Type

Olivier Messiaen - La Nativité Du Seigneur (Simon Preston)
Sibylle Baier - Colour Green

A Gatefold Double-LP from Digitalis...and by Ricardo Donoso no less...very tempting...but the soundsamples sound almost exactly like his former album, which didn't do it as much for me as his first tape release on digitalis...oh, it's so tempting...

I also wonder about the steep price. Thought, Boomkat is doing pressing duties for Digitalis

Doesn't matter who's pressing it, it'll still cost a bloody fortune to produce a double LP on coloured wax and have it cut & mastered at D&M. £17 seems fair enough to be honest. It's £13-14 for a single LP these days innit?

I can't wait to get a copy, loved his last record.

True, it's coloured and D&M, didn't catch that. Couldn't resist and bought it.

I wonder, how expensive such an edition is.

I'm so sick of all this synh shit that I will not buy anything from now on. Come on musicians and labels. We live in 2012 with all the cheap tehnology software and all they are doing this? Why don't you re-release JM Jarre and Vangelis' back catalogue. It's much better anyway. As I said before an advice for all the musicians thay are doing synth arpeggio and low quality drone. If you've got everything you could dream these days (synth, softwere) all cheap and available for everyone and still continue to do music like 30 years ago. Where is creativity? People like TG were doing music with home built synths and all kind of devices that were available at that time. And they were doing a real shit.

Don't buy it for the music. Buy it for the deluxe gatefold ass-spanking experience. The Vinyl is just bonus.

And weil, to do this kind of music doesn't require great compositional techniques or a subtle and sophisticated musical understanding. It's very simple to do a semi-authentic rehash of old kosmische soundscapes (I tried it myself, with good results), but there's nothing remarkable about it. It's mostly atmospheric background-music that feeds on a certain retrofuturistic nostalgia, but I haven't encountered a single melody on all those countless synth records that will stand the test of time. To achieve this requires the ear and talent of a good composer. Vangelis did it for example with "Blade Runner Blues". But all in all, it's a lazy genre, which mostly doesn't require any intellectual input from the listener's side and is very easily digestible. Even my mother likes it as background music for cooking (Gave her a sampler with Panabrite, Emeralds, Spectrum Spools stuff etc.). Nothing wrong with that, but accept it as what it is: Easy Listening. Same goes for the generic ambient drone (Chihei Hatakeyama anyone?). Compare it to a well done piano sonata (or something like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66hX8Ms0FwE) and it's just childsplay. But some of those records are relaxing, and that's because I buy them.

been complaining about that whole synth stuff even before we got the revival, but that's mainly because I just can't stand arppegio's. Even most Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze (specially Klaus Schulze actually) is boring the shit out of me. 
Another thing that irritates me a lot about this stuff is that loads of people call it drones, while it has nothing to do with drones. A drone is mure than just a sustained sound. Where are the overtones, where is the microtonality? Well I coudl start a complete rand about this, but well...

About the whole lush new age ambient drones I totally feel you John Zorn. I had been complaining at the 12K forum once and after that got quite a shitload of BOOO's over my head. But I still think the whole ambient scene could use a new impulse. And of course there are some really good musicians out there in this scene, but enough is enough...and PLEASE GIVE ME SOME NASTY OUT OF TUNE TONES!!!! I just love the dissonance <3 Hooray for Tashi Wada.

Anyhow here is a list of new stuff I bought today for only 62 euro (all on vinyl):

Every Hidden Color - Luz
L.A. Vampires meets Zola Jesus - L.A. Vampires meets Zola Jesus
Amen Dunes - Murder Dull Mind
Amen Dunes - Through Donkey Jaw
Disappears - Guider

Eliane Radigue - Feedback Works
Jon Mueller/James Plotkin - Terminal Velocity
Aaron Dilloway/Jason Lescalleet - Grapes and Snakes
Ghedalia Tazartes - Rushes of India(LP+DVD)
Grouper - Cover the Windows and the Walls (REPRESS)
Expo '70 Beguiled Entropy
Mike Khoury/Ben Hall - It's not a fear of falling,it's a fear of landing
V/A - Staring Into The Sun: Ethiopian Tribal Music (2LP)
Natural Snow Buildings - Night Coercion Into The Company Of Witches (4LP PRE-ORDER)

That's a really nice list there...quite some stuff on it that I also want to order.

