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New Rome: Nowhere (Room40, 2016)

November 20, 2016 at 9:22 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

New Rome: Nowhere

This one almost completely escaped by notice, which is bizarre considering I usually get promos of almost everything Room40 releases, but I stumbled upon it late and now it’s my favorite ambient album of the year. Cloudlike and billowing, but it always has a definite direction that it’s floating in. A few tracks like “Beginning” stop just shy of having actual beats, but the tempos can still be measures in BPMs. Overall, it just sounds incredibly hopeful, not to mention supremely relaxing. Basically, this album is like that Huerco S. album that came out earlier this year, except that album is getting tons of (well deserved) hype and this one isn’t getting any.

Show #366 – 11/19/16

November 19, 2016 at 3:03 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

R.I.P. Sharon Jones 😦

2:02 am His Name Is Alive (local) ~ “Demonmix” ~ Patterns of Light (new) ~ London London ~ 2016
2:09 am Tyvek (local) ~ “Origin of What” ~ Origin of What (new) ~ In the Red ~ 2016
2:14 am The Intended (local) ~ “Don’t Wait Too Long” ~ Time Will Tell (new) ~ In the Red ~ 2016
2:17 am M. Walter ~ “Damn This Fiji Water Actually Tastes Pretty Good” ~ Northern Palms Volume One (new) ~ Palm Tapes ~ 2016
2:23 am Demdike Stare ~ “Sourcer” ~ Wonderland (new) ~ Modern Love ~ 2016
2:29 am Laraaji ~ “A Cave in England” ~ Flow Goes the Universe ~ All Saints ~ 1992
2:39 am Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings ~ “This Land is Your Land” ~ Naturally ~ Daptone ~ 2005
2:43 am Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings ~ “Got a Thing on My Mind” ~ Dap Dippin’ with Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings ~ Daptone ~ 2002
2:45 am Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings ~ “I’m Still Here” ~ Miss Sharon Jones! ~ Daptone ~ 2016
2:49 am Saajtak (local) ~ “_” ~ Demo ~ Bandcamp ~ 2015
2:53 am Loscil ~ “Monument Destroyers” ~ Suns (new) ~ self-released tape ~ 2016
3:03 am Dedekind Cut ~ “Conversations with Angels” ~ $uccessor (new) ~ NON Worldwide ~ 2016
3:12 am Recondite ~ “Capable (Ricardo Donoso Clemency Version)” ~ Corvus (new) ~ Ghostly International ~ 2016
3:18 am Christopher Tignor ~ “Arrow in the Dark” ~ Along A Vanishing Plane (new) ~ Western Vinyl ~ 2016
3:24 am Loscil ~ “Pendulum” ~ Sine Studies 2 7″ ~ Jaz Records ~ 2015
3:29 am Rolf Trostel ~ “Sensucht” ~ Der Prophet ~ Bureau B ~ 1982
3:34 am Rolf Trostel ~ “Test Tanz” ~ Inselmusik ~ Bureau B ~ 1981
3:42 am Devonwho ~ “Purple” ~ Luz (new) ~ Leaving Records ~ 2016
3:45 am A Tribe Called Quest ~ “Lost Somebody” ~ We Got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service (new) ~ Epic ~ 2016
3:49 am L’Orange & Mr. Lif ~ “Five Lies About the World Outside” ~ The Life & Death of Scenery (new) ~ Mello Music Group ~ 2016
3:52 am Mark III ~ “Going to the Top” ~ Marvin Whoremonger ~ Now-Again ~ 1976
3:55 am Impey ~ “Hecatomb” ~ Frass FM 3 (new) ~ Astral Black ~ 2016
4:00 am Akkord ~ “Scalar Wave” ~ #savefabric (new) ~ Fabric ~ 2016
4:04 am Kastle ~ “How 2 Love” ~ Reflections (new) ~ Symbols ~ 2016
4:07 am FaltyDL ~ “Shock Therapy” ~ Heaven is for Quitters (new) ~ Blueberry ~ 2016
4:11 am Natalie Beridze ~ “Museum On Your Back” ~ Guliagava (new) ~ Monika ~ 2016
4:15 am Eki Shola ~ “Experimental Abyss” ~ Final Beginning (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
4:16 am Node ~ “Shinkansen East” ~ Node 2 ~ DiN ~ 2014
4:20 am Pita ~ “Line Angel” ~ Get In (new) ~ Editions Mego ~ 2016
4:29 am Little Princess (local) ~ “Smoke” ~ Smoke (new) ~ Time Stereo ~ 2016
4:36 am Brad Laner ~ “side A” ~ Micro-Awakenings (new) ~ Drawing Room Records ~ 2016
4:58 am Tobin Sprout ~ “Future Boy Today/Man of Tomorrow” ~ The Universe and Me (new) ~ Burger Records ~ 2017
5:01 am Theme Weavers LLC featuring Barry Dworkin ~ “Rock ‘n’ Roll Dreams’ll Come Through” ~ Nothing But The Best: The Very Best of Theme Weavers LLC (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2016
5:05 am Red Zebra ~ “I Can’t Live in a Living Room” ~ Killed By Deathrock Vol. 2 ~ Sacred Bones ~ 1980
5:08 am His Name Is Alive (local) ~ “Energy Acceleration (demo)” ~ Black Wings (new) ~ cdr ~ 2016
5:12 am DIANA ~ “What You Get” ~ Familiar Touch (new) ~ Culvert Music ~ 2016
5:17 am Camp Candle ~ “Wake Up” ~ cdr (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
5:20 am Devata Daun ~ “Subconscious Gestures” ~ Look (new) ~ Pytch Records ~ 2016
5:23 am Adrian Younge ~ “Patterns” ~ The Electronique Void – Black Noise (new) ~ Linear Labs ~ 2016
5:29 am Blues Control ~ “Iron Pigs (Homestyle)” ~ OldEnuff2KnoBetta: The Mixtape (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
5:34 am Ryan Huber ~ “Iasa” ~ Iasa (new) ~ Inam Records ~ 2016
5:39 am High Tides ~ “Sunware” ~ High Tides ~ Rad Cult/Wil-Ru Records ~ 2015
5:43 am S U R V I V E ~ “Wardenclyffe” ~ RR7349 (new) ~ Relapse ~ 2016
5:47 am Forma ~ “Physicalist” ~ Physicalist (new) ~ Kranky ~ 2016

