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Overkill - The Years Of Decay
Megaforce Worldwide/Atlantic Records, 1989
I dug this CD out recently and listened to it for the first time in more than ten years. This is one of those albums I spent so much time with when it first came out that it seems like I can hear it without even playing it.
Every song here is solid, from the thrashier numbers like "Time To Kill" and &qu
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Damon Eliza Palermo - Clouds of David - Cassette Tape
I checked this out on Bandcamp just now, and I really dig this album. I tend to have times where I get into stuff that has a laid-back sound to it, and this seems just about right for those moments. Pretty unique, too, with a post-rock/new age feel. For some reason it actually reminds me of The Cocteau Twins a bit.
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Metallica - St. Anger
Elektra, 2003
So, yeah, I'm actually going to talk about this album now. And it might get a little long-winded. If you don't feel like reading that much and just want my opinion, it's this: St. Anger doesn't suck.
To be honest, I personally think that Metallica's last great album was And Justice For All. I think if you took maybe one or tw
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Peter Baumann - Romance 76
original release by Virgin, 1976 - this pressing by Bureau B, 2016
Here's a well done recent repress of the fantastic debut solo album by Tangerine Dream's Peter Baumann, and this record makes it abundantly clear that TD was not just the Edgar Froese project. This music sounds similar to the stuff they released on Stratosfear the same year.
Although
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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So, I thought I would throw in my two cents worth here.
When I was growing up in Florida, I actually did dig through crates of records. The only record store within a 50 mile radius of where I lived kept their albums in old orange crates (the fruit, not the color). So I would say I have been an accidental crate-digger. I've never been part of the strict definition of crate digging becaus
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Seedsaw - And The Singing Larvae
Black Bunker / Heidens Hart, 2012 (single-sided cassette)
I pulled out this tape last night and listened to it a couple of times, and it's so much weirder than I remember it being when I picked it up a few years ago. It's not metal in a traditional sense at all. There's lots of electronics and punkish guitar lines here and there. For the mos
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Alice Cooper - The Eyes Of Alice Cooper
Eagle Records, 2003
This is one those great, solid albums that Alice Cooper put out back in the early 2000s that, in my opinion, just didn't get the attention they deserved. There's nothing groundbreaking or earth-shattering here. Just good, punchy hard rock that knows better than to take itself too seriously.
This is far better as a wh
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Haven't thought about Mortiis in awhile, probably haven't heard any of his stuff in years.
To be perfectly honest, I had forgotten all about this album. I was poking around in a closet at home and found ton of CDs I had stored in boxes and forgotten about. Most of the stuff I've been posting lately is from those boxes.
Yeah, I guess dungeon synth is a thing
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Alice Coltrane (Turiyasangitananda) - Infinite Chants
Avatar Book Insitute, 2003
Alice Coltrane (Turiyasangitananda) - Divine Songs
Avatar Book Insitute, 1990
First off, I have to admit that these aren't jazz albums. I'm posting them here because I would think most people searching for information about Alice Coltrane would look under jazz, and they really don't fit und
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Bagman - In Their Blood And From The Gutter
Crucial Blast, 2014
Harsh noise from this British one-man project. Steve Bagman has been putting out releases under this name and several others for the better part of a decade now. This stuff is tailor made for fans of hardcore power electronics.
The cassette in the photo above is a reissue by Crucial Blast. The album was origially issued by
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Mortiis - Født Til Å Herske
Original release by Malicious Records, 1994 - This US version by Dark Dungeon Music, 1997
The debut solo album from Mortiis. Not at all what I was expecting when I first picked this up 20 years ago after his previous gig as the bass player for the mighty Emperor. Instead of raging black metal, we get this nicely done album of droning, ambient dungeon synth.
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Pailhead - Trait
Wax Trax! Records, 1988
This CD collects a 7" and a four song EP of the same name from Pailhead. These guys got together after Al Jourgensen of Ministry met Ian MacKaye in London shortly before MacKaye formed Fugazi.
The music here is in the same vein that Ministry's Land Of Rape And Honey album was headed in, which is to say industrial-tinged metal with som
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Man, I just love Steve Roach so much. That dude puts out so much quality stuff, it's unreal. He was one of the first non-European synth musicians I really got in to.
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Borbetomagus - Live In Allentown
Agaric Records, 1996
Would you say this disc is a good place to start with them? I don't have anything and need to pick up something by them eventually.
This is an excellent show, and you can find the stuff they put out on CD like this much cheaper than their LP/7" releases. I think you would probably really
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
QuoteLionsMouth
Asylum Party - The Grey Years Vol. 1 2xCD
I have those two albums and the Ticket To Ride single, but haven't listened to them in a long time. I'll have to pull them out one day. I think I used to have the third album on cassette, not sure if I still do or not. Good stuff.
