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r.h.y.t.h.m. &. s.o.u.n.d. - 's.e.e. m.i. y.a.h. r.e.m.i.x.e.s.' (2006)

Tue, 11/29/2016 - 04:20 -- bryan

this record is a banger.  as much as i hate it when people encourage you to use foreign substances to heighten your enjoyment of a particular record... in this case i'll make an exception.  this record sounds incredible when you are nice and lifted.  decidedly not day time music.  

_alibi filling in for mister midtown

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m.a.x. c.o.o.p.e.r. - 'e.m.e.r.g.e.n.c.e.' (2016)

Tue, 11/29/2016 - 03:51 -- bryan

this is another artist mister midtown put me on to.  decent stuff.  it also kind of sounds like it'd be a great soundtrack to the next matt damon film.  so.  there is that.  nonetheless, this is pretty decent day time do the dishes upbeat kind of music.  i advise you don't listen to it at night, just because if you do, then some of the song titles - such as 'order from chaos' or 'distant light' or even 'impermanence' might make you groan.  give this guy a break, though.  it's hard to come up with upbeat music that doesn't make you want to puke.  

_pert plus

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a.p.h.e.x. t.w.i.n. - '...i. c.a.r.e. b.e.c.a.u.s.e. y.o.u. d.o.' (1995)

Tue, 11/29/2016 - 03:39 -- bryan

mister midtown told me everything aphex twin ever touched is golden.  never a man to ignore a hot tip, i investigated.  i began by torrenting this artist's discography.  as it's important to seed torrents as well as to download them, i let this seed for a while on my computer while i took it in.  a couple weeks later, i got a notice from my internet service providor that the copywrite owner of some of this material was pissed off, and that my account may be suspended.  i stopped the seeding.  this one from 1995 is, indeed, pretty great, mister midtown.  

_alibi

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b.o.l.z.e.r. - 'h.e.r.o.'

Wed, 11/16/2016 - 02:33 -- bryan

yessssssssssssss.  new bolzer.  their first full length, after releasing two tremendous eps.  this guitar drum duo will rip off your ass and make you sit in a wet rusty chair.  download this if you love metal.  if you think you love metal and yet you find that you do not love this record, then, i am sorry to have to be the one to tell you, that, simply put, there is nothing about your aesthetic as it relates to your appreciation of heavy metal music that is true.   

_mink nun

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r.u.i.n.o.u.s. - 'g.r.a.v.e.s. o.f. c.e.a.s.e.l.e.s.s. d.e.a.t.h.' (2016)

Wed, 11/16/2016 - 01:52 -- bryan

shawn eldridge plays drums on two of my favorite metal releases of this year, dark fortress, and this one by ruinous.  to cut straight to the chase, skip to minute marker 3.16 on drarmarks, the third cut on this lp.  the drum pattern is berserk, like the engine of a car sputtering out as it bursts into flames careening headlong off of a cliff.  the drums on this record seem to change patterns every eight bars or so.  this makes for a thrilling listen.  ruinous deal in death metal.  the bass is all muscle, way up in the mix.  the guitar is fast, limber, manic and crushing.  it's stunning that such a humongeous racket is kicked up by only three people.  there are mistakes in the playing left in there, and i wouldn't have it any other way.  it's human, and it sounds like the band is in the room with you, trying its very best to blow your house down.  

_mink nun

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m.a.r.y. h.a.l.v.o.r.s.o.n. o.c.t.e.t. - 'a.w.a.y. w.i.t.h. y.o.u.' (2016)

Wed, 11/16/2016 - 00:00 -- bryan

if you meet a music fan under the age of forty nowadays who does not really have an appreciation for jazz, you have to go easy on him or her.  someone of that age bracket grew up after the point when jazz became cheapened.  did this not happen for other kinds of musics?  it did, but it seems to have happened most drastically with jazz.  jazz went from being this extremely cool vibrant expressive rarified cherished thing to... becoming just about the polar opposite of all of those things.  this happened over the course of a decade or two, beginning in the late seventies and... ceasing to be cool all the way up to now.  how did this happen?  jazz became elevator music.  how did that happen?  lots of people are responsible.  certain guitarists are definitely to blame.  i'm talking about john mclaughlin in particular.  when he joined miles davis' group, to me this marked the death of the cool miles birthed.  countless and sundry other people were to blame, no doubt, guitarists like bill frisell and composers like john zorn just made jazz that was, well, boring.  things went down a path that spawned such abominations as medeski martin and wood, which took jazz to unfashionable extremes, making stuff that sounded closer to jam bands like phish and late era greatful dead than it sounded like... you know... jazz.  

