James Hardway - Welcome To The Neon Lounge [1997]

James Hardway - Welcome To The Neon Lounge

1. Neon
2. Going Downtown
3. Theo Steps In
4. If You Really Wnat
5. No Can Do
6. Vibe Merchant
7. The Illustrated Man
8. Silverlake
9. Heavy Heart
10. Velocity Curves

Drum'n'bass fusionary James Hardway works most often with cool jazz textures, though he is largely immune to the purist poses of many jungle producers. Known before the mid-'90s under his birth name David Harrow (and reportedly related to Al Capone), Hardway has worked with an impressive cast of British producers, from Genesis P-Orridge to Adrian Sherwood and Jah Wobble to Andrew Weatherall. During the early '80s, Hardway lived in Germany and acted in films before getting into the Berlin music scene. He recorded an album in 1983 (as David Harrow), and worked with European electro-pop star Anne Clark on several albums. Hardway also appeared with Jah Wobble on the continent, but relocated to London by 1986, where he was swept up by the acid-house phenomenon. (AllMusic)

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//TENSE// at the Castle of Luxurious Diamonds

Ando - Habitat (2008)

Limited : 500 copies

Label: BineMusic
Format: CD, EP, Limited Edition
Country: Germany
Year: 2008

Style: Techno, Minimal

01 Cyte
02 Spine
03 Optal
04 Templ

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Aphex Twin - Drukqs (2001)

Let me just begin by saying this album is one of my top three favorite full-length albums of all time. Drukqs is literally the living vision of a perfectly balanced album. It has everything and fulfills every expectation one could possibly have for it.

This album is nothing less than a work of genius. It has been said that Richard D James has what Brian Eno possesses but exceeds him because of his new levels of creativity that he brings to his music. At first I was skeptical of statements like this, but ultimately when it really comes down to the music (everything else aside), Drukqs is, in my opinion, more moving than The Pearl or Music for Airports by Eno; which are some of the most brilliant albums of all time.

Drukqs is a must hear if you haven't before.

Here is a little info on Aphex Twin if you are unfamiliar with his music:

'Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), aka Aphex Twin, is an electronic musician described by The Guardian newspaper as "the most inventive and influential figure in contemporary electronic music." He founded the record label Rephlex Records in 1991 with his friend Grant Wilson-Claridge.

In 2001 Aphex Twin released drukqs, a two-CD album that featured prepared piano songs influenced by Erik Satie and John Cage. Many of the tracks' names are written in the Cornish language (e.g., 'jynweythek' translatable as 'machinemusic'). Also included were abrasive, fast, and meticulously programmed computer-made songs. Rolling Stone described the piano songs as "aimlessly pretty". Some reviewers concluded that drukqs was released as a contract breaker with Warp Records—a credible guess, as James's next big release was released on his own Rephlex label. James claimed to interviewers he had accidentally left an MP3 player labelled "Aphex Twin—unreleased tracks" on a plane, containing a large set of new songs, and rushed the album release to preempt an Internet leak. He also released a short EP titled 2 Remixes By AFX the same year as Drukqs. It featured two remixes, the originals being from 808 State and DJ Pierre. In addition, there is one untitled third track that consists mostly of high-pitched sounds.'

DRUKQS TRACK LISTING

Disc one
Jynweythek – 2:14
Vordhosbn – 4:42
Kladfvgbung Micshk – 2:00
Omgyjya-Switch7 – 4:46
Strotha Tynhe – 2:03
Gwely Mernans – 5:00
Bbydhyonchord – 2:21
Cock/Ver10 – 5:17
Avril 14th – 1:55
Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michaels Mount – 8:02
Gwarek2 – 6:38
Orban Eq Trx 4 – 1:27
Aussois – 0:07
Hy A Scullyas Lyf Adhagrow – 2:09
Kesson Dalef – 1:18

Disc two
54 Cymru Beats – 5:59
Btoum-Roumada – 1:56
Lornaderek – 0:30
QKThr – 1:20
Meltphace 6 – 6:14
Bit 4" – 0:18
Prep Gwarlek 3b – 1:13
Father – 0:51
Taking Control – 7:08
Petiatil Cx Htdui – 2:05
Ruglen Holon – 1:45
Afx237 v7 – 4:15
Ziggomatic 17 – 8:28
Beskhu3epnm – 1:58
Nanou2 – 3:22

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Astrobotnia (aka Ovuca) - Parts 1, 2, and 3 (2002)

Astrobotnai is Aleksi Perälä. He was born in Suomi, Finland 1976. Perälä started playing piano in 1983, he bought his first syntheziser in 1988 and started making his own music. His first LP on Rephlex was released in 1999. He also produces under the alias of Ovuca.



