Friday November 16, 2007 in: recommended
I know I know I just posted one of these recently… BUT I thought I’d spare the ambient haters of the world from a post of nothing but. SO for those of you who like your rock & roll weird and crusty and spontaneous, I give you Thee More Shallows.
I just got Book of Bad Breaks on vinyl and its digging trenches in my root canal but I dont care because I love it. They start with Flaming Lips and Grandaddy as their base and then grind up all sorts of weird stuff into the mix and even let it all break down and crumble on top of itself into ambient dark weirdness -which I hear Mr. Odd Nosdam helped create. At its most energetic moments it really rips into the rock straight-ahead too, so dont let all that artsy talk scare you.
Heres a sample mp3 from it:
Night at the Knight School
Links For Purchasing:
Anticon (vinyl’s only $11 +shipping FYI)
Amazon
Thursday November 15, 2007 in: recommended
Now that its getting chilly outside I thought I’d link up my recent audio discoveries. They’re all frosty ambient on the outside with a warm strangely-sort-of-melodic center. Put these on and enjoy a good book and some hot coffee next to a dura-flame log!
Ceptual – Shifts Personal [Mia062] (free)
Muhr – Poussière EP (free)
Nest – Nest (free)
Deaf Center – Pale Ravine (buy it from Amazon)
Sunday September 23, 2007 in: recommended
Welcome to another fine issue of “Recommended,” the section of my blahg where I ramble on about music that I find thats exciting and challenging and worth checking out.
Today’s choice:
Odd Nosdam – Level Live Wires
(his space on anticon)
Every once in a while an album comes along that instantly sounds familiar and feels like a hug from on old friend you havent seen in years. Its the kind of album that youve pretty much heard and experienced before, but theres something about it… It feels like the matured realization of the ideas you already know and already love – but its not just a collection of existing ideas that are taken and mashed together, it stands on its own. On Level Live Wires, it feels like Mr. Nosdam is telling you a story – a shadowy and mysterious bedtime story.
If Four Tet slowed things down to a hip-hop pace and let Belong and (early, tape-hissy) Stars of the Lid into the room for atmospherics, and maybe if their elderly neighbor was listening to AM radio and it somehow got sucked into the recording equipment, you might get something like this album…
I cant stop listening to this thing! I havent spun an album this much back to back since Kid A came out. Buy it.
Disclaimer: Im now an affiliate for both eMusic and iTunes, so I will see a little money if people follow my links to these companies and sign up for a new eMusic account or buy music in iTunes. Granted it wont be much probably, but I thought I’d be open about that up front. I’ll be posting about plenty of free stuff too Im sure.
Monday August 6, 2007 in: recommended
When I find some music I like, Im going to write about it in here and post links to the stuff Im enjoying. I might branch out to more than just music, but for now Im keeping it simple.
This week’s picks are from a netlabel called Experimedia. (Ambient music haters, run for your life now! ha)
Milieu – Milieu
Self-titled ambient gem from a very prolific guy. This is a very warm and melodic ambient record. He set out to make this one without the aide of a computer, so what you hear, according to this quote taken from the Experimedia site, is “only the most basic tools I had when I first began making tapes in 1997…electric and acoustic guitar, some effects pedals, my Lowrey organ and my Technics M11 cassette deck.”
Miles Tilmann – Melt
Slightly more distant and more tone-for-tones-sake style ambient here. My inner cryogenically frozen child finds it pretty engaging. (side note: Mr Tillmann did all the programming and some of the visual effects for Gamma Bros!) He also has stuff in iTunes and eMusic.
Disclaimer: Im now an affiliate for both eMusic and iTunes, so I will see a little money if people follow my links to these companies and sign up for a new eMusic account or buy music in iTunes. Granted it wont be much probably, but I thought I’d be open about that up front. I’ll be posting about plenty of free stuff too Im sure.