The Dog End of a Day Gone By

In general, March was sort of a 'lite' month. I think it's because so much good stuff came out in Feb. Still need to catch up new releases. I'm sure April's got a lot happening. And it'll be hard to keep up, I'm sure.

Not finding (yet), but would like to:

Main attrakionz – 808s & Dark Grapes II (type 104)
Fumiya tanaka – 337/I Can Tell You of Course I Know it Was 12” (perlon 89)
Mara trax – sensibilia 12” (perlon 90)
Human teenager – Animal Husbandry (spectrum spools 15)
Motion Sickness of Time Travel – s/t (spectrum spools 16) may 2012
Mike shiflet – merciless (type 98) march 2012
Sensate Focus – Sensate Focus 10 12” (sensate focus 10) march 2012
Dolphins into the future – on sea-faring isolation CD re-re-issue (fonal 84) march 2012

Further investigation:

Bvdub – the first day (home normal) feb 2012

Forthcoming:

Alan Lamb, Garry Bradbury, David Burraston, Oren Ambarchi & Robin Fox – Wired Open Day 2009 2LP (Taiga 19)

New this week:

Fenn o’berg – in hell 2LP (emego 141) march 2012
Wolfgang voigt – ruckverzauberung 6 12” (magazine 007) mar 2012
Bvdub – serenity (darla)
Bvdub - don’t say you know (darla)
Matt Carlson/Jason Anderson - dissociative synthesis (synthesator vol.3) LP (ufo mongo 24)

Grabbed:

marcia bassett & samara lubelski - sunday night sunday afternoon (kye 17) march 2012
SND_-_NHK - split 12” (pan 26) march 2012
radiant husk - micromegas (recital) feb 2012
eleh - homage to the pointed waveforms (taiga) march 2012
Head Boggle – Headboggle (spectrum spools 12) march 2012
Burial_-_four tet – nova one-sided 12” (text 13) march 2012
Gui boratto – destination education remixe 12” (kompakt 252) mar 2012
Saschienne – unknown (kompakt 255) march 2012
Sean mccann & matthew Sullivan – vanity fair ‘Live’ bonus CDr (recital 1) feb 2012
Vatican shadow – Kneel Before Religious Icons (type 105) march 2012

We're coming in loaded

Been busy digging through the CD collection still in boxes for the upcoming wedding and reunion. Spring has sprung here in western scandinavia! It'll be nice to have some new old jams for the car for the kids too.

Further investigation:

Julia holter – ekstasis (rvng int’l) mar 2012

Forthcoming:

Marielle v. jakobsons – glass canyon (students of decay) april 2012

New this week:

Stefano pilia – strings CD (musica moderna 001 GER) mar 2012
Nicola ratti – cathode deafness CS (musica moderna 004) mar 2012

Grabbed:

Giuseppe ielasi – 15 more tapes (misanthropic agenda 033, oct 2011 / senufo editions #32, feb 2012)
Jim o’rourke – old news #7 (old news no.7) feb 2012
Billy gomberg – waiting in poor lighting (avant archive) feb 2012
Derek rogers – you were familiar I remember (moon mist 8) jan 2012
Derek rogers – a crack in everything (prairie fire 042) feb 2012
Flower/corsano/hejnowski – the count visits (hot cars warp 014) dec 2011
Keiji haino/jim o’rourke/oren ambarchi – imikuzushi (black truffle 007) feb 2012
Robert turman – flux (spectrum spools 010) mar 2012
Ben vida – esstends-esstends-esstends (pan 23) mar 2012
Mark mcguire & Charles berlitz presents – inner tube (pacific city sound visions 017) feb 2012
Geoff mullen – accidental guitars (rel 18) dec 2011
Sean mccann & matthew Sullivan – vanity fair (recital 1) February 2012

Older stuff:

Kassel jaeger – algae (senufo editions #20) jan 2011
Runawei – abduction (digitalis ltd. #228) nov 2011
Ben vida – trading prescriptions cassette (los discos enfantasmes 015) aug 2011

Fortune presents gifts not according to the book

February finishes strong with some really great scores: the new Whitman LP, Bellows and Ielasi CDs, Portraits LP and the strange Brinkmann Ambarchi collaborative homage to Morton Feldman. What a great year of music so far!

