What's the last al*** you have bought?

Howard,

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Eric

These were bought from Beano's

The Associates - MessageObliqueSpeech
Speedy J - Tanga
TokTok vs. Soffy O - Day of Min (Ludicrous Idiots)
Marc Et Claude - The History of Acid House
Appeggiators/Hardlfoor/Futurhytm/Barbarella/Spicelab - A taste of Hard Trance, Harthouse America
Millimetric - 1 + 1 = 1
The Associates - Q Quarters
Small 23 - True Zero Hook
Speedy J - Bugmod

Neither Buy or Die or 101 records were open when I was there. Bummer!

DS

ITC - Metal Box - Public Image Limited

Arrived from Carbondisks:

Current 93 - A little Menstural Night Music
(Live versions of Menstrual Night)

Teledubgnosis - Magnetic Learning Center
(Feat. The Bug & Tony Maimone & other post rock luminaries)

Captain Comatose - Going Out
(With Khan & other Cologne heroes)

Pete Namlook & Atom - Jet Chamber I - V
(MP3 CD of the whole Jet Chamber Series, 5 hours long)

The latter is something that you Naim CD owners will not be able to enjoy, as I don't believe they can play these MP3 CDs?

DS

ITC - Hot Shit, Sonic Mook Experiment

So, I went to Wales, and came back with a load of electronic (rather than electronica) and other stuff...

Giorgio Moroder & Joe Esposito - Solitary Men
Irmin Schmidt - Musk at Dusk
Mortal - Autobahnana (Autobahn connection I think here)
Grace - If I could Fly (Nice Cover)
Various Artists - UMM in Progress feat. Pink Elln, Sonar, Quadripart etc.
Ashra - Correlations
Cabaret Voltaire - James Brown
Nitzer Ebb - Let your body learn (Terence Fixmer remix)
Malaria - New York Passage
Various Artists - Some Bizzare ISH feat Neubaten / Soft Cell etc.
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Dorothea Raukes - Deutsche Wertarbeit
Peter Baumann - Trans Harmonic Nights
Sandii and the Sunsetz - Heat Scale (Somebody on the Forum was asking about S&TS ?)
Irmin Schmidt - Filmmusik
N-Trance - Solenoid EP
Earth Nation - Transfiguration
Cosmic Baby - Transcendental Overdrive (Classic melodic trance)
Mark et Claude - Tremble
Electrochemie LK - Schall
Here & Now - Give & Take (Anybody see Daevid allen in the Wire? Fried or what?)
Andreas Vollendweider - Caverna Magica
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
Eberhard Schoener - Meditation
Luxuria - Beast Box
Heartbreakers - Live at Max's Kansas City
Dissidenten - Life at the Pyramids
Anne Clarke - Pressure Points
Essential Logic - Waddle Ya Play - Beat Rhythm News (retrospective out soon I see)
Belfegore - Belfegore
David Byrne - Sounds from True Stories
Cheie and Marie Currie - Messin' with the Boys (More from the underated Runaways singer)
Sparks - Number One Song in Heaven (Tin Tin Out mix)

DS

ITD - Beyonce - Crazy in Love

David, at this torrid pace you'll need to buy your neighbor's house for storage.

Ludwig

I haven't got to the big shop I did at the weekend yet! Still sorting through them.

Seriously, I am considering having the house extended to fit in a music room / reocrd storage room / + a new bathroom for he wife.

DS

To maintain relations, make sure the bathroom has a roomy tub for long soaks, space for scented (aromatherapy?) candles, and a stack of romance novels for the misses. Do so, and you'll emerge unscathed. Throw in a slimming mirror and you'll be a king.

Back on topic, my purchases:

The Stone Roses- s/t (I'm feeling retro)
The Smiths- The Queen Is Dead (thanks to the recent thread)
Sleater-Kinney- One Beat (finally)
Infesticons- Gun Hill Road (thanks to Mekon)
Cat Power- You Are Free

On CD:
Kraftwerk - Roundhouse 76
New Order - Here Are The Old Men
New Order - Dreams Never End (live 6/12 1985)

Lots of vinyl coming soon (this weekend)

Kevin

How the west was won

Led Zeppelin

Smooth

Stuart

Kevin,

You must have cornered the world market in New Order and Kraftwerk bootlegs!

