Show #486 – 3/23/19

March 23, 2019 at 11:44 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

2:00 am Technical Space Composer’s Crew (Holger Czukay/Rolf Dammers) ~ Boat Woman Song ~ Canaxis ~ Grönland Records ~ 1969
2:17 am Mary Lattimore & Mac McCaughan ~ II ~ New Rain Duets (new) ~ Three Lobed ~ 2019
2:28 am Forrest Fang ~ Matted Leaves ~ The Fata Morgana Dream (new) ~ Projekt ~ 2019
2:35 am Aphex Twin ~ Windowlicker ~ Windowlicker ~ Warp ~ 1999
2:40 am Richard Devine ~ Anemap ~ Sort\Lave (new) ~ Timesig ~ 2018
2:46 am FFT ~ fell ~ in-side (new) ~ Super Hexagon Records ~ 2019
2:50 am Lakker ~ Nest ~ Época (new) ~ R&S ~ 2019
2:53 am Bjarki ~ Bheiv_Sheep ~ Happy Earthday (new) ~ !K7 ~ 2019
2:59 am Matmos ~ The Crying Pill ~ Plastic Anniversary (new) ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2019
3:03 am IQ+1 ~ House ~ Conversaphone Plus (new) ~ Mappa Editions ~ 2019
3:07 am Joni Void (with Noah) ~ Dysfunctional Helper ~ Mise En Abyme (new) ~ Constellation ~ 2019
3:11 am Nephew Lagoon (local) ~ L4B48 ~ Sendy Q (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019
3:13 am Jeff Carey ~ Ext ~ Zero Player Game (new) ~ Ehse Records ~ 2018
3:17 am William Hooker ~ Panchromatics 2 ~ Cycle of Restoration (new) ~ FPE ~ 2019
3:22 am Model Home ~ Move Immediately ~ 1 (new) ~ Ornette Coleman Fiend Club ~ 2018
3:23 am Turning Jewels into Water ~ Azul (For Nidia) ~ Map of Absences (new) ~ FPE ~ 2019
3:29 am Craig Padilla & Marvin Allen ~ Hidden ~ Toward the Horizon (new) ~ Spotted Peccary ~ 2019
3:32 am Dead Man’s Chest x Coco Bryce ~ The Dead Will Dance ~ SNKR018 (new) ~ Sneaker Social Club ~ 2019
3:37 am Footshooter ~ Rotations ~ Technicolor Nights (new) ~ YAM Recordings ~ 2018
3:43 am Thomas Xu (local) ~ Create Hope ~ Different Wisdoms (new) ~ Steady Flight Circle ~ 2019
3:52 am Jayda G ~ Renewal (Hyla Mix) ~ Significant Changes (new) ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2019
3:57 am Eki Shola ~ One ~ Possible (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019
4:00 am Zodiac feat. Denyse Plummer ~ I Believe (Waxist Edit) ~ Tropical Tricks: Cree Records Remixed (new) ~ Cree Records ~ 2018
4:06 am Thomas Bangalter ~ Sangria ~ Climax soundtrack (new) ~ Milan ~ 2018
4:12 am Vitalic ~ Poney Part 1 ~ Poney ~ International Deejay Gigolo Records ~ 2001
4:17 am I-F ~ Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass ~ From Beyond ~ Interdimensional Transmissions ~ 1997
4:23 am GosT ~ 4th ~ Non Paradisi ~ Blood Music ~ 2016
4:29 am Haruomi Hosono ~ Original BGM ~ Kankyō Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990 ~ Light in the Attic ~ 1984
4:33 am Disaster Passport ~ Routine ~ Score (new) ~ Dagoretti Records ~ 2019
4:39 am Dr. Pete Larson (local) ~ Snakes and Nyatitis ~ Snakes and Nyatitis (new) ~ Dagoretti Records ~ 2018
4:58 am Dr. Pete Larson and the Seething Snakes (local) ~ Ouma ~ Omieri (new) ~ Dagoretti Records ~ 2018
5:05 am Asnakech Worku ~ Jinyew ~ Asnakech ~ Awesome Tapes from Africa ~ 1975
5:11 am Eleven Eleven ~ Angh Oya Tung ~ Eleven Eleven (new) ~ FPE ~ 2019
5:23 am The Caretaker ~ Place in the World Fades Away ~ Everywhere at the End of Time – Stage 6 (new) ~ History Always Favours the Winners ~ 2019
5:43 am Shlohmo ~ Panic Attack ~ The End (new) ~ Friends of Friends ~ 2019
5:48 am Apparat ~ Caronte ~ LP5 (new) ~ Mute ~ 2019
5:53 am River Spirit (local) ~ Blessings ~ Me I Fall (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019
5:55 am Dexter Story ~ Mamdooh ~ Bahir (new) ~ Soundway ~ 2019

