Roots Bloody Roots!

Time to get back to the roots of this blog: post-rock & post-metal


Meniscus - War of Currents (2011)
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Kokomo - If Wolves (2011)
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Sweet Mother Logic - Sweet Mother Logic (2009)
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Lion's Paw - Demo (2011)
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More Mixes Motherfuckers!

I'm losing my fucking mind. The only positive results of this is a well organized music collection and many more mixes!

I'm sure nobody listens to these but I don't give a shit. I make them for myself and I listen to them hundreds of times. I put a lot of effort into compiling them, and little effort into posting them.

I've updated two previous mixes with 160 more minutes of fantastic music. Firstly, I've got Disc 5 of my Epic Pop Mix with a lot of 2011 tracks on it.

And even though Summer has died a quick death, I've got a Bonus Disc for my Summer Psych Mix which has alternate tracks from artists that were on the first 2 discs.

Finally, I've made another Hip Hop Mix. Part II is a laid back and jazzy affair. I've got a few more parts to my hip hop mix already made up but I'll hold off to let people digest these. Enjoy!

Epic Pop Mix Disc 5
Summer Psych Mix Bonus Disc
Soundweave Hip Hop Mix Part II

Hateful Abandon - Move

Todestrieb Records, 2011


Post-Black Metal/Dark Rock/Post-Punk. Bloody fantastic album!
LIYL: Virus, Enslaved, Joy Division, The Cure, Public Image Ltd, Jesu, Killing Joke, Ulver, Ved Buens Ende
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Hippin and a hoppin

Soundweave Hip Hop Mix Part I. The first of many parts to come.

Beef Terminal - Humidex

self-released, 2011


Toronto’s MD Matheson has been making ambient/electronic/post-rock instrumental guitar music under the name Beef Terminal since 1995. This is his first release in 6 years. Sounds like aural morphine to my ears. This will be my bedtime music for a while.

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The Wooden Birds - Two Matchsticks

Barsuk Records, 2011


Gorgeous folk-rock album to mellow out to. Reminds me of Our Endless Numbered Days era Iron and Wine when Sam was just starting to play around with a full band.
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Black Taj - Beyonder

Amish Records, 2008


This is just a really great rock album you all should hear. Especially "Cold Comfort" that track is damn near perfect. Members of Polvo.
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The Coathangers - Larceny & Old Lace

Suicide Squeeze Records, 2011


Chick punk. catcy stuff.
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Soundweave's Summer Psych

Some choice tunes for sitting in the sun getting baked and/or drunk. Shrooms would be perfect as well. Enjoy! :)

Gomer Pyle - Idiots Savants

Space Jam Records, 2008

Here is another great space-stoner-rock album I've been spinning lately. Sounds like a mix of Kyuss and Pink Floyd or more accurately like if Monkey3 had vocals. Groovy!

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Sahara Surfers - Spacetrip On A Paper Plane

Sound Zero, 2010


Female-fronted stoner-rock from Austria. this album really grew on me with each listen and now it keeps getting stuck in my head.
LIYL: Kyuss, Colour Haze, Queens of the Stone Age,

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the funkiest funk that ever funked..

Check out my expanded Funk/Soul mix! 3 more CDs of amazing tunes you won't hear anywhere else! GET FUNKY

DJ Krush & Toshinori Kondo - Ki Oku

Apollo, 1998


"Pairing DJ Krush, known throughout the beat underground for his subdued, trippy soundscapes, with Japanese avant trumpeter Toshinori Kondo may seem an odd pairing. This record, however, is instantly knowable and intuitively easy to grasp. DJ Krush is not only able to drive the direction and tempo, but he's also quite adept at creating mood--often mixing up somber, downtempo collages that glide with an underwater grace. His uptempo work is direct, solidly propelled by someone who knows how to handle bass and breaks. Thankfully, the canvasses Krush mixes up are large enough to include Kondo's color work. The trumpeter (who's worked with the likes of Herbie Hancock and John Zorn) takes full advantage of the opportunity. Kondo is a breathy, richly toned player, and his meshings add to the dreamy, psychedelic feel of the recording. He's effective whether he's drifting beside Krush's swirling dub coiled in a haze of effects or punctuating beats with pure blasts of horn fire. A hip-bop classic." --S. Duda

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SubRosa - No Help For The Mighty One

Profound Lore, 2011

One of my favorites this year.

"Subrosa comprises the deep thrum that makes up the underlying plasma of our invisible surroundings. The dark air of eerie violin, warped vocals, downtuned guitar and thunderous, sludgy bass grips its focus on the low end. The supernatural black-rock riffs are grossly stripped-down. Extreme straightforwardness is the name of the game in getting to the primitive center inside all of us that has the most power to overpower."

LIYL: Grayceon, Giant Squid, Minsk, Rose Kemp, Battle of Mice, Mouth of the Architect

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Shroud Eater - ThunderNoise

self released, 2011

"Shroud Eater return with their full length début after the very promising start they made with their EP that they released in 2009. The Thundernoise album comes in a very thick cardboard digipak with a lyric-sheet put together by the band themselves and the artwork is in the same tradition set by the EP. Shroud Eater have a unique place in the sludge-metal scene as they sound not like any other band and maybe they are not sludge at all depending on your own tastes. Thundernoise has 11 songs, 3 of those are re-recorded versions of "We are Beasts," "Vesuvius" and "Cyclone" which also appeared on their début EP. The band still have a raw take on the sludge genre, sounding like a punkish version of High On Fire at times with the vocals of guitarist Jeannie Saiz mostly consisting of aggressive yelling. Shroud Eater unleash a fairly varied approach from straight-forward noise rock to more complex passages especially in one track titled "Oubliette" which is the album's centerpiece."

Altho I'd say the centerpiece is Descent from the Summit. Read the rest of the review on Doommantia

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