Winter is still in full effect here in the northern Great Lakes. Another great month of new releases.
Forthcoming:
Stephan Mathieu – the falling rocket (schwebung) march 22 2013
Groupshow – live at skymall mini LP (staubgold) February 2013
Pastels – slow summits (domino) may 2013
Sightings – terribly well LP (dias) may 2013
Rosy parlane – willow 7” (touch sevens 14) February 2013
Sohrab – between strangers (touch sevens 15) February 2013
William ryan fritch – the waiting room OST
Mark templeton & Nicola ratti – resophonic cities
From Shelter Press: Keith Fullerton Whitman/Floris Vanhoof, Ben Vida, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Gregg Kowalsky and more (Robedoor, Gabriel Salomon).
New this week:
Giuseppe ielasi / enrico malatesta – rudimenti (entr’acte 150) march 2013
Matthew ‘doc’ dunn – Tecumseh (healing power records #27) art edition LP VT, february 2013
Feral confine (Andrew chalk) – the full use of nothing (siren 021) (orig. cass, mid-80s) February 2013
Grabbed:
Mark fell – scale structure synthesis (alku 97) February 2013
Mark kozelek – like rats (caldo verde) February 2013
Marsen jules – the endless change of colour (12k) march 2013
Scattered Melodies: Korean Kayagum Sanjo LP (SF 077LP) january 2013
The Crying Princess: 78 RPM Records from Burma LP (SF 078LP) January 2013
Implodes – recurring dream (kranky) February 2013
Dj koze – amygdala (pampa) February 2013
Mv and ee – fuzzweed (three lobed) February 2013
Tame impala – mind mischief 12” rmxs (modular recordings?) march 2013
Haino/o’rourke/ambarchi – now while it’s still warm let us pour in all the mystery (black truffle) april 2013
Main – ablation (eMego 160) march 2013
Nickolas mohanna – parallax view (low point) march 2013
Fabio orsi & pimmon – procrastination (home normal 45) march 2013
Sebastien roux – more songs (broccoli) December 2012
Mark templeton – jealous heart (under the spire 051) march 2013
Ensemble economique – the vastness is bearable only through love (shelter press 014) February 2013
Merzbow / oren ambarchi – cat’s squirrel (black truffle 08) march 2013
Savvas ysatis + taylor deupree – origin (12k 2027) march 2013
Ducktails – letter of intent (remixes) (domino) march 2013
Messages – message bag 2LP (de stijl IND-1001-01) february 2013
Barn owl – v (thrill jockey 321) march 2013
Older stuff:
Taylor deupree – field (beta) November 2012
Fonts:
Signika
Beer:
Short's Rye Not?
Lagunitas Sucks
Greenbush Brother Benjamin
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Is it washable?
A pretty great february: Autechre, Voigt & Voigt, preservation contrasts cassettes series, TM404, plus all the stuff from the last post. Excited about new Jules on 12k, MV & EE's Fuzzweed, new Aquarelle on Students of Decay, Orsi & Pimmon and more. Winter storm 'Q' coming this week.
Been on a huuuuuge Autechre kick since the early arrival of Exai. I stopped listening after Untilted, and spent the last week plus on Quaristice and its extras.
Further investigation
Chelsea Light Moving (new Thurston Moore proj. with Samara Lubelski, Keith ‘Hush Arbors’ Wood and John “SBHOTM” Moloney on Matador)
Forthcoming:
Primal scream – more light (first international) f/2013 w/Kevin shields may 2013
Aquarelle – august undone (students of decay)
Fabio orsi & pimmon – procrastination (home normal) February 2013
MV & EE – fuzzweed b/w fantasy set (three lobed 099) February 2013
Black sunroof! – 4 black suns and a sinister rainbow 2CD (handmade birds 050) February 2013
The howling hex – the best of the howling hex (drag city 545) February 2013
Marsen jules – the endless change of colour (12k) march 2013
Savvas ysatis + taylor deupree – origin (12k) march 2013
Psychic Ills – One Track Mind value add bonus 7” (ltd. 1000) “Radar Eyes” (The Godz) b/w “Cosmic Michael Theme” (Cosmic Michaels)
Sensate focus – 2 12” (sensate focus 2)
Sun kil moon & the album leaf – perils from the sea (caldo verde) april 2013
Quicksails – Mayville dream LP (spectrum spools 027)
New this week:
Eddie c – country city country (endless flight)
Spunk – das wohltemperierte spunk 6CD (rune grammofon 2140) february 2013
MV & EE with the Golden Smokehound – Helderberg Haze (tape drift 61) january 2013
Metaboman – ja/noe CD (music Krause 005cd) February 2013
Mark kozelek – like rats (caldo verde) February 2013 (covers of Bruno mars, bad brains, misfits, sonny & cher, godflesh, ted nugent and more)
Giuseppe ielasi – rhetorical islands (senufo edition # thirty nine) February 2013
Barn owl – v (thrill jockey) musical coma February 11 2013
Grabbed:
Kesarbai kerkar – s/t LP (Mississippi 033LP) January 2013
Hair police – mercurial rites (type 113) February 2013
Cory allen – the great order (quiet design ALAS 20) february 2013
William ryan fritch – kaleidoscope (lost tribe sound) December 2012
Loren Connors & chris forsyth – contrasts (preservation contrasts cass series) February 2013
JD Emmanuel & Evan Caminiti – contrasts (preservation cass series) February 2013
Pimmon & deep magic – contrasts (preservation cass series) February 2013
Motion – pictures (12k 3012) February 2013 (orig. self released, 2000)
Autechre – exai (warp) February 2013
Tm404 – tm404 (kontra-music cd04) February 2013
Autechre – (keyosk) (exai jap bonus track)
Voigt & voigt – erdingertrax CD (erdingertrax CD1) january 2013
Michael pollard – translations 01 (spectrum spools 026) December 2012
Andrew pekler – cover versions (senufo editions # forty) February 2013
Voigt & voigt – die zauberhafte welt der anderen (kompakt 274) february 2013
William Basinski & Richard chartier – aurora liminalis (Line 060) February 2013
Lawrence – in a rush 12” (smallville 34) February 2013
Older stuff:
Autechre – medrey (tri repetae jap bonus track)
Autechre – nu-nr6d (quaristice jap bonus track)
Autechre – clnchr (move of ten jap bonus track)
Film:
Moonrise Kingdom
Fonts:
Bondoluo peek
lovelo
Beer:
Short's Aorta Ale
Short's Goodnight Bodacious
Bell's Smitten Golden Rye
Bell's Hopslam
Lagunitas Sucks
Been on a huuuuuge Autechre kick since the early arrival of Exai. I stopped listening after Untilted, and spent the last week plus on Quaristice and its extras.
