Local Music Show 2/8/17

February 9, 2017 at 4:12 pm | Posted in Local Music Show | Leave a comment

Featuring an amazing live performance by Adam Shead and his ensemble!
PS: Fundraiser is next week! Please help keep WCBN alive!!!
Hour 1
9:03 pm Theo Parrish ~ “Pop Off + Wild Out” ~ Hand Made EP ~ Running Back ~ 2012
9:17 pm The Other People Place ~ “It’s Your Love” ~ Lifestyles of the Laptop Cafe ~ Warp ~ 2001
9:24 pm Appian ~ “Smoker” ~ split EP w/ Segv ~ Sly Fox Records ~ 2012
9:33 pm Jeff Mills ~ “The Exchange” ~ The Power ~ Axis ~ 2011
9:40 pm His Name Is Alive ~ “Silver Arc Curving In the Magnetic Field” ~ Patterns of Light (new) ~ London London ~ 2016
9:47 pm Fred Thomas ~ “Echolocation + Infuriated + Oval Beach” ~ Changer (new) ~ Polyvinyl ~ 2017
9:56 pm Stef Chura ~ “Faded Heart” ~ Messes (new) ~ Urinal Cake ~ 2017
Hour 2
10:01 pm Adam Shead and ensemble ~ “LIVE IN STUDIO!!!” ~ 2017
10:53 pm Stef Chura ~ “Speeding Ticket” ~ Messes (new) ~ Urinal Cake Records ~ 2017
10:58 pm Tyvek ~ “Mirror Image Of” ~ Origin of What (new) ~ In the Red ~ 2016

Jlin @ El Club, 2/4/17 (Threshold Detroit)

February 5, 2017 at 11:00 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

Viki Viktoria's gear

Viki Viktoria’s gear


Jock Club

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Container @ El Club, Detroit, 1/28/17

February 5, 2017 at 10:43 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

mural near El Club

mural near El Club


Alstadt Echo

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Steve Hauschildt + Forma @ Constellation, Chicago, 11/26/16

February 5, 2017 at 10:26 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

Catching up on some photos I never got around to posting…

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Viki Viktoria: New Victorian LP (Midwich Productions, 2017)

February 5, 2017 at 10:13 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Viki Viktoria: New Victorian LP

Viki Viktoria: New Victorian LP

Barring a few limited cassettes, this is the first proper release from Viki Viktoria (formerly just Viki) in at least a decade, and it’s on Magas’ incredible Midwich Productions. Her recordings and performances are always unpredictable, ranging from noisier sound design experiments to lo-fi techno, and this one especially seems hard to pin down. Both sides contain a single track, about 15 minutes each, and they seem like they could be broken up into movements for convenience’s sake, but they’re really best experienced as a whole. Tempos shift, zombie-like voices call out from the dead, soundwaves swarm and stun. The first side starts out playful but gets darker and borderline psychotic. The second side slowly sputters down to a crawl before flipping a switch and launching into something more haunted. Mark Salwowski’s artwork depicting creepy, possessed children is entirely appropriate. Another fascinating release from one of Detroit’s most original electronic artists.

