QuoteLionsMouth the Minutemen embody what is great about punk rock in so many ways. So true. Even after all these years, I can still pull out their albums and just melt into them. I only saw them play once, but I've had the chance to see Mike Watt several times. All killer shows. That dude has lost none of his punk attitude over the years.by Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
QuoteLionsMouth Silicon Teens - Music for Parties LP Great album! I haven't listened to that in ages. Thanks for reminding me how much fun that is!by Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Milt Jackson - The Prophet Speaks Qwest Records, 1996 I'm a huge fan of Milt Jackson, even in his later years. This album puts him together with some great modern players, notably Joshua Redman who lays down some soulful, tasty solos on several tracks. The ever-consistent Billy Higgins also adds some highlights with his subdued drumming. Joe Williams is along for the ride too, providby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Roses Never Fade - Fade To Black A389 Recordings, 2010 Here's a pretty cool side project from Dwid Hellion of Integrity. Instead of screaming hardcore, we get an album full of dark, introspective, mostly acoustic material. Definitely worth checking out. Discogs link for this albumby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Neglect - Four Years Of Hate Gain Ground, 1996 Neglect was a NYHC band that was active between 1991-1996. This comp collects a demo from '92 with two different sessions they did with Don Fury as the producer/engineer in '93 along with a live track. This is thrashy hardcore that's coming from the same sound space as Prong was before they got into their electronic/industrialby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
QuoteLionsMouth The second group made me think of Depeche Mode. Seems like a cool comp. I couldn't quite put my finger on who they reminded me of, but Depeche Mode is a good comparison. Honestly, the whole thing is derivative of what was going on in Germany a few years earlier, but it's really interesting to see what was happening in Eastern Europe at the time, and how similar it wasby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Various Artists - Yugoslavian Space Program Discom, 2016 This record is a compilation of electronic music from what was once the nation of Yugoslavia. If you dig spaced out Krautrock, this album will be right up your alley. There are two tracks each from four different artists. First up is Miha Kralj, a pioneer of synth music in Eastern Europe. He's still active in music today, thby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
I picked that tape up recently. Not bad at all. I just got into Gnawed over the past few months, so I'm still catching up on them. As a whole, the Maniacal Hatred label puts out some pretty interesting stuff.by Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Brian Eno - Reflection Warp Records, 2017 Excellent ambient album from Eno. A return to some of his minimalist leanings, this is a beautiful piece of work. Four tracks, one on each side of the LP, each quiet and reflective, appropriate for deep listening. There don't appear to be any links to actual tracks for this anywhere that I cold find, but it's worth searching out a coby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Choi Joonyong, Kevin Drumm, Hong Chulki - Normal Balloon & Needle, 2015 So this CD was given to me a few weeks ago with the explanation of "It's some pretty weird shit. I think you'll like it." That turned out to be an accurate statement. I was familiar with Kevin Drumm, known primarily for doing peculiar things with tabletop guitars, but Joonyong and Chulki weby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
QuoteLionsMouth David Parsons - Himalaya That's some good stuff. The mid to late 80s were a great time for New Age. Fortuna was one of the better labels back then.by Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
^That's a pretty decent album by Gunshop. I have a copy that Ron Lessard gave me last year. I need to check out some of that stuff on Raster-Noton. Looks like some interesting stuff they've put out.by Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Vasectomy Party / Su Sous Toulouse En Rouge - 7" Split Forever Escaping Boredom, 2016 Two Florida noise outfits sharing a lathe-cut 7". Both of them have been around for some time, playing local shows in the Tampa area and putting out a pretty good number of releases. This split has one track from each and, despite the fact it's lathe-cut, the sound is very good. Bandcaby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Damn, man, that is an awesome collection there. I've just started to get into listening to DJ mixes like that over the past few months, entirely thanks to you posting stuff like this. I'll add these to the ever-growing list of things to check out.by Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
EORÐESLAJYR - HÄXAN Black Mass, 2016 Over 50 minutes of black metal/ambient/noise/drone used as the soundtrack for a new edit of the 1922 silent film HÄXAN, directed by Benjamin Christensen. This is excellent, creepy stuff right here. The clip below has footage taken from the movie set to one of the 10 tracks on this album. I'll put a link to the Bandcamp page below in case anyone isby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
