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[valley_parade]

John Vanderslice did that when I saw him, too. It was good times.

[Earl_of_slander]

Man, it's been years, I think, since I've posted on here.  I just uploaded an album for a friend and thought y'all might enjoy it.

Barefoot Surrender--Barefoot Surrender

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http://www.mf.com/?237e8ads4e1p97f
www.myspace.com/never-say-surrender

This is hands down my favorite new album I've heard in years.  They describe themselves as punkgrass, but they're much heavier on the bluegrass than the punk.  I met these guys busking on the street one night this summer and they ended up staying with me for a few days.  I've been listening to them pretty much every day since.  Super catchy, hard-hitting, and EXCELLENT for drunken sing-alongs.  For fuck's sake, they have a washboard!  YOU NEED THIS. 

Stand-out tracks: Forgot My Name and Faith No More

Also, these guys could always use some more support, so if you like it you should definitely buy it from them / put them up on your couch.

HOLEEEEEEEEEE SHEET! This album is brilliant! Thank you

[TheFuriousWombat]

HEY! Here's som Birchville Cat Motel from my latest blog post

Beautiful Speck Triumph
(a gorgeous, intense, droning odyssey built largely on an organ. Two discs, over two hours)
Disc 1:

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http://www.mediafire.com/?5t7kvuktknbrk5fDisc 2:

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http://www.mediafire.com/?6ofdvclokqcpmop
Bird Sister Blasphey
(total mayhem, black metal psychadelia run through a sonic meat grinder. Unrelenting, ear splinteringly noisy and completely awesome)

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http://www.mediafire.com/?yppgnzfu51atw5y

[gospel]

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit - Here We Rest

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http://www.mediafire.com/?mawo554j7rsy2cdMySpace

John Vanderslice - White Wilderness

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http://www.mediafire.com/?0zfk1hok8a9zpb0

[JD]

Deep Throat - Anthology, Pts I and II

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http://www.mediafire.com/?jn4m0ddavy3txn5

[gospel]

Happy Trendy – Old Friends

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http://www.mediafire.com/?qgdw2vgd3ix49sbBand Camp
Something to fill the void from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

Oldermost - s/t

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http://www.mediafire.com/?awwofyhunpwrz5w"Lose Your Mind" (vimeo)


Thomas Hunter And White China Gold – White China Gold

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http://www.mediafire.com/?km8apt0zksu11dgBand Camp

Great Pacific - Rainfall

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http://www.mediafire.com/?ye8k22tzov83mi3"Distance" (youtube)

The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh

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http://www.mediafire.com/?q276u7devqqa6wo"Ghost Woman Blues" (youtube)

Mother Mother – Eureka

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http://www.mediafire.com/?gl8ydzdln7qn7d4MySpace
"The Stand" (youtube)

Hotel of the Laughing Tree – Terror and Everything After

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http://www.mediafire.com/?0bpuydvne55t2peMySpace

[the_pied_piper]

Happy Trendy – Old Friends
Something to fill the void from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

Why would you fill that void?

Also, is that picture the old guy from Breakfast at Sulimay's?

The Low Anthem - Smart Flesh

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http://www.M/F.com/?q276u7devqqa6wo

This, however, I can't wait to hear.

[JD]

Oh rad, new mother mother

[gospel]

Happy Trendy – Old Friends
Something to fill the void from Casiotone for the Painfully Alone.

Why would you fill that void?

Everybody has their vices I suppose. I occasionally love a Chicago hot dog too, and they're not that great from a culinary standpoint. I'm glad you found something in the pile you liked though.

[TheClickOfALight]

Let's Wrestle - In Loving Memory Of... (2007)



This EP is better than their debut album, 2009's superbly titled In The Court Of The Wrestling Let's, which is well worth a check out as well. Garagey indie pop from London.

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http://www.M/F.com/?u4nt3rn4zrg

[Avec]

I'm a total amateur with Dubstep. Not making an insinuation or anything there...

[nufan]

James Blake - James Blake (2011)


So I guess a lot of people have already heard of this guy, especially if you read P4k/live in the UK. I heard his remix of Untold's Stop What You're Doing this time last year. I listened it to once a day for at least 4 months and it became my favourite song of 2010.

OK I wrote a whole post about how great this guy and tried state my feelings towards the album but it came off as sycophantic so it turns out I can't do positive reviews. I'll say this instead - after my first listen it confirms my suspicions that James Blake is the first Important Artist of whatever this decade will be called. He manages to mix Dubstep, Gospel, Soul and all sorts of electronic influences into one while still covering indie songs that enter the UK charts. I'm sure there'll be a better Boomkat review along soon, but seriously - download this.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?atilplduhh4av0q

[KvP]

messin' up words because these are a coupla leakz.


noreH-ttocS liG & xx eimaJ - er'eW weN ereH

This one's been massively hyped for awhile - it's a remix album for GSH done entirely by one of the dudes from 2009's favorite band, the XX. Honestly I don't think it works most of the time - the spare trip-hoppish production on the original album really kept out of the way of the main attraction (GSH's voice, which packs enough character into a single song for a whole album) but Jxx's post-dubstep production often tries to step up and share the spotlight and more often than not the results are messy and underwhelming. But don't take my word for it - in two weeks or so people are going to be talking about how brilliant this is.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?hw7ws39p2emi870


ioM y oroT - htaenrednU ehT eniP

So there was this guy named Chad and he hit the tail-end of the so-called "Chillwave" scene, and he was noticeably competent compared to his compatriots. Later on he started making filter house as Les Sins, and it wasn't Ed Banger filter house either, so it was pretty good. Now he's back with a second album about a goatee'd man turning into a giant anemone, or something. The music is pretty good! He'll probably be the one guy who survives when the last bit of public interest is sapped from the dying genre.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?dv1r66oelwanc4f

Anyway

Exillon - Mean Rich Mud

I hadn't really heard of Exillon before but they straddle a fine line between Benga-esque Diary of An Afro Warrior wobble dubstep (hard to mention that without conjuring images of WOBWOB music, but it's not like that, for serious) and more dexterous IDM-ish arrangements. More often than not it skews towards the former, which is actually for the better as far as I'm concerned. Brainier productions are well and good but every once in awhile you long for something that isn't too dense but isn't too dumb, and this does quite nicely.

