Weekly Monday Chart
I was supposed to do this on monday but the flu had me floored all weekend and I'm still recuperating. So here's the monday chart, this week on wednesday.
1. Prurient - Pleasure Ground
Sick rerelease on a proper cd of a double cassette previously released on Prurient's own Hospital Productions. And it shreds, but you already know that when it comes to Prurient don't ya? I believe the first track is a live recording of a No Fun festival gig, play this really really loud and you still don't have a clue about the intensity of a Prurient live show. But it's the next best thing and it sounds like the best nightmare you never had. The other tracks mix some real icy gothy synth action with the usual vocal insanity and it works really well. Review soon on Foxy Digitalis, when the new (!) site gets launched.
2. Ricardo Villalobos - Fizheuer Zieheuer
I always had a feeling Villalobos was my kind of techno dude. Drugged up, freaked out, tripped in, all those things appeal to me, especially when it comes to so-called dance music. When I heard and read everybody rave about this 35 minute supergroove it instantly sparked my interest but I didn't come around to listening to it before last week. It's not at all what I expected and that's part of the excitement. What I expect has been done by Richie Hawtin probably anyway so that's no biggie and who doesn't love these Balkan HORNS (toot toot-toot-toot-toot x a lot = me smiling and I don't even like Gogol Bordello). First time I played it kind of grated on me by the start of the second side but I've discovered you have to be in a psycho mood to appreciate the perverse fun of it. Something else, a new path for dance music. And Terry Riley knew it all along.
3. Astral Social Club - s/t
Collection of tracks previously released on cd-r's. Neil Campbell recently quit Vibracathedral Orchestra to focus on this solo project. Came as a big surprise for me but when I hear this album I don't have to worry. Great dynamics between polyrhythmic effectscapes, abstract harmonies and moist dronerock skullcrushers.
4. The Game - Doctor's Advocate
Hiphop is becoming a strictly sentimental affair I'm afraid, I continue to be dissapointed by much of the heralded Lil' Wayne/Southern albums but this second Game album sounds like a winner. Except for the fact that his ego is too goddamn big, even for a rapper, imagine that. He sounds a lot like Dr. Dre on this one though, that's not a bad thing but he has to stop putting himself on the same level as Dre, Pac and Biggie. It's way too early for that and he shouldn't be the one coining those silly ideas anyway.
5. The Idealist - I Am the Fire
Doesn't really live up to it's title but nice enough drone/nightmare album from Alvars Orkestar's Joachim Nordwall. Review sooon on Foxy Digitalis.
1. Prurient - Pleasure Ground
Sick rerelease on a proper cd of a double cassette previously released on Prurient's own Hospital Productions. And it shreds, but you already know that when it comes to Prurient don't ya? I believe the first track is a live recording of a No Fun festival gig, play this really really loud and you still don't have a clue about the intensity of a Prurient live show. But it's the next best thing and it sounds like the best nightmare you never had. The other tracks mix some real icy gothy synth action with the usual vocal insanity and it works really well. Review soon on Foxy Digitalis, when the new (!) site gets launched.
2. Ricardo Villalobos - Fizheuer Zieheuer
I always had a feeling Villalobos was my kind of techno dude. Drugged up, freaked out, tripped in, all those things appeal to me, especially when it comes to so-called dance music. When I heard and read everybody rave about this 35 minute supergroove it instantly sparked my interest but I didn't come around to listening to it before last week. It's not at all what I expected and that's part of the excitement. What I expect has been done by Richie Hawtin probably anyway so that's no biggie and who doesn't love these Balkan HORNS (toot toot-toot-toot-toot x a lot = me smiling and I don't even like Gogol Bordello). First time I played it kind of grated on me by the start of the second side but I've discovered you have to be in a psycho mood to appreciate the perverse fun of it. Something else, a new path for dance music. And Terry Riley knew it all along.
3. Astral Social Club - s/t
Collection of tracks previously released on cd-r's. Neil Campbell recently quit Vibracathedral Orchestra to focus on this solo project. Came as a big surprise for me but when I hear this album I don't have to worry. Great dynamics between polyrhythmic effectscapes, abstract harmonies and moist dronerock skullcrushers.
4. The Game - Doctor's Advocate
Hiphop is becoming a strictly sentimental affair I'm afraid, I continue to be dissapointed by much of the heralded Lil' Wayne/Southern albums but this second Game album sounds like a winner. Except for the fact that his ego is too goddamn big, even for a rapper, imagine that. He sounds a lot like Dr. Dre on this one though, that's not a bad thing but he has to stop putting himself on the same level as Dre, Pac and Biggie. It's way too early for that and he shouldn't be the one coining those silly ideas anyway.
5. The Idealist - I Am the Fire
Doesn't really live up to it's title but nice enough drone/nightmare album from Alvars Orkestar's Joachim Nordwall. Review sooon on Foxy Digitalis.
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