Show #381 – 2/4/17

February 4, 2017 at 2:42 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Hour 1
2:03 am Chatham Rise ~ “Surf in G” ~ Volumes (new) ~ Picture in My Ear ~ 2016
2:08 am Century Palm ~ “Then You’re Gone” ~ Meet You (new) ~ Deranged ~ 2017
2:13 am Aquaserge ~ “Si Loin, Si Proche” ~ Laisse Ça Être (new) ~ Crammed Discs ~ 2017
2:22 am The (Hypothetical) Prophets ~ “Back to the Burner” ~ Around the World with… ~ Infiné ~ 1981
2:26 am Ryan Huber ~ “Venom of Snakes” ~ Anabaptist (new) ~ Inam Records ~ 2017
2:31 am Yarn/Wire ~ “Catherine Lamb – Curvo Totalitas (2016 – First Version)” ~ Currents Vol. 4 (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
2:37 am Amnesia Scanner ~ “AS Truth” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2017
2:52 am Emptyset ~ “Speak” ~ Borders (new) ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2017
2:54 am Evan Caminiti ~ “Toxic Tape (Love Canal)” ~ Toxic City Music (new) ~ Dust Editions ~ 2017
2:59 am Age Coin ~ “Monday” ~ Performance (new) ~ Posh Isolation ~ 2017
Hour 2
3:03 am Sendai ~ “Liveable Beams” ~ Ground and Figure (new) ~ Editions Mego ~ 2017
3:08 am Matteo Vallicelli ~ “Lausitzer Platz” ~ Primo (new) ~ Captured Tracks ~ 2017
3:10 am Multicast Dynamics ~ “Continental Ruins” ~ Continental Ruins (new) ~ Denovali ~ 2017
3:16 am Beat Pharmacy ~ “Sunday” ~ 15 Years with Echocord (new) ~ Echocord ~ 2016
3:22 am Youandewan ~ “Something Keeps Me Real Quiet” ~ There is No Right Time (new) ~ Aus ~ 2016
3:28 am Sync 24 & Jensen Interceptor ~ “Wave ID” ~ 10 Years Electronics (new) ~ Cultivated Electronics ~ 2017
3:34 am Duran Duran Duran ~ “Drap Jam” ~ Vectors 3 (new) ~ Power Vacuum ~ 2017
3:44 am James Darkin ~ “Cutting Room Floor” ~ Go No Matter What (new) ~ Terminal 2 Records ~ 2017
3:48 am Esplendor Geométrico ~ “Moscú Está Helado” ~ The Minimal Wave Tapes Volume One ~ Minimal Wave/Stones Throw ~ 1980
3:51 am Morricone Youth ~ “Anarchie Road 3KM” ~ Mad Max (new) ~ Country Club ~ 2017
3:54 am Throwing Snow ~ “Pattern Forming” ~ Embers (new) ~ Houndstooth ~ 2017
Hour 3
4:00 am Delia Derbyshire Appreciation Society ~ “Evening Star” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Six Degrees ~ 2017
4:03 am Viki Viktoria ~ “What 2 Do” ~ New Victorian (new) ~ Midwich Productions ~ 2017
4:17 am Fjaak ~ “Snow” ~ Fjaak (new) ~ Monkeytown ~ 2017
4:21 am Blackdown ~ “Keysound Sessions Anthem (Feverish Weightless Mix)” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Keysound ~ 2017
4:24 am Yaleesa Hall ~ “Woodall 0244” ~ Woodall (new) ~ Will & Ink ~ 2016
4:27 am Suicideyear x Outthepound ~ “38” ~ Brothers (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2016
4:30 am Pete Shelley ~ “Part Two” ~ Cinema Music and Wallpaper Sounds ~ Caroline True Records ~ 1976
4:37 am Pan Daijing ~ “Tenderloin Tanz” ~ A Satin Sight (new) ~ Bedouin Records ~ 2017
4:43 am X-Static ~ “My Inspiration (Bjarki’s ‘Sweet Thing’ Version)” ~ 12″ (new) ~ bbbbbb ~ 2017
4:49 am Altern 8 ~ “One For John (DJ Nex Mix)” ~ 12″ ~ Network ~ 1992
4:54 am TronikHouse [Kevin Saunderson] (local) ~ “Up Tempo (The Groove Rider Mix)” ~ 12″ ~ KMS ~ 1992
Hour 4
5:00 am Quarta330 ~ “The Fairies’ Homecoming” ~ Pixelated (new) ~ Hyperdub ~ 2017
5:04 am Itoa ~ “Strange Attractor (Sully Remix)” ~ Swinging Flavours #4 (new) ~ Beat Machine Records ~ 2017
5:09 am Abra ~ “Crybaby (Gage Remix)” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2017
5:12 am Swan Meat ~ “Intention Tremor” ~ Dille (new) ~ Stoscha ~ 2017
5:13 am Chino Amobi ~ “Incarceration” ~ minor matter (new) ~ The Vinyl Factory ~ 2017
5:17 am Spurz ~ “Roto​-​Tiller” ~ Loud Futures (new) ~ Apothecary Compositions ~ 2017
5:20 am Somatic Responses ~ “Double Dipped” ~ RAAR005 (new) ~ RAAR ~ 2017
5:25 am Hieroglyphic Being/The Truth Theory Trio ~ “Long Night of Iboga” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Lick My Deck ~ 2017
5:30 am 아버지 ~ “Reflections” ~ Reflection (new) ~ BLCR Laboratories ~ 2016
5:40 am Vapor Lanes ~ “Appearing” ~ Hieratic Teen (new) ~ Usonian ~ 2016
5:43 am Fred Thomas (local) ~ “Infuriated” ~ Changer (new) ~ Polyvinyl ~ 2017
5:47 am Kid Koala ~ “The Hubble Constant” ~ Music To Draw To: Satellite (new) ~ Arts & Crafts ~ 2017
5:52 am Zavala ~ “Floats Like Empty” ~ Fantasmas (new) ~ Fake Four Inc. ~ 2017
5:55 am Bonobo ~ “Migration” ~ Migration (new) ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2017

