Electronic & Dance Music: drum n bass/ jungle, electro, breakbeat/ nu skool breaks, industrial/ electro-industrial/ ebm, synth pop/ electroclash, techno/tech house/deep house/progressive house, psychedelic trance, IDM/ experimental electronics/ ambient/ glitch sounds/ folktronica/ downbeat, jazztronica/ electro-jazz, leftfield/ instrumental/ electronified hip-hop/trip-hop. Rock Music: art-rock/ avant-prog/ avant rock, electro-rock/ epic alt-rock, experimental rock, jazz-rock, kraut rock/ math rock/ post-hardcore/ post-rock/ space-rock, darkwave/ gothic/ ethereal, dark metal, hardcore/ metalcore/ noisecore, post punk and shoegazer/dream pop sounds. Other Orbits:Kozmigroov, avant / free jazz, dub, modern composition, improvised music and many other hybrids and musical mutations.
Age: I entered this world in 1970. A British Blogger.
2008 ALBUM RELEASES: 2008 FORTHCOMING ALBUMS
using rateyourmusic.com: 2008 Album Releases [Updated Regularly]
This information is updated on a continual basis.
[These dates apply to the UK and can change as record companies/distributors do have a habit of messing us around!]
[Which I didn't get around to mentioning earlier this month, Why were The Chemical Brothers in at 1, have the DJ magazine staff gone tone deaf with too many loud club nites out?] # posted by DJ Martian 2:27 PM
electrotope: Favorite CDs of 2005 in genres - A Swiss / Zurich based blogger provides a 2005 lists overview approach [that I have used previously], breaking down music into loose genre areas.
Note: Updated new URL !
Similar diverse coverage to The Wire / Boomkat / Other Music etc. # posted by DJ Martian 2:19 PM
#6 - MY MORNING JACKET: Z [Bmg] - 160 pt. - 26 votes
and the top 5
#5 - WOLF PARADE: APOLOGIES TO THE QUEEN MARY [Sub Pop] - 211 pt. - 41 votes #4 - BLOC PARTY: SILENT ALARM [Wichita] - 269 pt. - 40 votes #3 - THE DECEMBERISTS: PICARESQUE [Rough Trade] - 290 pt. - 43 votes #2 - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH!: CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH! [-] - 293 pt. - 44 votes #1 - SUFJAN STEVENS: ILLINOISE [Rough Trade] - 555 pt. - 75 votes
The results suggests that Pitchfork has significant influence on listening interests of many. However I wonder what sort of narrow demographics most of these bloggers fall into, I bet most are between 21-34 and men and primarily into Pitchfork/ Metacritic rated music i.e in the top 100 there are [too] many trad songs indie rock / americana type artists. Notice the absence of jazz and metal for example. # posted by DJ Martian 2:07 PM
Fail: Rewind provides albums and singles top 10s. # posted by DJ Martian 1:44 PM
rateyourmusic.com user, inventio13 - has applied a systematic approach to tracking 2005 releases throughout the year. Now inventio13 has provided a snapshot view of his 100 favourite 2005 albums at the mo.
(With hundreds of records still in the listening queue, this list is very tentative at the moment. Major updates are expected in the next months.)
Congratulations goto Norway's Shining - In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster for the top slot [at the mo]. # posted by DJ Martian 8:59 PM
Kinja Card for DJ Martian's Page
Kinja the RSS reader/blog directory has recently added a new User Interface known as Kinja Card.
"What the heck are these things?!?! Each 'card' you see represents an individual site in Kinja. When you're logged to your My Kinja account, you can add and edit a weblog's tags super quickly using these cards.
What is displayed?
Latest RSS Summary Related Blogs: explore latest posts from related blogs web tools: Track Mentions / Link Analysis / Site History etc add to My Yahoo/ Bloglines/ Newsgator features # posted by DJ Martian 7:17 PM
Exclusive - Patrick Wolf Signs to Loog, Working on Third Album
Patrick Wolf has signed to Loog/Polydor and is currently working on a new album with Austrian sound engineer Patrick Pulsinger
Press Release via Mingo PR
Patrick Wolf signs to Loog
Loog are delighted to announce the newest signing to their roster, Patrick Wolf.
...
Loog head James Oldham said: “We’re delighted to sign an artist as unique and driven as Patrick. We’ve been a fan of his for a long time, so it’s fantastic that we’re finally going to get to work with him. He’s someone who’s going to have a long and extraordinary career in music.”
And the next stage of that career begins immediately as Patrick has already begun work on his third LP “The Magic Position” in Vienna with engineer Patrick Pulsinger. The process continues in the new year as Patrick heads to New York where various luminaries will take part in the recording. No one knows yet precisely what the new record will sound like, but it’s certain to be Patrick’s most ambitious album to date.
Patrick had this to say: “After much label fever at the end of my tour this year, I found myself very much safe and at home with Loog/Polydor records. It is really exciting to now have the structures in place so that I can create all the work I want to create, that it will be heard and promoted the right way, and perhaps my days of living like a tramp are over. Perhaps. Now, all is looking good, I have a lot of music to make, keys to hit, strings to break and now am recording my third work. Extreme thank yous to all that have stood by me on the long and winding dirt track to now. You're all still with us - magic is alive.”
Patrick Wolf will be debuting songs from his new album at a soon-to-be-announced show in March in London.
