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To all the friends of Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, David Bowie, Regina Spektor, Brian Eno, Elbow, Paul Simon and Neil Young and others. If you haven't heard about it yet, Peter Gabriel is releasing his first studio album in 8 years next January, the 25th to be exact.

Scratch My Back will feature cover versions of said artists and others by Mr. Gabriel, and at this writing it is unclear whether the album will also include those said artists covering Mr. Gabriel as well, as the idea behind the album was that of a "song-swap" project, where Mr. Gabriel would cover for example Regina Skeptor and then Regina Spektor would be covering one song of Gabriel's in return. But at least we'll get the Gabriel-sung songs on this album.

For more information, visit http://www.petergabriel.com/

Antti.

Owned:

Air - Moon Safari
Air - The Virgin Suicides
The Appleseed Cast - Sagarmatha
Arab Strap - Elephant Shoe
Arab Strap - The Red Thread
Atlas Sound - Logos
Barzin - Barzin
Barzin - My Life in Rooms
Beach House - Beach House
Beach House - Devotion
The Beatles - Abbey Road
The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
The Beatles - Revolver
Beirut - Gulag Orkestar
Beirut - Lon Gisland EP
Belle & Sebastian - Dear Catastrophe Waitress
Belle & Sebastian - Tigermilk
Billy Corgan - The Future Embrace
The Black Heart Procession - Six
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - B.R.M.C.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
Bloc Party - Silent Alarm
Bram Stadhouders - The Ship Comes
Brian Eno - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Camera Obscura - Underachievers Please Try Harder
Camera Obscura - Biggest Bluest Hi-Fi
Camera Obscura - Let's Get out of This Country
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Catherine Wheel - Chrome
Chapterhouse - Whirlpool
Club 8 - Club 8
Club 8 - Nouvelle
Club 8 - Spring Came, Rain Fell
Coastal - Halfway to You
Cocteau Twins - Four-Calendar Café
Cocteau Twins - Milk & Kisses
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Cocteau Twins - Peppermint Pig Ep
Cocteau Twins - Lullabies EP
Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
Con Dolore - Sailor's Warning
Con Dolore - This Sad Movie
Copeland - In Motion
The Cure - Faith
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
The Cure - Disintegration
Dave Matthews Band - Everyday
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
David Sylvian - Secrets Of The Beehive
Daydream Nation - Bella Vendetta
Daydream Nation - Daydream Nation
The Daysleepers - Drowned In a Sea of Sound
Death Cab for Cutie - Plans
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
Death Cab for Cutie - The Open Door EP
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Deerhunter - Rainwater Cassette Exchange EP
Delays - Faded Seaside Glamour
Delays - You See Colours
Delays - Everything's The Rush
dEUS - Vantage Point
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Doves - Lost Souls
Doves - Lost Sides
Doves - Some Cities
Doves - The Last Broadcast
Doves - Kingdom Of Rust
Echo & The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Eddie Vedder - Into the Wild
Eels - Electro-Shock Blues
Embrace - Out of Nothing
Embrace - Fireworks
Engineers - Three Fact Fader
Feeder - Polythene
Feeder - Swim
Feeder - Yesterday Went Too Soon
Feeder - Echo Park
Feeder - Comfort in Sound
Feeder - Pushing the Senses
Feeder - Silent Cry
Feist - The Reminder
Fiel Garvie - Caught Laughing
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
For Against - Coalesced
For Against - Shade Side Sunny Side
Foo Fighters - The Colour and the Shape
Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
Garbage - Garbage
The High Violets - To Where You Are
The Horrors - Primary Colours
The House of Love - The House of Love
Idlewild - 100 Broken Windows
Idlewild - The Remote Part
Idlewild - Warnings/Promises
Idlewild - Make Another World
Idlewild - Post Electric Blues
Imogen Heap - Ellipse
Interpol - Turn on the Bright Lights
Interpol - Antics
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
Julian Plenti - Julian Plenti is...Skyscraper
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Joy Devision - Unknown Pleasures
Kill Hannah - For Never & Ever
Kill Hannah - Until There's Nothing Left Of Us
Lifehouse - Stanley Climbfall
The Long Winters - When I Pretend to Fall
The Long Winters - Putting the Days to Bed
Lorna - Writing Down Things To Say
Lush - Split
Lush - Spooky
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Manic Street Preachers - The Holy Bible
The Magic Numbers - Those the broken
Magic Bullets - a Child but in life yet a DOCTOR in love
The Meeting Places - Numbered Days
The Meeting Places - Find Yourself Along the Way
Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today I’m Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories The World Is Grey I’m Tired Let’s Wash Away
Mojave 3 - Ask Me Tomorrow
Mojave 3 - Out of Tune
Mojave 3 - Excuses For Travellers
Mojave 3 - Spoon & Rafter
Mojave 3 - Puzzles Like You
Muse - Sing for absolution EP
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Nada Surf - Let Go
Nada Surf - Lucky
Neil Halstead - Sleeping On Roads
Nirvana - Incesticide
Nirvana - Nevermind
Nirvana - In Utero
Nirvana - Unplugged In New York
Noah and the Whale - The First Days Of Spring
Oceansize - Everyone Into Position
Oceansize - Home & Minor EP
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Higher Than The Stars EP
Pete Yorn - musicforthemorningafter
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Where Here
Placebo - Placebo
Placebo - Black Market Music
Placebo - Without You I'm Nothing
Placebo - Sleeping With Ghosts
Placebo - Meds
Placebo - Battle For The Sun
Placebo - Once More With Feeling
Pulp - Different Class
Pulp - This Is Hardcore
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
Radiohead - The Bends
Radiohead - My Iron Lung
Radiohead - OK Computer
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Radiohead - Amnesiac
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief
R.E.M. - Automatic for the People
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
R.E.M. - Out Of Time
Ride - Nowhere
Ride - Birdman EP
Ride - Leave them all behind EP
Ride - Twisterella EP
Saybia - Eyes On The Highway
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Should - Feed Like Fishes
Sigur Rós - ( )
Sigur Rós - Takk...
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun
Sigur Rós - Hvarf - Heim
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Slowdive - Just For A Day
Slowdive - Souvlaki
Slowdive - Catch the Breeze
Slowdive - Pygmalion
Slowdive - Pygmalion Outtakes
The Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
The Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream
The Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
The Smashing Pumpkins - Machina/The Machines of God
The Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
The Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth - Dirty
Sonic Youth - Goo
Sonic Youth - EVOL
Soul Whirling Somewhere - Please Sennd Help
Starrfadu - A Narrow Road to Silence
Starrfadu - And Yes... Our Thoughts Were Elsewhere
Starsailor - Love Is Here
Starsailor - Silence Is Easy
Starsailor - All The Plans
The Stone Roses - Turns Into Stone
Sparklehorse - Good Morning Spider
Suede - Coming Up
The Sundays - Reading, Writing and Arithmetic
Syd Barret - The Madcap Laughs
Syd Barret - Barret
Tegan and Sara - The Con
The Thrills - Teenager
Thirteen Senses - Contact
Tim Christensen - Honeyburst
Travis - The Invisible Band
Travis - The Man Who
Travis - 12 Memories
The Upper Room - Other People's Problems
U2 - No Line On The Horizon
U2 - The Best Of 1980 - 1990
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
The Velvet Underground - The Best Of The Velvet Underground
The Verve - Urban Hymns
The Vines - Winning Days

