Box of Dub - Various

Exactly what it says on the tin!

1. Digital Mystikz – I Wait
2. Haze and Ho feat. Paul St. Hilaire – The Light
3. Skream – Dub Island
4. Tayo and Acid Rockers Uptown – Dread Cowboy
5. Scuba – Subaqueous
6. Kode 9 – Magnetic City
7. Haze and Ho feat Paul St. Hilaire – Rise Up
8. Burial – Unite
9. Digital Mystikz – Guilty
10. King Midas Sound – Surround Me
11. Skream – Irie
12. Scuba - Respirator

2007

Strange Hours + Jezebel (Singles) - Recoil

Alan Wilder of Depeche Mode recorded some pretty amazing stuff when he worked alone. He was responsible for the band's rich, dark organic sound at the time he was with them. His solo act, Recoil sees him with his feet set firm in his own sub-genre of trip-hop, spoken word, cinematic glorious gush.
Here is a couple of singles from his 2000 album Liquid with remixes and B-sides.


Jezebel

1. Jezebel [edit]
2. Jezebel [The Slick Sixty v RJ remix]
3. Electro blues for bukka white [2000 mix]
4. Black box [complete]
   

Strange Hours

1. Strange Hours [Edit]
   
2. Jezebel [Filthy Dog Mix]
3. New York Nights
4. Don't Look Back
   

Metal Fingers in My Body - Add N To (X)

Eating Adventures Away From New Zealand

A new tasty compilation from Rob. Hip-hop gets a splashing from hard bits of DnB and a slight beating from some scorching dubstep. Including The Roots and Black Sun Empire.
Get it down your trousers!

Get fat

Tracklist:

1. Wu-Tang - Harbor Masters
   
2. Finale - Pay Attention
   
3. The Roots - Don't Say Nuthin'
   
4. Street Corners [Scuba Scythe Remix) [feat. Bronze Nazareth Solomon Childs & Byata]
5. King Midas Sound - Meltdown
   
6. Pinch - Brighter Day
   
7. Hatcha vs Kromestar - Movin
   
8. Skream - Rutten
   
9. Black Sun Empire - Hideous
   
10. Vex'd - Pop Pop V.I.P.
    
11. Phace - Reservoir
    
12. Black Sun Empire - Dance 4 Life (remix)
    

The Crying Light - Antony & the Johnsons

I was only recently introduced to Antony & the Johnsons, and what first gripped me was their cover of Knockin' On Heavens Door from the I'm Not There soundtrack.
The Crying Light is their 3rd studio album to date, released earlier this year. A truly mesmerising album. I get the feeling I'm listening to something completely fresh here.
Antony's unique falsetto vocals and haunting melodies set the scene for an iridescent sojourn into nature and back.




Underneath the ground

Barb4ry - Ez3kiel

Founded in 1994, EZ3kiel is a magnet-Dub band originating from Tours, France. Barb4ry is the latest offering from the group and finds them lurking in dark dubby corners surrounded by broken beats and the occasional lingering spoken word. Some credible production going on here.

Barbaric

The Greatest - Cat Power

This is the first of Cat Power that I've heard. I have to say it hits a certain soft spot. The first I heard of Chan Marshall's voice was on Dirty Three's Cinder (below). This will get many more listens.

Samurai Pizza

Land - Patti Smith

Roll 1
Roll 2

Hymn to the Immortal Wind - Mono

Mono are a Japanese instrumental rock band formed in 1999 in Tokyo, Kantō, Honshū. The band consists of Takaakira Goto (electric guitar), Yoda (electric guitar), Tamaki Kunishi (bass guitar, guitar, piano, glockenspiel), and Yasunori Takada (drum kit, glockenspiel, synthesiser).

