swallow this, bitch!
1. Dirty Projectors - Stillness Is The Move
2. Mariah Carey – Obsessed
3. Joker – Digidesign
4. Sonic Youth – Sacred Trickster
5. Animal Collective – My Girls
6. Phoenix – 1901
7. Mark Pritchard & Om'mas Keith - Wind It Up
8. La Roux – In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey remix)
9. Micachu – Golden Phone
10. HEALTH – Die Slow
11. King Midas Sound – Meltdown
12. Major Lazer ft. Ricky Blaze & Nina Sky – Keep It Going Louder
14. Untold – Stop What You're Doing / James Blake Refix
15. Matias Aguayo - Walter Neff
16. David Sylvian – Small Metal Gods
17. Kyla - Do You Mind (Crazy Cousinz Refix) - released in 08, big hit in 09
18. Sunn O))) – Alice
19. Fever Ray – Now's The Only Time I Know
20. Donae'o – Riot Music
21. Joy Orbison – Hyph Mngo
22. Junior Boys – Hazel
23. Fuck Buttons – Surf Solar
24. Cooly G – Love Dub (Refix)
25. Mathew Jonson – Walking On The Hands That Follow Me
26. Anti Pop Consortium - Capricorn One
27. Discovery - Osaka Loop Line
28. Blue Daisy ft. LaNote - Space Ex
29. LD - Traumatic Times
30. Paul White - The Punch Drummer
31. Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire
32. 10-20 - Milvus
33. Matias Aguayo – Rollerskate
34. BLK JKS - Lakeside
35. Passion Pit - Little Things
36. Micachu & The Shapes - Calculator
37. Martyn - Hear Me
38. Dan Deacon - Get Older
39. Zu - Carbon
40. Telepathe - Lights Go Down
41. Basement Jaxx - Raindrops
42. Starkey - Gutter Music ft. Durrty Goodz
43. TempaT - Next Hype
44. Nadsroic - Step Back
45. The Very Best ft. Ezra Koeing - Warm Heart Of Africa
46. Flight Of The Conchords - Hurt Feelings
47. The Invisible - London Girl
48. Anti-Pop Consortium - Volcano (Four Tet Remix)
49. Flying Lotus - Infinitum (Dimlite's Re-finitum)
50. Dudley Perkins - Fonky Soul
The XX - Basic Space
Darkstar - Aidy's Girl's A Computer
Joker and Ginz - Purple City
good music = good music
pondělí, listopadu 30, 2009
Happy New Ear!!!
Iva8bitová a DJ Menšík na DJ Session Radia Wave 3. prosince v Paláci Akropolis od 23:00 až do rána!!!
...defektní funk, sonické švihlosti, ketaminový dub, třeštivá osmibitová preludia, hip hop z budoucnosti, severské kombinace, psychedelické techno, čirý noise či duchařské zvuky hauntology...
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Unclassics 91: The Blow - Paper Television (2006, K Records)
genre: weird pop
The Blow is Mikhaela Yvonne Maricich, who was joined on this album by Jona Bechtolt aka YACHT (whose funny album See Mystery Lights was released this year). The Blow play delightful & playful indie pop with easy-going surreal electronic beats, which makes it even easier to fall in love.
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The Blow is Mikhaela Yvonne Maricich, who was joined on this album by Jona Bechtolt aka YACHT (whose funny album See Mystery Lights was released this year). The Blow play delightful & playful indie pop with easy-going surreal electronic beats, which makes it even easier to fall in love.
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neděle, listopadu 29, 2009
Unclassics 90: Fennesz - Endless Summer
genre: drone, ambient, glitch
Too many beardy intelectuals love Fennesz, some might assume that it is boring old fag music. No way, Endless Summer is an exciting celebration of summer times however re-created with sound fogs of abstract noises. If you really try, you can hear tidal waves, sunrays hiting your skin and shimmering air. Wait for another summer to understand this music.
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Too many beardy intelectuals love Fennesz, some might assume that it is boring old fag music. No way, Endless Summer is an exciting celebration of summer times however re-created with sound fogs of abstract noises. If you really try, you can hear tidal waves, sunrays hiting your skin and shimmering air. Wait for another summer to understand this music.
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sobota, listopadu 28, 2009
Unclassics 89: Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (Rise Above Records, 2000)
genre: doom metal, stoner rock
Some drugs speed you up, some slow you down. Guys from Electric Wizard like to smoke some real heavy shit - something that makes the world around you so slow you might feel as if you are watching movie in slow motion. Dopethrone is an heavy dose of extremely processed buzz guitars and vocals and some of the effects sound very otherwordly. The influence of Sabbath is all over the place, listen to this album and you will feel like being hit by 10 tons. Extra-heavy metal, which stays true to its roots. I also love the cover with His Majesty Goat smoking weed. Good stuff, ay?