Crush Collision 2/2/17

February 3, 2017 at 9:24 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Hour 1
10:01 pm Superpitcher ~ “Snow Blind”
10:06 pm Shadow ~ “D’Hardest”
10:10 pm Antoni Maiovvi ~ “Sleeper Agent”
10:14 pm Kirlian Camera ~ “Helden Platz”
10:17 pm Lerosa ~ “Line Base”
10:19 pm Bonobo ~ “Outlier”
10:24 pm Kian T ~ “Room 69”
10:27 pm Frank & Tony ~ “Amedeo”
10:32 pm Zavala ~ “The INS”
10:36 pm Shedbug ~ “Jungle Fantasy”
10:41 pm HOVE ~ “Rosée”
10:44 pm Max Graef & Glenn Astro ~ “Magic Johnson (Byron the Aquarius Live Mix)”
10:50 pm Octo Octa ~ “Only Tears”
10:55 pm Cherushii [R.I.P.] ~ “Sunburst in my Sequencer”
10:59 pm Efde ~ “My Bleep”
Hour 2
11:05 pm Omar-S ~ “Sink Holes”
11:07 pm Mak & Pasteman ~ “Function”
11:12 pm Clarian ~ “Old Miami”
11:17 pm Throwing Snow ~ “Helical”
11:19 pm Siriusmo ~ “Petit Cochon”
11:22 pm Otik ~ “Deep Red”
11:25 pm Fjaak ~ “Sixteen Levels”
11:29 pm Minimal: Impossible ~ “Too Many Voices”
11:34 pm Rimbaudian ~ “Drop It On Em”
11:40 pm Doon Kanda ~ “Axolotl”
11:42 pm Formation Boyz ~ “Zulu War”
11:45 pm Via App ~ “Anisthynia”
11:52 pm RX-101 ~ “The Calmness of Distortion”
11:56 pm Miagma ~ “You”

Tangent: Collapsing Horizons (n5MD, 2016)

February 2, 2017 at 6:51 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Tangent: Collapsing Horizons

Tangent: Collapsing Horizons

n5MD for a Dutch duo who do a really detailed, cold, prickly sort of IDM. This is the type of music that sounds like it’s very well thought out and deliberate, but still freeform and organically flowing. Crinkly, crackly micro-rhythms and erratic heartbeats, glitches, dark blooming/flowing melodies. Feels like being trapped in a snowstorm but there’s still a source of radiant light. “Distorted Perspective” and “Dissolution” have the most grooving beats. Really good album. Just listen and feel. Vinyl and digital available on Bandcamp.

