January | 2017 | The Answer Is In The Beat

Facebook teenage albums list thing

January 13, 2017 at 9:58 pm | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

I try to avoid jumping on the bandwagon with these types of posts but for some reason I’m caving in this time. Here are ten albums that re-programmed my brain by the time I started college. Pretty much all of these were introduced to me by WPKN, college radio, or CMJ New Music Monthly.
Future Sound of London: ISDN
Orbital: In Sides
Aphex Twin: Richard D James Album
µ-ziq: Lunatic Harness
Alec Empire: The Destroyer
Stereolab: Dots & Loops
Guided By Voices: Alien Lanes
Dr. Octagon
Sun Ra: Space Is The Place
Quasimoto: The Unseen
This is leaving off a lot of “obvious” (but still valid) choices like Moby, Beck, Björk, Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Daft Punk, Pixies, Massive Attack, Tricky, Radiohead, etc.

Taking it further, here’s 10 college albums:
His Name Is Alive: Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth (really all of them, but this is where I started)
Cocteau Twins: Heaven Or Las Vegas
Brian Eno: Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
Venetian Snares: Higgins Ultra Low Track…
Duran Duran Duran: cdr he sent me in 2002
Longmont Potion Castle: Best Of
Alice Coltrane: Journey In Satchidananda
Coil: Musick To Play In The Dark Vol. 1
Negativland: Escape From Noise
People Like Us: Abridged Too Far

AllMusic Loves 2016

January 13, 2017 at 5:48 pm | Posted in AllMusic | Leave a comment

I forgot to post about this before, but I participated in AllMusic’s 2016 year end polls.
Here’s the individual staff lists:
AllMusic Loves 2016
And my ginormous Spotify playlist.
And the Favorite Electronic Albums, which I reviewed 20 of.

Cryptolect: The Marrow In My Bones (UNO, 2016)

January 12, 2017 at 9:42 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Cryptolect: The Marrow In My Bones

This came out in October and sadly seems to have escaped notice for the most part. I was immediately hooked when I heard it. Tense, dramatic abstract club music with scattered vocals. Super urgent, always searching for something, feels like it’s brushing up against discovering some sort of shocking, horrible truth. “Punished” is so, so good. Harsh, crushed, heavy, powerful, transcendent. It’s barely over 15 minutes long, you certainly have time to listen to it on Bandcamp right now!

c.Kostra: Now I Feel It (Pytch, 2016)

January 12, 2017 at 9:23 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

c.Kostra: Now I Feel It

c.Kostra is Ryan Olcott, who used to be in 12 Rods in the ’90s, and was also a part of Zod Records group Mystery Palace. He also produced Devata Daun’s Look, one of my out-of-nowhere favorite albums of last year. This album continues with the smudged-tape-wave sound of that album, but it adds more of a smooth funk style. It’s definitely more ’80s sounding, but filtered through a malfunctioning tape deck. Pretty much every song has vocoders. There’s horns, cozy guitars, Linn drums (especially on “Girls N Minneapolis”), and slow jams. The tracks in the middle get choppy and glitchy, but others are a little more breezy. Gloriously fractured and warped. Listen at Bandcamp.

Camp Candle: ERE (self-released, 2016)

January 11, 2017 at 9:19 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Camp Candle: ERE

This Philadelphia duo sent WCBN a three-song CDR a few months ago, and I was hooked by the second song. Somewhat distant but still pretty direct chillwavey pop which instantly reminded me of Detroit’s Little Animal. Same sort of dreamy, trippy feeling, but maybe without as many slow jams, and with a bit of lush guitar. I feel like the two duos would be playing lots of shows together if Detroit and Philly weren’t so far apart. This free mixtape was posted on their Bandcamp back in June, and it’s not too late to get familiar. “The Birthday Circle” is still my favorite, but the more hip-hop-leaning “Surface” is growing on me as well.