Are there any left you are looking for?

I only have about a dozen Kraftwerk ones, all on vinyl, and to be honest none of them challenge or re-interpret the original versions.

Which is the creme de la creme of them in your view ? ( I don't know the german for creme de la creme? )

DS

ITC - Various Artists - Yes New York

I went shopping on Saturday, and acquired a number of vinyls..

Small 23 - Free T-shirts for Spain
Bizz O.D. - Loveshack Cranked
Pole - Raum Eins
Luomo - Tessio (Akufen & Moonbootica remixes)
Alleluyark Vol. 1, E-Cone (Akufen remix)
Jah Wobble - Heaven & Heath
Client - Roll and Roll Machine
Robert Margouleff and Malcolm Cecil - Tonto's Expanding Head Band (never seen this LP before!)
Orlando Carera vs. The Cosmonut - Just for Tonight
Oscillator - Defcon 69
Dario - Sunmachine
La Folie - The Plot
Para-dizer - Song of Liberation
Sharam Jey - Let's get it on
Kee Mo - Visions
Dj Tom & Norman - Thundergod
Vincent De Moor - Orion City
Shave Your Tongue - Deep Drift EP
John Chevalier - Phuture Power
Keith Le Blanc - Invisible Spike
Arling & Cameron - Speeding down the Highway
Shave Your Tongue - Echo System
Lunatic Calm - Centista
Straylight - Chez
Terminator Benelux - The Singing Synth
Perplexer - Da Capo (Space Tube mix)
Win - Dusty Heartfelt
Abraham - All the Fours
Anne Clark - Unstill Life
Note Abuse - Wonda
Mono Meltdown - Analog Past
Bassline Bay - Computer Controlled EP
Planet E Squad - Upartig
Reel Houze - The Chance
BBB - Lover on the Line (Pulsedriver remix)
Scarlet Pumpernickel - God Wears Flares (Great title!!)
The Chemical Pilot - Watch the Target
The Anti-Group - Broadcast Test
Demote - Neurotic Cycles
Cyrus Cole - A.Fox
Innersphere - Vernal Equinox
Virtualian - Acidifan remix
Tony Sapiano - Vexed
P.I.M.P - Assymilate
Electron Ryder - Follow Me
Drone 2 - Subvert
Emmanual Top - Static
Total Science - Pop Psychology EP
Sublime - TGV
Darma & Dice - Soul Warrior
The All Seeing I - Earth
Transmisia - Mincing Machine
Miranda Sex Garden - Gush Forth my Tears
Sylive Marks & Hal 9000 - We Electric
DJ Shufflemaster - EXP
Friend & Dr. Kosmos - Single of the Week
The Funky Worm - Hustle to the Music
Pod - Gestator
Subsonic Legacy - Revolution
Meat Beat Manifesto - Asbestos Lead Asbestos
Partisan - D-Fusion
Golden Girls - Kinetic remixes
OM - For the Agnostic
Frank Tovey - Luxury (I hear Frank died recently ? Anybody know?)
Cybernet vs. Genetix - Cyborg Two
DJ Nukem vs. Chab - Forward
James Ruskin - Into Submission
Montreal - Smoked Meat
Arnaud Rebotin - Ride 'em all
Danny Rose - Filthy Dancing
Quant - Breaking and Entering
Fortran 5 - Crazy Earth
Thermoc - The Frozen EP
Sta'gazers - Is there Anybody out there?
Khardasia - Milzbrand
Chrissy Ward - You take me up
Alex Gopher presents : Use Me Vol. 1
Tomahawk 7 - Disgraziat
Tata Box Inhibitors - Freet remixes
2 Dark Crew - Mission 2 Dark
Flanger - Music to begin with
Fax to Fax - Lover Lady
Bassman and De LA Ray - Intelligence

DS

OTD - Bassman & De La Ray - Intelligence

Recent visit to HMV resulted in the following 'classic' back catalogue purchases in the Sale section £5 each.

