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[Eric P]

http://icoulddietomorrow.blogspot.com/2010/01/wu-tang-clanmr-oizo-shaolin-worm-attack.html

mr oizo / wu tang remix album

1. Cat Shit Shirt Intro
2. Classic Shit
3. Raw Shit
4. Tear The Shit Off
5. Drunkee Shit
6. Analog Interlude
7. Inside the R.E.C. Room
8. Masta Killa Can't Dance
9. Baby I Got Your Tape Edit
10. Flat Gravel Blend
11. Analog Bronze Attack
12. Suicide Monday Massacre
13. One Minute High Edit


http://www.mediafire.com/?jynzlkmnzky

[Brehvolution]

All that Corgan talk got me all nostalgic.
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[Robo]

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[tiesto]

http://icoulddietomorrow.blogspot.com/2010/01/wu-tang-clanmr-oizo-shaolin-worm-attack.html

mr oizo / wu tang remix album

1. Cat Shit Shirt Intro
2. Classic Shit
3. Raw Shit
4. Tear The Shit Off
5. Drunkee Shit
6. Analog Interlude
7. Inside the R.E.C. Room
8. Masta Killa Can't Dance
9. Baby I Got Your Tape Edit
10. Flat Gravel Blend
11. Analog Bronze Attack
12. Suicide Monday Massacre
13. One Minute High Edit


http://www.mediafire.com/?jynzlkmnzky

Wow, I haven't heard from Mr Oizo since Flat Beat... been wondering what he was up to.

[Eric P]

when Ed Banger and that whole french thing took off, a lot of people began to pay more attention to him again, but he got a little too experimental for my tastes for the most part

[BlueTsunami]

Finally getting to Season 2 of Twin Peaks and the Roadhouse scene, where the killer strikes again, the song that play is absolutely amazing (especially accompanied with the somber vibe that everyones feeling, awesome scene). Here's the song...

[Toddler]

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[duckman2000]

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[Bebpo]

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Can't wait for next weeeeeeek omg omg omg.  Album is going to be so good!!

[Cormacaroni]

checking out Do Make Say Think, very Tortoisey and easy on the ears.

[tiesto]

Awesome disco-house:

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[Eric P]

the air-fix kits out of Ca are pretty amazing.  that kind of dancey shout along punk that sounds like London circa 81

[Eric P]

dallas electronic punk performance band Best Fwends went and released a new tour cd back in novemer.  you can now dl it for free

http://bestfwends.bandcamp.com/

most of you will probably hate this

[Akala]

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[Phoenix Dark]

I finally listened to the original version of Extraordinary Machine. On first listen, a few of the tracks definitely sound better than the album versions, but some don't; overall I definitely prefer the orchestration here as compared to piano n bass sound of the album version. I really like the stripped down version of Oh well, which feels more emotional and powerful. The strings on Not About Love are an improvement, but the lack of drums sounds odd. On the other hand, the album versions of Better Version of Me, Oh Sailor, and Waltz are superior imo.

I'd like to get the vocals on the album version of Tymps put on the leaked version of Used to Love Him; apparently many people don't like the synthesizers/hip hoppy sounding album version, I like it though...but I'll take the instrumentation on the leaked version over it.

Overall I like both versions and I'll have to listen to the original tracks longer to make any final judgements. Also, I didn't know Questlove played drums on the album.

[Vizzys]

thats a pretty weird song even for gorillaz, who i like occasionally

[Akala]

thats a pretty weird song even for gorillaz, who i like occasionally

I kinda like it. It's not bad, but it's no Feel Good, Inc. Wonder how long until the whole thing leaks.

[Robo]

The tracklist for that Gorillaz album has me seriously hyped, even if the first song isn't doing a whole lot for me.

