weird music

[My Little Needle]

I'm looking for music somewhat in the vein of any of the following: xiu xiu, godspeed you black emperor, bjork, animal collective, the books, the microphones... experimental, electronic, ambient, avantgarde, lofi, postrock, contemporary... just different, brilliant, and original is what I ask.

[Interslice]

what your asking for is pretty vague, but from what it sounds like you would likely enjoy most of the following bands/artists. i included some album suggestions when i thought it would be helpful. some of these might be obvious, but i have i only have a vague idea of what you listen to otherwise.

a hawk and a hacksaw - s/t
a frames - black forest
akron/family - s/t
auburn lull - alone i admire
boards of canada - geogaddi
boredoms - vision creation newsun
death vessel - stay close
deerhoof - the runners four
eluvium - talk amongst the trees
espers - anything
express rising - s/t
fennesz - venice
frog eyes - the golden river
gang gang dance - god's money
growing - the soul of the rainbow and the harmony of light
hood - outside closer
the ivytree - winged leaves
joanna newsom - the milk-eyed mender
max richter - the blue notebooks
the mendoza line - anything before their newest album
the octopus project - one ten hundred thousand million
six organs of admittance - anything
the skygreen leopards - one thousand bird ceremony
thanksgiving - anything
terry riley - atlantis nath
vashti bunyan - anything
vetiver - anything
william basinski - the disintegration loops

links:
eureka! (http://www.tinymixtapes.com/eureka.htm) (part of tiny mix tapes. a selection of music they liked, that sort of fits your same description)
dusted magazine (http://www.dustedmagazine.com/) (a great site for finding obscure gems)

[Milhouse Van Houten]

battles - every ep they have ever released

[Gatorgod]

I think Ween - Happy Colored Marbles is a freaky good listen,... Maybe a little To weird :s

[torgo]

i guess here are some songs i like

supersilent - "6.1"
excepter - "interplay: your house"
no-neck blues band - "natural bridge"
vieux diop - "jali"
wooden wand and the vanishing voice - "paper trail blues"
black dice - "the dream is going down"

also javanese gamelan music is great, nonesuch explorer series or something has put out a couple cd's worth of it

[Sampson]

http://www.sundayherald.com/img3203
tim buckley - starsailor

http://www.squealermusic.com/images/Inc.gif
acid mothers temple and the melting paraiso ufo - in c

http://www.cokemachineglow.com/staff/images/kfw_playthroughs.jpg
keith fullerton whitman - playthroughs

http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drf300/f313/f31324lkaoe.jpg
boredoms - super ae

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd000/d069/d06988c224o.jpg
the united states of america - the united states of america

http://www.neptunerecords.com/images/covers/2104/5240.jpg
german oak - german oak

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:FvX0kFnb7-UJ:www.westernvinyl.com/Getty_3X3.jpg
the dirty projectors - the getty address

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/6e/Musicfor18cover.jpg
steve reich - music for 18 musicians

http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drf600/f615/f61501szrq8.jpg
xinlisupreme - murder license

[caribou]

http://www.absolutelykosher.com/ak050-400px.jpg

Xiu Xiu, but louder.

[Ignignot]

Locust Toybox

[Sampson]

i guess here are some songs i like

supersilent - "6.1"
excepter - "interplay: your house"
no-neck blues band - "natural bridge"
vieux diop - "jali"
wooden wand and the vanishing voice - "paper trail blues"
black dice - "the dream is going down"

also javanese gamelan music is great, nonesuch explorer series or something has put out a couple cd's worth of it

have you heard any of arve henriksen's solo stuff? he's the trumpet player from supersilent

i really like that wooden want stuff too, and talk about prolific, dude's got like 8 albums just this year. kinda like sunburned hand of the man

[My Little Needle]

sorry for being so vague... boredoms and books is the kind of stuff I'm looking for. not totally relying on experimental or aleatoric sounds but interestingly different.

[Sampson]

if you like boredoms you'll probably like acid mothers temple

[Son of Bomber]

http://www.muzieklijstjes.nl/MojoOutthere.htm

These are the 50 albums that Mojo magazine proclaimed the most 'out there' of all time.

[caramelbart]

Grace Jones / Warm Leatherette (1981)
Grace Jones / Nightclubbing (1982)

Bow and say grace ....Grace Jones!

[My Little Needle]

bumpworthy

man what a stupid idea for a thread

[Red Right]

http://img92.imageshack.us/img92/7600/b0001xtiuo01ss500sclzzzin2.jpg

Weirdo chick folk 30 years before Joanna Newsom. One of the best albums I've ever heard. Seriously.

[aoife]

Grace is fierce, but don't bump old threads.

[My Little Needle]

red right: could you up?

[Gabbo]

haha i read this thread as if it had been made yesterday and i hadn't seen it yet.