Morricone Youth: The Adventures of Prince Achmed 12″ EP (Country Club Records, 2016)

November 12, 2016 at 10:54 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Morricone Youth: The Adventures of Prince Achmed 12″ EP

Morricone Youth has been composing scores to classic films recently, and they’re planning on releasing many of them. A score for Night of the Living Dead was released this year, and this one is for a 1926 silent animation called The Adventures of Prince Achmed. As their NOTLD score fast-forwarded a few decades and was closer to a Goblin score for a later George Romero film, this one doesn’t sound like it could’ve been recorded in the 1920s, but instead sounds closer to something from an Ethiopiques compilation. Not strictly, though. It’s a pretty sprawling, colorful, well-orchestrated mix of various Arabic, Asian, and African influences, with horns, strings, keyboards, and lots of percussion, and it’s delicious. There’s unexpected moments, like when “Peri Banu” starts out a bit more melancholy and reflective and then suddenly switches into something more festive and excited for the last minute. Following the calmer “Maidens”, the disc ends with a 10-minute Afrobeat jam called “Sorcerer” which is out of this world. Was not expecting this at all, and it’s fantastic.

Quentin Tolimieri: Piano (pfMENTUM, 2016)

November 12, 2016 at 10:36 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Quentin Tolimieri: Piano

Crazy, mega-fractured piano compositions. Very Conlon Nancarrow-sounding, except I don’t think these are player piano pieces. Very choppy and rapid, and seemingly defies any logic of time signatures or rhythms, but there’s clearly melodies and themes and a sense of structure holding it all together. A cover of “On Green Dolphin Street” is a bit more straightforward and less jumbled, but the version of Thelonious Monk’s “Well You Needn’t” is bonkers (but still recognizable). Mindblowing, and also tons of fun. On Bandcamp, although the cover versions aren’t available to stream.

