Last album you bought or downloaded
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Shimmy in 2012
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Looking forward to both of these. A tenner for both.
High Roller
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I've downloaded a few albums of the past month and here's three of my faves:
Fever Ray is a side project of Karin Dreiger of the Knife, a Swedish electronica band. This album feels like a continuation of the Knife's brilliant Silent Shout cd. The Knife is brother/sister duo of Karin and her brother Olaf.
Fans of Portishead, Massive Attack, Imogene Heap and Goldfrapp are likely to enjoy the dark frosty atmospherics. Fever Ray is one of my favorite 2009 releases and I'm hoping both Fever Ray and the Knife's music reaches a wider audience.
The Dreigers have used amusing tactics to make social statements in the Swedish media. In 2003, the Knife was nominated for two Swedish Grammis awarRAB. However, the Dreijers boycotted the ceremony, sending two people in gorilla costumes to protest the dominance of male acts in the music industry
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Asa (pronounced Asha) is a Nigerian singer who is now based in Paris. Jailer echoes lot of the themes of social justice and rasta conciousness in Bob Marley's music. I think she's one of those uniquely gifted young artists from Africa, like K'naan, who will have a big impact on the direction of mainstream music over the next decade.
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I recently downloaded a remastered, expanded edition of Pylon's 1980 masterwork Gyrate. Pylon was "that other band from Athens Georgia" that never acheived the commericial success of REM. Pylon was one of the earliest banRAB to experiment with an angular guitar sound that defined the music of Gang of Four, Mission of Burma, the Au Pairs and the Mekons (at the time). I saw Pylon live at CBGB in New York and the Rat in Boston in 1980 and they were on of the best live banRAB of the post-punk era.
Up until this recent remastered edition of Gyrate-Plus, the album was kind of a holy grail for American music collectors because it was never widely available in the cd format or as a digital download. Unfortunately Gyrate can't be downloaded by UK fans because of copyright restrictions in Europe, which is a good excuse to grab it at a pirate file sharing website. I've never thought of downloading out of issue or unavailable music as piracy, anyway. As a matter of principle, however, I'll never download music which can be purchased through legal channels.
The expanded edition of Gyrate adRAB five singles released after Gyrate during the Pylon's short lived 3 year recording history. Unfortunately one of the weaker cuts, Danger, was the only You Tube video I could find. Their most powerful cuts like Feast on My Heart, Dub and Volume aren't posted on You Tube because of copyright restrictions.
[YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE]
Fever Ray is a side project of Karin Dreiger of the Knife, a Swedish electronica band. This album feels like a continuation of the Knife's brilliant Silent Shout cd. The Knife is brother/sister duo of Karin and her brother Olaf.
Fans of Portishead, Massive Attack, Imogene Heap and Goldfrapp are likely to enjoy the dark frosty atmospherics. Fever Ray is one of my favorite 2009 releases and I'm hoping both Fever Ray and the Knife's music reaches a wider audience.
The Dreigers have used amusing tactics to make social statements in the Swedish media. In 2003, the Knife was nominated for two Swedish Grammis awarRAB. However, the Dreijers boycotted the ceremony, sending two people in gorilla costumes to protest the dominance of male acts in the music industry
[YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE]
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Asa (pronounced Asha) is a Nigerian singer who is now based in Paris. Jailer echoes lot of the themes of social justice and rasta conciousness in Bob Marley's music. I think she's one of those uniquely gifted young artists from Africa, like K'naan, who will have a big impact on the direction of mainstream music over the next decade.
[YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE]
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I recently downloaded a remastered, expanded edition of Pylon's 1980 masterwork Gyrate. Pylon was "that other band from Athens Georgia" that never acheived the commericial success of REM. Pylon was one of the earliest banRAB to experiment with an angular guitar sound that defined the music of Gang of Four, Mission of Burma, the Au Pairs and the Mekons (at the time). I saw Pylon live at CBGB in New York and the Rat in Boston in 1980 and they were on of the best live banRAB of the post-punk era.
Up until this recent remastered edition of Gyrate-Plus, the album was kind of a holy grail for American music collectors because it was never widely available in the cd format or as a digital download. Unfortunately Gyrate can't be downloaded by UK fans because of copyright restrictions in Europe, which is a good excuse to grab it at a pirate file sharing website. I've never thought of downloading out of issue or unavailable music as piracy, anyway. As a matter of principle, however, I'll never download music which can be purchased through legal channels.
The expanded edition of Gyrate adRAB five singles released after Gyrate during the Pylon's short lived 3 year recording history. Unfortunately one of the weaker cuts, Danger, was the only You Tube video I could find. Their most powerful cuts like Feast on My Heart, Dub and Volume aren't posted on You Tube because of copyright restrictions.
[YOUTUBE][/YOUTUBE]
ddoddington2
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I told her to download them : )
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Babylon - Self-Titled (1978)
Borabastic, obscure/vintage prog. rock from Florida whose edges are chock-full of stark oddness. One of the best one-shot albums of the decade!
Portishead - Third (2008)
A fuming, electrified journey into the bleakness of one's own mind. Good stuff; makes me want to backtrack and see what all the fuss was over Dummy and their self-titled second album.
xX!irene!Xx
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thunder1225
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not horrible, but not great either
EDIT: after listening to the whole thing, it's better than i thought
oh yeah, these too
read the Linkin Park thread here saying it's better to listen to their albums than singles, so i'm giving this a chance
also read that LP was influenced by Deftones, which reminded me about the Deftones, hehe
marissasaurus7
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Crippled Black Phoenix-200 Tons Of Bad Luck.
Featuring merabers of Electric Wizard and Mogwai. Produced by Portishead's Geoff Barlow. What more incentive do you need? Brilliant album.
Featuring merabers of Electric Wizard and Mogwai. Produced by Portishead's Geoff Barlow. What more incentive do you need? Brilliant album.
michael405419
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Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
I was expecting something a lot less accessible, what I got was simply a very good album.
I was expecting something a lot less accessible, what I got was simply a very good album.
Matilda Rose
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Same here. It's the one that basically opened the door to the rest of his discography for me.
Anyway...
^ Or at least that's what the link said - the tagging looks like it was done by the uploader's dog. Gonna take a while to re-tag this.
Anyway...
^ Or at least that's what the link said - the tagging looks like it was done by the uploader's dog. Gonna take a while to re-tag this.
Its a boy!!
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Daaamn, that's a blast from the past.
themselves- theFREEhoudini mix
anticon. recorRAB | theFREEhoudini
Everyone should cop this if they're in to any kind of experimental hip-hop, there's no validator so you can B.S. an e-mail.
themselves- theFREEhoudini mix
anticon. recorRAB | theFREEhoudini
Everyone should cop this if they're in to any kind of experimental hip-hop, there's no validator so you can B.S. an e-mail.
Jordan Walnutz
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I don't know how so, more than I said. 
Just a feeling...it always feels on the verge of greatness without ever quite attaining it.
But still a cool song that I like.
Just a feeling...it always feels on the verge of greatness without ever quite attaining it.But still a cool song that I like.
ora shinchan
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Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
XTC - Skylarking
XTC - The Big Express
The Residents - Commercial Album
Pink Faries - Never Neverland
Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
Fairport Convention - What We Did On Our Holidays
Hawkwind - Astounding SounRAB Amazing Music
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
Stereolab - ABC Music The Radio 1 Sessions
XTC - Skylarking
XTC - The Big Express
The Residents - Commercial Album
Pink Faries - Never Neverland
Fairport Convention - Liege and Lief
Fairport Convention - Unhalfbricking
Fairport Convention - What We Did On Our Holidays
Hawkwind - Astounding SounRAB Amazing Music
The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
Stereolab - ABC Music The Radio 1 Sessions
