- The Future Sound of London - Environment 7.003
- Amorphous Andrygynous - The Isness
- I have a fondness and respect for electronic music that is so very electronic that it sounds totally live. This is almost The Avalanches-level of sample manipulation but it's not showy at all. It's still theatrical, sure, but the sampling isn't made totally obvious. I guess it's because the instruments are sampled but worked into new compositions, and it's not easily discernible musical phrases, vocal hooks, and riffs played back like The Avalanches do.
- The Future Sound Of London – From The Archives Vol. 4
- A RYM user was so right when they said that FSOL struggle with marketing themselves as an act. Their actual studio releases, i.e. novel material, get lost in a storm of archival releases, quasi-bootlegs, and remix albums. Just now, for example, they released an album as part of their Environments series, with near-identical cover art to ISDNand of course I thought it was a remix album or one of those "classic album revisited" moves a lot of electronic artists pull when they have nothing better to do. Turns out it's actually a new album. That's why I think I've ignored them after Lifeforms (Dead Cities I just don't like, they mostly abandoned their ambient sound in favor of loud, gritty big beat, which I never could get), though archival releases can be satisfyingly novel and even comparable to classics, I don't want to sit through 10,000 reduntant remixes of tracks from their heyday. It looks like their main studio output since the late '00s has been the Environments series, but if there's been something new outside of that series I wouldn't know and will have to work up the patience to dig through their mountain of material to find out.
- The Future Sound Of London – Environment 6.5
- There's one track here that stuck out to me, it's maybe 15-20 minutes in, and it's very melodic and different. That guitar-based track around 32 minutes in is good too. "Ain't Gonna Lie" is good too.
- Forest Management – Routines
- "A Non-Fictional Life"
- Rod Modell & Taka Noda – Glow World
- Jons - At Work On Several Things
- The 90 Day Men - Taking Apart the Vessel
- Interesting bit of math rock with old film dialogue running in the background.
- Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Insen
- Grandaddy - Don't Sock the Tryer
- This version of "Laughing Stock" is somehow better than the Western Freeway version.
- Viet Cong - Viet Cong
- Robbie Basho - Visions of the Country
- "Blue Crystal Fire"
- Some of Belly - Star
- Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses [1986]
- Low Flung - Interior Music 007
- Other Joe - Interior Music 008
- Pulsr - The Three
- I have COVID.
- Possible Humans - Everybody Split
- HTRK 181023
- Dalis Car - The Waking Hour
- Purelink - Signs
- Well, it's Xmas morning, I'm dog-sick and going nowhere on the first Xmas in years I was planning on visiting family I like.
- Coil - Horse Rotorvator
- "Slur"
- HTRK - Venus In Leo
- Siouxsee and the Banshees - Tinderbox
- Telstar Drugs – Weather Underground
- Them Airs – Echo Park Bomb City
- "Leaning Together", "Lake Moms Task Force"
- Telstar Drugs - Endless Straight
- "Glass Bottle"
- Sun Electric - Live at Votivkirche Wien
- Gah, I'll have to revisit it, because it's great! "Bagatto" (late entry, somehow forgot to add this after I listened to it.)
- Various - Global Guidance
- X.Y.R. – Vision Quest
- Ono / Synectics – Promo EP
- Nirvana - Malanyang Nirvana Safari
- Coil Presents Black Light District – A Thousand Lights In A Darkened Room
- Memotone – Tollard
- Girls Against Boys - Venus Luxure No.1 Baby
- "In Like Flynn", "Let Me Come Back", "Bug House"
- Coil - Winter Solstice: North
- Coil - Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 1
- People have been seen to take notice.
- Coil - The Ape of Naples
- "The Last Amethyst Deceiver", "I Don't Get It", "Teenage Lightning 2005", "Going Up".
- Louis C.K. - Live at The Dolby
- Phil Struck - Quiet Time
- "Amber", "Delta".
- Kimitaka Matsumae - Space Ranch
- X.Y.R. - Quiet Time
- I just love that X.Y.R. is making melodic ambient that's also a bit "mineralism". This in particular seems to be very Berlin school-influenced, but it has that rainforest feel of a lot of late-2010s ambient. Unfortunately, his new album didn't really grab me, though I might give it another shot later.
- X.Y.R. - Interior Music 012
- mu tate - Interior Music 011
- Imaginary Softwoods - Imaginary Softwoods
- Earn - Hell On Earth
- Sean McCann – Background Sound Two
- Interesting sound, though I tried his Lower Decks and wasn't into it.
- Excel [James Ferraro] - Excel
- Vanilla slab of cassette drone. This man is EVERYWHERE.
- Women - Public Strain
- I like fuzzy, bad sound and an ancient '60s pop-rock flavor. The actual songs, formerly a blur of generic 2010s lo-fi-post-punk revival ("Eyesore" is the sound of a decade), are starting to sound out on their own. Gradually.
- Broadcast - The Noise Made by People
- I have to listen again. Will it be another 7 years from now? I remember listening to this around Christmas of 2016, near the end of the semester, on indirect recommendation from clubcannibal, and I can't revoke its association with her, and that season, in my mind. It's strange how some albums are strictly tied to specific people I've met online, even fleetingly, and not in real life. How I regret not keeping a more thorough listening diary throughout 2015-2018. Oh yes, and this time that year I'd also been listening to Van Dyke Parks' Song Cycle, Antena's Camino del Sol, and Piero Piccioni's soundtrack to Il Dio Sotto La Pelle.
- Brainworlds - •••••
- Melancholic slab of drone. Much more "present" than the typical blogspot-tape fare, a bit higher-fi it seems. I'm realizing as I write this that it's not actually cassette fare, but CDr fare.
- Come - Gently Down the Stream
- "Recidivist"
- Gimu - A Season In Your Soul
- Again, like a lo-fi Darkest Before Dawn. What's not to appreciate?
