Congregacion-Viene

J Tillman-Cancer & Delirium

Fucked Up-The Chemistry of Common Life





















Max Richter-24 Postcards in Full Color

Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit-Are The Very Best





















Wyld Wyzrds-We Are Everyone

Reefer-s/t

Hair Police-Certainty of Swams

Sleep-Sleep's Holy Mountain





Apparently, the idea behind this record is to start it as you're rolling the joint. It's also been said that this is the greatest album Black Sabbath never wrote.











Oudaden-s/t






Aside from this image being PRICELESS, the tape it accompanies is hot fucking shit:

'There is a road that goes from Marrakech into the Ourika valley at the foothills of the Atlas mountains and ends at the Setti Fatma waterfalls, a small tourist attraction. There are small homes, cafes, and hotels alongside the road the whole way up, and at some point I stopped at a cafe which was next to a booth filled with tapes and cds. I tried to ask the vendor for a suggestion but there was just too much and he didn't play anything that really caught my ear. Then while I was eating and watching women who lived in the valley washing carpets in the river down from the road, this tape came blasting out of the booth. Drenched in reverb and delay and accompanying the view of clouds moving across the mountains in front of me, it was a magical sound, so I bought the tape. Later I listened to it over and over driving through the Sahara with no A/C.-awesometapesfromafrica'

According to awesome tapes, an Oudad is the creature seen on the insert. No, not the ones thoughtfully stroking their chins. The goat. And Oudaden is the plural form of Oudad. So for all intents and purposes the name of this band is 'The Goats'.











Pocahaunted-Chains

Christina Carter-Original Darkness

























Tussle-Cream Cuts


























This is a photo from last Thursday at Holocene in Portland. The guy on the left is my friend Cheikh. The guy on the right is Matthew Dear. I was extremely intoxicated and my camera phone's flash has proven itself pretty much useless. But at least I have a record of it. He's extremely handsome and charming. His set was also pretty fantastic. It was the closest I will ever come to seeing Lodger performed live. By the by, Keep an eye out for Telefon Tel Aviv's new record whenever it's recorded/announced. If it's anything like their current set it's going to be totally different from everything they've done in the past and pretty great.

Jay Reatard-Matador Singles '08 *Link Fixed*


























Herman Dune-Next Year in Zion

Empire of the Sun-Walking on a Dream




















Terrorists w/ Lee Perry and Roland Alphonso

Wavves-s/t

David Byrne & Brian Eno-Everything that Happens will Happen Today

Coconot-Cosa Astral

Arthur Russell-Love is Overtaking Me (Part 1) *Link Fixed*




Arthur Russell-Love is Overtaking Me (Part 2)



Most of you who are familiar with Arthur Russell are almost certainly more aware of his work as an innovative disco producer than of the work compiled on Love is Overtaking Me. Audika's fifth installment in a series of re-issues of Arthur Russell's still under-appreciated body of work, Love is Overtaking Me is comprised of 21 demos and home recordings of unreleased pop, country, and folk. In keeping with the majority of Russell's work the songs here are intensely personal. Deeply affecting without being obtrusive, heartfelt without becoming overbearing. However, having been stripped of the more existential tendencies of much of his previous work to evolve endlessly, a testament to his near legendary penchant for constant revision (it's been stated that since his death from aids in 1992 there have been discovered over 1,000 tapes of unreleased material, 40 of which are re-workings of one piece), these songs become arguably some of his most accessible. There is familiarity coded in the dna of this record. In the dethawed chorus of 'Oh Fernanda Why' and the plinking metronomic meditation 'Love Comes Back'. In the post adolescent monotone of 'Time Away', vaguely reminiscent of Jonathan Richmann's crooning for The Modern Lovers. Coincidentally, Arthur recruited Ernie Brooks of the Modern Lovers for his band The Flying Hearts from '75 to '79. One of many cultural figures influenced by Arthur's music, including John Cage, Allen Ginsberg, John Hammond, David Byrne, and Rhys Chatham. Love is Overtaking Me's tracks were selected by Audika's Steve Knutson, Ernie Brooks, and Russell's partner/holder of estate Tom Lee. who has also provided extensive liner notes illustrating unparalleled perspective of Russell's work. Chris Taylor of Grizzly Bear contributed to mixing, restoration, and editing of the album.

Love is Overtaking Me, being as a whole, a powerfully intimate portrait of a musical personality as unique and vital as Arthur Russell stands to defend a statement written about Russell at the time of his death: "his songs were so personal, that it seems as though he simply vanished into his music."


HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!

Apologies for the recent drying up of a once robust stream of new musics. My recent re-relocation back to Portland had left me internet handicapped for a few weeks. However, Mark's triumphant return from Europe has followed through on its promise of a wireless signal decidedly less anemic than the one my unfortunate laptop airport card had occasionally absently reached for in its myriad dysfunction. I've decided to celebrate with a gorging of new music.

First off, a new link to that High Places debut:

















High Places-s/t





















Grails-Doomsdayer's Holiday
























Department of Eagles-In Ear Park





















Windy & Carl-Songs for the Broken Hearted




















Love is All-A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night






















Annuals-Such Fun
























School of Seven Bells-Alpinisms

Dungen-4





Little Claw-Spit and Squalor Swallow the Snow








Hauschka-Ferndorf








Crystal Stilts-Alight of Night

Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker- Phantasma Parastasie





Gentleman Jesse and His Men-s/t

Prurient-Time Began in a Garden





















Baby Dee-Safe Inside the Day



















Antony and the Johnsons-Another World EP






The password for all of these is nodata.tv

Sunn O)))- Dømkirke




























Burning Star Core-Challenger

Deerhoof-Offend Maggie



I would hurry up and download this while you still can. I meant to post it two days ago, but my airport card is officially totally fucked. Anyway, this took some digging, and I don't imagine it'll take very long for someone to discover it and kill the link. Also, I can't post the album artwork, which a lot of people don't like, but I think is awesome, because I'm on a library computer.

White Hinterland-Luniclaire

Flying Lotus-Los Angeles password:nodata.tv















Squarepusher-Just a Souvenir password:nodata.tv




warp records pair courtesy of nodata.

Gang Gang Dance-Saint Dymphna

someone jumped in front of the el train yesterday while I was waiting to go home from work.

High Places-S/T






















Parenthetical Girls-Entanglements

Time and Space Machine-Lost Worlds Vol. 1

Rainbow Arabia-Basta EP

Atlas Sound-Logos


This is approximately a million times better than his last effort which, in all honesty, was really pretty unremarkable. In fact, it's pretty frustrating when a record that so clearly hinges on such uninspired fumbling around inside pro tools presets is given the degree of attention that 'Let the Blind' received. But I'm not bitter, and I'm happy to see that Bradford Cox is capable of a record that I not only don't find myself struggling to pay attention to, but actually find myself enjoying pretty thoroughly at times.










Burning Star Core-Challenger


C. Spencer Yeh is a motherfucker. Once upon a time I saw him with just a mic and one of those digitech rpx digital effects processors that pretty much anyone with an electric guitar in 1999 owned. Even then, he blew my mind into a million pieces. And every time I've heard him since, live or on record, be it methodically deconstructing violins on stage, or erecting massive, emotional batteries of droning melody I've been completely floored.

HIGHLY RECCOMMENDED!!!

Fujiya & Miyagi-Lightbulbs

Fight Bite-Emerald Eyes

Growing-All The Way


















Mount Eerie-Lost Wisdom






















Of Montreal-Skeletal Lamping




















Don Caballero-Punkgasm

Koushik-Out My Window