Essential listening, 2005

The Wire Magazine's Top 50 and Misc lists:

The Books, Lost And Safe MIA, Arular Animal Collective, Feels Richard Youngs, The Naive Shaman The Lappetites, Before The Libretto The Focus Group, Hey Let Loose Your Love LCD Soundsystem Tetuzi akiyama, Route 13 To The Gates Of Hell: Live In Tokyo CocoRosie, Noah's ark Boards Of Canada, The Campfire Headphase Antony & The Johnsons, I Am A Bird Now Ariel Pink, Worn Copy The Chap, Ham Black Mountain Isoleé, We Are Monster David Behrman, My Dear Siegfried The Sealed Knot, Unwanted Object Konono No 1, Congotronics Edan, The Beauty And The Beat Jackson & His Computer Band, Smash Lightning Bolt, Hypermagic Mountain Lau Nau, Kuutarha Thuja, Pine Cone Temples Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Wedlock Kanye West, Late Registration John Fahey, The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick Mouthus, Slow Globes Sufjan Stevens, Illinoise Rova:Orkestrova, Electric Ascension John Wall, Cphon Jamie Lidell, Multiply Susan Howe & David Grubbs, Thiefth Broadcast, Tender Buttons Om, Variations On A Theme Low, The Great Destroyer Akron/Family, Akron/Family John Coltrane, One Down One Up:Live At The Half Note Brian Eno, Another Day On Earth Josephine Foster, Hazel Eyes I Will LEad You Prurient, Black Vase Bonnie 'Prince' Billie & Matt Sweeney, Superwolf Sightings, Arrived In Gold Masayuki Takayanagi, Action Direct Einstürzende Neubauten, Grundstück Pelt, Untitled Matthew Herbert, Plat Du Jour Buck 65, Secret House Against The world Six Organs Of Admittance, School Of The Flower Keiji Haino, Global Ancient Atmosphere Eliane Radigue, Elemental II

Avant Rock A-Z

Birchville Cat Motel w/ Lee Ranaldo, 30th December 2004 Burning Star Core, The Very Heart of the world Double Leopards, Out Of One Through One And To One Earth, Hex; Hisato Higuchi, 2004 11 2005 4 Jandek, Glasgow sunday Mouthus, Slow Globes MV/EE & The Bummer Road, We Offer You Guru Om, Variations On A Theme Skullflower, Orange Canyon Mind Sunburned Hand Of The Man, Wedlock Sunn O))), Black One Jack Rose, Kensington Blues Yeloow Swans/ Grey Daturas, Copper/ Silver Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice, Buck Dharma

Critical Beats A-Z

Isoleé, My Hi-Matic DJ Koze, don't Feed The Cat Motiivi:Tunetmaton, 1939 Don Atom feat. Tea Time, Mueve La Cintura Skream, Midnight Request Line Tori Alamaze, Don't Cha Les Visiteurs, Snoop's Acid Drop Lindstrom, I Feel Space Paul Kalkbrenner, Tatü-Tata Matias Aguayo, Drums & Feathers Hell, Follow You (Dominik Eulberg Remix) Aswefall, Ride (Der Schmeisser Lovelysplintermix) Rude 66, Die Starke Der Vernichtenden Schlage George Issakidis, Understand What I'M Saying MANDY vs Booka, Shade Mandarine Girl

Outer Limits A-Z:

Avarus, Ruskeatimantti Keith Berry, The Ear That Was Sold To A Fish Maurizio Bianchi & Land Use, Psychoneurose Boris with Merzbow, Sun Baked Snow Cave Andrew Chalk, The River That Runs Into The Sand Double Leopards & Wolf Eyes, Breeding Turbines sophie Durand & Manu Holterbach, Verres Enharmoniques: Un Henry Flynt, Purified By The Fire Grouper, Way They Crept Keiji Haino, Uchu Ni Karami Tsuiteiru Waga Itami Inca Ore, A Knit Of My Owm Fibers/ When You Are sleeping I Tell You Secrets Paavoharju, Yhä Hämärää James Plotkin, Kurtlanmak Prurient, Black Vase Alexander Tucker, Old Fog

Jazz & Improv A-Z

Chris Abrahams, Thrown Derek Bailey, Carpal Tunnel Clive Bell & David Ross, Mystery Lights/ Nightflowers Bill Carrothers, Civil War Diaries Cold Bleak Heart, It's Magnificent, But It Isn't War Cooper-Moore & Assif Tsahar, Tells Untold Crowther/ Franklin/ Marsh, Amherst Dislodged Paul Flaherty & Chris Corsano, Steel Sleet Mochizuki Harutaka, Solo Document 2004 Kerbaj/ Sehnaoui/ Sehnaoui/ Zahc, Rouba3i5 Mat Maneri, Pentagon MEV & AMM, Apogee Owl Sounds, Owl Sounds with Arrington DeDionyso ROVA::Orkestrova, Electric Ascension

Electronica A-Z

Alva Noto, Transpray Alva Noto &Ryuichi Sakamoto, Insen Biosphere, Dropsonde Susanne Brokesch, Emerald Stars Colleen, The Golden Morning Breaks C-Schulz, 5.Flicker Tunes Tod Dockstader, Aerial Markus Guentner, 1981 Hulk, Silver Thread Of Ghosts Inch-Time, Any Colour You Like Kyo Ichinose, Lontano Jan Jelinek, Kosmische Pitch Minamo, Shining Mountains, Mountains Venetian Snares, Rossz Csillag Allat Született

HipHop A-Z

Aasim - Hip Hop 101 Edan - Beauty And The Beat Ghostface - Kilos Ellay Khule - Califormula Legendary KO - George Bush Doesn't Care About Black people Mac Dre & Mac Mall - dredio Mistah FAB - Super Sic Wit It Quasimoto - The Further Adventures Of Lord Quas Sadat X - Experience And Education Juelz Santana - There It Go Beanie Sigel - The B.Coming 13 & God - EP Three 6 Mafia - Stay Fly TTC - Batards Sensibles Tuff Crew & Krown Rulers - Phanjam

What? No New Order?

