Thursday, October 1, 2015

My Life Spins Round Your Every Smile

Making some good headway with some new mixes for Oystered/Mixcloud, which will be more instrumental, cinematic, and ambient in nature. Also, planning to keep up on the shoegaze set, a compilation of Kompakt's Pop Ambient and Total series'. On the 'pop/rock' side of things, really been digging some of the new Kurt Vile and Beach House. Lots to look forward to too: Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp, Giovanni Di Domenico & Jim O'Rourke, and tons more, I'm sure.

Possibilities:

Byron Westbrook (Corridors) – Precipice (Root Strata 100)
Ian William Craig – Prayer For the Wanting (Recital 14)
Heather Liegh – I Abused Animal (Ideologic Organ 23) November 2015
Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp – The Island (trouble in mind)
Rafael anton irisarri – a fragile geography w/ unsaid (room40 66) October 2015
Scott Tuma – (Immune)
Pop Ambient 2016 ft Stephan Mathieu (Kompakt 128)
KX 2015 2CD (KX 001CD)
Kohoutek – Curious Aroma (MIE 034)
Andrea Taeggi – Mama Matrix Most Mysterious (Type 126)
Visionist – Safe (PAN 67)
Duane Pitre – Bayou Electric CD (Important 421)
Christina Vantzou – No. 3 (Kranky 199)
Eleh/Tara Jane O’Neil – Split LP (Important 430)
Partok Matushka Apfelberg – Nai Nai 12” (Kompakt 331)
Sean McCann – A Castle Popping & Tub of Deep Green Ink (Recital 11)
Coma – This Side of Paradise (Kompakt 126)
Blond:ish – Welcome to the Present (Kompakt 127)
Flanger – Lollopy Dripper (nonplace urban field 041)

Suggestions:

Kurt Vile – B’lieve I’m Goin Down (Matador) august 2015
Destroyer – Poison Season (Merge) august 2015
Low – Ones and Sixes (Sub Pop 1144) august 2015
Beach House – Depression Cherry (Sub Pop 1122) august 2015
Kawabata Makoto – Astro Love & Infinite Kisses (vhf #133) july 2015
Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There (Matador) july 2015
M.E.S.H. – Piteous Gate (PAN 66) july 2015
Chihei Hatakeyama + Federico Durand – Magical Imaginary Child (White Paddy Mountain 24) july 2015
Sean McCann – A Castle Popping (Recital 11) august 2015
Panda Bear – Crosswords EP (Domino) august 2015
Kevin Parks/Vanessa Rossetto – Sever Liberties (Erstwhile EAU004) june 2015
Matt 'MV' Valentine - Midden Mound (Child Of Microtones 43_-_Golden Lab 51_-_Coney Island Audio 02) july 2015
VA - Total 15 (Kompakt CD 125) august 2015
Jens-uwe Beyer - The Emissary (Kompakt Pop Ambient 3) september 2015
Steve Hauschildt - Where All Is Fled (Kranky 198) September 2015
Philip jeck – Cardinal (touch 98) september 2015
OneOhTrix Point Never – Garden Of Delete (Warp) September 2015
Helen – The Original Faces (Kranky) august 2015
MV & EE - Alpine Frequency (Feeding Tube 167) august 2015
Simon Scott - Insomni (Ash International 11.4) august 2015
Drainolith - Hysteria (NNA Tapes 079) august 2015
Bitchin Bajas/Natural Information Society – Automaginary (Drag City) august 2015
Pole – Wald (pole) September 2015
Scott Tuma – Hard Again/The River 2LP (Scissor Tail 24) January 2015
Donnacha Costello – Love From Dust (Ursa 101) june 2015
Orcas – Don’t Ask Why (MBV cover/soundcloud)
Rafael Anton Irisarri – Unsaid (Room40) September 2015

Older stuff:

Jan Jelinek – Hub Tierbeobachtungen Live (~scape 041) 2008
Deerhunter – iTunes Live From Soho (4AD) February 2011

?:

Mercury Rev – The Light in You (Bella Union) September 2015
Four Tet – Morning/Evening (Text 36) july 2015
Tame Impala – Currents (Interscope) july 2015
Alessandro Cortini – Risveglio (Hospital 426) july 2015

Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Spirit In The Night

Working/not working on a few follow up summer mixes for mixcloud and oystered. Looking forward to finishing them. After that, the lingering shoegaze mixes (8-17, at least), a Gas mix... not sure after that, Yo La Tengo? Mouse On Mars? I'm sure I'll change my mind a hundred times before then and it might just be a hundred years from now. Or might as well be. Getting older makes you tired, even when you eat well. Music must be the cure. Haven't listened to half this stuff yet:

Possibilities:

Peacers – peacers (drag city) july 2015
Kurt vile / steve gunn split (3lobed)
Six organs of admittance / William tyler – split (3lobed)
Bardo pond / yo la tengo – split (3lobed)
Oren Ambarchi – Sleepwalker’s Conviction (Black Truffle 015) may 2015
Retruibution Body – Aokigahara (Type 122) may 2015
Vision heat – the chosen themes – program I (root strata 98) may 2015
Vibracathedral orchestra – rec blast motorbike (vhf #139) june 2015
Kawabata makoto – astro love and infinite kisses 2LP (vhf#133) summer 2015
Natural Information Society (Joshua Abrams) & Bitchin Bajas – Automaginary (Dragy City) august 2015
Hagerty-Toth Band – Qalgebra (3 Lobed) april 2015
Destroyer – poison season w/ forces from above b/w time square, poison season 12” (merge) august 2015
The Telescopes – Hidden Fields (tapete 318)
Kompakt Total 15 (KOMP 125)
Black Dirt Oak & Jantar – Presage (Mie 031)
Kurt Vile – B’lieve I’m Goin Down 3LP w/ 6 bonus tracks (Matador) September 2015
Helen (grouper) – the original faces (kranky) September 2015

Skipped:

Flying Saucer Attack – Instrumentals 2015 (drag city) july 2015

New this week:

The inward circles – belated movements for an unsanctioned exhumation august 1st 1984 (

Missed (still interested):

Mark Fell & Sandro Mussida - Object Relations #1 (Object Relations 1) january 2015

Suggestions:

Valet – Nature (Kranky 195) may 2015
Heroin In Tahiti – Sun and Violence (Boring Machines) may 2015
Bellows - Rustl (Boomkat Editions 012) april 2015
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe & Ariel Kalma - We Know Each Other Somehow (FRKWYS Vol. 12) april 2015
Stefano pilia – blind sun new century Christology (sound of cobra) april 2015
Lifted – 1 (PAN 61) April 2015
Thomas Brinkmann – What You Hear (Is What You Hear) (eMego 204) april 2015
Sarah Davachi – Qualities of Bodies Permanent (Constellation Tatsu 56) april 2015
Mark McGuire – First Thaw In Raining Creation (self-released_bandcamp) february 2015
William Basinski – The Deluge (Live at Issue Project Room) (2062 1502) april 2015
Loren Connors – Airs (Recital 10) February 2015
Jim O’Rourke – Simple Songs (drag city) may 2015
Shuttle358 – Can You Prove I Was Born (12k 2033) may 2015
Wolfgang Voigt – Ruckverzauberung 10 – Nationalpark (Profan 16CD) may 2015
Errorsmith & Mark Fell – Protogravity EP (PAN 64) may 2015
Bitchin Bajas – Transporteur (Hands In the Dark 24) may 2015
Strategy – Noise Tape Self (Further records) may 2015
Vilod – Safe In Harbour (Perlon 105) june 2015
Sightings – Amusers and Puzzlers (Dais) june 2015
Ken Camden – Dream Memory (kranky 194) june 2015
Thee Oh Sees – Mutilator Defeated At Last (Castle Face 55) may 2015
Walls - Urals (Ecstatic 10) may 2015
No Joy – More Faithful (Mexican Summer 200) june 2015
Elijah Simmons – Pisces 12” (KX 05) june 2015
Helm – Olympic Mess (PAN 63) june 2015
Michael Mayer/Reinhard Voigt – Time Is Running 12” (Kompakt 328) june 2015
Villalobos – Who Are We? EP 12” (Raum… Musik 093) april 2015
Loop – Array 1 (ATP Recordings) june 2015
Ducktails – St. Catherine (Domino) june 2015
William Basinski & Richard Chartier – Divertissement (Important 417) june 2015
Thore Pfeiffer – Im Blickfeld (Kompakt Pop Ambient 2) june 2015
Andrew Chalk – A Light At The Edge Of The World (Faraway Press 25) june 2015
Arnold Dreyblatt – Second Selection (Black Truffle 016) june 2015
Fis – The Blue Quicksand Is Going Now (Loopy 000LPY) june 2015
Blank Realm – Illegals In Heaven (Fire 417) july 2015
Jackie-O Motherfucker – Smiles (Pome Pome Tones 5) july 2015

