Tuesday, September 30, 2014

After The Call

Been reading Martin Aston's 4AD bible, Facing the Other Way. Really great, been bringing up all those memories of late nights watching MTV's 120 Minutes, which, I suppose, deserves credit for playing Cocteau Twins' "Love's Easy Tears" video, and turning me on to them, the label, and turning my whole world of music upside down.

Possibilities:

Fis – speech spirits (ambarchi remix) (loopy xxolpy) September 2014
Astral social club – fountain transmitter medications (vhf 136) October 2014
Heroin in Tahiti – canicola cs (no fi) august 2014
Oren ambarchi – quixotism (eMego 202) October 2014
Steve gunn – way out weather (paradise of bachelors) October 2014
Spacemen 3 – live at the new morning, geneva, Switzerland, 18/5/89 (mental groove 99)
Bitchin bajas – bitchin bajas 2LP/2cs (2 bonus tracks on cs) (drag city 592) august 2014
Vladislav delay – visa (ripatti) November 2014
Va – air texture IV (air texture 004) (curated by Steve Hauschildt & BNJMN
Va – pop ambient 2015 (kom 120cd/315lp)
Mark templeton – extensions vinyl/dvd (graphical 001) November 2014
va – live at komyoji (kualauk table) july 2014 (f/Mathieu, deupree)
va – apparatus II (schwebung) july 2014 (f/Stephan Mathieu)
secret pyramid – the silent march (students of decay) November 2014 (orig 2011)
andreas belfi – natura morta (miasmah) november 2014
Chris Herbert – constants (room40) September 2014
Laetitia sadier – something shines (drag city 605) September 2014
Alan licht & brian chase – we thought we could do anything (new images)

Suggestions:

Grouper – ruins (kranky 189) October 2014
Steve Gunn & Mike Cooper - Cantos de Lisboa (FRKWYS 11) june 2014
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Songs Of Forgiveness (Baro Records) july 2014
Duane pitre & cory allen – the seeker and the healer (students of decay) july 2014
Wolfgang voigt – ruckverzauberung 9/music for kulturinstitutionen (profan cd14) july 2014
Ensemble economique – melt into nothing (denovali 200) july 2014
Wooden Wand - Azag-Toth (Lightning records) july 2014
MV & EE – Alpha Lyrae (Child Of Microtones 41) august 2014
Tape – casino (hapna 52) august 2014
Oren ambarchi/neil Campbell/Michael flower – live at tusk festival 2013 (no magic man) august 2014
Arve Henriksen – The Nature Of Connections (Rune Grammofon 2161) august 2014
Bitchin bajas – bitchin bajas 2LP (drag city 592) august 2014 192
Anjou – Anjou (Kranky 185) September 2014
Roman flugel – happiness is happening (dial) September 2014
Keiji Haino/Jim O’Rourke/Oren Ambarchi - Only Wanting to Melt Beautifully Away Is It a Lack of Contentment That Stirs Affection for Those Things Said to Be as of Yet Unseen CD (black truffle 011) june 2014
Christopher Willits - Opening (Ghostly International 220) august 2014
Kevin Drumm/Jason Lescalleet - The Abyss (Erstwhile 073-2) july 2014
Ty segall – manipulator (drag city 600) august 2014
Lawrence English - Wilderness Of Mirrors (Room40 460) july 2014
Ian William Craig - A Turn Of Breath (Recital 8) august 2014
Le Revelateur - Extreme Events (Root Strata 94) august 2014
James Hoff - Blaster (Pan 055) august 2014
Vanessa rossetto – whole stories (kye 29) june 2014
Derek rogers – prevais (signal dreams) july 2014
Lee Gamble – Kuang 12” (pan 056) august 2014
Lee Gamble – Koch (Pan 059) august 2014
Aphex twin – syro (warp 247) September 2014
Arp – pulsars e quasars (Mexican summer 191) September 2014
Andrew Chalk - The Circle Of Days (Faraway Press 23) September 2014
Supersilent – 12 (rune grammofon 2162) september 2014
Total 14 (kompakt cd 118) august 2014
Instant 303 – Instant 303 10” (bonus 10” released with limited vinyl version of Total 14, KOM 310 LIM) (KOM 303) august 2014
Tom Carter & Pat Murano - Four Infernal Rivers (MIE 027) june 2014
Peaking lights – cosmic logic (domino) september 2014
Real estate – had to hear 7” (domino) September 2014
Eric copeland – logo my ego 12” (l.i.e.s. 51) august 2014
Eric Copeland – Ms Pretzel 12” (DFA 2427) September 2014
Margaret Dygas - In Wood_-_That (Perlon 100) june 2014
Maayan Nidam / Laverne Radix – split 12” (perlon 101) july 2014
Portable – sportable 12” (perlon 102) august 2014
Heroin in Tahiti – Peplum 7” (Yerevan Tapes 007) august 2014
Facing the other way – the story of 4AD 2CD (the Friday project 1013A/B) january 2014
Stereolab - Eaten Horizons Or The Electrocution Of Rock (En/Of 036) september 2007
Derek Rogers – This House Is A Block c40 (Patient Sounds 46)  January 2014

