My jam of the this very moment:

Cobblestone Jazz—5th Element

Mikey :-)

Are we talking about when we are designing… cause I listen to some strange things…

Korn
Drowningpool

I also love listening to…

Why?
We are Scientists…

Double Helix. Because free trip hop is good.

Mostly I'm listening to dublab because it really adds up to my working-day and listening experience. I even donated a experimental typeface to their fund-racer which is still on till 19. November 10 AM PST (19.00 Middle European Time). protondrive

If you donate more than 50$ you will get a price-package including this typeface, an exclusive mix-cd by dublab-dj Jummy Tamborello (Dntel, Postal Service, James Figurine), and a lot of downloads.

I hope this advertising was not to rude!

And it will come even with a folder of sound-files:

Edgar, great stuff! The font, and the distribution scheme.

Maybe make a smaller-size version too with fewer "waves" per letter.

hhp

Cabaret: Lotte Lenya and Ute Lemper.

Franco & TP OK Jazz

Glen Gould

Russian/Eastern block choral music

Corsican and Sardinian polyphony

As for the car - classical - it helps keep me calm while I fight through the firestorms of LA

Miles Davis late 50s early sixties - pre-electric

Jimmy Scott

Fado: Amalia Rodriguez and Misia

Greek Pontic

Rebetika

for Hrant - waves? Listen to Mauricio Kagel Der Schall - waves

pbc

love this thread…

All statements are subject to change without notice.

Bruckner's 8th/Karajan, and also pulled the Heavy Vegetable, Frisbee CD out of a player after the move. Have not heard that in a while.

Resurrecting threads is fun!

I have been listening to Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective's new album, on repeat for three dsys now. It's like a concentrated dose of serotonin administered through headphones.

Not listening to anything right now. But this month we go to 4 chamber orchestra concerts each weekend. Part of the International Chamber Orchestra Festival. In addition to the local band, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, 4 other bands are coming from Europe and the SF Bay Area (poor guys, it is butt-freezing cold here this month; at last, thank god).

This is an amazing concentration of chamber orchestras: some of the best on the planet.

Twenty concerts for $100. Everything from baroque to Right Now.

http://www.thespco.org/festival/

A wonderful change of pace from our usual listening habits.

powers

Sigur Ros

Usually light, nondescript pop music for me, although I like the occasional head bop to keep the fluids going: latest CD I bought is "All Hope Is Gone", Slipknot.

web radio: WNYC2

the latest offerings from Morrissey and Franz Ferdinand, assorted songs by the Decemberists and Travis.

sweet silence. the inlaws have left the house.

Golden Bowls by Karma Moffett
and then again…

I also like jupiterboy's choice - 4'33"…
Every environment is music.

pbc

All ideas, theories and statements are subject to change without notice.

Recently I enjoy
working with Razorlight, „Razorlight“, 2006
Great album!

Stefan

Oh, the title:

JUNGLE FEVER

I can listen to almost anything when I am lettering or designing logos, but when I am doing actual calligraphy I need something with a hypnotic groove. Last night I just could NOT get into a project so I set the alarm for 5 AM and turned on entranced.fm on the itunes radio stream. With the right beat I can get into the flow instantly instead of banging my head against the wall.

My main playlist right now is Bombay Dub Orchestra, Gotan Project (nuevo tango),Beyman Brothers and everything and anything by Leonard Cohen (I saw him in concert last month and it was the most amazing stage performance by a musician I've seen in my life.) So "I'm Your Man" is definitely on my list. Even though they are ancient, I still find that Pat Metheni's OffRamp, Brian Eno's Thursday Afternoon or The Pearl and Keith Jarrett's Koln concert get me into a great creative space.

Tinnitus

Currently rediscovering "The Downward Spiral" by NIN... a few weeks ago I attended their last concert in Europe... and felt it was time to get all their cds from the shelves and play them again...

The zestiest disco-edit in the history of mankind:

Dancin Days - Mad Mad Mike (Big Bear Records)

Mikey :-)

Welcome back to the thread that never dies!

Lately I've been listening, contrastively, to the LSO performing Handel's Sarabande (the classic recording used for Stanley Kubrick's film of Barry Lyndon), and Einsturzende Neubauten's magnificent version of Morning Dew.

When drawing this, these have been recurring items in my playlist:

H.I.F. Biber: "Missa Bruxellensis" (Jordi Savall et al.)
Monteverdi: "Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria" (Sergio Vartolo et al.)
Nils Petter Molvær: "Khmer" (the ultimate record for all kinds of time-consuming, repetitive work)
My Bloody Valentine: "Loveless" (and "Glider" and "Tremolo" EPs)
Sigur Rós: "Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust"
Beethoven: String Quartets 12–16 (Alban Berg Quartet)
Eno & Burne: "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts"

Mogwai, Belle & Sebastian, Vampire Weekend and the Specials have been played a lot lately, both in the kitchen and near the computer.

