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  1. just finished The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. strange and thought-provoking read, really enjoyed it. can't decide what exactly happened at the end. i'm a PKD newb, but would definitely recommend to anyone.

    I read that one a few years ago. The way he describes the drug + dolls scene on mars was dreamy. I can't remember the ending though.

    I really recommend The Divine Invasion and UBIK, if you're planning on getting more Dick.

     

    I just opened Sid Sackson's Beyond Tic-Tac-Toe, which is just a book of pen-and-paper boardgames. I've always been a board game enthusiast, so I'm excited. The games I've read are already really cool.

    http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/3937/beyond-tic-tac-toe

    I also bought his co-op board game book, but I haven't read through it yet.

  2. eels - Electroshock Blues: This album was created after E's sister committed suicide and his mother passed away in the same year. As a result, the album is more depressing than their usual output (though he stays optimistic). It's a beautiful listen, and executed wonderfully in their accessible yet unique style. 8 or 9 or something decent out of 10.

     

    The Caretaker - Extra Patience (After Sebald) & Selected Memories from the Haunted Ballroom: Extra Patience (After Sebald) is great if you're a Caretaker fan boy. SMFTHB is a lot better than I expected it to be, since it was made somewhat earlier in his career (1999). The usual gloomy ballroom music and a few gritty tracks that remind me more of his work under "The Stranger". I definitely recommend it if you're a fan of Kirby's work.

     

    Odd Nosdam - if grill du rot & vol. 7.1: Two short 15-minute EPs, consisting of tracks from his old releases, and several tracks that I hadn't heard before (dunno if they're new or just unreleased). Either way, they're both free, so head over to bandcamp and git yurself a cappy. http://nosdam.bandcamp.com/

  3. Optiganally Yours - Exclusively Talentmaker: The instrumentation of this album was made with disc-based keyboards. I really love the sound of the Optigan. So many loungey beats and melodies can come out of it. If I had found this album in high-school I would have been all over it. Themes of introversion and heartbreak and all that. I can still put myself into those shoes though, so I suppose it works for me. Instrumentation-wise, this album is beautiful. The song "Held" has a fantastic high "violin" part. Makes me swoon.

     

     

    Portishead - Third: I think this is my favorite album by them, I always fluctuate between this one and the self-titled. The droney depressing production and the departure from Trip-Hop (for the most part) really makes it stand out on its own. I've probably listened to We Carry On at least 50 times. 10/10

     

    Junichi Masuda - Pokemon Red/Blue OST: I've always been astounded by how catchy and full things songs sound, yet there are no beats whatsoever. I dug out my Pokemon Master Trainer board game and played it with friends recently, using our modified rules set. We'd play the battle music when we'd try to catch a pokemon and so on. Nerdy good time.

     

    Matthew Friedberger - The Diabolical Principle: Four 20 minute tracks consisting of a mixes of the songs found in his recent 8-album "Solos" series (which I subscribed to). There are some beautiful moments from a mixing point of view (nice transitions and so on). Nice set-back music. I really recommend this album to anyone who hasn't listened to Matt previous.

     

    My girlfriend has fallen in love with the Japanese New Wave bands I've been obsessing over (especially Picky Picnic). I'm so happy.

  4. 1. The Fiery Furnaces - Ex-Guru 60

    2. Tobacco - Fresh Hex (feat. Beck) 58

    3. Radar Bros. - Quarry 48

    4. Odd Nosdam - Untitled 46

    4. Matthew Friedberger - Under the Hood at the Paradise Garage 46

    6. Picky Picnic - Pig! Me! Oh! Mambo! 44

    6. Matthew Friedberger - Seventh Loop Highway 44

    8. Matthew Friedberger - Ruth Vs. Rachel 43

    9. The Fiery Furnaces - Tropical Ice-Land 41

    9. Tobacco - Dirt (featuring Aesop Rock) 41

    11. The Fiery Furnaces - Rub-Alcohol Blues 40

    12. Matthew Friedberger - The Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company Resignation Letter 39

    13. Tobacco - Street Trash 38

    14. Matthew Friedberger - Her Chinese Typewriter 37

    14. Lorn - Tomorrow 37

    16. David Bowie - Black Country Rock 35

    17. The Strokes - Reptilia 34

    17. The Strokes - The End Has No End 34

    17. The Fiery Furnaces - We Got Back the Plague 34

    17. Matthew Friedberger - Motorman 34

    17. Deerhunter Desire Lines 34

    22. Matthew Friedberger - Up The River 33

    23. Them Crooked Vultures - Spinning in Daffodils 32

    23. Tobacco Constellation - Dirtbike Head 32

    25. Boards of Canada - Turquoise Hexagon Sun 31

    25. The Stooges - I Wanna Be Your Dog

     

    This really only documents the past 3 years. Haven't been into IDM as much as I once was. Top 25 of the past year is far more varied, but I can't seem to get the spoiler thing to work, so fuck it.