Mingo PR [via email] # posted by DJ Martian 3:12 PM
New issue of Terrorizer magazine on sale January 3rd?, Opeth are on the front cover.
FEATURES
STUDIO REPORT: CELTIC FROST STUDIO REPORT: VENOM OPETH DRAGONFORCE 2005 ALBUMS OF THE YEAR 2005 READERS' POLL THE BERZERKER NEO-FOLK THYRFING OPETH POSTER AMONG THE MISSING BAR-BARIAN WRATH: RONNIE JAMES DIO TRIBES OF NEUROT + HARVESTMAN HARD OF HEARING: TRIVIUM
FEar Candy 24: Free sampler CD
DRAGONFORCE 'Through The Fire And Flames' CHILDREN OF BODOM 'Trashed, Lost And Strung Out' THE BERZERKER 'All About You' EDGUY 'Wasted Time' THYRFING 'Jag Spår Fördärv' ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET 'So Grim So True So Real' ION DISSONANCE 'Cleansed By Silence' L'ACEPHALE: 'The Book Of Lies' EARTHRIDE 'Fighting The Devils Inside You' WORMS OF SABNOCK 'Black Empire' NORMA JEAN 'Bayonetwork' PROFANE 'Porcelain' MY CROSS TO BARE 'Chikolita Won't Sleep' NINE DAYS TO NO ONE 'Twilight Of The Idols' DEATHSTARS 'Cyanide' CHAIN COLLECTOR 'Neverwhere' # posted by DJ Martian 12:48 PM
iLiKETRAiNS are new-ish band from Leeds, imagine Peter Murphy fronting Sigur Ros
The track: A ROOK HOUSE FOR BOBBY - just listened to this track on Xfm spun by John Kennedy.
Wow this band have massive potential, dramatic/ epic/ orchestral music like Peter Murphy wrapped up in the epic splendour of Sigur Ros. Other inspirations I detect: Red House Painters, Nick Cave, Joy Division, TV on the Radio, Kitchens of Distinction, Explosions in the Sky, The God Machine - you get my drift !
iLiKETRAiNS are definately one's to watch in 2006 ! # posted by DJ Martian 12:23 AM
"This is Intuitive Music's selection of what we consider the best 20 albums released during 2005, from the music that has comed to our hands. The albums are listed in alphabetical order since we don't see possible to pick which are better than the others, specially because the selection includes different genres, including electronica, experimental, jazz and progressive music." # posted by DJ Martian 8:42 PM
"It's past time for my latest best-of-year list. I've been procrastinating a bit, see, because 2004 was such an amazingly brilliant year for new music that I would have a hard time making a top-20 list, much less my customary top 10. Nevertheless, here's my best shot. For the newer readers, note that this is a best of 2004, not 2005 ? the extra year allows for a bit more perspective as well as a chance to catch up on releases that passed me by originally. "
Isis - Panopticon takes top slot # posted by DJ Martian 10:43 PM
TotalRock.com report Mastodon are expected to call their new album Blood Mountain # posted by DJ Martian 9:53 PM
Compiled from the individual writer lists from each site using an elaborate points system devised by me. (Note: Stars, Cam'ron, Love Is All, and Amadou & Mariam were excluded, as they were not technically released during 2005.) # posted by DJ Martian 10:53 PM
Because of the enormous amount of music released each year, it is absurd to single out a handful of recordings as 'the best,' or even as 'my favorites.' But also because of the enormous amount of music released each year, the exercise can be helpful. This is my favorite music of 2005, broken into two categories: commercial recordings and free downloads. And there's a short bit at the end about the year in film soundtracks.
By Marc Weidenbaum # posted by DJ Martian 10:39 PM
TRACK LISTING. CD1 Boards Of Canada - Constants Are Changing Jandek - Nancy Sings Six Organs Of Admittance - Words For Two Espers - Meadow The Boy Least Likely - To Paper Cuts The Spinto Band - Direct To The Helmet Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Details Of The War Matson Jones - New York City Fuck Off Scout Niblett - Valvoline Low - California Serena Maneesh - Drive Me Home The Lonely Nights Modlang - Slaughtered By The Sun King Creosote - Klutz The Pippettes - It Hurts To See You Dance So Well Ana da Silva - Disco Ball Asja Auf Capri - Contre Temps Gang Gang Dance - God's Money V Matthew Herbert - Celebrity Princess Superstar - My Machine Smoosh - Rad Uknown Artist - Gang Fight Konono No.1 - Lufuala Ndonga edit Brodsky Quartet - My Mood Swings ft. Elvis Costello Daniel Johnston - The Beatles Katzenjammers - Cars David Shrigley - Don'ts
CD2 Nurse With Wound - June 15 edit Albert Kuvezin and Yat-Kha - The Wild Mountain Thyme Lindstrom - I Feel Space (M.A.N.D.Y. Remix) edit Green Velvet - No Sex No Bra - Munchausen Franz Ferdinand - Do You Want To (Erol Alkan's Glam Racket) Data Panik - Cubis (I Love You) Good Shoes - Small Town Girl Test Icicles - Circle. Square. Triangle. Milburn - Showroom CDOASS - Speak To Me The Fall - Clasp Hands Brakes - Heard About Your Band The Long Blondes - Lust In The Movies 10lec6 - Counter Stroke Death Sentence: PANDA! - A+ Cannibal The Thing - Have Love Will Travel Jack Too Jack - The March Of The Big White Barbarians edit Attack Formation - Station Id / Pearl Snaps Snow White - Attack Form Lightning Bolt - Riff Wraiths 50ft Wave - Clara Bow Sleater Kinney - Modern Girl Harry Walker-Wright - Untitled
And if that's not enough pre-orders are guaranteed to receive the limited edition bonus cd 1.Architecture In Helsinki - Maybe You Can Owe Me 2.Semi Finalists - Let's Kill This 3.Gang Of Four - I Love A Man In Uniform 4.Saul Williams - List Of Demands (Reparations) # posted by DJ Martian 4:12 PM
Earplug is a twice-monthly email magazine, delivering a handpicked selection of news, sounds, videos, and original features to the international electronic-music community. # posted by DJ Martian 10:03 PM
UK Music retailer MVC stores with 70 stores? have gone into Administration, seeking bankruptcy protection from its creditors.