Thomas Xu: Different Wisdoms 12″ EP (Steady Flight Circle, 2019)

March 22, 2019 at 9:49 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Thomas Xu: Different Wisdoms 12″ EP

Previously appearing on Theo Parrish’s Sound Signature label, both as a producer and a visual artist, Michigan’s Thomas Xu launches his own Steady Flight Circle with this EP. These 3 tracks are related to house but far more delicate, with very carefully chosen patterns of drums, keys, and plucked strings. He goes for intimacy and personal expression rather than obvious club heat, and the result is a remarkably accomplished, original, and heartfelt EP. The B-side (“Create Hope”) is perhaps the most mixable track here, but even it sounds far more fragile and homemade than you typically expect of house music. Outstanding.

Eleven Eleven: s/t tape (FPE, 2019)

March 20, 2019 at 10:04 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Eleven Eleven: s/t tape

This tape of four long improvisations matches its artwork, depicting a starry desert sky. The lineup on the first side plays guitar, cello, drums, trombone, and electronics. It often sounds warped and heat-baked, but there’s moments where it flares up or starts to flop along wildly. The addition of brief, jarring tape effects does the most messing with your head, although the cello is pretty brain-bending as well. On the second side, “Angh Oya Tung” is an entirely different mindset. Ascending, floating synth and chanted vocals are joined by gorgeous bassoon and much more rhythmic drums, and it’s divine and uplifting. “Prayer for an Infinite Skein” has another lineup change, and this piece focuses on grinding distortion and rhapsodic cello. Far more tense than the previous pieces on the album, it’s absolutely monstrous for the first ten minutes, before ending in a long, slow decay. While the first side of the tape seems meandering and formless, but still driven by a creative force, the second is far more inspired and enlightening.

Nephew Lagoon: Sendy Q CDr (self-released, 2019)

March 19, 2019 at 11:50 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Nephew Lagoon: Sendy Q CD-r

Just a few months after surfacing with the beguiling Windowood, the mysterious Nephew Lagoon returns with Sendy Q. Like the first one, there is nothing linear about this album. It’s all a seamless melange of false starts, could’ve beens, what ifs, and unconnected strands. Melodies start to warm up but then sprawl and collapse, beats flutter out of nowhere, plastic horns blurt out from a distant corner. If you’re expecting to hear something catchy, rhythmic, or in any way conventional, you’ll probably be disappointed, and playing this in front of most people will probably be a really awkward experience. If you’re listening alone and play this at a high volume, or really any volume, it’ll help guide your mind to some strange and fascinating places. Later on, it gets closer to early electronic composers like Morton Subotnick, but perhaps refracted through a digital lens. There really is no way to indicate exactly how this music was made. I’m guessing it was improvised, but it’s hard to tell what’s being used, and how everything sounds so dissolved and disassociated. The cover art is a good fit, but don’t expect this to be as buzzy and sine-wavey as your standard post-Ae glitch act, there aren’t any solid lines or filled-in spaces here, it’s all very amorphous and gaseous.

