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nomadologist

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Soon I will be coming into some tuition refund money, and have already decided to allot a portion of it to investing in my music collection.

Since I am getting old and out of touch, I need some trusted help to get me back on track.

Please leave your suggestions for anything you think I should get here. Explanations of why you recommend artists are welcome.

Thanks in advance for the help. :cool:
 

henry s

Street Fighting Man
the three things I've enjoyed the most recently are as dry and dusty as the weather these days:

Beach House
Arthur & Yu - In Camera
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Dandelion Gum

all pretty hazy, not in much of a hurry to get anywhere...a bit like myself, really...
 
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nomadologist

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Cool, thanks. I've heard Beach House, since I went to school with Tori who is the lead singer, and really appreciate what they're doing.

The others I have not heard of but will check out.
 

mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
Not new, but I'd make sure you have a copy of 'Fourth Drawer Down' by The Associates if you haven't already, deep eighties expressionist pre-pop. I say that to everyone though.
 

swears

preppy-kei
The two Super Collider albums, Head On and Raw Digits. The first one is better IMO, but they are both underrated classics.
 

gek-opel

entered apprentice
Not new, but I'd make sure you have a copy of 'Fourth Drawer Down' by The Associates if you haven't already, deep eighties expressionist pre-pop. I say that to everyone though.

Seconded! Its like a crazed amphetamine rush of primitive electro, krautrock, disco, and operatic sublime vocalising...

David Sylvian - "Blemish" : avant-electronic/improv lieder.
 

spooky girlfriend

Wild Horses
Not new, but I'd make sure you have a copy of 'Fourth Drawer Down' by The Associates if you haven't already, deep eighties expressionist pre-pop. I say that to everyone though.

country club is the best song ever written. period.

what sort of stuff are you into nomad? might give me a better idea of what you would like
 

sing_minimal

Well-known member
i've been listening to these two old (but reisued) releases a lot atm;

-j.d.emmanuel - wizards
-bruce haack - the electric lucifer

both sublime and unique releases..music that takes you to another dimension : )

edit; and the new pj harvey ofcourse!! most beautiful record this year i think.
 

leamas

Well-known member
country club is the best song ever written. period.

what sort of stuff are you into nomad? might give me a better idea of what you would like

also 'better off this way' and 'party fears (two)' off the same album (sulk). associates are great.

if you're into that kind of avant garde pop sound, also recently discovered mark stewart 'as the veneer of democracy starts to fade', which has 'hypnotized' on it. well worth checking.

Since I am getting old and out of touch, I need some trusted help to get me back on track.

my favourite artist of the last few years is susanna and the magical orchestra. they are a scandinavian group who make folky electronic music. they have an album of cover versions which I think is truly unmissable called 'melody mountain'. their other album, 'list of lights and buoys' is also great. somewhere between sigur ros, bjork and boards of canada.
 

sing_minimal

Well-known member
susanna actually just put out her new (solo) album. and i agree..the covers album has some ace versions on it!


however richard d james is still on top of all things : )
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
-bruce haack - the electric lucifer
Anyone ever heard that Bruce Haack thing with a picture of a skull on the front? I think it's maybe called Bite or something, supposed to be a bit darker, comes up on ebay every now and again but always goes out of my price range, it's got a great cover and I've got this intuition that it might be brilliant though of course I could be totally misguided. I think that for some reason it has at least one track with the same title as those from EL on it but I don't know if i'ts a different version, I hope so, I imagine it to be like a dark counterpoint to EL.
 

tom pr

Well-known member
susanna actually just put out her new (solo) album. and i agree..the covers album has some ace versions on it!
And on the other side of the rainbow, there's Shining (tentative link, but Susanna's backing band is members of Jaga, who also share members with Shining) who put out the amazing Grindstone album this year.

Best new band though is Ryan Olcott's new group, Mystery Palace. They're like a better Junior Boys, get Flags Forward.
 

tom pr

Well-known member
susanna actually just put out her new (solo) album. and i agree..the covers album has some ace versions on it!
And on the other side of the rainbow, there's Shining (tentative link, but Susanna's backing band is members of Jaga, who also share members with Shining) who put out the amazing Grindstone album this year. Best new band though is Ryan Olcott's new group, Mystery Palace. They're like a better Junior Boys, get Flags Forward.
 
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nomadologist

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thanks, everyone, all of these suggestions noted

the Associates are definitely a band I have not given enough attention to, and it's weird, because I was just talking about them a couple weeks ago with someone and they made me watch a bunch of youtube videos of theirs because they couldn't believe I wasn't really into them based on my love of synth-oriented music of all kinds
 
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nomadologist

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Seconded! Its like a crazed amphetamine rush of primitive electro, krautrock, disco, and operatic sublime vocalising...

this description fits early Human League, circa Reproduction and Travelogue. or almost does. (somehow I passed over the Associates for HL when I was younger and it stuck)

speaking of, I remember that I've been meaning to buy that Clock DVA album...
 

zhao

there are no accidents
listening now for first time but i'm pretty sure this is going to hold up in longer runs:

VA - 'The Sound of Dub' Rare & Soundful Pearls From South Africa (Echo Beach 2005)

in terms of newdub/electronic dancehall/ragga/jungle/hiphop, this blows away the countless things in this vein i've encountered in years. sweet girl singers, afro badman rap, tasteful electronics, interesting beat patterns... clean and crisp, but with melodies... like IDM/downtempo pallette of sounds applied to non-annoying, and non-boring music. a few tracks are like if the Bug got over being so pissed off all the fuckin time. immediately satisfying and doesn't let up on the goodness.

almost approaching the final frontier: AFROCENTRIC DUBSTEP

???
 
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zhao

there are no accidents
Clock DVA: a curious first wave, pre-EBM "synth industrial" band split between gothic song writing, and sinister hypknotick electro-rhythms. the stuff of my teenage acid trips :rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:

still kind of almost listenable still, surprisingly enough considering 99.99 per cent of that stuff is not.
 
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