Ricardo Villalobos

I've had Fabric 36 by Villalobos for a while, and it's taken me this long to digest how great it really is. This is microhouse, the exact opposite of flashy music, but for anyone that likes ambient or dance music, this is a trip.

I'm giving you guys Alcahofa, his first album, because it's more like traditional pop/dance songs, whereas Fabric 36 is a live set and just straight up weird.

If you're not feeling the first song, listen to Dexter in the dark. That's what this is about.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=MG6SN36T

Portal

If an elephant in full chainmail sat on you on Jupiter it would not be as heavy as Outre'.

This is what Satan beats his wife to.
Only for fans of death/black metal and of dying.

http://www.mediafire.com/?kimze4y0ljn

Stravinskij Stravinski Stravinsky etc.

Sepoe, I'm sorry this took 3 years.

For all the rest of you, this is one of the most influential and controversial pieces of 20th century music, The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky, conducted by the masterful Boulez. This is definitely one of the best versions out there, and the label is Deutsche Grammophon, so you know the sound quality is going to be good too. Petrouchka is also included, not as mindblowing as The Rite of Spring (to me, anyways), but still worth a listen.



http://www.megaupload.com/?d=5T9IX9FI

Rapeman

Stop listening to Times New Viking and listen to some real noise rock.
The band is called Rapeman what more do you want


http://www.mediafire.com/?5z5goqjycjx

Gnaw Their Tongues

Gnaw Their Tongues have an EP named after the Japanese cannibal Issei Sagawa. But let that bring into your mind not kitschy drawings made by preteens bored in math class. This band is not the zombie with the rocket launcher arm that shoots chainsaws.
It is the sound of Hell.
This album is called ...Spasming and Howling, Bowels Loosening and Bladders Empyting, Vomiting Helplessly...
Seriously, it's black metal, dark ambient, and noise, what else would you expect?

If you liked Nahvalr, check this out.
I hated Nahvalr, so even if you didn't, check this out.

P.S. Yes that's a typo in the title, it's Empyting, not Emptying.

http://www.mediafire.com/?cujdynpnyj0

Extra Life/Nat Bladwin

Extra Life's Secular Works was one of the best albums of last year, and Charlie continues to reinvent this project in unexpected ways. While most of Secular Works was already sparse, tense arrangements, he stripped it down even further for this split with Nat Baldwin a singer-songwriter on a double bass. Black Hoodie, the best song on here is just Charlie with an acoustic and a viola, the other two songs just him and guitar. Of course, his voice is stellar as always, and the solo performance of I'll Burn holds up surprisingly well next to the full band version on the full-length.
Nat Baldwin's side is not as good. It holds promise, it just never achieves the same heights of melody and composition that Extra Life's does. His songs drag a bit. Weights is definitely the best one, and is also the shortest one.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zmymy0nff0z

Liars

This is probably not a new album for most of you guys reading this, but this is really another gem from 2006, an overall great year for music (Donuts, Dowsing Anemone, Diadem of 12 Stars, This Binary Universe, etc). Liars is one of those bands that if you were high it'd be all 'Feels good, man', but you don't need to be to enjoy it. That makes sense, right?
Anyway, the yell at the beginning of Let's Not Wrestle Mt. Heart Attack is good enough to justify downloading this, but what really sets this album apart is the textural experimentation. There's not many melodies here, most of them are just the vocal lines sung in falsetto or a deep Ian Curtis voice, but the drums play an integral part in keeping the pulse going. The guitar rarely sounds like one, instead it's run through countless filters until beautiful drones are created to let the vocal lines breathe.
Liars manages to keep things fresh for 12 tracks and 47 minutes, no easy feat.

http://www.mediafire.com/?zkoyxg0uxki