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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: March 25, 2015, 05:35:29 PM »

The Fieldhands are such a weird band. Like you said on paper it seems like it would be terrible but their discography is surprisingly solid. Plenty of songs I don't care for but not sure they ever cut a bad record. I like Discus as much or more than Wattle & Daub and the early SB singles and "In the Pineys" 10" are highly recommended if you dig those.

Feel 'ya on Letha's latest as well. She just kept getting better w/ each new release...

Late on this, but thanks for the Fieldhands recommendations. And yeah, I didn't expect to like Shimmering Ghost more than Handbook for Mortals but I'm pretty sure I do.

No prob, hope 'ya dig.

Man, Topography of the Lungs, whatta head cleaner. Can't play too often, but when mood strikes it really does clear the senses. Noticed it was reissued awhile back as well but didn't pick up. Still holding out hope I'll come across an Incus copy w/i my price range, though that seems to be increasingly unlikely. Not familiar w/ these trio CDs, will maybe investigate. Though I do fear falling into another Bailey k-hole, what w/ the bleeding eyes, fin growing, muddy discharge and what have 'ya...

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Music Shit / Re: Difficult Listening Made Easy Podcast

« on: March 25, 2015, 05:01:04 PM »

Vol. 3:

-Mama Dada 1919 'Ripped Glass' Slits, Quick E.P. (Out, 1979)
-Henri Chopin 'Les Pirouettes Vocales Pour Les Pirouettements Vocaux' Les Mirifiques Tundras & Compagnie (Alga Marghen, 1997)
-Ora Clementi 'Side A' (excerpt) Cover You Will Softer Me (Penultimate Press, 2014)
-Velvet Underground 'Run, Run, Run' Warlocks/Falling Spikes (Fantastic Plastic, 1986)

-Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments 'Outside My Scene' Straight to Video (STV 2015; Anyway, 1997)
-Counter Intuits 'It Ain't True' Right Side of History (Loki, 2014)
-Mike Rep 'Doesn't Take Away the Pain' Darby Creek Drifter (540, 2014)
-Ego Summit 'American Dream' The Room Isn’t Big Enough (Old Age/No Age, 1997)
-Jim Sheppard 'Illogical' V-3’s Next Record (no label, 2011)

-Skinner 'untitled' (excerpt) Sound for a Millstone (no label, 2014)
-A.Bolus 'Bronchial Lavage with Saline and 5% Benzo' (excerpt) Tropical Poolside Drainage (Vitrine, 2015)
-No Intention 'The Strange Window' +B (Robert & Leopold, 2015)
-Blacklight Braille 'Zero Point One Seven Four' Margie Ate Some Marmalade E.P. (Vetco, 1987)

-Darksmith 'Side B' Total Vacuum (Hanson, 2010)
-The Rebel 'American Beauty' Tarscoffsky’s the Snackrifice E.P. (Emperor Jones, 2007)
-Good Missionaries 'The Force is Blind' Fire From Heaven (Deptford Fun City, 1979)
-Daevid Allen w/ New York Gong 'Much Too Old' Jungle Windo(w) E.P. (Charly, 1982)

https://soundcloud.com/difficultlisteningmadeeasy/dlme-vol-3

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Music Shit / Re: Obscure (ish) classic bsides

« on: March 16, 2015, 07:52:27 PM »

Too obvious? :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3SicHl4dZA

I actually dig the A as well, but it's 'bout as square as it gets.

Another overt entry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSAlCqtMh8U

Probably just a product of over-exposure, but I prefer it over "Son of Sam" at this point.

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Music Shit / Re: What's your crown jewel?

« on: March 15, 2015, 10:47:48 AM »

Off the top of the dome, probably Cornelius Cardew/Scratch Orchestra The Great Learning.

That would be one of mine too.  And yet I forgetted it.  I think I paid $75 for it, which is at the upper reaches of what I pay for shitz. 

Hi, tommm.  Sorry about the Dockstader bidness.  Under pressure like Bowie and Merc.

Yo word don't worry about it. It is the Internet and all.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: March 14, 2015, 12:02:55 PM »

Mind is currently being mildly-razed by this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGWSILbP4S0

So much to chew on--the guy on electronics Hawaiian shirt, the solemnity of the press photographers, the vast age gaps btw band members (highlighted by starry-eyed bass player who can't be a lick older than 18 and the totally jaded-looking drummers). Music is quite nice, too.

And this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbK7ZUKZowY

Dunno what they're going on 'bout in the i/v segments but the parts where they play their funny instruments in front of fellow longhairs and the occasional bemused townsfolk are ace. Underrated band, I think.

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Music Shit / Re: What's your crown jewel?

