Saturday, September 17, 2011

The Stars Are So Big, The Earth Is So Small... Stay As You Are

Quick update. Full-on apple/sweater weather. Grabbed some good stuff this week. More good stuff sure to follow soon. Soccer feels like it’s winding down a bit, ironically, just as the season’s getting started. People are insane. So are the stars.

Not finding (yet), but would like to:

Jim o’rourke – old news no. 6 (old news)
Jon Mueller – alphabet of movements (type)
Melchior productions ltd – bums 4 higher 12” (perlon)
Richard skelton – the complete landings
Carousell – landings (june 2006)
Richard skelton – rapture (june 2011)

Forthcoming:

Josephine (jefre cantu-ledesma & Milton cross) – (digitalis/dial square)
Driphouse – (spectrum spools 008LP)
Hive mind – (spectrum spools 009LP)
Portable – CD (perlon)

New this week:

Four tet – locked / pyramid (text) sept 2011
Ben vida – trading prescriptions cassette (los discos enfantasmes 015) aug 2011
Concern – living wage c20 (digitalis ltd. 220) aug 2011
Golden retriever – light cones (root strata) sept 2011

Missed (still interested):

Pimmon – lay down real slow c41 (stunned no. 133) aug 2011
Blues control – wfmu live cass (crooked tapes 001) aug 2011
Amazing births (mark mcguire & Julian gulyas) – younger moon LP (cylindrical habitat modules #55) aug 2011
Astral social club – scudding CDr (self-released) aug 2011
Farben – xango 12” (faitiche 006ep) sept 2011
In the country – sounds and sights cd (rune grammofon) sept 2011

Grabbed:

Container – LP (spectrum spools 007) aug 2011
Aquarelle – sung in broken symmetry (students of decay) aug 2011
Isidore ducasse – isidore ducasse (blackest rainbow 219) aug 2011
Tarwater – inside the ships (bureau b) sept 2011
Bill orcutt – how the thing sings (eMego 128) sept 2011
Wooden shjips – phonograph 7” w/ West LP (thrill jockey)
Ambarchi – o’rourke – haino - In A Flash Everything Comes Together As One There Is No Need For A Subject (black truffle 005LP) march 2011
Bvdub – I remember (translations of morketid) (glacial movements) sept 2011
Nickolas mohanna – reflectors (preservation circa 511) September 2011
Red horse – red horse (type 94) sept 2011
Alva noto – univrs (raster-noton) sept 2011
A winged victory for the sullen – a winged victory for the sullen (kranky 157) sept 2011
Aaron martin & justin wright – light poured out of our bones (preservation circa 611) sept 2011

To rick first:

Four tet – fabric 59
Wilco – the whole love

Older stuff:

Rv paintings - taiga remains – split LP (blackest rainbow) jan 2010
Taylor deupree – landing (room40) apr 2007

Listened:

neptune radio 9/15/11:

roman flugel - fatty folders (dial)
mark mcguire - get lost (emego)
bill orcutt - how the thing sings (emego)
bvdub - i remember (translations of morketid) (glacial movements)
gui boratto - III (kompakt)
carousell - landings (aeolian) june 2006

neptune radio 9/16/11:

Nickolas mohanna – reflectors (preservation circa 511) September 2011
Red horse – red horse (type 94) sept 2011
Alva noto – univrs (raster-noton) sept 2011
A winged victory for the sullen – a winged victory for the sullen (kranky 157) sept 2011
Aaron martin & justin wright – light poured out of our bones (preservation circa 611) sept 2011

neptune radio 9/17/11:

mark mcguire - a young person's guide CD#2 (emego)
alva noto - univrs (raster-noton)
red horse - red horse (type)
matthew friedberger - cut it out (thrill jockey)
taylor deupree - landing (room40)

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Blue is the Frequency

Mini-update, just to get organized. Soccer's been sucking up every last minute. And weddings before that. Looking forward to getting back to the music.