Wanted:

Airiel - The Battle Of Sealand
The Album Leaf - One Day I'll Be on Time
The Appleseed Cast - Two Conversations
Adorable - Against Perfection
Boards of Canada - Geogaddi
Carissa's Wierd - Songs about Leaving
The Clientele - Strange Geometry
Club 8 - The Boy Who Couldn't Stop Dreaming
Club 8 - Strangely Beautiful
City & Colour - Sometimes
Cranes - Forever
The Daysleepers - Hide Your Eyes EP
The Daysleepers - The Soft Attack
Eisley - Room Noises
Eisley - Combinations
Edward Shearmur - K-Pax: Original Motion Picture
Eluvium - Talk Amongst the Trees
Explosions in the Sky - The Rescue
Fosca - The Painted Side Of The Rocket
Hammock - Raising Your Voice...Trying to Stop an Echo
Idaho - Hearts of Palm
Kurt Vile - Constant Hitmaker
Kurt Vile - Childish Prodigy
The Mary Onettes - The Mary Onettes
The Mary Onettes - Islands
Mazzy Star - So Tonight That I Might See
The Radio Dept. - Pet Grief
The Radio Dept. - Lesser Matters
Sway - The Millia Pink and Green EP
Sway - winter heart ep

In anticipation of the 2009 favorites list... and the decade list, here's a belated 2008 albums list, as I wrote it in december 2008... I'd throw LI Jianhong and Harvey Milk in there now, and maybe move up Departement of Eagles, since it has held up so well throughout 2009.

