Worst Day of the Year 2012

1. The One Ensemble Of Daniel Padden - Baltic Antiquarian  This track is off of the amazing Live at VPRO album released by Brainwashed.  The band name has since mutated into the more inclusive The One Ensemble.  Daniel Padden can also be heard playing guitar for Volcano the Bear.
2. Six Organs Of Admittance - Attar I'm not the biggest fan of "American Primitive" guitar playing, but (along with such players as Glenn Jones and the late Jack Rose), Ben Chasny is really phenomenal. I was able to see an acoustic version of Six Organs a couple of years back, and they were quite good.
3. Moondog - Death, When You Come To Me I really don't know much about Moondog aside from what's mentioned in in the Wikipedia article.  I picked up this CD in Paris, but that doesn't really mean much.
4. Thighpaulsandra - Hovercar Von Düsseldorf This track is off of the Michel Publicity Window EP  which was the followup to the absolutely amazing I, Thighpaulsandra album.  His website hasn't been updated since 2008, and aside from an industrial festival appearance, there doesn't seem to have been much from him recently.  Hopefully that will be rectified soon.
5. Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (Rainbow Theatre, London 9/16/1970) I am not a big Pink Floyd fan.  I think that their output post-Syd and pre-Dark Side was interesting, but ultimately second rate psyche rock. What I do like about this recording is the level of incompetence though the track.  The bass has a post-punk/no-wave clang (complete with the late tremolo entry), the tempo is sliding all over the place, and Gilmour (who can really rip both PF solos: the half-time one and the slightly-faster-than-half-time one) has apparently forgotten how to play.  Brilliant.
6. Far East Family Band - The God Of Wind Pretty much everything you could possibly need to know about the Far East Family Band can be found in Julian Cope's Japrocksampler.  I got this track from a web mix called Video Wedding at the Freex.
7. Field Rotation - Acoustic Tales 2  Acoustic Tales is an enjoyable album of electro-acoustic ambient.  Suggested for fans of Richard Skelton's wonderful Landings.
8. MAL - The Walk of the Watchman MAL seems to be cut from the same cloth as Ash Ra Tempel's Manuel Göttsching.  Most of the information I have on them is from this page. Actually, it's where I got this track from as well.
9. Jacaszek - As Each Tucked String Tells Another great electro-acoustic album.  Unfortunately his website hasn't been updated since 2009 and what little information I can find is on a MySpace page, which is like trying to read with a 9 year old throwing things at your head. 
10. The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble - Rivers Of Congo I'm really glad that someone took a hint form Bohren Und Der Club Of Gore and ran with the doom-jazz/Twin Peaks thing.  They also record as the Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation, which is also worth a listen.  As a side note, Jason Köhnen from the band also performs as Bong-Ra and does a great homage to Bolt Thrower bassist Jo Bench.
11. Sand - May Rain Once upon a time this was the holy grail of Krautrock collectors, though it's re-release a while back/the availability of everything on the internet saw an end to that.  Great album. 

January 2011

1. Kevin Eldon - Je Ne Parle Pas Anglais From the depths of the Resonance FM archives comes this massive dose of French from comedian Kevin Eldon, who was in the greatest comedy series of all time (and certainly the one with the best soundtrack).
2. Oval - Alpaca A ringtone from the Oval album "O" which should still be floating out on the internet somewhere.  If not, it's available on disc two of the album.
3. Matt Elliott - The Sinking Ship Song This track is from the criminally underrated The Mess We Made album by Third Eye Foundation's Matt Elliott.  He also performed some of the music from the aforementioned Jam.
4. Tamponi - Profondita This piece of library music comes from the depths of the Lunar Atrium blog.  That's all the info I have on it.
5. The KLF - Trancentral Lost My Mind From the depths of the long out-of-print KLF discography, this tune is off of Chill Out.  Oh, and just in case you don't have enough Extreme Noise Terror in your day, you can get some here.
6. Peter Howell and Paddy Kingsland - Marshmen This is off of the Meglos/Full Circle Doctor Who soundtrack. Great sinister noodling synths.  Much better than the soundtrack for the current series.
7. Dave Vorhaus - The Rhesus Rhythm Band A great Radiophonic Workshop-related musician.  He is probably best known for being in White Noise with Brian Hodgson and Delia Derbyshire, but is a wonderfully quirky composer in his own right.
8. Harry Forbes - Microchips 1 Another piece of library music without much info.  If this kind of thing appeals to you, check out Johnny Trunk's OST podcast.
9. Pye Corner Audio - Electronic Rhythm Number Seven The Head Technician over at Pye Corner Audio produces some wonderfully dark and dirty radiophonic synth work.  Both volumes of the great Black Mill Tapes can be found here.
10. Keith Seatman - A Dirty Thought I only have nice things to say about Keith Seatman, as he might be listening.  Go out and buy Consistently Mediocre and Daydreams.  That is all.
11. Killing Joke - Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell Apparently I blinked and completely missed this album when it came out.  There's a great video for this track full of face-painted Jaz Coleman insanity and fire.  Lots of fire.  Do yourself a favor and catch them if they're touring in your area, as they're an amazing live band.
12. Mount Vernon Arts Lab - The Submariner's Song When an artist has connections to Ghost Box and Coil, they must be doing something right.
13. J.D. Doche - Aire De Fanchon La Vielleuse Hurdy gurdy, sir?  Why yes, don't mind if I do.
14. Cyclobe - How Acla Disappeared From Earth I've been a casual Cyclobe fan for a while, but this album really resonated with me.  Again, the Coil connection is nothing but a good thing.  Apparently Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown both have books out.
15. Fondation - Climat Nocturne I have very little information about this band aside from the Mutant Sounds description, so I won't repeat it here.
16. Manorexia - Ten Ton Shadow I really like the direction that JG Thirlwell has pulled his musical career as of late (by "as of late" I mean the last decade).  If you have been stuffing newspaper in your ears for the past 30 years, you should really dig into his catalogue.