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

Premiers Symptomes and Moon Safari by AIR. Great stuff.

Ok, my recent purchases ie today) include

Can - Out of Reach (OK, so it's rubbish but it completes my collection)

Durutti Column - LC (Japanese LP)

Miles Davis - Filles De Kilimanjaro

New Order - Dreams Never End (3-LP box set)

Mogwai - Rock Action

Buzzcocks _ another Music In A Different Kitchen

Fripp & Eno - No Pussyfooting

On CD
Kraftwerk: N1 to Zurich

Added to the playlist today :

Various Artists - Walking the Dog - a selection of Routemaster artists
Tarwater - Not the Wheel
Various Artists - Covered In Black, An indsutrial Tribute to the Kings of High Voltage AC/DC
Laurie Anderson - Life On a String (following inspiration from Nick!)
Gas - Gas (I think - no title on sleeve or records)
Robert Quine/Fred Maher - Basic
Artist Unknown - Future
The Rapture - Mirror
Tiga - DJ Kicks compilation
Appliance - Are you earthed? (most appropriate for Naim users)
Cluster - Cluster (reissue on vinyl! hmmmm)
The Faint - (Blank-wave arcade)
The Residents - Residue of the Residents (cast offs from Mole Trilogy etc.)
Various Artists - Super Brain Explosion (incl Grobschnitt, Novalis, Jane etc)
Various Artists - Picture Music Vol II (incl Rother, Streetmark, Octopus etc)
Various Artists - Abstract magazine (incl Xymox, ACR, Chakk etc)
Ladytron - Blue Jeans (Josh Wink rmx)
Porter Ricks - Explore
Massive Attck - Special caes (Akufen / Luomo rmxes)
Rawhill Cru - Mo' File (Bad Company UK Mix)
Appliance - Into Your Home
Total Science - Squash (Bad Company rmx)
Neil Landstrumm - Asphyxia
Luomo - Market
Christian Smith & John Selway - 15.5 Remake
Irresistible Force - Waveform
Secret Scoiety - The 'Stolen' remixes
Bell - Rhythm Machine
Vladislav Delay - Helsinki
Stone Circle - The Sound of Ultimate BASE
Debasser - Dark Smile

next week - Danni Minogue CD

Kevin, top selections! The Buzzcocks 1st LP was a milestone, and still in my all time top 10.

ITC - Anthony Rother - Live at SMS

Kevin-W,

Since you like Can you would probably like Calla, which is a contemporary act from NYC with a lot of Can-like features, IMO. There is a 12" LP they did with the Walkmen (called "Walkmen/Calla") where they do a Can tune. Calla also has a few albums of their own; "Scavengers" is the only one I have. It's quite good.

Nick L,

I will give a report on the Quine / Maher at the weekend.

The backlog pile for listening is getting deeper and deeper.

I want to get through the stuff I got sent from Sonic Groove in NY, as these were quite difficult to find, and were a real find.

Did you get the newer Richard Hell LP recently?

DS

I meant 'Destiny Street' by Richard Hell

It might have been a re-issue, but I didn't see it in the 70's.

Blank Generation - what an intro !

Ds

Hi Fred, sorry I was not able to get back to you sooner. The three CD’s (I don’t have any idea on how to use the quotes) I bought based on this thread:
Bill Evans – Blue in Green
Alison Krauss & Union Station – Every Time You Say Goodbye
Anouar Brahem – Le pas du chat noir
The selections are all excellent. It was one of those days where everything I bought was good. Thanks to everybody for the ideas.

I took the vinyl plunge! I bought a Linn LP12 this week. I will pick it up hopefully on Saturday. In anticipation of listening to vinyl I bought:
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers – Moanin’
Cannonball Adderly – Somethin’ Else
Cannonball Adderly – Know What I Mean?
Miles Davis – ‘Round About Midnight
Miles Davis - Miles Davis and the Lighthouse All Stars
Bill Evans Trio – Portrait in Jazz
The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out
The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Jazz at Oberlin
Dizzy Gillespie & Stan Getz – Diz and Stan
Oscar Peterson & Dizzy Gillespie – Same
Kenny Burrell & John Coltrane – Same

I am trying to find Kenny Burrell – Midnight Blue, and The Oscar Peterson Trio – Night Train on vinyl. Hopefully the Jazz Record Mart will have them in stock next week.

John Litwin

Ry Cooder / Manuel Galban - Mambo Sinuendo

BMW's next engine is being designed to the sound of Cuban guitars,pianos and bongos.

This is quite a new sound for me, and I like it !
Lots of rythmn,lots of fun.

Pass me those marraccas Eugene...

Brian OReilly

Cat Power- You Are Free
Loose Fur- self titled
Royksopp- Melody A.M.

Stax Soul Singles, Vol. 2 box set

9 cds of finger snappin' music. Thanks to Markus for the heads up. The accompanying booklet is just beautiful, and the whole package is something to be cherished.

Yesterday

Various Artists - Dance to the Underground

With Muzik Magazine, - Acompliation of new punk funk disco, incl. !!! / Peaches etc.

Very reminiscent of the Disco / Not Disco sets.

