Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma

Flying Lotus, a.k.a. FlyLo, is a producer/"laptop" musician from Cali. After his first album 1983, he became known as one of the better hip-hop instrumental producers out there. Even before all that, he used to produce the music for AdultSwim's inter-show segments (not surprising seeing as how AS is obsessed with Dilla/DOOM and eclectic underground hip-hop). Cosmogramma is different because it's not entirely focused on hip-hop, but a myriad of genres. An interesting, experimental mix of ambient, IDM, jazz, trip-hop and more, Cosmogramma is a beautiful album and has immense replay value.

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ampere- the first five years

I must say, I'm really settling in nicely with the whole "intelligent" segment of bands within hardcore. First, Dangers, then Orchid, now Ampere. Might seem like it undermines the whole punk mentality, but really, fuck it, I love when one's aesthetic side merges with the intellectual side. Brilliant.

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Raymond Scott - Manhattan Research, Inc.

"the music you are listening to is completely electronic and has been created & produced on equipment designed and manufactured by manhattan research, in a vision of raymond scott enterprises, inc."

the name of the game

is lightworks

p.s. the song "lightworks" on cd-1 is where dilla got his samples for lightworks on his album donuts.

Cannonball Adderley

got sax?

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My dinner with Andre(1981)

I'm going to post this just because. Hopefully this might catch on.




Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, apparently playing themselves, share their lives over the course of an evening meal at a restaurant. Gregory, a theater director from New York, is the more talkative of the pair. He relates to Shawn his tales of dropping out, traveling around the world, and experiencing the variety of ways people live, such as a monk who could balance his entire weight on his fingertips. Shawn listens avidly, but questions the value of Gregory's seeming abandonment of the pragmatic aspects of life.


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J:Ward-More Bears on Berkeley Campus

From Concord, California (East Bay Area). Since 2009. No genres, No limitations, just jams.



Might seem to some as an amateurish version of the great Gospel.

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(I really don't want to engage in semantics here, but methinks the prog-rock tag doesn't really apply here, or at least not in the way it would to Gospel.)

charles mingus- the black saint and the sinner lady

Time to branch this blog out a bit.



Best example of "collective improvisation" in jazz








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kickball-ABCDEFGHIJKickball

Every single review of this band seems to include the word "awkward" at least half a dozen times. From my perspective ( the non-show goers perspective:( ), this doesn't seem like an altogether just description, again judging by only the album. However, to claim that there is no such element present would be a lie.

Think of this as a cross between Algernon and Minus The Bear.

First track is sooooooo fucking good

Orange Goblin

Orange Goblin are a stoner/doom metal band from England, formed in '95. I had first heard of them thanks to a promo CD which had a bunch of artists that had the whole southern rock/stoner vibe going on (Alabama Thunderpussy and the like). I liked them immediately, even though I had never heard anything like that, except Black Sabbath.

The music really shouldn't need a description if you're familiar with the whole stoner/doom thing. If you want to compare, I would say it's a mix between Electric Wizard and Fu Manchu.

Time Travelling Blues

Coup De Grace