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

Blimey - the Dido album can't be so good that it warrants mention 5 times? Just kidding - is it any good as the single sounds OK?

My last album (don't laugh):
Hup - Wonderstuff, LP, 75p Cancer Research
Oh - and a Sugar Cubes 12 inch from same, for same price

Make your choice, adventurous Stranger;
Strike the bell and bide the danger
Or wonder, till it drives you mad,
What would have followed if you had.

Just bought (all on CD) some onscure electronica that only David Slater may have heard of, namely...

JOHN CAME - Rhythmicon: Systems/Atmospheres (on Mute from '95, and absoolutely bloody excellent - highly recommended)

BEEQUEEN - Sugarbush (Raum 312)

JORG THOMASIUS - Marmor (Raum 312, not so hot)

46,000 FIBRES - Diaphanous (MTB, recorded live in 96/97)

RICK WILSON - Suitable Language (Third Force)

JUSTIN K. BROADWICK & ANDY HAWKINS' AZONIC: Subsonic 3 (Sub Rosa - lots of noisy guitar electronics)

Kevin

Soz about the repeat posts - Internet explorer had Hiccups at lunchtime...
dom,
Its ok but not as good as her first release - my wife likes her so thats my excuse for purchase...I'd give it 5 out of 10...no more

Bongo fury

It must be the change in the weather but I seem to have come over Latin American all of a sudden. The other possibility is that ‘The Girl from Ipanema’ moved into the flat downstairs a few months ago and if you can’t beat ‘em…

V/A - Glücklich IV (Compost) This was bought for the Gotan Project track – Triptico which is an amazing tango- samba-breakbeat conflation with a little Stéphane Grappelli for good measure. It could easily have been a right mess but works brilliantly and manages to groove like a very, very groovy thing. Sadly the rest of the 2 LPs are mainly Latin-lite loops and noodling that I struggled to stay awake to. Anyone have some more Gotan Project suggestions?
5 Carmen Mirandas (someone else is going to have to do the Photoshopping here) for the Gotan, 1 for the rest.

V/A – Nu Yorica 2 - Further Adventures in Latin Music (Soul Jazz) Being Soul Jazz this can’t fail and compared to the above this is definitely the real thing. What ‘this’ is is less certain: it doesn’t quite know if it’s a compilation of 70’s Latin-fusion or a Afro-Cuban percussion work-out. The two or three excellent Salsa tracks push it up to 3 Carmen Miranda heads. (Nu Yorica ! is better, the highlight being the amazing Groupo Folklorico y Experimental Neuvoyorquino who are even better than their name suggests. You’d have to be dead from the neck down not to want to dance to this. (A strong 4 Carmens)

Joyce – Joyce
Joyce – Feminina
Joyce – Vincus de Moraes
Joyce – Passarinho Urbano
Joyce – Àgua e luz
Joyce – Encontro Marcado

Did I tell you I like Joyce? Mister CD on Berwick Street, Soho are selling a batch of new Latin vinyl at £3 a go (mostly Brazilian pressings and very nice they are too) and so I had to indulge. There’s also plenty of Celia Cruz and Gilberto Gil for those who like this kind of stuff. For those unfamiliar with Joyce, a rather ungenerous assessment of her work can be found here: http://www.slipcue.com/music/brazil/joyce.html I would grant that she can sometimes head in the direction of aimless Latin fusion (flute solo alert) but at best she’s Joni Mitchell’s much funkier younger sister. I have very happy memories of a Glastonbury in the early 90’s when Giles Peterson had inveigled her on to the bill “What’s a nice girl like me doing in a field like this?” She’s a great song-writer and fine guitarist when she allows herself. Encontro Marcado and Feminina are probably the pick of the bunch above (both 3 Carmens). Delìrios de Orfeu is excellent (4 Carmens), but you’ll be paying full price if you can find it.

There’s plenty more in the record bag that I haven’t had a chance to have a good listen to. A worthwhile afternoon down Mick Parry’s favourite London street and, let’s face it, there wasn’t much happening last weekend was there?

duncan

Email: djcritchley at hotmail.com

Kevin,

Interesting selection - I have some clues about those!

