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I'm constantly looking for new music, digging through dirty piles of records (at the only two music stores around me that actually sell records), and searching the internet for anything that is pleasant to my ears. So I thought it would be cool if we had a thread to post what we are currently listening to an enjoying.

 

For me, recently snagged..

 

The Best of Vangelis

Frank Sinatra - Watertown

Frankie Knuckles - Tears

some 12" singles off Chicago Trax label

DJ Sneak - Fabric 62

Ministry - the 12" Singles Collection

Bill Evans - The Village Vanguard Sessions

DJ-Kicks - The Exclusives

 

I highly recommend the DJ Kicks album to anyone looking into that new "deep house" thing that's going on.

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Today, listening to a new song I started writing on Monday.

 

Otherwise, I have about 10k of songs on iTunes and have made a playlist that plays any songs I haven't listened to in four years or so. Sometimes it's interesting, sometimes not. This was yesterday's afternoon naptime playlist:

 

 

Coleman Hawkins -- Make Believe

Chet Baker -- I Get Along Without You Very Well

Chet Baker -- Ponder

Chet Baker -- My Buddy

Chet Baker -- A Night On Bop Mountain

Chet Baker -- This Is Always

Duke Ellington -- Hot Feet

Eddie Cantor -- Margie

Feist -- Lonely Lonely

Feist -- L'Amour Ne Dure Pas Toujours

Rosco Gordon -- Booted

Bing Crosby -- Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day) [1948 Single Version]

Bill Evans Trio -- Blue in Green

Gus Elen -- Arf a Pint of Ale

Chan Romero -- The Hippy Hippy Shake

The Golden Gate Quartet -- Daniel Saw The Stone

Gus Elen -- It's a Great Big Shame

Blossom Dearie -- I Won't Dance

Susannah McCorkle -- I'll Take Romance

North Alley -- Walking Down the Street

North Alley -- Freddie Meets His Inner Flock

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Today, listening to a new song I started writing on Monday.

 

Otherwise, I have about 10,000 songs on iTunes and have made a playlist that randomly plays any songs I haven't listened to in four years or so. Sometimes it's interesting, sometimes not. This was yesterday's afternoon naptime playlist:

 

 

Coleman Hawkins -- Make Believe

Chet Baker -- I Get Along Without You Very Well

Chet Baker -- Ponder

Chet Baker -- My Buddy

Chet Baker -- A Night On Bop Mountain

Chet Baker -- This Is Always

Duke Ellington -- Hot Feet

Eddie Cantor -- Margie

Feist -- Lonely Lonely

Feist -- L'Amour Ne Dure Pas Toujours

Rosco Gordon -- Booted

Bing Crosby -- Where the Blue of the Night (Meets the Gold of the Day) [1948 Single Version]

Bill Evans Trio -- Blue in Green

Gus Elen -- Arf a Pint of Ale

Chan Romero -- The Hippy Hippy Shake

The Golden Gate Quartet -- Daniel Saw The Stone

Gus Elen -- It's a Great Big Shame

Blossom Dearie -- I Won't Dance

Susannah McCorkle -- I'll Take Romance

North Alley -- Walking Down the Street

North Alley -- Freddie Meets His Inner Flock

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I'll just put down a handful of serious recommendations from yours truly.

 

Alasnoaxis - House Plant

Jakob Bro - Balladeering

Jakob Buchanan - I Land In The Green Land

Helge Lien - Natsukashii

Christian Scott - Yesterday you said Tomorrow

 

 

Lots of bloody interesting things stirring in jazz right now.

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Been pulling out classical music LPs recently. Went on a Stravinsky binge, pulled out pile of "contemporary" chamber music issued on Nonesuch in the early 70s from composers like Elliot Carter, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Milton Babbitt, etc.

 

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and right now as I type I'm amidst a Berlioz orgy :thu:

 

I cheated a bit and snuck in the first two Hawkwind LPs this morning :rawk:

 

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In the car, I've been spinning a few of the Ethiopiques CDs.

 

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I'am hardly listening to anything lately. Either I'm in a rut or just don't have the patience or time for much these days. I did purposely get the Franck albums to try and relax while doin other things.

 

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lately?

 

been really into a label from the Ukraine called 'Kvitnu', all their artists/releases are fantastic. Com Truise over and over, really digging his stuff the past couple months. various Skinny Puppy related projects, as always. Autechre, as always ('Oversteps' and 'Move of Ten' in the past few weeks). broke out some Legendary Pink Dots the other day, been a while since i've listened to them (unfortunately).

 

probably some other stuff that i'm forgetting...

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wow glad to see other people enjoying com truise, I didn't think he was that well known. Saw him last July at terminal 5 with RJD2, both played great sets.

 

niller thank you for the jazz recommendations, I'm defiantly lacking in contemporary jazz in my collection

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The Roots - The Roots Come Alive

Bowie - Stage

Black Keys - El Camino

Jaco Pastorius - Word of Mouth

The Band - Moondog Matinee

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

Morcheeba - Charango

Franz Ferdinand - Tonight

Robert Palmer - Sneakin Sally

NASA - Spirit of Apollo (collaboration album - DJs, singers, rappers, musicians)

 

Here's one track from the NASA album - this one features Tom Waits and Kool Keith.

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Other tracks include Kanye, David Byrne, Chuck D, Santagold, George Clinton, DJ Spooky, etc

A real gem imho.

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let us see what i have been listening to

 

for guitar driven stuff which im listening to a lot lately for some reason, it's been Maps and Atlases, Ghosts and Vodka and Dinosaur Junior. i'm always listening to music by Takagi Masakatsu, he's a constant impetuous to become better at everything. great musician, great visual artist. ive trumped him before but it's always worth sharing one of his vids i think -

 

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in the 'experimental' world, i think this live recording that some very talented muffwigglers did is pretty fantastic. worth checking out :

 

http://basicelectricity.bandcamp.com/album/be-ep2

 

in fact i'd say abouot 60 percent of my music consumption these days is from forums. there's so much unclaimed beauty on the internet!

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