Ah, dunno – I don't really use last.fm for listening to their «radio», just for scrobbling, looking at charts and checking out other people's music.

Everything that happens will happen today: I was extremely excited when it came out, and then extremely disappointed. I thought the type on the cover was the most exciting thing about it by far… Maybe I should give it another try. Did you like it?

Heligoland: I find it very hard to listen to the entire album because the first track is so damn good. I like Portishead too, but not always. It's a bit further down the «always great» vs. «sometimes annoying» axis for me. :-)

I didn't miss them. I saw them at The Palace in Hollywood with about 800 other folks back in the day. They ended up their set with 20 or so minutes of "noise". It was wonderful. Shoegazing at it's best.

pbc

Please do, Nina. And try again if you don't get it at first listen. They use(d) grotesque amounts of distortion, and the mix is seemingly impenetrable. If you don't give up, you'll be richly rewarded. (That's a promise from a classically trained musician, who doesn't really care about rock music, except when it's bloody brilliant.)

The only thing worth listening to is "Loveless". (And the above-mentioned EPs.) Their first album, "Isn't Anything", is no good at all.

Paul, was that the July 5th, 1992 concert, their very last before the 2008 comeback? I'm envious. I saw (or rather heard) them in Oslo in the summer of 2008, and it sounded just like the records. Amazing!

You're a man of taste in music, Gerardo (as far as I'm concerned). I've never heard of Beirut, but the title alone of that record sounds intriguing. Look nine posts up for the correct spelling of that great Sigur Rós album.

Wow, thanks! I've read your list and couldn't recongnize any of those artists. Except for Beethoven and My Bloody Valentine :P

You made me wanna listen to classical music!

My list this week:
Dvorak – 9th Symphony, Cello Concerto
Orff – Carmina Burana
Maria Gadú – Maria Gadú
Beirut – The Flying Club Cup
Vítor Ramil – À beça, Tango
Maria Bethânia – Various from '70s and '80s
Smiths – Hatful of Hollow
Jorge Drexler – 12 segundos de oscuridad
Uakti – Amazon Rivers (from Philip Glass)
Ekseption – First albums
and silence.

Holla Gerardo. Entre los cantantes latinos, me gustan muchísimo Drexler, Páez, Sosa y Viglietti. ¿Te gusta Vitor Ramil, el autor de 12 segundos?

Is Sigur Rós a kind of musical Caslon between type designers?
:-)

(Just kidding, I like it too!)

Rowland S. Howard: Pop Crimes

What a pity that it's his last album ...
He always was so much better than Nick Cave.

The Phoenix Foundation
Grizzly Bear
Miike Snow
Bon Iver
RRR live stream
Typeradio

@ victor ivanov

Some years ago I had a phase, in which I had consumed Nick Cave’s Let love in excessively. It was and is a holy album for me. I can recommend it not only because of the music, but also because of the sound quality. Later I bou… pirated in this case Silence is sexy from "Die Einstürzenden Neubauten". This album was very inspiring.

Since a few days I have cold. In the middle of a cold, I mean a few days after beginning of the cold, I always feel comfortably numb (like in Pink Floyd’s The Wall). And Amy Winehouse’s Frank is just the right thing for the middle of a cold on a slightly gray Good Friday. I just hover in her In My Bed.

I've recently rediscovered the song "Nkryptd" by Xripeen Wire, a Kenyan band. Strangely fitting for Good Friday. Shame there's virtually zero information on the internet about them.

Lots of baroque music, some of which I haven't listened to since the 1980s. Huge amounts of Handel, and joining in with gusto on ‘All we like sheep’.

The birds outside.

...

Grobschnitt by Grobschnitt. Very lossy MP3. Terrible sound quality.

>Indeed, nature's music makes ours seem idiotic.

Cage knew this.

Nature's everything makes us seem idiotic.

pbc

Lots of rockabilly.

Hrant: …nature's music makes ours seem idiotic.

I live in a rural environment on an island in one of the most biologically diverse places in North America. I walk in the woods or on the beaches almost every day. I listen with pleasure to the sounds that nature produces. And I have to say that a very large amount of the sounds produced by individual species of animals and birds are limited and repetetive. I think you would be hard pressed to find another species that produces anything like the range of sounds that humans make, or that orders those sounds in so many different ways.

"The Specials", and now I feel like dancing and getting away from the computer! :)

KASABIAN. <- (full stop)