Palm Tapes megapost

November 12, 2016 at 9:27 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Stef Chura & Anna Burch: split tape

Palm Tapes has been one of Detroit’s breakout labels in 2016, with a huge pile of tapes and an LP in their discography. The site has a Bandcamp where you can listen to a few tracks from each release, but all the prices are set at $69 because they want you to buy the actual tapes, which are $5 each, from their site. Here’s a few highlights from the label so far. The split tape between singer/songwriters Stef Chura & Anna Burch is already up to its second pressing. Stef has kind of a stretchy, squirmy voice and kind of reminds me of Kristin Hersh. “Slow Motion” is one of my favorite rock songs of the year, just a really good driving pop song. “Faded Heart” is similar, but “Speeding Ticket” is more of a slow burn. Fred Thomas recorded and played on these songs. He also did the same on the first Anna song. Anna has more of a calm, hushed voice, and her songs are way more lonely and depressed. “You Bum Me Out” is particularly brutal. Not musically, it’s just guitar, vocals, and organ, but lyrically it’s just devastating. Look out for Stef’s album on Urinal Cake Records in January.

Armadillo: II tape

Armadillo’s II is a spectacular tape of reflective guitars plus booming beats. Some of it gets a little dancey, particularly on side B, and some of it is more trappy. It’s as warbly and blown out as you would expect from a cassette of this nature. Most of the tracks flow into each other and there’s no titles or lyrics, so it’s just a good idea to hit play and float for a while.

The Bed Band: The Dreamiest tape

The Bed Band’s The Dreamiest is warped bedroom psych-pop from Ivan Antonio Gamboa. High-pitched vocals, sun-baked smeared guitars, and sometimes drum machines blipping in the background. Lots of songs about cute weird girls and hazy summer days.

v/a: Northern Palms Volume One tape

Maybe the best of the lot is the one that doesn’t actually feature Detroit artists. Northern Palms Volume One is a compilation of Canadian electronic artists. M. Walter’s tracks are juke-inspired, and while they seem a bit light and breezy and with a carefree sense of humor (track titles include “Why Won’t Anyone Go To The Gathering With Me” and “Damn This Fiji Water Actually Tastes Pretty Good”), they’re thoughtfully constructed. ADO starts out with a short, slow, crushed beat called “Yeaassss”, and then there’s a hyperdriven ultra-polyrhythmic juke track called “For A Copy” which is absolutely astounding, followed by a long, relentless techno pounder called “Soundtest”. On the other side, Burn Cycle flashes back to early ’90s breakbeat techno with his three easygoing tracks. Motoko’s tracks are even sunnier and more beach-friendly. The last track is slower and mellower and has more keyboard soloing.

Show #365 – 11/12/16

November 12, 2016 at 4:09 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | 1 Comment

Hour 1
2:01 am Richard Pinhas/Tatsuya Yoshida/Masami Akita ~ “TVJ 66 (Non-Sens)” ~ Process and Reality (new) ~ Cuneiform ~ 2016
2:12 am Coil ~ “Who By Fire” ~ Horse Rotorvator ~ Relativity ~ 1986
2:14 am Sutcliffe Jugend ~ “Howl” ~ Offal (new) ~ Cold Spring ~ 2016
2:28 am Vita Noctis ~ “Hade” ~ Killed By Deathrock, Vol. 2 ~ Sacred Bones ~ 1984
2:33 am Laraaji ~ “Sun Zither 2” ~ Sun Zither ~ Leaving Records ~ 1984
2:37 am Suzi Analogue ~ “MOVE / IT / OFF” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2016
2:40 am Detroit’s Filthiest (local) ~ “Game Over (Instrumental)” ~ single (new) ~ Motor City Electro Company ~ 2016
2:45 am A Tribe Called Quest ~ “Black Spasmodic” ~ We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service (new) ~ Epic ~ 2016
2:48 am Camp Candle ~ “Weapons” ~ ERE (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2016
2:50 am Cryptolect ~ “Punished” ~ The Marrow In My Bones (new) ~ UNO NYC ~ 2016
2:54 am Andrew Tuttle ~ “Brisbane, Transit Centre” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2016
2:56 am Dedekind Cut ~ “Fear in Reverse” ~ $uccessor (new) ~ NON Worldwide ~ 2016
Hour 2
3:01 am Moon Pool & Dead Band (local) ~ “Hospital Quiet” ~ Humanizer (new) ~ Midwich Productions ~ 2016
3:05 am Porter Ricks ~ “Harbour Chart” ~ Shadow Boat (new) ~ Tresor ~ 2016
3:12 am Mind Over Mirrors ~ “Restore & Slip” ~ Undying Color (new) ~ Paradise of Bachelors ~ 2017
3:20 am Papa M ~ “The Love Particle” ~ Highway Songs (new) ~ Drag City ~ 2016
3:22 am µ-Ziq ~ “Midwinter Log” ~ Lunatic Harness ~ Planet Mu ~ 1997
3:29 am Variant (local) ~ “Sequential Sleep [Modular Dub]” ~ Sequential Sleep (new) ~ Echospace [Detroit] ~ 2016
3:35 am The Intended (local) ~ “Desparation” ~ Time Will Tell (new) ~ In the Red ~ 2016
3:38 am Tyvek (local) ~ “Choose Once” ~ Origin of What (new) ~ In the Red ~ 2016
3:41 am E ~ “Candidate” ~ E (new) ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2016
3:44 am Cellular Chaos ~ “Hysterical” ~ Diamond Teeth Clenched (new) ~ Skin Graft ~ 2016
3:46 am Converge ~ “Drop Out” ~ You Fail Me Redux ~ Epitaph ~ 2004
3:49 am Food For Animals ~ “Muckrakers” ~ Scavengers ~ Muckamuck Produce ~ 2004
3:51 am AGF ~ “Snowden” ~ Kon:3p>UTION to: e[VOL]ution (new) ~ AGF Producktion ~ 2016
3:54 am A-Symmetry ~ “i AM life 10” ~ I Am Life ~ AGF Producktion ~ 2014
3:58 am DVA [Hi:Emotions] ~ “DAFUQ” ~ NOTU_URONLINEU (new) ~ Hyperdub ~ 2016
Hour 3
4:02 am Asher Levitas ~ “Anticipating Violence” ~ Lit Harness (new) ~ Planet Mu ~ 2016
4:06 am Morlox ~ “Technicolor Yawn: Utopian Remnant Mix” ~ Alien Death Strike + Public Remixes! (new) ~ Backward Records ~ 2016
4:11 am Radian ~ “Recreate Loved Objects” ~ On Dark Silent Off (new) ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2016
4:15 am Tadd Mullinix (local) ~ “Twice Triumph” ~ Winking Makes a Face ~ Ghostly International ~ 2000
4:21 am Telefon Tel Aviv ~ “What’s the Use of Feet If You Haven’t Got Legs?” ~ Fahrenheit Far Enough ~ Hefty ~ 2001
4:25 am Vert ~ “The Tide Comes In And Then The Tide Goes Out” ~ Nine Types of Ambiguity ~ Sonig ~ 2001
4:31 am New Rome ~ “Nowhere” ~ Nowhere (new) ~ Room40 ~ 2016
4:37 am The Range ~ “No Loss (Superimpose Version)” ~ Superimpose (new) ~ Domino ~ 2016
4:42 am Peals ~ “Punk Migration” ~ Honey (new) ~ Friends Records ~ 2016
4:45 am Guru Guru Groove Band ~ “Mescalito A” ~ The Birth of Krautrock 1969 ~ Purple Pyramid ~ 1969
4:48 am Controlled Bleeding ~ “Did You Ever” ~ Body Samples ~ Artoffact ~ 1985
4:53 am Sankt Otten/N ~ “Am Ende Der Fahnenstange” ~ Männerfreundschaften Und Metaphysik (new) ~ Denovali ~ 2016
4:59 am CAM ~ “Ghost” ~ True or False? (new) ~ Skrat Records ~ 2016
Hour 4
5:02 am Quentin Tolimieri ~ “Well You Needn’t” ~ Piano (new) ~ pfMENTUM ~ 2016
5:05 am Eki Shola ~ “Warm Up” ~ Final Beginning (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
5:11 am Morricone Youth ~ “Sorcerer” ~ The Adventures of Prince Achmed (new) ~ Country Club Records ~ 2016
5:21 am Ornette Coleman ~ “Biosphere” ~ Sound Museum Hidden Man ~ Verve ~ 1996
5:24 am Oliver Nelson ~ “Aftermath” ~ Celestial Blues ~ BGP ~ 1970
5:28 am Pierce Warnecke ~ “Remnants Remembered” ~ Memory Fragments (new) ~ Room40 ~ 2016
5:34 am Elder Ones ~ “Dvapara Yuga (For Eric Garner)” ~ Holy Science (new) ~ Northern Spy ~ 2016
5:47 am Dirty Three ~ “She Has No Strings” ~ She Has No Strings Apollo ~ Touch & Go ~ 2003
5:55 am David Shea ~ “Magnets” ~ Piano I (new) ~ Room40 ~ 2016

