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I've been overcome with sadness: my sister won't let me listen to the Hannah Montana soundtrack I just finished downloading. She just hates good music, I guess.

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Also, please do NOT request albums.

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[bff]

...The power trio, with its unusual instrumentation of drums, guitar, and Warr guitar (a 12-string instrument that offers, via the finger-tapping method, a full-stringed guitar and bass combined on the same neck)...

I am intrigued.

[mikebulko]

can someone re-upload the Winks - Slippers & Parasols + Chorus Girls EP?
also does anyone have "Days that stand still" by vermicious knid, or any dd/mm/yyyy? ive been looking for those for SOOOOOO long!

[plyphon]

if you die, can I have your stuff?

Okay, but only so long as you bury me with the Preacher action figure and Feedbacker picture disc. I kind of like the idea of spending eternity with Wata and Jesse Custer.



Behold... The Arctopus - Skullgrid

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Brooklyn's Behold... The Arctopus drop their Metal Blade full-length via Black Market Industries. The power trio, with its unusual instrumentation of drums, guitar, and Warr guitar (a 12-string instrument that offers, via the finger-tapping method, a full-stringed guitar and bass combined on the same neck), issued its first two EPs and a live set on Metal Blade in 2006, but in that regard, the band was still honing its sound. Here, it is fully fleshed, high-octane, all instrumental tech-prog metal with all the knottiness and timeshifts required. Certainly they are among the ranks of other acts that perform this super proficient music, like Psyopus and Dysrhythmia (Warr guitarist Colin Marston is a member) as well as Necrophagist and Meshuggah, but these cats take it a step further. Imagine the technical attack of early Voivod if Steve Vai or Mike Keneally had been their guitarist. There are no real riffs in this music -- more like long, intricate lines to be played off, one after another, with guitarist Mike Lerner leading the way, creating all of these labyrinthine patterns pummeled into overdrive by drummer Charlie Zeleny (who can play circles around any speed metal drummer anywhere and whose blastbeats are trademarks in themselves). Echoes of prog rock, jazz, and overdriven math rock are all present, but they don't add up to much until they are put through BTA's shredding blender in which everything comes off but the burrs.

Holy shiteballs.....

**jigs**

(thanks)

[mikebulko]

Man Man - Rabbit Habits (2008)

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Panda Bear - Young Prayer (2004)

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Notwist - The Devil, You + Me (2008)

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Van Dyk Parks - Song Cycle (1968)

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[mikebulko]

Wolf Parade - Pardon my Blues (2008)

This is a live compliation of what is essentially going to be on the new album.

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[MusicScribbles]

Thank you mikebulko. That is a great contribution to the thread, which is preferred over requests, but, knowing this thread, someone might eventually fill them even though they are condoned. So, I guess it's possible to keep hoping. Also, please try not to double-post when you can just edit the above to add in everything you forget to say. Also, take a look at the Hi, I'm New forums and read the Rules thread. It is stickied. Enjoy your time here!

[E. Spaceman]

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Imagine if a bunch of electronic musicians from tijuana one day thought"hey, how come all our stuff sounds like we come from Detroit?" and then decided to make electronic music taking the musical elements that are found in Tijuana instead. Tex Mex, Mariachis, Tambora and the like, and they were pretty good! This is the last one they did and probably the most polished one.

[MiltonHorton]

Thrushes - Sun Come Undone

A noise pop quartet from Baltimore that owes its heavily reverbed sound to the Jesus and Mary Chain and the Swirlies, Thrushes are a four-piece consisting of vocalist/guitarist Anna Conner, guitarist/vocalist Casey Harvey, drummer Matt Davis, and bassist Rachel Tracy.

So says AMG; this is their 1st album. Ethereal, pretty.

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Antony and The Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now
A cross between Culture Club/Boy George and Rufus Wainwright, which makes sense since both sing on this album. Devendra Banhart too.

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[amok]

someone might eventually fill them even though they are condoned.

Condoned means 'allowed.'

