Journal
26 July 2024
- Lorad Group - Sul Tempo
- Pretty good, despite the hoax. Perfect for a cool, sunny morning at home. "Flirti di notte", "Lavoro Quotidiano".
- Donato Dozzy - Plays Bee Mask
- Summer '19 nap music.
- Robert Rich - Electric Ladder
- "Sky Tunnel"
- Steve Roach - Slow Heat
- Henry Kawahara – Shaman
- Blazer SoundSystem - Blazer Sound System
- Poison Damage - KSA
- Wow! I really liked this. Almost music.
- Nearly God (Tricky) - Nearly God
- Gah, maybe I'm just in the wrong mood but this is annoying as hell. Tricky goes on and on with his hardened-but-sensual-man-of-the-streets shtick, whatever he croaks in his fatigued, breathy voice echoed by Martina Topley-Bird, a dynamic that'd be more likeable if it wasn't already done a few times on Maxinquaye. The instrumentals are best on "Poems" and "Make a Change", where the already slow trip hop groove is slowed to a molasses drip, on the latter accompanied by solemn violins and sampled guitar. "Poems" is mostly great for its Terry Hall feature, his portrayal of a disillusioned lover simultaneously devastated and acrid. The three vocalists on this track are backed by an awkward, hobbling beat and eerie whine, eventually joined by a pleasant acoustic guitar vamp. The instrumental is great until it abruptly fades into.... a man yelling followed by the half-first second of "Strugglin'"? The passage is only about 25 seconds long but it's pretty irritating and amateurish. Is it meant to symbolize something? The other Terry Hall track, "Bubbles", has good lyrics, but the instrumental being so similar to "Suffocated Love" is off-putting, as is Tricky's obnoxiously overaffected voice. He's so exhausted from life on the streets he can barely muster the energy to do the vocals, how poignant. "Keep Your Mouth Shut" and "Together Now" are annoying. "I Be the Prophet" isn't too bad if you look past the cheap-sounding instrumental and by-the-numbers Tricky-Topley-Bird duet. "I Sing For You" has a great minimal instrumental with pleasant vocals, and we get a well-deserved break from Tricky. "Yoga" is mostly Björk with Tricky kind of hidden in the mix, so it's good.
- Craven Faults - Erractics and Unconformities
- FSA Peel Session
- "I Can Take You To The Sun"
- Picture Music - Picture Music
- Steve Roach - Structures From Silence
- The Dillinger Escape Plan - Calculating Infinity
- Earth Crisis - Firestorm
- Venn Rain - Place In World
- Kane Pour – Wand In The Beak Of The Yellow Bird
- Wang Wen - Eight Horses
- Been in the mood for this kind of melodramatic post-rock lately. Was into IV in college, never got into this one, but I recognize the first track. Probably going to explore this band a little more.
- Wipers - Is This Real?
- "Standing on the stairs, cold, cold morning"
- Hermit - Frequence Eater
- Macaroom - Burning Chrome
- "Hole", "Burning Chrome".
- Phil Struck - QTT5
- OMD - Dazzle Ships
- Monster Magnet - Dopes To Infinity
- "Dopes To Infinity", "Negasonic Teenage Warhead".
- Huerco S. – For Those Of You Who Have Never (And Also Those Who Have)
- Steve Roach - Core
- Yura Yura Teikoku - Hollow Me / Beautiful
- "Good Morning Let's Do It Again", "Tender Animals", "Lonely Satellite", "Dekinai", "Hollow Me".
- Most of Orange Cake Mix - Silver Lining Underwater
- '80s New Age cassette music, but it's the late '90s and it's on CD. "Bird Song".
- uon - uon
- Polykroma - Radiaphane
- Volplane - 1997-1999
- Southpacific – Constance
- "E10 @ 182", "Instrumental".
- Enno Velthuys – A Glimpse Of Light
- Why the fuck did I delete this from my library?
- Fields of the Nephilim - Elizium
- Plastica - New Model Sex
- Rainsoft - Nature Resonance
- Dim - Stereo 45
- Spring Heel Jack – 68 Million Shades......
- "Midwest", "Suspensions", and more!
- Peace Orchestra - Peace Orchestra
- Odd Nosdam – Burner
- Wasn't expecting this to have so much...drone. I see why BoC like this guy.
- Kuniyuki Takahashi - All These Things
- "All These Things"
- F.U.S.E. - Computer Space
- K. Yoshimatsu - Spherical Voyage
- How To Destroy Angels – How To Destroy Angels
- NIN with female vocals. First listen since 2014 or so. "Fur-Lined", "The Believers".
- Dim - Dim
- Hideki Taniuchi & Yoshihisa Hirano - Death Note Original Soundtrack
- Takes a lot of cues from IDM. "Death Note".
- Steve Roach - Quiet Music 1
- Medicine - The Buried Life
- 2016
- Dirty Three - Dirty Three [1995]
- K. Yoshimatsu - Sepia Reminiscence
- Kind of getting into this guy. I liked Spherical Voyage. But yesterday I listened to most of Marine Crystal, and honestly, it's kind of grating and monotonous. It's relentlessly jolly, and despite the DIY presentation it seems like just a shallow city pop album about island getaways and what not. There's something unsettling about that '80s Japanese summer aesthetic that the vaporwave generation and its offspring crave. K. Yoshimatsu and the Japanese artists I've heard can't really pull off that carefree feel; it still feels austere, like a vacation between clean white tiles and an overcast sky. It feels like pictures in a magazine, straining for everything to be perfectly colored and symmetrical and synchronized. "A dull paradise..." What is meant to be frivolous rings differently on a noisy 40 year old cassette that probably only a couple hundred people heard during its first 3 decades; at least the obscurity of Spherical Voyage befits its lonely sound.
- Rainer Brüninghaus – Freigeweht
- Love the ECM records with ominous synth arpeggios and a lonely atmosphere. Think these are a particular characteristic of Brüninghaus' LPs. "Freigeweht".
