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[a pack of wolves]

The subject of the wonderful Gringo records came up at the weekend (definitely one of the best labels in the world right now) and that's prompted me to upload Gringo on Peel. This was a CD given out with the Gringo 7" singles club and I don't think any of this was released commercially. The best parts of this for me are the great Wolves! (of Greece) live set from 2002 and the Bilge Pump session tracks live from Maida Vale, but the Reynolds and Hirameka Hi-Fi sessions from the Ten Minute Men night are great too. Sadly Bilge Pump are the only one out of the four still active, but they're also the best live band in the UK so it's not too unfortunate. This also has the massive bonus of including Peel introducing the music so if, like me, you still miss the greatest DJ to have ever lived then you can hear that voice once again. All the bands on this compilation have records available here: http://www.gringorecords.com/

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V/A - Gringo on Peel

[David_Dovey]

n0t_r0bert_b0yle!,



and some upload love in return:

I can't believe no-one has posted

Refused- The Shape of Punk to Come

before me

Many who listen to this album will say "Hey, this isn't punk" after not finding the power chords and 1-4-5 structures that they associate with poppy skate rock bands like NOFX and Lagwagon, but this is what revolution is all about. Taking a industry of specifications and expectations and turning it fully on its head, yet holding on to some semblance of what once was. Refused are pure innovation and passion spouting Nation of Ulysses-esque doctrine while fusing together the bite and flavor of fist-raised, Dillinger Escape Plan-style hardcore with ambient textures, jazz breakdowns, and other such deviations. Choppy, beautiful movements, choked thoughts, and feelings of elevation. This is what punk is all about friends, although to the common ear it may not sound like it -- and that is precisely one of the reasons why it is so potent.

Shit, that allmusic review sucks. Look, if you like punk music, yet somehow haven't heard this: Get this album, thank me later. Simple.

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[Sox]

V/A - Gringo on Peel

thankyouthankyouthankyou, man.

[johnny5]

a little amusing

diff covers of leonard cohen's "suzanne" (these are not my links but i've downloaded them all)



LEONARD COHEN

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http://www.mediafire.com/?ml115bqw19tFRANÇOISE HARDY, FRENCH

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http://www.mediafire.com/?6mhjbvn43cnFRANÇOISE HARDY, ENGLISH

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http://www.mediafire.com/?mermy4hiwtxNINA SIMONE

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http://www.mediafire.com/?99ht609mgzdNEIL DIAMOND

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http://www.mediafire.com/?nnwtyjygtwdPETER GABRIEL

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http://www.mediafire.com/?tbayz11pgwcNICK CAVE, JULIE CHRISTENSEN, PERLA BATALLA

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[pat101]

Health - Disco [2008]

New remix album from Health, very fun

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Pitchfork's opinon

Funniest band name ever (this week only). It's so undangerous and sub-ironics that it seems to circle back around to being scary, snide, and nihilist. I crack up every time I'm getting to see them live and someone wheezes any variation on "I cannot wait to get my fill of...HEALTH!" (How did these guys resist-- especially since, like certain fellow Californians Zach Hill and Spencer Seim, they share a love for maniac percussion and Nintendosonics-- giving themselves the pseudo-metal moniker Hellth?)
HEALTH's self-titled debut earned them shi i am an ignorant fucktard, please ban meing sobriquets like "Boredoms Jr" and "Diet Liars," yet among what kept the admittedly derivative album interesting was the tension produced by its attempts to artfully reconcile dance/digital elements with rock/noise textures (not to mention its ambient fringes and the occasional blotch of straight-up pop). The resulting sound was skeletal, adrenal, and clangorous. Listeners inclined to attribute narrative structure to otherwise chaotically sequenced albums could even consider the debut as bearing a tale of one musical mode's victory over-- or surrender to-- another: The electro-clubbily titled and (eventually) executed "Glitter Pills" was followed by the lurching (dying?) rock of "Perfect Skin", and then the platter closed with the tribal, clipped-Gregorian funereality of "Lost Time".

Which brings us to this remix album that feels like an argument: HEALTH's discography is here to mend those leftover rifty, provincial scenes where the guitar dorks and electro goobers still get aesthetically territorial at each others' keggers. Just a couple of weeks ago, I saw opener the Death Set put a crowd of (to safely generalize) dance-kids awaiting a Bonde Do Role and Villains card on edge by screaming "Come on, you motherfuckers, this is a punk rock show!" While, yup, the Death Set remix dance tracks and all, their own stuff is hooky hardcore, in some ways a better bridge from Death From Above 1979 into MSTRKRFT than that, ugh, DFA1979 remix album (plus all them groups are/were kinda dickish on stage). What I'm trying to say is that the overtly dancefloor DISCO/DISCO+ is a whole other thing from HEALTH's previous output, and yet, it works.