DS

ITC - Cym Dimension - Memory of God

Today's reasons to smile :

Astronuts - Voyager
Kasjmir - Kasjmiracles
The Arc - Grey Matter
Further Journeys - The Trip
S.N.D - Travalog
Gambafreaks - Down Down Down
Pilote - Nelson
Rhythm Device - Acid Rock
Glaxo Babies - This is your life
EMF - Unexplained
Deep Sound - Party Spirits
Faultline - Mute
Idjut Boys - Backsplash
Electric Cargo - Active Sensing
Ladytron - Seventeen (Droyds mix)
Disco Citizens - Footprint remixes
Cerrone - Encore (4 mixes of Supernature)
The Controls - Terrified of Nothing
Industrial - Time to Rock
Jean Jacques Smoothie - A promotional guide to Love & Evil
Youpho - Antibody

DS

ITC - Kektex - Hackney Council are a bunch of cunts

Oh! I forgot

Creative Essentials Reason Refill (3 x CD set)

Ds

Mouse On Mars: Idiology
Anti Pop Consortium: Shopping Carts Crashing

And today it was
Impaled Nazarene - Absence of war does not mean peace
The Movielife - 40 Hour Train back to Penn
Good Charlotte - Good Charlotte
Arson - Lacerate the Sky
The Queers - Pleasant Screams

Gary

Sorry,cannot join the pseuds corner and give an enormous list of obscure bands-bet most don't exist anyway, bet you are just trying (and failing) to impress the rest of us-do you have the time to listen to so many purchases.
Me,more mundane!!!
Rory Gallagher-Wheels, unreleased acoustic, lots of contributions by others,almosta folky album!
Alex Harvey-Consider The Situation, 2Cd look back of his career from his Soul Band,early 60's, through Hair to the SAHB

Steveb

Thanx Steve I've heard of them

Howard

Alex
The NO 3-Lp box is a b**tl*g, vinyl only. Send me an e-mail and we'll talk about it, if you get my drift.

Ejl
Thanks for the tip - I'll look out for them.

New purchases
On vinyl:
New Order - The Video Soundtrack Part 1
Lee Perry - Battle of Armagideon
Sly & The Family Stone - Small Talk
5 x American New Order 7"-ers
Popol Vuh - Aguirre
Pink Floyd - War In The Head (rubbish bootleg - from '72 - avoid!)
Stereolab - Space Age Batchelor Pad Music
Various - Glass Onion (Beatles covers - top notch stuff)
OJays - Backstabbers
Meters - Cabbage Alley
Meters - Good Old Funky Music
angerine Dream: Electronic Meditation
ACR - Knife Slits Water/ Kether-Hot Knives Mix In Special (this is the Of Factory New York pressing, with a diff version of Kether)
23 Skidoo - The Culling Is Coming (Crepuscule version, with the lock groove midway through Side 1)

On CD:
Cul De Sac: ECIM
Throbbing Gristle: Journey Through A Body
This Heat: Deceit

David!
I remember Abstract "Audio-visual magazine". The particular issue you had, I recall, hada slightly different mix of "Sounds Like Something Dirty" on it? I've got it somewhere, must dig it up...

KW

What is Rory Gallagher Group? Dunno whats thats all about?

Kevin, as always, our tastes converge more than diverge -

Popol Vuh is a big listen. The Soundtracks box sets are worth tracking down.

Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation includes Conrad Schinztler in the band, he who made the best album ever made in the history of mankind, Intermedia Life Action

ACR - Knife slits water - one of their best

This Heat - Saigon off Deceit is memnorable. Have you got "Health & Efficency" a real precusor to hypnotic drone rock.

TG - well there you go - so good I bought it three times by accident.

DS

OTD - Oliver Bondzio - Portrait of a Masterpiece.

On CD - £6 for both from Cash Convertors
Greatest Hits - The Police
The final cut - Pink Floyd (original 1983 issue)

On vinyl (Oxfam)
Making Movies - Dire Straits
Piano in the dark (12 inch) - Brenda Russell (uh oh!)

Might go back and buy Strangeways here we come by The Smiths (on Rough Trade) but £4.99 seems a bit steep for Oxfam, especially since BOTH my turntables are out of comission right now

When the music's over turn out the lights

Dinosaur Jr - Bug
A Classic

Renee Fleming - Strauss Heroines.
Glorious singing, luscious music. Just seen 'Der Rosenkavalier' at the ENO and needed an instant Strauss fix. This certainly hit the spot.

Various - Studio One Scorchers
Great selection of reggae instrumentals. Worth buying for the incredible 'Shockers Rock' alone

Calexico - Feast of Wire.
As recommended elsewhere. This one keeps growing on me.

Various - Verve Remixed
Dinah Washington, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday given a respray by the likes of Masters at Work, Dorfmeister and MJ Cole. Shamelessly aimed at ageing has-beens who are too scared for anything too cutting-edge. I love it.

duncan

Email: djcritchley at hotmail.com

Listening to: Puccini - Tosca (Callas/DiStefano/Gobbi/DeSabata)

[This message was edited by djc on TUESDAY 18 March 2003 at 19:38.]

djc - If by 'Archway person' you mean you are a person in archway, perhaps you can tell me what the shop Sound 323 is like?

I am always intrigued by their adverts in The Wire. It seems that they stock the obscure pretentious drivel that i love.

DS

ITC - The Stars of the Lid - The tired sounds of the Stars of the Lid (very laidback,late night music)

David,

I do indeed live in Archway (Jewel of North London, for those who don't know it). Sound 323 is in Highgate, and we Archway people never go there.

Seriously, thanks for the tip, can you believe I didn't even know of the existence of what looks like a fine shop just up the road. I'll report back asap.

Bonus point for the person who knows who archway people really are.

duncan

Email: djcritchley at hotmail.com

Listening to: Nu Yorca! Experiments in Latin Music 1970-77

djc,

one of the places I lived in London was Highgate. My local was the Shepherds, on Archway Road. I lived in the same road at Paul Young, but never met him.

I have fond memories of driving around after work trying to find a parking space, sometime I even found one in my own street!

Does Jim Whiting still have all those partially completed automata above the first shop in the row opposite Highgate Station ?

DS

Oh, well back to the topic at hand..

Yesterday :

Various Artists - Scape (with The Wire mag)

Today:

Yessssss! Dannii Minogue - Neon Lights

ITC - Lizst - Klavenkoncert 1&2