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Koltay: untitled tape (Life Like, 2017)

December 25, 2017 at 5:00 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Koltay: untitled tape

Capturing brief excerpts of a Detroit-recorded drone piece called “Spring Patch”, this 20-minute cassette contains bright but somewhat alarmed glacial synths and ethereal vocals, with some stray conversation present in the mix. It’s hard to tell whether it happened during the actual performance or if it was overdubbed later; there’s something detached and vibrational about them. There’s no beginning or end to the music on each side, you just press play and you’re in the center of the performance, and then it cuts off at the end of the side. In fact, it ends just as it feels like it’s about to transition to a new phase. A brief but shimmering glimpse into what must have been a mesmerizing experience.

Shells: 2 LP (Ginkgo Records, 2017)

December 25, 2017 at 4:16 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Shells: 2 LP

Four years after releasing her solo guitar opus In A Cloud, Shelley Salant returns with her second solo LP, this time on her own Ginkgo Records. These songs have more layers to them, with more shades of guitars and even drums and synths on a few songs. “Nacimiento Road” and “Out There” come close to a sort of ragged SY-style alternative rock, making it obvious why Thurston asked her to open for his current group a few times this year. Some tracks combine electric and acoustic guitars, such as the fizzy closing track “Field”. Dubby echo effects and distortion dust things off occasionally, and things get a little bubbly around the end of the first side, but this isn’t an exercise in studio trickery. Instead, it’s a showcase for autumnal melodies which are neither too complicated nor too simple. Fantastic work as always! Purchase/listen on Bandcamp!

