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[Ishotdanieljohnston]

I think thats why I wrote "japanese slang" and not "japanese word".

[E. Spaceman]

My knowledge of Japanese is extremely limited (read: I don't know shit) but doesn't it work completely differently from any western language? To a point where one syllable can mean one thing combined with a second and a completely different thing combined with another?

a syllable can mean  one thing combined with a second and a completely different thing combined with another?
 I sure wish english worked like that! you could have a word like bo-at and one like "bo-ne" and they could mean completely different things!

[schimmy]

Uh, 'boat' and 'bone' only have one syllable each.

[E. Spaceman]

goddamn you schimmy, don't argue with me

[schimmy]

'Boating' and 'boning' however, would be good examples.

[E. Spaceman]

yeah, for some reason my brain was certain "ne" and "at" were a separate syllable each


i blame the drugs

[Ballard]

Serves you right for being a pedant.

You know perfectly well what I was aiming at.

[diablo_man]

those words sound a bit cooler if you make them into separate syllables

[Tom]

Wonder if spaceman was trying to use the typical consonant-vowel combination that form individual sounds/syllables in Japanese words.

[ilubsweetbean]

hmm

[valley_parade]

Guys, guys guys, COME ON. MUSIC. Remember?

The American Analog Set - From Our Living Room To Yours

The American Analog Set's wonderful second album delivers upon all the promise of their debut: From the spellbinding opener "Magnificent Seventies" onward, From Our Living Room to Yours weaves a sonic tapestry of remarkable intricacy and texture. Andrew Kenny's songs are more subtly dynamic here than on The Fun of Watching Fireworks, further exploring the strengths of his taut, austere compositions; vocals are at an even greater premium than before, translating as extended instrumental passages wherein the group's minimalist melodies achieve a trance-like power. Lisa Roschmann's Farfisa remains AmAnSet's greatest asset, limning tracks like "Using the Hope Diamond as a Doorstop" and "Where Have All the Good Boys Gone" with an energy and warmth which set the band far apart from the darker impulses of their Texas psych-rock contemporaries -- From Our Living Room to Yours is truly a thing of beauty.

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[tigrar]

In 1987 I was working for a Norwegian company, and in December I was in Oslo for a couple of weeks training.  I had my new portable recording equipment with me (Sony WM-D6C Pro Walkman and ECM-929LT mic), and went to hear Oscar Peterson who was in town one evening:

Oscar Peterson - In Concert (Oslo, Dec 1987)

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Part 1: http://www.mediaf!re.com/?imirbjuinzu

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Part 2: http://www.mediaf!re.com/?xtz3ein9e2m
Paul

Thank you very much for this.  You don't have a track listing by any chance, do you?

[Mr. Mojo]

I'm planning on uploading The White Stripes self-titled album. Should I?

[valley_parade]

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SOMEBODY UPLOAD SOME FUCKING MUSIC, YES. WE'VE HAD ABOUT 20 POSTS ON THIS PAGE WITH ONE NEW ALBUM.

[Mr. Mojo]

right-o. Workin' on it as we speak.

[Mr. Mojo]

http://www.mediafire.com/?djaddfx1ngp

White Stripes. Self-Titled. Great album. Noisy garage rock heavily inspired by the blues.

[Tom]

BRITISH SEA POWER No Lucifer (2008 UK strictly limited edition 4-track 10" vinyl single - Opening with the contagious "Easy! Easy! Easy!" chant, 'No Lucifer' is a joyous blast aligning good against bad with lyrical references to roe deer, Big Daddy and the Pope's stint firing anti-aircraft guns; featuring an exclusive version of 'No Lucifer' mixed by Efrim Menuck from the mighty Godspeed You! Black Emperor plus the exclusive recordings 'Save The Purple House', 'Total Confusion' & 'Charlie Potatoes')

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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Australian Bonus disc
contains an alternate version of Camera and six other songs.

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Gimme Fiction Bonus tracks
Demos of Sister Jack and I Summon You, different from the version on Get Nice, as well as two b-sides You Was It, sounds a little grainy but that's what it is and Carryout Kids.