- Coastal - Coastal
- From the NTS U.S. shoegaze mix.
- Centaur - In Streams
- Listened to half. I understand that it's not a Hum album, it's a whole new band, it's lighter, it's marginally more eclectic, there's there's acoustic guitars, etc. But it just sounds like a Hum album. It's Hum in 2002. It's the same overall muddy sound. The drums sound exactly like Bryan St. Pere. The bass does some interesting stuff but it's much too quiet in the mix to notice. I'm not trying to shit on this album, I swear. There's a song that starts shortly after the 15 minute mark, beginning with warped dialogue and featuring a keyboard interlude, that I'm currently enjoying.
- Airiel - Winks and Kisses
- An old friend. "Liquid Paper", "Kiss Me Softly", "Airtight Angels", "Where It Belongs".
- Hum - Puppets / Aphids
- Circus Mort - Circus Mort
- K. Yoshimatu – Spherical Voyage
- Enjoyed.
- Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth
- Devo - Q. Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
- "Shrivel-Up" has been strangely comforting to me lately.
- Hum - Inlet
- Boards of Canada - Societas x Tape (last 1.5h)
- Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
- Deadbeat summer, it's just a deadbeat summer... "Psychic Chasms".
- My mom died and I may have to rehome my dog. What can I listen to now? Ars Lucis, Roedelius, that Gaelle's "Fade Away",...
- Aarktica – ...Or You Could Just Go Through Your Whole Life And Be Happy Anyway. (Bliss Out V. 18)
- "Happy Anyway"
- Michel Banabila - Des Traces Retrouvées 3
- Most of Gaelle - Transient
- Sweet Trip - Fish (Remixes & Versions)
- Tonstartssbandht - Petunia
- "Pass Away", "What Has Happened".
- Kevin Drumm - db
- Is this guy serious?
- Forest Management - New York Seltzer
- Solpara - QTT6
- Kareem Lofty - QTT10
- Damon & Naomi With Ghost
- I didn't realize this album was actually really good.
- Unrest - Perfect Teeth
- Jun Chikuma - The Midas Touch
- I was pleased with this. Pretty dope. Putting everything aside to listen to her new album ASAP.
- Sweet Trip - Halica (The Bliss Out, V. 11)
- Awesome. I never really paid any mind to this - typical tendency to ignore the album released before the classic - it's pretty damn good.
- Jonathan Coleclough - Epidural
- Color Filter / Sweet Trip / Junior Varsity KM / Technicolor - Drum & Bliss
- Sam KDC – Symbol #3
- Bugskull - Communication
- Good. "Remarkably Human", last 2 tracks.
- Technicolor - Normal Control Range
- Dopeness abounds
- Jetty - Jetty's Greatest Hits
- The one with the Puerto Rican chipmunk. And Staind still fucking sucks, by the way.
- De-Phazz - Detunized Gravity
- Gaah these fucking samples are irritating. Tapping out after 15 minutes.
- Susumu Yokota - Sound of Sky
- The song playing at ~15 min with a sound like some kind of animal sneezing. "Crash Marble"?
- Most of Sounds From the Ground - Kin; boring as hell, sorry.
- Tosca – No Hassle
- I listened to this just before I started to realize a majority of 2000s instrumental hip hop and downtempo Pandora-fodder was little more than a millennial answer to muzak phase. While I still believe Suzuki mostly falls into that sad category, this album is somehow different. I think it's because the majority of tracks east off on the persistent chillness and have some sort of emotional presence through melody or atmosphere. It's like the techno-lite approaches of Fila Brazillia who, though still mellow to meybe get tagged as "chillout", throw in enough oddball elements (be it textures, melodies, stylistic shifts and variety in general) to keep it from completely falling into the background at someone's dinner party. "My First", "Elitsa", "Birthday", "No Hassle".
- Combustible Edison - The Impossible World
- "Laura's Aura", "20th Century", "Pink Victim".
- Various Artists [Merge] - 5 Rows of Teeth
- Weird hearing Lambchop's easy country pop alongside what seems to be the grittiest, lowest-fi, lowest effort indie rock and phc on the label. It's almost like a demos compilation. I wonder why this was even released.
- Poster Children - Daisy Chain Reaction
- "Dee", "Cancer", "Frustration".
- Finishing up Sonic Nurse from yesterday.
- "Dude Ranch Nurse", "I Love You Golden Blue", "Peace Attack".
- Autolux - Transit Transit
- "Census", "Highchair".
- Sub Loam - Ohr
- Failure - Magnified
- "Frogs", "Wet Gravity", "Small Crimes".
- Forest Management - Routines
- "A Non-Fictional Life", "Forgotten Guardian".
- Transient Waves – Wading And Waiting (Bliss Out Vol. 8)
- Füxa – Venoy (Bliss Out V.5)
- Yugen Disciple - Ancestor Node
- Bright – Blue Christian / Bliss Out v.12
- Coroner - Grin
- Cranes - Particles & Waves
- Last 2 songs are good. Song where Jim sings, though I'm pleased that someone other than Alison finally has sung on a Cranes song, sounds like something from an insurance or cereal commercial.
- Sketch Show - Audio Sponge
- Windy & Carl - Drawing of Sound
- "Lighthouse", "Whisper".
- Hash Jar Tempo - Under Glass
- The American Analog Set - Late One Sunday: Bliss Out v. 9
- Anders Ilar - Senare
- The Sundays - Reading, Writing & Arithmetic
- Hiroshi Yoshimura - Ambient Sound
- K. Leimer - Music For Land And Water
- "Very Tired"
- zakè & Wayne Robert Thomas - To Those Who Dwelt in a Land of Deep Darkness
- X.Y.R. - Quiet Time
- X.Y.R. - Pilgrimage
- Windy & Carl - Depths
- I've not been able to fall asleep well without music playing lately, and this works for that well. Obsessed wtih this it. It's retaken its place as my midday nap album too.