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Some drugs speed you up, some slow you down. Guys from Electric Wizard like to smoke some real heavy shit - something that makes the world around you so slow you might feel as if you are watching movie in slow motion. Dopethrone is an heavy dose of extremely processed buzz guitars and vocals and some of the effects sound very otherwordly. The influence of Sabbath is all over the place, listen to this album and you will feel like being hit by 10 tons. Extra-heavy metal, which stays true to its roots. I also love the cover with His Majesty Goat smoking weed. Good stuff, ay?
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
pátek, listopadu 27, 2009
Unclassics 88: Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista (2008, Fonal)
genre: freak folk
The Finnish wild wild folk underground came just in time with Devendra Banhart & Joanna Newson making waves with their "return to americana roots" music. Their take on folk is strange, but at the same time safe and predictable. If you want something really strange and disturbing, you oughta try things on Fonal. It is like being left out to the forest in Finland without any help, all on your own. Paavoharju's second album (the name translated as A Song about Flowers of the Valley) is pure magic, although it is not much folk as weird weird dream pop.
Other recommended albums by Fonal:
Islaja - Ulual Yyy
Eleanoora Rosenholm - Älä Kysy Kuolleilta, He Sanoivat
Kemialliset Ystävät - Kellari Juniversumi (2002)
ES - Sateenkaarisuudelma
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The Finnish wild wild folk underground came just in time with Devendra Banhart & Joanna Newson making waves with their "return to americana roots" music. Their take on folk is strange, but at the same time safe and predictable. If you want something really strange and disturbing, you oughta try things on Fonal. It is like being left out to the forest in Finland without any help, all on your own. Paavoharju's second album (the name translated as A Song about Flowers of the Valley) is pure magic, although it is not much folk as weird weird dream pop.
Other recommended albums by Fonal:
Islaja - Ulual Yyy
Eleanoora Rosenholm - Älä Kysy Kuolleilta, He Sanoivat
Kemialliset Ystävät - Kellari Juniversumi (2002)
ES - Sateenkaarisuudelma
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čtvrtek, listopadu 26, 2009
Unclassics 87: cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD (2001, Mush/Big Dada)
genre: abstract hip hop
I know I expressed my dislike of white experimental hip hop many times - and here I am - recommending Anticon's flag ship - cLOUDDEAD's album. Weeeeeell: "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." as Walt Whitman once said. Doseone, Why? and Odd Nosdam are just too good to ignore them, as much as their music has very little in common with rawness of black hip hop. It is music coming out of scientific laboratory, very precise and pretentious of sorts.
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I know I expressed my dislike of white experimental hip hop many times - and here I am - recommending Anticon's flag ship - cLOUDDEAD's album. Weeeeeell: "Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes." as Walt Whitman once said. Doseone, Why? and Odd Nosdam are just too good to ignore them, as much as their music has very little in common with rawness of black hip hop. It is music coming out of scientific laboratory, very precise and pretentious of sorts.
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středa, listopadu 25, 2009
Unclassics 86: Bonnie Prince Billy - The Letting Go (2006, Drag City)
genre: folk
He is not much of a Prince (though he loves R Kelly), but Will Oldham is one of the quintessential musician of the our era. OK, his best album I See Darkness came out in 1999, but The Letting Go is quite close to his peak. Bonnie made the album completely in Iceland and you can hear the raw chill coming out of his music. But it is also very warm and intimate. Pure autumn music.
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He is not much of a Prince (though he loves R Kelly), but Will Oldham is one of the quintessential musician of the our era. OK, his best album I See Darkness came out in 1999, but The Letting Go is quite close to his peak. Bonnie made the album completely in Iceland and you can hear the raw chill coming out of his music. But it is also very warm and intimate. Pure autumn music.
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úterý, listopadu 24, 2009
Unclassics 85: Triosk - Headlight Serenade (Leaf, 2006)
genre: post-rock, post-jazz
Just like The Necks, australian trio (surprise?) Triosk play experimental jazz, which is quite similar to post-rock aesthetics and they also often use subtle electronics. I know, I sound like a moron and make their music look like a total bore - sorry - it is exciting as hell, with waves of strange sounds sweeping over your ears as you scream in agony "i wanna more". right, that is better! if you open their Myspace, you'll notice a sign "triosk is dead". Unfortunately (and even more for us, who havent seen them live - they played in prague just before ). But their 3 albums (one with Jelinek) are shit.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Just like The Necks, australian trio (surprise?) Triosk play experimental jazz, which is quite similar to post-rock aesthetics and they also often use subtle electronics. I know, I sound like a moron and make their music look like a total bore - sorry - it is exciting as hell, with waves of strange sounds sweeping over your ears as you scream in agony "i wanna more". right, that is better! if you open their Myspace, you'll notice a sign "triosk is dead". Unfortunately (and even more for us, who havent seen them live - they played in prague just before ). But their 3 albums (one with Jelinek) are shit.
