good music = good music
středa, září 30, 2009
Zápisník A2 - Proti pesimismu
Pomalu končí jedna kalendářní dekáda a hudební publicisté se trochu z povinnosti ohlížejí za jejími výdobytky. Mnozí už začali sestavovat vždy trochu obskurní žebříčky nejdůležitějších, nejlepších a nejvlivnějších desek. Domácí časopis Filter si pospíšil a svou stovku nejdůležitějších alb sestavil už na začátku léta, pak následovaly nejrůznější blogy a v říjnu se přidá také Pitchfork a rozhodně i další. Chystaná změna posledního dvojčíslí v letopočtu některé z publicistů uvrhla do rozjímavé nálady, v níž mají pocit, že musejí hudební vývoj posledních deseti let shrnout či dokonce ohodnotit v jeho historickém kontextu. Není divu, že se pod tíhou takového úkolu uchylují k pesimistickým či přímo depresivním vizím.
Více v dnešní A2 nebo na webu.
Více v dnešní A2 nebo na webu.
Unclassics 30: Orthrelm - OV (2005; Ipecac Recordings)
genre: grindcore, alternative metal
Metal is indeed a boring genre and Mike Barr of Orthelm (and great band Krallice as well) managed to turn this boredom upside down. OV is 45 minutes of extreme repetition, which sounds like Terry Riley doing grindcore. The hyperspeed riff repeated over and over is bound to burn deep into your brain and stay there for years to come. This is pure trance metal, you hear adrenaline rushing to your veins and wanna jump out of the window once this album is finished.
Other recommended albums released on Ipecac:
Phantomsmasher - Phantomsmasher, 2002
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Black Earth, 2004
Hella - There's No 666 In Outer Space, 2007
Zu - Carboniferous (2009)
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Metal is indeed a boring genre and Mike Barr of Orthelm (and great band Krallice as well) managed to turn this boredom upside down. OV is 45 minutes of extreme repetition, which sounds like Terry Riley doing grindcore. The hyperspeed riff repeated over and over is bound to burn deep into your brain and stay there for years to come. This is pure trance metal, you hear adrenaline rushing to your veins and wanna jump out of the window once this album is finished.
Other recommended albums released on Ipecac:
Phantomsmasher - Phantomsmasher, 2002
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Black Earth, 2004
Hella - There's No 666 In Outer Space, 2007
Zu - Carboniferous (2009)
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
úterý, září 29, 2009
Unclassics 29: Jens Lekman - Oh You're So Silent Jens (Secretly Canadian, 2005)
genre: pop, singer-songwriter
Jens Lekman is the guys who seems to be writing songs just by opening his mouth and singing. His songs are so nice and warm that you wanna hug him. Oh You're So Silent Jens is a collection of singles and EPs and it also includes his greatest hits like You Are The Light, Black Cab and I Saw Her In The Anti War Demonstration. A lot has been writen about swedish pop in 00s, but you do not have to read a singl sentence - just listen to Jens' love songs.
Other recommended Swedish pop of 00s:
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala, 2007
Robyn - Robyn
A Camp - A Camp
Likke Li - Youth Novels
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Jens Lekman is the guys who seems to be writing songs just by opening his mouth and singing. His songs are so nice and warm that you wanna hug him. Oh You're So Silent Jens is a collection of singles and EPs and it also includes his greatest hits like You Are The Light, Black Cab and I Saw Her In The Anti War Demonstration. A lot has been writen about swedish pop in 00s, but you do not have to read a singl sentence - just listen to Jens' love songs.
Other recommended Swedish pop of 00s:
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala, 2007
Robyn - Robyn
A Camp - A Camp
Likke Li - Youth Novels
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
pondělí, září 28, 2009
Unclassics 28: Miss Kittin & The Hacker - First Album (2001, International Deejay Gigolo Records)
genre: electro, electroklash
Before Kittin's and Hacker's album dance music was suffering from overintelectualization and too much hi-tech equipment. What they did was take pure elements of dance music (beat and synth baseline) and recreate the genre once again by going back to its roots. It was fresh, even though it sounded a bit like 80s punky new wave shit. It was Kittin's broken English and her decadent lyrics about glamour, fucking and Frank Sinatra, which made this album as cool as cucumber. Later on she even tried to sing, which was the worst mistake of her career. Come on, talking is enough! What was even better about this album was that you and your girlfriend could have made this album in your living room with your sister's Casio. Fuck expensive equipment, let's do it raw! Back to basics electro revival started with Kittin and Hacker and it seemed to never die during the 00s. But it was never so fun as in 01.
Miss Kittin and The Hacker - 1982
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miss kittin et the hacker - franck sinatra
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Before Kittin's and Hacker's album dance music was suffering from overintelectualization and too much hi-tech equipment. What they did was take pure elements of dance music (beat and synth baseline) and recreate the genre once again by going back to its roots. It was fresh, even though it sounded a bit like 80s punky new wave shit. It was Kittin's broken English and her decadent lyrics about glamour, fucking and Frank Sinatra, which made this album as cool as cucumber. Later on she even tried to sing, which was the worst mistake of her career. Come on, talking is enough! What was even better about this album was that you and your girlfriend could have made this album in your living room with your sister's Casio. Fuck expensive equipment, let's do it raw! Back to basics electro revival started with Kittin and Hacker and it seemed to never die during the 00s. But it was never so fun as in 01.
Miss Kittin and The Hacker - 1982
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miss kittin et the hacker - franck sinatra
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neděle, září 27, 2009
Unclassics 27: Lambchop - Is A Woman (2002, Merge)
genre: alt.country, soul
First time I came across Kurt Wagner's voice was when I heard him on Morcheeba's record What New York Couples Fight About. OK, I know how embarassing this is, but at least I found out about this great band called Lambchop. Wagner is from Nashville, Tennessee and he surely must be the weirdest country singer ever living. His soul soaked voice drives you through Lambchop moody songs and you pour yourself a glass of whiskey and start thinking about the girl you had crush on at secondary school. It's a nice music for your parents to enjoy with you, but it has more depths than your average MOR pop collection. He will never become Leonard fucking Cohen and will always be the only musician from Nashville I dig. Thank you.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
First time I came across Kurt Wagner's voice was when I heard him on Morcheeba's record What New York Couples Fight About. OK, I know how embarassing this is, but at least I found out about this great band called Lambchop. Wagner is from Nashville, Tennessee and he surely must be the weirdest country singer ever living. His soul soaked voice drives you through Lambchop moody songs and you pour yourself a glass of whiskey and start thinking about the girl you had crush on at secondary school. It's a nice music for your parents to enjoy with you, but it has more depths than your average MOR pop collection. He will never become Leonard fucking Cohen and will always be the only musician from Nashville I dig. Thank you.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
sobota, září 26, 2009
Unclassics 26: Farben - Textar (2002, Klang Elektronik)
genre: microhouse
I can hardly understand why this Farben album is often described as one of the first microhouse/minimal albums. There seem to be so many things happening in the music to be called minimal. (Or is it just my aural hallucination?) Farben is a Jan Jelinek's monicker and we all know that this guy is so talented it hurts. He once said that Farben is his most danceable project, which does not mean much as the rhythms on Textar are fucked up and stitched again by a burning needle. He even has a sense of humour, have a look at the name of the first track - Live Live At Sahara Tahoe, 1973.
Other Recommended albums by Jan Jelinek:
...more to come later on...
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
I can hardly understand why this Farben album is often described as one of the first microhouse/minimal albums. There seem to be so many things happening in the music to be called minimal. (Or is it just my aural hallucination?) Farben is a Jan Jelinek's monicker and we all know that this guy is so talented it hurts. He once said that Farben is his most danceable project, which does not mean much as the rhythms on Textar are fucked up and stitched again by a burning needle. He even has a sense of humour, have a look at the name of the first track - Live Live At Sahara Tahoe, 1973.
Other Recommended albums by Jan Jelinek:
...more to come later on...
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
pátek, září 25, 2009
Unclassics 25: Jazkamer - Metal Music Machine (2006, Smalltown Supernoise)
genre: noisecore
Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre's project does not even have one name - the variations of Jazkamer come with different numbers of z's and m's, but they are always great. This one should be a homage to Lou Reed's classic noise "fuck you people" album Metal Machine Music, but turns out to be a Marhaug and Herge's homage to various metal genres, which they manage to recreate in a bit different way. Friend of Satan is too loud and too aggresive to be called t(h)rash metal and Occult Glider is a black metal which is even more extreme than you average Mayhem album. And did I mention they neraly ripped PA in Archa theatre with their blasts?
Other recommended albums by Lasse Marhaug:
Jazkamer - Balls the Size of Texas Liver the Size of Brazil, 2007, Eat Shit, 2008
Lasse Marhaug - The Shape of Rock to Come 2004
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Lasse Marhaug and John Hegre's project does not even have one name - the variations of Jazkamer come with different numbers of z's and m's, but they are always great. This one should be a homage to Lou Reed's classic noise "fuck you people" album Metal Machine Music, but turns out to be a Marhaug and Herge's homage to various metal genres, which they manage to recreate in a bit different way. Friend of Satan is too loud and too aggresive to be called t(h)rash metal and Occult Glider is a black metal which is even more extreme than you average Mayhem album. And did I mention they neraly ripped PA in Archa theatre with their blasts?
Other recommended albums by Lasse Marhaug:
Jazkamer - Balls the Size of Texas Liver the Size of Brazil, 2007, Eat Shit, 2008
Lasse Marhaug - The Shape of Rock to Come 2004
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
čtvrtek, září 24, 2009
Unclassics 24: Funki Porcini - Fast Asleep (Ninja Tune, 2002)
genre: nu jazz
I was never a big fan of Ninja Tune nu-jazz staff they released around the millenium. But Funki Porcini's last (or latest, cause his new one called On is slated for 2009, but god only knows if this ever gets released) album has a place in my heart. Oh, yes, it does! This is really sofisticated future jazz with some hip hop beats and vintage synths. It almost seems as if Funki Porcini AKA James Braddell is too smart for his own listeners. Usually I avoid stuff like that, but Fast Asleep is neither boring nor too intelectual for its own sake. I know, plenty of people still think Ninja Tune is the best label ever, even though they released only few good albums in 00s. I do not wanna argue. Play this music to your new girl/boyfriend when you want to impress them and by the time Back Home ends you will be both naked & making sweet sweet love. Good luck!
Other recommended albums from Ninja Tune label from 00s:
Amon Tobin - Supermodified, 2000
Fog - Fog, 2002
Skalpel - Skalpel (2004)
Airborn Audio - Good Fortune (2005)
The Bug - London Zoo (2008)
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
I was never a big fan of Ninja Tune nu-jazz staff they released around the millenium. But Funki Porcini's last (or latest, cause his new one called On is slated for 2009, but god only knows if this ever gets released) album has a place in my heart. Oh, yes, it does! This is really sofisticated future jazz with some hip hop beats and vintage synths. It almost seems as if Funki Porcini AKA James Braddell is too smart for his own listeners. Usually I avoid stuff like that, but Fast Asleep is neither boring nor too intelectual for its own sake. I know, plenty of people still think Ninja Tune is the best label ever, even though they released only few good albums in 00s. I do not wanna argue. Play this music to your new girl/boyfriend when you want to impress them and by the time Back Home ends you will be both naked & making sweet sweet love. Good luck!
Other recommended albums from Ninja Tune label from 00s:
Amon Tobin - Supermodified, 2000
Fog - Fog, 2002
Skalpel - Skalpel (2004)
Airborn Audio - Good Fortune (2005)
The Bug - London Zoo (2008)
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
středa, září 23, 2009
Unclassics 23: Diverse - One A.M. (Chocolate Industries, 2003)
genre: underground hip hop
Jeff Parker from Tortoise making beats on a undie hip hop album alongside Prefuse 73 and RJ2J? It was all possible in 03 when Diverse made his long player debut. These were the times when Anticon released good albums, prefuse, rj2j and el-p did not suck etc. Dont wanna play "good ol times" game again, but there must be some reason Diverse has not made any album ever since and his sophomore LP Round About is getting delayed all the time.
Other recommended undie hip hop albums from the same time:
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrows, MCA 2002
Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers, Interscope 2002
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Jeff Parker from Tortoise making beats on a undie hip hop album alongside Prefuse 73 and RJ2J? It was all possible in 03 when Diverse made his long player debut. These were the times when Anticon released good albums, prefuse, rj2j and el-p did not suck etc. Dont wanna play "good ol times" game again, but there must be some reason Diverse has not made any album ever since and his sophomore LP Round About is getting delayed all the time.
Other recommended undie hip hop albums from the same time:
Blackalicious - Blazing Arrows, MCA 2002
Jurassic 5 - Power In Numbers, Interscope 2002
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
úterý, září 22, 2009
Unclassics 22: Zombi - Surface To Air (2006, Relapse)
genre: prog-rock, space rock
You got me! If there is anyone who follows my writings about music (and is still relatively sane), s/he should know by know that I love unusual fusions and genre crossovers. OK, I in fact hate jazz fusion and the crossover, but you surely understand what I mean. Zombi took stoner metal and put synths into it, which seemed as a great idea before one million other bands did the same. Surface to Air even sounds a lot like 70s german cosmic rock/krautrock and some of the prog-rock bunch, who actually got any taste. Tangerine Dream jaming with Black Sabbath might not be the best description, Zombi are not that "heavy", but oh boy, eighteen minutes of Night Rhytms is pure heaven. Do you remember Ricky Gervais genius britcom Extras? The catch phrase of its main character (played by Gervais himself) in a tv sitcom he made was "are you having a laugh?" Just change it to: Are you having a wank and ask that the guys in Zombi. And they would answer: Yes. For the whole eighteen fuckin minutes! Hell, they have to be the reason why 70s italian prog-rock band Goblin made their comeback recently. Goblin made soundtrack to Lucio Fulci zombie flick Zombi 2 and I dont have to say anything else.