Astrobotnia (aka Ovuca) - Part 1 (2002)

Label: Rephlex
Catalog#: CAT 123 CD
Format: CD, Album
Country: UK
Year: 2002

Style: Breakbeat, Abstract, IDM, Ambient

01 Lightworks
02 Hallo
03 Everyone
04 Acidophilus
05
06 The Wing Thing
07 Miss June
08 Sweden
09 Applause

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Astrobotnia (aka Ovuca) - Part 2 (2002)

Label: Rephlex
Catalog#: CAT 124 EP
Format: Vinyl, 12", 33 RPM
Country: UK
Year: 2002

Style: Breakbeat, Experimental

01
02
03
04
05
06

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Astrobotnia (aka Ovuca) - Part 3 (2002)

Label: Rephlex
Catalog#: CAT 125 CD
Format: CD
Country: UK
Year: 2002

Style: Breakbeat, IDM, Experimental, Ambient

01 Muminaa
02 B
03 Acidophilus II
04 Portable Motor Home
05 Drops
06 Thoarse
07 Esther Calling Jennifer
08 Bifidus
09 Leftovers
10 Cunt
11 I Am Mr. P

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The Sound Diggers

The Sound Diggers (Justin Critchlow)

I found out about this guy about a year ago, some of you may be familiar, his mixes are absolutely phenomenal. I haven't heard house mixes this soulful and funky since becoming so horribly inundated by the blog-house movement. The mixes are almost old school in their repetitiveness; but the jams are so catchy it completely works. I highly recommend all of these mixes. The Sound Diggers are based out of Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom.

PROMO MIX (January 2007)

CROATIA PROMO MIX (May 2009)

JANUARY MIX (January 2009)

For more Justin Critchlow downloadable mixes go to SUN CLOUD

It's After the End of the World Mix Series Vol 1: Taliesin - Batture Mix

Borrowed from It's After The End Of The World; found through Dutty Artz.

From DJ Taliesin:

I am proud to present the first in a series of mixes featured on this site created by some of my favorite DJs and musicians working today. This will be an ongoing collection and when I figure it out, a podcast too. There is no real focus or theme to the overall outlook, aside from taking a look at the format of the mix and it's purpose.

For the first episode, we have Taliesin of the NYC Dutty Artz crew doing it real weird. A slow moving collage of tracks on a comedown tip. The youngin has always been a favorite around these parts and he was nice enough to set things off for us all. Much love to the man for his contribution.

The Batture Mix....
the batture is the space between the levee and Mississippi in New Orleans- or at least, that's what it means to me. I used to go down there when I was little and my mom was still in school. She'd bring me down for these great big bonfire parties- on that side of the levee you could just do whatever you want.

As far as I know, if you lived there, you didnt have to pay any property taxes- of course, if the river rose up- which is does often, your pretty fucked. People have all sorts of solutions- and some of the houses down there have an architecture that explicitly addresses the potential of water rising. I've always been in love with that space- it felt forbidden and full of the type of freedom I associate with New Orleans and growing up for a bit there. I used to be pretty embarassed about my family being from the south- white people in the North sure like to point fingers when it comes to making themselves feel liberal and good. As Ive gotten older I've become more proud and aware about my heritage.

This mix- Batture Mix- is a step back from alot of the things I've been releasing the last few years- it's a bit of an after party thing- or a kicking it at home thing- I think it's goofy that some many people just put out banger mixes- as though they arnt just alone in their bedrooms while they do it. So rough and tumble here it is... rest be assured you come see me at a gig and I'll work you out- but until then- enjoy something a bit less agresive- put on some head phones and enjoy. Art direction from the infinitely talented Elvia at EadersDigest.com

-Taliesin

Tracklist

Bryce Isbell - Four Pills
Lil B - Time
Salem - Sweat
Lil Wayne - The Block is Hot (Haaaawwttt Mix)
El Hijo de La Cumbia - A Través Del Tiempo
77 Klash - Call Me
Colleen - Mining in the Rain
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Rage
Clouds - Protecting Hands pt. 1
Kid 606 - Monster (Cardopusher RMX)
Jahdan Blakkamoore- Nice Green (acapella)
Culturally Relevant Outro