Further investigation
Chelsea Light Moving (new Thurston Moore proj. with Samara Lubelski, Keith ‘Hush Arbors’ Wood and John “SBHOTM” Moloney on Matador)
Forthcoming:
Primal scream – more light (first international) f/2013 w/Kevin shields may 2013
Aquarelle – august undone (students of decay)
Fabio orsi & pimmon – procrastination (home normal) February 2013
MV & EE – fuzzweed b/w fantasy set (three lobed 099) February 2013
Black sunroof! – 4 black suns and a sinister rainbow 2CD (handmade birds 050) February 2013
The howling hex – the best of the howling hex (drag city 545) February 2013
Marsen jules – the endless change of colour (12k) march 2013
Savvas ysatis + taylor deupree – origin (12k) march 2013
Psychic Ills – One Track Mind value add bonus 7” (ltd. 1000) “Radar Eyes” (The Godz) b/w “Cosmic Michael Theme” (Cosmic Michaels)
Sensate focus – 2 12” (sensate focus 2)
Sun kil moon & the album leaf – perils from the sea (caldo verde) april 2013
Quicksails – Mayville dream LP (spectrum spools 027)
New this week:
Eddie c – country city country (endless flight)
Spunk – das wohltemperierte spunk 6CD (rune grammofon 2140) february 2013
MV & EE with the Golden Smokehound – Helderberg Haze (tape drift 61) january 2013
Metaboman – ja/noe CD (music Krause 005cd) February 2013
Mark kozelek – like rats (caldo verde) February 2013 (covers of Bruno mars, bad brains, misfits, sonny & cher, godflesh, ted nugent and more)
Giuseppe ielasi – rhetorical islands (senufo edition # thirty nine) February 2013
Barn owl – v (thrill jockey) musical coma February 11 2013
Grabbed:
Kesarbai kerkar – s/t LP (Mississippi 033LP) January 2013
Hair police – mercurial rites (type 113) February 2013
Cory allen – the great order (quiet design ALAS 20) february 2013
William ryan fritch – kaleidoscope (lost tribe sound) December 2012
Loren Connors & chris forsyth – contrasts (preservation contrasts cass series) February 2013
JD Emmanuel & Evan Caminiti – contrasts (preservation cass series) February 2013
Pimmon & deep magic – contrasts (preservation cass series) February 2013
Motion – pictures (12k 3012) February 2013 (orig. self released, 2000)
Autechre – exai (warp) February 2013
Tm404 – tm404 (kontra-music cd04) February 2013
Autechre – (keyosk) (exai jap bonus track)
Voigt & voigt – erdingertrax CD (erdingertrax CD1) january 2013
Michael pollard – translations 01 (spectrum spools 026) December 2012
Andrew pekler – cover versions (senufo editions # forty) February 2013
Voigt & voigt – die zauberhafte welt der anderen (kompakt 274) february 2013
William Basinski & Richard chartier – aurora liminalis (Line 060) February 2013
Lawrence – in a rush 12” (smallville 34) February 2013
Older stuff:
Autechre – medrey (tri repetae jap bonus track)
Autechre – nu-nr6d (quaristice jap bonus track)
Autechre – clnchr (move of ten jap bonus track)
Film:
Moonrise Kingdom
Fonts:
Bondoluo peek
lovelo
Beer:
Short's Aorta Ale
Short's Goodnight Bodacious
Bell's Smitten Golden Rye
Bell's Hopslam
Lagunitas Sucks
Monday, February 4, 2013
Give My Love To Kevin
This has been backlogging quite a bit. Holidays, then learned about Mixcloud (thanks Matty!), started compiling new ambient jamz for new Mixclouds, then got sidetracked with scouring boxes and youtubing for a "shoegaze" compilation for a friend, which got me side-sidetracked discovering Acetone which I totally ignored at the time but remembered Jason mentioning something to me about them a while back, which, in turn has sort of turned the shoegaze set into a mess and I've had to step back from it for a while. Figured I'd post that to mixcloud as well as an old Oystered mix, Perfect Sound Forever, and my two previously sorta-shoegaze mixes, "Mystery Mix" 1 & 2 all under the new "Cherry Picked" umbrella. New My Bloody Valentine was the perfect cleanser / distraction. It's exciting, and hopefully we'll hear more from Kevin sooner than later. Who doesn't need more glideguitar and seductive, strange songwriting from a true Original Artist in their life? New Mountains is great as well. Music, I think, has never been better. Super excited to see the new forthcoming Main (Hampson revitalized perhaps with one of my long-time faves, Stephan Mathieu) on eMego as well as Andreas Tilliander's new TM404 alias (the samples sound classic deep, Porter Ricks-styled Basic Channel and then some). Take some time to enjoy the new m b v everyone! Can't wait to get my vinyl copy.
