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

[Orang Utan]

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

 

[clandestino]

Luckily I've never heard of the Shop Assistants so your muso taunts mean nothing to me! NOTHING!

<dances round room with big grin on face>

 

[Sunspots]

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.

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.

 

[West68thStreet]

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.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

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.

 

[Sunspots]

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!!?? )

 

[easy g]

Not always a bad thing...

<hides Loren Mazzacane Connors albums from the fan of shite indie >

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

I remember The Maisonettes!

(-Are you serious about it being sampled!!?? )

Yeah, I caught it on the Zane Lowe show the other night - the chorus of 'Heartache Avenue' looped, seemingly.

 

[Sunspots]

Yeah, I caught it on the Zane Lowe show the other night - the chorus of 'Heartache Avenue' looped, seemingly.

-It's far too bizarre to be true.

I still reckon you're on a wind up!

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

In the same way that Nelly has so originally 'employed' Spandau's mighty 'True' in that lastest magnum opus.

 

[BadlyDrawnGirl]

-It's far too bizarre to be true.

I still reckon you're on a wind up!

For I only wish twas I were...

 

[MysteryGuest]

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>

 

[Orang Utan]

Joanna Lumley's Plastic Arsehole are a fantastic new cybergrunge band from Leeds.

 

[shoddysolutions]

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

 

[dlx1]

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

Deep DIve Corp - Bali hi

 

[MysteryGuest]

Joanna Lumley's Plastic Arsehole are a fantastic new cybergrunge band from Leeds.

Chinny reckon!

 

[nightowl]

Joanna Lumley's Plastic Arsehole are a fantastic new cybergrunge band from Leeds.

worth it just for the name alone

 

[onemonkey]

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. 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.

 

[articul8]

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!

 

[shoddysolutions]

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. 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

 

[Johnny Vodka]

All played on Blue Room R1

Quite possibly the best show on the wireless.

And try these bands/people:
Miss Kittin
Husky Rescue
Rainstick Orchestra
Magnet

They've all been reviewed at http://www.cdtimes.co.uk/ ,some of them by me.

 

[Larry O'Hara]

Michel Delalande 'De profundis': haunting, evocative, perfect...

 

[Mooncat]

The Squirrel Nut Zippers. A kind of crazy be-bop/swing thing - most enjoyable.

 

[rorymac]

I know one band that everyone thinks are great but they're toilet .. Stereolab .. stroll on

 

[fishfingerer]

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.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

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.

 

[clandestino]

Great titles, but no tunes, except should the bible be banned.

nonsense. "keep an open mind or else" is a great tune. just one of many.

 

[Xtine]

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.

 

[Abjekt]

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/

 

[easy g]

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