E. Spaceman, that looks fascinating, thanks.

[Prof.Positron]

Some non-Hannah-Montana stuff:

The Beatles – The Capital Albums, Volume One  (Mono versions Only)

Meet The Beatles! (1964)

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The Beatles Second Album (1964)

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Something New (1964)

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Beatles '65 (1965)

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George Harrison – All Things Must Pass (1970) (2001 Remaster)



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George Harrison – Living in the Material World (1973)

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The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966)

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Massive Attack – Blue Lines (1991)

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"The first masterpiece of what was only termed trip-hop much later, Blue Lines filtered American hip-hop through the lens of British club culture, a stylish, nocturnal sense of scene that encompassed music from rare groove to dub to dance. The album balances dark, diva-led club jams along the lines of Soul II Soul with some of the best British rap (vocals and production) heard up to that point, occasionally on the same track. The opener "Safe From Harm" is the best example, with diva vocalist Shara Nelson trading off lines with the group's own monotone (yet effective) rapping. Even more than hip-hop or dance, however, dub is the big touchstone on Blue Lines. Most of the productions aren't quite as earthy as you'd expect, but the influence is palpable in the atmospherics of the songs, like the faraway electric piano on "One Love" (with beautiful vocals from the near-legendary Horace Andy). One track, "Five Man Army," makes the dub inspiration explicit, with a clattering percussion line, moderate reverb on the guitar and drums, and Andy's exquisite falsetto flitting over the chorus. Blue Lines isn't all darkness, either -- "Be Thankful for What You've Got" is quite close to the smooth soul tune conjured by its title, and "Unfinished Sympathy" -- the group's first classic production -- is a tremendously moving fusion of up-tempo hip-hop and dancefloor jam with slow-moving, syrupy strings. Flaunting both their range and their tremendously evocative productions, Massive Attack recorded one of the best dance albums of all time." - AMG

The Flaming Lips – The Soft Bulletin (1999)

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"So where does a band go after releasing the most defiantly experimental record of its career? If you're the Flaming Lips, you keep rushing headlong into the unknown -- The Soft Bulletin, their follow-up to the four-disc gambit Zaireeka, is in many ways their most daring work yet, a plaintively emotional, lushly symphonic pop masterpiece eons removed from the mind-warping noise of their past efforts. Though more conventional in concept and scope than Zaireeka, The Soft Bulletin clearly reflects its predecessor's expansive sonic palette. Its multidimensional sound is positively celestial, a shape-shifting pastiche of blissful melodies, heavenly harmonies, and orchestral flourishes; but for all its headphone-friendly innovations, the music is still amazingly accessible, never sacrificing popcraft in the name of radical experimentation. (Its aims are so perversely commercial, in fact, that hit R&B remixer Peter Mokran tinkered with the cuts "Race for the Prize" and "Waitin' for a Superman" in the hopes of earning mainstream radio attention.) But what's most remarkable about The Soft Bulletin is its humanity -- these are Wayne Coyne's most personal and deeply felt songs, as well as the warmest and most giving. No longer hiding behind surreal vignettes about Jesus, zoo animals, and outer space, Coyne pours his heart and soul into each one of these tracks, poignantly exploring love, loss, and the fate of all mankind; highlights like "The Spiderbite Song" and "Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" are so nakedly emotional and transcendently spiritual that it's impossible not to be moved by their beauty. There's no telling where the Lips will go from here, but it's almost beside the point -- not just the best album of 1999, The Soft Bulletin might be the best record of the entire decade." - AMG"

The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots (2002)

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"After the symphonic majesty of The Soft Bulletin, the Flaming Lips return with Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, a sublime fusion of Bulletin's newfound emotional directness, the old-school playfulness of Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, and, more importantly, exciting new expressions of the group's sentimental, experimental sound. While the album isn't as immediately impressive as the equally brilliant and unfocused Soft Bulletin, it's more consistent, using a palette of rounded, surprisingly emotive basslines; squelchy analog synths; and manicured acoustic guitars to craft songs like "One More Robot/Sympathy 3000-21," a sleekly melancholy tale of robots developing emotions, and "In the Morning of the Magicians," an aptly named electronic art rock epic that sounds like a collaboration between the Moody Blues and Wendy Carlos. Paradoxically, the Lips use simpler arrangements to create more diverse sounds on Yoshimi, spanning the lush, psychedelic reveries of "It's Summertime"; the instrumental "Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon"; the dubby "Are You a Hypnotist?"; and the barely organized chaos of "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 2," which defeats the evil metal ones with ferocious drums, buzzing synths, and the razor sharp howl of the Boredoms' Yoshimi. Few bands can craft life-affirming songs about potentially depressing subjects (the passage of time, fighting for what you care about, good vs. evil) as the Flaming Lips, and on Yoshimi, they're at the top of their game. "Do You Realize??" is the standout, so immediately gorgeous that it's obvious that it's the single. It's also the most obviously influenced by The Soft Bulletin, but it's even catchier and sadder, sweetening such unavoidable truths like "Do you realize that everyone you know someday will die?" with chimes, clouds of strings, and angelic backing vocals. Yoshimi features some of the sharpest emotional peaks and valleys of any Lips album -- the superficially playful "Fight Test" is surprisingly bittersweet, while sad songs like "All We Have Is Now" and "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" are leavened by witty lyrics and production tricks. Funny, beautiful, and moving, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots finds the Flaming Lips continuing to grow and challenge themselves in not-so-obvious ways after delivering their obvious masterpiece." - AMG

