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

Picked up on CD from a secondhand place in Manchester yesterday...

Vic Chesnutt - About to Choke
Much championed by REM (but don't let that put you off) Vic Chesnutt is the real deal. Standout so far for me is 'degenerate'.

Following return from holiday, no vinyl, now back to form again.

Purchases on the South Coast:

Kylie Minogue - Put Yourself in My Place
[I can only dream of what place she means?]

Kraftwerk - Tour de France Soundtracks
[Only 2 decent tracks, according to the seller]

Various Artists - Chill Out or Die III
[At last, this fills the gap between I, II and and IV, and has some good tracks on it as well]

Jah Wobble & Ollie Marland - Tradewinds
Black Dice - Cone Toaster

Various Artists - Kompakt Total 5
[with Reinhard Voigt, The Modernist, M. Mayer]

Ellen Alien - Trashscapes rmx
[Purchased because of A. Rother remix, also Kid 606, Apparat, Naz Ohara mixes]

T. Raumschmiere - Anti (on Hefty Records)
T. Raumschmiere - Radio Blackout
[After enjoying the Monstertruckdriver single]

Der Dritte Raum - Hale Bopp / Infrarot
Julie Cruise - Falling
Black Uhuru - Vital Selection
Starlight - Numero Uno

Divine - You think you're a medley
[comprising You think you're a man / native love / Walk like a man / Shoot your shot]

The Monochrome Set - Love Zombies
Psychic TV - Roman P. (Fireball mix)
Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido
Wreckless Eric - The Wonderful world of Wreckless Eric
Kamaflage - Electric Mistress
Hithouse - Move your feet to the Rhythm of the Beat
F^D^M - Mother of India (Sabres of Paradise mixes)
Tyranids - Thomas Brinkman & Heiko Laux

Lords of Acid - Pussy
[One of the best covers I have seen for a while - made me laugh out loud in the shop]

Various Artists - Teutonik Disasters 2
[Featuring Explorer / The Tanzdiele / Reifenstahl / BBB / 50T / Schwarze Bewegueg / Exhurs]

Sono - Heading for..
Coburn - How to Brainwash your friends ep

and finally on CD

Killing Joke - untitled (but probably Killing Joke)
[Their new CD]

DS

OTD - Biochip C - Shark Trax 1

After another shopping trip, all vinyl

Riva featuring Danni Minogue - Who do you love now
[I have been looking for this on vinyl for ages, finally spotted it, only the single pack, not the double though]

Miles Davis - Star People
Miles Davis - A Night in Tunisia
Keith Jarrett - Staircase
[Feeling a bit mellow & jazzy today]

? - I feel love (Klubbheads mix)
[Another version of this all-time classic]

? - Crime Chime
[Mash up of Orbital's classic Chime]

Chris Spedding - Friday the 13th
Disc-O-Tex and the Sex-o-Lettes - Disco-O-Tex and the Sex-O-Lettes Review
David Bowie - Stationtostation
Dead or Alive - Youthquake
John Moore - Distortion
Iggy Pop - Soldier
Iggy Pop - Zombie Birdhouse
The Foetus All-Nude Review - Bedrock
Our Daughters Wedding - Digital Cowboy
Sylvester - All I Need
Longsy D's House Sound for the World - Wiv a Likkle bit of Acid
Mr Lee - Pump That Body
Atlantic Ocean - Music is a Passion
Royal Comfort - Comfort Royale
Voyager & Ed Rush - Baracuda Part 1
Mono Blanco - Product

and the usual selection of German artists ..

Tangerine Dream - Phenomena
Klaus Schulze & Reiner Bloss - Drive Inn
Holger Hiller - Ein Bundel Faulnis in der Grube
Act - I can't escape from you (love & hate)
Denki Groove - The MFS mixes
LSG - Rendezvous in Outer Space
DJ Bubba - The Unknown Future remixes

DS

OTD - DJ Tim & Ortega - Heartbreak

On vinyl

Offwhyte - The Fifth Sun
NMS - Woe To Thee O Land Whose King Is A Child
J Live - All Of The Above

David - good grief man how do you find the time to listen to all this stuff, and where are you keeping it? Do you have a warehouse somewhere??

Further new purchases..

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Take them on, on your own
Arthur Baker - Breakin'
[Excellent tracklist I thought - Soul Sonic Force, Planet Patrol, Criminal Element Orchestra, .. wait a minute FLEETWOOD MAC! Oh Bugger! - looking for skip button]

Bootsy's Rubber Band - Bootsy? Player of the Year
The Beloved - Conscience
Tosca - Suzuki
The Southern Death Cult - The Southern Death Cult
Various - Street Sounds 88-2 (with Todd Terry, Fourplay, Kraze, Brooklyn Funk Essentials)
Klaus Flouride - Shortnin Bread
The Psychedelic Furs - All of this and nothing

Simon - I do face a bit of a storage problem, and have now annexed another bedroom for record storage, the one where The Wife keeps her clothes in. I will have to call in the builders soon for an extension!