31 May 2024
- Don Caballero - Don Caballero 2
- "Stupid Puma", "Repeat Defender".
- Circle - Prospekt
- Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living
- Enjoyed this much more than last time (about 7-8 years ago?). Enjoyed this more than The Buried Life this time.
- 35007 - Liquid
- Being - Tides
- Medicine - Shot Forth Self Living
- Partial. "A Short Happy Life", "Queen of Tension", "Christmas Song".
- The Detroit Escalator Co. – Black Buildings
- Two Lone Swordsmen - Stay Down
- Cranes - Future Songs
- Gonna revisit. "Flute Song", "Sunset", "Fragile".
- Haruomi Hosono – Mercuric Dance
- "Sea of Tau", "Windy Land".
- One Dove - Morning Dove White
- Continued from yesterday. "White Love (Guitar Paradise Mix)", "There Goes the Cure".
- Ulla & Ultrafog – It Means A Lot
- Richard Chartier & William Basinski - Aurora Liminalis
- Nelson Foltz And Tom Lynn – Volume Two
- Sneaker Pimps - Becoming X
- Stereolab - Dots & Loops
- Casino Versus Japan - Go Hawaii
- Voodoo Child - The End of Everything
- "Slow Motion Suicide", "Honest Love".
- Matrix - Sleepwalk
- "Junction"
- CLOCKDVA – Post-Sign
- Various : Divination – Distill
- Haruomi Hosono – "Ether Vibes", Tetsu Inoue – "Interlink".
- Alter Ego - Alter Ego
- "Atomic Playground"
- Porter Ricks - Anguilla Electrica
- "Shoal Beat", "Scuba Rondo", "Sandy Ground".
- Sensorama - Welcome Insel
- Pretty damn good, actually!
- S Core - Pretension
- Taylor Deupre - Sti.ll
- Surprised at how good this is. Parts of "Recur" actually sound glitched, and others sound like some kind of eastern European folk music. "Stil" is a gorgeous drone just like the original track, but with a definition and warmth the original lacked.
- Taylor Deupree - Stil.
- Moby - Play
- Decided I'd finally give this a spin, feeling like I'd been missing something great after realizing his ambient stuff is solid. "Porcelain", supposedly the highlight of this guy's career (besides "Go", I guess), is OK. Mostly it's just like...bland dinner party downtempo with samples of folk and blues singers. "South Side" is also OK, but not better than I remember it being.
- Calypso Borealis - Ore Bowal
- Sounds surprisingly more like something from LINE or 12K than from one of those weirdo cassette labels.
- Looks like I'll be seeing Nilüfer in September.
- Bare Minimum - Can't Cure The Nailbiters
- "Luchuk", "Obviously Distracted My Love"
- Seziki Tetrasheaf - Keys To Kishore
- Seziki Tetrasheaf - Keys To Kishore
- Fucking wild trip of an album. A relentless attack of dripping, melting found sounds layered and fused. I enjoyed this much more than I expected to.
- Seziki Tetrasheaf / Quiet Evenings – Seziki Tetrasheaf / Quiet Evenings
- Pierrot Lunaire - Theme For Ascension and Eternal Love
- Seziki Tetrasheaf - Clannad Matsoyu
- Emeralds - Grass Ceiling
- Marble Sky - The Sad Return
- Chihei Hatakeyama - Hachirogata Lake
- Chihei Hatakeyama – Coastal Railroads In Memories
- Venn Rain - Humming Hills
- Kane Pour - Wand in the Beak of the Yellow Bird
- Dreamers Cloth - Ecstasy Waterfall
- Earn - Hell On Earth
- Labradford / Stars of the Lid - The Kahanek Incident Vol. 3
- Stars of the Lid - Avec Laudenum
- Magic Sound Fabric - Uplift Drift
- Celer - Jima
- Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Floating Weeds
- M. Geddes Gengras - Enduring Doubt
- Amen Dunes - Death Jokes
- The Stars - Will
- Maybe it would be better if I didn't understand the lyrics. "Orange Hour Circle".
- zakè - zakè
- Taiga Remains - Vermillion Dusk
- Tricorn and Queue - Continual Passage
- Drunjus - On the Hells of Sleipnir
- Super Minerals - Clusters
- M. Geddes Gengras – Smoke Blower
- Moby - Hotel : Ambient
- I really enjoyed this. "Snowball", "Live Forever", "Aerial".
- Huerco S. - QTT4
- C.S. + Kreme - EP #2
- Thought these guys were lame at first but they're growing on me.
- Terre Thaemlitz - Soil (last 3 tracks)
- This is the...second time I've listened to this? I enjoyed "Elevatorium", "Trucker", and "Aging Core, Aging Periphery". I wonder how much the violent sociopolitical subtext would have registered with me had I not known anything about Terre Thaemlitz or her work prior to listening to this. Would I have noticed the voice clip about Charles Whitman? I definitely would have noticed "Cycles".
- Terre Thaemlitz – Love For Sale - Taking Stock In Our Pride
- Soft, burbling electronics and light drones occasionally pierced with loud noises - stuff I would have dug in college. I think I first listened to some of this (and barely paid attention to it) in late August 2018, preparing/dreading to go back to my midwestern university.
- Koolfang - Jambient
- "Koolfang"
- The Mars Volta - Tremulant
- Terre Thaemlitz - Oh No! It's Rubato
- Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V thoughts on Replicas Rubato.
- Bernard Parmegiani - De Natura Sonorum
- Bernard Parmegiani's "L'Oeil ecoute"
- Terre Thaemlitz - Soil (most)
- Manuel Gottsching - Die Mulde
- Had the "Die Mulde" suite going through my head after listening to some of E2-E4 yesterday, specifically that mechanical chirping sound that sounds like the percussion from "Human Behavior". The beauty of "Hp Little Cry" apparently didn't hit me on my first listen.