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pondělí, listopadu 23, 2009
HISVOICE 06/2009 je venku!
Konečně! Díky CD sampleru se poslední letošní číslo HIS zpozdilo asi o deset dnů, teď už je ale venku. Koukněte do obsahu.
Tématem jsou kazety - velký článek Petra Ference. (V rubrice je i můj příspěvek o kazetách v blackmetalovém undergroundu.) Číslo jsem zatím neměl v ruce, takže mi nezbývá než doporučit jen svůj text o čínské elektronické hudbě a dvě recenze (Spookyho VJský remix Rebirth Of THe Nation a časopis Loops).
Kupujte!
Unclassics 84: KTL - 2 (Editions Mego/Thrill Jockey, 2007)
genre: dark ambient, noise
Originaly one-off project by Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O) and Peter Rehberg (Pita) who was supposed to disband after they finished soundtrack to Kindertotenlieder theatre production continues to spread the world of strange noise music as SOMA and PITA became close friends. There are 8 albums so far and 2 more announced.
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Originaly one-off project by Stephen O'Malley (Sunn O) and Peter Rehberg (Pita) who was supposed to disband after they finished soundtrack to Kindertotenlieder theatre production continues to spread the world of strange noise music as SOMA and PITA became close friends. There are 8 albums so far and 2 more announced.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
neděle, listopadu 22, 2009
Unclassics 83: Animal Collective - Feels (FatCat, 2005)
genre: freak folk, pop
I never liked the freak folk label, but it can help you imagine what this album sounds like. Animal Collective are the true heirs of Brian Wilson's idea of experimental/avant-garde pop and this album is full of harmonic nudgets which you might enjoy when you are 64. It is really easy to fall in love with this album, even though you are not an freak-out hippie.
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I never liked the freak folk label, but it can help you imagine what this album sounds like. Animal Collective are the true heirs of Brian Wilson's idea of experimental/avant-garde pop and this album is full of harmonic nudgets which you might enjoy when you are 64. It is really easy to fall in love with this album, even though you are not an freak-out hippie.
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sobota, listopadu 21, 2009
Unclassics 82: Leviathan - Massive Conspiracy Against All Life (2008, Moribund Cult)
genre: black metal
Another one-man (one-devil?) black metal band from San Francisco. Wrest worked with Sunn O))), also makes music under Lurker of Chalice and is member of Twilight. Massive Conspiracy... is fifth album of Leviathan, if I am not mistaken and somebody might lack the muddy lo-fi sound of his earlier records, but this no sell-out.
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Another one-man (one-devil?) black metal band from San Francisco. Wrest worked with Sunn O))), also makes music under Lurker of Chalice and is member of Twilight. Massive Conspiracy... is fifth album of Leviathan, if I am not mistaken and somebody might lack the muddy lo-fi sound of his earlier records, but this no sell-out.
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pátek, listopadu 20, 2009
Unclassics 81: Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein (Definitive Jux, 2001)
genre: underground hip hop
I never liked Anticon guys, El-P or Aesop Rock albums - they were just too white for me. The essential album of early 00s' experimental hip hop is The Cold Vein by Cannibal Ox. It might be 36 Chambers of our decade, dark simplistic beats made by El-P (check El-P Presents Cannibal Oxtrumentals - an instrumental version of this album)and heavy hitting lyrics by Vast Aire and Vordul Mega. The never released anything else - but hell yeah, this is enough.
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I never liked Anticon guys, El-P or Aesop Rock albums - they were just too white for me. The essential album of early 00s' experimental hip hop is The Cold Vein by Cannibal Ox. It might be 36 Chambers of our decade, dark simplistic beats made by El-P (check El-P Presents Cannibal Oxtrumentals - an instrumental version of this album)and heavy hitting lyrics by Vast Aire and Vordul Mega. The never released anything else - but hell yeah, this is enough.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
čtvrtek, listopadu 19, 2009
Unclassics 80: Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa (2003, Playhouse)
Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa (2003, Playhouse)
genre: microhouse, minimal
Chillean-born, world-based Villalobos is a mastermind of minimal techno and although his importance was somehow derided during recent minimal-bashing - he should be regarded as one of the top electronic music producers of 00s. He released at least 4 albums that would deserve to be mentioned here - geometrical techno of Thé Au Harem D'Archimede (2004), briliant "blass muzik" techno Fizheuer Zieheuer (2006) or all-encompassing Fabric mix made entirely of his own compositions. But I chose his long format debut Alcachofa, cause it starts with 10-minutes bliss of Easy Lee and ends with demented beat of Fools Garden (Black Conga).
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genre: microhouse, minimal
Chillean-born, world-based Villalobos is a mastermind of minimal techno and although his importance was somehow derided during recent minimal-bashing - he should be regarded as one of the top electronic music producers of 00s. He released at least 4 albums that would deserve to be mentioned here - geometrical techno of Thé Au Harem D'Archimede (2004), briliant "blass muzik" techno Fizheuer Zieheuer (2006) or all-encompassing Fabric mix made entirely of his own compositions. But I chose his long format debut Alcachofa, cause it starts with 10-minutes bliss of Easy Lee and ends with demented beat of Fools Garden (Black Conga).
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
středa, listopadu 18, 2009
Unclassics 79: Quiet Village - Silent Movie (!K7, 2008) REUP
genre: exotica
Quiet Village is of course an instrumental made by Les Baxter in 50s and after being remade by Martin Denny in 1959 it became one of the quintessential records of exotica genre. If you want some old school Hawai flavour, you should listen to this (do not forget to pop LSD). Joel Martin and Matt Edwards worship old exotica albums just like Denny worships exotica itself and make an modern exotica album in which our own (sound) world seem to be looked upon as a beautiful place for living. One of the songs is called Utopia, which is very appropriate - these guys create an aural utopia. Some might find their samplofonic pieces a bit cheesy, but these people are just too cynical to enjoy life.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Quiet Village is of course an instrumental made by Les Baxter in 50s and after being remade by Martin Denny in 1959 it became one of the quintessential records of exotica genre. If you want some old school Hawai flavour, you should listen to this (do not forget to pop LSD). Joel Martin and Matt Edwards worship old exotica albums just like Denny worships exotica itself and make an modern exotica album in which our own (sound) world seem to be looked upon as a beautiful place for living. One of the songs is called Utopia, which is very appropriate - these guys create an aural utopia. Some might find their samplofonic pieces a bit cheesy, but these people are just too cynical to enjoy life.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
úterý, listopadu 17, 2009
Unclassics 78: Pole - 3 (Matador, 2000) REUP
genre: dub techno, glitch
Sometimes all you need to make three classic albums is a broken filter effect. OK, this might oversimplify the trials&tribulations of Mr. Stefan Betke AKA Pole, but at the beginning of his numbered trilogy there was a purchase of an abovementioned machine. Pole is of course influenced by Basic Channel - godfathers of dub techno, but his compositions are less beat driven and more atmosphere building. Listen very quietly!
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Sometimes all you need to make three classic albums is a broken filter effect. OK, this might oversimplify the trials&tribulations of Mr. Stefan Betke AKA Pole, but at the beginning of his numbered trilogy there was a purchase of an abovementioned machine. Pole is of course influenced by Basic Channel - godfathers of dub techno, but his compositions are less beat driven and more atmosphere building. Listen very quietly!
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
pondělí, listopadu 16, 2009
Unclassics 77: The Angelic Process - Weighting Souls With Sand (2007, Profound Lore Records)
genre: ambient drone metal
The story is as extreme as Angelic Process music. K.Angylus made this excellent album and then died. For someone obsessed with death this came as an ironic end of career. The songs on Weighing Souls With Sand are based on the topics of dying and it is indeed a very heavy stuff. Droning guitars everywhere and even thought this is technically metal, Angelic Process never abandon pop sensibility of My Bloody Valentine shoeagze. The best recommendation: this sounds like all the Nadja albums (and hell, there are plenty of them) compressed into one. We all die laughing, at least I hope so.
PS: Big props to Profound Lore, one of the best labels of the decade.
Other recommended albums on Profound Lore:
Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay (2006)
Wold - Screech Owl (2007)
Caina - Mourner (2007)
Krallice - Krallice (2007)
Caina - Temporary Antennae (2008)
Xasthur / Leviathan - Split (2004)
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
The story is as extreme as Angelic Process music. K.Angylus made this excellent album and then died. For someone obsessed with death this came as an ironic end of career. The songs on Weighing Souls With Sand are based on the topics of dying and it is indeed a very heavy stuff. Droning guitars everywhere and even thought this is technically metal, Angelic Process never abandon pop sensibility of My Bloody Valentine shoeagze. The best recommendation: this sounds like all the Nadja albums (and hell, there are plenty of them) compressed into one. We all die laughing, at least I hope so.
PS: Big props to Profound Lore, one of the best labels of the decade.
