your music suggestions

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zhao

there are no accidents
so if this Associates thing is sumfin i REALLY need ta hear, somebody wanna return the favor...?
 
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noel emits

a wonderful wooden reason
For some reason I feel the need to recommend The Happy Dragon - Band reissue CD on Radioactive.

It's one of those records that you really don't want to try and describe too much because it's just so deliciously outside most boundaries. Suffice to say it's from 1977, American and has lots of synths. Beyond that and I'd be spoiling the fun.

Still available for £2.99 from Slectadisc in Nottingham by way: http://www.selectadisc.co.uk/product_page_selectadisc.asp?tid=35214

Bargain!
 
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Poisonous Dart

Lone Swordsman
My 10 recommendations

1. 9th Wonder-Dream Merchant 2
2. Hezekiah-I Predict A Riot
3. Median-Median's Relief
4. Cunninlynguists-Dirty Acres
5. Special Teamz-Stereotypez
6. Oh No-Dr. No's Oxperiment
7. Blu & Exile-Below The Heavens
8. Chrisette Michelle-I Am
9. Keyshia Cole-Just Like You
10. Kidz In The Hall & Mick Boogie-Detention

One.
 
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zhao

there are no accidents
man it might be just me right now but after becoming immersed in the myriad strains of African hiphop most new American rap just sounds sooooo played out...
 
Woebot

Woebot

Well-known member
@nomadologist

what kind of things do you like at the moment?

and

what things are you a bit curious about?

then i'll try and make some useful suggestions...
 
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zhao

there are no accidents
with grave seriousness and a hushed voice i recommend this album. it's been a long, long time since a recording has had this much emotional impact on me.

a crude comparison would be GAS transcribed for Cello. but much more than mere drone... so fucking gorgeous it makes me cry.

turns out she played Cello on Pan Sonic's last record... makes sense.

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Lost In Hildurness - Mount A
Label:12 Tónar
Format:CD,Album
Country:Iceland
Released:Sep 2006

Hildur Ingveldardóttir Guðnadóttir is a classically trained cellist. She began studying cello playing at the Reykjavík Music Academy and then moved on to musical studies/composition and new media at the Iceland Academy of the Arts and Universitat der Kunste in Berlin

Tónar released Hildur's first solo album, 'Mount A' under the artist name of 'Lost in Hildurness'. The album was recorded in New York City, and at Hólar in Hjaltadalur, (the former resident of the Icelandic Bishop in the medievals), in a house called Auðunarstofa - a replicant of a building which stood there on the very same spot few hundred years back. The house is all made of norwegian wood (also the nails!) and is therefore greatly suited for cello playing, concerning the outcome of the sound. The record was then mixed at The Greenhouse in Reykjavík, with Valgeir Sigurðsson in the cockpit, and mastered in Berlin. Hildur is certainly a multi-talent which crystallizes in the fact that she played all the instruments on the record by her self, including Vibraphone, Viola da Gamba, Harp...and the oldest and purest instrument of all; her voice
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shudder

Well-known member
zhao said:
with grave seriousness and a hushed voice i recommend this album. it's been a long, long time since a recording has had this much emotional impact on me.

a crude comparison would be GAS transcribed for Cello. but much more than mere drone... so fucking gorgeous it makes me cry.

turns out she played Cello on Pan Sonic's last record... makes sense.

hildur%20live%20in%20gent.jpg


Lost In Hildurness - Mount A
Label:12 Tónar
Format:CD,Album
Country:Iceland
Released:Sep 2006
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I'll check this out Zhao. Recently, I saw a live hour-long improvisation between Pauline Oliveros and a local (Toronto) cellist, Anne Bourne, who also sang. I was worried that I wouldn't be able to sit through an hour of the stuff, but it was mesmerizing. I know it probably has little to do with this album, but the cello and the "long time since a recording has had this much emotional impact on me" reminded me.
 
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nomadologist

Guest
Wow I disappear for a while and then I get so behind I will probably never get to buying all of these suggestions. But there's tons to work with here. Thnx everyone.

Lately, I've been trying to find beat-driven music that isn't at the same time made for clubs, or best in the club "context." My newest fantasies include music that is 100% digitally recorded and mastered but with synth elements with the tonal warmth and epic breadth of the prophet 5. (cf The Chromatics cover of Running Up that Hill--goes all chilly and airy) I've been pretty obsessed with the clip they use on ANTM before they kick someone off--it sounds like music from those old horror video games for PCs in the late 80s.

And actually I have been mostly listening to downtempo music, probably out of fear of another winter.
 
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shudder

Well-known member
nomadologist said:
(cf The Chromatics cover of Running Up that Hill--goes all chilly and airy)
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bizarre coincidence... not 10 minutes after I read this, my brother plays me a clip of this on his computer. as for the song itself, the original's synths are so burned into my head that the cover seems... well... a little superfluous.
 
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