[nathaniel]

oh man youre lucky this is an old thread, needle

i was about to deploy every braff image in my arsenal

[Milhouse Van Houten]

http://www.muzieklijstjes.nl/MojoOutthere.htm

These are the 50 albums that Mojo magazine proclaimed the most 'out there' of all time.
i own physical copies of 9 of them and have (including those 9) 21 of them on my computer

[nathaniel]

9 United States of America The United States of America (1968)
12 Os mutantes Os mutantes (1968)
13 Velvet underground White light/white heat (1968)
18 My bloody Valentine Loveless (1991)
20 Boredoms Super Ae (1998)
31 Scott Walker Tilt (1995)
38 Tim Buckley Starsailor (1970)
39 Mercury rev Boces (1993)
40 Pink floyd The piper at the gates of dawn (1967)

holla

[Milhouse Van Houten]

i would have pegged you as a residents fan as well for some reason.

[nathaniel]

are those the eyeball dudes?

never heard em :redface:

[Milhouse Van Houten]

haha, yeah...they are the eyeball dudes. im pretty sure boards of canada owe their entire sound to them.

[nathaniel]

uh, really? for some reason i did not have them filed under chillout tunes. care to up a track or album?

[Milhouse Van Houten]

i have no idea why i said boards of canada. they are far from it...i don't even think there was another band i meant to type and just slipped up, thats not right at all though. if you are looking for chill out tunes, not really the band to go for. i also don't know how to upload stuff, if you hit me up on AIM i can file send you some stuff. if you are still interested that is.

[nathaniel]

oh i was gonna say. i thought they were a punk/experimental noise thing. still wouldnt mind hearing a couple songs

sendspace.com is easy

[Milhouse Van Houten]

http://www.sendspace.com/file/9y2xyc

http://www.sendspace.com/file/w6nbuh

[Son of Bomber]

i fell asleep while listening to super ae on my headphones the other night. big fucking mistake, for some reason i thought it was some kinda ambient droney type thing. totally killed my night.

also could someone plz upload starsailor? i'd love to hear it and i'm pretty sure it's unavailable in all of the land. i've looked for ages.

[My Little Needle]

oh man youre lucky this is an old thread, needle

i was about to deploy every braff image in my arsenal
yeah this thread is really embarrasing

you know, I've always been meaning to check out tim buckley... I second the motion for starsailor

[nathaniel]

buckley seems out of place on the list. his singing is a little off kilter but the record might be the least weird of the bunch. my dad loves starsailor

[dave9199]

Jandek. Any of his 49 albums.

[Milhouse Van Houten]

can you upload some jandek? i have been looking daily on soulseek for people sharing his music since like july, yet to find anything. also...have you seen the documentary on him?

[W.P.]

I'm quite surprised that nobody has mentioned the Butthole Surfers yet. It always seemed like they would take the cake. Check out this album of theirs, "Locust Absorption Technician":

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/46/ButtholeSurfersLocustAbortionTechnician.jpg

You won't believe your ears.

[dave9199]

can you upload some jandek? i have been looking daily on soulseek for people sharing his music since like july, yet to find anything. also...have you seen the documentary on him?

I have the documentary. I like it. It's really people talking about him, he's not in the film at all. The cool thing about it is a 40 minute interview done back in 1985 via telephone. That's an extra on the dvd.

Go here for lots of Jandek samples

http://www.aquariusrecords.org/bin/search.cgi

If this doesn't bring you to his stuff, type in Jandek in the search field. Enjoy!!

[Milhouse Van Houten]

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Go here for lots of Jandek samples

http://www.aquariusrecords.org/bin/search.cgi

If this doesn't bring you to his stuff, type in Jandek in the search field. Enjoy!!
noooooooooo, internal server error....

i have also seen the documentary, a buddy of mine that owns it and myself watched it with a head full of mushrooms one night over the summer, this has been my only exposure to his music. i didn't see any of the special features.

[dave9199]

Just go to Aquarius Records and look up Jandek. That should work.

[Samuel L Bronkowitz]

Praxis: Transmutation

weird (but interesting) instrumental album, featuring the very weird lineup of Buckethead, Brain, Bootsy Collins, and Bernie Worrell....

[buh]

colonel claypool's bucket of bernie brains - the big eyeball in the sky

really strange album. i really cannot classify it as a genre, its bizarre experimental modern funk with serious hints of progressive rock. it's really weird but cool, probably one of the oddest albums of this decade imo. bernie worrell, buckethead, les claypool and bryan mantia are the dudes featured in this group, it's pretty great. keyboard work is probably my favorite thing about it

[Sloppy Jimbo IV]

man, imagine the weird weird music you'd hear if bernie worrell and buckethead got together in the same band!

a third time i mean