sorry

for nt having posted at my regular rate, or the rate i want to. it's why this blog is supposed to have five writers. oh well.

Far Away In Your Mind

Here's the Hecker. Instrumental stuff. I am just getting familiar with him, so giving a description probably wouldn't do it justice. Hear nothing but good things though.

Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country

Rocks You Can Wear

Topaz Rags is some new NNF stuff fo dat azz. Wobbly and sparse piano and haunted vox, just like I like em. Thought someone said that there are person from PHaunt and Robedoor somewhere on this, but not for sure. Sounds like it though. If it were PHaunt it'd be something like Beast That You Are, perhaps. They have a tape out, too, that i ordered. Haven't seen any links for it yet.

Topaz Rags - Tarot Harem 7"

Post MPP AC

there's a new song here . some bbc session or something.

Surf's Up

aboard a title wave

courtesy of Atease via What, iirc, this is the new Wavves album

Wavvves

ps - who the shit outbid my $48 ante for the beach demon/weed demon 45 on da bay the other day??? it's a 7 inch of some dude w under 120k last.fm plays. people started to learn my gameplan, huh.

Creepin On Ah Come Up

No, not Bone Thugs N Harmony's debut EP, rather, weird folk stuff that you probably already have. If not, get it. It's free and really really good. I would buy it, but it's out of print and costs like $80 on da bay. If I had an extra 80 bones, I would spend it on this.

Woods Family Creeps - Woods Family Creeps

the nineties

Ok. I have a feeling Cold 187um (the producer, he also raps tho), smokes PCP while doing ATL albums. There is just a very specific sound that they have. It's not not typical 90's West Coast Gangsta Shit, but it's not typical, either.

Back story is like Above The Law got signed to Ruthless Records (NWA/Eazy-E's label) around the time 100 Miles & Runnin' came out, and just after the D.O.C. was in the car accident, iirc. You can tell, on the first album, without looking for the date by the structure of the album. Ruthless was trying to do something specific with their pre-NWA break up signed artists, with crew songs at the end, etc etc. Blood Of Abraham and those post-break up guys don't count because Ruthless just got weird - outside of Bone Thugs of course - after that. Eazy didn't really have any idea without Dre and Cube. What I am trying to get at, more than that, is that this is when you can start to see the evolution of Dr. Dre's production career. People have always said that he has these sort of ghost-producers, guys who are coming up with skeleton beats, and Dre just knows how to take an outline and fill it in well (at least well enough to be mainstream and sell gazillions of records). Well, Straight Outta Compton wasn't really anything dynamic production-wise, but after that, after Ice Cube left, Dre got real good at producing. Like his drums were different, he was using these deep funk gloom Moog lines, and this is something that, at least for the Efil4Zaggin and partly into The Chronic, can be directly attributed to Cold 187um. He had a particular style, esp on their first album, Livin Like Hustlers (which, fwiw, had a song called Ballin like two decades before half these fools were yelling that). But it was still unbalanced, and was generally jumbled sounding.

Anyhow, Time Will Reveal is an ATL album from after their days at Ruthless, when they were signed to Tommy Boy, during a weird part of West Coast rap where guys had kind of figured out what worked and what sold, and everyone was trying to make gangsta albums to make a quick buck. But what's different about this is that it's almost like post-west coast rap. Above The Law, here in my opinion, came out with an album well after people really were paying attention to their records that sounds like an 'I don't care' sort of attitude, but not completely. The synths creep around like no other album from that time period. Stuff that shouldn't be put together on a song is put together here, and it works. I've been listening to the single 100 Spokes non stop since finding this, and it's crazy. Like a demo, it has parts where you can imagine there should be more vocals, namely the end of the first verse, and the bridge. There is a girl singing in a style that shouldn't fit the sound. The synth is a low end key preset on what sounds like a Microkorg, which, being that it was put out in 96 may or may not be correct, as I'm not sure how long that keyboard has been around, that fuzzes around another wobbly banged out two or three keys from a more normal sounding piano. I'm gushing now and realize people probably won't make it this far, but whatever. These are the things I hold dear, and nostalgia is as significant as any other reason to like things like music.

Above The Law - Time Will Reveal

The Darling Daughters of Noise

Yes! We, or at least I, have been waiting on this. Just copped from EXBX, and can't wait to get it. Track 2 sees more strings than we are accoustomed to on P'Haunt tapes, and it's a welcomed addition to an already dope as eff sound.

Pocahaunted - Gold Miner's Daughter (from ill formed whom we love very much, just check the blogroll). Was also on Hipinion's Listening Party thread... BTW, Nathan, you need to let me in.)

Edit: Illformed doesn't steal links as far as i know. Sorry, was confusing it with BlochasGratis or WTF. They stole yesoos' links all the time.

Empty Nest

Haven't posted for a couple days because semester started/ been mainly listening to 90's gangsta shit, and figure most people here don't care about that so much. Just picked this up, not too sure what all is on it, but am assuming it's remixes/extra tracks from the album before In Ear Park. A Why? remix of Sailing By Night, couple live songs, etc etc. If you like Grizzly Bear/D.O.E. 320 bitrate

Department Of Eagles - Johnny Glaze Christmas...

Poca Olson

Tovahaunted is the collaboration of--obviously Pocahaunted, and Tova Olson of Dead Machines. This is also a one-sided LP. Enjoy.