Black Star – Black Star (1998)

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"While Puff Daddy and his followers continued to dictate the direction hip-hop would take into the millennium, Mos Def and Talib Kweli surfaced from the underground to pull the sounds in the opposite direction. Their 13 rhyme fests on this superior, self-titled debut as Black Star show that old-school rap still sounds surprisingly fresh in the sea of overblown vanity productions. There's no slack evident in the tight wordplays of Def and Kweli as they twist and turn through sparse, jazz-rooted rhythms calling out for awareness and freedom of the mind. Their viewpoints stem directly from the teachings of Marcus Garvey, the legendary activist who fought for the rights of blacks all around the world in the first half of the 20th century. Def and Kweli's ideals are sure lofty; not only are they out to preach Garvey's words, but they also hope to purge rap music of its negativity and violence. For the most part, it works. Their wisdom-first philosophy hits hard when played off their lyrical intensity, a bass-first production, and stellar scratching. While these MCs don't have all of the vocal pizzazz of A Tribe Called Quest's Phife and Q-Tip at their best, flawless tracks like the cool bop of "K.O.S. (Determination)" and "Definition" hint that Black Star is only the first of many brilliantly executed positive statements for these two street poets." - AMG

Reflection Eternal – Train of Thought (2000)

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"After releasing a handful of essential 12"s on various Rawkus Records projects in the late '90s, Talib Kweli and DJ Hi-Tek were on the verge of becoming one of hip-hop's best-kept secrets. Yet their original incarnation as a duo expanded into a triumvirate with the inclusion of Mos Def and transformed their eventual manifestation into Black Star, thwarting their initial bid for acclaim. While Kweli's stardom may have been initially eclipsed by his more charismatic cohort, Mos Def, Reflection Eternal houses enough merit to establish Talib as one of this generation's most poetic MCs. Kweli is a rare MC, as his lyricism resounds with a knowledge that transcends his still tender age. He does not aspire to reprogram the masses with this album, just rehabilitate them, as he laments on "The Blast": "They ask me what I'm writing for/I'm writing to show you what we fighting for." In an effort to celebrate life, Kweli breaks down hip-hop's obsession with death on "Good Mourning" and "Too Late." But it is his varied lyrical content that is most inspiring, effortlessly transitioning from the poignant circle-of-life epic "For Women" to the rugged "Some Kind of Wonderful" and "Down for the Count," featuring Rah Digga and Xzibit. While the unassuming, largely minimalist grooves that Hi-Tek supplied on Black Star's debut longed for a dramatic flair, he displays a remarkable maturation on Reflection Eternal. In fact, Tek's loping keyboard wails, soulful staccato claps, and shimmering piano loops are often sublime in their arrangement and outcome. Though Kweli and Hi-Tek's debut harbors over-ambitious tendencies, clocking in at over 70 minutes in length, they are a duo that will undoubtedly stain their memory into hip-hop's collective memory with this noteworthy debut. Welcome to the new generation of Native Tongue speaking." - AMG

Talib Kweli  – Quality (2002)

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"While his erstwhile Black Star mate Mos Def concentrated on his acting career, Talib Kweli set about crafting a truly solo follow-up to his acclaimed debut, Reflection Eternal, this time with a variety of producers in place of partner DJ Hi-Tek. The excellent Quality only ups the ante, building on its predecessor's clear-minded focus with greater scope and a more colorful musical palette. Right off the bat, it's apparent that Kweli has traded his old-school minimalism for a warmer, richer sound -- complete with some live instrumentation -- that's immediately inviting and accessible. The opening trio of songs -- "Rush," "Get By," and "Shock Body" -- ranks among the most exciting music he's recorded, and the album only branches out from there. Kweli can pull off genial, good-time hip-hop like lead single "Waitin' for the DJ" and the DJ Quik-produced "Put It in the Air," and follow it with the blistering (and incisive) political fury of "The Proud." He reflects on his image as a so-called conscious rapper on "Good to You," and pushes its boundaries on the Cocoa Brovaz collaboration "Gun Music," where he twists the lyrical conventions of dancehall reggae to his own ends. Pharoahe Monch and the Roots' Black Thought put in exciting guest spots on "Guerrilla Monsoon Rap," and Mos Def appears on "Joy," where Kweli manages to describe the births of his two children without getting self-indulgent. A couple of the mellow R&B jams do get a little too mellow for their own good, drifting along and slowing the album's otherwise consistent momentum. Nonetheless, nearly everything Kweli tries works, and the array of producers keeps things unpredictable. Quality is proof that intelligent hip-hop need not lack excitement, soul, or genuine emotion; it's one of the best rap albums of a year with no shortage of winners." - AMG