  5. Oh, didn't think of the C64. The M.U.L.E. theme is so catchy. Way better than the Atari version too.

    Streets Of Rage 3 - Night Club Theme!!!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jnPhDGxoQg

    I missed that you posted this specifically. Any time I see strobing Christmas lights, or a flashy downtown district I think of this song. SO GOOD!

     

    That soundtrack also had a gabber track.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVoy6hDlROI

  6. I have one of these

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    I got it for free for helping a guy move. The bass is great for what it is. The only con is that there's no port for me to plug my mp3 player in. I mostly play my laptop out of it (and it's the only CD player I own that supports mini-discs. I've been moving once per year lately, so I doubt I'll be investing in a real stereo system anytime soon.

    I really want a record player.

  7. change the beat: the celluloid records story 1980-1987

    Well this sounds cool. Hopefully I can get ahold of a copy one of these days.

     

    Evolution Control Committee - Gunderphonic: It's sound-collage, and about half of it isn't musical. There are two tracks of rearranged George H W Bush speeches that crack me up. And the two tracks mixing Public Enemy with Herb Alpert are pretty funny as well. None of it compares to their later hit "Rocked By Rape" though.

     

    Devo - Q. Are We Not Men? A. We are Devo!: Such a great album. Nothing else I've heard by them, other than a couple of random tracks, are nearly as good as anything on this album. For those who don't know, this album is waaaay less synth-poppy than their other output. I'd personally call it post-punk with synths and the occasional 7/4 time signature. Gut Feeling, Space Junk, and Jocko Homo are fantastic.

     

    And then I listened to a bunch of Japanese New Wave and Vaervaf.

  8. I'll pump some life into this thread in the form fragmented sentences.

     

    Kaoru Tadoroki - Uncle Calvin's Private Life: Created by one half of Picky Picnic (who I adore), this album accompanies a short comic. It can all be found here: http://freett.com/ciphervox/uncle/index.html

    The album itself is cool, it's a lot more accessible than Picky Picnic, but still contains a lot of ecstatic children's (falsetto) choir moments. There's also a lot of funky bass.

     

     

    cLOUDDEAD - cLOUDDEAD: This album really is perfect. Older-style Odd Nosdam beats, but with superb drones. Both sides of "Clouddead #5" are probably some of his best drones. Why? and Doseone's lyrics/rapping is great too of course.

     

    +Alpha - +Alpha: I'm going into another 80's Japanese No-Wave phase. This was one of the better bands I listened to, funky bass, strained vocals, I dunno really how to describe it. Some sort of post-punk. If you're interested in weird 80's Japanese music go to this blog: http://stalkingduppi.blogspot.com/

     

    Saskrotch - Nintendo Breaks Vol. 1: This is an album of harsh Breakbeats put to Nintendo songs. It's great. The seven second Excite Bike noise barrage always cracks me up.

     

    Silver Apples - Contact: A record from 1969, it was (probably) the first use of electronic instruments in a rock setting. The band consists of a guy on drums, and the lead vocalist on a ton of Oscillators. The music is very psychedelic, but still accessible. When I was listening to it I thought that I hadn't heard anything like it besides the song "We Carry On" by Portishead, and then when I wiki'd the Silver Apples I learned that "We Carry On" was a homage to them. They nailed their sound.

     

    The Caretaker - Patience (After Sebald): It's too bad this didn't get more recognition in our WATMM poll. This is probably the best Caretaker album to date. Extremely gloomy, yet beautiful songs. I listened to it before/during/after my boring night class while it was snowing and it was a nice experience.

     

    Various Artists - Green Tape: This EP sucked. A bunch of Japanese "Experimental, which was an excuse to not know how to keep time or make any decent music. Deleted all of the tracks except for like, 2 or something.

     

    Various Artists - Soft Selection 84: This album, on the other hand, was fantastic. More Japanese No-Wave, but most of it was really enjoyable. Picky Picnic made 2 tracks on it too, so that got me excited.

     

    And then I listened to a bunch Battles, Fiery Furnaces, Vaervaf, David Bowie, Sleater-Kinney, Rarney Bubble, M.I.A., Cream, Gang of Four, Boards of Canada, Slick Rick, Wagon Christ, Tame Impala, Last Step, Eels, The Horrors, Tatsuhiko Asano, and Aphex Twin. In conclusion, here's my track of the month.

  9. Got a 30, as I expected. I was diagnosed to have traits of Aspergers when I was young (while my brother does have Aspergers).

     

    These tests are always difficult for me because I have a good group of friends who I really enjoy being social with, so I never want to answer questions as if I'm anti-social. But, socializing with people I haven't met before is usually a chore for me.

     

    Edit:

    Systems: 32 (Life species mean a lot to me, while I couldn't care less about numbers)

    Empathy: 53

    Eye Thing: 27 (I was expecting to get more of the female ones wrong, due to the fact that they were wearing a ton of eye makeup)

  10. Sleater-Kinney - Call the Doctor: Listened to this 3 times now, and I've also gotten my girlfriend heavily into it, which is always a plus. The lead singer's voice is fantastic and very tuneful, which is apparently a rarity in a female-fronted punk band (if you know any others tell me). I'll have to check out more of their albums, hopefully one of them is a bit more up-beat (tempo-wise). 9/10

    Pete Rock - Petestrumentals: Smooth jazz-inspired instrumental hip-hop. Great album.

    Kid Koala - 12 bit Blues: Been listening to this a lot lately. A very under-rated album in my opinion. It's Kid Koala + Blues; what's not to love?

    I'm The Manager - The Manager's Files: Locust Toybox's/David Firth's past electric guitar solo project (he's now Stegasaurus Trap). Does a bit of layering of nice simple melodies like usual. Firth released it for free (like all of his music) so go get it: http://www.mediafire.com/?c628vscc3qqp9ui

    Deerhoof - Breakup Song: Better than the 2 past albums I've been listening to (Apple O', Friend Opportunity) and I like those albums so that's saying something.

    Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma & Los Angeles: Both are really good. I personally think Los Angeles is his best album (haven't listened to the newest or the recent EP yet though).

    Vaervaf - Eyepox: It's uh... interesting and unique. I don't think I can describe it, but It's minimal (usually), and full of odd drones and vocal effects. I really enjoyed the track "Maybess", and "First Throat/Stergujm" makes a good finale. It's free, so you might as well download it if you have nothing better to listen to: http://vaervaf.bandcamp.com/

     

    Stars Of The Lid Tired Sounds Of... i'll keep it, it's definitlely becoming my bath album but a bit boring otherwise

    The idea of a "Bath Album" is awesome, and makes me wish I had a bathtub.

    I generally listen to that album before bed while my Benadryl kicks in (which by the way makes most music amazing).

  11. Dungen - 4: Alright, I've listened to this album 4 times since the last time I brought it up. Many of the tracks are nice rock songs with guitar, sweet bass lines, drums, piano, and a Swedish male vocalist. But some of the tracks are amazing 3 minute long guitar solos layered with drum fill after fill. Fantastic album.

    Boards of Canada - Geogaddi: I realized during this past listen how often I ignore the majority of the tracks after Dawn Chorus. I never had realized how cool You Could Feel the Sky was; with the drone thing and the flutes coming in and all that.

    Black Moth Super Rainbow's first 3 albums/EP's: All of them are really good.

    Duran Duran Duran - Very Pleasure: Above average Breakcore. The song that samples some horrible McDonalds commercial cracks me up. "Hollaaaaaah, Hollaaaaaah, Mcdonald's Big-n-Tasty Burger's just a dollaaaaaah". Good shit.

    Rarney Bubble - Mega Gluestick EP: Slim Clear Jewel Case is so damn chill. It's amazing what a guy can do with a bunch of pirated software and a pair of sunglasses.

    And then I listened to Beaches' - Eternal Sphere 3 more times, and am about to listen to it again.

  12. In front of bathroom mirror,

    apply Barbasol to my neck (my favorite shaving cream, though Nivea is nice too, fuck Gillette).

    Shave a strip or two, rinse the razor in hot water, repeat

    Take a shower

     

    I'm going for the stubbly face look, so I use an electric hair-cutting buzzer thing and trim it down to somewhere between 1/4 and 1/2 an inch.

  13. Well, my lack of hours from my part-time job, in conjunction with my winter break from University has allowed me to listen to a shit-load of music. So much great stuff. A lot of nice Shoegaze/Psychedelic from the Mexican Summer label.

