White Guys Jumping (sampler)

I've named this My Father Lives in a Ghetto Apartment: the Best of White Guys Jumping and details some pretty solid songs from Cameron Clarke's folk-pop project, White Guys Jumping. 18 songs. Ranging from his folk-pop material to some of his more creative stuff, but it's mostly the folk-pop stuff that you guys may dig.

1. My Father Lives in a Ghetto Apartment
2. Doomed to Fail
3. Japan
4. Zombilina
5. Antiques
6. Fat Chick Magnet
7. The Hunter (How I Became A Cannibal)
8. I Don't Really Like Rain
9. The Lettuce Tree
10. Maybe I'll Go Outside
11. I Think I Would Enjoy Beating The Shit Out Of Thom Yorke
12. Sally Lunn
13. Super Indie Superfolk!
14. When It Began
15. I Am The Indie King
16. I Win, I Win
17. ??? / Used To Be A White Boy
18. New Cape Cod

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RIO/Zeuhl mix.

A mix of some of my favourite RIO and Zeuhl bands ranging from some of the less popular groups to deep-cuts from some of the more known bands.

1. Dundrets fröjder - Samla Mammas Manna

2. L'epice - Dün

3. Recurrencias - Akinetón Retard

4. Overdrive Locomotive - Happy Family

5. Falling Away - Henry Cow

6. Five Suns pt. IV - Guapo

7. Le Poison Qui Rend Fou, Part 1: Ram Ram Va Faire "Pif Paf" - Present

8. Octopus Command - Bondage Fruit

9. Gassttrumm - Koenjihyakkei

10. Cuic steppe - Asak Maboul

11. Sehnnteht Dros Wurdah Soms - Magma

12. Memories Of Zworrisdeh - Ruins

13. Etron Fou Leloublan - Nicole

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Dogmatics

A Boston-based alternative band, the Dogmatics never saw any significant or even minor success. They only released 2 albums on Homestead, and one self-released single.

The band was formed by brotehrs Peter (vocals) and Paul (bass) O'Halloran, and lifelong friend Jerry Lehane (guitar), as well as 2 different drummers in their five year career, Tommy Long the most notable as he played on all of the bands released material.

While the band had some influence over the Boston alternative scene, their career was cut short when Paul died in a motorcycle accident. The band broke-up, and became all but forgotten over the years.

They could be characterized by their strong wit, introspective lyrics, and noted rockabilly and hardcore punk influences. Here's a track listing for the mix:

1. Sister Serena
2. Mtv O.D.
3. King Size Cigarette
4. Gimme the Shakes
5. Pussy Whipped
6. Teenage Lament
7. Saturday Night Again
8. Drinking By the Pool
9. Thayer St.
10. Tell Me
11. Rockabilly Ramble
12. Sex Bomb

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Post-Punk Mix

Becoming the first major spin-off from punk, post-punk was more experimental in nature than it's predecessor. For a few years, the terms new wave and post-punk were semi-interchangeable, but both developed into their own unique style, though there was some overlap. The first bands that could be described as definitively post-punk in sound were bands like Television, Magazine, and The Pop Group. Other bands that were once part of the movement headed for the more commercial friendly new wave sound, like Talking Heads and Devo. All of these bands laid the groundwork for alternative rock, and many of them were later considered to be the first alt. groups.

Here's a track listing:
1. Gimme the Shakes by Dogmatics
2. Transmission by Joy Division
3. Definitive Gaze by Magazine
4. Blow Daddy-O by Pere Ubu
5. Swamp Thing by The Chameleons
6. Elizabeth Montgomery's Face by The Embarrassment
7. Loveless Love by The Feelies
8. She Is Beyond Good and Evil by The Pop Group
9. Old Pervert by The Soft Boys
10. Descent Into Hell by Volcano Suns

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Gorguts compliation.

"Gorguts brought the initial phases of death metal toward a greater realization of melodic structuring before it was conventional to do so renovate the genre again with the innovation of a new form of chaotic yet lucid composition.

Gorguts is avant-garde/technical metal band from Quebec, a city that brought us other death metal ledgends Cryptopsy and progressive thrashers Voivod. Although Gorguts started out as old school death metal act they would later, tired of the cliche and cookie cutter death metal acts at the time evolve into a highly technical, highly avant-garde and dissonant technincal metal with a completly unique style that fused the death/jazz fusion of Atheist and Cynic with Suffocation and Cryptopsy with free jazz and composers like Penderecki.

In 1998 Gorguts released their magnum opus, Obscura. A metal album like no other. Labeled as the Trout Mask Relipca of death metal due to its "High speed counterpoint baffling chord structures buttressed by recursion, tonal centering through droning cyclic melted sound emergence, ragged fugues of dissonant melodies converging toward oblivion, tempos shifting through the elements of one another into each other, cyclic two-hit metal percussive structures and free-form progressive harmonic jamming are packed into these songs as overhead to the essence of each, which no matter how aesthetically different it appears at first listen reveals itself as fundamental Gorguts when the emergent melody encoded within begins to find form in the various aspects of its decomposition showcased by differentiation structures creating a vast tonal motion in their evolutionary journey from the point of chaos to clarity. The same voice that crafted the strength within the sturdy structures of death metal on two previous albums speaks through the chaos on this release with a newfound power in its ability to fuse what to most will seem like a salad of riffs juxtaposed for their difference rather than similarity."

In 2001 Gorguts released From Widsom To Hate. Still avant-garde but more "straight-forward" than Obscura it earned Gorguts more fans with your average death-metaller but was undoubtedly a step down from Obscura. This compilation contains some of my favourite Gorguts tracks. I recommend the Obscura tracks and "Inverted"listen if you dare, at first you will undoubtedly be left thinking "what the hell!?" but if you stick with it you'll reap the benefits .

1. Inverted (From Wisdom To Hate)
   
2. Condemned (Considered Dead)
3. Stiff & Cold (Considered Dead)
4. Behave Through Mythos (From Wisdom To Hate)
5. Disincarnated (Considered Dead)
6. Dormant Misery (The Erosion Of Sanity)
7. Testimonial Ruins (From Wisdom To Hate)
8. Inoculated Life (Considered Dead)
9. Faceless Ones (Obscura)
10. Lie Vie Est Prelude (Obscura)
11. Nostalgia (Obscura)
12. Obscura (Obscura)
13. The Art Of Sombre Ecstasty (Obscura)
14. The Carnal State (Obscura)

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Foxgang

"Foxgang's music is ravaged, cosmic rock 'n' roll, characterised by frontman Ryan Denton's deft lyrics and soulful vocals." That, and they have a trumpet player is really all you need to know. Download and enjoy.

Foxgang on last.fm

Tracklist:
1. Cheesewire
2. White English
3. A Stern Beating
4. Wor Jackie
5. Fish Song
6. Mombasa Song
7. Easy Jet

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The Letter E - No. 5ive Longplayer

The Letter E was a short lived instrumental rock band from New York City. Their members included a former member of Lungfish, Pullman, and even a former Blue Man. They only released two records, an EP and an LP. Released in 2000, No. 5ive Longplayer is a criminally unnoticed album among it's Math and Post Rock peers.

Tracklist:
1. Alushta
2. Better Days
3. Plains
4. Mary Bahtyarli
5. Events
6. Isabella
7. Black and Tackle

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