S. Araw “Trio” XI – Gazebo Effect (Sun Ark 039) june 2015

From rick:

Ceremony – The L-Shaped Man (Matador 1057) may 2015

Older stuff:

Devendra banhart – mala (nonesuch) march 2013

Friday, April 3, 2015

Shake Off The Ghosts

Went on a bit of a nostalgia trip earlier this week. Re-checked out Simple Minds' Sparkle In The Rain (the re-released, remastered double CD with accompanying b-sides) and realized some of these lyric segments I've been carrying around with me for decades in some sort of hard-to-get-to location in my brain near the recycle bin, that rear their ugly head every now-and-then but I just can't seem to place, (I always thought it was some U2 song) come from this album, "I will be there/I will be there/I will be there," from Up On The Catwalk, "I couldn't sleep a wink last night... Run till we come, until we be/speed your love to me," among others... Glad I only lost one day to this endeavor. Thought about carrying on the next day to re-check out, after nearly thirty years, Sons and Fascination & Sister Feelings Call, both of which I remember listening to on a dubbed cassette of on a Walkman(!), whilst taking over a friend's paper-route during the dark cold months of January-March. Anyway, the music shines, a funky, synthy, albeit '80s shine, but Jim Kerr's voice just won't stop. It seems as though he's singing all the way through each song, front and center, giving these songs a sort of claustrophobia that could have been avoided, and as some poor-mans version of Bono, to make things worse. But as a teenager growing up in the American midwest, this album was everything to me for a short while. And all that being said, re-hearing the last song, the instrumental, "Shake Off the Ghosts" nearly gave me goosebumps. What a timeless beauty.

Possibilities:

Bitchin bajas – transporteur LP/CS (hands in the dark 24) may 2015
Valet – Nature (Kranky 195) 2015
Howling Hex – butterfly/party shoes 7” (drag city 622) 2015

Skipped:
Cherubs - 2 Ynfynyty (Brutal Panda Records 27) march 2015

New this week:

Mountains – You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever vol. 11 (Parallel One b/w Parallel Two) 7” (geographic north) march 2015

Missed (still interested):

The sexual objects – marshmallow (eyelids in the rain) January 2015
The sexual objects – cream split up 10” (Instrumental versions) (eyelids in the rain) January 2015
Reinhard voigt – rachanee 12” (kompakt 320) December 2014
Tm404 – skudge white 088 12” (skudge 008) November 2014

Suggestions:

Swervedriver – I Wasn’t Born To Lose You (Cobraside) March 2015
Mark gardner & robin Guthrie – universal road + ‘the places we go’ CDs (soleil après minuit 1501/1502) march 2015
Leandro Fresco – El Reino Invisible (Kompakt Pop Ambient 1) march 2015
Vetiver – Complete Strangers (Easy Sound 1) march 2015
Federico Durand - Musica Para Manuel (Hibernate 58) march 2015
Klangwart – Transit (Staubgold 133) February 2015
William basinski – cascade (2062) march 2015
Ilyas Ahmed – I Am All Your Own (Immune 035) march 2015
Simple Minds – Sparkle In The Rain [Deluxe Edition] (Universal Music Group 060253797350) march 2015
Post – Man Rayzarek b/w Everybody Wants Me Now (bandcamp_self released) November 2014
Stromboli – Stromboli (Maple Death Records 002) February 2015
Lawrence – Manhattan 12” (Smallville 41) march 2015
Roman Flugel – Sliced Africa (Dial 69) march 2015
Reinhard voigt – rv 01/rv 02 12” (kompakt kx 01) january 2015
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (Constellation) march 2015
Eternal Tapestry – Lolo Pass Drifters (Thrill Jockey 388) February 2015
Biosphere Deathprod – Stator (Touch 99) March 2015
Julian Cope – Trip Advizer-The Very Best Of Julian Cope 1999-2014 (Lord Yatesbury 10) January 2015
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – FACT mix 485 (February 2015)
Va – as we were away (Nous Magazine) November 2014
Grateful Dead – The Best of (Grateful Dead/WEA) march 2015

Older stuff:

Julianna Barwick - Rosabi (Dead Oceans 096 dig 1)
Sohrab – between strangers (touch ts15) February 2013
Post – Cavalcade (We Can Still Picnic 10) November 2012

From rick:

Chick Synth mix 2015

Sunday, March 1, 2015

Laze It Up

Really looking forward to this year's Students of Decay schedule. Yep, still plugging away at the massive shoegaze 16+ CD compilations. Also, looking forward to mixing my 9+ hours of 2014's best tracks still.

Possibilities:

Alex cobb – chantepleure (ltd ed included cassette of remixes from secret pyramid, sarah davachi, billy gomberg, and m. sage, respectively, called “Chantepleure: Reconfigurations) (students of decay) april 2015
The inward circles – belated movements for an unsanctioned exhumation august 1st 1984
Mokira – 12” (s.e..l.f.) February 2015
Klangwart – transit (staubgold 133) January 2015
Eternal tapestry – wild strawberries 2xLP w/ bonus CD (thrill jockey) February 2015
Swerverdiver – I wasn’t born to lose you (cobraside) march 2015
Mark fell and sandro mussida – object relations #1 7” (object relations) January 2015
Dj sprinkles and mark fell – fresh insights (EP2) 12” (Comatonse) February 2015
Vetiver: Complete Strangers (Easy Sound)

Skipped:

Jan St. Werner - Miscontinuum Album (Fiepblatter Catalogue #3) (Thrill Jockey 385)
Disappears – irreal (kranky 192) January 2015
Lawrence English – Viento (Taiga) January 2015
Nicola ratti – ossario live

New:

The sexual objects – marshmallow (eyelids in the rain) January 2015
The sexual objects – cream split up 10” (Instrumental versions) (eyelids in the rain) January 2015

Missed (still interested):

Reinhard voigt – rachanee 12” (kompakt 320) December 2014
Tm404 – skudge white 088 12” (skudge 008) November 2014

Suggestions:

Panda bear – meets the grim reaper (domino) january 2015
Oren Ambarchi – Live Knots (Pan 53) February 2015
Oren Ambarchi & Jim O’Rourke – Behold (eMego 176) february 2015
Ryuichi sakamoto / Illuha / Taylor Deupree – Perpetual (12k 1082) january 2015
Sean McCann – Ten Impressions For Piano & Strings (Root Strata 97) January 2015
Noveller - Fantastic Planet (Fire 398) January 2015
Pan American – Sketch for Winter II: Rue Corridor (Geographic North 25) January 2015
Ryley walker – primrose green (dead oceans) march 2015
Steinbruchel – Parallel Landscapes (12k 2034) january 2015
Sarah Davachi - Barons Court w/ Neustadt/Altstadt bonus cassette (Students Of Decay 111) February 2015
Steve Gunn & Black Twig Pickers - Seasonal Hire (Thrill Jockey 386) February 2015
The Automatics Group – Summer Mix (Entr’acte 130, 2011 / The Death Of Rave 008) February 2015
Wolfgang Voigt - Protest Versammlung 1 (Profan CD 15) February 2015
Six Organs of Admittance - Hexadic (Drag City 616) February 2015
Mike Shiflet & High Aura’d – Awake (Type 124) February 2015
Eternal Tapestry - Wild Strawberries (Thrill Jockey 388) February 2015
Sam Prekop - The Republic (Thrill Jockey 384) February 2015

