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[kabukibc]

Here's the new of Montreal, Skeletal Lamping kids!

I really think this album is good, but I can't get it out of my head that it sounds specifically like Mindless Self Indulgence, now.

[medicatesleep]

Re-upped and mediafire instantly removed the link

[imagist42]

Don't name it something obvious?

[StaedlerMars]

they can probably tell from the contents of the zip file. Add filler.

I don't really know what I'm talking about

[medicatesleep]

Here's the rapidshare link

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http://rapidshare.com/files/137030496/VF_Vic.zip

[Catacombs]

I'm posting this link because there's a bunch of stuff i found on there that i would post here but am too lazy to do.  Everything i've gotten so far is great stuff.

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http://arms-music.blogspot.com/

[Jackie Blue]

IT'S THE NEWGAZE

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?baupfjncddf

[Beast]

I dunno man, Pitchfork gave that album a 1.7...

[sean]

And that matters why? Its just a review dude. Listen to it yourself and decide.

[Beast]

Heh, relax. I was just joking. Read his thread. 

Meat Puppets - Too High To Die

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http://www.mediafire.com/?xcew1mihgry

[sean]

Oh okay. Sorry bout that. (I read the thread after this post)

[gitm]

scroobius pip - no commercial breaks

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?9dr6zmhvlbn
deerhunter - microcastle

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?liohenipdm9
tilly and the wall - o

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?epasupnvsa5

[GMM]

Oh my goodness I've wanted to hear that Pip album for ages. Thank you very much.

[And HUGE thanks to all of you for all the good stuff I've downloaded from here whilst lurking. I've been very much enjoying the most recent Atmosphere album, the first Architecture Helsinki and that P.O.S. record that has Craig Finn on]

[Kill.kenada]

Don't know if this constitutes as a request, but can somebody please reupload 'The Runners Four' please?

[Beast]

Don't know if this constitutes as a request, but can somebody please reupload 'The Runners Four' please?

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http://www.mediafire.com/?23mgnxzysm1edit: NEW, UPDATED LINK!!! 

[Kill.kenada]

Ah ok, apologies.

But thanks a lot, what a gent.

[Beast]

Actually, people have asked to re-up before and it's never counted as a request until Beast said it did just now.

Okay, I always thought of it as a request but thanks for telling me

[E. Spaceman]

Reuploads are not requests. They are still kind of silly to post though, you'd probably be better off PMing the dude directly or even using a search engine of some sort. For example it took me 2 seconds to find a working good quality torrent for The Runners Four.

[Beast]

Sordo is awesome

Don Callabero's new one, Punkgasm

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/rapidshare.com/files/138214717/DC-P08.rar

[Kill.kenada]

yeah, Sordo didnt have it and I did search for it elsewhere, this was a last resort I swear.

[Kill.kenada]

Reuploads are not requests. They are still kind of silly to post though, you'd probably be better off PMing the dude directly or even using a search engine of some sort. For example it took me 2 seconds to find a working good quality torrent for The Runners Four.

I also don't use torrents, thats why I couldn't find a file.

[Fifle]

now i have not been creeping through this whole thing, but i have noticed a lack of Kings of Leon. so to remedy the situation here it is.

Aha Shake Heartbreak

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/?sharekey=a9139c98c51af6a1d2db6fb9a8902bda
if you do indeed download this, checkout track #7, "Soft".

[imagist42]

Guys do we really have to have this discussion about requests for re-ups every 5-10 pages? Just add the general stance (which has been, ever since I first asked about it, "they are okay but PMing is usually better") to the rules already.

MO' MUSIC


The Walkmen - You & Me [2008]

Pitchfork: You & Me isn't as hard or immediate as the band's earlier records, but that's not a complaint; its sound is coy, and invites you to spend time with it. Its lyrics are direct and its pleasures are simple-- as easy to notice as the mournful horns on "Red Moon", or hearing Leithauser hoping to get home to his loved one on the same song. While the Walkmen likely have more hits in them, if they keep making records as consistently engaging this, they won't sink for a lack of them. This is the sound they've reached for since the very beginning, and they've never played it as gracefully or confidently as they do here.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?0nmhyn7jyve
All 160 Kbps mp3s.

[sean]

I also don't use torrents, thats why I couldn't find a file.

Google Blog Search dude. That and Sordo is all you ever need.

