What are you listening to right now?

[physya]

Robert Plant's new album Mighty Rearranger.

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Did you like it? I really liked "Principles of moments" and "Pictures at eleven", - is this one anywhere close? (I know it suppose to be fusion - kinda african drums etc., by I mean is it good melody - wise?)

[The Low Volta]

I'm currently listening to a 1gig disc with 8 (4x2) hours of a Belgian radio show called "Duyster" (named after the female presenter Ayco Duyster, but 'duister' also means 'dark' in dutch) taped from the Studio Brussel (=the radio station)-site ...select "luister"(= 'listen') on the left this will open an internet radio-application, select programma's (= programs) and scroll down to "Duyster"

this show brings you "een programma vol tomeloze weemoed en oorverdovende zoetheid. Rustig maar ongedurig." or "a program full of unbridled melancoly and ear-splitting sweetness. tranquil but restless." Mostly they play dark/melacholic singer songwriter stuff, things like 'Low' or 'Anthony and the Johnsons',... but they frequently go towards soundscapes and instumental postrock like 'mogwai', 'explosions in the sky' and even were brave enough to play an entire track from 'Godspeed you black emperor!' (24min)...

so anyone with a touch of melancholy and a drive to know the unknown in music...check this out

Greetings, Volta

PS: I tape it by playing the webradio on highest quality 96kbps, and recording through Audacity (from the stereo mixer)... quality isn't top, but as it sounds like a radio program it is ok... and when you discover something great...just go and buy the record, you'll support the artist and not some record company, as most of these artists aren't signed by any major

[Ishiyoshi]

Listening to Anatomy of a Murder Film Score | Duke Ellington in Hi-SP.

1. Main Title And Anatomy Of A Murder

2. Flirtibird

3. Way Early Subtone

4. Hero To Zero

5. Low Key Lightly

6. Happy Anatomy (Band-Movie)

7. Midnight Indigo

8. Almost Cried (Studio)

9. Sunswept Sunday

10. Grace Valse

11. Happy Anatomy (P.I. Five)

12. Haupe

13. Upper And Outest

14. Anatomy Of A Murder (stereo single)

15. Merrily Rolling Along (Hero To Zero), Sunswept Sunday

16. Beer Garden

17. Happy Anatomy (Band-Studio)

18. Polly (Aka Grace Valse, Haupe, Low Key Lightly, Midnight Indigo)

19. Polly (movie stings)

20. Happy Anatomy (Dixieland)

21. More Blues (P.I. Five)

22. Almost Cried (aka Flirtibird) (movie)

23. Sound Track Music: Anatomy Of A Murder (Duke Ellington A La Guy Lombardo)

24. Anatomy Of A Murder (Mono Single: In Stereo)

25. The Grand Finale (Rehearsal/Lines/Interview/Music/Stings/Murder)

26. Pause track

[Ishiyoshi]

Listening to Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud Film Score | Miles Davis

1. Nuit sur les Champs-Élysées [Take 1][#]

2. Nuit sur les Champs-Élysées [Take 2][#]

3. Nuit sur les Champs-Élysées [Take 3]

4. Nuit sur les Champs-Élysées [Take 4]

5. Assassinat [Take 1]

6. Assassinat [Take 2]

7. Assassinat [Take 3]

8. Motel

9. Final [Take 1][#]

10. Final [Take 2][#]

11. Final [Take 3]

12. Ascenseur

13. Petit Bal [Take 1][#]

14. Petit Bal [Take 2]

15. Séquence Voiture [Take 1][#]

16. Séquence Voiture [Take 2]

17. Générique

18. Assassinat de Carala

19. Sur l'Autoroute

20. Julien Dans l'Ascenseur

21. Florence Sur Les Champs-Élysées

22. Diner au Motel

23. Évasion de Julien

24. Visite du Vigile

25. Bar du Petit Bac

26. Chez le Photographe du Motel

[banjo]

Keith Jarrett - Radiance - Recorded in SP.