Show #380 – 1/28/17

January 28, 2017 at 9:37 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Hour 1
2:02 am Defibrillator & Peter Brötzmann ~ “Good Intentions” ~ Conversations About Not Eating Meat (new) ~ Border of Silence ~ 2016
2:10 am Tangent ~ “Immutable Surface” ~ Collapsing Horizons (new) ~ n5MD ~ 2016
2:14 am Steve Roach ~ “Unseen Hand” ~ Spiral Revelation (new) ~ Projekt ~ 2016
2:20 am Hakobune ~ “Intransigence” ~ In Arboreal Whispering (new) ~ Constellation Tatsu ~ 2016
2:24 am Oto Hiax ~ “Eses Mitre” ~ Oto Hiax (new) ~ Editions Mego ~ 2017
2:31 am Marc Chan [composer]/Rob Haskins [piano] ~ “mm. 1-35” ~ My Wounded Head 3 (new) ~ Mode ~ 2016
2:38 am MrDougDoug ~ “Potcan St. 342” ~ SOS Forks Al REM (new) ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2016
2:40 am Neil Cicierega ~ “Floor Corn” ~ Mouth Moods (new) ~ self-released ~ 2017
2:42 am RX-101 ~ “101 Reasons” ~ Like Yesterday (new) ~ Suction Records ~ 2016
2:46 am Egyptrixx ~ “Plastic Pebble [Beat]” ~ Pure, Beyond Reproach (new) ~ Halocline Trance ~ 2017
2:50 am James K. ~ “My Sorrow is Luminous” ~ Physically Sick (new) ~ Allergy Season ~ 2017
2:55 am Kuedo ~ “Floating Forest” ~ Slow Knife (new) ~ Planet Mu ~ 2017
Hour 2
3:00 am Membranes ~ “21st Century Man (Godflesh Remix)” ~ Inner Space/Outer Space (new) ~ Louder Than War ~ 2016
3:04 am Uniform ~ “Bootlicker” ~ Wake in Fright (new) ~ Sacred Bones ~ 2017
3:09 am Urochromes ~ “I’m Gonna Confront Ya!” ~ Night Bully 7″ EP (new) ~ Wharf Cat ~ 2017
3:10 am Tropical Skin Byrds ~ “Mondo Trasho” ~ Hedonism II ~ Wharf Cat ~ 2015
3:14 am DJ Diamond ~ “That Feeling Again” ~ Footwork or Die (new) ~ Duck N’ Cover Records ~ 2016
3:17 am Jlin ~ “Nyakinyua Rise” ~ Dark Lotus (new) ~ Planet Mu ~ 2017
3:21 am City ~ “Organic” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Halcyon Veil ~ 2017
3:23 am Fis ~ “Angels Of The Water Table” ~ Weightless, Vol. 2 (new) ~ Different Circles ~ 2017
3:27 am Emptyset ~ “Border” ~ Borders (new) ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2017
3:31 am Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek ~ “Parades” ~ Schaum (new) ~ Faitiche ~ 2016
3:35 am Wiley ft. Manga ~ “Laptop” ~ Godfather (new) ~ CTA ~ 2017
3:38 am Bonobo ~ “Figures” ~ Migration (new) ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2017
3:44 am Blue States ~ “Alight Here” ~ Restless Spheres (new) ~ Memphis Industries ~ 2016
3:48 am Zavala ~ “ARPDreamth” ~ Fantasmas (new) ~ Fake Four Inc. ~ 2017
3:52 am The Gaslamp Killer with Mophono ~ “The Butcher” ~ Instrumentalepathy (new) ~ Cuss Records ~ 2016
3:55 am NHK yx Koyxen ~ “1048” ~ Doom Steppy Reverb (new) ~ Diagonal ~ 2016
3:59 am Chants ~ “Crushed Lollipop (SHALT Remix)” ~ The Zookeeper (new) ~ Astral Plane Recordings ~ 2017
Hour 3
4:02 am The Newcomer ~ “Aelen Rache” ~ Mirelet Unsette Moiyana (new) ~ Kaleidoscope ~ 2017
4:05 am Ambidextrous ~ “Ortifi” ~ Cottage Industries 6 (new) ~ Neo Ouija ~ 2017
4:09 am Calista Kazuko ~ “Poison (DVA Hi:Emotions Remix)” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2017
4:12 am Waynette ~ “Eraser On The Dancefloor” ~ Eraser On The Dancefloor (new) ~ Supply Records ~ 2017
4:16 am S.Candle ~ “Neg Flags” ~ Conditioned Reflex (new) ~ Leaving Records ~ 2017
4:19 am Person of Interest ~ “no face no case” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2017
4:32 am Kid Koala ~ “The Observable Universe” ~ Music To Draw To: Satellite (new) ~ Arts & Crafts ~ 2017
4:38 am HKE ~ “Eternal Return” ~ Dragon Soul (new) ~ Olde English Spelling Bee ~ 2017
4:44 am Gareth Dickson ~ “The Hinge of the Year” ~ Orwell Court (new) ~ 12k ~ 2016
4:50 am Pg.lost ~ “Monolith” ~ Versus (new) ~ Pelagic ~ 2016
4:57 am Soda Lite ~ “Habitat” ~ upcoming tape (new) ~ Constellation Tatsu ~ 2017
Hour 4
5:00 am Fred Thomas (local) ~ “Oval Beach” ~ Changer (new) ~ Polyvinyl ~ 2017
5:03 am Stef Chura (local) ~ “Messes” ~ Messes (new) ~ Urinal Cake Records ~ 2017
5:06 am Graham Repulski ~ “The Improbable Heart” ~ I’m Even Younger Now (new) ~ Shorter Recordings ~ 2017
5:09 am Shapednoise ~ “Deep Core Consciousness” ~ Weightless, Vol. 2 (new) ~ Different Circles ~ 2017
5:14 am Eirwud Mudwasser ~ “Shivers (DJ Normal 4 Ft 4 Boom Hombre Lobo MixX)” ~ 12″ (new) ~ FTP ~ 2017
5:18 am Dettmann | Klock ~ “Phantom Studies” ~ Phantom Studies (new) ~ Ostgut Ton ~ 2017
5:28 am Vapor Lanes ~ “Embers” ~ Hieratic Teen (new) ~ Usonian ~ 2016
5:35 am Elizabeth Merrick-Jefferson (local) ~ “Three Happiness” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Burek ~ 2017
5:42 am Demdike Stare ~ “Eulogy” ~ Testpressing #003 ~ Modern Love ~ 2013
5:48 am GosT ~ “Unum Infernum” ~ Non Paradisi (new) ~ Blood Music ~ 2016
5:52 am Awalom Gebremariam ~ “Showite Sigem” ~ Desdes ~ Awesome Tapes From Africa ~ 2007

