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Is their identity a secret you will take with you to your watery grave?

Sofia wrote: "Is their identity a secret you will take with you to your watery grave?"

Nah it's Pete Swanson!

That man has potential

Sofia wrote: "That man has potential"

You ever listen to Yellow Swans? Potential fulfilled!

And I find out about so much good music through his Twitter - the man is a living archive of BURIED music

Ooh, will check
(I was referring to Man With Potential, of course)

Sofia wrote: "Ooh, will check
(I was referring to Man With Potential, of course)"

Somehow, I did not catch that. I'm slipping

Half-heartedly posting my account here in case you're in the mood to give someone recs: https://rateyourmusic.com/~Alexei_Ane...

Sofia wrote: "Half-heartedly posting my account here in case you're in the mood to give someone recs: https://rateyourmusic.com/~Alexei_Ane..."

You know, I've never used rateyourmusic - is it useful?

Also, year's halfway through - anybody want to talk favorite 2017 releases thus far?

You are intimating I should explore this artist, correct?

I'm mostly using it to reconstruct my old music library, or at least that of it I'm likely to listen to again. It's good for asking for recommendations on the forum, people's lists. I've seen people champion last.fm, but I have a feeling it would take a while to get used to, and I'm not sure it's worth it. I'm presently in the process of building up my vocabulary for the improvisational avant-garde.

Jonfaith wrote: "You are intimating I should explore this artist, correct?"

Pete Swanson? Yellow Swans? Oh hell yes. Start at the end
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=P...

Sofia wrote: "I'm mostly using it to reconstruct my old music library, or at least that of it I'm likely to listen to again. It's good for asking for recommendations on the forum, people's lists. I've seen peopl..."

The improvisational avant-garde is one of my main interests, so maybe I'll hop aboard and talk music

Recently posted a collage for recommendations, wanting to float through interesting cyberspaces, so, like, if you know some similar stuff, recordings that make you feel similar :)

Kim Cascone - Blue Cube []
MIMEO - Lifting Concrete Lightly
Polwechsel - 3
Autechre - Quaristice (Versions)
I Am a Lake of Burning Orchids - Innocence
Otomo Yoshihide - Melted Memory II
Luxury Elite - TV Party
Richard Chartier - Decisive Forms
Franz Hautzinger - Gomberg

This year has been pretty dry for me

I enjoyed the Mono no aware comp.
Julia Holter put out a live recording
Ryuichi Sakamoto's async was purportedly inspired by Tarkovsky, sounds quite nice
New Yowie record was okay
New Jlin record was a colossal disappointment

Oh I feel like 2017 has been pretty damn good thus far:

Laurel Halo - Dust (AOTY so far)
Kara-Lis Coverdale - Grafts
Taylor Deupree - Soma (perfect record)
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe - Two Orb Reel
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - On The Echoing Green
Horse Lords - Mixtape IV
Pharmakon - Contact
All of Keith Fullerton Whitman's Soundcloud releases from his latest tour
Priests - Nothing Feels Natural (that was last year but fuck it it's one of the great albums of this year)
The reissue of Tony Conrad's Ten Years Alive On The Infinite Plain
Kendrick Lamar DAMN (AOTY contender)
Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage
I dig the Jlin record
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked At Me
Roc Marciano - Rosebudd's Revenge
The Necks - Unfold
Sun Araw - Saddle Of The Increate
Federico Durand - La Nina Junco
Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notional Species II
Dustin Wong and Takako Minekawa - Are Euphoria
Sakamoto
Arca
That re-issue of Giusto Pio - Motore immobile on Soave records
There's a new Golden Retriever record coming out in July that will be one of the great things released this year no doubt
I just started too! Sure there's tons of stuff I missed..
Oh yeah the Mono no aware comp def

Grafts is a brilliant record, but I didn't really like those other ones much. Quarantine is longtime favourite, but nothing else she's done has felt nearly as aesthetically adventurous. Don't suppose you know whether Holly Herndon has anything in the works? What I like about her is how all of her conceptualism and sonic experimentation is blown away by the beauty of her voice.

No idea about HH - but she is fantastic

Here's what I've been listening to (some of it is from previous years, sorry I'm just catching up)

Valerie June - The Order of Time
Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN
SZA - Ctrl
Y La Bamba - Ojos Del Sol (2016)
Laura Marling - Semper Femina
Fazerdaze - Morningside and s/t EP
Julia Holter - Have You in My Wilderness (2015)
Roberta Flack - First Take (1969)
Tift Merritt - Stitch of the World
Oh Pep! - Stadium Cake (2016)
Lucius - Good Grief (2016)

shabazz palaces - vs the machines
i second reassemblage!
Hieroglyphic Being, Sarathy Korwar & Shabaka Hutchings - A​.​R​.​E. Project
Dauwd - Theory of Colors


prince of denmark - 8 (late 2016)
the westerlies - the westerlies (latish 2016)