Exillon strafes into the post-dubstep quagmire with a crafty six-tracker. 'Buzzkills' keeps it minimal and mechanical, kinda like a robotic Wiley beat, while 'Paper Kites' exudes techier compositional virtues with its cinematic string arrangements and 'Hardware Acid' steers close to the recent Funckarma sound. Jump on 'Mean Rich Mud' for a Starkey-style romper and 'Popplerdad' for a derivé into Analord vibes.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?hw9onx8eoygyusx


Higuma - Den of the Spirits

I shared this months and months ago but that was an LP rip with undifferentiated tracks - this is the digital version, with a full tracklisting.

Glooming folk drone ambience from Barn Owl's Evan Caminiti and Lisa McGee aka Higuma. This gorgeous pressing is every bit as dark and brooding as you'd expect from someone involved in Barn Owl, conjuring arcane drones and spellbound choirs of forest folk to commune with the gods during a sixth month winter. This is the kind of stuff that would have been banned in 1342. If they had electricity. And turntables. It feels like we've stumbled across a meditative ceremony where simple folk voices gradually emerge from the gloom into haunting choral hazes. Coruscating guitar notes provide faint light, gaseous shimmers which sometimes grow into subdued swells and moments of intensity but always dissipate into the black background, lost to the night. The drawn-out bowed strings are a constant, maintaining a slow burning tension throughout while occasional occult percussion chimes across the scene, jangling rhythms gently dusting the surface with bells and gongs. This record creates it's own fully formed alternate dimension for a limited opening of time, allowing us to enter and observe the proceedings from a branch on a tree before receding into the run-out grooves and wondering where we just were. Magnificent.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?aw1m7991p89le4r

[KvP]

Submerse & Resketch - Get Away

Prime garage cuts from the inmitable L2S imprint and Submerse is turning out to be something like their breakout talent - agile drum programming and luminescent, clean synthwork. You can definitely discern the jungle lineage on the title track.

Melancholy 2-step and jammin' Garrij on a future swivel from L2S's hottest prospect. Following their acclaimed 'Hold It Down' burner, 'Get Away' comes with the brooding emotional vibes (it's ok, just let it out, yeah?), whereas '2nite' features Submerse solo deploying classic samples and crisp swingers rhythms to soul-tugging effect.

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http://www.M/F.com/?nm5910yz6anlhr1


Royal-T - Orangeade

Butterz is a label in its infancy but it's already staked a distinct niche for itself, namely instrumental Grime production (fitting that they got Terror Danjah for their maiden release). Royal-T's been gaining a lot of heat for his remix work, and this EP shows he can be just as good hammering out originals. The title track is very, very Starkey-esque (though given Starkey's debts to Grime, maybe it's best to say he sounds like Royal-T) and only gets better as it goes along. The rest of the EP is in TD / Swindle taut Grime mode.

Certified Grime killers from the youthling Royal T, hitting up the 7th release for the very excellent Butterz label. The ruffneck and wickedly darkside-tinted 'Orangade' was apparently created after Silencer claimed Gucci Mane's 'Lemonade' was the best Grime tune at the moment, causing Southampton's 20 year old Royal T to respond in deadly style. On the flip the harder, Breaks-driven 'The Whistle Song' gets a look in, while a slickly suspended Devil mix of 'Music Please' closes the side. Rude.

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http://www.M/F.com/?vg887vpq2egmx63


Baron Retif & Concepcion Perez - Superman

A curveball, this one. Authentic electronic funk, but not computer funk, per se - the instruments all sound live / analog. Pretty cool use of synths playing traditional guitar part on the title track, smoldering spanish (?) vox on the B backed by a thick monosynth bass. The drumming is the best part here - very authentic, very jazzy. Like Helado Negro scoring a blaxploitation film.

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http://www.M/F.com/?31dqbboown8zrr6


Joyride - Joyride
Heard the first 30 seconds of "Baby Soldier" and I was hooked. Indelibly arranged groove-oriented DJ music, sort of shamblotic and glitchy and definitely fast-paced but it's definitely not Low End Theory kind of stuff. The tone really jumps around a lot, too ("Afrrkk" is almost twee). Wouldn't be surprised to hear whoever this guy(s? Girl{s}?) on Planet Mu or some other "progressive" dance music label. Really incredibly strong for something that just materialized out nowhere. The more I listen, the more impressed I am.

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http://www.M/F.com/?5e3dj77cb7j5pzb


Ensemble Economique - To Feel the Night As It Really Is

Definitely feeling the Endtroducing-era DJ Shadow comparisons here - jazzy drum breaks, plaintive and moody organ and strings, building and building and building... Affecting music. Just one track, unfortunately.

Brian Pyle managed to direct two near-perfect excursions into gloomy, cinematic ambience last year with ‘Psychical’ and ‘Standing Still, Facing Forward’ and ‘To Feel The Night As It Really Is’ follows that rich seam with a wry smile. Eschewing the near-psychedelia of ‘Psychical’ and the post-classicism of ‘Standing Still…’ this five-minute piece instead takes in the dustiest of breaks and brings us something closer to early DJ Shadow, Keith Fullerton Whitman’s long-departed DJ Hekla project or a rare Trunk records basement-find. It’s fantastic stuff, and if Pyle is working on an album’s worth of this kind of material we’re really in for a treat. Don’t miss it!

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http://www.M/F.com/?epyqhq577c1pe97

[KvP]

Craft Spells - After the Moment / Love Well Spent

Yo dawg I herd u liek 80's. It really is pretty New Order-y. Canned drums and everything. Such hooks!

Bittersweet pop music heavily indebted to New Order, the 2nd release by Craft Spells for Captured Tracks. 'After The Moment' is post-coital blisspop par excellence, wholly indebted to Manchester's finest but that's no bad thing at all. The distanced vox and arpeggiated NRG of 'Love Well Spent' has a taste of the '80s pop explored by The Soft Moon.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?99tb9m3wp5bqb9j


Julio Bashmore - Everybody Needs a Theme Tune (The Remixes)

Yeahhhhhh. Ramadanman tries on a new name (a new Luke Vibert in the making?) but his production touches are a dead giveaway, while Midland brings Bashmore into sci-fi techno territory with skybound organs and tons of delay. Awesome remixes for awesome songs.

