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Pretty sure you know full well what you’re doing, considering the classic jungle breaks merged with house, but anyway:
Also, feels like this track might’ve been an influence on Animal Collective. Or maybe I’m dejavuing because of some other band, even though I’ve heard ‘My White Bicycle’ before.
That’s a very questionable mix, what with the muddy mids and piercing highs. I prefer this one, and I think other ones might be even better, but Youtube is currently flaking on me.
Slight correction: according to Discogs, Not This Time’ and ‘Freedom’ were included on some editions of ‘The Live Experience’ as a single, for a preview of the upcoming album. So technically they’re still new here.
‘VIII’ has now appeared on Discogs, but doesn’t provide any writing credits even for ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Alright’.
Six of them apparently. Not commonplace in the 2000s, but was a regular sight in the 60s. Bowie’s first two albums, released two years apart, are both called ‘David Bowie’.
From a comment on a pirate forum (of all places): seems that ‘Sempire Deo’ and ‘Time for the Braves’ are versions of old songs ‘Don’t U’ and ‘The Champions’ respectively. ‘Not This Time’ and ‘Freedom’ were on the 2022 ‘The Live Experience’. So only ‘The Fallen King’, ‘Will You Call My Name’ and ‘Not You Again’ are fully new songs.
Is it an album of covers? Because it feels like I’m listening to a bunch of 90s hits. The Bandcamp page doesn’t say anything about it, and the album isn’t on Discogs, so idk if there’s any info on the matter.
In a similar vein, the single version of ‘Come Together’ is completely different from the album version, with the latter having been mixed by Weatherall and omitting all of Bobby Gillespie’s vocals.
Btw, this is actually a remix of another song of theirs, ‘I’m Losing More Than I’ll Ever Have’. Remixed by Andrew Weatherall, who later produced their album ‘Screamadelica’ and was in ‘The Sabres of Paradise’. Barely anything of the original song is in the remix.
“This video has been removed by the uploader”
But you don’t need Youtube for this, as the album is on Bandcamp.
Though here’s the official Youtube playlist for those who prefer it for some reason.
You know that people choose what to listen to, based on stuff that they’re vaguely interested in? Make it up that your music is rap, and I won’t ever play your music except by mistake.
And before you label me as ‘set in my ways’, it’s evident right in this community more than anywhere else that I listen to more outlandish stuff than the majority of people. But I don’t give a shit about rap and never will.
Originally recorded separately by Brenda Lee and Gwen McCrae almost at the same time, as was tradition back then, and made popular by Elvis Presley. But personally I’m fond of the version by Pet Shop Boys.
I really need to find some decent backup solution for the lot of it.
After my share of run-ins with dead drives and disappearing YouTube videos, I just switched to keeping my ‘collection’ in my notes, with links to a service that works at the moment. And since I’m into outliner notes with some extra features, it’s all categorized with a hierarchy and tags, and annotated if I have any useful info. The notes are synced between desktop machines and the phone, and I’ll probably cook up some extra backups too.
This approach lived through three different operating systems, without me needing to migrate any big file collections for it.
Eh, the thread is basically for anyone interested, like I’m gonna refresh my collection with your list: I’ve listened to some of those fifteen years ago or so, and forgot about them when my hard drives kicked the bucket. Also, I’ve sometimes received replies from the author of such a thread weeks if not months later.
I’ve been a fan of Laswell since mid-2000s, it took me about five years to go through most of his discography, and I still missed some of it. Some poor soul uploaded over two hundred of his releases on Bandcamp starting in 2016, which of course was a cause of huge joy for me, since I love Bandcamp too. Anyway, Laswell was shoving dub-ambient into basically any of his work starting around mid-late nineties. It’s also funny to see how he influenced some of the big flock of people with whom he collaborated: e.g. Eraldo Bernocchi had his own ambient project, released around four records, then did the Equations of Eternity project with Laswell and Mick Harris (of Napalm Death and Scorn), and since then all his ambienty projects sounded like Laswell’s approach and library of effects.
I also mentioned a few select tunes in this comment, particularly regarding Echotourism and Shalash.
Well, I sure hope the ones I mentioned aren’t quite household names, other than Eno’s opus for Windows 95.
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That’s Namlook again.
I wanted to interject that you forgot Laswell’s infatuation with dub-ambient, but you actually overshot it since he also made a whole bunch of disco, funk, jazz, metal, drum’n’bass and whatnot. I think his biggest ambient stint was the series of collaborations with, surprise, Namlook again.
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Fun fact: there are two ambient artists called Gas, the other one of which released their titular album a year later.
You might also want to add some Terre Thaemlitz, Jeremy Taylor aka firQ, Osamu Sato, Mr Projectile, Chris Zabriskie, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma, Peter Rehberg, Bruce Gilbert, Laurie Spiegel and ‘Windows 95 startup sound, slowed 4000%’ to your tracklist.
Right now my go-to for falling asleep is Steve Reich’s ‘Music for 18 Musicians’.
Much of dub, e.g. ‘Trojan Dub Massive Volume One’ and moreso Volume Two. Many good night driftoffs and subway snoozes were had to these tunes.
Sub Dub, Twilight Circus, The Kumba Mela Experiment’s ‘East of the River Ganges’
Some classic downtempo:
Wamdue Project’s ‘King of My Castle (original version)’
Groove Armada’s ‘Inside My Mind (Blue Skies)’, ‘At the River’, ‘My Friend’
The Thrillseekers’ ‘Synaesthesia (Alaska’s Fly Away Dub)’ (mislabeled on Youtube)
perhaps AIR’s ‘Moon Safari’
De Phazz, Jazzanova, Fila Brazillia
Ninja Tune and adjacent:
Funki Porcini’s ‘What Are You Looking At?’, ‘Incredible Thing’, ‘How Banking Works’ (aka ‘Belisha Beacon’), etc.
The Cinematic Orchestra’s ‘Man With a Movie Camera’ (it’s busy in the middle, true to the film’s visual narrative)
Super Numeri’s ‘Great Aviaries’
Try Mr. Scruff, 9 Lazy 9, Daedelus, DJ Vadim, Eskmo, Bonobo, Skalpel. I don’t remember who of them is more chill and who’s more about breakbeats — been a while.
‘ECHOTOURIZM Vol. 3’, ШАΛАШ’s ‘X’, plus other stuff on those two Bandcamp pages; and also Titmouse’s Calendar’s ‘House of Rest’ — these are all very cozy.
Yeah, he properly started his solo career right after the Hype Williams project ended. Except he and Inga Copeland handed Hype Williams to some nobodies who made music that never felt remotely the same — and moreover, true to their cryptic attitude, little of the old Hype Williams is present on online services. About all of which I’m quite bitter. At least they don’t shut down pirate uploads.
‘100’ actually feels the closest to Hype Williams from Blunt’s oeuvre.
FYI: you might’ve intended to attach the link to the track — but Lemmy, at least with the default UI, replaces the link when an image is provided, so it’s not posted. Allegedly it can store both a link and an image, but various major apps don’t support that anyway.