Horizons 4/30/17

April 30, 2017 at 8:27 pm | Posted in Horizons | Leave a comment

Horizons 4/30/17
6:02 pm Justin Walter (local) ~ “Sixty” ~ Unseen Forces (new) ~ Kranky ~ 2017
6:10 pm Jacaszek ~ “Eternity” ~ Kwiaty (new) ~ Ghostly International ~ 2017
6:16 pm Gas ~ “Narkopop 9” ~ Narkopop (new) ~ Kompakt ~ 2017
6:25 pm Carl Stone ~ “Shing Kee” ~ Electronic Music from the Seventies and Eighties ~ Unseen Worlds ~ 1986
6:40 pm Diamanda Galás ~ “O Death” ~ All the Way (new) ~ Intravenal Sound Operations ~ 2017
6:51 pm Mario Batkovic ~ “Restrictus” ~ Mario Batkovic (new) ~ Invada ~ 2017

Show #392 – 4/29/17

April 29, 2017 at 3:28 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Hour 1
2:00 am Nicole Mitchell ~ “Egoes War” ~ Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging World (new) ~ FPE ~ 2017
2:07 am Oumou Sangaré ~ “Fadjamou” ~ Mogoya (new) ~ No Format! ~ 2017
2:12 am Ahmed Abdul-Malik ~ “Nadusilma” ~ Spiritual Jazz 7: Modal, Esoteric & Progressive Jazz Inspired By Islam 1957-89 ~ Jazzman ~ 1962
2:16 am Bottle Tree ~ “Open Secret (Drums)” ~ 7″ (new) ~ International Anthem ~ 2017
2:20 am Miles Okazaki ~ “Box in a Box” ~ Trickster (new) ~ Pi Recordings ~ 2017
2:26 am Billy Cobham ~ “Searching For the Right Door/Spectrum” ~ Spectrum ~ Atlantic ~ 1973
2:32 am Bruno Sanfilippo ~ “Seventy Seven Years Later” ~ The Poet ~ 1631 ~ 2016
2:40 am The Clifford Gilberto Rhythm Combination ~ “Earth Vs Me” ~ I Was Young And I Needed The Money! ~ Ninja Tune ~ 1998
2:44 am Chaos A.D. ~ “Psultan (Squarepusher Mix)” ~ The Braindance Coincidence ~ Rephlex ~ 1998
2:51 am Karsten Pflum ~ “I Walk Like Old Trains” ~ Fuck Music, Easy ~ Bohnerwachs Tontraeger ~ 2007
2:58 am Xanopticon ~ “Bizarre” ~ $ Vol. 10 7″ ~ Tigerbeat6 ~ 2002
Hour 2
3:03 am Ed Rush & Nico ~ “Bludclot Artattack” ~ 12″ ~ No U-Turn ~ 1993
3:09 am Kypski ~ “The Hype (FFF Remix)” ~ Wrecked And Packed (new) ~ Lowriders Recordings ~ 2017
3:15 am Cassius Select ~ “90” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Accidental Jnr ~ 2017
3:20 am Velocette ~ “Nicht-Sein” ~ Clockwork EP ~ Reflective ~ 1995
3:26 am Dachshund ~ “Voronoi Diagram” ~ Eleven Ridims ~ Highgrade Records ~ 2012
3:31 am Michael Fakesch ~ “Rand Va” ~ Marion ~ Musik Aus Strom ~ 1999
3:35 am Cray ~ “_rvrsdle” ~ Undo ~ Bip-Hop ~ 2001
3:41 am Renick Bell & Steph Horak ~ “Improvisation 261116” ~ Meta Gesture Music (new) ~ The Wire ~ 2017
3:44 am El Murki ~ “Kahn” ~ Breakeadito (new) ~ Orange Milk ~ 2017
3:47 am Aaron Dilloway (local) ~ “Switch” ~ The Gag File (new) ~ Dais ~ 2017
3:52 am Xao Seffcheque ~ “Why We Hate the Residents” ~ Ja, Nein, Vielleicht Kommt Sehr Gut (A Selection Of Electronic Beats 1980-82) ~ Bureau B ~ 1981