01 Orchestral Intro (ft. Sinfonia ViVA)
02 Welcome to the World of the Plastic Beach (ft. Snoop Dogg and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
03 White Flag (ft. Kano, Bashy, and the National Orchestra for Arabic Music)
04 Rhinestone Eyes
05 Stylo (ft. Bobby Womack and Mos Def)
06 Superfast Jellyfish (ft. Gruff Rhys and De La Soul)
07 Empire Ants (ft. Little Dragon)
08 Glitter Freeze (ft. Mark E Smith)
09 Some Kind Of Nature (ft. Lou Reed)
10 On Melancholy Hill
11 Broken
12 Sweepstakes (ft. Mos Def and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble)
13 Plastic Beach (ft. Mick Jones and Paul Simonon)
14 To Binge (ft. Little Dragon)
15 Cloud of Unknowing (ft. Bobby Womack and Sinfonia ViVA)
16 Pirate Jet

Mark E. Smith
Lou Reed
Mick Jones and Paul Simonon on the same track
Mos Def
Bobby Womack
De La Soul

For enjoy bell woods:

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Gruff Rhys

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Also, no Barry Gibb

[Phoenix Dark]

that's a lot of guest appearances

single is meh

[TakingBackSunday]

The new Titus Andronicus album is "Out."

It's fucking incredible.  RoboJ, please tell me you've listened to it.

[Brehvolution]

How did I miss Between the Buried and Me all these years!? 

[Robo]

The new Titus Andronicus album is "Out."

It's fucking incredible.  RoboJ, please tell me you've listened to it.

I haven't!  I'll grab it tonight.

[TakingBackSunday]

So many fist pump moments

edit: granted it's in a fairly shitty audio quality (192) but it's still listenable.

[Eric P]

from the land of "that's interesting" covers

Erol Alkan and Boyz Noize covered by Chilly Gonzolas on Piano
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remake

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[Brehvolution]

What a ride!
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[Eric P]

Review Round Up

What I’ve been into the past week or so:

Puerto Rico Flowers- 4.  This is the sound of a million Goth dance floors at 5 AM after it has wound down and only the faithful and jobless are still out and about.  Joy Division dirges at Mozart’s Requiem speeds.  The vocal inflection is a really good affectation of the whole Deathrock vocal style before it melted back into horrific trance music and pretended it was EBM.  The four songs read like a typical night out, Not My Idea to Let’s Make Friends to Torture to This is Murder.  There is talk of a dark music revival in “hip” culture, and will probably find an audience of people who are interested in that.  $8 from Fan Death Records. 

Airfix Kits – Flextime.  This was described to me as Minutemen meets Gang of Four, and I can see where that comes from.  This EP is three excellent “post punk” songs that move along at a really fast clip.  Flextime is an ode to a shitty job that let’s you come and go at your leisure and about how almost anything in your day is worth it for that freedom.  I’ve never worked flextime but yeah it sounds pretty heavenly.  There’s a strong pop element with clap percussion and background “la la la” that will have you happily bopping along at your current, non-flextime job.   Rounding out the B-Side are 80s Aesthetic, which I took to be kind of ironic given their sound.  The final track is 21 Hot Knives, a song built for screaming at the top of your lungs at concerts spilling beer over your hands as you dance around manically gripping a pint and smiling manically.    I got my copy from Sorry State Records but it’s available directly from the band for $5.  I’ve ordered the other EP they have and looking forward to it.

Best Fwends – K R U S H E R.  This is a tour EP that they’ve generously made available online as a pay what you will for 320 KBPS.  I’ve been following this band since 2006 and I can honestly say that this is their best, most diverse release yet.  17 songs ranging from Breakcore IDM / Metalmashups of “Unholy”, to the Casio Metal Jams of “Eradicator” (which has atonal keyboards envelopes standing in for the typical lead guitar noodling), there are tracks with other bands such as Japanther, Twin Power (the pretty amazing Summer Pop of “One Dead Body”), also included are skits, a song about cannibal romance (”Hungry For Love”), and a dance remix of a dance remix (the unkillable M.Y.S.E.L.F.).  I hate to say this has something for everybody, but I think in the right environment, you could get away with just playing this collection at a party.  http://bestfwends.bandcamp.com/

