Codreanu's Sunday night mix

[Codreanu]

And how useless was all of this?

N.B. the production of certain tracks, namely the one by Fred Thomas, are intentionally low-fi and muddied... nothing is wrong with the mp3's

01. The Low Lows - Parker and Lily (The Low Lows)
http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2Y4411SL7DG7M1SQFPC7GLKT7F

02. Echelon - Idaho (The Lone Gunman)
http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3QUISX9RLJP1G31B5PAI3E3BG0

03. No Contest - Picastro (Metal Cares)
http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3QJI1LQRXCY5N20Y3SFHYRUFV4

04. Cold Leaves for the Violent Ground - Library Tapes (Alone in the Bright Lights of a Shattered Life)
http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=010HLID6EU3N23BNDN8DO7GO7A

05. I'm Fine... Bye Bye - S (Puking and Crying)
http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3IBI692ML3ZRL14NUGC2791OV0

06. A Little Longing Goes Away - The Books (Lost and Safe)
http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0QMYINKRZLA890VKQYE4VY056Y

07. Drunk with the Only Saints I Know (live) - Carissa's Wierd (I Before E)
http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3BX5MMD6LRS3M3IXWJMETSTPT7

08. Phone Calls from You - Khonnor (Handwriting)
http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=28QU2O5A9LFY03O4WIBCG3O54H

09. Apples on the Floor - Fred Thomas (Tuesday Series, March 1, 2005)
http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0ONX28H9OQQ770JQDWOY5GDFNM

10. Burst Noel - Malcolm Middleton (Into the Woods)
http://s42.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=15QX4CMAWRYQR0YGEGPU5A0KK8

11. Ask me about Jon Stross - Thee More Shallows (More Deep Cuts)
http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0G6BLRVOK4B6408MGWVTGVBNN4

12. Chat in Amsterdam, Winter 2003 - Arab Strap (The Last Romance)
http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1TC21BR01BMX31ZKKGJRHGBAE6

13. You Can Never Get Lost (When You've Nowhere to Go) - Piano Magic (Disaffected)
http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0V8A00IGXC4C30EZNWY8K1Z5C1

14. This is it, Forever - Hood (Outside Closer)
http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=06W5D4Z817XZX3LO7SLUW62UPL

 

[dallow_bg]

I really liked bits of this.
I could do without a couple.
Thank you.

Where do you hear about most of these artists?
I only recognized Arab Strap and The Books.
And The Books only because of Momus.

I'll play this Sunday nights and think Codreanu.........Codreanu.....

 

[Codreanu]

> Where do you hear about most of these artists?

Online reviews: A routine glance through the daily reviews at significant sites such as PopMatters, Pitchfork, Splended Ezine, Dusted Reviews, Losing Today etc.

allmusic.com: most artist entries include listings of similar artists, followers, and influences; while an artist as paramount in influence and longevity as Morrissey would generate such broad results as to be of little value, the profile of a band such as, say, Low would contain more relevant suspects. An interesting resource all the same.

Also some sites such as Delusions of Adequacy and Leonard's Lair append a list of smiliar artists to their album reviews.

Labels: I absolutely adore the Pehr label and keep abreast of the lastest issues from Keep and BlueSanct as well as the Chairkickers label ran by members of Low. Many smaller indie labels, as the aforementioned, only stable artist within a marked style e.g. Leaf (fragile electronica), Projekt (ethereal goth)... hell, even some of the major labels like 4AD still nurture a distinct "sound".

Soulseek: I have friends, fellow Sadcore/Slowcore aficionados, some from different countries (Spain, Germany, S. America), with whom I regularly exchange information and downloads.

It goes without saying that my taste is very circumscribed, so I neither listen to the radio* nor channels like MTV for basically the same reason that one doesn't riffle through the print shop in the mall with something in mind after late Degas, Lucien Freud, or a GOOD abstract-expressionist (oxymoronic, I know) like Clifford Still... instead you will find Monet's water lilies, a Klimt, some motley-chrome convulsion by Pollack, and still more water lillies by Monet.

*NPR's Performance Today, which I tuned in religiously for a couple of years, doesn't count.