The Decemberists – The Tain EP (2005)

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"After releasing two solid albums of British folk-inspired library-pop, it's only fitting that the Oregon-based collective the Decemberists would construct a nearly 20-minute EP based on an epic tale concerning a violent cattle raid in pre-Christian Ireland. If anything, Tain is the indie rock generation's "Court of the Crimson King," a narrative that's as isolating as it is compelling, especially when filtered through the surprisingly Black Sabbath-inspired song cycle. Composed of five movements, parts one and two roll in like an outtake from Deep Purple's Machine Head, part three brings together some of the more melodious and mournful moments of Pink Floyd's The Wall, part four introduces some delectable balladry from drummer Rachel Blumberg and part five brings back the Hammond B3 for a true progressive rock encore, all bookended by the musings of a character known simply as "The Crone." While not as Dio as it sounds, there is a certain lust for tall tales and gentry high-speak needed to become fully immersed. For all of it's bombast and esoteric subject matter, Tain is raw, engaging, and bristling with an electricity that's been missing from this enigmatic collective of bibliophiles' previous releases." - AMG

Wilco – Kicking Television: Live in Chicago (2005)



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"While Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born established Wilco's reputation as one of America's most interesting and imaginative rock bands, both albums were the product of a band in flux, and this was particularly evident to those who saw the group on-stage after the release of YHF. Yankee Hotel Foxtrot may have blazed new sonic trails for Wilco, but the departure of Jay Bennett in the latter stages of its production left the band with an audible hole when they played the new material on-stage, and while multi-instrumentalist Leroy Bach may have been a technically skilled player, he looked and sounded like a cold fish in concert, unwittingly emphasizing the cooler surfaces of Wilco's new music and negating much of the passion of Jeff Tweedy's songs.
However, by the time Wilco hit the road following the release of A Ghost Is Born, the group's latest round of personnel shakeups had the unexpected but welcome effect of spawning one of the group's best lineups to date; after Bach amicably left Wilco, the addition of keyboard and guitar man Pat Sansone and especially visionary guitarist Nels Cline gave the band players whose energy and passion matched their technical skill, and suddenly the band was playing its challenging new material with the same sweaty force Tweedy and company conjured up in the band's earlier days.
Thankfully, Tweedy had the good sense to document the prowess of Wilco's latest incarnation on-stage, and Kicking Television: Live in Chicago, recorded during four shows at the Windy City's Vic Theater, offers a welcome second perspective on the band's more recent work. With the exception of two numbers from Wilco's collaborative albums with Billy Bragg (in which they set Woody Guthrie's poems to music), Kicking Television focuses exclusively on their "post-alt-country" work, but while many of the songs featured here sounded cool and mannered in the studio, here they gain new muscle and force, not to mention a great deal of enthusiasm, and while tunes like "Ashes of American Flags" and "Handshake Drugs" are never going to be crowd-pleasers in the manner of "Casino Queen," the élan of this band in full flight shows that the fun has been put back in Wilco, albeit in a different and more angular form.
Nels Cline's guitar is especially bracing in this context, and his marriage of melodic weight and joyous dissonance fits these songs while expanding on their strengths at the same time. And the title cut thankfully proves that Wilco still can (and still does) rock on out. Kicking Television is the best sort of live album -- a recording that doesn't merely retread a band's back catalog, but puts their songs in a new perspective, and in this case these performances reveal that one great band has actually been getting better." - AMG

[Ishotdanieljohnston]

A damn fine post if I didn't have everything thats good on it.

[Beastmouth]

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http://www.mediafire.com/?yp1inxhj1jxThis is 'Rough Power' by teh Stooges

an early mix released to some radio station in detroit

kinda muddy but still real fun

[valley_parade]

So here is me, not requesting anything, just wondering about ZERODRONE'S GHOST UPLOADS.

[roulettescars]

Black star is some pretty decent stuff. As far as mos def goes though, I would have to suggest "black on both sides" Maybe I'll upload it in a parallel universe where I'm not unbelieveably lazy and don't have to go to school in like 10 minuites.

[E. Spaceman]

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This is Quiero Club, another band from northern mexico. They are more along the lines of dance punkiness/nu raviness/whateverrrrrrrrrr but they are also pretty good. Similarities to CSS abound but i saw Quiero Club a whiiile before CSS was big

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This is The Seamus, they are from probably the third biggest city in mexico. They won some band contest thing, I've never actually listened to this album but live they wre pretty alright. Probably sound very "Indie Rock" or whatever. I got the CD from someone somewhere but I can't remember.