Local Music Show 11/9/16

November 9, 2016 at 11:39 pm | Posted in Local Music Show | Leave a comment

Hour 1
9:00 pm Wolf Eyes (local) ~ “track 1” ~ Mugger ~ Hanson ~ 2003
9:07 pm Wolf Eyes (local) ~ “Stabbed in the Face” ~ Burned Mind ~ Sub Pop ~ 2004
9:11 pm Fit Siegel (local) ~ “Carmine” ~ 12″ ~ Fit Sound ~ 2015
9:19 pm Underground Resistance (local) ~ “Jupiter Jazz” ~ World 2 World ~ Underground Resistance ~ 1992
9:23 pm The Intended (local) ~ “Desperation” ~ Time Will Tell (new) ~ In the Red ~ 2016
9:27 pm Tyvek (local) ~ “Mirror Image Of” ~ Origin of What (new) ~ In the Red ~ 2016
9:32 pm Windy Weber (local) ~ “Destroyed” ~ I Hate People ~ Blue Flea ~ 2008
9:36 pm Death (local) ~ “Politicians In My Eyes” ~ …For All The World to See ~ Drag City ~ 1974
9:42 pm Storm Ross (local) ~ “We Need to Be Fugazi Now, More Than Ever” ~ Welcome, Sunshine (new) ~ Satellite Records ~ 2016
9:46 pm His Name Is Alive (local) ~ “There’s Something Between Us And He’s Changing My Words” ~ Home Is In Your Head ~ 4AD ~ 1991
9:47 pm His Name Is Alive (local) ~ “Calling All Believers” ~ Patterns of Light (new) ~ London London ~ 2016
9:50 pm His Name Is Alive (local) ~ “Cornfield” ~ Mouth By Mouth ~ 4AD ~ 1993
9:53 pm His Name Is Alive (local) ~ “You Need A Heart To Live” ~ Detrola ~ Silver Mountain ~ 2005
9:57 pm His Name Is Alive (local) ~ “Blues” ~ Emergency LP ~ Time Stereo
Hour 2
10:00 pm Windy & Carl (local) ~ “Set Adrift” ~ Depths ~ Kranky ~ 1998
10:03 pm Decisions (local) ~ “LIVE IN STUDIO!” ~ Local Music Show (new) ~ WCBN ~ 2016
10:27 pm Windy & Carl (local) ~ “Sunrise” ~ Antarctica ~ Darla ~ 1997
10:35 pm Benoît Pioulard (local) ~ “Narcologue” ~ The Benoît Pioulard Listening Matter (new) ~ Kranky ~ 2016
10:38 pm Windy & Carl (local) ~ “Lighthouse (Demo)” ~ Introspection ~ Blue Flea ~ 1993
10:44 pm Drexciya (local) ~ “The Countdown Has Begun” ~ Aquatic Invasion ~ Underground Resistance ~ 1995
10:47 pm Underground Resistance (local) ~ “Kamikaze” ~ 12″ ~ Underground Resistance/World Power Alliance ~ 1992
10:53 pm Model 500 (local) ~ “Off to Battle (Remix)” ~ Classics ~ R&S ~ 1993