However Retail Week are already reporting that 40 stores have been sold to rival retailer Music Zone for an undisclosed sum. Note, I can't find a secondary source to confirm this news.
Speculation that Music Zone and Fopp may acquire further MVC shop locations.
Music Zone [primarily a North West/ Northern England chain looking to expand elsewhere]
Fopp [have been looking to expand in England, acquiring key MVC store locations could be an easy solution] # posted by DJ Martian 9:19 AM
What other 2005 list features the diverse talents of: Opeth, Pelican, Dark Tranquillity, Pat Metheny, Jesu, Ulver, Broadcast, Dalek, Jaga Jazzist, Depeche Mode, Mew, Between the Buried and Me, Port-Royal, The Books, and Lightning Bolt in the top 100.
109 Van Der Graaf Generator - Present 132 Nine Horses - Snow Borne Sorrow 137 Konono No. 1 - Congotronics 173 Shining - In The Kingdom Of Kitsch You Will Be A Monster 180 Vitalic - Ok Cowboy 203 Isolée - Wearemonster 206 Primordial - The Gathering Wilderness 265 Wobbler - Hinterland 384 Gojira - From Mars to Sirius 386 The Juan Maclean - Less Than Human 411 Guapo - Black Oni 456 Novembers Doom - The Pale Haunt Departure 529 Jan Jelinek - Kosmischer Pitch 567 Coil -The Ape of Naples 641 a-ha - Analogue 661 Richard Davis - Details 674 Larsen - Play 697 Marsen Jules - Herbstlaub 755 Bohren & Der Club of Gore - Geisterfaust 767 Jackie-O Motherfucker - Flags of the Sacred Harp 772 Murcof - Remembranza 809 Deaf Center - Pale Ravine 850 Frantic Bleep - The Sense Apparatus 855 Field Music - Field Music 871 Malory - The Third Face 901 Solefald - Red for Fire: An Icelandic Odyssey, Part 1 909 Matias Aguayo - Are You Really Lost 917 Tord Gustavsen Trio - The Ground 932 Julien Neto - Le Fumeur de Ciel 973 Nil - Nil Novo Sub Sol # posted by DJ Martian 12:32 AM
2005 Kerrang Albums Of The Year: the Top 20 stats:
20) Every Time I Die - Gutter Phenomenon
19) Corrosion Of Conformity - In The Arms Of God
18) The White Stripes - Get behind Me Satan
17) Arch Enemy - Doomsday machine
16) ...And You Will Know us By The Trail Of Dead - Worlds Apart
15) System Of A Down - Hypnotize
14)Akercocke - Words That Go Unspoken Deeds That Go Undone 13) Qotsa - Lulabies To Paralyze
12) Opeth - Ghost Reveries 11) The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell...And Back
10) Thrice - Vheissu
09) Foo Fighters - In Your Honour
08) Avenged Sevenfold - City Of Evil
07) Bullet For My valentine - The Poison
06) Alkaline Trio - Crimson
05) High On Fire - Blessed Black Wings 04) The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute 03) System Of A Down - Mesmerize
02) Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth
01) Trivium - Ascendancy
After that inadequate list.. I will wait for Terrorizer magazine's end of year list. # posted by DJ Martian 12:31 PM
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
2005 Music Lists
As you can see above del.icio.us is back, reminder of 2005 Best of Music lists: del.icio.us/djmartian/b2005 # posted by DJ Martian 2:36 PM
This week's flavourpill LONDON [Issue 113 - 20 Dec, 2005 - 2 Jan, 2006] is a double special.