Dr. Pete Larson: Omieri tape + Snakes and Nyatitis tape (Dagoretti Records, 2018)

March 17, 2019 at 2:15 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Dr. Pete Larson and the Seething Snakes: Omieri tape

Omieri documents a one-off performance in New Orleans featuring Dr. Pete Larson (who co-founded the legendary Bulb Records in the early ’90s) playing a nyatiti (a Kenyan plucked lyre, as seen on the cover of the tape) along with Quintron playing a Mellotron and a trio of other friends on bass, guitar, and drums. Named after a giant magical snake which gives fortune to all around her, Omieri contains four lengthy jams which veer between spiritual jazz and psych-rock, with the Mellotron adding spacey effects beneath the winding rhythms. It all has a very natural-sounding flow to it; even when it has slightly oblong time signatures, the playing doesn’t sound forced, and the instrumentation sets it apart without sounding outlandish. Extremely positive and uplifting, and absolutely worth preserving.

Dr. Pete Larson: Snakes and Nyatitis tape

Also appearing concurrently is Snakes and Nyatitis, a solo performance by Larson recorded at the wonderful Ziggy’s in Ypsilanti. Occasionally stomping and clanging some bells along with his plucking, he plays a trance-inducing set of fast, complex note patterns, gradually hitting some lower frequencies. The final half gets particularly riveting, but Larson sounds genuinely inspired throughout.

Disaster Passport: Score tape (Dagoretti Records, 2019)

March 17, 2019 at 1:13 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Disaster Passport: Score tape

Madison, Wisconsin quartet Disaster Passport composed an alternate score for a filming of Koyaanisqatsi last year. This recording presents the performance of the score, and it’s a warm, slowly unfolding piece of cosmic Americana. The band’s lineup consists of two banjo players, a baritone guitar player, and a percussionist. After a slow warmup, it moves into a series of rustic, hypnotic movements which seem to fuse bluegrass with desert blues (and probably other styles I’m not picking up on). It’s unhurried, with lots of vibrant soloing, but the music doesn’t stay in one place for too long. It never resembles the iconic Philip Glass score of the original, but its influence is unmistakable, particularly in the pacing of the score’s second half, which features soft hums/chants followed by rhythmic clapping. The full score can be downloaded from Bandcamp.

Dead Man’s Chest & Posse: SNKR018 12″ EP (Sneaker Social Club, 2019)

March 16, 2019 at 4:02 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Dead Man’s Chest & Posse: SNRK018 12″ EP

Dead Man’s Chest is one of the absolute best artists making oldskool jungle right now, and Sneaker Social Club has similarly been issuing top-notch breakbeat hardcore and neo-rave music. This EP isn’t quite as heavy and junglistic as other DMC releases. Most of the tracks are collaborations and they’re a bit more spacious and club-friendly. “We All Got a Little Mad Sometimes” (with Response) is straight up alien-channeling music; I can’t tell where that droney synth bed is from but it sounds like some sort of horrifying sci-fi thriller. “The Dead Will Dance” (with Coco Bryce) has fun with zombie movie samples and an evil bassline. Solo track “Exorcisms” is all storming breaks and horror movie samples (at least one is from Poltergeist), and it’s equally fun and terrorizing.

Meat Beat Manifesto: Pin Drop 12″ (Flexidisc, 2019)

March 16, 2019 at 3:26 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Meat Beat Manifesto: Pin Drop 12″

I drove to Chicago to see MBM at the Coldwaves festival last year, and it was probably the best set I’ve ever seen them play. Granted, the first two times, I was seated and at a distance; this time I was right up front in the crowd, and it was exhilarating. Super hard, funky, and manic, with amazing visuals. They played a lot of old classics too, which was great, but the new stuff they announced as being from their next album was spectacular. “Pin Drop” was a particular highlight. Very choppy and breaky but not quite jungle by numbers. It’s more proto-jungle, which makes sense seeing that MBM arguably invented jungle with tracks like “Radio Babylon” back in the ’80s. B-side “No Design” is pretty much the same track except it’s actually a bit faster and crazier. MBM are one of my favorite bands ever and their new album is going to be astonishing.