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Moodymann - Ep Collection Vol. 2 (1995, 1996, 2001)

Moodymann & Theo Parrish - Small Black Church (1995)

Label: KDJ
Format: Vinyl, 12"
Country: USA
Year: 1995

Style: Deep House

A1 Moodymann - Inspirations from a small black church on the eastside of Detroit
B1 Moodymann - I feel joy
B2 Theo Parrish - Lake shore drive

Kenny Dixon Jr. (aka Moodymann) - Soul Sounds Vol. 1 (1996)

Label: Soul City
Country: USA
Year: 1996

Style: Deep House

A1 Winter breeze
A2 January
B1 Yesterdays
B2 Midnights

Moodymann - Telephone EP (2001)

Label: Peacefrog Records
Country: UK
Year: 2001

Style: Deep House

A1 Telephone
B1 Blue

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Nehneh Cherry - Remixes (1997)

Label: Virgin France S.A.
Country: France
Year: 1997

Style: Deep House, Breakbeat, House

01 Koochie (Air remix)
02 Beastiality (Christophe Monier remix)
03 Carry me (Emmanuel Top remix)
04 Everything (Sulee B Wax remix)
05 Feel it (Sub-Vision remix)
06 Feel it (Doctor L. remix)
07 Woman (La Funk Mob remix)

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Etienne De Crécy - Tempovision (2000)

Label: Disques Solid
Country: France
Year: 2000

Style: House, Downtempo, Trip Hop

01 Intronection
02 Relax
03 Out of my hands
04 Am I wrong
05 Noname
06 When Jack met Jill
07 Tempovision
08 Scratched
09 3 day week end
10 Rhythm & beat
11 Hold the line

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Alan Vega (Martin Rev) Suicide Collection (1977-2007)

"Alan Vega (Boruch Alan Bermowitz) is the vocalist for 1970s and 80s no wave duo Suicide.
Bermowitz graduated with a degree in art from Brooklyn College and began his artistic career doing light sculptures. In 1974 he opened a small gallery in lower Manhattan, where he started to create the "Project of Living Artists", a pluri-artistic place to develop various happenings or artistic attempts. Here, he met a jazz band called Reverend B, in which Martin Rev (Martin Reverby) played electric piano. Martin Rev would later become Alan Vega's partner in Suicide. In 1980, Alan Vega released his eponymous first solo record, which contained "Jukebox Babe", one of his best known songs, and defined the kind of rockabilly style that he would follow for some years. Later in his career he made a commercial attempt ("Just a Million Dreams"), which proved to be unsuccessful.

Vega teamed up with Martin Rev again toward the end of the 80's and released the third Suicide album, "A Way of Life" (1988), then met future wife and music partner Liz Lamere while piecing together sound experiments which would evolve into his fourth solo album, "Deuce Avenue" (1990). "Deuce Avenue" marked the return toward a more repetitious and electronic approach (similar to his work with Suicide) in which Vega mixed beat driven machines and effects with spoken word and free-form prose. More solo albums, Suicide performances and music collaborations followed, then in 2002 Vega constructed the exhibit "Collision Drive" which contained a series of light sculptures mixed with found art and crucifixes. 2007 saw the release of Vega's tenth solo album, "Station" on Blast First Records, which took five years in the making and can be considered his most politically charged and cacophonous work yet."

Alan Vega (Martin Rev) Suicide Collection (1977-2007) TORRENT

Listen To The Wind....

Listen with all your might.
it's beauty will certainly overtake you.
Musée Mécanique.

Look At The Sky..

sometimes we have to just sit silent and let it be.

<3connie.