3:54 am From Nursery to Misery ~ “Desire” ~ Pixies in the Woods ~ Dark Entries ~ 1990
3:57 am Dollkraut ~ “Fire” ~ Selected Label Works 5 ~ Permanent Vacation ~ 2014
Hour 3
4:02 am Actress ~ “X22RME” ~ AZD (new) ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2017
4:07 am Reese Project (local) ~ “Direct Me (Reese Riot Mix)” ~ 12″ ~ Giant ~ 1991
4:11 am Ron Zakrin (local) ~ “Blistering Heights” ~ One in a Million (new) ~ Equal Recordings ~ 2017
4:14 am Bileebob & Black Echo Zone (local) ~ “Suicide Squirrels” ~ Urban Legend & Shadow Land EP ~ Equal Recordings ~ 2015
4:16 am Sex Worker ~ “Telephone” ~ Bored Fortress 7″ ~ Not Not Fun ~ 2010
4:23 am Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras ~ “Eddie Go to My Head” ~ Catholic ~ Dark Entries ~ 1975-9
4:27 am Future Islands ~ “Day Glow Fire” ~ The Far Field (new) ~ 4AD ~ 2017
4:33 am Molécule ~ “Hébrides” ~ 60° 43′ Nord ~ Because Music ~ 2016
4:41 am Porter Ricks ~ “Shoal Beat” ~ Anguilla Electrica (new) ~ Tresor ~ 2017
4:48 am Gas ~ “Narkopop 8” ~ Narkopop (new) ~ Kompakt ~ 2017
4:54 am The KLF ~ “Madrugada Eterna (Acid House Edit by Johan Agebjörn)” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2017
Hour 4
5:00 am Ryuichi Sakamoto ~ “solari” ~ async (new) ~ Milan ~ 2017
5:03 am Software ~ “Phancyful Photons” ~ Chip-Meditation Part Two ~ Innovative Communication ~ 1985
5:07 am Valgeir Sigurðsson ~ “No Nights Dark Enough IV: fear and grief and pain” ~ Dissonance (new) ~ Bedroom Community ~ 2017
5:11 am Tara Jane O’Neill ~ “Flutter” ~ Tara Jane O’Neill (new) ~ Gnomomsong ~ 2017
5:14 am Slowdive ~ “Everyone Knows” ~ Slowdive (new) ~ Dead Oceans ~ 2017
5:18 am Eat Skull ~ “Surfing The Stairs” ~ Wild and Inside ~ Siltbreeze ~ 2009
5:20 am Rubella Ballet ~ “Belfast” ~ Ballet Bag ~ Dark Entries ~ 1981
5:22 am Diamanda Galás ~ “Round Midnight” ~ All the Way (new) ~ Intravenal Sound Operations ~ 2017
5:26 am Emel ~ “Sallem” ~ Ensen (new) ~ Partisan ~ 2017
5:32 am Between Interval ~ “The Outer Shell” ~ Legacy (new) ~ Spotted Peccary ~ 2017
5:40 am Justin Walter (local) ~ “Soft Illness” ~ Unseen Forces (new) ~ Kranky ~ 2017
5:42 am Lawrence English ~ “Somnambulist” ~ Cruel Optimism (new) ~ Room40 ~ 2017
5:48 am The Bug vs. Earth ~ “Agoraphobia” ~ Concrete Desert (new) ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2017
5:53 am Horoscope ~ “Azabache Necklace Bought to Protect My Daughter” ~ Misogyny Stone (new) ~ Wharf Cat Records ~ 2017

Nicole Mitchell: Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds (FPE, 2017)

April 28, 2017 at 7:31 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Nicole Mitchell: Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds

Chicago flautist Nicole Mitchell’s latest album (recorded live at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago in 2015) is based on a concept of combining dualities, considering the idea of smashing utopia and dystopia together. Acoustic and electric instruments are juxtaposed in order to explore an advanced society in harmony with nature. The album seems to be primarily acoustic, with strings, percussion, and Japanese instruments such as shamisen and shakuhachi credited along with electric guitar, theremin, and electronics. At times it’s dissonant in an avant-rock way. In other moments, it’s trippy, evocative, and otherworldly. During the album’s second half, vocalist avery r young gives a voice to Mitchell’s lyrics about earthly struggles. He seems to creep up to the stage from the back of the room during the gospel-inflected “Staircase Struggle”. “Shiny Divider” is a bit more bluesy, speaking frankly of bloodshed and demanding that humanity finds a solution. After the lengthy instrumental “Mandorla Island”, young returns on “TineWrap”, referencing heavy labor in fields and on railroads, and explaining how determination is crucial to the survival of humanity. A powerful album which (unfortunately) is even more relevant now than when it was composed and recorded.

Crush Collision 4/27/17

April 28, 2017 at 9:34 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Featuring a set by returning guest The Silent Ech0!
Hour 1
10:04 pm The Silent Ech0 (local) ~ “GUEST DJ SET!!!”
Hour 2
11:00 pm M&G ~ “When I Let You Down”
11:02 pm El Nino Andres ~ “1210s, 303s, 404s”
11:07 pm The New Tower Generation ~ “Eyes Don’t Lie”
11:11 pm Dauwd ~ “Leitmotiv”
11:16 pm Bambooman ~ “M1”
11:19 pm Saine & Smith ~ “Sir Viktig”
11:24 pm Talaboman ~ “Loser’s Hymn”
11:30 pm Bwana ~ “Three Way is the Hard Way (Avalon Emerson Remix)”
11:34 pm Demian ~ “No Hype For the Fish”
11:39 pm Gary Gritness ~ “Steady Choosin”
11:44 pm Ajukaja ~ “Walk”
11:49 pm Recloose ~ “No I Don’t”
11:54 pm Simic ~ “Export Agreements”

Show #391 – 4/26/17

April 26, 2017 at 10:16 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Hour 1
7:04 pm Children of Alice ~ “The Harbinger of Spring” ~ Children of Alice (new) ~ Warp Records ~ 2013
7:22 pm Gas ~ “Narkopop 2” ~ Narkopop (new) ~ Kompakt ~ 2017
7:32 pm Easily Embarrassed ~ “Little Trees And Mysteries” (by request) ~ Idyllic Life ~ Cardamer Music ~ 2008
7:40 pm The Clifford Gilberto Rhythm Combination ~ “A Different Forrest” ~ I Was Young And I Needed The Money! ~ Ninja Tune ~ 1998
7:44 pm Baraki ~ “Wa To Yoni” ~ Colony Laspberry ~ Worm Interface ~ 1999
7:49 pm Michael Fakesch ~ “Dry/Wet” ~ Marion ~ Musik Aus Strom ~ 1999
7:53 pm Cray ~ “Forna” ~ Undo ~ Bip-Hop ~ 2001
7:58 pm Biosphere ~ “Kobresia” ~ Substrata ~ Biophon ~ 1997
Hour 2
8:06 pm Diamanda Galás ~ “You Don’t Know What Love Is” ~ All the Way (new) ~ Intravenal Sound Operations ~ 2017
8:12 pm Patrick Cowley & Candida Royalle ~ “Shimmering (Where Am I?)” ~ Candida Cosmica ~ Dark Entries ~ 1975
8:20 pm Cyrnai ~ “Noct (Mourning Glare)” ~ Charred Blossoms ~ Mind Matter Records ~ 1985
8:26 pm Die Form ~ “Darkness” ~ Die Puppe ~ Dark Entries ~ 1982
8:31 pm Klaus Schulze ~ “Kagi’s Lament” ~ Ballett 2 ~ MIG ~ 2000
8:39 pm De-Bons-en-Pierre ~ “Seul Comme Sombre” ~ Crepes (new) ~ Dark Entries ~ 2017
8:42 pm Equiknoxx ~ “A Rabbit Spoke To Me When I Woke Up” ~ Bird Sound Power ~ DDS ~ 2016
8:45 pm Aybee ~ “The Professor” ~ The Odyssey (new) ~ Deepblak ~ 2016
8:49 pm Carl Craig & Derrick May (local) ~ “Frustration” ~ More Songs About Food and Revolutionary Art ~ Planet E ~ 1997
8:55 pm Justin Walter (local) ~ “Unseen Forces” ~ Unseen Forces (new) ~ Kranky ~ 2017

