Goatsnake - 1 (+Dog Days EP)
Essential heavy doom. Greg Anderson (SUNN0))), Burning Witch, Thorr's Hammer), Pete Stahl (earthlings?, Desert Sessions), Guy Pinhas (Acid King, Beaver, The Obsessed), and Greg Rogers (The Obsessed), laying the post-Obsessed groundwork for a massive portion of today's doom. This is a really, really, really good tracklist to pick up.
Oh, and the fucking riffs are MASSIVE.
http://www.mediafire.com/?wyz7vxgwnbt
Glander - Vate
This one is a step in precisely the opposite direction from the heaviness above. It's really relaxing and pleasant ambient techno. If anyone remembers the DJ Krush album I posted a month or two ago, this is similar in that it's kind of perfect background music for just about anything. You can fall asleep to it, drive around aimlessly to it, do homework to it, have sex to it, you name it ... this album will probably allow you to get into the groove of just about anything. At least, that's my experience with it. I'd never really think that I'd be that into ambient/minimal techno, but I find myself returning to this album again and again for some reason. It's really good. I highly recommend trying it out ... even if my description doesn't make it sound that exciting (I know I'd probably go "feh" upon reading this), you might find it inexplicably appealing (I did).
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CZU8Y9H1
Fifty Foot Hose - Cauldron
And now for a third completely unrelated album ... Fifty Foot Hose were an experimental/psychedelic band in San Francisco in the 1960's. They broke up in 1969 when most of their members joined the musical
Hair!, after one album in 1967, which is an absolutely bizarre mishmosh of electronic experimentation, off-kilter songwriting, '60's psych, and general weirdness. Not everyone is going to get way into this album, but it's a curious and interesting find at the least and there's probably someone here who's going to really love it. A couple tracks are real gems. Overall, a slightly inconsistent, exceptionally weird relic that some people will definitely find to be worth the download.
I found a quote saying that it is "possibly the greatest record to completely lose your mind to." Safe bet! The title track in particular is easily one of the most mentally unhinged sound recordings ever produced. It makes Roky Erickson's and Syd Barrett's most freakish solo songs sound absolutely tame by comparison, and I'd even put it up against Burzum or Merzbow in terms of pure fucked-up factor, although it's rather a different flavor from those styles. A few people will definitely find this album to be worth the download just for this track.
A last note: the last 5 tracks on the list were bonuses added to a reissue, and are either alternate takes of songs on the album, or were simply not included in the original.
http://www.mediafire.com/?jdvnibcohxj