    Dungen - 4: This is awesome. I don't really know how to describe it, but youtube it. Swedish Rock?
    Beaches - Eternal Sphere: I've already listened to this a few times. Psychedelic-y Rock. Great female vocals (I think the whole band is women actually).
    Real Estate - Reality: Pretty good rock. My girlfriend refers to them as minimal Deerhunter (but we both belief they aren't nearly as good).
    Novos Baianos - Acabou Chorae: Fantastic Samba music, if you can even call it that. Great electric guitar solos, sunny day music, beautiful gorgeous female vocalist (voice-wise, though she is pretty too). Sadly, there are a couple of sucky tracks as well. Listen to "Tinindo Trincando" though. It's lovely.
    Casino Versus Japan + Freescha Split EP: Fantastic album, Freescha's tracks are fantastic. Thanks again for the recommendation, Troon.
    The Gaslamp Killer - Breakthrough: I'm not very impressed. I really fucking hate the transition tracks. There are a couple of decent songs, but if I don't like it after a second listen I'm gonna delete it.
    Tatsuhiko Asano - Genny Haniver: I was looking through Digital Hardcore Recordings artists, and found this cute album. It's certainly not digital hardcore. Just some nice Japanese Experimental type stuff.
    Perrey & Kingsley - The In Sound From Way Out!: Released in 1966, I believe this is considered the first Electronic album that is not considered Musique Concrete (aka, it's accessible). A lot of cute little tracks all tied together by sci-fi and future-y themes. Definitely worth a listen.

    And I listened to, like, 12 other albums. It's been a good week.

  14. Squarepusher - Just a Souvenir: I've listened to this album so much lately. The middle of the album is so beautifully intense.

    Lolita Storm - Girls Fucking Shit Up: Digital hardcore meets happy-go-lucky hypersexual feminist lyrics. They are hands-down my favorite digital hardcore band.

    Omar Souleyman - Dabke 2020: I love listening to this album as my nightly benadryl kicks in. His voice is beautiful. Lansob Sherek is so insane. 9/10

    Mr. Oizo - Lamb's Anger: Still unsure what to think of this album. In comparison to Analogue Worms, it's kinda mediocre, but that's an unfair comparison. I can see why people say The Bloody Beetroots are ripping Oizu off. On a related note, I watched Rubber again recently. Go watch that.

    Beastie Boys - Hello Nasty: Fantastic beats, witty lyrics, and a lot of really chill tracks strewn throughout.

    Battles - EP C/B EP: I adore this album. The reprise of FANTASY in DANCE gave me such ridiculous deja vu. A huge complaint I have with this album is the order the EP's are situated. If listening in order, B EP should definitely come before EP C. So many reprises just don't work the other way around (FANTASY, IPT-2/IPT 2). 9/10 (It doesn't get a 10 because the 12 minute BTTL is shit).

  15. Citizen Cope - Every Waking Moment: Alternative Rock apparently popular with stoners. My mom has been raving about him for a couple of months, and she sent me around 5 burned CD's of him. I've been pretty stressed/depressed these past couple of days, so a few of the tracks were really working for me. His chord progressions (especially his use of C to G major transitions as a base, and then using A major as a melancholic stab) were making me swoon. In many of his songs he also starts pretty simply and just adds layers and walls of sound as the song goes on. Several of the songs, however, are pretty boring, and I don't generally listen to lyrics, but I have a feeling they might be shit. I'll be listening to it later today though.

     

    Odd Nosdam - The Exciting Sounds of Level Live Wires: I assume this is a play on one of the Stars of the Lid album titles I recently listened to. This album is essentially Level Live Wires, but all of the beats are stripped, and all that's left are the drones. I really love this album. 9/10

     

    The Sight Below - Glider: I gave it another listen. It really reminds me of Ambient Works Vol. 2 with bassy kicks. 9 or 10 or something/10.

     

    Of - The Sun and the Earth Together: If you haven't heard of Of, you are missing out. This album in particular is made up of really nice agreeable drones. I don't see how any drone-lover could dislike it. His best album (in my opinion) is The Buried Stream, so check that one out if you're curious. His tracks are generally made up of field recordings, drones, and some sort of abstract sounding stringed instrument. 10/10

     

    The Stranger - Bleaklow: I kept trying to listen to this album, and then would give up at track 1. But I finally powered through track 1 and learned that it was the only track I disliked. It's similar to Ambient Works Vol. 2 (apologies to Kirby for comparing him to Aphex), but if every track was a little more grating and had the atmosphere of "Hankie". In conclusion, it's good.