Stephan Mathieu – Nachtstucke (Schwebung ∫∂ VII HELIOSTÀSION MMXIV) january 2015

Gaussian Curve – Clouds (Music From Memory 004) December 2014
Jasmine Guffond – Yellow Bell (Sonic Pieces 021) January 2015
LabField - Bucket Of Songs (Hubro 2552) February 2015
Va – marfa myths (Mexican summer) February 2015

Binh – visio 12” (perlon 104) February 2015
Swervedriver – setting sun b/w television’s “days” 7” (cobraside 7-1404) february 2015
Rafael Anton Irisarri – Will Her Heart Burn Anymore (Room40 429) January 2015
Melchior productions ltd. – meditations 1-3 12” (perlon 103-1) December 2014
Melchior productions ltd. – meditations 4-6 12” (perlon 103-2) January 2015
Thomas Brinkmann – When The Music… 12” (Third Ear) January 2015
Andrew Chalk – Bright Rivers Run b/w Shimmer In the Sun (Meditations 03EP) January 2015
*AR – Diagrams For The Summoning Of Wolves (Corbel Stone Press) February 2015

Older stuff:

Andrew Pekler – The Prepaid Piano & Replayed (Entr’acte 177_-_Senufo Editions # fifty two) October 2014
Ricardo villalobos – voodog 12” (pressure traxx 009) September 2014
Aquarelle – Interrupted Forms (Bathetic) May 2014
Nicola Ratti – Ossario I (Holidays 068) February 2014
Nicola Ratti – Ossario II (Holidays 069) February 2014
*AR – succession (corbel stone press 002) September 2013

Thursday, January 1, 2015

Let's Be Still

Another long gap -- finally got some "work." Anyway, just as a reminder to myself, still working on KirKiln's "shoegaze" BOX SET as well as my new project, which I hope to actually complete, fairly soon on the short term, as either 'Not Not Pop Ambient (2014)' or 'Thursday Afternoons (2014).' I'll keep you posted at mixcloud & oystered.

Possibilities:

Steve gunn – boerum palace LP (3lobed 54)
Tm404 – skudge white 008 12” (skudge white 008) October 2014
Mark fell – performative utterances 2LP (en/of 047) November 2014
Wedding present – sea monsters 3CD reissue (exystence November 17 2014)
Wedding present – bizarre 3CD reissue (exystence November 17 2014)
Nathan bowles – Nansemond (paradise of bachelors) November 2014

Skipped:

Lawrence English & Stephen vitiello – fable (dragon’s eye) coma nov 4 2014
Tarwater – adrift (bureau b) coma nov 5 2014
Jon Mueller & duane pitre – inverted torch (type) coma nov 4 2014
Karla Borecky - Still In Your Pocket (Entr'acte E117, 2011_-_Recital R9) november 2014
Max eilbacher – red anxiety tracers (spectrum spools 031) December 2013
Steve moore – Pangaea ultima (spectrum spools 032) November 2013
Donato dozzy & nuel – the aquaplane sessions (spectrum spools 033) February 2014
Prostitutes – petit cochon (spectrum spools 035) may 2014

Missed (still interested):

Alan licht & brian chase – we thought we could do anything (new images)
Fabio Orsi / Claudio Rocchetti – Cascando Backwards 10) may 2014

Suggestions:

Fis – speech spirits (loopy) September 2014
Chris Herbert – constants (room40 457) september 2014
Gui boratto – abaporu (kompakt cd 115) September 2014
Objekt – Flatland (Pan 60) October 2014
Matias aguayo – legend (kompakt 309) October 2014
Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather (Paradise of Bachelors) October 2014
Richard Skelton - Form Themselves Into Streams (Corbel Stone Press)
Panabrite – pavilion (immune 033) october 2014
Fennesz – Venice 2014 2LP Reissue (w/ 2 bonus tracks) (touch 53v) October 2014
Oren ambarchi – quixotism (emego 202) October 2014
Federico Durand – la estrella dormida (white paddy mountain 14) October 2014
Astral Social Club - Fountain Transmitter Medications LP+CD (vhf #136) october 2014
Tm404 – svreca remixes 12” (kontra 037) October 2014
David sylvian – there is a light that enters houses when no other house is in sight (samadhisound 0024) October 2014
Panda Bear – Mr. Noah (Domino) October 2014
Dirty beaches – stateless (zoo music) October 2014
Medicine – home everywhere (captured tracks) October 2014
Dan’l Boone – Dan’l Boone (Drag City) October 2014
Jefre cantu-ledesma – eternal spring (shiningskullstudio) November 2014
Marble Sky – Marble Sky (Students of Decay 108) October 2014
Mark McGuire - Noctilucence (dead oceans) november 2014
Derek rogers – visual echoes (umor rex) November 2014
Vladislav Delay – Visa (Ripatti) November 2014
Andrea Belfi – Natura Morta (Miasmah 029) November 2014
Neel – phobos (spectrum spools 037) October 2014
Claudio Rocchetti + Pietro Riparbelli - Three Quarter Tone Piano Pieces (Cassauna 18) November 2014
His Name Is Alive – Tecuciztecatl (Silver Mountain Media Group 043) October 2014
Va – pop ambient 2015 (kompakt CD120) november 2014
Janek Schaefer – unfolding luxury beyond the city of dreams (dekorder 077)
Janek Schaefer – inner space memorial in wonderland (dekorder 078)
Fennesz – Mahler remixed (fennesz bandcamp, self released) November 2004
The Inward Circles – Nimrod Is Lost In Orion And Osyris In The Doggestarre (Corbel Stone Press) December 2014
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band – Intensity Ghost (No Quarter) October 2014
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – A Year With 13 Moons (Mexican summer) January 2015
Shuttle358 – CYPIWB 12” (12k 2032) October 2014
Spacemen 3 – Live At The New Morning, Geneva, Switzerland, 18.05.1989 (Mental Groove 099) july 2014
Stephan Mathieu – Sacred Ground (Schwebung ∫ VIII Æquinoktium MMXIV) November 2014
Billy Gomberg - Certain Words Again And Again (Sunshine Ltd. 028) September 2014
Black to comm – black to comm (type 120) November 2014
Sascha Funke – Zug Um Zug (Kompakt 316) November 2014
Ripatti – Ripatti 05 (Ripatti 05)
M.E.S.H. – Scythians Remixes (Pan 52-R) december 2014
Afrikan Sciences – Circuitous (Pan 54) December 2014
Black Sites (Helena Hauff & F#X) – unit 2669 12” (Pan 57) December 2014
Lawrence – a day in the life (mule musiq) november 2014
J mascis – fade into you b/w outside eyes (sub pop 1118) November 2014

Air texture IV (november 2014)

Panda bear – meets the grim reaper (domino) November 2014/january 2015

Loscil – sea island (kranky) November 2014
Andy stott – faith in strangers (modern love) November 2014

Va – Bleep: 10 (Bleep 01) may 2014
Va – the space project (lefse) april 2014

Older stuff:

Skyphone – hildur (self released) april 2014
Bitchin Bajas – Live At The Hideout (Bathetic 80) February 2014
Janek Schaefer - Double Exposure (Cronica 62) october 2011
Monster rally – ep (edit) (self-released) june 2010
Monster Rally – coral (edit) (gold robot) January 2011
Monster rally – deep sea 7” (gold robot) may 2011
Monster rally – crystal ball (edit) (gold robot) November 2011
Monster rally – beyond the sea (edit) (gold robot) 2012
Monster rally – return to paradise (edit) (gold robot) October 2013

Valerio Tricoli & Thomas Ankersmit - Forma II (pan 16) march 2011
Acetone – pinch ep (hut 38) 1993