Off World: 3 (Constellation, 2023)

October 29, 2023 at 1:52 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Off World: 3

The final album of a trilogy from Sandro Perri’s experimental side project is another captivating set that eludes easy categorization, fluidly combining acoustic and electronic sounds into post-minimalist rhythmic and tonal explorations. After the wondrous string-based intro piece “Orientation”, “Impulse Controller” is a lengthy expedition through a textural rainforest, with cool, mellotron-like synths and a snaking rhythm with a sort of treated bounce to it, along with sporadic trumpet cries. “Terrascope” is a minute-long noise interlude featuring a Buchla Music Easel. “Ludic Loop” is a gorgeous slow processional with a wafting Juno synth line and guitar that cries out to the sun. Easily the album’s standout for me, just something lovely to bask in. “Empasse” has a similar back-and-forth movement, with Perri playing a Prophet 5, but he’s joined again by violinist Jesse Zubot, and while it doesn’t exactly feel harsh, it feels less comforting than the previous piece.

Show #690 – 10/29/23

October 29, 2023 at 2:33 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

last show for a while, seeing Nia Archives in Detroit next weekend then taking a looooooong vacation!
12:00 AM White Poppy ~ Apathy ~ Sound of Blue ~ Not Not Fun ~ 2023
12:03 AM Mint Field ~ Respiro Profundo ~ Aprender a Ser ~ felte ~ 2023
12:07 AM Tirzah ~ 2 D I C U V ~ trip9love…??? ~ Domino Recording Co ~ 2023
12:11 AM Johan Agebjörn ~ Ambient Computer Dance (Subtracted Version) ~ Subtracted Soundscapes ~ Spotted Peccary ~ 2023
12:16 AM Cornelius ~ Too Pure ~ Dream in Dream ~ Like Ltd/Warner Music Japan 2023
12:19 AM DJ Shadow – All My ~ Action Adventure ~ Mass Appeal ~ 2023
12:22 AM Sofia Kourtesis ~ How Music Makes You Feel Better ~ Madres ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2023
12:27 AM B. Cool-Aid ~ If u can See Me ( 4U ) [feat. Liv.e] ~ Leather Blvd. ~ Lex Records ~ 2023
12:28 AM Detroit’s Filthiest ~ Graveyard Shift ~ 100% Authenticity Guaranteed ~ Casa Voyager ~ 2023
12:34 AM Soichi Terada ~ Mt. Ambient vs. Spasm ~ Sumo Jungle Grandeur ~ Far East Recording ~ 1996
12:40 AM The Postal Service ~ Natural Anthem (Live) ~ Everything Will Change ~ Sub Pop Records ~ 2020
12:46 AM King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard ~ Chang’e (Extended Mix) ~ The Silver Cord ~ KGLW ~ 2023
12:57 AM Martin Babl ~ In dieser Wirklichkeit sind wir Freunde ~ In dieser Wirklichkeit sind wir Freunde ~ self-released ~ 2023
1:02 AM Kate Gentile ~ Laugh Magic ~ Find Letter X ~ Pi ~ 2023
1:09 AM Tiger Village ~ The Negotiation ~ The Celebration ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2023
1:13 AM Quicksails ~ Chat Laugh ~ Surface ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2023
1:16 AM Jane Remover ~ Backseat Girl ~ Census Designated ~ deadAir ~ 2023
1:22 AM bagel fanclub ~ Massive Satanic Rail ~ single ~ bagel fanclub ~ 2023
1:28 AM Shoebill ~ Get Your Shit Together ~ single ~ Kitty on Fire Records ~ 2023
1:32 AM Lil Kevo 303 ~ Volcano Bath 214iv ~ When Can I Die ~ Death By Sheep ~ 2023
1:36 AM Siavash Amini ~ Wayward ~ eremos ~ American Dreams ~ 2023
1:44 AM The Particles ~ Truth About You ~ 1980s Bubblegum ~ Chapter Music ~ 1980s
1:47 AM Moin ~ No Neck ~ Clocked Off EP ~ AD 93 ~ 2023
1:50 AM Off World ~ Ludic Loop ~ 3 ~ Constellation ~ 2023