Forthcoming:
Alan licht – four years older (emego 166) February 2013
Jim Haynes – the wires cracked LP (emego 171)
Main – ablation (emego 160)
Matt christensen – 1231 3”
B/B/S – Brick (miasmah) February 2013
Purling hiss – water on mars (drag city) January 2013
Pimmon / deep magic – split cass (preservation contrasts series)
Loren Connors / chris forsyth – split cass (preservation contrasts series)
Jd Emmanuel / evan caminiti – split cass (preservation contrasts series)
Va – your Victorian breasts (three:four records) february 2013 feat. Robert Hampson, Date Palms and Corridors
New:
Hair Police – Mercurial Rites (Type)
TM404 (andreas tilliander) – TM404 CD (8-tracks) (kontra)
Andrew pekler – cover versions (senufo)
Ben vida – monoblock’s and 200 tracks b/w tq80108 (alku 119) January 2013
Mark Fell – Scale Structure Synthesis (alku 97) January 2013
Iibiis rooge – hespherides (weird forest) January 2013
Motion sickness of time travel – the perennials (boomkat) January 2013
Sean mccann – prelusion reissue (root strata) January 2013
Grabbed:
Spacemen 3 / sun araw – split 7” (great pop supplement 89) December 2012
Grouper – the man who died in his boat (kranky) December 2012
Billow observatory – billow observatory (felte) December 2012
Jefre cantu-ledesma – speaking corpse (los discos enfantasmes, c42 cass) November 2012
Pop Ambient 2013 (kompakt) January 2013
Mountains – Centralia (thrill jockey) January 2013
Ricardo villalobos – dependent & happy pt. 4 12” (perlon 92-4) January 2013
Broadcast – the berberian sound studio (warp) January 2013
Ethernet – opus 2 (kranky) January 2013
Stephan Mathieu – un Coeur simple (baskaru) January 2013
Jar moff – commercial mouth (pan) January 2013
Psychic ills – one track mind (sacred bones 89) February 2013
KH (Four Tet) – The Track I’ve Been Playing That People Keep Asking About and That Joy Used in His RA Mix and Daphni Played on Boiler Room 12” (text 22) February 2013
Andrew chalk – mutsu no hana (an’archives 05) January 2013
Ducktails – the flower lane (domino 299) January 2013
Jasper tx – an index of failure (handmade birds) January 2013
Marcus fischer – on shore (bandcamp) CD-R JAP January 2013
Older stuff:
Marcus fischer – at frame (bandcamp) april 2012
Simon scott – aki (bandcamp/kesh) October 2012
The slaves – ocean on ocean (debacle 2010, Helen scarsdale December 2012)
Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage – Live at the Grimm Museum Volume One (important 354) june 2012
Pan American / to rococo rot – split 7” (unhip) july 2003
Acetone – cindy
Acetone – if you only knew
Acetone – York blvd (2000)
Acetone – I guess I would (1995)
Film:
Jiro dreams of sushi
Sleepwalk with me
The lonliest planet
Fonts:
Bemio
Headline News
Forthcoming:
Alan licht – four years older (emego 166) February 2013
Jim Haynes – the wires cracked LP (emego 171)
Main – ablation (emego 160)
Matt christensen – 1231 3”
B/B/S – Brick (miasmah) February 2013
Purling hiss – water on mars (drag city) January 2013
Pimmon / deep magic – split cass (preservation contrasts series)
Loren Connors / chris forsyth – split cass (preservation contrasts series)
Jd Emmanuel / evan caminiti – split cass (preservation contrasts series)
Va – your Victorian breasts (three:four records) february 2013 feat. Robert Hampson, Date Palms and Corridors
New:
Hair Police – Mercurial Rites (Type)
TM404 (andreas tilliander) – TM404 CD (8-tracks) (kontra)
Andrew pekler – cover versions (senufo)
Ben vida – monoblock’s and 200 tracks b/w tq80108 (alku 119) January 2013
Mark Fell – Scale Structure Synthesis (alku 97) January 2013
Iibiis rooge – hespherides (weird forest) January 2013
Motion sickness of time travel – the perennials (boomkat) January 2013
Sean mccann – prelusion reissue (root strata) January 2013
Grabbed:
Spacemen 3 / sun araw – split 7” (great pop supplement 89) December 2012
Grouper – the man who died in his boat (kranky) December 2012
Billow observatory – billow observatory (felte) December 2012
Jefre cantu-ledesma – speaking corpse (los discos enfantasmes, c42 cass) November 2012
Pop Ambient 2013 (kompakt) January 2013
Mountains – Centralia (thrill jockey) January 2013
Ricardo villalobos – dependent & happy pt. 4 12” (perlon 92-4) January 2013
Broadcast – the berberian sound studio (warp) January 2013
Ethernet – opus 2 (kranky) January 2013
Stephan Mathieu – un Coeur simple (baskaru) January 2013
Jar moff – commercial mouth (pan) January 2013
Psychic ills – one track mind (sacred bones 89) February 2013
KH (Four Tet) – The Track I’ve Been Playing That People Keep Asking About and That Joy Used in His RA Mix and Daphni Played on Boiler Room 12” (text 22) February 2013
Andrew chalk – mutsu no hana (an’archives 05) January 2013
Ducktails – the flower lane (domino 299) January 2013
Jasper tx – an index of failure (handmade birds) January 2013
Marcus fischer – on shore (bandcamp) CD-R JAP January 2013
Older stuff:
Marcus fischer – at frame (bandcamp) april 2012
Simon scott – aki (bandcamp/kesh) October 2012
The slaves – ocean on ocean (debacle 2010, Helen scarsdale December 2012)
Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage – Live at the Grimm Museum Volume One (important 354) june 2012
Pan American / to rococo rot – split 7” (unhip) july 2003
Acetone – cindy
Acetone – if you only knew
Acetone – York blvd (2000)
Acetone – I guess I would (1995)
Film:
Jiro dreams of sushi
Sleepwalk with me
The lonliest planet
Fonts:
Bemio
Headline News
Thursday, December 20, 2012
Psykick Dancehall
Happy holidays everyone! In the midst of our first snowstorm (The Weather Channel's first year naming winter storms, "Draco") of the year. However, it does not appear to be the End Times (argh, I said it... now it surely will happen. wait - how conceded a thought is that? sheesh...).