[pat101]

Black Star – Black Star (1998)

Thanks, I lost my copy

[KvP]

What are these "Ghost uploads" you all speak of?

And, uh, later on I should have the last Venetian Snares album up along with the new Autechre. Both are pretty interesting.

[valley_parade]

Ghost being the band Michio Kurihara's in. I'd posted his solo album a few pages back.

[Trillian]

Thanks for posting the Growing, MusicScribbles.

As far as Jackie and his Ghost uploads, he went out of town and has no access to computer.  I will take on the task of uploading them in his stead.  And now that I am back home I can actually do so...starting now.

[michaelicious]

More music from Mexico!


Hello Seahorse! - Hoy a Las Ocho

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It is basically super catchy indie-pop.

[imapiratearg]

Wilco – Kicking Television: Live in Chicago (2005)

Does this take four nights to listen to as well?

[mikebulko]

Animal Collective - Campfire Songs

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Animal Collective - Danse Manitee

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Animal Collective - Feels

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Feels Bonus Disc

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Animal Collective - Grass

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Animal Collective - Hollinndagin

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Animal Collective - Here comes the Indian

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HCTI demos

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Animal Collective - People

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Animal Collective - Prospect Humor

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Animal Collective - Sung Tongs

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Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

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and just to add a little variety:

Songs Ohia - Axxess and Ace

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[imapiratearg]

Which of those Animal Collective albums should I listen to first if I've never heard them before and am very intrigued by them?

[fishman11]

Oysterhead - Grand Pecking Order
This is Trey Anastasio(Phish), Les Claypool(Primus), and Stewart Copeland(Police).  

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[Trillian]

Hypnotic Underworld by Ghost

It was bigger than 100 MB so I split it in two, sorry that I was too lazy to convert it from 240 kb/s. 

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Working on the next one now.  Expect to find it edited into this post.

[MusicScribbles]

Thanks for posting the Growing, MusicScribbles.

As far as Jackie and his Ghost uploads, he went out of town and has no access to computer.  I will take on the task of uploading them in his stead.  And now that I am back home I can actually do so...starting now.

You are quite welcome. The last time I posted those they got lost in the thread with the immense enthusiasm of sharing music. Notsomuch now as before, so the tide has stymied. I though they might get more interest this time around, especially since I've seen them mentioned a few times since then on the forums.

White Rainbow - Prism of Eternal Now

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[Ishotdanieljohnston]

Which of those Animal Collective albums should I listen to first if I've never heard them before and am very intrigued by them?

Feels. Quite simple- Feels.

[MusicScribbles]

Which of those Animal Collective albums should I listen to first if I've never heard them before and am very intrigued by them?

Feels. Quite simple- Feels.

I would have to agree just for Feels sheer accessibility. A lot of people listen to it and then ask what's meant by 'accessibility'. Well, to put it simply, Animal Collective have probably never made a poppier song on their previous efforts than the majority of the tracks on Feels. So, grab Feels if you want to be able to get into them. If you're feeling more adventurous and would rather listen to the 'evolution' of their sound, start with Campfire Songs and Danse Manatee, then listen to Here Comes The Indian, then Sung Tongs, Feels, and Strawberry Jam. Those are the studio albums.

[fishman11]

Medeski, Martin, & Wood - End Of The World Party (Just In Case)

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"With each successive album, Medeski Martin & Wood have become harder to pin down. Having long ago transcended their soulful organ-groove basics to enter a more expansive world of snappy beats and backbeats, eerie atmospheric effects, post-lounge riffing, and the occasional jazz overture, they occupy their own category"

Trey Anastasio - Horshoe Curve

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"Trey Anastasio does patience-tested fans proud with this satisfying collection of funk-, jazz- and orchestral-tinged instrumental barnburners performed with the 10-piece band he toured with from 2002 to 2004.  The disc proves Anastasio doesn't need his old bandmates to sizzle, but ought to get back to doing what he does best: kicking out the jams."