Show #689 – 10/22/23

October 22, 2023 at 2:28 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

12:00 AM Kate Gentile ~ r.a.t.b.o.t.B ~ Find Letter X ~ Pi ~ 2023
12:05 AM Pachyman ~ Switched-On ~ Switched-On ~ ATO Records ~ 2023
12:08 AM Forest Swords ~ The Low ~ Bolted ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2023
12:12 AM MIKE ~ What U Say U Are ~ Burning Desire ~ 10k ~ 2023
12:16 AM Saint Abdullah & Eomac ~ Frequently Fugitive ~ Chasing Stateless ~ Planet Mu ~ 2023
12:19 AM Black to Comm ~ Schleim Des Nichtwissens ~ At Zeenath Parallel Heavens ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2023
12:24 AM Slauson Malone 1 ~ New Joy ~ EXCELSIOR ~ Warp Records ~ 2023
12:28 AM Tiger Village ~ Holding Daisy ~ The Celebration ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2023
12:31 AM Quicksails ~ Salt ~ Surface ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2023
12:36 AM Paavoharju ~ Rasia ~ Yön mustia kukkia ~ Fonal ~ 2023
12:40 AM White Poppy ~ One More Night ~ Sound of Blue ~ Not Not Fun ~ 2023
12:45 AM Kiefer ~ Dreamer ~ It’s Ok, B U ~ Stones Throw Records ~ 2023
12:50 AM Joe McPhee & Tomeka Reid ~ Juneteenth (Part 1) ~ Let Our Rejoicing Rise ~ Corbett vs. Dempsey ~ 2022
1:00 AM Tatsuya Nakamura ~ Wow ~ Locus (2023 Remastered Version) ~ BBE Music ~ 1984
1:08 AM Grupo Um ~ Suite Orquidea Negra ~ Starting Point ~ Far Out Recordings ~ 1975
1:13 AM Jamila Woods ~ Still ~ Water Made Us ~ Jagjaguwar ~ 2023
1:16 AM Ossie All Stars ~ Better Choice ~ Mr. Isaacs (Deluxe Edition) ~ VP Records ~ 1978
1:20 AM The Go-Betweens ~ The Ghost and the Black Hat ~ Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express ~ Beggars Banquet ~ 1986
1:24 AM Yann Tiersen ~ Kerlann (Laurel Halo Remix) ~ Kerber (Remixes) ~ Mute ~ 2023
1:30 AM Bebel Gilberto ~ Eclipse ~ João ~ [PIAS] ~ 2023
1:32 AM Off World ~ Terrascope ~ 3 ~ Constellation ~ 2023
1:33 AM SPARKLE DIVISION ~ Oh Yeah! ~ Foxy ~ Temporary Residence Ltd. ~ 2023
1:37 AM Pangaea ~ Bad Lines ~ Changing Channels ~ Hessle Audio ~ 2023
1:40 AM leroy ~ Bouncin off dA window ★★★ ~ Grave Robbing ~ self-released ~ 2023
1:45 AM Hitori Tori ~ Dum ~ Alkaline Pets ~ Kitty On Fire ~ 2023
1:49 AM Barry Can’t Swim ~ Tell Me What You Need (feat. just lil) ~ When Will We Land? ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2023
1:52 AM Lone ~ Waterfall Reverse ~ single ~ Greco-Roman ~ 2023

Kate Gentile: Find Letter X (Pi Recordings, 2023)

October 21, 2023 at 5:48 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Kate Gentile: Find Letter X