Monday, June 23, 2014

Yaman Blues

Way too long between posts. That's what moving will do. In the interim, been having fun chipping away at the shoegaze 'box set,' especially with the post-shoegaze stuff. Then I got sidetracked, in a fun way, putting together a mixed bag playlist for summer fun and unpacking purposes, as well new car jamz (renamed and refreshing the 19 or so BIM playlists) -- everything from The Flamingos' 'I Only Have Eyes For You' to Miles Davis' 'Honky Tonk' to Nectarine No. 9 and Captain Beefheart to Jack Rose's 'Yaman Blues,' to name but a few, so, hopefully, slowly getting back in to the more recent (2013/2014) ambient experimental things. As well as some U2 and Bruce Springsteen. Probably. When life turns you upside down, or even sideways, you gotta love a comfort like music before you grew up and all your ideals were shattered.

Further investigation:

Blues control – summer games b/w studio 69 cassette single (managing expectations) may 2014

Possibilities:

Vanessa rossetto – whole stories (kye 29) june 2014
keiji haino / jim o’rourke / oren ambarchi - only wanting to melt beautifully away is it a lack of contentment that stirs affection for those things said to be as of yet unseen (black truffle 11) june 2014
Aquarelle – interrupted forms (bathetic) may 2014 
Taiga remains – works for cassette 12” (Helen scarsdale) may 2014
Ensemble economique – melt into nothing (denovali) june 27, 2014
Sebastien roux – inevitable music #1: variations on sol lewitt’s wall drawing #260 (future audio graphics 003) may 2014
Va – dynasty of a ghost town 11xcs (bathetic) $50 may 2014
Michael flower and neil Campbell – wharf cat CD + 7” + book (golden lab 40) may 2014
Nicola ratti – ossario (volume I and II) (holidays)
Tom carter & pat murano – four infernal rivers (mie music 027) june 2014
Alan licht / brian chase – we thought we could do anything (new images) may 2014

New this week:

Oren ambarchi / crys cole – Sonja henies vei 31 (planam) may 2014
Eric thielemans – sprang (miasmah 027) april 2014
Keith fullerton Whitman – vehement denial b/w platelets 7” (make noise 004) april 2014

Suggestions:

Fennesz – becs (emego 165) april 2014
Federico Durand – el estanque esmerelda (spekk 028) april 2014
Farben & James Din A4 – Farben Presents James Din A4 (Faitiche 12LP) april 2014
Jason lescalleet – much to my demise (kye 27) april 2014
Christopher bissonnette – essays in idleness (kranky 187) april 2014
Maxwell august croy & sean mccann – I (students of decay 106) april 2014
Bardo pond – looking for another place (fire 340) april 2014
Oren ambarchi – stacte karaoke 12” (black truffle 013ep) april 2014
Taylor deupree – lost and compiled (12k 2030) april 2014
To rococo rot – instrument (city slang) may 2014
Andrew chalk – painted screens cass (an’archives 08) april 2014
Beneath – vobes ep (pan 51) may 2014
Bass clef – raven yr own worl (pan 41) april 2014
Mazzy star – I’m less here b/w things 7" (rhymes of an hour 05) april 2014
Pausal – along the mantic spring (infraction) may 2014
The Field – The Cupid’s Head Remixe (Kompakt Digital 042) may 2014
Wooden wand – farmer’s corner (fire 334) may 2014
Ben vida – slipping control (shelter press 038) april 2014
Brett naucke – seed (spectrum spools 034) april 2014
Fluxion – broadwalk tales (echocord 013) april 2014
Ambarchi_-_O'Malley_-_Dunn - Shade Themes From Kairos (Drag  City 586) may 2014
Mike Weis - Don't Know, Just Walk (Type 119) may 2014
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Songs of Remembrance (Psychic Trouble) may 2014
Attila Faravelli - Stereo Recordings (Senufo Editions # forty-seven) march 2014
Gunter Schlienz - Contemplation (Preservation Circa 314) june 2014
Dusted Lux - Neverended (Preservation Circa 414) june 2014
Kyle bobby dunn – kyle bobby dunn & the infinite sadness (students of decay) june 2014
Stephen vitiello + taylor deupree – captiva (12k 2031) june 2014
Pjusk - Solstøv (12k 1081) june 2014
San Proper - Yestoday (Perlon 99) june 2014
M.E.S.H. - The Scythians (Pan 52) june 2014
Vladislav delay – ripatti03 (ripatti 03) march 2014
Ripatti/Teeth – split 12” (ripatti 04) april 2014
Sinner DC - The Sonic Boom Mixes 12" (Mental Groove) april 2014
Dauwd – kindlinn 12” (kompakt 295) april 2014
Dj koze – amygdala remixes II 12” (pampa 21) march 2014
Austin buckett – sand stems 1-7 (room40) april 2014
Oberman knocks – dilankex (autechre remix) (aperture 006) march 2014
Coma - Atlantis (Kompakt 299) june 2014
Samara Lubelski - String Cycle (Ultra Eczema 163) march 2014
Va – Bleep: 10 (Bleep 01) may 2014
Va – the space project (lefse) april 2014

Older stuff:

Federico Durand – el extasis de las flores pequenas (own 56) march 2011
Valerio Tricoli & Thomas Ankersmit - Forma II (pan 16) march 2011
Acetone – pinch ep (hut 38) 1993

fr. rick: 

Broken bells – broken bells (Columbia) 2010
Broken bells – after the disco (Columbia) 2014
I break horses – chiaroscuro (bella union) 2014
Monster rally – beyond the sea (gold robot 26) 2012
Monster rally – return to paradise (gold robot 33) 2013

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Golden Tones

I gotta say Kurt Vile's 'Wakin On A Pretty Daze' was the soundtrack to my March, in the car, back and forth -- hence the title of this post. Shoegaze mixes plodding along... Interspersed with listening to Vile and new stuff.

Possibilities:

Oren ambarchi – stacte karaoke 12” (black truffle 013)
Oren ambarchi, Stephen o’malley & Randall Dunn – shade themes from kairos 2LP (drag city 586) may 2014
Fennesz – baecs (eMego 165)
Hiss tracts (david ‘godspeed/set fire to flames’ Bryant & Kevin ‘growing’ doria) – shortwave nights (constellation)
Gordon “Concern” ashworth – s.t.l.a. (orindal)
Giuseppe ielasi – secondary divisions (senufo editions) march 2014
William ryan fritch – emptied animal (lost tribe sound)
William ryan fritch – leave me like you found me (lost tribe sound)
Dauwd – kindlinn (kompakt 295)
Rebolledo – momento drive CD (kompakt 117)
Jan st. Werner – split animal sculpture 10” (infinite grayscale 003)
Brett naucke – seed (spectrum spools 034)
Matthew ‘doc’ dunn – all is (cosmic range)
Oberman knocks / autechre – dilankex ep 12” (aperture 006)
Michael flower & neil Campbell – wharf cat CD & 7” (golden lab 40)

New this week:

Christina vantzou – no.2 (kranky) February 2013
Kyle bobby dunn – fragments and compositions of (low point) january 2014
Attila faravelli – stereo recordings (senufo #47) march 2014
Minoru sato – sex god sex (senufo #46) march 2014

Missed (still interested):