[Beast]

Thank you for the Kings of Leon and Walkmen

Animal Collective - Sung Tongs

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http://www.mediafire.com/?8y0gtwvj9yy

[ptownblazer]

Speaking of The Runners Four, I remember getting Apple O' about 4 years ago.  It was one of those that I put in my CD player and I was like "Oh.  I understand why there were 2 copies of this in the used bin."  But something about the album and their sound intrigued me, and it was in my cars CD player for about 2 weeks in heavy rotation.  That was it though.  I enjoyed it but I didn't quite "get it."  I skipped Milk Man.  The Runners Four came out, and I read the glowing reviews and dug out my Apple 'O CD.  It was amazing to hear those songs after not listening to them for a year.  Something had changed, something had clicked, and the songs made so much more sense all of the sudden.  I went out the next day and bought Runners Four.  Then I shortly after that I got Milk Man.  I listened to the crap out of Runners Four.  Then I saw them open live for Stephen Malkmus and the Flaming Lips in Bend, OR in May '06.  This was very shortly after their guitarist had quit or whatever, and the singer was playing the bass, which I guess was new for her.  Anyway, it didn't matter.  They rocked so fucking hard.  They have a fantastic sound live.  So much meaner, nastier, dirtier, bigger or whatever you want to call it, than on record.  To be honest, after watching Deerhoof I was a little underwhelmed by Malkmus and the Flaming Lips.  Not that they were bad, but Deerhoof was so damn good.  I root for underdogs anyway, but these guys (and gal) impressed the shit out of me.  Their drummer is so good.  You can tell they're students of jazz, and phenomenal musicians with a much deeper grasp of music theory than their contemporaries.  Their approach to writing "pop songs" is so subversive and unique, but not just for the sake of being subversive and unique.  They know exactly what they are doing at all times, and the chaos is so orchestrated; they're still catchy and accessible at the same time.  They are able to construct inimitable pop music, which is quite a feat.  All of this to say, I fucking love Deerhoof and they are my favorite band of the last 5 years.  If you have a chance to go see them live, please do not pass it up.  http://www.myspace.com/deerhoof for the tour dates.  They are starting on the west coast in L.A. on Oct. 3rd and moving East from there.  I can't wait for "Offend Maggie".



edit - here's a link with some music, to help keep this post from total "mindless self indulgence."  they play quite a few new tunes in this live performance, and they sound great.  it's streaming   if anybody knew how to get a copy in mp3 or some form that would go into my itunes and ipod, i would <3 them.
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/eveningmusic/episodes/2008/07/18

here's the set list -
"The Perfect Me"
"Fresh Born"
"Flowers"
"Rainbow Silhouette..."
"Spirit Ditties Of No Tone"
"Chandelier Spotlight"
"+81"
"The Great Car Tomb"
"Holy Night Fever"
"Buck & Judy"
"That Big Orange Sun..."
"This Magnificent Bird..."
"Numina"
"The Last Trumpeter Swan"
"Basket Ball Get Your..."
"The Tears & Music Of Love"
"Twin Killers"
"Dummy Discards A Heart"
"Wrong Time Capsule"

[Tom]

Here's the new of Montreal, Skeletal Lamping kids!

I really think this album is good, but I can't get it out of my head that it sounds specifically like Mindless Self Indulgence, now.

Kevin Barnes,

[mat_mantra]

Just heard of these guys, post-rock/ambient, liked the album a lot on the initial listen.

The American Dollar - A Memory Stream

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http://www.mediafire.com/?n2icjsvx50m

Review from absolutepunk.com, no AMG up yet

Pensive, melodic embroideries with dulcet beats and ambient tones are the components that make The America Dollar’s music magnetic. The duo of multi-instrumentalists and multi-faceted artisans John Emanuele and Rich Cupolo have returned with their latest offering, A Memory Stream, the follow up to their 2007 record, The Technicolor Sleep. The two friends started this music project in 2005, and today, they pride themselves on being able to attract fans that come from different sectors of music, including one fan whom they acknowledged in a recent press release, that liked System of a Down. It’s the sign of a mega-star when fans from different areas of the music spectrum flock to a particular point, and The American Dollar’s star is becoming one of those points.

