Currently listening, part 1

[spunknik]

Yes,I really like it.The only other one I have is Please smile my noise bleed .I have also been listening to Troum's Sen album and I think it is incredible ritual music.I am looking forward to hearing the Aussie Room label 3" c.d.'s Mike is selling as I ordered the whole lot and the compilation.

[ffcal]

Some recent netlabel listening:

Intelligent Toys 4 (a varied set; has a great new Esem track)

Lackluster -CDR#2 (a 320 kbps version is available on Archive.org)

Forrest

[APK]

I've been jazzing a lot this weekend.

But on the electro-ambient side

- Paul Bradley : Twenty Hertz  (Interesting early work. Appears not to be guitar-based. Neat sounds)
- Alan Lockett: Swells and Billows 2  (MIX ... its a good set the Bristol Boy strung together)
- Keith Berry: A Strange Feather  (I'm addicted to these curious existential landscapes)
- Spyra: Headphone Concert (that 25min opening track , Jeden, is amazing .. if you like the berlin style its a must)

[Wayne Higgins]

I found a mint copy on vinyl, deutsch gramaphone, 9 record set, of all the Beethoven Symphonies!

Also, Eric Burden declares WAR and The Hollies Greatest Hits.

CD:  The sound track for "There Will Be Blood"  Excellent!!!

Waiting for April.  I got tickets for Alison Krauss and Robert Plant in Birmingham, AL!

[SunDummy]

Yesterday I listened to the entire "Alice in Wonderland" set by Randy Greif; great stuff.  Made for a really unsettling work-day...  ;D

[Undershadow]

- Jonathan Coleclough: One hour as sixty million years (basically ripping up the fabric of space-time in this intense space/drone orgy)

One of the most intense, enfolding, and above all *kinetic* drone outings I've heard in a while. Phew!
Unfortunately, free download from the JC's site was no longer available at last view :(
http://www.coleclough.plus.com/pages/downloads.html

[jim brenholts]

dead weather machine by sleep research facility
this was recommended on steve roach's site so i took a shot. it seems to be processed found sounds and nature samples - a technique of which i am extremely fond. it is very cool stuff, indeed.

[Antdude]

dead weather machine by sleep research facility
this was recommended on steve roach's site so i took a shot. it seems to be processed found sounds and nature samples - a technique of which i am extremely fond. it is very cool stuff, indeed.

Dead Weather Machine re:Heat, which is a further remix of the original material is even better, a 60-minute jump right off the cliff into the dark ether. If it's still available, get both of them...

[APK]

Now playing

- Near The parenthesis: Of Soft Construction  (n5md)

A very good album in the idm kinda style common on the n5md label.
A sophisticated sound. Nothing over the top. Often beautiful.

[jim brenholts]

the new david parsons (are you there mr beck?) - surya
this is less worldly and more otherworldly by intent - more space music and less tribal ambience. it is awesome!

[Dave Michuda]

Entia Non - Remora ep [dataobscura 2008]
off the sky - evolute of an ion apple (iod002 2008)
Irezumi - endurance [snowblood 2007]
Dave Zeal & Daniel Maze - small airports [test tube 2007]

[Parallel Worlds]

during the last days:

Vidna Obmana and Alio Die - Echo Passage
Five Thousand Spirits - Mesmeric Revelation
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Plaid - Parts In The Post
Aphex Twin - Druqks
Tetsu Inoue - Ambiant Otaku
Vidna Obmana - An Opera For 4 Fussion Works: act1, act2, act3
Move D Namlook - Raumland Exploration
David Morley - Ghosts
Five Thousand Spirits - A Tapestry For Sorcerers

[SiF]

Dark Suns - Free Of You
germany's best atmospheric progressive metal band .... very good album

[Undershadow]

talkingmakesnosense – the winter drones (benbecula) – appealing warm'n'cosy textured release from Scotland wrought by one Dom Dixon, whose blurry wooze of strung-out guitar (rendered otherwise) results in a kind of Benbecula label take on (Kompakt) Pop Ambient. For Kranky-fanciers it also loiters nicely around the crossroads between their Old (space/post-rock drift) and New (minimal and microsonic electronica) Schools.
Full-length samples here on his myspace:http://www.myspace.com/talkingmakesnosense
From Benbecula:http://www.benbecula.com/release/talkingmakesnosense/the_winter_drones.shtml

[jim brenholts]

doing some shuffle play along 5 discs:
eleven questions - robert rich/markus reuter
i am a foreigner - rapoon
cyborg, disc 1- klaus schulze
wave mantra - sean washburn
unreleased material - life in balance
this is a very eclectic listen. it's cool when the shuffle hits one of the long tracks (there are 5 over 20' long.) the 5 discs are very dissimilar but that makes it fun - the contrasts become complimentary.

[SiF]

talkingmakesnosense – the winter drones (benbecula) – appealing warm'n'cosy textured release from Scotland wrought by one Dom Dixon, whose blurry wooze of strung-out guitar (rendered otherwise) results in a kind of Benbecula label take on (Kompakt) Pop Ambient. For Kranky-fanciers it also loiters nicely around the crossroads between their Old (space/post-rock drift) and New (minimal and microsonic electronica) Schools.
Full-length samples here on his myspace:http://www.myspace.com/talkingmakesnosense
From Benbecula:http://www.benbecula.com/release/talkingmakesnosense/the_winter_drones.shtml

Fuck, Alan. That is simply not real.
2 Days ago i contacted Dominic, if he is interested in releasing
something on Waterscape. No response till now.
But i think we both share each others mind, alan. :D

[Parallel Worlds]

Steve Stoll - Earthling
Vidna Obmana and Asmus Tietchens - Syrenia 2

[Undershadow]

talkingmakesnosense – the winter drones (benbecula) – appealing warm'n'cosy textured release from Scotland wrought by one Dom Dixon [...]

Fuck, Alan. That is simply not real.
2 Days ago i contacted Dominic, if he is interested in releasing
something on Waterscape. No response till now.
But i think we both share each others mind, alan. :D

Yeah, there is something more than a little unheimlich about how I keep 'prefiguring' your Waterscape candidates, Martin. I can assure you though, in re: sharing minds, I may have appropriated part of your mind, but haven't yet taken full control... I've left you with some free will intact ;)
Seriously though, I look forward to hearing you confirm a W'scape 3" from TMNS :)
Now how about that David Tagg...?    http://www.second-sun.net/CDcat_ssrcd_07.htm

[SiF]

Well talkingmakesnosense will not release on waterscape.
its hard for him to record new music, so a 3" wont happen
in the near future.

The same goes for Lähtö. Unfortunately. But different reasons.
Watch here.
http://bulletins.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=bulletin.read&messageID=5470480571&MyToken=703d61c1-a125-44dc-b61f-72b4e5c9f26e&hash=MIG3BgorBgEEAYI3WAPyoIGoMIGlBgorBgEEAYI3WAMBoIGWMIGTAgMCAAECAmYDAgIAwAQIqQ3Fqn0HMhYEECIWCTmlaFOocQNAOJG2JNIEaB4bdff9jVmQ13SC4OQ5Cymg1PdwTPVYnUNm2yVafaPSCJpWJ2CWD%2fZSD8xXUPntpMJgzd%2fbFuPLf1vY7bcM8qOF9B4QjllSld9RuQVGRRn4z9Whc1gF2%2bj1yCwJWWCZc2FZB%2bEb2Y3H

But i will listen to the Samples of David Tagg for sure.

[jim brenholts]

1st 3 discs of mystic chords and sacred spaces on shuffle. i think this might be one of the most underrated sets ever. steve was/is in the zone.