nogojones
spelling is overrated
I also rinsed that fabric mix he did way back then
Album of the Year 2003
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I also rinsed that fabric mix he did way back then
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Fabric mixes were in a roll in 2003. There's the Radioactive Man one, Jaques Lu Cont (mixing up 80s stuff and electrohouse), Michael Mayer (doing his Kompakt microhouse thing) and Bent (with a load of electro-disco).
Which reminds me Bent released The Everlasting Blink in '03. I'd call it a chill out album, but they rejected the term saying it's not chill out music, it's just music; that not everything has to be 120bpm+ and why should all downtempo music get lumped together? It samples all kinds of stuff they found in charity shops and boot fairs (including country singer Billie Jo Spears and David Essex). I like it. I think their secret weapon was one half of the duo being Neil Tolliday (aka Nail from the DiY house collective).
Ooh, interesting. I don't have any of his "solo" stuff, but I love most of the Babybird albums. Cheers.
Draft 7.30 is fairly standard Autechre, but that does mean it's very good too:
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Got around to listening to A Promise today, pretty intense. Then got around to listening to that Peaches album afterwards, positively relaxing in comparison.
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In the same vein there was "I Monster - Neveroddoreven" doing a decent impression of Air.
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If there's a tune that reminds me of 2003 it's Freaks - The Creeps (You're Giving Me). There is an album "The Man Who Lived Underground" but it's not great IMO.
but it's the Steve Bug remix that I remember being played everywhere.
but it's the Steve Bug remix that I remember being played everywhere.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
Displacement by the Phantom Limbs is a great weird unsettling punk album:
The opening track has a fantastic bit of caustic commentary on neuro-linguistic programming type thinking:
I'll tell them that I'm doing something
not that something's doing me
I'll tell them that I'm making something
happen not that something's happening
I won't say that "I got the flu"
I'll say "I've flued myself today!"
I won't say "someone pushed my face in shit"
I'll say "I've shit my face today!"
The opening track has a fantastic bit of caustic commentary on neuro-linguistic programming type thinking:
I'll tell them that I'm doing something
not that something's doing me
I'll tell them that I'm making something
happen not that something's happening
I won't say that "I got the flu"
I'll say "I've flued myself today!"
I won't say "someone pushed my face in shit"
I'll say "I've shit my face today!"
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Robert Wyatt - Cuckooland . I've always loved Robert Wyatt. Cuckooland is better imo than than his previous album Shleep. It's an intelligent set of mainly jazz influenced songs superbly arranged and played , although La Ahada Yaman is hauntingly middle eastern and the two Fox numbers are disposable synth bits. Normal Wyatt subjects on here about the dispossessed or critical of religion and new age gumph but he isn't hectoring or strident just engaging like the music. You won't find many artists like Robert Wyatt tbh , he is in many ways quite unique.
Song below name checks Mossadegh.who was deposed and imprisoned by the CIA back coup in Iran and Mordechai Vanunu who revealed the details of Israel's nuclear weapons programme , was drugged and captured in Italy and then taken to Israel for trial.
Song below name checks Mossadegh.who was deposed and imprisoned by the CIA back coup in Iran and Mordechai Vanunu who revealed the details of Israel's nuclear weapons programme , was drugged and captured in Italy and then taken to Israel for trial.
ska invita , how does it work if we submit joint winners, i.e. two albums that I can't split for quality? I remember this was the case back in 2003, and they're both so good now too.
ska invita
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No idea, one for knotted and belboid
Just choose one!! Tell us what they are and I'll choose for you
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
If you can't decide on your number 1, make it The Real New Fall LP, because it'll be very funny when ska has to announce it as the winner.
ska invita
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Knotted is doing the list , i just started the thread - knock yourselves out with Fall albums and stripey topped bands 
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braindancer
not for long
Certainly has
- love this album. I remember some moaning about it being a bit dull. It's true it has no squalling feedback or any rocking out full stop but I don't care about that - it's just so cosy, like being wrapped up in cotton wool....
ska invita
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From her 2003 album - absolutely stunning performance from the band here, second half is pretty jaw dropping playing
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Paddy McAloon - I trawl the megahertz.
The story goes that Mcaloon had detached retinas and also suffered from tinnitus. For some time he ended up finding things to listen to on the radio and TV or podcasts and jotted phrases and comments down and assembled them into a script . Whatever the reason the opening 20 odd minute track is a woman's narrative across a dreamy cinematic wash. Except the narrative doesn't quite make sense, it sounds like AI , Then it does make sense if we were in a dream reflecting on the dying embers of a relationship.
"There is, of course, another way of looking at this,”
“‘Your daddy loves you,’ I said. ‘Your daddy loves you very much. He just doesn’t want to live with us anymore.’”
And so it goes, each segment reveals different thoughts about love and loss ,until we get to the one song that McAloon sings on in which he explains prophetically
I'm lost
Yes, I am lost
I'll grow a long and silver beard
I'll grow a long and silver beard
And let it reach my knees
I'm lost
Yes, I am lost
And duty will not track me down
And duty will not track me down
Asleep among the trees
It's a one off unique album of distilled emotion which is initially very challenging but its worth persisting with even if you never play it again because it either misses the spot or it hurts too much.
The story goes that Mcaloon had detached retinas and also suffered from tinnitus. For some time he ended up finding things to listen to on the radio and TV or podcasts and jotted phrases and comments down and assembled them into a script . Whatever the reason the opening 20 odd minute track is a woman's narrative across a dreamy cinematic wash. Except the narrative doesn't quite make sense, it sounds like AI , Then it does make sense if we were in a dream reflecting on the dying embers of a relationship.
"There is, of course, another way of looking at this,”
“‘Your daddy loves you,’ I said. ‘Your daddy loves you very much. He just doesn’t want to live with us anymore.’”
And so it goes, each segment reveals different thoughts about love and loss ,until we get to the one song that McAloon sings on in which he explains prophetically
I'm lost
Yes, I am lost
I'll grow a long and silver beard
I'll grow a long and silver beard
And let it reach my knees
I'm lost
Yes, I am lost
And duty will not track me down
And duty will not track me down
Asleep among the trees
It's a one off unique album of distilled emotion which is initially very challenging but its worth persisting with even if you never play it again because it either misses the spot or it hurts too much.
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