Membranes: Inner Space/Outer Space (Louder Than War, 2016)

January 27, 2017 at 10:37 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Membranes: Inner Space/Outer Space

Membranes: Inner Space/Outer Space

The Membranes are a post-punk band who formed in the early ’80s, went on hiatus in 1990, and reformed in 2009. They played an ATP festival at the request of My Bloody Valentine, released some EPs, and then scientifically-minded album Dark Matter/Dark Energy in 2015. This is its remix album. It ventures into dub, industrial, and dark trip-hop, among other styles. Think late ’90s/early ’00s Primal Scream, but only occasionally as angry or noisy. The first 2 tracks are dark and lush, then “Do The Supernova (Phillip Boa Remix)” is more of an industrial rock rave-up. Soundtrack composer (and Pop Will Eat Itself founder) Clint Mansell turns “The Universe Explodes Into A Billion Photons Of Pure White Light” into a suspenseful, solemn orchestral piece… with distant airhorns! “21st Century Man” gets a heavy as fuck, sludgy, noisy mix by the almighty Godflesh. Easily the highlight of the disc for me. “Space Junk (Reverend And The Makers Remix)” is straight up DMZ-style dubstep with melodica. Keith Leven’s take on “Space Junk” is a spacey, drummy, exploratory instrumental. Youth’s mix of “Hail to the Lovers” is kind of a Balearic dub track, with big echoey drums and crazy echo effects, occasionally flaring up into drum’n’bass-like rhythms. “5776 (The Breathing Song) (Die Fliedermaus Remix)” is a slow, sax-heavy version of a song about how all the stars you see shining in the night sky have probably died millions of years ago. The other take on “Space Junk” is a slow, kinda rusty mix by Mark Stewart. “In the Graveyard” gets a heavy dub mix by Carter Tutti (aka Chris & Cosey). “Magic Eye (To See The Sky)” is remixed by Iranian band Barfak, and it blends Arabic instruments and vocals with sparse downtempo beats and vocoders. Therapy?’s mix of “Hail to the Lovers” is slow and kinda stompy, and the vocals and guitars eventually get shattered and erode away at the end. The last tracks are slower and more sloth-like (and “The Hum Of The Universe (Alexander Hacke Remix)” ends with a mantra).

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