[fishman11]

one more before i sleep

Howlin Wolf - Moanin' in the Moonlight

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"This package combines blues giant Howlin' Wolf's first two albums, themselves compilations of his singles released between 1951 and 1962. Apart from two tracks cut in Memphis with Ike Turner, these Chess Studios recordings are landmarks in the development of electric Chicago blues. The Mississippi Delta native's gruff persona towers over "Smokestack Lightnin'," "Red Rooster," "Spoonful," "Evil," "Wang Dang Doodle," "Back Door Man," and others that have become standards since being "discovered" by the Rolling Stones, Clapton, The Doors, et al. Almost as influential as Wolf's bottomless growl are the guitar playing of Hubert Sumlin and the writing and direction of Willie Dixon. An exceptional twofer value for such a weighty slice of American musical history"

[fishman11]

so i was going to sleep then this album cam on from my itunes and i had to put it up

Garage A Trois - Outre Mer Soundtrack

"Conceived as the soundtrack to a French film that may or may not exist, OUTRE MER is the product of a live, in-studio acoustic session by the New Orleans-based jazz/funk ensemble Garage a Trois. Led by the virtuoso eight-string guitarist Charlie Hunter (who fronts numerous other projects, including Groundtruther), GAT creates a chilled-out lounge vibe here, as Hunter's nuanced playing blends seamlessly with saxophonist Skerik's bold horn lines and the intricate rhythms of vibraphonist/percussionist Mike Dillon and drummer Stanton Moore.
Throughout the album, Caribbean and Latin beats bounce off of Wes Montgomery-like fretwork and boisterous horn melodies. Although the music here can occasionally lean towards the experimental, everything is ultimately channeled into an entrancing groove, be it the dreamy title track, the shuffling "Antoine," or the moody closer "Amanjiwo." With its loose, freewheeling vibe, OUTRE MER is for those like their jazz playful, funky, and fearless."

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[Moose]

Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4

Would somebody upload this?

I have searched high and low for it to absolutely no avail..

[roulettescars]

Animal collective tend to be sort of a grab bag, so which one you listen to first really depends on who you are. I would deffinatly argue that strawberry jam is by far the most immediately accessible, but I don't know if that necessarily what you're looking for. Feels is probably a good start because it has a good mix of accessible tracks and more experimental tracks. Sung Tongs was my introduction, but I really only got into a few songs. Feels made me realize they were a great band, and strawberry jam made me realize they were an out of control amazing band. So what I would suggest is to start with feels, then if thats not doing it for you, especially after you hear "Grass," then give strawberry jam a try. If that doesn't do it then maybe they aren't for you.

[sean]

@ moose

My dear god.

How many times must it be repeated that there are no requests! It's in the thread's goddamn title for gods sake! ...

Whatever. I think I'm gonna upload some La Quiete splits.

[butmyrobotloves]

mikebulko.  i am having your children.  seriously, come find me and impregnate me.  that much animal collective in one place clearly shows that you are the mate for me.

[fishman11]

i accidently deleted this file about an hour after i put it up, so here it is again.

Benevento Russo Duo - Best Reason To Buy The Sun     (Jazz/Rock/Indie/Experimental)

"Best Reason to Buy the Sun breaks on through to the other side, plain and simple. Hit play and two tracks later you feel ten years younger, brimming with a sunny outlook and ready to conquer the world. That feeling of endless possibilities must be contagious.  There's something cinematic about this record, which is awash with vast landscapes and anthemic cascades, transporting listeners to new realms without the nasty side effects of airsickness or academic convolution." -All About Jazz

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[butmyrobotloves]

Also, the link to Prospect Hummer was pasted as the same link to People, so you might want to fix that.

And while I agree that Feels is a good place to start, I started with Sung Tongs and it changed my life.  Feels feels (nyuk nyuk nyuk) a lot more produced than sung tongs, and often anyone who isn't feelin' TOO experimental will have problems with AC's work *before* Sung Tongs, so I view it as sort of the transition album, and I personally gravitate towards albums like that when I'm faced with a band that has a super weird past and a slicker present.  Plus, the song Winter's Love off of Sung Tongs is, in my opinion, one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard in my life.

[Jughead5267]

what's that mikebulco? you're too busy to bother with impregnation?

okay... i'll take your place, if you insist

[Jackie Blue]

I find the idea of people considering Animal Collective to be particularly experimental confusing.

Mostly because I grew up on stuff like Psychic TV and the Sun City Girls, I guess.

[MusicScribbles]

I understand where you're coming from zero, because I agree with the sentiment. The problem here though is that Psychic TV and Sun City Girls really aren't as well known now as Animal Collective are. Animal Collective has been making loud noises in music circles and on blogs for quite some time now. Although I really can see the appeal in the AC, and I really like the AC, they aren't too experimental, just a bit challenging for new ears.

So, I can put up some Sun City Girls tomorrow if anyone is interested.

[sean]

Okay here is the La Quiete/Louise Cyphre split. It's a 10 inch, I believe.

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Really crazy and spastic hardcore from both of these guys. La Quiete is Italian and Louise Cyphre is German, if you care about that kind of stuff. Here's a little description I found on the label's site.

