2k9top20

IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER....
(click on the album art to listen/enjoy)

merry x-mas from underwater peoples

>>just posted on Chocolate Bobka, the folks from Underwater Peoples Records have decided to grace us with a winter review compilations of their best crowd-pleasers./// download from their site for free, for a limited time only///

---back to eggnog---

merry christmas

stag hare - black medicine music (2008)

/// i thought I'd take a little of my time to gift you with a little gem ///

listen here

2k9 - the year in sold out tapes

//cassettes galore // joyeux noel

high wolf - animal totem
get it here


high wolf - gabon
get it here


washed out - high times
get it here

best coast - where the boys are
get it here
dirty beaches - c22
get it here
dunebuggy - c20
get it here

pocahaunted - gold miner's daughter
get it here

surfin'

memory cassette - call and response 7" (2009)

// one of my favorite EP of the year //

dl: http://www.mediafire.com/?bm2yjzfolau

odd blood

yeasayer - odd blood (2010)

>>> oh shit
i hate album leaks. but this one's a big one.
/// christmas came early this year
thx bolachas

can't wait to buy the LP (equipped with 3d glasses?)

click here to listen:
http://www.mediafire.com/?njz3zaotnz4

dragging a dead deer up a hill

grouper - dragging a dead deer up a hill (2008)

>>not only does it have one creepy mofo of a cover or is it baptised with the best album title ever, "dragging a dead deer up a hill" is by far my definite go-to when i feel like listening to pleasant sounding melodies without really wanting to make the effort of listening to something// a total no-brainer while being perplexingly intricate, i love this album

//perfect if you'll be spending the first mega snow storm (in canada anyway) in bed this morning

dl: http://www.mediafire.com/?lywnkzz3nm4

links for older posts are now fixed//changed host

here are the goodies:

abe vigoda - skeleton (2008)
animal collective - fall be kind (2009)
beach house - teen dream (2010)
beach house - devotion (2008)
best coast - make you mine 7" (2009)
best coast - where the boys are (tape)
black feelings - black feelings (2009)
gary wilson - you think you really know me (1977)
john maus - love is real (2007)
kip hanrahan - coup de tete (1982)
sébastien schuller - evenfall (2009)
shits and giggles - trick or treat (2009)
timber timbre - s/t (2009)
the unicorns - who will cut our hair when we're gone? (2003)
women - women (2008)

should have taken acid with you

neon indian - psychic chasms (2009) + 2 grizzly bear remixes

>>you more than probably picked up the catchiest song of the summer (deadbeat summer), and might have listened to it a hundred times, but in case you never got hold of the full LP, here it is.
// also included, the 2 new grizzly bear remixes

click on image or link below to listen:
http://www.mediafire.com/?mtmz3dmyold

woodsist records

woodsist records/fuck it tapes

>>brooklyn based record label who basically put out most of my favorite records of 2009// how great is that?

all around lo-fi overachievers

click on albums (or link).downloads below. treat yourself. enjoy over the weekend. then buy what you like.
http://www.fuckittapes.com/woodsist.htm






ganglians - monster head room (2009)








http://www.mediafire.com/?q1ommyddkt2



woods - songs of shame (2009)











http://www.mediafire.com/?ygtzmckxmdt



real estate - s/t (2009)











http://www.mediafire.com/?wtnwnymnfne


the mayfair set - young one (2009)













http://www.mediafire.com/?uydnak5mxkd

causers of this

toro y moi - causers of this (2010)

manohmanohmanohmanohmanohman
chillwave tsunami leak

coming for real 2.23.10

get it now, listen, and buy the real deal :

http://www.mediafire.com/?enqzczmn4mn

// fixed the sharing links for the 4 last posts // switched to mediafire // the problem is hopefully resolved

enjoy

long live snowblink

snowblink - long live (2008)

/// saw these guys playing with Timber Timbre last week, recording a live set for cbc radio// the best show I had seen in a short-long while/ very intimate, haunting/ did a killer mjackson cover/ the black sheep inn is a fantastic venue.



>>thank you ming for the photos....

>>look on cbc radio for the recordings.

give a listen to the album.... buy it at one of their shows if you dig it.






http://www.mediafire.com/?32aljwd1hrotabs

the sun was high (so was I)

best coast - art fag 7" and when i'm with you 7"

// this is it >>>> i found what i've been continuously looking for these past weeks.// thanks to the guys at no not fun not no, we now have enough california heat to survive the canuck winter// i offer you 5 more songs from the consistently wondrous rocker of beast coast//

get your dose of UV here: http://www.mediafire.com/?nowzutnifin

soma mix#3

mix3// in which we realize that making new friends is fun, plantar warts aren't.

40 minutes of fun, jolly songs cranked up with distortion.

get your own ici: http://www.mediafire.com/?mdnc4mlimyy

yeasayer bundle

//holy moses.// new video for yeasayer's fearsome new single from the upcoming odd blood lp// complete mindfuck, right out there with heaven can wait



>>>>while waiting, get their debut LP, all hour cymbals, one of my favorite albums: http://www.mediafire.com/?2cdmdmmmctd

whatever forever

abe vigoda - skeleton (2008)

// total fucking chaos

check it out: http://www.mediafire.com/?tkngw11tnid

Sex is a Dream That I Know I Can Find You In...

Kip Hanrahan - Coup de Tete (1982)

"Fittingly enough, the first sound heard on Kip Hanrahan's premier release is that of the conga and the first word sung is "sex," two leitmotifs that would appear consistently in his ensuing work. Coup de Tete burst on the scene in the early '80s as an entirely fresh, invigorating amalgam of Cuban percussion (much of it Santeria-based), free jazz, funk, and intimate, confrontational lyrics. Hanrahan had worked at New Music Distribution Service, a project run by Carla Bley and Michael Mantler (both of whom appear on this album), and had established contacts with numerous musicians from varied fields who he threw together in a glorious New York City melting pot. With the percussion and electric bass laying down thick and delicious grooves, the cream of the younger avant saxophonists in New York at the time wail over the top, accompanying some of the most brutally uncomfortable lyrics ever put to wax. The relationships Hanrahan details are turbulent to say the least, often intertwined with economic concerns as well as a general sense of the impossibility of understanding one's mate. After asking him for abuse and being refused, his lover (sung wonderfully by Lisa Herman) taunts, "When you could only sulk/I had more contempt for you than I ever thought I could have." Interspersed among the bitter love harangues and ecstatic percussion-driven numbers are two stunningly lovely pieces, Marguerite Duras' "India Song" and Teo Macero's "Heart on My Sleeve," both aching with romanticism. Coup de Tete is a superb record, an impressive debut, and, arguably, one of the finest moments in Hanrahan's career along with the following release, Desire Develops an Edge. Highly recommended." AMG

Get it Here: http://www.mediafire.com/?zwgwck5zqlk

where the boys are

best coast - Where The Boys Are' (tape/blackest rainbow) -- SOLD OUT

// if this is your 1st taste of surf-noise-pop-ensemble best coast, listen to the make you mine 7" first./// i obsessively could'nt get enough so i dug and dug and dug for other material. i finally got my hands on this sold out 5 song tape// and yes it's goood// noisier and angrier

// i'm still looking for the 7" on art fag, so if you have, please share

down low here: http://www.mediafire.com/?2mznztlmnnz

Teen Dreams

Beach House - Teen Dreams (2010)

Get it Here: http://www.mediafire.com/?nmiztyjr2ij