Tortoise: Beacons Of Ancestorship

John McEntire

Dan Bitney

Doug McCombs

Jeff Parker

John Herndon

As many of you have been patient enough in the last 5 years with the absence of a new Tortoise full-length , the time is near for one of the most inspiring and unique groups over the last twenty years to unveil their newest work. Set for release on June 23 via Thrill Jockey, worldwide fans will have to wait in anticipation to catch a glimpse into the modern framework of what a Tortoise record may be. While we anxiously await Beacons, Now is high time to revisit classic masterpieces that will surely conquer the test of time. I may be accountable for bias and subjectivity, but to me nothing will be written in the near or far future that is quite reminiscent of Tortoise's 1996 second full-length Millions Now Living Will Never Die. I urge you to listen in dead quite surroundings to the greatness and colossal magnitude of tracks such as 21 minute opener Djed and every other meticulously crafted track that follows. In the current climate of complete and utter musical oversaturation, it is surprisingly easy to forget about such important works as 1998's TNT or 2001's Standards. Bands such as Tortoise that put no less than two years from the point of creative inception to physical creation are seemingly becoming less and less. Though by no means are Tortoise the only ones working in this realm of exasperating hard work and dedication, they are rather one of handful that has been able to record and perform for so long while always managing to gain more and more appreciators as well as keeping original and long-time fans interested along the way. The first preview to Beacons Of Ancestorship will be made available on April 18 for record store day via a Thrill Jockey compilation entitled Records Toreism.

Beacons of Ancestorship tracklisting:
01. High Class Slim Came Floatin' In
02. Prepare Your Coffin
03. Northern Something
04. Gigantes
05. Penumbra
06. Yinxianghechengqi
07. The Fall Of Seven Diamonds Plus One
08. Minors
09. Monument Six One Thousand
10. de Chelly
11. Charteroak Foundation

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Listen To "Magnet Pulls Through" From Their 1994 Debut

Anavan Show Tonight Not Yesterday

Anavan
Sydney Confirm
Billinghams Defense System
@ The Fallout Lounge

Anavan Last Minute Show @ Fallout Lounge Dallas Tonight

After being lucky enough to catch Anavan at The Smell's showcase at Domy Books and at the Moose Lodge in Austin on Saturday I can not urge anyone and everyone enough to try and make it to this show. Making a huge impression on me musically as well as aesthetically, Anavan create monstrous synth/bass/drum driven dance tracks like no other in Los Angeles. Calling to mind Omaha's The Faint as well as well as Death From Above 1979, Anavan are primarily driven by Aaron Buckley's extremely consistent and tight drumming and aggressive vocals. Quintessential warm and fat analog synthesizer from Molly Williams and bass by Bret Berg fill more than enough of the stereophonic field with nary a need for additional instrumentation. Anavan's recent 2008 release "Cover Story" is chock-full of tracks that would be welcome on any dance floor but enough intricate and extremely well written pieces to keep a wide range interested. If you had been in my situation to listen to it on repeat due to a 6 hour trip back from Austin this album would've sunk deep into your subconscious as well. As of now I'm not quite sure who may be opening or what the cost may be, however, I'll update that soon.

Anavan On Myspace
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Listen To "Traumatology"

Glass Ghost

Sounds That Whirl And Twirl Softly Out Of The Brooklyn Skies.
will pound new feelings heavy into you.
and without the fear of lost blood.
you will bleed deep for such great breaths as this.

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The Pleasure's All Mine: Getting To Know Colossal Yes

1) What's your name and where do you hail from, where are you currently residing? What do you like and dislike about the area in which you live?

Utrillo Kushner of Colossal Yes from the Oakland, CA lowlands. My house skates along the Oakland / Emeryville border, which means I live in a not-so-rad but optimistic neighborhood. My number one dislike about this berg o' mine? Most definitely the lack of venues that have acoustic pianos. There are only a couple smaller venues in all of the Bay Area where an amateur piano man like myself can smear his greasy fingers across some ivory.

2) What are some of your bigger musical influences that directly or indirectly contribute to the music you make?

I've always said you gotta be very watchful of what infiltrates your musical psyche, for it'll subconsciously or consciously haunt you for the rest of you life. It's so hard to narrow down my heroes and influences to one definitive list. I guess there are my all time favorite piano based songwriters like Gary Brooker of Procol Harum, Bill Fay, Harry Nilsson, Elton John, and John Cale. Then there are the jazz geniuses like Thelonious, Sun Ra, McCoy Tyner and Bill Evan. Then the indie rock legends like New Zealander Peter Jefferies or Robert Wyatt and the tragic Epic Soundtracks. I admire the playfulness of Vince Guaraldi. I love the defiance of Nina Simone. The classical tinged flamboyance of Freddie Mercury. The creativity of Brian Eno. The subtleties of Erik Satie. The ingenuity of Emitt Rhodes. The drunken sadness of Richard Manuel. The rock n' roll brilliance of Roy Bittan of the E Street Band. The straight up barrelhouse audacity of junkie James Booker or Dr. John. The tasteful stoner melodies of Keith Godchaux. The list of "cool" shit could go on and on but when it boils down to my subconscious reality_..my biggest influence would probably be Howard Jones.

