recent purchases thread

  On 1/4/2010 at 11:48 AM, ieafs said:

their pre-tired sounds records are brilliant too... if you don't like the vague modern classical feel that those two have i'd still really recommend the ballasted orchestra and avec laudenum. avec laudenum in particular is like tired sounds and refinement with all the more standard instrumentation taken out. perfect balance between simplicity and interest i think.

 

cant think of much law saw85-92 though... that's definitely what sets that record apart - it sounds like it just came into being by itself. no ego, no clutter.

fear that's the case. never found anything in the 90's that matched it, and RDJ never released anything that directly felt as though it came from quite the same place... aside from the odd remix and parts of polygon window.

always felt it showed signs of house and techno, particularly the piano stuff (italian house?), which, in a much more commercial form, was an influence on very commercial dance acts of the 90's too. 80's house seems largely lost, aside from the few artists i know that still maintain a career and reputation that started around that time, so i don't know what RDJ's influences could have been there - model 500?

my biggest fear is that "ambient" means, to many (perhaps moreso now than ever, especially since time is rewriting where certain artists are categorised) something to be played in the background, something that doesn't require attention or structure. it just needs to drift. also think there's a dreaded "music to smoke dope to" element in how electronic stuff is interpreted, and i've always steered more towards things that create an atmosphere, encourage a journey in the mind of the listener, demands attention and respect, yet doesn't involve brutal beat usage as acid / d 'n' b edge of intelligent non-commercial electronic music would do. dont know where this stuff is nowadays though.

i'm still interested in the idea of modern classical - i really like warren ellis / nick caves "jesse james" soundtrack, which is chamber music, i hear, and the OST to 'let the right one in' is also superb - but i think SAW 85-92 and the intelligence of the earlier orbital, 808 state stuff i used to listed to avidly in the early 90's is something which must have origins and subsequent influences that can be found somewhere, somehow... dubstep might have been it, if it didn't sound so much more like middleclass white kids that electronica ever managed to 20 years ago.

sylvain chauveau - black book of capitalism & nuage.

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=149970

http://www.boomkat.com/item.cfm?id=59399

for some reason, heavily discounted at boomkat right now. i was going to get them anyway, but. they've a couple of his others too, but i'm here for a taster first.

VINYL

New

luke vibert- lover's acid

Used

andre gagnon- neiges

george winston - december

george winston - autumn

simon and garfunkel - bridge over troubled water

peter gabriel - self titled

jon and vangelis - the best of

DVDs

meet the parents

300

super bad

step brothers

desperado

ben frost, by the throat. tim hecker, an imaginary country.

Meat Beat Manifesto - RUOK LP, Actual Sounds + Voices LP

Coil - Love's Secret Domain CD

  On 1/11/2010 at 6:43 PM, logboy said:

ben frost, by the throat. tim hecker, an imaginary country.

Is By The Throat any good ? A lot of people been shitting bricks over it . I've heard some samples and it sounds pretty vicious .

And I need some Tim Hecker in my collection so badly .

dunno. ordered, shipped even, but not arrived. samles sound good. I like strong ideas, heavy contrast & noise, atmosphere, so... hope it's good.

  On 1/12/2010 at 8:26 PM, GrandPopPoplock said:

  On 1/11/2010 at 6:43 PM, logboy said:

ben frost, by the throat. tim hecker, an imaginary country.

 

 

Is By The Throat any good ? A lot of people been shitting bricks over it . I've heard some samples and it sounds pretty vicious .

 

 

And I need some Tim Hecker in my collection so badly .

  On 1/10/2010 at 5:21 PM, yek said:

VINYL

 

 

george winston - autumn

 

awesome, i've been meaning to pick that up for the longest time.

CD:

Milieu - Pinwheel Carousels

Milieu - New Drugs for Nuclear Families of the 70's

Milieu - Echo Spectrum

Coppice Halifax - Ocean Lion

Ulver - Perdition City

Vinyl:

Black Moth Super Rainbow - The Autumn Kaleidoscope Has Changed

Casino Versus Japan - Via (xmas present from my roommate who melted my first copy in his car)

Casino Versus Japan - Whole Numbers Play the Basics

Datassette 'Datassette'

Exillon 'The Keening Dithers'

Aleksi Perälä 'Mental Union'

Jodey Kendrick 'Plus 10'

vinyl

  On 1/12/2010 at 8:26 PM, GrandPopPoplock said:

  On 1/11/2010 at 6:43 PM, logboy said:

ben frost, by the throat. tim hecker, an imaginary country.

 

 

Is By The Throat any good ? A lot of people been shitting bricks over it . I've heard some samples and it sounds pretty vicious .

 

 

And I need some Tim Hecker in my collection so badly .

By The Throat is thuggin' awesome.

Entroducing..... Dj Shadow Excessive Ephemera

(vynil)

...looks like it is the only copy in town

they still have 1 copy of the "The Outsider" Cd from him ...maybe later

Interesting...looks like I'll be getting 'By The Throat '

finally installed my new keyboard today i can type normally again thank god

it's uk instead of us though so some keys aren't where they should be lol but who cares

Jon Hopkins - 'Insides' ( This album is...wow...amazing. I blindly bought this . Yes, I've heard of Jon , but...I've never heard any of his songs . I just knew there was some buzz around it.........and I didn't know what else to buy )

Plaid - 'Double Figure' ( more win )

I've known them for ages but never managed to ever get an album, so I thought the first one would be a good decision

Monolake - Momentum

Leftfield - Rhythm and Stealth

Autechre - Cichlisuite

Meat Beat Manifesto - 99%

Meat Beat Manifesto - It's the Music

Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin

I can't believe I got Momentum for two dollars, and it looks mint

max richter : songs from before.

Jega - Card Hore (Skam) (12", EP)

Like A Tim - Cacophony (Djax-Up-Beats) (12")

Like A Tim - Dry (Djax-Up-Beats) (12")

Team Doyobi - Cryptoburners (Skam) (2xLP)

GusGus* Vs. T-World - Gusgus Vs. T-World (4AD) (12", Promo)

B12 - 3EP (Warp Records) (12", EP)

Leila - Don't Fall Asleep (Rephlex) (12")

Turn On - Turn On (Duophonic) (LP)

LFO - Freak (Warp Records) (12")

Kerrier District - Kerrier District 2 (Rephlex) (12")

Cylob - Lobster Tracks (Rephlex) (12")

Cybernet Systems - Roboticist EP (Battle Trax) (12")

Wevie De Crepon - Ton Wah (Sonig) (12", Ltd)

Ceephax Acid Crew - Ceephax Acid Crew Part Two (Breakin' Records) (12")

Chris Moss Acid - London's Calling E.P. (Mathematics Recordings) (12", EP)

Someone Else - Ball Lickin EP (Musik Krause) (12", EP)

Hieroglyphic Being - The Sound Of Music E.P. (Mathematics Recordings) (12", EP)

  On 1/17/2010 at 12:54 AM, GrandPopPoplock said:

Jon Hopkins - 'Insides' ( This album is...wow...amazing. )

 

nice, i've been meaning to pick this up as well. sounds a bit too much like a movie score at times, but there are some standout tracks.

the other day i just got the fearless four "problems of the world" 12 inch record. oh and i got a treacherous three record too, but i forget it's name. it's an old one from 1981 with a very nice instrumental which is fun to scratch/beatjuggle with.