well, i'm here to tell you that jazz guitar is cool again.  was it ever cool, you may ask?  listen to any old julie london record and then tell me jazz guitar isn't cool.  

guitarists at the vanguard of jazz right now include but are not limited to jakob bro (who's records for the ecm label are available elsewhere on this site), miles okazaki (who plays closely with the best american jazz drummer in the business, dan weiss) and mary halvorson.  here, on 'away with you', halverson, on guitar, leads an octet of bass drums trombone alto and tenor sax trumpet and pedal steel.  it's a unique combo and this group plays together quite intimately.  the compositions are complex and catchy, dynamic and measured.  this is a great record to sink your teeth into that rewards repeated listenings.  so, when you're tired of playing the new meshuggah record on repeat, this is a good one to reach for.  

_mink nun

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s.k.i.p. s.k.i.p. b.e.n. b.e.n. - 's.a.c.r.i.f.i.c.e. m.o.u.n.t.a.i.n. h.i.l.l.s.' (2013)

Tue, 11/15/2016 - 23:33 -- bryan

my bloody valentine is overrated.  i said it.  haters can hate what i said just now.  i just... think... mbv... they never really did it for me.  fortunately, in music especially, ideas beget ideas.  as far as shoegaze music goes, skip skip ben ben has it figured out.  they've got all the boxes ticked on this record.  huge cavernous full band sound that just begs to be turned way up, but also sounds great played at low volumes while you're trying to quietly wash last night's dishes and not wake up members of the household who may still be asleep.  the vocals are plaintive, the melodies are melancholic, the rhythms are locked into a lazy lumbering lurch.  perfect depressive music to help you feel less depressed.  

this band has three full length records to its name.  i visited some dark corners of the chinese internet to download all three of this band's records.  the first one is low-fi bedroom pop.  the third one is some kind of carnival inspired experimental pop.  those two did not really grab me.  but this one, their sophmore effort, their shoegaze record, is great through and through from beginning to end.  i say all of this in order to make the point that some bands spend their entire careers perfecting one particular sound.  i love this band even more given the fact that they can just try on a particular genre as though they're donning a costume, and still they play it better than most bands who make album upon album upon album of this music.  serious creative prowess on display here.  did i mention they're from china?  must be something in the air pollution over there.  

_duck sauce

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f.u.t.u.r.e. o.r.i.e.n.t.s. - 'e.a.t. o.r. d.i.e.' (2016)

Tue, 11/15/2016 - 23:02 -- bryan

beijing's future orients break out with guns blazing on 'eat or die', their full length debut for the venerable maybe mars record label.  nice write up of the album here.  i was having a little trouble with the fact that i like this music perhaps because it is something of a warped copy of western guitar music, the original iteration of which is not typically my thing.  for some strange reason, i seem to prefer this band's lyrics served up with the fact that they mispronounce english --seemingly intentionally, given the fact that the back up vocalist seems to be able to say the word 'child' just fine on one particular song -- the third track 'motto' -- while the lead vocalist seems to prefer to pronounce the word as 'chow'.  somehow that kind of playfulness makes the music better.  i struggled with this, until i thought back to how rock n roll really has a rich history of singers apropriating foreign accents and styles.  nowadays contemporary western rock bands seem to tout their influences with the clinical anaesthetic feel of a works sited section in an academic paper.  this band seems to be rougher around the edges and proud of it.  the result is rock n roll with greater sincerity than i have heard in quite a while.  

_duck sauce

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d.u.c.k. f.i.g.h.t. g.o.o.s.e. - 'c.l.u.b. z.v.k.v.n.f.t.' (2016)

Tue, 11/15/2016 - 02:42 -- bryan

promise and warning post number one thousand!!!

this is a release that gives and gives with repeated listens.  it did not grab me on first listen.  but, once you get to track eleven, you should be sold.  in fact, you might even want to skip straight to track eleven.  it's called 'horse'... as far as i can tell, it's about horses.  i think it's my favorite song of 2016.  duck fight goose is a brilliant band.  they hail from shanghai.  their previous long player, 'sports', available elsewhere on this site, is a great record of kraut rock inspired tunes.  this new record went into the future.  in fact, the title is german - if you replace the v's for u's - for 'club future'.  this definitely sounds like 2016 music.  

i've been doing this blog of free musics for five years and five months.  i waited a while to decide upon a record that was worthy enough to hold the one thousanth marker.  this band is certainly forward thinking.  

_alibi

 

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