Kayne West bahh..

Pretty Ricky had a better 2005 release. Ludicris' effort is even better.

Indiekid-tastic!

Boards of Canada is surprisingly-good ambient noise though, imagine the Orb on (more) valium.

Christ THE ORB on Valium, what a way to induce a catatonic state

C'mon Mike, there's no way you've gone to all those hillage and sys7 gigs without hearing the "real Orb" when Dr Patterson sets aside the ambient thing.

Speakin of which....have you heard the groovetech session with Paterson DJ's and Hillage glissing, tickytackying and even playing fookin fish rising type sequences off one of his trusty old beasts.

FWIW I'd say "the boards" are more like ORBITAL on valium

Steve I ain't heard the Groovetech session, where can I download it from?

bollox....I wish you hadn't asked that groovetech is toast

I seen a torrent with all his mozes in it, but can't remember where.

I have it on HD somewhere but. (audio only which is a shame)

I got this the other day;

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7574444954&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

Excellent...wait till I show me mate Marty that...he'll really hate you :D Good price too for such a rarity.

right i found groovetech...158 Meg

I can webserve it for you, it may be a little slow to start with owing to my arsehole brother going to bed plastered and leaving the fucking "steve crusher" bandwidth limiter he wrote running.

I'll mail you the link (work address?)....in case 26 people start downloading at once :D

BTW....BLUE ROOM...with gliss on the record and live tickytacky guitar is just TOO much :D

Thanks Steve, please explain what I have to do. I am only used to e-mule for downloads.

Cheeers

just the old fashion way...click the link I send :D

Cheers Dude!

If yer want put me in touch with Marty.

I have videod System 7 10 times ( Steve Hillage has asked me to a few times ).

Also I have recorded them 30 odd times

I am a big SPILLAGE fan

"my name is not spillage it is HILLAGE!"

:D I'll say to him next time I see him, I'm sure he'll be VERY interested....he has a fair bit of old gong stuff as well, some quite rare....and he can do a VERy passable gliss/tickytacky

with any luck u have mail

Steve

Have you emailed the link , my address is;

mrdigitalmike@aol.com

Ask Marty if he has these:

Gong - Garcon ou Fille - BYG 129.021

Gong - Blues fo Findlay ( edit from Continal Circus ) - Phillips 6637 056

GONG - It's the time of your life PROMO - Virgin VS 123

Daevid Allen and The Invisible Opera Company of Tibet - Tial By Headline - Private pressing (500 only )

I shall as him.

Oooooops sent mail to work address re-sent now...be interesting to see if AOL, the ultimate spammers, dare reject my privately owned domain as a spam risk :D

Shall ask him about those....Lord only knows when I'll see him. I know he has mych D. Allen stuff too....we used to do a mean version o "Stoned innocent Frankenstein"...now THERE's a test of memory. Better shut up...I could lynched round here for admitting being able to play something with that many chords.

sod it

Cheers Steve I will attempt to download it shortly

dave soligo wrote: The Wire Magazine's Top 50 and Misc lists:

Brian Eno, Another Day On Earth

I am morally obligated to post that Another Day on Earth is a steaming, maggot-ridden pile of yak shit.

And yes, I own only two CD box sets, and both of them are Eno. But what a fuckin' turd that record is.

Eno claimed that he pulled My Squelchy Life because the delay between its recording and release made it dated; then he releases a "new" vocal album to great hype and includes a track released twice already, the first time 13 years ago. What. Ever.

Crap.

I must be old....I aint heard 99% of that list :D

Happy new year Gnu ya bollox.

so ok as a Clerk at Tower Records-we have been buried under various people's "Top Ten" lists for the year's best records....so as a snob....I have to put mine in there....

1. "At Carnegie Hall" Thelonius Monk Qt. and John Coltrane
2. "Badlands: Ballads of The Lakota" Marty Stuart
3. "Mouse and The Mask-Danger Doom
4. "A Time 2 Love" Stevie Wonder
5. "Some Cities" Doves
6. "Demon Days" Gorillaz 7."Mighty Rearranger" Robert Plant & Strange Sensation
7. "Punches" World Leader Pretend" 9 "LCD Sound System" LCD Sound system
8. "de nova" The Redwalls

yes I am the dreaded eclectic....

I'm getting old... I hardly know any of the bands the mag listed...

Vitalic "OK Cowboy"

Gorillaz "Demon Days"

Doves "Some Cities"

New Order "WFTSC"

digital mike binoche wrote: Christ THE ORB on Valium, what a way to induce a catatonic state

have you heard William Basinski's Disintegation Loops releases? Hauntingly beautiful, decaying drones. Music to go numb to. Think Boards of Canada on Valium.

http://www.hauntedink.com/25/basinski-disintegration.html

lcd soundsystem in there? the singles were ok, but the whole album...