2012 was indeed another stellar year of new and exciting music. I'm glad to not have to be in the end-of-year list making business anymore. I probably haven't even had the time to listen to what will eventually be my album of the year 2012. Some notables: Marcus Fischer's barely there melodics (the sounds of a musician/musicians 'tuning up' for the real thing actually is the real thing), Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's scorching, melting ecstatic guitars, the Pan label, Oren Ambarchi, Pausal, Spiritualized, Sun Araw, Editions Mego, Mark McGuire, Students of Decay, and like I said, tons and tons of stuff I still haven't gotten around to: Zelienople, Villalobos, Mark Fell, Sensate Focus, Robert Hampson, Sean McCann, Old News, Derek Rogers, Eleh...
I'm still trying to dream up a scheme to DJ a coffee-house with experimental, ambient, indie, jazz, techno, kitchen-sink aesthetics. Hitting patrons with something familiar, like, the Beach Boys or something, only to pull the rug out with something like William Basinski to follow.
I read something uplifting today in Stumbling Toward Enlightenment by Geri Larkin, "[what if I told you] that one of [us] is a great teacher, a teacher people have been waiting for--for more than a thousand years." What if that great teacher actually is you? "So now that the rest of us are depending on you, how can you be your wisest self?"
Until next year, here's a couple stanzas from one of my favorite poems called "So There," by Robert Creeley:
Moving on. Mr. Ocean,
Mr. Sky's
got the biggest blue eyes
in creation –
here comes the sun!
While we can,
let's do it, let's
have fun
Forthcoming:
Mark templeton – jealous heart (under the spire)
Kassel jaeger – fernweh LP (senufo edition # thirty five) december 2012
Grouper – the man who died in his boat (kranky 177) February 2013
Mountains – Centralia LP + CD w/ bonus, unedited live material f/ early and improvised versions (thrill jockey) January 2012
Kevin drumm – tannenbaum (hospital) February 2013
Derek rogers – mist & drift c30 cs (jehu & chinaman) preorders include bonus track, “Apathy”
Sebastian roux – more songs
Autechre – exai 4LP/2CD (warp) march 2013
New this week:
Alessandro bosetti – stand up comedy (weird ear records) December 2012
The slaves – ocean on ocean (Helen scarsdale 23) December 2012
Va - …and darkness came (headphone commute bandcamp 87-track album featuring helios, marcus fischer, simon scott, marcus fjellstrom, kane ikin, autistici, kreng, julien neto, machinefabriek, pinkcourtesyphone, simon scott/tomoyoshi date/corey fuller/marcus fischer, honig + templeton, Lawrence English, loscil, peter Broderick, johann johannsson, olan mill, erik k. skodvin, Rafael anton irisarri, Ezekiel honig, celer, Christopher willits) December 2012
Grabbed:
William basinski – the disintegration loops box set (temporary residence) november 2012
Lawrence – garden of moss 12” (mule musiq 154) November 2012
Jon porras – orilla oscura (immune 025) november 2012
Eleh – retreat return repose 3CD (important) December 2012
Yo la tengo – fade (matador) December 2012
Charlatan – isolatarium (type) December 2012
Va – touch 30 years and counting (touch) December 2012
Mike shiflet - the choir, the army (under the spire 045) December 2012
Mark mcguire – nightshade (bandcamp) november 2012
Mark mcguire – surrogate channels (bandcamp) november 2012
Derek rogers – everything that mattered at once (tape drift) October 2012
Raime – Quarter Turns over a Living Line
Between – between (12k 2026) December 2012
Jon Mueller – death blues (taiga 024) January 2013
Villalobos – baby ep (raum…music 085) December 2012
Eleh – the weight of accumulation (important 369) october 2012
Ricardo villalobos – dependent & happy pt 3 (perlon 93-3) September 2012
Sensate focus vs heatsick – deviation heat-treated (pan 38) December 2012
Times new viking – over & over ep (matador) October 2012
Stephan Mathieu & david sylvian – wandermude (‘blemish’ reinterpretation) (Samadhisound 023) january 2013
Older stuff:
The slaves – spirits of the sun (digitalis vinyl 42) july 2012
Hildur gudnadottir – leyfou ljosinu (touch) may 2012
Bruce gilbert – monad 7” (touch sevens 12) august 2011
Year End Lists:
The Wire 2012 Rewind (of note):
Sun Araw & M Geddes Gengras meet the Congos – Icon Give Thank
Ricardo Villalobos – Dependent and Happy
Haino/O’Rourke/Ambarchi – Imikuzushi
Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
Richard Skelton – Verse of Birds
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes
Thomas Koner – Novaya Zemlya
Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
Lee Gamble – Diversions 1994-1996
Heatsick – Deviation
Duane Pitre – Feel Free
Pelt – Effigy
Jason Lescalleet – Songs About Nothing
Michael Pisaro and Toshiya Tsunoda – Crosshatches
Laurel Halo – Quarantine
Actress – RIP
Julia Holter – Ekstasis
Scott Walker – Bish Bosch
Josephine Foster – Blood Rushing
Swans – The Seer
Pye Corner Audio – Sleep Games
Aaron Dilloway – Modern Jester
Shackleton – The Drawbar Organ/Music for the Quiet Hour
CC Hennix & The Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage – Live at the Grimm Museum 1
Bob Dylan – Tempest
Morton Feldman – Crippled Symmetry: At June in Buffalo
Mark Ernestus Presents Jeri-Jeri with Mbene Diatta Seck – Mbeuguel Dafa Nekh
Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
Film:
Senna
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Street Fight
The Parking Lot Movie
Winnebago Man
Fearless Freaks
Spirit of the Marathon
Drive
Fonts:
Casper
Stiff staff
Tikal sans
Tikal sans itl
Oranienbaum
sreda
2012 was indeed another stellar year of new and exciting music. I'm glad to not have to be in the end-of-year list making business anymore. I probably haven't even had the time to listen to what will eventually be my album of the year 2012. Some notables: Marcus Fischer's barely there melodics (the sounds of a musician/musicians 'tuning up' for the real thing actually is the real thing), Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's scorching, melting ecstatic guitars, the Pan label, Oren Ambarchi, Pausal, Spiritualized, Sun Araw, Editions Mego, Mark McGuire, Students of Decay, and like I said, tons and tons of stuff I still haven't gotten around to: Zelienople, Villalobos, Mark Fell, Sensate Focus, Robert Hampson, Sean McCann, Old News, Derek Rogers, Eleh...