I'm listening to disc one at present. I've been listening to it for days - I think that its pretty good.

[dvallere]

Disc inside, attached to the PC, is my new miscellaneous rock mix where I download stuff I liked when I was a kid. Def Leppard, Bowie, Petty, Pretenders, some more modern stuff I can't think of. Oh, Semisonic, stuff like that.

Disc in the car, the miscellaneous rock mix made in 1998, which strangely contains a lot of '60s and '70s hits.

In my car CD drive I have the sountrack to the Sonic Heroes videogame and that really rocks. We listen to it at least once a week.

[Guest NRen2k5]

My most recent Hi-MD project:

Gorillaz - Gorillaz

Gorillaz - G-Sides

Gorillaz - Demon Days

Bush - Sixteen Stone

Bush - Razorblade Suitcase

Bush - Deconstructed

Bush - The Science Of Things

Bush - Golden State

[greenmachine]

Keith Jarrett - Radiance - Recorded in SP.

I'm listening to disc one at present. I've been listening to it for days - I think that its pretty good.

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Awesome, i love his music, at least his earlier works and especially the trio with Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette, he's a genius.

[bri]

Jurassic 5 - Quality Control.

Quality

[Ishiyoshi]

Listening to ハウルの動く城 (Howl's Moving Castle) | Joe Hisaishi in SP mode.

1. -オープニング- 人生のメリーゴーランド (Opening: The Merry-go-round of Life)

2. 陽気な軽騎兵 (The Courageous Cavalry)

3. 空中散歩 (Stroll Through the Sky)

4. ときめき (Heart Aflutter)

5. 荒地の魔女 (The Witch of the Waste)

6. さすらいのソフィー (Wandering Sophie)

7. 魔法の扉 (The Magical Door)

8. 消えない呪い (The Indelible Curse)

9. 大掃除(Spring Cleaning)

10. 星の湖 (うみ) へ (To the Lake of Stars)

11. 静かな想い (Quiet Feelings)

12. 雨の中で (In the Rain)

13. 虚栄と友情 (Vanity and Friendship)

14. 90歳の少女 (A 90 Year Old Young Girl)

15. サリマンの魔法陣 城への帰還 (Sulliman's Magic Square: Return to the Castle)

16. 秘密の洞穴 (The Secret Cave)

17. 引越し (Moving)

18. 花園 (The Flower Garden)

19. 走れ！ (Run!)

20. 恋だね (Now That's Love)

21. ファミリー (Family)

22. 戦火の恋 (Love of War)

23. 脱出 (Escape)

24. ソフィーの城 (Sophie's Castle)

25. 星をのんだ少年 (The Boy Who Drank Stars)

26. -エンディング- 世界の約束 人生のメリーゴーランド (Ending: The Promise of the World: The Merry-go-round of Life)

[Christopher]

Shuffling between:

Giant Steps by John Coltrane via MZ-NH900 in Hi-SP.

1. Giant steps

2. Cousin Mary

3. Countdown

4. Spiral

5. Syeeda's song flute

6. Naima

7. Mr PC

8. Giant steps (alternate version 1)

9. Naima (alternate version 1)

10. Cousin Mary (alternate take)

11. Countdown (alternate take)

12. Syeeda's song flute (alternate take)

13. Giant steps (alternate take version 2)

14. Naima (alternate version 2)

15. Giant steps (alternate take)

and..

Heavy Weather by Weather Report via MZ-NH900 in Hi-SP.

1. Birdland

2. Remark you made

3. Teen town

4. Harlequin

5. Rumba mama

6. Palladium

7. Juggler

8. Havona

[Meryl Arbing]

I'm sorry to break the pattern but I never listen to any commercial music at all. If they have signed a recording contract...I don't listen...I don't download...I don't buy...I don't care.

I make my own music...I record the sounds that I enjoy and it doesn't cost me a cent.