- Some of Pan Sonic's Kesto, which I'm starting to realize I don't really like after all. Some tracks on the second disc (like "Sykkivä") are good, and "Säteily" is nice, but whereas I would have really dug the silence-broken-up-by-the-occasinal-random-noise of the third disc in college, it just seems self-indulgent now, and I never really cared for "power noise" if it wasn't made by Esplendor Geometrico.
- Macha – See It Another Way
- "Salty", "The Nipplegong". The first half is so ebullient and eclectic, then the second half is ordinary post-rock. It's not bad, but it's a jarring contrast. Imagine reversing the sides. The second half just sounds like Macha Loved Bedhead - Bedhead Loved Macha.
- Terre Thaemlitz - Replicas Rubato
- Provoked by that interview with that bubbly German lady who seems weirdly American in speech and manner. Terre, also weirdly, reminds me of Louis CK in his humorous and casual delivery of his deep pessimism, and his incisive social critique that parallels his self-deprecation. He's kind of an anti-artist with contempt for lofty artistic ideals that sound pretty to package into slogans but are ultimately impractical and meaningless, or at least that's the impression I get and really admire.
Now, while I like Thaemlitz' early ambient material, and still plan to give Oh No! It's Rubato, Soil, and his run of pseudo-conceptual electroacoustic-ambient-glitch albums a spin, I'm conflicted on this one. I love the general mood - a sheen of reverb makes even renditions of synthpop tunes sound plangent - but these interpretations just come off as cheap and sloppy. I think this came at a time when converting popular songs to sampled instruments via MIDI was a cheap cop-out; now it's a fun novelty. If these were live performances, rather than Terre plugging in the individual notes in a DAW, no doubt it'd sound better. But it's not impossible to scrape a pleasant, organic sound out of this technology - look at Drukqs.
- Provoked by that interview with that bubbly German lady who seems weirdly American in speech and manner. Terre, also weirdly, reminds me of Louis CK in his humorous and casual delivery of his deep pessimism, and his incisive social critique that parallels his self-deprecation. He's kind of an anti-artist with contempt for lofty artistic ideals that sound pretty to package into slogans but are ultimately impractical and meaningless, or at least that's the impression I get and really admire.
- YBO² – Alienation
- Well, Cindy Lee show is cancelled. Guess I'll just listen to the album?
- Had a dream about Let The Tribe Increase, a weird dream involving a beach, red-tinted photographs of windows, and suffused with that album's somber mood. "Leave my world for my children; they didn't ask to be born".
- Kontakt Der Jünglinge - 1
- Sakanoshita Norimasa, the sleeping beauty & Atsushi Hamada - Row the Haze
- "empty playground part .1"
- And reading The Rest Is Noise, skimming everything not about the modernists and the experimentalists.
- Ligeti's Requiem.
- Feldman's Rothko Chapel.
- Toshifumi Hinata - Reality In Love
- I was going to do something but I just spent the whole night listening to post- and neoclassical music.
- Matrix – Isolated Dot
- "Isolated Dot", "Equator Music".
- Florian T M Zeisig - Planet Inc
- Koda - Movements
- I somehow enjoyed this more on second listen.
- Yello - Stella
- "Koladi-Ola", "Sometimes (Dr. Hirsch)".
- Radosław Kurzeja – Ogród Botaniczny W Palermo
- Hex - Digital Love
- Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
- "Yellow Calx" sounds like it should be the penultimate track. I can't describe how, but penultimate tracks often have a particular tone, don't they?
- Sky - Before
- Radius - Interpolation Tapes [Restoration One]
- Kontakt Der Jünglinge - 1
- Kontakt Der Jünglinge - n
- Transient Waves - Transient Waves
- Didn't realize how much "Melted" sounds like Starts of the Lid before. "Soulspace" is still great.
- Matrix - Isthmus #Fast
- Enjoyed.
- Substance – Scent / Relish Sessions
- Cassette [Pub] - One
- Macha & Bedhead - Macha Loved Bedhead
- "Only The Bodies Survive", "How Are Your Windows?".
- Ryuichi Sakamoto - Plankton
30 April 2024
- Hallucinator – Black Angel
- Hallucinator – Red Angel
- Hallucinator's Black Angel and Red Angel 12"s. The title track of both tend toward the closest the duo come to traditional dub techno, albeit with their dark spin on the genre, while tracks like "Moonshot" and "Phebes" forgo the driving beats in favor of experimental admixtures of other dance genres. The latter might be the only track released on Chain Reaction that features an electric guitar.
- Ridis – Triangle / Foto / Is # 10
- "Foto"
- Various Artists - Decay Product
- "Erode"
- Bauri - Lakonia EP
- Liking this a little more this time.
- Heprcam - Cohcox
- Tetsu Inoue - Yolo
- Farben – Stuck EP
- '"Oh Love, Well We Finally Made It"'
- Trentemøller - The Last Resort
- TWA influence.
- The rest of John Maus - Songs
- "And Heaven Turned To Her Weeping"
- ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead – Source Tags & Codes
- Kind of falling in love with the second half of this album, though it used to bore me. I'm trying to understand how something sound so boyish and refined at the same time. A comparison to Lowbrow art comes to mind - juvenility by way of technical skill and Baroque motifs.
- Most of John Maus' Songs, listened to while driving home at night.
- Donato Dozzy - K
- John Maus - A Collection Of Rarities And Previously Unreleased Material
- I must admit - I kind of dig it after all. "North Star", "Mental Breakdown", "Castles in the Grave", "Fish With Broken Dreams", "I Don't Eat Human Beings".
- Hello Meteor - Maps and Locations: Jaladri
- Jan Jelinek - Loop-finding-jazz-records
- Love - Forever Changes
- Walking around the neighborhood in some kind of reverie. How did that happen?