HEALTH ran so lean that you wanted to offer it some smoked gouda and cherry pop, so one might expect a rework-roster of blog-friendly artisans to supply the cheese and, well, coke. But DISCO is that rare, not-disposable such collection, largely justifying the charming pomp of the band-- printing their project names in allcaps, the tendency to issue artistic statements, etc. Of DISCO, they decreed: "It is not about market saturation or crossover appeal. It is purely about the music, and we are proud of it. This is an album, and meant to be listened to as one. The goal of this record is not only to present all these songs at once, but also to ensure that they are not forgotten in the constantly updating, content-hungry internet music world." Okay, they've hitched their viral sincerity to their synergy-savvy; just as Crystal Castles gave HEALTH's profile an alley-oop (and like hip-hop and r&b's infamous, infinite "featuring"s), they're boosting this release's electronic acts, to the point of listing them as members in a collective on DISCO's separate-from-regular-ol'-HEALTH MySpace page. And don't get my wallet started on the website for HEALTH FASHION, your mailorder source for American Apparel V-necks boasting pastel mandates.

The bandmembers' names don't appear in this review because I am taking the group up on its insistence that it's not concerned with the pretense/spotlight of individual utterance-- in fact, I kind of wish they, sigh, took it further by wearing masks and adopting glyphic pseudonyms. This dance collage may often push the vocals to the front of the mix much more than its source material did, but those droned-in, genderless, ghost-tech vox are what make HEALTH seem both disembodied and like a superorganism in the first place. The concept/gimmick of identity is further shattered by the diversity of the remixers' approaches; DISCO is like an Oz or Wonkan chocolate factory of beat styles, all proving the point that drum machines can pummel just as cathartically, and as fetchingly, as forearms.

Some of the remixers employ only one processed and reverbed "clonk!" from HEALTH, yet others use the original work's entire structure as an undergirding. DISCO's basic arc is: begin close to home, drift (albeit aggressively) through decades of electronic music, rest for a metronomic eight-minute piece by C.L.A.W.S. to wonder what the point of life is, and backtrack to a computer simulation of HEALTH's OCD assault for a finale. Amateurish DJs might score respect by playing the Acid Girls remixes, because their constant, exciting shifts will leave the impression that you're blending multiple tracks. Thrust Lab's epic "Problem Is" comes off as somehow funny and ominous, tonally coasting from Vangelis' Blade Runner score into Giorgio Moroder into some Weather Report fusion, landing on (duh) M83. CFCF's take on "Triceratops" picks up that dairy product and trumps it by adding Oldfield/Exorcist-y "Tubular Bells" jive, and some of that Steely Dan shit that Adult Swim's Tim and Eric mock/celebrate, all with a sick pulse reminiscent of so many 80s horror movie jams, including Hot Ice's "Theme From Friday the 13th Part 3 in 3-D".

The bonus material on DISCO+ is less of-a-piece, but just as varied and deserving of widescale distribution. Nastique throws the classically stilted "Blue Monday" beat under HEALTH's prehistoric-squawk bus, Bearded Baby re-remixes Crystal Castles' (also included here) HEALTH remix, and Captain Ahab mashes the band up with Foot Village's wellness-centered "Protective Nourishment". Only DISCO+ is as playful as the cover art's promise of "ALL THE HITS" in an awesomely humorless font. So, forfeit the urge to hold a conviction-o-meter up to these rattle-come-latelies' homages to Swans, Ruins, and Lightning Bolt. DISCO streamlines HEALTH's analog-trance thickets without letting the beats betray the atmospherics. Never merely meager, this project delivers, both when you're waving your orgy-snorkel all blotto on-the-town, and for a soundtrack to serious rumination at your midday desk of harsh reality. None of the parties involved are inventing, or reinventing, anything, necessarily, but damn if they aren't tinkering their asses off.

[onewheelwizzard]

Guys I have to drop some more killer heavy psych on you, this thread doesn't have enough bongs in it.  Here are a few Scandinavian stoner/psych bands who know their shit.  Causa Sui is from Denmark, WE is from Norway and The Spacious Mind are from Sweden ... all three are excellent.

Causa Sui - Causa Sui

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This is some pretty fantastic stuff.  The opening song's first chords are crushingly huge ... the intro to this album definitely had my attention in a way few albums can right off the bat.  The band made good on the promises that the intro made, this is a really good album.

WE - Smugglers

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Apparently Chris Goss had a hand in this project?  It would make sense to me ... everything he touches seems to turn to gold, and this would not be an exception.  Everything about this album, the riffs, the vocals, the effects they record the drums through ... it all fucking rocks.  There are songs that are so heavy once they've kicked into full swing that you suddenly wonder why you would ever listen to anything else.

This Spacious Mind - Gentle Path Highway

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These guys are much spacier and more psychedelic than the previous two (although certain portions of the above two albums are very psychedelic).  4 songs, one 7 minutes and the others all longer than 14.  Lots of awesome trippy guitar work a la Dead Meadow and Moccasin.  Basically, think about the halfway point between those bands and Earthless.  Extremely extended jamming that has a certain touch of shoegaze about it.  Recommended.

