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Roll Of Honour

Category: Ambient

Music Has The Right Two Children
Ambient, Boards of Canada, Culture, Electronic, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Music Has The Right Two Children

In which an awful lot happens, very slowly. I dig it. Continue reading Music Has The Right Two Children

Drive On Boogie Boy Get Across The Sky
Ambient, Instrumental, Music, Tim Blake

Drive On Boogie Boy Get Across The Sky

Dig that funky Spectra Physics 164 Argon Laser, space boy. Continue reading Drive On Boogie Boy Get Across The Sky

Let It USB
Ambient, Culture, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Pacific 231, Record collecting, Vinyl

Let It USB

Smartass ‘Let It Be’ title pun rolls on to third post. Great ambient LP too. Continue reading Let It USB

Peel Along The Dotty Lines
Ambient, Culture, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Orb, Record collecting, Vinyl

Peel Along The Dotty Lines

A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules from the Centre of the Ultraworld (Loving You). You have to love … Continue reading Peel Along The Dotty Lines

Evil Bro 39
Ambient, Culture, Music, Orb, Record collecting, Self-indulgent nonsense, Vinyl

Evil Bro 39

Here’s one that I own almost purely for the cover art alone and you can see why, surely? I was … Continue reading Evil Bro 39

39:57
Ambient, Culture, Music, Orb, Record collecting, Vinyl

39:57

I blame the X-Files for dragging me back.  I’d had a tough week, unusually for me, I’d barely listened to … Continue reading 39:57

Alluvial Ambient
Ambient, Biosphere, Culture, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Alluvial Ambient

At times like this, with events like we had last week compounded by the onset of Winter and various minor … Continue reading Alluvial Ambient

Lux Inferior
Ambient, Brian Eno, Culture, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Lux Inferior

I am imprisoned in a high-walled stone concourse, or palazzo of some kind.  The walls and floors seem to be made of … Continue reading Lux Inferior

My Teacher Taught Me A Song, Would You Like To Hear It?
Ambient, Culture, Dance, Dave Angel, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

My Teacher Taught Me A Song, Would You Like To Hear It?

Hi my name is HAL 9000. I was invented in 1992.  My teacher taught me a song, would you like … Continue reading My Teacher Taught Me A Song, Would You Like To Hear It?

Ambient Frugging
Ambient, Brian Eno, Culture, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Ambient Frugging

I know I’m obsessive to a point just south of OCD with my records, everything is alphabetized to the nth … Continue reading Ambient Frugging

Satan’s Commute
Ambient, Culture, Music, Record collecting, Scorn

Satan’s Commute

I’m quite a fan of ambient music and I do own quite a bit of it by a plethora of … Continue reading Satan’s Commute

Improperly Vertiginous Mutation
Ambient, Dance, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Improperly Vertiginous Mutation

First we have a bit of tootling post-coital sax, then a beat starts, umm, down below, pulsing but totally insistent … Continue reading Improperly Vertiginous Mutation

14 Minutes, 7 Seconds
Ambient, Music, Orb, Pink Floyd, Record collecting, Rick Wright, Vinyl

14 Minutes, 7 Seconds

Here’s a funny one, I played it a few times when I got it, it didn’t make any real impression … Continue reading 14 Minutes, 7 Seconds

Divine Cowboy
Ambient, Boards of Canada, Music, Vinyl

Divine Cowboy

  Right time, right place for once.  Having missed out on their earlier vinyl releases*, by not being remotely hip … Continue reading Divine Cowboy

Jumpin’ & Pumpin’
Ambient, Andrew Weatherall, Dance, Future Sound Of London, Music, Record collecting

Jumpin’ & Pumpin’

Here’s a great track, something I’ve been playing a lot over the last few days The Future Sound of London … Continue reading Jumpin’ & Pumpin’

1537 vs. 2013
2013, Atoms For Peace, Black Spiders, Clutch, Endless Boogie, Greg Haines, Humour, Live Review, Mugstar, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Public Service Broadcasting, Record collecting, Scorpions

1537 vs. 2013

Well, welcome back to the Sundust Lounge in Vegas folks for the second annual 1537, umm, annual awards.  As you … Continue reading 1537 vs. 2013

Frozen Piano
Ambient, Brian Eno, Vinyl

Frozen Piano

Woke up this morning … well you can fit your own blues-based joke in there, maybe your woman done left … Continue reading Frozen Piano

Righteous, Righteous War
Dub, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Poet And The Roots, Record collecting, Reggae

Righteous, Righteous War

Every so often magazines here will hold surveys of the 100 best British LPs and all the usual suspects are … Continue reading Righteous, Righteous War

Where We Were
Ambient, Dub, Greg Haines

Where We Were

Sorry just a quickie, I know 1537 is a retro gig but just like I have done once or twice … Continue reading Where We Were

U.F.Oric
Ambient, Dance, Dub, Orb, Record collecting

U.F.Oric

As I voyage through the 1537 I’m beginning to come to the conclusion that I am really obsessed with space.  … Continue reading U.F.Oric

Enoambient1LP
Ambient, Brian Eno, Music, Record collecting, Vinyl

Enoambient1LP

Much as it pains me to admit it, there are times when one simply has to lay down the Motörhead, shelve the … Continue reading Enoambient1LP

Assassment
Ambient, Music, Obsessive behaviour, Orb, Record collecting, Vinyl

Assassment

Assassin by The Orb, a 12″ but nearly album length – the Orb at their peak did a few of … Continue reading Assassment

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