Show #424 – 12/23/17

December 24, 2017 at 12:13 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

2:02 am Shells (local) ~ “Out There” ~ Shells 2 (new) ~ Ginkgo Records ~ 2017
2:06 am Hologram Teen ~ “Magique Afrique” ~ Between The Funk And The Fear (new) ~ Polytechnic Youth ~ 2017
2:09 am Shigeto (local) ~ “In Case You Forgot” ~ The New Monday (new) ~ Ghostly International ~ 2017
2:13 am Autechre ~ “Teartear” ~ Amber ~ Warp ~ 1994
2:19 am Bogus Order ~ “Flight 4” ~ Zen Brakes Vol. 2 (new) ~ Ahead of Our Time ~ 2017
2:25 am Pauline Anna Strom ~ “Virgin Ice” ~ Trans-Millenia Music ~ Rvng Intl. ~ 1984
2:32 am The Seven Fields of Aphelion ~ “Triptych: Going Under / The Blur / The Way Beyond” ~ Keep the Ocean Inside (new) ~ Rad Cult ~ 2017
2:41 am Windy & Carl (local) ~ “A New World” ~ Blues For A UFO (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2017
2:49 am ensemble, et al. ~ “Ondrejko” ` The Slow Reveal (new) ~ Imaginator Records ~ 2017
2:57 am Új Bála ~ “Sunspot” ~ Shape Platform 2017 – Sound, Heterogeneous Art And Performance In Europe (new) ~ The Wire ~ 2017
3:02 am Bullion ~ “Blue Pedro” ~ 12″ (new) ~ The Trilogy Tapes ~ 2017
3:07 am Octo Octa ~ “Adrift (Avalon Emerson’s Furiously Awake Version)” ~ 12″ (new) ~ HNYTRX ~ 2017
3:15 am Ciel ~ “Elevate (Go Off Mix)” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Peach Discs ~ 2017
3:21 am Skee Mask ~ “Routine” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Ilian Tape ~ 2017
3:27 am Cherushii ~ “Milk of Paradise” ~ Warrior Loves (Tribute To Cherushii) (new) ~ Sound Warrior Recordings ~ 2017
3:36 am Coucou Chloé ~ “Stamina” ~ Erika Jane (new) ~ Nuxxe ~ 2017
3:39 am Vytear ~ “Twombly Bown_M3” ~ Kingtrips EP1 (new) ~ Occult Research ~ 2017
3:43 am Galaxian ~ “Dosing The Population” ~ Dosing The Population ~ Lower Parts ~ 2017
3:47 am Batu ~ “Marius” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Hessle Audio ~ 2017
3:52 am Samuel Kerridge ~ “Possession/Control” ~ The Silence Between Us (new) ~ Downwards ~ 2017
3:59 am Errorsmith ~ “I’m Interesting, Cheerful & Sociable” ~ Superlative Fatigue (new) ~ Pan ~ 2017
4:04 am Denis Sulta ~ “Dubelle Oh XX (JVIP)” ~ 12″ ~ Sulta Selects ~ 2017
4:09 am Nkisi ~ “Kill” ~ Kill ~ MW Records Norway ~ 2017
4:13 am PAINT ~ “Beast Mode” ~ Exodus (new) ~ 20/20 LDN ~ 2017
4:18 am Gosheven ~ “Memory Failure” ~ Leaper (new) ~ Opal Tapes ~ 2017
4:22 am Mhysa ~ “Spectrum” ~ Fantasii (new) ~ Halcyon Veil ~ 2017
4:25 am Klein ~ “B2K” ~ Tommy (new) ~ Hyperdub ~ 2017
4:31 am Soul Capsule ~ “Them Yeah” ~ Superlongevity 6 (new) ~ Perlon ~ 2017
4:37 am Oluko Imo ~ “Praise Jah” ~ 12″ ~ Invisible City Editions ‎ ~ 1978