Liars – mess (mute) mar 11 2014 coma
No ufo’s – mpc tracks vol. 11 (nice up intl.) mar 10 2014 coma
Jon porras – light divide (thrill jockey) mar 10 2014 coma
Pulse emitter – outdoor session (cosmic winnetou, 2013) mar 10 2014 coma
Oneohtrix point never – commissions I (warp) mar 10 2014 coma

Suggestions:

Kassel jaeger – toxic cosmopolitanism (eMego 183) march 2014
Illuha – akari (12k 1080) march 2014
Giuseppe ielasi – stunt (appendix) (holidays) march 2014
Alex cobb – marigold and cable (shelter press) march 2014
The fun years – one quarter descent (spring break tapes) march 2014
Mogwai – rave tapes + 12” + single sided 7” (rock action 80/sub pop 1070) January 2014
Dum dum girls – too true + ‘girls intuition’ (‘rimbaud eyes’ b-side) (sub pop 1040) January 2014
Liars – mess (mute) march 2014
Liars – mess on a mission (mute) march 2014
Belfi/grubbs/pilia – dust & mirrors (blue chopsticks 25) February 2014
Valerio Tricoli - Miseri Lares (Pan 44) march 2014
Pitreleh – pitreleh (important 384) October 2013
Matthew barlow – sun showers (preservation circa 214) February 2014
Efdemin - decay (dial) mar 09 2014 coma
Deadbeat & paul st. hilaire – the infinity dub sessions (blakartz 008) February 2014
Celer – zigzag (w/ seesaw) (spekk 27) march 2014
Bardo pond – without a doubt b/w heaven II 7” (drawing room 003) February 2014
Black to comm – providence (dekorder 74) april 2014
Excepter – the stand (dekorder 73) april 2014
Experimental audio research – all things being equal (dekorder 72) april 2014

Older stuff:

Jim o’rourke – old news no. 9 (emego old news #9) October 2013
War on drugs, the – wagonwheel blues (secretly Canadian) june 2008

Fonts:

Hallo sans

Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Lazyitis

Further investigation:

Dead heat – bosco 12” (life and death) “the dam (the field remix)” 

Possibilities:

Christina vantzou – no 2 (kranky 186)
Christopher bissonnette – essays in idleness (kranky 187) march 2014
Teenage filmstars – there’s a cloud over Liverpool (munster 343)
Vladislav delay – ripatti 03 12” (ripatti 003)
Jason lescalleet – much to my demise (kye 027)
j. spaceman &  kid millions – live at le poisson rouge (northern spy) april 2014
Jack dice – sip paint (modern love 93) February 2014
Kyle bobby dunn – kyle bobby dunn and the infinite sadness (students of decay)
Mark banning – journey to the light (students of decay) February 2014
Sean mccann – ten impressions for processed piano and strings (root strata)
Celer – zigzag (spekk 27) march 2014
Kassel jaeger – toxic cosmopolitanism (emego 183) march 2014
Farben & james din a4 – farben presents james din a4 (faitiche 012) 
Field, the – cupid’s head remixe II 12” (kompakt 297) w/ tim hecker & tm404
Jesse sparhawk / eric carbonara – thributes and diatribes (vhf 134) February 2014
Va – space project (lefse) record store day (april 19, 2014) ft spiritualized, blues control, beach house
Dead rider – chills on glass (drag city 535)
Nicholas szczepanik – not knowing (desire path tangents 001) 
Anna von hausswolff – kaollan (prototype) (touch tone 045-6LP) 
Dominik eulberg & Gabriel ananda – friend of all that lives 12” (traum 173)
Guided by voices – motivational jumpsuit (guided by voices) February 2014

Missed (still interested):

Jack dice – block motel (modern love 82) November 2012
Fire! Orchestra (w/ Oren Ambarchi) – second exit (rune grammofon) feb 04/05 exystence, musical coma

Dave diggin’:

Actress- Ghettoville (Ninja Tune/Werkdiscs)
Morgan Delt- s/t (Trouble In Mind)
Ekoplekz- Unfidelity (Planet Mu)
Papir- III (El Paraiso)
Sugarm- Pure Racket (Hausu Mountain)

Suggestions:

Pye Corner Audio – Black Mill Tapes vol. 3 (type 118) January 2014
Pye corner audio – black mill tapes vol 3 (type 118) January 2014
Agnes obel – the curse (Robert hampson remix) November 2013
Blank realm – grassed inn (fire 333) January 2014
Helm – the hollow organ (pan 50) January 2014
Bill Callahan – have fun with god (drag city 571) January 2014
Arve henriksen – cosmic creation (rune grammofon 2152) January 2013
Va – pop ambient 2014 (kompakt) january 2014
Fumiya tanaka – dark pad (perlon 98) December 2013
Oren ambarchi – amulet cassette (the tapeworm 065) January 2014
Gareth Dickson – Collected Recordings (drifting falling 2009, 12k 2029) November 2013
Janek Schaefer – lay-by lullaby (12k 1079) February 2014
Tara jane o’neil – where shine new lights (kranky 184) January 2014
The green kingdom – expanses (dronarivm) January 2014
Hands – the soul is quick (ecstatic 004) February 2014
D/P/I – 08.DD.15 (leaving 033) february 2014
Marcus fischer & the oo-ray – tulong (bandcamp) January 2014
Anne Guthrie – Codiaeum Variegatum (students of decay) February 2014
Kevin drumm – shut in (emego 189) february 2014
Sun araw – belomancie (sun ark 33) February 2014
Golden retriever – seer (thrill jockey 361) February 2014
Koen holtkamp – motion (thrill jockey 362) February 2014
Jefre cantu-ledesma – requiem (for violin and magnetic tape) 10” (infinite grayscale 002)
Matt Christensen – Coma Gears (bathetic) February 2014
New Bums – Voices in a Rented Room (drag city 585) February 2014
Opitope – physis (spekk 26) February 2014
Pinkcourtesyphone – a ravishment of mirror (dragon’s eye) February 2014
Real estate – atlas (domino) February 2014
War on Drugs, The – Lost in the Dream (secretly Canadian) February 2014
Dum dum girls - too true (sub pop)
Mogwai – rave tapes (japan) (sub pop) january 2014
Sexual objects – feels with me (eyelids in the rain) October 2013

Older stuff:

The stargazer lilies – we are the dreamers (graveface 96) October 2013
Heroin in Tahiti – death surf (boring machines) February 2012
Sexual Objects – Cucumber (Aktion Und Spass 004) 2010
Fripp & eno – evening star (island) 1975

Thursday, January 16, 2014

Aluminium Beach

Three week headache completing massive iTunes re-org. Back to 2013 compilation, stay up on 2014 redux, the 10+ shoegaze mixes and ecstasy symphony mixes.

Further investigation:

Velvet underground – white light/white heat 45th anniversary deluxe edition) exy dec 12
Plankton wat – the outer lands (sweat lodge guru 34, c36) august 2011
Plankton wat – visions of otherness (blackest rainbow) march 2009

Possibilities:

Belfi/Grubbs/Pilia – Dust & Mirrors (blue chopsticks 25) February 2014
Sun araw – belomancie (sun ark 33) march 2014
Maxwell august croy & sean mccann – I (students of decay)
Helm – the hollow organ (pan 50)
Derek rogers – this house is a block (patient sounds cs) january 2014
Boots brown – dashes to dashes (hapna 51)
The field – cupid’s head remixe 2 (kompakt 294)
Birds of delay (helm & heatsick) – a living room at the bottom of a lake (nashazphone) 2009
Sunroof! – rock power (nashzaphone) 2003
Alex cobb – marigold and cable (shelter press)
Alex cobb – blowing up the workshop 18 (students of decay)
Mark banning – journey to the light (students of decay)
Duane pitre + cory allen – the seeker and the healer (students of decay)
Anne Guthrie – codiaeum veriegatum (students of decay)
Kyle bobby dunn (students of decay)
Giuseppe ielasi – stunt (appendix) 3x7” (holidays 055)
Blank realm – grassed in (fire)
Talk west – black coral sprig (preservation circa 114)
Barlow, matthew – sun showers (preservation circa 214)
Hands (The Field) – the soul is quick (ecstatic 004) January 2013
John tejada – we can pretend 12” (kompakt 286)
Gareth Dickson – collected recordings (drifting falling, 2009) “fifth, the impossibility of death,” “trip in a blanik,” “two trains,” “harmonics,” “AGOA,”
Jack name – light show (god?) January 2014
Black twig pickers & steve gunn – lonesome valley 7” (thrill jockey 355) December 2013
New bums – slim volume 7” (new bums industries 01) December 2013
New bums (chasney/quinn) – voices in a rented room (drag city) February 2014
Mogwai – rave tapes (sub pop) january 2014
Bill Callahan – have fun with god (drag city) January 2014
Bushman’s revenge – thou shalt boogie! (rune grammofon 2151)

