Show #513 – 9/28/19

September 28, 2019 at 1:03 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

mic break music = Little White Duck LP (Peter Pan Records), played backwards
2:01 am Inutili ~ Rooms ~ New Sex Society (new) ~ Aagoo ~ 2019
2:15 am Gong Gong Gong ~ Wei Wei Wei ~ Phantom Rhythm (new) ~ Wharf Cat ~ 2019
2:17 am Automatic ~ Too Much Money ~ Signal (new) ~ Stones Throw ~ 2019
2:20 am Fire Engines ~ Get Up and Use Me ~ To The Outside Of Everything ~ Cherry Red ~ 1980
2:21 am The Disco Zombies ~ Marry Millington ~ To The Outside Of Everything ~ Cherry Red ~ 1980
2:26 am New Asia ~ Central Proposition ~ To The Outside Of Everything ~ Cherry Red ~ 1981
2:36 am Thomas Leer ~ Private Plane ~ To The Outside Of Everything ~ Cherry Red ~ 1978
2:40 am The Human League ~ The Dignity Of Labour Pt. 1 ~ To The Outside Of Everything ~ Cherry Red ~ 1979
2:45 am Channelers ~ Drift Ripple Dive ~ For Being (new) ~ Not Not Fun ~ 2019
2:50 am Topdown Dialectic ~ B1 ~ Vol. 2 (new) ~ Peak Oil ~ 2019
2:55 am Machine Listener ~ Uroplatus ~ Colubrid (new) ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2019
3:02 am John Healy ~ High Speed Travel ~ JURN-1 ~ Welsh Modular Alliance ~ 2015
3:05 am W00dy ~ Like What U Do ~ My Diary (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2019
3:11 am Cex ~ Julia Walsh ~ Role Model ~ Tigerbeat6 ~ 2000
3:16 am Datach’i ~ Motion In The Living Room ~ Bones (new) ~ Timesig ~ 2019
3:20 am Darkus ~ Joy ~ Jungle The Extreme Collection Volume III ~ B9 ~ 1996
3:26 am Emptyset ~ Completely Gone ~ Emptyset ~ Caravan ~ 2009
3:35 am Telefon Tel Aviv ~ standing at the bottom of the ocean; ~ Dreams Are Not Enough (new) ~ Ghostly International~ 2019
3:41 am HTRK ~ Dying of Jealousy ~ Venus In Leo (new) ~ Ghostly International ~ 2019
3:46 am Trentemøller ~ Foggy Figures ~ Obverse (new) ~ In My Room ~ 2019
3:53 am Alessandro Cortini ~ Sabbia ~ Volume Massimo (new) ~ Mute ~ 2019
3:59 am M83 ~ Lune de Fiel ~ DSVII (new) ~ Mute ~ 2019
4:02 am Corbo with Sudan Archives ~ Friendsgiving ~ Quatro Treses (new) ~ Chewing Foil ~ 2019
4:05 am Roy Davis Jr. ~ All I Do ~ Soul Electrica ~ Peacefrog ~ 1996
4:11 am Thomas Fehlmann ~ Face the Day ~ Good Fridge. Flowing: Ninezeronineight. ~ Apollo ~ 1993
4:16 am Zahn | Hatami | McClure ~ Synflt ~ Ypsilon (new) ~ n5MD ~ 2019
4:20 am Ian Boddy ~ Quantum of Memory ~ iNDEX06 ~ DiN ~ 2016
4:25 am Suss ~ Mojave ~ High Line (new) ~ Northern Spy ~ 2019
4:34 am Blue Jeans (local) ~ Adult Hits ~ Adult Hits (new) ~ Life Like/Bobo Integral ~ 2019
4:37 am Bodywash ~ Twins ~ Comforter (new) ~ Luminelle ~ 2019
4:42 am Jenny Hval ~ High Alice ~ The Practice of Love (new) ~ Sacred Bones ~ 2019
4:46 am Cup ~ Berries ~ Spinning Creature (new) ~ Northern Spy ~ 2019
4:55 am Mikey Young ~ Billions of Tears ~ You Feelin’ Me? ~ Castle Face ~ 2017
4:59 am Vivian Girls ~ Sludge ~ Memory (new) ~ Polyvinyl ~ 2019
5:02 am Oh Sees ~ Henchlock ~ Face Stabber (new) ~ Castle Face ~ 2019
5:22 am Fly Pan Am ~ Bleeding Decay ~ C’est Ça (new) ~ Constellation ~ 2019
5:30 am Visions ~ Lamentation ~ Temples (new) ~ Cyclic Law ~ 2019
5:36 am J. Pavone String Ensemble ~ By and Large ~ Brick and Mortar (new) ~ Birdwatcher ~ 2019
5:44 am Resavoir feat. Brandee Younger ~ Taking Flight ~ Resavoir (new) ~ International Anthem ~ 2019
5:48 am Nérija ~ EU (Emotionally Unavailable) ~ Blume (new) ~ Domino ~ 2019
5:55 am Steve Lehman Trio + Craig Taborn ~ Curse Fraction ~ The People I Love (new) ~ Pi ~ 2019