Other recommended albums on Profound Lore:
Nachtmystium - Instinct: Decay (2006)
Wold - Screech Owl (2007)
Caina - Mourner (2007)
Krallice - Krallice (2007)
Caina - Temporary Antennae (2008)
Xasthur / Leviathan - Split (2004)
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neděle, listopadu 15, 2009
Unclassics 76: Dirty Projectors - Rise Above (2007, Dead Oceans)
genre: indie rock
One more lesson in strenght/weakness of human memory. Dave Longstreth with his Dirty Projectors project decided to create a tribute album to his favourite teenage album Damaged by Black Flag 15 years after he listened to it for the last time. The songs are of course completely different to the originals, but they have its own magic. It is like trying to recall a face of your secondary school flame or your long dead grandfather. This album raised considerably the fame of Dirty Projectors and they managed to make an album everybody hoped for - this year's magnificient Bitte Orca.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
One more lesson in strenght/weakness of human memory. Dave Longstreth with his Dirty Projectors project decided to create a tribute album to his favourite teenage album Damaged by Black Flag 15 years after he listened to it for the last time. The songs are of course completely different to the originals, but they have its own magic. It is like trying to recall a face of your secondary school flame or your long dead grandfather. This album raised considerably the fame of Dirty Projectors and they managed to make an album everybody hoped for - this year's magnificient Bitte Orca.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
sobota, listopadu 14, 2009
Unclassics 75: Pan Sonic - Kesto (234:48:4) (2004, Blast First / Mute)
genre: noise, ambient, techno
Listen to these four CD with four hours of incredible strange noises and then tell me if you feel like a human. Ultimate desert planet album.
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Listen to these four CD with four hours of incredible strange noises and then tell me if you feel like a human. Ultimate desert planet album.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
pátek, listopadu 13, 2009
Unclassics 74: Grouper - Cover The Windows & The Walls (Root Strata, 2007)
genre: dark ambient folk, shoe-gaze
The impression I have about Liz Harris AKA Grouper is that she is a very self-conscious and extremely shy musician that is why she buries her neat folk songs burned under the cascades of hums, hisses and white noise. This might not be true, but listening to her songs is at first very traumatic experience - you want to understand the words, you want to hear the melodies - but it all vanishes into thin ear just before your eyes/ears. Cover The Windows & The Walls was released on 12" vinyl only in 07, however this year it was re-released on CD and vinyl. Last year's Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill was one of the best albums made in 2008, but I chose this less known album for you.
from Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
from EP Vessel
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The impression I have about Liz Harris AKA Grouper is that she is a very self-conscious and extremely shy musician that is why she buries her neat folk songs burned under the cascades of hums, hisses and white noise. This might not be true, but listening to her songs is at first very traumatic experience - you want to understand the words, you want to hear the melodies - but it all vanishes into thin ear just before your eyes/ears. Cover The Windows & The Walls was released on 12" vinyl only in 07, however this year it was re-released on CD and vinyl. Last year's Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill was one of the best albums made in 2008, but I chose this less known album for you.
from Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
from EP Vessel
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čtvrtek, listopadu 12, 2009
Unclassics 73: David Sylvian - Blemish (Samadhi Sound, 2003)
genre: abstract pop, ambient
It is very easy to hate David Sylvian. The father of new-romantic/electro glam with Japan abadoned his pop career in 80s and made various surprising U-turns with his career. He worked with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Holger Czukay, Jon Hassell, Robert Fripp and managed to alianate most of his old fans with avantgarde leanings, that were sometimes beyond strange. Blemish is an album created with Derek Bailey and Fennesz and it is astonishing. His voice is arresting as usual and he seems to be more confident with it than usual. Part of the magic of this album is also the fact that he is accompanied by two of the very best improv/avant guitarists around, who paint abstract sound canvases. This year's Mafafon is great as well.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
It is very easy to hate David Sylvian. The father of new-romantic/electro glam with Japan abadoned his pop career in 80s and made various surprising U-turns with his career. He worked with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Holger Czukay, Jon Hassell, Robert Fripp and managed to alianate most of his old fans with avantgarde leanings, that were sometimes beyond strange. Blemish is an album created with Derek Bailey and Fennesz and it is astonishing. His voice is arresting as usual and he seems to be more confident with it than usual. Part of the magic of this album is also the fact that he is accompanied by two of the very best improv/avant guitarists around, who paint abstract sound canvases. This year's Mafafon is great as well.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
úterý, listopadu 10, 2009
Unclassics 71: Studio - West Coast (2006/7, Information)
genre: balearic revival, nu-disco
I really do not have anything from the eightees to feel nostalgic about. Nada. That's why you can't interpret my love for swedish Studio as some kind of cheesy 80s revival. They in fact do music that would be imposible to hear in the real 80s, they are more like "let's put together all our favourite elements of that particular time and see what happens". Expect sixteen minutes long disco freakouts, blissed out funky grooves and unashamed feel-good music. Hey, what else do you need?
