Sorry, I just don't get it.... we're listening to one of the all-time classic synth-pop albums and you're listening to Autechre?
(Dipping into the Autechre now. Hmmm. .... back to Ultravox :-).)
Seriously, is there a place you think I should start with Autechre? I've tried listening in on a couple of albums in the past and it's never grabbed me.
The difference being that Ultravox will be there tomorrow, Autechre will not.
Seriously, I'll have to get back to you on that.
BTW, Last night they went on for about 10 hours, so stop by later. they are usually slowing down later in their sets.
Well, the U.S. Internationalists. On cassette - I am starting to rip some of my cassettes to the computer. I learned how to use Audacity to do this - it's actually pretty easy.
Tri Repetae gets my (and probably many) votes as the starting point for Autechre. If you don't like that, then the next starter recommendation would be highly fickle, OR you're just not likely to enjoy Autechre.
I know that problem Greg, I had a situation once with a Frank Turner record which I forgot had some swearing on it, kids found it funny, parent not so amused.
Found this on Bandcamp , streaming
Epic 45 Steps to Further Winter
Originally sold as a limited edition CDr on the epic45 tour of Europe in October 2009. This collection of rarities and out-takes were drawn from various points in the band's history between 2003 and 2009. Here you'll find an early, glitch-pop version of Summer's First Breath, remixes from ISAN and Simon Scott, faded ambient passages and other intriguing nuggets of sound that reveal unexplored avenues and possible directions...
My Autumn Empire II is a collection of subtle, 70s-tinged space pop with a hint of folk around the edges and just a whiff of psychedelia. The second album from epic45's Ben Holton was the last fruits of an old computer and a radical side step from the minimal acoustics and electronics of its predecessor, The Village Compass. Instead, the focus is on the layering of vocal harmonies, washes of vintage synth and prominent melodies.
Although reminiscent of ELO's symphonic pop or a rural English take on Grandaddy, MAEII seems to exist in a world of its own, strangely implacable. The album features the single Say It Again, perhaps the most overtly pop track, although the lyrics reveal a darker heart. "Like Sparklehorse covering The Beatles," reckons Phil from Norman Records. This Heats apocalyptic Sleep is then given an almost Alasdair Roberts-sounding makeover for the final track.
Update - good marketing, I'm now on the third track and I know that I will buy it, it is very, very good. It takes me back to Bowie albums of twenty plus years ago. That cover will appear here a lot over the next few months from a number of us!!
BBC Review
Even after 10 years away from the spotlight, David Bowie pops most important post-Beatles innovator still commands unrivalled levels of fascination.
Just when it seemed that he had quietly slipped into a dignified retirement, which no-one would have begrudged, the world awoke one morning in January to the remarkable news of not only a single, Where Are We Now?, available immediately, but also this album.
In the context of the album, Where Are We Now? a moving, backwards glance at The Berlin Years seems a slight red herring. Bowie does consider the past, ageing, mortality: on the title tracks chant of My body left to rot in a hollow tree and Id Rather Be Highs stumbling to the graveyard.
How Does the Grass Grow? poses the question, Would you still love me if the clocks could go backwards? (You Will) Set the World on Fire seemingly addresses his pre-stardom self, a You Really Got Me riff and slick confidence reminding us that hes always had what it takes. This elegiac nostalgia is matched by the beautiful You Feel So Lonely You Could Die.
A complex mood pervades elsewhere, a sense of things gone awry. The nicely sinister Dirty Boys expressive, serious vocal depicts a skewed Englishness of cricket bats, Finchley Fair and running with dirty boys. The Stars (Are Out Tonight) sees those stars (a recurring theme) anthropomorphised: sexless and unaroused, unsettlingly beaming like blackened sunshine.
The most experimental cut, If You Can See Me, proclaims amidst spacey, tumbling rhythms and scattered jumbles of notes and words I will slaughter your kind. Love Is Lost makes youth seem ominous newness abounds but still your fear is old. Clearly this is no elder statesman simply wistfully gazing into a dappled, romanticised past.
Valentines Day and Id Rather Be High are further standouts the former is a mid-paced depiction of a character with a tiny face and scrawny hands; the latter, a furious anti-war song.