Drummer and composer Kate Gentile’s newest opus contains three CDs, each over an hour long, and each is a dense, complex world of its own interconnected with the wider universe of the other discs. The other players are saxophonist/clarinettist Jeremy Viner, synth and keyboard player Matt Mitchell, and bassist Kim Cass. The electronic parts get a lot of short, sizzling, piercing interludes to themselves, like the very first track of the first disc. “Laugh Magic” is dense mathcore jazz that constantly switches time signatures, and already at this point in the album, all bets are off, there’s no telling what’s in store. The band navigate through corkscrew rhythms and more straightforward parts, sometimes overlapping or criss-crossing, and to me it all sounds perfectly composed and arranged and executed, not random or intentionally difficult. It’s hard to even pick out standout moments, because it really does feel like the whole album is meant to be taken as a singular journey. The press release says the album was inspired by the third season of Twin Peaks, and how it has an extremely complex story line and abstract logic of its own, and even though there isn’t a narrative connecting the pieces on this album, it’s similar in how it just completely subverts expectations and goes in its own directions and doesn’t wait for you to catch up with it. Some parts do deserve mention though, like the manic prog-metal-jazz of disc 2 opener “R.A.T.B.O.T.B”. Really the whole second disc keeps up that intensity, with tracks like “Garbage Juice” adding more synth chaos. “Importunate Babble” piles all the elements up into one of the album’s most intense, overwhelming compositions. Disc 3 opens with the 10-minute monster “Psychoradiant”, and cools down somewhat for a few moments, with a bit more emphasis on piano, but still with fast, rapidly evolving rhythms. “Spectrescope” seems to start with mellower tones and a more spacious approach but it gets worked up and knotty by the end. Then “Quantum Exits” is a 13 minute tour de force, but the much shorter “Epitome” which follows is a more concentrated burst of energy and color. Crazily enough, this isn’t even the most massive thing Gentile and Mitchell have created — they released a 6 CD set titled Snark Horse two years ago. After listening to Find Letter X a few times, I think I’m almost ready for that one.

Conflict at Serenity Pools: Ladders of Misfortune (self-released, 2023)

October 15, 2023 at 11:58 am | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Conflict at Serenity Pools: Ladders of Misfortune

Conflict at Serenity Pools’ already robust self-released discography has generally dipped into psychedelic indie electronic and ambient house waters, but their newest album has the most straightforward alternative pop songs they’ve written so far. Simple, hooky indie pop with hushed vocals and some reverb effects but nothing really approaching the realm of shoegaze. “Jasmine” is a bit longer (almost 5 minutes) and has a sort of motorik rhythm, but it’s still poppy. “Saying Goodbye” is short, wistful, and folky, and a delay-heavy a cappella cover of “Nature Boy” provides the album’s most haunting moment.

