Musical Requests

[andrewducker]

After I posted my somewhat miserabilist ravings concerning the lack of new things in the world I was somewhat shocked that nobody stepped in, slapped me upside the head and said "No, look, there are new things and here's one."

So here's a challenge for you - find me some new music - something that's somehow unlike anything I've heard before.  I don't mean something wholly new - I'm fairly sure that there's nothing out there that's not at least _like_ something I've already heard - but something with a new twist, a new edge or a new background.

For instance, most of the music I've heard has been western in origin - I have a Talvin Singh album somewhere, but other than that I don't think I have _anything_ that's not part of the western hegemony.  And presumably there are some cutting-edge artists out there in the middle/far east who are producing music unlike anything we tend to get over here.

Which isn't to say I want to be deluged in techno-banghra, but if you have something like that you think I should be listening to, throw it in my direction.  My address is on my userinfo, my ftp is at ftp://andrewducker.dyndns.org and you can send me fairly large emails at andrew@notzen.com

Go on - surprise me.  I promise to report back with a brief review/opinion of anything sent in my direction...

Oh, and if you leave me something, add a comment here so that I know to check...

Comments

[trashcanglam.livejournal.com]

I've fired a variety of things to amuse and horrify you up your magical electric pipes.

[biscuitware.livejournal.com]

The ftp site seems to have permission problems for me.

[andrewducker]

It allows anonymous access, and should then allow you to dump files into it. You can't overwrite existing ones (there are only 5 in there), or get a folder listing. But then you shouldn't have to.

I recommend firing up IE, putting ftp://andrewducker.dyndns.org into the address bar and then just drag/dropping a file in...

[biscuitware.livejournal.com]

mm. that's what I tried.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

I've left you a little Sopor Aeternus, named "Dead Souls".

If you're tolerant of metal and/or tortured, growled or otherwise incomprehensible vocals, I may have more things that'll be new to you.

[ladysisyphus.livejournal.com]

Do you know why it would be telling me that 'An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine'?

[thadrin.livejournal.com]

Same problem. Drag and drop doesn't work.

[ladysisyphus.livejournal.com]

...All right, seems to have gotten over that one.

What I'm putting up is a bunch of live recordings of music done by various groups with which I was involved in college. They are, of course, both live and done by college groups, so the quality (in many senses) is variable at times, but I like these pieces.

I'll put up some more later.

[lilitufire.livejournal.com]

I tried to send you some Miranda Sex Garden, but I don't know if gmail is playing....

[biscuitware.livejournal.com]

I'm putting up a time lapse video from the Olympics.

60 Meg though!

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

Sent you "Desert Storm" by Niya Yesh, a wonderful Persian (Iranian) music group. It's in .m4a (MP4) format, so not all players will play it. (No, it's not protected.)

I hope you enjoy!

[thadrin.livejournal.com]

How did you get the ftp thing to work? I get nothing but permission errors.

[biscuitware.livejournal.com]

i used FTP in DOS, signing in as anonymous.

However, the transfer failed about twenty minutes in.

[darkoshi]

okay i'm leaving you 2 from my first mix cd. 01_Ba* and 17_Ul*. Can you tell which files were left from who? these songs cut off at the end because they're supposed to be played in order with the others on the cd, with one mixing into the next.
so... you don't care for any more techno bhangra?? you're already familiar with it all? awwww........

[octopoid-horror.livejournal.com]

I can't be arsed ripping stuff from CD just to ftp it to you, so this is what you should do:

Find some Muslimgauze and listen to it. There's a lot to choose from. It should satisfy your non-Western urges.

Now, staticy thuddy noise is hardly new to you but, in my opinion, the "Subfusc" album and the "Viva 6581" EP by Tarmvred are as good as it gets. Think thuddy rhythmic noise with (more so for the EP than album) C64 melodies. You'd probably like it, if you ever had a soft spot for old skool demos, back in the day. He doesn't just use a synth for the C64 bits... it's an actual C64 right there on stage when he's live.

Anything by Greenhaus might butter your muffin as well. It's hardly going to shock you to the core, but you'd probably like it. Sort of anthemic cinematic soundtrack music is one way of putting it. The more recent stuff has vocals, the older stuff doesn't.

Dead Hollywood Stars as well, the "Gone West" album being the important one. A long time ago I had this on your computer. Who knows if you kept it... It's semi-ambient, a little bit drum n bass-y in a low-key way, but is mostly a group of musicians who more regularly make industrial music doing what is essentially a soundtrack to a spaghetti Western. Half the tracks are mostly ambient, half aren't. It's -amazingly- good. I have told you about it before. I can run off a copy sometime if you don't have it.

If you want anything ambient, then I'd reccomend Lustmord. A lot.

Vromb are -really- good too. But hard to describe. Go play.

And finally, if you want something that you'll have heard things like before, but nothing -exactly- like, then check out Nymphomatriarch, by Venetian Snares & Hecate

It is made of samples of the two artists engaged in a variety of sex acts with each other, processed into some fairly intense breakcore.

[cx650.livejournal.com]

I know it's not new, but have you listened to any of Janne Schaeffer's music?

Sent you a pair of things:

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - Sleepytime (Spirit is a Bone); pretty, proggy, and loud. Sort of Bungle + 70's King Crimson like.

lorenzo arruga dave lombardo - preludio allapena amara; A harpsichordist, floutist, soprano, and Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo play some Vivaldi. It is as odd as it sounds.

[nosrialleon.livejournal.com]

I second the Muslimguaze, and anything Venetian Snares

[andrewducker]

Nope - got any you can throw in my direction?

[cx650.livejournal.com]

Sorry, only have one album and that's on vinyl. It's called the Chinese.

[darkoshi]

I'm leaving you some more songs. I initially forgot to set the type to binary on the transfer, so I'm not sure if the first ones'll have gone over well or not. If not, let me know and I'll resend them. Figure you might likely be familiar with a couple of them since they're from the U.K.
I wish there were an easy way to pay artists for any individual songs one copies to give away like this... makes me feel guilty even though I'm partially doing it to promote the artists. And even though in your case, I get the feeling you'd support the artists by buying their cds if you really liked the music.
But with my mix-cd's I've given away... if I were to buy extra copies of cds to make up for the songs on the mix-cds I gave away, I'd still end up with extra cds, which wouldn't be much use except for giving away, which sort of defeats the logic somewhat... Think I was going to look up iTunes, but I don't know how much of a selection of music they really have. Or if they let you pay for the same song multiple times.