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Inside Llewyn Davis Original Soundtrack Recording - awesome, can't wait for the movie.
Saffronkeira + Mario Massa - Cause and Effect - another new album of electronics & trumpet, yay!
Cross My Heart - Hope to Die - EP - a four song ep that's worth buying for the awesome sample of King Crimson used in the song "Lover."
John Vanderslice - Diamond Dogs - Vanderslice covers Bowie's entire Diamond Dogs album and it's awesome.

Julio,  I love Deep Listening!  I'm happy for you that you discovered it.

Now playing...

Nobuto Suda - Transitoriness - awesome drones and ambience
Darkside - Psychic - Nicolas Jaar & Dave Harrington collaboration thats kinda spacey, kinda poppy, kinda experimental.
Arve Henriksen - Places Of Worship - new one from Arve Henriksen is awesomely awesome, but then I love all of his stuff.
 

A few more Bandcamp purchases...

Old Joy - It Slowly Disappears - sometimes glitchy, sometimes post-rock, sometimes ambient.  Good stuff.
Sonmi451 - Hummingbird - very similar to other Sonmi451 releases, good but nothing groundbreaking.
Colorlist - Sky Song - this one is jazz, but just a bit off, a little something mixed in that gives it a slightly different tinge than straight jazz.
Myke Dodge Weiskopf - ShortWaveMusic - The Muezzins of Mali

Does anybody else have the new Arovane album?  I've had it for about a week and I hate it.  I am a big Arovane fan but this release has totally left me cold.  Maybe about ten years ago I would have been fascinated with the syncopated beats & glitches but I've grown tired of that sound.  There are some good tracks here but mostly they just annoy me.  Definitely my most disappointing release of the year.

Blamstrain - Disfold  -  bought this and a few other Blamstrain releases based on chris23 recommendation.  Thanks!
Moby - Innocents  -  I've listened to this at NPR Music but don't have it yet.  I haven't listened to Moby in years but his new single, "The Perfect Life" really clicked with me so I tried the new album & it sounds pretty good.
Simon Bainton - Visiting Tides  -  another Bandcamp discovery, good ambient with a sea/water/ocean/tides feel.
Esmerine - Dalmak  -  the music combines "DIY rock, new folk and modern classical/contemporary sensibilities," with a Turkish/middle eastern feel.  Excellent!

Just Finished "Jennifer Government" by Max Barry.  A fast-moving, creative book that was definitely a quick, fun read.  American corporations rule the world and People take names of the corps they work for such as John Nike, Halley McDonald's, Billy NRA.  Jennifer Government works for the government and wants to go after Nike for some crimes but can't do it without outside funding.

I just started another Max Barry book - "Lexicon."  So far so good.

More Bandcamp...

Lucy Claire - Suite
Coppice Halifax - Inland By Night
Stray Theories - Those Who Remain
Skeletons - Smile- Skeletons

I'm in the middle of two good books at once.



One is the audio version of Neil Gaiman's "the Ocean at the End of the Lane."  This is the first Gaiman novel I've read/listened to and I like it a lot.  A thoughtful fairytale about a seven year old boy who discovers some supernatural secrets about his neighbors down the lane.  One review put it perfectly describing the book as "poignant and heartbreaking, eloquent and frightening."  As I said I'm l;istenign to the audio version which is read by Gaiman himself which is excellent because I love his voice.





The other book is "The Darwin Elevator" by Jason M. Hough.  Set about 200 hundred years in the future it has lots of action, mysterious aliens, a virus that turns humans into subhumans(zombie-like) and of course a space elevator.  This is the first of a three part series & so far so good.  I found the book via John Scalzi's blog.  Here's a link to the post... http://whatever.scalzi.com/2013/08/01/the-big-idea-jason-m-hough/

I agree, it's been a slow year so far.  These aren't necessarily the best of 2013, just a few of my favorites...

Marsen Jules Trio - Présence Acousmatique
infinite_coil - transmit
Field Rotation - Fatalist: The Repetition of History
Cyber Zen Sound Engine - Cooperation
Maps and Diagrams - timbre
Wouter Veldhuis - blue forest
The Green Kingdom - Dustloops - Memory Fragments
Unrecognizable Now - Two Rooms
Brian Green - Subtle Ripples
Linear Bells - I can Dream
Marconi Union & Jah Wobble - Anomic
Justin Walter - lullabies and nightmares

As I said these are some favs but not all will end up on a year-end best-of list.

More Bandcamp purchases, with links...

36 - Shadow Play
infinite_coil - soar
Brian Green - Subtle Ripples
Marsen Jules Trio - Présence Acousmatique

Just finished Wool--the omnibus edition. Fantastic stuff. Part of the fun is the journey you take with the protagonists in trying to learn exactly what their world is all about, why certain things are taboo (e.g., speaking of the outside), and why certain things they've taken for granted might carry a different meaning if the world doesn't work the way they've been taught (e.g., the price of cables/texts vs. the use of porters). The final segment seemed a bit unfocused and ad hoc to me. But, overall, great storytelling.
   

Glad you enjoyed Wool!  I have the next three books in the silo series, 1st, 2nd & 3rd shift, but I haven't gotten around to reading them yet.  And now I see there is a new silo book, called Dust, due in August.  Also, I just noticed a bunch of Kindle singles by different authors written in the silo universe.  I have a lot of catching up to do.

Just finished the third in the Expanse series, Abaddon's Gate by James S.A. Corey.  An excellent trilogy that takes place(mostly) in the outer solar system.  Lots of great characters & action.  Good old fashioned space opera sci fi.