February 2012

1. A.R. And Machines - Cosmic Vibration - An Afternoon Concert Let's start this off with some Krautrock.  The Seth Man has the full rundown.
2. Tomas Dvorak - Clockwise Operetta This is off of the marvelous soundtrack to the quirky game Machinarium.  You can download the game and soundtrack bundle for cheap money here.
3. Berlin Express - The 4-08 To Paris A bit of synth fun from Peter Baumann and the unfortunately deceased Conrad Schnitzler.  Need one say more?
4. Le Revelateur - Statues Apparently this band has a MySpace page, but they actually log into (last signon 1/31/2012 as of writing this).  The band is Roger Tellier-Craig, who played with Godspeed You! Black Emperor, which is a glowing enough endorsement for me to check it out.  Should be for you as well.
5. Brightblack Morning Light - Everybody Daylight  I'm not sure if this is a band that has just one trick that they do really well, or if they went anywhere after this album.  Either way, if you want hazy, this album delivers in spades.  I should probably check out the second one.
6. David Lynch And Dean Hurley - The Air is on Fire: IV (History) David Lynch needs no introduction.  I'm not sure what exhibition this is the soundtrack to, but it's some pretty dark ambient.  Like Lustmord, but with more David Lynch and Dean Hurley.
7. Richard Skelton - Undertow This is off of the amazing Landings album.  I can't recommend it highly enough.
8. Andrew Oldham Orchestra - Play With Fire This is off of the orchestral Stones album that the Verve got sued for sampling.  The album itself is a brilliant slice of 60's orchestral pop: too much reverb, a slew of top-notch session musicians (I think Jimmy Page is the guitarist on this one), and all of the soul sucked out and replaced by James Bond theme pomp.
9. Ariya Afrobeat Arkestra - Big Grammar I'll check out anything with "Arkestra" in the name just in case Sun Ra is hiding in there somewhere like a Jupiterian pixie.
10. Ras Michel And The Sons Of Negus - Rastaman Chant Bill Laswell's dub mixes for Trojan Records?  I'm there.