Show #480 – 2/9/19

February 9, 2019 at 3:48 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

2:01 am Hopechest ~ Kismet / Saturn Return ~ split tape w/ Edwin Perry Manchester (new) ~ Impermanent Projects ~ 2018
2:12 am Skin Lies (local) ~ Meta-Quotations/Soiled, Discarded ~ split 7″ w/ Benoit Pioulard (new) ~ Impermanent Projects ~ 2018
2:16 am Talc ~ side A ~ Eye Idols (new) ~ Impermanent Projects ~ 2018
2:30 am Mark McGuire ~ Trips Through the Park ~ Tidings/Amethyst Waves ~ Weird Forest ~ 2007
2:49 am Gossimer ~ Crowning ~ Crowning (new) ~ Impermanent Projects ~ 2018
3:04 am Silk Road Assassins ft. WWWINGS ~ Shadow Realm ~ State of Ruin (new) ~ Planet Mu ~ 2019
3:06 am Boy Harsher ~ Come Closer ~ Careful (new) ~ Nude Club ~ 2019
3:11 am Torn Hawk ~ I Hate Weed ~ Time Is A Scam (new) ~ L.I.E.S. ~ 2018
3:15 am Makthaverskan ~ Onkel ~ 7″ (new) ~ Run For Cover ~ 2019
3:18 am Jessica Pratt ~ This Time Around ~ Quiet Signs (new) ~ Mexican Summer ~ 2019
3:21 am Toro Y Moi ft. Abra ~ Miss Me ~ Outer Peace (new) ~ Carpark ~ 2019
3:24 am Eki Shola ~ Looped ~ Possible (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019
3:27 am Suzi Analogue ft. Junglepussy ~ 2DEEP ~ mp3 (new) ~ Never Normal ~ 2019
3:31 am Pod Blotz (local) ~ Beyond the Body ~ Eminent Domain (new) ~ L.I.E.S. ~ 2019
3:36 am Ray Keith ~ Now Is The Time ~ Planet V ~ V ~ 1998
3:43 am Mazdaratti ~ Excelsior ~ 12″ ~ Telepathic ~ 1992
3:49 am R-Zac 23 ~ Apocalyptic Heroes ~ Base Support / Apocalyptic Heroes ~ Drop Bass Network ~ 1995
4:02 am Inventions and Diamentions [Fanon Flowers] (local) ~ Raw Vibes ~ The Sleeper EP ~ PHOQ U ~ 1992
4:06 am The Outcasts ~ Dreams of an Alien Intelligence (Alphaville Mix 3) ~ Demos ~ Delancey Mass of Black ~ 1995
4:19 am Woody McBride ~ Aroma ~ Balance ~ Drop Bass Network ~ 1994
4:24 am Lester Fitzpatrick ~ Tone Control ~ 12″ ~ Relief ~ 1995
4:30 am Tim Harper ~ Eugene Harper ~ 12″ ~ Relief ~ 1995
4:38 am Klaus Schulze’s Wahnfried ~ Aphrodesire ~ Trance 4 Motion ~ MIG ~ 2000
4:45 am Hypnotech ~ Mission In Congo ~ Prototech ~ Dark Entries ~ 1984
4:57 am Mazdaratti ~ Fox Hunt ~ 12″ ~ Telepathic ~ 1993
5:05 am Acid Horse ~ No Name, No Slogan (Produced By Cabaret Voltaire) ~ 12″ ~ Wax Trax! ~ 1989
5:14 am Ministry ~ So What ~ Live Necronomicon ~ Cleopatra ~ 1990
5:25 am New Zion w. Cyro ~ Onda ~ Sunshine Seas ~ RareNoise ~ 2016
5:33 am Shorelights (local) ~ Lighthouses ~ Ancient Lights (new) ~ Subwax BCN ~ 2018
5:38 am John Kameel Farah ~ Fantasia ~ Time Sketches ~ Neue Meister ~ 2017
5:50 am Lubomyr Melnyk ~ Barcarolle ~ Fallen Trees (new) ~ Erased Tapes ~ 2018

