Crush Collision 8/8/18

August 9, 2019 at 8:25 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

10:00 pm Soj ~ Killabill
10:04 pm HIDE ~ Girl on Girl
10:06 pm Mary Yalex ~ Here and Nowhere Else
10:08 pm DC Salas ~ 10401800 (Fort Romeau Remix)
10:13 pm Mr. Stiff ~ Tools To Subdue
10:15 pm Chris Carrier ~ Positive Distraction
10:20 pm Recondite ~ Silk
10:24 pm Martin Buttrich ~ Northeast
10:29 pm Eliphino ~ NSPG
10:32 pm Locked Groove ~ Oscillate
10:38 pm Tetelepta ~ Flash
10:42 pm Bloody Mary ~ Chemical Jam
10:46 pm James Welsh ~ Hammers (Hodge Remix)
10:51 pm Crooked Man ~ Echo Loves Narcissus
10:54 pm James Burton ~ Feel the Pressure
10:57 pm Lord Leopard ~ Global Dance Beat
10:59 pm Vince ~ Namechanger
11:03 pm Ilana Bryne ~ Mmm Mmm Mmm (Ciel’s Sigh O’ The Times Rework)
11:09 pm FaltyDL ~ Ill Bent
11:13 pm Huey Mnemonic ~ Vibrations Radio
11:19 pm No Moon ~ Where Do We Go From Here?
11:21 pm PTA ~ 09
11:26 pm Eric Cloutier ~ Eleutheromania
11:31 pm Anastasia Kristensen ~ LXR Jam
11:34 pm ADT ~ Relief
11:39 pm AnD ~ Belong
11:43 pm P.E.A.R.L. ~ Moral Standards
11:47 pm Vladimir Dubyshkin ~ Soviet Film
11:49 pm Ciel ~ Hipwrecked
11:55 pm Finn ~ I Know I Know
11:57 pm Textasy ~ Acid Eater

Lithium Enchantment: Vital Signs/Reaching For You tape (Illuminated Paths, 2015/2019)

August 4, 2019 at 7:07 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Lithium Enchantment: Vital Signs/Reaching For You tape

Bringing two older releases briefly back into circulation (only 25 copies of this tape exist), this is a travelogue of memories, possibly of parks, cycling trips, and seasonal getaways. These tracks were recorded around 2003-2005, so the whole thing feels like a secret that’s largely been kept in someone’s basement for ages, only to be brought out on rare occasions, and only for people who would appreciate or understand it. The brief tracks and woozy synths make this feel like an early BoC release for sure, but there’s more of a lo-fi snap to the drum machines on tracks like “006 (Momentary)”. “Poplar Accel” is closer to vintage Mo Wax, with lots of rapidly shuffling drum breaks and a mixture of tense and laid back vibes. “C” is playful, rotund, and simple, and the wistful “Cloud Station” is way too nice to only be 48 seconds long. The longer tracks are all on the second side, and while some of them develop a bit more, there’s also a few extended ambient reflections. Still, “Great and Small” is an amazing energy burst of Mike Paradinas-style synth melodies and fill-heavy electro drum machines. “Lakeside Park” is a fairground ride unto itself, with vivid, Sunday afternoon melodies and tempo shifts which keep it from getting too comfortable, but it lets you down easy at the end.

Will Brooks: Flump EP tape (Illuminated Paths, 2019)

August 4, 2019 at 5:53 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Will Brooks: Flump EP tape

Pretty excellent batch of Shlohmo-type bad vibes that feel good. “Toggle” and “Scope” both have grainy guitars; the first is at a crushed tempo while the second is a bit more upright, and a bit closer to Tycho. “Hello, Again (The Elephant Trees Remix)” is sort of a lost lo-fi trance-pop song, with just a vague Burial aftertaste. The cassette features bonus track “Sanctuary”, a guided temple meditation with a drum machine.