What is happening to Mute anyway? Now they are enslaved to the Coporate music machine can we expect lots more Erasure and no more Diamanda Galas?

djc - Berwick Street is still the No.1 place to go in the West End. I have been tempted away but always return for my post-rock techno industrial revival music.

DS

OTD - Hawkwind & V/A - Friends & Relations

Latest additions:

On Vinyl:

Gary Numan - Are Friends Electric (Renegade Soundwave 1991 mix)

On CD:

Various Artists - Trance Nation Harder, mixed by Judge Jules
[Featuring artist I follow, like Yakooza, Lost Tribe, DK]

Dillinja and Lemon D present The Killa-Hertz
[Bad Boy Drum & Bass, with unmixed CD, mixed CD and DVD set]

NOT Dido or Sting

DS

OTD - Radio 4 - Beat around the Bush

David -

Renegade Suundwave remix of 'Are Friends Electric'???

Is this commercially available or was it a lucky find?

Tim

Tim,

It was a proper commercial release on IRS records, Cat. No. Numantx1. Picture sleeve of GN, other side has 'Heart' and ' Tread Careful', but these are GN only, no RSW.

I consider myself reasonably well up on RSW, having followed them from 'Kray Twins', Cocaine Sex, Phanton, all through the Mute singles, imports, LPs, to the current offshoots, Subsonic Legacy, DragonBass, The Tranquil Trucking Company etc.

I had never heard of or seen this release before, before a lucky hit on E-bay.

Do you have anything I might need to search out?

DS

ITC - Various Artists - Mutant Disco

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Jackie O Motherfu**er - Our nakedness was our picket sign

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Chef,

I don't know about this album, but some of JOM's others were very good.

Ludders

I thought they were Jackie O'Motherfucker ?

The recent double CD Live in Europe is also worth a listen, as is the split 12" with The Vibracathedral Orchestra (Another group worth seeking out for drone based long building rock mantras)

Ds

OTD - The Emporer - Pro Marrs

Zoot Woman: living in a magazine

Good whist full Pop stuff, unfortunately bad vinyl copy.



Stuart

Just had my first wander down Berwick Street - what an eye-opener ;-) and plenty mega cool record shops. Came back with.....
Josef K - Heaven Sent (12" single)
Julian Cope - Saint Julian
Bob Dylan - Street Legal
Be Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish
Ry Cooder - Bop Till You Drop
The Adverts - Crossing The Red Sea With
Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
Graham Parker - Howlin' Wind
The Boomtown Rats

..and waiting for me when I got home...
Memphis - You Supply The Roses (12" single)
John Mayer - Room For Squares (CD)
John Mayer - Heavier Things (CD)

Plenty to keep me going!

Cheers

Rich

Today's arrivals...

Multicore - Hardfloor
['ardcore tribute to the marvellous Hardfloor. Tag line is ' Contains low fequency oscillation and all distortion is intentional' Don't wait for the SACD version then]

Merzbow - Frog Remixed and Revisited
[Merbow's Frog LP, mangled by some fairly obscure artists, such as Pita, House of Low Culture, Terror Organ, Ulver, Hecker and some more well known such as Fennesz]

DS

OTD - Plastikman - Disconnect

Recent purchases / gifts that I have managed to listen to and digest include:

DNTEL - Life is full of possibilities. I really like this, a spot-on recommendation from Matthew R. Its a mixture of quite a wide range of electonica based styles with some really good songs and surprises along the way.

Manitoba - Up in Flames. Have struggled to get into this so far. Not keen on the overall sound and feel of the record but to be fair I haven't given it a good hearing yet as DNTEL and some of the following records have been shouting for attention over this one. Feels a bit like a Chemical Brothers record - can be admired but not loved.

Biosphere - Substrata / Man with a Movie Camera. Oh yes. Top quality ambient recording and the second CD is great too. Thanks to Lees, Alex G, and others for this recommendation.

Mucof - Martes. Weird, unsettling mixture of classical and electronia. Much in the same vein as Faultline's Closer Colder, which I love.

Herrmann & Kleine - Warm lush pulsing electonica. Good but not very daring or suprising. High enjoyable though if you don't want to be challenged. Calms you down nicely after being put on edge by the sound of the electric fly sizzler in the Murcof record.