Ramadanman adopts his new, US Garage-sounding Maurice Donovan alias to join Midland in remixing Julio Bashmore. Distinguished from his Pearson Sound and Ram's styles, the remix for 'Battle For Middle You' is more conventional NYC garage albeit with a UK subbass pressure and his crisp production style. Midland's 'Ask Yourself' remix shows why he's tipped for big things this year, hitting a sweet stride between lushly proggy House and Bass-soaked swing grooves. Big big twelve.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?4os6qsx8vfsd7wh


Chelsea Wolfe - The Grime and the Glow

Lo-fi lady-garage rock, with neofolk and dub-goth excursions thrown in. Better than LA Vampires! Everybody wins! That Boomkat review just rubs salt in the wound left by my inability to acquire Sasha Grey's industrial-drone album. Fuck you Boomkat!

NYC's Pendu Sound follow aTelecine's 'A Tape Culture...' with the much talked about sophomore effort from L.A. native, Chelsea Wolfe. Like Sascha Grey, Chelsea has a taste for the sweet blood of gothic noise music, giving her vocals over to a grim and remorselessly gloomy style of garage goth-rock also comparable in no small part to the earlier Zola Jesus records. There's a lugubrious, lead-hearted aesthetic at the core of 'The Grime and the Glow', from overcast neo-folk like 'Cousins Of The Antichrist', to chillingly maudlin garage in 'Moses', the solo piano extractions of 'Benjamin' and the Marissa Nadler atmospherics of 'Halfsleeper', but the most tangible, memorable moments occur with the scouring guitars of 'Bounce House Demons' and the incredibly ethereal 'Widow'. Don't pass over this one, there's just something about it...

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http://www.mediafire.com/?oir0pr3f5x750au

[trr005]

That James Blake album is pretty sick. 

[andmywhetstone]

longtime lurker, first time poster.
this is my acoustic music.
i'll post music from other artists here soon, too, promise.


This Sounds Good If You're Connor Byrne
connorbyrne.bandcamp.com

RIYL: Saves the Day acoustic, Get Up Kids

[leftandleaving]

The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing [2011]

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http://www.mediafire.com/?t5d7jlm8zjinl14
OMG

EDITED: link was fuxd, new link up.

[clockwatcher]

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http://www.MF.com/?kx23222bhc23pst
totally different again from 'White Chalk' or 'Uh Huh Her', there's folk in there and allsorts - I haven't taken it all in yet.

It's a lot better than 'Kiss Each Other Clean' I can tell you that much

[gospel]

The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing [2011]

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http://www.M/F.com/?t5d7jlm8zjinl14
OMG

EDITED: link was fuxd, new link up.

Eggsalad.

[leftandleaving]

Wait, is egg salad a good thing or a bad thing?

[edwinalink]

Wait, is egg salad a good thing or a bad thing?

No Matter how good it tastes going in, it is never a good thing coming out.

so stinky.

[KvP]

Desolate - The Invisible Insurrection (w/ bonus tracks)

The RA review about says it all - the beats are really just a garnish for the sighing synths and echo-chamber keys. At its best it approaches something like early Pantha du Prince - deep, cold, delicate and mournful. There were 3 non-LP tracks on the CD and one non-CD track on the LP, and they're all included.

There's no getting around two things with Desolate's debut album for Fauxpas Musik. #1: It's Sven Weisemann. #2: It's among the best albums Burial never made. These two things are related, of course. Weisemann's work under his own name, especially Xine, has often had the same sense of melancholy as the aforementioned UK producer's garage and dubstep compositions. Weisemann only seems to marry his distinctively milky piano and dubby basslines to a syncopated beat as Desolate, though. So while it'd be easy to say that it's someone pinching Burial, given the context that it's Weisemann at the controls, you can hear it as the Berlin-based producer doing 2-step the only way he knows how.

This isn't meant to absolve Weisemann of sounding like Burial. It's merely to explain that he comes by it honestly. Listen to his minimalist piano compositions, and you'll know that he likes the black keys the best. Listen to his latest 12-inch for Mojuba, and you'll know he understands arranging instrumental music as well as anyone. That he succeeds at producing three (or four, if you believe he's the man behind Just Another Beat's Jouem project) different strands of dance music is a little bit mind-boggling. For those who've seen his energy behind the decks as a DJ, though, it's probably not that surprising. He's a guy that seems to play as if every record is his last—even when it's sedate deep house.

I don't know where "Divinus" fits into Weisemann's sets. Or if he plays these tracks at all. They seem to fit better as the warm-up or the come-down. While there are beats on nearly every song, they merely serve as accompaniment. The Invisible Insurrection is mood music first, electronic music second, dance music sixth or seventh.

One of the drawbacks of Weisemann's Xine was its length. With the same feelings being explored over the course of 20 miniatures, it felt like it could have been at least eight tracks shorter with little problem. The vinyl version of The Invisible Insurrection only has nine, and it's a perfectly pitched 36 minutes that has short ideas (both "Farewell" tracks) and showcase centerpieces on each side ("Cathartic" and "Divinus"). Hard to say whether this was judicious editing (doubtful) or the limitations of the vinyl format (more likely), but it simultaneously leaves you wanting more and secure in the knowledge that you actually don't need it.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?j1y6y64g616n68d


Cotton Keys - Sweatshop Sounds

The finished product, straight from band. Better art than what I just nicked from their Myspace. Indie rockkkkkk

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http://www.mediafire.com/%3Fzuftanb7l25fwjf&h=24276


Daedelus - Tailor-Made

FlyLo mentor Daedelus is nothing if not inconsistent (blame it on his foolish insistence on the album format) but this single is the best thing he's done in awhile. Sounds like he's been taking some cues from the Joy Orbison camp - insistent beats and swelling synths abound. Pretty infectious.

Alfred Darlington has been perfecting his ‘pots ‘n pans’ electronic subgenre for some time now, and under the Ninja Tune umbrella has put together some of the weirdest collections of post-everything dance music I’ve come across. ‘Tailor-Made’ is no different, and while it features vocals from Milosh pushed right to the front in what seems to be an attempt at full-on pop, it still sounds utterly spannered. There’s a bit of rave in there, a bit of house, a nod to the LA beat scene, a large-ass dollop of soul and then something altogether Alfred about the whole thing. There can be only one!

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http://www.mediafire.com/?8bhnkiu7sjw5tl5


1000names - Before Sunrise EP

Like Duffstep before them, these Slugabed-y dudes decided to go left-field with relatively straightforward disco-house. Warming up for an Opit (Subeena's imprint) release, I hear. This sort of sound would fit well into that oeuvre.

