buying one record reviewed in The Wire each month

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You don't have to buy me a Xmas present now

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#369 shortlist for posterity...

Oren Ambarchi - Quixotism (Editions Mego)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/oren-amba...545292-01/

The Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles - The Last Transmission (Now-Again)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/the-helio...546869-01/

Nazoranai - The Most Painful Time Happens Only Once Has it Arrived Already? (Ideologic Organ)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/nazoranai...552333-01/

Pharmakon - Bestial Burden (Sacred Bones)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/pharmakon...544519-01/

Sensaround - Isotropes (HelloSquare)
http://hellosquare.bandcamp.com/album/isotropes

Ya big cherry muffin

Old Gong release in #371 looks interesting from the description, I wonder what it'll sound like. Something for the new year.

Early mrn Wire reading session thx 2 ski of shortbread.

#369 shortlist for posterity...

Oren Ambarchi - Quixotism (Editions Mego)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/oren-amba...545292-01/

I dunno, the clips sound alright, but it mostly just sounds like someone selecting LP-format-adhering samples and creating a very short loop of each in Ableton Live.

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I dunno, the clips sound alright, but it mostly just sounds like someone selecting LP-format-adhering samples and creating a very short loop of each in Ableton Live.

okay, try these instead...

#370 shortlist for posterity:

Mamoru Fujieda (piano: Sarah Cahill) - Patterns of Plants (Pinna)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mamoru-Fujieda-P...B00NF6TAP2

Jo Johnson - Weaving (Further)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/jo-johnso...544680-01/

Neel - Phobos (Spectrum Spools)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/neel-phobos/547543-01/

Population One - Theater of a Confused Mind (Rush Hour)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/populatio...547851-01/

Razen - Remote Hologram (Kraak)
https://soundcloud.com/kraak_records/raz...c-riddance

Strange U - EP #2040 (Strange Universe)
http://strangeuniverse.bandcamp.com/album/ep-2040

Will do. Meanwhile...

Old Gong release in #371 looks interesting from the description, I wonder what it'll sound like. Something for the new year.

This sounds pretty good Is it endemic that Amazon.com / .co.uk has the 30 second audio samples on most products? I need to Spotify it.

Oooh, a discovery of a discovery in #371 - Fennesz - Mahler Remixed. Fennesz is good. I will try and track this down on Spotify or eMusic.

Robert Barry's rev is really enlightening - here's an extract:

Fennesz - Mahler Remixed

"Consisting of four movements, each running more than ten minutes (though the second is essentially just an extended live take of "Limninality", from his 2014 album Becs), Mahler Remixed mirrors in structure Mahler's own first, fourth, sixth and ninth symphonies. It's the third movement that's the real killer. Here an oasis of reverb is whipped into a storm of thunderous distortion before crashing down, like waves upon a shore, into the symphony's finale, sounding as if performed at the bottom of a mine shaft.

This is one of those musical encounters that, once heard, sounds so fitting, so obvious, you're amazed it hasn't happened before. The 19th century's richest, most full-bodied symphonist transformed by one of the 21st century's most sensuous musicians. An explosion of light and colour, of noise and space."

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Is it endemic that Amazon.com / .co.uk has the 30 second audio samples on most products?

Yes, they're always 30 seconds on Amazon. Not ideal, but it's better than nothing.

Actually I always try Juno first, who have 1-2 minute samples (if they're selling these particular records of course). And I google for soundcloud, bandcamp, and label links etc as well.

Oooh, a discovery of a discovery in #371 - Fennesz - Mahler Remixed. Fennesz is good.

I've just started going through the #371 reviews systematically. Three things added to the longlist before that...

Thomas Dimuzio - Amid Zero Echo (Drone)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/thomas-di...552177-01/

Luigi Nono - Seguente (Edition RZ)
http://boomkat.com/cds/1169260-luigi-nono-seguente

various - Music from the Tudorfest: San Francisco Tape Music Center 1964 (New World)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Tudorfest-...B00R3NECI8

Decent records, but none of them really have the "this is great!" factor.

I'll try Juno more often then. Yes, thanks. I don't globally outsource links as much as I used to. Tranquilisers talking.

