The XX - Coexist 2012

01 Angels
02 Chained
03 Fiction
04 Try
05 Reunion
06 Sunset
07 Missing
08 Tides
09 Unfold
10 Swept Away
11 Our Song

fd

Liars - WIXIW 2012

i kinda want to crowdsource the review of this, but community-based efforts have like a 3% success rate around here. so that's all you get.

here's the VICE review, anyway:

"The title of this perfectly perfect record is pronounced “wishyou” as in “I WIXIW could live inside this album,” or “I WIXIW guys would do this more often,” or maybe even “I WIXIW would tell me what drugs IW took and where IW get them.” Seriously, this thing plays like a soundtrack to The Magic School Bus book where the kids take a bunch of ludes and drive the bus into the ear of a guy who put himself into a Robitussin coma. Then, the battery on the bus dies and the kids have to find their own way out. Spoiler: They do not make it."

1."The Exact Color of Doubt" 4:07
2."Octagon" 4:38
3."No.1 Against the Rush" 5:10
4."A Ring on Every Finger" 3:18
5."Ill Valley Prodigies" 2:03
6."WIXIW" 6:12
7."His and Mine Sensations" 4:40
8."Flood to Flood" 3:30
9."Who Is the Hunter" 3:47
10."Brats" 3:02
11."Annual Moon Words" 2:37

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Sigur Rós - Valtari 2012

its sad as hell, and im sad as hell, and thats all the science i have to drop.

01. Ég anda
02. Ekki múkk
03. Varúð
04. Rembihnútur
05. Dauðalogn
06. Varðeldur
07. Valtari
08. Fjögur píanó

http://depositfiles.com/files/c6van61m7

Irena a Vojtěch Havlovi - Hudba Ticha 1992

something about this sounded like music for airports mixed with sakamoto. but listen to what happens at 10:23 in sametova, when the loop/clipping starts. i dont know if it was meant to be subtle, but it's not, at all. i dont even know why the change is there, because they easily could have continued noodling mellifluously, but good god that pulse is everything. i cant even think, and typing is way too loud now.

01 A tichou noci snesl sva
02 Sametova kridla klid
03 Ledova krupej medova

http://www.filefactory.com/file/a2e0084/n/Irena_Havlova_Vojtech_Havel_-_Hudba_ticha.rar

DJ Maltes - 3D Vision Mix 2012

so light and great and sounds like fred v mixing and going to netsky tuesday! but for real, listen to melo - insight.



01 // Royalston - Synthi
02 // Flowrian - The Bird Melodies
03 // London Elektricity - Had A Little Fight
04 // Derrick & Tonika - Bird 1 (Derrick & Tonika remix)
05 // MSDOS - Uptown Girl
06 // Proktah - Massage To A Friend
07 // ATP - Pure Junk
08 // Proktah - Shadows
09 // Joe Syntax - Unified
10 // Physical Illusion - Apple Juice
11 // Logistics - Fibreglass
12 // Shyma - By The Wind (Derrick & Tonika remix)
13 // Joseph Ablett - Lonely
14 // Marcus Intalex - Virgo
15 // Emeli Sandé - Heaven (Nu:tone Remix)
16 // Hamilton - Echoes
17 // Melo - Insight
18 // Netsky - Your Way
19 // Brookes Brothers - Snowman
20 // John B - Connected (feat Kirsty Hawkshaw)
21 // High Contrast - The Agony & The Ecstasy (Feat. Selah Corbin)

http://soundcloud.com/djmaltes/maltes-3d-vision-2012/download

Burial - Kindred EP 2012

im never sure what to do with a burial release; it's not the dubstep i know. i like using minimal techno, but i dont know what that means. i dont know where trip-hop ends, or how far one can stretch 'ambient' before it becomes just another weak qualifier for a stronger genre label. i dont know what garage is, i certainly dont know what future garage is. there was a period of time where the weird pitch-altered vocals with a pulsed beat could count solely as witch house, at least under the watchful eye of any asshole that cared that there was a witch house-niche firmly carved, but...

this is actually symbolic of a far-larger trend. i am rapidly beginning to detest the notion of having an opinion on music, or at least sharing my opinion while sharing access to the music. if you were gomez (old gomez, not new gomez), you would find this fucking hilarious. if you are stumbling around on the internet just furiously looking for links: welcome. i am one of you. i understand that my impressions overfloweth, but never imagine for a single second that anyone could have a conclusion on someone else's work that could possibly mean anything for you. my own over-reaching diagnoses are likely indicative of the unparalleled amount of access to, and consumption of, music i have had over the last decade.

i can easily discount my analyses. i steal my links, i try desperately not to steal my opinions, and beyond that, i dont really know what to say.

i can shit out some disclaimers like 'the songs seem to channel intensely-structured algorithms, like anti-thematic house music with an intensely singular and isolated purpose. this should be listened to alone.', but...what the fuck?

i think this EP is beautiful. i wish you all luck. thanks, byendurance.

update: i started this at 6am, finished around 7. and i debated deleting it, because i was pretty far from coherent, but i just hate the grammys so goddamn much that now you have to deal with it.

1. Loner
2. Kindred
3. Ashtray Wasp

http://www.mediafire.com/?n5icmr5275qjtq1

Reso - Hyponik Mix 2011

no idea what the tracklist is. its low and grindy and tech all over the place. like noisia via invisible records.

also noisia/spor - falling through is in here, if that helps.

http://web.reso-music.com/mixes/Reso_-_HYP033_hyponik_DNB_mix.mp3

Satanstompingcaterpillars - The Most Wonderfulest Thing 2002

BMSR/tobacco pre-both. sounds like fulton girls club turned loose on a lot of equipment.