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
I really do not have anything from the eightees to feel nostalgic about. Nada. That's why you can't interpret my love for swedish Studio as some kind of cheesy 80s revival. They in fact do music that would be imposible to hear in the real 80s, they are more like "let's put together all our favourite elements of that particular time and see what happens". Expect sixteen minutes long disco freakouts, blissed out funky grooves and unashamed feel-good music. Hey, what else do you need?
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
pondělí, listopadu 09, 2009
Unclassics 70: Scott Walker - The Drift (2006, PIAS)
genre: noise pop
Again album which can hardly be called unclassic. Though you will hardly read about this guy in your average glossy music magazine. Well, people used to, Scott Walker was a pop crooner and his band Walker Brothers were at one point of career in 60s called "the next Beatles" (well, they might be the first, but not the last). But Scott's music got stranger and stranger and The Drift might be one of the most otherworthly albums made in 00s. Imagine bad opera singer crooning to beats made by punching fresh beef meat with baseball stick. Musicians who abadoned their pop career and started doing weird music are very much loved by intellectuals and bookworms, as if this prove their lifelong struggle against popculture (there are many more artists going the opposite way, though). Fuck them, Walker never boasts about his artistic journey as he never gives interviews and can't be bothered by anything. He is man of 60, so distant from us. I keep this album on my MP3 player (who has only 1GB memory!) in case I ever have a mood for such a thing, but I never listen to it all at once. Don't try it, please or you are done with.
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Again album which can hardly be called unclassic. Though you will hardly read about this guy in your average glossy music magazine. Well, people used to, Scott Walker was a pop crooner and his band Walker Brothers were at one point of career in 60s called "the next Beatles" (well, they might be the first, but not the last). But Scott's music got stranger and stranger and The Drift might be one of the most otherworthly albums made in 00s. Imagine bad opera singer crooning to beats made by punching fresh beef meat with baseball stick. Musicians who abadoned their pop career and started doing weird music are very much loved by intellectuals and bookworms, as if this prove their lifelong struggle against popculture (there are many more artists going the opposite way, though). Fuck them, Walker never boasts about his artistic journey as he never gives interviews and can't be bothered by anything. He is man of 60, so distant from us. I keep this album on my MP3 player (who has only 1GB memory!) in case I ever have a mood for such a thing, but I never listen to it all at once. Don't try it, please or you are done with.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
neděle, listopadu 08, 2009
Unclassics 69: Kelley Polar - Love Songs Of Hanging Gardens (Environ (2005)
genre: post-disco, pop
I fell in love with all this post-disco thang. You know, the genre for which the main hero became Arthur Russell (and not Moroder, Bee Gees or Donna Summer). Out of the all people who tried their hands on this staff, Kelley Polar was the closest one to Russell. He also played violin, had real music education and was never affraid of both pop and avantgarde. Love Songs... is his debut and masterpiece of post-disco genre, which sounds both inteligent and catchy. I remember listening to this CD while driving on a long distance journey once and after several songs, I had to stop and dance for a while around the car like an idiot. Thanks, Kelley...
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I fell in love with all this post-disco thang. You know, the genre for which the main hero became Arthur Russell (and not Moroder, Bee Gees or Donna Summer). Out of the all people who tried their hands on this staff, Kelley Polar was the closest one to Russell. He also played violin, had real music education and was never affraid of both pop and avantgarde. Love Songs... is his debut and masterpiece of post-disco genre, which sounds both inteligent and catchy. I remember listening to this CD while driving on a long distance journey once and after several songs, I had to stop and dance for a while around the car like an idiot. Thanks, Kelley...
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sobota, listopadu 07, 2009
Unclassics 68: Rhythm & Sound - With The Artists (2003, BMD-2)
genre: dub-techno, future dub
Having created template for dub techno with Basic Channel, Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus did the only thing they could in 00s - they started working with real Jamaican vocalists. Rhythm & Sound With The Artists is as close as you can get to the spirit of dub that Lee Scratch Perry had in mind. There is also alternative version Rhythm & Sound Versions without vocals. It is not as good and groundbreaking as their Basic Channel stuff, but still very heavy stuff for two kraftwerkian robots dreaming about Jamaica. Feel it.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Having created template for dub techno with Basic Channel, Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus did the only thing they could in 00s - they started working with real Jamaican vocalists. Rhythm & Sound With The Artists is as close as you can get to the spirit of dub that Lee Scratch Perry had in mind. There is also alternative version Rhythm & Sound Versions without vocals. It is not as good and groundbreaking as their Basic Channel stuff, but still very heavy stuff for two kraftwerkian robots dreaming about Jamaica. Feel it.
