What are you listening to at the present? (genres helpful)

[econoemu]

I am currently listening to Between the Buried and Me - Coma Ecliptic [2015](Progressive Death Metal).

A fantastic album that show cases their continuous growth in story telling and genre blending musical talents. In this album we travel from the space epic that was the Parallax to the internal battle of the mind in a comatose state struggling to decide if it should leave the world behind or continue fighting on.

They are an outstanding band to see live, leaving me in awe each time I've seen them preform. I can't recommend this band enough to people who enjoy the more aggressive side of the musical spectrum and and open mind.

[Sano]

The hypnotizing hum of my computer...

[noiseredux]

Sonic Youth - Walls Have Ears

This is a live album from 1985. The band proposed it to the label (Blast First in Europe) who pressed it, and then the band changed their mind so it was put out of print immediately. The only official copies were on vinyl. For years I've had a bootleg CD copy that has alternate (and way less cool) artwork, but I just recently finally found the way better bootleg CD version that replicates that original vinyl art above.

[nullPointer]

The hypnotizing hum of my computer...

Yes, but what genre of computer hum? Noise, drone, ambient?

[Sano]

The hypnotizing hum of my computer...

Yes, but what genre of computer hum? Noise, drone, ambient?

Going to have to go with ambient. My computer is relatively quiet, so it kind of relaxing.

[TSTR]

getting super ignorant over here today

EMMURE - ETERNAL ENEMIES

[Pulsar_t]

[Sano]

The new Disturbed album Immortalized.

[noiseredux]

Miles Davis
Kind Of Blue
1959, My wife and I recently threw a dinner party and our guests were not jazz fans. Not to say they were jazz haters - they just weren't really knowledgeable of the genre. And so my first thought was to 'go easy' on them. What would be a really accessible point of entry? Oh, how about the number one selling jazz album of all time! And so we started the evening with Kind Of Blue. But here's the thing - the CD player was set to repeat, unbeknownst to me. So we ended up listening to Kind Of Blue for three hours. And I'm not entirely sure that anybody but me noticed. This album always had this sort of quality to it that makes me feel like it's just kind of... there. I don't mean that it's boring. But it is subdued in such a way, and it does feel like the tracks flow together in such a way that outside of the opener "So What," the album just feels like one long song to me. Again, I'm not calling it forgettable or samey. It's actually kind of hard to explain. It's so thematically unified I guess that it's easy to lose this music even if you're trying to follow it. It kind of exists as background music to me. I believe it was Brian Eno who coined the term "musical wallpaper," right? That's how this album has always felt to me. It's something I find perfect for putting on and then not paying special attention to. And yet I struggle still to assure you that I don't mean this in a bad way.


Miles Davis
Bitches Brew
1970, Now this is an important record to me. Early in my college career I had a music history professor play "Pharaoh's Dance" for our class and my mind was super blown. This one track led me to branch out and discover so much more music because I felt enlightened. I was led to the work of John McLaughlin and his own band; got deeper into the world of Sun Ra's Arkestra; started exploring free jazz and improv noise more thoroughly (this was also around the time that my Sonic Youth obsession would really kick in). And then for years later, this record kept on leading me to new things. When the Otis Jackson Jr. Trio covered the title track (later compiled on YNQ's Yesterdays Universe), I knew that something was really special about Madlib's jazz project. So I guess the point is that when an album has this kind of impact on you, it then becomes tough to properly talk about it. But all I can say is that this thing is mean. It is easy one of my favorite jazz albums of all time. It's one of the best of the 70's for sure. It's most likely my favorite of Davis' career even. The first disc is brilliant with just "Pharaoh's Dance" and the title track, both clocking in at around a half-hour. These are funky and exploratory. Then disc two hits you with four shorter pieces: all of them excellent. This disc feels a bit mellower. Still free, but sort of on a lower key. It works as a cool counterbalance to the first two epics. This record is so ahead of its time. And it is beyond essential for me.

[Pulsar_t]

RIP Colin Vearncombe