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Music fun

So I’m in a good mood apparently and not overly professional feeling. My feed reorg seems to be working: I caught a tag music game going on (I should set up searches on my name, but honestly I’m chicken). Jonas tagged me and I will participate.

Last cd’s bought: Winterkälte’s Disturbance and Casino Vs Japan early stuff. A bit epicurian for even my tastes, but CvJ’s Whole Numbers Play the Basics is one of my top 10 albums ever. The CvJ site gives a great sample of their sound. Soothing.

Disc volume: Server says 15.6 files in the main jukebox, but I’ve not burned everything and there are cds of mp3s offline too.

Current song: None. Last song played: (before I started this exercise - FoxyTunes displayed it in browser all day): Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe.

My list is songs that have been stuck in my head over the last few days:

1. Converter’s “Dron(ritual)” off the very good Exit Ritual (note that “very good” in the category of power noise is a relative thing)
2. Death in June’s “Fall Apart” - neo-folk from Serbia. I have a couple versions, but Something is Coming is a good mix of acoustic and studio work. Warning, he occassionally uses Nazi imagery, but I think I would too if I was in Serbia thru the wars. Jonas?
3. Coil’s “Slur-Babylero-Ostia” (different parts of all three songs) off Horse Rotorvator
4. The Cure’s “A Strange Day” off the dark Pornography
5. Radiohead’s “Sit Down, Stand Up” from Hail to the Thief - this and Paranoid Android are about as mainstream as I get
6. Lastly, and quite enduringly, the “So Long and Thanks for All the Fish” song from HHGTG

I really can’t recommend most of that. I do have singular taste - love music with chirps instead lyrics, strange distinct beats and distortion. I find it tremendously focusing. But I do recommend:

1. Haujobb Vertical Theory - the kind of Industrial I favor besides noise.
2. Balligomingo Beneath the Surface - folks from Nettwerk back in the day (Delerium, FLA). Should I find it weird that Avril Lavigne is on Nettwerk now?
3. Autechre’s Amber or EP7 - excellent working music.
4. Anything Robyn Hitchcock - he’s an amazing songwriter and bard (even has a song with Eleanor in it!). If you can find his cover of The Furs’ “Ghost In You”, do it.
5. And on the rare, odd side - Coil/Elph’s Time Machines project - it all sounds like ciccadas. Here’s a review and I use the disc in the same way as the reviewer. It’s epic hot summer afternoon music!

Since I hate chain letters, but generally follow norms, I’ll tag Niall, MJ, Mike, and Russ. Ignore as you may.

And I’ll confess - between reading Darknet and meditating on all the file sharing I don’t do, I’m thinking of Yahoo’s music service. $5 is just about right. I even might be Russ’s sucker, but only if his Zen isn’t some girly color :-). A nice lime green is preferred.