Other recommended albums from space rock revival:
Shogun Kunitoki - Vinonaamakasio (Fonal, 2009), Tasankokaiku (Fonal, 2006)
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing, ATPR, 2008
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
You got me! If there is anyone who follows my writings about music (and is still relatively sane), s/he should know by know that I love unusual fusions and genre crossovers. OK, I in fact hate jazz fusion and the crossover, but you surely understand what I mean. Zombi took stoner metal and put synths into it, which seemed as a great idea before one million other bands did the same. Surface to Air even sounds a lot like 70s german cosmic rock/krautrock and some of the prog-rock bunch, who actually got any taste. Tangerine Dream jaming with Black Sabbath might not be the best description, Zombi are not that "heavy", but oh boy, eighteen minutes of Night Rhytms is pure heaven. Do you remember Ricky Gervais genius britcom Extras? The catch phrase of its main character (played by Gervais himself) in a tv sitcom he made was "are you having a laugh?" Just change it to: Are you having a wank and ask that the guys in Zombi. And they would answer: Yes. For the whole eighteen fuckin minutes! Hell, they have to be the reason why 70s italian prog-rock band Goblin made their comeback recently. Goblin made soundtrack to Lucio Fulci zombie flick Zombi 2 and I dont have to say anything else.
Other recommended albums from space rock revival:
Shogun Kunitoki - Vinonaamakasio (Fonal, 2009), Tasankokaiku (Fonal, 2006)
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing, ATPR, 2008
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
pondělí, září 21, 2009
Unclassics 21: Cobblestone Jazz - 23 Seconds (2007, Studio !K7)
genre: techno, jazz
No matter what Mathew Jonson does, he is always right. Fusing techno with jazz? This could be a horrible nightmare, but the Canadian trio with Jonson among them managed to swing 4/4 and rock the funky breakbeats. OK, this works even better on separate singles, but this project is all about albums and 23 Seconds is a reminder how great they sounds. If you are interested, you should dig Cobblestone Jazz Live At Mondo Madrid May 10th 2007 (which was included with the original version of 23 Seconds, but I do not include it in my zip file). There is less techno wankerism and more jazz wankerism (somehow, the latter is more tolerable). And I can hardly express how I love everyting Wagon Repair (Jonson's label) releases. Such a consistent output! But you should be fans of future techno jazz or funky robots...
Other recommended albums from Wagon Repair label:
Deadbeat - Roots And Wire, 2008
The Mole - As High As The Sky, 2008
Mathew Jonson - Symphony For The Apocalypse: New Age Revolution EP, Walking On The Hands That Follow Me EP, The Gemini EP, etc.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
No matter what Mathew Jonson does, he is always right. Fusing techno with jazz? This could be a horrible nightmare, but the Canadian trio with Jonson among them managed to swing 4/4 and rock the funky breakbeats. OK, this works even better on separate singles, but this project is all about albums and 23 Seconds is a reminder how great they sounds. If you are interested, you should dig Cobblestone Jazz Live At Mondo Madrid May 10th 2007 (which was included with the original version of 23 Seconds, but I do not include it in my zip file). There is less techno wankerism and more jazz wankerism (somehow, the latter is more tolerable). And I can hardly express how I love everyting Wagon Repair (Jonson's label) releases. Such a consistent output! But you should be fans of future techno jazz or funky robots...
Other recommended albums from Wagon Repair label:
Deadbeat - Roots And Wire, 2008
The Mole - As High As The Sky, 2008
Mathew Jonson - Symphony For The Apocalypse: New Age Revolution EP, Walking On The Hands That Follow Me EP, The Gemini EP, etc.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
neděle, září 20, 2009
Unclassics 20: Acoustic Ladyland - Skinny Grin (2006, V2 Records)
genre: punk, jazz
I know ya all dig Zorn. I did too, all my university mates did, so I had to as well. Acoustic Ladyland reminded me of Zorn, kind of. But there is less actual destruction and more melodies. Do not take me wrong, this album is by no means lounge jazz as it is fast as hell and it is much closer to post-punk-funk crossover than to actual bebop or whatever. There is a guest stop by James Chance in Scott Walker's remix of Salt Water, which is a fucking funky ride, the best thing you can experience with your pants on (quoting Miles Davis, right). It's a shame these guys will be probably more remembered by their side-project Polar Bear with Leafcutter John, that was nominated for Mercury Prize. The same thing "happened" to British TV On The Radio, ehm... The Invisible, project of Tom Herbert, former member of Acoustic Ladyland. Those guys are on to something...
Other recommended albums by F-IRE Collective:
Polar Bear - Held on the Tips of Fingers, Babel, 2005
The Invisible - The Invisible, 2009
Basquiat Strings - Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford, 2007
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
I know ya all dig Zorn. I did too, all my university mates did, so I had to as well. Acoustic Ladyland reminded me of Zorn, kind of. But there is less actual destruction and more melodies. Do not take me wrong, this album is by no means lounge jazz as it is fast as hell and it is much closer to post-punk-funk crossover than to actual bebop or whatever. There is a guest stop by James Chance in Scott Walker's remix of Salt Water, which is a fucking funky ride, the best thing you can experience with your pants on (quoting Miles Davis, right). It's a shame these guys will be probably more remembered by their side-project Polar Bear with Leafcutter John, that was nominated for Mercury Prize. The same thing "happened" to British TV On The Radio, ehm... The Invisible, project of Tom Herbert, former member of Acoustic Ladyland. Those guys are on to something...
Other recommended albums by F-IRE Collective:
Polar Bear - Held on the Tips of Fingers, Babel, 2005
The Invisible - The Invisible, 2009
Basquiat Strings - Basquiat Strings with Seb Rochford, 2007
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
sobota, září 19, 2009
Unclassics 19: Ryoji Ikeda - Dataplex (Raster-Noton, 2005)
genre: abstract, electonic
Ikeda's music is like computers having sex orgy over the internet. This is Raster-Noton style of pure electronic impulzes, but however extreme and unbelievable this might sound, Ikeda manages to sound unbelievably funky. U know, computer CAN BE FUNKY too. Just listen to Kraftwerk or Prince's 1999. Ikeda's music (your hippie brother would argue this is not music, screw you, monkey ass) is like the future of music, but you can listen to it now. Dataplex is the best Ikeda's album, together with his +/- (1996).