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Titus Andronicus - s/t ep

These guys are from Glen Rock, NJ and named after Shakespeare's bloodiest play just released their debut album, the Airing of Grievances, this year. The first formed in 2005 and got their shit together enough to record a lo-fi 20+ minute ep in the same year. They alternate between violent and punk-rooted indie rock to paranoid and introspective shoe-gaze later finishing the album with a communal depressing campfire song.

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[scraggg]

The Books - Music for a French Elevator and Other Short Format Oddities by The Books (EP)

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Pitchfork (7.2) - Books guitarist Nick Zammuto has said that early in the band's development he was challenged by a friend to make music that couldn't possibly be used on a film soundtrack. Whether or not it was intentional, the Books have in a sense followed through on this request. By seeding their tracks with voices-- many actually drawn from obscure movies-- the Books have ensured that their music exists as a self-contained world of its own, one that doesn't easily lend itself to reinforcing an unrelated image. Their songs are their own little movies.

Even so, the Books continue to take on other sound-related projects in addition to their records. In April 2004 they recorded four short tracks to be used in conjunction with a work created for the French Ministry of Culture; the Books were charged with crafting music for the building's elevators. Giving in to repeated requests for this material, the band compiled the music on a homemade 3" CD-R, along with some miscellaneous material from their extensive sound library.

Ranging from about 30 seconds to almost 90, the four elevator pieces are, though short, prime Books material. Though lighter and quieter, "Fralite", through it's layering of guitar and cello, captures the whimsy and ache of longing of "Tokyo". The stately ballroom piano of "Egaberte", which can be heard as the soundtrack when visiting The Books website, is in a sense the quintessential elevator music, localized by the sampled voices speaking French throughout. "Liternite" is a surprisingly complete little piece, with an intro of bass, wooden fish and a singing voice pulled from a folk song building steadily to a small crescendo that fades quickly after its peak. "It's Musiiiiic!" captures the phrase from a lounge crooner and loops it.

The remaining nine tracks on this 15-minute release are mostly collages, with only hints of instrumentation added throughout. "Meditation Outtakes" plucks all occurrences of the word "meditation" from a speech and lays them end-to-end, demonstrating the way meaning changes with minute changes in inflection. "Of the Word God" uses the same technique with "god," sourcing this time from a woman preacher's sermon. You can follow the story she presents through the emphasis on this single word, beginning quietly and moving steadily toward a histrionic scream. Even though they consist mostly of voices removed from their original context and carefully edited, these odds and ends actually demonstrate rather well one of the things that makes the Books so distinctive: their ear for the musicality of the spoken word.

[plyphon]

SCRAGGG


yes yes yes!
thank you sir!

have you seen the dvd?

[Liberalkid]

I'm not a big fan of all music guide.. their reviews have a tendency to be uninteresting to me... hope you don't mind if I use other review sites.



Tiny Mix Tapes

I found myself incredulous at what I was hearing — the audacity of its sentiment, but also its genuine musicianship. You’re forced to forgive it so many indulgences: the melodramatic opening strings of "So Catch Him," the saccharine instrumental "Also Ran," titling a song "Imipramine," and delivering lyrics like "I am young and quite pretty/ Don’t hurt me" ("Marble Arch"), "I like sex at my own pace", and "Take me out to the bright lights/ I wanna walk cute down the streets of SoHo" ("Self Portrait") — they’re the kind of things typically more comfortably seated in protective, apologetic lo-fi, but the brilliant sheen of Unisex’s production, celestially drenched in reverb, coupled with the proficiency of its performances, exposes a naked sincerity. And for that, it becomes the most vulnerable record I’ve ever heard.

Blueboy - Unisex

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Pitchfork

Dreamt for Light Years proves less targeted than 2001's It's a Wonderful Life, but this is a check in the plus column: Linkous sounds best when he's warring with structure and sound, when his songs sound unsettled. It's less fascinatingly self-destructive than 1998's Good Morning Spider, but that album's devastating self-sabotage seems unrepeatable. Instead, this sweetly weird Dreamt for Light Years finds the common ground between the polished songcraft of the latter and sculpted static sounds of the former, resulting in an album that has the feel of a long journey undertaken. That metaphor usually signals a difficult, tedious work, but in this case it means these songs in this sequence comprise a solid, absorbing album with a shifting musical landscape and as many contradictions as any 40-minute passage in anyone's life. At the end of this journey is the title track, a ten-minute instrumental with barely a hint of meandering melody and dissolving structure. It could be death. Or rebirth. Or a dream inside the belly of a mountain. It's sure something.

