DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....

Collages of beats, grooves and other such shit to make really cool instrumental hip-hop. It's funky, it's groovy, it's interesting and has lots of really enjoyable moments to it. Dig it.

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Boards of Canada - Geogaddi

I know I've posted way too much Boards of Canada on this blog, but it would be dumb of me not to put this one up. Fuck all their other albums I posted; this shit is dark, unnerving, and cool as fuck. Has lots of warped and distorted melodies with weird vocal loops and ominous moods, tones, etc. Very weird, groovy music that sometimes does nothing, but sometimes hits that sweet spot of strangeness and scariness and is something you want to listen to again and again. Personal favorite BoC album

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Thrones-Sperm Whale

I've never heard sludge like this before. Joe Preston's(who has played in Sunn O))), Earth, and the melvins) project is a really original take on the Sludge/doom/drone genre. The usage of drum machines and synthesizers give the album an electronica feeling. This melds perfectly with the lumbering and powerful bass riffs and the sometimes insanely effects heavy vocals. This is a very fresh take on something that i thought couldn't of gotten any better. For fans of Harvey Milk, Sunn O))),Sleep, Etc.. This one is really worth a listen.

Oso Malo

Ulrich Schnauss - A Strangely Isolated Place

Another cool space-out album. The guy who showed me this called it a mix between "chillwave" and "shoegaze", and I think that's a good way to describe the album's sound. sort of a mix between Brian Eno, Boards of Canada, Moby, and Sigur Ròs. A very cool, light-hearted album, like a shimmering breeze of melodies and beats and shit.

In All the Wrong Places

Tetsu Inoue - Ambiant Otaku

An amazing ambient/ space-out album... This is Tetsu's first album, plus the first album of his that I have listened to, and I'm going to have to pick up the rest of his discography because this one is so good. Reminiscent of Eno's spacey stuff and gentle Tim Hecker. Each song on this album envelops you with beautiful electronica melodies and field recordings and your head starts floating and you can hear your hair growing and your hands are pulsing and the land is expanding before your very eyes. Just a gem of an album. Anyone who likes floating on the ceiling should pick this up.

Low of Vibration

Salem-Yes I Smoke Crack EP and Water EP

Heres twofer for you all Henry posted Salem's King Knight album(now with working link go get it before it gets taken down) but yea i just got into them today and they are quite possibly the best new thing i've heard out there. Hypnotic bass beats covered in shimmering and rough synth. MUST LISTEN GET THIS SHIT NOW

Yes I Smoke Crack

WATER

Oval - 94 Diskont

Have you ever listened to a CD skipping and you thought to yourself "Wow, this actually sounds kind of cool"? If so, then this is the band for you. Pretty fascinating stuff.

Do While ⌘X

Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal

This is an absolute must, must, must have for any fans of Brian Eno, Tim Hecker, Fennesz, Wolfgang Voigt and other noise/drone artists. This very well may be my pick for Best Album of 2010. The first track sounds like the creation of the Sun or something, definitely the coolest song I've heard in a long time. The rest of the album just makes you feel like you're gently sinking deeper and deeper into a K hole. Pretty crazy shit, man. Who needs drugs when you got this shit

Former Ghosts-Old Love Mixtape

One of my favorite bands. I posted their stuff before and now freddy ruppert is back with the same brand of sad synthy post-punk we all love. This is a remix,covers, and outakes album(all from the new album that hasnt come out yet but is comming out soon.) This is more than a good snack to hold you over this is a meal.

Download there>http://www.freddyruppert.com/Welcome to Old Love.zip

Salem - King Night

I'ma gonna post this now because the link to this will probably get deleted very soon. I'm gonna pull a Holtzer now and just copy/paste someone else's explanation of these guys:

A dark mystique has surrounded Salem since the trio released its debut EP, Yes I Smoke Crack, in 2008. The ominous imagery of their album artwork, the tales of John Holland's teenage prostitution and drug use and their place among the creators of the witch house/drag style gave the band something of a mythic quality even before their first full-length, King Night, was released. Over the course of their prolific singles and EPs, Holland, John Donoghue and Heather Marlatt shaped a sound that was as distinctive as it was improbable, fusing beats descended from juke and Southern hip-hop, electronics with a goth bent and shoegazing guitars into something deeply weird and trippy but also surprisingly natural, as if those elements had just been waiting to be combined. On the surface, goth and hip-hop may not have much in common, but they often share a bleak romanticism that Salem has in spades. King Night's title track blends choral vocals, suffocating synths and a tinny beat that is so obviously, proudly mechanical that it adds extra coldness while nodding to hip-hop. “Killer” boasts guitars so heavy they could have come from a Sunn 0))) album, while “Traxx” uses a sample of rattling chains as percussion. Thanks to having three writers and vocalists, the band is also good at adding depth and variety to a style that could seem like a novelty. Marlatt sounds like a fallen angel, adding credence to Salem's goth undercurrents with darkly ethereal tones that evoke the Cocteau Twins and This Mortal Coil on “Frost” and the beautiful “Redlights,” one of the band’s earliest and most definitive songs. Any small rays of hope raised by her songs are dashed by Donoghue's tracks, which very well may be the heart of Salem's unsettling darkness. He brings the trio’s hip-hop roots to the fore, rapping with a roll so slow he sounds like a zombie drinking sizzurp mixed with laudanum. His tracks are lulling and filled with dread at the same time, as on “Trapdoor,” where he intones “I can’t feel shit” over a looped sample of a car crash, or on “Sick,” where the refrain might as well be “six six six”. Meanwhile, Holland's tracks are somewhere in the middle, with his voice blurred into another wisp of Salem's fog. He emphasizes texture on “Release da Boar,” where echo-locating reverb and delay are piled on top of dead-of-night shoegaze with a sluggish pulse, and on “Hound,” where bongos take the song in an unexpected direction. Throughout all of King Night, the feeling of a séance being held or a spell being cast is palpable, but Salem's ability to be affecting and menacing at the same time is pure alchemy. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi

This is some mad, goofy electro right here. It's spooky and lo-fi and unlike anything else I've really heard. You might as well hear it and see what you think. I still haven't listened to it enought to really know what I think yet, but time is of the essence here. It's only a matter of time before this link goes dead.

WITCHHOUSE IS THE BEST HOUSE YOU CAN BE IN

Tycho - Past is Prologue

An album that I've had for a while and never really gotten sick of. Sort of a cross between Boards of Canada and Okinawa Lifestyle. Really shimmering and groovy.

The Disconnect

Goudron-Raw Voltage

Goudron is an elctro-pop/synthpop band on ersatz audio. Ersatz audio is a label i just found out about, they release some great synth-pop and electronica, i seriously want everything this label has to offer. Enough about the label though and on to the album. Most of the songs on this album remind me of that song from the life aquatic you, you know which one im talking about, the reeally synthy one? Eh maybe not. just some all in all great synth-pop, really fun and fresh electronic beats. Top Notch album if i do say so myself.

CIVIL SYMMETRY

Former Ghosts- Fleurs

This is the best new band i have heard in god knows how long. Imagine if Joy division had sex with a synthesizer and spat out one of the most beautifully sad albums i have ever heard. I can not stop listening to this masterpiece, i kid you not i have listened to this six times today and i just want more. Also A side project of jamie stewart(Xiu Xiu, Ten In The Swear Jar I have just recently posted them) , Jamie steps down from postion of front man and singer and song writer Freddy Ruppert takes center stage delivering an array of heart felt, and powerful songs chalked full of emotion. THIS IS A MUST LISTEN

Pretty Rad Video

Former Ghosts "Hold On" Music Video from Amir Shoucri on Vimeo.

I'm Begging You to not let me walk away

Ten In The Swear Jar(XITSJ)-My Very Private Map

XITSJ is Jamie stewarts band that eventually became Xiu Xiu. Imagine an accordion heavy and how should i say, eh, less gay sounding Xiu Xiu(not that he doesnt sound fucking fantastic in xiu xiu he just sounds more like he likes girls in this band)

My chest burns

Okinawa Lifestyle - Lazy Friend You Move So Fast

Really cool and interesting chillwave/techno grooves. If you don't know what chillwave is, it's sort of a movement from the west coast and Georgia, known for its shimmering, glossy techno compositions that remind you of summer. Players in this genre are also really big fans of lo-fi photography, and being hipsters. Still, a really fun genre to listen to, especially when it's this good. This is one of the most refreshing albums I've heard in a while. A great find from HolyFuckingShit40000

Click HERE to go to their website and download the 5 songs for free. There's an option to download the whole album, but for some reason, that doesn't work on their website. So just download the tracks individually.

Orb - U.F.Orb

Wow... some funky, synthy psytrance goin on here. It's like a rave in outer space or something. These guys might as well call themselves "MDMA: The Band" or something. Cool mellow space-outs and whatever. Just listen to these clips and see if it's your cup of tea.

U.F.Orb part I

U.F.Orb part II

Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II

Volume II differs significantly from the first volume in the series, in that it consists of lengthy, textured ambient compositions with minimal percussion and occasional vocal samples, in a vein similar to Brian Eno's ambient works. James described the album as being "like standing in a power station on acid"^[2] and went on to note that the sounds on record were inspired by lucid dreams, and that upon awaking, he would attempt to re-create the sounds and record them. He claimed to have natural synaesthesia, which contributed to this album.^[2]

Beautiful and oftentimes disturbing, this is a mindfuck on all accounts. Repititious, mentally exhausting and possibly trance-inducing. Definitely not your typical Aphex Twin. This shit has bad (or awesome) trip written all over it.

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Fennesz - Endless Summer

CLASSIC CLASSIC CLASSIC this album fits on my "Top Ten Albums of All Time" list (Top 5 maybe? That could be pushing it, but who knows?) It's noisy, it's melodic, it's beautiful, it knocks you on your ass! One of the best albums you'll find on this blog!

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Special Thanks to this guy for posting the album on his blog

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Right to Children

It's like Campfire Headphase (which is also on this blog), 'cept this album is more funky and creepy. Often hailed as their best album. Really good music to Trip to, take it from 僕me僕

An Eagle in Your Mind

Tim Hecker - Harmony in Ultraviolet

Beautiful compositions done by digitally altered noises and melodies. Really, really trippy and beautiful textures of sound that just envelop you in this weird kind of atmosphere. That's as good of a description as I can muster. Even without drugs, you'll just space the fuck out when you listen to this.

Special thanks to this guy for showing me Tim Hecker

Electrostasy