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pátek, listopadu 06, 2009
Unclassics 67: Boris at Last -Feedbacker- (2003, Diwphalanx/Conspiracy)
genre: drone metal, ambient
The "deserted island music" question somehow played itself out once iPod made it possible to cram your whole life collection into a small plastic box - but still. If anyone asked me what my desert island band would be, I'd answer - Boris and their whole discography. I saw them live twice, listened to all of their albums very carefully and even spoke with their drummer once, but I still can't somehow understand how it is possible that they became the very best rock band of 00s. And if I say rock, I mean "rock-as-evolving-genre" and no "kings of fucking leon" rock. If there is one band who still manages to re-create the wonder of electric guitar 50 years Elvis, it is for sure Boris. They never cared about genres, every album is different, but they can do anything and it always ROCKS! Pink might be their people's masterpiece, but 45 minutes of heavy droning in 5 movements AKA Feedbacker is certainly highlight of their career.
feedbacker live - all 53 minutes - incredible video
Farwell from Pink. My favourite Boris' song.
Other recommended albums by Boris from 00s:
Pink (2005)
Flood (2000)
The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked (2003)
The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 2 (2006)
The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 3 (2006)
Sun Baked Snow Cave (2005) w Merzbow
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
The "deserted island music" question somehow played itself out once iPod made it possible to cram your whole life collection into a small plastic box - but still. If anyone asked me what my desert island band would be, I'd answer - Boris and their whole discography. I saw them live twice, listened to all of their albums very carefully and even spoke with their drummer once, but I still can't somehow understand how it is possible that they became the very best rock band of 00s. And if I say rock, I mean "rock-as-evolving-genre" and no "kings of fucking leon" rock. If there is one band who still manages to re-create the wonder of electric guitar 50 years Elvis, it is for sure Boris. They never cared about genres, every album is different, but they can do anything and it always ROCKS! Pink might be their people's masterpiece, but 45 minutes of heavy droning in 5 movements AKA Feedbacker is certainly highlight of their career.
feedbacker live - all 53 minutes - incredible video
Farwell from Pink. My favourite Boris' song.
Other recommended albums by Boris from 00s:
Pink (2005)
Flood (2000)
The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked (2003)
The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 2 (2006)
The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked 3 (2006)
Sun Baked Snow Cave (2005) w Merzbow
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
čtvrtek, listopadu 05, 2009
Unclassics 66: Terre Thaemlitz - Lovebomb (Terre Thaemlitz, 2003)
genre: abstract, house
Too many intelectuals can destroy house scene, but don't blame Terre Thaemlitz. He knows how to do a straight 4/4 beat (well, it is fairly easy, isn't it?), but he can also make an album made out of strange loops and political speeches. Lovebomb consists of highly abstract post-house music (I dare to say), but also of political messages, which is very rare for "dance music" scene. Interestingly enough, Thaemlitz is also one of the handfull of musicians who found their new home in Japan. And ever since that he seems to be working on his music with japanese sense of workmanship - making two and more albums a year.
Other recommended albums by TT:
DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues, 2008
Terre Thaemlitz - Oh, No! It's Rubato, 2001
Terre Thaemlitz - Soil, 1995
Terre Thaemlitz - Tranquilizer, 1994
DJ Sprinkles - Ball'r (Madonna-Free Zone) from 120 Midtown Blues
Terre Thaemlitz - Space Junk from Oh, No. It's Rubato.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Too many intelectuals can destroy house scene, but don't blame Terre Thaemlitz. He knows how to do a straight 4/4 beat (well, it is fairly easy, isn't it?), but he can also make an album made out of strange loops and political speeches. Lovebomb consists of highly abstract post-house music (I dare to say), but also of political messages, which is very rare for "dance music" scene. Interestingly enough, Thaemlitz is also one of the handfull of musicians who found their new home in Japan. And ever since that he seems to be working on his music with japanese sense of workmanship - making two and more albums a year.
Other recommended albums by TT:
DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues, 2008
Terre Thaemlitz - Oh, No! It's Rubato, 2001
Terre Thaemlitz - Soil, 1995
Terre Thaemlitz - Tranquilizer, 1994
DJ Sprinkles - Ball'r (Madonna-Free Zone) from 120 Midtown Blues
Terre Thaemlitz - Space Junk from Oh, No. It's Rubato.
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středa, listopadu 04, 2009
Unclassics 65: Camille - Le Fil (2005, Virgin Records)
genre: a cappella, chanson, pop
Bjork did it with Medulla, but somehow liked Camille's second album more. The majority of the sounds are created with mouth, but this is hardly a beatboxing album, but adventurous pop crossed with french chanson. I can't care less about french pop, even one released by majors, but Camille is really one of a kind.