Show #377 – 1/7/17

January 7, 2017 at 3:19 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Hour 1
2:03 am Suzanne Doucet & Christian Buehner ~ “Shiva’s Dance” ~ (The Microcosm): Visionary Music of Continental Europe, 1970-1986 ~ Light in the Attic ~ 1983
2:12 am Botany ~ “Needam / Wish To” ~ Deepak Verbera (new) ~ Western Vinyl ~ 2016
2:17 am Quicksails ~ “Silent Separation” ~ Mortal (new) ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2016
2:20 am Second Woman ~ “800438ul8” ~ Second Woman ~ Spectrum Spools ~ 2016
2:24 am Padang Food Tigers & Sigbjørn Apeland ~ “Twin Hither” ~ Bumblin’ Creed (new) ~ Northern Spy ~ 2016
2:27 am Future Children ~ “Composition 1960 #7: Digital” ~ Interpret (new) ~ Simulacra ~ 2016
2:32 am Demdike Stare ~ “Airborne Latency” ~ Wonderland (new) ~ Modern Love ~ 2016
2:39 am DJ Manny X DJ Phil ~ “Bam Bam VIP” ~ Teklife VIP (new) ~ Teklife ~ 2016
2:42 am Pete Cannon Meets Ghost Writerz ~ “How We Living?” ~ Shapes In Space ~ Tru Thoughts ~ 2015
2:46 am Shitmat ~ “Benson & Hedges (Venetian Snares Remix)” ~ Grooverider [Bandcamp bonus track] ~ Planet Mu ~ 2007
2:50 am Aize ~ “London Ya Know (Steppa Mix)” ~ Alien Waterworlds EP (new) ~ Paranoid Recordings ~ 2017
2:55 am Seekersinternational ~ “Yardtech B” ~ Yardtech ~ Bandcamp ~ 2009
2:59 am DJ Plant Texture ~ “I Don’t Dance” ~ split 12″ w/ DJ Shark (new) ~ Unknown to the Unknown ~ 2016
Hour 2
3:06 am DJ Shark ~ “Cat Ears” ~ split 12″ w/ DJ Plant Texture (new) ~ Unknown to the Unknown ~ 2016
3:13 am Miss Red ~ “Pull It Up” ~ Murder ~ Red Label ~ 2015
3:16 am Novelist ~ “Endz” ~ Pure Grime ~ New State Music ~ 2015
3:19 am Sky H1 & Nunu ~ “I Think Loud (Why Be Blend)” ~ New Yr New Us (new) ~ The Astral Plane ~ 2017
3:22 am Xwave ~ “Blue Berets” ~ H.V.R.F. Sampler #3 (new) ~ H.V.R.F. Central Command ~ 2016
3:25 am Gil ~ “Take Sand” ~ Mixpak Holiday Bundle 2016 (new) ~ Mixpak ~ 2016
3:29 am Shinichi Atobe ~ “Rebuild Mix 3.” ~ Rebuild Mix 1.2.3. (new) ~ Jadac ~ 2016
3:33 am Constellation Botsu ~ “どうしてもこうしても私の奥をこすりたおしていてくれませ！バイザウェイ凶行直前のBad Guyはおいとまして頂きますん！” ~ H.V.R.F. Presents… A Hard Halloween (new) ~ H.V.R.F. Central Command ~ 2016
3:34 am Steve Roden ~ “Mobile Stabile” ~ Between Two Points ~ 12k/Line ~ 2001
3:39 am Shapednoise feat. Roly Porter ~ “Resistance to a Harmonious Vision” ~ Deafening Chaos Serenity (new) ~ Type ~ 2016
3:44 am Vesa-Matti Kivioja ~ “Universo” ~ Universo (new) ~ Ljudverket ~ 2016
3:49 am Jim Haynes ~ “Radiesthesia” ~ Throttle And Calibration (new) ~ Helen Scarsdale Agency ~ 2016
3:57 am Gavin Gamboa ~ “Payload Smuggling” ~ The Intruder (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2016
Hour 3
4:00 am Alan Courtis & Cyrus Pireh ~ “Coils on Malbec” ~ Coils on Malbec (new) ~ Shinkoyo ~ 2016
4:05 am Vapor Lanes ~ “Mary” ~ Hieratic Teen (new) ~ Usonian ~ 2016
4:09 am TALsounds ~ “Solace” ~ Lifter + Lighter (new) ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2016
4:16 am Alain Goraguer ~ “Déshominisation (I)” ~ La Planète Sauvage ~ Superior Viaduct ~ 1973
4:19 am Piper Spray ~ “Got” ~ World’s Ambient (new) ~ Onmyōdō Cassette ~ 2017
4:25 am Smersh ~ “Motor Hum” ~ Selected Deep House Anthems ~ Dark Entries ~ 1991
4:31 am Steve Roach ~ “Fade to Gray” ~ Fade to Gray (new) ~ Timeroom Editions ~ 2016
4:37 am Diseño Corbusier ~ “Harakiri” ~ Stadia ~ Dark Entries ~ 1982
4:40 am Severed Heads ~ “Umbrella” ~ Clifford Darling, Please Don’t Live In The Past ~ Dark Entries ~ 1985
4:45 am John Bender ~ “35A9” ~ I Don’t Remember Now/I Don’t Want to Talk About It ~ Superior Viaduct ~ 1980
4:50 am Die Form ~ “Leders Klub” ~ Zoo ~ Dark Entries ~ 1983
4:56 am Le Car (local) ~ “Fony” ~ Auto-Reverse ~ Clone Classic Cuts ~ 1998
Hour 4
5:01 am Pye Corner Audio ~ “Morning (Silent Servant Remix)” ~ Half-Light (Prowler Remixed) (new) ~ More Than Human ~ 2017
5:08 am Psychick Warriors Ov Gaia ~ “War Chant (Marcel Dettmann Edit)” ~ Marcel Dettmann: DJ-Kicks (new) ~ !K7 ~ 2016
5:12 am Planetary Assault Systems ~ “Tri Fn Trp” ~ Arc Angel (new) ~ Ostgut Ton ~ 2016
5:17 am Monoloc ~ “Try” ~ Drift ~ CLR ~ 2012
5:24 am Caprithy ~ “Safest Place” ~ 10″ (new) ~ Isaiah Tapes ~ 2017
5:31 am Elektro Guzzi ~ “Wood” ~ Clones (new) ~ Macro Recordings ~ 2016
5:39 am Rebel Kind (local) ~ “The Things That You Did” ~ Just For Fools (new) ~ Urinal Cake ~ 2016
5:41 am Four Thing ~ “[untitled]” ~ Four Thing (new) ~ Feeding Tube ~ 2016
5:43 am Evy Jane ~ “Hedron” ~ Breaking (new) ~ King Deluxe ~ 2016
5:46 am Abra ~ “Bounty” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2016
5:51 am Syrinx ~ “Aurora Spinray” ~ Tumblers From The Vault (1970-1972) ~ Rvng Intl ~ 1970
5:55 am Noura Mint Seymali ~ “Mohammedoun” ~ Arbina (new) ~ Glitterbeat ~ 2016