1. of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping

Usually during the summer, I get into a particular genre of music, tropicalia, PSF bands, krautrock, but in 2008 all I can remember is just playing this record over and over. This plays like an extended Fodderstompf cry for love, hackin’ and wackin’ and smackin’ all over the place. Now I’m a simple jewelcase man, so I should probably get some sort of award for not having destroyed the completely menacing package it comes in. For heaven’s sake, my poor little heart can’t take this much harassment! “We are champions my friend” kept me in the race, and that’s more than you may expect from some explicit disco madness LP.

2. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing

I didn’t know it at the time(oh boy, here we go), but this was exactly the album I was looking for. The moment where the sparkly opening gets blown up by guitar and noise is so blissful, you won’t even notice that some 20 minutes in the middle of the album exists in stasis. It’s very soothing, I often put it on as background noise during reading.

3. The Goslings - Occasion

You’ll see Occasion’s giant brother Grandeur of Hair in the best of the decade list, but this one packs plenty of punch on its own. Completely devastating shoegaze with benefits to properly wake up in the morning. Those drizzly workday mornings where you know exactly what’s going to happen, and it’s a terrifying concept, but you have to go through with it, even though the next morni… Well I mean this is a great album ++ would listen again.

4. No Age - Nouns

Lingering and pounding shouldn’t work well with each other, but here you go. An outstanding 30 minute blast of songs and sounds that surprisingly doesn’t get old. Teen Creeps is the obvious highlight here, the clearest bash to your head, but would it, and the other rockers, have had the impact they do if they weren’t surrounded by so much haze?

5. Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too

I’m not sure it’s innovative or original, but Lindstrøm’s lush epic made night drives memorable journeys. Road and dark landscapes, endlessly stretching out… as endless and Holland gets anyway, you can probably reach any place you want to go within two hours. Nonetheless, the first track actually makes you feel you’re headed somewhere, which is an achievement for someone headed nowhere slowly. And I love the corny album cover, I’d smile too if I could grow a nice beard.


6. Department of Eagles - In Ear Park

So, there’s the terrible band name, and side-project status for this, which didn’t raise expectations very high, but I was blown away, as I like this much more than anything by Grizzly Bear. Rooibos tea used to be the only thing that could tame the savage beast that lurks right beneath the surface of this man who wants everyone to forget his birthday, but secretly hopes for a surpriiiise party. Ah dream on golden boy, and throw on In Ear Park again. Soothing. No one does it like you.

7. Religious Knives - It's After Dark

This record worked very well on very warm days. Songs lamenting the sun and the affirming the fact that it is indeed hot really make you feel as though the band understands your predicament. At least the opener with its prospect of being in Brooklyn after dark works as a refreshment, in fact it sends shivers up and down my spine.

8. Deerhunter - Microcastle / Weird Era Cont.

What a disappointment this was at first. Cryptograms was my number one the year before, only for me to hear they ditched whatever made me excited about the band, and proceeded to deliver a really straightforward album with just one clear monster jam. Nothing Ever Happens was really a tease, since it showed that they could make with the rock ‘n roll all nite if they wanted to. I shelved it for months, but when I started listening to Mircocastle again, I loved it. The last four tracks make for one of the best 20 minute sequences of songs ever, much like the second side of Brian Eno’s Before and After Science. Bonus disc is just that, though Operation is worthy of single release.

9. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

Spencer Krug is the gift that keeps on giving. There’s so much good music coming from his many projects, and it doesn’t look like the well will run dry anytime soon. I feel people slept on Mount Zoomer, but not arriving in a mountain of praise doesn’t have to be a bad thing, especially for an album with as much false modesty as this. All in a day’s work ‘ey lads? The extended last track pulls it over the horizon into the valley of immortals.