^Awesome stuff. I had no idea Marc Almond ever did anything with them.by Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Inside Rock Music Vance Ferrell - Published by Evolution Facts, Inc. Almost every single day for over a decade now, I run into at least one person that I have to deal with for work-related purposes that feels the need to save my soul. As a result, I have managed to amass quite a collection of things like Chick Tracts, various pamphlets, talismans, tapes, DVDs, and books like this one thatby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
^Another great one I haven't heard in a while. I saw them play with Quicksand opening up back in early '94, and I had never heard Seaweed before that night. I became an instant fan and bought a few albums the next day. Killer show from both bands, but these guys totally blew me away.by Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
2814 - Rain Temple Dream Catalogue, 2016 I've seen a lot of people calling this vaporwave, and I get where they're coming from with that, but I think there's a whole lot more going on with this album than you'd typically find in that genre alone. There are some fantastic electronic passages here that sound almost like they belong on a late-70s Berlin-school album, andby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Fornicator Moribund Records, 2002 My interest in listening to grindcore comes and goes over time. Sometimes I really want to hear it, sometimes I just wonder why I ever bought so much of it in the first place. I pulled out this CD the other day after not putting it on for about ten years or so, and it will likely be another decade before I listen to it again. While it's not bad aby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Instagon - 666 Thee Instagon Foundation, 2014 Instagon are a free jazz outfit from Sacramento. This is a recording of their 666th show from October 25, 2014. It's reminiscent of the kind of sound that Miles Davis' bands put out in the late 60s - early 70s. There's not a decent video of the album that I could find on YouTube, but below are some clips of an earlier show whereby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
^Ichiro Tsuji is an absolutely amazing artist. You're right, there's just a crazy amount of stuff out there from him. I think the first thing I ever heard was the Dissecting Table 7" I picked up back when I was in college. I need to dig that thing out one day and give it another listen.by Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
QuoteLionsMouth Xingu Hill - Alterity Xingu Hill were one of those projects that were nominally doing the same types of things you'd find on the Warp label during the mid-90s but never found a broad audience like that stuff did, probably due to label associations and such. Like Black Lung (who released stuff onthe same labels and did a collab album with XH), Xingu Hill found more of an auby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
QuoteLionsMouth QuoteGordon Rekcikssa Behemoth - Ezkaton Metal Blade, 2008 What's your take on this band in general? I know they went through an early lo-fi black metal phase but later ended up doing more "professional" sounding death metal that's gotten a ton of critical acclaim. I almost picked up their last album out of sheer curiosity a couple times. I really like tby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Diamanda Galás - Saint Of The Pit Mute/Restless Records, 1986 I thought the classical thread might be a good place for this one, since it's technically an opera album. Galás recorded a trilogy of albums in the mid-80s with the theme of exploring the experience of those suffering from the still relatively newly understood AIDS virus that had descended like a plague on the western wby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Behemoth - Ezkaton Metal Blade, 2008 The award goes to Behemoth for the most awkwardly packaged EP I have ever owned. This thing comes in a box with four 7" picture discs and a CD as well as a pendant with the Behemoth symbol on it. The CD has seven songs on it, and the records have the same songs plus a cover of the Misfits "Devilock". It's pretty neat to look at, butby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
^That sounds awesome! I'm a huge fan of Can. I'll definitely be on the lookout for that tape. Thanks for the heads up on this!by Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
People's Palms - Habitual Hush Hush, 2016 Laid back, world music-infused downtempo with a bit of a new age feel. Grab the beverage of your choice and chill out with this one like the summer is never gonna end.by Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Botanist - I: The Suicide Tree | II: A Rose From The Dead Tumult, 2011 Do you love plants, but hate people? Do you think the way black metal should be played is with hammered dulcimers and drums? Have you ever listened to a nice eco-terrorist love song and said to yourself "This would be much better if the vocals sounded like a rabid frog vomiting rancid swamp water"? If youby Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
QuoteLionsMouth Grant Lee Buffalo - Mighty Joe Moon Man...that's one band I haven't heard in a while. Thanks for reminding me of these guys. Definitely brings back some memories.by Gordon Rekcikssa - Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop