Lejsovka & Freund: Mold On Canvas LP (Bark And Hiss, 2014)

October 4, 2014 at 9:57 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Lejsovka & Freund: Mold On Canvas LP

Lejsovka & Freund: Mold On Canvas LP

Trouble Books are no more, but from their ashes rise this “DIY shitty classical” project. The deconstructed sheet music staff lines on the cover perfectly describe the music, as it sounds like pianos and bowed string instruments transformed and glitched out with computer technology. The traditional instruments may be approached in an amateur way, but they’re explored with enthusiasm. The all-necessary glitches and digital effects they’re bathed in create unique sounds that wouldn’t have been created using traditional means. “From Royal Ave” is the highlight, building layers of gorgeous strings, and then adding some digital debris on top and glitching everything out at the end. “Tangram Cat” is shorter and leaves the piano sounds relatively unscathed, except for some ethereal glowing at the end. But then there’s more pieces like “Moonshadow Bath Song”, which take more heartwarming layers of strings playing lovely melodies, and then just fries them in swarming distortion, and ends with some spare piano notes floating over the decaying sea of digital wreckage. The album ends with a 10-minute journey called “Ah Shit, My Heart Is Full”, building layers of minimalist piano, strings and woodwinds, adding synth arpeggios and digital voices, swirling everything around with effects, and then stripping it down to gentle piano.

Wata Igarashi: Junctions EP 12″ (Midgar, 2014)

October 4, 2014 at 9:18 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Wata Igarashi: Junctions EP 12"

Wata Igarashi: Junctions EP 12″

4-track techno EP, mostly of steady not-too-fast tempos. “Flare” builds up to some echo-covered acid, but the real attention-grabber here is the UFO abduction techno of “Hitodama”, which basically sounds like being summoned onto an alien spacecraft through a shaft of light, with a beat. “Junctions” is stuttering and shifting, constantly gazing around while the beats buckle. “The Summon” is more long-dark-tunnel techno, but sounds more like it belongs on a dancefloor than an alien seance.

Jeremiah R.: Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit 12″ (Enklav., 2014)

October 4, 2014 at 8:40 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Jeremiah R.: Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit 12"

Jeremiah R.: Interplanetary Phenomenon Unit 12″

Very Drexciyan/Arpanet-esque electro. In fact, Gerald Donald (rather, Heinrich Mueller) provided a remix for this artists’ previous 12″, so this is absolutely legit. “Exile” starts the EP in a spacey electro orbit, and then “Illuminated Process” is perfect high-speed nightcruising electro. “Infinite Skies” has a deep pool of bass underneath the ticking beats, and “Interdimensional Beings” backs deep kicks and snares with sparse synth pads and stuttering melodies. The EP’s title track closes things out, more gliding high-speed electro cruising with some off-kilter moods and noises.

Slow Magic @ The Blind Pig, 10/1/14

October 4, 2014 at 12:57 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

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Slow Magic w/ entourage @ finale

Slow Magic w/ entourage @ finale

Show #258 – 10/4/14

October 4, 2014 at 12:21 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

mic break music = Nate Wooley: The Almond
3:02 AM Burial featuring the Spaceape [R.I.P.] ~ Spaceape ~ Hyperdub 10.1 ~ Hyperdub
3:06 AM Kode9 & the Spaceape ~ Chasing a Beast ~ Hyperdub 10.1 ~ Hyperdub
3:08 AM Andy Stott ~ Violence ~ Faith In Strangers ~ Modern Love
3:14 AM The Bug ~ Ascension ~ Angels & Devils ~ Ninja Tune
3:18 AM Suicideyear ~ Caroline ~ Remembrance ~ Software
3:22 AM Slow Magic ~ Hold Still ~ How To Run Away ~ Downtown
3:26 AM ODESZA ~ Bloom ~ In Return ~ Counter
3:33 AM Squarepusher ~ Tundra ~ Feed Me Weird Things ~ Rephlex
3:41 AM Hrvatski ~ Insect Digestion Melancholy ~ 7″ ~ Planet Mu
3:46 AM Leyland Kirby ~ Ruined Visions ~ Intrigue & Stuff Vol. 1 ~ History Always Favours The Winners
3:51 AM Fennesz ~ Made In Hong Kong ~ Endless Summer ~ Mego
3:55 AM Aphex Twin ~ Aisatsana ~ Syro ~ Warp
4:05 AM Pulse Emitter ~ Airwaves ~ Outdoor Session ~ Bandcamp
4:17 AM Poborsk ~ Supermalloy ~ Gradient Scene ~ Bedroom Research
4:22 AM Ensemble Economique ~ Never Gonna Die ~ Melt Into Nothing ~ Denovali
4:35 AM Sun Kil Moon ~ Dogs ~ Benji ~ Caldo Verde
4:40 AM Brizbomb ~ 140131T2101 ~ 1401 ~ self-released
4:44 AM Heartworm Vs. Zymotic ~ Match Ten ~ Madame Chao’s ChaoRin Kombat Phase One/Issue One: 2001 ~ .01% Records
4:46 AM Russell Haswell & Pain Jerk ~ Pain Jerks’s Mega Edit ~ Electroacoustic Sludge Dither Transformation Smear Grind Decomposition nO!se File Exchange Mega Edit ~ Editions Mego
5:03 AM Whirr ~ Clear ~ Sway ~ Graveface
5:09 AM This Will Destroy You ~ Invitation ~ Another Language ~ Suicide Squeeze
5:14 AM A Shoreline Dream ~ Break It Again ~ The Silent Sunrise ~ Latenight Weeknight
5:18 AM Ritual Howls ~ My Friends ~ Turkish Leather ~ Felte
5:24 AM Ballerine Nadiya ~ Sour Flower ~ Ballerine Nadiya ~ Singapore Sling Tapes
5:41 AM Love Inks ~ I Don’t Hear That ~ Exi ~ Republic Of Music
5:44 AM Laetitia Sadier ~ Then I Will Love You Again ~ Something Shines ~ Drag City
5:47 AM The Dead Milkmen ~ Dark Clouds Gather Over Middlemarch ~ Pretty Music For Pretty People ~ self-released
5:50 AM The Vaselines ~ Earth Is Speeding ~ V For Vaselines ~ Rosary Music
5:53 AM Sonogram ~ Flight Path ~ LED Melodies ~ Simulacra
5:57 AM Charlatan ~ Lonely City ~ Local Agent ~ Umor Rex

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