[pat101]

Crystal Stilts- Crystal Stilts[2008]

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Ok, I've actually listened to this now, and I recommend it highly, it's fun, short, and certainly not a waste of your time.

[yipinglim]

Re-up Rachel's.

Music for Egon Schiele

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Selenography

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The Sea and the Bells

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Let's hope the Mediafire five-oh doesn't take this down so quickly.

[plyphon]

And for a contribution, here's Lulu Rouge.

I couldn't find a review in english, but danish critics has said stuff like "the best album of the year, so forth" and "the next big thing" (actually that wasn't a critic, but Trentemøller).
They inhabit the borderland between Club and Dub, and it's really good! A critic described it at a smokefilled night club, half an hour before closing, and the only people who's left are the ones who don't have anywhere to go. In other words dansable and melancholic at the same time.
If you like it, buy it. They're danish, which means never big enough to live of it. The cd goes out in a couple of days. Got it of the artist, so technicly I'm the leak...

Lulu Rouge - Bless You

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great stuff... thanks...
luscious

[MrBridge]

I just wanted to say I love you all. This thread is a giant aural orgy.

[bbqrocks]

Guys I have to drop some more killer heavy psych on you, this thread doesn't have enough bongs in it.  Here are a few Scandinavian stoner/psych bands who know their shit.  Causa Sui is from Denmark, WE is from Norway and The Spacious Mind are from Sweden ... all three are excellent.

You are so awesome. I think I have downloaded every psychedelic thing you have posted here...Thanks. I loved the sons of otis and goddess too, whoever uploaded them (I think it was you).

[Mr. Mojo]

Thread needs moar Silkworm.

Silkworm - Firewater

One of my favourite albums of all time, ranking up there with 13 Songs and Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space. While possibly not as good an entry point to Silkworm as Developer might be, it's still stunning - from the despair of Slow Hands to the hilariously sad story of touring woes on Miracle Mile, the songs will all kick your brain's ass and teach it how to listen to music anew.

It's a difficult thing to have too many cooks in the kitchen, especially when all of them are iron chefs. Joel Phelps' semi-forced exit made a big difference. On one hand, it was bad: Phelps was an integral part of the band since its inception. And on the other, it was good: the pared-down sound fit the band well, and that's quite evident on the four-sided Firewater. Left to two voices, the band produces its most cohesive and precise set, despite it being their most broad; Firewater clocks in with 16 tracks at an hour long. Not a minute is wasted, and everything sounds more measured and relaxed. Lyrically, the themes of each song tie in with a couple concepts in mind, not suffering from the somewhat schizo topics of previous LPs. As the lone guitarist, Cohen spreads his wings, turning in some lengthy solos. At times, his scorchy leads seem twice as loud as the bass and drums, but it's called for each time. Midgett's thick bass becomes more of a centerpiece than an anchor, sounding its thickest yet. Stripped bare to the degree of sounding awkward on the first few listens, a couple songs rely mainly on light rhythms and little else. The record's themes of alienation and inebriation are balanced by spells of dark humor. Cohen is always reliable for the occasional zinger, and Midgett's woes-of-the-road "Miracle Mile" provides many yuks at the band's expense. Also, the occasional cathartic yelping and complex structures seem to be done away with, in favor of more classic influences (the Stones-y "Lure of Beauty") and decreasing tangential incidents. Though one hates to say it in the wake of Phelps, Firewater sounds like a band that's just lost its training wheels -- fuller yet less cluttered.

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I LOVE YOU

[Ballard]

HEALTH's self-titled debut earned them shi i am an ignorant fucktard, please ban meing sobriquets like "Boredoms Jr" and "Diet Liars,"

Hahahaha.

[Sox]

*snigger*

Guys, I'd like to point out that you can still buy SKWM records directly from Tim. They might be out of print, but they're not unavailable!

[johnny5]

agreed, althought it might sound a bit hypocritical to say so in this thread...help support one of the best bands of our generation

but also listen to their music if you cant

[Mr. Mojo]

agreed, althought it might sound a bit hypocritical to say so in this thread...help support one of the best bands of our generation

but also listen to their music if you cant

oh my lord a bottomless pit fan.

[suitupletsgo]

4 albums that you should be listening to if you aren't already.

Maserati - Inventions for the New Season

from amazon.

Maserati features members of !!!, LCD Soundsystem, The Juan Maclean, and Turning Machine. "Inventions" is a sweaty, delirious mix of mid-to-late 70s Pink Floyd, German psych-rock, Krautrock, and mid-80s action film scores. It drags the glory years of psychedelic arena rock kicking and screaming into the 21st Century, with the pomposity (and vocals) carefully removed. The mix is pushed firmly in the red, giving the songs a white-knuckled energy that, coupled with the ethereal guitar theatrics, puts one foot on the dance floor and the other on the ocean floor. For fans of Neu, Battles, Pink Floyd, Trans Am.

