Ha, I just came across this:a book about no wave. Who knows, it might be good.

Hmmm... well, we'll see. I just sent my mom an email telling her to add it to my christmas list

Mars are my fave No-Wave group.

The Contortions were the first of those groups I heard, bout 20 yrs ago on radio, and I adored 'em immediately.

But Mars. Yeah, Mars, they come on like thunder in a bottle.

Here are a couple avant-heavy lists from a few of the individual writers at Pitchfork that I thought were interesting:


>> Marc Masters
1. Yellow Swans: At All Ends
2. Wzt Hearts: Threads Rope Spell Making Your Bones
3. Dial: 168k
4. Mouthus: Saw a Halo
5. Dinosaur Jr.: Beyond
6. Eric Copeland: Hermaphrodite
7. Loren Connors: The Hymn of the North Star
8. John Wiese: Soft Punk
9. Liars: Liars
10. Sir Richard Bishop: Polytheistic Fragments
11. Black Dice: Load Blown
12. Sightings: Through the Panama
13. Rhys Chatham: A Crimson Grail (For 400 Electric Guitars)
14. Axolotl: Memory Theatre
15. Magik Markers: BOSS
16. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
17. 16 Bitch Pile-Up: Bury Me Deep
18. Earth: Hibernaculum
19. Carlos Giffoni: Arrogance
20. Insect Factory: Air Traffic Control Sleep
21. Talibam!: Ordination of the Globetrotting Conscripts
22. Low: Drums and Guns
23. Burning Star Core: Operator Dead, Post Abandoned
24. Grinderman: Grinderman
25. HEALTH: HEALTH


>> Mark Richardson
1. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
2. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
3. The Field: From Here We Go Sublime
4. Burial: Untrue
5. Studio: Yearbook 1
6. Shocking Pinks: Shocking Pinks
7. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
8. Stars of the Lid: And Their Refinement of the Decline
9. Deerhunter: Cryptograms / Fluorescent Grey EP
10. Axolotl: Memory Theatre
11. The Twilight Sad: Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
12. No Age: Weirdo Rippers
13. Radicalfashion: Odori
14. The Arcade Fire: Neon Bible
15. The Clientele: God Save the Clientele
16. Apparat: Walls
17. Caribou: Andorra
18. Grinderman: Grinderman
19. High Places: High Places EP
20. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago
21. Paul Wirkus: Déformation Professionnelle
22. M.I.A.: Kala
23. Seekers Who Are Lovers: You Are the Pride of Your Street EP
24. Eric Copeland: Hermaphrodite
25. The Tuss: Rushup Edge EP


>> Matthew Murphy
1. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver
2. Radiohead: In Rainbows
3. Burial: Untrue
4. Ricardo Villalobos: Fabric 36
5. Iron & Wine: The Shepherd's Dog
6. James Blackshaw: The Cloud of Unknowing
7. Magik Markers: BOSS
8. Sir Richard Bishop: Polytheistic Fragments
9. Liars: Liars
10. Black Dice: Load Blown
11. Panda Bear: Person Pitch
12. Stars of the Lid: And Their Refinement of the Decline
13. Times New Viking: Present the Paisley Reich
14. Various Artists: Soundboy Punishments
15. Yellow Swans: At All Ends
16. Booka Shade: DJ Kicks
17. PJ Harvey: White Chalk
18. Burning Star Core: Operator Dead, Post Abandoned
19. Meg Baird: Dear Companion
20. Ghost: In Stormy Nights
21. Kemialliset Ystävät: Kemialliset Ystävät
22. MV & EE with the Bummer Road: Green Blues
23. Various Artists: I'm Not There OST
24. Dinosaur Jr.: Beyond
25. Wu-Tang Clan: 8 Diagrams


>> Philip Sherburne
1. Mark Templeton: Standing on a Hummingbird
2. Morgan Packard: Airships Fill the Sky
3. Ricardo Villalobos: Fabric 36
4. Colleen: Les Ondes Silencieuses
5. Thomas Melchior: No Disco Future
6. Dino Saluzzi + Anja Lechner: Ojos Negros
7. September Collective: All the Birds Were Anarchists
8. Petre Inspirescu: Tips
9. Kalabrese: Rumpelzirkus
10. nsi.: Plays Non Standards
11. Various Artists: Shut Up and Dance Updated (Ostgut Ton)
12. Battles: Mirrored
13. Paul Bley: Solo In Mondsee
14. Apparat: Walls
15. Chloe: The Waiting Room
16. Ewan Pearson: Piece Work
17. Grizzly Bear: Friend EP
18. Ewan Pearson: Fabric 35
19. Pole: Steingarten
20. Strategy: Future Rock
21. Sun Electric: Lost & Found (1998 - 2000)
22. Burial: Untrue
23. Animal Collective: Strawberry Jam
24. Cobblestone Jazz: 23 Seconds
25. International Pony: Mit Dir Sind Wir Vier

