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  • GhandhiLion Very nice taste
    July 25 03:21 PM
  • Phlegm wow you're a legend
    July 28 11:21 AM
  • Chrisjon89 good to see you post! hope everything's good dude
    May 12 11:37 AM
  • Gwyn. Much appreciated man.
    March 12 12:00 AM
  • Gwyn. Hello man; We've never talked, but from your lists and such, I know you're pretty big on Jazz. My interest in the genre has been growing steadily for a few months, but I'm not sure which albums specifically could I try to really get me into it. I've heard from all the big 3 jazzers ('course, Coltrane, Davis and Mingus), not much else; What else you think could help me sooth into? Something with enough crossover appeal? Wild forms like Free jazz are ok as well, i'll always go in with an open mind
    March 6 09:38 AM
  • Pon Hey man, you're big into jazz. Would you be able to rec me some albums similar to Black Saint and The Sinner Lady? I can never seem to find anything quite like it.
    February 16 03:20 PM
  • Chrisjon89 merry xmas man! hope it's all stress free. and have a good New Years too.
    December 24 09:04 AM
  • Chrisjon89 ah that's a shame - i remember you linking me a YouTube video with (I think) two songs that you hadn't got to recording yet and they were awesome. glad you're still playing though. good to hear you're doing well and sweet news about the apartment! i've been alright. musically, nothing doing. been that kinda year. hadn't seen you on here much, so good to hear from you dude! take it easy
    November 24 12:26 AM
  • Chrisjon89 hey man, hope everything is good. your band jamming again or is the bassist still away? you been composing? been awhile - hope life is treating you well!
    November 21 09:44 AM
  • CaptainDooRight check my new classical album bro - http://trvth.bandcamp.com/album/lush
    September 27 08:32 PM
  • GiaNXGX so this's a departure from suburban Melbourne haha, oh man good to know; my immediately pessimist sense of instinct made me arrive to immediately tragic conclusions haha.
    September 21 05:06 AM
  • GiaNXGX Yo man, you okay? I see you haven't scrobbled in ages, hope everythings fine with you and your computer, the disk-space and/or hard-drive time.. no backdoors no software pollution, favorable conditions for the proliferation of bites and more.
    September 18 08:37 AM
  • GiaNXGX ( :
    August 31 07:37 PM
  • GiaNXGX http://www.academia.edu/1710243/Motionless_Duration_in_Deleuzes_Bergson_Video_Embedded_, deleuzean bergsonism or bergsonian deleuzeanism, but what really? Pretty interesting pdf.
    August 29 03:39 PM
  • GiaNXGX echeling up on a higher level usually comes with a great deal of exposure right, yeh and it must be pretty ****ing awesome - Ulcerate right now i mean. They given any dates yet? i think i read on some blog entry that ulcerate live are relentless and devastating to no amend, can't remember the spot though, yours(?).
    August 29 03:12 AM
  • GiaNXGX haha thrue the wax ; ), relapse could've been channel to some seriously tragic outcomes but surprisingly enough the production wasn't nowhere near devoid and hollow as one would expect. all good and all but still, one thinks ulcerate would've done good (better) business wid Dark Descent or Nuclear War Now prods; Relapse may probably bring 'em to the Americas tho.
    August 28 11:14 PM
  • GiaNXGX Haven't done so yet I'm eagerly awaiting my pre-order, it looks absolutely fantastic though, and yeah man review it! Always been great at technical writing and given your acquaintance with music theory you would break the album down so much better than most and more. also, what's all this babble 'vs' colored sands all about? nothing alike.
    August 28 01:31 PM
  • GiaNXGX how's the new ulcerate for ya?
    August 28 01:10 PM
  • ShadowRemains no i haven't seen them live before, although i'd really like to
    August 1 04:35 PM
  • ShadowRemains that said, that new ulcerate song kicks all kinds of teh hineys
    August 1 07:43 AM
  • ShadowRemains personal verdict: not as good as fwth, although i don't think it's their worst record either (probably will get more listens than obscura at least)
    August 1 07:42 AM
  • ShadowRemains cerekloth, krypts, risabov, brutality, sacriphyx, autopsy, lantern
    July 27 07:49 AM
  • ShadowRemains i see you didn't like zealotry's previous stuff on rym, but their new album is worth as listen...
    July 27 07:48 AM
  • ShadowRemains need more listens, although i really liked it, the title track might be the best dm song this year so far
    July 27 06:48 AM
  • ShadowRemains you didn't like colored sands as much?
    July 27 05:56 AM
  • Cygnatti I hope you don't mind but I just added you to my list of users' whose ratings I stalk.
    July 6 12:33 AM
  • VlacDrac At first I thought it was going to be as harsh as Ascension but it turned out it's a really pleasant album.
    May 28 07:06 PM
  • VlacDrac Today I listened to Unit Structures for the first time and it blew me away, I like the fact that at some points it doesn't even sound like jazz.
    May 28 07:03 PM
  • Chrisjon89 http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/35621_489509707392_28145502392_5899627_8046159_n.jpg classic. I bought Meditations and loved it. got Sun Ship for later too. took me nearly 3 years but it's making more sense haha. wonder if anyone has ever picked it up based on the title and song names, expecting easy listening?
    May 13 12:06 PM
  • VlacDrac You have a really eclectic music taste, and because of your list I have found awesome artist, especially jazz musicians. :)
    May 8 06:08 AM
  • ResidentNihilist liledman, when you listen to avant-garde musicians in the line of Cecil Taylor and Barraque what do you get out of them or what do you look for in them? Is it just for the progressions or something more? The reason I ask is because in comparison to someone like Pharoah Sanders and Noah Howard they do seem like a jumble of notes at times to me and I was just wondering what your take on them was.
    April 13 08:02 PM
  • wabbit your band jams hard.
    January 30 01:32 AM
  • Athom do you know anywhere where I can nab a download of Walter Zimmermann's "The Echoing Green"?
    January 2 08:23 PM
  • BaselineOOO at least you don't like death metal!
    December 27 07:59 AM
  • GiaNXGX omg dude omg http://inconstantsol.blogspot.com/2012/04/sam-rivers-tuba-triojames-newton-flutes.html merry christmas wish you good luck [:
    December 25 04:57 AM
  • Deviant. Yeah, there was footage of a kode9 performance on yt awhile back that featured the same material (hyperdub have since removed it). There's the obvious theories floating around that what we've heard will be on the next EP, but it's no secret that he has a truckload of material that Burial will purposefully never release
    December 11 06:59 AM
  • YankeeDudel alright cool man. looking forward to your 2012 list if you're making one.
    December 11 12:55 AM
  • wabbit Abe Kaoru is SO SO good man
    December 10 05:58 PM
  • ThunderNeutral21 progressions. There is no doubt that Kind of Blue is the most important jazz album. It's tied for me with Miles Smiles really at #5 from him. He was at the front of post-war cool jazz and mastered it's mood, mastered post-bop with Miles Smiles and a few others, made the best and most well known avant-garde/electronic jazz while kickstarting the careers of half of Mahavishnu Orchestra, and even went on after that to do hip-hop/jazz combos. He did it all.
    December 10 04:03 PM
  • ThunderNeutral21 miles was at the forefront of every movement/subgenre of jazz over a 40 year career. he played with and kickstarted the solo careers of many important greats from the same era. Kind of Blue is only slightly overrated, there's a lot of jazz like it that came out after but it has some incredible phrasing and melodies that other albums that are similar weren't able to achieve. kind of blue revolutionized modal jazz and pretty much proved how beautifully executed jazz could be without standard chord
    December 10 04:00 PM
  • YankeeDudel Hey man i dig your last list. I got most of the ones I liked but couldnt find DLs for Sightings, Emptyset, Theologian, Toshimaru Nokamura, and Tony Williams. Think you can hook me up?
    December 10 10:03 AM
  • GiaNXGX @last.fm
    November 22 03:28 AM
  • GiaNXGX I'll keep youd dude, meanwhile.. Do you like Power Electronics?
    November 21 03:11 AM
  • GiaNXGX Glad to hear. I'm doing good as well, next week I have my finals so I'll reunite with a couple of friends to practice physics. Lately I've also been working on a music project. I'm going to learn saxophone on vacations so I'll add saxophone/harp/strings to my post-metal songs.
    November 21 03:11 AM
  • GiaNXGX Hey, man. How are you? I listened to all your recs, very happy with pretty-much all of em. Thank you.
    November 20 09:23 PM
  • GiaNXGX Indeed :[. I just found this killer osdm/doom band, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDS25v2mD_c
    November 2 05:14 AM
  • GiaNXGX Here's the main article. http://www.pe.com/iguide/music/music-headlines/20121101-riverside-suicide-silence-singer-killed-in-motorcycle-crash.ece
    November 2 02:10 AM
  • GiaNXGX Such a sad thing, what happened to Mitch Lucker. I've never been interested in deathcore, and I probably never will. However; the guy was only 28 and he had a daughter. What do you think?
