Sea Oleena – Sleeplessness 2011

if you prefer your grouper sleepless.

1. Southbound
2. Sleepless Fever
3. Insomnia Plague
4. Untitled
5. Sister
6. Milk
7. Orion's Eyes

mf

Clubroot - III-MMXII 2012

did you like neotokyo OST? do you like burial?

ive been listening to this album on loop for a few days now. can you imagine a breakage/clubroot tour? cold and hollow and flooded and deep and utterly entheogenic.

1. Ennio’s Eden
2. Left-Hand Path
3. Summons
4. Lurking In The Shadows
5. Demon Drum
6. Murmur Interlude
7. Garrison
8. Faith In Her
9. Tempt Fate
10. Celestial
11. Inviolable
12. My Kingdom
13. Restraint/Untitled

left-hand path

Locrian/Mamiffer - Bless Them That Curse You 2012

i have no idea how many people total were pulverized in the combined making of this album, but i think it might be a lot. lots of piano and feedback and lurking terror and super drone. it sounds...depraved.

01. In Fulminic Black ( 9:02)
02. Bless Them That Curse You ( 6:03)
03. Corpus Luteum ( 5:53)
04. Second Burial ( 6:00)
05. Lechatelierite ( 5:39)
06. Metis/Amaranthine/The Emperor (18:59)

http://bitshare.com/files/l17ac9f9/Locrian_And_Mamiffer-Bless_Them_That_Curse_You-2012-FNT.rar.html

bvdub - The First Day 2012

by endurance nuked their back catalogue, but heres the quarterly 80 minutes of bvdub jams.

1. Never in the Prison of Their Stars
2. The First Day
3. While They Dreamed We Were There
4. My Skies Cry Your Name

http://www12.zippyshare.com/v/46870944/file.html

Bonobo - Black Sands Remixed (2012)

Enhances psychostimulant-induced diligence by thousands. Ghost Ship.

01. Prelude (Lapalux's Finger On The Tape Remix)
02. The Keeper (Banks Remix)
03. Kiara (Cosmin TRG Remix)
04. Eyesdown (Floating Points Remix)
05. Eyesdown (ARP 101 Remix)
06. Eyesdown Feat. Andreya Triana & DELS
07. All In Forms (FaltyDL Remix)
08. Ghost Ship
09. Stay the Same (Mark Pritchard Remix)
10. Eyesdown (Machinedrum Remix)
11. All in Forms (Mike Slott Remix)
12. Stay the Same (Blue Daisy 'Not Quite the Same' Remix)
13. Brace Brace
14. Black Sands (Duke Dumont's 'Grains of Sand' Reconstruction Edit)


Incredible.

Ghastly City Sleep - Ghastly City Sleep (2007)

01. Ice Creaks
02. Hushing Weight
03. Suchness
04. Subtle Disaster

here here.

“when the sky is as grey as this - impeccably grey, a denial, really of the very concept of colour - and the stooped millions lift their heads, it's hard to tell the air from the impurities in our human eyes, as if the sinking climbing paisley curlicues of grit were part of the element itself, rain, spores, tears, film, dirt. Perhaps, at such moments, the sky is no more then the sum of the dirt that lives in our human eyes.” - Martin Amis, Money

Jacaszek - Glimmer 2011

think machinarium OST ft. tor lundvall and gentleman losers

1. Goldengrove
2. Dare-gale
3. Pod Światło
4. Evening Strains to Be Time’s Vast
5. Seiden Stille
6. What Wind-Walks Up Above!
7. Only Not Within Seeing of the Sun
8. As Each Tucked String Tells
9. Windhover