Each song has its own billowing dynamics and glowstick patterns that cause the movements to light up and go dim along the chord progressions. The melodies are like skillfully conducted laser-light shows with sections that magnify the electrolytes to a baseball stadium fluorescence and fade to a shadowy luminescence. Each song is as good as the next showcasing spectacular feats in the movements and cinescopic dimensions built by the soundwaves. The American Dollar’s music shows a propensity for ethereal tones liken to The Color Wheels, a craftsmanship for imaginary landscapes with symbolically ringed notations sharing this instinct with Sigur Ros, and valves that open the passages to kindling wavelets of tranquility displaying a sensitivity resembling Explosions in the Sky. The transitions linking the areas of active flux with laid back surfs in The American Dollar’s music have a kinship with Shapes Stars Make, always keeping a nice fluidity and polished artistic impressions

The duo’s layering of conventional instruments like the guitar, drums, and bass with electronic enhancements, made for an album that has a temporal pitch embossed in supernatural hues. The dewy synth-flaked hazes have a classic ambient touch with chord bolts that streak through them etching a gorgeous penmanship. It is one of those albums that if you knew how to make, you would. The American Dollar’s balance of earthy and airy tones is attractive. The duo do not lean more on one side than the other, which makes the graphic images permeating from their songs resound with a human voicing while piped in idealistic esthetics.

[johnny5]

anyone put this up yet??

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www.mediaf!re.com/?ggknyxmd3t4


MOGWAI - THE HAWK IS HOWLING

[Harun]

Cynic - 2008 Promo

3 tracks

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?tg4kwjd9g5k

[Tom]

King Khan and the Shrines - The Supreme Genius of King Khan and the Shrines

King Khan and the Shrines:
The Supreme Genius of King Khan and the Shrines
[Vice; 2008]
Rating: 7.5
The fantastical tale of King "Bama Lama" Khan begins in 1995, when the Montreal-born son of immigrants from India (and self-professed grandson of the opium-addicted "Johnny Thunders of the sitar") left home to play bass for the Spaceshits, a Cramps-linked garage-rock group fronted by Mark Sultan, aka future King Khan partner BBQ Show. A few years later, while in Germany Khan formed "psychedelic soul big band" the Sensational Shrines. By 2004, King Khan and the Shrines had played shows across Europe, along the way releasing not just a handful of 7" and 10" records, but also two full-length albums: 2001's Three Hairs & You're Mine, which was produced by White Stripes engineer Liam Watson, and 2004's Mr. Supernatural.

Most people didn't hear about King Khan and the Shrines until last year, when What Is?!, their most recent LP for German label Hazelwood, seared the band's combustible combo-- Stax plus Nuggets plus hiss-covered indie-rock screwiness-- onto listeners' collective noggins. It was as if they were the Dirtbombs on simultaneous James Brown and Sun Ra kicks, or Black Lips with less of the Vice-ready comedy and more underlying pathos. Now signed to Vice, King Khan and the Shrines present a few of the best tracks from What Is?!, along with some of their earlier cuts, on label debut The Supreme Genius of King Khan and the Shrines. Despite the appropriately over-the-top title, it's not so much a Greatest Hits-- What Is?! has slightly better songs overall-- as a chronicle of how Khan became King.

The strongest tracks, where the band's unhinged nostalgia meets not only squealing discord but also Khan's stupefying jester/soul-man antics, appeared previously on What Is?!. Take nourishment from the Hammond-drenched soul food-stamps of "Welfare Bread". Hear Khan go howling mad and a step past girl-crazy amid the sitar-like guitar and wah-wah pedals of "I Wanna Be a Girl". The string-tying absurdity of "69 Faces of Love", or the prickly dick jokes and "Venus in Furs" string drone of "The Ballad of Lady Godiva" are sadly absent, but the deafness-repping James Brown of "Land of the Freak", the Stooge-ian assault of "No Regrets", and the relatively sane red-line retro of "Outta Harm's Way" are all present and accounted for, as they should be.

The seeds for that sound were sown long ago, as the older tracks on The Supreme Genius of show. The record opens where it oughta-- at a record store-- with the masochistic "Torture", originally from a 2000 7". The "she's fat, she's ugly" chorus of 2001 10" cut "Took My Lady to Dinner" loses its novelty sooner than some of the band's later ideas, and yet every time Khan sings about bringing home the bacon (or his special lady's Empire State-sized ass), well I just break down and laugh; queasy ballad "Fool Like Me", from the 2001 debut LP, finds similar redemption. "Sweet Tooth", off a 2004 split LP with the Dirtbombs, has the party ambiance of What's Going On, but it, like a few of the tracks on the second half of the album, shows a group not quite fully formed, lacking the self-awareness and depth of their best work. "My heart is broke and I feel alone," Khan intones on 2003's "Que Lindo Sueno". Even at their worst, they're merely retro.

It probably bodes well for King Khan and the Shrines that their best days aren't already, uh, years behind them. If you're a newcomer to their cracked vintage universe, The Supreme Genius of should be an excellent introduction, the band as they currently want the world to see them. If you arrived with What Is?!, this one might not get as many spins, but it'll still provide important context and a couple of tracks you probably hadn't heard. And if you've been listening to these guys since the Spaceshits...why the hell didn't you tell anyone?!