Black Acre's Bulgarian anomalies 1000Names jam on two drag disco aces backed with slump-hop remix by Steve Lynx and Hellrazor. The sensually slow groove of 'Before Sunrise' is only a few shades away from the Balkan disco of Sare Havlicek but with a more modern twist, while you could almost imagine Danielle Baldelli spinning 'Kaleidoscope' at the cosmic club. Steve Lynx and Hellrazor chime in with a stoned-flow rerub of 'Pocket Calculator' from 1000Names' 'Illuminated Man' LP. Tipped to fans of Architeq, Kelpe and co.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?4v4nvv4y5yn4k19


Point B - Suicide Beauty Spot Remixes Part 2

A nice little crop of remixes for Point B - Dead Fader works a track into his usual blown-out industrial fuzz, Boxcutter takes things into more effervescent territory, Boris Noiz is all about the tight techno programming, Blackmass Plastics provides a good 90's car chase soundtrack, and Dead Sound plays a more conventional dubstep game.

Diverging the dark energy of Point B's 'Suicide Spot' into strains of dubstep, autonomic-style D&B, electro and gnarled techno. Boxcutter gives the highlight with a dBridge-styled vision of 170bpm synth romance, while Boris Noiz drops a razor-edged future techno workout, and there's roughed-up Dubs from Dead Sound and Dead Fader.

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http://www.mediafire.com/?z35c34blkoas42v

[gospel]

Wait, is egg salad a good thing or a bad thing?

(It was good.)

[medicatesleep]

Thanks for Joyride it was refreshingly awesome and made me want to shake my ass

[leftandleaving]

Well, good!  Here's another new one, it's pretty great.  I like both songs more than pretty much anything off of The Stand-Ins.

Okkervil River - Mermaid [2011]

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http://www.mediafire.com/?hh9ztqd7lzzlqt7

[TheClickOfALight]

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (2011)

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http://www.M/F.com/?9wc1xt6e7udedyo

[pwhodges]

Well, sometimes albums get put up that are already somewhere else in the thread - but barely half a dozen posts up on the same page (and still active) might be a new record...

[TheClickOfALight]

Well, sometimes albums get put up that are already somewhere else in the thread - but barely half a dozen posts up on the same page (and still active) might be a new record...

That link wasn't working for me...

[pwhodges]

OK, thanks then.  But it worked when I wrote my post!

[nippletwister]

Oh awesome.  I didn't know this was a thing.

[trr005]

Thank you so much for the Okkervil River single.  It's so great.

[blaha 41]

Am I the only the Cotton Keys d/l isn't working? The myspace rip was fantastic so I'm excited for this... grr.  would almost buy it unheard.

[Algernon]

Yeah, not working for me either.  And the myspace stuff was pretty great.

In conclusion: bummer.  

Re-up please?

[JimmyJazz]

Monstrous post 'cause my M/F account's working again Do you guys want a shitload of live bootlegs? Of course you do!


The Birthday Party

The Birthday Party Live in Athens 9/17/1982

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http://www.mediafire.com/?wu4uiyznnwn   
The Birthday Party Live in Sydney 1/6/1982

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http://www.mediafire.com/?my0un2ayt2z

The Fall

The Fall Live in Newcastle 6/30/1984

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http://www.mediafire.com/?15wywh2wg51
The Fall Live in Clitheroe 6/16/1985

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http://www.mediafire.com/?u1kgjngyiz3
The Fall Live at WOMAD 7/19/1985, Part 1

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http://www.mediafire.com/?luzmnjnzmyy
The Fall Live at WOMAD 7/19/1985, Part 2

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http://www.mediafire.com/?jmeffmkytzm
The Fall Live at Finsbury Park 7/27/1986

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http://www.mediafire.com/?423yw3izomd
The Fall Live in Hamburg 2/13/1987

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http://www.mediafire.com/?jtkezji0ukc
The Fall Live at the Reading Festival 8/28/1987

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http://www.mediafire.com/?lml5tlxtoyr

Hüsker Dü

Hüsker Dü Live in Minneapolis 8/25/19785

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http://www.mediafire.com/?yl22tih0ygw
Hüsker Dü Live in London 6/21/1987

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http://www.mediafire.com/?4ltlqftdiqm

Nick Cave

Nick Cave Live in Atlanta 6/30/1984

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http://www.mediafire.com/?n3iyztzyynm
Nick Cave Live in Holland 1/12/1985

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http://www.mediafire.com/?1hdhl8mb9q75ps7
Nick Cave Live in Vienna 5/10/1987

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http://www.mediafire.com/?yanygymcqmy
Nick Cave Live at the Reading Festival 8/24/1990, Part 1

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http://www.mediafire.com/?jgvzl5ljwvw
Nick Cave Live at the Reading Festival 8/24/1990, Part 2

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http://www.mediafire.com/?ijjjjimyitt
Nick Cave Live in Norwich 4/26/1992

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http://www.mediafire.com/?xly33tywxmz

PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey Live in London 6/23/1993

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http://www.mediafire.com/?lhazzct0nog
PJ Harvey Live in Glastonbury 6/25/1995

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http://www.mediafire.com/?2s5k9ewx593t6c3
PJ Harvey Live in Cardiff 10/26/2000

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http://www.mediafire.com/?1jvgznwuwkn
PJ Harvey Live at Reading Festival 8/24/2001

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http://www.mediafire.com/?m45gwyocnkk

Portishead

Portishead Live in Paris 4/12/1995

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http://www.mediafire.com/?5njiwoznlua
Portishead Live in Glastonbury 6/26/1998

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http://www.mediafire.com/?nlzzgbvfhaxb0ww

The Ramones

The Ramones Live in New Jersey 11/19/1977

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http://www.mediafire.com/?143jmgkyynm
The Ramones Live in Amsterdam 9/15/1980

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

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth Live at the Brixton Academy 12/14/1992

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http://www.mediafire.com/?gcw5vzzgmnd
Sonic Youth Live in London 7/1/1998

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http://www.mediafire.com/?777x7m82h74ie8x
Sonic Youth Live in Austria 4/22/2009

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

The White Stripes

The White Stripes Live at the London Forum 12/6/2001

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http://www.mediafire.com/?leyrnmnlojg
The White Stripes Live in Manchester 5/4/2003

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http://www.mediafire.com/?zfi0xizjmlj
and finally here's some miscellaneous bootlegs

Massive Attack Live at the Royal Albert Hall 7/6/1998

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http://www.mediafire.com/?hhleynzjzi0
R.E.M. Live in Holland 1987/Norway 1985

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http://www.mediafire.com/?zq1dywddtnh
Slowdive Live in London 9/3/1991

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http://www.mediafire.com/?oyyxz3thbnz
The Smiths Live at the Apollo Theatre Oxford 3/18/1985

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A Night In the Box - Write A Letter (2008)



A friend passed this record onto me a few years back and it's too good not to share.
A Night In The Box hails from Minneapolis, MN. They play rock 'n roll, porch-stompin bluegrass awesomeness. They sound like the White Stripes meets a bottle of moonshine. Shredding violin, banjo, and acoustic guitars run through old tube amps. Lead singer Clayton Hagen recalls Robert Plant in his vocal delivery almost to the point of ripping him off but it's so darn good. I wish these guys toured more (esp through NYC because it would be a party), but this 15 track album will have to suffice. I added an older accapella track named "Hustle" at the end of the file. You'll understand why I added it. Now I feel like drinking. Enjoy!

