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Various - '1971' (1971) [80:00] (Tracklist in approximate sequence. Tracks are often segued/overlapped) Download at this link 01 Kraftwerk - Ruckzuck 02 Yoko Ono - Mindtrain 03 Curtis Mayfield - Get Down 04 Leonard Cohen - Avalanche 05 Funkadelic - You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks 06 Mogul...

Cheers. Great track, lovely comp.

Some time cues would be really, really helpful on B'riddims 14. . . (for example, which track is it that comes in around 22:05?)

Fun stuff. Fra La Lippo is the only of these groups I know at all well. I'll have to have a conversation with Hal soon. . .

Anyone have any further thoughts on this album? It's stuck with me far more than I could've expected, and continues to feel. . . right, probably a dozen listens in.

The "true fans" at the Low website are, predictably, pretty vehemently opposed to the album. "This can't be the final mix," "I prefer the live versions," "The original versions were so much spacier," "the last few tracks make a great sequence," etc. Every once in a while I think you lot are...

The 'Bombscare' EP might also appeal to Dissensians more than most of their oeuvre, and would've been easily missed as it was a mere 17 minutes long and released only in the UK (to my knowledge). Find it here.

So happy to see some positive responses here. I'm still really enjoying this album, hopeful that there'll be others who've written them off before who'll nevertheless enjoy this work. I agree there's a little fat that could've been trimmed, especially in the second half of the record. But on...

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ff0efq Give it a spin, buy it if you like it when it's released

I've enjoyed Q-Tip's 'Kamaal the Abstract' album, which I still for the life of me can't understand why it's gone unreleased, some five+ years on. It's jazzy, dirty, close-mic'ed party music--maybe too "rock" (live instrument-laden) for "hip-hop" audiences? Despite the success of the Roots?

Doubtful whether Low is a concern Dissensians follow, but in case anyone felt like giving them a chance--this new record may be the time to do so. As far as "indie rock" acts go, they've always seemed pretty unique to me, flying in the face of the flacid laziness I associate with the...

Too bad Kraftwerk have so much disdain for their flutey days--'Ruckzuck' is still pretty sweet.

I guess I'm not talking about "self-conscious eclecticism," which I find hard to imagine, personally. It's not as though anyone says "today I must make my quota of Balinesian and Dub listening for the week". Eclecticism does not mean indifferent grab-baggery--eclecticism as you describe it is...

I almost want to apologise for introducing Nickleback and Nelly Furtado (and Burial) to the argument, as I was really just making what I thought was a baldly sarcastic remark, a bit of a canard, with my invocation of them and the bogey-man Rockist-"Korporatist". I find a rather irreconcilable...

And anyway, when/why did it become assumed that it's a good thing to be able to become "a true fanatic" about a genre/style/scene/fashion? Isn't "fanaticism" what ostensibly leads to all the exclusive (and to my eyes fairly elusive) isms, especially the dreaded muso-dino-fascism of Rockism, the...

Not sure I follow this line of reasoning--hipsterism to me is about the pretense of enjoying something primarily because of how one imagines one will be percieved for ones "taste;" whereas being an addict/geek has primarily to do with a pure and simple obsession with the art that humans are...

Can't this be said of pretty much every form of popular music that's had a "scene," a social component, a marketing method (whether radio/video/advertisments/magazines)? At least any that's oriented toward a youth culture. Rock, Reggae, Rave, Rap--shit, I'm sure Jazz and Blues would've been...

I think complaints of "lack of bass" reflect ears accustomed to bass-boosted eq'ed subwoofer thumping, which in my book isn't really bass in a musical sense, more of a cinema special effect. In fact, compared to that sort of bass, you'll actually hear more bass with quality canal-phones--you'll...

I seem to be in the minority in my preference for the rubber/plastic flanges over the foam inserts (both the Etys triple-flange design and the Shure's singles). I've wished there were foam inserts that were more like earplugs rather than the rawer feel of those shipped with the 'phones.

I have Etymotic ER-4p's and Shure E2-C's. The Etys are the most amazing sounding headphones I've ever heard, simply astonishing with some sources--but they're also pretty pricey and not at all portable, so I use them fairly infrequently (long flights, in-house listening). The Shure's sound...