Inutili: New Sex Society (Aagoo, 2019)

September 26, 2019 at 8:36 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Inutili: New Sex Society

Italian group Inutili perform long-form psychedelic improvisations which often seem like they’re drifting far away from anything resembling a path forward, yet at the right moment they just all snap together and form this enormous superpower of heavy, monstrous rhythm and noise. This time out, they’re joined by saxophonist Luca Di Giammarco, who elevates their sound into a bit more of a spiritual realm. This is still improvised rock rather than free jazz, though, and the rhythms to tracks like “Rooms” still have a psychedelic swirl to them. “Seeds (Japanese)” is a bit more hypercharged, and the riffs and sax blurts continually bounce off of each other until it all builds up to an ecstatic frenzy, and then it sets its way onto the shining road ahead. The group never stick to the same tempo for too long, and it switches through multiple sections of various intensities. The four songs in the middle of the album are all under 10 minutes, and they mostly keep up the intense parts of the songs, with some lyrics making prominent appearances, so they seem like the band’s most focused songs. “Tiny Body” even manages to boil the band’s essence down to a minute and 43 seconds. By the end of the album, the group seem much closer to the Castle Face nexus of prog, garage punk, and psych rather than the endlessly rambling jammers they might’ve seemed like initially.

Blue Jeans: Adult Hits (Life Like/Bobo Integral, 2019)

September 22, 2019 at 7:26 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Blue Jeans: Adult Hits

The second album from Ann Arbor indie pop group Blue Jeans was released early in the year as a cassette by Life Like, followed shortly by a vinyl pressing, thanks to Spanish label Bobo Integral. It’s pressed at 45 RPM, so the 10 songs all go by pretty quickly, but the combination of strong, sweet melodies and snarky lyrics ensure that this one leaves a lasting impression. The album’s #1 smash hit is “We Hate the Summer”, a sort of shut-in’s surf anthem, celebrating autumn as the fairest of the seasons. “Adult Hits”, a rejection of the trappings of nostalgia, is a close second. “Ricola Horns” is the one song with more of a beachy drift, but not too much since they’d rather stay inside. While there’s some bitterness expressed through songs like “Apology Rejected”, “Friends & Lovers” ends the album with a ray of sunshine and gratitude.

Show #512 – 9/21/19

September 21, 2019 at 11:26 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

