Still on eMusic

peterfrederics

I am still finding some good albums and tracks on eMusic, albeit that they are much harder to find! So I thought that this might make an interesting topic.

My first contribution is "Explosions in the Sky", one of the top modern progressive rock groups. I saw them live a few months back and they were outstanding. "All of the Sudden I Miss Everyone" is one of their best albums and is on eMusic together with 4 of their other albums.



https://www.emusic.com/album/1362867/Explosions-In-The-Sky/All-of-a-Sudden-I-Miss-Everyone?album_ref=Serach

Brighternow

Thanks ! . . . EitS is among my very early emu dl's.
Great band and there's 2 albums I need to grab.

Many years ago I got an email from a music friend with "I saw Explotions in the Sky !" in the subject line and I remember me wondering what kind of illegal substances he had for breakfast. 

Chipping in with:

Nothing But Noise is the latest side project from Daniel B, frontman of revered Belgian industrial band Front 242. This remarkable odyssey into beat-less synth territory bears little resemblance to his work with that group, however. Joined by former bandmate Dirk Bergin and friend Erwin Jargot, Not Bleeding Red is a sprawling excursion assembled from hours of freeform analogue synth jams, and veers between ominous drones, widescreen ambience and cosmic atmospherics over the course of nine lengthy, hypnotic tracks. . . .

- On Bandcamp with 2 extra tracks.

ETA:

- 20 years in the making, Nothing But Noise, the trio led by Front 242 mastermind Daniel B and featuring original Front 242 member Dirk Bergen and Erwin Jadot, finally release their debut album ‘Not Bleeding Red’ on April 16th, 2012 on UK independent Future Noise Music.
Borne from a deep love of analogue synthesizers and inspired by the likes of Manuel Gottching, Tangerine Dream’s early albums and Bowie’s Berlin period, ‘Not Bleeding Red’ is an album that fully deserves its place in the long and distinguished history of European synth acts. . . .

peterfrederics

Great one Brighternow!

Another one from me is "God is an Astronaut". Again one of the top modern progressive rock bands with 8 albums on eMusic. One of the best ones is "Age of the Fifth Sun".


http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2702

https://www.emusic.com/album/2930443/God-is-an-Astronaut/Age-of-the-Fifth-Sun?album_ref=Label

peterfrederics

"Dreams of the way we were 1992 (Live)" by Jeff Buckley



https://www.emusic.com/album/155468482/Jeff-Buckley/Dreams-of-the-Way-We-Were-1992-Live?album_ref=Wish List

Brighternow

^^ Not in Europe

Still on Emusic :
Winter & Winter with 85 albums, the latest added in september this year.

idiotprogrammer

Totally enjoyed Age of the Fifth Sun. If you liked that, you might also like Parallel Life by the Starseeds : dreamy intergalactic hiphop from  the 1990s.  It's a great deal at 3.99. 

stewrat

just downloaded the latest Bevis Frond release on Fire Records (out last week)  - lots of good stuff there.

confused

Well, no Winter & Winter in Canada, but thanks for Daniel B and thanks to peterfrederics, idiotprogrammer & stewrat for the rest. I wanted to add that, at least here in Canada, Sub Rosa is still available. 
https://www.emusic.com/label/63193/Quatermass-Subrosa
https://www.emusic.com/label/18042/Sub-Rosa
https://www.emusic.com/label/18826/Subrosa

Brighternow

^^ I wanted to add that, at least here in Canada, Sub Rosa is still available.^^

Yup ! - also in €uroland:

 

Oiseaux-Tempête - AL​-​'AN ! الآن

- It's on my 2017 list
- I have not yet checked out the new one

soulcoal

On the jazz front, and "out of nowhere" eMusic surprise on AUM Fidelity label...

This is not new release (nearly a decade old, in fact) but it just showed up on eMusic this week, and was the first in a series of pretty interesting related-theme albums from Darius Jones.   (Strangely enough, eMusic has had most/all of the other releases in the series for ages, but never had M'anish Boy until yesterday).    I've liked some of the later releases in this "series", so a chance to grab the debut was nice...

Darius Jones Trio - M'anish Boy (eMusic)

Brighternow

peterfrederics

Bad Elephant Music

Some excellent music music from bands such as Nine Stones Close, Verbal Delirium and The Fierce and the Dead.

https://www.emusic.com/label/214613/Bad-Elephant-Music?pageNumber=1&sortField=POPULARITY_THIS_MONTH



https://www.emusic.com/album/61680343/The-Fierce-and-the-Dead/If-It-Carries-On-Like-This-We-Are-Moving-to-Morecambe-2016-Remaster?album_ref=Artist Albums



https://www.emusic.com/album/838479/Nine-Stones-Close/Leaves?album_ref=Serach

peterfrederics

Some of the best albums by the outstanding French band "Magma" (as per my message on the discussion "1960s/70s Progressive Rock on eMusic").

https://www.emusic.com/artist/rs_85689/Magma

Have a read of the Progarchives write-up. The albums "K.a" and "Retrospektiw I & II"
(both available on eMusic) are amongst the most highly rated prog rock albums on the site. 