Electric Human Project brings us the rock with this split CD that teams up Italy's La Quiete and Germany's Louise Cyphre. Both of these bands play top-notch chaotic hardcore in the vein of the late-90s scene that brought us Orchid, Jerome's Dream, Usurp Synapse, and Reversal of Man just to name a few. This record goes a long way toward promoting the idea that European hardcore bands can be every bit as good and even better than some American hardcore bands. I listened to some mp3s of this release before it came out and was instantly taken back by how awesome those songs were. La Quiete kicks off the record with an amazingly fast song titled "Fai Finta Di Non Girarti" (You Pretend to Not Turn Around) that is reminscent of Orchid. The screams are high pitched, and it has some killer blast beats that just knocked my socks off. The band's guitar sound is jangly but harsh while maintaining a razor sharp sense of melody that is sorely lacking in most chaotic hardcore bands today. The second La Quiete song here actually boasts a piano part which I found to be pretty impressive. I love the title of the fourth song, "Al Citofono Era Anthony Hopkins" (It Was Anthony Hopkins at the Buzzer). The La Quiete lyrics and song titles are in Italian, so the band was incredibly awesome for also including English translations of them. Most of the lyrics are seemingly pretty personal and slightly obtuse at the same time. The Louise Cyphre part of the split begins with a soundclip before freaking out Usurp Synapse style. The band plays spastic, choppy riffs mixed with ultra-technical guitar lines that wander briefly before breaking into all out ferocity. As with the La Quiete half of the split, Louise Cyphre's songs are in the band's native German tongue, but instead of translations the band gives us explanations of the songs in English. Louise Cyphre also gives us another hilarious song title with "For Those About to Destroy Pigs." Another soundclip comes in during this half of the split that sounds like it might be the same dude ranting on about the government on those early Godspeed You! Black Emperor records. So far, 2005 is shaping up to be an excellent year for this type of music. We've already seen outstanding releases from Funeral Diner and Bucket Full of Teeth, and I am pissing my pants in anticipation for The Gospel's full length. La Quiete and Louise Cyphre can give all of those bands a run for their money with this split CD. If I had to make a list of my favorite records of the year at this point, this would definitely be on it. If you are into chaotic hardcore, just buy this and thank me later. It's pretty goddamn sweet

[Moose]

@ moose

My dear god.

How many times must it be repeated that there are no requests! It's in the thread's goddamn title for gods sake! ...

Whatever. I think I'm gonna upload some La Quiete splits.

Yeah, I should have known better.. I just really want the album and it had already been posted before so thought I would try my luck.

 

[roulettescars]

For the record, experimental isn't so much a genre as it is an approach to song writing. Its like calling "indie" a genre... which it is not. But just for clarification's sake I'll correct my statement a little bit... I suppose I would say earlier animal collective tends to be more dreamy, ambient, and tribal the further you go back. There was also a much stronger emphasis on wild vocals (For example, voice as instrument kinds of things) on sung tongs and earlier works. I'm by no means saying ignore those, because they are amazing, and sung tongs was also where I started, but feels or strawberry jam might be an easier jump off point.

[Jackie Blue]

So, I can put up some Sun City Girls tomorrow if anyone is interested.

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.  Especially if you have Torch of the Mystics, Dante's Disneyland Inferno or 330,003 Crossdressers.  I have lost my copies of those over the years and they go for like $60-$70 any time I've looked for them on eBay or anything.

[bulldawg982]

Benevento Russo Duo

thank you, i quite enjoy the duo. i have some music coming up i will edit into this post. stay tuned.

*edit*
i finally got mediafire to work for me. i don't feel like this was truly appreciated enough, so here is:


Pere Ubu:
Highly influential New Wave band. I absolutely love datapanik in year zero ep... but i started with dub housing. so i think either will work, though i would recommend the ep more. check them out.

Dub Housing

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Datapanik In Year Zero EP

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The Modern Dance

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p.s. if anyone would like any more pere ubu, just let me know which album.

[KvP]

