Cold Cave - Full Cold Moon

This is sooo goood! Thank you for recommending this @! 

 

 

YB,  This finally arrived and played it a few times.   Very very good.  Seems to be songs from around the first album.  Recording quality is up and down but still good.    I gave the download to a mate of mine and he loves it as well.

 

 

  Not sure why I am playing Health on a sunday morning as its quite jarring and scary - definately not one for the family

 

 

Worth a listen,,,,,

Above & Beyond - We Are All We Need (2015)

youtube-album in full

Edited July 12, 201510 yr by ozmillsy

Finally got a copy of 12bit Blues on the WE and the new Blockhead, it's rad.

The last one was made by some old students of mine who have set up an electro/techno label out of Frankston - Butter Sessions Records. The launch in on the 19/7 at Abbotsford Convert if you feel like supporting the electronic yoof.

Edited July 13, 201510 yr by houdinifangs

Hi @Y B,

I have the black vinyl though it is very noisy during the ambient suite. Will have to give it a clean before I spin it again.

Cheers,

Leigh

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I too have the black and have about 4 continuos clicks on the ambient suite, would have been perfect without because I just love the wave after wave of synth on this... damn...!

Edited July 15, 201510 yr by Y B

Re-visiting my favorite 8 bit, circuit bending, computer game disco artist - DAT Politics. Their older stuff (tracto flirt) is really harsh, glitchy and experimental. Their most recent stuff is quite bubblegumy. It's all good. Wish I was collecting vinyl when I got into these guys as their art was tops.

Boards of Canada - Geogaddi - 2002, Warp records original UK pressing 2.5 LP

 

Still remember when this came out after the incredible Children Have A album.  Is it as good as its predecessor, its different enough to not matter really. A classic in its own right.

 

 

Amazin' I was just listening to Dat Politics remix of Jaga Jazzist's 'Reminders' last night. Never heard of them 'till then. I have it on a 2002 Ninja Tune, Small Town Supersound, "Day" E.P. (vinyl)

To be honest, it was a glitch to far for my taste but not intolerable.

Amazin' I was just listening to Dat Politics remix of Jaga Jazzist's 'Reminders' last night. Never heard of them 'till then. I have it on a 2002 Ninja Tune, Small Town Supersound, "Day" E.P. (vinyl)

To be honest, it was a glitch to far for my taste but not intolerable.

Villager is perhaps their least glitchy, saccharine release. Still has their 8 bit aesthetic but it's their darkest, most progressive album - which doesn't really mean much as it's usually all about sugar

 

Scuba - Claustrophobia

LateNightTales - Jon Hopkins

Levon Vincent - Levon Vincent 4xlp

BJM's return to form back in 2012 - Aufheben including the electronic homage Blue Order/New Monday

 

The surpeb XL Recordings 4lp from last year's  Pay Close Attention various artists set celebrating 25 years

 

 

 

 

Edited July 25, 201510 yr by metal beat

Have been to a one year old's birthday party this arvo. At my age that requires a few vinos to get through. Home and in the mood for some electronic music.

Regulars that drop into chez viognier know of my love for this album.

Caribou. Swim

Next up Voices From The Lake. It's been a while since I played this but when I noticed Mr Darko picked up a copy via the FS thread this week it prompted me to put it into the play this weekend pile.

And a new album that Max from @@Discus records dropped off during the week. Thanks to @@wim for this recommendation.

Colleen. Captain Of None.

All on the beautiful black stuff and sound exceptional. If you want to hear your system at its best these three albums will test it but also sound amazing.

 

Inspired by @@Viognier Caribou Swim + Our Love. Do you have Swim on US Merge 45 rpm or the UK/EU CitySlang 33rpm? 

 

I have compared them and found the CitySlang a better pressing on both cases. Swim is close, my copy Swim (on Merge) has distortions on 2 tracks and quite noisy. Our Love on CitySlang is quite a lot better than Merge.

@@Discus

 

Hi Max

 

Caribou - Our Love is one of my fav releases in the last 12 months and Swim is superb.

 

Is the Euro City Slang pressing of Swim really a 33rd pressing and not a 45rpm?  Interesting.