- Moods - The Sanctuary in You
- Terekke - Improvisational Loops
- I can't shake the association of this guy with vaporwave. He's not really vaporwave at all, but the wavering synths remind me of a warped videotape.
- Peter Michael Hamel - Let It Play - Selected Pieces 1979-1983
- Morrissey - Viva Hate (last quarter)
- The video to "Everyday Is Like Sunday" viscerally digusts me. I am so thankful I didn't grow up in Thatcher's England. I need to finally listen to Strangeways, Here We Come.
- Women - Women
- The Apartments - A Life Full of Farewells
- "Not Every Clown Can Be In the Circus", "She Sings to Forget You". I'm fascinated by the latter; not many artists do different arrangements of tracks that came out several years earlier unless it's meant as a cover. I love that he rearranged the verses.
- E - Complications
- Most of the time, this band's songwriting doesn't really grab me, but I love their scrappy, threadbare rock sound. Live Skull - only making that comparison because of Thalia Zedek, I suppose - had this quality, but Martin Bisi's production (which I love, not complaining here) always drowned them in reverb, making them sound as if they were recording in a giant cave. Jason Sidney Sanford's guitar style is unique. They also have a sense of humor that I can appreciate.
- Priori & Cousin – Numina
- Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle (about half)
- I don't like this guy's voice, except for when he screams. "Last Word"'s pretty good I suppose, and I like how "Web In Front" builds into something powerful after starting out weak (I know this song is recognized as a powerful opener by many, but it's kind of cringey - the way he sings "stuck a peein, in yo backbone" just rubs me the wrong way).
- Weed - Deserve
- Growing on me. First 4 tracks are fantastic.
- Morrissey - Viva Hate (3/4)
- Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground
- Love how unapologetically un-PC these lyrics are. Gano wasn't being sarcastic, but it's admirably atypical of a Christian to mingle devotionals with thoughts of lust and homicide. Then again, the bible is full of that, I guess. Surely an album to piss off feminists, race freaks, and conservative christians alike. "Hallowed Ground".
- Superchunk - Foolish
- I'm impressed at how high this guy's voice can go. I thought that was a woman singing on "In A Stage Whisper". "Driveway to Driveway", "Saving My Ticket", "In A Stage Whisper".
- Forest Management - Interior Music 010
- Lia T - Interior Music 009
- Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle (about half)
- I listened to about half of Télépopmusik's Genetic World, stopped out of fear after reading the reviews. I know, it's not like me to do that, but I was not in the mood to listen to bad European rap featuring Peaches. I like "Breathe" just fine, nothing mindblowing, but a decent turn of millennium chillout tune. Apparently it was used prominently in a commercial for the Mitsubishi Outlander. I don't remember it although I watched TV plenty in 2003. Not the best compliment for the song then - an undistinguished commercial for an undistinguished SUV. Anyway, Röyksopp did this whole thing better 5 months later. I wanted to listen to this after hearing that a.s.o. album, whose singer I thought sounded a bit like Angela McCluskey.
- mu tate - Interior Music 011
- Did help me sleep! Woke up at 7am after working until 2am, put this on, anell back to sleep.
- a.s.o. – a.s.o.
- Rec from J. Original enough, but veers into that nostalgiac tribute territory. It seems like the frutiger aero-chillout-downtempo-trip hop Y2k style is the new focus of nostalgia. I'm never comfortable with artists that put most of their energy into emulating older scenes and styles. Imagine all the good music we wouldn't have if they all did that. "Thinking", "Cold Feeling", "Falling Under". a.s.o. = the singer's initials?
- Unwound - The Light At The End of the Tunnel Is A Train
- Like. I actually used to think this was originally on the album.
- X.Y.R. - Quiet Time
- Stereolab - Iron Man
- Always ignored this single as I thought it was the beginning of the end of their classic period (even though it was released within a week of Dots and Loops). This seems to be a big Discogs recommendation. And kudos to The Lab for writing a song with the word "foreskin" in the lyrics.
- Broadcast - The Future Crayon
- I still need to explore this band more fully. I've known about them for about 8 years, they're right up my alley, and I love Work and Non Work. What's my excuse? "Illumination", "Still Feels Like Tears", "Unchanging Window", "Chord Simple".
- HTRK - Psychic Lilac
- Laraaji - Essence/Unverse
- Angel'In Heavy Syrup - Angel'In Heavy Syrup II
- RAMZi – Phobiza Amor Fati Vol. 3
- That same warped record-scratch sound that plays throughout like every track is really annoying.
- Bowery Electric - Beat
- Totally numb and bleak without seeming depressive or even remotely melancholic. Is "Fear of Flying" dark and sullen or chill, perhaps even a bit uplifting?
- The Raymond Brake - Piles of Dirty Winters
- Unwound - Challenge For A Civilized Society
- Last time I listened to this album I was sitting on the couch at midnight in between trying to coax my Aunt into the car to go to the hospital. She had been diagnosed with stage 4, well, everything cancer, about 5 months earlier. It was later found that she had a bowel obstruction and needed surgery. She died about 2 months later. Anyway, I was listening to this album on the couch that night. I find I enjoy the two longest tracks the most, but I like how spunky and melodic the short tracks are. I'd say this is underrated in their catalogue.
- Ramzi - Phobiza "Noite" Vol. 2
- The Super Mario World sounds are distracting as hell!
- Neil Young - Harvest
- "Words (Between the Lines of Age)", "Old Man".
- Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
- John Martyn - Solid Air
- It's one of those cases of being absorbed in your own shit that you can't appreciate the beautiful. I suppose that's what the thesis here is. "Solid Air", "I'd Rather Be the Devil".
- Susumu Yokota - Will
- Susumu Yokota - Mix (9 track version)
- I don't usually like remix albums, but I'm glad I checked this out.
