Music Banter - Albums You're Digging II

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Amazing death metal album. Rain Without End is next on the list. Really glad I found this band today. Just wished they had more albums out.

Rx Bandits - Mandala (2009)

A really interesting mix of styles; Rx Bandits used to be a ska band, but I guess over time they went in a more progressive direction, leading us to what we hear here. The playing is really tight and clean, and the guitars and vocals almost remind me of the Mars Volta sometimes. I really dig the ska and post-hardcore flavors left over from their earlier material

Favorite tracks: It's only Another Parsec, Hope is a Butterfly etc, Bury it Down Low

I don't have 15 posts yet so I can't link you, but if you do a youtube search of Rx Bandits, their music video for Hope Is A Butterfly should be up near the top if you want a taste...

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Originally Posted by Goofle11 (Post 1292816)

Discovered it through searching for Xerox My Hand on Spotify - and their track was pretty great.

Yay! Now you just need to check out the whole album. :)

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Originally Posted by PoorOldPo (Post 1293192)

Still digging Lonerism.

Tame Impala - Elephant (Later...with Jools Holland 20-11-2012) HD - YouTube

Love that track/album, particularly the line that starts "he pulled the mirrors off his cadillac..." :thumb:

Delving deeper into microhouse and minimal techno, it was only a matter of time before I came across Pantha du Prince. Love it. As ozzystyles over at RYM put it (better than I ever could):

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You're tired, right? Maybe even a little drunk or stoned. But you can't sleep. You've tried to, that's why you're either a bit drunk or a bit stoned, but something keeps you awake so you go out and buy yourself an ambient moods CD full of the sounds of wind chimes and some kind of Tibetan gong being drizzled with the fresh spring water trickling down from Mount Everest. Content that this will do the trick you climb into bed again and press play and a noise like a gentle applause from an appreciative though not ecstatic audience greets you before the real ambient tinkling kicks in.

But as it soothes you the guy living in the flat below you (oh yeah, you live in a block of flats with walls which carry very low sounds) starts playing his techno music and the throb of the bass is too loud to be overpowered by the simple mountain chimes of an ambient moods release and so the tranquillity of your purchase is shattered as the two moods, dance and not dance (sleep), compete for your attention and in doing so both fail in their intentions.

Sample:

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Cough - Sigillum Luciferi

Batlord posted one of their songs in the WAYLT thread which I enjoyed, so I am now giving this a listen. First track is immense. (Sludge/Doom Metal)

I cant get enough of anything by Spectrum lately. Always so calming and catchy

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Ambulance - The Curse of Vale Do Lobo (2003)
Simply one of the most brilliant and engaging IDM albums I've ever heard...and I've heard a lot. I've been enjoying this album for the past few years but it never ceases to blow me away when I put it on. I really wish they'd released more than just this album. One of the two members records as Sunken Foal and his material is also very good, just short of the brilliance found here. Lay down and listen to this work of art. Criminally overlooked.

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Stepped up on the newest Jimmy Cliff offering. Wasn't buying all the hype and bit the bullet for 9.99. I was a little leery of it being that it was produced by Tim Armstrong. I was pleasantly surprised and have really enjoyed the return to Roots Reggae. He does a couple of covers which aren't exactly stellar but overall its a righteous album. Cliff has always had that soothing good vibe feel and has always been a lyrical poet.