I'm still trying to dream up a scheme to DJ a coffee-house with experimental, ambient, indie, jazz, techno, kitchen-sink aesthetics. Hitting patrons with something familiar, like, the Beach Boys or something, only to pull the rug out with something like William Basinski to follow.
I read something uplifting today in Stumbling Toward Enlightenment by Geri Larkin, "[what if I told you] that one of [us] is a great teacher, a teacher people have been waiting for--for more than a thousand years." What if that great teacher actually is you? "So now that the rest of us are depending on you, how can you be your wisest self?"
Until next year, here's a couple stanzas from one of my favorite poems called "So There," by Robert Creeley:
Moving on. Mr. Ocean,
Mr. Sky's
got the biggest blue eyes
in creation –
here comes the sun!
While we can,
let's do it, let's
have fun
Forthcoming:
Mark templeton – jealous heart (under the spire)
Kassel jaeger – fernweh LP (senufo edition # thirty five) december 2012
Grouper – the man who died in his boat (kranky 177) February 2013
Mountains – Centralia LP + CD w/ bonus, unedited live material f/ early and improvised versions (thrill jockey) January 2012
Kevin drumm – tannenbaum (hospital) February 2013
Derek rogers – mist & drift c30 cs (jehu & chinaman) preorders include bonus track, “Apathy”
Sebastian roux – more songs
Autechre – exai 4LP/2CD (warp) march 2013
New this week:
Alessandro bosetti – stand up comedy (weird ear records) December 2012
The slaves – ocean on ocean (Helen scarsdale 23) December 2012
Va - …and darkness came (headphone commute bandcamp 87-track album featuring helios, marcus fischer, simon scott, marcus fjellstrom, kane ikin, autistici, kreng, julien neto, machinefabriek, pinkcourtesyphone, simon scott/tomoyoshi date/corey fuller/marcus fischer, honig + templeton, Lawrence English, loscil, peter Broderick, johann johannsson, olan mill, erik k. skodvin, Rafael anton irisarri, Ezekiel honig, celer, Christopher willits) December 2012
Grabbed:
William basinski – the disintegration loops box set (temporary residence) november 2012
Lawrence – garden of moss 12” (mule musiq 154) November 2012
Jon porras – orilla oscura (immune 025) november 2012
Eleh – retreat return repose 3CD (important) December 2012
Yo la tengo – fade (matador) December 2012
Charlatan – isolatarium (type) December 2012
Va – touch 30 years and counting (touch) December 2012
Mike shiflet - the choir, the army (under the spire 045) December 2012
Mark mcguire – nightshade (bandcamp) november 2012
Mark mcguire – surrogate channels (bandcamp) november 2012
Derek rogers – everything that mattered at once (tape drift) October 2012
Raime – Quarter Turns over a Living Line
Between – between (12k 2026) December 2012
Jon Mueller – death blues (taiga 024) January 2013
Villalobos – baby ep (raum…music 085) December 2012
Eleh – the weight of accumulation (important 369) october 2012
Ricardo villalobos – dependent & happy pt 3 (perlon 93-3) September 2012
Sensate focus vs heatsick – deviation heat-treated (pan 38) December 2012
Times new viking – over & over ep (matador) October 2012
Stephan Mathieu & david sylvian – wandermude (‘blemish’ reinterpretation) (Samadhisound 023) january 2013
Older stuff:
The slaves – spirits of the sun (digitalis vinyl 42) july 2012
Hildur gudnadottir – leyfou ljosinu (touch) may 2012
Bruce gilbert – monad 7” (touch sevens 12) august 2011
Year End Lists:
The Wire 2012 Rewind (of note):
Sun Araw & M Geddes Gengras meet the Congos – Icon Give Thank
Ricardo Villalobos – Dependent and Happy
Haino/O’Rourke/Ambarchi – Imikuzushi
Andy Stott – Luxury Problems
Richard Skelton – Verse of Birds
Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Mature Themes
Thomas Koner – Novaya Zemlya
Earth – Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II
Lee Gamble – Diversions 1994-1996
Heatsick – Deviation
Duane Pitre – Feel Free
Pelt – Effigy
Jason Lescalleet – Songs About Nothing
Michael Pisaro and Toshiya Tsunoda – Crosshatches
Laurel Halo – Quarantine
Actress – RIP
Julia Holter – Ekstasis
Scott Walker – Bish Bosch
Josephine Foster – Blood Rushing
Swans – The Seer
Pye Corner Audio – Sleep Games
Aaron Dilloway – Modern Jester
Shackleton – The Drawbar Organ/Music for the Quiet Hour
CC Hennix & The Chora(s)san Time-Court Mirage – Live at the Grimm Museum 1
Bob Dylan – Tempest
Morton Feldman – Crippled Symmetry: At June in Buffalo
Mark Ernestus Presents Jeri-Jeri with Mbene Diatta Seck – Mbeuguel Dafa Nekh
Frank Ocean – Channel Orange
Film:
Senna
Exit Through The Gift Shop
Street Fight
The Parking Lot Movie
Winnebago Man
Fearless Freaks
Spirit of the Marathon
Drive
Fonts:
Casper
Stiff staff
Tikal sans
Tikal sans itl
Oranienbaum
sreda
Thursday, November 29, 2012
The Stars Our Destination
Absolutely stellar batch of new tunes out there - especially new Andrew Chalk, Taylor Deupree, Koen Holtkamp, Alex Cobb, En/Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Vladislav Delay and Jan Jelinek among others. Happy listening!
