Metamatic Forums Socialising The Green Room What Music Are You Listening To ?

I've decided todays media is too compressed, I've decided to become a vinyl junkie!

First out of the record box is:

The Cross - Roger Taylors solo album

Popol Vuh - In Den Gärten Pharaos (Pilz, Germany 1971)

Damn you & your wonderful taste in music I've yet to hear.

Hang on - I'll turn it up...

It's a fine album, but I still prefer the debut Affenstunde. This one is, for me, a little too near the fence around the hippie commune and has one too many dreamlike and new-age/spacey sequences in it.

I never really went 'Big' on Tangerine Dream (not much at all beyond Atem and Phaedra anyways), and this is kind of where that started.

Fricke's piano though, is absolutely superb and I do love the 'vocal' treatments (reverb, echo etc) on the title track

Not bowled over by T.D. myself, apart from 'Electronic Meditation'. The 80's T.D. bored me to tears, but then so did most 80's sequencer electronic bands. For that I blame digital synths flooding the market. Coming on like analogue was the dinosaur of the synth world. remember digital = Lazy.

excellent album! My favourite tracks are the title track, Plaster The Magic Tongue & Lodge Of Skins. In fact there is not a duff track on this album. Probably Mick's best one. I really miss him.

Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85

Marc Almond - Variete

Cut Copy's Zonoscope. Disappointing; only a couple of tracks I'd want to hear more than once.

Ulysses 31

Made in '81, but I actually watched it on video in the early '90's

C'mon everybody, lets clap our hands and sing it together:

"Ulysses, Ulysses, soaring through all the galaxies, in search of Earth, flying into the night.
Ulysses, Ulysses, fighting evil and tyranny, with all his power, and with all of his might"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ4c1X5ene8

Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age Of Wireless. Looking forward to his new album "A Map Of The Floating City" due for release in the summer. A new ep will be released on March 28th entitled "Oceana"

Lola Dutronic. Tracks picked up from youtube.