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[KvP]

Since the weather cleared up, the metric tonne of music that was held up in transit like a traffic jam arrived all at once. Deaf Center, Geoff Mullen, 1000names, Tim Hecker, Instra:Mental etc.

Long night of ripping ahead.

[gospel]

Well, good!  Here's another new one, it's pretty great.  I like both songs more than pretty much anything off of The Stand-Ins.

Okkervil River - Mermaid [2011]

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I'll be in the bunk.



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Julie Doiron / Okkervil River Split

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http://www.mediafire.com/?14zzcc3mgpv8a5fForgot I had this sitting in my EPs folder.

In Search of a Midnight Kiss Soundtrack
   

1. The Kind    Shearwater    2:50    
Play      2. A Hush    Shearwater    4:17
Play      3. My Good Deed    Shearwater    5:54
Play      4. Wedding Bells Are Breaking    Shearwater    6:40    
Play      5. Wilson's Theme    Paleo    1:14
Play      6. Lost Shoes    Paleo    1:52
Play      7. Sky Pilot    Paleo    0:43    
Play      8. Walkin' and Whistlin'    Asylum Street Spankers    5:18
Play      9. The Queen Of England    Mendoza Line    4:58
Play    10. Uncle Science    Brian Macguire    7:48    
Play    11. Driving Music    Brian Macguire    4:07
Play    12. Discolite    Sybil    4:23    
Play    13. Mocha Queen    Sybil    2:45
Play    14. Lines    Okkervil River    4:42
Play    15. Wind Of Change    Sybil    5:11
Play    16. Auld Lang Syne    The Family Band    1:45    
Play    17. Mermaid    Okkervil River 6:59

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[JD]

Four Eyes 7"

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Really quick and simple rock. You have no reason not to download this.

[amok]

Andrea - Retail Juke / Write-Off

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Demdike Stare - Triptych

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Andrew Bayer - Distractions

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Tapage & Meander - Etched in Salt

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Arms and Sleepers - The Motorist EP

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Arms and Sleepers - Matador

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[StaedlerMars]

That Mother Mother album grabbed my attention.

[KurtMcAllister]

Here is a link to a folder containing every one of Ryoji Ikeda's solo releases (minus one).

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http://www.mediafire.com/?q9tbs0168b2su
One added note: "Matrix (for rooms)" is exactly what it sounds like. From what I know, it's two separate sine waves at different pitches, panned hard left and hard right, so the position of your head relative to the speakers affects the way your brain processes the sound. In other words, where you are in the room makes it sound different. It's not really something you need to listen to more than once.

[JD]

Here is a link to a folder containing every one of Ryoji Ikeda's solo releases (minus one).

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http://www.M/F.com/?q9tbs0168b2su
One added note: "Matrix (for rooms)" is exactly what it sounds like. From what I know, it's two separate sine waves at different pitches, panned hard left and hard right, so the position of your head relative to the speakers affects the way your brain processes the sound. In other words, where you are in the room makes it sound different. It's not really something you need to listen to more than once.

Is that minus one Test Pattern?

[KurtMcAllister]

Is that minus one Test Pattern?

Not anymore! No, there was a fairly rare release as part of the "Mort aux Vaches" series on Staalplaat that I haven't been able to get my hands on.

[kanavazk]

Here is a link to a folder containing every one of Ryoji Ikeda's solo releases (minus one).

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http://www.M/F.com/?q9tbs0168b2su
One added note: "Matrix (for rooms)" is exactly what it sounds like. From what I know, it's two separate sine waves at different pitches, panned hard left and hard right, so the position of your head relative to the speakers affects the way your brain processes the sound. In other words, where you are in the room makes it sound different. It's not really something you need to listen to more than once.

Thanks for this. There were a couple albums in that folder that i hadn't heard before, so it's nice.

I've leeched too much from this thread so i should probably contribute too. I don't have anything new (recent) though, and the following files that i am offering aren't my own rips.

Xiao He - Shen Fen De Biao Yan / Yi Ge Ren De Jiao Xiang (2009, MP3, 320kbps)
(lit. "Little River" - "The Performance of Identity" / "One Man's Orchestra")

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http://www.mediafire.com/?8w81b6716mev8m5
http://downloads.maybemars.org/track/mtv-mtv-playI kept the mp3 filesnames and metadata in chinese because i feel like it. Romanize/translate as you wish.
A guy singing nonsense (not really scat) while screwing around on an acoustic guitar. relatively/surprisingly weird and varied for a double album consisting of almost solely vocals and guitar. (Parts of the second part use effects.)
First two links are the two respective parts of the album. The third link goes to a bandcamp where you can sample one of the tracks. That link is part of a larger free compilation from the record label which released this album. Among the other artists featured in the comp I personally/particularly enjoy P.K.14 and Joyside.

Ryoji Ikeda - Mort Aux Vaches (1999, MP3, 192kbps)

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http://www.mediafire.com/?saaz5ltba95cdluPeople probably already know what this is.

[valley_parade]

Haven't posted anything of substance in here in a while (aside from that Ergs! megapost), but here's another 12" from the band who had my #2 release of 2010:

Nails - Obscene Humanity



RIYL: Trap Them, Black Breath, fucking hardcore

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[David_Dovey]

FUCK YES

and here I was thinking the mediafire thread had gone soft

[KvP]

Rules:

The first rule of this thread is you do not mention MF.  I am doing this because we are currently the first hit for the full version of "MF thread" on Google, so y'know, that's bad n' shit.

No hot-linking images or albums. You can re-host images 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 MF, in multiple parts if the album is over 200mb. The reason for this is that we know MF 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 policeman 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.