mic break music = John Luther Adams: Becoming Desert
2:00 am Fly Pan Am ~ L’Espace Au Sol Est Redessiné Par D’Immenses Panneaux Bleus ~ Fly Pan Am ~ Constellation ~ 1999
2:13 am Fly Pan Am ~ Partially Sabotaged Distraction Partiellement Sabotée ~ Ceux Qui Inventent N’ont Jamais Vécu (?) ~ Constellation 2002
2:17 am Fly Pan Am ~ Pas À Pas Step Until ~ N’Écoutez Pas ~ Constellation ~ 2004
2:23 am Fly Pan Am ~ Interface Your Shattered Dreams ~ C’est Ça (new) ~ Constellation ~ 2019
2:39 am Vivian Girls ~ Something to Do ~ Memory (new) ~ Polyvinyl ~ 2019
2:42 am Throwaway (local) ~ Bonathan Jyers ~ WHAT? (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019
2:44 am Special Vices ~ Restolen ~ Special Vices (new) ~ Gold Watch ~ 2019
2:46 am Debby Friday ~ Good and Evil ~ Death Drive (new) ~ Deathbomb Arc ~ 2019
2:50 am Monogamy (local) ~ Touch of Gray ~ Nubile Bile ~ Kerchow Records ~ 2014
2:53 am Blue Jeans (local) ~ Friends & Lovers ~ Adult Hits (new) ~ Life Like/Bobo Integral ~ 2019
2:55 am Gong Gong Gong ~ Notes Underground ~ Phantom Rhythm (new) ~ Wharf Cat ~ 2019
2:59 am Fiend ~ Dominated By Emotions ~ 18 Year Anniversary Compilation (new) ~ Darkmatter Soundsystem ~ 2019
3:04 am Loraine James ~ So Scared ~ For You & I (new) ~ Hyperdub ~ 2019
3:09 am John Healy ~ MillPrac3fold ~ MillPrac ~ Welsh Modular Alliance ~ 2016
3:15 am Machine Listener ~ Lychguard ~ Colubrid (new) ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2019
3:20 am Violet ~ Tears In 1993 ~ Bed of Roses (new) ~ Dark Entries ~ 2019
3:23 am Hellcom ~ Mitsubishi ~ Energy111 ~ Business Casual ~ 2016
3:26 am Octo Octa ~ Move Your Body ~ Resonant Body (new) ~ T4T LUV NRG ~ 2019
3:32 am Girl Unit ~ Ensemble (Club Mix) ~ Night Slugs Allstars Volume 2 ~ Night Slugs ~ 2012
3:37 am The Juan MacLean ~ Shining Skinned Friend ~ Less Than Human ~ DFA ~ 2005
3:42 am The Juan MacLean ~ Can You Ever Really Know Somebody ~ The Brighter The Light ~ DFA ~ 2017
3:47 am Shigeto (local) ~ MCW ~ Versions (new) ~ Ghostly International ~ 2019
3:54 am Barker ~ Hedonic Treadmill ~ Utility (new) ~ Ostgut Ton ~ 2019
3:58 am Counterstrike ~ Monster Munch ~ 12″ ~ Outbreak ~ 2003
4:05 am Doc Scott ~ Here Come the Drums (Breakage Remix) ~ Enforcers – Battle of the Breaks ~ Reinforced ~ 2001
4:12 am Vague ~ Misfit ~ 12″ ~ R-Sound ~ 2005
4:19 am TC ~ Sick & Twisted ~ 12″ ~ Test ~ 2005
4:24 am Basic Unit ~ Puncture ~ 12″ ~ Deepest Cut ~ 2003
4:37 am 2FarEyes ~ Rock On (Crunch Demo) ~ Bassbin Presents First Bite ~ Bassbin ~ 1999
4:45 am Total Science ~ Trigga Happy ~ 12″ ~ C.I.A. ~ 2007
4:49 am Total Science featuring Laura Pacheco ~ Questionz ~ 12″ ~ C.I.A. ~ 2008
4:54 am Total Science ~ Straight In ~ 12″ ~ Bingo Beats ~ 2006
5:00 am Sugar Hill Gang ~ 8th Wonder ~ Grand Masters of Rap ~ Dominion Music ~ 1980
5:08 am Sampa the Great ~ Final Form ~ The Return (new) ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2019
5:11 am Kano ~ Class of Deja ~ Hoodies All Summer (new) ~ Parlophone ~ 2019
5:15 am Milanese feat. Virus Syndicate ~ Dead Man Walking ~ Extend ~ Planet Mu ~ 2006
5:18 am HTRK ~ Venus In Leo ~ Venus In Leo (new) ~ Ghostly International ~ 2019
5:24 am The Durutti Column ~ Sketch for Summer ~ The Return of the Durutti Column ~ Factory ~ 1980
5:33 am KOKOKO! ~ Kitoko ~ Fongola (new) ~ Transgressive ~ 2019
5:38 am Jane Ira Bloom ~ Modern Drama ~ Modern Drama ~ Columbia ~ 1987
5:43 am Wynton Marsalis ~ RJ ~ Wynton Marsalis ~ Columbia ~ 1982
5:46 am Bill Evans ~ Nardis ~ Another Time: The Hilversum Concert ~ Resonance ~ 1968
5:55 am Wes Montgomery ~ Nica’s Dream ~ Wes’s Best ~ Resonance ~ 1958?