Show #688 – 10/15/23

October 15, 2023 at 11:19 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

12:06 AM Slauson Malone 1 ~ No! (Geiger Dub) ~ EXCELSIOR ~ Warp Records ~ 2023
12:09 AM Patrick Elkins ~ Fever On the Inside ~ Fruits of the Spirit ~ editions JAV ~ 2006
12:12 AM L’Rain ~ Pet Rock ~ I Killed Your Dog ~ Mexican Summer ~ 2023
12:15 AM Celestaphone ~ Paintings of Panspermia ~ Paper Cut From the Obit ~ Drumhex ~ 2023
12:17 AM Grails ~ Pool of Gems ~ Anches En Maat ~ Temporary Residence Ltd. ~ 2023
12:21 AM Slauson Malone ~ Ttrabul 2 (see page 42) ~ A Quiet Farwell, 2016–2018 (Crater Speak) ~ Grand Closing ~ 2019
12:23 AM MIKE, Wiki & The Alchemist ~ Memory Loss ~ Faith Is A Rock ~ ALC ~ 2023
12:25 AM Armand Hammer ~ Supermooned (feat. DJ Haram) ~ We Buy Diabetic Test Strips ~ Fat Possum ~ 2023
12:28 AM Jlin ~ Obscure ~ Perspective ~ Planet Mu ~ 2023
12:32 AM Creation Rebel ~ Salutation Gardens ~ Hostile Environment ~ On-U Sound ~ 2023
12:36 AM Vagabon ~ Lexicon ~ Sorry I Haven’t Called ~ Nonesuch ~ 2023
12:39 AM James Blake ~ Tell Me ~ Playing Robots Into Heaven ~ Republic Records / Polydor Records ~ 2023
12:43 AM Lusine ~ Zero to Sixty (feat. Sarah Jaffe) ~ Long Light ~ Ghostly International ~ 2023
12:48 AM Voigt & Voigt ~ Nicht Mein Job ~ Total 21 ~ Kompakt ~ 2021
12:53 AM Saoirse ~ RM 1 ~ fabric presents Saoirse ~ fabric Records ~ 2023
12:58 AM Justin Walter ~ 11.27 ~ Destroyer ~ kranky ~ 2023
1:01 AM BCMC ~ The Swarm ~ Foreign Smokes ~ Drag City ~ 2023
1:07 AM Carlos Niño & Friends ~ Transcendental Bounce, Run to It (feat. Maia, Deantoni Parks & Nate Mercereau) ~ (I’m Just) Chillin’, on Fire ~ International Anthem ~ 2023
1:10 AM Quicksails ~ Sightless Sound ~ Surface ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2023
1:14 AM Tiger Village ~ Regurget VIII ~ The Celebration ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2023
1:18 AM Patrick Elkins ~ 2020 ~ 21 Hits ~ editions JAV ~ 2018
1:20 AM Conflict at Serenity Pools ~ Always on My Mind (Kevin Crooks) ~ Ladders of Misfortune ~ self-released ~ 2023
1:22 AM Wave Temples ~ Temple of the Shark Hunter ~ Panama Shift ~ Not Not Fun ~ 2023
1:24 AM Chlorinefields ~ Horsey ~ Read the Room EP ~ sweet beesh records ~ 2023
1:28 AM Off World ~ Empasse ~ 3 ~ Constellation ~ 2023
1:31 AM Dinosaur Jr. ~ The Little Baby ~ Green Mind (Expanded Edition) ~ Cherry Red Records ~ 1991
1:33 AM Boris ~ ワレルライド -Wareruraido- (Demo Version) ~ Heavy Rocks reissue ~ Third Man ~ 2002
1:35 AM The Body ~ A Cloud Broke Open ~ I Shall Die Here / Earth Triumphant ~ RVNG Intl. ~ 2014
1:39 AM TURQUOISEDEATH ~ Guessabelle ~ Se Bueno ~ Longinus Recordings ~ 2023
1:46 AM TraumaCorp SE ~ huffingonthatgaspack.wmv ~ BOOTING UP IN SAFE MODE WON’T SAVE YOU ~ Brokecore ~ 2023
1:54 AM John Coltrane ~ Sun Ship ~ Sun Ship ~ GRP ~ 1971

Patrick Elkins: Fruits of the Spirit (We’re Twins, 2006/Editions JAV, 2023)

October 14, 2023 at 2:26 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Patrick Elkins: Fruits of the Spirit

Ypsilanti weirdo folk legend Patrick Elkins released this album on We’re Twins Records in 2006, right before the label shut down. It was the label’s only professionally pressed CD rather than a CD-R, and 500 copies were pressed, but most of them just sat in a closet for years. Label founder Jason Voss has now started a new label, Editions JAV, and is returning the remaining copies to circulation. Recorded and produced by Fred Thomas, it’s closer to noisy garage-pop than folk, with lots of distorted guitars, dubby effects, melodica, drum machines, and a general electrified atmosphere. The songs are usually short and fragmentary, though “Tornado Belt” is a more dramatic string-laden ballad, and “Fruit of the Spirits” is sort of entranced drone-folk with plenty of moaning and warped effects. “Fallout” is 38 seconds of throat-shredding punk screaming, but not at punk tempo. “I’ll Be Your Celibate Monk” is one of the weirder, more unpredictable moments, and “Fever on the Inside” is a drum-heavy caveman rock pounder that sounds as unhinged as anything on 1/2 Gentlemen/Not Beasts. Finally, “Suicide Muffins” is a grand entry into the canon of upbeat songs with dark, even morbid lyrics, but it’s tossed off gleefully in about a minute.