flavourpill LONDON is an email magazine covering a hand-picked selection of music, art and cultural events - delivered each Tuesday afternoon. # posted by DJ Martian 2:01 PM
In terms of "top tier" criteria I disagree with nearly 75% of these selections. Here is the summary:
50: Orthrelm - OV [Ipecac] 49: Fiery Furnaces - EP [Rough Trade] 48: Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy [Jagjaguwar] 47: The Boy Least Likely To - The Best Party Ever [Too Young to Die] 46: Fiona Apple - Extraordinary Machine [Jon Brion Version] [mp3] 45: M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us [Mute] 44: Vashti Bunyan - Lookaftering [Fat Cat] 43: Spoon - Gimme Fiction [Merge] 42: My Morning Jacket - Z [RCA] 41: Róisín Murphy - Ruby Blue [Echo] 40: Young Jeezy - Let's Get It: Thug Motivation 101 [Def Jam] 39: Robyn - Robyn [Konichiwa] 38: Devendra Banhart - Cripple Crow [XL] 37: Dominik Eulberg - Kreucht & Fleucht [Mischwald] 36: Keith Fullerton Whitman - Multiples [kranky] 35: The Game - The Documentary [Aftermath/Interscope] 34: Silver Jews - Tanglewood Numbers [Drag City] 33: Bloc Party - Silent Alarm [Vice] 32: Beanie Sigel - The B.Coming [Roc-A-Fella] 31: Konono No. 1 - Congotronics [Crammed Discs] 30: Franz Ferdinand - You Could Have It So Much Better [Domino] 29: Serena Maneesh - Serena Maneesh[Honeymilk] 28: Sunn O))) - Black One [Southern Lord] 27: Jamie Lidell - Multiply [Warp] 26: The Decemberists - Picaresque [Kill Rock Stars] 25: Alan Braxe & Friends - The Upper Cuts [PIAS] 24: The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Tree [4AD] 23: Ladytron - The Witching Hour [Rykodisc] 22: Broadcast - Tender Buttons [Warp] 21: Bonnie "Prince" Billy & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf [Drag City] 20: The Hold Steady - Separation Sunday [Frenchkiss] 019: Sleater-Kinney - The Woods [Sub Pop] 018: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah - Clap Your Hands Say Yeah [Clap Your Hands Say Yeah] 017: The Clientele - Strange Geometry [Merge] 016: Love Is All - Nine Times That Same Song [What's Your Rupture?] 015: Clipse - We Got It 4 Cheap, Vol. 2 [mixunit.com] 014: Vitalic - OK Cowboy [PIAS] 013: Various Artists - Run the Road [679] 012: New Pornographers - Twin Cinema [Matador] 011: Isolée - We Are Monster [Playhouse] 10: Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary [Sub Pop] 09: Cam'ron - Purple Haze [Roc-A-Fella] 08: LCD Soundsystem - LCD Soundsystem [DFA] 07: Animal Collective - Feels [Fat Cat] 06: Deerhoof - The Runners Four [Kill Rock Stars] 05: Antony & the Johnsons - I Am a Bird Now [Secretly Canadian] 04: M.I.A. - Arular [XL] 03: Art Brut - Bang Bang Rock & Roll [Fierce Panda] 02: Kanye West - Late Registration [Roc-A-Fella] 01: Sufjan Stevens - Illinois [Asthmatic Kitty]
Unlike del.icio.us, RawSugar offers full text search.
I would use RawSugar more frequently:
* if they offered a del.icio.us sync * have a User Interface similar to del.icio.us or that of Jots * offer a 100 bookmark view. # posted by DJ Martian 8:13 PM
Pop & Rock - Top 20
Funk, Soul & Outernational Vibes - Top 10
Hip-Hop - Top 10
Electronic - Top 10
Punk - Top 10
Metal & Hardcore - Top 10
Experimental & Avant-Garde - Top 10
Folk, Country & Blues - Top 10 # posted by DJ Martian 8:37 PM
Marcello Carlin's Top 50 Albums of 2005 with extensive personal reviews. [Plus: TOP 50 REISSUES, COMPILATIONS AND THINGS FROM THE PAST I NEVER KNEW EXISTED.]
some highlights of the Top 50 Albums of 2005
49. ELLEN ALLIEN Thrills 47. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR Present 45. CHARLIE HADEN/LIBERATION MUSIC ORCHESTRA Not In Our Name
44. NEW ORDER Waiting For The Sirens' Call [Why include this when Depeche Mode released a superior album: a reverse of 2001 !]
43. LANSING-DREIDEN The Incomplete Triangle [that's a 2004 album]
39. THE RESIDENTS Animal Lover 36. ARIEL PINK'S HAUNTED GRAFFITI Worn Copy 33. BOARDS OF CANADA The Campfire Headphase 32. LAWRENCE The Night Will Last Forever 28. BROADCAST Tender Buttons 25. LADYTRON Witching Hour
23. MEW Mew And The Glass Handed Kites [at last a Brit has recognized this album]
19. POLAR BEAR Held On The Tips Of Fingers 12. VITALIC OK Cowboy 11. NINE HORSES Snow Bound Sorrow
Top 5
5. THE ARCADE FIRE Funeral [Lots of Brits are rating this album] 4. BRIAN ENO Another Day On Earth 3. THE BOOKS Lost And Safe [The Wire's album of the year] 2. THE SHORTWAVE SET The Debt Collection 1. KATE BUSH Aerial # posted by DJ Martian 5:54 PM
The Observer Music Monthly Top 100 Albums of 2005 + Top 50 Readers List
The Observer Music Monthly have gone for a Top 100 this year which is good to see as Top 50 countdowns are unable to scope the year IMHO. Their 2005 list is certainly the most diverse I have seen by a printed mainstream publication so far. However the quality control is rather scatty trying to appeal to a broad readership.
Anthony & the Johnsons takes top slot. I don't like the texture of his eccentric vocal style and the backing music just does nothing for me. But this album is doing rather well in end of year lists.
