capsar brötzmann/Marino Pliakas/Michael Wertmüller
with FM Einheit on 2 tracks
heavy stuff. might be my favourite from this year so far.
It was weird to open for them last sunday - i felt like playing in a lullaby band after seeing nohome

i'm sorry you feel that way.

never mind me, I'm just curmudgeonly well beyond my years, just embittered for no apparent reason.

but you know what frustrates me? I was listening to the radio before and the first track from kanye's record, produced by daft punk came on, and it was abrasive as fuck (relative to pop music). like I mean it was little more than a few synth farts, and it wasn't necessarily the most original thing I've ever heard, but christ, it's definitely a step up from the sub-steely dan meets chic dross they routinely churn out. that steadfast refusal to so much as confront, much less challenge their listener really marks them as a bunch of dicks to me.

and like I mean shit, this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khBWLKuEKrM) isn't even that bad, especially in a club context. and then that one made some genuinely fucking unsettling stuff for the soundtrack to gaspar noe's irreversible, really bleak, cavernous dark ambient type choonage.

it's just lazy, that's it. they're so fucking content with being rich as hell as to completely ignore the entirety of the goings-on in music, and as such have the audacity to think that getting fucking nile rodgers on a record will make them 'current'. while I may not like kanye west, I can respect him for at least continuing to challenge himself, and thereby his audience. plus gold digger is siq.

well it's a good album (not their best), i don't think that every album i like has to be "challenging" or "groundbreaking". then again i've listened to it only a few times then moved on, so maybe i shouldn't have listed it.

RAM is a grower. Originally I thought it was cheesy garbage. Now I think it's really good cheesy garbage.

No, it doesn't, but I think I get what guest is saying, daft punk always try to portray themselves as consistently groundbreaking or challenging, and I agree, I just don't hear it. They always sound like a toned-down, pop music rehash of 1990s hardcore as if they wanted to be like Atari Teenage Riot only if Rick Dees were the promoter.

Pusha T - My Name Is My Name.

you're exactly right in that, and that's the point to which I take umbrage. while I'm not a fan of their music, its purpose is blatantly obvious (party timezzzz wooohoooo) and in that context it's perfect, it always has been. my problem lies in that their music is indubitably devoid of substance, it's just rehashed pop detritus. their is nothing even remotely innovative about it, but if one were to go on daft punk's own descriptions of their music one would think they were reinventing the fucking wheel. they operate under the illusion that regression is a means of progression ('disco is the future', 'we're better than you because we're the only people who use fucking analog equipment' which isn't even close to the truth), a standpoint to which I am vehemently opposed given how patently fucking absurd it is, and to have individuals of their stature (with the undeniable influence they exert over popular culture) openly stating that primitivism equates to innovation just makes me sick, and leads me to conclude that they're either horribly ignorant or just arrogant arseholes. pretentious twats.

to get on topic....

rene hell - vanilla call option. for fans of hecker, ae, russell haswell etc.

I kinda see RAM as the ultimate tribute to disco/Steely Dan-cheeseball stuff. They seem self conscious in this rehash, and I love the songs.

Is anyone else a huge fan of the stuff coming out on Tri Angle? Forest Swrods, Haxan Cloak, Evian Christ. Great stuff.

Looks like Ty Segall and John Dwyer are once again the most consistent men in RAWK music.

The sounds of Terry Riley soundtracking megadrive games, ace!

https://soundcloud.com/not-not-fun-1...ts-upper-layer

how about Sleep's reunion?

More and more, this album is sewing itself into the fabric of my reality, speaking to me in my sleep, and appearing before me like a mirage during daydreams.

This may be an unexpected year end front runner for me, I must say.

Innode - Grindshifter



totally brilliant and thought-thorough album.
They're playing in my town this week, not really sure if I'll make it though

Tim Gane's (Stereolab) new project Cavern of Anti-Matter just released an excellent EP. Looking forward to hearing the full LP now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DMFV-O9aIU

I think you're being a little hard on them. I also can't get past many of the songs on the album (not anymore- now that the novelty has worn off), but there are two songs on the album that are so goddamn good they pretty much balance things out, if not bring the album to an overall "win" status on their own.

