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Extra Golden - Hera Ma Nono (2007)
What Are You Listening To? November 2025
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Khruangbin - The Universe Smiles Upon You ii (2025)
1970s elevator music.
1970s elevator music.
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Arizona Amp & Alternator ~ The Open Road (2017, Compilation)
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Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer (2025)
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Me 2Oneohtrix Point Never - Tranquilizer (2025)
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Christie - Yellow River (1970)
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
The title song got a lot of airplay at the same time CCR had "Green River". I found the jangly sound irresistible but couldn't find the original single. Epic reissued the song in its "Memory Lane" 45 rpm oldies series which almost always had two hits by the same artist. However, I was surprised to see that the flip side was by Mashmakan, not exactly a household name. Talk about a one hit wonder. All these years later, I gambled on the LP and found it to be pleasant if forgettable countryish rock.
Vinyl Spin of the Day.
The title song got a lot of airplay at the same time CCR had "Green River". I found the jangly sound irresistible but couldn't find the original single. Epic reissued the song in its "Memory Lane" 45 rpm oldies series which almost always had two hits by the same artist. However, I was surprised to see that the flip side was by Mashmakan, not exactly a household name. Talk about a one hit wonder. All these years later, I gambled on the LP and found it to be pleasant if forgettable countryish rock.
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Mylene Farmer - Cendres de Lune (1986)
This album arrived as a bonus in a MusicBoomerang trade. I had no idea what Mylene was all about before popping it into the player. It turned out to be an engrossing batch of French techno pop. The Album Of The Year blog rated it 84 with this remarkable review by "Don JUAN":
"it will always be on my personal french music recommendation list. it is peculiar, gloomy, enigmatic, poetically rebellious, and soulful.
it’s like daydreaming about stepping on grey clouds, worrying if you will fall down from the sky, while in reality you are lying on sheets, looking at the sunlight that is transparent through curtain. you reach out your fingers, try to feel its warmth. i played it on over and over and over again, eventually getting the real awakening desire to describe this album as Anti-Adult.
it’s very difficult for me to describe how i feel about this album without mentioning any metaphor, for the poor english vocabulary level i have. but i guarantee to you, it totally worths the rank i just gave to it. it has a impish beat, using all kinds of instruments and sounds to let the crystal clear sense burst in. drift with well written rhythm. of course it was under the genre of French pop and sythpop. all very clear, it is just pop, and it is amazing.
for my own opinion, i think among all the 80s french pop albums i’ve listened to, it is the album i liked the most so far. (of course, in the 70s there were Amour Anarchie by Léo Ferré, and Téléphone.)
the production was very clever— i really didn’t thought that they would put in so much effort in putting samplings and audios from other places, and they fitted in unbelievably well. i like the way the keyboards, synthesizers and bass are blurring into a whole, it is just incredibly comforting."
on the Sam-O-Meter. I couldn't have expressed it any better than Don JUAN.
This album arrived as a bonus in a MusicBoomerang trade. I had no idea what Mylene was all about before popping it into the player. It turned out to be an engrossing batch of French techno pop. The Album Of The Year blog rated it 84 with this remarkable review by "Don JUAN":
"it will always be on my personal french music recommendation list. it is peculiar, gloomy, enigmatic, poetically rebellious, and soulful.
it’s like daydreaming about stepping on grey clouds, worrying if you will fall down from the sky, while in reality you are lying on sheets, looking at the sunlight that is transparent through curtain. you reach out your fingers, try to feel its warmth. i played it on over and over and over again, eventually getting the real awakening desire to describe this album as Anti-Adult.
it’s very difficult for me to describe how i feel about this album without mentioning any metaphor, for the poor english vocabulary level i have. but i guarantee to you, it totally worths the rank i just gave to it. it has a impish beat, using all kinds of instruments and sounds to let the crystal clear sense burst in. drift with well written rhythm. of course it was under the genre of French pop and sythpop. all very clear, it is just pop, and it is amazing.
for my own opinion, i think among all the 80s french pop albums i’ve listened to, it is the album i liked the most so far. (of course, in the 70s there were Amour Anarchie by Léo Ferré, and Téléphone.)
the production was very clever— i really didn’t thought that they would put in so much effort in putting samplings and audios from other places, and they fitted in unbelievably well. i like the way the keyboards, synthesizers and bass are blurring into a whole, it is just incredibly comforting."
on the Sam-O-Meter. I couldn't have expressed it any better than Don JUAN.
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Unsomnambulist
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Krokodil - An Invisible World Revealed (1971)
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Trees Speak - s/t (2017)
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Trees Speak - Shadow Forms (2020)
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