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Spacemen 3 How the Blues Should've Turned Out

marc c. posted an article on - Dec 14, 2011, 12:22 pm
Spacemen 3 were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1982 in Rugby, Warwickshire by Peter Kember and Jason Pierce. Their music was "colorfully mind-altering, but not in the sense of the acid rock of the '60s; instead, the band developed its own minimalistic psychedelia" (Stephen Erlewine, All...
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Tom Waits Tales from the underground

marc c. posted an article on - Jun 8, 2011, 6:53 pm
  Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run...
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Godspeed You ! B. E. Yanqui U.X.O.

marc c. posted an article on - Mar 9, 2011, 3:30 am
Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a Canadian post-rock band which originated from Montreal, Quebec in 1994. They were the first outside act to release their recordings through Constellation, an influential independent record label also located in Montreal. After the release of their debut album in 199...
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Kort Incredibly Lonely

marc c. posted an article on - Mar 8, 2011, 4:09 pm
Kort - Incredibly Lonely (Live in Paris) from zack spiger on Vimeo.
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Beach House Lover of mine

marc c. posted an article on - Mar 8, 2011, 3:29 pm

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Wire On Returning 1977-1979

marc c. posted an article on - Mar 7, 2011, 8:26 am
Wire is an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman (vocals, guitar), Graham Lewis (bass, vocals), Bruce Gilbert (guitar), and Robert Gotobed (drums). They were originally associated with the punk rock scene, appearing on the Live at the Roxy WC2 album—a key early docume...
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Marvin Pontiac Legendary Greatest Hits

marc c. posted an article on - Feb 6, 2011, 5:14 pm
Marvin Pontiac was hit and killed by a bus in June 1977 ending the life of one of the most enigmatic geniuses of modern music. He was born in 1932, the son of an African father from Mali and a white Jewish mother from New Rochelle, New York. The father's original last name was Toure but he cha...
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Detroitrocksampler

marc c. posted an article on - Jan 23, 2011, 5:38 am
Rationals (1968) Guitar Army (3.18) MC5 (1970) Looking at You (3.05) Alice Cooper (1970) Long Way to Go (3.05) The Up (1970) Together (4.23) Amboy Dukes (1967) Journey to the Centre of the Mind (3.14) Don & the Wanderers (1968) On the Road (2.18) Bob Seger System (1967)...
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Brian Eno Small Craft on a Milk Sea

marc c. posted an article on - Jan 5, 2011, 5:30 pm
Brian Peter George St. John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno (born 15 May 1948), commonly shortened to Brian Eno and previously as simply Eno is an English musician, composer, record producer, music theorist, singer and visual artist, best known as one of the principal innovators of ambient music.Eno stu...
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Test Dept Materia Prima

marc c. posted an article on - Dec 5, 2010, 7:28 am
Test Dept were an industrial music group from London, one of the most important and influential early industrial music acts. Their approach was marked by a strong commitment to radical socialist politics.The group formed in the London suburb of New Cross in 1981. The core members of the group we...
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Sonic Youth Silver Session

marc c. posted an article on - Sep 30, 2010, 4:55 pm
Silver Session for Jason Knuth is a 1998 EP by Sonic Youth. Its eight tracks consist entirely of guitar feedback with occasional drum machine. Jason Knuth — of the album's title — was a Sonic Youth fan who committed suicide, and proceeds from the record's sales were donated to San Francisco Su...
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La Monte Young Theatre of Eternal Music

marc c. posted an article on - Sep 16, 2010, 6:22 pm
La Monte Thornton Young (born October 14, 1935) is an American composer and musician.Young is generally recognized as the first minimalist composer.His works have been included among the most important and radical post-World War II avant-garde, experimental, or drone music. Both his proto-Fluxus and...
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Glenn Branca The Ascension

marc c. posted an article on - Sep 15, 2010, 2:15 pm
Glenn Branca (born October 6, 1948 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania) is a highly influential avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. In 2008 he was awarded an unrestricted grant from the Foundation for Conte...
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Loop A Gilded Eternity Remastered

marc c. posted an article on - Sep 13, 2010, 5:25 pm
The band was formed in 1986 by Robert Hampson (vocals, guitar), with wife Bex on drums. Bex was soon replaced by John Wills (of The Servants) and Glen Ray, with James Endeacott on guitar.Initially releasing records on their own Head label, their first release was 1987's '16 Dreams', with debut album...
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Autechre Confield

marc c. posted an article on - Sep 12, 2010, 5:04 am
Autechre are an English electronic music duo consisting of Rob Brown and Sean Booth, both natives of Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Formed in 1987, they are one of the most prominent acts signed to Warp Records, a label known for its pioneering electronic music and through which all Autechre albums h...
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Big Black Songs About Fucking

marc c. posted an article on - Sep 12, 2010, 4:09 am
Big Black was an American punk rock band from Evanston, Illinois, active from 1981 to 1987. Founded by singer and guitarist Steve Albini, the band's lineup also included guitarist Santiago Durango and bassist Jeff Pezzati, both of Naked Raygun. In 1985 Pezzati was replaced by Dave Riley, who played ...
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Suicide Suicide Reissue 2002