« on: March 14, 2015, 11:40:43 AM »

Off the top of the dome, probably Cornelius Cardew/Scratch Orchestra The Great Learning. I have moer raerer, sure, and Corny didn't like fart on my copy after rejecting abstract music in the mid 70's (tmk), nor did I discover it in a dumpster or anything, I just really like the record and it took me forever to find for the rite price in the U.S. I'd sell if I got a complete Avantgarde Vol. 4 DG box set, in which OG's are included, but chances of landing that for what I'm willing to pay are unlikely.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: March 13, 2015, 10:59:57 AM »

Strapping Fieldhands, Wattle & Daub LP - Very glad for the inexplicable inspiration to pull this out. Never really clicked before but now I've played it several times over the past two days. Good mix of indie rock from that period, scattered experiments, some Brit pop, some whimsy (oh the whimsy), this mess somehow coming together in a coherent way that bands like the Olivia Tremor Control could only dream of. I only have this and the latest 7" on Richie so I've got some backtracking to do.

Letha Rodman Melchior, Shimmering Ghost LP - Her last one really hit me in the chest, but I think that had a lot to do with going in with zero expectations and hearing this playful, mournful, transportive memory device. This new one's hard to separate from her passing for a lot of reasons, and musically it comes across as a lot more somber and dark to me. Harp flutters in and out of these low droney affairs, mumbled passages wrapped in static or lost in the fog, all of it giving the idea of living with restricted access to the outside world. A slow separation. It's a heavy affair but it's also been great company on late nights when the outside traffic dies down.

Liturgy, The Ark Work - Total fucking clusterfuck that I can't stop listening to. If more people had a chance to ignore the press release and any interviews with Hunter Hunt-Hendrix, I think this would be a lot easier to swallow for the metal community. But the internet being what it is, hardly anyone will be able to listen to this without some bias, myself included. It took a few listens and now it's really coming together for me. There's a lot to digest as it's instrumentally dense like latter-day Swans, but it's fluid and it swells and breaks apart, and really goes by fast for being an hour-long record. Not a huge fan of the vocal style - a friend made the point that he should be singing from his throat, not his nose - but it's a small contention, as the vocals are usually chanted in a way that makes them blend in over time. And Greg Fox is still one of the best drummers in the game.

Still regularly listening to Starlito, Fried Turkey is a pretty great mixtape of his. New Freddie Gibbs EP was kinda disappointing after a few listens.

Gotta grab that Brando's Island 7" from Bruce, that fucking "You don't have to get, out of your SEAT" line has been stuck in my head for days: https://soundcloud.com/million-dollar-records/brandos-island-auto-warfare

The Fieldhands are such a weird band. Like you said on paper it seems like it would be terrible but their discography is surprisingly solid. Plenty of songs I don't care for but not sure they ever cut a bad record. I like Discus as much or more than Wattle & Daub and the early SB singles and "In the Pineys" 10" are highly recommended if you dig those.

Feel 'ya on Letha's latest as well. She just kept getting better w/ each new release...

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Music Shit / Re: Best Alice Cooper Records

« on: March 11, 2015, 11:49:08 AM »

Always been a Killers man myself. Cannot fuck w/ "Halo of Flies." Also partial to Pretties for You but that sounds little like what came after. I'm sure there's bigger fans here that can offer more thorough takes.

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Music Shit / Re: Difficult Listening Made Easy Podcast

« on: March 11, 2015, 11:30:53 AM »

Vol. 2:

-Unknown Artist 'Side A' (excerpt) The Quatrillion Tapes (Loki Label, 2015; unreleased, 19??)
-Semool 'Essais 3' Essais (SouffleContinu, 2015; Futura, 1971)
-Mahogany Brain 'The Secret Body of Wind' With (Junk-Saucepan) When (Spoon-Trigger) (SouffleContinu, 2014; Futura, 1971)
-Fille Qui Mousse 'Esplandae' Trixie Stapleton 291 (Bichon, 2010; unreleased, 1971)
-Cheater Slicks 'Thinkin Some More' Live Vol. 3 (Columbus Discount, 2014)

-William S. Burroughs 'Just Checking Your Summer Recordings' Nothing Here Now but the Recordings (Dais, 2015; Industrial, 1981)
-Brion Gysin 'The Master Musicians of Joujouka' (excerpt) Back in No Time (Sloow, 2014; unreleased, 19??)
-Sten Hanson 'Dance Figure' Text-Sound Compositions (Fylkingen, 1978)
-Idea Fire Company 'Stranded II' Stranded (Swill Radio, 2005)
-Roxy Music 'Something-Everything' …When You Were Young (No Label, 1981)

-The Spunks 'Another Song About Beer' A Sporran of Carrots (Albert's Basement, 2015)
-H.N.A.S. 'Brate Mich Auf Offenem Feuer' Melchior (Aufmarsch Der Schlampen) (United Dairies, 1986)
-Letha Rodman-Melchior 'Meitus Fabricius' Shimmering Ghost (Siltbreeze, 2015)
-Dan Melchior-Rodman 'Tropical Hospital' (excerpt) Rodman Melchior Melchior Rodman (Fabrica, 2014)
-Legendary Stardust Cowboy 'Standing in a Trashcan' (Spider, 1989)
-Charlie Tweedle 'Side D' (excerpt) Fantastic Greatest Hits (Ever/Never//Mighty Mouth, 2015; unreleased, 1974)

https://soundcloud.com/difficultlisteningmadeeasy/dlme-vol-2

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Little Big Chief Records Updated

« on: March 06, 2015, 11:38:02 AM »

Wish the AT wasn't so pricey!