Show #505 – 8/3/19

August 3, 2019 at 3:32 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

2:01 am Cultural Fog (local) ~ 2 ~ NYE (new) ~ Hologram Label ~ 2019
2:07 am Khruangbin ~ Mary Always ~ Hasta El Cielo (new) ~ Night Time Stories ~ 2019
2:09 am Joey Molinaro ~ LA Siren ~ Tale of the Lovelorn Outlaw (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2019
2:13 am Fire At Work ~ Post Matter ~ Neurosmasher (new) ~ Monolith Rec ~ 2019
2:18 am Alio Die & Lorenzo Montanà ~ The Closest Place To The Soul ~ The Threshold Of Beauty (new) ~ Projekt ~ 2019
2:31 am Ant’lrd ~ Shoulder-Width Apart ~ Extra Domicile ~ Baro ~ 2013
2:34 am Tim Walters ~ Don’t Forget to Breathe ~ Fission Cuisine (new) ~ Aural Films ~ 2019
2:38 am Dean Hurley ~ In Knowing ~ Anthology Resource Vol. II: Philosophy of Beyond (new) ~ Sacred Bones ~ 2019
2:42 am Kryssi Battalene ~ Blazing Star ~ Wound: A Guitar-Centric Compilation ~ Carbon ~ 2018
2:47 am Storm Ross (local) ~ The Inevitability ~ Home (new) ~ Already Dead Tapes ~ 2019
2:57 am Russian Circles ~ Kohokia ~ Blood Year (new) ~ Sargent House ~ 2019
3:04 am Eartheater ~ Infinity ~ Metalepsis ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2015
3:08 am Cross Record ~ Hollow Garden ~ Cross Record (new) ~ Ba Da Bing ~ 2019
3:10 am Tycho ~ Into the Woods ~ Weather (new) ~ Mom + Pop ~ 2019
3:14 am Lithium Enchantment ~ Poplar Accel ~ Vital Signs ~ Illuminated Paths ~ 2015
3:18 am Will Brooks ~ Toggle ~ Flump EP (new) ~ Illuminated Paths ~ 2019
3:23 am Delicate Instruments ~ Fading Away ~ MEM-1 (new) ~ Shewey Trax ~ 2019
3:31 am Föllakzoid ~ III ~ I (new) ~ Sacred Bones ~ 2019
3:34 am Preacherman ~ Tell Me Why ~ Universal Philosophy ~ Luaka Bop ~ ?
3:38 am Kool Keith ~ Holy Water ~ Keith (new) ~ Mello Music Group ~ 2019
3:41 am Show Me the Body ~ Badge Grabber ~ Dog Whistle (new) ~ Loma Vista ~ 2019
3:43 am Tyvek (local) ~ We’re Back ~ Changing Patterns of Protective Coating (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019
3:45 am Deadbeat Beat (local) ~ The Curve ~ How Far (new) ~ Arrowhawk ~ 2019
3:50 am De Lorians ~ Himalia ~ De Lorians (new) ~ Beyond Beyond Is Beyond ~ 2019
3:54 am Gauche ~ Pay Day ~ A People’s History of Gauche (new) ~ Merge ~ 2019
3:56 am Prince ~ Holly Rock ~ Originals ~ Warner Bros. ~ 1985
4:03 am Thomas P. Heckmann ~ 05:08:72 ~ Raum ~ Mille Plateaux ~ 1999
4:08 am Negativland ~ Discernment ~ True False (new) ~ Seeland ~ 2019
4:13 am Converter ~ Blast Furnace ~ Blast Furnace ~ Ant-Zen ~ 2000
4:16 am Crank ~ Gisshiri ~ Wanton Phenomena ~ Mille Plateaux ~ 1998
4:21 am Tactile vs Scorn ~ Intervention 4 ~ Recurrence & Intervention ~ Rawkus ~ 1996
4:26 am Atom Heart ~ Crane Spotting ~ Real Intelligence II ~ Rather Interesting ~ 1996
4:32 am Mitchell Akiyama ~ Mort Aux Vaches ~ Mort Aux Vaches ~ Mort Aux Vaches ~ 2004
4:37 am Proem ~ Until Here Robot ~ Until Here for Years (new) ~ n5MD ~ 2019
4:42 am Komet ~ 2 ~ Manhatten ~ Noton (20′ to 2000 series) ~ 1999
4:46 am Múm ~ The Ballad Of The Broken Birdie Records (Ruxpin Mix II) ~ Documenta ~ Agenda ~ 2002
4:51 am Greenbank ~ Layabout ~ Rotating the Square ~ Benbecula ~ 2003
4:55 am Pulse Patrol ~ Moon Unit ~ Alba Absurdia ~ Alba Absurdia ~ 2002
4:58 am Global Goon ~ You Set My Face On Fire ~ Family Glue ~ Audio Dregs ~ 2004
5:02 am DJ Nate ~ Just Be Truu ~ Take Off Mode (new) ~ Planet Mu ~ 2019
5:05 am John Beltran (local) ~ Expecting Rain ~ Americano ~ Exceptional ~ 2002
5:10 am Norma Jean Bell (local) ~ Feel What I Feel ~ Come Into My Room ~ Peacefrog ~ 2001
5:14 am Infiniti ~ Never Tempt Me (Thomas Fehlmann Remix) ~ One To Three. Overflow; Ninenine/nd ~ Apollo ~ 1999
5:19 am Dave DK ~ Prism ~ Lights and Colours ~ Moodmusic ~ 2007
5:25 am Susanne Brokesch ~ Rehearsal Part 3 ~ Sharing the Sunhat ~ Disko-B ~ 1997
5:29 am Crank ~ Heftibag ~ Heftibag ~ Mille Plateaux ~ 1999
5:36 am UNKLE featuring Ian Brown ~ Be There ~ Be There single ~ Mo Wax ~ 1999
5:41 am Throwaway (local) ~ Vanity Block ~ WHAT? (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019
5:44 am Sam Hooker (local) ~ Moving in the Way ~ On the Water (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019
5:48 am Erik Griswold ~ Fallingwater ~ Yokohama Flowers ~ Room40 ~ 2018
5:51 am Grave Nature ~ Azimuth ~ Ascending (new) ~ Flag Day ~ 2019

