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Landing: Taeppe EP (Vast Arc Hues, 2017)

July 23, 2017 at 8:27 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Landing: Taeppe EP

Landing toured recently, but I had to miss their stop at UFO Factory because I was doing radio that night. At the very least, I can review their new EP. It’s called Taeppe, which looks like a play on “tape”, and while it is available on cassette, the title is actually Danish for blanket, and it’s it’s a suitably fuzzy, comforting mass of sound. “Page After Page” takes up the first side, and it seems to transform into a different song once the drums join the rustling guitars and billowing synths halfway through. “Tape” is a bit more ethereal, with soft vocals floating over the wistful guitar melodies. “Together” is more of a jangling (but spacey) indie rock song, bringing the elements of the group’s sound into a catchy, delightful tune.

Metria: Excession 12″ EP (Void Tactical Media, 2017)

July 23, 2017 at 8:08 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Metria: Excession 12″ EP

This is the audio from a live set which took place in late 2011 in an unheated space somewhere in Detroit. I was actually at this show, and while it was super cold and uncomfortable, the music was fantastic, and unfortunately seemed like one of the final relatively big moments in the Detroit breakcore scene. At least from what I’ve seen since I moved to Michigan in 2009. Anyway, this is 20 continuous minutes of steady, lurching industrial beats and blown-out samples, which eventually get faster and more hammering. And then even more so. It never releases or backs down, it just keeps building up and getting more intense until it crashes into the wall at the end.

Canada Effervescent: Crystalline tape (Not Not Fun, 2017)

July 23, 2017 at 7:46 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Canada Effervescent: Crystalline tape

Denis Tremblay’s first Not Not Fun release is richly textured new age which starts out somewhat in the Laraaji/Alice Coltrane orbit, due to its harp-like sounds, but then it progresses into more liquid, cascading synth tones, as well as field recordings. Obviously this is the entire point, but this is really relaxing, healing music. But even with that description, it seems a bit more “other” than standard new age revival. None of the tracks sound alike, and they range from brief interludes to the 10-minute cyber-rainforest which ends the album.

Christoph De Babalon: Grim Zenith 12″ EP (V I S, 2017)

July 23, 2017 at 7:06 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Christoph De Babalon: Grim Zenith 12″ EP

The man behind DHR’s all-time greatest album is still putting out powerful music, long after his contemporaries have faded from relevance or left this planet. This isn’t quite as unrelentingly bleak or heavy as his ’90s work, and definitely not as lo-fi. High quality sound design, with choppy drums which don’t settle into predictable patterns, and churning, vibrating bass. The other atmospheric elements don’t just float by or drone, they’re central to the compositions. There’s also a crucial element of space, so that the bass and drums hit hard and nothing overcrowds anything else. “Luxury of Sadness” has eerie strings and jazzy drum breaks, maybe coming close to “doomjazz” (I’m not 100% certain what that really is, if it is a thing at all), and it seems to sum up everything about what he’s going for with this EP. Very impressive.

Rick Weaver: The Secular Arm tape (Hausu Mountain)

July 23, 2017 at 6:39 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Rick Weaver: The Secular Arm tape

Rick Weaver of Form a Log released this solo tape on Hausu Mountain recently, and it’s somewhere between a demented cartoon soundtrack and a really loony minimal synth album. I guess you could probably throw prog-rock in that list of descriptors as well. Lots of clattering drum machines, jovial melodies, and a short attention span approach to composition, especially the brief “Historical Music #1-4”, which seems to flip channels every 10 seconds. The second side switches between noisy guitar feedback and loungey crooning, ending with the dark, dreamy “Lie Detector”. Equally zany and suspenseful.