[Ishiyoshi]

Currently listening to John Coltrane: Ballads in Hi-SP

1. Say It (Over And Over Again)

2. You Don't Know What Love Is

3. Too Young To Go Steady

4. All Or Nothing At All

5. I Wish I Knew

6. What's New

7. It's Easy To Remember (But So Hard To Forget)

8. Nancy (With The Laughing Face)

[Kaotic]

Just made a fresh new album compilations on the new Blue Hi-MD disc.

albums in the disc (in no particular order) all Hi-SP.

Kishimoto Hayami - JUICY

Shimatani Hitomi - Papillon

Sowelu - Heads or Tails

BoA - Girls on Top

Namie Amuro - Queen of Hip Pop

Kawashima Ai - 12 ko no uta

KOTOKO - Glass no Nabikaze

[yuff]

a very un-full 1 gig md =p

both alexisonfire albums, the new tegan and sara album, the new postal service album, atreyu's the curse, both rise against albums.

[Haybrd]

I am currently listening to the film 'Caddyshack' thanks to my first ever attempt at recording with my MD from DVD last night. 'TheBig Lebowski' will be the next to get the MD experience I think!

[Kaotic]

I am currently listening to the film 'Caddyshack' thanks to my first ever attempt at recording with my MD from DVD last night. 'TheBig Lebowski' will be the next to get the MD experience I think! 

isn't that kinda take a big hit on loss of sound quality? I mean md is simply can't reproduce the 5.1 channel audio from the dvd. on top of that, the audio is compressed on MD.

[Haybrd]

isn't that kinda take a big hit on loss of sound quality? I mean md is simply can't reproduce the 5.1 channel audio from the dvd. on top of that, the audio is compressed on MD.

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It's not quite the cinematic experience you'd get watching it, but listening quality wise I haven't noticed too much depreciation and the laughs still get me!

[banjo]

Awesome, i love his music, at least his earlier works and especially the trio with Charlie Haden and Jack DeJohnette, he's a genius.

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I'd agree about the earlier stuff with DeJohnette. Its pretty good.

I got 'Changeless' on CD last week (a relative 'bargain' at 11 Euro). After listening to nothing else for the week, I'm hooked on it. Superb.

[Ishiyoshi]

Currently listening to Yoko Kanno | Cowboy Bebop: Future Blues Soundtrack in Hi-SP

1. 24hours Open

2. Pushing the Sky

3. Time to Know

4. Clutch

5. Musawe

6. Yo Pumpkin Head

7. Diggin'

8. 3.14

9. What Planet Is This!

10. 7minuets

11. Fingers

12. Powder

13. Buterfly

14. No Reply

15. Dijurido

16. Gotta Knock a Little Harder

17. No Money

[Syrius]

^^^ Man! And to think we have to pay big bucks to get that kind of soundtracks here in the US.

All I have from Cowboy Bebop is "The Real Folk Blues", recorded through the audio output from my VCR. >_<

[Mr_Bass_Man]

A whole bunch of albums by Rush.

I bought an MD unit (I think it might have been the E33) off a guy on EBay, and loads of MDs came with it.

He offered to erase them, I said "No thanks, I'll listen to some of your stuff".

I don't really enjoy "Drum n' Bass" stuff, nor "Ibiza Anthems", but hey, the guy is a Rush fan, and they're pretty damn good.

Possibly a little "clean" and "over produced" for my taste these days, but nevertheless they're a class act.

My younger son plays the drums, and he is most impressed with their drummer ...

[L7R]

Neil Peart is A Drummer God!

Maybe you could try Porcupine Tree. It's only band what I know, which came close to Rush. Their two newest albums are really, relly good. In Absentia (2002) & Deadwing (2005). They are really good musicians too, imho.

Currently listening Apocalyptica - Reflections. Song called "somewhere around nothing".

Edited July 29, 2005 by L7R

[Mr_Bass_Man]

Yep, L7R you are right about Mr Peart.

