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[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

[John Koch-Northrup]

Been listening to excellent tracks posted here on the AtmoVerse... from SAVO, oVdk/Ryuta.k, and Peter James.

Many excellent and diverse tracks.

[SAVO]

Thanks.

[John Koch-Northrup]

Numina - Symbiotic Spaces
Thievery Corporation - Sounds from the Thievery Hi-Fi
Laurent Garnier - Unreasonable Behaviour

All excellent for different reasons. The Numina album is a 2 disc collection of his various ambient stuff from several years - Numina is consistently good. Definitely one of the better ambient artists out there right now. I've had plans to work with him for years - hopefully this will the year that project begins. (I keep dragging my feet... :)

Thievery Corporation is a great chilled out groove disc - very nice in the background.

Laurent Garnier... classic house, techno, etc... so many good tracks on this album and the style varies really nicely throughout the disc.

[Kasper]

I've been been consuming Miles Davis a lot lately:

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Miles Davis - Porgy & Bess

Miles Davis - In a Silent Way

I love this stuff!

[John Koch-Northrup]

You cannot go wrong with Miles...

np:

Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

was:

Jesus and Mary Chain - Honey's Dead
Muse - HAARP (live)

[John Koch-Northrup]

Moving back to ambient land...

Juno Reactor - Luciana

While Juno Reactor is very well known for their more intense trance/sci fi/dance oriented stuff (and it's fantastic, by the way) - this is a long form one track beatless ambient excursion... very nice.

[Vir Unis]

Still listening to Portishead's new one. Played 'The Rip' three times in a row this morning in the car. Ryan (Camera bass player) told me that Radiohead is covering 'The Rip' in their new live set. Now that would be very good to see. I can totally see Thom Yorke singing that piece.

The more I listen to Portishead the more I like 'em.

[John Koch-Northrup]

I'm a huge fan of the earlier pair of studio albums and Live at Roseland. Amazing - amazing stuff.

was:

FSOL - Accelerator - at this point - a classic.

now:

Various - Creative, Innnovative, Uncompromising - Nation Records 1995... heavily sample based vocal stuff. Fun when in the mood. Here's who's on it:

1 Trans-Global Underground* - Shimmer (Run Devils & Demons) (6:50)
2 Loop Guru - Hope (Original Sin) (4:52)
3 Hustlers H.C. - Let The Hustlers Play (5:50)
4 Heliopolis - Kintamani (Cryogenic Mix) (6:15)
5 Fun-Da-Mental - X-Cra-Mental (Ins-Tru-Mental Mix) (5:51)
6 Tribal Drift - Like This (9:20)
7 Urban South - Brain Damage (4:44)
8 Hustlers H.C. - On A Ride (Long Ride Mix) (4:38)
9 Fun-Da-Mental - Mental Violence (Ins-Tru-Mental Mix) (4:59)
10 Loop Guru - Mrabet (A Saint By Accident Mix) (5:33)
11 Trans-Global Underground* - Slowfinger (Delta Ladies Night Mix) (8:36)
12 Zuvuya - Grabbing Nandi By The Horn (Remix) (8:46)

discogs entry

[åpne sinn]

Today

Vir Unis and James Johnson - Perimeter. This is just stellar stuff. Best played, IMHO, on headset while walking through a busy metropolitan area. Be sure to set the volume just loud enough so that you can hear it and the ambient atmospherics of the city at the same about the same volume. It's amazing (bonus points if an ambulance goes by you at about 10mph with "Metabolizing the Intervals" on the headset. Truly otherworldly.)

Now

Steve Roach - A Deeper Silence. This is 'dedslo'.

Tomorrow - a Rush retrospective, on account of I just got tickets for the 6/15 show at the Tweeter Center and am all A-Twitter.

[John Koch-Northrup]

All A-Twitter at Tweeter? :)

Tipper - Surrounded
Telefon Tel Aviv - Remixes Compiled
Muse - Black Holes and Revelations

Tipper I'm still absorbing - love it - but no comments yet.

Telefon... I'm a recent convert... how'd I miss out so long? Gorgeous.

Muse... I'm always in the mood for Muse... fandamtastic.

[CAMERA]

In a Silent Way! I love those other two, but ISW is waaaay up my alley.

[Ben Fleury-Steiner (GoS)]

Willits-Sakamoto Ocean Fire an incredible work of fearless deconstructed ambience--'error-laden' sometimes to the point of fooling the listener into total sonic breakdown but morphs so effortlessly into warming, software tweaked guitar-keyboard atmospherics...Perhaps my favorite disc so far of 2008...