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Music which you think is good and you reckon other people might not know about

Anything on Rhythm & Sound/M/Main Street/Chain Reaction/Basic Channel/Burial Mix
Pole
Deadbeat
Vladislav Delay/Luomo
Matthew Herbert
Mathew Jonson
Moodyman
Monolake
Isolee
the Traum label
 
ianw said:
loads and loads of people rate that johnny boy single, but i just didn't get it.

I just don't rate it, but I've got it. On one-sided 7". Cost me 30p.

ianw said:
however, i'm veering close to contravening FM's no-pointing edict, so i'll say no more.

Yeah. I'm mindful of the same, so I'll try to keep quiet too. :o
 
Not woefully obscure, but if you want to know why Ivor Novello has a songwriting award named after him, pick up any of his collections with Mary Ellis singing on it. She was a soprano for the Met or something I think, and this was like her pop crossover. Her voice is so powerful on some of the recordings (which are wonderully scratchy and underproduced) you can hear it transcending the equipment in the studio and just straining beyond the walls, it's amazing. Bit more modern, Weird War's last album (I think) called If you can't beat em, bite em. They are a really underrated US lo-fi outfit, their stuff is really messy and funky- little bit Jon Spencer-y, really good. And then Black STrobe I'm just discovering, filthy electrotchno stuff, saw Ivan Smagghe DJ a while back, I wish I had the set he played, wicked ketamine racket.
 
The Fall; The Maisonettes.

Although the obscurity of the latter may be over if that Roll Deep track (that samples 'Heartache Avenue') is a hit.
 
acid priest said:
The Fall; The Maisonettes.

Although the obscurity of the latter may be over if that Roll Deep track (that samples 'Heartache Avenue') is a hit.

I remember The Maisonettes!

(-Are you serious about it being sampled!!?? :eek: :confused: )
 
acid priest said:
Yeah, I caught it on the Zane Lowe show the other night - the chorus of 'Heartache Avenue' looped, seemingly. :rolleyes:

-It's far too bizarre to be true. :eek:

I still reckon you're on a wind up! :D
 
Oh yeah and Lustmord - seem to have lost the few CDs I had by them but if you like Thomas Koner, isolationist style stuff, then please do check Lustmord out too.


<goes off to re-start Lustmord collection>
 
Harvey Sid Fisher's "Astrology Songs" LP.

Twelve songs, one for each sign of the zodiac. Get your friends round, get them pissed, then play them this album and watch them get really annoyed as a whiny American describes all their personality defects through the medium of song

Thanks Julie, you are :cool:
 
Devendra Banhart. most played Little yellow spider
Lavrie Anderson. Heard a bit of O supperman on a TV show the other day :( She better then backing music.

fu months ago would have said The Magic Numbers.

All played on Blue Room R1 :D

Deep DIve Corp - Bali hi :cool:
 
King Pleasure - brilliant be-bop singer from the 1950's.. "Kansas City" - his interpretation of Parker's Mood is utterly amazing and will be played at my funeral... though, since i hope that you will have to wait a long time for that, I might bring it to PRoD some time :)

Hedingarna are a folk band from Lappland who sing some awesome songs about trolls, and win a prize for the second best accordion music i've ever heard. :eek: First prize in that category goes to another Finn Kimmo Pohjonen... you won't believe it till you've heard it.

and if you haven't heard of LowKey yet, just wait, you will.
 
No idea how obscure they are but I've only just come across them - band called The Books and their album "Lost and Safe".

No idea how to describe it really..err.. Sonic Youth doing a cover of Lemon Jelly? God Speed You Black Emperor in a good mood?

Oh, just check it out!
 
onemonkey said:
Hedingarna are a folk band from Lappland who sing some awesome songs about trolls, and win a prize for the second best accordion music i've ever heard. :eek: First prize in that category goes to another Finn Kimmo Pohjonen... you won't believe it till you've heard it.

Aha! A fellow Late Junction listener! I like you more and more :cool:
 
Flavour said:
A late 80s indie pop band in the same vein as the Smiths called McCarthy. no-one i know has heard of them, but they're fucking good.
Great titles, but no tunes, except should the bible be banned.

Blind Idiot God - late 80's, early 90's instrumental punky/hendrixy/dub 3 piece.
 
I can't think of anything obscure enough, really.

If this was a mainstream forum, I'd recommend the God Machine's first, but let's face it, on here God Machine are virtually U2...

I do have to say though that the One Dove album "Morning Dove White" was one of the most under-appreciated albums of the early 90s. Its gorgeous blending of St Etienne-style pop and Primal Scream/orb/Wetherall ambientness was brilliant.
 
i just got Mento Madness - Jamaican performers recorded between 1951 and '56. the producer, Stanley Motta built the first recording studio on the Island, and later built the first pressing plant. (can you imagine: at first he sent off those fragile recordings to the UK for pressing!!)
gorgeous, joyful, silly.
audible Elavil, if you will.
 
Mars Ill - Underground hip hop duo from Atlanta. Christian, but not preachy. Spiritual content. Amazing beats. Check out "Reach", "Piecemeal" and "Sunstep".
http://www.marsill.com [might be down at the mo]

Deepspace5 - "Supergroup" of 9 hip hoppers, including Mars Ill and Listener. Great production, good diverse mix of vocal talents. Good songs include "Night We Called It A Day", "This Curse I Bear" and "Elementary".
http://www.deepspace5.com/
 
fishfingerer said:
Blind Idiot God - late 80's, early 90's instrumental punky/hendrixy/dub 3 piece.

crackin' band...got a couple of their albums

the drummer is in Khanate...another Stephen O'Malley project
 
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