Philip Perkins: Yeah Machine (Artifact Recordings, 2019)

September 14, 2019 at 1:10 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Philip Perkins: Yeah Machine

Philip Perkins is an experimental composer and sound engineer who has been releasing music since the ’70s, mostly on his own Fun Music label. This one is actually on Artifact Recordings, a long-running Bay Area experimental label which recently returned after a period of inactivity. This is a series of “live performances using recorded, made, found, purchased and stolen sounds”, and it’s filled with scenes from everyday life, yet they’re amplified, layered, and sometimes crashing into each other. The incidental rhythms of transit or machinery are present, but nothing resembling beats or drums to carry this along. It’s very hyperrealist, with normal, recognizable sounds twisted into strange, hallucinatory forms. Sometimes it gets a bit frightening, like the way “dahns” evolves from sickly popping noises which sound mouth-generated to a ghostly drone choir. Even a music box or chimes sound sinister on “nebawn”. “m2” is a sudden all-at-once explosion of laughter, police sirens, and breaking glass. And you’ll ponder an explanation for that flock of crows during “1-6”.

Show #511 – 9/14/19

September 14, 2019 at 11:30 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment


R.I.P. Daniel Dale Johnston 1961-2019 :(:(:(:(:(:(:(:(

2:00 am Daniel Johnston ~ Dream Scream ~ Rejected Unknown ~ Gammon ~ 2000
2:05 am Daniel Johnston ~ Some Things Last a Long Time ~ 1990 ~ Shimmy Disc ~ 1990
2:11 am Daniel Johnston ~ Introductions/Love Won’t Quit/Now/Psycho Love in the Twilight Zone/Pain Pain In My Heart/Legal ID ~ Live at WCBN 12-6-2001 ~ WCBN ~ 2001
2:26 am Daniel Johnston ~ Never Relaxed ~ Songs of Pain ~ Stress Records ~ 1981
2:30 am Daniel Johnston ~ Brainwash ~ Songs of Pain ~ Stress Records ~ 1981
2:38 am Daniel Johnston ~ Casper the Friendly Ghost ~ Yip/Jump Music ~ Homestead ~ 1983
2:41 am Daniel Johnston ~ I Save Cigarette Butts ~ Songs of Pain ~ Stress Records ~ 1981
2:46 am Daniel Johnston and Yo La Tengo ~ Speeding Motorcycle (live on WFMU) ~ 7″ ~ Singles Only Label ~ 1990
2:49 am Daniel Johnston ~ And You Love It ~ Don’t Be Scared ~ Stress Records ~ 1983
2:53 am Daniel Johnston ~ I Had Lost My Mind ~ Don’t Be Scared ~ Stress Records ~ 1983
2:55 am Daniel Johnston ~ Devil Town ~ 1990 ~ Shimmy Disc ~ 1990
2:57 am Daniel Johnston ~ Walking the Cow ~ Hi How Are You ~ Stress Records ~ 1983
3:00 am Daniel Johnston ~ The Story of an Artist ~ Don’t Be Scared ~ Stress Records ~ 1983
3:05 am Daniel Johnston ~ Don’t Play Cards With Satan ~ 1990 ~ Shimmy Disc ~ 1990
3:09 am Daniel Johnston ~ True Love Will Find You In The End ~ Retired Boxer ~ Stress Records ~ 1984
3:11 am Daniel Johnston ~ Man Obsessed ~ The What of Whom ~ Stress Records ~ 1982
3:13 am Daniel Johnston ~ Go ~ Respect ~ Stress Records ~ 1985
3:17 am Daniel Johnston ~ I Can’t Think Anymore ~ The What of Whom ~ Stress Records ~ 1982
