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just brew it! wrote:Djam Karet - The Trip
Didn't even realize they had released this, it apparently came out about a year ago. I would describe it as a 47-minute long ambient/psychedelic/prog jam. Highly recommended.
I grabbed it as a digital download from Bandcamp. Lossless FLAC FTW!
Captain Ned wrote:Oh, I just have CDs sprawling all over my "office" as the rack downstairs by the stereo was full 3-4 years ago. I need to move to a server-based lossless system and find the right way to archive discs plus the accompanying material in a way that takes up less space than jewel boxes while not leading to physical damage.
I've my eyes on a rack than can hold around 1000 jewel boxes, but SWMBO has differing views.
just brew it! wrote:Following my pending server upgrade I need to go back and re-encode everything as FLAC. Back when the project to digitize my entire music collection started, disk space was still too expensive to have lossless rips of everything on spinning hard drives. I did burn the original WAVs to DVDs, which will significantly reduce the number of discs I will need to feed back through a PC to recover the lossless rips. But it's still gonna be a royal PITA.
The Egg wrote:just brew it! wrote:Following my pending server upgrade I need to go back and re-encode everything as FLAC. Back when the project to digitize my entire music collection started, disk space was still too expensive to have lossless rips of everything on spinning hard drives. I did burn the original WAVs to DVDs, which will significantly reduce the number of discs I will need to feed back through a PC to recover the lossless rips. But it's still gonna be a royal PITA.
I went though this process for the exact same reason, just a little over a year ago. Ugh. The only problem with your WAV files is that they don't hold any metadata. Whether or not that's an issue depends on how you intend to playback the files.
Yeats wrote:Conquering Dystopia, their debut album is streaming. It's pretty intense...
http://conqueringdystopia.com/downloads
Captain Ned wrote:jackbomb wrote:Annie Haslam - Rockalise, from Annie in Wonderland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UE56mQpWAU4
The entire album is just amazing. Best 2nd hand music find in quite some time.
You'll be really happy when you backfill the Haslam-era Renaissance albums. Massively underrated/underappreciated prog band from that era.
jackbomb wrote:I finally ordered a few of their albums after listening to some of their stuff on Youtube the other week. Currently listening to Black Flame from Turn of the Cards. This is absolutely incredible.
Captain Ned wrote:jackbomb wrote:I finally ordered a few of their albums after listening to some of their stuff on Youtube the other week. Currently listening to Black Flame from Turn of the Cards. This is absolutely incredible.
Glad to be of service. Far too many people have never heard of Renaissance.
morphine wrote:Yeats wrote:Conquering Dystopia, their debut album is streaming. It's pretty intense...
http://conqueringdystopia.com/downloads
Listening to that right now. I'm not a huge fan of djendt, but I'm willing to give it a shot since (so far) it doesn't have vocals, namely those horrible screeching ones so popular in the genre and that I hate so much
just brew it! wrote:Recently picked up a pile of stuff by drummer and keyboardist Gary Husband. Currently listening to "Dirty And Beautiful, Vol 1".
He's not exactly a household name (understatement!), probably being best known as a sideman in Allan Holdsworth's band, and as the replacement drummer in Level 42. Don't let his obscurity fool you; he's a phenomenal musician and composer.
Couple of things that have really struck me listening to his solo projects: Some of the solos on Holdsworth's albums that I had previously assumed were played by Holdsworth on Synthaxe were almost certainly actually played by Husband on keyboards. It is also clear to me (now) that he's gotten sucked pretty deep into (and/or contributed a lot to) Holdsworth's idiosyncratic sonic vision. His tribute album "The Things I See" is amazing (it consists entirely of re-interpretations of Holdsworth tunes on solo acoustic piano).
Edit: I would definitely put him up there on my list of favorite drummers. Bill Bruford, Neil Peart, Mike Portnoy, Terry Bozzio, Chad Wackerman, Stewart Copeland, Dennis Chambers, Steve Smith... Gary Husband belongs on that list too. Really love when a drummer is overtly musical (as opposed to just rhythmic).
just brew it! wrote:Yes, Vinnie belongs on that list; definitely an error of omission on my part. Just out of curiosity, which of them don't belong in your opinion?
PenGun wrote:just brew it! wrote:Yes, Vinnie belongs on that list; definitely an error of omission on my part. Just out of curiosity, which of them don't belong in your opinion?
I do love little Terry Ted Bozio but he is not really of that class.
PenGun wrote:You could add Greg Bissontte, Dave Weckle and of course the master of them all Buddy Rich. If you go back a bit there are a whole set of Jazz monsters as well. Billy Higgens, Max Roach etc etc. Airto Moreira and Trilok Gurtu amazing drummers and percussionists ... oh lord I could go on ...
jackbomb wrote:Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good. Absolutely perfect dish washing music.