Cultural Fog: NYE (Hologram Label, 2019)

August 2, 2019 at 9:38 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Cultural Fog: NYE

Documenting a New Year’s Eve gig by the improv trio of Claire Cirocco, Emily Roll, and Fred Thomas, this CDr contains 7 untitled tracks of sporadic, echo-slapping drums and layered synth clouds and vibrations. Roll’s heavily delayed voice often floats upward like bubbles, but it’s hard to tell what’s on her mind. Melodies and disconnected rhythms converge, and things get strangely miniature around track 4. But then 5 has wider, more piercing synth vamps and more somnambulant vocals. 6 is an uneasy reflection on the passing year, then 7 holds the energy together for another moment before it vanishes.

Crush Collision 8/1/19

August 2, 2019 at 9:01 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Do not sleep on this tomorrow night!

9:01 pm STL ~ No More Words (Sebastian Mullaert Remix)
9:09 pm Kresy ~ Hangover Horns
9:15 pm Western Edges ~ Very Good on the Rushes
9:17 pm Takahisa Mitsumori ~ 4 A.Y. (DJ Sodeyama Remix)
9:23 pm Desert Sound Colony & Baby Rollen ~ Beta Burner (A Sagittariun Re-Dream)
9:28 pm Föllakzoid ~ II
9:38 pm Edward ~ Mental Dive
9:50 pm Klein Zage ~ She’s Out There
9:53 pm The Juan MacLean ~ Zone Non Linear (Massimiliano Pagliara Remix)
9:59 pm Cherushii & Maria Minerva ~ Out By Myself
10:02 pm DJ Haus ~ Turn the Box Up (VONDA7 Fox Out of the Box Remix)
10:07 pm Reset Robot ~ Idiolect
10:13 pm Tatira ~ Ghosts of Fall River
10:16 pm XGLARE ~ Plexus
10:18 pm Simulation ~ Canceling/Smoothing
10:23 pm Lorenzo BITW ~ Aurelia
10:27 pm Turning Jewels into Water ~ Talang (PlayPlay Remix)
10:30 pm Antwood ~ Club Dread
10:33 pm Doctor Jeep & Fixate ~ Dorado
10:38 pm Soundbwoy Killah ~ Burning
10:42 pm Textasy ~ Mystique
10:46 pm Special Request ~ Fahrenheit 451
10:50 pm Davis Galvin ~ Loudspeaker Situation
10:55 pm Maruwa ~ 31 Seconds
10:59 pm Floorplan ~ Never Grow Old (Mark Broom Dubplate Mix)
11:04 pm Mella Dee ~ Natural Unrefined
11:09 pm Jason Patrick ~ TimeFlex
11:14 pm Ellen Allien ~ Korpermaschine
11:21 pm Perc ~ Driller
11:27 pm Outlander [NOT the one who did “Vamp”] Don’t Recall Using Teletransportation
11:32 pm Modig ~ Latissimus (Blawan Remix)
11:39 pm Thomas Bangalter ~ What to Do
11:42 pm Tymon ~ Haunted Shipyard
11:47 pm ? ~ STAUB 004 A3
11:50 pm Modeselektor ~ Prügelknabe
11:52 pm Dax J ~ The Drome (SE1)
11:55 pm F.U.S.E. ~ Train-abuse

