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Music Shit / Re: Recent Acquisitions

« on: April 05, 2013, 07:45:31 AM »

Damn, that's terrible 'bout the house/records. good luck gettin' back into things.

Nothing too crazy here but a smattering of the choicer purchases of the last month and some change:

LPs


Obviously not the best picture quality, but from L to R that'd be:
Cornelius Cardew Cornelius Cardew Memorial Concert (Impetus)
Armand Schaubroeck Steals Ratfucker (Mirror)
Royal Trux Untitled 3rd (Drag City)-OG '92 press w/ poster
The Godz Contact High With... (ESP)
The Fall Room to Live (Kamera)
Jimmy Campbell Half Baked (Vertigo)
Alvin Lucier I Am Sitting In a Room (Lovely)
Venom P. Stinger Live (Anopheles)
Karlheinz Stockhausen Gesang der Junglinge-Kontakte (DG)
Moniek Darge Sounds of Sacred Places (Igloo)
Venom P. Stinger Meet My Friend Venom (No Master's Voice)

7"s


The Fall
   "Fiery Jack" (Step Forward)
   "How I Wrote Elastic Man" (Rough Trade)
   "Lie Dream of a Casino Soul" (Kamera)
   "Look, Know"/"I'm into C.B." (Kamera)
   "Kicker Conspiracy" (Rough Trade)
Swell Maps
   "Let's Build a Car" (Rough Trade)
   "Dresden Style" (Rough Trade)
Dead C
   "Hell Is Now Love" (Siltbreeze)
   "Mighty" (Forced Exposure)
   "Vs. Sebadoh" (Siltbreeze)

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: SOGGY 45 reissue

« on: March 18, 2013, 11:24:01 AM »

I'll be the first: "American distros...?"

Fusetron stocked the Repulse RE at at a reasonable price so hopefully they'll pick this one up too? Def. want to get a hold of a copy, my two favorite Soggy tracks right here.

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Non-Music Shit / Re: This just in: St. Patrick's Day Still Sucks

« on: March 17, 2013, 04:14:40 PM »

i've been putting off those comps. but i think i'm gonna have to grab 'em eventually. so far parm and ferrari have been my favorite, no surprises there.

yeah, so st. pat's day (mainly yesterday, didn't see nothing too exciting walking around earlier today), got damn, what a miserable tradition. last night, headed over to philly's "university district" to catch a grip of chris marker/alain resnais collaborations. fuckin' ivy league assholes everywhere. scantily clad women crying, stumbling through a wintry mix. kid standin' in the middle of the intersection with green shirt and orange pants on, playing traffic cop. go die in a fire. inside the theater everything's as it should be. guess nobody wanted to pre-game before sitting through "Night and Fog", go figure.

leave the theatre and get a text that a bunch of people are hanging at a bar in my hood for a friend of a friend's birthday. don't really wanna go to a bar and deal with more subhumans but whatever. drop girlfriend off outside the place and park a couple blocks away. cross tiny, poorly lit side street towards bar and see a dude what looked like he just smoked whet holding a tree branch approx. 7-8 ft. long. he's about 15 ft. in front of me and looked like he was gonna pounce on anything within reach. we cross paths on a tiny sidewalk very awkwardly making eye contact the whole time. i watch my back as he's behind me and he just bolts in the other direction, what the fuck.

i get to the bar and my girlfriend's all "you wouldn't believe what just happened, some kid was walking down the street punching cars, signs, flower pots etc. and he hit a light hanging outside of someone's house and an old guy who looked like Santa Claus came out and started chasing him, than he tore down a tree branch to ward him off and started running in the direction you just came from!"

Inside the bar it weren't so bad, just some typical wasted frat lookin' dudes who were falling over and left within 45 min. of me being there. but yeah, fuck st. patrick's day.

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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 19, 2013, 12:29:20 PM »

Yeah, most what I mentioned isn't New Age at all, just has some ambient qualities. Ojas Seven Levels of Man is good proto-NA and possibly closer to what you're after. As far as contemporary stuff goes, pre-Blues Control band Watersports are one of the few respectable acts I can think of that actually categorize themselves as "New Age."

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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 19, 2013, 10:46:37 AM »

Looking for beautiful but heady new age & ambient music.  Recommendations anyone?

I'm a novice in this area myself, but a couple that readily spring to mind are:

Ashra New Age of Earth
Manuel Gottsching Inventions for Electric Guitar
Harold Budd Pavilion of Dreams
Budd/Eno The Pearl

Even though it's got spoken word over the whole thing I think Robert Ashley's Private Parts is one of the most calming pieces of music I've ever heard and fits the criteria well enough. And some NWW shit, particularly Soliloquy for Lilith and Spiral Insana. Oh, and that Mad Music, Inc. reissue that came out of Drag City fairly recently. Even some Basic Channel. This is all pretty entry level shit. If you've got the stomach to sift through it Waxidermy is filled with info. on the topic.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Medusa Chicago 1975 Prog Hard Rock Psych ON SALE FINALLY

« on: February 05, 2013, 09:02:22 AM »

Mine's on black as well. Just wanna echo all the praise for this thing. Seriously looks and sounds great. Diggin' the unreleased Wicked Lester trax too.

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: WANT LISTS

« on: January 23, 2013, 11:26:57 AM »

Yep. Gone by the time I found out about it. Love his stuff.

This is what happens if you unsubscribe from Volcanic Tongue to avoid 'temptation' - you miss out on 'salvation'! Already signed back up......

I'll take a spot third in line. Need the Joseph Beuys/Nam Jun Paik LP the label did last year too. And no, not the one that's up for $38.62 plus shipping from Belgium on Discogs.

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

« on: January 23, 2013, 11:15:54 AM »

Gonna steal the ?post a picture of cover art then comment? format ?cos it?s a slow day and it?s nice to have something to look at.

So far:

I recall someone on here (Whet Bull?) saying something along the lines of Palestine being an obnoxious character. I totally agree that his whole shtick is dumb as fuck (the stupid clothes, the stuffed animals, the name) but I just can?t deny shit like this. Around the 24' mark when the whole piece shifts it?s total Heavenly Minimal Ball Massage City. I?ll gladly spend a morning within those municipal limits anytime.


I come back to this one a lot. Not huge on Blooze revival from any era but the songs and overall vibe on this is strong. ?Draft Board Blues?, now that's a fuckin? hammer.


Never, or at least rarely, gets old. Been playing it at least once a day the last couple. Follow up sounds interesting (on the Country Rock tip I guess) but I never heard it. Need to get on that.


Interesting figure, Scelsi. Like, not many people really knew he was doing this stuff that was so far ahead of its time until he was almost dead. Thought that shit only happened to writers. I?m particularly fond of the choral stuff on ?Uaxuctum.? Chicken dinner shit right there.


Totally pedestrian compared to the first one (how do you follow that up anyway though?), but it?s got some trax. Highlights include the ?Spoonful? cover and ?Paradise Beach?.

On deck, this guy:

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Music Shit / Re: Icky Boyfriends

« on: January 15, 2013, 02:53:42 PM »

Weird, I listened to the first disc of A Love Obscene for the first time in a long while before seeing this.

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

« on: December 10, 2012, 12:06:13 PM »

LP, 1977, US. Moody and quiet contemporary electronic music with some basson, flute and cello. Enjoyable but nothing amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcjHQQxAJlk

If you find that Bear-man unimpressive you should check out this comp.:



Pretty, uh, amazing at times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAh2WhH_S4g

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

« on: December 10, 2012, 11:50:43 AM »

As for wanting a gay CD, I do, that's who.  Funny to use Morton Feldman recordings as a reason not to buy CDs - if anything, his work is perfect for CDs or even DVD-A.

I was half-joking with that comment. I don't think there's any doubt that this stuff, as well as shit like EAI, is best suited for the CD format. I mean besides the fact that it would be incredibly expensive to press on vinyl, I wouldn't really want to filp over For Christian Wolff like 8 times or whatever-would kinda kill the mood. Still, I can't shake the bias I have towards CDs since I stopped purchasing them as a teen, and the accompanying feeling that I'm throwing my money away spending $30+ dollars on something that doesn't have the same aesthetic appeal as an LP sleeve. But still, if it's the only format and something as essential as Feldman it does soften the blow.

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Music Shit / Re: What are you listening to and what do you have to say about it? Part V

« on: December 08, 2012, 01:49:18 PM »

Later tonight, I plan on piping Xenakis through the speakers while totally drunk and reeling.  Probably won't last long, but I like the idea of it.

do this on a regular basis. one of my favorite pass times.

there's a bunch of feldman's long ass later pieces available on youtube in full, which is great 'cos the ones that are in print tend to be expensive and who wants a gay CD?

WB-i'm pretty sure both those Litgeti pieces, as well as a few others, are in 2001, but it's 'Atmospheres' in the "trippy scene."

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Music Shit / Re: 2012 Best

« on: December 08, 2012, 01:15:22 PM »

as for music released for the first time this year (like everyone else i bought more reissues than anything, too many good ones to sort out really), pretty dec. year for LPs looking back on in it. top ten i guess would be:

Astor Alcor (Kye)
FNU Ronnies Saddle Up (Load)
Helm Impossible Symmetry (Pan)
Jason Lescalleet Songs About Nothing (Erstwhile)
Mad Nanna I Made Blood Better (NGL)
Modra The Line for the Men's Room (Savage Quality)
Mountain Cult S/T (LBC)
Richard Papiercuts A Sudden Shift (Pena)
Michael Pisaro/Toshiya Tsunoda Crosshatches (Erstwhile)
Scott Walker Bisch Bosch (4AD)

still plenty of stuff i haven't gotten around to hearing yet (cheater slicks is on the way to my house now, for instance). close calls i don't think anyone's mentioned yet: Mark Feehan MF, newest Kevin Drumm and Blues Control LP. Can hardly think of any 7"s, but Satanic Rockers was a favorite surprise, and the new Pink Reason one is fantastic. Folded Shirt as just mentioned, too.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: Drose 12/12-16 (Pittsburgh, Allentown, Philadelphia, Brooklyn)

« on: December 03, 2012, 01:33:10 PM »

Cool.  Will make the Vitus show.  Crazy lineup, United Waters in there, post-Mouthus thing.  Nice flyer for Philadelphia, tommmmmmm.

thx. man, wish i could attend st. vitus show myself. line up looks sikkk.

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Upcoming Shows/Tours/Events / Re: Drose 12/12-16 (Pittsburgh, Allentown, Philadelphia, Brooklyn)

« on: December 02, 2012, 06:54:30 PM »

Flyer for Philly show: