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Crush Collision 11/14/19

November 15, 2019 at 9:22 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Coming soon: Thanksgiving turkey coma slowdown mix.

10:00 pm Dominik Eulberg ~ Sechslinien-Bodeneule
10:09 pm Global Communication ~ The Deep
10:16 pm John Daly ~ Stay Close (Gonzo’s Way Remix by Losoul)
10:25 pm Bonobo ~ Linked
10:30 pm Underground Solution ~ Luv Dancin’ (In Deep Mix)
10:36 pm Finest Wear ~ Strings
10:42 pm Jonathan Krisp ~ Trophic Cascades
10:45 pm Dj Balduin ~ Lost Cat and an Untied Shoe
10:52 pm Bridge Guy ~ Lone Frenchman
10:57 pm Dave DK ~ Stargazer
11:02 pm Jacques Greene ~ Do It Without You
11:04 pm Floorplan ~ Fiyaaaa!
11:10 pm Fabio Monesi ~ Flanger City
11:12 pm Locked Groove ~ From Beyond (Alan Fitzpatrick Remix)
11:17 pm Jas Shaw ~ After the Panic, Comes Euphoria
11:21 pm Plaid ~ Maru (John Tejada Remix)
11:25 pm 4thsex ~ Bagarre
11:30 pm Jayda G ~ Missy Knows What’s Up (DJ Fett Burger’s F. Second Try Remix)
11:36 pm John Beltran feat. Erika Koberlein ~ Love Static
11:41 pm DJ 3000 ~ Illyrian
11:47 pm Julia ~ Toto
11:53 pm Welsh Modular Alliance ~ Dark Tech1

S Transporter: s/t EP (Portage Garage Sounds, 2019)

November 9, 2019 at 10:08 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

S Transporter: s/t EP

The four tracks on this EP were developed over the course of several years throughout several sessions in San Francisco and Detroit. Ryan Spencer and Izaak S initially recorded demos sometime around 2015, and after rediscovering them and playing them at Spencer and Shigeto’s Monday Is The New Monday weekly, they developed the tracks further. “S Transporter 1” is a mutant electro track which can hardly stop fidgeting, filled with vinyl swerves and count-offs. Anya Ghiorzi joins in for “S Transporter 2”, a sleazy robo-boogie joint with a vaguely goth air. “S Transporter” is a buoyant tropical island adventure underpinned by spoken narrations which are hard to make out unless you turn it up and concentrate, but you’ll probably be too busy dancing to worry about listening to the words. “S Transporter 4” is breezy and summery but far from simply laid back, with lots of simmering synths surrounding the swaying beats and guitars.

