Henry Purcell - The Fairy Queen

Britain's version of Bach and probably their most well known and highly thought of composers. The Fairy Queen is a masque, or semi-opera with words from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It's such a great piece of music, with complex contrapuntal ideas and, as with practically everything Baroque, features the goddamned fugue.

AFX - Chosen Lords

Richard D. James. Yes, that crazy guy.

This is a compilation of some highlights from the Analord series put out under the AFX moniker. Needless to say, it's awesome.


Chosen Lords

Emika - Emika

Emika's world is one that owes not only a huge debt to the London underworld of Dubstep, but the Bristol world of trip hop. You could also lump her in with the recent strain of darkwave inspired artists, such as Salem and Holy Other. Her music is rife with stifling atmosphere and a violent paranoia, all set to a soundtrack of twitchy and stuttering percussion and ruthless bass thumps.

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Cocteau Twins - The Pink Opaque

1985 compilation album from everyone's favourite unintelligible dreamy scottish poppish (kinda) band.

and it rules

Moss Icon - Lyburnum

Woah this place looks different it's all grey. Here is some Moss Icon, some band that were playing emotional hardcore before people were even calling it that (emotional hardcore sounds dumb anyway, like regular hardcore isn't emotional already?). Too bad they missed the 'Revolution Summer' by a year or something. Blah blah, it's good, get it.

THE CONQUEROR WORM

New Contributor - Deviant

The looserthanloose blog/community/brotherhood/family/fraternity/club/group would like to welcome its newest member, the ineffable, unassailable, incomparable, inaudible (cuz its the internet lol) and a bunch of other words too DEVIANT.

He's also got better everything than you.

but particularly hair.
oh baby

Wayne Shorter - Juju

Shorter put out a string of great albums on Blue Note through the 60's, before he went all fusiony and founded Weather Report in the 70's. This album was released in 1964, around the time he joined Miles Davis' amazing quintet, though before his playing evolved into what it would be like in that group later on. Here, Shorter is very much under the spell of Coltrane (as nearly all saxophonists were at that stage), but the one thing that shines through no matter what period of his career you pick, is his compositions. While they were still basically following the general bop guidelines of the day, his harmonic and melodic material is far more intricate in its relationship to each other. What results is you humming along to things in your car you never thought you would.

Also featuring two parts of Coltrane's quartet in McCoy Tyner and Elvin Jones, and the ever-reliable Reggie Workman on bass, you know you are in for something special.


Juju

Mainstream Rap Special

I love 90s underground rap because the internet tells me to, and I hate mainstream rap becuz its just about bitches and hoes and money and its not intelligent at all LOL a milli a milli i mean wtf is that hahahaha thats not rap RIDIN DIIIIRRRTY LOL

^ That shit pisses me off. Here's some rap that wasn't produced by DJ Premier circa 1994 but still manages to rule:

Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3
Lil Wayne - Dedication 2
Chamillionaire - Ultimate Victory
T.I. - Trap Muzik
T.I. - King
Three 6 Mafia - Mystic Stylez
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt
UGK - Ridin' Dirty
Big K.R.I.T - Returnof4eva
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - E 1999 Eternal
Curren$y - Pilot Talk
Game - Documentary
Snoop Dogg - Doggystyle

Fleshpress - III - The Art of Losing All

 feel like sluj? heres sum sluj

Bill Withers - Just As I Am

great great voice plus he can sing iknowiknowiknowiknowiknowiknowinknowiknowiknowiknowiknowiknowiknowiknow then KEEP SINGING without taking a fuckign BREATH yeah thats right holy shit anyways this is a great album filled with delicious melodies, brilliant soulful vocals and luverly phrasing this is a staple of r&b and one of the best soul albums ever recorded of all time in the world ever

Lord Finesse - Return of the Funky Man

Early 90's East Coast, you know the drill.

He did a great deal of the production on this too, and got a bit of help from, among others, Showbiz (of Showbiz and A.G fame (A.G also guests)). Solid, if nothing outstanding, but oft-neglected just because of the rest of the great shit back then.


Return of the Funky Man

Mayhem - Deathcrush

Fuck yeah Mayhem
Fuck yeah Deathcrush
Fuck yeah songs called Chainsaw Gutsfuck

but seriously this is a great lil slice of black metal this and De Mysteriis are the two highest points of their discog easily and hey if you dont like it its only 20 mins long so stfu

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Classic album if you don't like this then you are not a person. This is probably the best pop album ever to exist bar maybe a Beatles album. You can hear its influence even today, clear as a bell. The harmonies, the songwriting and the vocal precision are all breathtaking and it's hyper-melodic but retains this sense of atmosphere that balances its sound pretty much perfectly. oh yeah and its the most catchy and singalongable thing ever in the world ever.

Get this shit now

Dirty Beaches - Badlands

Sup guys? Here's some incredibly dismal music for you, and one of the best albums of the year! Enjoy.

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Badlands

Our Sunday Affairs - Smiles From Next Year

Young dudes playing twinkly lil emo ditties like a bau5

really pretty especially the song that is about Alyssa but isn't but so is.

Benga - Diary of an Afro Warrior

Fairly minimal dubsteppy goodness, kind of a mid-point between atmospheric stuff and bass overload 'womp'. That's why it's good. Won't blow your socks off, but should appeal to anybody with an interest in the genre.


Diary of an Afro Warrior

Electric Masada - At the Mountains of Madness

Seeing as Qwe posted some Zorn, I figured I would post this.

One of Zorn's groups, Electric Masada is an outlet for the klezmer music he has also been doing in Masada, but, as you may have guessed, with an electronic spin. Along with the usual frenetic sax and percussion of most of Zorn's work, we find laptop electronics, keyboards and electric guitar adding to the insanity. This isn't as bat shit insane as Naked City, however noisy avant-garde jazz with middle eastern influence doesn't fully reside in the sane camp either.

This is a double live album of monumental quality.


Disc 1
Disc 2

John Zorn - Naked City

the most insane album you will ever listen to. sometimes groovy, sometimes beautiful, sometimes a whirring grind assault.

get the fuck on it. absolutely brilliant

Otis Redding - Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul

Some essential shit, you should recognise at least a few tracks. Get on it.


Otis Blue

UNKLE - Psyence Fiction

James Lavelle has worked with various partners throughout UNKLE's lifetime, which probably explains the gradual change in style through the years. In the beginning, UNKLE was much more of a straight-ahead trip hop project, and for the debut, Psyence Fiction, Lavelle was teamed up with arguably the best in the business; Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow.

If you dig any of the 90's trip hop, it's safe to say you will enjoy this. Both men obviously know what they are doing, and the large amount of guest vocalists/MCs actually work particularly well.


Psyence Fiction