- Toshimaru Nakamura - No Input Mixing Board
- Microstoria - _snd
- Rainer Bruninghaus - Continuum
- Finished from yesterday. "Stille".
- Christian Fennesz & Jim O'Rourke – It's Hard For Me To Say I’m Sorry
- Haroumi Hosono - Omni Sight Seeing
- "Orgone Box" definitely set a new weirdness bar for me.
- Myrakaru – Tammetõru
- Various – Dub Restaurant: Menu Vol. 1
- Ken Ishii – "The Last Moment", Nina-Noho – "Tempura".
- YS - Perfumed Garden
- "Peach Time", "Secret Isle".
- Shinichi Atobe - Ship-Scope
- Nina-Noho - Ambient Classics 1990-1992
- "Tempura"
- Second disc of Headz (A Soundtrack Of Experimental Beathead Jams.)
- Most of Dither - Summit, prompted by reading about a Laurie Spiegel and Dither show taking place in Philly in a few months. I might go. This guy has something.
- MPU101 – MPU101
- Steve Roach - Immersion : Three
- Hypnotic.
- Supreme Particles - Light As Skin
- I liked Sectors A and B, with the flies and then the spring peepers.
- Brian Eno - Reflection
- Movietone - The Blossom Filled Streets
- First disc of Headz (A Soundtrack Of Experimental Beathead Jams.)
- Attica Blues' "Contemplating Jazz".
- Most of Bring Me the Head of Kyle Bobby Dunn - great tones.
- Sophia Zhuravkova - Interior Music 004
- The Gerogerigegege - None Friendly
- Some find this to be a difficult listen, but I find that once I put it on I can't turn it off 'til it's through.
- Santilli - Interior Music 003
- Body Corp - Interior Music 002
- This has more of a '90s ambient-chillout feel to it. I noticed the metallic hammer-hit sound used in so many ambient techno tracks.
- Most of the first half of Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
- Valium Aggelein – Hier Kommt Der Schwartze Mond
- "Hier Kommt Der Schwartze Mond". My strongest memory of this album is listening in my college dorm-apartment in Camden, falling asleep on a weekday (Friday?) afternoon while it stormed outside and the roommates sorrowed over the TV signal breaking up.
- Felt Body - Interior Music 006
- Cousin - Interior Music 005
- Tetsu Inoue - Organic Cloud
- Other Joe - Interior Music 008
- Low Flung - Interior Music 007
- 008 and 007 are just as good as my favorites from this series (mu tate's and X.Y.R.'s entries).
- Polvo – This Eclipse
- Tetsu Inoue & Jonah Sharp - Electro Harmonix
- Gas - Zauberberg
- CS + Kreme - EP #1
- "Basic Instinct (Club Scene)"
- Most of Abyuse's Echo soundtrack.
- "Backstage (I)", "Backstage (II)", "When Your Arms Were Around Me"
- Nav Katze - Never Mind the Distortion II
- "Ready To Go (The Gentle People Mix)"
- Autechre - NTS Session 4
- Bjork - Homogenic
- Labradford - E Luxo So
- Polvo - Cor-Crane Secret
- "Vibracobra", "Bend Or Break".
- Pendant - Make Me Know You Sweet
- Four Tet - Three
- "Three Drums"
- Saccharine Trust – Surviving You, Always
- "YHWH On Acid"
- eu - Nu)+(No
- Croix du Sud - Croix du Sud
- Reminds me of early Popol Vuh.
- Advantage Lucy – Oolt Cloud
- "響かせて"
- Robin Saville – Lore
- Grandbruit – Grandbruit
- Otto Lindholm - Alter
- Lawrence - Lawrence
- 23 Skidoo – Seven Songs
- Killing Joke - What's THIS For...! (except for the last 3 tracks)
- "The Fall of Because", "Unspeakable".
- Minilogue - Animals
- "In a Distance", "Old Water", "City Lights".
31 March 2024
- Sister Irene O'Connor - Fire of God's Love
- "Mass - 'Emmanuel'"
- Soul Capsule - Overcome
- Bedhead - Transaction de Novo
- "Parade", "Forgetting".
- Minilogue - Blomma (second half)
- "E De Nån Hemma?"
- .O.Rang - Fields & Waves
- Sturm - Sturmgesten
- Minilogue - Blomma (1/2)
- "Nor Coming Nor Going"
- Phoenecia - Echelon Mall
- Brighter Death Now - Necrose Evangelicum
- "Necrose Evangelicum"
- Velehentor - Dyatlov's Pass
- Thanet - System
- Loscil - Alta
- Folder - New Path
- Remember listening to this in June 2020. It's amazing how much of my twenties I spent not working a regular job. I used to be ashamed of that, now I'm grateful.
- Koronba - Rain
- Snoweffect - Desktop Caffeine
- Brian Eno - New Space Music
- Keith Fullerton Whitman - Playthroughs
- Hiroshi Yoshimura - Ambient Sound
- Most of Kevin Drumm's Imperial Distortion.
- Clayflower - Still
- Dangerously sensitive '90s radio rock - Jars of Clay, Goo Goo Dolls, Live, etc...
- Phew - Phew
- "Signal", "Dream".
- Labradford / Stars Of The Lid – The Kahanek Incident - Volume 3
- Growing on me.
- Pteranodon - Pteranodon 2
- 1958-2009 - 1958-2009 II
- Sade - Love Deluxe
- "No Ordinary Love", "Cherish the Day", "Mermaid".
- T.Power – The Self Evident Truth Of An Intuitive Mind
- Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto - Insen
- Them Airs - Echo Park Bomb City
- "Leaning Together". Rest is rather over-inspired.
- Tholen - Sternklang
- Giancarlo Toniutti - La Mutazione
- Ayami Suzuki - Vista
- Combustible Edison - The Impossible World
- Last couple of tracks. I was really not into this last night, but now I am. I love the loungey metropolitan sound of "Laura's Aura". It reminds me of a cocktail party among swoopy midcentury furniture and floor-to-ceiling windows looking out onto a vibrantly lit metropolis.
