Roxette – Crash! Boom! Bang!
Roxette – Have a Nice Day
Roxette – Room Service
Jewel – 0304
Metallica – St. Anger

Bands that I have been interested in lately:
***** for Pyros, Slayer, Pantera, Aqua, and Jimi Hendrix

Led Zeppelin -- How the West Was Won
Ultimate Sarah Vaughn
Gladiator Soundtrack
Syleena Johnson -- Chapter 1: Love, Pain & Forgiveness
Eric Clapton -- One More Car, One More Rider Live Tour 2001

Just purchased:

- Say You Will: Fleetwood Mac
- Trumpet Evolution: Arturo Sandoval
- Soul on Jazz: Philip Bailey (SACD Hybrid)
- 3 + 3: The Isley Brothers (SACD single layer)
- Midnight Love: Marvin Gaye (SACD single layer)

This week was:

Gladiator soundtrack CD
Tim McGraw -Set this Circus Down CD
Dear World Broadway Cast LP
Cabaret Orig. Broadway Cast LP
Bruce Springsteen The Rising w/bonus DVD Aussie Release

After claiming I wouldn't buy any more SACDs/CDs/DVDs for another month, I found myself ordering this:

SACD:

Toru Takemitsu: How Slow the Wind (BIS)
Tadaaki Otaka, conductor
Kioi Synfonietta Tokyo

It was pressed in January, 2001. I hope I'll be receiving a copy, because every single track is golden:

1. Rain Coming, for chamber orchestra
2. Archipelago S., for 21 players
3. Fantasma/Cantos 2, for trombone & orchestra
(Christian Lindberg, trombone)
4. Requiem, for string orchestra
5. How Slow the Wind, for orchestra
6. Tree Line, for chamber orchestra

Received these DVDs already:

Louis Feulliade: Fantômas
(All of the original silent masterpieces have been stunningly transferred and packaged in the most beautiful DVD artwork I've ever seen. Even Windsor McCay would be impressed.)
Fantômas
(A three-DVD set of tux-'n'-tails-a-go-go 60s heist farces featuring France's most beloved supercriminal -- all for the swinger inside you.)
De Palma: Femme Fatale ($12.99 at Entertainment Outlet on 14th and 6th). (DP's most artificial film yet turns out to be his greatest artistic success: a prolonged meditation on Barbara Stanwyck as Ophelia.)
Jess Franco: Lorna, L'Exorciste

white stripes - de stilj
the clash - london calling
type o negative - life is killing me


and on the same trip, i picked up my pre-order of order of the pheonix.

Picked up the following at the Library fund rasing room today. Paid a total of $4 All are NM

*Wagner: Das Rheingold, Karajan/Berlin PO, Libretto, DGG 270? ?23, 3LP box set
- part of the DGG number has come of the side of the box

*Strass/Hofmannsthal: Der Rosenkavalier, DGG 138040/43,Libretto, 4LP box set

*CHOPIN: NOCTURNES 1-10, VASARY, DGG 136486
*CHOPIN: NOCTURNES 11-20, VASARY, DGG 136487

*Rossini: Siege of Corinth, Angel SCLX 3819, Libretto, 3LP box set

*Donizetti: Don Pasquale. FRENI, BRUSCANTINI, NUCCI, WINBERGH; MUTI, Ambrosian Cho., Philharmonia O. A. Libretto, DSBX 3938 D, 2LP box set

*TCHAIKOVSKY: 1812 OVERTURE, MEHTA/LOS ANGELES, LONDON CS 6670

*Saint-Saens: Camille. Piano Concerto No. 2 in G Minor. Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 16 in B-flat Major, K. 570. Emil Gilels, piano; Cluytens/Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, Angel 35132


*Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain, G.49, Robert Casadesus - piano, Mitropoulos/New York Philharmonic, ML 5172

*Ravel/Bartok: String Quartets, Allegri String Quartet, WGS-8152

*TCHAIKOVSKY: The Nutcracker (complete) Dorati,London Symphony, Mercury Living Presence SR2-9013