Sparklehorse - Dreamt for Light Years in the belly of a mountain

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Riot on an Empty Street leads off with an evocation of musical solace: "Homesick" tells the tale of a sales clerk falling in love with "two soft voices blended in perfection" on a found tape-- a bit of meta playfulness, perhaps, as the Kings' sound itself sends critics scrambling to thesauri in search of ever more extravagant ways of describing the band's Charmin-like quietude. Throughout the album, the duo justifies this practice by cloaking their reposeful, melodious-- nay, even mellifluous-- sound in almost uncomfortably intimate production. Microphones are positioned millimeter-close to mouths and guitar bells, picking up every string vibration, finger squeak and glottal pop.

Kings of Convenience - Riot on an Empty Street

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Pitchfork

In that sense, they rival The Shins, or The Magnetic Fields, or any of the innumerable indie touchstones, but what truly sets Who Will Cut Our Hair apart is the near-total absence of traditional verse/chorus/verse framework in their songs; to nail beautiful, memorable lines with such remarkable ease is a feat unto itself, but to do so in essentially formless compositions is a different class of achievement entirely. Songs shift effortlessly from segment to segment, never relying upon the crutch of repetitive composition to create the illusion of a powerful hook. That's not to say that motifs aren't revisited throughout a song, but elementary concepts of A-B-A structure are abandoned in favor of brilliant, sprawling whole-song compositions.

The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone?

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[scraggg]

SCRAGGG


yes yes yes!
thank you sir!

have you seen the dvd?

I have not, although I haven't actually looked for it, either. I guess I just assumed it'd be obscure enough to not warrant the effort of searching.

Hmmm, I really don't want to turn this into a two-sentence waste of a post; have some Mountain Goats.



The Mountain Goats -Songs for Peter Hughes (EP)

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It's got The Mountain Goats covering Ace of Base; really, how could anyone pass that up?



And here are three outtakes from the All Hail West Texas period (one of them's actually a live recording, but hey, the song's still fantastic and I'll take what I can get).

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[Tom]

re-up of owls s/t album for look out! Ninjas!

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[valley_parade]

Here's..two.

Sunn O))) - 00 Void

00 Void is Sunn's second album, and it's no huge departure from their first one, The Grimmrobe Demos. They are still creating sludgy, Wall of Sound drones out of down-tuned guitar and bass feedback like before, although this time around the production does a better job at capturing the extreme low-end aspect of their sound. Turn your stereo up with this one, and provided you have a half-decent pair of speakers, it will rattle the walls and make the whole room seem like it's vibrating. And that's really the most impressive thing about this disc -- that is, its sheer room-engulfing sonic power. One can sit and analyze how well Sunn combines the various layers of feedback or how they are able to create such a strong sense of doom and ugliness with their music. And those things are true, but ultimately this stuff is all about the physical power of sound -- it's ambient music straight from hell

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Mclusky - Mcluskyism C-Sides

Why does your drummer play like he's a pussy?

What the fuck did you say?

mumble

No, no, no. Everyone else shut up. What the fuck did you say?

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This is the third disc that came with the limited edition release.

[pat101]

The Jesus Lizard - Head + Pure  - 247 kbps (VBR)

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[ohwellwhatever]

valley_parade, you're my hero!!!!! I've been looking for the mvclusky boxset forever, I know it's against the rules, but could you please please please upload the 2nd CD as well? I remember having a cd-r with carefully collected mclusky b-sides, but it's long gone.
Gawd I love that band...

[suitupletsgo]

The Jesus Lizard - Head + Pure  - 247 kbps (VBR)

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this was corrupted when I got to it. =/

[ilubsweetbean]

The Mountain Goats -Songs for Peter Hughes (EP)
It's got The Mountain Goats covering Ace of Base; really, how could anyone pass that up?