3:19 am Daniel Johnston ~ Funeral Home ~ Continued Story ~ Homestead ~ 1985
3:20 am Daniel Johnston ~ Love Me Do ~ Happy Time 7″ ~ Seed ~ 1994
3:22 am Daniel Johnston & Jad Fair ~ It’s Spooky ~ Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston ~ 50,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Watts Records ~ 1989
3:24 am Daniel Johnston ~ My Life Is Starting Over ~ Artistic Vice ~ Shimmy Disc ~ 1991
3:26 am Daniel Johnston ~ Follow That Dream ~ More Songs of Pain ~ Stress Records ~ 1983
3:28 am Daniel Johnston ~ I’m Nervous ~ The Lost Recordings ~ Stress Records ~ 1983
3:30 am Daniel Johnston ~ Cosmic Kid ~ The Lost Recordings ~ Stress Records ~ 1983
3:33 am Daniel Johnston ~ Happy Talk ~ Lost Recordings II ~ Stress Records ~ 1983
3:37 am Danny and the Nightmares ~ Return of the Butthole Surfers ~ 7″ ~ Cool Beans! ~ 2001
3:39 am Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston ~ Berserk ~ The Lucky Sperms: Somewhat Humorous ~ Jagjaguwar ~ 2001
3:42 am Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston ~ Tears Stupid Tears ~ It’s Spooky ~ Jagjaguwar ~ 1989
3:45 am Daniel Johnston ~ Delusion + Confusion ~ Fun ~ Atlantic ~ 1994
3:47 am Hyperjinx Tricycle ~ Wasted Life ~ The Songs Of Jack Medicine, Daniel Johnston & Ron English ~ Softskull Shortwave ~ 2001
3:53 am Danny and the Nightmares ~ Double Bummer ~ The End Is Near Again ~ Cool Beans! ~ 2002
3:56 am Daniel Johnston ~ Death ~ Why Me? Live Volksbühne Am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz Berlin 6/6/99 ~ Trikont ~ 1999
4:02 am The Little Princess (local) ~ Your Golden ~ Your Golden ~ Time Stereo ~ 1993
4:35 am Zoviet France ~ добрый день ~ Popular Soviet Songs And Youth Music ~ Staalplaat ~ 1985
4:39 am Throbbing Gristle ~ New After Cease to Exist Soundtrack ~ D.o.A. The Third and Final Report of… (reissue) ~ Industrial Records ~ 1978
4:44 am Throbbing Gristle ~ Tiab Guls ~ Throbbing Gristle’s Greatest Hits ~ Industrial Records ~ 1977
4:48 am Pharmakon ~ Spit It Out ~ Devour (new) ~ Sacred Bones ~ 2019
4:56 am Problems That Fix Themselves ~ 8:62 ~ cassingle ~ Already Dead Tapes ~ 2014
4:59 am Horoscope ~ Besa el anillo con todo tu alma ~ Carne. (new) ~ Wharf Cat ~ 2019
5:03 am DØTSØN ~ Metrolink ~ De/termination ~ Already Dead Tapes ~ 2018
5:04 am Mahakala ~ The Realms ~ 12″ (new) ~ Mahakala ~ 2019
5:11 am J-Shadow ~ Embers ~ Embers (new) ~ Bun the Grid ~ 2019
5:17 am Client_03 ~ Hope Repeater ~ Hope Repeater (new) ~ Astrophonica ~ 2019
5:21 am Bochum Welt ~ Southern England in Summer ~ Seafire (new) ~ Central Processing Unit ~ 2019
5:24 am Dominik Eulberg ~ Zwölfpunkt-Spargelkäfer ~ Mannigfaltig (new) ~ !K7 ~ 2019
5:34 am Storm Ross (local) ~ I Wish I Could Have Known You ~ split tape w/ Shoto ~ Already Dead Tapes ~ 2017
5:43 am Philip Perkins ~ dahns ~ Yeah Machine (new) ~ Artifact Recordings ~ 2019
5:48 am Charles Wuorinen ~ Movement III ~ Percussion Symphony ~ Nonesuch ~ 1978