Show #519 – 11/9/19

November 9, 2019 at 7:47 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

12:01 am Swans ~ The Nub ~ leaving meaning. (new) ~ Young God ~ 2019
12:12 am Pedestrian Deposit ~ Crow Theory ~ Dyers’ Hands (new) ~ Monorail Trespassing ~ 2019
12:19 am Chihei Hatakeyama ~ Cherry Blossom Petals Fall Like Heavy Snow ~ Forgotten Hill (new) ~ Room40 ~ 2019
12:27 am Cohesion ~ Expense ~ Purple Snow: Forecasting the Minneapolis Sound ~ Numero Group ~ 1977
12:30 am Dan Friel ~ Opening Ceremonies ~ Fanfare (new) ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2019
12:35 am Sonic Youth ~ Catholic Block ~ Sister ~ SST ~ 1987
12:38 am Failed Flowers (local) ~ Broken Screen ~ 7″ (new) ~ Slumberland ~ 2019
12:41 am Velf ~ Unhinging ~ In a Sense (new) ~ Orange Milk ~ 2019
12:46 am Wobbly ~ Medieval Refrigerator ~ Monitress (new) ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2019
12:48 am Negativland ~ Destroying Anything ~ True False (new) ~ Seeland ~ 2019
12:54 am Shmu ~ Sensory Glitch ~ Shhh!!!! ~ GTZ ~ 2015
12:59 am Steve Hauschildt ~ Nonlin ~ Nonlin (new) ~ Ghostly International ~ 2019
1:04 am John Healy ~ Wogglebug Beats the Rubicon n STO Drones (pt. 2) ~ Modular Improvisation April 2015 ~ Welsh Modular Alliance ~ 2015
1:19 am Snowbeasts ~ Set the Night on Fire (Somatic Responses Remix) ~ Transformation II ~ Component ~ 2018
1:24 am Solypsis ~ Shithop Vol3 ~ In Hiding ~ Component ~ 2016
1:28 am Lindstrøm ~ On a Clear Day I Can See You Forever ~ On a Clear Day I Can See You Forever (new) ~ Smalltown Supersound ~ 2019
1:37 am Shuta Hasunuma ~ LEX ~ Oa (new) ~ Northern Spy ~ 2019
1:40 am Moon Gangs ~ The Terminal ~ Earth Loop ~ Village Green ~ 2018
1:45 am Stephen Mallinder ~ Um Dada ~ Um Dada (new) ~ Dais ~ 2019
1:50 am Diamondstein ~ Rumors of Crime ~ Reflecting on a Dying Man (new) ~ Doom Trip ~ 2019
1:57 am Somatic Responses ~ Bleak Legacy ~ Recurring Dream ~ Photon Emissions ~ 2018
2:04 am John Healy ~ Dark Clouds (Part 1) ~ Dark Clouds ~ Welsh Modular Alliance ~ 2015
2:09 am Soft Error ~ Bad Habits ~ Mechanism ~ Village Green ~ 2017
2:14 am Unwashed ~ King Subliminal ~ The Wire Tapper 42 ~ The Wire Magazine ~ 2016
2:16 am Xosar ~ Lost in a Dark Wood ~ Psychick Justice ~ Bandcamp ~ 2014
2:22 am Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith ~ Dreams Of Yugoslavia ~ Dreams ~ Stadiums & Shrines ~ 2015
2:26 am Kreidler ~ Flood IV ~ Flood (new) ~ Bureau B ~ 2019
2:30 am Derek Piotr ~ Mariana (Wash Schwebung Dub By Stephan Mathieu) ~ Underlined ~ Line ~ 2018
2:37 am Pan•American ~ Muriel Spark ~ A Son (new) ~ Kranky ~ 2019
2:42 am Pan•American ~ Is a Problem to Occupy Generations ~ White Bird Release ~ Kranky ~ 2009
2:44 am Nâ Hawa Doumbia ~ Tjefouroule ~ La Grande Cantatrice Malienne – Decouverte 81 A Dakar ~ Awesome Tapes from Africa ~ 1981
2:49 am Sawako ~ Piano Mist ~ Evidence of Intense Beauty ~ Audiobulb ~ 2016
2:54 am Benoit Pioulard ~ Home Taping Billowed Edge ~ Disquiet, Vol.1 ~ Unseen Music ~ 2017
2:57 am Nano Frog ~ You Always Forget ~ Future Sounds of Long Island ~ Vorgon Massive ~ 1999
3:04 am SineRider ~ Aomori ~ Four Years Away ~ Sound In Silence ~ 2018
3:08 am Ben Babbitt ~ Waiting and Watching ~ Paris Window: Original Score (new) ~ Not Not Fun ~ 2019
3:14 am Dudal + Monolyth & Cobalt ~ Laaps ~ Dialog Tapes II ~ Dauw ~ 2018
3:18 am Emmanuel Witzthum ~ Soul Cathedral ~ Various Artists (Eilean 92) ~ Eilean Rec. ~ 2018
3:24 am Josh Mason + Machinefabriek ~ Siltbell ~ Dialog Tapes II ~ Eilean Rec. ~ 2018
3:29 am A Winged Victory for the Sullen ~ The Rhythm of a Dividing Pair ~ The Undivided Five (new) ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2019
3:35 am Deathprod ~ Occultation 1 ~ Occulting Disk (new) ~ Smalltown Supersound ~ 2019
3:40 am Solypsis ~ Death Threat ~ Devisor ~ Component ~ 2018
3:46 am Loraine James ft. Le3 Black ~ London Ting // Dark As Fuck ~ For You and I (new) ~ Hyperdub ~ 2019
3:50 am DJ Spooky ~ Synaptic Dissonance ~ Asphodelic ~ Asphodel ~ 1998
3:57 am Danny Brown (local) ~ Combat ~ uknowhatimsayin¿ (new) ~ Warp ~ 2019
4:01 am Apollo Brown with Elzhi, T. Calmese, Quest Mcody, & Melanie Rutherford (local) ~ Stopwatch ~ Sincerely, Detroit (new) ~ Mello Music Group ~ 2019
4:05 am L’Orange and Jeremiah Jae with billy woods ~ Clay Pigeons ~ Complicate Your Life with Violence (new) ~ Mello Music Group ~ 2019
4:08 am clipping. ~ Blood of the Fang ~ There Existed An Addiction To Blood (new) ~ Sub Pop ~ 2019
4:12 am Zonal with Moor Mother ~ Medulla ~ Wrecked (new) ~ Relapse ~ 2019
4:20 am Lapalux ~ Amnioverse ~ Amnioverse (new) ~ Brainfeeder ~ 2019
4:24 am Alexis Gideon ~ Chase ~ Upgrade Soul (new) ~ FPE ~ 2019
4:26 am Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein ~ Ruins ~ Stranger Things 3 (new) ~ Lakeshore ~ 2019
4:29 am Patrick Cowley ~ Lumberjacks In Heat ~ Mechanical Fantasy Box ~ Dark Entries ~ 1976
4:40 am Pink Sky (local) ~ In Trance ~ Meditations (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019
4:45 am ISAN ~ Ichthyosaur ~ Lamenting Machine (new) ~ Morr Music ~ 2019
4:50 am Opiate ~ stp! ~ Sometimes ~ Morr Music ~ 2003
4:53 am Styrofoam ~ Off Is Not A Speed ~ The Point_Misser ~ Morr Music ~ 2000
4:58 am Manual ~ Velvet Sunset ~ Until Tomorrow ~ Morr Music ~ 2001
5:01 am Slicker ~ Swap Track ~ The Latest ~ Hefty ~ 2001
5:07 am Pluxus ~ Polyfant ~ European Onion ~ Rocketgirl ~ 2002
5:10 am Anamanaguchi ~ Sunset By Plane ~ [USA] (new) ~ Polyvinyl ~ 2019
5:14 am The Notwist ~ Pick Up the Phone ~ Neon Golden ~ Domino ~ 2002
5:18 am Dntel ~ If I Stay a Minute ~ Human Voice ~ Leaving Records ~ 2014
5:22 am Sudan Archives ~ Honey ~ Athena (new) ~ Stones Throw ~ 2019
5:25 am S Transporter (local) ~ S Transporter 4 ~ S Transporter EP (new) ~ Portage Garage Sounds ~ 2019
5:32 am B. Fleischmann ~ It’s All So ~ A Choir of Empty Beds ~ Fuzzy Box ~ 2000
5:38 am The Fall ~ Room to Live ~ 1982 box set ~ Cherry Red ~ 1982
5:43 am XV (local) ~ Saran Wrap ~ XV (new) ~ Life Like ~ 2019
5:44 am Spykes & Parashi (local) ~ side A ~ Braille License Plates for Sullen Nights 7″ (new) ~ Radical Documents ~ 2019
5:49 am Lightning Bolt ~ Halloween 3 ~ Sonic Citadel (new) ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2019
5:55 am Floating Points ~ Bias ~ Crush (new) ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2019