And here are three outtakes from the All Hail West Texas period (one of them's actually a live recording, but hey, the song's still fantastic and I'll take what I can get).

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thanks! What songs from west texas? Song for God and Warm Lonely Planet?

[Yoeni]

New Cult of Luna leak. - Eternal Kingdom (2008, June 16th)

Genre: post-hardcore/sludge metal/awesome

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http://www.mediafire.com/?2k0uhipcmac

[paradoxtitan]

Ed Rec Vol. 3 - Various Artists

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?men0djlz41q
Latest Ed Rec volume featuring Justice, Uffie, Busy P, DJ Mehdi, SebastiAn, Mr. Oizo, Spank Rock, Murs, DSL, and more.

[gardenhead_]

Inca Ore and Grouper split C90

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http://www.mediafire.com/?i8dmdlxxaobbeautiful drone/ambient musics

[ilubsweetbean]

Titus Andronicus - s/t ep

how insane is this

[Tom]

Fuck, that's insane! I wonder if it subconsciously influenced my love of Titus Andronicus' ep. I've been playing Tears of the Valedictorian all year and in retrospect it is one the greatest album of 2007.

[diablo_man]

to timmykillah, thanks for the Rwake, great stuff. i posted some other good doom metal, solitude aeturnus have you heard those guys?

[boni]

US Maple- Long Hair in Three Stages

Review from allmusic:

U.S. Maple's debut album is nothing short of stunning, combining angular guitar attacks, odd skronks, jazzy tones, and a generally deconstructive approach to music into a sound of unparalleled idiosyncrasy. The record's finest moments come when the slanted attack and fractured composition converge to simulate something approaching a conventional song ("Letter to ZZ Top," with lyrics like "Give my bones to Billy Gibbons," pretty much rules out any notion of normality). Between these off-kilter constructions and the group's even more off-kilter deconstructions, a truly amazing record is created, one that combines hard-edged, "whiskey, no chaser" rock with exceptionally intelligent slants and fractures.

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Eluvium - Copia

Quote from allmusic:

Eluvium (aka Matthew Cooper) musically moves off in a dramatic new direction on Copia, his fourth album. Having already eschewed guitars, Cooper now leaves behind the heavily electronic feel of his previous set, Talk Amongst the Trees, plumping instead for an orchestral sound and majestic air that permeate this entire set.

One of his other albums was upped just a while ago, both equally stunning in my opinion.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?9zlwwjmcntm
Let me know if I've done anything wrong?

[valley_parade]

Looks good to me.

[kelseyleigh]

I've leeched so much from this thread that I thought I should return the favor. 

here are The Avett Brothers.  They're folksy/bluegrass/acoustic rock that play a smashing good live show. 
from their bio page;

"It costs nothing to be honest, loyal and true."
If you put your ear to the street, you can hear the rumble of the world in motion; people going to and from work, to school, to the grocery store. You may even hear the whisper of their living rooms, their conversation, their complaints, and if you're lucky, their laughter. If you're almost anywhere in America , you'll hear something different, something special, something you recognize but haven't heard in a long time. It is the sound of a real celebration.

It is not New Year's, and it is not a political convention. It is neither a prime time game-show, nor a music video countdown, bloated with fame and sponsorship. What you are hearing is the love for a music. It is the unbridled outcry of support for a song that sings to the heart, that dances with the soul. The jubilation is in the theaters, the bars, the music clubs, the festivals. The love is for a band.

The songs are honest: just chords with real voices singing real melodies. But, the heart and the energy with which they are sung, is really why people are talking, and why so many sing along.

They are a reality in a world of entertainment built with smoke and mirrors, and when they play, the common man can break the mirrors and blow the smoke away, so that all that's left behind is the unwavering beauty of the songs. That's the commotion, that's the celebration, and wherever The Avett Brothers are tonight, that's what you'll find.

Four Thieves Gone - The Robbinsville Sessions (had to split into two parts but it's one album)
part one:

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part two:

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The Gleam

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[karl gambolputty...]

I know it's against the rules, but could you please please please upload the 2nd CD as well?

