Midnight Radio Compilation 16, mostly ambient. These compilations look to be a monthly thing, and the older ones are pretty great too.
Vile Plumage - Live at The Burselm Sunday School haunted house noise
Angels of Liberty - Touch the Daemon. I miss bands that sound like the Sisters of Mercy but aren't the Sisters of Mercy. These guys do too..
Vogon Poetry - Don't Panic. Vogon Poetry is the perfect synthpop band name.
I just got into the Electric Light Orchestra. And damn. These guys could write some grooves. turn to stone:
I just kept waiting for a lull but every. Single. Song just kept smashing along. And each song it's own freakin journey. Unbelievable. And now I see they wrote all these other stone cold hits and I just heard it last week!
Revisiting some older music by one of my friends, I think this song is great. Kitty Snowpants - Sweet Summertime Love. Songs exactly like what you think it would sound like. Also the new Kishi Bashi. Seriously.
Really really digging this. I'm all about the new retro-ee stuff right now.
Totally! I've discovered some choice stuff through the NewRetroWave channel!
My musical taste is all over the place.... T.J. Davis - Diamond In The Sky [1997] Sometimes, I can get obsessively into video game music and Sonic R had one of those cheesy 'so bad it's good' soundtracks. At first it was Living In The City then it was Can You Feel The Sunshine; now my favourite song from that soundtrack is this one. Her voice makes you think she's a tall black woman with a powerful vocal range when in reality she's rather short, white and British. Eminem - Bad Guy [2013] Before listening, this song is a continuation of Stan, a song by Eminem and Dido on the original Marshall Mathers LP. A lot of people slagged off Marshall Mathers LP 2 but this song is a perfect continuation of the original plot that Stan established. Stan Mitchell's younger brother, Matthew Mitchell seeks revenge over the suicide of his older brother which he blames on Eminem. The whole song goes into his plot for revenge, how he knocks out Eminem with a chloroform rag, throws him into the back of a trunk and drives himself and the rapper off a bridge into the river to drown him. The outro is a two minute masterpiece which goes into the moral dilemmas of everything Eminem has done in his personal life and his career, acting as a post death judgement of sorts. The final few seconds seem to suggest that MMLP2 will be his final album before he retires for good from music. Carlito - Poco Loco [2006] Jonny Jakobsen is a Swedish Eurodance singer whose failed career as a country musician led to him mocking other cultures in his music. His most notorious songs were Rice and Curry, Calcutta and S.O.S. under the pseudonym Dr. Bombay; songs which almost led the Indian government to sue him due to his mockery of their country and culture. In 2006, he adopted the name Carlito and began to pass himself off as a faux-Mexican. Poco Loco. Surprisingly, his songs were not-so-offensive about Mexican culture even though he stereotyped it heavily and his music proved popular both in Mexico and Japan; so popular in fact that he released a second Carlito album which is something he never did as Dr. Bombay or Dr. Macdoo. This song is... interesting to say the least. I think I like it because it's rather upbeat. PaRappa The Gangsta Rapper - Cake Rap [2006] This is a parody sketch of a PaRappa The Rapper level done by Marcus 'djWHEAT' Graham for Epileptic Gaming, a show he used to do back in 2006. He broadcasted it on his stream about 3 years ago. The best part is that his voice closely matches Parappa's in the game. Just listen to some of the lyrics. That should explain everything. I would actually pay real money for an album of just crude PaRappa The Rapper song parodies from the first and second game. I mean I would throw £30 at that album.
Yellow Magic Orchestra's last studio album (so far), Technodon (1993). They were facing lawsuits over illegal sampling (this was the early 90s, when music labels really started to clamp down on this sort of thing) and they had to make some interesting musical choices to deal with that. Other than downloading their discography, it hasn't been a massively musical week for me.
Gaelic Storm South Australia. I listen to this at least once a day while I am working out. Their whole catalog is great but this is my favorite.
Oh my god, if you haven't heard Chett Faker, you do not know what you're missing and I love it.
New school: Homeboy Sandman this guy's lyricism is amazingly bonkers...: Old school: Meat Beat Manifesto:
Margot & the Nuclear So and So's - Gettin' Fat Only place I could find it that I could share is the Spotify web player. But it's on Google Music, iTunes, etc. if you wanna check it out.