    November 2 12:13 AM
  • GiaNXGX Komeda's Astigmatic was brilliant, it is very influential, lots of Polish jazz that sounds like it. Thank you so much, you're the most professional jazzerheard on sputnik. jazz lives j/....
    November 1 06:09 PM
  • GiaNXGX Do you liked Witchrist's latest? (Also) Any rec in the vein of Tony William's "Lifetime," its one of the darkest jazz albums I've ever listened.
    October 28 06:10 PM
  • GiaNXGX Thank you, I replied, take a look. The album is fantastic. Also check out: Robert Rich - Somnium
    October 28 05:59 AM
  • GiaNXGX I guess it is hard bop. Thanks man :] I just reviewed the new Mathias Grassow album. Take a look: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/52917/Mathias-Grassow-Alchemystery/#lastpost
    October 27 05:45 PM
  • GiaNXGX *soul
    October 26 11:41 PM
  • GiaNXGX Indeed it is really good! Sorry for answering so late : ] . The thing is that i'm not sure about it's genre. Ike incorporates modal jazz characteristics but also adds guitars - I guess it can't be considered fusion; the aesthetic is very different - kinda bluesy. Are electric guitars common in modal jazz? I would say no. It kinda intrigues me (though). Blue
    October 26 11:35 PM
  • VlacDrac Don't worry, bunch of haters always talking s*** about music that they don't enjoy.
    October 13 06:18 PM
  • VlacDrac Well yesterday, at night I was watching a Peter Brötzmann video and some dude was ofended because "that wasn't even music" and you replied to him. I saw that nickname and I was like "uhmm, Is this the same liledman as the one in sputnik? Let's find out"
    October 13 07:55 AM
  • GiaNXGX Hey dude. Have you heard Ike Quebec's solo work? Blue
    October 13 02:40 AM
  • VlacDrac BTW (I write this a lot, lol) are you liledman76 in youtube?
    October 13 02:28 AM
  • VlacDrac I'am Mexican, I live in Mexico City.I mean my english is not that great but is not that bad neither.
    October 13 02:10 AM
  • VlacDrac As much as I want to write reviews, the biggest issue is that i am not an english native speaker, so I don't have a propper english grammar.
    October 13 01:59 AM
  • VlacDrac BTW, you should write more reviews, I really enjoyed the London Jazz Composer's Orchestra review.
    October 12 06:14 AM
  • VlacDrac Hello liledman, What do you think about Peter Brötzmann?
    October 12 06:07 AM
  • GiaNXGX Thanks :]
    October 6 07:59 PM
  • GiaNXGX Hello man, your jazz list is excellent. I think you've got one of the most incredible tastes I've seen on this site. They are kinda similar to mine :].
    October 6 03:02 AM
  • VlacDrac Anthony Braxton is the man.
    October 4 06:37 AM
  • taylormemer It's been good. Hardest part will be finding stable employment in this industry.
    September 17 02:18 AM
  • taylormemer Thesis is on high quality audio formats and whether or not they are necessary from technological, psychological and commercial perspectives. It's my final year at JMC Academy in Sound Engineering and Audio Production.
    September 16 07:43 AM
  • scissorlocked As for Heidegger's Basic Writings, it's the thing i've been reading those days and it is full of bright concepts. But once again his style is pretty difficult and perplexed at times, so if you ever need a commentary, I suggest reading a pretty cool one written by Lee Braver!
    September 16 03:41 AM
  • scissorlocked As for Kant, unfortunately, I have read none of his critiques, but came to know him through commentators and others. He's probably the best beginning in understanding modern thought, and His Critique of Judgement the basis for modern aesthetics. I also think it's the more accessible compared with the other two. also Foucault's writing and ideas are deeply infectious, he's probably one of the most interesting thinkers of our time, although kinda over-quoted at times.
    September 16 03:35 AM
  • scissorlocked Well, I 've bought Being and Time almost a year and a half ago, immensely intrigued by what I've heard for Heidegger. The book was totally unapproachable so I bought commentaries and started reading it slowly and whenever it came to me. I think I've grasped many of his points but the density and profundity of the text desperately demanded a careful, even exhausting reading. The same applies with most of the "big" ontological and critical texts, like Hegel's Phenomenology and Kant's Critiques.