Crush Collision 1/5/17

January 6, 2017 at 12:51 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Hour 1
10:00 pm Jonathan Snipes ~ “The Duel”
10:06 pm Pye Corner Audio ~ “Ganzfeld Effect”
10:08 pm Silvestre ~ “Punk”
10:12 pm Welsh Modular Alliance ~ “FXDf”
10:17 pm John Healy ~ “Spectral Dial”
10:19 pm Ryan Huber ~ “Anabaptist”
10:22 pm Abstraxion ~ “She Thought She Would Last Forever (Clarian Remix)”
10:27 pm Letherette ~ “Wootera”
10:30 pm East Wall ~ “Eyes Of Glass”
10:34 pm Duckett ~ “No Relation To Me”
10:41 pm Chrissy & Hawley ~ “Love Again (Shady P Remix)”
10:44 pm NGLY ~ “Strange Expression”
10:47 pm Orthographic Figure ~ “94”
10:54 pm Аврора ~ “Technodrome (Edit)”
10:58 pm Lee J Malcolm ~ “Trashcan Riotface Queen”
Hour 2
11:01 pm Divine Interface ~ “A House Divided”
11:04 pm Paul Woolford ~ “Holy Ghost”
11:09 pm DJ Boring ~ “Winona”
11:14 pm Studio OST ~ “Above the Waves”
11:17 pm Mathew Johnson & Sebastian Mullaert ~ “Pollen 4 Life (Dub Mix)”
11:22 pm No Moon ~ “Nothing Else Matters”
11:30 pm DJ Seinfeld ~ “Konets Sveta Minimix”
11:34 pm Getto Soul ~ “Soundbuoy Heat Wave”
11:38 pm Hieroglyphic Being ~ “HOME 95”
11:43 pm Clouds ~ “Inner at Skinja’s”
11:46 pm A Made Up Sound ~ “Demons (Reprise)”
11:49 pm Ziúr ~ “Concord”
11:52 pm Dusky & Wiley ~ “Sort It Out Sharon”
11:55 pm Neil Landstrumm ~ “It’s Hot Outside”
11:59 pm Ténèbre ~ “Return at Point Zero”