Camille - Ta Douleur (clip)
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Bjork did it with Medulla, but somehow liked Camille's second album more. The majority of the sounds are created with mouth, but this is hardly a beatboxing album, but adventurous pop crossed with french chanson. I can't care less about french pop, even one released by majors, but Camille is really one of a kind.
Camille - Ta Douleur (clip)
Uploaded by aureli1tu. - Music videos, artist interviews, concerts and more.
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úterý, listopadu 03, 2009
Unclassics 64: Bohren & Der Club Of Gore - Black Earth (2002, Wonder / Ipecac)
genre: ambient, doom, jazz
Are looking for easy-listening lounge music crossed with doom metal, where atmosphere is everything. Well, you do not have to anymore - German gentlemen Bohren & Der Club Of Gore do it that way. This album was so incredible, Ipecac had to rerelease it. People often compare B&DCOF to Badalamenti's music for Twin Peaks, but bear in mind that Black Earth is like the most intensive scene in Twin Peaks stretched into 70 minutes. This is morning music before you go to bed, your perception of sound and vision is changed and you can hear various things in Black Earth. Just do not listen to it while driving, please.
today it is in FLAC - hi quality format! bigget than usual (300 MB) and for playing you might need a new plugin.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
Are looking for easy-listening lounge music crossed with doom metal, where atmosphere is everything. Well, you do not have to anymore - German gentlemen Bohren & Der Club Of Gore do it that way. This album was so incredible, Ipecac had to rerelease it. People often compare B&DCOF to Badalamenti's music for Twin Peaks, but bear in mind that Black Earth is like the most intensive scene in Twin Peaks stretched into 70 minutes. This is morning music before you go to bed, your perception of sound and vision is changed and you can hear various things in Black Earth. Just do not listen to it while driving, please.
today it is in FLAC - hi quality format! bigget than usual (300 MB) and for playing you might need a new plugin.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
pondělí, listopadu 02, 2009
Unclassics 63: Matias Aguayo - Are You Really Lost (Kompakt, 2005)
genre: microhouse
With his single Minimal (including excelent DJ Koze remix) Chile-born producer Aguayo officialy declared minimal dead as music with "no balls/just pumpin' pumpin' pumpin'". Ironically, with Are You Really Lost 3 year earlier he produced one of the milestones of the genre, altough nobody cares if it really should be called that way. It is colourfull house with plenty of latin and old school electro influences and Aguayo is never afraid of using vocals. Just like with De Papel - one of the utterly briliant singles of this decade. But it is not just this song, The Green & The Red, So In Love or Radiotaxi are examples of otherwordly dance music for people who love it minimal.
PS: He has just released a new album Ay Ay Ay, which is brilliant. This guy rules like totally.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
With his single Minimal (including excelent DJ Koze remix) Chile-born producer Aguayo officialy declared minimal dead as music with "no balls/just pumpin' pumpin' pumpin'". Ironically, with Are You Really Lost 3 year earlier he produced one of the milestones of the genre, altough nobody cares if it really should be called that way. It is colourfull house with plenty of latin and old school electro influences and Aguayo is never afraid of using vocals. Just like with De Papel - one of the utterly briliant singles of this decade. But it is not just this song, The Green & The Red, So In Love or Radiotaxi are examples of otherwordly dance music for people who love it minimal.
PS: He has just released a new album Ay Ay Ay, which is brilliant. This guy rules like totally.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
neděle, listopadu 01, 2009
Unclassics 62: Sunn O))) - Black One (2005, Southern Lord)
genre: black/drone metal
No beating around the bush - Black One is the best album by Sunn O))), although this year's Monoliths&Dimensions is very close. Here O'Malley & Anderson paid homage to Scandinavian black metal fathers, but just as you might expect they mixed sonic template of black metal with heavy drones. Very often this sounds "just" like slowed down version of Mayhem recorded with hi-tech equipment. As if Sunn O))) stripped black metal, or rather cut off the unncessary bullshit and all that remained was the spooky atmosphere. I see why orthodox metalheads have problems with this album, Black One is just too out-there and too testosteron-free for you average metal taste. Oren Ambarchi and Malefic from Xasthur featured on this album.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
No beating around the bush - Black One is the best album by Sunn O))), although this year's Monoliths&Dimensions is very close. Here O'Malley & Anderson paid homage to Scandinavian black metal fathers, but just as you might expect they mixed sonic template of black metal with heavy drones. Very often this sounds "just" like slowed down version of Mayhem recorded with hi-tech equipment. As if Sunn O))) stripped black metal, or rather cut off the unncessary bullshit and all that remained was the spooky atmosphere. I see why orthodox metalheads have problems with this album, Black One is just too out-there and too testosteron-free for you average metal taste. Oren Ambarchi and Malefic from Xasthur featured on this album.
)dl( get it while it's hot, I delete the files after 3 days
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