gun to my head I think I pick Amber but it is very close. Their first 6 albums is an insanely good run.

Today's Pile:

Lamb of God - Ashes of the Wake - I'm kinda stuck on this right now. My fave Metal Commute selection. People really clear a path for you when you're listening to LoG at top volume:
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John Zorn - Valentine's Day - Zorno in noise mode again. For the life of me, this sounds like Massacre...
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V8Wankers - Got Beer? - What do you call this? Oktoberfest Metal? I'm sure it would sound better if I was drunk...
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William Onyeabor - Atomic Bomb - I love love love this album! I may have to buy that damn box set after all!!!
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Demon Fuzz - Afreaka! - torn from the very pages of this forum. At first I thought it was going to be Luchador sing-along but instead it's some very tasty, incantatory African jazz. Definitely going on the want list...
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Hijokaidan - Hatsune-Kaidan - The Japanese are just insane in the coolest way possible and that's why we love them. This reminds me of the time the porn star Miki Sawaguchi did an album with Merzbow called 'Big Boobs'. Same kinda pop warbling and shredding dissonance. Me, I love it, but then I'm a little crazy too. Album of the day!!!
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Speak for yourself. I find the Japanese to be terminally meh. So ****ing lame.

Wreck & Reference's No Youth.

A lot of slow, heavy guitars, a lot of screeches and noise, a lot of darkness and static, and a lot of screaming.

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I'm just not in the right place for this. I couldn't connect with it.

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Beautiful, mellow indie rock. Whew.

I love that album.

EDIT: read your whole post haha. Too bad you don't feel the same way, it's a great visceral experience.

You can pretty much guarantee whenever I post something on these particular pages, I'm speaking for myself.

I don't know that I am the right person to defend the Japanese, especially because I just referred to them as 'Insane', but it was said with much love and respect. Modern Japanese culture has an eternal fan in me, but to each their own, certainly. :wavey:

I just didn't connect with it, which is fine. One thing I don't want to do is dis someone else's tastes, which is why, even though I didn't like it, I didn't say it sucked. I hate when people do that. :)

Of course. All it takes is living here for a few years...I'd say the same thing about Australians, most likely, if I lived in Australia. :)

Listening to Helmet's Strap It On for the first time, another from the tape mountain. Really digging it so far.

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The Heads - Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere (2000)


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Blitzen Trapper - Furr (2008)


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Wilderness - (k)no(w)here (2008)


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Clark - Clark (2014)


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Why? - Alopecia (2008)


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TV on the Radio - Dear Science (2008)


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Women - Women (2008)


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Dillinger Four - C I V I L W A R (2008)

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Jandek - Ghost Passing

Started listening to this six hour classical influenced album from Jandek today. It's made up of guitar (or is that a violin?) and piano. For six hours. I like it quite a bit based off of the one track I've listened to, it's much better and less aimless than his 9 hour solo piano album Song of Morgan.

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One of the most interesting labels out there today. Definitely beat out fellow NY label Captured Tracks on content, fer sure.

I have a bootleg CD of this show, as it was never officially released as an album. Nice to see it on video!


Frank Zappa - Stockholm 1973 08 21 (full concert) - YouTube

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Could have a few tracks cut off, but this has a beautifully dreamy and surreal atmosphere.

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Devin Townsend - Z² (specifically Dark Matters)
Not as good as the first Ziltoid album IMO, but this still more than makes up for Epicloud. I'll give Sky Blue a listen later today.

Hahahah - I see now - You are much more qualified to make any assesments than I. I've only experienced Tokyo in small bites and then, only after filling my head with nonsense from too many crazy monster and Yakuza movies.

The first time I went there, I was fixated on going to Tower Records and filling up on all manner of weirdness and garage bands. Never did it occur to me that everything would be labeled in Kanji. My friends had a hearty laugh, but fortunately, after much gesturing and phonetics, a clerk understood that I was looking for Osaka bands and led me to a treasure trove of weird stuff.

Great city though. One of my favorites.

Started off the day with Pantera's Cowboys from Hell after binge-watching their 90's live sets last night.
First time I've heard some of these songs since I was 15 years old and just getting the hang of playing guitar. Very nostalgic.

CFH, Primal Concrete Sledge, Psycho Holiday, Heresy, Cemetery Gates, Domination, Message In Blood, Art of Shredding, amazing album.

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Moving onto CCR's Bayou Country at lunch break.

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Spinning this right now. Love this band and especially the timbre of the singer's voice.

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Volume four has a cover of 'My Baby Shot Me Down' by Pharmakon and an unreleased David Lynch track....

That Pharmakon cover is absolute gold, along with all of Bestial Burden. Sacred Bones is doing really well this year. I think Cult of Youth's new album Final Days leaked earlier this week, a week ahead of scheduled release. I think I'm going to have to investigate later tonight.

