Various Artists - Funf

Probably the best minimal techno/ambient techno compilation from the greatest club in the world and the home of the scene - Ostgut Ton // Berghain. 2 and a half hours of cold steel. Pattern recognition, industrial growth and decay and the very beating heart of the dancefloor. Eat your heart out.

daybreak

Heya folks

not too sure how many people follow or keep updated with this blog but I've had to take a hiatus because of extensive threatening and complaining from RIAA and their assclown goons. I'll be sure to be back in a month or two.

Pirating beloved art till the day I die.  

<3

Rashed

Leonid Fedorov - Lilac Day

One of the best songwriters and composers of Russia, as referenced in my earlier post about his band Auktyon. Here's his solo record from 2003, the aptly titled 'Lilac Day'.

Are you drunk on substance or intoxicated with memory? sometimes it's hard to tell, isn't it?

muzh

The Human League - Dare

The Human League were a new wave act, very influential and very good, for all the right reasons. Their magnum opus 'Dare' will make you jive, make no mistake.

don't you want me? 

Tuxedomoon - Desire

Tuxedomoon are a San Francisco based experimental act formed in 1977. They are still quite a prolific and active band, still releasing records and touring today. However, their late 70's/early 80's records form part of Ralph Records' amazing roster of weird bands - and are a complete pleasure to listen to. This is my favourite of theirs, Desire.

Non-stop erotic cabaret, new wave in spirit and kind of velvet in mood, Tuxedomoon deliver the perfect soundtrack to living vicariously through the eyes of someone just like you, but cooler, more seductive and possibly far more perverse. Live a thousand lives via pictures.

it's a jinx

Depeche Mode - 101

Legendary synthpop band at the peak of their powers with one of the coolest live albums of the era.

you're behind the wheel, tonight. 

Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter, Houston

Townes Van Zandt. Where do I start with this guy? As far as the traditional singer-songwriters go, there is no other American songwriter on his level. He's my Bob Dylan. Poet and troubadour extraordinaire, he was ravaged by alcoholism and manic depression that lent his songs a very rare quality - you feel like this is a guy who has lived each and every song he has written. He passed away due to heart failure on new year's day, 1997.  This is his famous live album from 1977, which has the benefit of having a more intimate sound with just Townes and his guitar (as opposed to his albums, which are all great but have the effect of extensive overdub work which drowns out Townes' from time to time).

A top tier sampler of Townes' work:

now i'm out of prison
i got me a friend at last
and he don't cheat or steal or drink or lie 
his name's codeine
and he's the nicest thing i've seen 
together we're gonna wait 'round and die

waitin' around to die