- Various - Two Years of Spring
- Troth & Chris Colla - "Rain On Ash".
- .O.Rang - Herd of Instinct
- In Gowan Ring - The Glinting Spade (1/2)
- Alvin Lucier - Music on a Long Thin Wire
- Coil - Moon's Milk in Four Phases (Bonus Disc)
- uon - uon
- Pablo's Eye - Spring Break
- Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra / As Long As I Can Hold My Breath
- In Gowan Ring - The Glinting Spade (1/2)
- Most of FSOL - ISDN ()
- Multicast Dynamics - Aquatic System
- Various – Los Angeles: Critical Mass
- TM - "Kiss (DJ Hive Remix)"
- AFX - Analord 11
- A. Feanch – Flash Resonance: T.V. Scoop
30 November 2023
- The Mask of the Imperial Family - The Mask of the Imperial Family
- This album with is suprematist(?) minimalistic cover art suddenly popped into my head yesterday while I was watching Six Feet Under. I've never heard such strange minimal synth music. It's like Monoton but even more shut-in. 4th track is my favorite.
- Red Snapper - Making Bones
- Various - Cafe del Mar: Ibiza
- "Sundance", "Fanfare of Life". Most of this fit my expectations of mind-numbing chill-out crap.
- Salon Music - M*A*S*H
- "Down Down"
- Verstärker - Aktivität
- Added this to RYM back in '17 or so. First and last tracks are the best.
- Föllakzoid - I
- Known about this album/band for years, years ago I sampled this, decided my backlog was too large at the time and never revisited it. It's pretty good.
- X.Y.R. - Pilgrimage
- Hooverphonic - Blue Wonder Power Milk
- Big and epic. This album is slowly growing on me. "Renaissance Affair", "Tuna".
- Crustation - Bloom
- "Purple", "Flame". I'm getting into another trip hop phase, now wanting to check out more of the poppy, Cafe del Mar-ish stuff from the turn of the millennium.
- Lamb - Fear of Fours
- "Soft Mistake"
- Cibo Matto - Viva! La Woman
- "Theme", "Artichoke". Love the abrupt and total change of mood taken on the last track.
- Nisennenmondai - N (second two tracks)
- Föllakzoid - II
- I wasn't expecting full-on space/psych rock. I'd heard some of their last album, I, which is practically techno. I got an appetite listening to this monotonous, repetitive krautcock, so I started listening to Verstärker's Aktivität, which proved to be a fun listen until I had to pause it after the first track to go to sleep...
- Jetty - Jetty #5
- Xmal Deutschland - Tocsin
- "Mondlicht"
- Band of Susans - Veil
- Rhys Chatham - (For 400 Electric Guitars)
- Tony Conrad - Slapping Pythagoras
- Girls Against Boys - Venus Luxure No. 1 Baby
- "In Like Flynn", "Learned It", "Bughouse".
- Orbital - In Sides
- White Willow - Ignis Fatuus
- Drove around fucking Maple Shade for Lyft while listening to this. Surely the most appropriate accompaniment to that task. "Lines On An Autumn Evening".
- Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do (bonus tracks)
- Interesting of him to publish the Soundcloud dump tracks as bonus tracks on his studio albums. They're great tracks, but true fans have already heard them all!
- Aphex Twin - Syro
- Reagenz - Reagenz
- Dettinger - Intershop
- Four Tet - New Energy
- "Two Thousand And Seventeen"
- Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do
- Fila Brazillia - Mess
- Tape Loop Orchestra - 1953 Culture Festival
- Fila Brazilia - Luck Be a Weirdo Tonight
- "Heat Death of the Universe", "Van Allens Belt".
- The Solid Doctor - How About Some Ether: Collected Works 93-95
- Glad I gave this a go, it's pretty good. Has a slick, shiny late-'90s deep house vibe to it. This guy is crazy prolific. I like the last 2 tracks.
- TV on the Radio - Return to Cookie Mountain
- Rec from J. "I Was a Lover"
- Bullitnuts - A Different Ball Game
- The Solid Doctor - How About Some Ether: Collected Works 93-95
- Richard Wright - Broken China
- The Sushi Club - Sushidelic
- The Breeders - Safari
- Richard Wright - Wet Dream
- Mike Weis - In Low Light (Music for the Winter Solstice)
- Frigid morning walk.
- Pink Floyd - The Division Bell
- Evan Caminiti - Coiling
- Chihei Hatakeyama & Dirk Serries - The Storm of Silence
- Raul Lovisoni - Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo
- To Rococo Rot - Veiculo
- Chihei Hatakeyama & Dirk Serries - The Storm of Silence
- Fell asleep to the first track :P. It's pleasant enough, have to revisit.
- Tadashi Kamada - After Music
- Floatpoint - Beam Error
- "Maze"
- Cosey Fanni Tutti - Time To Tell
- White Prism - Reappear (2/2)
- Thoughts On Air - Mallo Yallo
- Curve – Pink Girl With The Blues
- Been into Curve's later stuff lately. I love the track "Low and Behold", with that serious, cyberpunky electronic rock sound. They're the ultimate electronic-industrial-goth band.
- RAP - Hysteria
- Felisha Ledesma - Fringe
- White Prism - Reappear (1/2)
- Tetsu Inoue – Yolo
- Sunny Day Real Estate – How It Feels to Be Something On
- Starting to grow on me. "Every Shining Time You Arrive", "Roses in Water"
- 3.11 – Dissolve In Patience
- Love the clicky, dubby track around 28 min ("Wet Whip"?).
- Boo Williams – Home Town Chicago
- Pet Shop Boys - Behaviour
- Thoughts On Air - Mallo Yallo
- About half of The Smile - A Light for Attracting Attention
- About half of Syzygys - Complete Studio Recordings
- Autechre - Tri Repetae
- C.K - Poverty Grasses
- Soundgarden - Ultramega OK
31 October 2023
- Konrad Schnitzler - Blau (2/2)
- Sounds like Autechre.