Markant - Vice. Loaaaads going on in this ambitious recording. I think this is going to be played a lot.

Unkle - Never Never Land. So far very impressed with this. It seems more consistently strong and cohesive than its predecessor, although perhaps doesn't attain some of the hights and inventiveness of Psyence Fiction.

Simon

Latest Additions.

Some new material:

The Rapture - House of Jealous Lovers
[Special edition re-release, Maurice Fulton mixes]

Drum'n'Bass..
Calyx - Wasteground
Chameleon - Miss India
Influx UK / DJ SS - Sing Out / Fingers
Pascal - Intrigue

Arpanet - Are You Wireless?
[Dopplereffekt under an concept alias]
Nautica - Magic Love Thing (Dave Holmes remix)
DJ Scot Project - F (Future is now)
Nemo - Spacemaker
Javine - Real Things

A CD - From the Bunker, A Rotters Golf Club mix, by and from Andrew Weatherall

Some recent and older material, a bit of a mixed bag

Kelis - Caught Out There (I Hate You So Much Right Now)(The Neptunes extended mix)
Kylie - Hand on your Heart (Australian version)
Edwin Starr - It Ain't Fair
Jon the Dentist - Global Phases
The Osmonds - Homemade
Ministry - Stigmata
999 - The Biggest Tour in Sport
LoveCut >> dB - Heartspin EP
The Associates - Auchterhouse instrumental
Killing Joke - Kings & Queens
Stock Aitken Waterman - Roadblock
Chic - Chic-ism
Hawkwind Zoo - Hurry on Sundown
Hawkind - Hawkwind (change from CD version)
Riva - Time is the Healer Remixes
[Unfortunately no Danni on this one]
Was (not Was) - Spy in the House of Love
Diana Ross - Chain Reaction (Special Dance Remix)
Dynasty & Mimi - The Dynasty Rap (the Story of The Carrington Crew)
The Pirates - Skull Wars
Code Blue - Code Blue
[Not the dance act, but the tight trousered indie group)
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary (Long Version)
Depeche Mode - New Life (remix)

DS

OTD - Robotman - Do da do (Plastikman Acid House version)

Compilations

V/A- Stax: Top of the Stax, Vol. 1
V/A- Stax: Top of the Stax, Vol. 2
V/A- Chess Blues Classics, 1947-1956
V/A- Chess Blues Classics, 1957-1967

Has anyone tried the Rhino "Blues Masters" albums?

Global Underground 25 after club mix - Ali.
V dub & smooth!

Dear Catastrophe Waitress - Belle & Sebastian

Alex

May we get a full report on this one?

Cheers

Ludders

I've had a funny two weeks. I bought a CD, got home and found I've already got it. Went back to shop to ask for exchange and they said, yes, but this time only (people buy one CD record it, take it back etc etc. I can see their point). So I exhange it for something else. Get home & find I already have it. Now I find I have won a bid on a CD on ebay that I already have.
What is going on here!!
How do you guys manage?

An eclectic mix, using birthday present record vouchers:-
Warren Zevon - The Wind
John Mayer - Room for Squares
Robert Palmer - Drive
Juliet Turner - Burn the Black Suit
Mike Silver - Solid Silver
Erin McKeown - Grand
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - By the Way
Jack Schofield - On and On
The Waifs - Up all Night
Pleased with all of them on quick first listening.
Steve D

Virgin had a sale on, so I emerged this lunchtime with the following CDs

Hotel Pelirocco: Music from the legendary hotel hemed compilation, with all kinds of bits and bobs - Dusty S, Primals, Small Faces, Kenny Rogers & The First Edition, Add N To X... it's even got Fox's "S-s-single Bed" on it. Bonzer!

James Taylor Quartet - Blow Up!

The Story of Brunswick: The Classic Sound Of Chicago Soul

Barry Adamson - The King Of Nothing Hill

OST - Kill Bill Vol 1 I've played this at work and I must say I think it's Tarantino's best soundtrack yet; it's certainly the most offbeat (where else would you find stuff like George Zamphir and Neu! on the same record, but on a Tarantino OST?). Highly recommended. You can also play the trailers on your Mac or PC, and there are some nice pics of Uma Thurman in her yellow jumpsuit. Ace!

