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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
#Listening to Catch These Fists by Wet Leg, from their second full album moisturizer, released last month;

https://wetleg.bandcamp.com/album/moisturizer

I love the almost industrial guitar tone on this track. One of the licks reminds me of The Annoying Song, one of my favourite tracks from the Butthole Surfers album Independent Worm Saloon. Meanwhile, the rhythm reminds me of tracks by The White Stripes, Tadpole, and even Rammstein.

#music #guitar #indie#WetLeg

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp last month
#Listening to the 2015 album Trippy by Left or Right;

https://leftorright.bandcamp.com/album/trippy

Left or Right released this album when I was living in Ōtepoti, and rapidly became known locally for its idiosyncratic single Gary's Nuggety Neighbour. I don't know how to describe this, except to say that it's weird, and it's fun, and you could have a significantly worse time not listening to it, so ... what are you waiting for?

#music #rock#NerdRock#LeftOrRight

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
#Listening to How Do I Love Thee? by Mr Sterile, from the marvelously titled 2022 release Never Mind the Threat, Here's the Distraction;

https://mrsterileassembly.bandcamp.com/album/never-mind-the-threat-heres-the-distraction

When survivors of the late 20th century talk about punk or music, we're talking about low-fi, DIY stuff like this, not Blink 182 or Alien Ant Farm covers of Michael Jackson. If enough people pass around hissy, dubbed tapes of this song, it could become our generation's Not Given Lightly.

#music #punk#LowFi#MrSterile

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
#Listening to a podcast of Thai jazz-funk dummer Salin and her band, doing a live-to-air on KEXP;

https://omny.fm/shows/kexp-live-performances-podcast/salin-performance-interview-only

This is great organic dance music, reminiscent of the collective who did the original Cowboy Bebop soundtrack. It's fast, fresh, fidgety, fun, upbeat, and not all the appropriate thing to be listening to this close to the witching hour. But I have a podcast to finish and post ...

#podcasts#KEXP#KEXPLive #music #world #jazz #funk#Salin

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
#Listening to Waiata of Bob Marley, a tribute album where the lyrics of Bob classics like No Woman No Cry and Redemption Song are translated into Te Reo Māori and performed by Ruia & Ranea;

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI_VhxhUxZL7COWJtWwbsGVWqdNsObsBN

#music #reggae#RuiaAndRanea#BobMarley#TeReoMāori

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
#Listening to the Dirty Pets EP by Penny Diving;

https://pennydiving.bandcamp.com/album/dirty-pets

This reminds me of fuzzpop pioneers of the nineties and early noughties, like The Breeders, Belly, and Mazzy Star. In some ways, these bands were among the US counterparts of the UK shoegaze scene. But like The Breeders, Dirty Pets has a bit of artpunk Pixies and Sonic Youth influence thrown in there too.

#music #rock #indie#PennyDiving

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
#Listening to The Halluci Nation performing and speaking on the KEXP Live podcast;

https://www.kexp.org/podcasts/live-on-kexp/2022/10/11/the-halluci-nation/

So happy I realised I can get audio of the legendary KEXP live-to-air series as a podcast. Now I don't having to go through YouTub to hear them. But, PeerTube channel please KEXP! 🙏

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#podcasts#KEXP#KEXPLive #music #indigenous#HipHop#PowWowStep#HalluciNation

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
#Listening to Sakhalin, a 2010 album by Oki Dub Ainu Band, which;

"... features Tonkori, the traditional stringed instrument of the Karafuto Ainu in a band setting with drums, bass, keyboard and heavy dub sound."

https://okidub.bandcamp.com/album/sakhalin-rock

I presume some of the songs, like Bekabeka, are in an Ainu language too. Like a blend of Japanese and Pacific triangle languages, maybe even a little like some South American languages I've heard bits of.

#music#Japan#Ainu #jazz#OkiDubAinuBand

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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago
#Listening to metal band Deadsun cover the Bob Marley classic Get Up, Stand Up;

https://deadsun-tn.bandcamp.com/track/get-up-stand-up

Can't wait to listen to some more of their tunes. This is right up there with Brass Against, and the Disturbed cover of Land of Confusion

#music #covers #metal#Deadsun#RiseUp

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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
#Listening to Norwegian ska band Wild Man Riddim, specifically their 2021 album Panatlantic;

https://wildmanriddim.bandcamp.com/album/panatlantic-2021

Mostly at the jazzy instrumental end, strangely reminiscent of kiwi dub like The Black Seeds or early Salmonella Dub.

#music #ska#Norway#WildManRiddim

Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

Speaking of jazzy instrumental ska and kiwi dub, that reminded me of Oakley Grenell's Ōtautahi Allstars, so I'm #listening now;

https://oakleygrenell.bandcamp.com/album/otautahi-allstars

Despite the release year given on BC, I believe the album was recorded and originally released about 20 years ago. I saw these tunes played live a few times, always a skanking good time : )

#music #instrumental #jazz #dub#OakleyGrenell#ŌtautahiAllstars

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
#Listening to Norwegian ska band Wild Man Riddim, specifically their 2021 album Panatlantic;

https://wildmanriddim.bandcamp.com/album/panatlantic-2021

Mostly at the jazzy instrumental end, strangely reminiscent of kiwi dub like The Black Seeds or early Salmonella Dub.

#music #ska#Norway#WildManRiddim

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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

The radicalism of the 1960s must have come from somewhere. I've read that it was an attempt by the youth movements to hold their parents generation to its own professed standards. As represented by the broadcasts on Radio Free Asia, and other US broadcasts into countries of the Eastern Bloc and the Nonaligned Movement.

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

I'm #listening to the latest mix from SSSD (kia ora e hoa!);

https://www.freefm.org.nz/Programmes/Details.aspx?PID=97468cee-0f3c-4451-952a-8d2473baa59e

He drops a sample from a rah-rah post-WW2 film uses the phrase "future citizen's" to describe children in public education. That's some aspirational language. We could use a bit of that.

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#podcasts#FreeFM#Deep#InSessioNZ #SSSD #music #electronic

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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
#Listening to Hit the Ground Beside You by Pearly*;

https://youtu.be/WuisnU3RU2U?si=lNdjWVOBrgfwqg4D

Love the tongue-in-cheek melodrama of the video. They released their first 4 track EP last year, which is fantastic;

https://pearly1.bandcamp.com/album/pearly-ep

#music #rock #indie#DunedinSound#Pearly

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@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago
#Listening to Burnin' Coal by Les McCann, the frantic instrumental jazz opener to s02e01 of Severance;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYQV0v3-Fes

I love the honky tonk piano work on this track. Will definitely listen to some more of McCann's tunes. So far I've found a live album recorded in 1966 in Seattle;

https://resonancerecordsjazz.bandcamp.com/album/les-mccann-never-a-dull-moment-live-from-coast-to-coast-1966-1967

#music #jazz#LesMcCann #piano

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago
#Listening to The Giant's Lawn, the 2023 album by Ōtautahi band Wurld Series;

https://wurldseries.bandcamp.com/album/the-giants-lawn

It's delightfully whimsical, like the Flaming Lips of Pink Robots, but more musically sanded, lacking the Lips' cultivated roughness. More The Residents than Pure Guava era Ween.

#music #pop #psychedelic#WurldSeries

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago
#Listening to a fantastic jazz-funky episode of the Netwaves music podcast;

https://archive.org/details/nws.bpm0192

This selection has an abrasive edge, and I wasn't in the right mood for it the first time I tried to listen. But tonight, it was just the ticket. The call to action at the end is brilliant.

#music #jazz #funk#JazzFunk #podcasts#Netwaves

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 4 months ago
#Listening to Lard Lap by Blorg;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kz6ZQ5RoLZA

This is officially the weirdest shit I've seen for weeks.

#music #comedy #rap#Simpsons#Blorg

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago
#Listening to War Isn't Murder by Jesse Welles;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E9l_i6HPYM

Vaguely reminds me of this classic by Blam Blam Blam;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HVogejKx_c

#music #folk #peace

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

#Listening to What's The Frequency, Kenneth?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZMUNyLmarQ

The big single off the 1994 R.E.M album Monster. I still don't really understand what this song is about, but it has a great use of delay on the fuzz guitar, and some great lyrics;

"You wore our expectations like an armored suit"

"A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth
You said that irony was the shackles of youth"

#music #rock #REM

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Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago
#Listening to the 1969 album
Tadpoles by the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band;

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCIVQjOLLGl4yfixXwAlgo0tn0F7Bheb4

There's a track that starts with a posh-sounding gentlemen trying to interview passers-by about shirts. It's not surprising that these folks shared personnel with Monty Python, in the form of Neil Innes.

#music #comedy#BonzoDogDooDahBand#MontyPython#NeilInnes

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