What are you listening to right now?

Michael Sandstrom · Post by **Michael Sandstrom** » Mon May 01, 2006 12:04 am

The Knobs - Lonely At The Bottom - I heard a cut on Roots Rock Radio, took a chance and bought a great CD.

Shobai · Post by **Shobai** » Mon May 01, 2006 2:11 am

Deep Purple - Space Truckin'

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Mon May 01, 2006 5:54 am

Neil Young - Living With War

jwoolen01 · Post by **jwoolen01** » Mon May 01, 2006 4:32 pm

Gavy NJ - The Very First - Track 02

nici · Post by **nici** » Tue May 02, 2006 6:42 am

Damn it! I typed a nice message about Katie Melua here yesterday, but it seems i was too busy listening to her and consuming my vodka that i forgot to post it...

I do however remember wich song i was listening to..

Katie Melua - Blame it on The Moon

This girl can sing

And she is quite hot too...

For anyone interested in vinyls, shes just released her second album "Peice by Piece" on vinyl. A 5000pcs limited run, wich is quite small compared to the 3.000.000+ sales of the cd..

Katie Melua - My Aphrodisiac Is You

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Wed May 03, 2006 5:46 am

Donald Byrd - Live at the Half Note, v. 1 & 2

nici · Post by **nici** » Wed May 03, 2006 11:30 am

A noisy Swiftech MCP350(Laing DDC) pump at 12V and 4500rpm, the sucker doesnt start at 5v, plus it makes an awful racket even inside a damped aluminium box made of 2-3mm stuff, and has enough power to make the Reserator sound like a damn fountain

As for music, Katie Melua haunts my mind! I cant even listen to bloody Children Of Bodom, on vinyl record, without she popping into my mind

Overdose of female singers and vocalists me thinks..

I think its Belfast(Penguins and Cats)(and yes i actually do what the animals stand for

) playing in my head at the moment, accompanied by the fountain Res

Im just curious, are there others here who tye when they are very tired and know they will think it was stupid typing when tomorrow comes. Kind of like being drunk when sober.

Shobai · Post by **Shobai** » Wed May 03, 2006 7:20 pm

i'm listening to the AirCon system at work...man, it's noisy! the intake is only 4m or so from my desk, so...but, when it shuts off, i hear the machine i'm working at, so i can handle the aircon.

JazzJackRabbit · Post by **JazzJackRabbit** » Wed May 03, 2006 8:00 pm

Metallica, Hero of the day

classic....

Marvin · Post by **Marvin** » Wed May 03, 2006 9:08 pm

Jimi Hendrix - Hey Joe

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Thu May 04, 2006 5:13 am

Grobschnitt - Live in Dortmund, 12-78

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Fri May 05, 2006 5:51 am

David Gilmour - Live in Oakland CA, 4-17-06

Tephras · Post by **Tephras** » Fri May 05, 2006 7:55 am

Marduk - Dracole Wayda

Sizzle · Post by **Sizzle** » Fri May 05, 2006 9:28 am

Tool - 10,000 Days CD.

sun.moon · Post by **sun.moon** » Fri May 05, 2006 12:50 pm

Take me home, Groove Armada

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Sat May 06, 2006 5:40 am

Grace Jones - The Collection

qviri · Post by **qviri** » Sat May 06, 2006 6:03 am

Architecture In Helsinki - [Fingers Crossed #02] Souvenirs [2:25]

smilingcrow · Post by **smilingcrow** » Sat May 06, 2006 9:37 am

Ernest Ranglin â€“ Memories of Barber Mack (Jazz/Reggae)

I often set iTunes to shuffle, choose a genre and let it surprise me; and no, I donâ€™t have a genre for jazz/reggae, thatâ€™s just a description.

Talking of surprises, I installed an E-MU 0404 soundcard yesterday for music production work and am amazed at how much better it sounds than the on-board sound in my A8V Deluxe when playing MP3s. I assumed that since I was already using the optical S/PDIF with the on-board sound-card to connect to my A/V Receiver that I wouldnâ€™t get a noticeable improvement with the E-MU. Boy was I wrong.
This could be a good card for a HTPC as it has optical and coaxial S/PDIF inputs and outputs and sounds excellent, although Iâ€™m not sure if it supports DD 5.1 & DTS pass-through? It costs Â£60 in the UK, has MIDI I/O, stereo analogue I/O, but no microphone input, the converters are 24/192 for recording/playback. It has 2 high quality multi-effects processors on a DSP chip for music work, a comprehensive mixing utility and it comes bundled with lite versions of a number of music software packages. I went for the version bundled with Proteus X, which is a comprehensive sample based synthesizer and comes with a 2GB library including a 700 MB piano library. Itâ€™s really blown me away.

smilingcrow · Post by **smilingcrow** » Sat May 06, 2006 10:05 am

Ralf Hutter wrote:Ry Cooder & V.M. Bhatt - A Meeting by the River

Aagh, so sublime. I can resonate with where your coming from with your selections Ralf, Iâ€™ve just scrolled back through 20+ pages just to see what youâ€™d been listening to

Ralf Hutter wrote:Jan Garbarek/Bobo Stenson Quartet - Witchi-Tai-To

Hey Ralf, have you heard the Oregon version of this Jim Pepper tune on their album Out of the Woods? It features Colin Walcott on sitar.