Is it endemic that Amazon.com / .co.uk has the 30 second audio samples on most products?

Yes, they're always 30 seconds on Amazon. Not ideal, but it's better than nothing.

Actually I always try Juno first, who have 1-2 minute samples (if they're selling these particular records of course). And I google for soundcloud, bandcamp, and label links etc as well.

Oooh, a discovery of a discovery in #371 - Fennesz - Mahler Remixed. Fennesz is good.

I've just started going through the #371 reviews systematically. Three things added to the longlist before that...

Thomas Dimuzio - Amid Zero Echo (Drone)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/thomas-di...552177-01/

Decent records, but none of them really have the "this is great!" factor.

I have something from this already on a Drone Records sampler Cd. I liked it.

Litte test really categorically by seeing if Fennsz is stocked on Juno, a site primarily known for electronica sales, with Christian crossing over into ambient quite a bit.

To be sure about Fennesz and Juno - 11 releases physically; 41 with him included on JunoDownload - but no Mahler Remixed. Ah well, it is early days yet.

Edit: now I feel like a prized tit - it specifies in the Wire review that it's a Bandcamp DL

Here it is:

https://fennesz.bandcamp.com/album/mahler-remixed

And it's fantastic.

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further on #368, probably this one...

Oren Ambarchi & Eli Keszler - Alps (Dancing Wayang)
http://dancingwayang.com/my_portfolio/or...zler-alps/

but from the same issue, in the main magazine (i.e. not reviewed)...

Fripp & Eno - Live in Paris 28.05.1975 (DGM / Opal)
http://www.dgmlive.com/archive.htm?&show=1340

What do you mean by this main magazine? Are you referring to The Wire's online site, http://www.thewire.co.uk, seeing as digital turnover over print is higher these days?

Ad, I see what you mean: you're referring to the Fripp interview I imagine, and a highlighted track from it.

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What do you mean by this main magazine?

the proper articles, interviews and whatnot before the reviews section

Ad, I see what you mean: you're referring to the Fripp interview

and a new release referred to therein

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Re #371, I'm currently liking this one...

Rie Nakajima - Four Forms (Consumer Waste)
http://consumerwaste.org.uk/releases

Something for you in return - my irst proper visit to the Avalanchers forum - thanks Sash73:

Sound Control, Manchester, UK 2014-12-12

Set list

01 Intro
02 New Dark Ages
03 Deadend
04 Shut Me Down
05 Life Giver Life Taker
06 Carrion
07 Towers Of Emptiness
08 Christbait Rising
09 Streetcleaner
10 Spite
11 Crush My Soul
12 Like Rats

Band Line-up

Justin Broadrick – guitars, vocals, programming
G.C. Green – bass, programming

Sound Professionals SP-CMC-8 Microphones
Sound Professionals SP-SPSB-11 Mini Battery Module with Bass Roll-Off (16Hz)
Edirol R-09HR 44.1kHz / 16 bit
USB>PC>CD Wave Editor>Trader's Little Helper>FLAC level 8>Dime

Justin was fighting flu but soldiered on and completed the full set and an encore.

320 MP3's

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jzkjyd47eaa2r2...3.rar?dl=0

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do you like Godflesh then?

I love "Flowers"

...Then I downloaded everything that was available on eMusic in 2007.

do you like Godflesh then?

But I wasn't finding it for me

#369 shortlist for posterity...
The Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles - The Last Transmission (Now-Again)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/the-helio...546869-01/

Listening to this now...pretty decent.

Nazoranai - The Most Painful Time Happens Only Once Has it Arrived Already? (Ideologic Organ)
http://www.juno.co.uk/products/nazoranai...552333-01/

Listened to the CD version yesterday...pretty mighty.

The difference now with Wire is while I'm not intimidated by it, I've accepted I go through spells with it. I get immense deja view seeing some reviews albeit in a systematic order. I should be appreicating more of what's in there when Ifeel like it.

Slightly on topic, and quite relevant: I think Juno should have a shortcut on the header to JunoDownload. CDs and vinyl are great and all, but I don't always want more records to sift through on my shelf.