Some Highlights:
95 Echo & the Bunnymen 94 Lightning Bolt 89 Wayne Shorter Quartet 85 Acoustic Ladyland 82 Brian Eno 75 My Morning Jacket 74 The Editors 69 Elbow 67 Whitey 61 Les Georges Leningrad [that's a 2004 album folks] 60 Pat Metheny Group 58 Solveig Slettahjell 54 Animal Collective 53 Vitalic 52 Sigur Ros 50 St Etienne 41 Ali Farka Toure and Toumani Diabate 36 Ariel Pink 34 Konono No 1 31 Arild Andersen Group 27 Kate Bush 24 Manu Katche 14 LCD Soundsytem 13 Roots Manuva 12 Polar Bear 10 The Arcade Fire
Amongst the Hundred there are some strange choices that are completely laughable: this lot would be more suitable on a worst of 2005 list:
100 Rolling Stones - AOR slosh, 96 Hard-Fi - simpleton chav britpop, 90 Goldie Lookin Chain - welsh comedy rap, 86 Charlotte Church - pop pap, 78 50 Cent - lame rap, 77 Darkness - comedy rawk, 49 Chemical Brothers - dated clunky beats, 38 Babyshambles - shambolic tuneless tripe, 37 Robbie Williams - chav Mainstream pop rock, 16 Oasis - plodding rubbish trad rock.
Observer Music Monthly also give an insight into what music is popular in Britain in 2005: Your top 50 albums
The list reads like a combination of Uncut/ Mojo/ NME/ Q / The Word, 6 Music and Later with Jools Holland. I guess the people who voted were primarily in the 20 to 45 age group.
The Arcade Fire was the most popular album, Kate Bush [12], Sigur Ros [13], Elbow [18], LCD Soundsystem [21], Doves [27] # posted by DJ Martian 3:30 PM
Patrick Wolf [4], Editors [12], Ladytron [13], Sigur Ros [17], The Mars Volta [19], Elbow [22], Vitalic [31], Broadcast [32], Animal Collective [36], Kate Bush [38], Depeche Mode [39], The Fall [43], Roots Manuva [44] and Lightning Bolt [49]
Two Big Turkeys: What are the Bloodhound Gang doing at 16?, The Dorkness at 23 ?
25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2005
You've seen the 2005 Echoes Listener Poll. This one is different. These are the albums that snapped the synapses of John Diliberto and
the Echoes staff in 2005.
"The 25 Essential Echoes CDs for 2005" program will air Tuesday,
December 20th and Sunday, December 25th.
1. Laurel MacDonald - Luscinia's Lullaby - (Improbable Music)
2. Jon Hassell - Maarifa Street - (Nyen)
3. Keola Beamer & R. Carlos Nakai - Our Beloved Land - (Canyon)
4. Leo Abraham - Honey Trap - (Absolute Zero Records)
5. Sumner McKane - North - (Don't Hit Your Sister Records)
6. Tristeza - A Colores - (Better Looking Records)
7. Peppino D'Agostino & Stef Burns - Bayshore Road - (Favored Nations)
8. Philip Glass - Orion - (Orange Mountain Music)
9. Matt Coldrick & Matt Hillier - Elemental Journey: Absolute
Ambient Volume 2 - (Green Nuns Music)
10. Mark Isham - Crash (OST) - (Superb Records)
11. Bluetech - Sines and Singularities - (Aleph Zero)
12. Manual - Azure Vista - (Darla)
13. Yo Yo Ma & the Silk Road Ensemble - Silk Road Journeys: Beyond the
Horizon - (Sony Classics)
14. Brian Eno - Another Day on Earth - (Ryko)
15. Ulrich Schnauss - Far Away Trains Passing By - (Domino)
16. Anoushka Shankar - Rise - (Angel Records)
17. Mediaeval Baebes - Mirabilis - (Nettwerk America)
18. Jeff Oster - Released - (Retso Records)
19. Afro Celt Sound System - Volume V: Anatomic - (Real World Records)
20. Mariam Matossian - Far From Home - (Self Released)
21. Sigur Ros - Takk - (Geffen)
22. Michael Hewett - Ally - (Self Released)
23. Harold Budd - Avalon Sutra - (Samadhisound)
24. Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabete - In the Heart of the Moon -
(Nonesuch)
25. Aine Minogue - Celtic Lamentations - (Sounds True Music)
These CD's and other recommendations by John Diliberto can be found
on our website at http://www.echoes.org/holiday.html
Echoes is the nightly music soundscape heard on over 130 public radio
stations, on-line at www.echoes.org. and on XM Satellite Radio,
Channel 133 on Sunday 3 til 5 pm ET and Monday 3 til 5am ET. ***********************************************************
http://www.echoes.org
via email mailing list from Echoes # posted by DJ Martian 3:37 PM
TOP OF THE WORLD
No other band walked the walk in 2005 like U2. Joining Bono and co on tour, Paul Morley marvels at their staying power.
- does the world need another U2 feature?
THE OMM 100 Your 15-page guide to the 100 best albums of 2005, plus the 20 hottest tracks and the OMM readers' picks of the year.
- What will the 100 albums be? # posted by DJ Martian 3:14 PM
New Issue of The Wire features a Rewind 2005 themed special. # posted by DJ Martian 2:57 PM
LookLater is a new private bookmarking system that has some cool features.
About Section: way to easily and quickly store private bookmarks to interesting links found while browsing.
