Last.fm Group Journal: Smoking Music

Res Band - bandcamp album

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:15:43 +0000

http://resband.bandcamp.com/album/cod

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dadala-Spaghetti Wall album at SoundCloud

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:11:29 +0000

You can now hear the whole album at SoundCloud:

http://soundcloud.com/dadala/sets/spaghetti-wall/

Improv/Collage Post-Glitch Avant-Ambient Jazz-Electronica

New Res Band Album - Cod

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:43:16 +0000

Its quite a good one

http://www.last.fm/music/Res+Band/Cod

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BEAT GARDEN COMPILATION

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:26:35 +0000

Gergaz Netlabel is celebrating 3 years of its existence and decided to mark this anniversary with a release of BEAT GARDEN Compilation made out of exclusive tracks from talented producers and beat makers such as Ta-ku, 813 and Vlooper along with Mute Speaker, Gards from KC, Oddlogic, Jimmy Pé, Repeat Pattern, Prof.Logik and many others. The compilation consists of 21 tracks in total and is available as FREE DOWNLOAD.

tracklist

01 Vlooper – Noo World disOrder (a Dilla remix)
02 Prof.Logic – Only Time Will Tell
03 Anthony Drawn – Silent Storm
04 Vlooper – Un suit case Eglise (GLGN remix)
05 oddlogic – Folds
06 Melodiesinfonie - Alone but never alone
07 Moon – Aurora
08 oddlogic – Evening Textures (Jimmy Pé remix)
09 The Global Optimistic – Factory
10 Gards from KC – Unplaced
11 MAZI – The Bomb
12 Claviq – Fuck Yeah
13 Ta-ku – Where
14 Evil Needle – Waves
15 Zack Christ – Gris
16 Myown – Stop arguing with your lsd essensses
17 ContaineR - Sodden Footboy
18 813 – Pink noiser aka Brutality (+ Justin Timberlake acapella)
19 Mute Speaker – Tank Girls
20 Zomb – Walking Souls
21 Repeat Pattern – Fat Alebert drinks Robitussin with a straw

HESPERUS012 NOW OUT!

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 13:54:35 +0000

Hesperus Records proudly announces the Joint-ops with Species Productions in releasing through the internet the latest album of Gas Masked Lestat! Thank you goes to Gas Masked Lestat & Species Productions for accepting our offer!!

Species Productions is an underground record label from Greece. Both Hesperus Records and Species Productions started our operations back in 2008 with aim to support and spread the underground noises in a different way than any other diy record labels. We both aim in quallity and not quantity and thats why we have limited releases and not hundreads if not thousands like many other labels over the internet.

Gas Masked Lestat is a one man band that exists since 2003 and comes from Greece. The band started as an experimental noise project and evolved through the years. Now Gas Masked Lestat comes back in 2012 with one of the most rythmic and melodic albums he has ever created. A true milestone in his carreer openning the path for the underground indusrial acts to follow!

DOWNLOAD NOW FOR FREE WHAT TO BE CONSIDERED ONE CULT AND EXTREME POST-INDUSRIAL RELEASE BY VISTING WWW.HESPERUS-RECORDS.COM

[Last.fm] Global Top 100 Tracks of 2011 (plus 2010's)

Sun, 25 Dec 2011 18:44:57 +0000

2011 Chart Year: 2011/01/02 --- 2012/01/01 (12:00 pm, GMT), 52 weeks in all.
Last.fm Global Weekly Tracks Chart
Regional Top 100 Tracks of 2011 (UK / US / Brasil / Deutschland)
Global Top 50 Tracks Countdown

2010 Chart Year: 2010/01/03 --- 2011/01/02 (12:00 pm, GMT), 52 weeks in all.

Regional Top 100 Tracks of 2011 (UK / US / Brasil / Deutschland)

The top 30 CD's of 2011 for people with taste...

Sat, 31 Dec 2011 19:08:17 +0000

1. Adele - 21

2. Amy Winehouse - Lioness: Hidden Treasures

3. Bjork - Biophilia

4. Boy George - Ordinary Alien

5. Britney Spears - Femme fatal

6. Brown Bird - Salt for Salt

7. Cake - Showroom of Compassion

8. Cults - Cults

9. Devotchka- 100 Lovers

10. Dionne Broomfield - Good For the Soul

11. Does it Offend you ? Yeah - Don't Say We didn't Warn you

12. Dominique Young Unique- Stupid Pretty Mixtape

13. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

14. Lemuria - Pebbles

15. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes

16. Mayer Hawthorn - How Do You Do

17. Noah And the Whale- Last Night On Earth

18. Paul Simon- So beautiful So what

19. Pj Harvey - Let England Shake

20. Princess Chelsea- Lil Golden Book

21. R.E.M. - Collapse Into The New

22. Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings - Soul Time

23. She & Him - A Very She & Him Christmas

24. Tallahassee - jealous Hands

25. Treestar - Hands off my bananas

26. Tune-Yards - Whokill

27. Florence & the Machine - Ceremonials

28. Wildcookie - Cookie Dough

29. Prince - Dance 4 me remix EP

30. Lana Del Rey- Video Games EP

(This list is in no order)