Show #510 – 9/7/19

September 7, 2019 at 11:34 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

2:01 am Pharmakon ~ Pristine Panic/Cheek By Jowl ~ Devour (new) ~ Sacred Bones ~ 2019
2:11 am Throbbing Gristle ~ Industrial Muzak ~ D.o.A. the Third and Final Report of… (reissue) ~ Industrial Records ~ 1978
2:17 am Throbbing Gristle ~ Discipline (Berlin) ~ Throbbing Gristle’s Greatest Hits (reissue) ~ Industrial Records ~ 1980
2:26 am P·A·L ~ Decay ~ Reel ~ Ant-Zen ~ 1996
2:33 am raison d’être ~ The Well of Sadness ~ Lost Fragments ~ Cold Meat Industry ~ 1996
2:41 am Digital & Innerheart ~ Cheek ~ 12″ ~ Function ~ 2004
2:48 am Twisted Individual ~ Beef Dripping ~ 12″ ~ Grid ~ 2002
2:54 am 2db ~ Phatt Beat ~ 12″ ~ Worldwide Audio Recordings ~ 2005
2:59 am DJ SS ~ Rollidge ~ Highly Recommended ~ Formation ~ 1995
3:05 am Octo Octa ~ Ecstatic Beat ~ Resonant Body (new) ~ T4T LUV NRG ~ 2019
3:09 am Plaid ~ Maru (Skee Mask Remix) ~ mp3 (new) ~ Warp ~ 2019
3:15 am Cakedog ~ Know My Name ~ Doggystyle (new) ~ Leaving Records ~ 2019
3:18 am Barker ~ Utility ~ Utility (new) ~ Ostgut Ton ~ 2019
3:23 am Kuedo ~ Scissors ~ Severant ~ Planet Mu ~ 2011
3:27 am DJ Koze ~ Mariposa ~ Total 8 ~ Kompakt ~ 2007
3:35 am Marcin Czubala ~ Super Conny ~ Super Constellation ~ Mobilee ~ 2007
3:41 am Sunaj Assassins ~ Cold Callin ~ 12″ ~ Logistic ~ 2005
3:51 am Carter Tutti Void ~ t3.3 ~ Triumvirate (new) ~ Conspiracy International ~ 2019
3:57 am Plaid ~ Mfaus ~ P-Brane EP ~ Warp ~ 2002
4:02 am Kode9 ~ Dislokated ~ Grime 2 ~ Rephlex ~ 2004
4:07 am *0 ~ PSI ~ Chronologi 12k: Year 1-Year 4 ~ Instinct ~ 1999
4:12 am John Chantler ~ Autu ~ Monoke ~ Room40 ~ 2003
4:18 am HTRK ~ New Year’s Day ~ Venus In Leo (new) ~ Ghostly International ~ 2019
4:22 am New Order ~ Sub-Culture ~ ∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) New Order + Liam Gillick: So It Goes.. (new) ~ Mute ~ 2019
4:29 am raison d’être ~ Decay I ~ Lost Fragments ~ Cold Meat Industry ~ 1992
4:37 am Longmont Potion Castle ~ Barn Door ~ LPC 16 (new) ~ D.U. Records ~ 2019
4:42 am Sunwatchers ~ Sunwatchers Vs. Tooth Decay ~ HausLive 1 (new) ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2019
4:47 am Black to Comm ~ The Seven of Horses ~ Before After (new) ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2019
4:51 am Sequoyah Murray ~ Penalties of Love ~ Before You Begin (new) ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2019
4:55 am Jah Woosh ~ Pure Brutality ~ Rastaman ~ MIG ~ 1981
4:58 am Lee “Scratch” Perry ~ Speak Easy on a Quiet Moonless Night ~ Rootz Reggae Dub (new) ~ Megawave ~ 2019
5:06 am KOKOKO! ~ L.O.V.E. ~ Fongola (new) ~ Transgressive ~ 2019
5:09 am Ghostface Killah feat. Sun God ~ The Chase ~ Ghostface Killahs (new) ~ Music Generation Corporation ~ 2019
5:12 am Steve Lehman Trio/Craig Taborn ~ Echoes/The Impaler ~ The People I Love (new) ~ Pi ~ 2019
5:17 am Cultural Fog (local) ~ track 3 ~ NYE (new) ~ Hologram Label ~ 2019
5:22 am Mort Garson ~ You Don’t Have to Walk a Begonia ~ Mother Earth’s Plantasia ~ Sacred Bones ~ 1976
5:24 am Corwin Trails (local) ~ The Absolute, Irreversible Emptiness Of Extinction ~ Wolf Songs Folk Songs (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019
5:32 am Human Mesh Dance ~ Capsule (Excerpt) ~ Chronologi 12k: Year 1-Year 4 ~ Instinct ~ 1998
5:40 am Julion De’Angelo (local) ~ Stand on Your Square Pt. 1 ~ Stand on Your Square (new) ~ Tone Log ~ 2019
5:50 am Throwaway (local) ~ Julep ~ WHAT? (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019
5:55 am Sam Hooker (local) ~ Smoke Downstairs ~ On the Water (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019

Julion De’Angelo: Stand On Your Square 12″ (Tone Log Jr., 2019)