It's actually been on this thread for a while now. 

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[Broken_Drum]

Thanks for Eluvium boni, I'll buy this shortly.

[ohwellwhatever]

oh sorry and thanks! that's weird, I though I haven't missed a page in this thread...
pain and sadness hasn't been uploaded in the thread by the way, as well as that EP with the undress for success song...

[mod_a]

Ghostly Swim

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http://www.adultswim.com/williams/music/ghostlyswim/index.htmlOr parts 1 and 2...

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http://www.mediafire.com/?uxbgyxyyb2j
http://www.mediafire.com/?jx20vcmjnrh

Record label Ghostly International and modern cult classic programmers [Adult Swim] have paired up for a compilation of new music and art.  A genre-busting 19-song collection, stretching the entire Ghostly International galaxy, Ghostly Swim explores the Avant-Pop style that the Ann Arbor/New York City label has been been championing for the past 9 years. Ghostly Swim features artists like Matthew Dear, Dabrye, Tycho and Aeroc and features new signings like UK cult band The Chap and NYC producer Michna.

[mod_a]

Ef - I Am Responsible

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Take off your coat, sit down, have a cup of tea and push play. Prepare for a journey through Nordic light and darkness, sadness and bliss, and some serious epic post rock landscapes created with soft vocals, guitars, strings, trumpets, drums and much more The perfect follow-up to the critically acclaimed debut album Give me beauty... or give me death! poured directly out of five hearts from Sweden for you to enjoy.

[Jackie Blue]

Thanks much for the Twilight Sad.  I lost my copy of that album some time ago and forgot how much I missed it.

If by any chance you have and could upload the EP that came out before said album, that would be awesome.  If this counts as a request, in the words of Fitz, "Eff Off".

Am currently uploading the first Matt Elliott (aka Third Eye Foundation) album released post TEF under his own name as we speak.  It is a gorgeous piece of work and if you don't download it I will hunt you down and speak very harshly to you.

[Caspian]

New Cult of Luna leak. - Eternal Kingdom (2008, June 16th)

Genre: post-hardcore/sludge metal/awesome

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[tigrar]

Mates of State- Re-Arrange Us

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[Jackie Blue]

Mates of State are so annoying and yet I don't hate them.

WTF.

[Jackie Blue]

Also what's the deal with Cult of Luna, are they that good?

[Jackie Blue]

Rules:

No hot-linking images or albums. You can re-host images at http://www.photobucket.com or at http://imageshack.us

Ensure your tags are correct and that you have specified both Artist/Album in your post.

Upload your files in either a .zip or a .rar archive to mediaf!re.com, in multiple parts if the album is over 100mbs. The reason for this is that we know mediaf!re is safe and efficient and allows multiple downloads. The ads on other sites, such as Sendspace, are known to contain viruses on the page. Get yourself checked out.

Post your link using code tags. It's the # icon above the afro emoticon. This prevents the links from being traced back to the forums, lowering the chance that the wrong people notice the thread, potentially threatening Jeph with legal action.

Do NOT request albums, it's annoying. Requests that have been disguised at not allowed either.

Repost the rules at the top of each new page.

[Jackie Blue]

MATT ELLIOTT - THE MESS WE MADE

Piano, Eastern folk, IDM, post-rock, slowcore, all combine into one lovely and amazing album.



Sample lyrics:

the sinking ship song

it is useless we're subject to so much noise that we cant rest our bones let alone our eyes
& we're failing we're surrounded by the waste of what was ours yesterday now its thrown away
though the wind may change, this face still stays the same it just brings more rain, just to soak us
but this time will pass, things like this never last so lets leave this farce, way behind us

& we've all got to die, so in the meantime lets live scream your name while you've still got breath
lets raise a glass to life & drink away the memories of those we have lost to death
lets forget the pain tomorrows life may bring & joys of yesterday far behind us
life is filled with fear so drink another beer
we'll have no sadness here until tomorrow

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[Jackie Blue]

OK, I take back my "thank you" for the Twilight Sad because it's been removed by Mediafire already.  Re-up?

[jimbunny]

Mates of State- Re-Arrange Us

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This is great! Thanks!