July 2010 Downloads

elwoodicious

Busy month, nearly an album a day. :-S

Amazon MP3
Babylon Central
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night Of The Soul
Gorillaz - Plastic Beach: Gorillaz
Heavy - Great Vengeance And Furious Fire
The Living Sisters- Love To Live

Amie Street
Au Revoir Simone - Night Light
Four Tet - Sing
Jaga Jazzist - Bananfluer Overalt EP
Janka Nabay - Bubu Music
Neu! Digital Box
Mystery Jets - Serotonin
The Sea of Cortez - EP

eMusic
Ali Akbar Khan - Traditional Music of India
Dancehall Techniques: Winston Riley Productions 1986-1991
Desmond Ababio - GHANA Electric Highlife: Sessions from the Bokoor Studios
El Guincho - Piratas De Sudam

Bad Thoughts

Figuring out how to use Guvera effectively has helped me add some interesting title to my collection and freed up eMusic for the more track heavy albums.

Amie Street (Paid or Significant)
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, s/t ***
Mythical Beast, Scales ****
Noa Babayoff, From a Window to a Wall ***1/2
Silver Summit, s/t ***
Hey Champ, Star ***
Mystery Jets, Serotonin ***
Taylor Haskins, Metaview ****
Roy Ruiz Clayton, New Army of Ragged Angels ****
Schütz: Johannes-Passion ****

EMusic
Present Music/Kevin Stalheim, Graffiti ****1/2
Chris Lightcap's Bigmouth, Deluxe
Pilartz and Degimbe, Le sac et la corde ****
Schütz: Weihnachtshistorie/Auferstehungshistorie *****
Schütz, Opus Ultimum *****+
John Carter, Dauwhe ****
Love Language, Libraries (still absorbing)

Guvera
King Sunny Ade, Juju Music ****
Evan Parker, The Moment's Energy (awesome when heard in a big room) ****
McCoy Tyner, Extensions (incredible harp by Alice Coltrane, only 4 tracks) *****
Ghazal, The Rain ****

Free
Kuhlau: Sonatas for Flute and Piano (Dacapo) ****
Japandroids on NPR ***1/2
Cooper-Moore, A Retrospective ***1/2

cafreema

eMu

CocoRosie - Grey Oceans: Loving this album quite a bit.
Dum Dum Girls - I Will Be: Enjoyable, but I don't think it will stick with me.
School of Seven Bells - Disconnect From Desire: Again, I like it, but not sure how much.
The Heavy - The House That Dirt Built: Perfect for when I need to rock out.
Maya Beiser - Provenance: Perfect for when I need to chill out. I'm so glad they did that Innova sampler.
Sun Ra - Lanquidity: I thoroughly enjoy it. My wife...does not. So it hasn't been listened to as much as I'd like.

Amie

It has been a lousy couple of months on Amie for me, but I did get some good electric/synth stuff:

Skream and Benga - Trapped in a Dark Buble/Technocal: Good dub split single.
Glasser - Apply EP: Looking forward to the LP.
Four Tet - Sing: Snagged it at free. I never got the LP. Really should get around to that.
Weed - Hard to Kill: Fantastic and free.
Rick Lucy - Era Sick: A Prologue to Destroying Beauty: Big thanks for the Rec from...elwoodicious? I think? Also, free.

Guvera

Gang of Four - Entertainment: As detailed elsewhere, a lot of it is faulty.
Public Image Ltd. - Second Edition: Getting the last track today, and so far all good tracks.

Edited to add Amazon

The Roots - How I Got Over: Just what you would expect from them.
Janelle Monae - ArchAndroid: Very good chance of making my end of year Top Ten. Fantastic stuff, except for the track with of Montreal, which sucks.

Craig

amclark2

Taking a little break from emu this month.

Amie
Darkness, by Scott Walker, from Plague Songs
Janka Nabay - Bubu Music (just the tracks that were not on Bubu King)
The Walker Brothers - Nite Flights (just the first four, Scott Walker penned, tracks)
Blank Tapes - Home Away from Home
Deepak Sharma and Dieter Krause - Kings and Castles EP - I managed to get everything else from this label (Hidden Recordings) for free, and really kind of liked some of it, so I shelled out for this one to close the loop.
Dragging an Ox Through Water - "rebukes!"
Neu! - Neu Digital Box - I had Neu! and Neu '75, but got the box for $10 Amie money, which is about what it would have cost me to get Neu 2 anyway, so the rest is icing.