I've listened to the following so far (once each, so only initial impressions given)

Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Not bad, some good tracks, but overrated (usually 5 star etc), recording a bit upfront.

Jesus and Mary Chain - PsychoCandy
Average at best, very overrated, recording almost impeniterable in some places making Drums and bass almost anonymous.

The Band - Music From Big Pink
OK, but again hardly the earth shattering recording most review would have you believe,

Boards of Canada - geogaddi.
I could only stand this for about half an hour before it just got too annoying, Backwards guitars/keyboards, random voice/sound samples and loops are all very well, but when thats just about all there is then.... maybe I just wan't in the right mood.

Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
Yeh I like this, More cohesive than Aqualung (without the standout tracks), very english!.

Overall a bit of a disapointment. I'll tell you what I think of my other purchases when I listened

Try being 16, on alot of speed, and pissed off at everything. You'll find Psychocandy is the perfect album for you.

So I am told, anyway.

Psychocandy and Darklands are excellent IMO. On vinyl they sound ok.

DS
How do you remember what you've already got. If I were buying that amount I'm sure I'd have many "doubles".

Howard

Howard,

You are absolutely right, I often (too often) suffer a lapse of memory and buy the same thing twice, three or even four times.

In that last trip it was the Orlando Carera record I find I have two of.

The worse ever was a Drum and Bass single that I bought twice, in the same shop on the same day!
Doh!

I have an ever growing stacks of doubles. Every now and again I take a pile down to the Record & Tape Exchange to get a mingent amount towards exhange for other records.

I have been thinking about selling them on Musicstack or E-Bay, but am unsure about how to actually get the goods and the money exchanged by post. I have started to list them on Discogs for swaps, which has led to a couple of enquiries, but nothing conclusive.

I think I will ask about selling reords in another thread...

Another tack I am thinking of is getting a handheld PC so I can put a recording database on it, and if I have an inkling that I might have the record, I look it up and see. (see Padded Cell thread) The big problem with this is how to get the data into it in the first place.

Funnily enough, I find that typing the name of the record in to this thread helps jog my memory when in front of the racks.

Another fascinating angle is that I very rarely buy the same CD twice, but perhaps that is because the ratio of purchases is probably 20:1 vinyl:CD


DS

ITC - Various Artists - Yes New York

Greeny / Mekon,

I always thought the JAMC sound was perfect for its time, but has not aged well.

I remeber hearing the first single 'Upside Down' in a Crouch End record shop and I just had to have it, take it home and play again and again, like a shot blast stripping away old paint.

Mind you, I was a bit younger and punky then anyway.

Their singles always were more endearing than the LPs, so look you for 'the 'Barbed Wire Kisses' compliation.

DS

ITC - Various Artists - Yes New York

Ooh no, no no no!

Darklands, maybe a tad, but to my ears Psychocandy is still awesome. Just listing to 'The Living End' right now makes me have a ruck. Top stuff!

I remember seeing them on an eventful night in Brixton on the Automatic tour. My ears were ringing three days later.

BTW, on your record buying trips, how do you get them all home? I have images of you with a Technics-branded record trolley.

Mekon,

Transporting them is a bit of a problem...

I have a no name no logo record bag over the shoulder, capaicty c. 40-50 so I fill that first, then record bags from the shops. I have thought about a wheel around record case a la Superstar DJ, but that would be a hassle on the tube.

On major trips I sometimes go back to the car and offload in the middle.

When I sweep through a town, I sometimes go to one student area, then a secondhand area, then the High Sreet, so travel in between each one splitting it up a bit

This doesn't work in Berwick Street though, so I just go on until the bag is full / run out of time / run of of things to buy / feel knackered and I go back on the underground.

