Submitted By: trocknroll

Genre: Hip Hop

Date of Set: Jul 2007

Filesize: 52.11 MB

Total Downloads: 2

J. Ben Leonard writes for listeners, bluntheads, fly ladies, and prisoners. A sensitive guy, he tends to cry on Cooley High when Cochise dies.

He currently reps Providence, Rhode Island with his lovely wife Heather and their enormous cat, Addie. In addition to floodwatchmusic, he is a contributor to EarFuzz(http://earfuzz.com/) and in his spare time he writes 55-word stories(http://floodwatchmusic.com/blog2/55-word-stories/).

What exactly is Floodwatchmusic?

Floodwatchmusic is my self-aggrandizing audioblog, although I try my best to adhere to the listen-to-how-great-this-is concept rather than adopting a look-how-much-I-know stance. I eat, sleep, live, and breathe music, and I enjoy sharing it. That, in a nutshell, is what this site is about.

So, then it’s just another blog?

I like to think that there’s a distinction between an audioblog or an mp3 blog and just a regular, garden-variety weblog. I try to add a personal touch, but the general rule here is that every post must be music-related and must have some sort of context for the music presented; you won’t find entries about what I had for breakfast, how much my day job sucks, or some form of crust I found on my right foot, which is content that I usually associate with weblogs. There are already enough of those out there, and frankly, my life just isn’t that interesting.

What are your all-time favorite records?

This list changes constantly depending on my mood, but the following fifty or so records tend to come to mind when thinking about my favorites:

Ellen Allien - Berlinette (BPitch 2003)
Black Sheep - A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing (Mercury 1991)
Bright - Bright (Ba Da Bing! 1996)
Califone - Quicksand/Cradlesnakes (Thrill Jockey 2003)
Camper Van Beethoven - II & III (IRS 1986)
Carcass – Heartwork (Earache 1994)
Cocteau Twins – Head Over Heels (4AD 1983)
Ornette Coleman - Skies of America (Columbia 1972)
Alice Coltrane - Universal Consciousness (Impulse! 1971)
John Coltrane - Meditations (Impulse! 1965)
Miles Davis - Miles Ahead (Columbia 1957)
Miles Davis – Agharta (Columbia 1975)
Claude Debussy – Preludes for Piano, Books I and II (1913)
Dinosaur Jr – Green Mind (Warner Bros. 1991)
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch (Blue Note 1964)
Einstürzende Neubauten – Drawings of Patient O.T. (Some Bizarre 1983)
Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk (Candlelight 1997)
Brian Eno – Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks (EG 1983)
The Flaming Lips – Transmissions from the Satellite Heart (Warner Bros. 1993)
Aretha Franklin – Young, Gifted and Black (Atlantic 1972)
Marvin Gaye - I Want You (Motown 1976)
Godflesh - Pure (Earache 1992)
Isaac Hayes - Truck Turner - Original Soundtrack (Enterprise 1974)
Herbert – Around the House (K7! 1998)
Hum – Downward Is Heavenward (RCA 1998)
Jawbox – For Your Own Special Sweetheart (Atlantic 1994)
Jeru the Damaja – The Sun Rises in the East (Payday 1994)
Loftus - Loftus (Perishable 1998)
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun (SST 1985)
Melvins - Stoner Witch (Atlantic 1994)
Ennio Morricone - Once Upon a Time in the West (RCA 1969)
Morrissey - Bona Drag (Sire 1990)
Mouse on Mars - Idiology (Thrill Jockey 2001)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (Sire 1991)
Opeth - Blackwater Park (Koch 2001)
Orb - Orbvs Terrarvm (Island 1995)
Orbital - In Sides (FFRR 1996)
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet (Def Jam 1990)
Sam Prekop - Sam Prekop (Thrill Jockey 1999)
Sergei Prokofiev - Violin Concerto No. 1 (1917)
R.E.M. - Murmur (IRS 1983)
Shudder to Think - Pony Express Record (Epic 1994)
Sonic Youth - Sister (SST 1987)
Stars of the Lid - The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid (Kranky 2001)
Stereolab - Transient Random Noise Bursts with Announcements (Elektra 1993)
Stereolab - Dots and Loops (Elektra 1997)
Sun Ra - The Magic City (Evidence 1965)
Swervedriver - Mezcal Head (A&M 1993)
Talk Talk - Laughing Stock (Polydor 1991)
Tortoise - TNT (Thrill Jockey 1998)
Underworld - Second Toughest in the Infants (TVT 1996)
XTC – Drums and Wires (Virgin 1979)
Yo La Tengo - Electr-O-Pura (Matador 1995)

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