Show #403 – 7/22/17

July 22, 2017 at 3:06 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Hour 1
2:01 am Ed Special (local) ~ “Art Fare Part 4” ~ Art Fare 2011 ~ self-released ~ 2011
2:27 am Causa Sui ~ “Eternal Flow” ~ Live in Copenhagen ~ El Paraiso ~ 2013
2:40 am They Might Be Giants ~ “Fingertips” ~ Apollo 18 ~ Elektra ~ 1992
2:45 am Raymond Scott ~ “1st Class Electronium Pt. 3” ~ Three Willow Park: Electronic Music from Inner Space, 1961-1971 ~ Basta ~ 1961-1971
2:51 am Daniel Avery and Alessandro Cortini ~ “Water” ~ 7″ ~ available at FYF Fest (new) ~ self-released ~ 2017
Hour 2
3:00 am Fennesz ~ “Bécs” ~ Bécs ~ Editions Mego ~ 2014
3:06 am White Poppy ~ “Hypnotized” ~ The Pink Haze Of Love (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2017
3:09 am Novalis ~ “Dronsz” ~ The Brain Box ~ Brain ~ 1975
3:16 am Avey Tare ~ “Melody Unfair” ~ Eucalyptus (new) ~ Domino ~ 2017
3:21 am Psychic TV ~ “Translucent Carriages” ~ Pagan Day ~ Sacred Bones ~ 1984
3:24 am Swans ~ “All Lined Up” ~ Soundtracks For The Blind ~ Young God ~ 1996
3:29 am Laibach ~ “Von Den Drei Verwandlungen” ~ Also Sprach Zarathustra (new) ~ Mute ~ 2017
3:37 am Nmesh ~ “White Lodge Simulation (Odd Nosdam Remix)” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Orange Milk ~ 2017
3:42 am Radiohead ~ “Meeting in the Aisle” ~ OK Computer: OKNOTOK 1997-2017 ~ XL ~ 1997
3:46 am Bump & Grind ~ “Intuition Outerspace” ~ Init Sequence ~ Sub Rosa ~ 1998
3:51 am Kris Wadsworth ~ “666” ~ Life and Death ~ Get Physical ~ 2012
3:55 am Huxley Anne ~ “Ashes” ~ Ilium (new) ~ Dome of Doom ~ 2017
Hour 3
4:00 am Eats Tapes ~ “Hard Reset” ~ Sticky Buttons ~ Tigerbeat6 ~ 2005
4:04 am Buttechno ~ “b.a.d.” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2017
4:09 am Special Request ~ “Peak Peak Peak” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Paul Woolford’s Soundcloud page ~ 2017
4:15 am Jlin ~ “Enigma” ~ Black Origami (new) ~ Planet Mu ~ 2017
4:19 am His Name Is Alive (local) ~ “One Year (Four Tet Remix)” ~ 12″ ~ 4AD ~ 2001
4:25 am Caracoa ~ “Hear the Whispers” ~ Darkness is Real (new) ~ Inam Records ~ 2017
4:29 am Bjørn Torske & Prins Thomas ~ “12 volt” ~ Square One (new) ~ Smalltown Supersound ~ 2017
4:39 am Peaking Lights ~ “Put Down Your Guns” ~ The Fifth State of Consciousness (new) ~ Two Flowers ~ 2017
4:46 am NOMO (local) ~ “Rocket #9” ~ 12″ ~ Ubiquity ~ 2006
4:52 am Cuong Vu ~ “Expressions of a Neurotic Impulse” ~ It’s Mostly Residual ~ self-released ~ 2005
Hour 4
5:00 am Ex Eye ~ “Form Constant (The Grid)” ~ Ex Eye (new) ~ Relapse ~ 2017
5:07 am Frank Zappa ~ “Why Johnny Can’t Read” ~ Shut Up ‘N Play Yer Guitar ~ Rykodisc ~ 1981
5:12 am Zach Phillips with Sarah Smith ~ “Slip Away” ~ How to Slip Away (new) ~ OSR Tapes ~ 2017
5:14 am The Spookfish ~ “Black Hole” ~ Black Hole (new) ~ Fire Talk ~ 2017
5:17 am Chain and the Gang ~ “Deathbed Confession” ~ Best of Crime Rock (new) ~ In the Red ~ 2017
5:22 am Dina Maccabee ~ “Give or Take” ~ The World Is In the Work (new) ~ self-released ~ 2017
5:25 am Ed Special (local) ~ “Art Fare Part 5” ~ Art Fare 2011 ~ self-released ~ 2011