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Cave-In - Until Your Heart Stops

This is, personally, one of my all-time favourite hardcore records. Elements of their space-rock rebirth is infused with a tight hardcore band and produces a solid album.

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Ozomatli - Ozomatli

This is Ozo in their prime, in my opinion. I realize it's their first album, but they just never had as good an MC as Chali 2na and a DJ like Cut Chemist after they left for Jurassic 5.

from amazon

Multiculti Los Angeles-based 10-piece Ozomatli is more than the sum of their parts: hip-hop, salsa, and funk crash head-on in this surprisingly natural collaboration. Their self-titled debut makes Ozomatli sound like one of the world's great live shows--a party band with a brain--and they pull it off deftly. Rapper Chali 2na ("Charlie Tuna," get it?) has an authoritative voice and a way with words, mixing references from Edie Brickell to Ed McMahon; just he and the Cut Chemist (both of Jurassic 5), who lends his turntable skills to the proceedings, would make for an entertaining album. But it's the way that the two--when they're even featured--build on and blend into the grooves of the wah-pedal-and-brass-section-powered ensemble that sets Ozomatli apart. Danceable and engaging, they've made a promising debut.

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and last, but certainly not least by any means..

Self - Breakfast with Girls

Self is a very interesting band. I first heard his first album in '95, Subliminal Plastic Motives. I fell in love with it, and it was one of the first albums I ever bought. I still have the original copy, though it is very scratched and played out. Anyway, this is their 3rd album. There was a song on here from the Shrek soundtrack, but the other songs are really really good. poppy, but funky and lots of fun stuff. I'll get their first album up (more grunge-y) when I can.

from wikipedia

Breakfast with Girls is an album released by Self in 1999. This album was the highly anticipated major label follow-up to Subliminal Plastic Motives. It wasn't well-received upon release, in part due to the delays in its release, but also because of the drastic change in style from its predecessor. Rather than the more rock-oriented approach of the debut, Breakfast with Girls saw Matt Mahaffey focusing more on the more experimental sides of his music. The change confused many fans, and the critical response wasn't much better. Most critics generally agreed that it was sonicly impressive, but many also accused him of spending too much time on production and not enough on the songwriting.

Despite the lukewarm reception, many of the band's fans now consider Breakfast with Girls to be Self's masterpiece, citing its quirky songwriting and diversity as reasons. It contains a wide variety of styles ranging from industrial to funk to hip-hop to blues to jazz to orchestral pop. The album also contains a few slightly more conventional pop/rock songs. The album produced one single, the bouncy pop song "Meg Ryan", but like its parent album it didn't see much success.

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[butmyrobotloves]

A note on Bon Iver: this guy used to be my camp counselor, is from my town (Eau Claire, WI).  I'm not personally friends with him, but a lot of my friends are, and he's a good dude so if you like it you should buy it and support our growing little music scene here in Eau Claire.  Woohoo!


(also, it's really fucking good.)

[CamusCanDo]

That Bon Iver album is possibly one of my favourite albums of this year. Pick it up guys.

Here's some Weakerthans. I didn't upload this myself but found it last night when I was looking for Fallow, I was lucky enough to find both Fallow and Left and Leavingin the same link.

Fallow:

From AMG.

Even though the Weakerthans feature bassist extraordinaire John K. Samson (formerly of Propaghandi), there is no way this could even come close to a musical comparison with his former band. These guys are a lot more laid-back, almost folky at times but in a way that couldn't be categorized as a hippie band. Lyrically, Samson's pen has a sharp, poetic tone, making it impossible for one not to be taken into his stories. Just imagine Jawbreaker meeting the Smoking Popes, but with a relaxed energy level that doesn't bore the listener. They even successfully incorporate a bow saw into their music — how about that for innovation?

Left and Leaving:

From AMG.

The personal remains the political whichever way you want to cut it. Winnipeg's Weakerthans embody this ethic better than most on their second and long-awaited follow-up to their 1998 debut, Fallow. Splitting from Winnipeg's more punk Propagandhi, John Samson is following a more melodic and introspective path while retaining much of the politics. Constructed of vignettes of precise moments in time and place which manage nonetheless to speak volumes, Left and Leaving deftly mixes social commentary with folk and punk rock. This is an intelligent, literate album, and Samson a wordsmith the likes of Elvis Costello or Ron Sexsmith. There is the nice turn of phrase with the line "I am your pamphleteer" referring as much to an absent loved one as to the listener, and on "Aside," Samson sings that he relies "a bit too heavily on alcohol and irony." While "Exiles Among You" describes the disposed among us whom we step over and dare not make eye contact with, the album is never heavy-handed, but simply illustrative of another way of life, the path not chosen or hopefully avoided, especially on tunes like "This Is a Fire Door." Left and Leaving is as well-played an album as it is written. Produced by Ian Blurton, musically Left and Leaving is equal parts agit folk and punk-pop. There are dashes of the Rheostatics, a touch of Bob Mould, and a tasty Neil Young guitar solo on "Elegy for Elsabet." Coming out of the blue collar city of Winnipeg, the images ring true, reminding us that in this fevered era of technology, the people who actually produce the stuff consumed remain much as they always have, rarely seen and rarer still heard.