    September 16 03:18 AM
  • scissorlocked studying music is great man! It is also a thing I want to do if I'll be ever given the chance! I used to study classical piano in my pre-teen years, and so there are some basic thing I know, but diving deeper is surely a wholly different thing! I still try to dig classic stuff from standard composers ( you know Bach and stuff) or even more modern things (Schoenberg and stuff) but I find it pretty difficult without the proper theoretical background. My insights in these are mostly intuitive
    September 15 02:43 PM
  • scissorlocked yeah, ancient Greek is truly difficult and to be honest I'm usually bored to study its grammar and stuff! Philosophy has won me, and so I spend most of my time reading modern thinkers. I've been digging Heidegger for more than a year, and I have to say that it has been one of the most intriguing reads in all my life. Other philosophers that I'm recently interested are Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Foucault, Deleuze, and Bataille.
    September 15 02:30 PM
  • taylormemer So I was doing some research hunting for my thesis, and I stumble across this hilarious farce: http://audioiconoclast.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/near-destruction-of-classical-music-by.html#comment-form
    September 14 03:41 PM
  • scissorlocked well, Satantango is something I want to experience sooner or later. Just waiting for some friends to decide when will we do it! and yes, i study philosophy and greek literature (i'm greek!), so you can say I have read some stuff concerning aesthetics! You are interested in such stuff too, as I've seen, aren't you?
    September 14 01:24 PM
  • scissorlocked checking that best directors list, I saw a post of yours mentioning Bella Tarr. The guy is incredible but I find it hard to find any of his movies. I've only watched Wreckmeister Harmonies and the Turin Horse, and i'm searching for The man from London these days.
    September 13 04:41 PM
  • Hyperion1001 entire site***
    September 6 03:20 PM
  • Hyperion1001 thanks man, i didn't know you had any weak points really, you have easily the largest and most well rounded knowledge of music on this entire. ill check those out.
    September 6 03:18 PM
  • Hyperion1001 hey liledman, can you rec me some more piano dominant cool jazz in the vein of bill evans? he is by far my favorite jazz artist at the moment but i don't really know where to go from there. thanks.
    September 6 05:50 AM
  • MisterTornado That's alright, I couldn't either. How is it btw?
    September 2 01:14 AM
  • MisterTornado Hey, have you got a DL to David Andree's In Streams? Really been wanting to hear that.
    September 1 11:16 PM
  • RiffOClock darwinisbitch - ore (digitally processed violin. spectacular ambient/drone), nick grey - spin vows under arch (challenging but very rewarding melancholic ambient), bj nilsen - the short night (eerie field recordings/ambient). all those are fantastic records
    August 28 03:18 PM
  • RiffOClock yep agree with basically everything u said, album has grown off me considerably after 3-4 listens. the last track really brings this down imo
    August 28 11:17 AM
  • RiffOClock what didnt u like about the new giles corey? nice david andree rating btw
    August 27 03:49 PM
  • VlacDrac I have to agree with that one, I love A love supreme, uhmm I have listen some of his albums, I disliked Om and Ascension.
    August 23 03:59 AM
  • VlacDrac Hi Sir, I was wondering, What is your favorite John Coltrane album?
    August 21 05:49 AM
  • deathofasalesman I'm looking for some smooth, cinematic jazz for a short film. Any recommendations?
    August 6 03:45 AM
  • FranzSchubert Thanks for that, mate. That should be enough to keep me going for the time being :)
    July 27 06:19 AM
  • FranzSchubert What Free Jazz albums would you recommend?
    July 20 07:43 AM
  • BaselineOOO ufff soryy!
    July 13 09:58 AM
  • ThroneOfAgony Is jazz your favorite type of music you'd say? and who are your favorites? I'm really digging Duke Ellington and rawfishboys (they are a clarinet and bass group, they released an album this year that was spectacular).
    July 5 10:10 PM
  • Idnuf Hah yeah that's the blog I used to follow too, it just got frustrating how difficult it is to find the records posted there. It's like for every 20 posts, only one of the albums will be attainable through *illicit* means, and I'm not too keen on spending money on every album I want to listen to. Just kind of gave up on it because it was so frustrating, it seems nobody on the internet cares to upload modern jazz albums unless it involves Peter Evans lol
    June 27 02:02 PM
  • Idnuf Hey, might you have some free jazz recommendations from this year? I haven't been keeping up at all :(. I recall you having Planetary Unknown at your #1 last year so I trust you. Btw, did you hear Farmers by Nature from last year? I've had it sitting around for a long time and I'm just listening now, and it's not amazing but it's good. Piano trio, good tension, idk I was p disappointed with what I heard last year, it seemed like everything was either harmless/bland or too atonal and aggressive.
    June 26 02:30 PM
  • fsharptrit0ne it's just a shame they've both fallen off. i mean of course the greats from each genre will influence artists until the end of time but i wish there could be some sort of a revival
    May 21 04:12 AM
  • fsharptrit0ne that's awesome. i've always studied jazz so i know way more about the history of that than classical. classical has been around for centuries obviously so it's incredibly vast. i was thinking of maybe picking up a history book or two on it.
    May 21 03:55 AM
  • fsharptrit0ne absolutely. i've been getting into more of the romantic period lately myself. wish sput had more of a following
    May 21 03:32 AM
  • fsharptrit0ne you know your classical. good man. saw the recs you just gave
    May 21 03:22 AM
  • CaptainDooRight coo man im looking forward to reading that list, and I'll def check the ones you have already, i could def use a little guidance on the genre's :]
    May 21 03:06 AM
  • CaptainDooRight bro i think i like your taste more than any other sput user, mainly because of the jazz and classical love along with dm. do you keep like a list on your comp at all times to recall all that musical knowledge?
    May 21 02:58 AM
  • Deviant. Yeah, I'm a big fan of their sound. They've only put out 4 single sided releases at the mo though; the track you linked is one of my favourites by them, the other is 'Another Walk'
    May 13 12:55 PM
  • sniper word, that's exactly the reason i became interested in composing. i love the guitar, but i want to play for fun, not 6 hours a day.
    May 10 04:10 PM
  • sniper i'm still not huge on minimalism but i can find something to appreciate in most of the major players, reich included. i just finished up a single-movement piano trio, and i had a solo piano piece performed at the university a month or so ago. next year will be my first real recital, it should be cool to get performances of my stuff finally happening. i can't remember what concentration your degree is in. classical performance? jazz? education?
    May 10 07:00 AM
  • sniper yeah carter is the man. i hope he never dies! but i'm still on my grind as well, congrats on your final year, i wish i could say i was finishing up.
    May 9 02:10 PM
  • sniper whats up man been too long
    May 9 09:00 AM
  • VlacDrac Hi there,this is kinda random but, Do you like Sun Ra?I think he was a great and underated jazz artist.
    May 6 09:28 PM
  • VlacDrac Yes, i like jazz, I don't know too many artist but one of my favorites is Miles Davis, My favorite album of his discography is Bitches Brew.
    April 26 05:28 AM
  • VlacDrac I love your lists, specially the 100 jazz albums you need.Thank you :)
    April 24 11:33 PM
  • DeafMetal of course your recs are on mother****ing point! OH YOU LIL ED!
    April 22 06:32 PM
  • DeafMetal hey dude. i was browsing through your jazz list on rym and was wondering if you'd be able to help pinpoint some LOUNGE jazz for me. i'm talking really simplistic, lots of hi-hat, xylophone, smooth sax, you get me?
    April 21 05:42 PM
  • BaselineOOO can we be last.fm friends?
    April 21 03:56 PM
  • Deviant. Yeah, should be a lot of pinstripe suits and cocktail dresses. You're a legend man, thanks for those. I went looking through my collection and all I found was this - http://www.discogs.com/DJ-Yoda-How-To-Cut-Paste-The-Thirties-Edition/master/326367 - which, while awesome, might be reaching a tad too far. You should check it out; the guy's a turntablist so there's an obvious hip hop streak to it (scratches, random soundbytes etc) but you might get a kick out of it (even if only as a novelty)
    March 20 05:53 AM
  • Deviant. I need some help Jazzman. Got a 1920's themed party coming up and I'm trying to track down some old swing, like Charleston dance music. Doesn't have to be exclusive to that decade though, going into the '30s is all good. Any ideas? Doesn't have to be artist only albums, comps would probably be the safer route just to get a little diversity going on. Any help would be appreciated man
    March 20 03:43 AM
  • Chrisjon89 I'll have to listen out for him more next time. Like him alot but I'd never heard him in this context. I'll try Ornette Coleman again next and then onto Coltrane's live stuff I guess. I'm saving the Live in Japan set you told me about for last lol
    March 18 12:05 PM
  • Chrisjon89 I listened to both takes of Ascension in one sitting. ****ing hell lol. I liked it though, more than Om or Interstellar Space but I should have listened to only one take at a time. I've never heard a sax tone as distinct as Pharoah Sanders'. I think the drums dropped out for the first time 33 minutes in? That's obscene lol
    March 18 09:42 AM
  • Chrisjon89 I'll check that out soon then. I need to listen to The Shape of Jazz to Come again too
    March 18 02:15 AM
  • Chrisjon89 I'd be keen if he's doing sideshows but I'm broke too. I try to listen slowly and never get more than three albums at a time but the downside is that I miss so much stuff. Is Ascension his most full on listen because of the size of the group?
