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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2016 at 07:00
My faves for the year...

PA:

Three Trapped Tigers - Silent Earthling
David Bowie - Blackstar
Ulver - long alphabetical title 
Kayo Dot - Plastic Base On House Of Sky
Tortoise - The Catastrophist
A.P.A.T.T. - Fun With Music
Winstons - s/t
Swans - The Glowing Man
Disen Gage - Snapshots
Mogwai - Atomic
Deerhoof - The Magic (I just realized no one added the album yet)
Thy Catafalque - Meta
The Moulettes - Preternatural

Non-PA:

Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D-Evolution
Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat
The Robert Glasper Experiment - ArtScience
Floating Points - Kuiper
Aphex Twin - Cheetah EP
Anna Meredith - Varmints
Kweku Collins - Nat Love
Minor Victories - s/t
The Range - Potential
Flume - Skin
BadBadNotGood - IV
Nice As f**k - Nice As f**k
William Tyler - Modern Country
Thunder Tillman - Jaguar Mirror
Of Montreal - Innocence Reaches
Preoccupations - s/t
Death Grips - Bottomless Pit and Interview 2016




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2016 at 08:25
Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

A.P.A.T.T. - Fun With Music

Just announced for the RIO festival
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2016 at 09:32
In n outta PA:
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds– Skeleton Tree
Radiohead– A Moon Shaped Pool
Oranssi Pazuzu– Varahtelija
David Bowie– Blackstar
Seiko Oomori– Tokyo Black Hole
Open Mike Eagle & Paul White– Hella Personal Film Festival
Elza Soares– A Mulher do Fim do Mundo (may rise)
Utada Hikaru– Fantome
Kero Kero Bonito– Bonito Generation
Swans– The Glowing Man
Danny Brown– Atrocity Exhibition (may rise)
Niechec– s/t
Noura Mint Seymali– Arbina (may rise)
Preoccupations– s/t

Welcoming any 2016 prog and non-prog recs.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2016 at 11:25
Originally posted by Man With Hat Man With Hat wrote:

Originally posted by Nogbad_The_Bad Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

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Looking very much forward to the new Dungen and Corima. Should be interesting methinks...in each their own way.


Corima is very good but very different from the last one, a lot less Koenji. I like it a lot. 


just listened to it for the first time yesterday and that is truth. they certainly carved out more of their own sound this time about (although it does seem a little less intense then their previous...nevertheless, can't see it not making my top 5 come years end.)

I find that rather refreshing actually as I tend to reach for Koenji's Ni if I'm in the mood for some amphetamine fueled madness...that is not to say that i don't enjoy Corima because I do...just nice to see where they will go next.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2016 at 11:32
Originally posted by TeleStrat TeleStrat wrote:

Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

All new to me Gary...and I tend to seek out psychedelic releases.
Btw have you checked out Causa Sui's most recent 'Return To Sky'? 


Baron Crane is the only band listed that I had even heard of before yesterday.
If you're interested in hearing any of these the full albums are on YouTube.
Stoned Diplodocus might be a good one to start with since they use a variety of styles and sounds.

I like the new Causa Sui a lot. I ordered the vinyl version right after hearing it for the first time.
They are definitely on my favorite band list.

Thanks man - will be investigating. One can never have too much brainmelting psych music. Always room for more.
Cool you're digging Causa Sui - we have quite the psychedelic tradition here in Denmark and they are, along with Øresund Space Collective, Papir, Spids Nøgenhat, Baby Woodrose, Shiggajon and a whole bunch of others, continuing the style...with great success imo.
I really dug the Pewt'r Sessions - think vol 3 is my fave from them up until now...although they are an act to watch in the flesh. Soooo good live...especially with a little space tobacco on the side
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2016 at 11:38
Originally posted by Polymorphia Polymorphia wrote:

In n outta PA:
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds– Skeleton Tree
Radiohead– A Moon Shaped Pool
Oranssi Pazuzu– Varahtelija
David Bowie– Blackstar
Seiko Oomori– Tokyo Black Hole
Open Mike Eagle & Paul White– Hella Personal Film Festival
Elza Soares– A Mulher do Fim do Mundo (may rise)
Utada Hikaru– Fantome
Kero Kero Bonito– Bonito Generation
Swans– The Glowing Man
Danny Brown– Atrocity Exhibition (may rise)
Niechec– s/t
Noura Mint Seymali– Arbina (may rise)
Preoccupations– s/t

Welcoming any 2016 prog and non-prog recs.