Those songs are "Doing It Right" and, especially, "Contact." Two of the best song 2013 has offered up, and my two favorite Daft Punk songs ever.

Most of the rest of the album is just unlistenable, especially as a followup to Discovery, which is probably the dance equivalent of Loveless, for old fucks like me who have to have an early 90's point of reference in order to even comprehend most modern music ;)

Seriously, is anyone else falling back on noise rock this year? New releases by Fuck Buttons and Acid Mother's Temple make it hard not to.

I'm also really enjoying the latest from Touché Amore. As traditional as it sounds in places, it's punk played well, and that makes it a rare find these days.

yeah, really good record. you're right, it's very deliberate, everything seems to be perfectly in its place. eMego absolutely killing it this year.


absolute and utter fucking maelstrom. will take a while to wrap my head around this one.


real slow, real heavy. classic bardo, a band who at this point have a sound so well-defined as to render everything they do worthwhile.

other gud new things: black rain 'protoplasm', bill orcutt 'a history of everyone', the new downwards comp, rashad becker 'traditional music of notional species vol. 1'

re: daft punk....discovery as dance music's loveless?? shit.....the latter created a wholly new language for music, subverting traditional notions as to what constitutes pop music via directly altering the roles of sound. it is pure ecstasy, combining unabashed sonic overload with a paradoxical calm. fundamentally loveless is indescribable, inimitable, in that it conjures all these opposing feelings; it is seemingly impossible for a record to connote such dichotomous responses, with no other album able to simultaneously lull and bombard the listener. that is, it makes no fucking sense. conversely, discovery is just throwing tropes at each other and seeing what sticks; it's fucking day-glo pop music whose constituent parts are in no way original. I have no problem with this, but when you purport that your music holds some artistic significance beyond what is essentially amateur-level plunderphonics set to 4/4 dance-pop rhythms, in my mind you're a fucking twat.

listen to that new cavern of anti-matter track, for instance. it is unadulterated neu! worship, as so much of stereolab's output was (still fucking brilliant though). however, while they in essence did the same thing that daft punk do (meld disparate forms of pop music), not only did they do it with far greater ability (in that the genres with which they worked were far more wide-ranging), but, to my knowledge, and forgive me if I'm wrong, they didn't claim to be doing anything overly groundbreaking.

I see nothing wrong with genre-bending, or taking different genres and working them into one's overall vision, but if you are trying to evoke the same sentiments/emotions of the music from which you're stealing, or are in no way altering it so as to suit your overall framework, then I think that from a purely creative standpoint your music is totally redundant. and, similarly, there's nothing wrong with that, EXCEPT when you are of the belief that you're the benjamin fucking franklin of sound.


CUNTZ.

Wow. I know not everybody is a Daft Punk fan - I'm not that big of a fan myself, they're ok - I've never seen this kind of hatred for them. I don't see how you can proceed this type of rant with a rationalization of the allure of Kanye West.

I an really really enjoying Unknown Mortal Orchestra's "II"

It might not be the best... (MBV? Body/Head? Crystal Stilts?) but its up there!! It has the feel of a slightly less sloppy Guided by voices during their heyday, and I am always impressed to hear an artist create authentically 60s sounding songs!!

Jonathan Rado did the same, alone and with Foxygen over the past 12 months

this!!!

Fuzz is a bit boring though.

I love fuzz. Those riffs dude...

because I'm an irrational, overly hateful cunt. I think that's the crux of it.




also calmont breakdown lp, no retreat in comfort [tour cdr], barbed wire explosion in the kingdom of atlantis 12", regions of the old school lp

youngs is totally unparalleled in every facet of his work. his prolificacy is astounding, as is the incredible breadth of his work without any sacrifice of quality nor that which makes his music quintessentially his. the most astoundingly creative artist I can think of, seriously.

my friend and I had a chance to chat w/ him at Hopscotch this year:
http://adhoc.fm/post/no-fans-cult-richard-youngs/

MOTORHEAD - Aftershock
(comes out next week, but hear it now)
http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/stop-th...155949808.html

I thought they just released a new album? Anyway I'm sure it'll sound just like the rest.

Well, why change something that´s already great?

