Phill Niblock - Touch Three
Merzbow - Amlux
Comets On Fire - Field Recordings From the Sun
CAN - Unlimited Edition

"Gulag Orkestar" -- Beirut. Wondferful, warm and joyous. A cross between The Magnetic Fields and The Arcade Fire, by way of Eastern European music.

"Scale" -- Herbert. Very appealling electronic music with soulful vocals.

The Raconteurs - Broken Boy Soldiers
Osaka Popstar - and the American Legends of Punk
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Death From Above 1979 - Head's Up

Two used cd finds yesterday:

Eleventh Day Dream Zeroes and Ones
The Lashes Get It

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra.
Their last good record before going from avant-garde electronic recordings to awful new age goop.

unfortunately, i live in small city, canada so my only source for cd's is R.O.W .. found some goodies today though

Cat Power -- The Greatest
Neko Case -- Fox Confessor Brings the Flood
The Stooges -- S/T (Remastered)
Madlib, the Beat Conducta -- Vol. 1-2
Jay Dilla -- Donuts

You Am I: Convicts
Shack: The Corner of Miles and Gil
Afterhours: Ballads for Little Hyenas
The Beautiful South: Superbi
Syd Matters: Syd Matters
Alexi Murdoch: Time Without Consequence
The Bottle Rockets: Zoysia
Various Artists: Q Covered Best of 86/06 (covers of songs from 1986-2006 by current artists, free with Q Magazine's anniversary issue. Has exclusive tracks from Elbow, Richard Hawley, Editors, Delays, and more)

So pE, is that You Am I an import?

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Originally posted by mark f:
So pE, is that You Am I an import?

Yeah, an Aussie import. I doubt this one'll get US release...the last one didn't.

If you get it, make sure you get the 2-disc version, which has a whole disc of live versions of classic tracks from JJJ radio recordings.

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Originally posted by philosopherEric:
Syd Matters: Syd Matters

Various Artists: Q Covered Best of 86/06 (covers of songs from 1986-2006 by current artists, free with Q Magazine's anniversary issue. Has exclusive tracks from Elbow, Richard Hawley, Editors, Delays, and more)

Syd Matters is good stuff! I also enjoyed the Q zine comp, it's a nice change for a covers concept album.

Arrived today:

Herbert Scale
Twilight Singers Powder Burns
Dr.John Mercenary
Rory Gallagher Live At Montreaux dvd

Micah P. Hinson, The Baby & The Satellite
Stuart A. Staples, Leaving Songs
Scott Walker, The Drift

Repurchased (Used):

Meat Beat Manifesto, Actual Sounds + Voices
Jane's Addiction, Ritual De Lo Habitual

For the woah-man:

Madonna, Confessions on a Dance Floor

AFI - Decemberunderground

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Originally posted by m.leland:
Scott Walker, The Drift

I've been considering getting this. Please let me know what you think of it after a spin or so.

Vibracathedral Orchestra - Versatile Arab Chord Chart
Anders Dahl - Hundloka, flockblomstriga 1
Rhys Chatham - An Angel Moves Too Fast to See
Rhys Chatham - Die Dottergonner

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Originally posted by crazed:

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Originally posted by m.leland:
Scott Walker, The Drift

I've been considering getting this. Please let me know what you think of it after a spin or so.

Well, it's not background music. You really, really have to sit and listen. Creepy, minimal drone accompanied by Walker's vibrato. Occasionally terrifying. Like right now (five minutes into "Cue").

That Scott Walker record is great. It definitely isn't for everyone, but I agree with m.leland, you have to pay close attention to the details.

The Scott Walker album sounds intriguing. I'll have to add that to the want list.

Today from Not Lame:

Fresh Mowed Lawn Fresh Mowed Lawn
Doug Powell Four Seasons

The Scott Walker disc raises the issue for me, is it possible for art to be TOO personal? The songs are so obscure, so tied into Walker's own personal obsessions and nightmares, that it is almost impossible to connect with them, except to react with fear/confusion/embarrassment. There are moments that are very powerful -- especially, for me, the last two tracks -- but again and again I find myself simply perplexed at what connection he is trying to make with the audience. At what point does a work of art become so introspective and private that is ceases to function as art and is merely a form of personal therapy?

Cracker: Greenland

Got a bunch of good stuff at a record store that is going out of business.

Billie Holiday: Lady Day: complete columbia box
Roy Orbison: authorized live bootleg box
Prairie Home companion soundtrack (fathers day present)
Four Tops - Breaking through
Very Best of Charles Brown
Best of Otis Redding vol. 2
Snow Patrol - Final Straw
Eels - Souljacker
Dire Straits - Making Movies