I've downloaded a couple of Porcupine Tree tracks from the web - "Lazarus" and "Collapse the light into Earth" and haven't really made the connection yet with Rush, but I'll persist.

Rush to my ears are rather reminiscent of Yes, albeit with fewer synth layers.

The Rush recordings are all good old SP, BTW (the E33 is SP only), now listening to "Retrospective" on my NH900 with the cans on as the rest of the family are asleep.

Just got in from doing a gig with my band, letting the adrenalin subside before I hit the hay . . .

[L7R]

PT has those slow and melancholic songs little like pink floyd, too (which I like, as a fan of pink floyd)

These two are not very good songs and these both songs are NOT nearly like rush. How did you happened to choose these two?

I think best connect when compared rush and PT is that both bands members are really good musicians and song intonations are very complicated on both bands. Of course PT members aren't THAT good as Peart or Geddy Lee but in my mind, both bands share some same characteristics. Melodical but complex, in the same time. PT is more melancholic than rush with those quiet and "low spirit" songs, of course.

I think porcupine trees two latest albums are more like Rush than their earlier albums. As I'm from Finland and english is not may native language , so I really don't listen lyrics much, so there could be a difference too.

I found PT just few months ago, when they released Deadwing. I immediately bought In Absentia and was really surprised that there's another band in the world, who sounds good AND plays good. Like Rush (or Pink Floyd or Yes)!

Happy listening!

btw.

Here are few PT songs which reminds me of Rush.

These are from In Absentia:

Wedding nails (!)

Sound of Muzak (!)

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The creator has a mastertape (!)

Strip the Soul

Drown with me

Blackest eyes (!)

from Deadwing (these are maybe more straightforwarded than songs on "in absentia" or rush songs but good, imho):

Shallow

Halo

Open Car

Start of something beautiful

Deadwing

Edited July 31, 2005 by L7R

[The Low Volta]

currently listening to my "from kyuss to qotsa"-1gb disc

kyuss:

- blues for the red sun

- welcome to sky valley

- and the circus leaves town

kyuss/qotsa(/beaver but I didn't download those songs):

-singles

qotsa:

- qotsa

- rated R

- songs for the deaf

[Ishiyoshi]

Listening to Yann Tiersen | Le Fabuleux Destin D'Amelie Poulin Film Score in ATRAC3plus 256kbps.

1. J'Y Suis Jamais Alle

2. Les Jours Tristes Instrumental

3. La Valse D'Amelie Version Originale

4. Comptine D'Un Autre Ete L'Apres Midi

5. La Noyee

6. L'Autre Valse D'Amelie

7. Guilty

8. A Quai

9. Le Moulin

10. Pas Si Simple

11. La Valse D'Amelie Version Orchestre

12. La Valse Des Vieux Os

13. La Dispute

14. Si Tu N'Etais Pas La

15. Soir De Fete

16. La Redecouverte

17. Sur Le Fil

18. Le Banquet

19. La Valse D'Amelie Version Piano

20. La Valse Des Monstres

[IdiotSavant]

I just made use of MP3 on a 1GB disc for the first time and managed to squeeze all the 'proper' Sonic Youth albums onto one disc. It's a good listen

...Or will be once I get through all eleven and a half hours or so.

[dyonisus]

"Paradisiac" - Millionaire

"You're a woman I'm a machine" - Death from Above 1979

[Ishiyoshi]

Listening to Sonny Rollins | Saxophone Colossus in ATRAC3plus 256kbps. This is simply one of the best jazz albums ever produced.

1. St. Thomas

2. You Don't Know What Love Is

3. Strode Rode

4. Moritat

5. Blue 7

[The Low Volta]

currently preparing a: 'made in Belgium'-complation (80min disc in LP2) for on the train to the Belgian coast (3 hours)...

Gorki: het allerbeste

Millionaire: outside the simian flock

50ft combo: caffeine / go hunting!