3) What are some albums that you've spent a lot of time with lately?

I’m a man that can appreciate a good dollar record so I was on the fence when buying this rather expensive first time issue of the Harold and Maud soundtrack by Cat Stevens. I'm not even that big of a Cat fan, so spending thirty bones on one record was a roll of the dice. But luckily it turned out to be one rulin' and schoolin' purchase. The music is incredible and the packaging is way over the top. Gatefold, big ass forty page booklet, two posters and an additional 7”! Aye, if only all vinyl releases could be given such treatment.

4) What are some of your musical and life goals for 2009?

It's a tall ass order, but to feel accomplished and satisfied.

5) What are some things that you're involved with outside of music?

I’m the father of a little baby girl. She just turned a year and half so she's a little Tasmanian devil these days. She’s a big fan of chaos and disorder – rip those inanimate objects off the self and scatter them across the floor. Dad’s alphabetized records & CDs are certainly no exception.

6) What are your thoughts on the current musical climate? Are you happy with the advent of myspace and the overabundance of music that can be had at any given time?

It's pretty much impossible for me to answer this question without sounding like an asshole. Oh well. I'm an old dude, a curmudgeon, a dinosaur…..I come from the pre-internet school of record collecting so naturally I have a bit of an inferiority complex to the young and the technically competent music fanatics of today. I still believe that in order to truly have discernable taste you have work for it. I feel you need to know the bad to appreciate the good. I think it’s a too quick and easy for people these days to have eclectic taste. But the bottom line is that music is more accessible than ever; which is a good thing for all. I’m very connected to the internet resources that are available out there but I’m catching up…… so lookout little twerps.

7) If you had to pick one, what one album, book, and film have had the most profound effect on you?

I don’t know what sparked it, but I’ve become a big fan of plays and playwrights. Not really the classic highbrow stuff, I’m down with the 20th century pulp. Tennessee Williams’ Night of the Iguana is amongst my favorites. I've read dozens of his plays, probably more than any other playwright, but Night Of The Iguana is the top of the heap. It's poetic, tragic, romantic and unconditionally fucked. Some start guy once wrote the William Shakespeare is the ultimate insider. If this statement is true than Tennessee Williams is the ultimate outsider.

8) Anything else you'd like to share with us..

OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN & CLIFF RICHARD

She walks in I'm suddenly a hero
I'm taken in my hopes begin to rise
Look at me can't you tell I'd be so
Thrilled to see the message in your eyes
You make it seem I'm so close to my dream
And then suddenly it's all there

Suddenly the wheels are in motion
And I I'm ready to sail any ocean
Suddenly I don't need the answers
Cos I I'm ready to take all my chances with you

How can I feel you're all that matters
I'd rely on anything you say
I'll take care that no illusions shatter
If you dare to say what you should say
You make it seem I'm so close to my dream
And then suddenly it's all there

Suddenly the wheels are in motion
And I I'm ready to sail any ocean
Suddenly I don't need the answers
Cos I I'm ready to take all my chances with you

Why do I feel so alive when you're near
There's no way any hurt can get thru'
Longing to spend every moment of the day with you

Suddenly the wheels are in motion
And I I'm ready to sail any ocean
Suddenly I don't need the answers
Cos I I'm ready to take all my chances with you

Colossal Yes on Myspace
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Biosphere & Deathprod - Nordheim Transformed [1998]

Label: Rune Grammofon
Country: Norway
Year: 1998

Style: Ambient

01 Biosphere - Trasparenza
02 Deathprod - Journey to the centre of the first 1.1
03 Biosphere - Katedra botaniki
04 Deathprod - Warp / Warble
05 Biosphere - Les fleurs du mal
06 Deathprod - Twin decks
07 Deathprod - Journey to the centre of the first 1.2

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Fat Jon the Ample Soul Physician - Wave Motion [2002]

Artist: Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician
Release Title: Wave Motion
Label: Tri-Eight Music Supplies (2001)/Mush Records (2002)


1.Where?
2.Feel The Void
3.Visual Music
4.Watch Out
5.For Stress
6.1975
7.Eyes
8.Wet Secrets
9.Depths
10.Automated Life Machines
11.Surrection
12.Disgust

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