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[David_Dovey]

HERE IS SOME POST-METALZZZ


ISIS- In The Absence Of Truth



Hardcore, sludge, doom, prog, ambient and post-rock collide to form a gut-tearingly atmospheric masterpiece.

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Pelican- The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw



All-instrumental, crushing doom riffery giving way to air and light.

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Jesu- Silver EP



Four tracks, really shoegazey slow burn. Almost power balladry, hidden behind walls of distortion. Achingly beautiful

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[bbq]

Goddamnit. Stop posting all the awesome music- I have 7 albums and a nortt discography piled up already...

Anyways, here's a little curiosity to repay you metal listeners a tiny bit. It is (nearly all of) the LLN Projects: Projects avaethre, psyche, valerie, vampire, verhzlav, vladre, vzakpre vemekr, zatanii and zuerkl. Should satisfy any of you who want to listen to some more obscure black legions stuff- don't listen to it if you don't know anything about the LLN. Find some stuff out first. And if anyone wants any more LLN, just ask me. Sorry it's in rapidshare.

http://rap!share.com/files/118412915/Projects.zip.html

[Rolling20s]

suitupletsgo: Self rocks. I found them not too long ago, and have been hooked. I managed to find everything they have released (I think). Breakfast With Girls is one of their better ones, also. 'Specially Suzy Q Sailaway. Fun one, that.

[imapiratearg]

Here's some Weakerthans. I didn't upload this myself but found it last night when I was looking for Fallow, I was lucky enough to find both Fallow and Left and Leaving in the same link.

You, sir or madame, are doing it right.

[youthcant]

lurker turned supplier

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From YouthCantDie: The band is Followed By Ghosts, and the album is rewarded the title "Dear Monsters, Be Patient."  The music on this album is a fresh breeze of Explosions in the Sky meets Yndi Halda, while it is on a date with This Will Destroy You.  "DM,BP" is seven elegant patchworked tracks, of slow-to-fast-to-heavy tunes and birds. With a towering transition thrown in here and there, and brooding guitar riffs, FBY creates an album much like many of post-rock forefathers, yet manages to keep its uniqueness.  An excellent leak of talented post-rock/instrumental musicians.  Originally uploaded by band member Dave, re-upped b/c rapidshare is now dating the devil. Here's what Dave had to say: "if you don't end up buying it, thats cool. if you do, thats even cooler. we prefer you to buy it, but we aren't going to stop the free downloads.  honestly, send the link around, and spread the word if you like it. its not a big deal. once we release the album, it'll get uploaded anyway."

[suitupletsgo]

suitupletsgo: Self rocks. I found them not too long ago, and have been hooked. I managed to find everything they have released (I think). Breakfast With Girls is one of their better ones, also. 'Specially Suzy Q Sailaway. Fun one, that.

I'm glad! you should post Subliminal Plastic Motives if you have it, my copy is too scratched to upload.

[sean]

After hearing Vic Chesnutt open for a Silver Mt. Zion last Friday, I have become quite partial to his music. So here is his newest album for all of you to enjoy.

Vic Chesnutt - North Star Deserter

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If you have never heard Vic Chesnutt's stuff, simply imagine a guy with an acoustic guitar singing folk-y and melancholy tunes with a nack for pronunciation. Now imagine that guy with A Silver Mt. Zion backing him up.

I think that's all the introduction needed.

And remember kids, buying music is cool!

[imapiratearg]

Enjoy!