Tovahaunted - S/T

Why I Love Ghostface Killah

i remember seeing these, probably around the time Wonder Showzen was on MTV2. oh, the wonders of youtube



and then we have the following as well... my main homeboy victrola will appreciate around the 550 mark. ha!



Like you rainbow man or something...get off that speedo shit, don't shake my hand when you fucking see me:



and finally, sex talk with GFK "sometimes you go down there and you kiss that poopoo"

Trombone Ron

Rusty Santos is basically Animal Collective/Paw Track's best dude. He records many of the albums released on Paw Tracks as well as Sung Tongs, etc. His own music is like the minor league version of AC. The Heavens really frustrates me because he gets into these fits of genius, only to quickly abandon them in favor of something lessor. Eternity Spans, however, finds a nice balance, though the highs aren't as high. He himself is probably really high.

Rusty Santos - Eternity Spans
Rusty Santos - The Heavens

sea people

...And now for something a little different. I made this a while ago. It's noise pop I guess. Think No Age underwater with some sloppy guitar playing. It'll be released on tape soon so yeah. Tell me whatcha think.

Fruit Sand - We Came From Our Parents

Capsizing

So I bought this on tape (84/100, bitches) a while back (from DNT), and honestly didn't listen to it a whole bunch. Then today I was doing my normal internet thing and I found out that this is another band that Wavves is in. Crazy (Also came to understand that Traum Ecke is Ducktails, and I had that one sitting around my bedroom, too. Gotta love when stuff like that happens). It's not as, uh, rock as Wavves as Wavves is, though I wouldn't go so far as to say it's that different than Beach Demon/Weed Demon. It's cool. The last joint is probably my favorite.

Fantastic Magic - Witch Choir

Water the mound

Hi there. To start off my being here, I decided to post one of my favorite albums of 2008. Yes, from the cover, it seems like another indie folk album but it isn't. It's the first thing in a while that I've actually been able to call "beautiful". I really can't compare it to anything else. It's like the Women album, it's hard to explain. I almost knew nothing about this band. I heard two tracks on their myspace page and ordered it. So, yeah. It's hard to evaluate so download this and buy it if you enjoy it. It's like Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 with some folk influences. It's all over the place.

Hermit Thrushes - Benaki

In Charge Of Sweating It Out

The Leak is on! If you like Silent Shout, and always wondered what it would sound like if you stripped the darkness-offsetting-beats, well, wonder no longer! I still think homegirl is the closest to an actual publishable poet in modern music. Something about not understanding English well tends to bring out cool word combinations.

Fever Ray - Fever Ray

amharic

the first time i heard Mulatu Astatke i was at work and someone put in the broken flowers soundtrack. i fell in love... or lust. my palms began to sweat and my heart began to beat fast. i was ready for it.
i mean, how could you not like funky jazz from Africa? the drums, the guitars, the grooves. this is the kind of shit Dj Shadow fans will enjoy and want to have the sex with. DO IT!

Mulatu Astatke - Ethiopiques, Vol. 4: Ethio Jazz & Musique Instrumentale, 1969-1974

Swimming in a Basement Full of Gold Coin

Why you should buy from DNT? Because Tynan puts out dope shit like this, of course! Side A is Ducktails (wooo oooh), general DT fair, Jersey summers on the shore, throwing frisbees to sweet dogs and doggs; Side B is Mudboy, who is always doing some cool shit, these are really some summertime jams, like good old G-funk but more like 4-track cassette funk. Two good artists to put together on a tape split. If you guys and gals like Mudboy, let me know, cuz there's more in the back.

Speaking of Gold Coin, does anyone remember the Game Boy game Wario and the 7 Gold Coins or some shit? Man, I need the old o.g. Game Boy back in my life. Heh. I'm not bitter, it's just humorous in my opinion to add some inane shit to every post. :) It's a beautiful day.

Ducktails/Mudboy - Summer Of Saucers

Bored-ing hard

I'm going to admit to not having listened to this band until a week ago, after finally having spun a remix 12" I bought at Shake It in Cinci. They are crazy, and all over the place, but constant and solidified. But always moving. Lots of Drums. Yoshimi-Pee or whatever has to be the Yoshimi of Flaming Lips fame, right? I mean, Boredoms are on Warner Bros in Japan, so maybe in some weird, cross-promotion only Coyne would think of? If you like Black Dice, I recommend this. For serious, this is on some astral plane campfire tribal moonwalk shit. (files over 100 mb are megaupload)

Boredoms - Chocolate Synthesizer
Boredoms - Vision Creation Newsun
Boredoms - Pop Tatari
Boredoms - Super AE
Boredoms - 77 Boadrum

just in case you don't have this

one of my all time favorite albums. SAB2 was my going to bed music. i had to skip to track 3 though... it was just so soothing (and track 2 scared the shit out of me).
i guess this is one of those classic ambient albums everyone has or has heard. if you haven't listened to this yet, you should. it's beautiful, haunting (this word is used too much to describe music, but in this case... it fits), and in 320 bitrate!
which is why i had to up it in rapidshare. sorry about that. but there are two discs, so if you have to wait the x amount of minutes to download the second disc, at least you have something to listen to. am i right?!?!?!?
INANE!

aphextwin - SAB V. II (disc 1)
aphextwin - SAB V. II (disc 2)