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http://www.mediafire.com/?6nuue6eh20h

[mat_mantra]

anyone put this up yet??

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www.mediaf!re.com/?ggknyxmd3t4

My God, Batcat fucking slays on here.  Download this now

[bbqrocks]

dammit, I downloaded that tortoise album the other night and it took me ages to find it, too.

[michaelicious]

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SWKHV3CQ

Though at the time a less-than-proficient DJ whose résumé boasted TV advertising gigs rather than hip-hop records, Steve Stein, aka Steinski, knew exactly what he was doing when he and sound engineer Douglas DiFranco released “The Payoff Mix” in 1983. The track—which handily won first place in a promotional remix contest held by Tommy Boy Records—transcended the humdrum expectations of your everyday remix: instead of merely recontextualizing a vocal track over a different beat or tacking on a bunch of scratching, “The Payoff Mix” spliced its foundational track (“Play That Beat, Mr. D.J.” by G.L.O.B.E. and Whiz Kid) with segments from classic cinema, rock, Motown, and many less-decipherable sources, amalgamating its chopped-up beats and chortle-worthy left turns into a spontaneous yet studiously sequenced party jam. In five and a half minutes the mix upturned prevailing conceptions of audio sampling’s appropriate role and limitations and paved the way for countless like-minded DJs and cut-and-paste artists. (Never mind that the mix was also very much illegal.) The epochal piece closes with the compilation’s titular question, “What does it all mean?”—less a rhetorical query than a cocky misdirect dished out by a couple dudes occupying two halves of the same frizzy-haired Frankenstein, who’s this time fully cognizant of the patchwork monster he’s creating.

Not bad for a first try, eh? And here’s the best news: the rest is, for the most part, more of the same. One of the most readily apparent aspects of Steinski’s body of work is just how academic it is; his and Double Dee’s first three cut-and-paste masterpieces, sequenced here in chronological order, were dubbed “Lessons” for a reason: each cycles through the history of hip-hop and its antecedents far and near with a teacher’s show-and-tell sensibility and the attention-grabbing appeal only an ad man could muster. They may not seem on-point at first, occasionally wandering into vaguely tangential realms like a professor who’s a few dropped chalks away from the retirement home, but eventually the genius of it settles in. The “History of Hip Hop” mix, for one, invests much time cycling through feel-good funk and Kraftwerk-inspired dance not only because those genres would later provide rap music with its sonic source material, but because the earliest hip-hop records, released when the genre was still a novelty to most, often indulged these genres at length to hedge rap’s shaky market appeal. Such cultural pedagogy may seem (I apologize) a bit dry on paper, but in practice it’s an ass-shaking joy.

But Steinski and his various collaborators didn’t stop their sample-copping didactics at explicating their music’s origins. They soon entered the political realm, where Steinski would prove himself something of an irreverent, rabblerousing newsman, arguably his most potent incarnation. It began with 1986’s “The Motorcade Sped On,” a strangely giddy documentary of JFK’s assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald’s subsequent slaying. A certain chronological disconnect from the event makes the track’s party-ready feel easier to stomach, placing it in stark contrast with the desolate ambient creep of “Number Three on Flight Eleven,” which stitches together phone calls by passengers on the hijacked plane bound for the World Trade Center’s North Tower. Steinski was far more than an observer, however, splicing his own interjections via samples on tracks like “It’s Up To You (Television Mix),” the sound of a broadcast journalist hijacking the words of President George Bush Sr. and twisting them in the most ironic ways possible.

But as attentively as Steinski’s sights were fixed on the external world and its inhabitants—silly walking blocks of carbon equal parts noble and sycophantic—his sound collages prattle on about himself in nearly equal measure. Beneath Steinski’s discourses on culture, politics, and the state of music lies this conversation to which only the DJ is party, which goes a long way in bolstering these tracks’ already immense self-awareness. See, Steinski was an unapologetic adherent to hip-hop’s old school—even “Jazz,” fruit of his 1998 reunion with Double Dee, arrived with its boots firmly planted in the tunes of the late ‘80s and earlier—and he never shied from mocking his status through crotchety protagonists humorously affirming their (superior) old school status and numerous clips by a finicky record collector (perhaps representing Steinski himself) easily brought to rage by a single misplaced LP. (“Who cares what’s on the flip side of a record?” he asks. “I do!”) Among his multifarious targets for documentation and abuse, Steinski himself appears to be atop the list.