Midnite "Be Strong" (full album YouTube)

This record has increasingly meant so much to me recently, its been a necessary calming meditation through all kinds of crushing stress.

so many more:

drake-nothing was the same
tim hecker-virgins
chelsea wolfe-pain is beauty
in solitude-sister
pusha t-my name is my name
polvo-siberia
darkside-psychic
windhand-soma
diahrrea planet-i'm rich beyond your wildest dreams
ulcerate-vermis
modern life is war-fever huntig
danny brown-old
body/head-engravings
a$ap ferg-trap lord
destruction unit-deep trip
earl sweatshirt-doris
cass mccombs-big wheel and others
onehotrix-r plus seven

http://b.i.levykauppax.fi/cover/norm.../378422.jpg?lp

http://i.levykauppax.fi/cover/normal/3/37/378249.jpg?lp

http://b.i.levykauppax.fi/cover/norm.../377633.jpg?lp

What a fucking year.

My favorites have changed every month, but I think that Black Bug has released the single most immediate, listenable, no-bullshit, ass-kicking noise punk album of the year, and it has been the one album I go back to whenever I need a break from the kaleidoscopic, cross-genre deluge of new releases that have required my attention over the past year.

It's like a referential constant for a mind-weary time traveler... or a really good diner that a road-weary trucker can always pull into when the meth, hookers, and hitchhiker kidnappings just get to be too much.

It's like... Ok- maybe DJ Koze (for example) actually released the best album of the year. Or Maybe Yeezus is the best. That's great news (they're great albums), but for someone who was born and raised on variations on post-punk, hardcore, noise, and fuzzy, Husker Du-esque guitar rock, it's kind of a bitch that the best albums of the year are being made by these ultra-modern artists from genres that I love, but have never identified with.

I guess it's just comforting to know that Black Bug's "Reflecting The Light"-- screaming, seething, occasionally demented, madly intense 30-minute masterpiece built on a sonic foundation that marries noise, speed, and sinister synths-- is out there. That's why, for me at least, it's probably the front runner. It's my most frequently (and most regularly) played album; it's the album I've listened to from start-to-finish the most (because, really, how can you not?), and it's the most consistently satisfying listen of 2013 thus far.

So while the Flaming Lips (though still producing unbelievably powerful and beautiful music that sets them far above their mostly petered out peers) are gazing at their navels through DMT-dilated pupils, trading in fuzzy feedback for sweeping, cinematic soundscapes, and lyrics that actually make suicide seem like a rather sunny alternative to experiencing life in this bleak, loveless universe..... which is fine and all, but not exactly a representation of the punk rockers still taking acid 20 plus years later... Black Bug is out there rocking the shit out of dingy clubs and making the basement scene, pounding away and getting their hands bloody in 2013 with no consideration for how many Twitter followers they have, or for their itunes sales position.

Thank god for that. Thank god that there are still a few DIY fundamentalists flying below the radar, whose music is relevant to both the current musical climate, and the spirit of the bygone "get in the van" era they're working to preserve.

...
I lost time again.

I thought the new Polvo LP was pretty boring such a step down from In Prism.

It's been a while since I posted in here but felt I should share Kandodo's new album. Simon Price of legendary Bristol psych band The Heads just put out a really cool lp under his Kandodo moniker. Psychedelic drone in the vein of Spacemen 3.

The final track is stunning as is the artwork

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdDYwo4idZA



Secondly Mind Over Mirrors - When The Rest are Up at Four, this guy just uses an Indian pedal harmonium, oscillators and tape delay producing
some excellent stargazing komische.

http://soundcloud.com/experimedia/mi...rrors-when-the

http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com
(Dr. John: the lost broadcast).

Matangi!!!!!!!

much obliged pad, did not realise there was a new kandodo record out, the first two were so great so will have to give this a listen.

some lovely local releases which I've forgotten to post in here...

exhaustion - future eaters


cuntz - aloha


also



james ferraro - nyc hell 3:00am

the new four tet is really good

Wow... This late season contender has shot up my list like a bullet in the week since I first heard it. It's like Madlib, Radiohead, and Fly Pan Am were synthesized and injected into the soundtrack of a Star Trek episode.

I really don't know what to say, other than BUY THIS ALBUM.



Artist: Botany
Album: Lava Diviner