Show #390 – 4/22/17

April 22, 2017 at 7:39 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

2:00 am Gas ~ “Narkopop 3” ~ Narkopop (new) ~ Kompakt ~ 2017
2:04 am Justin Walter (local) ~ “It’s Not What You Think” ~ Unseen Forces (new) ~ Kranky ~ 2017
2:11 am Jean-Michel Blais & CFCF ~ “Spirit” ~ Cascades (new) ~ Arts & Crafts ~ 2017
2:16 am Max Cooper with Tom Hodge ~ “Symmetry” ~ Emergence (new) ~ Mesh ~ 2016
2:20 am Ensemble Economique ~ “Gonna Get Right With God, Right After This Next Cigarette” ~ In Silhouette (new) ~ Denovali ~ 2017
2:27 am Paco Sala ~ “MS2000R Workout Nmbr 1” ~ The Silent Season (new) ~ Denovali ~ 2017
2:30 am Between Interval ~ “Gravity Core” ~ Legacy (new) ~ Spotted Peccary ~ 2017
2:37 am Mary Lattimore ~ “Bold Rides” ~ Collected Pieces (new) ~ Ghostly International ~ 2017
2:51 am Alice Coltrane ~ “Er Ra” ~ The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda ~ Luaka Bop ~ 1987
2:56 am Bruno Sanfilippo ~ “Dead’s Hope” ~ The Poet ~ 1631 ~ 2016
2:57 am Mario Batkovic ~ “Semper” ~ Mario Batkovic (new) ~ Invada ~ 2017
3:04 am Biosphere ~ “Uva-Ursi” ~ Substrata ~ Biophon ~ 1997
3:07 am The Lickets ~ “Botanical Illusion” ~ Offering to Magnetic Mountain (new) ~ International Corp ~ 2017
3:12 am Sheaf & Froggatt ~ “Noises Made By Cacti Growing Inside an Alien Hothouse” ~ split tape w/ Uton, The Gonk with a Luminous Nose & Roped Off ~ Shack in the Barley Productions ~ 2016
3:22 am Lawrence English ~ “Crow” ~ Cruel Optimism (new) ~ Room40 ~ 2017
3:25 am Planning For Burial ~ “Dull Knife Pt. I” ~ Below the House (new) ~ The Flenser ~ 2017
3:31 am Gnod ~ “People” ~ Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine (new) ~ Rocket ~ 2017
3:42 am Fred Thomas (local) ~ “Individual Peace” ~ Casanova Temptations Split Cassette Series Vol. 1 ~ Casanova Temptations
3:58 am Sabu Martinez & Sahib Shihab ~ “Nus” ~ Spiritual Jazz 7: Modal, Esoteric & Progressive Jazz Inspired By Islam 1957-89 ~ Jazzman ~ 1978
4:01 am Children of Alice ~ “Rite Of The Maypole – An Unruly Procession” ~ Children of Alice ~ Warp ~ 2015
4:08 am Negativland ~ “Perfect Scrambled Eggs” ~ Potatoes ~ Ralph ~ 1987
4:10 am Christian Marclay ~ “1930” ~ Island of Sanity: New Music From New York City ~ No Man’s Land ~ 1987
