What are you listening to?

[Orphax]

Eliane Radigue - Trilogie De La Mort
The last 2 hours with still about 40 minutes to go.
Lovely stuff, but quite intense. Asking a lot of attention.

[mfischer]

t.deupree - northern (original version)
 
it's been a long time since i listened back to this one... i'd been loving the reissue since it came out and never really looked back until this morning.  nice.

[haesslich]

t.deupree - northern (original version)
 
it's been a long time since i listened back to this one... i'd been loving the reissue since it came out and never really looked back until this morning.  nice.

how do they differ? had the re-mixing and re-mastering process much influence on "how the music is perceived" or rather: does it sound that much different?
i just have the reissue and cannot compare.

[Venus Vulture]

t.deupree - northern (original version)
 
it's been a long time since i listened back to this one... i'd been loving the reissue since it came out and never really looked back until this morning.  nice.

how do they differ? had the re-mixing and re-mastering process much influence on "how the music is perceived" or rather: does it sound that much different?
i just have the reissue and cannot compare.

... and I only have the original - so I'd be intrigued to hear an opinion from someone who has both.

[mfischer]

it is very different.  they stand alone as separate but related releases in my mind. 
care to weigh in Taylor?

[steinbruchel]

[mac]

this is very nice indeed. never really been convinced by anticipate releases but in this case it's been really nice listen. 

also:
The Knife - Tomorrow, In A Year (it will easily end up in my fav 2010 releases until i'm done listening to it)

[jórgos]

Alva Noto +  Ryuichi Sakamoto - vrioon & insen & UTP  Really great sounds, one of the best collaborations, i am in awe!

Taylor Deupree - Shoals   The funny thing about this release is that i have heard it over 20 times and i can't figure out

if i like it or not. I think that i just don't get it somehow, i can't understand the process of sounds and the technical part of this

album. This is really annoying for me because i tend to be very analytical about everything and especially about the production.

[Venus Vulture]

Taylor Deupree - Shoals   The funny thing about this release is that i have heard it over 20 times and i can't figure out if i like it or not. I think that i just don't get it somehow, i can't understand the process of sounds and the technical part of this album. This is really annoying for me because i tend to be very analytical about everything and especially about the production.

likewise.  Maybe not 20 times yet, but it's doing my head in, in a good way.  I've listened to Northern so much, and I guess I was expecting part ii, but Shoals is so much its own thing - and so different to Taylor's other stuff.  I think it's growing on me, but it's more challenging, perhaps less accessible, than his other stuff.  As always, though, there's something new in it each time I listen.  How does he do that?

[jórgos]

likewise.  Maybe not 20 times yet, but it's doing my head in, in a good way.  I've listened to Northern so much, and I guess I was expecting part ii, but Shoals is so much its own thing - and so different to Taylor's other stuff.  I think it's growing on me, but it's more challenging, perhaps less accessible, than his other stuff.  As always, though, there's something new in it each time I listen.  How does he do that?

Well, Northern was my introduction to taylor deupree's work and i loved it and yes i think that Shoals is less accessible and more difficult to relate to. I think that in the near future i will figure it out but then i guess that if you have listened something about 20 times that means that you like it and you don't know it yet 

[99vadim]

Mark Fell - UL8 (eMego) - the packaging rules! Wondering, who designed the cover. Tina Frank maybe? She's not credited , though.

As for the music, a very neat album. Especially the "vortex studies" & "death of loved one" are great.

[darren mcclure]

Mark Fell - UL8 (eMego) - the packaging rules! Wondering, who designed the cover. Tina Frank maybe? She's not credited , though.

As for the music, a very neat album. Especially the "vortex studies" & "death of loved one" are great.

an absolutely killer album, indeed!  hard to decide which i liked best, between this and multistability.  for me the latter, as it had more variation and dynamics.  but two mark fell solo cds released within a month of each other, what a treat.......and yeah, superb cover! 

right now:

sun araw - on patrol

[mac]

Joy Division - Complete BBC Recordings

[taylordeupree]

since the technical differences of the reissue came about primarily by necessity.. at least the editing of the songs themselves... it wasn't intended to be *perceived* any differently, on any deeper level. i see it as the same album... one (the re-issue) just has a lot more sonic detail to me.. i definitely think they SOUND different, but the perception is probably quite similar... though that may be a matter of personal opinion.

interesting takes on Shoals above... i agree it's a much more "difficult" record than Northern. i knew that as soon as i started writing it. maybe to A_Solarist... if possible, try listening to it without trying to analyze it so much... it's funny, though, because technologically, it's such a simpler record than Northern. it's just microphones, gamelan instruments and loopers. not much in the way of fancy DSP tricks, granulators, or the things that made a lot of Northern. despite being more inaccessible, it's a much simpler record...

how do they differ? had the re-mixing and re-mastering process much influence on "how the music is perceived" or rather: does it sound that much different?
i just have the reissue and cannot compare.

[billygomberg]