Forthcoming:
William basinski – nocturnes (2062)
TM404 (andreas tilliander) – (kontra music)
Mountains – centralia (thrill jockey) January 2013
Portable – a deeper love 12” (perlon 93)
Haunted hearts (dee dee ‘dum dum girl w/ boyfriend from Crocodiles) – something that feels bad is something that feels good 7” (zoo) feb 2013
New this week:
Jefre cantu-ledesma – speaking corpse (los discos enfantasmes, c42 cass) sister release to ‘visiting this world’ w/ a few overlapping tracks
Grabbed:
Simon scott – aki (kesh) october 2012
Evan caminiti f/ jefre cantu-ledesma – rideaux de nuit (dreamless sleep iTunes bonus track) November 2012
Superpitcher – moon fever remixe (kompakt 256) june 2012
Gregg kowalsky / jozef van wissem – movements in marble and stone LP (amish 034 / required wreckers #4) september 2012
Robert aiki Aubrey lowe – timon irnok mantra (type 111) october 2011
Forma – off/on (spectrum spools 024) November 2012
Steve hauschildt – sequitur (kranky 172) November 2012
Alex cobb – passage to morning (students of decay 098) November 2012
Andrew chalk – forty-nine views in rhapsodies’ wave serene (faraway press 021) November 2012
Andy stott – luxury problems (modern love 079) October 2012
Bee mask – when we were eating unripe pears (spectrum spools 023) November 2012
Gabriel Saloman (yellow swans) – adhere (miasmah 021) november 2012
Greg haines – moments eluding (kning disk 088) November 2012
Container – LP (spectrum spools 025) November 2012
En / jefre cantu-ledesma – split (constellation tatsu PURR 0019) November 2012
Koen holtkamp – liquid light forms (barge) November 2012
Taylor deupree – faint + bonus CD, “thaw” (12k 1073) November 2012
Raglani – Real Colors of the physical world LP+7” (emego 159) November 2012
Vladislav delay – Kuopio (raster-noton) November 2012
Jan jelinek – primetime 12” (faitiche 09) November 2012
Forthcoming:
William basinski – nocturnes (2062)
TM404 (andreas tilliander) – (kontra music)
Mountains – centralia (thrill jockey) January 2013
Portable – a deeper love 12” (perlon 93)
Haunted hearts (dee dee ‘dum dum girl w/ boyfriend from Crocodiles) – something that feels bad is something that feels good 7” (zoo) feb 2013
New this week:
Jefre cantu-ledesma – speaking corpse (los discos enfantasmes, c42 cass) sister release to ‘visiting this world’ w/ a few overlapping tracks
Grabbed:
Simon scott – aki (kesh) october 2012
Evan caminiti f/ jefre cantu-ledesma – rideaux de nuit (dreamless sleep iTunes bonus track) November 2012
Superpitcher – moon fever remixe (kompakt 256) june 2012
Gregg kowalsky / jozef van wissem – movements in marble and stone LP (amish 034 / required wreckers #4) september 2012
Robert aiki Aubrey lowe – timon irnok mantra (type 111) october 2011
Forma – off/on (spectrum spools 024) November 2012
Steve hauschildt – sequitur (kranky 172) November 2012
Alex cobb – passage to morning (students of decay 098) November 2012
Andrew chalk – forty-nine views in rhapsodies’ wave serene (faraway press 021) November 2012
Andy stott – luxury problems (modern love 079) October 2012
Bee mask – when we were eating unripe pears (spectrum spools 023) November 2012
Gabriel Saloman (yellow swans) – adhere (miasmah 021) november 2012
Greg haines – moments eluding (kning disk 088) November 2012
Container – LP (spectrum spools 025) November 2012
En / jefre cantu-ledesma – split (constellation tatsu PURR 0019) November 2012
Koen holtkamp – liquid light forms (barge) November 2012
Taylor deupree – faint + bonus CD, “thaw” (12k 1073) November 2012
Raglani – Real Colors of the physical world LP+7” (emego 159) November 2012
Vladislav delay – Kuopio (raster-noton) November 2012
Jan jelinek – primetime 12” (faitiche 09) November 2012
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Ordinary Sleep
Tons of great stuff for the long winter ahead.
Forthcoming:
Va – touch 30 years and counting 2LP 9tone 033LP)
En/jefre cantu ledesma (constellation tatsu)
Taylor deupree – faint CD (12k) november
Vladislav delay – Kuopio (raster noton 144)
Va – scattered melodies : Korean kayagum sanjo LP (sublime frequencies 077) compiled by Robert millis
Va – the crying princess : 78 rpm records from Burma LP (sublime frequencies 078) compiled by Robert millis
Jan jelinek – prime time 12” (faitiche 009)
Oren ambarchi & james rushford – wreckage LP (prisma 003LP)
Lawrence English – lonely womens club LP (important)
Eleh – retreat, return, repose 3CD (important)
Forma – off / on (spectrum spools 024)
Container – LP (spectrum spools 025)
Michael pollard – translations 01 LP (spectrum spools 026)
Fabio orsi & pimmon – procrastination (home normal 045) November 2012
New this week:
Steve hauschild – sequiter (kranky) November 2012
Robert aiki Aubrey lowe – timon irnok mantra (type 111) octobere 2011
Grabbed:
Jan jelinek – music for fragments / music & birds (faitiche 08) august 2012
Padna – burnt offerings (preservation circa 612) October 2012
Robert hampson – signaux _&_ suspended cadences (emego 148.1 & 2) october 2012
nicola ratti - streengs (senufo editions # thirty three) october 2012
jim o’rourke – old news no. 8 (old news 8) October 2012
emeralds – just to feel anything (emego 150) October 2012
Michael mayer – mantasy (kompakt CD 100) October 2012
A.r. kane – complete singles collection (one little indian 1160) October 2012
Oren ambarchi & robin fox – connected (kranky 169) October 2012
Black sun roof – feral LP / zebra blood CD (vhf 131) October 2012
Vibracathedral orchestra – double LP (2004/vhf #127) july 2012
u.s. girls – gem (fat cat) October 2012
Matt Carlson – all moments (nna tapes 50) september 2012