Tim Walters: Fission Cuisine (Aural Films, 2019)

August 1, 2019 at 6:45 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Tim Walters: Fission Cuisine

Last year, Tim Walters released a pretty exciting album of electro-shocked noise, which he made using analog synths and old SuperCollider coding. This album is heavy on analog synths, but it sounds vastly different — much friendlier, more melodic, and more driving. Opener “The Zen Gun” starts out sparse and creaky, but it surprisingly blooms into a space fighter pilot odyssey, chugging along with cosmic synths and light but propulsive beats. Tracks like “Constitutional” and “The World of Wool” are filled with the sort of childlike melodies that countless IDM artists were creating around the beginning of the millennium, but without the overt technical precision or glitch overload. There’s also ominous drone pieces like “Don’t Forget to Breathe” which fulfill the “scene from a spooky movie” quota, while others like “Connoisseurs of Human Folly” are more RPG interstitial scene music. The overall mood is more playful and adventurous rather than dark and heavy, but it does have its ponderous moments.

Delicate Instruments: MEM-1 12″ EP (Shewey Trax, 2019)

July 31, 2019 at 9:46 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Delicate Instruments: MEM-1 12″ EP

The latest release from the prolific West Coast label Shewey Trax is the first part of a full-length from Delicate Instruments, who has been steadily releasing records since 2013, including a 2017 single bearing an Octo Octa remix. These four tracks are deep but also kind of lo-fi, and even industrial-tinged. “Memory-1” is a nighttime city cruiser with a voice urging you to expand your consciousness of the world around you. “The Judgement” is much rougher and grittier, with the voices taking a much sharper tone, and the beats more clanky than smooth. “Fading Away” is back to the more meditative feel of “Memory-1”, then “Behind the Waterfall” mixes natural sounds and appropriately lush tones with a thick, distorted kick drum. A good mix of both relaxing and edgy sounds, pressed on nice, thick vinyl. I’m kind of surprised I haven’t heard more from this label before.

Throwaway: WHAT? (self-released, 2019)

July 28, 2019 at 4:02 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Throwaway: WHAT?

This is the long-awaited first album from former WCBN DJ Kirsten Carey’s rock band Throwaway. Represented by a caricature of a woman with a paper bag over her head, the music has a sort of cartoonishly aggressive demeanor, which might explain how Carey ended up playing guitar on a clipping. song on the Rick & Morty soundtrack. William Hutson from clipping. adds noise to “Bonathan Jyers”, this album’s first song, which begins with Carey shrieking “THIS IS A RED ALERT!!!!” Her manic growl is utterly confrontational and commanding, and the guitar riffs are jagged and discordant, making this music impossible to ignore or listen to passively. Most of the songs are super noisy and pissed-off, but there’s still a jazz-trained sophistication to them. “The Revenge Society” is both jaunty and bitter, with Carey gleefully wailing about whipping your ass. “Exotic Bird” reflects her experience moving to Los Angeles and feeling strange and out of place. Then there’s the vicious, taunting “I Work!”, two minutes of pure rage which will leave you dumbfounded, particularly when she asks “What do YOU do???”

Tyvek: Changing Patterns of Protective Coating 7″ EP (self-released, 2019)

July 28, 2019 at 2:28 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Tyvek: Changing Patterns of Protective Coating 7″ EP

The newest EP from local garage-punk heroes Tyvek launches right into it with “I’ve Not Thought Once”, a tightly wound, hook-filled tune with more thoughtful lyrics than the title implies. It ends quickly, and the band play a Neu!-ish instrumental not far from drummer Fred Thomas’ group Hydropark. The second side seems like a continuation of this (it even fades in), and then the band announces “We’re Back”, with the record’s most immediate, energetic track. They seem like they could easily knock out songs like this all day, but they have other avenues to explore, and they manage to do both on this record without taking up too much time.

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