What have you been listening to?

[RobC]

The trance tune from the cute, family friendly game, Conker's Bad Fur Day.

It really starts at 2:38 ~ I timed the link. As usual for trance music, the stuff before that belongs into the trash. x D But after that, kicks ass! I wish I would have been old enough for night clubs when this kind of stuff was huge around 2000. Alas, I was only 10.
Still, gonna be great for a playlist to listen to, especially for cycling!

[Aosta]

Still a brilliant track

[rorystorm]

Every coupla months I sit up late with a bottle of wine and listen to Robyn, its one of my favourite things to do. She's amazing, its a real shame she doesn't make more records.

Anyway, this

[bxbrkrz]

[jam-s]

That's a great classic which was quite ahead of its time imho.

[bxbrkrz]

That's a great classic which was quite ahead of its time imho.

Yep.

[rorystorm]

Eliane Radigue's Trilogie de la Morte. Very very beautiful long form drone music. If you have the right ears for this kind of thing its the standard by which everything else is judged.

[bxbrkrz]

[bxbrkrz]

[dvdrtldg]

Eliane Radigue's Trilogie de la Morte. Very very beautiful long form drone music. If you have the right ears for this kind of thing its the standard by which everything else is judged.

Yeah I love this. I just recently started listening to some of her post-2000 acoustic instrumental stuff, the Occam series which isn' quite as powerful (imo) as her electronic work but still awesome

[ChulaCoola]

Herman Crantz - pretty damn cool stuff. He has a mix of different genres, but a lot of Dub Techno. I wouldn't normally listen to Dub Techno, but it is on my Reason Songs playlist on Soundcloud, and I have it on letting it run. He has a lot of really good songs. I just like it. Just started with Epoxy, and now it is on Claire Laffut - Verite.

[Aosta]

[rorystorm]

I listened to this album a lot around 2010 or so after my dad passed away for you know, reasons. I've always really been into drone and a record I did round then had a couple of reviews saying I'd been influenced by her, and though I'd seen her name around I'd never really picked up on her stuff - I'm really glad I did. Her early work is interesting too, pre synthesizer she was doing things with recording microphone feedback iirc, I haven't listened to it in a long time but I remember really liking it.

About the same time I was playing a lot of Thomas Koner's albums Teimo and Permafrost, really lovely which you should check out if you haven't heard them. Drone has been a big part of the NZ experimental scene, especially in the late 90s and the 2000s. Campbell Kneale is the guy overseas people into that stuff seem to know (as Birchville Cat Motel) but for me probably the most interesting is Surface of the Earth. I think I've posted this before but this is a lovely performance they did at the lines of flight festival they did in Dunedin last year -

which I was lucky enough to see.

and also, a blatant bit of self promotion, an album I did ten or fifteen years ago which is maybe the best thing I did like this?

it's made entirely with guitar loops put through shit loads of reverb and delay and fiddling around with pitch shifting.

Eliane Radigue's Trilogie de la Morte. Very very beautiful long form drone music. If you have the right ears for this kind of thing its the standard by which everything else is judged.

Yeah I love this. I just recently started listening to some of her post-2000 acoustic instrumental stuff, the Occam series which isn' quite as powerful (imo) as her electronic work but still awesome

[rorystorm]

with the caveat I don't support their anti Semitism, but for a pretty obvious reason I put this on as soon as I got up this morning

did it make me feel any better, not in the least little bit. I'm still oscillating between stomach ulcer inducing anxiety and stomach ulcer inducing fury. That cyber dystopian sci fi with pretty people in black leather from my twenties really isn't looking that sexy rn.

[Theo.M]

I'm still obsessed with My reason by Philip J.

I can't stop listening to it more than a year later.

The vocal section is what does it for me with the chord progression, it's just so beautiful.

I think I may have mentioned this one before, but I have made myself a nice youtube trance playlist that has 50 tracks on it and this is first up. I always start the playlist when I go to bed and it actually helps me sleep.

[Tiny Montgomery]

with the caveat I don't support their anti Semitism, but for a pretty obvious reason I put this on as soon as I got up this morning

did it make me feel any better, not in the least little bit. I'm still oscillating between stomach ulcer inducing anxiety and stomach ulcer inducing fury. That cyber dystopian sci fi with pretty people in black leather from my twenties really isn't looking that sexy rn.