Grabbed:

Terranova – I want to go out (kompakt 221) aug 2011
Wolfgang voigt – kafkatrax 3 (kafkatrax) aug 2011
Singer – mindreading (drag city 412) july 2011
Mcguire, mark – get lost (emego 123) sept 2011
The sight below – n-plants_remixes (touch tone 45.2) august 2011
Clams casino – instrumentals 2LP (type 95) august 2011
Roman fluegel – fatty folders (dial 23CD) September 2011
Grouper – Water People / Moving Machine 7” (Ballroom Marfa) aug 2011
Janek Schaefer – phoenix & Phaedra holding patterns (spekk 25) aug 2011
Walls – sunporch (kompakt 237) aug 2011
Gui boratto – III (kompakt 90CD) sept 2011
Roll the dice – in dust (leaf) aug 2011
Le revelateur – fictions (gneiss things 10LP) july 2011
Matthew friedberger – cut it out (thrill jockey) sept 2011

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Time Thief

Here’s a month’s worth of new music found since the last post. Summer’s turning busy, and too bad it feels almost over. You just can’t deny the sun’s angle in the sky and the way it makes you feel like autumn. And the fact that sunrise is closing in on 7am again. Highlight of the summer/year so far is reuniting with old friends that I lost contact with some 20+ years ago. What an incredible 18 or so hours. Much too short but it sounds like we may hopefully be able to get together again in the not so distant future. I just can’t stop thinking about everybody. Gregg: I apologizing for smiling giddily for the first few hours non-stop pretty much before someone hit FF on father time and before you knew it, I was not able to express myself fully and find out more about whatcha been doin’, as Oberon and lack of sleep was fucking with us all. Fun Beatles set though. And it’s difficult to get back to the daily routine, and the inevitability of lots of change/very busy days ahead, in the near future with school, soccer, etc. Blarggie, blarggie.

Further investigation:

New-ish (june, july) VHF titles from Cian Nugent, Jesse Sparhawk & Eric Carbonara

Forthcoming:

Driphouse – LP (spectrum spools 008)
Mark mcguire – get lost (emego 123)

New this week:

Isidore ducasse (cantu-ledesma & William trevor Montgomery) – s/t (blackest rainbow 219) aug 2011
Concern – living wage c20 (digitalis ltd 220) aug 2011
Jim o’rourke – old news no. 6 (old news)
Fell / rehberg – 12” (emego)
Container – LP (spectrum spools 007) aug 2011
Clams casino – instrumentals (type) aug 2011
Red horse – red horse LP (type) aug 2011

Missed (still interested):

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

Grabbed:

Thee oh sees – castlemania (in the red) may 2011
Maria Minerva – cabaret cixous (not not fun) aug 2011
Lawrence – above the sky (mule 77) april 2011
Date palms – honey devash (Mexican summer 86) aug 2011
Dum dum girls – only in dreams (sub pop) august 2011
Fennesz + sakamoto – flumina (commons JAP) aug 2011
Eternal tapestry – doorways in the sand (night gallery bonus track) (thrill jockey) july 2011
Mark ernestus meets bbc – version (honest jon’s 57) aug 2011
Sun araw – ancient romans (sun ark 12) aug 2011
Lawrence – timeless (mix) (cocoon) aug 2011
The field – looping state of mind (kompakt) aug 2011
Starving weirdos – rolled in the midst of never ceasing currents flowing without rest forever onward (bo’weavil) june 2011
Alessandro bosetti – royals (monotype) mar 2011
Father – return of father (root strata) aug 2011

Older stuff:

Villalobos – what’s wrong my friends (perlon 59) nov 2006
James Jackson toth – waiting in vain (ryko) aug 2008
Religious knives – remains (no fun 13) jan 2007
Kevin drumm – sheer hellish miasmah extra track reissue (emego) feb 2007

Saturday, July 30, 2011

The World In Your Eyes

Nice summer week or two. FINALLY! Lake Michigan finally warm (code: refreshing) enough to get into. Extremely successful week music-wise; happy to have gotten the two Ambarchi duo LPs, caboladies (thanks RL!), bellows (thanks JFK!), within mirrors (thanks Jesse!), Kompakt Total 12, and a few other things. Still looking for Aquarelle (brand new) as well as Old News #6 (not even out yet), as well as Container LP (ditto), oh, and the Starving Weirdos LP on Bo’Weavil.

