This came to me in a dream last night - I was listening to a mystery album and thought "This sounds just like Music Is Rotted..." But I woke up and thought about it, and not much music comes to mind for me. Definitely some Miles Davis is close, but that tends to be a lot busier and more chaotic. Wondering if anyone has any suggestions (jazz or otherwise) that capture the sort of murky, smoky, basement jam feel of this album.

Imagine all the unreleased stuff he got from those years.. 

 

how about these, perhaps still too chaotic or horn laden, but it's what comes to mind:

I always felt that a lot of the the 90s Tortoise stuff is is a similar vein. Same with the early mogwai stuff. 

Great thread, great recs.

Music is Rotted has always been my favorite Squarepusher album.

Wow, excellent recommendations. Those are exactly what I was looking for. A few other similar things came to my mind:

For a modern touch, I would get Panthalassa .  It's an official Miles Davis release, and features remixes of his 70's output into 90's fusion/ambiant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panthalassa:_The_Music_of_Miles_Davis_1969–1974

  On 1/11/2022 at 3:58 PM, NI64 said:

murky, smoky, basement jam feel

Amon Tobin's Permutation hit this spot for me when I wanted to hear a similar vibe (if not technical/purely sonic similarity) to Music Is Rotted One Note. right from the moody opening sounds of the first track and the mysterious sample from Eraserhead, which I hadn't seen at the time.

damn, I think I'm ready to revisit those first 4 Amon albums. I rinsed them so hard for years I stopped getting any pleasure out of them. I may be able to go back now.

Doo Doo Bug - “The Greamlin”

Doo Doo Bug - “The Bug”

Angel Spaghetti - “Italian Music”

Lucrecia Luigini - “ Venice Blue”

Crandall Elementi - “A Ballet, of Sorts”

Cloud Floating - “Clouds” EP

The Dell Computers - “Windows”

Mouse Shoes - “Spending Time Again”

Ford Willabee - “Won’t You Be Mine?” 

The Hoses - “Hose Me Down”

Winged Trio - “Jazz”

pumkin - Untitled

  On 1/12/2022 at 8:32 AM, Alcofribas said:

Doo Doo Bug - “The Greamlin”

Doo Doo Bug - “The Bug”

Angel Spaghetti - “Italian Music”

Lucrecia Luigini - “ Venice Blue”

Crandall Elementi - “A Ballet, of Sorts”

Cloud Floating - “Clouds” EP

The Dell Computers - “Windows”

Mouse Shoes - “Spending Time Again”

Ford Willabee - “Won’t You Be Mine?” 

The Hoses - “Hose Me Down”

Winged Trio - “Jazz”

pumkin - Untitled

 

 

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I’m a huge fan of Doo Doo Bug. Great call.

 Not really but

I always felt Music is Rotted was 50/50  Coltrane/Bruce Ditmas

Thanks for this thread.

I think this Badun album comes close to that kind of atmosphere in some places.

This would very much be within my sphere of knowledge.

Here are a few modern ones:

Conjoint – Earprints

Jackson Conti – Sujinho

Triosk Meets Jan Jelinek – 1+3+1

Fixity – The Things In The Room

Omar Rodriguez-Lopez – Calibration

Omar Rodriguez Lopez Quintet – The Apocalypse Inside Of An Orange

and a classic Dutch one from 1974:

Jasper Van't Hof – The Selfkicker

what a great thread. MIRON is also my favorite among tom's output.

beginning to listen here... great stuff...

  On 1/15/2022 at 8:50 PM, toaoaoad said:

Thanks for this thread.

I think this Badun album comes close to that kind of atmosphere in some places.

 

 

 

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This. Badun’s music is amazing. Thanks for the reminder to relisten.

  On 3/4/2022 at 4:27 PM, Extralife said:

This. Badun’s music is amazing. Thanks for the reminder to relisten.

They are pretty great. This one isn't their best imo, it just meanders and the constant ride cymbal gets tiresome, but it definitely has the Music Is Rotted atmosphere down otherwise.

Actually I was just thinking how their self-titled album is somewhat reminiscent of HND-era squarepusher, but that would be another thread. Either way it seems likely they are influenced by him

s.o.t.s. is my favourite, it's a beast on headphones

Kinda obvious but im mentioning it anyway. Psychedelic era Miles Davis and Herbie probably? Sun Ra can get quite synth heavy wild spacey smokey. (man that Sun Ra solo is crazy, found it while searching for stuff for this thread on youtube never heard it before)

  On 1/12/2022 at 12:33 PM, Rubin Farr said:

I always felt Music is Rotted was 50/50  Coltrane/Bruce Ditmas

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Woah, this rocks! Hell of an album cover too.