Instant searchable bookmarks in your own FREE and PRIVATE on-line archive
# Bookmark links, pages or images
# Automatically save context with each bookmark
# Search in titles or context or browse by date or site
# Tag bookmarks and import your existing tags
# No software to install, just a bookmarklet
# Integrates with del.icio.us, Google, eBay and more
So what are the Pros of LookLater
* Fast server, changes can be made quickly.
* Interface is flexible with a quick links view section.
* The User Interface is smart and easy on the eye.
* Ideal for a quick links dump i.e "to read" later, therefore ideal for bloggers and users of social bookmarking systems [such as del.icio.us] to pre-sort info.
* Features include a direct link to del.icio.us, so you can easily re-tag any bookmarked item if you use that system.
* Ideal for storing frequently used links if you use multiple PCs.
* Are your bookmarks/ favorites on your browser getting clogged up ? LookLater could be the answer to your problems.
Private: no user name associated with the URL, so your privacy can be preserved.
There are Some Drawbacks
* Chunky text size, not compact enough compared to many bookmarking systems.
* No automatic tagging when you bookmark a page, however tags can be quickly added afterwards.
* The context box auto saves the initial keywords of a website. Often you need to edit this.
* Features: where the link came from. Who cares ? no option to hide this feature.
Overall I would recommend Looklater as an ideal compliment to existing systems such as del.icio.us and your existing browser bookmarks/ favorites links. # posted by DJ Martian 12:50 AM
Thursday, December 15, 2005
Kultureflash - Headlines from London [No. 147 / 15.12.05]
KultureFlash is a free, weekly newsletter covering contemporary culture in and around London. Each week we track down some of the more unusual and interesting events taking place in the Capital and deliver them straight to your inbox. Featuring art, gigs, films, talks, clubs and more -- we are committed to bringing you an eclectic mix of the most stimulating events in London. # posted by DJ Martian 11:37 PM
12/12/05 The band are recording their first album at Crystal Canyon studios.
12/12/05 The Beautiful People will soon change their name because it is taken in the US and UK. If any of you have a suggestion, feel free to send an email. # posted by DJ Martian 11:10 PM
The Books - Lost And Safe MIA - Arular Animal Collective - Feels Richard Youngs - The Naive Shaman The Lappetites - Before The Libretto The Focus Group - Hey Let Loose Your Love LCD Soundsystem Tetuzi akiyama - Route 13 To The Gates Of Hell: Live In Tokyo CocoRosie - Noah's ark Boards Of Canada - The Campfire Headphase
Antony & The Johnsons - I Am A Bird Now Ariel Pink - Worn Copy The Chap - Ham Black Mountain Isolee - We Are Monster David Behrman - My Dear Siegfried The Sealed Knot - Unwanted Object Kokono No 1 - Congotronics Edan - The Beauty And The Beat Jackson & His Computer Band - Smash
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain Lau Nau - Kuutarha Thuja - Pine Cone Temples Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Wedlock Kanye West - Late Registration John Fahey - The Great Santa Barbara Oil Slick Mouthus - Slow Globes Sufjan Stevens - Illinoise Rova:Orkestrova - Electric Ascension John Wall - Cphon
Jamie Lidell - Multiply Susan Howe & David Grubbs - Thiefth Broadcast - Tender Buttons Om - Variations On A Theme Low - The Great Destroyer Akron/Family - Akron/Family John Coltrane - One Down One Up:Live At The Half Note Brian Eno - Another Day On Earth Josephine Foster - Hazel Eyes I Will LEad You Prurient - Black Vase
Bonnie 'Prince' Billie & Matt Sweeney - Superwolf Sightings - Arrived In Gold Masayuki Takayanagi - Action Direct Einsturzende Neubauten - Grundstuck Pelt - Untitled Matthew Herbert - Plat Du Jour Buck 65 - Secret House Against The world Six Organs Of Admittance - School Of The Flower Keiji Haino - Global Ancient Atmosphere Eliane Radigue - Elemental II
Avant Rock A-Z
Birchville Cat Motel w/ Lee Ranaldo - 30th December 2004 Burning Star Core - The Very Heart of the world Double Leopards - Out Of One Through One And To One Earth - Hex; Hisato Higuchi -2004 11 2005 4 Jandek - Glasgow sunday Mouthus - Slow Globes MV/EE & The Bummer Road - We Offer You Guru Om - Variations On A Theme Skullflower - Orange Canyon Mind Sunburned Hand Of The Man - Wedlock Sunn O))) - Black One Jack Rose - Kensington Blues Yelow Swans/ Grey Daturas - Copper/ Silver Wooden Wand & The Vanishing Voice - Buck Dharma
Critical Beats A-Z
Isoleé - My Hi-Matic DJ Koze - don't Feed The Cat Motiivi:Tunetmaton - 1939 Don Atom feat. Tea Time - Mueve La Cintura Skream, Midnight Request Line Tori Alamaze - Don't Cha Les Visiteurs - Snoop's Acid Drop Lindstrom - I Feel Space Paul Kalkbrenner - Tatü-Tata Matias Aguayo - Drums & Feathers Hell - Follow You (Dominik Eulberg Remix) Aswefall - Ride (Der Schmeisser Lovelysplintermix) Rude 66 - Die Starke Der Vernichtenden Schlage George Issakidis - Understand What I'M Saying MANDY vs Booka - Shade Mandarine Girl
...in a few days The Wire should put up the lists on their website. # posted by DJ Martian 10:51 PM
Dutch progressive metallers TEXTURES have set 'Drawing Circles' as the title of their sophomore album, tentatively due in April 2006 via Listenable Records. # posted by DJ Martian 12:08 AM
improved navigation: previous year [and next year] see 2004 for example
new bigger font/layout for all rym lists
top 1000 displayed in each year section as default [instead of previous 100], with breakdowns of 100. # posted by DJ Martian 1:26 PM
Also:
Manes are currently in pre-production for two new seperate albums, tentatively titled Invention - Or How The World Came To an End And Why We Did It, and Be All//End All. # posted by DJ Martian 1:12 PM
It's hard to believe that another year has just about passed us, and with
only a few weeks left in 2005, we're excited to bring you our Year End
Recap. This annual list is a compilation of our picks for the notable
releases of the year. Many of these reviews will be familiar to you, as
some of the descriptions were culled from previous Other Music Updates;
however, a few titles which might have been overlooked earlier in the year
appear here for the first time. While a couple of the albums featured in this
recap may be unavailable right now, we will announce any restocks in
future issues of the Update and on our website. We hope that you have as
much fun reading this list as we had compiling it.