Show #364 – 11/5/16

November 5, 2016 at 12:36 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Hour 1
2:01 am Autechre ~ “Maetl” ~ Incunabula ~ Warp ~ 1993
2:08 am Boards of Canada ~ “Amo Bishop Roden” ~ In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country ~ Warp ~ 2000
2:13 am ISAN ~ “Every Since and Then” ~ Glass Bird Movement (new) ~ Morr Music ~ 2016
2:19 am DVA [Hi:Emotions] ~ “B IT” ~ NOTU_URONLINEU (new) ~ Hyperdub ~ 2016
2:23 am D/P/I ~ “Ecstatics” ~ Composer (new) ~ Shelter Press ~ 2016
2:29 am Steve Hauschildt ~ “Horizon of Appearances” ~ Strands (new) ~ Kranky ~ 2016
2:36 am ADO ~ “Far a Copy” ~ Northern Palms Volume One (new) ~ Palm Tapes ~ 2016
2:39 am FAKA ~ “Isifundo Sokuqala” ~ Bottoms Revenge (new) ~ NON WORLDWIDE ~ 2016
2:45 am Abyss X ~ “She Bruise” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Infinite Machine ~ 2016
2:48 am Avbvrn ~ “Three Dogs, Pt. 2” ~ Three Dogs (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2016
2:51 am Doormouse ~ “So Hard” ~ Fractured Hearts ~ Peace Off ~ 2005
2:56 am Amboss ~ “Bone Storm” ~ Prosperity Slave ~ No Room For Talent ~ 2007
Hour 2
3:03 am His Name Is Alive (local) ~ “Summer of ESP” ~ Universal Frequencies ~ 4AD ~ 1996
3:06 am His Name Is Alive (local) ~ “Underwater” ~ Always Stay Sweet ~ 4AD ~ 1999
3:09 am Stef Chura (local) ~ “Slow Motion” ~ split EP w/ Anna Burch (new) ~ Palm Tapes ~ 2016
3:11 am Storm Ross (local) ~ “The Smiler” ~ Welcome, Sunshine (new) ~ Satellite Records ~ 2016
3:15 am Silver Dapple ~ “Slip Stitch” ~ English Girlfriend ~ FORCHRISTSAKE ~ 2011
3:19 am Graham Repulski ~ “side B” ~ Contaminated Man (new) ~ Shorter Recordings ~ 2016
3:29 am Broadcast ~ “Bit 35” ~ Tender Buttons ~ Warp ~ 2005
3:31 am Syndrome ~ “Rock New Life” ~ 391 Vol. 4: Umbria ~ Spittle ~ 1984
3:34 am Expansives ~ “Life With You… (Instrumental Version)” ~ 12″ ~ Dark Entries ~ 1982
3:42 am Forma ~ “As If Pianos Grew On Trees” ~ Physicalist (new) ~ Kranky ~ 2016
3:47 am Throbbing Gristle ~ “Walkabout” ~ 20 Jazz Funk Greats ~ Industrial Records ~ 1979
3:50 am Psychic TV ~ “Terminus” ~ Force the Hand of Chance ~ Angry Love Productions ~ 1982
Hour 3
4:02 am Psychic TV ~ “Clouds Without Water” ~ Dreams Less Sweet ~ Angry Love Productions ~ 1983
4:04 am Armadillo (local) ~ “side A [excerpt]” ~ II (new) ~ Palm Tapes ~ 2016
4:11 am Protein ~ “Blue” ~ The Secret Garden (new) ~ Schamoni Musik/Alien Transistor ~ 2016
4:18 am Rogue Wave ~ “What is Left to Solve (Dan Deacon Remix)” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Easy Sound ~ 2016
4:23 am JP Moregun ~ “Million Bucks” ~ JP Moregun (new) ~ Brainfeeder ~ 2016
4:25 am Larry Gordon ~ “Rapprochement” ~ Sen Park (new) ~ Colossal Tapes ~ 2016
4:28 am The Bed Band (local) ~ “Ride the Waves” ~ The Dreamiest (new) ~ Palm Tapes ~ 2016
4:31 am Solo Andata ~ “Porcelain Blue” ~ In the Lens (new) ~ 12k ~ 2016
4:35 am Negativland ~ “Everything’s Fine” ~ Over the Edge Vol. 9: The Chopping Channel (new) ~ Seeland ~ 2016
4:40 am CAM ~ “Jimpster” ~ True or False? (new) ~ Skrat Records ~ 2016
4:43 am Foxdye ~ “Nothing I’ve Done, Anything I’ll Do” ~ Infinite Mystery Forever ~ Fukdup ~ 2012
4:48 am Enduser (w/ Atomly) ~ “Murderous Rage” ~ Appropriate & Deface split 12″ w/ Submerged ~ Ad Noiseam ~ 2005
4:53 am Lone ~ “Triple Helix” ~ Levitate ~ R&S ~ 2016
4:57 am Morlox ~ “Public (Church Fire Mix)” ~ Alien Death Strike + Public Remixes! (new) ~ Backward Records ~ 2016
Hour 4
5:01 am Burial ~ “Ashtray Wasp” ~ Kindred ~ Hyperdub ~ 2012
5:13 am Devata Daun ~ “They Say” ~ Look (new) ~ Pytch Records ~ 2016
5:16 am Camp Candle ~ “One Day, My Friend” ~ cdr (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
5:19 am Heimer ~ “Actroid Gurl” ~ Teilzeit Swag (new) ~ Tomlab ~ 2016
5:23 am Friendships ~ “Big Farm in the Sky” ~ Nullarbor 1988-1989 (new) ~ Mansion/Dot Dash/Remote Control ~ 2016
5:29 am Prins Thomas ~ “H (The Orb Orbient Mix)” ~ Principe del Norte Remixed (new) ~ Smalltown Supersound ~ 2016
5:40 am S U R V I V E ~ “Low Fog” ~ RR7349 (new) ~ Relapse ~ 2016
5:44 am New Rome ~ “Beginning” ~ Now Here (new) ~ Room40 ~ 2016
5:49 am Blues Control & Laraaji ~ “City of Love” ~ FRKWYS 8 ~ Rvng Intl ~ 2011

