Essential releases you always have with you

Kylie is all u need

like... always have with me? when i sleep or shower?

yeah yeah ok i get ya

coil - love's secret domain/musick to play in the dark vols 1 and 2

burial - burial/untrue/south london boroughs ep

talk talk - spirit of eden/laughing stock

philip glass - koyaanisqatsi/glassworks/songs from the trilogy

the beatles - revolver/abbey road

joanna newsom - ys/and the ys street band

va - shangaan electro (best jogging music in the world)

va - zed bias presents sound of the pirated (cracking 2-step garage mix)

plastikman - sheet one/consumed

jeff mills - live at the liquid rooms

robert hood - fabric 39

surgeon - force & form

Autechre - Amber, Tri Repetae

FSOL - Lifeforms

Tangerine Dream - Rubycon

Can - Tago Mago

A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85 - 92

The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation

Steve Roach - Structures From Silence, Dynamic Stillness

Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden

Bardo Pond - On The Ellipse

The Verve - A Storm In Heaven

The Necks - Drive By

The Orb - Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld, Orbus Terrarum

The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath

Bjork- Vespertine

Loop - Heaven`s End

Constance Demby - Novus Magnificat

Global Communication - 76:14

Pink Floyd - Animals

Orbital - Brown album

The Black Dog - Bytes

Jah Wobble & Bill Laswell - Radio Axio: A Dub Transmission

Biosphere - Substrata

Thom Brennan - Mist

Sleep Research Facility - Deep Frieze

Forgot one

Meat Beat Manifesto - Actual Sounds and Voices

When I'm on the move I stuff my mp3 player with music I haven't listened to, or I've only briefly skipped through, when I've given it all a proper listen it gets removed and a new batch of stuff gets a go. the classics stay at home.

High on Fire - Surrounded by Thieves

Elliott Smith - all albums

Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt

Bowie - Scary Monsters

T Rex - T Rex

Anything by Desmond Dekker

Frank Black - Teenager Of The Year

of Montreal - Coquelicot Asleep in The Field of Poppies A Variety of Whimsical Verse

George Harrisson - All Things Must Pass

Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks

AFX - Analord 1-11

Danzig - How The Gods Kill

My Morning Jacket - At Dawn

Os Mutantes - Mutantes

Popol Vuh - all albums

Various - Tuva: Voices From The Center of Asia

Enya - The Celts

NIN - Broken

Donovan - all albums

DEVO - Q/A & Hardcore Vol 1

Glen Gould - Bach's Goldberg Variations

Faith No More - Introduce Yourself

GNR - Appetite for Destruction

Judee Sill - Heart Food

Arlo Guthrie - Best of

Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity

Minor Threat - Discography

Fugazi - all albums

My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

Beach House - Teen Dream

Ceephax Acid Crew - United Acid Emirates

Acid Mothers Temple

All Autechre

Madvillainy

Quasimoto - The Unseen

Digable Planets - Blowout Comb

ODB - Return to the 36 Chambers

Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back

Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full

Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers

All Richard D. James stuff except for Classics (after a while that release didn't stand up to the rest)

Excursions in Ambience Compilation.

boc hi scores, disengage, beautiful place out in the country

vsvn

michael fakesch demon's

ae incunabula, amber, split rmx

afx saw2, rdj

the guitar trio: john mclaughlin, paca de lucia, al di meola

6blocc sub assault 1

dj db: History of our world part 1 & 2

plaid not43's

squarepusher big loada, feed me

soul oddity tone capsule

deftones white pony

the smokers delight

mouse on mars vulvaland

legofeet

jega geometry

Rockers: original soundtrack

arovane tides

zeppelin 3

plug drum n bass 4 papa

aemic beta

amon tobin permutations

mort garrison plantasia

vlad motion institute

radiohead in rainbows

fleet foxes helplessness blues

max tundra children at play

jamie lidell multiply

pink floyd wish you were here

telefon tel aviv discography

bob marley legend in dub

  On 1/4/2012 at 7:50 PM, asymmetrical head said:

Digable Planets - Blowout Comb

Yes. Have you heard Shabbaz Palaces' "Black Up"? That's Butterflies' new Group. Good Shit!

blowout comb was so good back in the day, wish I still had that cd.

black up is a beautiful continuation of the digable planets aesthetic with incredible production and atmosphere

I never leave the house without my copy of Filosofem

  On 1/3/2012 at 9:40 PM, Joseph said:

Nothing. Even my very favorite albums I have to spend time away from or they get tiresome. In fact the more I love an album the more I have to discipline myself not to listen to it all the time.......

 

Like for example autechre is my fav band but right now I have none of their stuff on my iPod

I am EXACTLY the same.Currently I do not have any Aphex on my ipod apart from a handful of Analords (I recently wiped the RDJ album as its a summer album for me) I only have the ABPOITC by BOC, gonna wipe this soon and stick on The Campfire Headphase. I have no Ae studio albums or eps but quite a few live recordings. I have a small memory mp3 player so things never get stale and I am always changing what albums I carry. I did a phase of only having difficult albums I needed to listen to more and get into more. Like you Joseph I discipline myself from listening too much from music I love, so it stays fresh in my mind.

Tbh a lot of Aphex/BoC/Autechre requires home listening on decent soundsystem with little distractions. The amount of times I have got settled or in the right frame of mind to listen to Geogaddi and 15 minutes later some buffoon is tapping me on the shoulder going 'Oi !!! Oi !! Oi !!!!', and I am like under my breathe 'Why don't you Fffffuuuuuuck OFF mate!!' which is no good is it? So I put these albums on my player if I am going for a long cycle or train journey.