August 31, 2019 at 8:59 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Julion De’Angelo: Stand On Your Square 12″

Julion De’Angelo’s first solo EP, following a Sound Signature-issued split with Thomas Xu, is a three-track exploration of rhythm, connecting African traditions through functional club tracks. The A-side is taken up by “Stand On Your Square Pt. 1”, which is preceded by a monologue from jazz percussionist Skip Burney, who explains how tradition is a life commitment. The track itself has an insistent but still raw drum pattern, lush deep house pads, and cascading jazz pianos. “Sizzlelean” concentrates solely on rhythm, consisting entirely of a bass-heavy drum machine sequence which nods to old-school electro while still sounding futuristic. The second part of “Stand On Your Square”, subtitled “Bird”, features a similar drum machine tone but brings back some of the deep, jazzy elements of the first part, while adding a thick electro-funk bassline. Almost Mellotron-sounding synths creep in, and while they don’t erupt into big, expressive melodies, they subtly grasp at an enlightened, euphoric feeling the way only repetitive dance music can.

Longmont Potion Castle: 16 (D.U. Records, 2019)

August 31, 2019 at 7:52 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Longmont Potion Castle: 16

Now that the Longmont Potion Castle documentary Where In The Hell Is The Lavender House? has come into existence, we’ve been afforded a tiny glimpse into the world of the mysterious prank caller/sound artist, but there’s still so many unanswered questions and it’s likely we’ll never know exactly how his mind works. Even seeing inside his home studio and observing him doing what he does, there’s no way to explain how he’s able to quickly come up with absurd names or nonsensical details, or how he has the nerve to repeatedly call people and just refuse to back off for so long. LPC 16 just came out, and it doesn’t answer these questions any more than the movie did, but it’s just as entertaining all the same. There’s more instances of him going “oh no, don’t do that” whenever someone threatens to call the cops on him, and lots of “oh yeah, sure, uh-huh, big time” with crazy echo whenever someone tries to ask what address he has or other pertinent information. After screenings of the documentary, he’s been doing live phone calls, and some of those found their way onto this album. There’s an audience applauding at the end of the opening medley, and best of all, “Flashback Takeout” was recorded after the Detroit screening of the movie. I was there and I was doubling over with laughter the entire time. He calls a pizza place and asks for some pizzas (one small, one extra large) and breadsticks with triple pineapple and pepperoni, and he keeps piling on delay so his order gets extremely confusing. An absolutely timeless LPC moment, preserved for all eternity. Other highlights include “Barn Door”, where he keeps playing around with a creaky door sound effect and looping his voice and asking for WD40 or something to fix it, and “Peacock”, an epic 11 minute chain of several businesses being connected to each other asking each other for books with titles like Peacock, Warlock, and Bangkok, with several mysterious sound effects strewn throughout. And on “Liter of Salad” he keeps mixing up measurements of various foods for his order, and keeps responding to the guy’s laugh with a really cheesy electronically altered laugh of his own.