KOOL A.D. – Zoot Fantastic. Half of Das Racist has teamed up with Lil Ben and released another short project.  I don’t want to say this is “experimental rap” but it doesn’t really fall into any easy categorization in content or flow.  It’s certainly more challenging than Das Racist’s typical output with the drone static beat behind “THAT IS HOT DUDE” or the nearly ten minute long “TIME WARNER” which features what I think is just a reading of Time Warner’s cable channel offerings played over a sample I can’t quite place.  “FRUCTOSE, SODIUM” structured pretty conventionally while the raps are even more outre’.  It’s certainly worth a listen.  http://www.zshare.net/download/711428203685cc9a/

[BlueTsunami]

 

[BlueTsunami]

Man, the "Italians Do It Better" label is fucking great. They've got The Chromatics, Glass Candy and now Desire...

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Each one of them are unique sounding but with a disco influence. Song progressions are usually affective and the vocalists (which in this case is also the vocalist from The Chromatics) work very well with the sound.

Also, from following a recommendation on iTunes (on the Desire - II page)...

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Makes me want to get on up and hump the air, shits so good

[Phoenix Dark]

[TEEEPO]

Puerto Rico Flowers- 4.  This is the sound of a million Goth dance floors at 5 AM after it has wound down and only the faithful and jobless are still out and about.  Joy Division dirges at Mozart’s Requiem speeds.  The vocal inflection is a really good affectation of the whole Deathrock vocal style before it melted back into horrific trance music and pretended it was EBM.  The four songs read like a typical night out, Not My Idea to Let’s Make Friends to Torture to This is Murder.  There is talk of a dark music revival in “hip” culture, and will probably find an audience of people who are interested in that.  $8 from Fan Death Records. 

while i still haven't got my copy yet, i can vouch for this. been listening to his one song on fan death records myspace for months now. funny how two hardcore/noise vocalists, wesley eisold being the other, are now creating music that's part of some bauhaus, joy division revival... and to add to that, with  lyrics not dealing with cum and murder.

fan death records local

[Bebpo]

Where is Brandnew to help me pimp the Los Campesinos! album??
You guys should really give it a listen.  It's a lot less fruity/indie than their first two albums so it might appeal more of EB.  I'm terrible at describing music so I'll just say it is good stuff. 

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this is also an attempt to get LA Bores into the band so they'll go to the May 8th show at the El Ray with me!  Last time I saw them I tried to get all my friends to go and no one went so it was just me and my gf at the time.  I feel bad everyone missed such an A++++ show.  Want more people I know to go this time around!

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[Bebpo]

Sure.  Will break news here.

Where is Brandnew btw?  I haven't seen him in any threads for a bit.  He was the best hipster here  :'(

[tiesto]

Man, the "Italians Do It Better" label is fucking great. They've got The Chromatics, Glass Candy and now Desire...

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Each one of them are unique sounding but with a disco influence. Song progressions are usually affective and the vocalists (which in this case is also the vocalist from The Chromatics) work very well with the sound.

Also, from following a recommendation on iTunes (on the Desire - II page)...

[youtube=560,345]Y-0-IujnF6I[/youtube]

Makes me want to get on up and hump the air, shits so good

This is awesome shit, thanks for sharing! Yeha, Italians Do It Better is a great record label, and not just because of the great (and truthful!) name 

[tiesto]

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[Eric P]

Ava Luna's new EP is AMAZING

http://the.shop.environmentalaesthetics.com/album/ea007-ava-luna-services-ep

Chunky fun eccentric electro soul

pay what you want from the link above

[TEEEPO]

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[Eric P]

Teepo, are you familiar with True Womanhood?  Their EP was released yesterday and it's pretty good.  Noise Band meets Radiohead using improvised instruments out of DC

[BlueTsunami]

By chance I've found out about "Love and Rockets"





I dig it. Just enough Goth brooding and melancholy.

[Robo]

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Wow, the new Brian Jonestown Massacre album is fuckin' weird.  XTRMNTR-era Primal Scream?  Was not expecting that.

