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Are you sure that's not Charles Ives?

whoa.

Was Maurice Brown that bad of a choice? I'd still love to hear him with either pianist.

I wonder what it sounds like! Is this a mono squeaky, or is it the remastered stereo squeaky? Sometimes, when I look at the Pet Sounds album cover, I immediately imagine an alternate Beach Boys 'butcher' cover.

Never got to hang at Tom's new place, but I did get to hang at his old place. I even took a couple of discs he lent to me across the Mason-Dixon.

Rest In Peace Steve.

I got here just time in time I guess. Party's really getting going! Happy Birthday Jim. What is that, house music?

Moose or humans?

The UN Millenium Declaration clearly states: • Respect for nature. Prudence must be shown in the management of all living species and natural resources, in accordance with the precepts of sustainable development. Only in this way can the immeasurable riches provided to us by nature be preserved and passed on to our descendants. The current unsustainable patterns of production and consumption must be changed in the interest of our future welfare and that of our descendants. .:.somehow, I just don't think many people really take this shit seriously. stewardship is for suckers.

adamommy has a point about ninjatune, but you are looking for a style of music that happened ten years ago. Nothing wrong with that, unless, of course, you are looking for music to make people think you are from the future.

up. let's see it.

Yeah, I was thinking about those Headz comps as well.

I haven't heard any of those. Any particular recommendations? Guy OK, I see based on other recommendations that this is more what you are interested in. Check out the Antipop Consortium release on Thirsty Ear. More on the electronic-influenced jazz music side, I would recommend a Matthew Shipp album from the series featuring Khan Jamal called Equilibrium. I'm not a huge fan of Jamal, but there are a few tracks on there that kill. Ninja Tune is probably the label you are looking for. Late 90s Amon Tobin, Jaga Jazzist, Skalpel, Kid Koala (for sure... cut/pasting trumpet solos together), Maybe Squarepusher? I'm trying not to get too far away from jazz-influenced, but based on other recommendations... If we are going into hip hop, we have to get into with J Dilla. There are plenty of instrumentals out there, and there are plenty with MCs as well, but this guy was seriously creative. I think hip hop is another thread though.

You know, I have an album by Molvaer (Khmer), and while it's not bad, I would have liked something a little more "substantial". I don't have a good sense of what EAI is so I can't say whether that's what I'm looking for. That said, I was thinking primarily of "techno" (broadly defined -- could include IDM, drum'n'bass, ambient, etc) w/jazz influences. Guy Have you listened to much from the Thirsty Ear Blue Series? Is this what you are looking for?

Right, I crossed posts with the two above. There is also plenty of DJ/Club-type stuff that might fit this bill. When I think jazz-influence, I think of looser rhythmic interpretations.

Are you talking about eai, lowercase, etc. or are you talking about Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra, or Chicago Underground, or Electric Masada, or, or, or, or jazz-rock-influenced electronic music, etc? There is a wide range of music that I would consider jazz-influenced electronic, but SOME guidelines would be helpful. I know there are a few people on this board who have plenty of recommendations up there sleeve. Funny Ratters and Jon Abbey are especially knowledgeable. Everything I have heard in the veins mentioned above is interesting on some level. One thing that I got recently, Rien by Noel Akchote, was recorded in 2000. Noel Akchote (guitar, sound effects); Erik Minkkinen (computer); Andrew Sharpley (samples, turntables). This might fit your description. Beautiful music, IMO.CD UNIVERSE via org.org

Incredible Jazz Guitar was one of the first jazz CDs I owned. I distinctly remember being home for Christmas break freshman year of college. I picked up my girlfriend in my mom's jeep one afternoon and I was listening to this music. It was all new to me and I couldn't get enough of it. I remember her reaction to it wasn't entirely positive, though she tried... it felt like a turning point in our relationship, even then, and we decided to stop seeing each other within the next year. I think the fact that it was a long-distance relationship attributed to the fact that we stayed together that long. She wouldn't have been able to handle Dolphy, who I also discovered that year. Now, my wife, then girlfriend, I knew she was the one when I showed up to her apartment with my brand new copy of Point of Departure. We were living in different towns at the time as well. I had never heard it, or Andrew Hill's music before. We made dinner together with this on the stereo. I remember saying to her something like, "I really like this music. I don't know what it is, but this is definitely the direction I have been heading lately." Her reaction was positive. She's always playing the Bud Powell CDs, which is fine by me. But that was 1999. We were talking about 2006.

Another that came to mind that has been a favorite this year: Jeff Parker. The records under his name are great. And a huge favorite featuring him is Jeb Bishop Afternoons.

I did listen to that Grizzly Bear remixes side a lot this year. Something about that music became addictive for me. J Dilla I listened to a lot as well. A friend showed me the way on that, as well as a few of his friends' records. A renewed appreciation for local hip hop for sure. Listeners ought to hear some NC hh. Superstition was a friend of a friend that I just recently heard for the first time. Solid. And from Greenville, no less.

I'd really like to hear the Ellington/Strayhorn piano duets... that is something that I won't download. I'm saving my virginity. I am scheming on how to set up an all analog set-up. Trolling the depths of audiogon on a weekly basis... then the fun begins.

His Riverside Picks

Harvey Pekar picks

yeah? I'll have to check that out. So what's the deal with itunes, you can only play the track on the computer you downloaded it to, and then only to ipods?

Let's see! I never got to see your house in RI.

I haven't encountered that. adamommy, what does itunes not do well when burning? I don't know much about this, but haven't had any issues (yet).