- Steve Roach - Immersion : Two
- Koolfang - Jambient
- "Koolfang"
- Barnard's Star - Barnard's Star
- Labradford - Labradford
- Do Make Say Think – Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord Is Dead
- "Goodbye Enemy Airship", the beginning of "Minmin" is great. Don't like how most of the tracks start quiet and suddenly get loud.
- Most of Do Make Say Think's debut ()
- Hualun - An Elephant Sitting Still
- About a hundred times happier than the film itself.
- Quickspace - Quickspace
- The US version with "Rise" at the front and "Friend" at the back. I can't believe I thought this was boring the first time I heard it. Maybe it was the environment - driving on an endless highway through the woods.
- Bluetile Lounge - Lowercase
- Telstar Drugs - Sonatine
- Peter Jeffries - Substatic
- "Damage"
- Mary O'Hara - Songs of Ireland
- "Óró Mo Bháidín"
- Love Spirals Downwards - Idylls
- "Love's Labour's Lost", "This Endris Night".
- Koyil - Healing Cycles
- The first "A Glimmer of Light".
- Hoavi - Posle Vsego
- Strangely comfortable. "Posle Vsego"
- Deerhunter - Cryptograms
- I didn't enjoy this in summer 2016 as much as I'm enjoying it now. "Octet", "Providence", "Cryptograms".
- Swirlies - They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons
- Sadly, I didn't enjoy this as much as I did in summer 2016. Standout tracks are still "In Harmony Newfound Freedom", "Two Girls Kissing", and "Sunn".
- Tried about half of Efdemin's s/t, didn't really care for it. Not as big on that nocturnal minimal techno style as I was in college. "Stately, Yes" is good though.
- Sonic Youth - Anagrama
- Longtime like.
- Ought - Sun Coming Down
- "It's a very astute observation, if I do say so myself". "Men For Miles", "Sun's Coming Down", "Beautiful Blue Sky", "Celebration".
- Shame - Drunk Tank Pink
- "It's the most beautiful thing you'll ever see, and yet you walk past it all the time on your way to work."
- Six By Seven - The Things We Make
- "European Me"
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
- Mixmaster Morris & Jonah Sharp - Quiet Logic
- Monte / Magnétophonique Split
- Various Telstar Drugs things. Had "Weather Underground" stuck in my head all day. Also some Long Long Long and Gretchen.
- Yo La Tengo – The Sounds Of The Sounds Of Science
- "Hyas And Stenorhynchus", "How Some Jellyfish Are Born".
- Cold Pumas - Persistent Malaise
- "A Versatile Gift", "Variety Lights", "Puce Moment".
- Wagon Christ - Musipal
- First listen through since Jan 2016. "Bend Over", "Tomach", "Thick Stew", "Musipal".
- Boards of Canada - Hi Scores
- Mercury Rev – All Is Dream
- Deerhunter - Microcastle
- Deerhunter - Weird Era Cont.
- Never really paid attention to this one. It's good! "Operation", "Slow Swords".
- Cherubs – Short Of Popular
- "Carjack Fairy", "Chanukka".
- Nav Katze - Out
- Deerhuter - Fluorescent Grey
- Breaking Circus - The Very Long Fuse
- Deerhunter - Microcastle
- Been almost a 9 years since I listened to this album. I enjoyed it more than I expected upon revisit, even though I've never been big on Deerhunter besides a few songs off Halcyon Digest. Even though I've never fully enojyed this album, I still get that nostalgic warmth from it. "Neither Of Us, Uncertainly" especially. "Twilight At Carbon Lake", "Neither Of Us, Uncertainly".
- Wagon Christ - At Atmos
- Bloodthirsty Butchers – kocorono
- New Order - Substance
- "Ceremony", "True Faith".
- Love Spirals Downwards – Ardor
- Damn good album I've been ignoring on the whole for too long, though "Sunset Bell" is a longtime afternoon nap favorite. "Sidhe", "Write In Water", "Sunset Bell". Will have to revisit Idylls and Flux.
29 February 2024
- My Bloody Valentine - Tremolo EP
- Pete Namlook & Tetsu Inoue - 2350 Broadway 2.
- I used to fall asleep to this at a very low volume. It's the exact vein of space ambient I love; spacious, calm, and slightly dark. Almost as good as 62 Eulengasse.
- Wagon Christ – Rissalecki EP
- "How You Really Feel"
- Maki Fujii Assembled – Deviation From System
- Organization – Anthology 1988-1995
- "Hope", "Soft Space".
- Wagon Christ - Throbbing Pouch
- Particularly fond of "E-Z Listener" and "Yeah" this evening.
- Wagon Christ – At Atmos
- Realizing this is tacked onto that Max Carper playlist on YT...it's a great EP, didn't know it existed, thought these tracks were just bonuses of Throbbing Pouch.
- Motohiko Hamase - Intaglio
- "Lung", "Intaglio".
- Freddie Hubbard - First Light
- Coroner - Punishment for Decadence
- Coroner - Mental Vortex
- Vektor - Terminal Redux
- Coroner - Grin
- Lovetrip - Shift Patterns
- Solipsism – Apocrypha (Book One)
- Bernd Kistenmacher – Head-Visions
- "La Tendresse"
- Igneous Flame – NYX
- Long Long Long - A Girl Drinking Orange Juice Feels Acids On The Sides Of Her Tongue. She Also Smells Citric Aromas And Feels The Wetness And Cold.
- Long Long Long - Shorts
- LOC-NAR – Hotter Water
- A Country Western – A Country Western
- Gretchen - Oblique Contours
- Brave Radar – Lion Head
- Lovetrip - Shift Patterns
- Enjoying. Will revisit and/or buy.
