Brett Naucke: Multiple Hallucinations tape (Hausu Mountain, 2017)

December 31, 2017 at 6:14 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Brett Naucke: Multiple Hallucinations tape

Brett Naucke’s Multiple Hallucinations tape consists of numerous short passages stitched/melded together in a deliberate sequence. Constructed with modular synths, the pieces range from starry, melodic shimmers to abrasive drilling to unquantized rhythms, and there’s no clear beginning or end to them, and no telling when the next section is about to start. Everything’s overlapped and interacts with each other. The sections develop their own personalities and seem to usher in their companions, or sometimes spar and brawl with other parts. The last few minutes, beginning with the part featuring amorphous voices, are the most intense and brain-triggering. The overlapping text on the J-card seems to mention planets, strength, beauty, wisdom, numbers, zodiac signs, maybe specific pieces of gear. The music contains all of these things, usually at the same time.

Moth Cock: 0-100 At The Speed Of The Present tape (Hausu Mountain, 2017)

December 31, 2017 at 5:25 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Moth Cock: 0-100 At The Speed Of The Present tape

Moth Cock’s first tape in 3 years features the types of jumbled jazz and corkscrew rhythms usually expected from the duo, but they also venture out into headier spaces this time, particularly on the 10-minute “Preserving Power of Pulp Paperbacks” and “World Weary Travelers”. This is dark crystal music, with horns and voices floating and evaporating, and heavy gases pressing down but also preserving and elevating. There’s still goose-like clarinet squawks and squishy, buzzy bass feedback tones, but so much more space. It’s still confounding and hard to make sense of, but maybe a bit less like Daffy Duck at his looniest than some of their other releases. It’ll still tie your brain in knots, but maybe more refined, less twisted knots than before. Just watch out for the sudden storms of delay-enhanced clarinet. Tape available from HausMo’s Bandcamp.

Bullshit Market/Dental Work: Straight Banana/Live At Midwest Harshfest 3 split tape (TRASHFUCK Records/Placenta Recordings, 2017)

December 31, 2017 at 4:23 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Bullshit Market/Dental Work: Straight Banana/Live At Midwest Harshfest 3 split tape

On their side of this split cassette, Detroit power electronics trio Bullshit Market debut their free jazz direction (unless they’ve done something like this before and I haven’t heard/seen it, which is entirely likely). There’s still some bursts of electronic noise, including some harsh electronic feedback and a Speak-N-Spell or similar robot-voiced toy, but much of this consists of unhinged drumming, demented scat singing, and acoustic noisemaking. There’s also some spoken word material, such as the parental abuse-themed “Ow Dad That Hurts” and “Inequality”, a brief poem about white privilege. Quite different sounding than the group’s usual output, but still confrontational and boundlessly expressive. On the other side, Dental Work presents their performance at Midwest Harshfest 3, which I missed because I was in Chicago that weekend. Dental Work’s performances are always visual as well as audio experiences, involving costumes, destruction, absurdity, and unpredictability. The visual and situational elements of their performance are lost on this tape, but the crowd interaction is captured, and the audience members react viscerally to the waves of heavy feedback and oscillation, and whatever’s being smashed onstage. The performance ends with chopping and crashing, as well as screams and chants of “Tru! Tru! Tru!” from the audience. Tape available from Placenta Recordings’ Bandcamp.

Show #425 – 12/30/17 – Best of 2017 edition!