Other recommended albums from Raster Noton:
Cyclo (ryoji ikeda + noto) - Cyclo, 2001
Mitchell Akiyama - Temporary Music
alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto - vrioon, 2002
Data.Microhelix
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Ikeda's music is like computers having sex orgy over the internet. This is Raster-Noton style of pure electronic impulzes, but however extreme and unbelievable this might sound, Ikeda manages to sound unbelievably funky. U know, computer CAN BE FUNKY too. Just listen to Kraftwerk or Prince's 1999. Ikeda's music (your hippie brother would argue this is not music, screw you, monkey ass) is like the future of music, but you can listen to it now. Dataplex is the best Ikeda's album, together with his +/- (1996).
Other recommended albums from Raster Noton:
Cyclo (ryoji ikeda + noto) - Cyclo, 2001
Mitchell Akiyama - Temporary Music
alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto - vrioon, 2002
Data.Microhelix
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pátek, září 18, 2009
Unclassics 18: Belladonnakillz - Perverted And Proud (Dross:tik Records, 2005)
genre: breakcore
Breakcore pop? Why not. These guys are Canadians and are as funny as Terrance & Philiph. There is a Panacea remix at the end of album and it nicely shows why Belladonnakillz are much better than your average breakcore mentalist. They manage to turn machism & militarism of the breakcore scene into a joke and it works just great. Sorry I never paid much attention to albums they made after this one, they even have one album this year, but this one is an ace. I still hope Justin Timberlake will make a remake of Kill Bella Dona singing: "Today, my love has gone away. Today, my bitch has gone away."
yEaH hELL yEaH
Sexy Grrl
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Breakcore pop? Why not. These guys are Canadians and are as funny as Terrance & Philiph. There is a Panacea remix at the end of album and it nicely shows why Belladonnakillz are much better than your average breakcore mentalist. They manage to turn machism & militarism of the breakcore scene into a joke and it works just great. Sorry I never paid much attention to albums they made after this one, they even have one album this year, but this one is an ace. I still hope Justin Timberlake will make a remake of Kill Bella Dona singing: "Today, my love has gone away. Today, my bitch has gone away."
yEaH hELL yEaH
Sexy Grrl
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čtvrtek, září 17, 2009
Unclassics 17: ARP - In Light (Smalltown Supersound, 2007)
genre: cosmic music
Oh, those synth arpeggio effects! Plenty of 70s german "head" music is based on them. The cosmic music. Music from outter space. Etc. Alexis Georgopoulus from San Francisco (member of great band Tussle) took this fetish to extreme and made an album with only using the basic effects on these synths. I want to listen to ARP heavily stoned one day, hope this day comes soon.
Great synth arpeggio albums of 00s:
Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Oh, those synth arpeggio effects! Plenty of 70s german "head" music is based on them. The cosmic music. Music from outter space. Etc. Alexis Georgopoulus from San Francisco (member of great band Tussle) took this fetish to extreme and made an album with only using the basic effects on these synths. I want to listen to ARP heavily stoned one day, hope this day comes soon.
Great synth arpeggio albums of 00s:
Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
středa, září 16, 2009
HIS Voice 5/2009 is out
Pátý letošní HisVoice je venku. Tématem je Berlín, kterému je věnovaný třeba článek Thomase Baileyho o berlínské industriální scéně osmdesátých let. Já jsem do tématické části přispěl textem o Klausu Schulzovi a jeho kosmických kolezích z Berlína a anketou berlínských producentů současné elektroniky o městě. V netématické části stojí za zmínku Klusákův článek o Keithu Rowe, Petr Ferenc píše o reedici alba Manželů atd. Online na webu HIS je tentokrát moje recenze o filmu s Davidem Toopem I Never Promised You A Rose Garden.
Kupujte.
Unclassics 16: The Necks - Chemist (Fish Of Milk/Shock, 2006)
genre: jazz, improv
The three songs on this album made by Sydney jazz trio are one big lesson in restrain. How great is that, its like fucking for one hour without getting orgasm! U know what? Their first album from 1989 was called Sex and on wiki they say that someone called their music "tranz jazz"! OK, there are three songs each about twenty minutes long, but when you listen to The Necks, time makes no sense. I wish I saw them live!!! I saw Tony Buck (the drummer) with some lazy german krautrockers this summer, but it just did not work. He needs Chris Martin, no Abrahams! on piano to make his magic. These guys are Australians and every one of their albums is worth your time. I sadly never really had any chance to write how much I love them so now u all know.
Other recommended albums:
The Neck - Aether (Fish Of Milk/Shock, 2001)
The Neck - Drive By (Fish Of Milk/Shock, 2003)
The Neck - Townswille
Kilt Maker (not from this album)
Pop Will Eat Himself (not from this album)
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The three songs on this album made by Sydney jazz trio are one big lesson in restrain. How great is that, its like fucking for one hour without getting orgasm! U know what? Their first album from 1989 was called Sex and on wiki they say that someone called their music "tranz jazz"! OK, there are three songs each about twenty minutes long, but when you listen to The Necks, time makes no sense. I wish I saw them live!!! I saw Tony Buck (the drummer) with some lazy german krautrockers this summer, but it just did not work. He needs Chris Martin, no Abrahams! on piano to make his magic. These guys are Australians and every one of their albums is worth your time. I sadly never really had any chance to write how much I love them so now u all know.
Other recommended albums:
The Neck - Aether (Fish Of Milk/Shock, 2001)
The Neck - Drive By (Fish Of Milk/Shock, 2003)
The Neck - Townswille
Kilt Maker (not from this album)
Pop Will Eat Himself (not from this album)
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úterý, září 15, 2009
Unclassics 15: Shackleton & Appleblim - Skull Disco Soundboy Punishments (2007, Skull Disco)
genre: dubstep
Skull Disco might be the greatest and the most consistent dubstep label (sorry, Hyperdub) and the reason is simple - most of the tracks were made by only two core producers Shackleton & Appleblim. And to make it even better, these guys recognized when enough is enought and after three years they finally closed Skull Disco earlier this year. If anybody remembers the dark-junglist label No U-Turn with early Ed Rush, Trace etc., this is how SD sound. Their tracks are of course slower, but they use similar nasty basslines and the ethos is like the same - NO FUCKING U TURN!!! There is even similar metal aesthetics fetish, starting with the covers. Soundboy Punishments collects their early singles on CD for the first time and ranks among the best dustep compilations ever made. U get two hours of the finest dark /but never too aggresive dubstep and there is also the dizzy heights of Villalobos remix of Blood On My Hands which clocks on twenty minutes. The minimal/dubstep crossover never got better!!!