http://www.fileserve.com/file/T9yPSHJ/Jacaszek_-_Glimmer_

Aphex Twin - Drukqs 2001

1. Jynweythek
2. Vordhosbn
3. Kladfvgbungmicshk
4. Omgyja Switch
5. Strothatynhe
6. Gwety Mernans
7. Bbydhyonchord
8. Cock/Ver 10
9. Avril 14th
10. Mt Saint Michel + Saint Michael's Mount
11. Gwarek 2
12. Orban Eq Trax 4
13. Aussois
14. Hy A Scullyas Lyf Adhagrow
15. Kesson Dalet
16. 54 Cymru Beats
17. Btoum Roumada
18. Lornaderek
19. Qkthr
20. Meltplace 6
21. Bit 4
22. Prep Gwarlek 36
23. Fathur
24. Taking Control
25. Petiatil Cx Htdui
26. Ruglen Holon
27. AFX237VI
28. Ziggomatic 17
29. Beskhu3epnm
30. Nanou 2

http://www.mediafire.com/?b5dyysrumkz

Paul Jebanasam - Music for the Church of St. John the Baptist 2011

think tim hecker and ben frost with a pile of instruments, recorded live in one 25 minute take. it's...fucking incredible.

1. Music for the Church of St. John the Baptist

http://www.mediafire.com/?7xniy25eomnldd6

Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason - Solaris 2011

here's a review i found that i dont really understand:

"Lots of wax and wane in Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason’s Solaris. It’s cold, not cold in a small pinched way, but cold in long flows, like streams of very contemplative melted snow running across a fairly level plain and never meeting. A stream starts off, thinking that it’s going somewhere, but then it reaches that place, or doesn’t, and the place is disappointing, and it drains away with a moan. Other sonic streams are running concurrently and doing the same. The two composers were inspired by the Tarkovsky film, hence the inward focus of the sounds, their isolation from one another, the grieving and the fading, the subtle repetition—the music remembering itself. It’s in the minimal amount of color of the sound-scape. Frost and Bjarnason took a string orchestra, let’s say that’s the snow; they fed it through a computer, there’s the melt."

- http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/150219-ben-frost-daniel-bjarnason-solaris


but im still listening to celestine and wishing the hindenburg would crash into my house.

cute cover, and all songs should be named 'you mean more to me than any scientific truth'.

also this, because my opportunities to do this are limited. just wait for the tape hiss.




01 – We Don’t Need Other Worlds, We Need Mirrors
02 – Simulacra I
03 – Simulacra II
04 – Snow
05 – Reyja
06 – Cruel Miracles
07 – Hydrogen Sulfide
08 – Unbreakable Silence
09 – You Mean More To Me Than Any Scientific Truth
10 – Saccades
11 – Venia

http://www.fileserve.com/file/dTe8Grn

Ólafur Arnalds - Living Room Songs 2011

it's all free, all recorded live (both audio and video).

i am going to drink all of the gin now and go to bed and wake up in 1,000 years. it's been real.

01. Day 1: Fyrsta
02. Day 2: Near Light
03. Day 3: Film Credits
04. Day 4: Tomorrow's Song
05. Day 5: Ágúst
06. Day 6: Lag Fyrir Ömmu
07. Day 7: This Place Is A Shelter

videos, 128K's:

http://livingroomsongs.olafurarnalds.com/

320K's:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QYUBBMQQ

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Summvs 2011

sounds a lot like the fennesz + sakamoto. can't imagine why.

go to sleep.

http://www.mediafire.com/?x2xnxa9lcn1vxyy

Tim Hecker - Live at Moogfest 2011

i think i would cry if i ever saw tim hecker. listen to how fucking loud it is compared to the audience in the beginning. id be crying and pooping and then pooping my tears once my eyes explode due to the piano drop being the intro.