Crush Collision 7/20-1/17

July 21, 2017 at 9:36 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Extra hour-ish because the next DJ was late.
Hour 1
10:00 pm DC Salas ft. Joy Wellboy ~ “Cala Falco”
10:07 pm World Air ~ “Turks and Caicos”
10:10 pm Bill Converse ~ “Currents”
10:16 pm Kris Wadsworth ~ “Definition Of”
10:23 pm Lapalux ~ “Running to Evaporate”
10:26 pm Patricia ~ “Shiba Inu Dub”
10:31 pm De Costa & Rau ~ “Untitled 2”
10:36 pm Swayzak ~ “Gestures of a Sycophant”
10:43 pm Lewis Fautzi ~ “Subconscious”
10:46 pm Solypsis ~ “Night Driver”
10:52 pm Porter Ricks ~ “Shoal Beat”
10:58 pm Dim Past ~ “Spectre in Wire”
Hour 2
11:03 pm Xosar ~ “Hordak’s Slime Pit”
11:06 pm Brian Ring ~ “Second Base”
11:10 pm Nehuen ~ “Explaining Jokes”
11:14 pm Nathan Melja ~ “Jerky Teardrop”
11:17 pm Lubish ~ “Sunset (Mounty Remix)”
11:22 pm Redlight ~ “City Jams (DJ Deeon Remix)”
11:27 pm xxxy ~ “OO SH”
11:29 pm The Golden Boy ~ “Dream Machine”
11:33 pm Epikur ~ “Speedrunner IV”
11:40 pm Tyler Ambrosius ~ “Moongust”
11:42 pm Subversive ~ “Domestique (Santiago Salazar Remix)”
11:48 pm Henning Baer ~ “Millions Behind”
11:52 pm Octual ~ “Jupiter’s Moon (Sterac Remix)”
11:58 pm Ben Long ~ “The Installer”
Hour 3
12:03 pm Sciahri ~ “Unease”
12:08 am Exercise One ~ “Heptagon”
12:12 am John Daly ~ “23”
12:18 am Solid Blake ~ “Yagharek”
12:22 am P.E.A.R.L ~ “Fall Before You”
12:25 am Milton Bradley vs Bloody Mary ~ “Tales From Space”
12:32 am Eats Tapes ~ “Psychic Shields”
12:38 am 400PPM ~ “8.069”
12:43 am EOD ~ “Swurlk (Snarlfingercroak Mix)”
12:47 am Yak ~ “Showdown”

