What are you Listening to?

[innerspaceboy]

I've only recently realized that I stopped listening to new music for the most part around 1998, with just a few exceptions.

Grabbed this on wax - one of the last mixes I heard before tuning out.

Deejay Punk-Roc - "My Beatbox (Les Rythmes Digitales 'As de Pique' remix)"

[Lisnaholic]

this is fucking great

^ As so often, a great recommendation Marie I'm pretty bad at identifying genres, and this album keeps sliding around, full of surprises, and refuses to be pinned down. Really nice.

Revisiting discs #2 and #3 of Spiritualized's epic, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space UK Deluxe Edition for all the bonus content.

I love hearing the tracks broken down into their component parts. Such a monumental album.

^ Clearly time for me to revisit this album as I have a tendency to skip tracks until I reach Cop Shoot Cop.

I'd never heard of Alan Vega (or the other two guys) until last week, so this album has had a real impact on me:-

The whole thing is improvised, so there are a few slack moments, but these guys really know what they are doing in the most ad hoc of studio situations. In that sense they remind me of Can - as if, after Tago Mago, Can decided to have fun with some old Elvis songs. I just love the casually-put-together sound of it all.

[Weekender]

I don't know how someone encounters Cubist Blues with no knowledge of either Alan Vega or Alex Chilton but, yes it's fantastic. Ben Vaughn is much more understandable, as he did not belong to any projects as influential as Suicide or Big Star. His major claim to fame is recording a full album within the confines of his Oldsmobile.

His soundtrack work is probably what most people are familiar with even if they don't know it. He was in charge of the soundtrack for That 70s Show among others. Which brings us to his amusing connection to Alex Chilton who of course wrote the song that Cheap Trick covered for the show's theme song.

[Lisnaholic]

I don't know how someone encounters Cubist Blues with no knowledge of either Alan Vega or Alex Chilton but, yes it's fantastic.

Welcome to SCD, Weekender 
Thanks for the response: I'm glad to come across another contributor who likes Cubist Blues. To answer your doubt about how I found it, may I refer you to the YouTube algorithm ? I was exploring some stuff that was AV / AC adjacent - in fact a Big Star album, without knowing the names of the band members, and also being quite surprised to come across that connection to the That 70s Show theme song you mention.

As for Ben Vaughn, I'll be checking him out too, as your comments are intriguing- especially that detail about the Oldsmobile album. 

[innerspaceboy]

Facebook memory for 13 years ago today - Mashup of LCD Soundsystem and Miles Davis.

[Meatwad]

Bubblegum Octopus - Betrayal is OK

[Meatwad]

Faith No More - Cuckoo for Caca

[QuantumSync]

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[innerspaceboy]

I have 143 albums and radio sessions by Future Sound of London / Amorphous Androgynous and am presently revisiting their Environments subseries comprising 8 albums of leftfield atmospheric ambient space music. It's a treat for anyone who enjoys the concept of psychedelia blended with field recordings.

It's been described as "sonic worldbuilding." At once haunting, trippy, lush, futuristic, urban, and cosmic. These are illbient soundscapes, merging 90s electronica with 70s progressive music.

Cue the backmasking and heavy reverb.

[Saulaac]

Stumbled upon Terry Durham a few years ago, and I dunno why but I looked him up again this week, "grace à" (thanks to) the YT algorithm.
I don't think he's from Durham but he could well be with an accent like that. Beautiful smooth lyrics, and I particularly liked his first track which beckons the listener to keep an ear open for jazzy exotica moments. And Jesus does he deliver.

I've often thought of myself as an Alan Partridge / Paul Calf hybrid, and Terry Durham does well to cement that thinking.

Terry Durham – Crystal Telephone (1969 - Album)

[QuantumSync]

[innerspaceboy]

Gary Higgins - "Thicker Than A Smokey"

Red Hash was pressed in 1973 and it wasn't until 2005 (CD) and 2008 (LP) that the Drag City label reissued it. Original pressings command $300-500.

Hypnotic and entrancing folk with an element of drone to the guitar and melody.

Stone cold classic.

[QuantumSync]