As regards listening, I have music on whilst interneting, amke lots of tapes for the car, and listen to vinyl rather than watch much TV.

DS

OTD - 1000 Homo DJs - Apathy

Last CD - Norah Jones Come Away With Me

Last LP - Red Hot Chilli Peppers By The Way

Last music-related DVD - Nickleback Live At Home

Yesterday shopping:

Steel Mill - Green Eyed God
Friedhof - Friedhof
Chicken Shack - Unlucky Boy
Crabby Appleton - The Album

I have reserved in a cd shop few more for next week:

John Mayall - Looking BaCK
Soft Machine - Seven
+ 2 or three albums, just can't remember which are they at the moment.

Ozren

Nick,

Glad to hear that we share same musical taste.
About Soft Machine, I also like "Three" a lot, but "Six" is played most of all at my home.
As I said, I will buy "Seven" next week and after that only "Bundles" will be a missing one. "Bundles" is one of two on which is played el. guitar ?! Did you ever heard it, is it good?

It must be very exciting to listen to "Mercator Projected" on Sondek !!!ž

Ozren

Had a bit of a spasm in the Notting Hill second hand record shop last Friday. These are the vinyl results:

1. 23 Skidoo 'Seven Songs' and 'Language' 12 inch single. Very, very strange stuff. I like.

2. Kraftwerk 'Trans-Europe Express'. Easy to see why this was so influential. Good for those watching-TV-with-the-sound-turned-down hours.

3. Meat Puppets 'Up on the Sun'. 'Meat Puppets 2' is a personal favorite. This one has some high points, but feels almost like filling in the dots.

4. The Dictators 'Manifest Destiny'. Bought mainly for their near-speed cover of 'Search and Destroy'. Very, very funny - and from the days before we knew what 'pastiche' meant.

5. Gang of Four 'Peel Sessions'. The version of 'At Home He's a Tourist' on this is explosive.

PS David Slater - The Southern Death Cult? Shurely not the same ropey Native American-via-Bradford outfit we suburban goths used to like? Are you running out of obscure things to buy?

Tim

Tim,

Spooky synchronity!

I was just conversing about 23 Skidoo on PFM! I didn't realise until tonight that David Tibet has been in Psychic TV, 23 Skidoo and Current 93.

Re: Southern Death Cult - YOu are actually quite close to the mark, in that I am struggling to think of any new material to put on my to-buy list. I have enjoyed the Cult so thought I would try their past.

DS

ITC - Tuxedomoon - Time to Lose

David,
Glad to a fellow naimee who also appreciates 1000 Homo DJs. One of the discs I played (loudly) when I auditioned some naim equipment was their cover of supernaut. I seem to remember that the man in the shop left the listening room at that point
All together now "its fun to take a trip, put acid in your veins"...

Cheers
Simon

Another arrival from the USA, via E-bay..

Blackhouse / Nightmare Lodge - The Gospel According to the Men in Black / Ice Skin.

[A split LP featuring Blackhouse, one of the few fundamentalist christian industrial avant garde groups I follow. There are much better than The Joy Strings anyway]

Simon, I agree about the 1000 Homo DJS 'Supernaut' record. You need to get the hi-fi shop guys scared sometimes. It was a shame that they only released those two singles, because I felt the whole Ministry / Revolting Cocks take on Heavy Metal cover versions had much more mileage in it.

The R. Cocks 'Beer, Steers & Queers' LP is my favourite from thier output.

DS

OTD - Cujo - Dirty Base
[Bad Companyesque evil sounding drum'n'bass]

I would say that Beer, Steers & Queers has maximum hi-fi-shop-demo-guy-scaring-ability. But 'Linger Ficken' Good and Other Barnyard Oddities' has its uses too. If, say, you have a mate round your house who is beginning to outstay their welcome (you know the sort, its 3 in the morning and they just won't push off), then a quick blast of this album will normally do the trick. Even if they think they like industrial music, they ain't ready for the chiken noises!
Cheers
Simon

Simon,

I usually try 'Hanantarashi IV' to remove stubborn sofa surfers, as this is sooooooo extreme I think even if Merzbow lived next door, he would bang on the wall shouting 'Shut up with that bloody row!"

