I'm a really big Alice in Chains fan. It seems to be the one band that combines every element or attribute of music that interests me into one sweet style of awesomeness. So I felt like posting here, the fact that quite some time ago I ran into a cd which was a side project by the late lead singer Layne Staley.

The band, called Mad Season, was short lived (just one 10 song album and a short tour). This album though, has become one of my favourite albums. While I love Alice in Chains for the heavy metal bashing and smashing, Mad Season is a lot slower and more thoughtful music. There's things that even someone who gets past all the grunge/alt-metal cliches will be surprised by (blues, for one). Although this is basically a cult following type cd today, it's really good and listening to it now really drives home just how incredibly far rock music has strayed from anything resembling sincere personal expression and artistry in the twelve years since its release.

The slow, quiet single "River of Deciet" is on youtube. 

this is not an official video, but suits this song really well, and it is one of the albums best songs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRma4GSpzkc 

The CD is on my regular circulation and is one of my favorites; it definitely strays from HM cliches and avoids the mannered approach that makes Fusion unlistenable (the bassist is a Jazz player). They staked out a territory that is quite unique with that album. 

how incredibly far rock music has strayed from anything resembling sincere personal expression and artistry

/me sheds a tear 

AIC has long been one of my fav's and inspirations.

Checkout Would? live but it's with their tour singer, not Layne:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnpbGisUZko 

http://doom.ocremix.org/

Covers/remixes of Doom I music put together by people from the OC Remix scene. 

Yeah I've had that album for a while too, good stuff, was happy to hear Layne Staley once again when I found it a few years back. 

Love him or hate. He's doing some kind of drum'n'bass, somethingstep, electro stuff. You can download great mixes from http://www.john-b.com/ (audio). 

but his older stuff was much better, check out his Album - "In transit" from 2002-3-4 cant remember :) Pure class! 

Yeah, I have that one. I got known of John B by the "russian version" of his American Girls on Russian Drum & Bass Vol 01 ( http://www.discogs.com/release/843552 ). I really want to buy that CD but all I can find are torrentsites or mp3 shops. :(

This track is from Russian Drum & Bass Vol 01 too,
http://electrokids.org/mp3/4cus/4cus-prekrasnoe_daleko.mp3 

"Older"?? You kids crack me up. Get back to the Catalyst / Redox era, that's the shit you need.

Good guy though, don't rate everything he's doing these days, but I respect his blending of styles and his production has always been top notch. 

[valley girl]oh yeah![/valley girl] 

Shambler get back to your black and white TV, porridge oats and fighting the Germans plz :D 

You guys need to find this track:

The Bezerker - Final Sacrifice

(for some reason I am almost addicted to listening to it) 

I finally finished my deep space ambient mix.
http://spirit.enjoys.it/sleepdrive/

Happy traveling. :) 

I found some vids of him playing guitar (along with his brother Bobby, who is an amazing drummer) whilst looking on Youtube a while ago and decided to have a listen to some of his music. You can find plenty of sample tracks on his website www.ronjarzombek.com

His band, Spastic Ink recorded a song that matches up to a scene in Bambi, which is quite interesting and can be found on Youtube.

Anyway, it looks like he is about to release a new album soon, and there are samples of 5 tracks on his website.

He is also a guitar teacher... 

I made a 24x24" poster out of that UV sun image :)

downloading now 

If anyone is attracted to warm and beautiful Ambient or Classic, go check out Olafur Arnalds - Eulogy for Evolution. It's wonderful. He is a death metal guy, but somehow does Classic too.

http://www.myspace.com/olafurarnalds (not so good tracks)
I found this while googling, maybe it's the album :o
http://www.mediafire.com/?5jumzcmzy3y
Buy it here: https://ssl.webpack.de/imperialclothing.de/shop/product_info.php?cPath=236_260&products_id=4054&osCsid=e5abfc7eb0bd1bf8e257d17efc86b1b1 

Sweet - 'pon the dl for both of those.

Recently I have been listening to (deep breath):

Merzbow, Swollen Members, Juice Blender records comp, Drokz & Tafkat, Hospital records comp, Calyx, Raison D'Etre, Herbst 9, Baphomet, Therapy?, The God Machine, Hixxy, Sharkey, LSG, and Billy Nasty.

<insert moshing badger smiley here> 

Post your Sleepdrive mix here 

scroll up to where it says #376

Shambler, LSG, yay. I hope you got their The Best of L.S.G.: The Singles Reworked (Disc 1 is the good one). I grabbed that last remaining copy of it I think. :)
http://www.superstition.de/releases.php4?action=display_release&release_id=079ef3f6fc737d21b464ea2016d4d26d 

I hadn't heard of that, no. Just ordered it through Amazon, I expect it will be out of stock though....still the super-saver delivery might carry forward to the rest of my order... 

netherworld <3
hearts <3
hidden sun of venus <3

i never did check out 'the singles reworked', although i own 'the black album' and also the free unreleased album released via mp3 on lieb's myspace: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=153811890&blogID=232662498&MyToken=dcfb5922-8e3c-4f6f-be15-9135f09f97e4 .. less dancey than his older stuff, but still awesome. mostly chilled, breaksy & atmospheric

the guy is such a versatile producer & the amount of work he's been involved with is nigh on neverending 

Hidden Sun of Venus?

We got the sci-fantasy name randomizer up and running.

Good. Any parameter checks built in to weed out absurd results?

Nope.

Well, we'll just have to go with what we have then. 

..he more than made up for it by naming a tune after a quake episode ;D