    March 18 12:06 AM
  • Chrisjon89 I might have a few more drinks for Ascension then haha and listen late. For jazz, I've really been digging most of what I've heard from Wayne Shorter on Blue Note. Some of McCoy Tyner's stuff from the 70s...really like Sahara and Atlantis. Aside from that, MF DOOM, Stevie Wonder and The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds. I never realised how great that album is. what about you man? you've been listening to alot of classical lately?
    March 17 02:16 PM
  • Chrisjon89 I finally found Interstellar Space. I'm a bit drunk but I dig it. Haven't heard much of Rashied Ali but ****...he's a beast. I find it very strange but not in a bad way. There's so much space with so few instruments but they make alot of noise for a duo. I liked Om too, and just got Ascension so maybe I've finally turned the corner lol
    March 17 11:05 AM
  • TheFonz123 i have a rec for you although you probably have already heard it. The quinet-"live at massey hall". its charles mingus in his bop phase, bird in his prime, and dizzy gelespie at his least abnoxious. also has max roach. if you havent heard it check it out s*** is cold
    March 3 01:11 AM
  • ShadowRemains you need to hear this: http://abyssal-home.bandcamp.com/
    February 19 08:31 AM
  • taylormemer Yeah, sorry forgot to also say, Safari ****s it up too.
    February 7 10:30 PM
  • taylormemer Could you do all of your band edits using firefox? Chrome seems to mess up the bio line breaks. Cheers
    February 6 12:24 PM
  • Deviant. http://www.filestube.com/c4b17eb53f18748603e9/go.html
    January 22 05:12 AM
  • taylormemer Storms were pretty awesome actually. Got some good shots.
    December 25 02:05 PM
  • taylormemer Yo ed. hope your Christmas was a good one. Have a great New Year also.Jake
    December 25 12:37 PM
  • HSThomas Liledman I'm trying to get into jazz ans classical, any recs that would help me?
    December 9 12:04 PM
  • sniper speaking of intense things, just got back from shorter. idk where you live but if he tours near you with this quartet don't miss. they played an hour and a half or so and never settled into a groove at all. pretty much as far "out" as anything i've ever heard, but the group swelled and drifted together so organically you never feel lost even when there's no chord structure (which was the whole time). pretty much clapped for five minutes after their first 45-minute session and it only got heavier
    October 3 07:42 AM
  • sniper yeah not to mention the technical difficulties presented by the fact that there are always at least three ways to voice any single note. piano just has that richness of sound that a guitar can't imitate. i practice piano a lot and i usually compose on piano, but i doubt i'll ever be "good" at it.
    October 2 06:31 PM
  • sniper also guitar, and every day i wish i had learned to play piano instead haha. guitar is such a hard instrument, awful.
    October 2 12:08 PM
  • sniper classical for sure. i studied jazz performance for a couple years but i realized composing is what i want to do, which is sort of funny because i think of it as the exact opposite of the improvisational nature of jazz. but yeah dude shostakovich's later quartets, starting at about no. 8 get really good. what's your instrument?
    October 2 11:55 AM
  • sniper agreed. i have schoenbergs first 4 string quartets but haven't digested them at all really. you like shostakovich? those are some ****ing electrifying sting quartets. and yes i do, studying composition actually.
    October 2 11:45 AM
  • sniper listen to the 3 poemes de stephane mellarme. debussy set two of the same poems to music around the same time an its interesting to hear what each did with the same material. i've listened mostly to schoenberg's "free atonal" expressionist works, the five pieces for orchestra are really striking. haven't explored much of his twelve-tone music but the concept certainly interests me.
    October 2 11:31 AM
  • sniper listening to a lot of ravel's art songs recently, the textures he gets are absurdly good. i also just appreciate how easy it is to listen to that sort of modal impressionist music. feels good to listen to modern music with only 7 tones in it from time to time.
    October 2 11:15 AM
  • sniper you like ravel at all
    October 2 11:04 AM
  • breesuschrist "well done, you figured out that composers dont all sound the same!"lol probly wat i ment
    September 22 07:22 PM
  • DeadStarShine As soon as I learn somethin, I'll let you know.
    August 20 01:50 PM
  • DeadStarShine Can't thank you enough. I've been wanting to dig jazz in a while, just didn't know what to begin with. You'll get news from me. Thank you again.
    August 19 11:30 PM
  • DeadStarShine Hey. I see 30% of Jazz in your music tastes. Jazz is a genre I'm really interested in, but I feel Sputnik gives it few relevance, so I don't know what artists to look for and where to start at. Can you help me with that?