December 30, 2017 at 11:34 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | 1 Comment

Mic break music = Gas: Narkopop
Hour 1
2:01 am Four Tet ~ “Two Thousand and Seventeen” ~ New Energy ~ Text ~ 2017
2:06 am Jefre Cantu-Ledesma ~ “A Song of Summer” ~ On the Echoing Green ~ Mexican Summer ~ 2017
2:18 am James K. ~ “My Sorrow is Luminous” ~ Physically Sick ~ Allergy Season ~ 2017
2:22 am Colleen ~ “Separating” ~ A Flame My Love, A Frequency ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2017
2:33 am Nabihah Iqbal ~ “Something More” ~ Weighing of the Heart ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2017
2:36 am Mini Dresses ~ “Fantasy Nails” ~ Mini Dresses ~ Joy Void ~ 2017
2:41 am Stef Chura (local) ~ “Spotted Gold” ~ Messes ~ Urinal Cake Records ~ 2017
2:44 am Fred Thomas (local) ~ “Voiceover” ~ Changer ~ Polyvinyl ~ 2017
2:46 am Do Make Say Think ~ “And Boundless” ~ Stubborn Persistent Illusions ~ Constellation ~ 2017
2:54 am Saajtak (local) ~ “Underscore [_]” ~ Spokes EP ~ self-released ~ 2017
Hour 2
3:00 am Nicole Mitchell ~ “Egoes War” ~ Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging World ~ FPE ~ 2017
3:07 am Second Woman ~ “////” ~ S/W ~ Spectrum Spools ~ 2017
3:12 am Lapalux ~ “Petty Passion” ~ Ruinism ~ Brainfeeder ~ 2017
3:15 am Visionist ~ “No Idols” ~ Value ~ Big Dada ~ 2017
3:19 am Jlin ~ “Kyanite” ~ Black Origami ~ Planet Mu ~ 2017
3:23 am Aaron Dilloway (local) ~ “Switch” ~ The Gag File ~ Dais ~ 2017
3:31 am Mumdance & Logos ~ “FFS” ~ 12″ ~ Different Circles ~ 2017
3:35 am Spencer & Saginaw (local) ~ “Real Talk (Talk Mix)” ~ 12″ ~ Portage Garage Sounds ~ 2017
3:41 am Pan Daijing ~ “Very Uncomfortable, Please” ~ Vectors 3 ~ Power Vacuum ~ 2017
3:45 am Duran Duran Duran ~ “Untitled 3” ~ Duran ~ Power Vacuum ~ 2017
3:50 am Machine Girl ~ “Bullet Hell” ~ …Because I’m Young Arrogant and Hate Everything You Stand for ~ Orange Milk ~ 2017
3:53 am Igorrr ~ “Houmous” ~ Savage Sinusoid ~ Metal Blade ~ 2017
3:56 am Jana Rush ~ “Frenetic Snare” ~ Pariah ~ Objects Limited ~ 2017
Hour 3
4:01 am Detboi ~ “Secret Venom” ~ Secrets EP ~ Metalheadz ~ 2017
4:06 am Pessimist ~ “Through the Fog” ~ Pessimist ~ Blackest Ever Black ~ 2017
4:13 am Iglooghost ~ “Peanut Choker” ~ Neo Wax Bloom ~ Brainfeeder ~ 2017
4:16 am Paul White & Danny Brown ~ “Accelerator” ~ Accelerator ~ R&S ~ 2017
4:19 am Wiley ft. Manga ~ “Laptop” ~ Godfather ~ CTA ~ 2017
4:22 am Nídia ~ “I Miss My Ghetto” ~ Nídia é Má, Nídia é Fudida ~ Príncipe ~ 2017
4:25 am Lee Gamble ~ “Ghost” ~ Mnestic Pressure ~ Hyperdub ~ 2017
4:34 am Giraffage feat. Japanese Breakfast ~ “Maybes” ~ Too Real ~ Counter ~ 2017
4:38 am Kelela ~ “Take Me Apart” ~ Take Me Apart ~ Warp ~ 2017
4:42 am Zola Jesus ~ “Siphon” ~ Okovi ~ Sacred Bones ~ 2017
4:45 am Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings ~ “Searching for a New Day” ~ Soul of a Woman ~ Daptone ~ 2017
4:48 am Future Islands ~ “Cave” ~ The Far Field ~ 4AD ~ 2017
4:52 am Joey Agresta ~ “I Feel Like Shit and I Want to Die” ~ Let’s Not Talk About Music ~ Wharf Cat Records ~ 2017
4:55 am Mount Eerie ~ “Real Death” ~ A Crow Looked at Me ~ P.W. Elverum & Sun ~ 2017
Hour 4
4:59 am CCFX ~ “The One to Wait” ~ CCFX EP ~ DFA ~ 2017
5:05 am Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith ~ “To Follow & Lead” ~ The Kid ~ Western Vinyl ~ 2017
5:10 am Lusine feat. Vilja Larjosto ~ “Just a Cloud” ~ Sensorimotor ~ Ghostly International ~ 2017
5:15 am Sherwood & Pinch ~ “Charger” ~ Man Vs Sofa ~ On-U Sound/Tectonic ~ 2017
5:19 am Ziúr ~ “Don’t Buy It” ~ U Feel Anything? ~ Planet Mu/Objects Ltd. ~ 2017
5:22 am NHK yx Koyxen ~ “Dignity” ~ Exit Entrance ~ DFA ~ 2017
5:24 am Godflesh ~ “Mirror of Finite Light” ~ Post Self ~ Avalanche ~ 2017
5:31 am Laibach ~ “Das Glück” ~ Also Sprach Zarathustra ~ Mute ~ 2017
5:35 am Ben Frost ~ “Threshold of Faith” ~ The Center Cannot Hold ~ Mute ~ 2017
5:42 am Jacaszek ~ “Love” ~ Kwiaty ~ Ghostly International ~ 2017
5:44 am Ryuichi Sakamoto ~ “Stakra” ~ async ~ Milan ~ 2017
5:48 am Justin Walter (local) ~ “Soft Illness” ~ Unseen Forces ~ Kranky ~ 2017
5:52 am Godspeed You! Black Emperor ~ “Undoing A Luciferian Towers” ~ Luciferian Towers ~ Constellation Records ~ 2017