The Redwalls - De Nova

That the Redwalls are young lovers of the classic rock sounds of the '60s and '70s is not disputed. Every note on their second album, De Nova, has been played before; every sound has come blasting from a Dylan, Beatles, Stones, Band, or Kinks record, from the soothing horn section and Mellotrons to the swooping Hammond organ to the hard-charging dual guitar attack to Logan Baren's Dylan-whine vocals. To try to deny it would be foolish, so the band does what so many others in its position might shy away from and embraces its love of the past with a big, sloppy rock & roll smooch. As with their first album, what saves the day is the group's absolute dedication and commitment to their sound and their songs. They play with the fire and fury of true believers, and it's hard not to get swept up along with them. The record's first song, "Robinson Crusoe," is a call to arms that you'd have to be two steps from dead to ignore. Shuddering like the Rolling Thunder Revue with the wheels about to fall off, the horns and sloppy guitars create a woozy wall of sound that Baren weaves through like vintage Jim Brown. All rock & roll records should kick off with songs this hot and bothered. The band can't keep the pace up and doesn't even try. The rest of the record is evenly paced with a mix of ballads (the aching "Hung Up on the Way I'm Feeling" and "How the Story Goes"), mid-tempo blue-eyed soul ("Thank You," "Build a Bridge"), jittery new wave-influenced songs ("Love Her"), and pounding rockers ("On My Way," "It's Alright"). The band and producer Rob Schnapf conjure up a sound that is both simple and direct and is layered with all kinds of instruments and textures. You could argue that the band doesn't take enough chances and sounds too traditional, but with songs as strong as these, it doesn't matter that they play it safe. Besides, it's kind of refreshing to find a band that doesn't feel the need to do anything at all that might be considered contemporary (apart from the FCC-deriding lyrics in the Television-influenced "Falling Down"). The only song that falls flat is the most modern sounding (the acoustic protest song "Glory of War"), as the subject matter is too weighty and earnest and, while the sentiments are admirable, it just doesn't fit the mood of the album. The band even seems to acknowledge it by following the song with the mindless and goofy romp "Rock & Roll." Chalk it up to the conflicting passions of involved and emotional youth. It is exactly that kind of post-teenage fire that makes De Nova the exciting and breathlessly alive record that it is. The Redwalls may not be able to keep it up as they grow older and (inevitably) more mature, but if you like your rock & roll classic and loaded to the top with passion, guts, and tunes, enjoy it while it lasts.

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The Apples in Stereo - Electronic Projects for Musicians



B-sides and unreleased material.  Excellent stuff.

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[Kyros]

Is anyone else having a weird problem with Mediafire where it doesn't download the file as a RAR for some reason?

[imapiratearg]

What do you mean?

[suitupletsgo]

I, for one, put things in zips because I've had people have problems with rars recently.

[Lwize]

Is anyone else having a weird problem with mediaf!re where it doesn't download the file as a RAR for some reason?

I noticed this too. But it's OK.

Once the file is downloaded, rename it by added the ".RAR" extension, and you're good to go.

 

[KickThatBathProf]

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Labradford - Mi Media Naranja

For all of the group's first three albums each being intriguing, engaging listens, there was no hint that Mi Media Naranja would be as flat out amazing as it was. Yet it was, and remains, Labradford's best album yet, an accomplished meshing of all the various elements to their sound over previous releases into one near-perfect sonic document. Making a specific benefit out of turning the minimal into something maximal always was the band's major ability, but it gets showcased here to a new, breathtaking extent. "S" sets the scene just right, with Mark Nelson's trademark, deliberate, echoed guitar plucking, and all manner of ambient keyboard touches joined by gentle strings and, most notably of all, a crisp, dub-inflected rhythm, spare but forceful. Add to this an overlay near the start of the song of a high-frequency pitch -- not annoying, but noticeable -- and the end impression is of a band in full command of how to create detailed but not overly busy songs, compelling in their understated beauty. The album is packed with such high points and subtle sonic touches -- the sample of a child and slight bossa-nova rhythm on "WR," the loops of running liquid and distant engines behind twinkly keyboard sounds -- and then all that behind the usual guitar/organ interplay -- on "I," along with cryptic found-sound, man-on-the-street statements dropped in at various points to boot. Quietly fascinating and endlessly listenable, Media turns what had been a very good band indeed into a masterful one.

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Tangerine Dream - Electric Meditation

Wildly experimental timbres, passages, and textures dominate this sound world. It is definitely a rock & roll effort and decidedly avant-garde. And at the same time it is very accessible. It is hard to dislike this CD.

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[youthcant]

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[youthcant]

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Mr. Bear is Jack Bishop - vocals, instruments and Taylor Galloway - backup vocals. But, that doesn't really tell you anything. So, chances are you have never heard of Mr. Bear, and that is understandable.  Mr. Bear is fresh, uncorrupt talent from Little Rock, holding the same passion and love a young Daniel Johnston once had.  While its first album "Mr. Bear Music," was more like a Daniel Johnston tape than anything else, "These Machines" is so much more.  An eclectic twist on each track, whether it be the lyrics or strange noises that drop like rubber duckies from the sky after a tornado (you'll get it if you listen to the album).  If you were to jump in and listen to only the insanely catchy chorus of a song, you would think the lyrics were crazy sad.  However, Bishop contorts a scenario like a tornado hitting his home into "what can we hold on to?/if we hold tight we might make it, through.  what will our bodies do, maybe the sweater will keep us together/God will you help us through." Another song target's big foots loneliness, another a werewolf's failing relationship.  Mr. Bear hasn't been corporately discovered yet, but  after this release, I predict many will catch on to his bear-pop.  I bought the album for 10$ from www.myspace.com/youlovemrbear, it comes with explanations for all the tracks and a Mr. Bear poster.  People need to know about Mr. Bear.   