Soulwax: much against everyone's advice

Fence: the return of geronimo

[mrsoul]

Listening to Sonny Rollins | Saxophone Colossus in ATRAC3plus 256kbps. This is simply one of the best jazz albums ever produced.

1. St. Thomas 

2. You Don't Know What Love Is 

3. Strode Rode 

4. Moritat 

5. Blue 7

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Blue 7 has always been my fave Sonny tune. I think Miles and co. had that tune in mind when Kind of Blue was cut a few years later. It's got that groove.

M

[KrazyIvan]

Kraftwerk - Minimum/Maximum

[mrsoul]

Currently here at work on the RH910: Emmylou Harris's Wrecking Ball (1995) and a mix of Lucinda Williams and Emmylou on the rest of the MD.

At home on the MZ-S1: I have been on a Phil Lesh and friends kick lately. I have 2 shows on 2 different MDs in LP2 that I got from http://www.archive.org from the 2001 shows: 4-19 and 8-4. Gotta love that Jimmy Herring and Warren Haynes combo. One of the best "jam bands" with tons of energy that the post mid 80's Dead lacked...I guess the 10 year anniversary of Jerry Garcia's passing had something to do with that since I again watched the Grateful Dead Movie on DVD in 5.1 on Monday with a smile on my face I saw the Dead 39 times in the 80's and 90's.

Still miss old Jerry, especially in the summer. Also, yesterday was the 3rd anniversary of Mike Houser's passing (Widespread Panic), saw them about 50 times in the same period (my "hippie" years as my family calls them). A solemn week for me and other fans. But, I have tons of shows that still give me chills and put that smile on my face.

Well, sorry to drift off subject but that's what's been on my mind and in my MDs this week...

[Petter156]

I got some QOTSA Live stuff on a formatted 80mn

Man... I so wish you could upload this... too bad.

[Ishiyoshi]

Blue 7 has always been my fave Sonny tune.  I think Miles and co. had that tune in mind when Kind of Blue was cut a few years later.  It's got that groove.

M

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Aye, Blue 7 is just incredible and Moritat is simply beautiful - the best version ever. Anyhow, I am still hunting for a copy of Saxophone Colossus's 180g LP.

[Ishiyoshi]

Listening to Wong Kar Wai' 2046 film score in ATRAC3plus 256kbps.

1. 2046 Main Theme (With Percussion) (Composed By Shigeru Umebayashi)

2. Siboney Instrumental

3. Sway (Performed By Dean Martin)

4. Christmas Song (Fast Version) (Composed By Shigeru Umebayashi)

5. Julien Et Barbara

6. Siboney (Performed By Connie Francis)

7. Interlude I (Composed By Shigeru Umebayashi)

8. Polonaise (Composed By Shigeru Umebayashi)

9. Casta Diva From The Opera Norma

10. Perfidia

11. 2046 Main Theme (Rumba Version)

12. Lost (Composed By Shigeru Umebayashi)

13. Dark Chariot

14. Sysiphos At Work

15. Decision From A Short Film About Killing (Composed By Zbigniew Preisner)

16. Long Journey (Composed By Shigeru Umebayashi)

17. Adagio (Performed By Secret Garden)

18. Interlude Ii (Composed By Shigeru Umebayashi)

19. Christmas Song (Performed By Nat King Cole & The Nat King Cole Trio)

20. 2046 Main Theme (With Percussion-Train Remix) (Composed By Shigeru Umebayashi)

[KrazyIvan]

Ayumi Hamasaki - My Story

[dyonisus]

Man... I so wish you could upload this... too bad.

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No problem. My Friend.

I just uploaded the first song took awhile. For more stuff check out Live from the Stone Age

Edited August 13, 2005 by dyonisus

[Petter156]

No problem.  My Friend.

I just uploaded the first song took awhile.  For more stuff check out Live from the Stone Age

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Thanks dude, I really appreciate that I´ll be sure to check out that site too.