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Skull Disco might be the greatest and the most consistent dubstep label (sorry, Hyperdub) and the reason is simple - most of the tracks were made by only two core producers Shackleton & Appleblim. And to make it even better, these guys recognized when enough is enought and after three years they finally closed Skull Disco earlier this year. If anybody remembers the dark-junglist label No U-Turn with early Ed Rush, Trace etc., this is how SD sound. Their tracks are of course slower, but they use similar nasty basslines and the ethos is like the same - NO FUCKING U TURN!!! There is even similar metal aesthetics fetish, starting with the covers. Soundboy Punishments collects their early singles on CD for the first time and ranks among the best dustep compilations ever made. U get two hours of the finest dark /but never too aggresive dubstep and there is also the dizzy heights of Villalobos remix of Blood On My Hands which clocks on twenty minutes. The minimal/dubstep crossover never got better!!!
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
pondělí, září 14, 2009
Unclassics 14: Lifelover - Pulver (GoatowaRex, 2006)
genre: black metal, emo
The only emo album that can cross threshold of my flat. This might even be a joke and a good one - black metal crossed with weeping indie rock, but plenty people with no sense of humour dont get it (black metal fans are usually serious as hell. you know why? cause they cant get any pussy, suckers). I do not want to discuss how Lifelover balances on self-parody, its both suicidal and life-affirming, both sad as hell and very joyfull. There are samples from children cartoons all over the album which makes it even more funnier. Pulver was first album by these Swedish guys who even call themselves funnily (Mr. () on vocals, Mr. B. on guitar and Mr. Non on drums, etc.) and even I heart the other two LPs, I claim the first one the best. There were plenty of great singer/songwriters from Sweden in last decade and Lifelover are much closer to cool swedish pop than you think. But they also vomit in their songs, so dont play it to your mother, right!
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
The only emo album that can cross threshold of my flat. This might even be a joke and a good one - black metal crossed with weeping indie rock, but plenty people with no sense of humour dont get it (black metal fans are usually serious as hell. you know why? cause they cant get any pussy, suckers). I do not want to discuss how Lifelover balances on self-parody, its both suicidal and life-affirming, both sad as hell and very joyfull. There are samples from children cartoons all over the album which makes it even more funnier. Pulver was first album by these Swedish guys who even call themselves funnily (Mr. () on vocals, Mr. B. on guitar and Mr. Non on drums, etc.) and even I heart the other two LPs, I claim the first one the best. There were plenty of great singer/songwriters from Sweden in last decade and Lifelover are much closer to cool swedish pop than you think. But they also vomit in their songs, so dont play it to your mother, right!
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
neděle, září 13, 2009
Unclassics 13: Matthew Shipp - Equilibrium (Thirsty Ear Blue Series, 2002)
genre: modern jazz
I hate all the jazz that came after radical free jazz turned into funky/fusion. I also hate when people associate jazz with boring music for conservative middle class, fuck that! Fuck all the old jazz farts, who should be dead already. Jazz was a real sound of revolution and we forgot that when all the raw blackness was taken out of it. 90s lounge/chill out nu-jazz did not help much, it was conservative and boring just like anything Marsalis (either of them) made in the eighties. However, there are some people who still make you feel the chill down your spine once they star playing. Pianist Matthew Shipp is a hero of Ny downtown scene and in 00s he made great collabo with El-P on Sunrise Over Brooklyn (OK, his album with Anti Pop Consortium wasn't all that sweet) and plenty other albums I havent heard (sorry). Equilibrium was made for the Thirsty Ear Blue Series and it is heavy post-bop with hip hop & techno in mind (I hear it there!). This is no lounge old-farts music, this is some heavy shit only black jazzmen can make!
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
I hate all the jazz that came after radical free jazz turned into funky/fusion. I also hate when people associate jazz with boring music for conservative middle class, fuck that! Fuck all the old jazz farts, who should be dead already. Jazz was a real sound of revolution and we forgot that when all the raw blackness was taken out of it. 90s lounge/chill out nu-jazz did not help much, it was conservative and boring just like anything Marsalis (either of them) made in the eighties. However, there are some people who still make you feel the chill down your spine once they star playing. Pianist Matthew Shipp is a hero of Ny downtown scene and in 00s he made great collabo with El-P on Sunrise Over Brooklyn (OK, his album with Anti Pop Consortium wasn't all that sweet) and plenty other albums I havent heard (sorry). Equilibrium was made for the Thirsty Ear Blue Series and it is heavy post-bop with hip hop & techno in mind (I hear it there!). This is no lounge old-farts music, this is some heavy shit only black jazzmen can make!
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
sobota, září 12, 2009
Unclassics 12: David Banner - Mississipi: The Album (2003, SRC / Universal Records)
genre: hip hop, dirty south
The rappers are the best on their early albums, when they still sound hungry. In early 00s it was still possible to sound raw and harsh on major label album, which is unthinkable of today. Just have a look at the cover and how pissed Banner is. What is he angry about? Plenty things: slavery, black on black violence, the guy who sold him dog food one day past expiry, etc. I doesnt matter, when he shouts: Fuck that nigger! you start feeling weakness in your legs. There are couple forgetable slow jams in the second half, but hey, it's a rap album not a Sixteen Chaple! MTA was a breakthrough for Banner and university educated first rate spitter looked like the future of dirty south. He really seemed to be a reasonable person, but he sold out just like everybody else (except for me, right) and made couple terrible albums, the last one - The Greatest Story Ever Told - being one of the worst albums I heard in a recent memory. Fuck you, suck a dick, bitch!!!!
There is also chopped & screwed version of the album made by Mike Watt 9000. N***z made albums like that in Houston back in 04 and it's a real psychedelic experience in which the slowed down snipets of a song mutate into each other. This should evoke the efect of infamous Purple Drank, headz drink in Houston. Fucking madness, no wonder all the rappers and DJs sold out or were sent to lunatic house later on in the decade.
Other recommended album from Houston chopped & screwed scene:
Devin the Dude - Waitin' to Inhale: Screwed & Chopped
Trae - Same Thing Different Day
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
The rappers are the best on their early albums, when they still sound hungry. In early 00s it was still possible to sound raw and harsh on major label album, which is unthinkable of today. Just have a look at the cover and how pissed Banner is. What is he angry about? Plenty things: slavery, black on black violence, the guy who sold him dog food one day past expiry, etc. I doesnt matter, when he shouts: Fuck that nigger! you start feeling weakness in your legs. There are couple forgetable slow jams in the second half, but hey, it's a rap album not a Sixteen Chaple! MTA was a breakthrough for Banner and university educated first rate spitter looked like the future of dirty south. He really seemed to be a reasonable person, but he sold out just like everybody else (except for me, right) and made couple terrible albums, the last one - The Greatest Story Ever Told - being one of the worst albums I heard in a recent memory. Fuck you, suck a dick, bitch!!!!
