Google Play has several albums on sale for free or $0.99, and this is one of them, which I already liked, so I grabbed it. amc may be the only other one here who would find something on the list they like, but who knows.
~ One half new music ensemble, one half avant-pop band, TIGUE delivers rhythmic hooks and patterned drones, uniting homegrown ethos and conservatory precision. Praised for their energetic and focused performances, the Ohio-born, Brooklyn-based members (Matt Evans, Amy Garapic and Carson Moody) have worked together extensively on original and composed music for nearly half a decade. Formed in 2012, following their concurrent studies at both the Eastman School of Music and the Ohio State University, TIGUE crystallized out of, and in spite of, the eclectic contemporary, pop, and avant-garde influences inherent in their DNA. Their peculiar brand of post-minimalist pattern-pop generates a kaleidoscope of concepts drawing from pioneering composers and breakthrough art-rockers. ~
I am finally seriously working my way into the huge Haydn box ($2.99 for 24 hours of string quartets) that I got from Amazon some months back (using this poll to prioritize):
Thing is, that is one ugly piece of album art, and I can only process big boxes like this properly by splitting them into their constituent albums to get them into my listening flow. 30 albums with the same art...and that art? No thanks. What is more, the quartets seem to come in half-dozens, requiring two albums per opus for sensible listening increments, so I really want two thematically related but recognizably different album covers for each opus to help me remember which cluster of quartets is which.
This time, rather than my usual method of scouring the web for ancient-but-apt LP cover art, I decided to have a go myself. So a couple of hours with some of my own recent photos and a couple of iPad photo editing apps and I am six albums into my new amateur art project. I am no designer, but I am having fun so far and I think my results are better than the original:
(Original images: my favorite tea mug; a tree by Lake Michigan; a butterfly in a bush in Virginia. I'll have to keep an eye out for people dressed like Haydn.)
Morgan Ågren, one of the best drummers from Sweden. Has played with: Frank Zappa , Devin Townsend, Fredrik Thordendal (of Meshuggah), Crimson ProjeKCt (Adrian Belew, Tony Levin), Squarepusher,Daedelus, Bill Laswell, Tosin Abasi, Steve Vai, Trey Gunn, Henry Kaiser, Fleshquartet, Karmakanic, Spoonman, Glenn Huges, Dale Bozzio, Mike Keneally, Denny Walley and Kaipa.
I happened upon some pretty weak/lame punk/metal music and needed this to 'cleanse the palate' and re-establish and re-calibrate my internal punk/metal compass: Therapy? - Troublegum
ETA: They have an excellent cover of Joy Division's "Isolation".
Somebody mentioned on one of the emu thread a FireFox extension that allowed downloads of streaming music; I didn't know there were things like that out there. So I looked around a little and found a Chrome extension that puts a download button on any Soundcloud stream. My hard drive is cursing me.
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Meek Mill - Dreams Worth More Than Money
Google Play has several albums on sale for free or $0.99, and this is one of them, which I already liked, so I grabbed it. amc may be the only other one here who would find something on the list they like, but who knows.
Craig
Tigue - Live on WFMU, Oct 15, 2015
JANEK SCHAEFER + DJ OLIVE + LAWRENCE ENGLISH - THREE BY THREE BY THREE
Jim O'Rourke - Steamroom 22
- Still a brilliant album.
....and then A Good Feelin’ to Know and Crazy Eyes. For some reason I do not have their first album.
D/P/I - Don't Take Her For Granted (http://www.tinymixtapes.com/chocolate-grinder/listen-dpi-dont-take-her-granted)
Bas van Huizen - Kluwekracht
Thing is, that is one ugly piece of album art, and I can only process big boxes like this properly by splitting them into their constituent albums to get them into my listening flow. 30 albums with the same art...and that art? No thanks. What is more, the quartets seem to come in half-dozens, requiring two albums per opus for sensible listening increments, so I really want two thematically related but recognizably different album covers for each opus to help me remember which cluster of quartets is which.
This time, rather than my usual method of scouring the web for ancient-but-apt LP cover art, I decided to have a go myself. So a couple of hours with some of my own recent photos and a couple of iPad photo editing apps and I am six albums into my new amateur art project. I am no designer, but I am having fun so far and I think my results are better than the original:
(Original images: my favorite tea mug; a tree by Lake Michigan; a butterfly in a bush in Virginia. I'll have to keep an eye out for people dressed like Haydn.)
"I'll have to keep an eye out for people dressed like Haydn."
They're probably hidin'.
/sorry.
Now listening to King Crimson - Discipline
Meanwhile,
Gabriel Fauré - Requiem - Danmarks Radio Symfoniorkestret - Ivor Bolton
- Excellent stuff from Free Music Archive.
I happened upon some pretty weak/lame punk/metal music and needed this to 'cleanse the palate' and re-establish and re-calibrate my internal punk/metal compass: Therapy? - Troublegum
ETA: They have an excellent cover of Joy Division's "Isolation".
Reference: Isolation - Joy Division (so very coool in it's own right).
tl:dr:This . and. This (in addition to the JD cover above)/
KIRSTEN VOLNESS aka. KIRVO
Then
DJ N___ Fox - Minimal Set 2010 (https://m.soundcloud.com/dj-nigga-fox/dj-nigga-fox-minimal-set-2010)
Somebody mentioned on one of the emu thread a FireFox extension that allowed downloads of streaming music; I didn't know there were things like that out there. So I looked around a little and found a Chrome extension that puts a download button on any Soundcloud stream. My hard drive is cursing me.
Craig