Also, please do NOT request albums. This includes requests for re-uploads; if you miss it, try looking for it somewhere else.

Repost the rules at the top of each new page.

I received about 13 pieces of physical music through the mail in the few days. These are their stories.


Deaf Center - Owl Splinters (w/ Svarte Greiner bonus disc)

The last album of Norway's Deaf Center dropped in 2005, and in the meantime its two members have become pretty big wheels in the modern classical / ambient world - Erik Skodvin has released boatloads of work under his own name and the drone alias Svarte Greiner (my avatar is from one of his LP covers), and Otto Totland has been less prolific but just as good with his Nest project (which released my #1 album of 2010, Retold). This year they return with Owl Splinters, a brilliant synthesis of Totland's cinematic majesty and Skodvin's ear for tension and dissonance. These guys are the best at what they do, and this is without a doubt the best ambient music you'll hear this year, maybe some of the best you'll ever hear. "The Day I Would Never Have" in particular is just absolutely stunning.

Six years is no time at all in ambient music. If your work, ambient musician, doesn’t feel timeless for at least half a decade, or long enough to help fuel a minor assault sentence, you may as well give up on atmospheric leanings and instead invest in a drum machine/actual instruments.

It’s been six years since Erik Skodvin and Otto Totland first butted heads, proving to the world that two exiled Norwegians can do more than teach foreigners about the delights of Hoegaarden Wit beer. For fans of Deaf Center that was six years too long, though they’ve had plenty to cling to in the meantime: the ambient duo’s debut Pale Ravine (2005) was so timeless, so weather-beaten, and so strangely prophetic of modern classical with its sprinklings of piano that you could almost forgive its creators’ six-year silence. Skodvin had (and still does) his Svarte Greiner side project where he pours drone music into the underworld, and Totland sneaked out a mini-album, but as far as the Deaf Center setup was concerned, they may well have been serving actual prison time.

Then, late last year, there were rumors. Totland and Skodvin were back in the studio making music, and it was music so hypnotic, storm-blasted, and flecked with ivory that it could beat Beethoven’s mother in a fist fight. Sure enough, following on from one leaked track on Soundcloud, they now deliver Owl Splinters, the best possible follow-up the fans could have dreamed of, particularly if the fans’ most sensuous dreams involve Johnny Greenwood producing a film score. One that could out-weird Daniel Day-Lewis.

So, how do you surpass a debut record that’s had six years of slow-burning impact? You take the same formula, slow it down imperceptibly, and then apply white noise until you’re facing an Australian cyclone. Having cleared that hurdle, you then countermand the howling with the world’s gentlest piano scales. Because for all Skodvin’s brewing fury and drone attacks, Totland can make you feel safe in only one tinkle, as demonstrated on the aptly-titled “Time Spent,” where he humanizes static. Yes, having made it through the sandstorm of opening track “Divided,” Deaf Center 2.0 attempt a little lost lullaby, one which stares down biblical strings with the music box from a psychological thriller movie. This is no starchy classical being trooped out here, just a strange, frozen ballet. The barely audible crinkling effects will have you checking your window for rain, and as Totland wheels out yet another grand piano and plays it two rooms down from the mic, Skodvin wheezes in return, building winter gales into into a hulking organ grind. By the time you’re halfway through the album and into the monolithic “The Day I Would Never Have,” the Owl Splinters atmosphere matches the one on Jupiter: contorted, inescapable, 82% ammonia.

But, for a Type Records release with at least one doom-drone originator at the controls, OS‘s greatest feat is in its restraint. The urge to collapse into all-out roaring is there for the whole forty-three minutes, but Skodvin and Totman have made a sort of pact: you stay feathery on the piano, I won’t go to Hades in the mix. “Close Forever Watching” is a fine example of the slow, beautiful scraping that these Nords can dish up in a blink, and if you don’t feel stirred by the ghosts of “Teardrop” on “New Beginning (Tidal Darkness)” then, frankly, you’re unstirrable. It’s this continuous tilting between oblivion and relief that makes Owl Splinters so intriguing; these strange little shifts, like the moment on “Animal Sacrifice” where Skodvin picks up a cello. You couldn’t produce noises like that with an orchestra, not unless the conductor is willing to admit a wind machine into his string section. And that will never happen because four tenths of all concert attendees tip too generously and wear wigs.

If the Coen brothers need something reliably deep to help flesh out their next spiritual Western, they should push Josh Brolin’s CV to one side and put Owl Splinters on their desk. This record won’t let the weaker elements perish, or remember that it was once in The Goonies and then punch Diane Lane in the face. This record’s good for six years.

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Geoff Mullen - A Dust Futures

Avant-synth OG / Keith Fullerton Whitman's right-hand man Geoff Mullen drops a tape of mad genius synthwork. Noisy, psychedelic, often surprisingly beautiful. "ADF 03" is great.

Capping a vintage year for Mr Mullen after his 'Bongo Closet' LP for Type everyone round these parts, Digitalis present the mystic space music jumble of 'A Dust Futures'. Using his favoured Yamaha CS-50 and creating a delirious friction from assortments of tape loops, Mullen makes strange and wonderful arrangements full of sparse, cold space and spiralling plumes of abstract melody which just happens to sound ever so similar to the breakdown from Carl Craig's 'The Climax' on the B-side (no shit!). This is the sorta stuff we can zone out to all day and comes with the warmest recommendations for fans of OPN, Arp, Dylan Ettinger, or Stellar Om Source.

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[KvP]

Instra:Mental / Von D & Riskotheque - Voyeur / Like A Bird

Instra:Mental takes point on an appropriately sleazy portion of technoid Robocop music, while Von D & Riskotheque give us highly melodic club music, somewhere between Autonomic and L2S. Both really awesome songs. Look out for Von D - he's got an album out this year. Whatever, Resident Advisor.

"Voyeur" has been around for so long already—the Autonomic crew have been hammering it since what feels like the beginning of time—it's hard to know what to say. Basically, it's a banger. A total banger. But it bangs without ever really banging. There is no big drop. There are no crushing kick drums. The bass never farts and the vocals never rouse (quite the contrary). Melodically, it's low-key, off-key and warped, and what little variation there is is kept to a bare minimum. It's really all—all—in the groove, which falls somewhere between the sleazoid tech-funk of Ivan Smagghe circa fabric 23 and Boddika's more recent electro-bass revivalisms. For chin-stroking techno aesthetes, this might not sound like much, but for wasted ravers the world over, it's dynamite. Anyone who heard it spanking out of Bloc's hefty Jak:Bloc rig back in March will agree. Even the carpet was gurning.