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/30/141795807/tim-hecker-in-concert-moogfest-2011

Cold - 1. Melancholia

ambient, drone, light post-rock, light psychdrone

posted 11/7/11

1. Last Days Leaving Home
2. Jodis Continents
3. Jackie-O Motherfucker Good Morning Kaptain
4. Cult of Luna Marching To The Heartbeats
5. Gregor Samsa 7 07 Pseudonyms
6. Library Tapes Klosterg
7. Fell City Lights Flickering Off And On
8. Earth Crooked Axis For String Quartet
9. The Gentleman Losers Midnight Of The Garden Trees
10. Kill the Zodiac My Heart Beats From The Outside
11. A Silver Mt. Zion This Gentle Hearts Like Shot Bird's Fallen
12. 36 Geiga
13. Tor Lundvall Early hours
14. Grouper Second Skin-Zombie Wind
15. Masochistic Values Dream (Cold)
16. Near The Parenthesis I Remember It Differently
17. Ben Frost Through The Roof Of Your Mouth
18. Sora Shima The Art of Selfdestruction
19. Port Royal Jeka
20. Tim Hecker In The Air III
21. Last Days All The Lighthouses

21 songs, 1:31:12, 126.4MB

http://www.mediafire.com/?z1r976gisvnp9k2

Bookended for a reason (so much so that this should hardly be the first of the 5 installments...), but the beginning and end of Last Days - Sea have made an unbelievable impression on me, if merely by rote repetition. I listened to Sea once or twice a night, every night, for about two years, and often ended up listening to it in class or while driving too. I was utterly consumed with the conversation in 'Leaving Home', to the extent that I emailed Graham Richardson to ask him what it was (he wasn't sure, he was flipping channels, some soap opera or something; the "story" behind the song is that the man who runs away with a boat into the arctic ocean slips out in the beginning while his family is watching TV). But I could be making that up, it's been a while. So I decided to bookend the whole mix with the bookends of Sea, because it's pretty much solely responsible for me enjoying everything in between.

Fucking Continents. So you know how sometimes you aren't listening to music (for shame) and any event at all occurs in your life and you go I NEED GRINDCORE RIGHT FUCKING NOW, and you have a very narrow time window where you can find the right song? Like, if I say I NEED GRINDCORE RFN, I'll usually just head straight to Rotten Sound because there's no downtime or delay or anything; IT'S GRIND O CLOCK. Continents does that for me with drone. A lot of it is just how instantaneously the song starts. If I NEED DRONE RFN, I don't have time for a buildup or anything, I NEED TO BE SWEPT INTO TENUOUS TIDAL ARRANGEMENTS RFN! And if you double click on Continents, you have a split second before "bllleeeaaaahhh......bbbllllleeeaahhh.......bllllrrrrroooowwwwwwwwwww...............". Which easily gets you to the vocals, at which point you can just forget about doing anything ever again. Forever.

But too fucking bad, because there are even more songs!

"A sailor shouts Jeeeee,sus Chrriiiiiiiist, I'm drown-ding." Right at 2:37, when he mumbles "Sun burns yer eyyyyyes", whatever happens to the guitar tone is the most amazing thing I have ever heard in psychdrone. It sounds like the amp is threatening to actually become sentient (rampant, even), escaping the narrow tonal restraints afforded by the song and completely swallowing any waves in range like a solely-aural black hole. But it doesn't, and it's just a minor moment in a very, very potent song.

Cult of Luna shows up here because it also has lyrics. That's pretty much the only reason it's in that slot, but it's in the playlist because it is the beginning of my favorite album of theirs. It's kind of difficult, I suppose, because when I think of Cult of Luna, I actually tend to think of this song and 'and with her came the birds', instead of, you know, genesis and receiver and waiting for you like I should, but I think that's more representative of the niche they fill for me. There are a lot of times where I use Isis and Rosetta interchangeably, like deciding between oxycodone and hydrocodone, while I have never, ever used Cult of Luna when I didnt mean to. I really like Cult of Luna. They make albums like biblical scrolls, and marching to the heartbeats is flawless, especially in relief of the entire album (listen to somewhere along the highway through and play marching to the heartbeats again at the end after dark city, dead man).

Gregor Samsa - Pseudonyms: I've had this one for a while, but it's hard to pick exactly why. I didn't keep much of the album because....shit I dont know. This song has really nice vocals but they kind of remind me of antimatter and theatre of tragedy and once all those bands are grouped I just get really disinterested. Seems kind of wanky, I dunno. But Pseudonyms has that rapidly-struck dulcimer/piano (maybe? i couldnt tell you what it actually is) layer that sounds like theory of machines, and the last 90 seconds is fucking retard amazing and i wish the end was longer.