- The Sundays - Reading, Writing & Arithmetic
- Konrad Schnitzler - Grun
- Favorite color so far.
- Konrad Schnitzler - Rot
- Sounds like Miles Davis.
- Konrad Schnitzler - Blau (1/2)
- Konrad Schnitzler - Kassette - Detail Aus Work In Progress
- Michèle Bokanowski - Rhapsodia / Battements Solaires
- Conrad Schnitzler - Silver
- Conrad Schnitzler - Gold
- Conrad Schnitzler & Pyrolator - Con-Struct
- Pete Namlook & Lorenzo Montanà - Labyrinth
- Conrad Schnitzler - Grün (up to ~49 min)
- Nice. Next up: Blau, Gelb, Silber, Eruption, "Kassette - Detail Aus Work In Progress", Gold...
- Catherine Wheel - Like Cats & Dogs
- First time I listened to this badboy all the way through! First heard "Backwards Guitar" in 2014, junior year of high school, and that spring and summer would listen to it repeatedly. Still good. The rest is meh, the songwriting is decent but Dickinson is a bit overwrought. They lean hard into their post-grunge tendencies at some points, which sucks.
- Vladan Kuzmanović - Les Amphores Bleues
- This is literally Yume Nikki music.
- F.U.S.E. - Computer Space
- Apt title. Great that there's freeform ambient from that era, using that same '90s IDM/ambient techno sound palette.
- Bestial Mouths - Bestial Mouths
- "Cloaked"
- Pythagoron™ - Pythagoron
- 3.11 - Illuminate
- Monolake - Silence
- Black Dog Productions - Bytes
- I believe this is the first time I listened to this all the way through. Last of the Artificial Intelligence series I completed. Some good stuff, but it's my least favorite.
- Throbbing Gristle - Adrenalin / Distant Dreams (Part Two)
- Have liked "Distant Dreams (Part Two)" for a while now. I love TG's use of glockenspiel. Unexpected for this band but adds a lot.
- Pale Saints - In Ribbons
- "Thread of Light", "Hunted", "Hair Shoes", "Liquid"
- Richard Chartier - Untitled Tapes: 1991-1993 (2/2)
- Pretty good dark ambient. I like this better than his artsy microsound stuff.
- Richard Chartier - Retrieval 1-5
- Oöphoi - The Rustling of Leaves
- R'aison D'etre - The Empty Hollow Unfolds
- Haroumi Hosono - N.D.E.
- "Heliotherapy"
- James Johnson - Entering Twilight
- Richard Chartier - Untitled Tapes: 1991-1993 (1/2)
- Supreme Particles - Light As Skin
- The Breeders - Pod Demos
- Autolux - Future Perfect
- The Mob - Let The Tribe Increase
- The 7th Plain - My Yellow Wise Rug
- Aphex Twin - Richard D. James Album
- Luna - Nestvarne Stvari
- Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
- "My New Career", "Swing".
- Land - Opuscule
- Spacetime Continuum - Emit Ecaps
- Ride - Coming Up For Air
- The Associates - Fourth Drawer Down
- The Wake - Here Comes Everybody
- Longmont Potion Castle - 6
- "Dog Gnash" had me in tears.
- Mercury Rev - Deserter's Songs
- Kyuss - Welcome to Sky Valley
- Tuxedomoon - Half-Mute
- Tuxedomoon - Suite en sous-sol / Time to Lose / Short Stories
- Finishing the rest of this this morning. "The Cage" has had an unexpected impact on me in terms of sexuality and the loneliness it brings. I didn't know that would come from Tuxedomoon. "Blind" is good too.
- Blonde Redhead - Sit Down For Dinner
- "Melody Experiment"
- HCMJ - 의미
- Wamdue Kids - These Branching Moments (last 20 min)
- Iury Lech - Musica Para el Fin de Los Cantos
- "Barreras"
- Fluorescent Heights - Strange Lagoon Found At Nightfall
- k2dj - stay inside
- Thoughts On Air / Tricorn And Queue - Thoughts On Air / Tricorn And Queue
- S.M.D.A - Depth Lurker
- Roy Whenary - Starlight
- Caustic Window LP
- "Flutey", "Mumbly", "101 Rainbows Ambient Mix". Don't care for the hard noisy acid shit like "Cunt", sounds like what I imagine electronic music generally sounds like to old people.
- Wamdue Kids - These Branching Moments
- First 37 driving home from Brandywine, i-95 at night.
- Autechre - Incunabula
- Balam Acab - See Birds
- Bark Psychosis - Scum
- Squarepusher - Hard Normal Daddy
30 September 2023
- The Postal Service - Give Up
- I remember hearing "Such Great Heights" on alt rock radio when I was a preteen, so I've been dismissing it - althought I've always had a soft spot for Death Cab For Cutie, and I love Ben Gibbard's voice and lyrics - as cloying indie pop bullshit until now. It's actually a great song. "Natural Anthem" is pretty good too.
- Lost Balance - Aircontrol
- Angel'In Heavy Syrup - IV
- Diablo Swing Orchestra - Sing Along Songs for The Damned & Delirious
- Blueboy - Bank of England
- Arto Lindsay - Prize
- "Ondina", "Prize".
- Akira Rabelais - v
- Dirty Vegas - Days Go By
- I haven't thought about this song in a good 17 years. So when I put it on I expected some NOW!-fodder pop garbage. Yet I can't see a single thing I dislike about it. It's a legit house track in the vein of Underworld.
- John Beltran - Ten Days of Blue
- Ismistik - Remain
- Lemongrass - Filmotheque
- Current 93 - Ἀρχη א Τελος
- Today this album was experienced on a rainy afternoon in everyday melancholy. I'm not in despair, but realize now that this is a perfect sonic representation of it.
- Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic
- William Basinski - A Red Score In Tile
- Pale Cocoon - 繭
- "Mizutamari", "Onshitsu", "FLALORM", "Laboratory Under the Bluesky".
- Cabaret Voltaire - 2x45
- "Get Out of My Face"
- Heldon - Heldon IV "Agneta Nilsson"
- Life Without Buildings – Any Other City
- "Young Offenders"
- The Orb - Blue Room
- Move D - Kunststoff
- "77 Sunset Strip", "In/Out (Initial Mix)".
- John Beltran - Ten Days of Blue
- Telefon Tel Aviv - Immolate Yourself
- "The Birds", "You Are The Worst Thing In The World".
- Underworld - Dubnobasswithmyheadman
- Carl Craig – More Songs About Food And Revolutionary Art
- "Televised Green Smoke", "Butterfly", "As Time Goes By (Sitting Under A Tree)".
- Electro Harmonix (Jonah Sharp & Tetsu Inoue) - Electro Harmonix
- Grown on me.
- Pete Namlook & Lorenzo Montanà - Labyrinth
- First entry. First entry only. Very good.
- Rachel's - Selenography
- Labradford - A Stable Reference
- "Comfort"
- Labradford - E Luxo So
- "By Chris Johnston, Craig Markva, Jamie Evans,"
- Labradford / Stars of the Lid - The Kahanek Incident, Volume 3
- Good!
- Labradford - Fixed::Content
- Boys Life - Departures and Landfalls
- "Fire Engine Red"
- The House of Love - The House of Love
- Thom Brennan - Shimmer
- Labradford - Mi Media Naranja
- "V", "P".
- Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon
- Listened to the CD for the first time. Beautiful, mild, sunny day.
- Tomahawk - Tomahawk
- "Flashback"
- Longmont Potion Castle - Vol. 8
- Maurizio Bianchi - The Plain Truth
- Main - Dry Stone Feed
- "Dry Stone Feed"
- Rifle Sport - White - Made In France
- "Certain Situations", "Liquid".
- Die Haut - Head On
- I liked the Kid Congo Powers tracks and "Don't Cross My Mind".
- Uzi - Sleep Asylum
- Salem 66 - Salem 66
- I am telling you a secret that even I don't know. "Lemon Rind", "Pony Song".
- Breaking Circus - The Ice Machine
- "Song of the South", "Caskets and Clocks", "Where".
- Breaking Circus - The Very Long Fuse
- "Monster's Sanctuary", "Christian Soldiers", "Morning".
- Then Dof - Mycrocosmycs
- Dronæment - Ezoterick Soundzcapes
- More watery, rough drone typical of the Mystery Sea label.
- Exael - Vanishing Act
- Breaking Circus - The Very Long Fuse
- Breaking Circus - Smoker's Paradise
- "Medicine Lake"
- Miroque - Botanical Sunset (2/2)
- "Harushion Sky Ocean", "The Morning Calm".
- Of A Mesh - Of A Mesh
- Longmont Potion Castle - Vol. 4
- "bruschotti"
- Longmont Potion Castle - Vol. 8
- Forrest - Beyond The Withered Hills
- Sub Loam - Ohr
- Miroque - Botanical Sunset (1/2)
- Oöphoi - I Hear the Woods Whispering
- Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine: Biomech
- First listen through was around 8am while pulling wineberry in the woods in Chadds Ford, September or October 2019. "Seventh Wave", "Life", "Hide Nowhere", "Bastard"
- cv313 - Analogue Oceans
- Variant - Sequential Sleep [Granular Mix]
- Amorphous Androgynous - Tales of Ephidrina
- Growing on me. Also, the bass on "Auto Pimp" sounds like the bass in the Donkey Kong Country soundtracks.
- Switchblade Symphony - Serpentine Gallery
- "Dissolve"
- Pretty Girls Make Graves - Good Health
- "The Getaway", "Speakers Push the Air", "If You Hate Your Friends You're Not Alone".
- Camera Obscura - Let's Get Out of This Country
- Variant - Sequential Sleep [Ver 0.0]
- Liked the unreleased granular dub.
- cv313 - [ The Other Side ]
- Sprain - As Lost Through Collision
- "Worship House"
- Glassjaw - Worship and Tribute
- Good god, I'm still in love.
- Radius - Interpolation Tapes Restoration One
- Radius - Interpolation Tapes Restoration Two
- Labradford - Labradford
- Early 2017 afternoon nap canon. I realized just yesterday how great "Midrange" is.
- Labradford's 1996 Peel Session
- Relmic Statute - Sitting Under the Lanterns Glow
- "1rhet Ednalnge", "The Ziakfand Loop", "Tape Loop 2".
- Keith Rowe & John Tilbury - Duos For Doris
- Been putting this album off for a while. Surprisingly good.
- Nine Inch Nails - Still
- This is now my favorite version of "The Day The Whole World Went Away".
- Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Killer Whale Atmospheres
- Seems more like middle of the road dub techno, doesn't distinguish itself as did his previous works under this alias..
- Supersilent - 6
- This has long been praised by RYM. I thought this would be this inaccessible EAI album with musicians discordantly improvising like AMM. It's more like a kind of psychedelic-drone almost-rock. Not too bad.
- Bark Psychosis Live at Commonwealth Institute London 8/15/1991
- The guitar-led rendition of "The Loom".
31 August 2023
- Whisperer - Shroud
- Scissors And Sellotape - Scissors And Sellotape EP
- Glitchy toy manipulations, sometimes crossing into IDM. Seems to use the lo-fi "tape" sound occasonally, intentionally, as a texture, rather than that being a result of the limitations of the medium like in The Humble Bee's works. It's more like how Burial and downtempo artists use vinyl crackle effects to symbolize antiquity or something than the artist just choosing to record with old equipment. Sometimes you can hear the "lo-fi" shifting in and out, and it's kind of odd, like the music is straddling eras.