DS

ITC - Coloursound - Fly with me

On vinyl LP:

Steely Dan - Everything Must Go

On CD
Kraftwerk - Tour de France 2003 (promo)

Quote from David Slater: You must have cornered the world market in New Order and Kraftwerk bootlegs!
Are there any left you are looking for?
I only have about a dozen Kraftwerk ones, all on vinyl, and to be honest none of them challenge or re-interpret the original versions.
Which is the creme de la creme of them in your view ? ( I don't know the german for creme de la creme? )

David

I have several hundred New Orders, at least 100 Kraftwerks. Am always looking for more. The best KW boot is "Virtu Ex Machina", a soundboard recording from Tokyo in 1981. Awesome version of "It's more Fun To Compute". There are lots of others of varying quality.

Have a look at your private topics after 6pm tonight!

Kevin

This week
From car boot:-
Spandau Ballet Parade and Diamond OK
Buddy Holly Rave On (MFP version) some unusual tracks
JM Jarre Rendevous Good
Bryan Adams Reckless replaces crap one V good
Robert Plant Now & Zen Good
Tina Turner Live in Europe V Good
Chris Rea The Road to Hell unplayable (V noisy record)
Fleetwood Mac Mirage Good
Steve Hackett Defector Not played yet
Dire Straits Communique (NPY)

From Ebay

Santana 1st album V Good

Howard

David

Just been looking at this list of suff you bought in Wales (post 30/6/03). Fantastic!

We really do ave very similar taste...
Irmin Scmidt, Luxuria, YMGs, Peter Baumann, Sylvian, etc.

BTW, the Mortal single "Autobahnana"? My oldest mate Graz is in Mortal (or should I say as as they no onger exist). It is a Kraftwerk reference, as the band were all KW nuts. They had an album "Deco" which is very good. Before that they were Code, had some good singles and an excellent album "The Architect".

After Mortal they became H2S04, put out two albums, one excellent one called "Machine Turned Blues" and another which I can't remember anything about. They were very big in Japan and Detroit/Chicago.

Kevin

Recent CD purchases

Nelly - Work It (featuring Justin timberlake). (the Wife says JT is more cool than cool)

Various Artists - Here Comes Trouble
(Featuring recordings from Trouble on Vinyl, Renegade Hardware and Renegade Recordings, mixed by DJ Fresh of Bad Company.

The Flying Lizards - The Secret Dub Life of the Flying Lizards

St. Germain - Tourist (2 CD version)

Various Artists - Disco Pogo for Punks in Pumps Vol.8 attached to Jockey Slut - with The Cinematic Orchestra and others = It will be intersting to see what the buzz is about.

Various Artists - Undead - 3 CDs consisting of a load of Goth and late punk, for the car.

Beyonce - Crazy in Love DVD (Future No.1 as discussed elsewhere)

and a return of the original two headed electronic duo.
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Funfzehn Neue Daf Lieder

DS

ITC - Tennis - Furlines

I found another recent purchase..

Merzbow - Pulse Demon.

If you ears or your Hi-Fi need a spring clean, this is your disc.

Sculpted harnessed Japanese noise, hissing, careering, squealing, throbbing from the speakers.

Top stuff.

My dream is to be able to find the 50 cd Merzbox set in an Oxfam shop one day.

DS

ITC - Merzbow - Pulse Demon

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A friend has this and I heard a bit of it once. I never thought I'd hear something that made The Boredoms sound like a Japanese teeny-pop band, but this did it.

Last year's Acid Mothers Temple ("Electric Heavyland") is another good spring cleaning album. It's almost impossible to play this quietly; even at the very lowest volume settings it quickly becomes difficult to talk over.

Recent new vinyl:

Unwound: In London
Blonde Redhead: In an Expression of the Inexpressible
90 Day Men: To Everybody
Eels: Shootenany
Soft Boys: Nextdoorland
Big Star: #1 Record (this is a very well-done Akarma rerelease).

CDs:
Single Frame: Wetheads Come Running
Mars Volta: De-loused in the Comatorium
Plus a bunch of Todd Arola's classical recommendations.

Eric