Ive never listened to Klosterg in the winter yet, because I just got it. Also I cant keep writing this much because blahnbnlanhlnnewrnjgiajooijweoijvngkndgkgne

So City Lights, as you know, is amazing. It is also, conveniently, a very winter song for me. This is a focal point of these 5 sections that I probably should have mentioned earlier: some of these songs (particularly in parts 2 and 4) may be included because I have a very explicit association between them and winter (ex. NOFX, the idiots are taking over in part 4 is included because we tried to cover it in winter and listened to it a shit ton in late 06/ early 07). City Lights (and 12:59 lullaby in part 4) are intrinsically related to that same winter for me, which involved a lot of driving around and falling in love and snowstorms and drifting sanchez around corners in gomez' neighborhood and trying to measure how long the heaters would stay warm running only off the car battery and giving up and just leaving the engine running for hours so she could sleep. Lots of City Lights. Just listen to it, it's a really apt song, especially since they are local and I know exactly what our city lights look like from a good vantage.

Back to writing less, EARTH.

Gentleman Losers - described in detail on PnB, this song is here because it sounds fucking COLD. very tor lundvall. easily sounds as though (as mentioned earlier, it's very soundtrack-y) it could have the sound of someone crunching through frozen night snow over the entire thing.

This isnt my winter kill the zodiac song, but that one (we breathe from the same mask) is a bit louder and i didnt want that yet. i really wish i could have been friends with this kid in high school. the sound of this song is just so tenuous and brittle it seems amazing that it ends, that it's not just a background noise that you carry with you always.

Lodged right in the middle is ASMZ, and the most important song in this section. I'd say more, but...i dunno. It's all aforementioned gomez stuff plus a lot of bright clear nights and suicide and pressure. it was hard to watch brick after hearing this song; the best parts of the brick soundtrack sound very, very similar to this.

36 - didnt want to put 'home' on yet another fucking mix, so it was between geiga and drowning. geiga probably won because of filesize, because all of his songs from hollow or memories in widescreen sound like drowning. hollow just has the advantage of sounding like drowning in winter.

Tor lundvall made it, obviously. Doesnt necessarily sound cold (if you consider what the entire album sounds like), but fuck it's empty.

I started collecting grouper albums the same time I started drinking constantly. The first time I heard this (lol genetics lab sometime in Feb 2009) I was taken aback by how her voice is shaped. I only had dragging a dead deer before way their crept, so I was used to hearing her sing, but this is something else. That's not singing.

Is it weird that I have an interlude on a mix that could be entirely interludes? LUUUUUUDES

Near the parenthesis! A very inviting, but crisp song. More like salt flats at night than a winter wonderland, but fuck you this is my favorite NTP song.

Because there was no way Ben Frost wasnt making it in here. Cmon. I want to talk about him forever to anyone (much like Gorgoroth) but there is like fuck all I can try to say here and not sound like I'm speaking pitchfork-english. So just know that Ben Frost is the tops.

Sora shima is...somehow related to kill the zodiac. Might be the same people. It pairs very nicely with

Jeka - Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. I find it weird that Port Royal used this as the beginning of Flares, because it's a very conclusive song to me. Gomez asked me once a lonnnng long time ago what song I would hear if I died and I immediately said Jeka. Jeka and Last Days - All The Lighthouses pretty much made Sommeil Sans Reves for me (listen to them shits. all 3. then try to tell the difference).

Tim Hecker is another guaranteed member here. Ravedeath is flawless, and the In The Air ending trilogy is just...penetrating.

Aaaaannnnd Last Days. If I was ever so fucked up I got knuckle tattoos...LAST DAYS.