Show #485 – 3/16/19

March 16, 2019 at 3:10 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

2:01 am Shlohmo ~ Hopeless ~ The End (new) ~ Friends of Friends ~ 2019
2:05 am Spiral Joy Band ~ Down the Lane the Park is Still and the Water Chill ~ Summoning (new) ~ MIE ~ 2019
2:28 am Banabila & Machinefabriek ~ Unearth ~ Entropia (new) ~ Eilean Records ~ 2019
2:36 am Turning Jewels Into Water ~ Map of Absences ~ Map of Absences (new) ~ FPE ~ 2019
2:41 am Seahawks ~ Moon Bump ~ Eyes of the Moon (new) ~ Cascine ~ 2019
2:44 am Surachai ~ A Sign From Decay ~ Come, Deathless (new) ~ Bl_k Noise ~ 2019
2:48 am Rian Treanor ~ ATAXIA_B1 ~ ATAXIA (new) ~ Planet Mu ~ 2019
2:53 am Meat Beat Manifesto ~ No Design ~ 12″ (new) ~ Flexidisc ~ 2019
2:58 am Basic Rhythm ~ Too Nuff ~ New Style EP (new) ~ Sneaker Social Club ~ 2019
3:02 am Bulu & Etch ~ Collide (Itoa Remix) ~ Fiyah (new) ~ Bun the Grid ~ 2019
3:06 am Tarquin & Jammz ~ Sly One ~ single (new) ~ TARQS ~ 2019
3:09 am Paco Sala ~ Impossible Places (EQ Why Remix) ~ Put Your Hands On Me Remix EP ~ Bandcamp ~ 2015
3:13 am badsista ~ MONTAGEM DA XERECA (FUNK RAVE COLAPSO 160 BPM) ~ mp3 (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2019
3:17 am BLÆRG ~ Recursive Iteration I – Benevolent Charlatan ~ Stimulation Over Stagnation ~ Reject ~ 2014
3:22 am Richard Devine ~ Pngtrk ~ Sort\Lave (new) ~ Timesig ~ 2018
3:28 am Ricardo Donoso ~ Disconnected Visions ~ Calibrate (new) ~ Denovali ~ 2018
3:33 am Silk Road Assassins ~ Blink ~ State of Ruin (new) ~ Planet Mu ~ 2019
3:36 am Model Home ~ Sign Me Up For ~ 1 (new) ~ Ornette Coleman Fiend Club ~ 2018
3:38 am Angel-Ho feat. Queezy ~ Good Friday Daddy ~ Death Becomes Her (new) ~ Hyperdub ~ 2019
3:40 am Matmos ~ Breaking Bread ~ Plastic Anniversary (new) ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2019
3:44 am Joni Void with Sarah Page ~ Abusers ~ Mise En Abyme (new) ~ Constellation ~ 2019
3:47 am RAP ~ No Mixer ~ Export (new) ~ Jolly Discs ~ 2019
3:52 am Daniel Brandt ~ Sailboats III ~ Channels (new) ~ Erased Tapes ~ 2018
3:59 am Negative Gemini ~ Different Color Hair ~ mp3 (new) ~ Adult Swim Singles ~ 2019
4:02 am How To Live Together ~ Hidden Costs ~ Resister (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019
4:05 am Ouri ~ Trance Parent ~ mp3 (new) ~ Adult Swim Singles ~ 2019
4:09 am Jayda G ~ Stanley’s Get Down [No Parking on the DF] ~ Significant Changes (new) ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2019
4:14 am Powder ~ New Tribe ~ Powder In Space (new) ~ Beats In Space ~ 2019
4:20 am Bonobo ~ Ibrik ~ Fabric Presents Bonobo (new) ~ Fabric ~ 2019
4:24 am Eki Shola ~ Color of Joy ~ Possible (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019
4:30 am Steven Halpern ~ Deep Theta 2.1 432 Hz ~ Sound Healing 432 Hz ~ Inner Peace Music ~ 2018
4:36 am Daniel Blumberg & Hebronix ~ Off and On ~ Liv (new) ~ Mute ~ 2018
4:41 am Jessica Pratt ~ As the World Turns ~ Quiet Signs (new) ~ Mexican Summer ~ 2019
4:44 am River Spirit (local) ~ Active Space ~ Me I Fall (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019
4:46 am Julia Holter ~ Underneath the Moon ~ Aviary ~ Domino ~ 2018
4:53 am Bim Sherman ~ Haunting Ground Dub ~ Sherwood at the Controls 2: 1985-1990 ~ On-U Sound ~ 1986
4:56 am Suburban Lawns ~ Computer Date ~ Suburban Lawns ~ I.R.S. ~ 1981
4:57 am The Fall ~ Town and Country Hobgoblins (Live) ~ Bend Sinister/The ‘Domesday’ Pay-Off Triad-Plus! ~ Beggars Banquet ~ 1986
5:00 am Pixies ~ Something Against You ~ Surfer Rosa ~ 4AD ~ 1988
5:02 am Suicidal Tendencies ~ Suicidal Failure ~ Suicidal Tendencies ~ Frontier Records ~ 1983
5:04 am Dead Kennedys ~ MTV – Get Off The Air ~ Frankenchrist ~ Manifesto ~ 1985
5:08 am The Wedding Present ~ Anyone Can Make a Mistake ~ George Best 30 ~ Happy Happy Birthday To Me ~ 2017
5:11 am TV Dinners (local) ~ (To Party!) [You Gotta] ~ Eat (new) ~ L87 Records ~ 2018
5:14 am R.E.M. ~ Cuyahoga ~ All the Way to the End: German Broadcast 2001 ~ bootleg ~ 2001
5:18 am Slowdive ~ Brighter ~ Just for a Day ~ Creation ~ 1991
5:22 am Xiu Xiu ~ Hives Hives ~ Knife Play ~ Graveface ~ 2002
5:25 am Black Moth Super Rainbow ~ Twin of Myself ~ Eating Us ~ Graveface ~ 2009
5:30 am Forrest Fang ~ Dream of the Last Fisherman ~ The Fata Morgana Dream (new) ~ Projekt ~ 2019
5:36 am Jazzpospolita ~ Lot ~ Jazzpo! Live Made In China ~ Audio Anatomy ~ 2016
5:48 am Chris Bowden ~ Retrospective ~ Time Capsule ~ Soul Jazz Records ~ 1996
5:55 am Nephew Lagoon (local) ~ stepth ~ Sendy Q (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019

Crush Collision 3/14/19

March 15, 2019 at 9:11 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

WCBN X MEMCO X Interdimensional Transmissions @ Club Above 3/30! SAVE THE DATE!!!
10:01 pm HRTL ~ Someone Stole Your Sweetroll
10:06 pm Oliver Koletzki ~ Kusskompatibel
10:09 pm Jasper James ~ These Are The Beats
10:14 pm Rob Clouth ~ Shedding Layers (Max Cooper Remix)
10:20 pm Another Alias ~ Mind Wipe
10:23 pm Squane x Rees ~ Buzz Kill
10:29 pm Nathan Jonson ~ Space Between Breath
10:33 pm Cassy x Art Alfie ~ On the Low
10:38 pm Fouk ~ F3000
10:42 pm I:Cube ~ Fractal P
10:47 pm Vyvyan ~ Source Rocks (Paul Woolford’s 48hr Fever Dream)
10:53 pm Violet ~ Abyss
10:57 pm Chimpo ~ DidDieDoDat (Ghost Remix)
11:01 pm Blackdown ~ Halcyon Skies (Rollage Mix)
11:05 pm DJ Katapila ~ African Techno
11:07 pm Bubas Produçoes ~ GgENERAL 2017
11:10 pm Yasha ~ MAX 95, Donnin’
11:12 pm CLUBKELLY ~ Need U
11:16 pm Sim Hutchins ~ Like Herding Cats
11:18 pm The Burrell Connection ~ Orbit_458
11:25 pm 2 Bad Mice ~ Limit of Paradise (FaltyDL Remix)
11:29 pm Fatima Al Qadiri Feat. Bobo Secret & Lama3an ~ Alkahaf
11:33 pm Lailah Reich & Tahif Attiek ~ Mbira In NYC
11:35 pm iZem ~ Beni Lane
11:38 pm Djrum ~ Sex
11:46 pm Sharda & Bassboy ~ Drifting
11:50 pm Girls of the Internet & Peven Everett ~ Love Delicious (Sully Remix)
11:53 pm Roska ~ Schmuck
11:57 pm Gerry Read ~ Fuck That Bounce
11:59 pm Trinity Carbon ~ Smacky Dove

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