Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets (1974)

GENIUS.

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works 85-92

Staying very much in the electronic vein here. These are some of my oldest and dearest electronic jams. hypnotic and introspective.

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Autechre - Oversteps (2010)

WOAH, I still have a blog? sweet. Anyways I just heard this new Autechre album today. I was a little bit confused the first time through, but after the second listen I found myself liking it more. It is a very dense and abstract piece so one should not expect to be enthralled and completely won over the first way through. It is quiter, and less beat oriented than other work of theirs that I have heard. I get a real sense of introspection from the album, there is a feeling of inner journey and reflection to it. but yeah totally check it out they have some cool sounds and textures going on here. its icy

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Daturah - Daturah (2005)

Some of the dankest post rock i've ever come across. three tracks, each of them completely epic and beautiful. this record is truly a trip as the name suggests.

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Papercuts - You Can Have What You Want (2009)

Really nice smooth milky indie dream music thats perfect for a saturday morning when there are mountains of snow all around.

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John Cage - Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (1948)

OHHHH MAN. The piano reinvented. So mind-bendingly original and influential. A little history for you from allmusic:

"Students of music history have probably seen photographs of pianos fitted by Cage with all sorts of foreign objects -- bits of rubber stuffed between strings, hammers fitted with tacks, perhaps even a wooden spoon poking out from the instrument's entrails at an odd angle. The so-called prepared piano, for which the Sonatas and Interludes are composed, provides the means by which a single instrument is able to evoke a wide variety of colors, timbres, and textures...The sound is immediately engaging, and because of the differences between various pianos and the numerous varieties of weather stripping, thumb tacks, and wooden spoons available, each performance or recording is distinct. The work conjures a world of sound that is variously serene, haunting, percussive, and surreal...Each movement examines a particular emotion, with a palette drawn from the Indian tradition that includes heroism, eroticism, wonder, mirth, sorrow, fear, anger, and tranquility."

This music is a head trip of serious intensity. Very exotic, very otherwordly, sometimes beautiful, sometimes frightening, sometimes funkalicious, but always--as allmusic says--surreal. Feast your ears on this shit and feel these unearthly noises resound in your soul. Awesome. This dank performance is brought to you by Maro Ajemian, who premiered the work and to whom it is dedicated.

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Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children (1998)

I've been totally obsessed with this for the past few days. Deeply beautiful, haunting, disturbing, powerful, fragile. Every song is so simple and moving, and it is a damn near perfect essay of electronic music in my opinion. Cerebral. Behold the primal power of the beat.

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Gkfoes Vjgoaf - Magic Days (2009)

Got this recently off weedtemple i believe. I wasnt really expecting much but I cant stop listening to it. The fidelity is low but the feeling is hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh. Some of the tracks are very beautiful with droning guitars and chimes and bells with no lack of wierdness. I totally recommend this and look forward to getting more acquainted with this album and his others. You can get them all off his myspace.

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Scientist - Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (1981)

awwwwwwwwwwwwwww ye. chill

Grizzly Bear - Vekatimest (2009)

One of my favorites of '09. Its just such sublime pop music, I think its irresistible. veckatimesatiastkied

Ween - The Pod (1991)

Mankind's brownest record. Doctor Rock

Sigur Ros - Takk... (2005)

Another one of my favorites. There's a lot of shit you can say about this bands' sound but after seeing them live it really goes deeper than just words. If you're in the zone, this album is an enveloping and intense musical experience. i think. sorry i don't mean to get all lame on you but its the truth, this band definitely has got some serious energy behind it and it is definitely some powerful stuff.

i need to visit iceland.