Show #509 – 8/31/19

August 31, 2019 at 4:30 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Mic break sounds = THE CAT (cdr released by Time Stereo circa 2002)
2:01 am Steve Roach ~ The Beauty Relentless ~ Bloom Ascension (new) ~ Projekt ~ 2019
2:13 am Chris Otchy ~ The Day After the Banquet ~ Subterranean Landscapes (new) ~ Constellation Tatsu ~ 2019
2:18 am The Humble Bee & Offthesky ~ And She Floats In The Air ~ All Other Voices Gone, Only Yours Remains (new) ~ IIKKI ‎ ~ 2019
2:24 am Steve Roden ~ The Radio Station At Nome ~ Walking From Savoonga To Gambell ~ Line ~ 2017
2:37 am Tim Linghaus ~ I Was Atoms and Waves (Reprise, Pt. V) ~ About B. (Memory Sketches B-Sides Recordings) (new) ~ Sound In Silence ~ 2019
2:38 am Ecovillage ~ Novus Lux ~ Hold My Hand (Eilean 30) (new) ~ Eilean Rec. ~ 2019
2:42 am Otto Solange ~ Ever Round, It Turns, He Goes To Sleep ~ шон (Eilean 69) (new) ~ Eilean Rec. ~ 2019
2:45 am Cabaret Voltaire ~ Part 3 ~ Chance Versus Causality ~ Mute ~ 1979
2:57 am Fire-Toolz ~ The Pain-Body (Wild Energy Spheres) ~ Field Whispers (Into The Crystal Palace) (new) ~ Orange Milk ~ 2019
3:02 am Mukqs ~ 2 Mesos ~ Mem Aleph (new) ~ Jacktone ~ 2019
3:08 am Mukqs ~ 肉人形 ~ Jaki Crush (new) ~ No Rent Records ~ 2019
3:12 am MYMK ~ Discreet Zones ~ Garlands (new) ~ Sounds et al ~ 2019
3:16 am Thom Yorke ~ Not the News (Equiknoxx Remix) ~ Not The News Rmx EP (new) ~ XL ~ 2019
3:23 am ? ~ side A ~ EL001 [Easy Life] ~ white label 12″ ~ 1994
3:29 am Crystal Clear ~ Lets Get Started ~ 12″ ~ Reformed Recordings ~ 2004
3:34 am Illformants ~ Godspot ~ 12″ ~ Subtitles ~ 2003
3:40 am Craggz & Parallel Forces ~ Flatfoot ~ 12″ ~ Product ~ 2005
3:48 am DJ Taye ~ Get Em Up ~ Hyperdub 10.1 ~ Hyperdub ~ 2013
3:51 am R. Craig (local) ~ Scattered Thoughts ~ Moods of Electronica ~ Solowork ~ 2000
3:56 am Julion De’Angelo (local) ~ Stand On Your Square Pt. 2 (Bird) ~ Stand On Your Square (new) ~ Tone Log ~ 2019
4:04 am Jones ~ Home Of The Christmas Leg (Dedicated To Donna Air) ~ Like Me You’re Like Me ~ Rephlex ~ 1997
4:06 am Deepchild ~ Life Time ~ Blackness Of The Sea ~ Future Classic ~ 2005
4:13 am Sid LeRock ~ Bull Dozer (Metope Feat. Ada Remix) ~ 12″ ~ Ladomat 2000 ~ 2004
4:20 am Jürgen Paape ~ Mit Dir ~ Total 4 ~ Kompakt ~ 2002
4:24 am Markus Guentner ~ Such a Shame ~ Audio Island ~ Ware ~ 2002
4:39 am Longmont Potion Castle ~ Flashback Takeout ~ LPC 16 (new) ~ D.U. Records ~ 2019
4:44 am PWOG ~ Kind of Prayer (Michael Mayer Remix) ~ Triple R – Friends ~ Kompakt ~ 2002
4:51 am Carter Tutti Void ~ t3.5 ~ Triumvirate (new) ~ Conspiracy International ~ 2019
4:58 am MM Studio ~ The Good Star Dub ~ Good Star Dubs ~ Albumlabel ~ 2007
5:02 am HTRK ~ Hit ‘Em Wit Da Hee ~ Venus In Leo (new) ~ Ghostly International ~ 2019
5:05 am Pharmakon ~ Self-Regulating System ~ Devour (new) ~ Sacred Bones ~ 2019
5:11 am Sam Hooker (local) ~ Warm Down ~ On the Water (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019
5:16 am Jean Michel Jarre ~ Equinoxe ~ In Concert (Houston / Lyon) ~ Polydor ~ 1986
5:19 am R. Stevie Moore ~ Another Day Slips Away ~ Afterlife (new) ~ Bar/None ~ 2019
5:24 am Breakout ~ Trust Hungry ~ Say Hello (new) ~ On-High Records ~ 2019
5:27 am Fly Pan Am ~ Distance Dealer ~ C’est Ça (new) ~ Constellation ~ 2019
5:36 am Kokoko! ~ Kitoko ~ Fongola (new) ~ Transgressive ~ 2019
5:40 am The Legendary Pink Dots ~ Junkyard ~ Angel in the Detail (new) ~ Metropolis ~ 2019
5:44 am Brian Eno ~ Clear Desert Night ~ For All Mankind (new) ~ Virgin ~ 2019
5:47 am Tomasz Bednarczyk ~ Sunny Ambient ~ Illustrations for Those Who ~ Room40 ~ 2018
5:53 am Grave Nature ~ Barco ~ Ascending (new) ~ Flag Day ~ 2019

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