Tephras · Post by **Tephras** » Sat May 06, 2006 3:54 pm

Endsum - Winter Realm

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Sun May 07, 2006 5:59 am

smilingcrow wrote:
Ralf Hutter wrote:Jan Garbarek/Bobo Stenson Quartet - Witchi-Tai-To
Hey Ralf, have you heard the Oregon version of this Jim Pepper tune on their album Out of the Woods? It features Colin Walcott on sitar.

Ah yes, this is probably my favorite Oregon recording. Listening to the early Oregon stuff is one of the things that steered me towards ECM artists/recordings back in the late '70's.

And on the decks right now: Billie Holiday - Songs for Distingue Lovers

smilingcrow · Post by **smilingcrow** » Sun May 07, 2006 11:34 am

Ralf Hutter wrote:Ah yes, this is probably my favorite Oregon recording. Listening to the early Oregon stuff is one of the things that steered me towards ECM artists/recordings back in the late '70's.

I came across Out of the Woods in a sale rack and had never heard of the band. The beautiful cover grabbed my attention and after seeing the unusual instrumentation I had to buy it; itâ€™s still a favourite. I was fortunate enough to see the band play live not long after and they performed much of the album that night, to my delight.

ECM releases on vinyl can become a bit of a fetish with their beautiful covers; the musicâ€™s pretty good to.

One of the few things I miss in the transition to CD is those ECM covers, as they donâ€™t have much of an impact at the smaller size.

David Hykes â€“ Baraka (OST)

mathias · Post by **mathias** » Sun May 07, 2006 12:06 pm

qviri wrote:What are you folks using to play music on Linux? Currently I have foobar2000 running in WINE, but the sound quality going through DirectSound 2 is so bad. I want my kernel streaming

Amarok here(much better than winamp, no idea how it compares overall though), it's a slighly old version(1.2.4, newest that works with kde 3.2 AFAIK) but I doubt you haven't tried it.

Currently listening to Sedes - nie jest dobrze.

Post by **Ralf Hutter** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:54 am

Makyo - Shringara

qviri · Post by **qviri** » Mon May 08, 2006 6:02 am

mathias wrote:
qviri wrote:What are you folks using to play music on Linux? Currently I have foobar2000 running in WINE, but the sound quality going through DirectSound 2 is so bad. I want my kernel streaming
Amarok here(much better than winamp, no idea how it compares overall though), it's a slighly old version(1.2.4, newest that works with kde 3.2 AFAIK) but I doubt you haven't tried it.

amaroK is sharing music playing duties right now with mplayer, but it's certainly not it compared to foobar. There is apparently a program called LAMIP which can feature a foobar-like interface, but I'm having problems compiling it and I don't have time to dig in deeper right now.

Currently listening to Sedes - nie jest dobrze.

Eh, that language sounds familiar...

Mono - Error #9.

smilingcrow · Post by **smilingcrow** » Mon May 08, 2006 6:21 am

Nigel Shaw - The River

jwoolen01 · Post by **jwoolen01** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:26 pm

Maaya Sakamoto - The Garden of Everything (featuring Steve Conte)

Tephras · Post by **Tephras** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:35 pm

Goddess of Desire - Rites Of War

mathias · Post by **mathias** » Mon May 08, 2006 5:50 pm

qviri wrote:amaroK is sharing music playing duties right now with mplayer, but it's certainly not it compared to foobar.

I never thought of mplayer as much of a music playing program. Does it by chance have an upsampling plugin?

qviri wrote:
Currently listening to Sedes - nie jest dobrze.
Eh, that language sounds familiar...

And you don't find anything odd about a band called Shitter?

That song's a bit growled, though nowhere near the point that it would be mistaken for norwegian, it's not even really hard to understand(except of course if you don't know the language).

Currently listening to Lowest of the low - So long bernie. Does that sound familiar by any chance? I'm pretty sure they're from Ontario.

JazzJackRabbit · Post by **JazzJackRabbit** » Mon May 08, 2006 8:38 pm

ATM I'm not listening to anything. I'm in the middle of massive hardware move shuffling all of the hard drives between different systems so at the moment my main music machine is down. Hopefully when I'm done with it it's going to be much quiter which would make for a much better listening experience.