Crush Collision 10/12/23

October 13, 2023 at 4:09 pm | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

10:00 PM Bad_Mix ~ Bye Bye São Paulo ~ Rotas Vivas EP ~ 40% Foda/Maneirissimo ~ 2022
10:04 PM NHK yx Koyxen ~ Formulated Rhythm ~ Climb Downhill 1 ~ Hypercolour ~ 2023
10:11 PM Clio ~ Eyes ~ single ~ Planet Records Classics ~ 1984
10:16 PM Will Simpson ~ Flesh ~ single ~ Native Drum ~ 2023
10:19 PM Outlander ~ Vamp (Kevin Saunderson Voice Remix) ~ Vamp remixes ~ R&S Records ~ 1997
10:24 PM Yorobi ~ Projection Palace (Reflections Mix) ~ Projection Palace ~ On My Own Terms/Time ~ 2023
10:28 PM Meat Beat Manifesto & DHS ~ Pandemic ~ Man From Mantis EP ~ Love Love Records ~ 2023
10:32 PM Octo Octa ~ Goddess Calling ~ She’s Calling EP ~ T4T LUV NRG ~ 2021
10:37 PM Skin Up ~ A Juicy Red Apple (Sweet Mix) ~ A Juicy Red Apple ~ Love Records ~ 1992
10:42 PM ANNA & Kittin ~ Forever Ravers ~ Speicher 112 ~ Kompakt Extra ~ 2019
10:47 PM Pangaea ~ Installation ~ Changing Channels ~ Hessle Audio ~ 2023
10:52 PM Schlachthofbronx ~ Ready and Bad featuring Flowdan ~ More Rave and Romance ~ Rave and Romance ~ 2023
10:54 PM Pessimist ~ Love In The Jungle ~ Atyeo EP ~ Ilian Tape ~ 2020
10:59 PM Azymuth ~ Avenida das Mangueiras (SS Translation by Theo Parrish) ~ Light as a Feather (Deluxe Edition) ~ Far Out Recordings ~ 2012
11:07 PM Oyisse ~ Pema ~ Elembo EP ~ Hakuna Kulala ~ 2021
11:10 PM Sepehr ~ Diaspora Simulacra ~ Sounds From the Iranian Ultraverse ~ Shaytoon Records ~ 2022
11:14 PM Ahmet Sisman ~ Ryk 185 ~ The Third Room Fundraiser Compilation ~ The Third Room ~ 2020
11:20 PM Todd Osborn ~ 5 (feat. Luke Vibert) ~ Unbroken Dreams of light ~ Blueberry Records ~ 2020
11:23 PM Cybotron ~ The Golden Ratio (Version) ~ Maintain The Golden Ratio ~ Tresor ~ 2023
11:28 PM Jeremy Black ~ Good Bear ~ Charade EP ~ EVOL ~ 2021
11:33 PM Oliver Ho ~ Silver ~ V-Series: Colours for the Blind ~ EPM Music ~ 2023
11:38 PM Maelstrom ~ Turbulence ~ Spasm / Turbulence ~ C-KNOW-EVIL ~ 2019
11:43 PM Black Rave Culture ~ Amtrak ~ Black Rave Culture Vol 3 ~ Black Rave Culture ~ 2023
11:46 PM Loraine James ~ Glitch the System (Glitch Bitch 2) ~ Gentle Confrontation ~ Hyperdub ~ 2023
11:49 PM Buried Secrets ~ Distant Voices ~ The World of Monnom Black II ~ Monnom Black ~ 2019
11:55 PM The Advent ~ Don’t Do It ~ Shiolas ~ Paraíso ~ 2023

Celestaphone: Paper Cut From the Obit (Drumhex, 2023)

October 8, 2023 at 6:09 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Celestaphone: Paper Cut From the Obit

