RIO/Avant Drop-In Centre

Syzygy wrote: Sound advice there. What you should do is get some ,  and . First you  the mixture with a  and then  it with a . When it's nice and , smear some on your  and take the rest up your  and wait for the  to start. Admittedly there's a good chance you'll wake up on a drip feed somewhere in central Europe with no idea of how you got there, but it made Ozzy Osbourne the man he is today!

This is one occasion when censorship is probably a good thing!

Anyway... Mothlite should be in the Archives.  I'm going to suggest them.

rileydog22 wrote: Henry Plainview wrote: I don't get This Heat. It seems like I should like them, but they aren't doing it for me. I've got all their albums and I'm not too hot on them either.  They've got a few tracks I like, but most of it leaves me cold.

I've got some This Heat, but I haven't listened to it too closely yet.  I think there are two issues with it for me.

1.  Timbre.  (Sorry... I may be about to be pretentious! )  I'm so immured in that richly-textured feel of 70s music, that the (how to describe it??) flatter, more matte (?? I did warn you! ) feel of 80s music kinda feels weird.  I need to push through that barrier somehow.  (The Residents may help with this - like a bridge from one to the other...)

2.  Hipness.  Let's face it - This Heat is a hipster totem.   And I'm rather allergic to that.  "Oh, you listen to This Heat?  That makes you COOL."  Does it...?  Really...?  Hmmm.  (I'd rather be weird than cool. )

And that's all.

Henry Plainview wrote: I don't get This Heat. It seems like I should like them, but they aren't doing it for me.

I've got all their albums and I'm not too hot on them either.  They've got a few tracks I like, but most of it leaves me cold. 

MovingPictures07 wrote: Syzygy wrote: James wrote: James wrote: A silly question I know but one I have yet to find out an answer too... But who is the musician in the wheelchair on the cover of Héresie?  I believe it is Berckmans (by looking at later photos of him on the UZ website) but he is not in a wheelchair in those. *snip* Bump. Sorry! Can anyone answer this?   I can't give a definitive answer. Trigaux has had mobility problems for some years, but I don't know if he has ever been wheelchair bound. And yes, the one in the wheelchair looks more like Berckmans to me. maybe somebody can ask him at next year's RIO festival. I'm not entirely sure, but here's a 3rd vote/guess that it's probably Berckmans. That's what I've thought anyway, but I'm far from being an expert on the matter. I wish there was a way of knowing for sure right now.

Henry Plainview wrote: You may want to consider Crimetime Orchestra if you're an avant jazz/fusion fan. I haven't had time to listen to the whole thing yet (it's over an hour and is eight tracks, one of which is 22 minutes) but what I did hear was amazing. I'll try to get back to you when my opinion is less lame. ;-) I don't get This Heat. It seems like I should like them, but they aren't doing it for me.   Oh, Mindawn is nice. I don't really care about FLAC, though--lossless is extremely overrated. But maybe I just don't have good enough ears. ;-)

song_of_copper wrote: Syzygy wrote: You could get both Aethenor albums and still have a download left over. I could... but I'm a bit dubious about whether I'd like Aethenor, to be honest.  It's ambient, improvised, cold music, whilst I'm more into incident-crammed, tightly-composed, volcanically-hot stuff...!   Although, given my Pavlovian response to all things Daniel O'Sullivan these days, maybe I should give it a go... one day.

I put Angherr Shisspa on in the car and that seems to have a similar affect.

Except my CD player isn't working right now.

MovingPictures07 wrote: Yeah, I agree entirely there. It's not really a good driving CD, but it's absolutely perfect for listening to in the house. It's like the ideal winter album; I love it.

Hehe, the thing is, I think I took that one along as a 'hammer to crack a nut'.  TIP: I always take something really off-the-wall and weird, like 'Eskimo' or whatever, so that when I put that on, whoever's driving starts going "Aaargh no no put something else on eek make it stop NOW" - and then it's time for a little Magma or Beefheart... which seems like easy listening in comparison! 

laplace wrote: agree =) and if you haven't heard them, you should like Meet the Residents and Not Available too.

'Not Available' is great.   Never paid much mind to it years ago, but revisiting it, it's very haunting stuff.

song_of_copper wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: Eskimo by the Residents is absolutely amazing. Any thoughts from anyone else on that matter? Have a warm blanket handy. I heard that again not so long ago, and it wasn't as good as I remembered.   But I was in the car; I think it goes better with being cosy indoors and closing your eyes and letting your mind wander across an imaginary snow-waste.

Yeah, I agree entirely there. It's not really a good driving CD, but it's absolutely perfect for listening to in the house. It's like the ideal winter album; I love it.