From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V8 #357 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Saturday, December 31 2005 Volume 08 : Number 357 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Top Five-ish for 2005 [Ian Grant ] RE: [idealcopy] Top Five-ish for 2005 ["Andrew Lumbard" ] [idealcopy] O.T:ten thoughts about your health............ [Ari ] Re: [idealcopy] Top Five-ish for 2005 ["Keith A" ] Re: [idealcopy] Top Five-ish for 2005 [Tim ] Re: [idealcopy] Top Five-ish for 2005 ["P J Kane" ] Re: [idealcopy] Top Five-ish for 2005 [Ian Grant ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 16:06:53 +0000 From: Ian Grant Subject: [idealcopy] Top Five-ish for 2005 Hello, all. By the look of it, my last mail to the list was way back in January. About the Noseflutes, for pity's sake. So among my New Year's resolutions (along with "Find Silo. Force them to make a new album, by any means necessary.") will be to make a slightly more significant contribution to this marvellous institution rather than merely sending it a list of my favourite records once a year. Having said all of that, here is that list: Hood - Outside Closer (and associated stuff) The associated stuff is important, because Hood have managed something that I'd begun to accept as impossible: to make my thirty-five year old heart fall in love with a band again, as completely as I used to do as a teenager. "Outside Closer" is an absolutely lovely record, rich and dense and balanced just right between adventure and reality, and it's kept growing on me throughout the year. It would've been my favourite record, regardless. But the other stuff has been more than mere decoration. Some real gems on the b-sides of singles, especially "The Lost You" EP. The unexpected treasures on the odds-and-sods CD that they were selling on tour, the way that its fragments and fiddles became a delightful, almost Clouddead-ish collage of, well, fragments and fiddles. And the live shows. Bloody hell, the live shows: rarely has a band pushed itself so damn hard to realise a vision. The records have been so intricate, so complex, so technically demanding...and yet they just refused to back down. I'll treasure those gigs always, for their sheer lack of laziness. For their joyous, life-affirming bravery. Piana - Ephemeral A quite astonishingly lovely, Boomkat-recommended Japanese thing that sounds, I imagine, very much as Sigur Ros sound to people who actually like Sigur Ros. Speaking of which, even though I don't actually like Sigur Ros, their Somerset House gig in the summer was another highlight: a genuinely touching place to watch the sun go down, and a perfect soundtrack for staring up at the silhouettes of circling seagulls. Kano - Home Sweet Home Not, for me, a great record. Not a Dizzee-style landmark. It's just got a little too much of a US-friendly sheen for that; there have been a few too many record company meetings along the way. Still, the peaks are very peaky indeed: when he lets go and flows, Kano is an imperious presence, capable of spectacular bragging and sharp insight in equal measure. He can make a better album than this, though, given the chance. For now, it'll do. DJ Youngsta - Dubstep Allstars Vol. 2 Which brings us onto the year's main event. Dubstep. Ah, dubstep, dubstep, dubstep. I've waited bloody years for something like this to happen, and I know that I'm not alone. Something with so much bass, something that still leaves space for soul, mood, movement; something that sounds like London, as jungle once did. Hood aside, it's blotted out pretty much everything this year; apart from anything else, I've spent so much money on vinyl that I simply haven't been able to afford to keep up with other stuff. Thus far, DJ Youngsta's set is the only officially-released compilation and, while utterly stunning, it's somewhat limited in scope; that said, the much broader tracklisting for Kode 9's follow-up in the new year looks awesome. A better and more immediate overview is gained by listening to the procession of Rinse FM sets, recorded and made available by heroic forum (http://dubstep.forumsplace.com/) members. The relatively small, largely unprofitable nature of the scene means that so much of this stuff is still unreleased, and every fresh set leaves another wad of mental notes, future wages reserved for essential purchases. In the meantime, you really need to hear these, and a few others besides.... Loefah - Root / Goat Stare (DMZ) Digital Mystikz - Nevermind / Stuck (DMZ) Digital Mystikz - Officer / Mood Dub (DMZ) Skream - Midnight Request Line / I (Tempa) Skream - August 05 mix (download) DJ Distance - Fallen / Taipan (Boka) Vex'd - Degenerate (Planet Mu LP) Burial - South London Boroughs (Hyperdub) Kode 9 - Kingstown (Hyperdub) Toasty Boy - Angel / Take It Personal (Hotflush) Scuba - Timba / Sleepa (Hotflush) Right, that's it. Carry on. Cheers, ig. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 17:53:41 -0000 From: "Andrew Lumbard" Subject: RE: [idealcopy] Top Five-ish for 2005 Ian Grant, as I live and breath. How are you doing with bsad and the corporate machine? As a Codalmighty contributor, I hope our fellow Copyists don't mind me sharing the current battles of football fans being squeezed for every last penny, and your eloquent communications with said moneygrabbers? Well, it is a bit quiet here at the moment http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9753,1671699,00.html http://www.bsad.org/0506/reports/fixtures_letter.html AndyL - -----Original Message----- From: owner-idealcopy@smoe.org [mailto:owner-idealcopy@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Ian Grant Sent: 30 December 2005 16:07 To: idealcopy@smoe.org Subject: [idealcopy] Top Five-ish for 2005 Hello, all. By the look of it, my last mail to the list was way back in January. About the Noseflutes, for pity's sake. So among my New Year's resolutions (along with "Find Silo. Force them to make a new album, by any means necessary.") will be to make a slightly more significant contribution to this marvellous institution rather than merely sending it a list of my favourite records once a year. Having said all of that, here is that list: Hood - Outside Closer (and associated stuff) The associated stuff is important, because Hood have managed something that I'd begun to accept as impossible: to make my thirty-five year old heart fall in love with a band again, as completely as I used to do as a teenager. "Outside Closer" is an absolutely lovely record, rich and dense and balanced just right between adventure and reality, and it's kept growing on me throughout the year. It would've been my favourite record, regardless. But the other stuff has been more than mere decoration. Some real gems on the b-sides of singles, especially "The Lost You" EP. The unexpected treasures on the odds-and-sods CD that they were selling on tour, the way that its fragments and fiddles became a delightful, almost Clouddead-ish collage of, well, fragments and fiddles. And the live shows. Bloody hell, the live shows: rarely has a band pushed itself so damn hard to realise a vision. The records have been so intricate, so complex, so technically demanding...and yet they just refused to back down. I'll treasure those gigs always, for their sheer lack of laziness. For their joyous, life-affirming bravery. Piana - Ephemeral A quite astonishingly lovely, Boomkat-recommended Japanese thing that sounds, I imagine, very much as Sigur Ros sound to people who actually like Sigur Ros. Speaking of which, even though I don't actually like Sigur Ros, their Somerset House gig in the summer was another highlight: a genuinely touching place to watch the sun go down, and a perfect soundtrack for staring up at the silhouettes of circling seagulls. Kano - Home Sweet Home Not, for me, a great record. Not a Dizzee-style landmark. It's just got a little too much of a US-friendly sheen for that; there have been a few too many record company meetings along the way. Still, the peaks are very peaky indeed: when he lets go and flows, Kano is an imperious presence, capable of spectacular bragging and sharp insight in equal measure. He can make a better album than this, though, given the chance. For now, it'll do. DJ Youngsta - Dubstep Allstars Vol. 2 Which brings us onto the year's main event. Dubstep. Ah, dubstep, dubstep, dubstep. I've waited bloody years for something like this to happen, and I know that I'm not alone. Something with so much bass, something that still leaves space for soul, mood, movement; something that sounds like London, as jungle once did. Hood aside, it's blotted out pretty much everything this year; apart from anything else, I've spent so much money on vinyl that I simply haven't been able to afford to keep up with other stuff. Thus far, DJ Youngsta's set is the only officially-released compilation and, while utterly stunning, it's somewhat limited in scope; that said, the much broader tracklisting for Kode 9's follow-up in the new year looks awesome. A better and more immediate overview is gained by listening to the procession of Rinse FM sets, recorded and made available by heroic forum (http://dubstep.forumsplace.com/) members. The relatively small, largely unprofitable nature of the scene means that so much of this stuff is still unreleased, and every fresh set leaves another wad of mental notes, future wages reserved for essential purchases. In the meantime, you really need to hear these, and a few others besides.... Loefah - Root / Goat Stare (DMZ) Digital Mystikz - Nevermind / Stuck (DMZ) Digital Mystikz - Officer / Mood Dub (DMZ) Skream - Midnight Request Line / I (Tempa) Skream - August 05 mix (download) DJ Distance - Fallen / Taipan (Boka) Vex'd - Degenerate (Planet Mu LP) Burial - South London Boroughs (Hyperdub) Kode 9 - Kingstown (Hyperdub) Toasty Boy - Angel / Take It Personal (Hotflush) Scuba - Timba / Sleepa (Hotflush) Right, that's it. Carry on. Cheers, ig. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 18:43:12 +0000 From: Ian Grant Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Top Five-ish for 2005 On 12/30/05, Andrew wrote: > Ian Grant, as I live and breath. How are you doing with bsad and the corporate machine? Heh. Yes, the very same. Small, um, global information superhighway.... To be honest, there's not very much happening at the moment with the fixture fiasco. As you'll have gathered, we're trying to kick up some media kerfuffle to make them blush a little, although we do so in the full knowledge that many people in football are far, far beyond embarrassment. It probably won't achieve anything, then...but it'll hopefully widen awareness of the whole nonsense. As you'll also have gathered from the Guardian piece, we've been offered free legal assistance to take 'em on in court. That's highly dubious, though...partly because I'm not convinced that the people making the offer fully appreciate what they'd be getting themselves into, and partly because, realistically, neither Matt nor I have the time for such a crusade at this point in our lives. Oh, to be twenty-five with a leisurely job again.... Anyway, I've tried and failed to conjure up a spurious Wire link for all of this off-topic waffle, so I'll leave it there. Keep up the fantastic work with Codalmighty, though; that's long been one of the best fanzines around and one of our particular favourites. Free the BSaD two! Cheers, ig. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 13:07:55 -0800 (PST) From: Ari Subject: [idealcopy] O.T:ten thoughts about your health............ Ten Thoughts about Your Health for 2005 Number 10 - Life is sexually transmitted. Number 9 - Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. Number 8 - Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you see him without an erection, make him a sandwich! Number 7 - Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks. Number 6 - Some people are like a Slinky.....not really good for anything, but you still can! 't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs. Number 5 - Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. Number 4 - All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. Number 3 - Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents? Number 2 - In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. AND THE NUMBER 1 THOUGHT FOR 2005: We know exactly where one cow with mad-cow-disease is located among the millions and millions of cows in America but we haven't got a clue as to where thousands of illegal immigrants and terrorists are located. Maybe we should put the Department of Agriculture in charge of immigration. __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL  Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 23:20:40 -0000 From: "Keith Knight" Subject: [idealcopy] After Kate Bush... .it's rumoured that Scott Walker will be releasing a new album in February. Or at least so Stuart Maconie has announced on his last 6Music show. Nothing on the 4AD site mind. But suddenly I feel a little better. Another the Keith ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:30:33 -0000 From: "Keith A" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Top Five-ish for 2005 > Ian Grant, as I live and breath. > > How are you doing with bsad and the corporate machine? > >I have received 2 telephone calls today from angry supporters of Watford, the first being entirely abusive and the other >expressing displeasure - in neither instance were the callers prepared to listen to the reasons for the action before hanging up. >This is disappointing. Aw. Poor thing. I hope he gets over this disappointment real soon. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:11:20 +0000 From: Tim Subject: Re: [idealcopy] After Kate Bush... As long as Jarvis Cocker isn't allowed anywhere near it should be good! Keith Knight wrote: > .it's rumoured that Scott Walker will be releasing a new album in > February. Or at least so Stuart Maconie has announced on his last > 6Music show. Nothing on the 4AD site mind. But suddenly I feel a > little better. > > Another the Keith ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:15:52 +0000 From: Tim Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Top Five-ish for 2005 Ian Grant wrote: > Hello, all. > > By the look of it, my last mail to the list was way back in January. > About the Noseflutes, for pity's sake. So among my New Year's > resolutions (along with "Find Silo. Force them to make a new album, > by any means necessary.") Colin! Are you reading this?! Some good recommedations there Ian, will check them out > Vex'd - Degenerate (Planet Mu LP) Really like this one, not a favourite of the year but a good noise none the less. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 02:10:12 GMT From: "P J Kane" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Top Five-ish for 2005 i had, honestly, really hoped that more people on this list would post End of the Year lists. i always get good recomendations from you people, so come on! i have alrrady got one new CD because of such postings -- the acoustic Church CD, i believe that was recommended by Jason Rogers. good stuff! so: please, keep the lists coming people! PJK please don't hate me because i can't type..... - --- All the cool kids are doing it: HTTP://www.EvilSponge.org ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 02:11:49 GMT From: "P J Kane" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] After Kate Bush... << it's rumoured that Scott Walker will be releasing a new album in February. >> yes, and supposedly ex-Cocteau Twin Liz Frazer has recorded vocals with him. i will believe it when i hold the CD in my hands... PJK please don't hate me because i can't type..... - --- All the cool kids are doing it: HTTP://www.EvilSponge.org ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:50:29 +0000 From: Ian Grant Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Top Five-ish for 2005 On 12/31/05, Tim wrote: > Some good recommedations there Ian, will check them out Splendid. Quite a lot of the dubstep stuff is available for download: Bleep.com carries most of the DMZ releases, while Karmadownload has most of the Hotflush / DJ Distance stuff. And the stunning Skream mix is still available from Martin Clark's blog (http://blackdownsoundboy.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_blackdownsoundboy_archive.html). Or, alternatively, Boomkat has most of it in stock.... Cheers, ig. ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V8 #357 *******************************