Toe - For Long Tomorrow

1 ここには何もかもがあるし、何もかもがない
2 ショウシツ点よ笛
3 After Image feat. Harada Ikuko (Clammbon)
4 エソテリック
5 Say It Ain’t So feat. Hoshikawa Yuzuru (Dry River String, ex upandcoming)
6 Two Moons
7 モスキートンはもう聞こえない#1
8 モスキートンはもう聞こえない#2
9 ラストナイト　Album Version
10 グッドバイ Goodbye　Album Version feat. Toki Asako 土岐麻子
11 You Go
12 Our Next Movement
13 Long Tomorrow

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had no idea they had a new album and this version of their song Goodbye sounds amazing with female vocals. dig it.

The American Dollar

A Memory Stream

The Technicolour Sleep

Ambient One

Caspian - Tertia (The Mylene Sheath - 2009)

2nd full length from these guys and it is a masterpiece. They've implemented some vocals, strings, pianos and electronics and it really adds a lot to it.

You can download the entire album for free at gimmesound.com. Smaller labels like The Mylene Sheath and Magic Bullet started using this site to let people download new releases for free. The best part is the artists still get paid for each download by the ad revenue generated from the site. Pretty good idea and hopefully more labels catch on to it.

Check this album out if you're into that whole instrumental post-rock thing.

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Godspeed You! Black Emperor

The best instrumental post-rock band ever. They formed in Montreal in 1994 and released their first album, F#A#∞, on Constellation Records in 1997. That was the first record I heard by them and the lp came with an envelope that included a diagram labeled "Faulty Schematics Of Ruined Machine" along with a penny that was run over by a train (see it here). The final side of the record has a locked groove at the end of the last track so it plays the notes F# and A# on a loop forever.

The core of the group was basically 9 members although the lineup changed somewhat over the years. In 2003 they disbanded and have been on "permanent hiatus" ever since. I'm just happy I got to see them play... which was also one of the best shows I've ever been to.

This band is the reason I got into this genre, and pretty much changed music for me.

Here is their discography along with some live performances. Enjoy.

F#A#∞

Part 1
Part 2

Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada

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Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven

Part 1
Part 2

Yanqui U.X.O.

Part 1
Part 2

Tiny Silver Hammers (Live)

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Live At The Polish National Home (Brooklyn)

Part 1
Part 2

John Peel Session (Live)

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If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sky (2009)

1. From Roots To Needles
2. What's in the Ground Belongs to You
3. Terra Incognita
4. Above the Earth
5. Below the Sky
6. The Sun is in the North
7. Thirty-Six Silos
8. The Flames of Herostratus
9. Rebuilding the Temple of Artemis
10. Deus Ex Machina

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