Forthcoming:

Mv & ee – space homestead (woodsiest) may 2012
Lost in the humming air – music inspired by harold budd (oktaf) w/ mokira, irisarri, deupree, biosphere, xela, etc.
Mara trax – sensibilia 12” (perlon 90)
Seaworthy – bellows and breath (preservation circa 112)
Sparkling wide pressure – grandfather harmonic (preservation circa 212)
Vatican shadow – kneel before religious icons (type 105)
Fenn o’berg – in hell (emego 141)
Main – adrifting (at the surface)
Robert hampson – dvd/cd (emego)

New this week:

Mark mcguire & Charles berlitz presents – inner tube (pacific city sound visions 017) feb 2012
David sylvian – a victim of stars 1982 – 2012 (virgin) feb 2012

Grabbed:

Kane ikin + david wenngren – strangers (kesh 017) February 2012
Keith fullerton Whitman – generators (demego 024) feb 2012
Iibiis rooge – life in a bloodcell (winged sun 21) feb 2012
Cleared – breaking day (immune 024) jan 2012
Gareth Dickson – noon ep (12k 3011) feb 2012
Gareth Dickson – quite a way away (12k 1070) feb 2012
Steve peters + steve roden – not a leaf remains as it was (12k 1069)
Dirty three, the – toward the low sun (drag city) feb 2012
Bellows – reelin’ (entr’acte 128) feb 2012
Giuseppe ielasi – untitled, 2011 (entr’acte 129) feb 2012
Cory allen + marcus fischer – two/twenty-two (self released) feb 2012
Disappears – pre-language (kranky) feb 2012
mouse on mars - parastrophics (monkeytown 22) feb 2012
whomadewho – brighter (kompakt CD097) feb 2012
Thomas brinkmann + oren ambarchi – the Mortimer trap (black truffle 006) feb 2012
Portraits – portraits (important records 345) feb 2012
Greg haines – digressions (preservation 33) feb 2012

Older stuff:

Trophies – become objects of daily use (monotype 037) july 2011

Schnee Bud

Not a bad start to the year. Finding a decent amount of great music. February's been abnormally mild as well. Some spring-y days with sunshine - totally unexpected. Thanks to everyone!

Further investigation:

Jason urick – I love you (thrill jockey) jan 2012
Zomes – improvisations (thrill jockey) jan 2012

Forthcoming:

Jefre cantu-ledesma – faceless kiss b/w blut mond 7” (emerald cocoon 008/alone together #6)
Gareth Dickson - Noon ep (12k) feb 2012
Gareth Dickson – quite a way away (12k 1070) feb 2012
Steve peters & Steve roden – not a leaf remains as it was (12k 1069) feb 2012
Lotus plaza – (kranky) mar 2012
Main attrakionz – 808s & dark grapes (type 104v)
Dustin wong – dreams say, view, create, shadow leads (thrill jockey) feb 2012

Grabbed:

Nuojuva – valot kaukaa (preservation 33) feb 2012
Mark van hoen – the revenant diary (emego) jan 2012
Howling Hex, The – Wilson Semiconductors (Drag City 501) December 2011
Matthew Freidberger – Arrested on Charges of Unemployment (Thrill Jockey 262f) January 2012
Earth – angels of darkness, demons of light II (southern lord) feb 2012
Mirroring – foreign body (kranky) feb 2012
Gultskra artikler – abut anet (miasmah) feb 2012
Loops of your heart – and never ending nights (magazine) feb 2012
Terranova – hotel amour (kompakt 95cd) feb 2012
Derek rogers – institution amet c64 (space slave editions) feb 2012
Andrea belfi – wege (room40 446) feb 2012
Perispirit – spiritual church movement (digitalis vinyl) jan 2012
black to comm - earth (de stijl) february 2012
stephan mathieu + caro mikalef - radioland (panoramica) february 2012

Older stuff:

Wolfgang voigt - Rückverzauberung 3 (en/of 42) aug 2011
lithops - formationen (a-musik 35) march 2011

(Nothing but) Blood

Small post today just to stay on top of it. Life's going a little too fast for end of January. DJing a wedding in August ~ got a little anxiety about that - figuring out the stereo setup, picking out appropriate tunes at the right time, going through my collection, etc. Soccer meeting next week, and hopefully some freelance work in a few months. As always, way too much great music and not nearly enough time to give it a proper listen.