Hooghwater - Hooghwater

Erstlaub - Marconi's Shipwreck

Kane Ikin - Sublunar
Stephan Mathieu - Coda (For WK)
Seaworthy + Matt Rösner - Two Lakes
Deepchord - Sommer
The Beach Boys - The Smile Sessions
Loscil - Sketches From New Brighton

I definately own too many obscure and oh-so collectible noise- and experimental records I basically never listen to. Thus:

Massive Attack - Blue Lines

Massive Attack - Protection

Portishead - Three

Alain Goraguer - La Planète Sauvage (OST)

Sonic Sum - The Sanity Annex

Shaolin Afronauts - Quest under Capricorn

Low - I could live in hope

Low - Long Division

The Future Sound of London - Accelerator

9dw - 9dw

Jan Jelinek - La Nouvelle Pauvreté

Goblin - Contamination (OST)

Jean-Michael Jarre - Oxygène

(all Vinyl)

Stuff I got at the festival Incubate (and other places)

Various - Twelve-Foot Wizé

Charalambides - Live at Graag Traag Festival #2

The Hafler Trio - A Thirsty Fish

Dead Neanderthals - The V-Shaped Position

Amen Dunes - Ethio Covers

Oren Ambarchi - Sagittarian Domain

The Slaves - Spirits Of The Sun

Primordial Undermind - Loss of Affect

Primordial Undermind - Last Worldly Bond

Sunflare - Young Love

Sunflare - Ghetto Blast

Expo '70 - Center Of The Earth

Expo '70 - Beguiled Entropy

Oren Ambarchi - Lost Like A Star

Mutamassik - Rekkez

Steve Roden - A Big Circle Drawn With Little Hands

Angel Olsen - Half Way Home

Nihill - Verdonkermaan

Nice to see you bought some records for a change, Orphax!

Yeah, thought it was that time of the year again...

Got this in today:

Kassel Jaeger - Deltas

and yet another order came in...

Celer - I, Anatomy

Now waiting for only one box with 2x the Burning Witch Boxset.

Shit mate, you'll be needing a second house before long!

I'm jealous cos I can't do it anymore ; )

Orphax, your income must indeed be staggering. No offense, but what are you doing for a living, man? :D

You don't have to be a banker to spend a ton on records, as long as you don't have kids and a huge mortgage then you can go for it!

sietse: re 2xburning witch box: you also took up bol.com's 22.99 offer? :-)

I have a moderate income, no kids, no mortgage, no car, I don't smoke, don't drink alcohol, do no drugs and almost never go on vacation.
So yes, I have enough money left after paying rent, food, insurrance and other set expenses for spending about 350 euro month on music...(besides saving some money for when I do want to buy a house...not going that fast to be honest).

@Wim_morc: yes yes, I thought to give it a try, and directly got two 'cause there might be some friends interested and else I can put it on discogs to sell it for a bit more so I break even and can buy that very lovely Eliane Radigue double LP that I find pretty expensive at this moment (with shipping it would be about 40 euro to get it here). 

"no kids, no mortgage, no car, I don't smoke, don't drink alcohol, do no drugs and almost never go on vacation."

That'll be why I can't afford the Basinski boxset then, as that list pretty much sums up where all my money goes.  *cracks open a Stella and lights a fat J*

Recent purcheses over the last few months:

lovesliescrushing - "Shiny Tiny Stars" LP (Handmade Birds)

The Slaves - "Spirits Of The Sun" LP (Digitalis) - I bought into the hype - liked the samples - must admit I'm disappointed...

Eraserhead Original Soundtrack LP + 7" (Sacred Bones)

Swans - "The Seer" 3x LP (Young God)

Evan Caminiti - "Dreamless Sleep" (Thrill Jockey)

Sleep - "Dopesmoker" 2x LP (Southern Lord)

Visitor (Liz Harris & Llyas Ahmed) - "s/t" 12" (Social Music)

Grouper - "Cover The Windows..." LP 3rd press (Yellow Electric -Self Released)

Codeine - "When I See The Sun" 6xLP 3xCD + 7" Box (Numero Group)

Gareth Davis & Frances-Marie Uitti - "Gramercy" 2x LP (Miasmah)  #1 favorite of late!

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - "Blood Lust" LP (Rise Above) Yes, a guilty pleasure indeed.  Love this record... 

2nd hand for only 21 euro all in very good state:

William Basinski - El Camino Real
Sawako - Bitter Sweet
Taylor Deupree - January

January is a personal classic. Nice catch.