1		Understanding Love Through A Singing Forest	0:36
2		Letter People Show	3:47
3		I Think It Is Beautiful That You Are 256 Colors Too	2:22
4		The Magical Butterfly Net	2:35
5		Melody For Color Spectrum	4:02
6		Black Snow	1:54
7		Once I Was Almost Magnetic	3:53
8		Smog In Cities	2:38
9		Winter LMNOP	2:03
10		83 Rainboe Beat '84	3:21
11		Our Sandbox	2:26
12		August 2001 Flower Child	1:36
13		Untitled	3:35

http://www.mediafire.com/?b6i2p6s7dabimyt

Ajilvsga - From The Muddy Banks Of The Arkansas 2009

creepy low noise drone. playing this behind STALKER is fucking terrifying.

1. Gnarled Roots, Leaves, Rushing Water
2. Dead, White, Lifeless

http://www.mediafire.com/?2lwwyjib3c13hh3

Shlohmo - Bad Vibes 2011

oof. BRB, gotta pass out in the sun.



why? what does your friday morning sound like?

1. Big Feelings
2. Places
3. Anywhere But Here
4. It Was Whatever
5. Parties
6. Just Us
7. Sink
8. I Can't See You I'm Dead
9. Trapped in a Burning House
10. Get Out
11. Your Stupid Face
12. Seriously
13. Same Time

http://www.mediafire.com/?8c950n982pv72ng

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

Righteous Acid - Mellow Doses 2011

my god. idiot's guide tells it better, as usual, and i know no one reading this has listened to a single sun araw song, but...

you know how your grandfathers really enjoy music that seems slightly unstuck in time when you hear it now (obviously, but more kind of the sense that you cant help but filling in a world you couldnt have known with your own little projections)? this is like...grandfather music being blasted from a house a few hundred yards down the beach. if your grandfathers grew up in the 50's and 70's in a nearly parallel universe. also your grandfathers really liked sun araw.

it reminds me of run DMT (the other run DMT, not the boring one) in that each of the two sides are kind of a smattering of vaguely incoherent but cohesive emissions.

also it sounds like a mellow dose of righteous acid. since you wont listen to it anyway, im going to use even more words (from idiots guide and sun ark) to make this post longer so it will be frustrating when you furiously try to scroll past it.

"Fans of Sun Araw will recognise a certain jaded/faded humming of psychedelia... a psychedelic sound that is undeniable but curiously monochromatic; as if somewhere, elsewhere, there's a really grooovy party going on but you're sitting in a room, headstuffed with Cumin and Salvia Divinorum imagining what it might feel like to be invited to that party.

And:

swept endless tumbling

jerky guitar trail offs

rhythms made out of the mis-hits from a 70s Cow Punching competition

others discarded from Maximquaye's dark hours on two track

tracks that seem like afterthoughts and come-downs

fidelity slips

broken-wheeled wagons, circling in the snow

cannibals w/cannabis"



and



""Stately Thai boogie, swaying and sealed in Bakersfield sun. Righeous Acid is Alex Sarad, unleashing this his first c30 of deeply mantric and contemplative fretboard meditations with a depth of soul that vacillates from bleached temple rhythms to bayou sweat in an instant. Sensitive and glowing from within." - Sun Ark "



beware that im using psychdrone kind of solely to perpetuate this sound that i have mischaracterised but dont want to correct. its not really drone. but it is fun and funky and it will emerge from the waves to make your brain shit and then dance. its acid music.



update: im not sure exactly what's happening, but listening to this really loud with headphones seems to hint at an entirely different layer of sounds sitting just at the borders of the music, as though its a highly digitized recording of a scattered playback from a record player. there are some awkward snaps and glitches and a bass layer that seems like it existed in the original songs and survived the production effects that altered the upper layers into something distant. like a shadow of feedback.

i may be missing it entirely.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ebn57bhwl4ztrvz

Life in the Dark - Hushed Bloom 2011

oof. a lot quiter and hissier than the sunya is rising. more vocals too.



1. Hushed Bloom

2. Comadeth



http://www.mediafire.com/?83za9da2pw78ffo

Invisible 001 and 002 EPs 2010

1 and 2



[INVSB001]



A. Noisia & Phace - Floating Zero

B. Subterra & Dekko - Bonsai Run

C. Icicle - Nowhere

D. Engage - Above The Clouds



[INVSB002]



1 Noisia & Joe Seven Ease Forward

2 Alix Perez The Observer

3 Noisia & Alix Perez Underprint

4 Stray Saturday



http://www.mediafire.com/?p1flt24aajmr6ol

Holy Sons - I Want to Live a Peaceful Life (2003)

It's been quite a while since I posted! This is Holy Sons. This is very quiet, singer/songwriter folk music from the drummer of Grails, and more recently, Om.

Seriously, you need this.

listen.

Sun Araw - On Patrol 2010

okay. i think seeing this stuff played live would be akin to taking every drug in the world at once. it is INSANE ambient psych-drone. very, very quiet but absolutely fascinating and always moving and FUCK its like snorting the sun. like a quieter and mostly vocals-free jackie o, when theyre doing the 30/40 minute noise-drone thing and not the offkey indie rock.

so, so good.


http://www.multiupload.com/SJVT6WOPPK