- Philip Samartzis & Sachiko M - Artefact
- Toshimaru Nakamura & Sachiko M - Un
- Good!
- Spiracle - Ananta
- Hum - Caldron of Winds
- Daughter of the Industrial Revolution - Variable Resistance (Parts 001-003)
- Steve Roden - Light Forms
- Good. I have a migraine. If I had only heard this in summer 2019.....
- 7038634357 - Neo Seven
- Upper-middle-glass white girls absorbed in black culture, wearing hoodies and oversized t-shirts. Some of the pauses got me! "Square Heart", "Acolyte".
- Carmen Villain - Only Love From Now On
- Some is very Jon Hassel, but it's unique. "Future Memory"
- Whisperer - Shroud
- Pretty good. The first track is great stretched-piano ambient like Akira Rabelais' software experiments, and "Still" is a clunky piano piece (by a composer called Ju-Ping Song) that's unlike anything I've heard on Cotton Goods.
- September Plateau - Occasional Light
- Tujiko Noriko - Blurred In My Mirror
- Live Skull - Dusted
- Loop - A Gilded Eternity
- Babes In Toyland - Fontanelle
- "Bruise Violet", "Handsome and Gretel".
- MariMari - 耳と目そしてエコー
- "Wordless"
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - I Hope It Lands
- .O.Rang - Fields & Waves
- Tuxedomoon - Short Stories
- Perfect music for wallowing in one's loneliness. "The Cage"
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - I Hope It Lands
- "Triple X"
- Yo La Tengo - And Then Nothing Turned Itself Inside-Out
- Washington Crossing, quiet ivy hollow near sunset
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Wormed By Leonard
- "Out in the Kitchen"
- Vieux Farka Touré and Khruangbin - Ali
- Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 - Bob Dinners and Larry Noodles Present Tubby Turdner's Celebrity Avalanche
- Damn good. "He Keeps Himself Fed"
- The Sleepwalk - Upon A Brown ～エルフの死～
- Weed - Deserve
- "Silent Partner"
- downstairs J - basement, etc...
- Main - Exosphere (Mort Aux Vaches)
- Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam
- "Coney Island Cyclone", "Sweet Oddysee Of A Cancer Cell T' Th' Center Of Yer Heart", "Very Sleep Rivers".
- Terje Rypdal - Terje Rypdal
- Barre Phillips - Mountainscapes
- Lowlife - Permanent Sleep
- On Permanent Sleep, Lowlife have a big, big sound that made the title of their debut an ill-suited one. Guitars impose, chiming and ringing and howling with a rich tone bearing similarities to that of Geordie Walker on early Killing Joke albums, though occasionally reduced to a generic dream pop twinkle. The rhythm section is Will Heggie relentlessly strumming a chorus-treated bass and an otherwise subdued drumset other than the basketball-on-a-gym-floor thump of the snare drum, the pattern scarcely varying between tracks. In true '80s UK indie fashion, everything is drowning in reverb; often, like in the case of Cocteau Twins, reverb prettifies and mystifies, but here, it amplifies to the size of a big, cold arena.
- Psara - Psara
- Mentioned off-hand by tumblr's own itwashotwestayedinthewater. I should listen to Eldritch Anisette again.
- Eldritch Anisette - Eldritch Anisette
- Do Make Say Think - Do Make Say Think
- The Breeders - Pod
- "Oh!", "Metal Man".
- Meshuggah - Nothing
- Depeche Mode - Ultra
- I didn't expect to like this, I expected loud, barely melodic industrial rock. Dark, consistently groovy downtempo mixed with reverberating, bleeping and buzzing post-industrial sounds is exactly what I like, and it's great paired with Gore's vaguely religious dramatism. "Home", "Sister of Night"
- Maxwell - Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite
- "The Suite Theme"
- The Gerogerigegege – >(decrescendo)
- Finally got around to this. Pretty good!
- SICO - La Gravedad Distorsiona el Espacio
- Recommendation through YT on my upload of Zoviet France's Mohnomische. Structurally it's akin to early industrial records like ZF, SPK, perhaps some Esplendor Geometrico - a flow of bizarre sounds with the occasional vocal - but it's seemingly purely electronic. Seems like it was made with the equipment as your typical '90s IDM album, and has that classic bleep-bloop sound palette but none of the groove. All I know about this album is the shred of information that looks to be available online (via the guy who uploaded it to YT) - SICO is a duo from Mexico, their pseudonyms are XX and XY, and this - their only album - was released on some small, probably local label called Ediciones Bajo Tierra in 1998. It might be another long lost, deep internet gem for some, but I can't see it ever blowing up.
- Cows - Daddy Has a Tail!
- I had a dream I was wandering around dark concrete halls with large vacant window displays lit by fluorescent lights. The song "Boundaries" by My Dad is Dead and something from this album were involved somehow, though I've never heard this album before. I woke up at 4am with a disturbing, lingering feeling of loneliness and it was hard to get back to sleep. Hence. It's actually pretty similar to what I heard in my dream: melodic midtempo noise rock with vaguely melancholic chord progressions and a vaguely anxious singer. "Shaking", "Chow", "Chasin' Darla"
- Cluster - Sowiesoso
- Tangerine Dream - Rubycon
- Guillaume DuFay – Missa Sancti Iacobi (Performed by Cappella Pratensis)
- Terrace of Memories - Terrace of Memories
- Didn't leave much impression on first listen, but it's pretty good!
- Erykah Badu - Baduizm (last couple of tracks)
- She has a way of making a song that is heartbreaking yet somehow chill and at ease at the same time. She sings about being in love like she's a victim rather than a part of something magical. "Certainly", "Drama", "Appletree"
- Pale Saints Live at Brixton Academy (YouTube upload)
- I think I'm actually getting into this band.
