RIO/Avant Drop-In Centre

NaturalScience wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: NaturalScience wrote: James wrote: That's a point, when do I get my paycheck from you Pat?  I don't give recommendations for free you know, it'll cost you! I could only pay you in dollars, wouldn't even be worth your effort to collect.  Maybe you could pay him in shipped albums. Too bad James already has everything he wants from your collection probably. And they'd just sit in his house unlistened to anyways.

Good point.

James wrote: Chris, I am so jealous of you!  I just found this. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=dCl0jCQUjMQ Are you going in April?  I hope to see you there.

I have a new ambition now!  I want to be in a promotional video for RIOfest.

NaturalScience wrote: Syzygy wrote: song_of_copper wrote: MovingPictures07 wrote: I was listening to "Meet the Residents" on the bus today and it made me realize that it's probably one of the best starter albums for them. Great disc. Listening to avant garde classics on public transport is quite the epitome of cool, methinks.   Much of my 80 GB ipod is filled with RIO/Avant/Zeuhl, and I usually have it set on to shuffle. This was the soundtrack to yesterday's commute into work (today I listened to National Health - Playtime start to finish) :   I've been meaning to get that, and your post reminded me of it, so I ordered it immediately.

Haha, me again.  Sorry, I'm being prolific today.  I'm home from work with a horrible ear infection - I'll have to restrict myself to minimal listening today, I think. 

Anyway... I have 7 downloads left on emusic.  Tell me what to spend them on, please.

song_of_copper wrote: Haha, me again.  Sorry, I'm being prolific today.  I'm home from work with a horrible ear infection - I'll have to restrict myself to minimal listening today, I think.  Anyway... I have 7 downloads left on emusic.  Tell me what to spend them on, please.

James wrote: First priority is getting a passport. Then I have to find people to go with... I don't really want to travel by myself.  So if any of the British contingency fancy meeting in London, we could travel on the train together through to Toulouse and then we could travel onwards to Carmaux! It's certainly an idea.  I guess we'll arrange it nearer the time... And how much are tickets and how long will they be available for, do you think?

I'd be happy to do that.  I'm quite happy travelling alone, but making the journey in good company would be a delightful novelty.

Does anyone know if tickets are available yet?

James wrote: I do know Shub-Niggurath's Les Morts Vent Vite is on eMusic, so get it, NOW!  You won't regret it for one moment. No, it's not!   Shame, I'd have probably picked that if it was available. It's Chamber Zeuhl and very fine it is too.   You think Heresie is dark?  Pah!  This is darker!  Strangely though, their less chamber-sounding third album (that followed this one) is even darker!  Yep, even darker than Ceux du dehors! Stop tantalising me!   I will get this, when I next buy CDs, I think. If you ever find Pocket Orchestra, I recomment them as well. As for others: Zaar - Zaar Sotos - Platypus Another Koenjihyakkei album Ruins albums Korekyojinn albums Rational Diet's first None of this is available, except 'Angherr Shisspa', which I already have, and a bunch of Ruins albums (and I don't know which one to get... also, only 7 downloads!  Probably not a full album's worth in the case of Ruins...). Do you have any Miasma and the Carousel of Headless Horses yet? Not yet, but I'm definitely going to get it.  It's on itunes, I believe.

James wrote: You have seen images of Paris Station in a rush hour, haven't you?  I don't fancy doing that on my own. It'd be a pleasure to travel with you.  I maybe able to convince some people to come with me yet... but we'll see.  They hate my music taste, so erm... it might just be me.

You obviously haven't seen me with my sharp elbows, determined moue and tightly-furled umbrella.  I'm more than a match for any number of Frenchmen!   Bring 'em on, I say!  (Hehe! )

I've no idea if I'll drag anyone along with me.  Who knows.  It depends.

song_of_copper wrote: James wrote: You have seen images of Paris Station in a rush hour, haven't you?  I don't fancy doing that on my own. It'd be a pleasure to travel with you.  I maybe able to convince some people to come with me yet... but we'll see.  They hate my music taste, so erm... it might just be me. You obviously haven't seen me with my sharp elbows, determined moue and tightly-furled umbrella.  I'm more than a match for any number of Frenchmen!   Bring 'em on, I say!  (Hehe! ) I've no idea if I'll drag anyone along with me.  Who knows.  It depends.

Ah, excellent.  I should be fine then.

I shall get back to you with that PM later, hopefully.  I've had no sleep whatsoever... due to Internet issues and them sheer stupidity with some software that caused a blue screen of death on my laptop.

I've sorted both issues out now though and have been catching up on more exciting things.  I hate it when things break and they're easy to repair but when you try to repair them, it just all goes wrong!

James wrote: I'm sure Patrick got Les Morts Vont Vite from there... oh wait, I think he got his copy from Mindawn. Besides, with your earache, they'd not be suitable right now. Hmmm, what else do they have that sounds interesting then?  I don't use eMusic, because I always buy CDs like people should be doing. Plus nothing beats looking at a pile of CDs and saying "they're mine!".  You can't do that with digitial files and you cannot get them signed either, of course. I heard a Mothlite track, I thought they'd be too quiet for your tastes, Melissa?  It didn't sound remotely like Guapo's noise. Oooh, you could try and get Picchio dal Pozzo's second album, it's RIO and excellent.  Not sure if it's on eMusic either, mind you.

Indeed, nothing beats CDs.  [Edited to add - before someone else does - except LPs! ]  I am amassing them, too, rather rapidly...   But emusic is great for those 'cheap thrills', yes?

I wasn't really expecting to like Mothlite - I think I even heard something of theirs before on their myspace or something, and didn't hate it but wasn't raving about it, either.  But a friend of mine rather pressed it upon me, so I caved in and had a proper listen... and really, really liked it.  There's something about that Daniel O'Sullivan - he is sneaky.  You might dismiss him as this rather effete, pompous so-and-so, and maybe the first time you hear the music it just seems rather clever (maybe even pretentious).  But it's got something about it.  Something sweetly sinister.  It's almost like... he's licked an hallucinogenic toad so you don't have to!!   (NB: obligatory public service message - kids, don't lick hallucinogenic toads. )  A weird kind of Lewis Carroll meets Aldous Huxley type scenario...

Hmm, I might listen to it again now.


Edited by song_of_copper - September 18 2008 at 10:05