Been on a Spacemen 3 / Sonic Boom / Spectrum kick! Good for summer.

Not finding (yet), but would like to:

Further investigation:

l.r.j martens – eternal landscapes LP (aguirre 08) may 2011
expo ’70 – inaudible bicoastal trajectory LP (agurre 11) may 2011

Forthcoming:

Charalambides - Exile CD (KRANK 158CD)
Aquarelle - Sung in Broken Symmetry LP (SOD 089LP)
Barn owl - Lost In The Glare CD (THR 280CD)
Negrot, aerea - Arabxilla CD (BPC 240CD)
Lawrence - Timeless CD (CORMIX 035CD)
Farben - Xango 12" (FAITICHE 006EP)
Boratto, gui - III CD (KOMP 090CD)
Walls - Coracle LP+CD (KOM 245LP)
Scott, simon - Bunny CD (MIA 017CD)
In the country - Sounds And Sights CD/DVD (RCD 2113CD)
Continer - LP LP (SP 007LP)
Clams casino - Instrumentals 2LP (TYPE 095LP)

New this week:

Le revelateur – fictions LP (gneiss things 10) july 2011

Grabbed:

Le revelateur – motion flares (root strata 64) june 2010
Tuusanuuskat – naaksaa naa mun kyyneleet (fonal 78) july 2011
Borden / james ferraro / Samuel godin / lauren halo / Daniel lopatin, david – frkwys vol. 7 LP (rvng intl. 07) july 2011
Keith fullerton Whitman / alien radio (datashock) – split LP (dekorder 54) june 2011
Fennesz – seven stars (touch) july 2011
Ohayo – the state we are in (hapna 45) may 2011
Temporal marauder – makes you feel LP (spectrum spools 006) june 2011
Oren ambarchi & jim o’rourke – indeed LP (demego 021) june 2011
Oren ambarchi & Robbie avenaim – dream request LP (bo’weavil sidra 005) june 2011
Bellows – handcut (senufo #15) may 2011
Akira Rabelais & Stephan Mathieu – quien era aquella (conv [spain] CNV R09) may 2006
Chihei hatakeyama – mirror (room40) july 2011
Gui boratto – the drill (kompakt 232) july 2011
Barn owl – lost in the glare (thrill jockey) july 2011
Caboladies – renewable destination LP (students of decay) july 2011
Total 12 CD (kompakt 92CD) july 2011
Polvo – heavy detour 7” (merge) july 2011

Monday, July 18, 2011

Lonely Avenue

still lookin' for some elusive titles. mostly LPs. especially the ambarchi collaborations and new students of decay (caboladies & aquarelle). busy summer so far. finally hot this week. too much travelling yet not enough vacation feeling.

Not finding (yet), but would like to:

Starving weirdos - Rolled In The Midst Of Never-Ceasing Currents Flowing Without A Rest Forever Onward lp (bo’weavil) june 2011
Ambarchi / o’rourke
Ambarchi /avenum
Aquarelle – sung in broken symmetry (students of decay) july 2011
Caboladies – renewable destination (students of decay) june 2011
Bellows – handcut (senufo editions) w/ bonus material june 2011

New this week:

Fennesz - Seven Stars 10" (touch) july 2011
Temporal marauder – temporal marauder makes you feel (spectrum spools 006 LP) jun 2011 (mms best of 2011)
Kassel jaeger – algae (senufo) july 2011

Grabbed:

Ty segall – goodbye bread (drag city) jun 2011
Ty segall – I can’t feel it 7” (drag city) may 2011
Margaret dygas – Margaret dygas (perlon) jun 2011
Biosphere – n-plants (touch 84) jun 2011
Eternal tapestry & sun araw – night gallery (thrill jockey 266) july 2011
Rene hell – the Hilton – bonus CD with vinyl version of the terminal symphony (type 085) mar 2011
ben vida / keith fullerton whitman “split” aggregatepulseripper (damaged iiii) b/w 080114 LP (amish 033/required wreckers 3) june 2011
Eleanor friedberger – last summer (merge) july 2011
Bee mask – elegy for beach Friday (spectrum spools 05) june 2011
Ducktails – killin’ the vibe (new images 01) july 2011
Jackie-o motherfucker – earth sound system (fire) july 2011
Kenneth kirschner – twenty ten (12k 1066) june 2011
Sog – fremde hande (profane 35) july 2011
Stephan Mathieu – to describe George Washington bridge 10” (dekorder 51) july 2011
Wooden shjips – west (thrill jockey) july 2011
Tomutonttu – elavana planeetalla (new images 02) july 2011

Listened:

vetiver - errant charm (sub pop)
vetiver - tight knit (sub pop)
mv & ee - country stash (3lobed)
oystered 10
eleanor friedberger - last summer (merge)
margaret dygas - (perlon)
ty segall - goodbye bread (drag city)
jim o'rourke - old news no.5 (editions mego)

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Feed the Collapse

Been about two-and-a-half weeks since my last report. Let’s see, a lot’s happened since then it seems. School got out, then he got sick. My allergies have continued to annoy this year. Then everybody got the fever / stomach flu. Just on the mend now. the weather got kinda nice for a few days, but then got pretty bad. The second full day of summer, today, the high did not even reach the average low temperature (59). Soccer finished, but still more time consuming meetings. Got my last batch of freelance work; just finished it tonight! So… hopefully the weather finally turns around and we can get outside. Also need to do a forced exposure order soon. Focus on kids, music, blog posts and ripping vinyl.

Not finding (yet), but would like to:

Further investigation:

Doc dunn – mountain wind, mountain rain *reissue* (medusa) may 2011

Forthcoming:

Fire! with Jim O’Rourke – Unreleased (Rune Grammofon) july 2011
greg davis - schumann resonances c40 cassette (ekhein)
keith fullerton whitman - regaining composure b/w negating freedom c30 cassette (ekhein)
sean mccann - s/t c30 cassette (ekhein)
earn - performance c40 cassette (ekhein)
Huntsville - For Flowers, Cars And Merry Wars LP+CD (HUBRO 2505LP)
Fennesz - Seven Stars 10" (TONE 044EP)
Kirschner, kenneth - Twenty Ten 3CD (12K 1066CD)
Parks, van dyke - Wall Street/Money Is King 7" (BSR 4500EP)
Parks, van dyke - Dreaming of Paris/Wedding In Madagascar 7" (BSR 4501EP)
Pan/tone - Rescue Me 12" (AREAL 059EP)
7k oaks - Entelechy CD (ZEIT 013CD)
Mind over mirros - The Voice Rolling LP (DIGI 008LP)
Holy strays - Enlightenment 7" (NNF 233EP)
LA vampires goes ital - Streetwise 12" (NNF 235EP)
Aquarelle – sung in broken symmetry (students of decay) june 2011

New this week:

Diamond catalog – magnified palette LP (nna tapes 032) june 2011
Jim o’rourke / carlos giffoni – japan tour 2011 CD (no fun 999) june 2011
Biosphere – n-plants (touch) june 2011
Keith fullerton Whitman / alien radio – split (dekorder) june 2011
Keith fullerton Whitman / ben vida – split Required Wreckers #3 (amish) june 2011

Missed (still interested):

Jackie-o motherfucker – earth sound system (fire) jun 2011
Metal rouge – then in shadow (bezoar formations cass) june 2011
Matt ‘mv’ valentine – what I became (woodsiest 052 LP) may 2011
Astral social club – snaefell 7” (trensmat 021) may 2011
Jon Mueller – alphabet of movements (type)