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=646



https://www.emusic.com/album/1862629/Magma/Ka?album_ref=MoreBy

https://www.emusic.com/album/985898/Magma/Retrospektiw-i---2?album_ref=MoreBy

peterfrederics

Milt Jackson & John Coltrane "Bags & Trane"

Highly rated album by two of the all time greatest jazz musicians



https://www.emusic.com/album/1767916/Milt-Jackson-John-Coltrane/Bags--Trane?album_ref=Wish List

djh

peterfrederics said:

Milt Jackson & John Coltrane "Bags & Trane"

Highly rated album by two of the all time greatest jazz musicians



https://www.emusic.com/album/1767916/Milt-Jackson-John-Coltrane/Bags--Trane?album_ref=Wish List

Complete with Milt Jackson doing his best Miles Davis impression in the background! ;-)

Got love the attention to detail of these ahem "quasi-legal" labels.

Brighternow

Brighternow said:

Plong42

For World Music fans. Just bought Ali Hassan Kuban, From Nubia to Cairo. I am visiting Egypt soon so this gets me in the mood. Here is a Bandcamp link for streaming, and in anticipation of the label disappearing before I get everything I want.

A mix of classical, world, blues. I have enjoyed  Ila Hounak, by Amine M'Raihi, Hamza M'Raihi. eMusic lists 798 records, so plenty to explore.

Brighternow

http://urban-noisy.com/

Brighternow

https://shop.versatilerecords.com/

confused

I thought I'd repost this here.
Well, as I've been going through the alphabet once more, I find the only Albert Collins in my library 
were my GarageBand copies of some of my vinyl (which really weren't the best sound). At any rate, 
I see that Emusic still has 299 Alligator Records so I've decided to replace some vinyl with a 
booster pack starting here with the Ice Man - "The Master of the Telecaster".
  
1978 - Ice Pickin'                                                    1980 - Frostbite
  
1981 - Frozen Alive!                                                 1983   Albert Collins And The Icebreakers
                                                                                             - Don't Lose Your Cool 

Brighternow

https://leavingrecords.bandcamp.com/music

Brighternow

 
https://soundcloud.com/editionsmego
http://editionsmego.com/

Plong42

Frank Zappa - Puttin' On The Ritz (Live), $4.99 for 2.5 hours of music. Gets mixed reviews, great performance but some dodgy sound midway. It is a bootleg, so perhaps worth the money.

soulcoal

A bit of a shocker given the state of things, but the new Jamie Saft is not only available on eMusic, but showed up on/near its release date (Jan 25) and is priced at $4.99 in US (probably similar ex-US with per-track pricing).

https://www.emusic.com/album/196130217/Jamie-Saft-Steve-Swallow-Bobby-Previte/You-Dont-Know-the-Life

Also a couple late 2018 releases from Shifting Paradigm showed up this past week:

peterfrederics

Eleven Wire albums still on eMusic including:

* early classics, "Pink Flag", "Chairs Missing" and "154" and;

* the five most recent albums, "Red Barked Tree", "Change Becomes Us", "Wire", "Nocturnal Koreans" and "Silver/Lead"

https://www.emusic.com/artist/rs_450/Wire

Muggsy

peterfrederics said:

Eleven Wire albums still on eMusic including:

* early classics, "Pink Flag", "Chairs Missing" and "154" and;

* the five most recent albums, "Red Barked Tree", "Change Becomes Us", "Wire", "Nocturnal Koreans" and "Silver/Lead"

https://www.emusic.com/artist/rs_450/Wire

Good stuff there. But when I clicked the link it showed 31 Wire albums still available. I can particularly recommend the three Read & Burn EPs for .99 cents each.

Plong42

Julia Kent's new one is not on eMu (US), but The Great Lake Swallows by Julia Kent & Jean D.L., a mere $3.49 for 26 minutes of quiet, beautiful music.

peterfrederics

The Cat Empire is one of the best and most eclectic Australian bands combining a number of styles, including funk, jazz, and ska. There are still 25 albums on eMusic. I would suggest starting with the early albums "The Cat Empire" and "Two Shoes".

https://www.emusic.com/artist/rs_87898/The-Cat-Empire



https://www.emusic.com/album/2295822/The-Cat-Empire/The-Cat-Empire

https://www.emusic.com/album/2222095/The-Cat-Empire/Two-Shoes

peterfrederics

Almost becoming a game, trying to find good things still on eMusic! But they are out there!

Today's one is 17 albums by Ani Difranco.

https://www.emusic.com/artist/rs_128337/Ani-DiFranco

kargatron

I'd forgotten or didn't know that the Polish jazz label For Tune was still available. Lots of Polish artists, but also a good handful of prominent international avant-garde-jazz stars on tour there.

soulcoal

kargatron said:

I'd forgotten or didn't know that the Polish jazz label For Tune was still available. Lots of Polish artists, but also a good handful of prominent international avant-garde-jazz stars on tour there.

The label is still present, but no new releases in the past 12 months.  (Last release - and only 2018 release - was from Feb 2018).