The Fiery Furnaces Gallowsbird's Bark, EP, Bitter Tea, Blueberry Boat, and Widow City

Boards of Canada's Campfire Headphase & Hi Scores

Aphex Twin's Richard D. James & Melodies From Mars

Matthew Friedberger's Winter Women & Holy Ghost Language School

The Avalanches Since I Left You

Franz Ferdinand's You Could Have it so much Better

Clara Rockmore's The Art of Theremin

Merzbow's Merzbeat

Edit: Gorillaz' D-Sides CD 1

Although I don't have any Clara Rockmore in my car. There's probably some others, but I always want these.

  On 1/4/2012 at 10:32 PM, beerwolf said:

The amount of times I have got settled or in the right frame of mind to listen to Geogaddi and 15 minutes later some buffoon is tapping me on the shoulder going 'Oi !!! Oi !! Oi !!!!', and I am like under my breathe 'Why don't you Fffffuuuuuuck OFF mate!!' which is no good is it?

Excellent quote.

  On 1/5/2012 at 2:01 AM, Murveman said:

The Avalanches Since I Left You

YES Fucking love that album.

  On 1/4/2012 at 5:50 PM, jefferoo said:

AFX - Analord 1-11

I actually listened to every single one at work once. Best day of scanning documents ever.

  On 1/4/2012 at 6:08 PM, Tamagotchi San said:

Acid Mothers Temple

Have you seen them live? Fucking awesome.

  On 1/4/2012 at 7:50 PM, asymmetrical head said:

Wu Tang Clan - 36 Chambers

AH forgot this one.

  On 1/4/2012 at 10:03 PM, Dan C said:

I never leave the house without my copy of Filosofem

heh

moar -

Gorillaz Debut and Plastic Beach

I can also listen to Gold Panda anytime at the moment

Daft Punk - Discovery (sorry)

Bjork - Homogenic

  On 1/4/2012 at 8:53 PM, CJM said:

  On 1/4/2012 at 7:50 PM, asymmetrical head said:

Digable Planets - Blowout Comb

 

Yes. Have you heard Shabbaz Palaces' "Black Up"? That's Butterflies' new Group. Good Shit!

I have a Shabbaz Palaces track, "Swerve... The reeping of all that is worthwhile (Noir not withstanding)". I didn't make the connection that it was butterfly. That name itself reeks of Digable Planets. Thanks for advising me. This is one of my favorite Hip Hop tracks of the past year. That and Labtekwon!

Akiko Nakamura - Hit Album

Surgeon mixes

Oh I specifically leave those albums in their cases and only use copies of them. I'm horrible at keeping CDs scratch free.

A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory, Midnight Marauders

AFX - Analords, SAW 85-92

Autechre - Tri Repetae, Draft 7.30, Confield

Beck - Sea Change, Odelay

Boards of Canada - IABPOITC

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago

Charles Mingus - Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

Clams Casino - Instrumentals

Coil - Musick to Play In The Dark vol. 1, ...And the Ambulance Died in His Arms

Digable Planets - Blowout Comb

Elliott Smith - Elliott Smith (s/t), XO, most songs off of Either/Or

Gas - everything in Nah und Fern, and also Oktember

Global Communication - 76:14

Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

Grizzly Bear - Yellow House

Iron and Wine - Our Endless Numbered Days, Such Great Heights (EP), and various songs off of his other albums

Jim O'Rourke - Eureka, Insignificance, Halfway to a Threeway

Meat Beat Manifesto - Subliminal Sandwich, Actual Sounds & Voices

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

Nick Drake - Pink Moon

NIN - The Fragile, TDS, and random remixes from other albums/EPs

Plug - Drum 'n' Bass for Papa

Stars of the Lid - Ballasted Orchestra, Refinement of the Decline, Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid

The National - Cherry Tree EP, Alligator, Boxer, High Violet, and a lot of other songs

The Orb - Adventures Into the Ultraworld, U.F.Orb, Orbus Terrarum

The Tallest Man on Earth - everything he's released

TRS-80 - Shake Hands With Danger

Ween - The Pod, Chocolate and Cheese, The Mollusk, Quebec

  On 1/5/2012 at 10:03 AM, flurobox said:

Surgeon mixes

'this is for you shits' might be the best mix i've ever heard.

  On 1/4/2012 at 6:08 PM, Tamagotchi San said:

Acid Mothers Temple

That's a lot of stuff

My mp3 player content gets changed every week or so, and i mostly place new stuff there.

But i would say that my essential releases are:

Bytes and Spanners, by The Black Dog

SAW II, Aphex

Lifeforms, FSOL

The Dark Side of the Moon, The Wall, Pink Floyd

Groove Junkies, best of from Portuguese group Cool Hipnoise

Voyeurism,Titonton Duvanté

A Love Supreme, John Coltrane

The Return of the Space Cowboy, Jamiroquai

Dropsonde, Biosphere

Stardancer EP, David Morley

808:88:98: 10 Years of 808 State

Producer 01; 05, LTJ Bukem

Classic Fingers, Larry Heard

Blade Runner: The Esper Edition, by Vangelis

pretty much everything from earlier Da Weasel, a portuguese group

and The Good The Bad And The Ugly, by Ennio Morricone

I keep the new dave monolith cd in my car, it will probably never be ejected.

also I keep the analords, the love quadrant, lovers acid, and drum n bass for papa on my phone for backup musical emergencies.