4:13 am Last Exit ~ “Cut and Run” ~ Iron Path ~ Virgin ~ 1988
4:15 am People Like Us ~ “Do Or DIY” ~ Abridged Too Far ~ Discrepant ~ 2003
4:19 am Gil Trythall ~ “Walking the Floor Over You” ~ Country Moog: Switched On Nashville ~ Athena ~ 1972
4:22 am Bocal 5 ~ “Faune Plum” ~ Musique Électronique ~ Dark Entries ~ 1984
4:24 am Ron Zakrin (local) ~ “One in a Million” ~ One in a Million (new) ~ Equal Recordings ~ 2017
4:30 am Sail (local) ~ “side 2” ~ Blown Glass ~ FM Dust ~ 2011
4:39 am De-Bons-en-Pierre ~ “Francine” ~ Crepes (new) ~ Dark Entries ~ 2017
4:43 am The Neon Judgement ~ “1 Jump Ahead” ~ Cockerill-Sombre EP ~ Dark Entries ~ 1983
4:46 am Helena Hauff ~ “Split Scission” ~ A Tape ~ Dark Entries ~ 2015
4:48 am Solitary Dancer ~ “Anything” ~ Dualism (new) ~ Dark Entries ~ 2017
4:53 am Linea Aspera ~ “Synapse” ~ Linea Aspera ~ Dark Entries ~ 2012
4:57 am Teengirl Fantasy ~ “Telepaths” ~ 8AM (new) ~ Planet Mu ~ 2017
5:01 am Jerry Abstract (local) ~ “Basik Introduktion” ~ Satiated Elation ~ Equal Recordings ~ 2015
5:05 am Bileebob & Black Echo Zone (local) ~ “Breathe” ~ Urban Legend & Shadow Land EP ~ Equal Recordings ~ 2015
5:08 am Second Woman ~ “////” ~ S/W (new) ~ Spectrum Spools ~ 2017
5:14 am Fin ~ “Autobody” ~ Ice Pix (new) ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2017
5:17 am Maniac ~ “Victoria Park” ~ Homecoming (new) ~ Earth616 ~ 2017
5:20 am Moresounds ~ “Mutation Experts” ~ Mutation Experts (new) ~ Cosmic Bridge ~ 2017
5:25 am PZG & Dubsknit & Melt Unit ~ “Lets Be 3” ~ We Rob Rave 2 (new) ~ Cock Rock Disco ~ 2017
5:29 am St▲rshine ~ “Avril 14th” ~ split single w/ Bit Mummy (new) ~ Scolex ~ 2017
5:31 am Chris Lowell (local) ~ “Ode to Adult” ~ Archeoastronomy LP ~ Equal Recordings ~ 2015
5:36 am Ian Ginsing (local) ~ “Womance” ~ Cosmetic Blemish ~ Equal Recordings ~ 2015
5:41 am Actress ~ “Fantasynth” ~ AZD (new) ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2017
5:46 am Christopher Rau ~ “High” ~ Two ~ Smallville ~ 2012
5:50 am Slugabed ~ “Infinite Wave” ~ Inherit the Earth (new) ~ Anticon ~ 2017
5:56 am Kiefer ~ “5000 Dollar Check” ~ Kickinit Alone (new) ~ Leaving Records ~ 2017