Venetian Snares -  Rossz Csillag Allat Szuletett

As a hardcore IDM and drill'n'bass wizard living in a place like Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (one of his recent CDs is titled Winnipeg Is a Frozen Shithole), Aaron Funk (aka Venetian Snares) isn't likely to be seduced by visions of mainstream success. Even discounting geographical isolation (and desolation), techno extremists like Funk are more interested in challenging themselves and their peers than in winning over legions of shallow, style-conscious fans. This particular offering from Funk is typically uncompromising and unsettling, although it is certainly constructed with great technical skill and maintains an abrasive beauty throughout. Material for the CD was supposedly gathered during a trip to Hungary; the CD title and song titles are all in the Hungarian language. The suspicious listener might wonder what an underground techno musician from the Canadian prairie was doing in Hungary, but stranger things have happened. Musically, the world has truly become a global village. The literal facts of Funk's Hungarian connection are not important anyway. What really matters is that he has used the Hungarian theme as an impetus for the integration of various bits of melancholy and/or brittle classical string music (some of it from noted 20th century Hungarian composer Béla Bartók's catalog) with his own jackhammer beats and crazed sonic manipulations. Moody and sometimes fevered minor-key string themes combine (or alternate) with the violently aggressive sounds of hyper-rhythmic slash 'n' burn electronic percussion. This is the basic framework, but Funk tinkers with it a great deal throughout the CD, opening the first song with solo piano, for example, and using bits of narrative material, including observations of a young girl who can't remember what it was like to be happy -- and, at another point, who meditates poetically on her emotional response to a pigeon. The one vocal track on the program, "Gloomy Sunday," samples from a Billie Holiday recording (the song itself was written by Hungarian composer Rezso Seress in 1933 and known as the Hungarian suicide song because of the many suicides popularly attributed to it). Track five, "Hajnal," is perhaps the most ambitious piece on the program, introduced with a nervous, stabbing string pattern, then jazzy clarinet, piano, a few blasts from a trumpet, and finally Funk's blazing, signature Venetian snares, that is, sampled snare drums, plus some absolutely sick turntable work and lurching breaks. Several other pieces, particularly "Szarmar Madar" and "Masodik Galamb," include horn fanfares and have the occasional epic sweep of dramatic movie soundtracks, although Funk's crazed kinetic clatter succeeds in undercutting or at least twisting the surface mood of whatever it encounters. Occasional frantic movements of the strings up or down a scale can sometimes suggest a Looney Tunes soundtrack, but Funk deftly sidesteps musical slapstick. There is a fundamental seriousness to his vision here; the music is emotional and at times violent. Funk himself might disagree, but one dimension of his synthesis seems to be the conflation of morbid romanticism with a defiant will-to-live, not denying the essential sorrow of much of human existence but fighting (even ripping and tearing) a way through and past it. The result is a dynamic musical and spiritual tension -- and an awesome listening experience for those who can handle the strong stuff.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?dmtkx9jaywcVery unsettling, but not in the usual way. It's a lot less exhausting than his usual beat-heavy works. Apparently he released a newer album that I haven't heard yet. I'll have to get on that!

Also

Autechre - Quaristice

"Unified" and "cohesive" would not be two of the first couple hundred words used to describe Quaristice, the first Autechre album since 2005's Untilted. The only aspect that prevents Quaristice from seeming open-ended, as a bunch of tracks splayed arbitrarily across a disc, is that it begins and ends with ambient (as in entirely beat-less) pieces; an arc might gradually become apparent, but that would only be the result of increased familiarity with the sequence of tracks. It's disparate, to say the very least, but that is not at the listener's expense. Just by glancing at the length of the track list, it's apparent the album is not standard-operating Autechre; at 73 minutes in length, most of the 20 tracks are more like vignettes, yet the ideas arrive fully formed, never appearing to be dashed off or loosely sketched. The variety of ideas is nearly imposing, the best of which include the deadened chiming and clanging of "Simmm," the stealth jitter of "Tankakern," the Drexciya-worthy pitch-black neo-electro of "Rale," and the handful of stunning and duly swarthy ambient tracks -- especially the closing 12 minutes shared by the chilling "Notwo" and "Outh9x" tandem. A couple moments, unsurprisingly, border on the inscrutable, with "Fol3" sounding like a collage of car collisions and slammed doors smeared and backmasked for nearly four minutes, and "bnc Cstl" more like a hyper-speed gag of sound effects, its high hats and snares tucked deeply into the mix. While it can take some time to get a handle on its generous stream of components, Quaristice is far from just another Autechre album. Not since LP5 has being impressed been so obviously secondary to enjoyment.

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[imagist42]

@ moose

My dear god.

How many times must it be repeated that there are no requests! It's in the thread's goddamn title for gods sake! ... 

Chill out dude. I'm pretty sure there is enough precedent to conclude that asking for a reup is kosher. It's not like he's asking for some obscure crap no one's ever posted before just because he's too lazy to look it up himself.

[TheFuriousWombat]

Everyone should download that Venetian Snares album. It's really excellent/fairly brain melting.

[mikebulko]

hey butmyrobotloves, youre welcome. and if your standards are dictated solely by what kind of music i download, then you sound like the perfect girl. hah. but knowing the internet, we probably live pretty far away from each other and i dont have very good aim soooo............. sorry for not giving you any cool babies!

AC - People:

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AC - Prospect Humor

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that should be right. my mistake.