Dominic Frontiere - Festival - YouTube

The Daily Load:

Arca - Xen/&&&&& - This is intriguing my ear bulbs but not enough to make a purchase. I wonder if I am getting Electronica fatigue from all these solo glitch workouts. Great cover art though. Love the giant bed bug.
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Kayo Dot - Hubardo - This is kind of all over the place - a mix of prog metal and more avant stuff. One song sounds like Frankenstein's Monster is singing lead. Interesting. Not Essential.
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Royal Blood - Sounds like lesser White Stripes in an unholy union with Ted Nugent and I wish it was as interesting as that sounds. Great cover though.
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David Toop + Paul Burwell - Wounds - one of those beat and scrape improv albums with lots of clanging and hooting. Intellectually interesting but not very engaging aurally. There are essential Toop titles but this isn't one of them.
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Lords of Acid - Voodoo-U - Oh for the old Waxtrax days when bands like Ministry and MLTKK and the Lords were pumping out all manner of sexy Industrial dance fun. Coop's original devil orgy cover overshadowed the music, and still does, but their ode to sexually transmitted parasites holds up pretty well...
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DJ Shadow/Cut Chemist - Ultimate Lessons - Ostensibly a collection of Cut Chemists Lesson jams, but with entries from other artists as well, so I'm not sure if these are original songs or remixes or tributes or...? Lesson 6 sounds exactly as I remembered it. Anyway, for fans, nice to have these all in one place.
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Maximum the Hormone - Yoshuu Fukushuu - Absolutely killer hardcore album, continues a seeming trend to marry noise and pop melody. Call it Pop Hardcore if you want, but it just works. One of two releases of the day for me!
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Tigerstyle - Mystics Martyrs and Maharajas - Slammin' Indian Hiphop had me bouncing and bangaranging all over the office. My other pick of the day!
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Reverberant Skies by Aglaia

getting your daily dose of aquatic ambient is very important for a growing boy such as myself

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Always a treat!

Wow I was listening to Shpongle last night. The way they use their 'logo' is very consistent...

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I'm going to get that deluxe vinyl edition next payday. Speaking of deluxe editions, this finally came in the mail. It's #29/100. I can't wait to see how much this goes for in the coming months.

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John Zorn - Transmigration of the Magus

So John Zorn was that kid in your third grade class who couldn't sit still and do the same thing for five minutes. This is similar to his Dreamers material and it's as good as anything you'd expect from Zorn. From what I've heard of his releases this year this album is the low point, which says a lot about his other albums. Worth checking out for Zorn fans, but I think I'm going to go listen to The Alchemist again.

Due to college-related ****, I never actually got around to listening to Sky Blue (or anything else until now, really).

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Egyptrixx - A/B til Infinity

Based on this and Jam City's Classical Curves, I have a feeling that Night Slugs might become my go-to label whenever I feel like listening to something when I'm tired that isn't ambient music.

Thanks for the heads up, was wondering if that new Zorn was anything special. I read on the label website that it's a sort of an ode to Lou Reed on the anniversary of his passing. I listened to one track but wasn't too interested.

If you haven't heard Valentines Day yet, you really ought to check that one out.

Aye, I let Valentine's Day beat the **** out of me last week. Relentless album, pretty excited to hear The Last Judgement when it comes out, it's going to be the final Moonchild collaboration release.

That's definitely going to be awesome but also very sad. I hope they're lying.

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Good, solid rock.

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Clark - Clark (2014)
A highly anticipated release for me, I got this yesterday and have played it twice. After the disappointing Iradelphic, my hopes weren't too high for this one as it really did feel like Clark had lost his way. My second listen did prove more interesting then the first, but I still feel like it's a little bit dull and lacking a little focus. What's really lacking from his last two releases though are the surprise turns and really "banging" moments from a lot of his EPs and albums in the 00s. Ah well. Like I said, it's better than Iradelphic, and for that I enjoy it.


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Country Teasers - The Pastoral - Not Rustic - World of Their Greatest Hits (1995)
Their debut album, figured I'd start from the beginning after checking out their 2006 album last wee. I think I like this one better than The Empire Strikes Back, nice garage/cow punk. One song sounded like a cover of an early Byrds song, but looking at the track names now maybe that's not the case. Maybe it just sounded like one for some reason. Anyway good stuff, will replay this week.

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Kind of a supergroup featuring Brian Eno & Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music),Bill MacCormick (Matching Mole & Robert Wyatt) and Charles Hayward (This Heat)

The other guy became a maths teacher.

Musically it's kind of like an instrumental Soft Machine with a few added guitar solos.

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One of the profound music experiences of my life was lying down in a pitch black room and staring at nothing with eyes wide open as he sang so beautifully of love gone wrong. "Cold Water" and "Eskimo" are where I alternately sank into the abyss of his despair and then flew with him on his mad cocaine high.

Sometimes I just have to revisit an old favorite from days gone by...

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Pink Floyd - Ummagumma (1969)

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Baths' Obsidian

Holy crap! This blew me away!

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Carried on with the mind blowing. I really love Baths' eerie sound. This one is Ocean Death.

^ dude just edit your first post, no need for two separate posts.

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Karl Hector & The Malcouns - Unstraight Ahead (2014)

Hoping for something similar to what I got with The Whitefield Brothers (contains a few of the same members). Funky Afro-Beat. Gonna find their debut album too.

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An old favorite..."you only got one finger, babe, and it's pointing at the door."

Love Beck. So groovy. Always fresh.

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Pink Floyd - The Endless River

gonna go for a nice long drive and give this a nice full listen

edit

almost forgot

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