What are you listening to?

[puggo]

harmonia - musik von harmonia
cluster - sowiesoso + zuckerzeit
faust - 4

[darren mcclure]

mark fell - periodic orbits of a dynamic system related to a string

yasunao tone - mp3 deviations #6 + 7

[mx]

Lately

Obsessed with the latest Bonnie Prince Billy Wolfroy Goes to Town (Drag City, 2011). I used to be a great admirer of the man, but kinda let it go around 2007, when he started releasing tons of live material and I got tired of all my folk/country/americana records. I gave this album a try and thought it was superb. Perfect "by the fireplace" record. The recording just suits the songs so well to me : beautiful tone, perfect source distance and a warm yet delicate presence. Also dug out my "Ask Forgiveness" EP, made out of covers (R Kelly, Sinatra, Bjork, etc.).

Also
Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol.2 (Raster-Noton, 2009) -> Loving it a lot more than then when it was released.
Lambchop - Nixon (2000) -> Classic.
Puzzle Muteson - En Garde (Bedroom Community, 2011) -> Interesting, intimate yet intense and touching folk release.
Simon Scott - Bunny (Miasmah, 2011) -> One of my fav' for 2011
John Adams - Shaker Loops -> Thanks to the feature film "Io Sono l'Amore" which uses excerpts of this a lot.
Thundercat - The Golden Age of Apocalypse (Brainfeeder, 2011) -> Very interesting anti hifi production, but not lo-fi, fresh&groovy.
Pasture - Composite -> I really dig the sound of this one, like a cassette dream.
François Couperin - various harpsichord pieces from late 17th/early 18th century.

And a lot of Actress and HTRK.

[machinefabriek]

Massive Attack vs Burial - Four Walls
Wow!

Anne Guthrie - Perhaps a Favorable Organic Moment
Billy Gomberg - Quiet Barrier
Anne's disc needs a few more spins, but it's quite a special record.
Billy's simply fantastic.

[Guy Birkin]

mark fell - periodic orbits of a dynamic system related to a string

yasunao tone - mp3 deviations #6 + 7

That Yasunao Tone album is a bit noisy! Lovely artwork by Tina Frank, though.
Only heard clips of Mark Fell's latest. Feels almost like he's beginning to milk those Multistability sessions a bit, except it's always good stuff.

Beth Kleist - Drei
Le Berger - On Silence
Stephan Mathieu - A Static Place. Just can't get this off the stereo recently. So much hidden structure to explore within its depths.

[darren mcclure]

mark fell - periodic orbits of a dynamic system related to a string

yasunao tone - mp3 deviations #6 + 7

That Yasunao Tone album is a bit noisy! Lovely artwork by Tina Frank, though.
Only heard clips of Mark Fell's latest. Feels almost like he's beginning to milk those Multistability sessions a bit, except it's always good stuff.

i love a bit of digital noise, and a tone release on mego is primetime for this stuff. 

this new record by mark is amazing, really euphoric at times.  this does contain bits of multistability, but lots more.  i like it more than Manitutshu (which i also think is great!), which was more an exploration of the razor synth.

[Le Berger]

Le Berger - On Silence
Stephan Mathieu - A Static Place. Just can't get this off the stereo recently. So much hidden structure to explore within its depths.

Well thanks for listening!

& A Static Place just was my saving grace, coming back home at past midnight, stuck in traffic for almost an hour because of road construction, I put it on and it's like nothing mattered. Definitely up in my favorites this year.

[Orphax]

I prefer Refrain above A Silent Place.

Today I had some Asmus Tietchens "gamma-menge" playing during coffee break and lunch break.
Still love that one so much.

[billygomberg]

Anne Guthrie - Perhaps a Favorable Organic Moment
Billy Gomberg - Quiet Barrier
Anne's disc needs a few more spins, but it's quite a special record.
Billy's simply fantastic.

gosh that package got overseas quickly.  Anne's is definitely revealed by a few spins.  There is a lot on that album that surprised me as I listened to it a few/many times.

[darren mcclure]

tim hecker - dropped pianos

eleh - floating frequencies/inyuitive synthesis

^really glad the eleh series got a cd reissue, fantastic stuff.

[steinbruchel]

the necks «mindset» (rer)

...so far, so very good!

[billygomberg]

my bloody valentine loveless

still such an excellent album.

[oootini]

my bloody valentine loveless

still such an excellent album.

indeed! did you manage to catch any of the reunion gigs billy? did they play stateside? i saw them at ATP over here and it was one of the most amazing gigs i have ever been at...

[billygomberg]

my bloody valentine loveless

still such an excellent album.

indeed! did you manage to catch any of the reunion gigs billy? did they play stateside? i saw them at ATP over here and it was one of the most amazing gigs i have ever been at...

no I didn't.  I have a "meh" relationship to reunion gigs (going all the way back to a Sisters Of Mercy gig that I refused to attend back in like 97), so the MBV gigs may have been my loss there.

basically, I got this back out when I recalled that, months ago, I picked up the 33 1/3 book about this album.  however, like most 33 1/3 books, it's only just interesting (and this one basically is like - "hey there is a ton of meaningless gossip about this genius album" - being awfully reductive on my part but maybe you get the drift).

[adamwilliams]

Lately

Obsessed with the latest Bonnie Prince Billy Wolfroy Goes to Town (Drag City, 2011). I used to be a great admirer of the man, but kinda let it go around 2007, when he started releasing tons of live material and I got tired of all my folk/country/americana records. I gave this album a try and thought it was superb. Perfect "by the fireplace" record. The recording just suits the songs so well to me : beautiful tone, perfect source distance and a warm yet delicate presence. Also dug out my "Ask Forgiveness" EP, made out of covers (R Kelly, Sinatra, Bjork, etc.).

I loved BPB's earlier stuff, especially Arise, Therefore and I See A Darkness but his more recent stuff hasn't done anything for me - going to give this one a try.

I'm now listening to Melt Banana - Speak, Squeak, Creak