Show #402 – 7/15/17

July 15, 2017 at 1:43 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

2:01 am Sun Ra ~ “Untitled” ~ Some Blues But Not The Kind That’s Blue ~ Atavistic ~ 1977
2:07 am Paul Motian Band ~ “Mesmer” ~ Garden of Eden ~ ECM ~ 2006
2:12 am Hal Galper and the Youngbloods ~ “O’s Time” ~ Live at the Cota Jazz Festival (new) ~ Origin ~ 2017
2:23 am Indigo Mist ~ “The Electric Mist” ` That the Days Go By and Never Come Again ~ RareNoise ~ 2014
2:26 am Frank Zappa ~ “Little Umbrellas” ~ Hot Rats ~ Rykodisc ~ 1969
2:31 am Andrew Bernstein ~ “A Boundless Mass of Transparent Jelly” ~ Cult Appeal ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2015
2:40 am Raymond Scott ~ “A Rhythm Ballet” ~ Three Willow Park: Electronic Music From Inner Space, 1961-1971 ~ Basta ~ early 1960s
2:44 am Eroc ~ “Des Zauberers Traum” ~ The Brain Box ~ Brain ~ 1975
2:50 am Kingdom Come with Arthur Brown ~ “Conception” ~ Live 1973 ~ Gonzo Multimedia ~ 1973
2:53 am Psychic Temple ~ “Isabella Ocean Blue” ~ IV (new) ~ Joyful Noise ~ 2017
2:56 am Schneider Kacirek ~ “I Atlanten” ~ Radius Walk (new) ~ Bureau B ~ 2017
3:00 am Coca Leaf ~ “No Light Bleeds the Den” ~ Deep Marble Sunrise (new) ~ Wharf Cat Records ~ 2017
3:07 am Arca ~ “Urchin” ~ Arca (new) ~ XL ~ 2017
3:10 am Laibach ~ “Von Gipfel Zu Gipfel” ~ Also Sprach Zarathustra (new) ~ Mute ~ 2017
3:15 am DJ Shadow ~ “Good News” ~ The Mountain Has Fallen (new) ~ Mass Appeal ~ 2017
3:19 am Forest Swords ~ “Raw Language” ~ Compassion (new) ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2017
3:23 am Mana ~ “Crystalline” ~ Creature (new) ~ Hyperdub ~ 2017
3:26 am Skepta ~ “Hypocrisy” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2017
3:30 am Danny Scrilla ~ “Mechanical Fruit” ~ Ancient Musical Box (new) ~ Cosmic Bridge ~ 2017
3:31 am Bill Orcutt ~ “O Platitudes!” ~ Bill Orcutt (new) ~ Palilalia Records ~ 2017
3:37 am Zach Phillips with Tom Csatari ~ “Love You Know” ~ How To Slip Away (new) ~ OSR Tapes ~ 2017
3:39 am The Memories ~ “In the Evening” ~ Royal United Song Service (new) ~ Burger Records ~ 2017
3:42 am Ross From Friends ~ “Romeo, Romeo” ~ The Outsiders (new) ~ Magicwire ~ 2017
3:49 am Lone ~ “Mind’s Eye Melody” ~ Ambivert Tools Volume Two (new) ~ R&S ~ 2017
3:57 am DJ Helder ~ “NOo Baii” ~ African Magic (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2017
4:00 am Nídia ~ “Underground” ~ Nídia é Má, Nídia é Fudida (new) ~ Príncipe ~ 2017
4:02 am Jana Rush ~ “Frenetic Snare” ~ Pariah (new) ~ Objects Limited ~ 2017
4:05 am Dead Man’s Chest ~ “Just 4” ~ Throwing Shades (new) ~ Western Lore ~ 2017
4:10 am Jlin ~ “Carbon 7 (161)” ~ Black Origami (new) ~ Planet Mu ~ 2017
4:14 am Detboi ~ “Secret Venom” ~ Secrets EP (new) ~ Metalheadz ~ 2017
4:19 am Wen ~ “Blips” ~ Carve + Gaze (new) ~ Big Dada ~ 2017
4:22 am Suicideyear ~ “Lagniappe (Spring Hate)” ~ Hate Songs (new) ~ LuckyMe ~ 2017
4:27 am Fripp & Eno ~ “A Near Find in Rip Pop” ~ Live In Paris 28.05.1975 ~ Opal ~ 1975
4:34 am Cyclo. ~ “C2” ~ . ~ Raster-Noton ~ 2001
4:40 am Joni Void ~ “Aesthetics of Disappearance” ~ Selfless (new) ~ Constellation ~ 2017
4:44 am HNY ~ “Nothing, To Me” ~ Ladyz In Noyz ~ Spleencoffin ~ 2008
4:49 am TALsounds ~ “11:11” ~ Love Sick (new) ~ Ba Da Bing ~ 2017
4:52 am Braveyoung ~ “Blue Beyond the Hill” ~ Misery and Pride (new) ~ The Flenser ~ 2017
4:54 am Andy Haas ~ “Borne on the Flood” ~ Taballah II (new) ~ Resonantmusic ~ 2017
5:00 am Planet D Nonet (local) ~ “Interstellar Low Ways” ~ We Travel the Spaceways: The Music of Sun Ra ~ Eastlawn Records ~ 2010
5:06 am Allen Ginsberg ~ “Om Namah Shivaye” ~ The Complete Songs of Innocence and Experience by William Blake Tuned by Allen Ginsberg ~ Omnivore ~ 1971
5:11 am Milton Cross ~ “Mull it Over From the Midwest” ~ Light in the West ~ Digitalis ~ 2006
5:15 am Valerio Cosi ~ “The North Pole Vibes” ~ Heavy Electronic Pacific Rock ~ Digitalis ~ 2008
5:29 am Tony Conrad ~ “Four Violins (1964)” ~ Early Minimalism Volume One ~ Table of the Elements ~ 1964