Mono have released five studio albums in their ten years of activity. They spent their early years, from 1999 to 2003, touring Asia, Europe, and America relentlessly, and released two studio albums, Under the Pipal Tree (2001) and One Step More and You Die (2002) on on Tzadik and Music Mine Inc. respectively. From 2004 to 2007, Mono signed to Temporary Residence Limited, released two more studio albums, Walking Cloud and Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered and the Sun Shined (2004) and You Are There (2006), and toured worldwide in their support. In 2008, the band took a break, and later returned the following year with a new studio album, Hymn to the Immortal Wind (2009).

The band's style of instrumental rock music is influenced by the genres of experimental rock and shoegazing, as well as by both the classical and contemporary classical periods of classical music, and also by noise and minimalism. Mono's sound is characterised by the lead and rhythm guitars of Goto and Yoda respectively, both of whom make use of reverb, distortion and delay. The band's live performances are noted for their intensity, both in their playing and in their dynamics.

-from Wikipedia

Dynamics

Silent Shout - The Knife

Fisksoppan

Cinder - Dirty Three

Bouncy bouncy

Sci-Fi Lo-Fi Vol. 3 - Shoegazing Compilation by Rob Da Bank

A beautiful compilation oozing with the best of yesterday's shoegaze.

1985 - 2009.

Tracklisting:

1. Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey

2. Ultra Vivid Scene - Mercy Seat - 1988

3. Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene - 1988

4. Pale Saints - Sight of You - 1990

5. Ride - Nowhere - 1990

6. Spiritualised - If I Were With Her Now 1992

7. Chapterhouse - Pearl 1993

8. Slowdive - When The Sun Hits (Album Version) (Clean Version) 1994

9. Lush - Sweetness & Light - 2000

10. Boards of Canada - Zoetrope - 2000

11. Ulrich Schnauss - On My Own - 2004

12. M83 - Teen Angst - 2004

13. Cocteau Twins - Cherry Coloured Funk (Seefeel Mix) - 2005

14. Maps - You Don't Know Her Name - 2007

15. Dean & Britta - White Horses - 2007

"My teenage years were spent wholeheartedly gazing at my shoes feeling sorry for my pubescent self and immersing my ears in the murky, ethereal, beautifully soupy sound of the bands assembled here. Listening back to these bands and tracks makes me feel recklessly alive in troubled times! It's an honour to be part of this series following the huge critical acclaim awarded to Andrew Weatherall. And for me, this was the obvious musical period that inspired me the most in my formative years" says Rob.

Filch

Kicks Joy Darkness - Kerouac

Had this album for a while and haven't given it a listen in a while either. Some great contributions by some great artists, as well as some recordings of Kerouac himself.

Featuring: Morphine, Lydia Lunch, Jeff Buckley, John Cale, Allen Ginsberg, Michael Stipe...

Mad Poet Bastard

& Yet & Yet - Do Make Say Think

Probably my favourite album from possibly my favourite band from the Canadian Constellation label.
Wouldn't like to call it post-rock, but that's what they label bands like this these days.
Instrumental tunes featuring regular instruments played with innovation. The occasional trumpet and soundscape going on. Sounds a little like Tortoise or something.

Would love to see them live.

Tudellu

Good Morning Susie Soho - Esbjörn Svensson Trio

If you like jazz, you'll like this. If not, you still might like it.

Swedish contemporary jazz led by the late Esbjörn Svensson.
Not sure if this is the best example of an album to begin with, but you'll still get a taste.

Square Buns

The Yardbirds - Ultimate!

Don't really need to say much for the Yardbirds. A good 2 disc compilation featuring Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Nail!

If I was going to be in a blues band, this is how I'd want it to sound; raw, unpretentious, and downright fucking noisy. (Just how I like my fish).

Cheese 1
Onion 2

American Beauty - Grateful Dead

Don't really know the Dead that well, this is the first I've heard of them. A few listens and this album has grown on me though.
A good West-coast, blues-folky spontaneous feel to it.

Give it a listen.

Ungrateful Bed

28 Stone Teenager

Tickling

A nice compilation made by Rob some years ago.