Pedestrian Deposit: Dyers’ Hands (Monorail Trespassing, 2019)

November 8, 2019 at 7:33 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Pedestrian Deposit: Dyers’ Hands

Los Angeles duo Pedestrian Deposit are absolutely unforgettable in concert, producing unremittingly harsh but controlled noise using electronics and self-built instruments constructed of junk metal and wood, including a violin made out of a branch. The few recordings of theirs that I’ve heard do an incredible job at transferring that energy and unpredictability to tape. Dyers’ Hands, like many of their releases, appears on their own Monorail Trespassing, and it’s astounding. “Crow Theory” opens with a minute of delicate plucking before leading into raucous, cut-up noise which thrashes and threatens to combust and burn the house down. “What Can’t Be Given”, however, is a tranquil sea of cello and tape drifting. “Auger” is a more Deathprod-like swarm of electronic drones and feedback, as well as swooping tones generated from something called a string brace. “What Can’t Be Taken” sporadically shifts between disorienting noise bursts and quiet, icy stillness, including sounds literally generated from ice as well as the clanging and scraping of junk metal. The 18-minute “Beneath the Salt” is a mini-symphony for more branch instruments (violin and string bass) as well as cello and electronics, flowing from soft rumbling to deadly noise attacks, ending with a solemn, stirring cello section. Gorgeous, powerful, perception-shaking work.