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Here's a local band of organic proportions, not that they would desolve any quicker than your normal band though.  Wild Sweet Orange is folk/indie rock group from Birmingham, Alabama.  You may have heard a track from Grey's Anatomy or on a mixed CD.  This is probably its first album, "The Whale," that they would send to record companies, however it is only five tracks.  So, I included "KEXP Live Performance."  It is a really good recording and shows the tightness of the group.  I prefer the live recordings over the album, but both include bouncy, depressing and knee slapping folk tracks.

[TheFuriousWombat]

I've had Mr. Bear's first album for a couple years now. I didn't know this new one even existed. That blurb is true, more people do need to know about Mr. Bear.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

i'm actually listening to it right now and have to agree. it's damn pleasant music.

[coldenginelogic]

1995 BBC radio-dramatization of Stephen King's horror novel 'Salem's Lot.

Salem’s Lot combines the psychological thriller and the classic horror genres, making references to Bram Stoker's Dracula at several points and sometimes replicating its storyline.

    Cast and Crew

    * Stuart Milligan as Ben Mears
    * Theresa Gallagher as Susan Norton
    * Danny Cannaba as Mark Petrie
    * Doug Bradley as Barlow
    * Gavin Muir as Matt Burke
    * Kerry Shale as Jimmy Cody
    * Don Fellows as Parkins Gillespie
    * Nigel Antony as Father Callahan
    * George Parsons as Nolly Gardner
    * Laura Lai King as June Petrie
    * Vincent Marzello as Henry Petrie
    * Dramatized by Gregory Evans
    * Directed by Adrian Bean
    * Music by Elizabeth Parker

Differences between the novel and radio adaptation

Although the story's overall structure remains similar, several lines have been consolidated and/or simplified, in keeping with the much-shortened radio format (seven 30-minute broadcasts).

    * Ralphie Glick's role is reduced (and his vampiric activities are left vague)
    * Dud Rogers and the junkyard see only cursory mention (much of the Barlow/Dud Rogers dialogue having been rescripted into the Barlow/Larry Crockett death scene)
    * Danny Glick's rise from the grave (and the death of Mike Ryerson) are now enabled/supervised by Barlow, who mesmerizes Ryerson and calls Danny forth
    * Father Callahan and Dr. Cody become quick/willing vampire-hunters, with virtually no complaint or skepticism
    * Mark Petrie uses shards of broken glass (rather than contortionist rope-tricks) to free himself from Straker's knots
    * The entire narrative is framed by Ben Mears' confession to a Mexican priest (who periodically interrupts the retelling with specific questions)

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For the record (this was mentioned earlier in the thread) I too have switched my uploads to 7zip this is simply because I want to support as much open source code and programs as possible-It Is a free compression program which handles every format under the sun-if you want to check it out go here: http://www.7-zip.org/

if you love winrar or whatnot I believe you can just change the extension to .rar or it should be able to open it no matter what (as will many other compression programs) so do not let the extension sway you from dl'ing
and free yourself from as much micro$oft as possible
cheers

[ackblom12]

It occurred to me that this is a pretty interesting set of CD's.

I apologize for using Sendspace for the first one, but the upload was too large for Mediaf!re and I made  sure the 2nd was small enough.

The lure of the forbidden can be seen nowhere more clearly than the Parent's Television Council's filthy TV page. Here is the organization that has been responsible for generating millions of complaints to the FCC, and they make it possible to watch those delectably decadent moments over and over again.
In the 1930's the Nazis had the same love/hate relationship with swing music. They outlawed it on their home front, throwing it into the category of "degenerate" art. But at the same time, they employed it in the service of the fatherland. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, assembled a fairly competent swing band called Charlie and His Orchestra to perform Nazified versions of the jazz hits of the day. Led by an English speaking German, Karl Schwendler, Charlie and His Orchestra broadcast on the medium-wave and short-wave bands throughout the 1930s to Canada, the US and Britain.
The idea was to lure the masses in with the irresistible tonic of swing music and then slyly work in the anti-Jewish, American and British lyrics after the second or third verse. The broadcasts of Charlie and His Orchestra were not available in the Fatherland proper, but that only enhanced their legend, and they picked up an underground following in Germany as well.

The notion of this material having its desired effect seems ludicrous in retrospect, but imagine yourself an East Coast resident of the United States during a period when victory over the Nazis was not assured. As you scan the radio dial aware that German U-boats may be trolling the seas miles away from your home, you come across the song "Submarines."  If the desired effect was to crush morale and instill fear, these songs probably worked great. As recruitment tools for the Nazi party, Charles Lindbergh probably did a better job.

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[David_Dovey]

For the record (this was mentioned earlier in the thread) I too have switched my uploads to 7zip this is simply because I want to support as much open source code and programs as possible-It Is a free compression program which handles every format under the sun-if you want to check it out go here: http://www.7-zip.org/

if you love winrar or whatnot I believe you can just change the extension to .rar or it should be able to open it no matter what (as will many other compression programs) so do not let the extension sway you from dl'ing
and free yourself from as much micro$oft as possible
cheers

1) The main problem I have with 7zip is that the program has no Mac version, thus meaning that as a Mac user I can't use this format, and i everybody started using this format, I'd be fucked re: this thread.