    August 19 02:53 PM
  • Chrisjon89 If I can get a hold of it I'll check it out and let you know. I wonder where he would've taken it into the 70s.
    July 20 01:26 PM
  • Chrisjon89 Just googled it and "fourteen minute bass solos and twenty minute sax solos". Holy s*** lol. I've never quite gotten around to the Sanders/Rashied Ali era stuff yet but I will. I might go 'Live at the Village Vanguard Again' first for a live cut - that track list looks sweet. And I also wanna get a hold of Stellar Regions and Interstellar Space. There's also a live album he did with Monk I think? I nearly bought that once
    July 20 10:35 AM
  • Chrisjon89 Sounds cool. I don't own any of his live albums yet. I've only seen one live version from (I think) '63 with Dolphy on flute and I'm not exaggerating at all when I say it's one of the best things I've seen. I love the version of Summertime on that album too. I saw a live version of Naima from '65 and I like it alot more than the album version. A live take of Resolution too. I don't need to tell you how much that quartet rules but I waste alot of time telling other people haha.
    July 20 10:19 AM
  • Chrisjon89 I'm working my way through slowly. I honestly went into My Favorite Things thinking it'd be kind of lame but it completely rules. On par with Giant Steps for me, and most of Crescent is really good too. There's still a ton of good stuff for me to get from him.
    July 20 08:47 AM
  • Chrisjon89 I've never gone past Jack Johnson. On the Corner is on my list to get but I've been listening to Coltrane a lot more than Miles over the last few months
    July 20 08:34 AM
  • Chrisjon89 haha yeah man, that's a good way to put it. I like how it's more concise than Bitches Brew too. I think it was released just before Headhunters. There's a few more around that era that I haven't checked out but I was reading into it. Insane
    July 20 08:04 AM
  • Chrisjon89 surely there's some mistake? as if that first track is from '73 haha
    July 20 07:39 AM
  • qwe3 Mah bad dude i totally thought id done that already
    July 18 10:41 PM
  • qwe3 ya free tunes is what im happy about. dude youre not just heliping the post count youre uh...the source of it pretty much
    July 16 02:20 PM
  • qwe3 lol emalkay on their soundcloud tho?
    July 15 05:06 AM
  • qwe3 p obscure pr company tho
    July 15 05:01 AM
  • qwe3 yeah i.hate.golf@gmail.com but hey dude its like your blog now haha.
    July 15 05:01 AM
  • qwe3 haha sweet dude. did you reply?
    July 13 06:07 PM
  • qwe3 nice
    June 25 08:16 PM
  • ShadowRemains only a 3 for pandemic genocide's album?
    June 15 02:09 AM
  • KolyaAleksandrov555 Whoops, you did not agree.. but eitherway, could you suggest me some good Jazz artists? xD
    June 12 03:09 PM
  • KolyaAleksandrov555 Hey dude, thanks for agreeing that Immortal Technique is good hahah.I see that you listen to Jazz a lot.. Although I have always enjoyed Jazz, I just got INTO Jazz tbh.. soo, I wonder if you could throw me some good Jazz artists? 8D
    June 12 02:33 PM
  • wabbit couldwinarabbit has ratings...not that many but ow well. I might do it again eventually.
    June 5 06:02 PM
  • porch i liked the goslings album you rec'd me in my last list, cheers
    May 28 12:21 AM
  • Deviant. Yeah I love it. I mean I have no idea if it's "good jazz" or not (not that that would matter or anything) but it's such a fantastic album. He's got 2 earlier ones as well (not on Brainfeeder) but I haven't found them through my "usual sources" as of yet
    May 25 01:19 PM
  • Deviant. So Jazz man, I want you to check this out - http://www.filestube.com/7acfcda0e95b54b803e9/go.html - It's a guy called Austin Peralta, he's a Jazz pianist who recently signed to Flying Lotus' label
    May 25 01:07 PM
  • Dryden sup dude
    May 7 04:00 AM
  • conradtao i've no records out yet (hoping to change that soon but the classical record business is a total mess). yeah, tuition's a bitch, and nowadays everybody's stingy with financial aid :(
    May 6 05:51 AM
  • conradtao it's great - i've been there for eight years. i've been performing actively for about four years now? i'll be heading off to columbia/juilliard next year
    May 6 05:44 AM
  • conradtao yeap!!
    May 6 05:38 AM
  • Ire digging this sphere album. thanks dude
    April 29 08:53 PM
  • Ire cool dude, downloaded.
