listennow801 wrote: Man With Hatmusic! wrote:   Any donations are always appreciated.   And thanks! I've certainly got high hopes for this one. s'aright - i'll pm you w/in the next week..   Man With Hatmusic! wrote:   [And that is true. Whenever I have the most work I listen to the most stuff. Damn double edged swords...(or yay great procrastination device!)]   lol! really!  - the problem with web work, is that every time I listen to something new that I like, I end up doing all this net research about it and losing so much actual work time! a VERY distracting place this is!

I don't think it's an issue w/ stuff like this that is not in print or was never released in CD format, but must be burned from an old vinyl lp. That's the point - to make unavailable stuff available to fans. Let me tell you, I've done my searching for a lot I've discovered this way, but I have no choice but to buy a used lp [if i can afford it - if the item's really rare, the prices get absurd!] - but the artist gets no royalties anyway. Someone out there has a huge [and often quite wondrous!] list of titles that many want re-released on CD, but if there's not a large enough market/the work's too obscure, it never will. This way the artist's work doesn't just perish into the mists of oblivion just because the technology has changed.

Edited by listennow801 - October 23 2007 at 16:20

tee hee, 'tis quite quiet!

Listened through the Urban Sax/Pierre Henry split, though I must admit, with some skepticism. Big fan of Urban Sax's sound, though their 2nd album has gotten lost with the shambles of my concrete filing system, now, Pierre Henry is a different kettle of fish, from as early as I can remember, his somewhat 'dated' electronics irritated my ears. So, I was expecting this record to fall somewhere between bliss and irritation. Now really sure what to think of it yet, but I liked it more than I was expecting.

listennow801 wrote:   ah well - I really liked it, but then again my pechant for those 'dated' electonics may stem from teen yrs spent often inundated by them w/ princeton comp/electronic music dept. crew..sorry if i mislead.. : (

Cleo, no miss leading at all, I was still overjoyed to listen to more Urban Sax material. I know a lot of people like Pierre Henry, I just have never been able to 'get into him', though strangely I'm more than happy to listen to many French electro-acoustic artist of the time e.g. Luc Ferrari

BTW, Reed Streams looks almighty tasty :)

Luc Ferrari is a tricky one, I only own two albums: Tautologos and other early electronic works and Far-west news: episode n1, both are very different. The earlier disc is a compilation of his early electronic pieces from '58 - '66, while the latter is half field recording, half symphony. If you are interested I can send some samples from that compilation disc?  

Black Velvet wrote: Luc Ferrari is a tricky one, I only own two albums: Tautologos and other early electronic works and Far-west news: episode n1, both are very different. The earlier disc is a compilation of his early electronic pieces from '58 - '66, while the latter is half field recording, half symphony. If you are interested I can send some samples from that compilation disc?

btw bv, is that an arthur rackham in your sig [i used to adore him..]?

oh no, not at all..i just used to be rather fetishistic about him..he's so - otherwordly..this marvelous sinuousness..he has an ingenious sensitivity to the line that is downright sensuous, and magic imo..oh! and his sense of colour is utterly delectable.. He always touched me particularly because I don't often find myself inclined to illustrators - generally I  find the work a bit too pop-ish, or garish, or obvious...he has a 'fine' artist's sensibility..visionary..

mecca wrote: Mutant Sounds is an excellent blog site.

avestin wrote: SolariS wrote: Man With Hat wrote: SolariS wrote: Oooooo! I just went on a spending spree. I'm very excited for today's purchases.   Motor Totemist Guild - City of Mirrors Motor Totemist Guild - All America City Tin Hat Trio - The Sad Machinery of Spring PFS - 279   Many thanks to whoever added MTG. I'm really excited to give those albums a listen!   If you're having trouble finding their albums, you can get them here:   ps. http://www.rotarytotem.com/   It says COM is OOP and won't let me add it to the cart.   But nice order, and thanks for the site.   sorry, i may have bought the last one off their site   if you cant find it though, i'd be happy to make mp3s and send them for you     I also ordered from their on Thursday, so it might have been me....   Was surprised to receive a confirmation email from James Grigsby himself saying he will send the cd's soon. Didn't realise he's the one operating this.     I have started my Supersilent journey today with number 1. Well I wasn't expecting that, but nevertheless I liked it (though I doubt many will). Electronics, percussions, no "real" music, no melody, what you might call noise... but for some reason my neurons responded to it positively...   I'll go on with the following albums next.