There is also chopped & screwed version of the album made by Mike Watt 9000. N***z made albums like that in Houston back in 04 and it's a real psychedelic experience in which the slowed down snipets of a song mutate into each other. This should evoke the efect of infamous Purple Drank, headz drink in Houston. Fucking madness, no wonder all the rappers and DJs sold out or were sent to lunatic house later on in the decade.
Other recommended album from Houston chopped & screwed scene:
Devin the Dude - Waitin' to Inhale: Screwed & Chopped
Trae - Same Thing Different Day
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
pátek, září 11, 2009
Unclassics 11: Belong - October Language (Carpark, 2006)
genre: ambient
Belong took My Bloody Valentine, erased pop and created an ambient masterpiece from sounds of tidal waves hiting your ears. October Language sounds like Hurricane Katrina soundtrack, even thought it was made some time before it. (The guys really are from New Orleans) Somebody named Tim Hecker makes similar soundscapes out of electronic drones (and will get his props too, dont worry), but Belong somehow sound more deep, more emotionally engaged. Heavy album, but very pleasant to listen. Just dont play it too loud or you'll drown in it.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Belong took My Bloody Valentine, erased pop and created an ambient masterpiece from sounds of tidal waves hiting your ears. October Language sounds like Hurricane Katrina soundtrack, even thought it was made some time before it. (The guys really are from New Orleans) Somebody named Tim Hecker makes similar soundscapes out of electronic drones (and will get his props too, dont worry), but Belong somehow sound more deep, more emotionally engaged. Heavy album, but very pleasant to listen. Just dont play it too loud or you'll drown in it.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
čtvrtek, září 10, 2009
Unclassics 10: Super Collider - Raw Digits (2002, Rise Robots Rise/No Future)
genre: future soul
I never liked Jammie Liddel and always thought he was too white & middleclass to sing a soul. I never changed my opinion, but thanks to his project with Cristian Vogel I forgive all his crimes against humanity/blackness. Raw Digits is a place where soul and fucked-up future techno meets again reconstructed by couple white guys, who dont care about the fact that soul already WAS in techno. They already made an album in 1999, but I cant remember that even a bit and cant be bothered to soulseek it.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Other recommended albums by Cristian Vogel & Jamie Lidell:
non, sorry.
I never liked Jammie Liddel and always thought he was too white & middleclass to sing a soul. I never changed my opinion, but thanks to his project with Cristian Vogel I forgive all his crimes against humanity/blackness. Raw Digits is a place where soul and fucked-up future techno meets again reconstructed by couple white guys, who dont care about the fact that soul already WAS in techno. They already made an album in 1999, but I cant remember that even a bit and cant be bothered to soulseek it.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Other recommended albums by Cristian Vogel & Jamie Lidell:
non, sorry.
středa, září 09, 2009
Unclassics 9: Techno Animal - Brotherhood Of The Bomb (2001, Matador)
genre: hip hop, industrial
Kevin Martin & Justin Broadrick industrial hip hop colabo Techno Animal ended with this album and it was quite understandable. There was no other way to go! Just like with all the other Martin's projects, he takes the basic elements of a genre (in this case hip hop) and fucks with them as much as possible. No wonder the orthodox hip hop fans never liked this album. Nevertheless, this is a good showcase of undie/experimental hip hop scene as there are featurings by Dalek, Vast Aire of Cannibal Ox and Anti-Pop Consortium, who all experienced their creative nadir at the beginnings of the 00s. You can never call neither Martin nor Broadrick a sell-out, but they never made anything as harsh as this afterwards.
Other recommended albums by Kevin Martin from 00s:
The Bug - Pressure, 2004
The Bug - London Zoo, 2008
Curse Of Golden Vampire - Mass Destruction, 2003
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Kevin Martin & Justin Broadrick industrial hip hop colabo Techno Animal ended with this album and it was quite understandable. There was no other way to go! Just like with all the other Martin's projects, he takes the basic elements of a genre (in this case hip hop) and fucks with them as much as possible. No wonder the orthodox hip hop fans never liked this album. Nevertheless, this is a good showcase of undie/experimental hip hop scene as there are featurings by Dalek, Vast Aire of Cannibal Ox and Anti-Pop Consortium, who all experienced their creative nadir at the beginnings of the 00s. You can never call neither Martin nor Broadrick a sell-out, but they never made anything as harsh as this afterwards.
Other recommended albums by Kevin Martin from 00s:
The Bug - Pressure, 2004
The Bug - London Zoo, 2008
Curse Of Golden Vampire - Mass Destruction, 2003
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
úterý, září 08, 2009
Unclassics 8: Kevin Drumm - Sheer Hellish Miasma (2002, Mego)
genre: noise
Noise albums are made to fuck with your mind, however in most case I never get past second track. With Sheer Hellish Miasma it is quite different. There is a plethora of ideas how to make the pure electronic waves even more nastier. Drumm (notice the cool name) is not after being in "red" all the time (just like most Merzbow albums), but he wants his freaky weird noises create some atmosphere and this is how this album works. The guitar solo at the end of Inferno is rocknroll in the most brutal sense. Play this to your father who used to go on rocknroll parties and he will probably blow his head off. It is fucking hard writing about noise records, what counts is the earbleed. Do you get that!!!???
Other recommended harsh noise albums of 00s:
Merzbow & Nordwargr - Partikel II
John Wiese - Magical Crystal Blah
Pita - Get Off
Prurient - Pleasure Ground
Birchville Cat Motel - Our Love Will Destroy the World, Siberian Love Curve
Yellow Swans - Psychic Secession
(others to come)
YouTube? U must be kidding, right?
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Noise albums are made to fuck with your mind, however in most case I never get past second track. With Sheer Hellish Miasma it is quite different. There is a plethora of ideas how to make the pure electronic waves even more nastier. Drumm (notice the cool name) is not after being in "red" all the time (just like most Merzbow albums), but he wants his freaky weird noises create some atmosphere and this is how this album works. The guitar solo at the end of Inferno is rocknroll in the most brutal sense. Play this to your father who used to go on rocknroll parties and he will probably blow his head off. It is fucking hard writing about noise records, what counts is the earbleed. Do you get that!!!???
Other recommended harsh noise albums of 00s:
Merzbow & Nordwargr - Partikel II
John Wiese - Magical Crystal Blah
Pita - Get Off
Prurient - Pleasure Ground
Birchville Cat Motel - Our Love Will Destroy the World, Siberian Love Curve
Yellow Swans - Psychic Secession
(others to come)
YouTube? U must be kidding, right?
