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I've not posted an actually bloggy post in ages, so I should probably post something, lest the rest of the blogosphere start thinking I've been bundled onto an unmarked 737 and sent to Area 51 or something.
I go in phases with lots of things. Listening to music is one of the things I do like that, I'll go months not really listening to much, and then I'll be all enthused and everything and break out in breakbeats. One of the things that has held back more listening has been not really having much in the way of new music to listen to, realistically for several years now. I took the drastic step of vaping the contents of my iPod the other day, and then hitting the iTunes store. It was for medicinal purposes, honest, guv. Ahem.
So, new music. Amongst the new stuff I've completely fallen in love with Boards of Canada, particularly their Music has the Right to Children album. It really hits the spot for me -- they are their own genre to an extent, but if you crossed Autechre with Portishead with Orbital you'd be somewhere close. Ish. I'm very, very impressed with that album. I also got Geogaddi, which is also very good but I've not got so far into it yet. Like Autechre, their stuff is extremely complex and takes quite a few listens before it really starts to reveal itself properly.
Off in another direction is Hive -- I picked up Welcome to Violence, partly due to the Matrix soundtrack reference, but to be honest some of the other non-Neoish tracks are rather stronger. Where the Boards are perfect and beautiful, Hive are loud and nasty. Again in the same direction, but a bit less in-your-face maybe, is Meat Beat Manifesto. I've liked them since the 90s. Their Actual Sounds + Voices contains a rather different version of Prime Audio Soup, again famous from the Matrix soundtrack. Pretty good, maybe less strong than Hive, but I probably need to listen to it more.
Another interesting find is Prefuse 73's One Word Extinguisher -- a band I'd never heard of that I found via a 'people who bought this also bought link'. Kind of glitchy weird hip hop with psychological difficulties, difficult to describe. The sort of thing you could drop into a dance DJ set in order to cause severe emotional trauma to one third of the audience.
The other find (though it's been all over the radio here for months, so I can't claim any great searching skill) is She Wants Revenge's album, er, She Wants Revenge. The track These Things is a newly minted goth classic. If it's not doing the rounds in the UK, it *should* be. I don't generally get turned on to tracks by their lyrics, but this was definitely an exception.
Oh, and Give Up, by the Postal Service. But, no doubt, all the hip kids already know about it. I think it's brilliant --![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
heytasha played them to me a few months ago, and I'm glad I finally got around to following the lead up.
So, lots of new music to program and wander around to.
Does anyone have any other interesting recommendations in these kinds of direction? I'm up for more if I can find it.
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I go in phases with lots of things. Listening to music is one of the things I do like that, I'll go months not really listening to much, and then I'll be all enthused and everything and break out in breakbeats. One of the things that has held back more listening has been not really having much in the way of new music to listen to, realistically for several years now. I took the drastic step of vaping the contents of my iPod the other day, and then hitting the iTunes store. It was for medicinal purposes, honest, guv. Ahem.
So, new music. Amongst the new stuff I've completely fallen in love with Boards of Canada, particularly their Music has the Right to Children album. It really hits the spot for me -- they are their own genre to an extent, but if you crossed Autechre with Portishead with Orbital you'd be somewhere close. Ish. I'm very, very impressed with that album. I also got Geogaddi, which is also very good but I've not got so far into it yet. Like Autechre, their stuff is extremely complex and takes quite a few listens before it really starts to reveal itself properly.
Off in another direction is Hive -- I picked up Welcome to Violence, partly due to the Matrix soundtrack reference, but to be honest some of the other non-Neoish tracks are rather stronger. Where the Boards are perfect and beautiful, Hive are loud and nasty. Again in the same direction, but a bit less in-your-face maybe, is Meat Beat Manifesto. I've liked them since the 90s. Their Actual Sounds + Voices contains a rather different version of Prime Audio Soup, again famous from the Matrix soundtrack. Pretty good, maybe less strong than Hive, but I probably need to listen to it more.
Another interesting find is Prefuse 73's One Word Extinguisher -- a band I'd never heard of that I found via a 'people who bought this also bought link'. Kind of glitchy weird hip hop with psychological difficulties, difficult to describe. The sort of thing you could drop into a dance DJ set in order to cause severe emotional trauma to one third of the audience.
The other find (though it's been all over the radio here for months, so I can't claim any great searching skill) is She Wants Revenge's album, er, She Wants Revenge. The track These Things is a newly minted goth classic. If it's not doing the rounds in the UK, it *should* be. I don't generally get turned on to tracks by their lyrics, but this was definitely an exception.
Oh, and Give Up, by the Postal Service. But, no doubt, all the hip kids already know about it. I think it's brilliant --
heytasha played them to me a few months ago, and I'm glad I finally got around to following the lead up.So, lots of new music to program and wander around to.
Does anyone have any other interesting recommendations in these kinds of direction? I'm up for more if I can find it.
[Poll #870338]