Hi there Tony - good to see you up in this mother
You should check out the following acts - I think you'd dig em but yeah mostly because I say so:
Three Trapped Tigers - Silent Earthling
Ryley Walker - Golden Sings That Can Be Sung
Bent Knee - Say So
Kayo Dot - Plastic House On Base Of Sky
Moonface & Siinai - My Best Human Face
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2016 at 12:40
Originally posted by TeleStrat TeleStrat wrote:

                  Electric Octopus - Belfast, Northern Ireland

This is a new band that I have really gotten into a lot lately. They are an instrumental improvised jam trio who will regularly go into the studio for a full day and, like I said, improvise and jam. Tracks over twenty minutes are not uncommon.
They have released quite a bit this year...

This Is Our Culture - June 2016  (CD)
Colour Atlas - September 2016
Under A Black Moon - October 2016  (CD)
Live On Oxford Island - October 2016
Vibe Factory - November 2016
Be Real - November 2016

Everything is available to download (Bandcamp) but only two CDs so far.

Thanks for the tip, nice band. I'm only seeing Under A Black Moon as a download on Bandcamp though, did they make a CD available some other way?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2016 at 12:54
^  I see all of their digital album releases on Bandcamp and they are "name your price".
The two CDs were self released by the band since they don't have a label yet.
If they get signed we should start seeing more physical releases.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 18 2016 at 16:32
I don't listen to a lot of current stuff, but here's my shortlist for favourite releases of the year:

1. Griot - Gerald
2. Bubu - Resplandor
3. Vaneta - Antimemory
4. Shamblemaths - Shamblemaths
5. Order of the Living - Heartwards
6. Whalephant - Kamma
7. Mad Fellaz - Mad Fellaz II
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 19 2016 at 12:11
Man I both love and hate this time of year. There's the pressure of hearing all I want to hear which started a couple of weeks ago for me, at least I'm starting earlier this year.
Thanks Todd for some of your picks on Drew's thread for 2016 releases along with many others for albums I didn't know had been released or I forgot about them. Here we go!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2016 at 13:23
I heartily recommend Dungen's new album Häxan. Taking the vocals completely out of the equation is a daunting feat when a large portion of your sound depends on them...but on here there is nothing screaming for a line or a chorus. Instead we get big waves of wafting mellotron, flute and the kind of wild unhinged guitar sorcery of say Högdalstoppen (Skitt i Alt). It's still Dungen but a more rocking, raw and enigmatic kind of Dungen. Like if someone slipped a little Morte Macabre Symphonic Holocaust into their genepool.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2016 at 13:45
Oh and hi John
Please stick your head in this thread as much as you can. We're a wonderfully zany crowd willing to sell you musical sand whenever we feel like it. 2016 is da shizzle and you should get on board this juicetrain asap.
Personal recommendations from me to you include:
Our Solar System - In Time (Mad Krautjazz from outer space)
Violeta de Outono - Spaces (Great new album from them...with a jazzy touch to it no less)
The Winstons - s/t (feel good Caravan/early Softs throwback to Canterbury but with an honest and warm feel to the proceedings)
Ingranaggi della Valle - Warm Spaced Blue (Huge bombastic prog rock with small hints of psych. Ending track even has something akin to zeuhl)
Utopianisti - Third Frontier (Wild and infinitely tight Canterbury-like fusion outta Finland that quite simply will take your breath away)
Syd Arthur - Apricity (If you loved the last one you'll dig this one as well. Just remember that the fun REALLY starts after the first three tracks;)
Gong - Rejoice! I'm Dead (Old Daevid would've been proud of Kavus and his cohorts. This is a real Gong album - certainly feels like it...and a great one at that!)

Hope all is well with you my friend. Myself, I am wearing red pants and drinking cocoamilk whilst listening to the most recent Goat album Requiem. I'd recommend that as well if you can dig a little modern day Amon Düül ll with your funk-psych-krautfolk-rock
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 26 2016 at 13:50
^ Indeed it is! I was thinking how were they going to follow the excellent Allas Sak and so quickly too? An instrumental album is a brilliant choice! I've been overdosing on it for the past week and I must say it's simply beautiful start to end, those mellotrons are a bliss...