Crush Collision 4/20/17

April 21, 2017 at 9:29 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Hour 1
10:01 pm Gas ~ “Narkopop 10”
10:10 pm Solitary Dancer featuring Marie Davidson ~ “Emails 2 Myself”
10:13 pm DADRAS ~ “Appear/Disappear/Reappear”
10:16 pm Metalized Man ~ “Flesh Lamps and Hover Boards”
10:19 pm Kreidler ~ “Radio Island”
10:25 pm Christopher Rau ~ “Girl”
10:29 pm Hunter/Game ~ “Dead Soul (Joey Anderson Remix)”
10:33 pm Actress ~ “Blue Window”
10:36 pm Helena Hauff ~ “29acid3”
10:42 pm The Juan Maclean ~ “Here I Am (Octo Octa Remix)”
10:47 pm A Sagittariun ~ “Curviture”
10:53 pm Planetary Assault Systems ~ “Surface Noise (P.A.S. Rework)”
Hour 2
11:02 pm Sciahri ~ “Anxiety”
11:06 pm Yaleesa Hall ~ “Woodall 0618”
11:09 pm Christian Morgenstern ~ “Spiegelkerker (Efdemin Remix)”
11:13 pm S. Candle ~ “Dogsmoker”
11:17 pm The Neon Judgement ~ “Too Cold To Breathe”
11:21 pm Teengirl Fantasy ~ “Star-rise”
11:23 pm Kingdom ~ “Tears in the Club”
11:26 pm Astrosuka & Ornamenti d’Oro ~ “Ahaetulla Nasuta (Partisan Remix)”
11:30 pm Detroit’s Filthiest ~ “Infamous”
11:32 pm DJ Jayhood ~ “Bad Ink Anthem”
11:34 pm (703) 863-4357 ~ “40 Miles (703 Anchors of Pain Mix)”
11:38 pm Henry Burner ~ “Alien Waterworlds”
11:41 pm SFV Acid ~ “(h)house”
11:45 pm Cucumb45 ~ “Akureyri”
11:49 pm Caracoa ~ “A Canaanite Reborn”
11:53 pm The Brothers Grimm ~ “Exodus (The Lion Awakes) (Special Request Remix)”
11:57 pm Joy Orbison ~ “Off Season”

Between Interval: Legacy (Spotted Peccary, 2017)

April 20, 2017 at 8:08 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Between Interval: Legacy

Pretty good deep space ambient/downtempo with a slight sci-fi theme. This artist remixed Sally Shapiro almost a decade ago, but I’d say this is closer to Johan Agebjörn’s solo stuff. Pulsating ambient with touches of sad synth-pop melodies and some dub echoes. There’s light arpeggios, but there’s lots of room for space and reflection. “The Hour Appointed” has rushing water, bird chirps, and bell-like tones. “Fields of Neptune” has a nice synth sequence which drifts in along with nocturnal mist and fog. “Gravity Core” is dub techno with the beats suspended so all that’s left is the echoes into the void (plus some suspenseful pads creeping in during key moments). “Inner Guidance” is the only track to feature voices, and they’re heavily shrouded in echo, resembling the advice of spirits. Between Interval’s style is somewhat minimalist, but the intention is for the imagination to color in the empty space.

Ron Zakrin: One In A Million LP (Equal Recordings, 2017)

April 19, 2017 at 10:43 pm | Posted in Reviews | 1 Comment

Ron Zakrin: One In A Million LP

Detroit-based painter and musician Ron Zakrin used to record electro-punk as Goudron, with releases on ADULT.’s Ersatz Audio and Ectomorph’s Interdimentional Transmissions. This is his first LP under his own name, and it’s closer to stripped-down electro-techno, with brittle, paranoid melodies in the Dopplereffekt/Aux 88 mode, but there’s still new wave/synth-pop elements to it. “Hells Androids” is bouncy and playful, but “Guilty Pleasures” is more of an even tempo and has some guitar-like distortion and a swooping bassline. “Streetwise” injects some 8-bit textures into its suspenseful electro-funk. “Haste to Hastings” and “Midnight Hustle (D Major)” are cosmic disco homages, and “One in a Million” is a chipper new wave tune with a playful Casio-sounding outro. Available from Bandcamp.

Ian Ginsing: Cosmetic Blemish 12″ EP (Equal Recordings, 2016)

April 19, 2017 at 10:08 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Ian Ginsing: Cosmetic Blemish 12″ EP

Solid, steady tech-house from a former Detroiter now living in Portland, and also known as Jerry Abstract. Solid, playful tracks with a snap and a crunch to them. Pretty minimal and groove-based, for the most part. “Wet Yeti” is as slyly cheeky as its title; “Womance” is a bit darker and more pensive, and has lots of cool snips and glitches. “Pattaya Shuffle” is a bit of a nervous rattler, with stammering beats and some weird cartoonish samples poking through near the end. “Seeping Into Film” has an almost dubstep/garage-ish bounce to it, and a filtered vocal sample that reminds me of Hardrive’s “Deep Inside” for some reason (but buried way deep inside). Available on Bandcamp, but “Wet Yeti” only appears on the 12″.

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