What are you listening to right now?

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

New Kee Avil!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA4jIQDz8Us

[sylnau]

Latest Einsturzende Neubauten's albim
https://neubauten.bandcamp.com/album/ra ... -pop-music

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

Some cool slightly kraut-y synth grooves going on right here:


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

[Lurker13]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6Mx5xKOMAk

[Phosphene Audio]

I saw these 2 records at a junk store yesterday and didn't buy them, so I am listening to them on Youtube.

Funky Junction is, of course, Thin Lizzy plus other guys doing mostly Deep Purple songs, plus other covers (Danny Boy, LOL) and an original instrumental.

The Edgar Allan Poe thing kind of sounds like Procol Harum and was recorded by Les Paul.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es9lFvcArNQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InwtfuaTMh8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEbfysO5ZLc

[Lurker13]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5KIzQqAVds

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

R.I.P. Françoise Hardy


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktghYPX4Gjs


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz1SVmB0aLw

[dubkitty]

another group i'm in has folks who post listening lists occasionally, so for my own amusement (and to see how many artists those people would even recognize LOL) i've been keeping track of my listening since 6/1, in chronological order. everything is on CD other than videos from YouTube. most of these are albums or EPs (when noted); i seldom listen to single isolated tracks. i generally listen to discs straight through unless interrupted, though if i'm in the car and the trip ends before the disc i don't always finish the disc. some discs get listened to often, e.g. Rozi Plain's Prize and The Equatorial Stars which is my sleepytime tape; some haven't been out of a jewel case in 10 years. this is gonna take a lot of formatting.

Manic Street Preachers Gold Against The Soul
Rozi Plain Prize
Keith Hudson Pick A Dub
Steve Reich Four Organs/Phase Patterns
Boards of Canada Tomorrow’s Harvest
Boards of Canada Trans-Canada Highway EP
Fripp and Eno The Equatorial Stars
Rozi Plain 6/13/23 Low Four, Manchester, England (via YouTube)
Manic Street Preachers Stay Beautiful EP
Sigur Rós Heim
Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians
My Bloody Valentine 9/30/08 Fashion Center Concourse, San Francisco, CA
Main Hydra/Calm
Merzbow/Pan Sonic V
My Bloody Valentine mbv
Drab Majesty An Object In Motion EP
Rozi Plain Bonus Prize EP (Prize remixes)
Crosby Stills Nash and Young 4 Way Street
This Is The Kit Off Off On
Jesus and Mary Chain Darklands
Ride Interplay
AFX (Aphex Twin) Analord EPs 10, 01, 02, 03 (CD-R)
Biosphere Substrata
Swervedriver Ejector Seat Reservation
The Third Eye Foundation You Guys Kill Me
Spiritualized Abbey Road EP
Jefferson Airplane 8/17/69 Woodstock Music and Art Fair from RCA Woodstock Experience set
Jefferson Airplane Volunteers (included in Woodstock Experience set)
Black Dog Productions Bytes
Electrelane The Power Out
Autechre Tri Repetae+++
R.E.M. Murmur
Neil Young 9/16/96 Cal Expo Ampitheater, Sacramento, CA
The Mekons F.U.N. ‘90 EP (from The Curse of the Mekons CD)
LaMonte Young/Marian Zazeela Dream House 78’17”
Cornershop When I Was Born For The 7th Time; “Brimful of Asha” (Norman Cook remix)(from Q magazine compilation CD below)
Q magazine all the best music from the SUMMER FESTIVALS ‘98 compilation CD (free with magazine purchase)
Kind Mind 5/14/24 The Transzac, Toronto, ON (via YouTube)
Rozi Plain “Help” 2023 Green Man Festival Sessions (via YouTube)
Gang of Four Entertainment!
Traffic The Low Spark Of High-Heeled Boys
King Biscuit Time No Style
Lone Pigeon Baby Piano
R.E.M. Road Movie soundtrack (from CD-R)
Eno/Lanois/Eno Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
Sex Pistols Never Mind The Bollocks Here’s The Sex Pistols
Lone Pigeon Moses

[dubkitty]

i just reorganized my apartment, including getting decent shelving for the commercial CDs and the hundreds of live CD-Rs that have been packed away since i left California over a decade ago. it's nice to have a selection, not so nice to notice that i missed about 15 years of developments being severely depressed. there must be so many fucking Autechre albums i haven't heard.

[Gone Fission]

It’s apparently so hot on Earth because all the cold went to hell. Soul Coughing reformed for a tour.

https://www.brooklynvegan.com/soul-coug ... -25-years/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?KQMjPw6DOJU

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

Damn, this is a groove:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu8OS4BFjGI

(Or: playlist for full concert, though I haven't dig through the whole thing yet.)

[Gone Fission]

Bleach:



Saw a bit of the video in a Homicide episode and thought it was something I should have recognized but didn’t. Listening to their album now, Killing Time, which isn’t a world beater, but I’m enjoying it.

[Dandolin]

lickle bass raga

https://youtu.be/pfifVpI1m5A?si=d9IUc_2jNNL3MsSU

"An dhrupad inspired exploration of Raga Purvi on upright bass, utilizing both arco/bowed and pizzicato playing. This is improvised in the traditional meditative solos movements of alaap and jor."

[Chankgeez]

According to my calculations, I will listen to that ^^^ between the hours of 3 and 6 pm.

[dubkitty]

as That Shoegaze guy lately i'm all about the most recent albums from Ride and DIIV. the DIIV, Frog In Boiling Water, is widely held to be their best set yet; i saw them in Richmond and dug it so much that i saw them again in Phialdelphia, a circumstance only possible because their tour bus broke down and the Philly show had to be postponed till the end of the tour. they have a pretty multi-layered audio-visual presentation accompanying the songs that's kind of hard to describe including films for most of the songs, AI-generated New Age commentators and pitchmen, "commercials" where they offer to endorse your candidate/product for considerations and claim to be partnering with Exxon Mobil...there's even an entire website, soul-net.co, related to the tour.

i adore the quiet menace of "Everyone Out":

ready for my life
have faith
this beautiful time
will be all mine
i’ll bring you all down
try and stop me now
i’m ready for my rise
just wait

Everyone Out

and the weird cynical Zen take of "soul-net":

just say
i'm not afraid
i love my pain
i'm learning to leave this prison

soul-net

The Ride album, Interplay, has been holding me up as i plowed through a couple of the worst months of my life recently. It's a leap into a more modern production style building on the previous 2 post-reunion albums, that's more cohesive than This Is Not A Safe Place sonically. the songs take two main tacks, simmering political rage at the devastation unleashed by the Tories and what i can only call self-help songs. "Last Night I Went Somewhere To Dream" splits the difference:

running from a life that's running out of time
believing in a future that won't be yours or mine
the wheel of suffering can only turn again
with diminishing returns for the same old men

last night i went, yeah
i went somewhere, yeah
i went somewhere to dream and

if i dream it
i can see it
if i see it
i can feel it
if i feel it
i can be it
i can be it
if i dream it

Last Night I Went Somewhere To Dream

the other end of the shank is "I Came To See The Wreck," a rumbling juggernaut with two bass parts where Mark Gardener vents his spleen on Brexit:

a system alert is a system breakdown
a system alert is a system breakdown
a system alert is a system breakdown
this is a system breakdown
THIS IS A SYSTEM BREAKDOWN

rage body and soul, rage body and soul
(right back to where we started)

I Came To See The Wreck

my only critique is that Interplay kind of winds down at the end with a couple of tracks that, while good, lower the energy level.

it's not too much to say that these records have kept me putting one foot in front of the other since late July.