Crush Collision 7/13/17

July 14, 2017 at 8:36 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Hour 1
10:01 pm Bjørn Torske & Prins Thomas ~ “Kappe Tre”
10:07 pm Valentino Mora ~ “Raising”
10:12 pm Dana Bergquist & Peder G ~ “Your Love (Benjamin Fröhlich Remix)”
10:16 pm DJ Boring ~ “Sunday Avenue”
10:23 pm Primitive Trust ~ “Power On”
10:26 pm Bulkhead ~ “Lunch Truck”
10:31 pm Hugo Massien ~ “No Return”
10:35 pm Greyhouse ~ “New Beats the House”
10:39 pm LaTour ~ “People Are Still Having Sex”
10:43 pm Randomer ~ “Velvet”
10:46 pm Lanark Artefax ~ “Touch Absence (Intimidating Stillness Mix)”
10:51 pm Machine Woman ~ “Iron Curtain”
10:56 pm ASC ~ “Eidetic”
Hour 2
11:01 pm Nina Kraviz ~ “You Are Wrong”
11:07 pm D-IX ~ “Hugo”
11:11 pm Caracoa ~ “Last Year on Earth”
11:18 pm Mark Broom ~ “Myth (Absent Remix)”
11:23 pm Lena Platonos ~ “Lego (Avalon Emerson Remix)”
11:30 pm Flori ~ “Life Signs”
11:36 pm Anthony Fade ~ “Spiller”
11:40 pm Floorplan ~ “Never Grow Old (Lyric Hood Mix)”
11:44 pm Sourmash ~ “Pilgrimage to Paradise (Original Barrel Beat Mix)”
11:52 pm Shanti Celeste ~ “Make Time”
11:58 pm Volruptus ~ “Jargon”

Local Music Show 7/12/17

July 12, 2017 at 11:50 pm | Posted in Local Music Show | Leave a comment

Hour 1
9:01 pm Moon Pool and Dead Band (local) ~ “MEQ” ~ MEQ ~ Midwich Productions ~ 2015
9:08 pm Laurel Halo (local) ~ “Moontalk” ~ Dust (new) ~ Hyperdub ~ 2017
9:12 pm Black Noi$e (local) ~ “Sun Burn” ~ EP (new) ~ Vanity Press ~ 2017
9:19 pm Bileebob & Black Echo Zone (local) ~ “KiAn” ~ Urban Legend & Shadow Land EP ~ Equal Recordings ~ 2015
9:22 pm Stallone the Reducer (local) ~ “Systems Grid” ~ Private Property ~ Est. 83′ Records ~ 2016
9:26 pm Split Horizon (local) ~ “Shift” ~ split 12″ w/ Dimentia ~ Void Tactical Media ~ 2012
9:33 pm Carl Craig (local) ~ “Technology” ~ Versus (new) ~ InFiné/Planet E ~ 2017
9:42 pm Ron Zakrin (local) ~ “Blistering Heights” ~ One in a Million (new) ~ Equal Recordings ~ 2017
9:44 pm Shigeto (local) ~ “Detroit Pt II” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Portage Garage Sounds ~ 2017
9:52 pm Fit Siegel (local) ~ “Carmine” ~ 12″ ~ Fit ~ 2015
Hour 2
10:00 pm Moodymann (local) ~ “Music People” ~ Silentintroduction ~ Planet E ~ 1997
10:10 pm Flwr.Chld, Pat 2 Dope, and Heaven (local) ~ “LIVE IN STUDIO!!!” ~ Local Music Show (new) ~ WCBN ~ 2017