Limewire Store Recs
Well, eMu is now all corporate and it's Itunes lite appeal is lite in appeal. The other alternatives have gone belly up or been bought out, leaving the occasional sale at Amazon or 7digital , but in terms of the old eMu experience, all I see left is Limewire Store. I've gotten tons of great music though, but you gottuh dig. When I search, I open up alllmusicguide.com and search by either cool labels I like or simply be their editorial picks each week. Most of the great music I find there is from plowing through back catalogs, and that's high maintenance. We'll see, but thought it would be fun to have a thread going now where people can leave their best finds for LWS.
I'll start and I promise soon to spend some time writing in BBCode.
Who Is This America - Antibalas
Black City - Matthew Dear
Travail, Transformation, and Flow - Steve Lehman
Fav dls from two months ago. Antibalas is either the best or one of the best political protest albums made in the last five years to my ears.
Matthew Dear chills out and this is dreamy on great cans.
Solid jazz that keeps post bop sensibility while having experiment without diving into late Coltrane freak out.
I'll start and I promise soon to spend some time writing in BBCode.
Who Is This America - Antibalas
Black City - Matthew Dear
Travail, Transformation, and Flow - Steve Lehman
Fav dls from two months ago. Antibalas is either the best or one of the best political protest albums made in the last five years to my ears.
Matthew Dear chills out and this is dreamy on great cans.
Solid jazz that keeps post bop sensibility while having experiment without diving into late Coltrane freak out.
Comments
Who is this band of which you speak
Plus that has got to be the most information packed into a single line of critique that I have seen in a while
Browsing mtraks, I see a fair number of decent jazz labels represented. Anyone compared that to limewire on that score?
jackedUPjazz - I was talking about Steve Lehman. Solid jazz, though not essential by any means. That idea of post bop without the freaky edge is my favorite part of jazz right now. Lots of great labels and artists happening in that sphere.
http://www.mtraks.com/artist/cedar_walton/release/95582-eastern_rebellion
http://www.mtraks.com/artist/george_adams_don_pullen_quartet/release/95941-earth_beams
http://www.mtraks.com/artist/curtis_fuller/release/105953-curtis_fuller_meets_roma_jazz_trio
That was a while ago, maybe they have added more labels since then.
One of my favorite downloads from this month. Subtle electronics, intimate vocals that fit music, cool but simple rhythms and guitar.
As mentioned in the story, Limewire Store is still there. Was curious to see if it still tried to start the Limewire downloader, and it does. Got a free track by The Donnas!
Also, has anyone found much African music there? I can only find a couple of albums, but I'm obviously not a pro at the site yet.
Craig
The only one really is the need to DL tracks one at a time. It is a PITA, but you need to do this or else use the Limewire downloader, which I wouldn't do even if I was wearing a condom.
Looking over my purchases, I got Francophonic Vol 2 and a Youssou N'Dour, plus Indestructible Beat of Soweto. Otherwise mainly jazz. An Indie hipster such as yourself should check out the "Ear to the Ground" freebies...in fact it looks like there is a new (?) Twin Cities edition.
Update: Looks like it may not even try to open Limewire anymore. How long will this store last, one wonders?
Downloading one track at a time will be a pain, but I'll live.
Doofy - There are even a couple of tracks on the TC album that I don't already have! Just a couple, though.
Craig
Here's some Artists I've downloaded over the last 4 months that may interest you:
Marnie Stern
The Octopus Project
Great Lakes Myth Society
Benoit Pioulard
Bear In Heaven
Tommy Keene
Sun Ra
Dean & Britta
Bunky Green
Phil woods
Cedar Walton
Suns of Arqa
Konono N°1
Margot And The Nuclear So So
J. Tillman
The Black Angels
How To Dress Well (Pfork =8.7)
Megafaun
Matthew Dear
The Acorn
The Love Language
The Crayon Fields
School of Seven Bells
Baths
Emeralds
Wild Nothing
Fabulous Diamonds
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
Holy Ghost!
Cecil Taylor Feel Trio
Dengue Fever presents Electric Cambodia
I'LL GIVE YOU AFRICAN! POW! POW! POW!
And there's plenty more where that came from....
Craig
Incredibly, it looks like that Cecil Taylor Feel Trio 9-disc set is still track priced.
My rule for blogs is that I don't download anything that is commercially available here (or an easy import), but will go after stuff that has never been released in the West or is long out of print. A lot best stuff end up being those very items.
And, of course, now they're probably gonna go under. Awesome.
Um, yeah, I'd go to that!
Some great headphone electronica where it's more about musical space than dancing. British band Gold Panda - while not riding the edge of musical creation - explores more visceral space in electronica in Lucky Shiner. Four Tet fans should check out similar style song construction of Eskmo's self titled album. Finally, some terrific ambient cerebral abstraction with the album Periods Make Sense.
Jazz-wise I always dig when world music intersects with jazz in a way that works both sides well, and if you like more traditional Middle Eastern music and jazz, and the two being put together doesn't offend your senses, check out the samples for Amir ElSaffar's Two Rivers. In the same light, consider getting one of Rudresh Mahanthappa's albums. Have never heard a sax sound so much like a sitar; so it's classical Indian and jazz combo, with more Indian influence than I've ever heard before while still definitely being jazz.
Also, I know that the latest Konono is not available on the sub...but it looks like other titles on Crammed Discs are available. True?
@Doofy - It looks like that's a yes to both. If you go to the album page and it says something like "Get this and 40 other tracks for FREE" that means it is available on a credit basis. Otherwise it is cold hard cash only.