     

    Julien Neto - Le Fumeur De Ciel: This album is fantastic. I put Neto up there with Casino Versus Japan, Freescha, and Charles Atlas. 10/10

     

    Squarepusher - Just a Souvenir: Holy shit this album is amazing. The vocoded lyrics in a couple of tracks, and all of the Yes sounding bass mixed with his usual beatwork is simply perfect. I haven't gotten into a Squarepusher release since the Venus No. 17 Single, so this is fun.

     

    Tim Hecker - Radio Amore: Can't stop listening to it apparently.

    The Fiery Furnaces - Take Me Around Again: I liked Matthew's remixes the best.

    Vsnares - Winnipeg is a Frozen Shithole: It was harsh/good.

    Vsnares - A giant Alien Force blah blah blah: I didn't care for it. Deleted.

    Alec Empire - Miss Black America: Such an unenjoyable listen. Deleted.

    Clark - Iradelphic: This was my second listen through. It's fine, but kind of unremarkable. I feel that Bibio does this style better. Deleted.

    Various Christmas albums by Milleu, Wisp, and John Zorn: Good stuff. Thank you to everyone who posted suggestions in my Xmas music thread. [Jeez, what a long post].

  16. This thread gives me too much music I want to listen to, but I still have a good 2 days-worth of music to power through in my library.

     

    Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Zuma: Sometimes Neil's out of tune voice is a little too much for me to handle, but all-in-all this album is wonderful. His Guitar is so expressive, and the chord progressions are lovely. I haven't paid any attention to the lyrics yet.

     

    Bradley Strider - Bradley's Robot: I was turned off to this album because I remember listening to Bradley's Beat and hating it. But, this album is pretty awesome. It's up there with the early Analogue Bubblebaths and Xylem Tube era stuff (except for the last track, which is pretty shit, imo). I also gave a listen to that one Q-Chastic track and that one Soit-P.P. track, and they were good as well.

     

    Aphex Twin - On: I like On, I like 73 Yips, and I'm not crazy about the other two tracks. 6/10

    Aphex Twin - On: Remixes: I like the 28 Remix, and the D-Scape Remix was pretty interesting. It's about 7 minutes too long though imo. Not crazy about Reload's and Mu-Ziq's remix.

     

    Tim Hecker - Radio Amore: Beautiful. I'll have to give The Piano Drop a listen once I power through my current music collection.

     

    Aphex Twin - Quoth: I'm not sure if I had listened to this album previously. I was never a fan of the track Quoth, so I don't think I bothered with the EP. And for good reason I suppose. Iketa is kind of cool, but the Quoth remixes are about as boring as the original, and Bike Pump Meets Bucket sounds like porn music (I always thought that title was suggestive anyway). But, I totally murdered my Berzerk high score while listening to the album, so maybe I should keep it on the harddrive.

     

    Aphex Twin - Peel Session (1995): Track 1 is awesome! What the hell have I been missing this whole time? Never been a fan of original Radiator. I wish track 3 had had a better beat than a driving kick, because that melody is cool. Oh well. Definitely listen to track 1 if you haven't though. I'm surprised it was never released proper.

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    Midlake - The Courage of Others: It was pretty average alternative rock with more of a nature theme I suppose. Some of the tracks were pretty alright, but others were just boring. I might give it another chance still. 5/10

     

    Have you heard the others? I find this one very bland compared to the previous two albums.

     

    I have not. I will delete this one and give them another a chance. Do you have a recommendation?

     

    Aphex Twin - 26 Mixes For Cash: It's about time I listened to this. It's fine. Some are boring some are good.

     

    Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds Of Stars Of The Lid: Beautiful drones. It makes me want to clean house and delete all of the drone albums in my library that are shittier than this album. The Lovesong (For Cubs) trio is such a beautiful end to the album (there's a bit of a reprise and the chord progressions were perfect). I just hit part 3 of it and I'm swooning all over the place. I'm excited to listen to it again at some point.

     

    Matthew David & Odd Nosdam - Swedish Fish Split: More drones and droney songs. It was solid, but I just ended up craving Tim Hecker when I was done with it. It'll get more plays from me though since I'm a Nosdam fanboy.

     

    Andy Stott - Passed Me By: I don't understand what all the fuss is about. Perhaps I'm just turning into a cynical fuck-all of a music listener (or maybe my tastes have fallen out of line with the majority of watmm's) but I just did not feel anything much from this album.

     

    Time for Tim Hecker's Radio Amor, which is an album that I didn't care for for years, but have recently become enamored with. It's been a nice day of no work no school.

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