Closer Heat is a brilliant exemplar of what makes our finest, bravest musician of the past 40 years so irreplaceable. Its full of spaced-out vocals, ominous noises and bangs, keening strings and disturbing, impressionistic poetry.
With the opacity and lack of easy answers that you would hope for from this most stylish and creative of artists, this is a triumphant, almost defiant, return. Innovative, dark, bold and creative, its an album only David Bowie could make.
- "This was intended as a concept album about a sculptor who went mad while trying to sculpt his perfect lover .An arm fell off and he ran riot with his chisel , hacking and destroying everything in sight. The planet fell to pieces, heaven fell to pieces and he was brought before God who bore a plaster over his left eye ,but was sympathetic to those who acted in the name of love. The sculptor's "punishment?
You guessed, he had to re-sculpt the universe. . . ."
- Edward Ka-Spel.
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(Dipping into the Autechre now. Hmmm. .... back to Ultravox :-).)
Seriously, is there a place you think I should start with Autechre? I've tried listening in on a couple of albums in the past and it's never grabbed me.
Seriously, I'll have to get back to you on that.
BTW, Last night they went on for about 10 hours, so stop by later. they are usually slowing down later in their sets.
ETA: right now Art of Noise
Well, the U.S. Internationalists. On cassette - I am starting to rip some of my cassettes to the computer. I learned how to use Audacity to do this - it's actually pretty easy.
Fuck ! this is good ! ( a New Order mash up)
Still listening to the radio live Autechre DJ. set. - So cool !
- They have been on the go for about 4,5 hours now . . .
Brian Eno ATM.
With a 4 year old and 2 year old I do edit the tracks we listen to!
Back home, I'm now updating CDs to lossless on itunes,I came accross this, so currently listening to this on CD
Found this on Bandcamp , streaming
Epic 45 Steps to Further Winter
Originally sold as a limited edition CDr on the epic45 tour of Europe in October 2009. This collection of rarities and out-takes were drawn from various points in the band's history between 2003 and 2009. Here you'll find an early, glitch-pop version of Summer's First Breath, remixes from ISAN and Simon Scott, faded ambient passages and other intriguing nuggets of sound that reveal unexplored avenues and possible directions...
Streaming from Bandcamp
My Autumn Empire II is a collection of subtle, 70s-tinged space pop with a hint of folk around the edges and just a whiff of psychedelia. The second album from epic45's Ben Holton was the last fruits of an old computer and a radical side step from the minimal acoustics and electronics of its predecessor, The Village Compass. Instead, the focus is on the layering of vocal harmonies, washes of vintage synth and prominent melodies.
Although reminiscent of ELO's symphonic pop or a rural English take on Grandaddy, MAEII seems to exist in a world of its own, strangely implacable. The album features the single Say It Again, perhaps the most overtly pop track, although the lyrics reveal a darker heart. "Like Sparklehorse covering The Beatles," reckons Phil from Norman Records. This Heats apocalyptic Sleep is then given an almost Alasdair Roberts-sounding makeover for the final track.
Streaming on itunes - at least in the UK
Update - good marketing, I'm now on the third track and I know that I will buy it, it is very, very good. It takes me back to Bowie albums of twenty plus years ago. That cover will appear here a lot over the next few months from a number of us!!
The last part of the "Codona Trilogy" set, from Guvera.
Charles Lloyd - Lift Every Voice
Not quite naked cover art.
Lights Dim/Gallery Six - Moon EP
- "This was intended as a concept album about a sculptor who went mad while trying to sculpt his perfect lover .An arm fell off and he ran riot with his chisel , hacking and destroying everything in sight. The planet fell to pieces, heaven fell to pieces and he was brought before God who bore a plaster over his left eye ,but was sympathetic to those who acted in the name of love. The sculptor's "punishment?
You guessed, he had to re-sculpt the universe. . . ."
- Edward Ka-Spel.
Free download from Amazon UK
Thanks, Doofy. I wasn't aware of this grouping.
ETA: this is excellent.
followed by
Craig
- "The Konki Duet come from all around the world (Kumi from Japan, Tamara from Russia, and Zo
The Boogie Woogie Trio vol. 2
Albert Ammons & Meade Lux Lewis
I am going to hazard a guess that I should be thanking Doofy.
From Guvera....