Forthcoming:

mirroring (Grouper & tiny vipers) – foreign body (kranky)
Haino / jim o’rourke / oren ambarchi – imikuzushi CD (black truffle 007)
Head boggle – headboggle LP (spectrum spools 012)
Whomadewho – brighter (kompakt 97)
Stephan mathieu – a static place (minority) 2LP w/ 20 min. bonus track feb 2012
Pimmon + Fabio Orsi - Procrastination (home normal) may 2012
Chihei Hatakeyama + Asuna july 2012
Derek rogers – a crack in everything c40 (prairie fire 042) jan 2012
Derek rogers – you were familiar I remember c30 (moon mist 8) jan 2012
Derek rogers – hex illumination (fabrica)
Derek rogers – open windows (hobo cult)

Missed (still interested):

Zammuto – idiom wind ( ) jan 2012


Grabbed:

Bryter layter – two lenses (students of decay) jan 2012
From the mouth of the sun – woven tide (experimedia) jan 2012
Christina vantzou – no.1 remixes (experimedia?/kranky?) jan 2012
Ilyas ahmed – with endless fire (immune) jan 2012
Ryan Teague – field drawing (village green) jan 2012
Starving weirdos – land lines (amish 044) January 2012
Cardinal - hymns (fire) January 2012
Oren ambarchi – audience of one (touch 83) jan 2012
Richard youngs – core to the brave (root strata 87) jan 2012
Fire! with Jim O’Rourke – Released (rune grammofon 2120) jan 2012
Windy & carl – we will always be (kranky) jan 2012
Franco falsini – cold nose LP (spectrum spools 014)
Dolphins into the future – canto arquipelago (underwater peoples) jan 2012
Gesellschaft zur emanzipation des samples – more circulations 7” (faitiche 07) jan 2012
Pop ambient 2012 (kompakt) jan 2012
Refractor – locus suspectus (under the spire) dec 2011

Tractor Rape Chain

Finally finished my second mix for EQ [feb 2011]. waiting for new server... onto march 2011! super excited about new releases from starving weirdos, oren ambarchi (solo and with thomas brinkmann), chris forsyth & koen holtkamp, pop ambient 2012, jim o'rourke's 'old news #7', stephan mathieu (line & cronica single sided LP), etc. etc.

Forthcoming:

Thomas brinkmann & oren ambarchi – the mortimer trap (black truffle 006) feb 2012
Stephan mathieu & david maranha – strings (single sided LP) (cronica) feb 2012
Loops of your heart – and never ending nights (magazine 005) feb 2012
Burnt friedman – bokoboko (nonplace 33) feb 2012
Fire! w/ Jim O’Rourke – Released! (rune grammofon 2120) feb 2012
Scorch trio w/ mars Williams – made in Norway 2LP (rune grammofon 2119) feb 2012
Portraits (ledesma, caminiti, porras, mcgee, kowalsky, jakobsons, croy, etc.) – sa (important 345) jan 2012
En – already gone (students of decay) mar 2012
Jefre cantu-ledesma – visiting this world (en/of) feb 2012
Black dice – mr. impossible (ribbon) apr 2012
Disappears – pre language (kranky) march 2012
El doom & the born electric – s/t (rune grammofon 2122)
Bushman’s revenge – a little bit of big bonanza (rune grammofon 2123)
Bushman’s revenge – never mind the botox LP (rune grammofon 2125)
Strategy – boxy music (100% silk 21)

New this week:

Starving weirdos – land lines (amish 44) jan 2012
Perispirit – spiritual church movement (digitalis vinyl 28) jan 2012
Pop ambient 2012 (kom 247) jan 2012
Chris forsyth & koen holtkamp – early astral (blackest rainbow 217) jan 2012

Missed (still interested):

Mark van hoen – the revenant diary (emego 136) jan 2012 coma
Howling hex – Wilson semiconductors (drag city) dec 2011
Graham lambkin – amateur doubles (kye 15) dec 2011 akteon, echo my dolphin
Geoff mullen – accidental guitars (rel 18) dec 2011
Sun araw – sun ark prayer tapes vol. 1 (sun ark 016) jan 2012 ONLY FOUND 128kbps
Porter ricks – biokitetics (type 100) jan 2012 ONLY FOUND chain reaction
Psychic Paramount – II (no quarter 26) feb 2011
Oval – dna (shitkatapult 134) jan 2012
Va – power, corruption & lies covered (mojo) jan 2012 w/ destroyer, biosphere no data