Spykes & Parashi: Braille License Plates for Sullen Nights 7″ (Radical Documents, 2019)

November 3, 2019 at 6:32 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Spykes & Parashi: Braille License Plates for Sullen Nights 7″

John Olsen of Wolf Eyes and Mike Griffin of Burnt Hills produced this 7″ of frigid, shivering electronics and braying, blasted reed-blowing. The press blurb says “the record speed is based on how many days you have not left the house”, but I find that it sounds just fine at 33. Side B is easily my favorite, it’s jazzier but also a thick, murky soup of multi-textural electronics, and it takes your brain to a much more active, swirling-and-sloshing place than side A. Both sides end in locked grooves, and all copies contain unique artwork.

Show #518 – 11/2/19

November 2, 2019 at 3:59 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

2:00 am Negativland ~ This Is Not Normal (Normal Version) ~ True False (new) ~ Seeland ~ 2019
2:08 am Floating Points ~ Environments ~ Crush (new) ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2019
2:13 am Melange ~ Cloud World ~ Future Sounds of Long Island ~ Vorgon Massive ~ 1999
2:17 am Loraine James ~ Vowel // Consonant ~ For You & I (new) ~ Hyperdub ~ 2019
2:23 am Styrofoam ~ We Can Never Go Home ~ We Can Never Go Home ~ Sound in Silence ~ 2018
2:27 am ISAN ~ Strix Aluco ~ Lamenting Machine (new) ~ Morr Music ~ 2019
2:32 am Aarktica ~ Voyager ~ Mareación (new) ~ HanaqPacha Music ~ 2019
2:39 am Zonal ~ S.O.S ~ Wrecked (new) ~ Relapse ~ 2019
2:44 am Faxada ~ Engager ~ Paraa ~ Darling Recordings ~ 2018
2:47 am Robot Speaker ~ Broken Television ~ Plastic-TV Channel ~ Placenta Recordings ~ 2015
2:51 am Audio Sculpture ~ U & Me ~ 12″ ~ Hot Lz Records ~ ?
2:58 am Matt Yee-King ~ Shrink Panther ~ Trash Industrialsamplecoregouchbeat ~ Mille Plateaux ~ 1997
3:03 am Lumen Lab ~ Compa ~ The Wire Tapper 42 ~ The Wire Magazine ~ 2016
3:08 am Kusari Gama Kill ~ Manolo Worship ~ The Future of Noise ~ Placenta Recordings ~ 2016
3:10 am Mukqs ~ Love Machine ~ Any% (new) ~ Doom Trip ~ 2019
3:14 am Robert Lippok ~ Practice ~ Applied Autonomy ~ Raster ~ 2018
3:15 am John Healy ~ Heartbreak Over a Circuit Board ~ Silicon Heartbreak EP ~ Welsh Modular Alliance ~ 2015
3:22 am Lake Haze ~ Circuits Dream ~ Glitching Dreams (new) ~ E-Beamz ~ 2019
3:27 am Bernard Grancher ~ Decalque 65 ~ Trade & Distribution Almanac Volume 5 ~ AD AAD AT ~ 2015
3:33 am Lo Mas Bello ~ 287 gotas de rocio ~ Fuck Corporate Punk Rock ~ Placenta Recordings ~ 2015
3:46 am Nitts ~ Untitled ~ split w/ Dental Work and Changoz! ~ Placenta Recordings ~ 2016
3:50 am Spykes & Parashi (local) ~ side B ~ Braille License Plates for Sullen Nights 7″(new) ~ Radical Documents ~ 2019
3:56 am clipping. featuring Counterfeit Madison & Robyn Hood ~ All In Your Head ~ There Existed An Addiction to Blood (new) ~ Sub Pop ~ 2019
4:00 am Napalm Death ~ Life? ~ Scum ~ Earache ~ 1987
4:01 am SPOOKYWAVE ~ 花の専門店 ~ SPOOKY SHOPPE ~ the internet ~ 2015
4:05 am XV (local) ~ Sore Throat ~ XV (new) ~ Life Like ~ 2019
4:06 am Kusari Gama Kill ~ Demons Ten ~ Astral Prison ~ Placenta Recordings ~ 2015
4:07 am Pierce Warnecke ~ HDDXenoglossy (And The Machine Spoke) ~ Sichten 1 ~ Raster ~ 2018
4:12 am Deathprod ~ Disappearance / Reappearance ~ Occulting Disk (new) ~ Smalltown Supersound ~ 2019
4:20 am Whettman Chelmets ~ The Devil Double Crossed You ~ Long Read Memories (new) ~ Æscape Sounds ~ 2019
4:25 am Emptyset ~ Blossom ~ Blossoms (new) ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2019
4:30 am Lindstrøm ~ As If No One Is Here ~ On a Clear Day I Can See You Forever (new) ~ Smalltown Supersound ~ 2019
4:39 am The Fall ~ Look, Know (Peel Session) ~ 1982 box set ~ Cherry Red ~ 1981
4:43 am Paco Sala ~ 1 ~ The Fog ~ Digitalis Limited ~ 2013
4:45 am Susumu Yokota ~ The Seven Secret Sayings of God ~ Cloud Hidden (new) ~ Lo ~ 2019
4:48 am Patrick Cowley ~ Thrill of the Hunt ~ Mechanical Fantasy Box ~ Dark Entries ~ 1974
4:54 am Fay Victor ~ Talk Talk Pt 2 ~ Barn Songs (new) ~ Northern Spy ~ 2019
4:57 am jaimie branch ~ simple silver surfer ~ FLY or DIE II: bird dogs of paradise (new) ~ International Anthem ~ 2019
5:02 am Angel Bat Dawid ~ Impepho ~ The Oracle (new) ~ International Anthem ~ 2019
5:06 am Matana Roberts ~ Trail of the Smiling Sphinx ~ Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis (new) ~ Constellation ~ 2019
5:16 am Land of Kush ~ Trema ~ Sand Enigma (new) ~ Constellation ~ 2019
5:23 am People Like Us & Ergo Phizmiz ~ Social Folk Dance ~ Perpetuum Mobile ~ Soleilmoon Recordings ~ 2007
5:30 am Wil Bolton ~ Ropes ~ Kochi (new) ~ Audiobulb ~ 2019
5:39 am Stargazer Lilies ~ Magenta Sunrise ~ Occabot (new) ~ Rad Cult ~ 2019
5:43 am Kikagaku Moyo ~ Fluffy Kosmisch ~ Masana Temples ~ Guruguru Brain ~ 2018
5:46 am Lightning Bolt ~ Hüsker Dönt ~ Sonic Citadel (new) ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2019
5:52 am Kathleen Supové ~ :q! quit without saving ~ Eye to Ivory (new) ~ Starkland ~ 2019