Brick and Mortar

I sold a bunch of stuff at my favorite brick and mortar place, and bought this stuff:

Jannelle Monae - The ArchAndroid
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
Liz Phair - Exile in Guyville (used) - I never had this before, but the thread about her newest one at emu sparked my interest; amazing how many used copies there are now that it's been remastered - I prefer original mixes anyway - feels more authentic.
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive (used)
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady (used)
Warren G - Regulate...G Funk Era (used) - more catching up on the mid-90's.

thomnottom

Amazon
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
Local Natives - Gorilla Manor (glad I finally hopped on their bandwagon)
Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night of the Soul (first impressions weren't very good, second listen brought me around)
V/A - Babylon Central
Menomena - Mines (totally my thing)

Amie Street
A few of those Language of Stone albums. I dig Silver Summit and Mythical Beast
Butterbrain - S/T
Active Shild - Curtis Lane
Au Revoir Simone - Night Light
V/A - Sprout Soundtrack
Kuno - WOOD (you guys must be making good recs, because I got no idea why I d/l'd some stuff. I mean, it's good, but I don't know what compelled me to get it)
Glasser - Apply EP (love it. can't wait for the full length)
Grasscut - 1 Inch/ 1/2 Mile (excellent)
Hey Champ - Star (good, but glad I got it for free)
Mystery Jets - Serotonin
Wavves - King of the Beach (got it for the recs, but the music is actually good on this one!)
Weed - DC Hope EP
Endian - Stella Astralis
Neon Indian - Psychic Charms (glad this reappeared)
Frontier Ruckus - Deadmalls and Nightfalls
Tauk - Brokedown King (meh)
The Triffids - Wide Open Road
These United States - What Lasts
Weed - Hard to Kill (wait, are these 2 different bands named Weed? I'm so confused)
Moc Moc - Dial M for Moc Moc
Neu! - Neu! 86
Four Tet - Whatever single came out this month. I had a dream last night that yet another Four Tet single was dropped. I already had all of the tracks, but I bought it anyway. And that made me smile.
Singles from Crocodiles, of Montreal, Japandroids, Sharon Jones, Andreya Triana, Young MC etc.

Guvera
Brian Eno - Discreet Music
Can - Monster Movie
Can - Tago Mago
Can - Future Days
David Holland Quartet - Conference of the Birds
Gang of Four - Entertainment
I Monster - Dear John EP
Jan Garbarek & Bobo Stenson Quartet - Witchi-Tai-To
Some more single tracks, including Florence + Machine's cover of "Addicted to Love"!!!

Brighternow

Paul Dresher & Ned Rothenberg - Opposites Attract - (New World Records 1992)
Paul Dresher - Cage Machine - ( New Albion Records 2004)

Acoustic Guitar Trio (Nels Cline, Jim Mcauley, Rod Poole) - Vignes - ( LONG SONG RECORDS 2009)
Nels Cline And Gregg Bendian - Interstellar Space Revisited (The Music of John Coltrane) - (Atavistic 1999)

Hild Sofie Tafjord - Kama - ( Pica Disk 2010)
Phillip Kent Bimstein - Garland Hirschi's Cows - (Starkland 1996)
Charles Amirkhanian - Walking Tune - (Starkland 1998)
Christian Zan

kargatron

Jazz:
Barry Altschul - You Can't Name Your Own Tune (1977)
Peter Evans Quartet - Live in Lisbon (2010)

Ethnic:
Gilles Chabenat - Musiques pour vielle a roue, Bleu nuit ()
Hank Williams - Country Music Legend (1950)

Classical/Experimental:
Scott Gibbons & Chiara Guidi - The Cryonic Chants (2009)
Stile Antico - Song of Songs (2009)
Thelema Trio - Neither from nor towards (2008)

Popular:
The Avett Brothers - I And Love And You (2010)
Joy Division - Closer (1980)
Ratatat - LP4 (2010)