Grabbed:

The boats – ballads of the research department (12k) jan 2012
Eyvind kang – visible breath (ideologic organ soma 004) jan 2012
Kane ikin – contrail (7” + mp3) (12k 2022) jan 2012
Matt Carlson – particle language LP (draft 012) December 2011
Matthew friedberger – death-in-life LP (thrill jockey 262e) October 2011
No ufo’s – mind controls the flood (public information) oct 2011
Pigeons – they sweetheartstammers (soft abuse 053) dec 2011
Medicine – time baby II 7” (captured tracks 132) jan 2012
Jodi cave – mort aux vaches (staalplaat mav067xcd) jan 2012
Fourth World Magazine – the spectacle of light abductions LP (pacific city sound visions 16) oct 2011
Marcus fischer – collected dust (tench) jan 2012
Wooden shjips – rmxs (thrill jockey) jan 2012
Walls – into our midst (kompakt 249) jan 2012

Peaking lights – 936 remixed (100% Silk 014) dec 2011
Root_Strata_Winter_Solstice_2011 – All Alap dec 2011
Elodie – la lumiere parfumee (faraway press 20) dec 2011

Older stuff:

Giuseppe ielasi – 15 (entr’acte) 2010

Shoot the Cool

Forthcoming:

Stephan Mathieu & caro mikalef – radioland (panoramic) (line 055) feb 2012
Walls – into our midst 12” (kom 249) feb 2012
Demdike stare – elemental part 3: rose (love 075) feb 2012
Demdike stare – elemental part 4: iris (love 076) feb 2012
Greg haines - moments elulding (kning disk) jan 2012
Robert turman – flux 2LP (spectrum spools 10) jan 2012
Porter ricks – biokinetics 2LP (type 100) jan 2012
Matthew friedberger – arrested on charges of unemployment LP (thrill 262f)
Giuseppe ielasi – untitled, 2011 (entr’acte 129) jan/feb 2012
Bellows – reelin’ (entr’acte 128) jan/feb 2012
Eyvind kang – visible breath (soma 004 LP) jan 2012
Keith fullerton Whitman – generators LP (demego 024) feb 2012
Robert turman – flux 2LP (spectrum spools 010) feb 2012
Jim o’rourke – old news no. 7 (old news 7) feb 2012
Cardinal – hymns (fire) jan 2012
War on drugs – come to the city 7” (secretly Canadian)
Loops of your heart – and never ending nights (magazine/pampa) jan 2012
Sic alps – vedley 7” (drag city) jan 2012
Va – the total groovy box set (drag city) jan 2012
Loren Connors – a fire (family vineyard) feb 2012
Earth – angels of darkness demons of light II (southern lord) feb 2012
Windy & carl – we will always be (kranky) feb 2012
Dirty three – toward the low sun (drag city) feb 2012
Mouse on mars – parastrophics (monkeytown) feb 2012

New this week:

Matt Carlson (golden retriever) – partical language LP (draft 12) dec 2011
Boats, the – ballads of the research department (12k) jan 2012
Porter ricks – biokinetiks (type 100) jan 2012

Missed (still interested):

Giuseppe ielasi – 15 CDs (entr’acte 100) (companion to his 15 tapes) 2010
Giuseppe ielasi – 15 more tapes (misanthropic agenda 033) oct 2011
Lithops – formationen (a-musik) feb/mar 2011
Lawrence English – the peregrine (experimedia)
Matthew friedberger – death after life LP #5
Plug – back on time jan 2011
Graham lambkin – amateur doubles (kye 15) nov 2011

Grabbed:

William fowler Collins – the resurrection unseen (type 103v) oct 2011
Lee noble – persona (Bridgetown #43) dec 2011
Guided by voices – let’s go eat the factory (fire) dec 2011
Peaking lights – 936 remixed (100% Silk 014) dec 2011
Root_Strata_Winter_Solstice_2011 – All Alap dec 2011
Sean mccann – sincere world (amethyst sunset 003cd) dec 2011
Toshimaru nakamura – maruto (erstwhile solo 002) sept 2011
Elodie – la lumiere parfumee (faraway press 20) dec 2011