Hesperus Newsletter December 2011

Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:21:29 +0000

This is the updated and upgraded version of Hesperus new E-Home! Make sure to find out all the new features! Afterall it was redesigned to make it easier for your and more fun to be inside! http://www.hesperus-records.com/

An Age Of Anxiety update:
Ordo Lacrima Cristi will not be part of this release. This album is going as programed to be released on the 2nd of January 2012 i.e. 9 days from today! Here is an updated version of Age of Anxiety flyer. Remember: For this release we have decided to build a whole website to support it, which you can visit at: http://theageofanxiety.hesperus-records.com/

My Top Albums of 2011

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 16:18:10 +0000

15. Cake - Showroom of Compassion

14. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead

13. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes

12. The Strokes - Angles

11. Destroyer - Kaputt

10. Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys

09. Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi - Rome

08. TV on the Radio - Nine Types Of Light

07. Thursday - No Devolución

06. My Morning Jacket - Circuital

05. MuteMath - Odd Soul

04. The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum (The Complete Collection)

03. Washed Out - Within and Without

02. Jack's Mannequin - People and Things

01. The Antlers - Burst Apart

You can see EVERYTHING I've listened to in the last year here: http://www.last.fm/user/StankDank

As usual, it was a tough decision to complete the list of above. A lot of factors come into play. One disclaimer I must point out: I didn't listen to every single album released by every artist in 2011. It's true. That's why I invite you to post comments, or albums I might have missed. Or post a link to your Best Of 2011 list.

2011 was such a great year for music. Below are some extra catagories I had to throw in...

Best Comedy albums of 2011:

Louis C.K. - Hilarious

Patton Oswalt - Finest Hour

The Lonely Island - Turtle Neck and Chain

Best Reissues of 2011:

Pink Floyd - THEIR ENTIRE CATALOG

Smashing Pumpkins - Gish

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream

Honorable Mentions for Best Album of 2011:

Active Child - You Are All I See

Al Di Meola - Pursuit of Radical Rhapsody

Blind Pilot - We Are The Tide

Bon Iver - Bon Iver (self-titled)

Boy And Bear - Moonfire

City And Colour - Little Hell

Cults - Cults (self-titled)

Explosions In The Sky - Take Care, Take Care, Take Care

Feist - Metals

Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues

Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost

Hank Williams III - Ghost to a Ghost

Incubus - If Not Now, When?

Iron & Wine - Kiss Each Other Clean

Julianna Barwick - The Magic Place

Lady GaGa - Born This Way

Lil Wayne - The Carter IV

M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

Mastodon - The Hunter

Plaid - Scintilli

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake

Primus - Green Naugahyde

Puscifer - Conditions Of My Parole

Radiohead - The King Of Limbs

Real Estate - Days

St. Vincent - Strange Mercy

Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers - Rare Bird Alert

Thievery Corporation - Culture of Fear

Thrice - Major/Minor

Tori Amos - Night Of Hunters

Toro Y Moi - Underneath The Pine

Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

tUnE-yArDs - W H O K I L L

When Saints Go Machine - Konkylie

Youth Lagoon - The Year Of Hibernation

Awesome Albums I discovered this year, but were not released in 2011:

Archers Of Loaf - Icky Mettle

Beats Antique - Tribal Derivations

Chinawoman - Show Me The Face

Darwin Deez - Darwin Deez (self-titled)

David Bowie - Hunky Dory

Delphic - Acolyte

Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True

Freelance Whales - Weathervanes

Four Tet - There Is Love In You

Hank Williams III - Lovesick, Broke & Driftin'

Harry Nilsson - The Point

Infantree - Would Work

Interpol - Interpol (self-titled)

Jaco Pastorius - Jaco Pastorius (self-titled)

Memory Tapes - Seek Magic

Michael Chapman - Fully Qualified Survivor

Nicolas Jaar - Space Is Only Noise

Plaid - Double Figure

Rachel Grimes - Book of Leaves

Reverend Horton Heat - Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em

Richard Skelton - Landings

Slint - Spiderland

Slut - Nothing Will Go Wrong

Thenewno2 - You Are Here

Unknown Hinson - The Future Is Unknown

And lastly, here are some other albums I liked from 2011, or I need to listen to them more to fully judge them:

Amanda Palmer - Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under

The Black Keys - El Camino

Bright Eyes - The People's Key

Broken Bells - Meyrin Fields EP

The Cars - Move Like This

Cut Copy - Zonoscope

Elbow - Build a Rocket Boys!

Foster the People - Torches

Fucked Up - David Comes to Life

Grouper - A I A : Alien Observer

Lou Reed & Metallica - Lulu

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart - Belong

Peter Bjorn and John - Gimme Some

Phish - Hampton/Winston-Salem '97

Tyler, The Creator - Goblin

The Unthanks - Last

Yuck - Yuck (self-titled)

*Of course, I'm sure I forgot to put down your favorite album of the year. I probably did listen to it, unless it was some very obscure record. Forgive me for not listing it. I do intend on updating this list until the beginning of 2012. Please feel free to comment/message me a suggestion, or provide a link to your Best Of list.

Bon Iver - The Wolves (Act I + II)

Wed, 4 Jun 2008 00:50:26 +0000

[video artist=Bon Iver]The Wolves (Act I & II)[/video]