The Gamer's Quarter

antitype · . Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 292

Some music I recently bought from Aquarius:

Ghost — In Stormy Nights [Ah, finally. Amazing cover version of Cromagnon's "Caledonia" tops it off.]
Circle — Tyrant (Latitudes 0:10) [Circle does krautrock meets black metal!]
Aufgehoben — Messidor
Boris/Michio Kurihara — Rainbow [Boris with the guitarist from White Heaven = gold.]
Ruins of Beverast — Rain Upon the Impure [Very droney, doomy black metal.]
The Gault — Even As All Before Us [I've been looking for this one for so long! It's a band with John Gossard of Weakling on vocals — described at Aquarius as the Joy Division of doom metal. This is a recent repressing free of the nasty glitches that plagued the original batch.]
Asunder — Works Will Come Undone [The newest from Gossard's other, more well-known doom metal band.]
Robert Henke — Layering Buddha [This record is absolutely godly. Some of the best ambient I've ever heard, I think. Samples here: http://www.monolake.de/layeringbuddha.html ]
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Daedelus' Exquisite Corpse just really clicked with me for the first time. Maybe because I played it directly after Dabrye's Two/Three, which I find pretty boring despite all its critical praise. And Corpse has real texture and complexity, a Beach Boys psychedelia wash. Makes me want to go back to his other stuff. I know I hated The Weather a few years ago, but maybe I'll give it another shot now.

simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Also: Derek Bailey's Play Backs has him improvising on guitar over drum tracks sent to him by various people. As it's from '98 it has its fair shair of IDM/dnb drumtracks, and the man cuts a serious rug over them.

dhex · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:56 pm Post subject:

i like venetian snares quite a bit on certain records (his piano ambient pieces aren't that good, comparatively) but he does look like a bag of weed.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

So he looks like Jeff Minter?

dhex · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 3:17 pm Post subject:

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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

He's got a bit more of the distinctly-Scandanavian-almost-Downs-syndrome thing going on; I see the similarities though.

antitype · . Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 292

Aaron Funk does look a bit like the retarded brother of Richard D. James — who, when not being fucking terrifying, is quite a sexy man:

He has always reminded me a lot of my best friend from high school, both in his looks and his demented sense of humor.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

My brother in law thinks the dancer playing Richard D. James in the Windowlicker video is really Richard D. James. He thinks that's his real face.

dhex · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 8:35 pm Post subject:

it's close. it's sort of his face... that's not bad for a brother in law.

sleepytime gorilla museum is really fucking good. dunno what you call these spazzy bands though. i don't think spazzy band is a genre.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

My brother in law is a house DJ / club promoter from back in the day, so he should know better.

I think it looks more like Richard Branson.

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

My friend Elaine has been telling me about Final Fantasy for years now, but I never got around to listening to his stuff for one reason or another. Now that I have, I think it's fucking AMAZING and this second album is a masterpiece.
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Six · . Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 313 Location: montreal

Oh yeah, He Poos Clouds is fantastic. Is his first album as good?

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

I don't like it as much, it seems less focused and more abstract. Most of the tracks on He Poos Clouds feel like full songs with arrangements, but the stuff on Has a good home feels less complete.
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Six · . Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 313 Location: montreal

Aw. I'll have to go give it a listen sometime, anyway.

I haven't been listening to much lately, for some reason, but Röyksopp has been getting some play. Their album Melody A.M. is awesome and maybe a bit cheesy.

Guilty pleasure: Spank Rock.

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:54 pm Post subject:

I can't stop listening to this damn PCP Tornado reissue, I've had it on constant loop all friggin' morning. It's only, like, six minutes long, that a hell of a lot of playthroughs. Six minutes that I'm totally not sick of yet at all. No way in hell. Maybe I'll get around to listening to the second disc later today.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

After the good, but still somewhat disappointing [With_Teeth], I am happy to say that Trent Reznor is kicking my arse anew.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Why do you get all the love in the world? was the only good part of that awful With Teeth nonsense. That and the power drill solo in hand that feeds.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Yes, that was a very solid intro. Only was quite catchy too and I liked The Line Begins to Blur and Beside You in Time. I remember Home being pretty good as well.

I feel that My Violent Heart promises good things for the new album.
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a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

your world that is

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 10:46 pm Post subject:

This absolute classic album, it's a classic. I'd even say it's better than the previous one, Epicus Doomicus Metallicus but that would be a hard choice to make since there is an absolute zero of difference in quality so it's only really comes down to a preference in vocalists, which is also a hard choice to make.
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Lestrade · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:45 am Post subject:

Yeah, I've got all three tracks from Year Zero that have been "leaked," and those are on steady rotation. Lately, I've been revisiting my Cure catalogue and have been listening quite earnestly to Mastodon's Blood Mountain.

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

T.I. and Tom Waits have been in heavy rotation on my computer for over a month now, and I have started re-listening to Coltrane's Blue Train and Giant Steps while I write.