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
pondělí, září 07, 2009
Unclassics 7: Felix Da Housecat - Kittenz and Thee Glitz (City Rockers, 2001)
genre: house, electroclash
Glam house revival? Future funk disco? Felix Da Housecat made this masterpiece after plenty of years on the scene without getting much notice from music press. This album came at the right time. No wonder this one conected with the electroclash scene of 2001. It just has everything the electroclash missed - mostly fun, glossy style and ideas that go beyond pure retro. There are great songs at the very beginning (Miss Kittin never sounded better), but it hardly fades away in the second half with synth-pop masterpieces like Pray For A Star or Runaway Dream. All the other albums Felix made are shit (sorry), but this one stood the test of time.
Other recommended albums from 'glitz house' revival:
Daft Punk - Discovery
Fisherspooner - 1
Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Sun
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Glam house revival? Future funk disco? Felix Da Housecat made this masterpiece after plenty of years on the scene without getting much notice from music press. This album came at the right time. No wonder this one conected with the electroclash scene of 2001. It just has everything the electroclash missed - mostly fun, glossy style and ideas that go beyond pure retro. There are great songs at the very beginning (Miss Kittin never sounded better), but it hardly fades away in the second half with synth-pop masterpieces like Pray For A Star or Runaway Dream. All the other albums Felix made are shit (sorry), but this one stood the test of time.
Other recommended albums from 'glitz house' revival:
Daft Punk - Discovery
Fisherspooner - 1
Cut Copy - Bright Like Neon Sun
Basement Jaxx - Rooty
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
neděle, září 06, 2009
Unclassics 6: Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 (2000, 75 Ark)
genre: alternative hip hop
OK, first Gorillaz album is quite cool, but it was on Deltron 3030 eponymous debut where Automator, Funky Homosapien, Kid Koala and Albarn met for the first time (that whining British kid can be heard on "Time Keeps On Slipping"). I never paid much attention to the story, but there seems to be some demented sci-fi concept about black astronauts which makes it even more freaky. This is the album Kodwo Eshun jerks off while listening and he has a point! They dont make rap albums like that nowadays (insert sound of crying). That nostalgic mood again, sorry.
Other recommended albums by Dan The Automator from 00s:
Gorillaz - Gorillaz (2001) and after that he sucked, sorry
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
OK, first Gorillaz album is quite cool, but it was on Deltron 3030 eponymous debut where Automator, Funky Homosapien, Kid Koala and Albarn met for the first time (that whining British kid can be heard on "Time Keeps On Slipping"). I never paid much attention to the story, but there seems to be some demented sci-fi concept about black astronauts which makes it even more freaky. This is the album Kodwo Eshun jerks off while listening and he has a point! They dont make rap albums like that nowadays (insert sound of crying). That nostalgic mood again, sorry.
Other recommended albums by Dan The Automator from 00s:
Gorillaz - Gorillaz (2001) and after that he sucked, sorry
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
sobota, září 05, 2009
Unclassics 5: Colleen - Golden Morning Breaks (2005, Leaf)
genre: musique concrete
I really have a soft spot for this album. I bought this album on vinyl at a discount price and my older son loves the cover with the unicorn. Last summer he only wanted to fall asleep to the sound of this album. I dont mention this to justify the choice of this album, it is in fact fantastic. Colleen makes very delicate music from toys, broken harpshichords and harp and the songs are always dangerously near to vanishing in thin air. What I love about Cécile's music the most are the mistakes, the brooken melodies from old music boxes which she loops over and over. Pure magic! And she is a sweet person, I once wrote to her an email with a question about her gamelan influences and she wrote a whole one page article about it. It was published in HISvoice earlier this year!
Other recommended albums from Leaf label:
Efterklang - Parades
Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses
A Hawk And A Hacksaw - The Way The Wind Blows
Hanne Hukkelberg - Little Things
Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
I really have a soft spot for this album. I bought this album on vinyl at a discount price and my older son loves the cover with the unicorn. Last summer he only wanted to fall asleep to the sound of this album. I dont mention this to justify the choice of this album, it is in fact fantastic. Colleen makes very delicate music from toys, broken harpshichords and harp and the songs are always dangerously near to vanishing in thin air. What I love about Cécile's music the most are the mistakes, the brooken melodies from old music boxes which she loops over and over. Pure magic! And she is a sweet person, I once wrote to her an email with a question about her gamelan influences and she wrote a whole one page article about it. It was published in HISvoice earlier this year!
Other recommended albums from Leaf label:
Efterklang - Parades
Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses
A Hawk And A Hacksaw - The Way The Wind Blows
Hanne Hukkelberg - Little Things
Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
pátek, září 04, 2009
Unclassics 4: Cody Chesnutt - The Headphone Masterpiece (Ready Set Go, 2001)
genre: nu soul, folk
Give a homeless man a guitar and a 4-track recorder. One in a billion might come with an album sounding like Headphone Masterpiece. Come on, the title is a pun. The sound quality can compete with some black metal casettes from early 90s. But this does not make this album any less arresting. On the contrary. Who needs crystal platinum sound, (ok, most progressive rock/metal wankers, and they arent in it for the music, are they. they just have a small cock.) when you have crystal platinum songs. This is how Daniel Johnston would sound supposing he was black and actually had any talent. I dont know much about this guy, but I bet he made the double album in a three days nonstop session and then disappeared into wilderness. He might have found more fun in collecting cigarette buds on the pavement than making second album and I cant agree more - I do not need any more music from this guy. Headphone Masterpiece is enough for one lifetime. (The Roots remade his Seed into a funk-rap (not so much) hit, but the original is better. Check it, for Christ sake.)
Other recommended albums by nu/soul auters:
D'Angelo - Voodoo, 2000
Musiq (Soulchild) - Aijuswanaseing, 2000
Raphael Sasdiq - Instant Vintage, 2001
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Give a homeless man a guitar and a 4-track recorder. One in a billion might come with an album sounding like Headphone Masterpiece. Come on, the title is a pun. The sound quality can compete with some black metal casettes from early 90s. But this does not make this album any less arresting. On the contrary. Who needs crystal platinum sound, (ok, most progressive rock/metal wankers, and they arent in it for the music, are they. they just have a small cock.) when you have crystal platinum songs. This is how Daniel Johnston would sound supposing he was black and actually had any talent. I dont know much about this guy, but I bet he made the double album in a three days nonstop session and then disappeared into wilderness. He might have found more fun in collecting cigarette buds on the pavement than making second album and I cant agree more - I do not need any more music from this guy. Headphone Masterpiece is enough for one lifetime. (The Roots remade his Seed into a funk-rap (not so much) hit, but the original is better. Check it, for Christ sake.)