4:43 am Jlin ~ “Holy Child” ~ Black Origami ~ Planet Mu ~ 2017
4:47 am Jana Rush ~ “No Fuks Given” ~ Pariah ~ Objects Limited ~ 2017
4:52 am Gajek ~ “Das Ewige Fest” ~ ’17 (new) ~ Monkeytown ~ 2017
4:58 am Claude Speeed ~ “Entering the Zone” ~ Infinity Ultra (new) ~ Planet Mu ~ 2017
5:03 am Strange U ~ “Bullet Proof Mustache” ~ #LP4080 ~ High Focus Records ~ 2017
5:07 am Open Mike Eagle ~ “No Selling (Uncle Butch Pretending It Dont Hurt)” ~ Brick Body Kids Still Daydream (new) ~ Mello Music Group ~ 2017
5:10 am Sun Ra and His Outer Space Arkestra ~ “Rocket #9” ~ Singles ~ Strut ~ 1967
5:12 am Phill Musra Group ~ “The Creator Is So Far Out” ~ Creator Spaces ~ Now-Again ~ 1974
5:19 am Grupo Um ~ “Mobile/Stabile” ~ Invenciones (La Otra Vanguardia Musical En Latinoamérica 1976-1988) ~ Munster Records ~ 1981
5:27 am Norbert Stein & Pata Messengers ~ “Be Yond!” ~ We Are (new) ~ Pata Music ~ 2017
5:30 am Liebman/Murley Quartet ~ “Open Spaces” ~ Live at U of T (new) ~ U of T Jazz ~ 2017
5:34 am Shabazz Palaces ~ “30 Clip Extension” ~ Quazarz Vs. the Jealous Machines ~ Sub Pop ~ 2017
5:39 am Grieves ~ “Boop Bop Da Willy Willy” ~ Running Wild (new) ~ Rhymesayers ~ 2017
5:43 am Eliot Lipp ~ “Tides” ~ Skywave (new) ~ Young Heavy Souls ~ 2017
5:46 am Kllo ~ “By Your Side” ~ Backwater (new) ~ Ghostly International ~ 2017
5:52 am Funkadelic ~ “Looking Back At You (Ectomorph Stripped and Dubbed)” ~ Reworked by Detroiters (new) ~ Westbound ~ 2017

Crush Collision 12/21/17

December 22, 2017 at 12:18 pm | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Hour 1
10:01 pm Big Miz ~ “Cotard Delusion”
10:06 pm Doc Daneeka ~ “Better Dayz”
10:11 pm Ephemeral ~ “Common Grounds”
10:15 pm Vincent Floyd ~ “Hard to Love (instr.)”
10:19 pm Genius of Time ~ “Netscape”
10:22 pm Fort Romeau ~ “Sequence In D”
10:27 pm Henry Burner ~ “You Ain’t Really Magic”
10:30 pm Elisa Bee ~ “Pulsar”
10:33 pm Eduardo de la Calle ~ “Hobson’s Choice”
10:37 pm Debora Navarro ~ “Apocalypse”
10:43 pm FaltyDL ~ “Frigid Air (O’Flynn Remix)”
10:46 pm Blurred ~ “Matic”
10:50 pm Ade Fenton ~ “Manipulator (Ben Long Spore Remix)”
10:55 pm Deep’a & Biri ~ “Decision Tree (Yotam Avni Remix)”
Hour 2
11:01 pm Gotshell ~ “Coptos”
11:04 pm Stave ~ “B5”
11:09 pm Smersh ~ “Sideways (Charles Manier Remix)”
11:14 pm Bergsonist ~ “Mutation”
11:18 pm Stripper ~ “Consciousness Proliferation (Back 2 93)”
11:25 pm A Sagittariun ~ “Pseudo_Science”
11:29 pm Christian Piers ~ “02020202”
11:33 pm Arkajo ~ “Tape 7”
11:38 pm Samuel Rohrer ~ “Lenina (Ricardo Villalobos Remix)”
11:49 pm Squane x Rees ~ “Illuminating”
11:53 pm D-Knox ~ “Sick Mind”
11:57 pm DJ 3000 ~ “Unfazed”