Crush Collision 10/31/19 – Best of the 2010s, Part 2

November 1, 2019 at 9:21 am | Posted in Crush Collision | 1 Comment

Hour 1
10:01 pm Frank & Tony ~ Bring the Sun
10:08 pm The Field ~ Cupid’s Head
10:12 pm Jack J ~ Something (On My Mind)
10:17 pm Theo Parrish ~ Wild Out
10:21 pm Heatsick ~ Stars Down to Earth
10:25 pm Xander Harris ~ I Want More Than Just Blood
10:26 pm Todd Terje ~ Inspector Norse
10:32 pm The Mole ~ Lockdown Party (DJ Sprinkles Crossfaderama)
10:38 pm Storm Queen ~ Look Right Through (MK Dub III)
10:42 pm Leon Vynehall ~ It’s Just (House of Dupree)
10:45 pm Eris Drew ~ Hold Me (T4T Embrace Mix)
10:49 pm DJ Fett Burger & Luca Lozano ~ Totally Tangerine
10:54 pm Head High ~ Megatrap (Real Mix)
10:57 pm Peggy Gou ~ It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
Hour 2
11:02 pm Waajeed feat. Steffanie Christi’an ~ Mother
11:06 pm Flora FM ~ Elm Bully
11:10 pm Ital ~ Ital’s Theme
11:15 pm Nídia ~ I Miss My Ghetto
11:16 pm Marco Shuttle ~ Sing Like a Bird
11:27 pm Paula Temple ~ Gegen
11:31 pm Gesloten Cirkel ~ Submit-X
11:34 pm object blue ~ Act Like It Then
11:40 pm Floorplan ~ Never Grow Old (Re-Plant)
11:47 pm Lone ~ Rapid Racer
11:50 pm Pangaea ~ Hex
11:56 pm Special Request ~ Soundboy Killer