New this week:

Kaito – less time until the end (kompakt 292) December 2013

Missed (still interested):

Roses – it’s over ep (big joy)
Keith berry – towards the blue peninsula (infraction) inspired by Koda’s “Movements”
Kawabata makoto – inui 4 (vhf) September 2007

Suggestions:

Gunn gangloff – melodies for a savage fix (important 392) november 2013
Cian nugent & the cosmos – born with the caul (no quarter 034) November 2013
Bill Kouligas / Valerio Tricoli – Split (Pan [no number]) December 2013
Jar Moff – Financial Glam (pan 49) December 2013
Heatsick – re-engineering (pan 48) December 2013
NHK'Koyxen - Dance Classics Vol. III (Pan 42) december 2013
Diamond version – ep 1-5 (mute) october 2013
Flaming lips, the & various – the time has come to shoot you down… what a sound (lovely sorts of death) November 2013
Ensemble economique – interval signals (denovali 186) January 2014
Ensemble economique – light that comes, light that goes (denovali 187) january 2014
Ensemble Economique - (No Thing-ness) (dekorder 070, 10 Year Anniversary Hybrid Vinyl Series 3) december 2013
Mv & ee with the golden road – shade grown (child of microtones 39) November 2013
Mike Donovan – wot (drag city 563) October 2013
jan st. werner - transcendental animal numbers (fiepblatter catalogue #2) (thrill jockey 356) December 2013
swervedriver – deep wound 7” (tym records) December 2013
Plankton wat – drifter’s temple (thrill jockey 344) september 2013
Date palms – the dusted sessions demos (date palms 01) September 2013
The field – cupid’s head (the gas remixes) (kompakt 300) December 2013
Pye Corner Audio - Black Mill Tapes Vol. 4: Dytopian Vectors (Type 118) january 2014
Asuna – valya letters (white paddy mountain 007) December 2013
Eleh – for moussavi atrium (important 400) december 2013
Nicked Drake – Wraiths (Lirico 1517, japan) October 2013
Astral social club – destiny snfu (nna tapes 064) december 2013
Pelt Part Wild Gate – Hung on Sunday (Mie Music 023) November 2013
Heisenberg – Ripatti 02 (ripatti 02) October 2013
DJ Tennis feat. pillow talk – the outcast (kompakt 261) November 2013
Taylor deupree + Stephen vitiello – before leaving (12k/soundcloud) December 2013

Older stuff:

Kaito – recontact (octave lab 1970, japan) august 2013
Tobias Hellkvist – Turquoise (Small Fragments 002, japan) august 2013
Good stuff house – good stuff house (Indian queen 004/time lag) july 2013/2006
Marcus Fischer – Birds of a Feather (Flaming Pines 021) june 2013
Jan st. Werner – 2069 (blaze colour burn soundcloud bonus track) (thrill jockey soundcloud) june 2013
Richard skelton – riftmusic (part two) (corbel stone press archival series volume one) may 2013
Richard skelton – ivystrung (corbel stone press archival series volume two) july 2013
Plankton wat – spirits (thrill jockey 294) may 2012
Ryonkt – Four Fragments (smallfish) February 2009

Fonts:

exo
Open sans
Adria grotesk
Pancetta pro regular
Anson
Sabado

Beer:

hopslam

To do_done (moved from downloads to music library):

Bowery electric Main rmx (vertigo)
Kiln randoms/Windmill_Waterwheel
Swervedriver ‘untitled’s (jesse)
Teenage Fanclub jesse mix_drop