Other recommended albums by nu/soul auters:
D'Angelo - Voodoo, 2000
Musiq (Soulchild) - Aijuswanaseing, 2000
Raphael Sasdiq - Instant Vintage, 2001
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
čtvrtek, září 03, 2009
Unclassics 3: Daedelus - Invention (Plug Research, 2002)
genre: IDM
I must admit that in the early 00s there was a time when I thought wearing sideburns is a sweet idea. I know! Fuck! Hopefully there is no photo of me from that time. Blame it on Daedelus! Invention is by far his best album, on which he did what he promised in the title - reInvented the IDM genre with weird influences from some good ol' american music. This really sounds like an album made by somebody who does not give a fuck about trends and hypes and makes music he wants to make. OK, this album was made before bloggers took over the music scene, which must have been a great help. I have recently listened to this album after many many years and it still sounds very fresh. Like nothing else. Sadly, Daedelus decided hip hop would be better business for him and released couple mediocre albums with rappers. Nowadays he is just boring, sorry. Come on, you can't make an album with your wife! John Lennon already made that mistake!
Other recommended albums from Plug Research label:
Milosh - Meme (2006)
DNTL - Life Is Full of Possibilities (2001)
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
I must admit that in the early 00s there was a time when I thought wearing sideburns is a sweet idea. I know! Fuck! Hopefully there is no photo of me from that time. Blame it on Daedelus! Invention is by far his best album, on which he did what he promised in the title - reInvented the IDM genre with weird influences from some good ol' american music. This really sounds like an album made by somebody who does not give a fuck about trends and hypes and makes music he wants to make. OK, this album was made before bloggers took over the music scene, which must have been a great help. I have recently listened to this album after many many years and it still sounds very fresh. Like nothing else. Sadly, Daedelus decided hip hop would be better business for him and released couple mediocre albums with rappers. Nowadays he is just boring, sorry. Come on, you can't make an album with your wife! John Lennon already made that mistake!
Other recommended albums from Plug Research label:
Milosh - Meme (2006)
DNTL - Life Is Full of Possibilities (2001)
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
středa, září 02, 2009
Unclassics 2: Xasthur - Telepathic with the Deceased (Napalm/Moribund, 2004)
genre: black metal, dark ambient
U know what? Xasthur must be really pissed being called "The American Burzum". Just because he did not kill anyhone and never burnt any churches and did not became nazi (he really havent done anything of this, right?) doesnt mean he is a worse musician than Vars. Black metal fans are never satisfied with the ammount of authenticity you get and being American doesnt help, but Malefic really is amazing. His greatest moment came on the Leviathan split and Telepathic With the Deceased released the same year is - i think - his career highlight. This is dark as hell and the "lo-fi old broken tape muddy sound" effect doesnt get overplayed. We all love it when the band (one-man-band more like) plays so fast that the sound blurs and in fact becomes motionless. And then the fucking keyboards!!!! On his later albums (just like this year's one) Malefic tried too hard to persuade us that he really is a great composer (which he is not), on Telepathic he is at his best to balance art and ambition. Hail the Goat!
Other recommended albums by Xasthur:
Xasthur: Subliminal Genocide
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
U know what? Xasthur must be really pissed being called "The American Burzum". Just because he did not kill anyhone and never burnt any churches and did not became nazi (he really havent done anything of this, right?) doesnt mean he is a worse musician than Vars. Black metal fans are never satisfied with the ammount of authenticity you get and being American doesnt help, but Malefic really is amazing. His greatest moment came on the Leviathan split and Telepathic With the Deceased released the same year is - i think - his career highlight. This is dark as hell and the "lo-fi old broken tape muddy sound" effect doesnt get overplayed. We all love it when the band (one-man-band more like) plays so fast that the sound blurs and in fact becomes motionless. And then the fucking keyboards!!!! On his later albums (just like this year's one) Malefic tried too hard to persuade us that he really is a great composer (which he is not), on Telepathic he is at his best to balance art and ambition. Hail the Goat!
Other recommended albums by Xasthur:
Xasthur: Subliminal Genocide
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
úterý, září 01, 2009
Unclassics 1 - Venetian Snares - Rossz csillag alatt született (Planet Mu, 2005)
genre: breakcore
Breakcore revival in the half of the 00s seems today like a little bit of vanity affair. People got bored with drugs and needed their head smashed with something else. I know that, I remember feeling the same after I stared 9-5 job. On this album, one of the very best from this movement, Mr. Funk (yes, that is his real name) had this vision to put together his trademark breakcore mentalism with classical music. Bartók, Stavinsky, Mahler and couple other guys I never cared about get their pomp middleclass shit squashed by hyperkinetic beats. Well done! They fuckin deserved that! And all the songs are named in Hungarian. Wow, what could be more scary than Hungarian (I mean the language, not the people, my Slovak friends.) Titles like Öngyilkos vasárnap sounds like a very nasty skin disease. I saw Venetian once in a concert, he looked like a norwegian black metal guy and when his set ended, he jumped down to the public and started a fist fight with couple guys. What else do you wanna do once you finish a breakcore set?!
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Other recommended albums by breakcore artists:
DJ Scotch Egg - Drumized (8bit breakcore, anybody?)
Venetian Snares - Doll Doll Doll, The Chocolate Wheelchair Album, etc.
Enduser - Pushing Back
Shitmat - Full English Breakfest
Bong-Ra - Bikini Bandits, Kill! Kill! Kill!
Breakcore revival in the half of the 00s seems today like a little bit of vanity affair. People got bored with drugs and needed their head smashed with something else. I know that, I remember feeling the same after I stared 9-5 job. On this album, one of the very best from this movement, Mr. Funk (yes, that is his real name) had this vision to put together his trademark breakcore mentalism with classical music. Bartók, Stavinsky, Mahler and couple other guys I never cared about get their pomp middleclass shit squashed by hyperkinetic beats. Well done! They fuckin deserved that! And all the songs are named in Hungarian. Wow, what could be more scary than Hungarian (I mean the language, not the people, my Slovak friends.) Titles like Öngyilkos vasárnap sounds like a very nasty skin disease. I saw Venetian once in a concert, he looked like a norwegian black metal guy and when his set ended, he jumped down to the public and started a fist fight with couple guys. What else do you wanna do once you finish a breakcore set?!
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Other recommended albums by breakcore artists:
DJ Scotch Egg - Drumized (8bit breakcore, anybody?)
Venetian Snares - Doll Doll Doll, The Chocolate Wheelchair Album, etc.
Enduser - Pushing Back
Shitmat - Full English Breakfest
Bong-Ra - Bikini Bandits, Kill! Kill! Kill!
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