Show #376 – 1/1/17

January 1, 2017 at 11:05 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Fill-in for Marvin (who moved out of state).
Hour 1
8:00 pm The Qualities ~ “Happy New Year to You!” ~ Sun Ra: Singles ~ Strut ~ 1956?
8:01 pm Bernard Xolotl ~ “Cometary Wailing (Valley Plateau)” ~ (The Microcosm): Visionary Music of Continental Europe, 1970-1986 ~ Light in the Attic ~ 1979
8:14 pm Mary Lattimore ~ “For Scott Kelly, Returned to Earth” ~ Live at WFMU for Surface Noise with Joe McGasko, 10/7/2016 (new) ~ Free Music Archive ~ 2016
8:25 pm Skin Lies (local) ~ “Proto-Threnody In Dub” ~ Troubled For Life (new) ~ Life Like ~ 2016
8:28 pm Grischa Lichtenberger ~ “004_1115_26_lv_1_brecs” ~ Spielraum | Allgegenwart | Strahlung (new) ~ Raster-Noton ~ 2016
8:33 pm Teruyuki Nobuchika ~ “Pulsation” ~ Still Air (new) ~ Oktaf ~ 2016
8:37 pm Tackle ~ “Benzedrine” ~ Benzedrine ~ Another Dark Age ~ 2016
8:45 pm DJ Mitsu the Beats ~ “Beaming” ~ Beat Installments Vol. 4 (new) ~ Jazzy Sport ~ 2016
8:48 pm Devonwho w/ Suzi Analogue ~ “Sageburnsredux” ~ Funraiser Vol. 1: Thumbtracks ~ Klipmode ~ 2009
8:52 pm Jamire Williams ~ “In Retrospect” ~ ///// EFFECTUAL (new) ~ Leaving Records ~ 2016
8:55 pm Rook Vallade ~ “Rv2_28” ~ Vestiges ~ Touchin’ Bass ~ 1992-2000
8:59 pm Phaeleh ~ “Origins” ~ Illusion of the Tale (new) ~ Undertow ~ 2016
Hour 2
9:03 pm Demdike Stare ~ “Null Results” ~ Testpressing #004 ~ Modern Love ~ 2013
9:10 pm Pessimist ~ “Balaklava” ~ 12″ ~ A14 ~ 2016
9:17 pm A Taut Line ~ “Milton Keynes” ~ DSK F/W 2016-2017 Free Compilation (new) ~ Diskotopia ~ 2016
9:23 pm São Paulo Underground ~ “Fire and Chime” ~ Cantos Invisiveis (new) ~ Cuneiform ~ 2016
9:26 pm King Jammy ~ “Empty Dub” ~ Dubbing at King Tubby’s ~ Jamaican Recordings ~ ?
9:30 pm Fluxion ~ “Autonomous” ~ Vibrant Forms III (new) ~ Subwax BCN ~ 2016
9:35 pm Soda Plains ~ “Rodeo” ~ single (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2016
9:39 pm Shifted ~ “Life Backwards” ~ Appropriation Stories (new) ~ Hospital Productions ~ 2016
9:44 pm MOD-COMM 81 ~ “The Agitator” ~ Join Us (new) ~ Tekres ~ 2016
9:49 pm Roman Flügel ~ “Stuffy” ~ Happiness is Happening ~ Dial ~ 2014
9:55 pm Khotin ~ “Baikal Acid” ~ Baikal Acid ~ 1080p ~ 2016