Celestaphone’s music stretches past the boundaries of hip-hop, to the point where his latest basically ends up feeling like a prog-rock album with a heavy jazz-funk influence. Playful pianos, elastic grooves, and morphing, thought bubble-like keyboard blips detail the vivid sound beds for terminally online word salad. The tracks often flow into each other, creating surprising beat switches and genre dovetails, like the BBQ/pool party-ready funk near-instrumental “Day”, while some of the lyrics (including a Mac Dre reference early on) and Celestaphone’s flows clearly mark out his lineage in the pantheon of West Coast hip-hop. Still, the music is gleeful jazz-prog and even post-punk rather than G-funk. The knotty synth-funk instrumental “Nay” dissolves into the woozy scientific terror-dream “Paintings of Panspermia”, and tucked away near the end of the album is one of the hardest Moor Mother verses I’ve ever heard (on a track with Armand Hammer, no less), and an entire song where Paul Barman bursts with joy about how much he loves babies. A really surprising and fun LP where sarcasm bleeds into celebration as we’re taken on a ride down a twisting, non-obvious path.

Show #687 – 10/8/23

October 8, 2023 at 4:09 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

12:00 AM Slauson Malone 1 ~ I Hear a New World ~ EXCELSIOR ~ Warp Records ~ 2023
12:03 AM Creation Rebel ~ That’s More Like It ~ Hostile Environment ~ On-U Sound ~ 2023
12:07 AM Prince Far I ~ Different Dagger ~ Under Heavy Manners ~ 17 North Parade ~ 1977
12:10 AM Jonathan Snipes ~ Seaworthy ~ Zum Audio, Vol. 5 ~ Zum ~ 2023
12:13 AM Martes martes ~ Martes at Night ~ Dragon Cat Fox Cat Scn (Expanded Edition) ~ Editions JAV ~ 2007
12:17 AM Conflict at Serenity Pools ~ Stained Glass Curtain ~ Ladders of Misfortune ~ no label ~ 2023
12:20 AM Chapterhouse ~ More Than I Can Take (Demo) ~ Chronology ~ Cherry Red ~ mid-’90s
12:25 AM Mary Lattimore ~ Blender in a Blender (feat. Roy Montgomery) ~ Goodbye, Hotel Arkada ~ Ghostly International ~ 2023
12:31 AM Colleen ~ Night Looping – Movement III ~ Le Jour Et La Nuit Du Réel ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2023
12:36 AM High Pulp ~ Dirtmouth (feat. James Brandon Lewis) ~ Days in the Desert ~ Anti/Epitaph ~ 2023
12:41 AM Damon Locks & Rob Mazurek ~ Suspense In the Grip of Suspense ~ New Future City Radio ~ International Anthem ~ 2023
12:45 AM Cardiacs ~ Too Many Irons in the Fire ~ A Little Man And A House And The Whole World Window reissue: The Workhouse Sessions ~ The Alphabet Business Concern ~ 1988
12:48 AM Pangaea ~ If ~ Changing Channels ~ Hessle Audio ~ 2023
12:53 AM redHat ~ Wondering ~ Rebirth EP ~ Sonic Terror Digital ~ 2018 ~ playing at UFO Factory this Wednesday night!
1:00 AM Vladislav Delay ~ Ele ~ Entain ~ Keplar ~ 2000
1:15 AM King Crimson ~ Trees ~ The Complete 1969 Recordings ~ Discipline Global Mobile ~ 1969
1:25 AM Brendon Moeller ~ Through ~ Pathways ~ Constellation Tatsu ~ 2023
1:31 AM Monokle ~ Glassy Eyed ~ Ultraflowers EP ~ Constellation Tatsu ~ 2023
1:35 AM Anadol ~ Orman Yangını ~ Hatıralar ~ Pingipung ~ 2017
1:38 AM MINDTRX ~ Psycho ~ Move Reality EP ~ Ut0p!a ~ 2023
1:42 AM Kid Lib ~ Falling ~ Myor Massiv 03 EP ~ Myor ~ 2019
1:48 AM SlowPitchSound ~ Rising Tide ~ The Reality Is Depth EP ~ self-released ~ 2023
1:50 AM Mark McGuire ~ Aquaduct ~ A Pocket Full of Rain ~ Husky Pants Records ~ 2009
1:55 AM Bill Orcutt ~ In a Column of Air ~ Jump On It ~ Palilalia ~ 2023

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