Impermanent Projects mega-post

February 6, 2019 at 10:37 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Antsy #1

Portland-based Impermanent Projects has been putting on events, releasing music, and creating art since 2017. Their website stresses their mission to add to the cultural conversation rather than the trash heap, and while they might not be the most prolific label around, what they do put out hopefully means something. The first issue of their long-in-the-making Antsy zine is finally out, and while it can easily be digested in the span of a couple hours, there’s a lot of wonderful, insightful information and literature here. Dustin Krcatovich (Impermanent Projects co-founder, along with Micah Vanderhoof) interviews the always-inspiring Space Lady, Fred Thomas and Dominic Coppola reminisce about the ’90s, and there’s an eyewitness report about the Fargo noise scene. Among lots of other stuff. Well worth checking out, very tidy, professional layout but still resolutely DIY in content.

Benoît Pioulard/Skin Lies: split 7″

The label’s first batch of musical releases includes a split 7″ featuring two former WCBN DJs (Dustin and Benoît Pioulard). Pioulard’s side is filled with sighing loops which swoop, joined by other celestial sounds, making it sound like far more is going on than actually is, filling the room up with glowing spirits. The label states that it’s 5 and a half minutes long, but it’s so engrossing that it seems to transcend all notions of time, and it feels half as long. Skin Lies’ side is a big jolt after the first one. It’s more abrasive, and also more swampy, filled with bizarre insectoid chirping as well as some nearly poisonous noise attacks. Still, it’s also pretty ethereal and mind-bathing rather than brutal, and there’s even a song buried deep under the radioactive foam.

Gossimer: Crowning tape

One of several tapes issued in this particular Impermanent Project is one from Gossimer, consisting of a single gorgeous 15-minute piece using a tuning fork, a white noise machine, a delay pedal, a vibrator (!), and other objects/devices. It starts out sparse, then a melange of scrapes, buzzes, and yes, vibrations all blur together into a much more musical heap of tones than you might expect at first. Then there’s a deep level of bass fluctuating underneath a thick blanket of hiss, but you almost don’t even notice the hiss because of how the bass makes you feel. Then another cluster of sounds expand and begin plucking at the strings of your soul.

Edwin Perry Manchester/Hopechest: split tape

Providing a tiny glimpse into the aforementioned Fargo noise scene is the split tape from scene veteran Edwin Perry Manchester and Hopechest. Perry’s “The Evil Spirit That Devours Mankind” is a disturbing fever dream filled with slow, reversed creaks and thwacks, as well as a few hair-raising crashes and shrieks. Mankind definitely doesn’t survive this one. The Hopechest side, however, couldn’t be more different. This one sounds like nothing short of a spiritual rebirth after the doom-spelling first side. And it’s not even all that “happy” or “blissed out”-sounding. It floats and feels light and glowing, yet if you pay close attention it’s actually quite grimy and curdled. A really refreshing blend of meditative truth-seeking and subtly manipulated weirdness.

Talc: Eye Idols tape

My favorite tape of the batch, however, has to be Eye Idols by Talc, simply because of how absurd, chaotic, and straight-up fun it is. This one is all mangled, incinerated, and glop-encrusted tapes, with stereo panning action so that it resembles some sort of drunk, absurdist sound clash using far-from-functioning equipment and half-melted cassettes. It’s somewhere between Moth Cock and Invisbl Skratch Piklz Vs. Da Klamz Uv Deth if it was made by rabid mutant gerbils playing singing bowls. And the second side seems to have been partly composed by a dolphin.

Show #479 – 2/2/19

February 2, 2019 at 1:05 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

2:00 am Hedvig Mollestad Trio ~ Lucidness ~ Smells Funny (new) ~ Rune Grammofon ~ 2018
2:07 am Clifford Brown-Max Roach Quintet ~ Cherokee ~ Study in Brown ~ EmArcy ~ 1955
2:13 am Ellen Rowe Octet (local) ~ The Soul Keepers ~ Momentum: Portraits of Women in Motion (new) ~ Smokin’ Sleddog Records ~ 2019
2:19 am Bill Evans Trio ~ Very Early ~ Moonbeams ~ Riverside ~ 1962
2:24 am Duncan McMillan (local) ~ Room with a View ~ Room with a View (new) ~ Big O ~ 2018
2:30 am Pantha du Prince ~ Mondholz ~ Mondholz: Remixes & Canons 10″ ~ Neue Meister ~ 2017
2:40 am Eki Shola ~ Butterfly ~ Possible (new) ~ self-released ~ 2019
2:44 am Suzi Analogue feat. King Britt ~ Never Normalize ~ mp3 (new) ~ Never Normal ~ 2019
2:48 am Octo Octa ~ I Need You ~ For Lovers (new) ~ Technicolour ~ 2019
2:58 am Boymerang ~ Blue Notes ~ Breakbeat Science ~ Volume ~ 1996
3:05 am CFCF ~ Closed Space (Single Edit) ~ Liquid Colours (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2019
3:11 am CFCF ~ December 25, 1999 ~ December 25, 1999 (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2018
3:18 am Hoover ~ Hoover1 B ~ 12″ (new) ~ nOWT ~ 2019
3:23 am The Higher ~ Submarine ’95 ~ The Core (new) ~ XL ~ 2018
3:29 am Moresounds ~ Shut Up ~ Gradients Vol. 2 (new) ~ Astrophonica ~ 2018
3:33 am Sully ~ Qualia ~ Gradients Vol. 2 (new) ~ Astrophonica ~ 2018
3:39 am Zinja Hlungwani ~ N’wagezani My Love ~ Shangaan Electro: New Wave Dance Music From South Africa ~ Honest Jon’s Records ~ 2010
3:47 am Catdog ~ No Ones Going to Like It ~ ADHD (new) ~ IndustrieStandard Records ~ 2018
3:50 am frank angotti is dead ~ Patch Work ~ ADHD (new) ~ IndustrieStandard Records ~ 2018
3:53 am Vester Koza ~ Taped Over The Courtyard Mix ~ Loader Mither (new) ~ Houndstooth ~ 2018
3:59 am Robert Valera ~ Test 2 ~ False Endings (new) ~ brokntoys ~ 2019
4:04 am T. Abshire ~ Metal Trak ~ Acid Wash ~ Trax ~ 1993
4:09 am DJ Sneak ~ Purple Haze ~ Blue Funk II ~ Relief ~ 1995
4:17 am GU [Glenn Underground] ~ Slam’en Mutha’s ~ Clap Yo Hands ~ Relief ~ 1994
4:22 am Differ-Ent (local) ~ Fasten 8 Shun ~ It’s Good To Be Differ-Ent ~ Don’t Be Afraid ~ 2017
4:30 am Precipitation ~ Sky 1 ~ Earth/Sky (new) ~ 100% Silk ~ 2018
4:40 am The Connection Machine ~ Poly 800 ~ Bitflower ~ Planet E ~ 1994
4:46 am Magnétophonique ~ Sunstroke ~ Une Cartographie Idéale (new) ~ Not Not Fun ~ 2018
4:49 am OCA ~ Harmo Rain ~ Preset Music (new) ~ Constellation Tatsu ~ 2018
4:52 am Rhucle ~ Crystal ~ More Beautiful Than Silence (new) ~ Constellation Tatsu ~ 2018
4:56 am Slowdive ~ Miranda ~ Pygmalion ~ Creation Records ~ 1995
5:01 am Sharkula x Mukqs ~ Hitchhiking on the Mic Device ~ Prune City (new) ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2019
5:06 am Meat Beat Manifesto ~ Re-Animator Part 4 ~ Storm the Studio ~ Wax Trax! ~ 1989
5:10 am Masaki ~ Bird-eyes View ~ 40 Days/40 Nights ~ Stratosphere Music ~ 1983
5:14 am Varispeed ~ Tail are ~ Empty Words (new) ~ Gold Bolus ~ 2019
5:17 am The Nouveau Classical Project ~ Cy by David Bird ~ Currents (new) ~ Gold Bolus ~ 2019
5:24 am Antoni Maiovvi & the Karakura Orchestra ~ Magician’s Guilt ~ Abdullah Original Soundtrack ~ Death Waltz ~ 2017
5:32 am Shorelights (local) ~ Late Summer Rain ~ Ancient Lights (new) ~ Subwax BCN ~ 2018
5:38 am Guided by Voices ~ Your Lights Are Out ~ Zeppelin Over China (new) ~ GBV Inc. ~ 2019
5:41 am The Go-Betweens ~ Newton Told Me ~ Spring Hill Fair (reissue) ~ Jetset ~ 1984
5:43 am The Go-Betweens ~ I Just Get Caught Out (Early Version) ~ Tallulah (reissue) ~ Jetset ~ 1987
5:46 am Buzzcocks ~ Operators Manual ~ Love Bites ~ Domino ~ 1978
5:49 am Buzzcocks ~ Moving Away From the Pulsebeat ~ Another Music in a Different Kitchen ~ Domino ~ 1978
5:56 am Sharon Van Etten ~ Comeback Kid ~ Remind Me Tomorrow (new) ~ Jagjaguwar ~ 2019

v/a: Gradients Volume 2 3xLP (Astrophonica, 2018)

January 27, 2019 at 1:44 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

v/a: Gradients Volume 2 3xLP

More ~160-BPM hybrid bass futurism from Fracture & Neptune’s label. The duo throw Bollywood into the jungle-garage mix with their “Chal Dub”. Teklife’s Taso also teams up with Fracture, combining US and UK future bass styles. BSN Posse’s track is relatively mellow, but then there’s the ferocious bass conquering of Moresounds’ “Shut Up”. FaltyDL’s “A Day at the Races” is one of the more faithful hardcore jungle tracks here. Proc Fiskal’s “Soundwise” demonstrates that his take on jungle is equally bizarre and unconventional as his vision of grime. Dream Continuum (Om Unit and Machinedrum) make an unexpected, welcome return, and OnHell & Sigrah’s “On Sight” storms out of nowhere and ends up being one of the best tracks on the comp. Sully’s “Qualia” shuts everything down with an overload of both intelligence and emotion.

The Higher: The Core 12″ EP (XL, 2018)

January 27, 2019 at 1:26 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

The Higher: The Core 12″ EP

Shed’s newest alias appears on XL with some of his nuttiest rave deconstructions yet. “The Core” is an extremely difficult track which knocks the beat sideways, yet still ends up being a total anthem. “Stick 3” is more of a hardcore headrush, made all the more manic by stuck-in-the-machine stutters. Two “Submarine” tracks are separated by year, with “’99” being a little darker and tenser, and “’95” actually being the stranger and more complex of the two. Neither particularly sound like the years indicated by the titles, but it’s hard to imagine what year they could’ve come from.

Precipitation: Earth/Sky tape (100% Silk, 2018)

January 27, 2019 at 1:14 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Precipitation: Earth/Sky tape

A different, refreshing take on ambient house. The “Earth” side has two lengthy tracks with fragile, somewhat shivering synths and minimal beats which set it in motion. Super misty, but not heavy and doesn’t soak you to the bone — this is precipitation, not a storm. Following the steady ambient techo vibes, the “Sky” side is strictly beatless, removing the sense of forward motion, but carrying the same feeling out into the stratosphere. You begin to miss the beats after a while, it does make you feel like you’re being taken far away from home.

Catdog & frank angotti is dead: ADHD (IndustrieStandard Records, 2018)

January 27, 2019 at 12:26 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Catdog & frank angotti is dead: ADHD

Catdog’s tracks on this split range from the usual terror-mashcore (“Move Your Feet”) to somewhat subtler experiments like the Bowie-sampling “Unfocused”. “No Ones Going to Like It” is a footwork-gabber hybrid which samples an old Delta 9/Lenny Dee classic. frank angotti is dead starts out with noisy industrial techno but his other tracks are stranger, more abstract breakcore, with “Not Done Yet” being the most collage-like. The music is fun on its own, but the fact that Longmont Potion Castle designed the artwork puts this one over the edge. Available from Bandcamp (free DL).

Tomat Petrella: Kepler (!K7, 2018)

January 26, 2019 at 2:18 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Tomat Petrella: Kepler

Davide Tomat and Gianluca Petrella reach for the stars on this magnificent collaboration. Though partially coming from a jazz background, this is closer to advanced, haunting sound design, with Petrella’s trombone inventively weaved throughout Tomat’s wave-like textures and sporadic yet hard-hitting beats. “Proxima Centauri B” starts out somewhat like Lee Gamble’s inverted jungle flashbacks, never arriving at beats and clearing the way for solemn trombone playing. “Trappist 1 E” is more fractured and turbulent, recalling Roly Porter or the Haxan Cloak, harshly sputtering but briefly pausing for breath and ending up much calmer and resolved. “Hd 40307 G” is riddled with crackling which will make you think something’s wrong with the speakers. “Gliese 667 CC” is filled with doomy, semi-industrial beats. “Tau Ceti E” has sporadic clusters of beats (Second Woman-style) with the trombone gradually peering out over them. “Kepler 186 F” is a 10-minute epic which grows slow, trudging beats and phasing effects, to disorienting yet fascinating effect. Kepler is a truly original album which makes you reconsider the idea of space music.

Show #478 – 1/26/19

January 26, 2019 at 12:56 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

2:00 am Wechselspannung ~ side B ~ 220v ~ Reflective ~ 1994
2:26 am Centrozoon ~ Cathedral ~ Blast ~ Audio Anatomy ~ 1999
2:35 am Reagenz ~ ü ~ Reagenz ~ Reflective ~ 1994
2:45 am Tangerine Dream ~ Breath Kissing Matter’s Mouth ~ Edgar Allan Poe’s The Island of the Fay ~ Eastgate ~ 2011
2:54 am Qluster ~ Tatum ~ Elemente (new) ~ Bureau B ~ 2018
3:04 am Drax ~ Amphetamine (Mike Inc. Remix) ~ Mental Doors ~ Oscillator ~ 1994
3:10 am Turph ~ Jealous? (Pimp Mode) ~ 187th ~ Probe ~ 1994
3:16 am The Mover ~ Over Land & Sea ~ Signs of ’96 ~ Planet Core Productions ~ 1996
3:24 am The Mover ~ Impaler II (The Pentagram) ~ The Final Sickness ~ Planet Core Productions ~ 1993
3:27 am Laura Grabb ~ Ion Spot ~ 12″ ~ Industrial Strength ~ 1993
3:33 am Der Zyklus ~ Biometric Systems ~ Biometry ~ Clone Aqualung Series ~ 2004
3:37 am Hieroglyphic Being & J.I.T.U. Ahn-Sahm-Buhl Feat. Marshall Allen, Greg Fox and Elliot Levin ~ Cimetière Des Innocents ~ We Are Not the First ~ Rvng. Int’l ~ 2015
3:42 am Arthur Russell ~ This Is How We Walk on the Moon ~ Another Thought ~ Arc Light Editions ~ 1984
3:47 am Portishead ~ All Mine ~ Roseland NYC Live ~ Go! Beat Records ~ 1998
3:51 am Mark Stewart + the Maffia ~ High Ideals & Crazy Dub ~ Learning to Cope with Cowardice/The Lost Tapes ~ Mute ~ 1983
3:55 am Kid Koala ft. Trixie Whitley ~ Lost at Sea ~ Music To Draw To: Io (new) ~ Arts & Crafts ~ 2019
4:02 am River Spirit (local) ~ Worst Case ~ Me I Fall (new) ~ Atonuv ~ 2019
4:06 am Kittin ~ Question Everything ~ Cosmos (new) ~ Dark Entries ~ 2018
4:09 am Hydropark (local) ~ Panel of Experts ~ Hydropark (EP2) (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2019
4:16 am Julia Kent ~ Last Hour Story ~ Temporal (new) ~ The Leaf Label ~ 2019
4:29 am Jon Tulloch (local) ~ My new video project1121 ~ mp3 (new) ~ private ! 2018
4:36 am Tomat Petrella ~ Tau Ceti E ~ Kepler (new) ~ !K7 ~ 2018
4:41 am Sarah Louise ~ Rime ~ Nighttime Birds and Morning Stars (new) ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2019
4:45 am Natsukashii ~ Bunking Off ~ Driving East (new) ~ Dead Bison ~ 2018
4:49 am Liai ~ O ~ Lili (new) ~ Constellation Tatsu ~ 2018
4:54 am Crypticz ~ Lost One ~ The Path (new) ~ Cosmic Bridge ~ 2018
4:59 am Swindle feat. Eva Lazarus ~ Talk a Lot ~ No More Normal (new) ~ Brownswood ~ 2019
5:03 am Magela Herrera ~ Two Sidewalks ~ Explicaciones (new) ~ Brontosaurus ~ 2019
5:09 am Emerson Lake & Palmer ~ Toccata ~ Brain Salad Surgery ~ Manticore ~ 1973
5:17 am The Soft Boys ~ Insanely Jealous ~ Underwater Moonlight…And How It Got There ~ Matador ~ 1980
5:22 am The Go-Betweens ~ Serenade Sound ~ Send Me a Lullaby (reissue) ~ Jetset ~ 1981
5:24 am The Go-Betweens ~ Reunion Dinner ~ Liberty Belle And The Black Diamond Express (reissue) ~ Jetset ~ 1986
5:30 am Shorelights (local) ~ Love’s Crashing Waves ~ Ancient Lights (new) ~ Subwax BCN ~ 2018
5:35 am Black to Comm ~ A Miracle No-Mother Child at Your Breast ~ Seven Horses for Seven Kings (new) ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2019
5:42 am Nephew Lagoon (local) ~ durmline ~ Windowood (new) ~ self-released ~ 2018
5:45 am Michele Mercure ~ No More Law In Gotham City ~ Beside Herself ~ Rvng Intl. / Freedom to Spend ~ 1985
5:49 am Eraldo Bernocchi / F. M. Einheit / Jo Quail ~ The Inquirer ~ Rosebud ~ Rare Noise ~ 2018

Magela Herrera: Explicaciones (Brontosaurus Records, 2019)

January 25, 2019 at 9:27 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Magela Herrera: Explicaciones

Magela Herrera is a Cuban composer/flautist based in Miami, and her first solo album is an absolute knockout. Her arrangements are complex and dynamic, yet it never feels like she’s stuffing too many notes onto the page. It all goes down easily, but not blandly smooth. She seamlessly blends Afro-Cuban, European jazz (she lived in Norway for a while) and fusion styles, and while all the songs are different, it’s all recognizable as her style. Likewise, the tunes are a mix of original compositions, childhood favorites, and standards, all of which fit together perfectly. She also sings on a few occasions, and her voice is just as stunning and gorgeous as her flute playing. “Danzon Para Papa” is the most traditional-sounding Cuban tune and there’s also a rendition of “Besame Mucho”. Cheers all around.

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