Next week, we'll be sending out our final Update of the year and, soon
after, our annual Staff Top Tens and the list of 2005's best sellers. In the
meantime, please visit our website's homepage for any notable new
release that may arrive before the New Year. # posted by DJ Martian 12:56 PM
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Secret Machines - Ten Silver Drops
albumvote.co.uk report Secret Machines Confirm New AlbumTen Silver Drops will be released on April 17th 2006 # posted by DJ Martian 4:07 PM
flavourpill LONDON is an email magazine covering a hand-picked selection of music, art and cultural events - delivered each Tuesday afternoon. # posted by DJ Martian 3:45 PM
Relapse Records has announced the signing of seminal instrumental super-rock outfit DON CABALLERO. The Pittsburgh-based band is currently recording their as-yet-untitled Relapse debut full-length with longtime producer Al Sutton (THE LAUGHING HYENAS, BIG CHIEF) at Sutton's Rustbelt Studios in Detroit, MI. # posted by DJ Martian 3:16 PM
Monday, December 12, 2005
This week's One World show features a Chemikal Underground label special
Show broadcast on Radio 1 Monday 12 December 2005: 0100-0300 [Now on Listen Again] # posted by DJ Martian 7:26 PM
Norway's progressive metal act WINDS - comprised of singer Lars Eric Si (KHOLD), guitarist Carl August Tidemann (ARCTURUS), keyboardist Andy Winter (AGE OF SILENCE) and Jan Axel Von Blomberg (ARCTURUS, MAYHEM) - will be entering the studio this week for continued work on their as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2004's 'The Imaginary Direction of Time' (to be released via The End Records). # posted by DJ Martian 7:13 PM
Mike Heffley Northern Sun, Southern Moon: Europe's Reinvention of Jazz Yale University Press ISBN: 0300106939 400 pages 2005 # posted by DJ Martian 3:26 PM
Legendary Nowegian black metallers DARKTHRONE will be releasing their twelfth album, entitled "The Cult is Alive", in February 2006 via the group's newly rekindled partnership with Peaceville Records. # posted by DJ Martian 8:17 PM
JJA 2005 Top 10s - on going 2005 lists from members of the Jazz Journalists Association. # posted by DJ Martian 4:48 PM
The Qwartz Awards are designed to introduce the public to new music based on digital composition, promote
independent labels and artists, and each year encourage the emergence of new performers and new musical currents.
The works presented for your vote are organised in 8 different categories.
You can listen to them as often as you like up to 31 December 2005 12H (GMT+1H), but you can vote only once in each category. Participants who have voted in every category will be eligible for inclusion in a prize draw. # posted by DJ Martian 5:06 PM
Next week's releases reviewed @ Norman Records # posted by DJ Martian 4:41 PM
The Knife will return with a new album Silent Shout in March 2006, more news very soon! # posted by DJ Martian 1:37 PM
Pitchfork Interview David Sylvian # posted by DJ Martian 1:33 PM
The Guardian article on artists tipped to watch for 2006: Going up?
Who will be the hottest new bands next year? Caroline Sullivan asked a few people who should know: the hottest new bands from last year # posted by DJ Martian 12:55 PM
flavourpill LONDON is an email magazine covering a hand-picked selection of music, art and cultural events - delivered each Tuesday afternoon. # posted by DJ Martian 6:01 PM
Kultureflash - Headlines from London [No. 146 / 08.12.05]
KultureFlash is a free, weekly newsletter covering contemporary culture in and around London. Each week we track down some of the more unusual and interesting events taking place in the Capital and deliver them straight to your inbox. Featuring art, gigs, films, talks, clubs and more -- we are committed to bringing you an eclectic mix of the most stimulating events in London. # posted by DJ Martian 5:57 PM
DECEMBER 8 - DECEMBER 21
Earplug is a twice-monthly email magazine, delivering a handpicked selection of news, sounds, videos, and original features to the international electronic-music community.
While most of the media world dives headlong into best-of-2005 recaps, we keep the goods coming. After all, killer albums are still streaming down the pipe, leftfield mixes continue to show how established genres evolve far from their known centers, and - as Richie Hawtin tells us - technology never takes a break.