DS

OTD - BBE vs Emmanuel Top - Orion

I am not familiar with Hanantarashi IV - whats it like? Pretty uncompromising I take it.
I have a friend who has a particular aversion to Anne's Eveready Equestrian by ADD N TO X - specifically a bone splitting / marrow searing noise that cuts right through you about half way into the track. Check it out!
Simon

Simon,

The Hanantarashi, also known as the Hanantarah were a Japanese perfoemance art / noise band, who released a series of CDs (not seen any records). Performances include vivisection of cats, demolishing houses with bulldozers

A review : "Screams, screams and screams"

Out of the thousands and thousands of pieces of music I have played with The Wife in attendance, The Hanantarashi have the honour of being voted 'The worst thing I have ever heard in my life'

I wonder why the Japanese seem to do Noise more than any other nation?

Another artists with a similar effext are Sigillum S who use a lot of scraping and groaning with high pitched dentist drill type noises whilst chucking metal filing cabinets down spiral staircases
in a cathedral.

While I'm at it:

ITC - Sigillum S - Bedscanner Philosophy: An Updated Boudoir Mode
Wait a minute - The Wife is telling me to turn it off...

DS

Another back catalogue item - Dave Brock - Strange Trips and Pipe Dreams which includes a good reqork of Space is Deep.

Mike

Are Amazon getting faster or is it just my imagination? I only ordered these two yesterday afternoon, and they were here when I got back from work today:

1. Toots and the Maytals - 'Pressure Drop - Greatest Hits'. I am really hooked on this. What an incredible voice he has - and what a rich harvest these songs have provided for house samplers. The band has that same sense of intricacy and shifting emphases that the Upsetters had.

2. A Certain Ratio - 'Early'. I like the idea and they are certainly one of those 'massively influential but pretty obscure' bands. But the bass playing is terribly self-conscious and it's all starting to get on my nerves.

Tim

Thumbs up on Toots. Best comp I've found is 54-46 was my number (Anthology). We've got a couple of others, and Funky Kingston and Reggae Got Soul. He still tours regularly in the states, but I've not seen mention of any over here.

On vinyl

Sixtoo & Stigg of the Dump: Villain Accelerate

Another week, another vinyl shopping trip.

Martine McCutcheon - On the Radio (Pants and Corset remix)
Cosmic People - Time to Hold on (Pants and Corset remix)

[I went into the record shop run by either Pants or Corset, not sure which]

Some Disco classics:
Sylvester - I (who have nothing)
Donna summer - Hot Stuff (red vinyl)
Chic - Le Freak / Savoir Faire
Grace Jones - On Your Knees
Sparks - Tips for Teens

Some Rock:

Polyrock - Polyrock
[Rock band including Phillip Glass on keyboards]

Various - Reich Remixed
[With Tranquity Bass, DJ Spooky, Mantronik etc]

Luxuria - Unanswerable Lust
Ministry - NWO (upgrade from 10" version)
Medecine - Shot Forth Self Living


And other stuff:

Christian Smith & John selway - Excel
DJ Sequenza - Nobody can Stop Us
Yakooza - French Kiss (DJ Scot Project remix)
Gina G - Ti Amo
BBE - Deeper Love (Symphonic Paradise)
Jam & Spoon featuring Plavka - Kaleidoscope Skies remixes
Oliver Lieb - Smoked Metropolis
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Firecracker/Technopolis
Alter Ego - Alterism EP
MRE - Bodyrock
4D - Ambulance
Soundcraft - The Movement, the message remixes
Paradise 3001 - Spiral Tripping
Amorph - Sunflow (Remixes)
Laura Comfort - Mountain
Thee J. Johanz - Classified
DJ Scott - Sweet Dreams
Conemelt - The Last De-Icer
Maria Rubia - say It
Emmie - I thought it was you
J&S Express - Snowstorm
Trinity - The Truth
Brenda - All the things I like
Urban Jackers - London Bass
Kotai Mo - 5S / 6S
Various - Frankurt Trax - Return to Zero Part 1
Atomu Shinzo - Metabol
3 elements - Kinell
First Air - Ultramarine
Anton Waldt - Wachstum
Testify - Kick a Hole in he Sky
Audio Pollution - ?

DS

ITC - L. Bernstein - America

Did you build a storage facility yet? I'm starting to think you need a warehouse, pallets, and forklifts.

Tim

ACR - Bass playing self concious? eh? White boys can't funk ?

Try their middle period, like 'Touch' off 'I'd like to see you again' LP

Perhaps a bit pasteurised??

Ludwig - I am looking for a architect now!

DS

ITC - Mayer / Voigt - Speicher 2

David -

I am a white-boy-bass-player so cannot agree with you as a matter of principle.

When is David's Weird Record Shop opening for business anyway?

Tim

Tim,

I too spank the deep plank, with groove and soul.

I have nurtured a dream of running a record shop one day, so I sould play music all the time, but I am a wage slave to pay for my habit and the mortgage. Perhaps when I retire???

DS

ITC - Gary Glitter - Rock & Roll (Part 2)

DS