 

Swim is pretty hard tracking for a cartridge as the pressing almost goes to the inner label, as does Our Love actually.  I am glad I use Stevenson alignment as the inner third of any record just sails through like a Sunday drive.

 

 My copies are both the Merge pressings and both are quiet but I have cleaned them a couple of times but overall no complaints from me re the pressing.  I have plenty that are worse pressings!!

 

Does the music sound better on the City Slang pressings or just the pressings are better?

 

cheers

Something different again, spinning this now..

 

Listening to Tycho - Dive tonight. Relaxing ambient/trance with a bit of a retro feel to it. 

 

 

I heartily endorse your post!

 

I heartily endorse your endorsement!

 

Inspired by @@Viognier Our Love on CitySlang is quite a lot better than Merge.

 

Interesting - thanks. I think I'll need to source that on CitySlang then.

@@Discus and @ Both albums I have are City Slang and 33. Pretty sure I have heard the 45 version of Swim at Victor's but never did a back to back. I also have a 45 12inch single of Can't Do Without You on Jiaolong which came out before the album was released. Again have not done a back to back of the single vs album version. All sound great to me. In fact I often use Swim to to demonstrate just how good the Eclipses are.

Are all copies of Swim not pressed at 45rpm?

Are all copies of Swim not pressed at 45rpm?

 

 

It would seem not from Discus and Mark

 

US Merge 45 and Euro City Slang 33

 

Bizzare

 

Adds to the collectibilty I guess

Edited July 26, 201510 yr by metal beat

Currently spinning the Merge 45RPM 2LP.

When in Rome...

Cheers,

Leigh

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Peeps on discogs are saying that the City Slang version is superior...

http://www.discogs.com/reviews?master=240989

Cheers,

Leigh

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Mine's still in shrinkwrap. No idea which version.

R.I.P Susumu Yokota

From the Leaf Label

Last week we received news that Susumu Yokota

 has passed away at the cruelly young age of 54 after a long period of illness. We understand that he died in late March, although his family has only just released the news.

We released six of Yokota’s albums over a period of four years (1999-2002), including three that have come to be considered classics of ambient music: Sakura

, Grinning Cat

 and The Boy And The Tree

. Those records helped put us on the map, and are still some of the best selling releases in The Leaf Label’s 20 year history. Their word-of-mouth success was made all the more remarkable by the fact that Yokota barely promoted them, visiting Europe to play live just once in the entire period we worked with him. Yokota returned the compliment by releasing a personally selected compilation of Leaf releases on his own Skintone label (Leaf Compilation

, 2001). My personal favourite of his albums was the first we released, Image 1983-1998

, a collection of delicate, otherworldly archive recordings.

As well as his ambient work, Yokota was respected for his house and techno music, with releases stretching back to 1993

.

I only met Yokota three times, twice in the UK and a third time when I visited Japan in 2001. Yokota drove me (sometimes at alarming speed) through the endless sprawl of Tokyo and Yokohama to the tranquil city of Kamakura, where we visited ancient Buddhist and Shinto shrines and an extraordinary vegetarian restaurant (a rarity in Japan) that only served variants of tofu (it tasted immeasurably better than that sounds). Later we visited an onsen (hot spring baths), a real Japanese treat. Though he spoke very little English, he was always a charming and thoughtful companion. A sign on a harbour wall in Japanese and English we saw on the trip inspired the title of a Leaf compilation: "Watch for tsunami when you feel earth quakeâ€, an instruction that would haunt me years later.

As a tribute to Yokota, The Leaf Label and Lo Recordings

 have joined forces to release My Energy

, a six track EP featuring selected highlights from Yokota’s varied and acclaimed back catalogue, most of which were originally released on his own Skintone label. The EP is available now onBandcamp

 as a ‘Pay what you want’ release with all proceeds going to Animal Refuge Kansai

. Yokota was a lifelong animal lover, and the charity was chosen at his family’s request.

DOWNLOAD MY ENERGY EP HERE

Tony Morley 

July 2015

sad news indeed.

such a delicate touch in creating music.