marc c. posted an article on - Sep 11, 2010, 5:01 am
Suicide is an American, electronic protopunk musical duo, intermittently active since 1971 and composed of vocalist Alan Vega and Martin Rev on synthesizers and drum machines. They are an early synthesizer/vocal musical duo.Never widely popular amongst the general public, Suicide are highly influen...
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Steve Reich Music for 18 musicians

marc c. posted an article on - Sep 9, 2010, 3:48 pm
Music for 18 Musicians is a work of musical minimalism composed by Steve Reich during 1974-1976. Its world premiere was on April 24, 1976 at Town Hall, New York. Following this, a recording of the piece was released by ECM New Series. A recording of the opening sections is on Steve Reich's official ...
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King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown

marc c. posted an article on - Sep 5, 2010, 5:14 pm
King Tubby (born Osbourne Ruddock, January 28, 1941 – February 6, 1989) was a Jamaican electronics and sound engineer, known primarily for his influence on the development of dub music in the 1960s and 1970s. Tubby's innovative studio work, which saw him elevate the role of the mixing engineer to ...
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Francisco López La Selva

marc c. posted an article on - Jul 9, 2010, 7:06 pm
Francisco López is an avant-garde experimental musician and sound artist.He is internationally recognized as one of the major figures of the sound art and experimental music scene. Since the early eighties he has developed an impressive, completely personal sound universe. He has released a large...
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Union Carbide Productions In the air tonight

marc c. posted an article on - Jun 7, 2010, 6:54 pm
  Union Carbide Productions was a Swedish rock band formed by Ebbot Lundberg (vocals), Patrik Caganis, Björn Olsson, Per Helm and Henrik Rylander in 1986. Their music can be described as a fusion of psychedelic rock and punk rock and a bit angrier and closer to stoner rock than The So...
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Spacemen 3 Forged Prescriptions

marc c. posted an article on - May 17, 2010, 4:28 pm
Forged Prescriptions is a 2-CD album by Spacemen 3, containing the entirety of their album The Perfect Prescription as well as alternate and demo versions of the same songs, and some previously unreleased tracks. In his liner notes, Spacemen 3 member Sonic Boom says this release presents the alb...
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Rachel's Music for Egon Schiele

marc c. posted an article on - May 10, 2010, 6:26 pm
  Rachel's is an American  band that formed in Louisville, Kentucky in 1991. Former Rodan guitarist, Jason Noble, played music individually and referred to himself as Rachel's but then began collaborating with now core members, violist Christian Frederickson, and pianist Rachel Grimes.  The g...
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Tortoise Glass Museum

marc c. posted an article on - May 10, 2010, 4:17 pm

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Tortoise Djed

marc c. posted an article on - May 10, 2010, 3:22 pm

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Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch

marc c. posted an article on - Mar 6, 2010, 5:17 am
Out to Lunch! was Eric Dolphy's only recording for Blue Note Records as a leader and was originally issued as BLP 4163 and BST 84163. Today it is generally considered one of the finest albums in the label's history, as well as one of the high points in 1960s jazz avant garde and in Dolphy's discogra...
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The Velvet Underground Acetate Demos 1966

marc c. posted an article on - Feb 14, 2010, 6:34 am
The Velvet Underground & Nico is the debut album by American rock band The Velvet Underground and vocal collaborator Nico. It was originally released in March 1967 by Verve Records. Recorded in 1966 during Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia event tour, The Velvet Underground & Nic...
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Radian Juxtaposition

marc c. posted an article on - Jan 20, 2010, 4:49 am
  Radian is an Austrian experimental music group. Their music touches on instrumental rock, post-rock, jazz and electronica, and is notable for imitating some of the more demanding musical structures of intelligent dance music. The trio was formed in 1996, in Vienna. Members are: Martin Br...
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Manual Ascend

marc c. posted an article on - Jan 19, 2010, 6:07 am
Manual is the performing name of electronic musician, Jonas Munk, from Odense, Denmark. Manual's music is considered to be in the styles of ambient dream pop and indietronica. His sound tends to contain a mix of software synthesizers, guitars (sometimes sampled or heavily processed), and various dig...
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Aphex Twin Come to Daddy

marc c. posted an article on - Dec 29, 2009, 2:12 pm

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Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band Clear Spot

marc c. posted an article on - Dec 29, 2009, 12:18 pm
Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet on January 15, 1941) is an American musician and painter, best known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was mainly conducted with a rotating assembly of musicians called The Magic Band, which was active between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s. ...
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Throwing Muses 1986

marc c. posted an article on - Dec 28, 2009, 4:50 pm
Throwing Muses are an alternative rock band formed in 1981 in Newport, Rhode Island, that toured and recorded extensively until 1997, when its members began concentrating more on other projects. The group was originally fronted by two lead singers, Kristin Hersh and Tanya Donelly, who both wrote...
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Throwing Muses Fish

marc c. posted an article on - Dec 28, 2009, 4:45 pm

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Lustmord/Rich Stalker

marc c. posted an article on - Dec 27, 2009, 7:39 pm
Stalker (1995) is a collaborative album by ambient musicians Robert Rich and B.Lustmord (Brian Williams). It was inspired by the 1979 film of the same name by Andrei Tarkovski. ”Elemental Trigger” – 6:06”Synergistic Perceptions” – 10:59”Hidden Refuge” – 9:36”Delusion Fields” ...
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