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 27 2016 at 12:32
Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

Oh and hi John
Please stick your head in this thread as much as you can. We're a wonderfully zany crowd willing to sell you musical sand whenever we feel like it. 2016 is da shizzle and you should get on board this juicetrain asap.
Personal recommendations from me to you include:
Our Solar System - In Time (Mad Krautjazz from outer space)
Violeta de Outono - Spaces (Great new album from them...with a jazzy touch to it no less)
The Winstons - s/t (feel good Caravan/early Softs throwback to Canterbury but with an honest and warm feel to the proceedings)
Ingranaggi della Valle - Warm Spaced Blue (Huge bombastic prog rock with small hints of psych. Ending track even has something akin to zeuhl)
Utopianisti - Third Frontier (Wild and infinitely tight Canterbury-like fusion outta Finland that quite simply will take your breath away)
Syd Arthur - Apricity (If you loved the last one you'll dig this one as well. Just remember that the fun REALLY starts after the first three tracks;)
Gong - Rejoice! I'm Dead (Old Daevid would've been proud of Kavus and his cohorts. This is a real Gong album - certainly feels like it...and a great one at that!)

Hope all is well with you my friend. Myself, I am wearing red pants and drinking cocoamilk whilst listening to the most recent Goat album Requiem. I'd recommend that as well if you can dig a little modern day Amon Düül ll with your funk-psych-krautfolk-rock

LOL Thanks Bamsen! 
I want to pick up that Dungen album you talked about and Our Solar System, I think I got the rest I just need to listen to them.
Ahhh red pants and a tall glass of cocoamilk. Now if you were also dancing to Elephant Tok's album I'd be very jealous.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 28 2016 at 08:39
Ahh you got there without the ninjaways of this thread, kudos good man!
Just remember to imagine Our Solar System as these high priests/priestesses performing free form music whilst wearing druid robes and under the influence of some terrifying psychedelic drug. That's how they rolled back when I saw them on stage during the Copenhagen Psych Festival - complete with mister Miyagi on recorder and a completely bonkers intermission a la musical happening 1968 with nonsense reigning supreme.
If you don't understand any of this you're already on the right track. Congratulations.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 28 2016 at 08:47
Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

My faves for the year...

PA:
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<span style="line-height: 1.4;">Three Trapped Tigers - Silent Earthling</span>
David Bowie - Blackstar
Ulver - long alphabetical title 
Kayo Dot - Plastic Base On House Of Sky
Tortoise - The Catastrophist
A.P.A.T.T. - Fun With Music
Winstons - s/t
Swans - The Glowing Man
Disen Gage - Snapshots
Mogwai - Atomic
Deerhoof - The Magic (I just realized no one added the album yet)
Thy Catafalque - Meta
The Moulettes - Preternatural

Non-PA:

Esperanza Spalding - Emily's D-Evolution
Xenia Rubinos - Black Terry Cat
The Robert Glasper Experiment - ArtScience
Floating Points - Kuiper
Aphex Twin - Cheetah EP
Anna Meredith - Varmints
Kweku Collins - Nat Love
Minor Victories - s/t
The Range - Potential
Flume - Skin
BadBadNotGood - IV
Nice As f**k - Nice As f**k
William Tyler - Modern Country
Thunder Tillman - Jaguar Mirror
Of Montreal - Innocence Reaches
Preoccupations - s/t
Death Grips - Bottomless Pit and Interview 2016




Nice list there Darryl and good to see Death Grips mentioned. I think they are riding a musical high atm that started out back when The Money Store came out.

Btw why no Éléphant Tôk (or Ukandanz)? No kit-kats in Canada?


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 28 2016 at 08:58
Haven't heard the ET or UD yet.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 28 2016 at 09:03
ET is good for the joints I find. Something like a Spanish Zac de la Rocca teaming up with One Shot. Warms up those joints in a jiffy.
Ukandanz is for those who seek the original twist. Sounds like a possessed Ethiopean tweeker singing along to an African take on zeuhl. Fusion for felines and larger animals.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 29 2016 at 07:22
Oh my God I am just so far behind this year.....Embarrassed 

Can I just forget about this year and start afresh from 2017?  It will take me months to catch up LOL.
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