Derek rogers – saturations (greenup industries 03) june 2012
Concern – crude vignettes: box harp & speakers (dokumentarisk agenda, c20 cass) august 2012
Sensate focus – sensate focus 2.5 12” (sensate focus 2.5) november 2012
Kevin drumm – relief (emego 137) november 2011
Three legged race – persuasive barrier (spectrum spools 022) november 2012
Mogwai – a wrenched virile lore (sub pop) November 2012
Mouse on mars – wow (monkeytown) November 2012
Spiritualized – little girl b/w I am what I am (instrumental) (double six) November 2012
Fontanelle – vitamin F (southern lord) November 2012
Nhk’koyxen – dance classics vol. ii (pan 35) November 2012
Pelt – effigy (mie music) November 2012
Lee gamble – diversions 1994-1996 (pan 33) november 2012
Lee gamble – dutch tvashtar plumes (pan) November 2012
Older stuff:
Taylor deupree – northern (remastered) (12k 2009) april 2008
Alessandro bosetti – coaxial (antifrost 2055, cass) December 2011
Sunroof! – slipstream (giardia/rural electrification program) 1999
Sunroof! – splat! (rural electrification program/u-sound archive) 2003
Hototogisu – the white wind of autumn (rural electrification program) april 2000
Spiral joy band – wake of the dying sun king (vhf) 2006
Vibracathedral orchestra - Trighplane terraforms no. 1 (mental telemetry 005) 2003
Ossining – trike (los discos enfantasmes, c27 cass) march 2012
Biosphere – mysterier (touch seven – 11) December 2011
Lost in the humming air (music inspired by Harold budd) oktaf 04 april 2012
Nhk’koyxen – dance classics vol.i (pan 24) april 2012
Heatsick – deviation (pan 29) june 2012
Forthcoming:
Va – touch 30 years and counting 2LP 9tone 033LP)
En/jefre cantu ledesma (constellation tatsu)
Taylor deupree – faint CD (12k) november
Vladislav delay – Kuopio (raster noton 144)
Va – scattered melodies : Korean kayagum sanjo LP (sublime frequencies 077) compiled by Robert millis
Va – the crying princess : 78 rpm records from Burma LP (sublime frequencies 078) compiled by Robert millis
Jan jelinek – prime time 12” (faitiche 009)
Oren ambarchi & james rushford – wreckage LP (prisma 003LP)
Lawrence English – lonely womens club LP (important)
Eleh – retreat, return, repose 3CD (important)
Forma – off / on (spectrum spools 024)
Container – LP (spectrum spools 025)
Michael pollard – translations 01 LP (spectrum spools 026)
Fabio orsi & pimmon – procrastination (home normal 045) November 2012
New this week:
Steve hauschild – sequiter (kranky) November 2012
Robert aiki Aubrey lowe – timon irnok mantra (type 111) octobere 2011
Grabbed:
Jan jelinek – music for fragments / music & birds (faitiche 08) august 2012
Padna – burnt offerings (preservation circa 612) October 2012
Robert hampson – signaux _&_ suspended cadences (emego 148.1 & 2) october 2012
nicola ratti - streengs (senufo editions # thirty three) october 2012
jim o’rourke – old news no. 8 (old news 8) October 2012
emeralds – just to feel anything (emego 150) October 2012
Michael mayer – mantasy (kompakt CD 100) October 2012
A.r. kane – complete singles collection (one little indian 1160) October 2012
Oren ambarchi & robin fox – connected (kranky 169) October 2012
Black sun roof – feral LP / zebra blood CD (vhf 131) October 2012
Vibracathedral orchestra – double LP (2004/vhf #127) july 2012
u.s. girls – gem (fat cat) October 2012
Matt Carlson – all moments (nna tapes 50) september 2012
Derek rogers – saturations (greenup industries 03) june 2012
Concern – crude vignettes: box harp & speakers (dokumentarisk agenda, c20 cass) august 2012
Sensate focus – sensate focus 2.5 12” (sensate focus 2.5) november 2012
Kevin drumm – relief (emego 137) november 2011
Three legged race – persuasive barrier (spectrum spools 022) november 2012
Mogwai – a wrenched virile lore (sub pop) November 2012
Mouse on mars – wow (monkeytown) November 2012
Spiritualized – little girl b/w I am what I am (instrumental) (double six) November 2012
Fontanelle – vitamin F (southern lord) November 2012
Nhk’koyxen – dance classics vol. ii (pan 35) November 2012
Pelt – effigy (mie music) November 2012
Lee gamble – diversions 1994-1996 (pan 33) november 2012
Lee gamble – dutch tvashtar plumes (pan) November 2012
Older stuff:
Taylor deupree – northern (remastered) (12k 2009) april 2008
Alessandro bosetti – coaxial (antifrost 2055, cass) December 2011
Sunroof! – slipstream (giardia/rural electrification program) 1999
Sunroof! – splat! (rural electrification program/u-sound archive) 2003
Hototogisu – the white wind of autumn (rural electrification program) april 2000
Spiral joy band – wake of the dying sun king (vhf) 2006
Vibracathedral orchestra - Trighplane terraforms no. 1 (mental telemetry 005) 2003
Ossining – trike (los discos enfantasmes, c27 cass) march 2012
Biosphere – mysterier (touch seven – 11) December 2011
Lost in the humming air (music inspired by Harold budd) oktaf 04 april 2012
Nhk’koyxen – dance classics vol.i (pan 24) april 2012
Heatsick – deviation (pan 29) june 2012
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Lose Me on the Way
Forthcoming:
Koen holtkamp – liquid light forms (barge) November 2012
Oren ambarchi & robin fox – connected (kranky 169) October 2012
Black sun roof – feral (vhf 131) November 2012
Alexander turnquist – like sunburned snowflakes (vhf)
Lawrence English – for/not for john cage (line 058) September 2012
Emeralds – just to feel anything (eMego 150)
Raglani – real colors of the physical world LP+7” (eMego 159)
Bee mask – when we were eating unripe pears (spectrum spools 023)
Forma – off / on (spectrum spools 024)
Matthew friedberger – matricidal sons of bitches (thrill jockey) sept 2012