The Tiny Mix Tapes year end stuff is up now. The Eureka! list is filled with a bunch of records that might be of interest to this thread. I wrote two blurbs for it, one on John Wiese's Soft Punk and another for Lasse Marhaug & Nils Henrik Asheim's Grand Mutation. Check it out here:http://www.tinymixtapes.com/2007-Eureka-Albums-of-2007

Well that's good, now I have more albums to look into.
Also, I think their year end list was better than most publications, though the top ten was a bit disappointing.

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Originally posted by grabblegarrr:
Well that's good, now I have more albums to look into.

Ditto.

Once again I have discovered two Axolotl albums released this year that I wasn't aware of. I must say, he is definitely one of my favourite noise artists.

just got the HEALTH cd and immediately i thought "this sounds a lot like Drum's Not Dead" .. anybody else get that impression

I've been listening to Pink Mountain's self-titled from 2005 a lot. It's really great. Kinda like a noisier version of Jesus Lizard, but also borrowing at times from bands like Cluster.

Oh and there's a great Beefheartesque song on there too.

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Originally posted by grabblegarrr:
I've been listening to Pink Mountain's self-titled from 2005 a lot. It's really great. Kinda like a noisier version of Jesus Lizard, but also borrowing at times from bands like Cluster.

Oh and there's a great Beefheartesque song on there too.

Waffles, please?

Yeah in a few days, I have it on Yahoo music right now so I can't do it, but I just bought the hard copy from Amazon.

This is assuming of course that my cd drive actually starts working.

Not sure if you guys have also been keeping up with Dusted's Destined this week, but they've got some great stuff in their to keep an eye out for this year. They posted tracks by all four of the bands they picked so far and I really liked Invisible Conga People and Sex Vid. Anyone else have thoughts on this?

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Originally posted by jonathanbrisby:
Not sure if you guys have also been keeping up with Dusted's Destined this week, but they've got some great stuff in their to keep an eye out for this year. They posted tracks by all four of the bands they picked so far and I really liked Invisible Conga People and Sex Vid. Anyone else have thoughts on this?

I've yet to check that out, but Invisible Conga People are def. someone to look out for... they're on Italians Do It Better and have caught my eye just for that very reason (I was checkin the IDIB blog earlier and looking at their roster since I've been enjoying Chromatics and Glass Candy lately). I haven't had a chance to listen to any of their stuff, but I'm on the lookout.

Hercules & Love Affair are listed as well (I'm on the site now haha) and they've released a single on DFA which side A ("Classique #2") has the creeping disco synths and an early 80s handclap vibe, real light, Detroit style dance stuff. Side B ("Roar") feels like more of a Phuture-inspired acid house track with the hard house beat dropped out.

Never know what to think when I am listening to my friend's music, but I feel like this stuff is really good. Their called Paper Cranes and The Iron Eagle. It's kind of like a mash up of Comets On Fire mixed with the heft of Goslings. Its freely downloadable on their Virb - Let me know what you think:

http://www.virb.com/magicgoatmusic

I highly recommend picking up a copy of Aaron Dilloway's Infinite Lucifer one-sided LP if you see it. One of the best records that I managed to somehow miss out on last year.

On another note, any of you guys that are Belong fans might be interested in checking out their myspace page, they're giving away a tour only ep through mediafire with three songs not on the October Language full-length.

Thanks for the Belong info!

Two Bands and a Legend (or Cato Salsa Experience and the Thing With Joe McPhee)- S/t is a very very good album. It's first and foremost a pretty hard rock record, with plenty of free jazz and avant garde elements thrown in. Really, it sounds weirder than it is.

Also, there is a great Louie Louie cover in there too.

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Originally posted by grabblegarrr:
Two Bands and a Legend (or Cato Salsa Experience and the Thing With Joe McPhee)- S/t is a very very good album. It's first and foremost a pretty hard rock record, with plenty of free jazz and avant garde elements thrown in. Really, it sounds weirder than it is.

Also, there is a great Louie Louie cover in there too.

Thank you. And why are we both after Deerhoof at the same time...? And Venetian Snares?

Stalker.

I know you'd like to accuse me of something just to detract attention away from yourself and onto me, but I'm not going for it.

Ass.