Now Listening

[John Koch-Northrup]

Last three albums... I didn't realize they were all s bands at the time... :)

Sevendust - Home
Scannerfunk - Wave of Light by Wave of Light
Supergrass - Life on Other Planets

[sympathetic | DIVISION]

I've just recently bought a few albums after months of not getting anything...Christmas bonus time!!!!!!

I went out & got:

Jonny Greenwood- There Will Be Blood (OST)
Muse- Haarp
Trentemøller- The Trentemøller Collection

Wasn't too sure what to expect from Trentemøller, as I had only heard a couple of tracks but I was blown away how cool the CD was & just how beautiful it was in parts. There Will Blood Soundtrack was just incredible, such an oppressive piece of work parts of it made my skin crawl...a perfect soundtrack! Haarp was awesome, mine came with a DVD & had bonus tracks, being a HUGE Muse fan I'm surprised I never picked this up earlier!
The only downside to all of this is I saw so many more CDs I wanted!!! Oh well, me & the family can survive of 2 minute noodles for a few weeks!

[John Koch-Northrup]

Count me in the huge Muse fan category. The DVD that came with Haarp is utterly stunning! A couple of extra songs on it (I wish Appocalypse Please was on the cd...)

np: Sonic Youth - Goo

was: Front Line Assembly - Re-wind

[John Koch-Northrup]

Mahler - symphony no. 1 - der titan

[John Koch-Northrup]

Killing Joke - Democracy

I love the fact that Killing Joke went all over the musical map through so many years. One of those bands that influenced my music in subtle ways. I might have to dig out my greatest hits album from them... :-)

[John Koch-Northrup]

Stephen Philips - In The Moonlight

Haven't listened to this one in a long time. Lovely ambient. 1st track is all piano... I can't remember if this is entirely a piano album? Ok - track 2 is also piano.

[John Koch-Northrup]

It's unreleased AtmoWorks stuff day... these are all in various stages of completion for release...

Exuviae - Starting To See (releasing tomorrow!)
MjDawn - Numerical Alchemy
Chris Russell - Aralu
Pixyblink - Withered Leaves
Disturbed Earth - Ghosts of Carthage
Subseason - Subseason1

[Kasper]

Been listening to a couple of recent releases on my one and a half hour commute to work:

Vir Unis - Stand Still Like The Hummingbird - Superb new release, which took me a few listens to really grasp. It wasn't the return to Blood Machine or Mercury and Plastic I initially hoped for after reading the description of the album. Yet it does feel and sound very futuristic. And it's extremely hypnotic. I love listening to this while drifting in and out of sleep on the morning train-ride.

Solar Fields - Movements - Nice and instantly likeable. But after listening to it for a week or so, it tends to sound a bit too polished. But the man is obviously a gifted producer, no doubt about that!

[åpne sinn]

As will happen every 6-8 weeks, I'm currently re-fascinated with Vidna Obmana's "Landscape in Obscurity". I seriously am incapable of turning this piece off.

[John Koch-Northrup]

I don't think it's an issue if you listen to yourself or not. I listen to my music every so often - for me - I wrote it, I like it, why wouldn't I listen to it? Sometimes it makes me groan as I pick out the errors that no one else would hear (and well, some that they would...). Anyway - I listened to several albums that I either wrote or jams with others in the last few weeks.

Went through a huge Muse phase last week - listening to Origin of Symmetry, Hullabaloo, HAARP, and Black Holes and Revelations.

Also digging into some 12k stuff... Sogar, Taylor Deupree, shuttle358

Also Sly and the Family Stone, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, and Nitzer Ebb.

[Seren]

I often listen to my own music - usually what I am working on at present but recently listened to older stuff and found myself thinking 'I can see what I ws trying to do, but not sure I'd do it the same way now....' wondered if I should work on changing it or leave it......

also
Oophoi - time fragments 1 and 2,
Jeff Pearce - vestiges,
Steve Roach - Labyrinth.
Micheal Moorcock and the Deep Fix - New World's Fair.
Pink Fairies - Up the Pinks! (I think that's the title of the compilation.)
David Darling - Darkwood.
Celine Dion - Falling Into You (courtesy of my wife....)

[Ari Porki]

This week: all the new tracks on atmoworks, really grazy french jazzband La Campagnie de musiques a ouir and finnish female singer Maija Vilkkumaa.

[John Koch-Northrup]

Listening recently:

The Winterhouse - Slow Promises - on Blue Oasis
Parallel Worlds - Shade - on DiN
Eno/Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking

...wish I was ocean size