- Pain Teens - Pain Teens
- Thought this'd be of a similar noise rock-post-punk-no wave ilk to Live Skull and early SY. Nope, mostly random-noise industrial. Not really my thing, but there are some interesting bits like the guitar drone on the penultimate track, and some of the samples used are compelling in themselves.
- Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
- Duster - Stratosphere
- Radiohead - Kid A
- What can I say? This album is still perfect 10.75 years after I first heard it.
- Erykah Badu - Baduizm
- The Van Pelt - Sultans of Sentiment
- The Dismemberment Plan - Change
- Muslimgauze - Citadel
- Theater 1 - Theater 11
- JTC - JTC
- The Golden Palominos - Pure
- I don't judge female singers by the sex appeal of their voice, but it's worth noting that Lori Carson's voice is distinctly unsexy for a trip hop singer. It's got this homely, librarian quality almost doesn't fit the sensual, sexual, undulating, swooping, grooving, psychedelic dub-downtempo-raga-dream-pop cocktail. I respect Carson as a singer and lyricist, though, as she's great at both. Lydia Kavanagh is another voice that appears exclusively at the very end of the album, as the lead on "Touch You". She's great too, her voice deeper than Carson's, stern and intense, and I mixed her up with Nicole Blackman, the singer on this band's next album, Dead Inside. She also did a rendition of a Walt Whitman on the Golden Palominos' previous album, and can't be seen with this band after this. OK, anyway, I still love this album.
- Theater 1 - Theater 8
- help I'm just a 21st century music consumer I'm totally lost this band isn't on discogs what is happening
31 July 2023
- Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f / in a room7 F760
- Decided to buy because I ignored Cheetah upon release and just realized how good it is. "Blackbox Life Recorder 21f"
- Dillinger Escape Plan - Ire Works
- Q and Not U - Different Damage
- Dirty Projectors - Mount Wittenberg Orca
- Propaganda - A Secret Wish
- The Wicked Farleys - Ken Theory
- Panasist – 星空のパナシスト
- A-side is great. Glorious Japanese silliness.
- Double Virgo - Eros in the Bunker
- I must admit, this whiny high-pitched British voice is kind of hot. "No Sweat"
- !!! - Myth Takes
- That stretch from "Yadnus" to "Break In Case Of Anything" is impeccable.
- Laid - Starlight City
- Deadbeat - Something Borrowed, Something Blue
- It seems like around the turn of the millennium techno producers started trying to make music that sounded like rain, that you relax to, sitting in your bedroom on a winter night in the dark. Basic Channel provoked it, Porter Ricks and Monolake started it with their debuts, and the rest of the Chain Reaction crowd hinted at it, and through the early '00s, Deadbeat carried the torch. Beats became fractured, rhythms slower and toned down, and the rainy, hazy murk made denser.
- Daughter of The Vine - Mystic Valley PKWY
- "Object/Actor"
- Orphx - Insurgent Flows
- This seems to sit in a grey area between industrial techno and dub techno, uniquely combining the noise, distorted kicks and metallic percussion of the former with the watery synths and druggy atmosphere of the latter. I'm still not a fan of noisy, thudding techno with rhythm overshadowing atmosphere or melody, but this album is unique and has some good spots, such as the skittery glass bead dub tracks like "Threshold" and the title track, and the perfect industrial-dub fusion of "Autogestion".
- Black Tambourine - Black Tambourine
- "Black Car", "For Ex-Lovers Only", "Drown", "Throw Aggi off the Bridge".
- Steve Roach - The Magnificent Void
- The Tuss - Rushup Edge
- Revisiting this uptempo, acid and glissando-rich IDM for the first time since my first Aphex Twin/AFX dive, I'm realizing how similar it is to most of Syro.
- The Tuss - Confederation Trough
- Elements Of Need - Elements Of Need
- Front Line Assembly - Tactical Neural Implant
- Einstürzende Neubauten - Kollaps
- Killing Joke - Extremities, Dirt And Various Repressed Emotions
- Live to consume / Live for momentary pleasures. "Inside the Termite Mound", "Slipstream"
- Röövel Ööbik - Peel Session 1993
- Aquila - Observations on the Loss of Culture
- Nice title, very pertinent to my recent experiences. "Knowledge"
- Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Revep
- Tweaker - The Attraction to All Things Uncertain
- Wow, this is actually great. Especially the vocal tracks, with David Sylvian and Craig Wedren (who I actually didn't recognize at first!). "Linoleum", "After All", "Take Me Alive"
- Röövel Ööbik - Popsubterranea
- Exactly what I needed this evening. "Equalized Evil Envious Eyes", "Finger On The Trigger, Transfigured", "Komik Kapital Kaput", "Motormolecular Jerk" (L-R, clockwise: Tarvo Hanno Varres, Raul Saaremets, Tonu Pedaru, Allan Hmelnitski)
- Scarling. - So Long, Scarecrow
- Laurie Anderson - Big Science
- The very familiar howl at the beginning of the title track.
- Psychic TV - Trip/Reset
- Surprisingly great - vibraphones galore. "Wrongs of Spring".
- Dessau - Exercise In Tension
- There won't be much for the old to see. "No Way", "Never Change".