New this week:
Jan jelinek – music for fragments b/w music & birds (faitiche 008) September 2012
Matt Carlson – all moments LP (nna tapes 50) September 2012
Matamoros - Reflection Duct c40 / Derek Rogers & R Lee Dockery - Things Are Different Now c54 (space slave 7)
No ufo’s – mpc tracks vol. I (nice up international 003) c27 cass august 2012
Gregg kowalsky / jozef van wissem – movements in marble and stone LP (amish 034 / required wreckers #4) September 2012
Mike shiflet / pete swanson – bedside b/w college view LP (amish 035 / required wreckers #5) September 2012
Grabbed:
Stephan Mathieu – sad mac studies (2001) (schwebung alpha) july 2012
Kane ikin – sublunar (12k 1072) September 2012
Astral social club – magic smile (wonderyou 009 (jap)) july 2012
Nick Edwards – plekzations (eMego 145) September 2012
Oren ambarchi – raga ooty / nilgiri plateau LP (bo’weavil 048) september 2012
Dum dum girls – end of daze ep (sub pop 1001) September 2012
Ariel pink’s haunted graffiti – mature themes (4AD, jap) august 2012
Sic alps – sic alps (drag city) September 2012
Marcus fischer + the oo-ray – tessellations 12” (optic echo 10) September 2012
Sun araw – the inner treaty (sun ark/drag city) September 2012
Kassel jaeger – deltas (emego 149) august 2012
Olan mill – home (preservation circa 512) September 2012
Oneohtrix point never / rene hell – split LP (nna tapes 051) September 2012
Stephan Mathieu – coda (for wk) (12k 2024) September 2012
Wooden wand – blood oaths of the new blues (fire) September 2012
Bee mask – vaporware _ scanops 12” (room40 450) September 2012
Superstorms – superstorms LP (experimedia 024) october 2012
Fennesz – fa 12” (emego 151) September 2012
Jessica bailiff – at the down-turned jagged rim of the sky (kranky 170) October 2012
Lawrence English – for_not for john cage (l_ne 058) September 2012
Derek rogers – born into systems (Kendra steiner editions #226) September 2012
Pete swanson – pro style 12” (type 110) September 2012
Concern – misfortune 12” (Isounderscore_15) may 2012
Rangda – formerly extinct (drag city) September 2012
Grischa Lichtenberger – and iv [inertia] (raster_noton 143) September 2012
dj sprinkles & mark fell - complete spiral ep (comatonse recordings 021) may 2012
ekkehard ehlers – adikia (staubgold) October 2012
Vanessa rossetto – exotic exit LP (kye 20) September 2012
Older stuff:
Alexander turnquist – faint at the loudest hour (vhf 107) sept 2007
To rick first:
Tame impala – lonerism (modular) october 2012
Koen holtkamp – liquid light forms (barge) November 2012
Oren ambarchi & robin fox – connected (kranky 169) October 2012
Black sun roof – feral (vhf 131) November 2012
Alexander turnquist – like sunburned snowflakes (vhf)
Lawrence English – for/not for john cage (line 058) September 2012
Emeralds – just to feel anything (eMego 150)
Raglani – real colors of the physical world LP+7” (eMego 159)
Bee mask – when we were eating unripe pears (spectrum spools 023)
Forma – off / on (spectrum spools 024)
Matthew friedberger – matricidal sons of bitches (thrill jockey) sept 2012
New this week:
Jan jelinek – music for fragments b/w music & birds (faitiche 008) September 2012
Matt Carlson – all moments LP (nna tapes 50) September 2012
Matamoros - Reflection Duct c40 / Derek Rogers & R Lee Dockery - Things Are Different Now c54 (space slave 7)
No ufo’s – mpc tracks vol. I (nice up international 003) c27 cass august 2012
Gregg kowalsky / jozef van wissem – movements in marble and stone LP (amish 034 / required wreckers #4) September 2012
Mike shiflet / pete swanson – bedside b/w college view LP (amish 035 / required wreckers #5) September 2012
Grabbed:
Stephan Mathieu – sad mac studies (2001) (schwebung alpha) july 2012
Kane ikin – sublunar (12k 1072) September 2012
Astral social club – magic smile (wonderyou 009 (jap)) july 2012
Nick Edwards – plekzations (eMego 145) September 2012
Oren ambarchi – raga ooty / nilgiri plateau LP (bo’weavil 048) september 2012
Dum dum girls – end of daze ep (sub pop 1001) September 2012
Ariel pink’s haunted graffiti – mature themes (4AD, jap) august 2012
Sic alps – sic alps (drag city) September 2012
Marcus fischer + the oo-ray – tessellations 12” (optic echo 10) September 2012
Sun araw – the inner treaty (sun ark/drag city) September 2012
Kassel jaeger – deltas (emego 149) august 2012
Olan mill – home (preservation circa 512) September 2012
Oneohtrix point never / rene hell – split LP (nna tapes 051) September 2012
Stephan Mathieu – coda (for wk) (12k 2024) September 2012
Wooden wand – blood oaths of the new blues (fire) September 2012
Bee mask – vaporware _ scanops 12” (room40 450) September 2012
Superstorms – superstorms LP (experimedia 024) october 2012
Fennesz – fa 12” (emego 151) September 2012
Jessica bailiff – at the down-turned jagged rim of the sky (kranky 170) October 2012
Lawrence English – for_not for john cage (l_ne 058) September 2012
Derek rogers – born into systems (Kendra steiner editions #226) September 2012
Pete swanson – pro style 12” (type 110) September 2012
Concern – misfortune 12” (Isounderscore_15) may 2012
Rangda – formerly extinct (drag city) September 2012
Grischa Lichtenberger – and iv [inertia] (raster_noton 143) September 2012
dj sprinkles & mark fell - complete spiral ep (comatonse recordings 021) may 2012
ekkehard ehlers – adikia (staubgold) October 2012
Vanessa rossetto – exotic exit LP (kye 20) September 2012
Older stuff:
Alexander turnquist – faint at the loudest hour (vhf 107) sept 2007
To rick first:
Tame impala – lonerism (modular) october 2012
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