Show #423 – 12/16/17

December 17, 2017 at 10:49 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Hour 1
2:01 am Norbert Stein & Pata Messengers ~ “Gondwana & Pangea” ~ We Are (new) ~ Pata Music ~ 2017
2:06 am Miles Davis ~ “Miles Runs the Voodoo Down” ~ Live at the Fillmore East (March 7, 1970) ~ Columbia ~ 1970
2:13 am Liebman/Murley Quartet ~ “Off a Bird” ~ Live at U of T (new) ~ U of T Jazz ~ 2017
2:20 am Thurston Moore/Frank Rosaly ~ “Marshmallow Moon Decorum (excerpt)” ~ Marshmallow Moon Decorum ~ Corbett Vs. Dempsey ~ 2012
2:34 am Visible Cloaks ~ “Lex” ~ Lex (new) ~ Rvng Intl. ~ 2017
2:36 am Ahnnu ~ “Latro” ~ Special Forces (new) ~ NNA Tapes ~ 2017
2:39 am Ceramic TL + Ipek Gorgun ~ “Activator, the Actualizer” ~ Perfect Lung (new) ~ Halocline Trance ~ 2017
2:43 am World War ~ “Dingo” ~ Soundsystem (new) ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2017
2:48 am Special Request ~ “Leviathan” ~ Belief System (new) ~ Houndstooth ~ 2017
2:54 am Duran Duran Duran ~ “Trauma Teens” ~ Bolo Trax (new) ~ Tripalium Corp ~ 2017
Hour 2
3:00 am Finn ~ “Sometimes The Going Gets A Little Tough” ~ Sometimes The Going Gets A Little Tough (new) ~ Local Action ~ 2017
3:04 am Preditah ~ “Circles (Evil VIP)” ~ Fabriclive.92 (new) ~ Fabric ~ 2017
3:05 am Dom & Deykers ~ “No Life On the Surface” ~ Steffi: Fabric 94 (new) ~ Fabric ~ 2017
3:12 am Ploy ~ “Unruly” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Hemlock ~ 2017
3:17 am Objekt ~ “Theme From Q” ~ Objekt #4 (new) ~ Objekt ~ 2017
3:24 am Pablo R. Ruiz (local) ~ “Portal Escondido” ~ Bad Hombre (new) ~ Portage Garage Sounds ~ 2017
3:31 am Jana Rush ~ “Beat Maze” ~ Pariah (new) ~ Objects Limited ~ 2017
3:34 am Rudeboyz ~ “As’Jableni” ~ Gqomwave (new) ~ Goon Club Allstars ~ 2017
3:41 am Nídia ~ “I Miss My Ghetto” ~ Nídia é Má, Nídia é Fudida (new) ~ Príncipe ~ 2017
3:43 am DJ NinOo ~ “Saudades do Russel” ~ Firma do Txiga (new) ~ Príncipe ~ 2017
3:46 am E.M.M.A. ~ “Mindmaze” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Coyote Records ~ 2017
3:52 am NKC ~ “Tincture” ~ Tincture (new) ~ Her Records ~ 2017
3:58 am Nkisi ~ “XXX” ~ Ruin (new) ~ EX-LDN ~ 2017
Hour 3
4:02 am Missy Elliott ~ “She’s A Bitch (MikeQ Remix)” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2017
4:04 am CYPHR x Ms Dynamite ~ “Talk (Dis Fig blend)” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2017
4:09 am Ase Manual ~ “Feel It” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2017
4:13 am DJ Jayhood x Nadus x DJ Sliink x Adolf Joker ~ “Heartbroken 2017” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2017
4:15 am DJ Haram ~ “Body Count” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2017
4:19 am DJ Aaron ~ “Tunnel FDM” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2017
4:22 am LOFT ~ “Funemployed” ~ Three Settlements Four Ways (new) ~ Wisdom Teeth ~ 2017
4:29 am Hiroshi Hasegawa ~ “Sea Shore, Sky Shore” ~ Fraction Elements ~ E-Klageto ~ 2016
4:35 am Minor Science ~ “Volumes” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Whities ~ 2017
4:42 am M.E.S.H. ~ “Search. Reveal.” ~ Hesaitix (new) ~ Pan ~ 2017
4:49 am Liquid City Motors ~ “Current Source” ~ Current Source ~ Glacial Industries ~ 2017
4:55 am Jlin ~ “Carbon 7 (161)” ~ Black Origami ~ Planet Mu ~ 2017
Hour 4
5:00 am Caterina Barbieri ~ “Scratches on the Readable Surface” ~ Patterns of Consciousness (new) ~ Important Records ~ 2017
5:06 am Isolde Touch ~ “Figure 1.2” ~ Cellar Volume 2 (new) ~ Recital ~ 2017
5:11 am Brendan Perry ~ “I Must Have Been Blind” ~ Eye of the Hunter ~ 4AD ~ 1999
5:16 am Controlled Bleeding ~ “Swarm (Justin K Broadrick Remix)” ~ Carving Songs (new) ~ Artoffact ~ 2017
5:22 am Ministry ~ “Public Image” ~ Live Necronomicon ~ Cleopatra ~ 1990
5:24 am Guided By Voices ~ “Game of Pricks” ~ Live From Austin TX ~ New West ~ 2004
5:26 am The Advantage ~ “Castlevania II – Woods” ~ Elf-Titled ~ 5RC ~ 2006
5:30 am Syts ~ “Dancing in a Thunderstorm” ~ Syts ~ self-released ~ 2014
5:33 am Slayer ~ “Seasons in the Abyss” (by request) ~ Seasons in the Abyss ~ American ~ 1990
5:39 am Wolfman Band (local) ~ “She’s My Wolf” ~ Punk House (new) ~ MOCAD ~ 2017
5:41 am Shells (local) ~ “Nacimiento Road” ~ Shells 2 (new) ~ Ginkgo Records ~ 2017
5:45 am Lars Finberg ~ “Born Shopping” ~ Moonlight Over Bakersfield (new) ~ In The Red ~ 2017
5:47 am Hologram Teen ~ “Post-Apocalypteacakes” ~ Between The Funk And The Fear (new) ~ Polytechnic Youth ~ 2017
5:51 am Kalbells ~ “Craving Art Droplets” ~ Ten Flowers (new) ~ NNA Tapes ~ 2017
5:56 am Tom Rogerson with Brian Eno ~ “On-ness” ~ Finding Shore (new) ~ Dead Oceans ~ 2017