Grabbed:

Nicola ratti – 220 tones (die schachtel zeit 012) may 2011
*Ar – wolf notes (type 093) may 2011
Myrmyr – fire star (under the spire 041) may 2011
Marsen jules – nostalgia CD (oktaf 003) june 2011
Mark templeton – mort aux vaches (mort aux vaches) june 2011
Roman flugel & Ricardo villalobos – rirom (raum music 080) june 2011
Eselsohr – voluntary milking system (senufo editions #eight) march 2011
Maria Minerva – tallinn at dawn (not not fun 222) march 2011
Maria Minerva – noble savage 12” (100% silk 004) march 2011
Ekin fil – language (root strata 86) jun 2011
Ricardo villalobos / max loderbauer – re: ecm 2CD (ecm 2758681) jun 2011
Ada – meine zarten pfoten (pampa 005cd) jun 2011
Sean mccann – sean mccann (ekhein 49) april 2011
Eric Copeland – Waco taco combo (escho 21) june 2011
Fire! & Jim O’Rourke – unreleased? (rune grammofon 2111) jun 2011
Alexander risaug – shadow of events (dekorder 53) jun 2011
Vladislav delay – latoma 12” (echocord) june 2011
Gregg kowalsky – battery townsley LP (senufo) mar 2011
Matt valentine – what I became LP (woodsist) may 2011
John tejada – parabolas (kompakt 93cd) june 2011
Thomas fehlmann – titan 1 / dfm (kompakt 224) jan 2011
Carl calm – a party tide cs (self-released) may 2011
Barn owl – shadowland (thrill jockey 277) jun 2011

Monday, June 6, 2011

Es-En-Double-Eee-Tee-See-Aitch-Eee-Es Sneetches!

That's the best I could come up with for the title of this post. The little ones have Dr. Seuss songs stuck in my head all day these days. Not a bad thing. Pretty Free Design-ish for the most part. Super busy two weeks spent mostly on the county soccer program. AND, the weather finally has gotten nice!

Forthcoming:

Oren ambarchi & jim o’rourke – indeed LP (DeMego 021) june 2011
Oren ambarchi & robbie avenaim – Dream Request LP (SIDRA 005LP)
Temporal marauder – temporal maraurder makes you feel LP (spectrum spools 006) july 2011
Bee mask – elegy for beach Friday (spectrum spools 005) july 2011
Black eagle child – pages on a plane (under the spire)
Aquarelle – sung in broken symmetry (students of decay) jun 2011
Matias aguayo - I Don't Smoke EP 12" (KOM 228EP)
Fennesz - Seven Stars 10" (TONE 044EP)
Ar - Wolf Notes LP (TYPE 093LP)
Kenneth kirschner - Twenty Ten 3CD (12K 1066CD)

New this week:

Nicola ratti – 220 tones (die schachtel zeit 12)
*ar – wolf notes (type)

Grabbed:

Mokira – time axis manipulation (kontra) may 2011
Turnquist, Alexander – hallway of mirrors (vhf 126) may 2011
Vida, ben – soft epic (root strata) apr 2011
Vetiver – the errant charm (sub pop) may 2011
Roman flugel – brasil (dial 58) may 2011
Quiet evenings – transcending spheres (preservation circa 411) may 2011
Richard skelton – marking time reissue +1 (preservation)
Alessandro brivio – associazioni poro (senufo editions #14) may 2011
David sylvian – died in the wool (manafon variations) (samadhisound 021) may 2011
Arrow kleeman – phase reps and builds (root strata 90) apr 2100
Matthew friedberger – old regimes (thrill jockey 262c) june 2011
Coldplay –every teardrop is a waterfall (june 2011)
Broker/dealer / psychonauts – dig deep / world keeps turning (immer 004 / kompakt) june 2011
Kreng – grimiore (miasmah 016) june 2011
Elodie – echos pastoraux (la scie doree, Belgium) may 2011
Matias aguayo – I don’t smoke ep (kompakt 228) june 2011