If I post a track by Iggy Pop, David Bowie or Led Zep do I need to say "now I know these guys were regularly sleeping with 14 year olds on ludes but this slaps" or somesuch?

[rorystorm]

Ha! excellent trolling my friend, very nice. I was actually listening to Bowie with some people last night and we were all like, hmmmm, how does this feel in 2024.

To your point, the answer I guess is yes, if you're bothered by it you should. The thing is that for a lot of the kind of people who'd be listening to PE now, the anti Semitic rhetoric around PE and the nation of Islam etc hasn't aged well - tho to be fair IIRC they ditched the guy who was mainly responsible for saying it publicly. On the other hand I guess for people listening to Led Zep these days at least, sleeping with 14 year olds is kind of part of their appeal.

with the caveat I don't support their anti Semitism, but for a pretty obvious reason I put this on as soon as I got up this morning

did it make me feel any better, not in the least little bit. I'm still oscillating between stomach ulcer inducing anxiety and stomach ulcer inducing fury. That cyber dystopian sci fi with pretty people in black leather from my twenties really isn't looking that sexy rn.

If I post a track by Iggy Pop, David Bowie or Led Zep do I need to say "now I know these guys were regularly sleeping with 14 year olds on ludes but this slaps" or somesuch?

[Tiny Montgomery]

Ha! excellent trolling my friend, very nice. I was actually listening to Bowie with some people last night and we were all like, hmmmm, how does this feel in 2024.

To your point, the answer I guess is yes, if you're bothered by it you should. The thing is that for a lot of the kind of people who'd be listening to PE now, the anti Semitic rhetoric around PE and the nation of Islam etc hasn't aged well - tho to be fair IIRC they ditched the guy who was mainly responsible for saying it publicly. On the other hand I guess for people listening to Led Zep these days at least, sleeping with 14 year olds is kind of part of their appeal.

If I post a track by Iggy Pop, David Bowie or Led Zep do I need to say "now I know these guys were regularly sleeping with 14 year olds on ludes but this slaps" or somesuch?

Not trolling im engaging with your post within the parameters allowable in this forum.

I believe Griff has clarified his position over time? Im not an uber fan but feel the pure naked expression of something like Fight The Power & early PE in comparison to, say, Questlove telling me to go get my jab, is stark?

I just wouldnt disrespect a black man growing up in the US in the 80s and try to police his speech in 2024 just because a less palatable side of the elite to my taste won some phony election.

[Tiny Montgomery]

Anyway, RIP Quincy Jones.

[Tiny Montgomery]

[Tiny Montgomery]

[Noxtheproducer]

Dope remix. Very funky man.

[bxbrkrz]

[rorystorm]

agreed, and the example you used is a good one because it's a difficult topic to tease out because, Bowie for eg did a great deal of good and the queer people around me arguably wouldn't be living their lives in the same way without him. Buuuuut....

And you know, don't get me started on Morrisey.

I guess my point was that despite some of my modern discomfort around PE's rhetoric, Fight the Power seems to sum up how I've been feeling the last few days. Again like you said keeping within the forum parameters there's some shit going down where I live too and the last while I've been asking myself, okay, what can I do now. Anyway, to quote another fairly problematic but integral figure to the whole thing, anger is an energy. So let's use it.

Ha! excellent trolling my friend, very nice. I was actually listening to Bowie with some people last night and we were all like, hmmmm, how does this feel in 2024.

To your point, the answer I guess is yes, if you're bothered by it you should. The thing is that for a lot of the kind of people who'd be listening to PE now, the anti Semitic rhetoric around PE and the nation of Islam etc hasn't aged well - tho to be fair IIRC they ditched the guy who was mainly responsible for saying it publicly. On the other hand I guess for people listening to Led Zep these days at least, sleeping with 14 year olds is kind of part of their appeal.

Not trolling im engaging with your post within the parameters allowable in this forum.

I believe Griff has clarified his position over time? Im not an uber fan but feel the pure naked expression of something like Fight The Power & early PE in comparison to, say, Questlove telling me to go get my jab, is stark?

I just wouldnt disrespect a black man growing up in the US in the 80s and try to police his speech in 2024 just because a less palatable side of the elite to my taste won some phony election.

[ShadowMatriks]

These two have got a lot of play.