It's no wonder Skream signed the tune (Skream = bangers, right?), but sadly this means it arrives via his less than consistent Disfugured Dubz imprint, home to some of the stodgiest bass "music" yet pressed to wax, e.g. the B-side. Quite apart from the fact that "Voyeur" literally screams (no, not intended) one-sided pressing, there's very little justification for releasing bloopers like "Like a Bird" in the first place. Unless, that is, melodically uninspired, rhythmically cumbersome, structurally predictable pseudo-deep half-step is worthy of being put out. In which case, I stand corrected. But I'll take the A-side any day. It's one of the tunes—read: choons—of the year.

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Roel Funcken - Daze Flextone

One half of Funckarma provides to us an EP of heavyweight IDM dubstep functions. Heavy, sleek and technical. "The Fortress Collapses" is absolutely clown-shoes mental.

Funckarma's Roel Funcken steps out on a techy 'beats mission for Eat Concrete. After a decade producing the instantly recognisable Funckarma sound, it's interesting to hear Roel going alone over these four tracks. There's an effervescent spaciousness to 'Daze Flextone' which carries through the whole EP, fixing spiralling synthline ascensions to skittering, skeletal post-electro rhythms with little sign of the slow and heavy dubstep influence which recently weighed their sound. That said, there's a defined halfstep swing to 'The Fortress Collapses' but it's indebted to the colder, more dynamic sound of Vex'd or Reso than anything else, while 'Martyrz' jacks on a glitched sound akin to VHS Head and 'Koortshond' splices Falty DL-style future garage with his clinical arrangements. For fans of Aardvarck's Bloom series, Falty DL, or Gescom!

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Mountains - Choral (LP Vinyl Edition)

Gorgeous, affecting acoustic folk / drone music with light electronic elements scattered throughout. Builds and breathes beautifully. James Blackshaw-esque at times. Worth a shot even if you don't like drone.

*New edition in a limited black sleeve, includes a download code redeemable from the label* Following on from last year's triumphant vinyl-only release Mountains, Mountains, Mountains on Catsup Plate, this latest opus from Koen Holtkamp and Brendon Anderegg finds the pair decamped to Thrill Jockey. Mountains have certainly risen to the challenge of releasing via a bigger label, and Choral could reasonably be considered the duo's most refined full-length to date, serving up six tracks of highly evolved drone-folk, all exquisitely produced and filled with dynamic variation. The thirteen-minute title track marries acoustic drones, spectrally sifted electronics and a host of voices embedded in the background noise. It's a dense and effulgent piece of electroacoustic music - tantamount to a long drawn out fanfare - lighting the path ahead for more subtle pieces like 'Map Table', which combines clear and carefully picked acoustic guitars with deep, textured field recording treatments and a healthy supply of blurry synthesis, Boards Of Canada style. Another glaring highlight comes in the form of 'Melodica', which sets out with a jangle of chimes and digital echo before swelling up with a fragrant, effortless warmth that's like a blast of summer air. Mountains have set themselves apart from a good many of their peers and contemporaries, offering an alternate take on abstract electroacoustic music; while Fennesz, for instance, has moved into more earnest, classically-oriented territory with Black Sea, Holtkamp and Anderegg deliver a kind of 21st century folk music - one that's immersed in the aesthetics of modern technology yet retains a very natural, very approachable sound. Absolutely gorgeous music and a massive recommendation.

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Isan - Greencracked / Catgot

Shaggy, ramshackle proto-techno melodicism from Isan. The B sounds a lot like a digital music box. Sort of twee, and sweet, as electronic music goes.

Antony Ryan and Robin Saville have been producing their very distinct variant of pure analogue electronic music since their incredible 'Damil 85' debut for the Wurlitzer Jukebox imprint landed almost 15 years ago. The economy employed in their production setup and sound palette has seen them veer in and out of fashion all along that timeline, but in reality very little has changed in the delicate sound world they've inhabited throughout. it just so happens that at this exact moment in time their sound feeds straight into a ravenous appetite for all things Kosmiche and early electronic - the likes of which we haven't seen for as long as we can remember. So while the likes of Emeralds, Roll The Dice, Oneohtrix Point Never and The Advisory Circle hone in on and capture different aspects of this sound, Isan continue doing what they've always done so well; transmitting timeless electronic lullabies at once redolent of 1970's scientific futurism and Great British archetypes, sitting out on the bowling green, supping on a cup of tea, a BBC test card transmission flickering quietly in the background. This limited edition 7" taster for imminent 'Glow In The Dark Safari Set' album is just a thing of absolute beauty and simplicity, with "Greencracked" making use of a percolated Casio rhythm and what sounds like a detuned synth cascading throughout with all the gentle intensity you would expect from a mid-70's Harmonia production. "Catgot" starts life in a more choppy and unsettled fashion before taking a deep breath and stepping into the childlike toy laboratory you've imagined while listening to Raymond Scott's 'Soothing Sounds For Baby', all the while tugging at your heartstrings and pulling you back into a state of mental regression - the buzz and intensity of the modern world all but gone for its blissful 3 minute duration. It just is what it is - utterly sublime.

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Tim Hecker - Apondalifa

Once more, Tim Hecker takes what sounds like a monolithic, amplified drone and sculpts something like a song out of it, with guitars and strings and small noises. The 7" split the song into two parts, for some reason, but this is the unified piece. Majestic, in that inimitable Hecker way.

*A limited 7" vinyl edition of 'Apondalifa', splitting the nine-minute piece across the two sides. Included is a digital download coupon (redeemable directly from the label) entitling you to a free MP3 version of the piece as a single track.* Of all the big names in contemporary electronic music, few can make swells of noise sound so tuneful and emotionally engaging as Tim Hecker. The Canadian composer has long-since established his signature sound of gusty processed guitars, melodious static and soaring drones, and this new single-length release for Room40 finds him taking his craft to a new level of refinement. 'Apondalifa' begins with surging strands of guitar, clipped and layered over waves of stratospheric hiss, slowly taking a melodic shape as the piece develops; looped chord fragments become more apparent after a couple of minutes, and for certain stretches you'll hear a good deal more of Hecker's guitar playing than he normally permits. Drawing towards the four minute mark, bright synth tones cut through the melee, leading to a midway crescendo - from here onwards the clouds of electronic fizz dissolve away to expose mantra-like guitar figures, repeating and re-layering before themselves gently ebbing into nothing. A top-quality, most welcome return from this exceptional electronic musician - it's only a shame there's not more of it.

