Sorta just feel like I gotta get this one off my desk. Not a lot of finds this go round, still looking for a few new ones like David Grubbs and some not-so-old obscurities like Deep Magic’s Elemental Interactions LP on Housecraft.
Gotta get back to honkgrindgraph's shoegaze mixes eventually...
Forthcoming:
David grubbs – the plain where the palace stood (drag city) april 2013
Deep magic – reflections of most forgotten love (preservation 37)
Steve gunn – time off (paradise of bachelors 007)
Date palms – the dusted sessions (thrill jockey 336)
Jan st. Werner – blaze colour burn (thrill jockey 338)
Grabbed:
Pan American – cloud room, glass room (kranky) april 2013
Rosy parlane – willow 7” (touch sevens 14) april 2013
Deerhunter – monomania (4ad) april 2013
Bardo pond – rise above it all (fire 207) april 2013
Keith rowe & graham lambkin – making a (erstwhile 067) april 2013
MV & EE with The Golden Road – Fantasy Set (three lobed recordings 98) February 2013
Geoff mullen – filtered water (type 114) april 2013
Mohammad – som sakrifis (pan 37) march 2013
Jacob kirkegaard – conversion (touch tone 47) march 2013
Rocketnumbernine & four tet – roseland (text 23) april 2013
Older stuff:
Arve henriksen – solidification box (just bonus tracks from sakuteiki, chiaroscuro and strjon AND new album, Chron) (rune grammofon 2137) December 2012
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Sunday, April 7, 2013
Trance Ending
Forthcoming:
Messages – mirage LP (root strata 95) april 2013
Jan jelinek & masayoshi fujita – do you know otahiti (faitiche 10) march 2013
Deerhunter – monomania may 2013
Ekkehard ehlers – betrieb (human ear music)
Gregor schwellenbach – spielt 20 jahre kompakt (kompakt 108CD)
Justin walter – lullabies and nightmares (kranky 179)
Coma – in Technicolor (kompakt) april 2013
The flaming lips – the terror (wb) april 2013
Thee oh sees – floating coffin (castle face) april 2013
Yeah yeah yeahs – mosquito (interscope) april 2013
Primal scream – more light (first international) may 2013
Brother jt – the sveltness of boogietude (thrill jockey) may 2013
Eleanor friedberger – personal record (merge) june 2013
Date palms – the dusted sessions (thrill jockey) june 2013
Medicine – to the happy few (captured tracks) august 2013
New this week:
Geoff mullen – filtered water (type 114)
David grubbs – plain where the palace stood (drag city 551) april 2012
Missed (still interested):
Tiago sousa – samsara (immune) march 2013 musical coma
To rococo rot – remix ep (four tet/Daniel miller & gareth jones) 2012 TPR march 2013
VA - 20 Jahre Kompakt/Kollektion 1 2CD (KOMP 105CD) march 2013
Grabbed:
Giuseppe ielasi & Kassel jaeger – parallel / grayscale (eMego 161) march 2013
Stephan Mathieu – the falling rocket (schwebung) march 2013
Jefre cantu-ledesma – devotion (shiningskullstudio bandcamp) march 2013
Derek rogers – peripetia (a beard of snails) December? 2012
William ryan fritch – the waiting room (lost tribe sound 013) march 2013
The flaming lips – the terror + uk 2-track bonus 3” CDs (wb)
Saschienne – grand cru remixe (kompakt 281) march 2013
Ada – paws I (areal 068) march 2013
Low – the invisible way (sub pop 1030) march 2013
giuseppe ielasi & enrico malatesta - rudimenti (entr'acte) march 2013
Giuseppe ielasi – rhetorical islands (senufo editions) february 2013
Lawrence English – lonely women’s club (important) april 2013
Jan jelinek & masayoshi fujita – do you know otahiti (faitiche 10) april 2013
Coma – my orbit (kompakt 278) march 2013
Sensate focus – 2 12” (focus 2) april 2013
Four tet – 0181 (text 021) February 2013
Giuseppe ielasi – (or a set of models) march 2013
Va – your Victorian breasts (three:four records 017) February 2013
The howling hex – the best of the howling hex (drag city 545) February 2013
Older stuff:
Va – colorfield variations (line_038) February 2009
Main – surcease (n_rec) 2006
Va – soundcultures (mille plateaux 100) 2003
Tame impala – lonerism (modular) October 2012
Film:
The deep blue sea
Once upon a time in Anatolia
The kid with a bike
The queen of Versailles
Books:
John Stossel – No They Can’t Why Government Fails but Individuals Suceed
Peter Hook – Unknown Pleasures Inside Joy Division
Beer:
Stone sublimely self-righteous ale
Dark horse double crooked tree
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Silver spider morning
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
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
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
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