What are you Listening to?

[Psy-Fi]

Tiny Tim - I believe (Live)

[Meatwad]

Wesley Willis - Suck a Carabou's Ass

[Meatwad]

Wesley Willis Fiasco - Jesus is the Answer

[Meatwad]

Death Grips - Full Moon

[Meatwad]

Celine Dion - Its All Coming Back to Me Now

[innerspaceboy]

After reading a book about hauntological media I finally decided it was time to give Burial's Untrue a dedicated listen. It was abstract, atmospheric, nocturnal, melancholic, sparsely ethereal... everything that usually attracts me to ambient music. It took me 16 years but I've finally come around to the seminal work of post-dubstep / future garage.

Mary Anne Hobbs of BBC Radio 1 did a really great minisode feature about the album back in 2007 when it was fresh. I'll share it below for any other latecomers to this iconic album. And just a heads-up - the CD, digital version and later vinyl reissues have 13 tracks, original vinyl 2x12" has only 8 of those tracks. Definitely seek out the 2012 and later editions for the complete album.

Burial's Untrue: The making of a masterpiece

[ribbons]

^ I love Untrue and was just listening to it the other day while trying to think of music to post to Mona's makeout thread.      All in all, it is my favorite ambient/dark garage album and I first encountered it about 10 years ago, yet have never seen that BBC 1 minisode.  Thank you for sharing it!

P.S.:  "Burial is so curiously clumsy you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood and the rhythms are so un-danceable." - Brian Eno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egbi0FK2_2o

[Paul Smeenus]

[ribbons]

Madlib - Road of the Lonely Ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y52M28WQu2s

[innerspaceboy]

P.S.:  "Burial is so curiously clumsy you can't help but be moved. It's so un-Hollywood and the rhythms are so un-danceable." - Brian Eno

Thank you SO MUCH for the Eno quote! He's my greatest musical and philosophical influence so it's great to read his thoughts on Burial!

[innerspaceboy]

Revisting Telefon Tel Aviv – Fahrenheit Fair Enough. Originally a blind-buy based on the cover art in a Media Play store in 2001, and in 2016 I pre-ordered the limited edition sky blue and white double 45RPM LP set from Ghostly International.

Stellar leftfield ambient IDM.



Love that break at 1:55.

[Meatwad]

Yma Sumac - Chuncho

[innerspaceboy]

David Sylvian & Hogler Czukay - Plight & Premonition and Flux & Mutability

Dark/tribal ambient drone music by two of the greats. 2018 slightly-reworked double album issued by Grönland Records in Germany and the UK. Some prefer the mixes from the original 1988/89 CD edition, but it's nice to have a clean press on wax.

[ribbons]

Revisting Telefon Tel Aviv – Fahrenheit Fair Enough. Originally a blind-buy based on the cover art in a Media Play store in 2001, and in 2016 I pre-ordered the limited edition sky blue and white double 45RPM LP set from Ghostly International.

Stellar leftfield ambient IDM.



Love that break at 1:55.

Those are beautiful sky vinyls, ISB!  Fahrenheit Fair Enough is a gorgeous album that, in a way, never got the credit it deserves.

[Saulaac]

"Matemaatikon lentonäytös" - "The mathematician's air display". I'm always looking for the crossroads between prog, jazz, rock and metal (with a hint of classical) and this tune seems to give it.

Matemaatikon lentonäytös (The mathematician's air display) - Pekka Pohjola