Fin. Here's the link again. Put em in order. Or I'll turn you into a fucking tree.

http://www.mediafire.com/?z1r976gisvnp9k2

Blanck Mass - S/T 2011

still a good chance this one wont stay up. half of fuck buttons (noticeably), heavy pad use but no FB screaming or distortion.

chernobyl sounds EXACTLY like the last song in the sunshine OST. but im not getting worked up about it.

1. Sifted Gold
2. Sundowner
3. Chernobyl
4. Raw Deal
5. Sub Serious
6. Land Disasters
7. Icke's Struggle
8. Fuckers
9. What You Know
10. Weakling Flier

http://www.mediafire.com/?h4706al3cr0d291

The Body/Braveyoung - Nothing Passes 2011

the live collaboration becomes a release!



can you imagine how fucking goosebumpily-loud that show would have been?! with so many goddamn beards onstage...

what's with that, anyway? if you play beardy jams and have a big retard beard too, thats overkill.

also the cover on here is beyond the capacity of my hyperbolic language to describe.

1. Song One
2. Song Two
3. Nothing Passes
4. The Vision (Exuma cover)

http://www.mediafire.com/?rmjyscjro3b73y7

Expo '70 - Black Ohms 2008

always, always listen to lysergic sunrise while experiencing a lysergic sunrise. guaranteed.

it just noodleoozes into you and when it stops yer totes liek OMG WUT. and then listen to it two more times and then you should probably go to sleep because your body is going to murder you for having too much fun.

and then mind echo unit is completely fucking different, like ambient delay-heavy post rock. they sound so phenomenal together, it's tragic the entire release is under 20 minutes. but hes got a bunch.

1. Lysergic Sunrise
2. Mind Echo Unit

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E8GK3OMJ

Korouva - Shipwrecks & Russian Roulette (slow)

since 33 minutes doesnt quite do it justice, here's what paulstretch churned out.

3.51x stretched (although the algorithm seems a little loose), shifted lower 6%, and with a mild tonal filter that cuts what the program thought was 'noise'. the results are pretty sleepy.

bon soir, and good luck. in bed with you is now 20 minutes long. the whole thing is 106 minutes.

1. slowclub
2. dne eht ton
3. buddhist bell
4. in bed with you
5. the rain song
6. tide
7. wheat fields
8. der verlovene
9. part II
10. the martyr

http://www.mediafire.com/?zyde61ao6i13fnp

The Gentleman Losers - Dustland 2009

apparently this reached a lot more people than i thought it did. two finnish brothers. this isnt the proper cover, i guess, but i like it more.

descriptions are hard. it has just...this fucking sickening washed-out tone (and in the way i mean it, that is an extremely high compliment) that sounds like earth - hex as made by amphetamines and keyboards (not that it even remotely sounds like amphetamines or keyboards, but it occupies a space near to hex but chunky, quicker, and less riff-based). its probably drone under a lot of umbrellas, but very segmented, like tim hecker before he started making songs with 'part 1, 2, 3' (additional research suggests that there was never a tim hecker that didnt segment songs). only quieter than tim hecker. more like a soundtrack, but to what i cant exactly say...

the song that pinpointed the sound for me was midnight of the garden trees. very tor lundvall, but without the city, and requisite night sound. it could be anywhere. it's a fucking incredible sleeping album, although just that alone makes it shoot up through the ranks for me.

dustland is a great title, but it's much more lush than you might imagine. it's too fluid, even with the pronounced lack of continuation between tracks that is common with this sound (which is why i threw in 'post-rock'), and much too powerful, to just be dust.

1. Honey Bunch
2. Silver Water Ripples
3. The Echoing Green
4. Ballad of Sparrow Young
5. Bonetown Boys
6. Oblivion’s Tide
7. Lullaby of Dustland
8. Midnight of the Garden Trees
9. Farandole
10. Spider Lily
11. Wind in Black Trees
12. Pebble Beach

http://www.mediafire.com/?vgydmzinzzl

Korouva - Unbearable Romance 2011

because i mentioned it and cant stop thinking about it.

the best-titled album there is.

http://www.mediafire.com/?6xf1iai0v30c8sr