So, what does it all mean? One of Steinski’s quoted commentators may have answered this question best in the opening track of his fabulously assembled “rough mix,” Nothing to Fear (included here on Disc 2): “He was of course very amusing, but at the same time touched a nerve in people.” Too many of today’s mash-up artists and DJs (including Illegal Art-mate Girl Talk) have spent entire careers shooting for the amusing without touching on anything profound or lasting that will tickle a nerve twenty years down the road. Though there are exceptions to this rule (prime being the Avalanches), most similar artists miss out on that weight-adding extra dimension where Steinski flourished—prodding, heckling, and tickling his audio subjects into socially relevant investigations still completely ass-shakeable.

You can also read the interview Pitchfork published today here. It reminded me to upload this! I've been listening to it quite a bit for the past month and I still don't think I've managed to fully absorb it.

[KvP]

YES

YES

YUSSSS

[pinkpiche]

Can someone recommend me some really harrowing, dramatic choir? Preferably classical?

[pat101]

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SWKHV3CQ

thanks! i've been looking for this

[Jackie Blue]

OH FUCKING CHRIST OF COURSE I FORGET TO CHECK THIS THREAD UNTIL TEN MINUTES BEFORE I HAVE TO LEAVE FOR WORK

THAT MEANS I WON'T BE ABLE TO DRIVE AROUND LISTENING TO THE NEW MOGWAI ALL NIGHT

FUCK

(oh but thanks in advance)

[mat_mantra]

I shall listen to it many times for you tonight, friend

Edit:  My bad, that was kinda a dick thing for me to say.  Definitely get it as soon as possible.  Excellent album

[Ballard]

Can someone recommend me some really harrowing, dramatic choir? Preferably classical?

I s'pose you've already heard this?

[sean]

Dear kid who uploaded the mogwai album:

I know we should be nice to people in this thread, but it would be lovely if you could, uh, actually put the artist and the name of the album you are posting. I am sure there is somebody here who hasn't already seen the cover art. I mean, just a thought. It's courteous.

Thanks,
Sean

[wespeakinmidi]

yeah, really, thank you so much for the new mogwai.  i grooved it a few times today and it really is an amazing album. 

[michaelicious]

thanks! i've been looking for this

It's soo good. I actually did a search before uploading it because I thought you might have already and I could have just missed it or something.

[johnny5]

sorry guys, i was rushing out the door to school and i thought i had put in the name and title.

[LemonOfPink]

*SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION WARNING*
I just got finished recording an album and decided that I would prefer giving it away. I hope you don't mind the self promotion, but hey, it's free music, and if the idea bothers you, you can feel free to stay away. For anyone that is interested, here it is.


Oh! Colossus - A Modern Collection

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http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qswxasvhllf
Its pretty poppy rock-ish wolf parade-ie fun.
I think it will rock your socks off.

*/SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION*

I'll be sure to add a better known album for all the haters in a bit.

[Scandanavian War Machine]

that new Mogwai is so damn good everyone should get it it's so good that i can't even punctuate that's how good it is

[johnny5]

lemon - i like the album art and the description. will give a listen tonight. do you plan to accept payment/tribute/donations at all or are you stickin' it to the man?

[LemonOfPink]

I really don't have much of an idea right now. At least digitally I'd be happy to give it away for free. As we speak actual copies are being printed up and the art you see there will be lovingly screen printed onto a nice cardboard sleeve, complete with liner notes. We'll see how much it'll end up costing me, but I may end up sending those to whoever wants one unless demand gets too high. I'm pretty broke so I may eventually have to start charging for the physical copy. If you end up liking the thing you can feel free to ask for one. But yeah, digital is free for all. Enjoy!

[Wasteroo]

OH! COLOSSUS

I just liked the name. I have an eternal hard-on for suffixing exclamation points onto the word 'Oh', because it can make basically anything sound like it's a Broadway musical.

'OH! Colossus'
'OH! Snow Crash'
'OH! She's Pregnant'
'OH! Misogyny'

Edit: Oh, and so I don't sound like I posted all of that to be snide, the album's pretty cool. The idiosyncrasy reminds me a little of the Unicorns, but perhaps less shrill and goofy, and more rockin'.

This is my opinion as of 3 tracks in, so if I'm really off, don't make fun of me.

[Be My Head]

Cynic - 2008 Promo

3 tracks

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http://www.mediaf!re.com/download.php?tg4kwjd9g5k

Thanks! I haven't seen this anywhere else...

I will happily listen, and it's looking like the new album is going to be even better than their first.