v/a: Punk House LP (MOCAD, 2017)

December 17, 2017 at 9:46 pm | Posted in Photos, Reviews | Leave a comment

v/a: Punk House LP

The Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is currently showcasing an exhibit called Sonic Rebellion: Music As Resistance, which is inspired by the 1967 Detroit Rebellion and traces the city’s history of revolutionary music and activism since then, ranging from the MC5 and John Sinclair and the White Panthers to P-Funk and free jazz and blues to new wave and garage rock to Detroit techno to hip-hop and beyond. It’s easily one of my favorite MOCAD exhibits, but the cherry on top is the Punk House exhibit at the Mobile Homestead (a full replica of Mike Kelley’s childhood home which is located right next to the MOCAD). Celebrating all thinks punk, noise, free jazz, garage rock, and above all DIY related to the Detroit scene, the exhibit includes lots of show posters, album art, comic books, memorabilia, artwork by everyone from Jad and David Fair to Mike Dykehouse to Suzy Poling to Timmy Vulgar, plus a special installation room by Jimbo Easter. On top of all of this, the museum released a special compilation LP containing music by many of the artists who contributed to the exhibit. It starts out with a bracing live track from synth-punk heroes ADULT., then there’s a Timmy Vulgar track about a badass rocker girl who prefers the Stones to the Beatles. Jad and David appear twice (and several more times on the download-only bonus tracks) and also write a song about the Stones (“Mick Called Charlie”), and there’s Beefheartian weirdness from Jimbo, solo and as part of Druid Perfume. Of course Destroy All Monsters and other related projects provide prophecies of musical freedom. The Whales (with shrieks by Godzuki’s Erika Hoffmann) and Princess Dragonmom provide noise, while Dykehouse and Cotton Museum provide creepy, queasy synths. There’s also some straight up psych-pop from Outrageous Cherry, and the one and only Wolfman Band with their update of the Sonics’ “The Witch” (retitled “She’s My Wolf”). Pod Blotz’ pulsating death electronics certainly deserve a shout-out as well. The LP, as well as the entire exhibit, is an excellent artifact of the Detroit underground scene, past present and future. The exhibit runs until January 7, and there’s no telling if copies of the LP will still be for sale afterwards, so by all means get to the museum as soon as possible. Here’s some photos from Sonic Rebellion and Punk House:

vintage concert poster art

Abdul Haqq and Alan Oldham album art for UR and other Detroit techno artists

The keyboard Derrick May used to record “Strings of Life” and “Nude Photo”. I was seriously in shock when I approached this historical instrument

boombox collage

records @ Punk House

Howl!!!!!!

David Fair

Chris Pottinger

Forest Juziuk @ Tumbleweed Tavern

Jimbo Easter’s Tumbleweed Tavern

Jimbo Easter’s Tumbleweed Tavern

Jimbo Easter’s Tumbleweed Tavern

Jimbo Easter @ Tumbleweed Tavern

Suzy Poling + Nicola Kuperus @ Tumbleweed Tavern

Show #422 – 12/13/17

December 13, 2017 at 10:24 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Fill-in for Beat the Bezoar!
Hour 1
7:02 pm CCFX ~ “The One to Wait” ~ CCFX EP (new) ~ DFA ~ 2017
7:08 pm Saint Etienne ~ “Winter Melody” ~ Continental ~ Heavenly ~ 1997
7:13 pm Zola Jesus ~ “Siphon” ~ Okovi ~ Sacred Bones ~ 2017
7:16 pm Hologram Teen ~ “Escape from Paris (Orange Crate Art Remix)” ~ Between The Funk And The Fear (new) ~ Polytechnic Youth ~ 2017
7:22 pm Claude Speeed ~ “Spirits” ~ Infinity Ultra (new) ~ Planet Mu ~ 2017
7:28 pm Pauline Anna Strom ~ “Rain On Ancient Quays” ~ Trans-Millenia Music ~ Rvng Intl. ~ 1988
7:35 pm Grupo Um ~ “Mobile/Stabile” ~ Invenciones (La Otra Vanguardia Musical En Latinoamérica 1976-1988) ~ Munster Records ~ 1981
7:42 pm Niko Karlsson ~ “Tulia Yön Takana” ~ Valosta Valoon (new) ~ Feeding Tube ~ 2017
7:50 pm The Seven Fields of Aphelion ~ “Wake (Flotsam, Jetsam)” ~ Keep the Ocean Inside (new) ~ Rad Cult ~ 2017
7:54 pm Shells (local) ~ “Crooked Lake” ~ Shells 2 (new) ~ Ginkgo Records ~ 2017
7:57 pm Shells (local) ~ “North Shore” ~ Shells 2 (new) ~ Ginkgo Records ~ 2017
Hour 2
8:01 pm Yellow Swans & Birchville Cat Motel ~ “Terminal Saints” ~ Yellow Swans & Birchville Cat Motel ~ Important Records ~ 2005
8:29 pm Tom Cameron ~ “Music To Wash Dishes By” ~ Music To Wash Dishes By ~ Bathing Records, Inc. ~ 1982
8:44 pm Tom Cameron ~ “Syn” ~ Music To Wash Dishes By ~ Bathing Records, Inc. ~ 1982
8:47 pm Marc Barreca ~ “Oleo Strut” ~ Twilight ~ Palace of Lights ~ 1980
8:50 pm Algebra Suicide ~ “Little Dead Bodies” ~ Feminine Squared ~ Dark Entries ~ 1986
8:55 pm ADULT. (local) ~ “Go Home” ~ Punk House (new) ~ MOCAD ~ 2017
8:58 pm Chris Pottinger (local) ~ “Murky Fluid” ~ Stagnant Secretion (new) ~ Tasty Soil ~ 2017