[Brehvolution]

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This whole album

[TEEEPO]

Teepo, are you familiar with True Womanhood?  Their EP was released yesterday and it's pretty good.  Noise Band meets Radiohead using improvised instruments out of DC

as familiar with a band you can get after seeing them open up for various acts in 2007/8, notably aids wolf, a place to bury strangers, health and silver apples. i can't even recall much. i'll give their new ep a spin and hopefully they'll surprise me since god knows we need all the good bands we can get.

[Eric P]

yeah i've been giving it an intense listen with the aim of doing a bit of a write up for it

i really like a few of the songs, but some others....not so much

but for a first ep, it's really not that bad.

[Phoenix Dark]

On a 90s east coast binge (again)


Hadn't listened to it in awhile. While I prefer OB4CL, this is probably the apex of pure rapping for most of the Wu members. It's as if they felt Nas up-staged them on Verbal Intercourse and decided to try their hand at more focused internal rhyming to great results.


First time hearing this. It's not as good as The Infamous on either a lyrical or production level, but there are plenty of great songs here. While it does have a dark setting, it just doesn't feel as sinister as The Infamous; nothing comes close to say Right Back At You, which is still one of the grimiest beats I've ever heard.

 

[BlueTsunami]

Great groove going on in these, have to check out the album

[Akala]

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[Eric P]

got the South Side Stranglers- Too Much TV EP in the mail yesterday.

Fun blast of rock n roll from Richmond.

http://www.mediafire.com/?hfmornqqctj

That's their demo tape if anyone is interested.

[Rman]

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[Trent Dole]

OK Computer era b-sides. These guys used to be so rad. 

[Raban]

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Not the full song, but so good. Green Mind has been sitting in my library for a while and I just recently went through the album on a sweep to clear out shit I don't want. Such an excellent track, hell, the whole album is rock solid.

[TEEEPO]

yellow swans - going places


holy shit. !

[Eric P]

i've never heard of them but they have a really extensive discography

i am kinda sorta going through the Maximum Rock N Roll Best of the Decade lists

it's amazing how much shit they give Fucked Up.  "they used to be awesome but now...." sort of irks me as does the hatred of Sex Vid's "new" fans.

Any sort of cross over is wildly despised but at least they're not using the "sold out" canard anymore.

[Robo]

That Bear in Heaven album is the shit.  Seeing them in a couple weeks with CYMBALS EAT GUITARS 

[BlueTsunami]

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I'm definitely digging this. Oh man.

[Saint Cornelius]

The last couple of hours, I have been listening to:

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So is this a return to greatness, like they were circa Blue Lines & Protection, or more of the same bullshit they've been spewing forth since 100th Window?

[duckman2000]

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[Eric P]

Listening to Southside Stranglers’s debut EP Too Much TV I feel like someone kicked their way into my house, took over my record player, drank a quart of whiskey, kicked in my bathroom sink and fired handguns affectionately at my neighbors before passing out in a puddle of Lucky Charms and milk.

In roughly eight and a half minutes, the Richmond Virginia based band manages to dispel the reputation of Richmond’s scene being preoccupied with making and remaking 80’s hardcore. There are elements of punk, in the speed and shortness of songs (the longest are barely longer than a minute and a half), elements of garage rock with affected howl of vocalist Kenny (of Government Warning) that wavers between glam rock yowls, vigorous screams and actual singing, and elements of what is called “good old rock n roll” which always seems to mean not quite Grand Funk Railroad but not Minor Threat either.

This release kind of sits on the pivot point of bands like NoBunny or other acts associated with Jay Reatard versus the very “real punk” sounds of something like early Black Flag. There’s not as much romance as in something like Reigning Sound or even Richmond’s Cloak /Dagger, but there is just as much heart and soul here.

I must have listened to this thing 20 times and Saturday, at a party, I was cornering people and forcing them to listen to the mp3s that haven’t left my rotation.

[Raban]

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Words don't do this justice. Too fucking good.

Half passed-out in my friend's bedroom high as fuck listening to this was like flying through space.

[Eric P]

yessss, Airfix Kits - Playing Both Sides came in the mail just now

[duckman2000]

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I really need to look around and see if I still have the gatefold LP

[Phoenix Dark]

uber lttp on Waits. Very good album.