Yo for real (though I know the dealer can't help that)! I'm stuck because this reissue shit has been out of hand for awhile now and I really can't justify forking it over on 'em anymore, but then I read "additional LP with previously unreleased recordings from the same time period" and they got me on the line. So, same song and dance as ever. Can you speak to the quality of the archival stuff Brock? I trust your judgment.

This record really is a steamroller though, huh? I love how fragmented it all is; always seemed like a proto-DIY type bag to me. Wonder if Mark Perry or L.Voag were hip to it back when.

while the original LP is a killer hodge podge, the archival live stuff is REAL jammy.  it's really fantastic!

Word, I dig Delayed which gets pretty jammy, I'll hit 'ya up in a minute. Why start showing restraint now? 

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Little Big Chief Records Updated

« on: March 05, 2015, 09:46:58 PM »

Wish the AT wasn't so pricey!

Yo for real (though I know the dealer can't help that)! I'm stuck because this reissue shit has been out of hand for awhile now and I really can't justify forking it over on 'em anymore, but then I read "additional LP with previously unreleased recordings from the same time period" and they got me on the line. So, same song and dance as ever. Can you speak to the quality of the archival stuff Brock? I trust your judgment.

This record really is a steamroller though, huh? I love how fragmented it all is; always seemed like a proto-DIY type bag to me. Wonder if Mark Perry or L.Voag were hip to it back when.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: February 28, 2015, 01:24:25 PM »

You'll have to forgive Whet. He is, like all of us, attempting to come to grips with his own mortality.

Yet, by virtue of procreation, he has achieved a kind of immortality. Much like Dockstader and his works.

Ah, now, there, we have it -- the cycle of life. We are all connected. A tape loop into infinity.

Water music for a dry earth.

Daub those tears! There's always another Nicki Minaj remix coming down the pike.

The circle of splice.

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: February 28, 2015, 12:32:20 PM »

Tod Dockstader died.

It would be difficult to overstate his importance in terms of the development of contemporary American music.

And yet you just have.  Butterfly theory aside, it's safe to say that we would still be listening to Coneheads and Nicki Minaj with or without "Omniphony."

Are we "seriously bummed" that Dockstader is dead?  He was 82.  Died in his sleep.  Hadn't made a record in ten years.  Until his rediscovery in the '00s he was obscure to anyone outside of academic electronic music circles. 

I like his work too; no disrespect to him, may he RIP; and sorry to pick on you, tommm, no disrespect to you either, but these constant vicarious eulogies for people we barely knew are getting to be a bit much. 

Hey: RIP evvyboddie.  #dick #sorry

Right, I hear 'ya, a lot of people drop off everyday. While I agree that the popular inclination to eulogize artists one has never met is one of the many obnoxious, albeit typically innocuous, side effects of social media and its push to #documentyourentirefuckinglife, and is usually more about the person posting it than a legitimate expression of grief at the artist in question's passing, AND that it is no great tragedy that a man who lived a long, productive life died of natural causes, when it is somebody like Bob Ashley or the Dock my gut reaction is "awww shit." I'll choose my words more wisely when I'm stoned and decide to browse a message board at 3 A.M. before passing out.

I'm not sure it was overstated though; we're not talking the guy who prims Alvin Lucier's mustache or keeps vigil over Charlemagne Palestine's toy collection (no disrespect to either, who are hopefully still alive and well). He was instrumental in developing a range of techniques and concepts that spread far wider than his own work ('butterfly theory, sure, but isn't it valid here?), much of which would still sound vital were it recorded today. But anyway...

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Music Shit / Re: What Are You Listening To And What Do You Have To Say About it? PART VI

« on: February 28, 2015, 12:13:09 AM »

Tod Dockstader died. Dude was a fuckin genius if ya ask me. Some of the best, weirdest and most fucked of the musique concrete milieu.

Well said. It would be difficult to overstate his importance in terms of the development of contemporary American music. Serious bummer.

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Music Shit / Re: Jazz Destroyers - Live at JBs 1981

« on: February 25, 2015, 04:11:43 PM »

This is incredible! Wonder how things would've played out had Dave E. not lost his marbles and went xtian...