2) I don't exactly see what using .zip has to do with Microsoft, .zip wasn't developed by MS and isn't proprietary to them whatsoever. It's simply the standard compression format on Windows and OSX, but that doesn't mean MS gains anything by us using it, or indeed loses anything by people choosing not to use it. I applaud your decision to support the use of open-source programs and supporting small-time developers but the format of the files doens't really enter into this. The only thing using this format does is make things confusing and difficult for other users.

[FireAarro]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7z#7z_support_at_present

[a pack of wolves]

1) The main problem I have with 7zip is that the program has no Mac version, thus meaning that as a Mac user I can't use this format, and i everybody started using this format, I'd be fucked re: this thread.

I was wondering about that so I downloaded that file to see if I could use it. It turned out Zipeg opened it fine despite my Mac thinking it was an mpeg file.

[exomni]

Just use 7zX on the mac http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=7zX


And btw, I'd much much prefer if people would use .zip. I've never had a single problem with any .zip files, while I've had many problems with .rar and seen other people have such problems as well. I often have to try a second program to open some files .rar files, including password-protected archives. Plus, on the mac .rar doesn't seem to automatically unarchive after download, unlike .zip files which always automatically unarchive into a folder and move their archive into the trash after download. So much more convenient.

[exomni]

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Labradford - Mi Media Naranja

You realize there's a ton of damage on the first track of this upload? Nasty chopping sound that definitely was not supposed to be there.

Sucks, because it's a great track.

[imapiratearg]

So, I found this on the internets today, and according to Wikipedia, this leaked today:

Broken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning's Something for All of Us

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I am downloading it right now.

[coldenginelogic]

2) I don't exactly see what using .zip has to do with Microsoft, .zip wasn't developed by MS and isn't proprietary to them whatsoever. It's simply the standard compression format on Windows and OSX, but that doesn't mean MS gains anything by us using it, or indeed loses anything by people choosing not to use it. I applaud your decision to support the use of open-source programs and supporting small-time developers but the format of the files doens't really enter into this. The only thing using this format does is make things confusing and difficult for other users.
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Not to gum up the thread about my views with microsoft or apple, but my point was not so much that MS has anything to do with zip format, rather, that there are so many great open source programs to deal with the same computing tasks and I am doing my best to support the community of free culture without restrictions...7zip is a kick ass compression program with the ability to deal with just about any format across all platforms (see link above mac users) I do not want to have to keep paying money to update programs secondly, not everyone is torrent savvy or what have you so they might not have access to grabbing winrar (beyond the free trial) Its just kind of a small thing I feel I can do to support the eroding freedoms our country is receiving at the hands of mega corporations- if someone could not open one of my files I would gladly upload in a different format because my ultimate goal is to share some wonderful stuff with people that might in turn lead them into entertainment they might not otherwise know about.  So in a nutshell if you have a problem with an upload of mine PM we can work around it

I hope that in no way sounds like being a dick nor caused distraction in the thread   BTW do people want more audio books and drama because I have a ton but I do not want to waste space on the thread if its not wanted....
cheers

[Catacombs]

Just use 7zX on the mac http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=7zX


And btw, I'd much much prefer if people would use .zip. I've never had a single problem with any .zip files, while I've had many problems with .rar and seen other people have such problems as well. I often have to try a second program to open some files .rar files, including password-protected archives. Plus, on the mac .rar doesn't seem to automatically unarchive after download, unlike .zip files which always automatically unarchive into a folder and move their archive into the trash after download. So much more convenient.

While I like .zip files a whole lot more, to open .rar files on my mac i use UnRarX, it works pretty well and is free.

[AHHDIPTHERIA111]

12 Rods - Split Personalities

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One of my all-time favorites!! Yay!

[a pack of wolves]

I hope that in no way sounds like being a dick nor caused distraction in the thread   BTW do people want more audio books and drama because I have a ton but I do not want to waste space on the thread if its not wanted....
cheers

I like audio books and radio plays, I enjoy going to sleep listening to something and I usually find music too distracting. And I reckon the thread where we archive and upload files is definitely the right place to talk about methods for doing that so don't worry about it.

[butmyrobotloves]

holy balls, this german propaganda swing is FASCINATING!

also, i LOVE audiobooks and the like.  i have thoroughly enjoyed all of the spoken word and audiobooks that I have downloaded from this thread, i say go for it.

[KickThatBathProf]

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Labradford - Mi Media Naranja

You realize there's a ton of damage on the first track of this upload? Nasty chopping sound that definitely was not supposed to be there.

Sucks, because it's a great track.

Oops!  Sorry 'bout that.  I've only listened to it once through and I must've missed that the first time around.