Show #421 – 12/9/17

December 9, 2017 at 2:15 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Hour 1
2:01 am The Seven Fields of Aphelion ~ “Divining (Naming of the Lost)” ~ Keep the Ocean Inside (new) ~ Rad Cult ~ 2017
2:05 am Pauline Anna Strom ~ “Mushroom Trip” ~ Trans-Millenia Music ~ Rvng Intl. ~ 1983
2:13 am Tom Rogerson with Brian Eno ~ “Motion in Field” ~ Finding Shore (new) ~ Dead Oceans ~ 2017
2:17 am Nabihah Iqbal ~ “Saw U Twice” ~ Weighing of the Heart (new) ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2017
2:20 am John Maus ~ “Over Phantom” ~ Screen Memories (new) ~ Ribbon Music ~ 2017
2:25 am Der Plan ~ “Körperlos Im Cyberspace” ~ Unkapitulierbar (new) ~ Bureau B ~ 2017
2:28 am Moebius ~ “Lauert” ~ Kram ~ Bureau B ~ 2008
2:33 am Orlando Voorn ~ “At Last” ~ In My World ~ Rush Hour ~ 2016
2:41 am Jlin ~ “ICU” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Adult Swim Singles Program ~ 2017
2:45 am Cru the Dynamic ~ “Blossom” ~ The Quick (new) ~ Young Heavy Souls ~ 2017
2:49 am Lapalux ~ “Shape Sharper” ~ The End of Industry (new) ~ Brainfeeder ~ 2017
2:52 am Heathered Pearls ~ “Mack & Bellevue” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Adult Swim Singles Program ~ 2017
2:57 am NHK yx Koyxen ~ “Meeting” ~ Exit Entrance (new) ~ DFA ~ 2017
Hour 2
3:01 am Colin Stetson (local) ~ “The Rain Like Curses” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Adult Swim Singles Program ~ 2017
3:11 am Vía Láctea ~ “Necronomicón” ~ Invenciones: La Otra Vanguardia Musical En Latinoamérica 1976-1988 ~ Munster Records ~ 1977
3:23 am Funkadelic ~ “You and Your Folks (Claude Young Jr Dub)” ~ Reworked by Detroiters (new) ~ Westbound ~ 2017
3:29 am Ikebe Shakedown ~ “Supermoon” ~ The Way Home (new) ~ Colemine Records ~ 2017
3:32 am Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings ~ “Sail On!” ~ Soul of a Woman (new) ~ Daptone ~ 2017
3:35 am Royal Band de Thiès ~ “Gossar” ~ Kadior Demb ~ Teranga Beat ~ 1979
3:42 am Horace Andy ~ “Control Yourself/Version Under Control” ~ Good Vibes ~ VP ~ 1978
3:47 am Toyan ~ “Joycie Gwan” ~ Murder ~ Burning Sounds ~ 1983
3:51 am Leroy Smart ~ “Dub Wrecker” ~ Mr Smart In Dub ~ Jamaican Recordings ~ 2005
3:54 am More Rockers ~ “Dub Plate” ~ Selection 2 ~ More Rockers ~ 1998
3:57 am Future Loop Foundation ~ “Kinetic Pioneers” ~ Time and Bass ~ Planet Dog ~ 1996
Hour 3
4:04 am Skanna ~ “Find Me” ~ DJ Marky – Influences Vol. 2 ~ BBE ~ 1995
4:10 am DJ Food ~ “Dark Blood (MLO Nu Blud 2 Mix)” ~ Refried Food ~ Ninja Tune ~ 1996
4:16 am Esmark ~ “Esmark” ~ Māra I (new) ~ Bureau B ~ 2017
4:23 am Esmark ~ “Ringen” ~ Māra II (new) ~ Bureau B ~ 2017
4:26 am Dykehouse (local) ~ “Creepage” ~ Punk House (new) ~ MOCAD ~ 2017
4:30 am Galactic Explorers ~ “Lunarscape” ~ Epitaph For Venus ~ Mental Experience ~ 1974
4:38 am Nurse With Wound ~ “The Dadda’s Intoxication” ~ Crumb Duck ~ United Dairies ~ 1992
4:44 am Xordox ~ “Alto Velocidad” ~ Neospection (new) ~ Editions Mego ~ 2017
4:50 am Mario Hammer and the Lonely Robot ~ “Gezelligheid” ~ Je L’ai Câlissée Là (new) ~ BineMusic ~ 2017
4:56 am Svartsinn ~ “Form Is Emptiness” ~ Collected Obscurities ~ Cyclic Law ~ 2004
Hour 4
5:01 am Fis and Rob Thorne ~ “Whakauruuru” ~ Clear Stones (new) ~ Subtext ~ 2017
5:08 am Spring Heel Jack ~ “Shine a Light” ~ Oddities ~ Thirsty Ear ~ 2000
5:13 am Mark Barrott ~ “What About Now? (Storm Clouds Over Cap Negret)” ~ La Torre Ibiza Volumen Dos (new) ~ Hostal La Torre ~ 2017
5:20 am Hologram Teen ~ “Roller Lover Doppelgänger” ~ Between The Funk And The Fear (new) ~ Polytechnic Youth ~ 2017
5:26 am Talamanca System ~ “104” ~ Talamanca System (new) ~ International Feel ~ 2017
5:33 am Harald Björk ~ “Spring” ~ Cocoon Compilation Q (new) ~ Cocoon ~ 2017
5:40 am Nick Höppner ~ “Hole Head” ~ Work (new) ~ Ostgut Ton ~ 2017
5:44 am Beatrice Dillon ~ “Halfway” ~ Midland: Fabriclive 94 ~ Fabric ~ 2014
5:47 am Jacek Sienkiewicz ~ “Ky Lie” ~ 9702 (new) ~ Recognition ~ 2017
5:51 am Four Tet ~ “SW9 9SL” ~ New Energy (new) ~ Text Records ~ 2017