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Borbetomagus - Live In Allentown
Agaric Records, 1996
This CD documents a stellar show recorded on Halloween night, 1986. During this period of their career, Adam Nodelman played bass, and Scott Legath, who engineered the sound for the show, is also credited with electronics on this album.
There is a very limited cassette version of this album that was released shortly after the perfor
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Satyricon - Volcano
Red Ink/Columbia, 2002
By the time this album was released in 2002, Satyricon had strayed somewhat away from their roots in pure Norwegian black metal. This record showed a bit of growth with other influences creeping in. Hints of death and traditional heavy metal can be found here and there. There are still plenty of blastbeats and blackened guitars, and Satyr's
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
The Fat Dukes Of Fuck - A Compendium Of Depravity, Apricots And Urine Vol. 2
not on label - self released, 2016
These guys are a fantastic metal band out of Las Vegas, meshing styles ranging from stoner rock to doom to hardcore (especially apparent with the vocals) with even a bit of old fashioned power metal thrown in here and there. They have somewhere around half a dozen self-releas
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
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I'm always surprised when people don't call Fugazi punk. It may ride a grey line of other genres as well but punk is the basis. If pop punk is considered punk, Fugazi is certainly many times harder and more punk than much of that stuff.
I think my personal definition of punk may be the problem. I discovered punk rock during the first wave, so I still consider the Talkin
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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QuoteLionsMouth
Never heard of this and checking out some of the clips, it's definitely veering into "out there" black metal. Do you know if the Goatspeed guy in this band is the same one that played in Beastmilk?
He's the same one from Beastmilk. He was also in a band called Seed Saw at one point. I don't know if that one is still together or not. I have a cassette the
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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The Suspects - Voice Of America
original release by Torque Records, 1996 - this reissue by Grave Mistake Records / Six Feet Under Records, 2016
The Suspects were a DC punk band that first got together in 1993. Not following along with the rest of the emerging post-hardcore/proto-emo scene that was happening in the area at the time, these guys focused on straight up old school street punk,
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Spiderpact - Goatspeed Into Magenta Vacuum
True Face Of Evil Records, 2008
Some very weird avant-garde black(ish) metal from Finland here. Led by a dude calling himself Juho Goatspeed, everything on this EP is slightly off-kilter in the best way possible. Some acoustic and electronic sounds mix with noisy tremolo picking and clean vocals that turn into harsh screams at a moments notice. A
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Fugazi - Steady Diet Of Nothing
Dischord Records, 1991
I'm sticking this here knowing full well that every time I mention Fugazi as a punk band, someone invariably will want to argue that they aren't really punk rock, but post-punk or post-hardcore or post-something else. Whatever.
This is one of my top-ten favorite albums by anyone, ever, and one of the ones I have gone out
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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This is great, man! You had me sold at Lefty Frizell, the rest is just some mighty awesome gravy. So much good stuff here that reminds me of sitting around with my father listening to his records with him. He was one of those dudes that really did think there were two kinds of music...Country and Western. No sarcasm intended, either. They were two distinct styles to him, and you captured them bot
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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The Mutton Birds - Salty
I don't know how I missed out on these guys before now. Excellent stuff there. Another one I need to keep my eye out for.
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Timothy Leary & Ash Ra Tempel - Seven Up
Die Kosmischen Kuriere / Ohr, 1973 - MG.ART, 2011
I've had a complicated relationship with this album over the years. For a long time, it was my least favorite of Ash Ra Tempel's catalog. The CD in the photo, however, is the version remastered by Manuel Göttsching, and it has made me rethink that.
To be perfectly honest and up fron
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
Nun - Riv Skf / Margine
If Product, 1984
A 7" of electro-industrial noise I picked up back in the mid 80s. Nun is the one man project of the Italian philosopher of religion Ezio Albrile. By today's standards of harsh noise, this actually has some structure and a slight sense of melody. I initially thought this was the only release by Nun, but have found that there are also two C
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop
QuoteLionsMouth
Ashley Bellouin - Ballads LP
That sounds great. Drawing Room looks like a label I need to spend some time checking out based on the stuff they have on Bandcamp.
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Love And Rockets
Beggars Banquet, 1989
For me, there are some songs that can bring back such crystal clear memories that it almost seems like magic.
Back in '89 when this was first released, I was young and in love. There was this girl, she looked like Jean Harlow. When we were together, I thought I could rule the whole fucking world. She would look at me with her ice blue eyes, a
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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QuoteLionsMouth
Caelum Bliss - Self Titled CD
This is excellent stuff. I'm gonna keep an eye out for this for sure. I see they released a few cassette-only EPs, too. Looks like they'll be tricky to track down, but from the sound of the video you posted, well worth the effort. Thanks for posting this. I love finding stuff I really dig that I've never heard before.
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Gordon Rekcikssa
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Crate Digging: Non Hip Hop