Crush Collision 12/28/17 – Best of 2017 mix!

December 29, 2017 at 2:02 am | Posted in Crush Collision | 1 Comment

Hour 1
10:04 pm Gas ~ “Narkopop 2”
10:08 pm DC Salas feat. Joy Wellboy ~ “Cala Falco”
10:13 pm Siriusmo ~ “Comic”
10:15 pm Solitary Dancer feat. Marie Davidson ~ “Emails 2 Myself”
10:19 pm Pessimist ~ “Grit”
10:22 pm Porter Ricks ~ “Sandy Ground”
10:24 pm Moiré ~ “Secret Window”
10:27 pm Sebastian Mullaert ~ “Wings of Remembrance”
10:31 pm Lanark Artefax ~ “Touch Absence”
10:36 pm Throwing Snow ~ “Helical”
10:38 pm NHK yx Koyxen ~ “Dented”
10:40 pm Ross From Friends ~ “Would You Still Be Here”
10:44 pm Mall Grab ~ “Catching Feelings”
10:48 pm DJ Seinfeld ~ “Time Spent Away From U”
10:52 pm Actress ~ “Dancing in the Smoke”
10:55 pm Black Hat ~ “Unfortunate Statement”
10:58 pm Carl Craig ~ “Technology”
Hour 2
11:03 pm Four Tet ~ “Planet”
11:07 pm Machine Woman ~ “Camile From OHM Makes Me Feel Loved”
11:11 pm Rimbaudian ~ “Drop It On Em”
11:15 pm Steffi ~ “Schools of Thought”
11:18 pm Rebekah ~ “Code Black”
11:22 pm T.Raumschmiere ~ “Wacker”
11:26 pm Caracoa ~ “Last Year on Earth”
11:30 pm Doon Kanda ~ “Axolotl”
11:31 pm Bicep ~ “Glue”
11:36 pm Joy Orbison ~ “Off Season”
11:41 pm Second Storey ~ “Barrel Roll”
11:45 pm Sherwood & Pinch ~ “Retribution”
11:48 pm Djrum ~ “Broken Glass Arch”
11:53 pm Kingdom ~ “Tears in the Club”
11:56 pm Shanti Celeste ~ “Make Time”
[next DJ was late so after midnight I had time to sneak in another track]
12:03 am Benjamin Damage ~ “Montreal”