10. Indian Jewelry - Free Gold

Nice eclectic set of songs collected for posterity here. Opener Swans makes it clear that they’ve been rocking Soundtracks For The Blind a little, but this is not all the way hero worship. Indian Jewelry carve out their own little world where we walk on water, and actually welcome Africa instead of shooing it into some miserable abyss. Shine dazzle dazzle, and dissolve.

1 The Microphones 1,383
2 Animal Collective 1,332
3 Radiohead 1,322
4 Neil Young 1,009
5 Thanksgiving 902
6 Mount Eerie 817
7 Do Make Say Think 812
8 Boards of Canada 742
9 Elliott Smith 722
10 The Books 698
11 The Beatles 669
12 Tom Waits 656
13 Cat Stevens 628
14 Built to Spill 623
15 WHY? 553
16 Joanna Newsom 531
17 of Montreal 509
18 Aphex Twin 479
19 Pavement 448
20 Caribou 434
21 Adrian Orange & Her Band 410
22 Talk Talk 404
23 The American Analog Set 391
24 The Velvet Underground 387
25 Guided by Voices 385
26 Modest Mouse 377
27 Mississippi John Hurt 376
28 The Olivia Tremor Control 363
28 The Fun Years 363
30 Björk 362
30 Polmo Polpo 362
32 Songs: Ohia 357
33 Grizzly Bear 355
34 Miles Davis 353
35 Brian Eno 343
35 Nick Drake 343
37 Frank Zappa 333
38 Jeremy Enigk 331
39 Sunny Day Real Estate 325
40 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy 323
40 Pixies 323
42 Leonard Cohen 322
42 Sonic Youth 322
44 Broken Social Scene 321
45 José González 321
46 Tortoise 319
47 Wilco 317
48 Grateful Dead 314
48 Silver Jews 314
50 The Tallest Man on Earth 310

Absolutely Free by The Mothers of Invention (1967)


Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart (1969)


Third by Soft Machine (1970)


Desertshore by Nico (1970)


Faust by Faust (1971)


Music to Eat by Hampton Grease Band (1971)


Irrlicht by Klaus Schulze (1972)


Before and After Science by Brian Eno (1977)


From Her to Eternity by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1984)


Lullaby Land by Vampire Rodents (1993)

New Creative Commons release from a two man project of me and Arttu Kataja (project is called Axial Ensemble)

Textures @ Jamendo.com

Hope you enjoy it! Drifting ambient soundscapes produced by synchronized Ableton Lives and real time mixing / composing.

Tags: Axial Ensemble Textures

Influences include: Brian Eno, Enigma, Mike Oldfield, Jon Hopkins, Jonn Serrie, Kitaro and Vangelis

My top 10 albums of each decade since the 1960s.

1960s

1. The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
2. Pink Floyd - The Piper At The Gates of Dawn
3. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
4. The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
5. 13th Floor Elevators - The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators
6. The Stooges - The Stooges
7. James Brown - Live at the Apollo
8. Love - Forever Changes
9. Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
10. The United States of America - The United States of America

1970s

1. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
2. David Bowie - Low
3. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
4. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
5. The Clash - London Calling
6. Television - Marquee Moon
7. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
8. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
9. Pink Floyd - Animals
10. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express

1980s

1. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
2. Joy Division - Closer
3. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
4. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
5. The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
6. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
7. Paul Simon - Graceland
8. Operation Ivy - Energy
9. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
10. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

1990s

1. Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand
2. Jawbreaker - 24 Hour Revenge Therapy
3. Wu-Tang Clan - Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
4. Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
5. Green Day - Dookie
6. DJ Shadow - Endtroducing
7. Dr. Dre - The Chronic
8. Radiohead - OK Computer
9. At the Drive-In - Acrobatic Tenement
10. Reatards - Teenage Hate

2000s

1. M.I.A. - Kala
2. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
3. Radiohead - Kid A
4. Jay Reatard - Blood Visions
5. Portishead - Third
6. OutKast - Stankonia
7. At the Drive-In - Relationship of Command
8. Andrew Jackson Jihad - People Who Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World
9. Arcade Fire - Funeral
10. The Ergs! - Dorkrockcorkrod

Now go listen to space music.

Murcof
- Cosmos
Brian Eno
- Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
Stars of the Lid
- Per Aspera Ad Astra