Has anybody here listened to that Deerhunter cd that's the talk of the town? I usually try to stay in touch with Atlanta bands, but I missed them when they popped over for a show in Athens, and I don't want to buy the cd until I hear more about it.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2007 12:01 pm Post subject:

have you seen the mastadon bonus dvd that comes with the "deluxe" version?

it's a making of type thing and...damn these guys are huge nerds. (yeah, complicated metal made by nerds, who would have figured?) i actually never finished watching it.
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Great!
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a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

i'm uploading stuff here and there. check this space!

mia "bird flu"
i think this just came out very recently. i've heard people who didn't like her first album really liking this one!

bibio "marram"
super lo-fi kind of psych-folky stuff. boards of canada are big fans of this guy.

a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

paul giovanni and magnet "willow's song"
from the soundtrack to the movie "the wicker man." the original UK one, not the useless recent remake with nicholas cage in it which DOESN'T EXIST. all pagan and sexy and pretty-like.

a_plus · . Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 252 Location: olympia

last one for today

robot needs oil "volta"
i've been kinda obsessed with this song recently. it reminds me of orbital's "chime" but.... not. i dunno, i just love it

dhex · Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:08 am Post subject:

oh poops:

http://www.vsnares.com/Audio.htm
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Alright, so Deerhunter is a pretty good thing. I'm thinking post-punk through Kranky's post-rock/electronics lense, with tiny bits of that DFA dancey thing and that Wolf Eyes/Black Dice noisy thing on the side. Maybe Wire meets Pan American? Not entirely at once though; there'll be separate elements of each, and they may be a little guilty of falling into the pop-song-turns-to-extended-"freakout!" formula. It'll take more time to get a better picture of it.

But it's pretty good on first listen, make no mistake.

Winged Assassins (1984) · Posted: Sat Feb 24, 2007 6:04 pm Post subject:

I just got Venomous Concept's Retroactive Abortion album and I am lost as to the reason why I didn't buy it sooner 'cos it kicks a whole bunch of fuckin' ass. Remember back to the days when grindcore could still be identified as hardcore before everyone started fusing it with death metal and lost the plot in most cases, it's exactly that. It's even got the same crusty production from that time only done in a way that doesn't feel like a throwback.

I really hope they do another album one of these days.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:16 pm Post subject:

dhex - grylliade 2.0 :: high fructose syrup beats from beyond the valley of the caucasoid german dub all-stars (remix)

imminent starvation - lost highway 45
bong-ra - kick out the jams
enduser - wreckin' shit
venetian snares - pwntendo
w. s. burroughs - roosevelt after inaugeration
shitmat - kiss the spanner and call me charlie
u-ziq - intellitag
aphex twin - all tomorrow's parties 2003 (dj set)
not breathing - national anthem of wor
third eye foundation - sleep
bola - pfane point 1
squarepusher - steinbolt (live)
donna summer - the electric slippy
bong-ra - the rush (long time coming)
some psychedelic lighting hippies from the 60s singing about the unvarnished truth

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i think i'm going to do an ambient mix next, but it'll be about 3 hours long and take fucking forever to finish.

semi-related: why does all non ambient brian eno make me want to die?
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I'm getting a 403 error, dhex.
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dhex · Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:45 pm Post subject:

that will be fixed shortly.

edit: FIXED.
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

There's a new Metroid Metal track up (Super Metroid Prelude) and it's good.

I got a box of 25 cds for $25 from Asian Man Records and I'm slowly working through it. Some of it is shit, a lot of it is good, and I'm glad I developed a taste for ska. I'll probably write short reviews for each album.

(Keyboard has by far been the worst, I'd recommend it for a laugh.)
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

The NES chiptunes version of Rave On (Killer7OST) by Michael Schiciano just came on my iPod.

I think I'm going to listen to the real K7 ost now.
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

so dhex, I just listened to that second mix (I think I still have the first somewhere but I haven't listened yet). Good stuff! I've always loved a live bit or two in mixes, and the psychedelic bits are good too. Have you listened to any Henry Jacobs? I think you'd like him.

Six · . Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 313 Location: montreal

Joe · . Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 179

Dhex, are you familiar with DJ Scotch Egg? You should be.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

One of the games my company (although not me specifically) is working on currently has Fugazi's "Waiting Room" on the soundtrack, which made me a triple take the first time it came up. We'll see if this is a placeholder or what; the idea that Fugazi would either lose the licensing or allow it to be on a videogame soundtrack is a little weird.

simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

My personal 2007, pt. 1 of 6.

dhex · Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2007 10:25 pm Post subject:

on henry jacobs: no, cause i think i kinda lumped him in with harry parch and that sort of thing.

on scotch egg: yes, that video with the chicken is great.

this is pretty good too after the intro. i like the screaming.

http://www.ntsh.co.uk/scotchegg-scotchhausen.php

the new not breathing album is out and it pretty much destroys. go buy it.
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Henry Jacobs was certainly one of those lovable musty gentlemen, but he worked in tapes and vocals than bizarro instruments.

Here.

Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Joe · . Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 179