Crush Collision 11/3/16

November 4, 2016 at 9:07 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Hour 1
10:01 pm Tokyo Black Star ~ “Fantasy Live 1999”
10:09 pm Beau Wanzer ~ “Weak Blizzard”
10:11 pm Peggy Gou ~ “Gou Talk”
10:17 pm Beesmunt Soundsystem ~ “Blissed Out”
10:23 pm Loz Goddard ~ “Home”
10:29 pm Hreno ~ “Fingerprince”
10:35 pm Dissonance & Intact ~ “Nocturne”
10:40 pm Shinichi Atobe ~ “Mix 1”
10:43 pm Pris ~ “Feral Calling”
10:48 pm Escorting Sarah ~ “POV”
10:53 pm Benjamin Brunn ~ “Springers”
10:58 pm DJ Godfather feat. DJ Deeon ~ “Freaky”
Hour 2
11:02 pm Time Traveler ~ “Interstellar (Black Asteroid Remix)”
11:07 pm Applescal ~ “The Red Dress”
11:08 pm Elektro Guzzi ~ “Moskito”
11:15 pm Porter Ricks ~ “Shadow Boat”
11:22 pm Prins Thomas ~ “D (Hieroglyphic Being Beat Rework)”
11:33 pm Shifted ~ “Watchers”
11:39 pm Slam ~ “Evite”
11:45 pm Klorin ~ “Cash Flow”
11:50 pm Cassegrain & Tin Man ~ “Polyacid Blue”
11:56 pm Angle ~ “Hold Your Breath (Maxime Dangles – Repeat Remix)”