Blues & Soul POwer Compilation of funky R&B and soul-rock crossovers from the Atlantic vaults. Freddie King, Otis Rush, Don Covay, Wilson Pickett, Solomon Burke etc etc. Top notch.

Kevin

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I've had a funny two weeks. I bought a CD, got home and found I've already got it.

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dont feel you are on your own -- i have done that a few times... tower records were willing to exchange the last time i did this.


enjoy


ken

not that there's anything wrong with it

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Originally posted by Rasher:
What is going on here!!

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Well, do you ever wake up in the morning with a splitting headache, and a parched tongue?

Or rather, does this happen every morning?

Might explain these memory lapses.

Herman

Alex,
cheers matey but I've got them both now - i ordered them at the same time but play.com was out of stock of the Ali mix...

thanx again...

Treasure hunt
My local secondhand store had a 50% off, move-enforced-by-grasping-landlord sale. My philosophy here was "if in doubt, buy it." And believe me, I have my doubts about many of these. But what the hell...
Here's what I got, all on vinyl, all in fairly good nick - 35 albums for a total of $160:
Jon Anderson: Olias Of Sunhillow
I vaguely recall liking this, although I was never a Yes fan. Or am I confusing it with Todd Rundgren's Hermit of Mink Hollow?
Kevin Ayers: Yes We Have No Mananas
I know it's not one of his most memorable, but it is the wonderful Kevin Ayers.
Bonzo Dog Band: Keynsham
Inspired nonsense.
Jack Bruce: Songs For A Tailor
People tell me it's good.
JJ Cale: Troubadour; Okie
Hmmm. I'm not at all sure about these, now that I look at them again.
Randy California: Kapt. Kopter And The (Fabulous) Twirly Birds
His finest 40 minutes, apart from Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus (as part of Spirit).
The Carpenters: The Singles 1969-1973
OK, it's a guilty pleasure. So sue me.
Ry Cooder: Into The Purple Valley
One of my favourite album covers. As if that wasn't enough, it's another of Ryland's many classics.
Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
One of those many albums I always meant to get. Now I have it.
Robyn Hitchcock: Groovy Decay
I have a sneaking suspicion this is not one of his better efforts.
Incredible String Band: The Hangman's Beautiful Daughter; Changing Horses
Interest piqued by a discussion right here.
The Kinks: Muswell Hillbillies
The best English group of the 60s, still fab in the 70s.
Little Feat: Time Loves A Hero
Average by Lowell George standards, great by most others.
Taj Mahal: Taj Mahal
I have no idea...
Steve Miller Band: Children Of The Future
Their first and finest (although Sailor's also excellent). Features the great Boz Scaggs.
Randy Newman: Randy Newman
It was sitting there winking at me.
Procol Harum: Procol Harum (US version with A Whiter Shade of Pale); In Concert With The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra; A Salty Dog; Grand Hotel
No, I'm not really a Procol Harum fan.
Gil Scott-Heron: Bridges
Way cool. And his dad played for Celtic.
Simple Minds: Sons And Fascination
They were great once. And they're Celtics fans.
Rod Stewart: An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down (US version with the inspiring title The Rod Stewart Album); Every Picture Tells A Story
I can't believe I didn't have these already. I don't have Gasoline Alley either, and I must put that right soon. After all, he's a Celtic fan. Allegedly.
David Sylvian: Gone To Earth
I'm a member of Sylvian's small but perfectly formed band of fans. Just a guess, but he probably doesn't care for footie.
This Mortal Coil: It'll End In Tears; Filigree & Shadow
Well, I love their version of Song To The Siren.
Suzanne Vega: Solitude Standing
I think I might like Tom's Diner. Who knows...
The Waterboys: This Is The Sea
Epic and ridiculous. I love it.
Wishbone Ash: Argus
I dimly recall sixth formers at Langley Park School in Beckenham wearing grey greatcoats and carrying this under their arm. Maybe they were onto something (although I doubt it).
Neil Young: Comes A Time
Because my mate in NZ told me to.
Warren Zevon: Warren Zevon; Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School
I prefer the later, more cynical stuff. But these are pretty good too.