- Diatonis – The Convolving Universe
- "Aurora"
- Frank Zappa – Hot Rats
- "Son Of Mr. Green Genes"
- Gretchen - Gretchen
- Land - Opuscule
- Growing on me. The opener and closer.
- M. Geddes Gengras - Enduring Doubt
- Alio Die - Tempus Rei
- Softlight Reveries - Softlight Reveries
- Not bad. Hits the vaguely tropical Blogspot-ambient spot.
- Skullflower - Form Destroyer
- Terminal Cheesecake - Angels In Pigtails
- "Unhealing Wound"
- Rei Harakami - Red Curb
- "Put Off". It's amazing how little Harakami's style changed between 1997 and 2005.
- Omni Gardens - Golden Pear
- '80s revival mystical-new age-synth music, reminds me of Pauline Anna Strom and peers.
- Mercury Rev – See You On The Other Side
- Never was interested in checking out this album until I listened to an interview where he talks about it at length, and describes his great disappointment in the lukewarm reception and feeling of self-consciousness in its wake. It's interesting when artists describe their work as being a part of them, as opposed to those who reject the notion that the art is reflective of the artist. Anyway, he mentioned how he believed "Everlasting Arm" to be a "top 10 single", crazy as it is. Though it definitely is transitional, it's not really a big nadir between their two big eras. I suppose part of the reason I finally decided to spin it is that a lot of folks call it as their best; those, I suppose, who believe it's the peak of their classic psych rock era.
- Telefon Tel Aviv - Dreams Are Not Enough
- Squarepusher - Hello Everything
- Prompted by Fantano's Tom Jenkinson interview in which the artist showed himself to be much more down to earth (and of a much deeper voice) than I expected, I decided on a complete whim to listen to this. I enjoyed it much more than I expected (what I expected was 63 minutes of brainless hardcore breakbeats). It's probably his second best, in fact. "Planetarium", "Rotate Electrolyte".
- Airsculpture - Thunderhead
- Rei Harakami - Unrest
- Nav Katze – Gentle & Elegance
- Synectics – The Purple Universe
- Lost but good bit of ambient techno (ambient house?). "Free Sphere" and "Natural" are my favorites, which I heard on Synectic's/Ono's Promo EP back in 2020.
- Autolux - Future Perfect
- Acetone - Acetone EP
- "For A Few Dollars More", "Cindy".
- Acetone - Acetone
- "All the Time"
- Acetone - If You Only Knew
13 February 2024
- M. Geddes Gengras - Enduring Doubt
- Terekke – Plant Age
- "Swim"
- Glo Phase - Blink
- "Seaflowers" sounds like Khotin. A lot of this sounds like Khotin.
- Saphileaum – Exploring Together
- Miradasvacas - Of No Fixed Abode
- Enjoyed.
- Alio Die - Aura Seminalis
- I listened to this during an afternoon nap. During my nap, my grandmother died at 14:30.
- Autechre - Anti EP
- "Flutter"
- Saccharine Trust – We Became Snakes (Side B)
- "Effort to Waste", of course!
- Pat Metheny Group - Offramp
- "Au Lait"
- Unbroken - Life.Love.Regret.
- Faux Fur – Faux Fur
- Botch - American Nervoso
- Saccharine Trust – We Became Snakes (Side A)
- A vast majority of Daniel Pemberton's Bedroom, which I enjoyed.
- Gastr Del Sol – Camoufleur
- "Eureka" now stuck in my head.
- Higher Intelligence Agency - Freefloater
- A classic I somehow overlooked completely, possibly because I didn't quite care for Colourform and just ignored the rest of their albums. I ought to break that habit - with these '90s IDM/ambient techno artists, once you've heard one, you really haven't heard them all; many of them progress stunningly from album to album. Update: it has come to my attention that I listened to this album on 17 December 2019.
- Voafose - Voafose
- Ominous synth noodling with interludes consisting of samples from old British radio and TV programs. Surprisingly good.
- Michael Speers - Ground Drum
- CS + Kreme - EP #1
- Aphex Twin - Collapse
- Another new Aphex EP I completely ignored when it was released. Pretty good.
- AFX & Luke Vibert - Orphans
- Early sunny morning AFX listening. "Spiral Staircase".
- Freddie Hubbard - First Light
- Hot damn this is good.
- Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life
- Haroumi Hosono - N.D.E.
- "Teaching Of Sphinx", "Heliotherapy", "Edge of the End".
- Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports
- Must be over 7 years since I listened to this album. "1/2".
- Warp - We Are Reasonable People
- AFX and Squarepusher's "Freeman Hardy & Willis Acid" and BoC's "Orange Romeda".
- TheMikeFlowersPops Meets TheAphexTwin – The Freebase Connection
- "Debase (Soft Palate)" is obviously the superior remix here. The others just sound like new tracks with the original haphazardly sampled in, which is essentially what makes a remix bad, except the Funki Porcini and Perry De Chico tracks are decent. But again, there's a difference between remixing a track and simply sampling it.
- Most of Superchunk - Foolish; I've completely fallen in love with "Saving My Ticket".
- Kinesthesia - Empathy Box
- "Plasmoid", "Triachus", "Flicklife".
- Jocelyn Pook - Flood
- "Masked Ball"
- K. Leimer - Music for Land and Water
- "Very Tired"
- Cylob - Mood Bells
- "After The Soup"
- The Cure - Lost Wishes
- Motohiko Hamase - Reminiscence
- "Tree"
- Yoshio Ojima – Une Collection Des Chaînons I: Music For Spiral
- The one with the laugh track and the one playing around halfway through. "Esplanade (Live)" and "Flius"(?).
- Les McCann - Invitation to Openness
31 January 2024
- Aril Brikha - Deeparture In Time
- Sean Deason - Allegory & Metaphor
- Listened just after the above album. Very similar in terms of aesthetic - sonic and visual - but I prefer the former. "Allegory & Metaphor (Revisited)".
