger
05 Even in the Rain Eleanor Friedberger
06 Drive to Dallas Matthew Friedberger
07 Keep Me in the Dark Matthew Friedberger
08 Ray Bouvier Eleanor Friedberger
09 Cups Punches Eleanor Friedberger
10 Take Me Round Again Matthew Friedberger
11 Cut the Cake Matthew Friedberger
12 Staring at the Steeple Matthew Friedberger
Vic Chesnutt - Skitter on Take-Off (2009) ~ Mp3 192
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--- Quote ---Vic Chesnutt has recorded with many different people for all kinds of labels, but he s never made an album like his debut on Vapor Records. Chesnutt s first two releases were produced by R.E.M. s Michael Stipe, and from there he was featured in the PBS documentary Speed Racer and his songs were recorded for Sweet Relief II: Gravity of the Situation. A wide range of artists including Garbage, Madonna, Smashing Pumpkins, R.E.M. and Live all covered Chesnutt originals. He has recorded with other groups like Widespread Panic and Lambchop and musicians as varied as Bill Frisell and Fugazi s Guy Picciotto. Chesnutt recently performed on Cowboy Junkie s Trinity Revisited, with others and over a dozen different releases of his own. Skitter On Take Off allows Vic Chesnutt to create his most dramatic album yet, recording devastating songs like Rips in the Fabric and Dick Cheney live with no overdubs. This album becomes a unique addition to his history, and allows the singer songwriter the chance to collaborate with an important influence. I m honored to work with Jonathan Richman. Over the years he s taken me under his wing and mentored me in a very meaningful way, truly shaping me into the songwriter and performer I am today. And it is an ongoing process. Chesnutt and Richman s work together is one for the ages.
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Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Live (2009) ~ Mp3 V0
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--- Quote ---2 DVD set includes bonus live audio CD
The DVD features over two hours of live concert footage from three sold out shows in Berlin, Dublin and Glasgow. The footage documents the end of the band s 2007 tour in support of Baby 81, their most recent full-length release. The live audio was mixed by BRMC s own Peter Hayes and the gritty cinematography keeps the band s music front and center while viewers experience the show both from the stage and from the audience s perspective.
Over ninety minutes of unadorned, intimate behind-the-scenes footage is captured on the second bonus DVD along with additional performance footage. Viewers accompany BRMC as they record songs from Howl, see the making of the Weapon of Choice video, and witness inspired, impromptu off-stage performances.
The package is rounded out by a bonus audio CD featuring 14 songs from the concert film and a gorgeous 48-page booklet of previously unseen backstage and candid photos of the band.
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Disc 1
01 Berlin
02 Weapon Of Choice
03 Rise Or Fall
04 666 Conducer
05 Ain't No Easy Way
06 Weight Of The World
07 Stop
08 All You Do Is Talk
09 Red Eyes And Tears
10 As Sure As The Sun
11 American X
12 Spread Your Love
13 Love Burns
14 Mercy
15 Dirty Old Town
16 Promise
17 Six Barrel Shotgun
18 Whatever Happened To My Rock And Roll
19 Punk Song
20 Fault Line
21 Took Out A Loan
22 The Show Is About To Begin
23 Heart And Soul
Disc 2
01 Weapon Of Choice
02 Rise Of Fall
03 666 Conducer
04 Ain't No Easy Way
05 Berlin
06 Red Eyes And Tears
07 Love Burns
08 Mercy
09 Dirty Old Town
10 Promise
11 Six Barrell Shotgun
12 Spread Your Love
13 Took Out A Loan
14 Whatever Happened To My Rock'N'Roll (Punk Song)
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