    April 15 12:52 PM
  • Eskate87 thanks for following our blog dude, i'm Evil Ernie on there btw. cheers.
    April 12 02:32 AM
  • UnnamedOcean Yeah that would be cool. I enjoy bop.
    March 28 12:16 AM
  • UnnamedOcean Well I've played in jazz band for about 6 years so I've heard just about everything. But I do like be-bop and more modern jazz, along with older Sammy Nestico type of tunes.
    March 27 06:17 PM
  • DeafMetal Ambient/drone with jazz influence. Rules man.
    March 19 02:35 AM
  • DeafMetal Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation - Anthropomorphic right now man.
    March 18 10:20 AM
  • qwe3 hey check it out i mashed up eric whitacre and clubroot. it's just a rough thing but i wanted to see how theyd sound together. http://soundcloud.com/qwetherington/eric-rootacre#
    February 1 12:22 PM
  • Chrisjon89 alright, thanks dude. I've got the Coltrane album and that's really good, I'll check the others out.
    January 21 05:25 AM
  • feav233 yea, the hype is def deserved, i remember when eif came out and was fairly surprised it was as popular amongst everyone as it was
    January 21 05:17 AM
  • Chrisjon89 I've been slowly checking out stuff from your essential jazz list which is a gold mine - got Pharoah Sanders 'Karma' and 'Thembi'. Karma is amazing, Thembi hit and miss but Astral Traveling is great. Do you have any more recs for stuff similiar to that or In A Silent Way? that chilled out vibe with the electric keyboards?
    January 20 04:42 PM
  • Bitchfork *claps hands* my fav was the second one.
    January 20 05:34 AM
  • Bitchfork good to know. it's in the database under unfathoms anytime you want to rate
    January 20 05:27 AM
  • Bitchfork ok just checking some of the files weren't working. did you like?
    January 20 05:18 AM
  • Bitchfork were you able to open it
    January 20 05:07 AM
  • feav233 new ulcerate is pretty awesome
    January 19 03:48 PM
  • Bitchfork wraiths's plaguebearer* cool bro good listening
    January 18 05:19 AM
  • Bitchfork get capricorni pneumatici's s/t of course, http://www.mediafire.com/?yqjyq5nxxzz kount's noise, pretty tight - get wriath's plaguebearer and trash dog's namaste
    January 18 05:04 AM
  • Bitchfork right now i'm on a pretty big noise kick and the closest i'm getting to dark ambient is capricorni pneumatici
    January 18 04:48 AM
  • Bitchfork I only have Black Traige.
    January 18 04:38 AM
  • Bitchfork indeed. indeed. fav album?
    January 18 04:27 AM
  • Bitchfork indeed
    January 18 03:55 AM
  • alachlahol we have music dude **** people
    January 17 01:35 PM
  • feav233 dl'd new ulcerate, still need to give it a listen
    January 15 02:47 AM
  • feav233 yea its the same on rym, just friended you, haha yea im not really sputnik cool but there are a couple users on here that recognize my sn so i'm content with that
    January 15 02:44 AM
  • feav233 yo dude, yea i don't really contribute a great deal to this site, nor do i really care to, but thanks man, you have some good tastes too, think you're actually on my compatibility list on rym
    January 14 08:23 PM
  • Enotron thank yah man!
    January 14 12:10 PM
  • ShadowRemains thinking a 4 to a 4.5 upon initial listens
    January 12 11:25 PM
  • ShadowRemains i await your ulcerate opinion...
    January 12 04:08 AM
  • patroneyes You may have my favorite taste on this site.
    December 20 02:20 AM
  • Jethro42 Hey dude, have you heard of Panzerballett, an amazing jazz metal band. In the same vein, i've heard good things about the last Neuma album. Cheers!
    December 16 08:08 PM
  • ShadowRemains no dude, check it out now...
    December 13 05:02 AM
  • ShadowRemains watching all this drama on sputnik holy s***...
    December 13 04:53 AM
  • ShadowRemains sup bro
    December 13 03:38 AM
  • alachlahol its too late just burned a cross in my front yard
    December 10 04:07 AM
  • alachlahol starting with the white supremacist ****s Arghoslent
    December 10 03:30 AM
  • alachlahol if you could do me a favor, rec me five death metal albums you think i should listen to. i have no real experience with it so give me some stuff you think will grab my attention
    December 10 01:03 AM
  • BallsToTheWall personally id take it over Dio and Witch. Perdition Temple put a good one out as well.
    December 6 01:23 AM

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