- Chick Corea - Return to Forever
- 小本生燈 [xsgacha] - 冇有形狀
- Hirono Nishiyama - 回旋塔 [Kaisentou]
- Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
- Steve Roach - Quiet Music 1
- Rei Harakami - Lust
- Mari Hamada - Amu Onna
- Hiroshi Yoshimura – 環境演出音
- Only "Terrace 3"
- The Gentle People - Soundtracks for Living
- K. Yoshimatsu - Spherical Voyage
- I like the last track, with the loud, metallic clanging. No, really, I do!
- Shinsuke Honda - Silence
- Nav Katze - Gentle & Elegance
- "Happy", "Ready to Go", "Gentle & Elegance". Also, that Ae track is great. Only catch is the Gentle People remix of "Ready to Go" is much better than the version included here.
- Harry Kawahara - Shaman: Digital Mushroom
- Black Rain - 1.0
- Panasist – 星空のパナシスト
- Nozawa Mica – Serious Garden
- "Velvet Riot"
- Fred Giannelli - Telepathic Romance
- Harry Kawahara - Shaman: Digital Mushroom
- Kumiko Takahashi – Pokkowa Pa?
- "Riyuu ga Omoitsukanai"
- Lithops - Uni Umit
- Section 25 - Always Now
- "Babies In The Bardo"
- Akira Shibuya - La Mar
- "Waiting For The Dawn"
- Pink Floyd - The Piper at the Gates of Dawn
- Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
- Roni Size & Reprazent - New Forms
- "Digital", "Mad Cat".
- Polyrock - Changing Hearts
- "Like Papers On A Rack"
- Polyrock - Above The Fruited Plain
- They really took an '80s cheese direction on this. "Working On My Love".
- Chrome - 3rd From The Sun
- "Future Ghosts"
- "Off the Line"
- The Gordons - The Gordons
- "Coalminers Song"
- Pylon - Gyrate
- "Weather Radio", "Working Is No Problem".
- Tolerance - Divin
- Oh so crisp and clear. The drums are in my ears. "Bokw Wa Zurui Robot (Stolen From Kad)".
- Ramleh - Hole in the Heart
- Cassette version. Long CD version is still in my queue.
- Polyrock - Polyrock
- DJ Rashad - Double Cup
- Dope. "Feelin", "Double Cup", "Drank, Kush, Barz".
- Last 10 min of Tropic Of Cancer – The End Of All Things. Penultimate track, "Awake", is pretty good.
- Heavenly Bodies - Medium
- Conrad Schnitzler - Eruption
- Ro70 - Ro 70
- "Einklang", "Alma", "Künstlicher Ausklang".
- Yas-Kaz – Jomon-Sho
- "Respite Of The Bows & Arrows"
- Picture Music - Picture Music
- About 3/4 of Tropic Of Cancer – The End Of All Things, but I didn't really like anything beyond the first three tracks.
- J. Derwort - Bamboo
- Tropic of Cancer - Restless Idylls
- Cocteau Twins - Treasure
- Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
- Biosphere – Microgravity (last 27 min)
- To Rococo Rot - The Amateur View
- "I Am In The World With You", "A Little Asphalt Here And There", "Telema".
- Outro Tempo: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil 1978 - 1992
- Piry Reis - "O Sol Na Janela"
- Anno Luz - "Por Quê"
- Andréa Daltro - "Kiuá"
- Maria Rita - "Cântico Brasileiro No. 3 (Kamaiurá)"
- Biosphere – Microgravity (first 20 min)
- Dregs - Dregs
- "Underwater (Dub)"
- Hello Meteor - Maps and Locations: Jaladri (2024)
- The Doors - Strange Days
- "Love Me Two Times", "People Are Strange".
- Some Cocteau EPs. Aikea-Guinea is probably my favorite.
- Tropic of Cancer - Archive: The Downwards Singles
- "The Dull Age"
- Chi - The Bamboo Recordings
- Norken & _Nyquist - MOA052
- Yura Yura Teikoku – Hollow Me
- "Dekinai", "Tender Animals".
- Yura Yura Teikoku – Beautiful
- "なんとなく夢を"
- Darksmith - Total Vacuum
- "Everything Is Breaking"
- Voices From the Lake - Voices From the Lake
- Fountain - Fountain 2
- Most of James Ferraro's Cruisin' The Nightbiker Strip 1977
- Long Long Long - Leftovers
- "George Harrison"
- Long Long Long - A Girl Drinking Orange Juice Feels Acids On The Sides Of Her Tongue. She Also Smells Citric Aromas And Feels The Wetness And Cold.
- Gretchen - Gretchen
- Friendo - Cold Toads
- Grass Cannons - Vet Dream
- Cold Pumas - Persistent Malaise
- "Variety Lights", "Puce Moment".
- Röövel Ööbik – Popsubterranea
- Motohiko Hamase – ♯Notes Of Forestry
- "Nude"
- Martin Dupont - Just Because
- "Just Because", "Bent At the Window".
- Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
- Dimitar Dodovski - MOA134
- Random pick from Bandcamp sort-by-new. Pretty good.
- TV-99-AD - Recaffeinated EP
- Dimitar Dodovski - MOA121
- Naemi – Tenebre
- Motohiko Hamase – Intaglio
- "Lung"
- Babes In Toyland - Bruise Violet EP
- About 3/4 of Martin Dupont's Just Because.
- I am also amazed to admit that I love Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart".
- Maurizio Bianchi - The Second Death
- Seigen Ono – Seigén
- "Kumo No Sokudo"
- Forest Management - Passageways
- This is the first full album I listened to this year, but it's not the first music I listened to. No, that honor goes to the song "Bottom Rung" by Nite Jewel, which I loved.
- Nite Jewel - Good Evening
- "Bottom Rung", "Suburbia", "What Did He Say".
- The Future Sound Of London - Cascade
- Bauri - Lakonia EP