Including reviews of new albums by Pier Bucci, Static and Norken # posted by DJ Martian 5:55 PM
themilkfactory.co.uk interview GREG DAVIS # posted by DJ Martian 5:46 PM
themilkfactory.co.uk ISSUE #74 DECEMBER 2005: Summary
themilkfactory.co.uk deliver another fine selection of reviews. [The summaries below are from themilkfactory.co.uk e-mail/website, to see the full reviews go to the link above]
ALBUM OF THE MONTH
MARK CLIFFORD & SIMON KEALOHA - Running Taper / CALIKA - Small Talk Kills Me While Running Taper sees Calika’s Simon Kealoha collaborating with Mark Clifford, best known for being the mastermind behind Seefeel, his solo album, Small Talks Kills Me also demonstrates great maturity as a solo artist.
REVIEWS
ALOG - Catch That Tottem! (1998-2005) Norwegian duo Alog follow the release of their third album, Miniature, earlier this year, with this fascinating collection of rare tracks.
ANOTHER ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN - Use Another Electronic Musician’s Jase Rex follows a series of compilation appearances with his debut album on which he attempts to fully develop his blend of digitalia and narcotic electro-dub beats.
THE BOATS - We Made This For You Second album for The Boats, We Made This For You offers a series of miniature scenes built around sounds sourced from a single piano.
COCTEAU TWINS - Lullabies To Violaine Essential release from 4AD to coincide with their twenty-fifth anniversary, Lullabies To Violaine collects the integral singles and EPs released by the Cocteau Twins during their sixteen-year career.
DEAF CENTER - Pale Ravine Follow-up to Deaf Center’s debut EP released earlier this year, Pale Ravine shows a broader musical and atmospheric scope.
DESORMAIS - Dead Letters To Lost Friends / AVIA GARDNER - More Than Tongue Can Tell Two very different releases from Quebec City-based imprint Intr.version. While Desormais distill a jazz-influenced blend of post rock, Avia Gardner debut investigates classical-infused electronic formations.
FOUR TET - Everything Ecstatic DVD / CARIBOU - Marino: The Videos While the Four Tet DVD is an audio-visual version of his album of the same title released earlier this year, Marino collects on one DVD the integral of the videos used by Caribou during his recent tour.
HULK - Silver Thread Of Ghosts The first full-length effort from Dublin-based Hulk, Silver Thread Of Ghosts combines field recordings, electronics and acoustic instrumentations into a stunning collection of haunting melodies and atmospheres.
ICARUS - Carnivalesque With their latest offering, published on their own imprint, British experimental duo Icarus continue to challenge and entertain as they push the boundaries of their visionary sound further into uncharted territories.
JUDITH JUILLERAT - Soliloquy Debut release for French chanteuse Judith Juillerat, Soliloquy combines digital synthesizers, beat boxes, guitars and piano into a soundtrack that, without any computer in sight, ensures it is her music that is heard and not her software.
DAVID SHEA - The Book Of Scenes American experimental composer David Shea returns with a far-reaching collection of short musical scenes.
SKALPEL - Konfusion Polish duo Skalpel return with their second slice of processed Eastern European jazz with added breaks, and this time, they present a much darker, seedier and soulful vision of late night smoky grooves.
UM - Giraffe (Refined) / ASCOLTARE - Fatty Parts For A Good Match Split LP featuring fifteen tracks from UM and one long collage from Ascoltare. Strictly limited and utterly fun.
WON - A Forest Won is the solo project of Paris-based S�bastien Llinares, and this, his second album, proves to be a truly inspiring piece of work. # posted by DJ Martian 5:29 PM
Number 1: Devendra Banhart: Cripple Crow = they must be tone deaf
the rest is made up of predictable Metacritic acclaimed type artists, much like you would expect from a American publication.
Norwegian List: What no Ulver !
1. Serena Maneesh: Serena Maneesh
2. Kaizers Orchestra: Maestro
3. Ane Brun: A Temporary Dive
4. Madrugada: A Deep End
5. BigBang: Poetic Terrorism
6. Supersilent: Supersilent 7
7. J.R. Ewing: Maelstrom
8. Atomic: The Bikini Tapes
9. Vidar Busk: Starfish
10.Lindstrom & Prins Thomas: L&P
11.Sofian: This Is Sofian
12.Datarock: Datarock Datarock
13.Jaga Jazzist: What We Must
14.Grimfist: 10 Steps To Hell
15.Cast: Problembarn
16.Marion Raven: Here I Am
17.Shining: In The Kingdom Of Kitch You Will Be a Monster
18.Vamp: Siste Stikk
19.Nils Petter Molvaer: ER
20.Turbonegro: Party Animals # posted by DJ Martian 12:38 AM
Isis are also working on new album for a 2006 release. # posted by DJ Martian 12:28 AM
Most of the basic tracks were recorded live, which is a quite different approach compared to the previous albums. Expect a raw and unpolished album this spring. # posted by DJ Martian 12:20 AM
Portland, Oregon's AGALLOCH have entered the studio to begin pre-production work for their third full-length album, entitled Ashes Against the Grain # posted by DJ Martian 12:04 AM
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
AngryRobot is back in action. # posted by DJ Martian 11:47 PM
