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Please please please point me to as many things as possible that sound like La Bionda. That Dr. Who synthline, those little Worrell-esque flourishes, the handclaps, the electro-accordian sound, the boy/girl tradeoff vocals, the relaxed disco beat---aural drugs. I could listen to "Wanna be...

Yeah, it's a bit extreme in the "mixing"--sometimes three or I think even four tracks simultaneously. But I tried to find things that were sympathetic to each other, that somehow "fit", so hopefully it doesn't sound like a muddle. A couple of things are almost "versus" rather than "with," but...

I bet a lot of people will be hearing 'Health & Efficiency' and 'Repeat' for the first time, seems like those were harder to come by in 2001/2002 after the last reissues. I can't even get my brain around what it would've been like to hear '24 Track Loop' in '79, even with a healthy background...

Gloaming [27:34] http://www.arkansasrecords.net/mp3/Various_-_Gloaming_(1731-2005).mp3 Tangerine Dream “Sequent C” (1974) + Tony Conrad & Faust “The Pyre of Angus was in Kathmandu” (1971) → Mozart “Adagio for Glass Harmonica” (1791) + Arabic Chant → Chicago Underground Trio “O Sino”...

Hey, cool, cheers. I've got sort of a sequel finished, I'll up it this weekend.

Glad to hear it! I'd been feeling a bit silly for ordering it, owning all the elements (barring live disc) given that most remasters = ubercompressions.

Definitely have to be Talking Heads. Lead me back to Eno, re-hearing Velvet Underground, Fela, dub, Can, Faust, in turn to Reich, Riley, reconsidering electric-era Miles, Kraftwerk, Neu, African field recordings, Highlife, original ska, Gamelan, and on and on; which lead to me understanding...

I remember being offended in the late 90s that Rachel's were often lumped with Mogwai, Godspeed You Black Emperor, and other post-Smashing Pumpkins/Nine Inch Nails loud-soft "post-rock". Rachel's seems rooted in Satie, Ravel, Reich, maybe Modern Jazz Quartet. Most "post-rock" (outside of the...

This thread, and every discussion like it, leaves me feeling sad. I guess I'm hoping to be proved wrong, to have the detritus peeled back to reveal a secret, under-underground world of exciting sounds being made by young people. But if this is the best of the best, the I officially...

Wait ten years and see if anything is still being listened to/talked about. That's my approach, anyway, as I haven't the time or energy to spend being frustrated with middling faddish junk.

http://dissensus.com/showthread.php?t=1549 ; )

That's what I figured you meant. That's a reasonable working definition of "important," I suppose, so long as "important" isn't the only, erm, important criterion in judging the value of [music].

Things that sound like: "Ain't it Funky Now," "Recollections," "King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown," "Third Uncle," "Vitamin C," "The Chase," "A Case of You," 'Dub Housing,' 'It's Gonna Rain Pt. II," 'Innervisions,' "I Want You," small-groups gamelan, "Sophisticated Cissy," 'The Velvet...

Important = ? His music is often very small sounding, minimal without being per se minimalist ("serious"). And it's sometimes cute. Are these the reasons it's not "important"? Or a lack of influence on later musicians? I guess good overtook important (by any definition) for me a long time...

What started this apparent renewal of interest in Moondog, anyone know? Anyway, happy to see it. He's ended up on probably a third of all the mix tapes I've made in the last 5+ years. Such fun stuff.

Wow, 2000 downloads? I'm grabbing it now. I need to figure out a better way to distrube some of my mixes.

I've always had the impression that people here know what they like and like it sincerely--even when I don't know what the hell they're talking about (ie Burial). In other words, everyone here seems to be a pretty far-gone music geek/addict, which in my book means being cool or "correct" (which...

Taking a guess: Joni Mitchell - Blue Arthur Russell - World of Echo Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby Bjork - Homogenic Can - Ege Bamyasi Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets, others Miles Davis - In A Silent Way Stevie Wonder - Talking Book Saka Acquaye - Voices of Africa Steve Reich - Early Works...

Hope to respond to your specific points tomorrow, Cornelius. In the meantime--a sub-question: you bring up Ani Difranco, whom I've always generally respected for her get-up-and-do-it attitude towards the means of production and distribution, but who has never really been my cup of tea...

I know if/when I have kids, it's going to be so hard to resist the desire to be a personal Dad DJ for them, trying things out at all stages of infancy/toddlerhood/childhood to see what sticks (and to prevent them getting into whatever horrible alternative rock or pop-pap is the thing at that...