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[KvP]

Mathemagics / Young Prisms - Split

The Mathemagics tracks are a pleasant slice of post-Panda Bear indie pop, with loud dubby drums, ambling bass and half-whispered vocal harmonies. Young Prisms back it up with some lo-fi shoegaze melodies. Pretty nice stuff.

*Limited to just 350 copies for the world on special card sleeve and artwork by Jeremy Perrodeau. Includes a download code redeemable directly from the label* Emerging from the North American hypnagogic dreamscape, Mathemagic and Young Prisms are paired on a beautiful 7" from Atelier Ciseaux records (following wax from Lucky Dragons, Best Coast and U.S. Girls). On the A-side we get Mathemagic's 'Breaststroke', a sublime marriage of strangely squashed bass guitar with deliciously smacky vocals and half-heard drag beats in a lovely meeting of Shoegaze and Witch house disciplines. Without the buried beats and featuring a more natural indie bass, Young Prisms occupy a more classic shoegaze space strongly indebted to MBV, but also with a drowned optimism akin to Ducktails. Highly Recommended!

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West Norwood Cassette Library - Blonde on Blonde (Pearson Sound Mix)

UK Garage dude comes out with a surprisingly faithful Chicago throwback, and the remarkably consistent Pearson Sound (aka Ramadamanman aka Maurice Donovan) remixes it in that unerringly precise way he always does. It's perhaps even more jacking than the original. Choice House.

Aerobic House workout from WNCL b/w a minimised and more refined Pearson Sound mix. After stints of dubstep and breaks-y dub-tech, WNCL unfurls 'Blonde On Blonde's classy yet rugged formation of bumpty Chicago House with crafty edits. On the flip Pearson Sound aka Ramadanman reduces the groove to a bare minimum of blocky kicks and sparing percussion, developing a kind of Tech-House pattern leading to sumptuous breakdown and back out again. Tidy.

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Taylor Deupree - Shoals (Edition)

Going a bit further into the avant-garde with this one. 12K boss Taylor Deupree releases what sounds like field recordings of an enclosed washroom. Probably goes well with good weed.

*Limited to an edition of 300 individually numbered copies for the world* This 7" serves as a highly limited and lovingly produced companion piece to Taylor Deupree's recent Shoals album. The clear vinyl comes packaged inside a heavy chipboard sleeve, letterpressed with dark green ink, and the crisp brown paper inner-sleeve brandishes an embossed 12k logo. Furthermore, each of the 300 copies is hand-numbered. Even before we get to the music it's a lovely item, and an object of desire for any Deupree or 12k fan. About that music: the A-side features a specially edited version of Shoals album track 'A Fading Found', which has been cut down to a size more befitting of a 7" single release (a lean 4:16, down from the expansive twelve minutes of the original) while the B-side is an exclusive track, 'Sere' conceived in the same spirit as the superb Shoals tracklist. Taylor Deupree is well and truly back to his best with this material, and while it initially seems a little peculiar that such abstract, extended compositions should be reformatted as short and snappy vignettes, it undoubtedly works. 'Sere' is worth the admission price alone, finding Deupree cultivating the most discreet and subtle of melodic profiles from a processed sonic environment constituted from room sounds, sonorous percussion and countless strange whirrs, creaks and reflections. Not to be missed.

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Blue Water White Death - Blue Water White Death

It's the dudes from Shearwater and Xiu Xiu and they sort of kind of made a drone album! Hope you like affected vox!

Blue Water White Death is the collaborative partnership of Jamie Stewart (Xiu Xiu) and Jonathan Meiburg (Shearwater). Conceived and recorded in just the seven days from Christmas to New Year’s Eve, 2009, their eponymous debut is exactly the sort of document one might expect to emerge from a whirlwind creative collision between its two inimitable makers. Tender and deeply vile in equal measure, Blue Water White Death is less an exercise in traditional songcraft than it is a meticulously rendered space. Most of the songs here don’t develop by typical linear courses, instead lingering amidst the trappings of the album’s unusual sonic architecture — running their leathery hands along the walls of its vast, damp corridors and floating in its cold, deep pools.

The title of the album comes from a 1971 documentary that follows a group of divers who set out to capture great white sharks on film. That film was the initial point of departure for Meiburg and Stewart, and Blue Water White Death certainly evokes a uniquely brutal aquatic vision. The duo trade vocals evenly across the album’s eight tracks, and their respective musical interests and strengths prove to be extremely complementary. Stewart’s songs tend to get down amidst the waters, his crooked incantations swallowed up by waves of leaden drones (“Rendering the Juggalos”) or wading in the foam and slime of the shallows (“Death for Christmas”). Meiburg, on the other hand, tends toward the nautical. His gorgeous falsetto is dappled with sunlight and his dry, nimble fingerpicking skips like a schooner over ambient soundscapes whose shimmering surfaces imply leagues of dark, heaving depths below.

Blue Water White Death’s four gatefold panels feature illustrations of four different deep sea fish set against a clinical field of white. They’re grotesque creatures with near-alien deformities, their brutalized anatomies born of long legacies spent in the cold and darkness of deep oceans. They’re also strikingly beautiful and the perfect avatars for the album’s tenuous mixture of majesty and hideousness, innocence and shame.

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Conquering Animal Sound - Kammerspiel

Glitchy, rustic, ramshackle, serene electro-folk pop. As far as the vox is concerned, the Bjork comparisons are pretty apt. Comfort music.

With Bjork off astral travelling in the outer realms of out-sound, there's been a gap left in the musical landscape. Where do we go now for perfectly crafted female-fronted electronic pop? Sure there's a few options, but few with the glacial, near-ambient bliss of the Icelandic snow-queen, that is until Kammerspiel came along. Despite having a name that would suggest otherwise the band hail from Glasgow (via Edinburgh) and their music seems primed to fit into a warm spot right next to 'Homogenic' and 'Vespertine' on your shelf. Sure the production might these days owe just as much to omnipresent overlords The xx, but there is an overwhelming sense of opera and scope, something the nonchalant chill-wave set would struggle with at best. 'Conquering Animal Sound' is a pop record, but one with just enough smarts to get even the most po-faced experimental music obsessive to take notice, you'll certainly be missing out if you don't.

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