Gundella: The Hour Of The Witch (1971, reissued by Modern Harmonic in 2017)

December 2, 2017 at 2:20 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Gundella: The Hour Of The Witch

Gundella was an actual witch who lived in Michigan, studied at several state universities, and has lectured at both EMU and right here at U of M, along with other institutions across the country. This is an album she recorded in 1971, in which she informs the listener about the beliefs of witches, and how to cast spells. There’s some faint, spooky organ music, but Gundella’s voice is loud and clear. Her daughter provides the extensive liner notes, describing what it was like growing up the child of a witch. As for the spells, Gundella stresses the importance of emotion and imagination when casting spells. The spells are used to make someone fall in love with you, keep your significant other from entering another one’s house, and discouraging unwanted suitors. This album was reissued by the same label that’s been releasing a lot of Sun Ra recordings (including a new collection of his exotica works), and this definitely seems to inhabit a similar interplanetary realm. An absolutely fascinating, completely one-of-a-kind recording.

Show #420 – 12/2/17

December 2, 2017 at 2:15 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Hour 1
2:01 am Miguel Noya ~ “Gran Sabana” ~ Invenciones: La Otra Vanguardia Musical En Latinoamérica 1976-1988 ~ Munster Records ~ 1984
2:10 am Pod Blotz (local) ~ “They Can Open Your Door” ~ Punk House (new) ~ MOCAD ~ 2017
2:12 am Cotton Museum (local) ~ “Shriveled Leech” ~ Punk House (new) ~ MOCAD ~ 2017
2:15 am Stelzer/Murray ~ “Three” ~ Connector (new) ~ Helen Scarsdale Agency ~ 2017
2:33 am Rabit ~ “Roach” ~ Les Fleurs Du Mal (new) ~ Halcyon Veil ~ 2017
2:36 am PHSNWSKY ~ “Mage Power” ~ Dryfield (new) ~ Car Crash Set ~ 2017
2:39 am Penguin Cafe Orchestra ~ “Cage Dead” ~ Union Cafe ~ Erased Tapes ~ 1993
2:43 am Pauline Anna Strom ~ “In Flight Suspension” ~ Trans-Millenia Music ~ Rvng Intl. ~ 1988
2:51 am Gajek ~ “Trage Es Weit” ~ ‘17 (new) ~ Monkeytown ~ 2017
2:57 am Moebius Story Leidecker ~ “Wrong” ~ Familiar (new) ~ Bureau B ~ 2017
Hour 2
3:02 am DJ Tre ~ “It’s House Hybrid” ~ The Underdogg (new) ~ Hyperdub ~ 2017
3:06 am Siriusmo ~ “Comic” ~ Comic (new) ~ Monkeytown ~ 2017
3:10 am Jana Rush ~ “Break It” ~ Pariah (new) ~ Objects Limited ~ 2017
3:13 am Tasaday ~ “Il Castello (Dedicato A F. Kafka)” ~ Noise Reduction System: Formative European Electronica 1974-1984 ~ Cherry Red ~ 1984
3:19 am Ziúr ~ “Cipher” ~ U Feel Anything? (new) ~ Planet Mu/Objects Ltd. ~ 2017
3:23 am Kill Alters ~ “Sensory” ~ No Self Helps (new) ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2017
3:28 am Irreversible Entanglements ~ “Enough” ~ Irreversible Entanglements (new) ~ International Anthem/Don Giovanni ~ 2017
3:37 am “Anuak toum thumb piano (sanza)” ~ Ethiopian Urban and Tribal Music: Mindanoo Mistiru/Gold From Wax ~ Sub Rosa ~ 1971
3:41 am Gundella (local) ~ “Spell to Discourage An Unwanted Suitor (Black Rose)” ~ The Hour of the Witch ~ Modern Harmonic ~ 1971
3:43 am Sun Ra ~ “Cosmo-Extensions” ~ Singles ~ Strut ~ 1979
3:48 am BB&C (Tim Berne/Jim Black/Nels Cline) ~ “Impairment Posse” ~ The Veil ~ Cryptogramophone ~ 2011
3:51 am Spectre ~ “Sub Version” ~ Macro Dub Infection Vol. 2 ~ Gyroscope ~ 1996
3:56 am Le Syndicat Électronique ~ “La Mort D’une Mère” ~ 1996-2016 ~ Dark Vinyl ~ 2004
Hour 3
4:00 am Smersh ~ “Sideways” ~ Sideways ~ Dark Entries ~ 1989
4:18 am Patrick Cowley ~ “Take a Little Trip” ~ Afternooners ~ Dark Entries ~ 1982
4:26 am Hologram Teen ~ “Bartók in C” ~ Between The Funk And The Fear (new) ~ Polytechnic Youth ~ 2017
4:31 am T.Raumschmiere ~ “Eterna” ~ Pop Ambient 2018 (new) ~ Kompakt ~ 2017
4:37 am Spirit Fest ~ “Nambei” ~ Spirit Fest (new) ~ Morr Music ~ 2017
4:42 am Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith ~ “A Kid” ~ The Kid (new) ~ Western Vinyl ~ 2017
4:47 am Colleen ~ “The Stars vs Creatures” ~ A Flame My Love, A Frequency (new) ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2017
4:53 am Giraffage ~ “First Breath” ~ Too Real (new) ~ Counter ~ 2017
4:57 am Four Tet ~ “Memories” ~ New Energy (new) ~ Text Records ~ 2017
Hour 4
5:03 am Dan Deacon ~ “Harold’s Lament” ~ Rat Film (new) ~ Domino Soundtracks ~ 2017
5:07 am Gregg Kowalsky ~ “Maliblue Dream Sequence” ~ L’Orange, L’Orange (new) ~ Mexican Summer ~ 2017
5:13 am Anton Kubikov ~ “April” ~ Whatness (new) ~ Kompakt ~ 2017
5:20 am Stefan Wesołowski ~ “Rite of the End” ~ Rite of the End (new) ~ Ici D’Ailleurs ~ 2017
5:28 am Jeffrey Koepper ~ “Aura” ~ MantraSequent (new) ~ Projekt ~ 2017
5:36 am Jurriaan Andriessen ~ “Roundelay” ~ The Awakening Dream ~ Bureau B ~ 1977
5:39 am Woo ~ “Robots Dancing” ~ Awaawaa ~ Palto Flats/New General Catalogue ~ 1975-1982
5:42 am Krzysztof Knittel ~ “Lapis” ~ Polish Radio Experimental Studio (1957-2003) ~ The Wire Magazine ~ 1985
5:47 am Interval ~ “Another Time” ~ The Wire Tapper 45 (new) ~ The Wire Magazine ~ 2017
5:51 am 6ix ~ “As Now” ~ Almost Even Further ~ Leo Records ~ 2012
5:57 am Tim Perkis & Scott Walton ~ “Subliminal Channel” ~ Applied Cryptography (new) ~ pfMentum ~ 2017