rdm trxs

women - black rice (from women)
women - group transport hall (from women)
nagisa ni te - premonition (from yosuga)
warm in the wake - tame thoughts (from gold dust trail)
oneida - preteen weaponry (edit, from preteen weaponry)

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the dead science

on paper this band sounds pretty awesome. shudder to think-like vocals, paired with 31 knots/xiu xiu type music and an apparent obsession with mf doom (the title of their latest is villainaire). and surprisingly the awesomeness translates pretty well to the stereo - although I suspect that is matter of taste. and tolerance. and i'm sure there are some intolerant people with bad taste out there.

monster island czars (from villainaire)
displacer beast (from crepuscule with the dead science)

black moth super rainbow

with a name like that i was convinced they had to be japanese but, no, pennsylvania. i guess the psychedelic sound might also have helped. japanese or not, this is quite brilliant. sort of like if m83 hadn't taken the wrong turn and ended in the 80s. or was it the 90s? i lose track. happy melted city

radiohead - reckoner (flying lotus rmx)

not really much of a fan of radiohead but i do like flying lotus. reckoner

"iTunes store shutdown feared"

how stupid is apple? do they really think that anyone is going to believe that they will close itunes down because of a six cent increase in the copyright tax? and the argument? "we don't want to change our pricing from 99 cents per song and then it's not profitable anymore... so we'll quit." apple is going to walk away from a market that they pretty much own and hand it to its competitors! right! what a pathetic move. now, i'm sure the copyright royalty board is almost perfectly evil and the cost will eventually get passed on to the consumer but i do hope they raise it by seven cent, just to give apple the finger.

4ad

future of the left are 2/3 (?) of the defunct mclusky and sound about 2/3 alike - the poppier 2/3s perhaps. i'm not sure i like them that much but there is something i like about them.

future of the left - manchasm (from last night I saved her from vampires)

the department of eagles are finally back after a long while - 2003? - and i suspect one of half of the band joining grizzly bear might have something to do with it. whitey on the moon was one of these albums that came out of the blue and i didn't really know what to make of it. it couldn't easily be classified - it was kinda like the avalanches but there were 'real' songs there too. so i just gave up and i decided i liked the album quite a bit. so the new one... well, all the 'fun' stuff has been stripped away and the album sounds pretty 'conventional'. good? bad? I'm sort of leaning towards wrong side of the mid point but perhaps I was just expecting something different? let's say its nice...

department of eagles - in ear park (from in ear park)
department of eagles - no one does it like you (from in ear park)