Fall 2016 Road Trip

November 2, 2016 at 10:18 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

I drove to Los Angeles and back just because I wanted to, and to visit my cousin. I went by myself and tried not to have much of a plan, but I had to have some sort of timeline to fit with other peoples’ schedules. It might’ve been the best vacation I’ve ever taken. I’ve gone on vacations across the country with my family before, but actually driving by myself was an entirely new perspective. It was fascinating. I feel like I have a newfound appreciation for America, in an entirely unpolitical way. I bought a new camera just for the vacation because my other camera was broken and still being repaired (it’s fixed now). I took well over a thousand photos. A lot of them were just spontaneous shots while I was driving, and a lot of them were pretty redundant or bad shots, but there’s still hundreds worth posting. Enjoy!

September 30

I drove to Chicago to visit my friend Eric who was having a birthday celebration at a bar/arcade that had free game play that night.

somewhere between Ann Arbor and Chicago

entering downtown Chicago

at the bar/arcade

gigantic pizza for the birthday celebration

October 1

After sleeping at my friend’s house, we got breakfast at the Chicago Diner and went to Reckless Records, and then I started driving west.

Eric’s cat Claudius

Claudius in his tunnel

Chicago Diner

breakfast table

vegan breakfast

vegan dessert

Chicago Diner

Reckless Records, Broadway

KA-POW!!

back on the road

pulling into a rest stop

exhibits at the rest stop

while stopping to get gas or something

October 2

I didn’t stay anywhere to sleep overnight, I just kept driving and took a nap for a couple hours at a rest stop in the morning. Also, my camera’s battery ran out, and since I didn’t stop anywhere to sleep, I had to wait until the afternoon to recharge, when I stopped to eat somewhere. I drove to Denver and walked around downtown and then visited my friend Catdog.

wandering around Denver

blue bear peeking into the convention center

D&D miniatures collection at Catdog’s friend’s house

cat playing D&D

October 3

I drove from Denver to Los Angeles in one shot. I didn’t end up in Los Angeles til about 2AM (Pacific Time) but this took me through the Rocky Mountains, which was mindblowing.

breakfast burrito

train running around the restaurant

back on the road

stopping at a view area in Utah

October 4

Made it to Los Angeles!

my cousin lives near Thai Town

driving to the beach

seals!

hiking up a path in the park to the observatory

Hollywood!

getting there right as the sun sets

ceiling art inside the observatory

pendulum inside the observatory

planet models

sunset skyline

street art

October 5

I went to Amoeba in the morning, and later we went to a park where there’s an abandoned zoo. There was also a haunted hayride set up, and they let us walk around for free. At night I went out to Low End Theory for a little bit.

breakfast

Brainfeeder on the streetcorner

outside Amoeba

inside Amoeba

entering the haunted hayride area

wandering around the abandoned zoo

election graffiti

subway

Nobody @ Low End Theory

Lee Bannon @ Low End Theory

October 6

My last day in Los Angeles. Went to Amoeba again, walked around another park area, this time went hiking to a waterfall which was just a trickle because there was a drought.

my cousin ordered a coconut at a Thai restaurant

castle near my cousin’s house

October 7

I started driving back in the morning. At one point I had to stop and call AAA because I was about to run out of gas and I just missed the last exit for hundreds of miles. So it was mostly just a day of driving through the desert.

rest stop as the sun is setting

October 8

After staying overnight at a hotel in Utah, I continued driving, and took photos at as many view areas as I could. My camera was running out of space, though, so I put it away after a while and kept driving.