Build Buildings: Glass EP (Audiobulb, 2018)

December 25, 2017 at 8:28 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Build Buildings: Glass EP

Build Buildings has been making glitchy, melodic IDM for over a decade now, but only seems to have surfaced with a few small releases and comp appearances. This brief EP on Audiobulb sounds like windowpanes cut into different but still functional shapes, arranged into sounds. Bright and shining, reflecting everyday realities into different contexts. There’s only 4 songs and none of them last long, but it’s all calm, thoughtful, detailed, and uplifting. “Cedilla” features slightly harder beats than the other tracks, but being hard isn’t what this is about.

Form a Log: At a Festival tape (Hausu Mountain, 2017)

December 25, 2017 at 8:14 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Form a Log: At a Festival tape

Following a split LP with fellow troublemakers Moth Cock, Form a Log release their first Hausu Mountain tape. This is a barrage of pounding drums, frayed electronics, cartoonish guitars, and voices stretched past the limitations of the human body. Also, there’s some sort of ska theme apparent, at least in some of the track titles. There’s about as much wackiness as you might expect from FaL, but some of it sounds a bit more haunted. It’s not quite as carnivalesque as the title of the tape. “Raymond” is filled with ghostly moaning, and “This Is Your Captain Speaking” could be an abstract warning for an impending crash, but tracks like “The Sizzler” are goofy and joyous. Then there’s the lovely guitar strumming during “The Ska Files”, which gets interrupted by an ungrateful audience and a bunch of glitched-out harmonica and other noises.

Anna Burch: Party tape (Life Like, 2017)

December 25, 2017 at 6:54 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Anna Burch: Party tape

Anna Burch (Failed Flowers, Frontier Ruckus) released a split tape with Stef Chura last year, and she’s due to release her proper debut album on Polyvinyl next year, but this brief tape appeared this year. Crowd sounds are dubbed into the background, making it seem like a performance at a party or an open mic night, but the crowd obviously isn’t responding to the music or interacting with it in any way, so there’s a sort of awkward disconnect, and the lyrics seem related to this feeling. Super casual sounding, especially when Anna admits between songs that she messed up certain parts, but the songs themselves are really powerful. If this was an actual live recording, there’s no way the audience would be treating the music as background noise. Available directly from Life Like, now in its second pressing.

Utica: untitled tape (Life Like, 2017)

December 25, 2017 at 6:30 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Utica: untitled tape

Hourlong debut tape from a trio containing members of other groups who have released tapes on Life Like (Hydropark, UZ, Land & Buildings). Edited down from improv sessions, these pieces shimmer like Fripp & Eno with some Roedelius piano magic mixed in, along with some synth spritz and more active/intricate basslines and patterns than you might imagine. Really floaty and daze-y but it still sounds like a lot of work was put into this, even though the sounds just seem to pour out from the musicians. Seriously wonderful and relaxing. Available directly from Life Like.

SCLT: On Contradiction tape (Life Like, 2017)

December 25, 2017 at 5:38 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

SCLT: On Contradiction tape

New tape from a mysterious entity which seems to document some sort of falling out or tense feelings during an aftermath. Dark, rolling Lawrence English-like drone with some distant pianos and shreds of light. A little bit menacing, maybe even a bit scary, and some of the pieces have sudden endings which can be jarring. Most of this is a bath of heavy static and hard feelings but not hard actions. The somewhat intrusive bumps during the beginning of “Armature” add some bustling movement, but then they drift away into the horizon before the end of the tape. Available directly from Life Like.

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