- Scarling. - Sweet Heart Dealer
- I didn't dislike this album before, but it really grew on me. It's a sort of an alt rock sound but with heavy guitars, lots of chorus and distortion, but the songwriting isn't really typical of shoegaze. It's a similar sound to Catherine Wheel. I adore the gothic melodrama of Jessicka's vocals. "Band-Aid Covers the Bullet Hole", "Crispin Glover", "Alexander the Burn Victim", "Can't (Halloween Valentine)"
- Savvas Ysatis - Highrise
- Speedy J - Ginger
- Lubricated Goat - Paddock of Love
- The promised land is 6 feet deep. Long, long ago on YouTube, there was a channel called Paddock of Love that posted tons of trashy noise rock albums like this, lots of Alternative Tentacles, Amphetamine Reptile, Scaruffi-endorsed stuff, "pigfuck" , Chrome-, Birthday Party- and Foetus- derived dark/crazy/radiation-poisoned stuff and the like, of which I heard a couple but never the channel's namesake. I am admittedly surprised to enjoy this. It has a Martin Bisi cavernity, pretty catchy and fun, but of course dark. "On The Gear", "Gargoyles", "Broken Glass", "Funeral On A Spit"
- Folder - New Path
- Tubeway Army - Replicas
- "Me, I Disconnect From You", "Are 'Friends' Electric?", "Down In The Park", "Replicas".
- Kuniyuki Takahashi - Early Tape Works (1986-1993) Vol.2
- "Your Home"
- Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation
- I was interested in this album for its incubator lineup: Conrad Schnitzler, Klaus Schulze, and Edgar Froese together on one album! What could they achieve? Apparently, like Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream started as a jammy prog rock band. The title and premise is funny, considering this is basically a jam band album whose electronics aren't especially prevalent. It's mostly drumming, amusical sound effects, and ogan. But like Kraftwerk, it only took a couple years for Tangerine Dream to go full on electronic, though in principle it's not far off from Zeit, with its long tracks and improvisational feel, despite lacking the compelling atmospheres of any of the trio's later works.
- Slag Boom Van Loon - Slag Boom Van Loon
- Still in my µ-Ziq phase. I didn't really care for the original "Poppy Seed" though, except for the frantic, undulating lead synth (I do, however, love the BoC remix). I enjoyed the warm and melancholic "Spc-Ch-Pn", a quiet piano-driven track standing in direct contrast with the cacophony of the album opener, and the mellow, tribal "Sutedja". The toy piano plinking of "Butch" and distorted drum solo of "Broccoli" are similar in length and minimalism. The two longest tracks are sort of parallel bookends, having the same general quiet-to-chaos structure. I prefer "Light of India", mostly because of its (possible) namesake raga-inspired bassline. After the anxious crescendos of "Fallen Angels Entering Pandemonium", the album comes down with "Pedals", a whirling, whining, almost space rock piece that is also a highlight, and ends on a playful note with the aptly titled "Moon Base".
- Yo La Tengo Peel Session 1999
- Aphex Twin - ...I Care Because You Do
- The Heavenly Music Corporation - Lunar Phase
- µ-Ziq - Bluff Limbo
- Having not really enjoyed Tango N'Vectif, I was expecting to be totally bored with 1.5 hours of aggressive, metallic, squelchy non-dance music, this being a sort of companion album to that one. Not the case; there's so much variety, with a balance of sleepable ambient pieces and tracks of typical µ-Ziq derangement. There's even an alt rock song! The quieter, plinky ambient tracks (like "The Wheel", the second "Sick Porter", and "Ethereal Murmurings") are of course my highlights.
- Nobukazu Takemura - Child's View (last 30 min)
- Never paid this any mind apart from "Let My Fish Loose", which Aphex Twin remixed (the original is better). Pretty good overall, don't care for the rapping though. "Rill", "Let My Fish Loose" and "Pastral Waltz" are highlights.
- Mount Kimbie - Crooks & Lovers
- Fumio Miyashita - White Morning 白い朝 (2/2)
- Supreme Dicks - The Unexamined Life
- I like "The Forest Song" but otherwise this album kinda sucks.
- µ-Ziq - Royal Astronomy
- Put this off for so long due to its reputation as an inferior follow-up to Lunatic Harness. It's pretty good, mostly because there's a lot of variety, but I still don't like aggressive drill'n'b "bangers" like "The Motorbike Track", which has no melody or atmosphere to speak of and rides off an annoying repeated sample. "Scaling", "The Hwicci Song" (an extremely silly track), "Carpet Muncher", "World Of Leather", and "Goodbye, Goodbye" are all great and represent this LP's variety.
- Nobukazu Takemura - Child's View (first 45 min)
- Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve
- Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990
- Some familiar, some not, nice compilation. Yoshimura - "Blink", Fumio Miyashita - "See the Light", Ojima - "Glass Chattering".
- Aphex Twin - Cheetah EP
- I completely ignored this when it was released, but it's pretty good. "CheetahT2 (Ld Spectrum)", "CHEETAHT7b". I still remember this being so hyped on release. It's surprising to me that this was only 2 years after Syro. In retrospect it feels like ages between the two, but that's just for biographical reasons.
- Inoyamaland - Danzindan-Pojidon
- Fumio Miyashita - White Morning 白い朝 (1/2)
- Mouse On Mars - Autoditacker
- "Sehnsud", "X-Flies".
- Haroumi Hosono - Mercuric Dance
- Very good. Ought to revisit.
- Zeni Geva - Desire for Agony
- Richie Hawtin (F.U.S.E.) - Computer Space
- Pretty cool to hear a longform beatless piece from the original IDM wave.
- Kuniyuki Takahashi - Early Tape Works (1986 - 1993) Vol. 2
- Haroumi Hosono - Philharmony
- "Air Condition"
- Akira Ito - Prayers
- Takashi Kokubo - Oasis Of The Wind II ~ A Story Of Forest And Water ~
- Hiroshi Yoshimura - A.I.R. (Air In Resort)
- Somei Satoh - Emerald Tablet
- Leon Lowman - Liquid Diamonds
- Haruomi Hosono – N.D.E.
- This is dope, I need to revisit. "Heliotherapy"
- Akira Mitake - Himawari
- Yukihiro Takahashi - Neuromantic
- "Glass", "Curtains".
- Everything But The Girl - Walking Wounded
- I want you to shut your mouth, that would be enough. "Before Today", "Walking Wounded", "Good Cop Bad Cop".