*Villa Lobos: Momoprecoce & Bachianas Brasileiras No.3; Ortiz/Ashkenazy/New Philharmonia, Angle S-537439

*Vivaldi: Violin Concerti, Robert Gerle/Zeller/Vienna Radio Orchestra, WST-17123

*Saint-Saens: Violin Concerto No 3. Ravel: Tzigane, Bicci/Bigot/Lamoureux Orchestra, Vox VLP-6240

went to the store again:

Agoraphobic Nosebleed: Frozen Corpse Stuffed With Dope
Cephalic Carnage: Lucid Interval
High On Fire: Surrounded By Thieves
Sarcofago - INRI (Pavement Recs reissue with totally crap inlay/artwork)

Cold Meat Industries just sent me promos of the following (I'm on the reviewer's list):

Cophnia: Shape Shifter
Ordo Equilibrio: Cocktails, Carnage, Crucifixion and Pornography

Just sent away for a fresh CD of B12's Electro-soma.

Here's what I missed narrowly in the vinyl department:

Pub : Surgery/Cokeshandy (ampoule) 12" clear pink vinyl
Beaumont Hannant : Notions of Tonality vol 1 (GPR)
Beaumont Hannant : Notions of Tonality vol 2 (GPR)
B12 : Electro-soma (warp) 1993 2LP
Ltd. edition orange vinyl version

Did anyone here partake of that limited vinyl sale?

All were sold by the time reached PJ at s://kimo.

lately I`m rocking along riffs and beats of:

Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf
Metallica - St. Anger
Blur - Think Tank
Moby - Ultimate Collection
Bob Sinclair - The Singles

Thomas Koner - Zyklop (2-CD set)
Venetian Snares - Find Candace
B-12 Electro-soma (new copy)


DustyChalk:

From what I know of your taste, I tend to think Find Candace is the VS you'd like best. It's the darkest I've heard so far (though it's hard to make an assessment without hearing everything by someone this prolific). After that, perhaps Winter in the Belly of a Snake and Doll Doll Doll.

VS is for people who might like juxtapositions of DnB and denser and more dissonant sounds (a la Autechre and certain Aphex). The sound of the bass is a dead DnB giveaway even apart from the drum programming.

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Well, I just picked up the first one I found, printf("shiver in eternal darkness\n"); and was sufficiently blown away that I will be pursuing the rest of the catalog, the mentioned titles more imminently than the others, of course.

Jedi Mind Tricks "Psycho Social" the album is not all that good

marilyn manson - portrait of an american family (loved it for years, never actually owned it)
the mars volta - de-lousing the comatorium
liz phair - (whatever the hell the name of the new album is)
guster - keep it together (there's a full drum kit on it )

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Printf is by FAR my least favorite Snares. It's his earliest work, and in my opinion, his most unpolished.

Key albums:

Doll Doll Doll - easily his best work in my opinion. Benefits greatly from a cohesive theme/concept (the murder/abduction of children) and has kick-ass Trevor Brown artwork!!! Also features the hands-down coolest sample choices ... EVER. "Spirit creature ... not wearing the shape of a man."

A Giant Alien Force More Violent And Sick Than Anything You Can Imagine - a short 3" CD EP, but my second favorite release. A totally mindblowing release that goes from trippy d'n'b to alien-synthesizer-evil which eventually climaxes in a storm of noise and gabber beats. Totally awesome. Great packaging too.

The album trilogy on Planet Mu - 2370854 (or whatever), Ultra Low Track Glue Funk Hits, and Winter In the Belly of a Snake - are good. I listed them in order of my preference. I really don't like WITBOAS at all, actually; it's too soft and non-****ed-up.

Same for Songs About My Cats; way too Aphex-y.

The split album with Speedranch is awesome gabber-noise-madness, but it's not for the faint of heart (or ears).

Hope this helps. I started out thinking VSnares was just another one of the flavor-of-the-month type artists (a la Kid606), but when I really sat down and listened, I realized no one's making totally ****ed up and broken breakbeats like he is. He rules. (His live set was amazing... I've never seen anyone outright mosh to drum'n'bass before)

- Chris