The Answer Is In The Beat

Show #373 – 12/24/16

December 24, 2016 at 1:31 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Hour 1
2:01 am The Qualities ~ “It’s Christmas Time” ~ Sun Ra: Singles: The Definitive Collection ~ Strut ~ 1956?
2:03 am Heather Noel ~ “Santa Came on a Nuclear Missile” ~ The American Song-Poem Christmas ~ Bar/None ~ ?
2:08 am Anthony Child ~ “Colonisation” ~ Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle Vol 2 (new) ~ Editions Mego ~2016
2:12 am Sven Grünberg ~ “Hingus IV” ~ Hingus ~ Bureau B ~ 1981
2:17 am Klaus Schulze ~ “Dreams” ~ Dreams ~ MIG ~ 1986
2:26 am Michael Bundt ~ “Metagony” ~ Electri City ~ Bureau B ~ 1980
2:29 am Adelbert Von Deyen ~ “Sternzeit” ~ Sternzeit ~ Bureau B ~ 1978
2:35 am Windy & Carl (local) ~ “Snowing” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2016
2:42 am Venetian Snares ~ “Xmas Song” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2016
2:45 am Bubblegum Octopus ~ “Ding-Dong Merrily On High” ~ Christmasasaurus Vol. 6 (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2016
2:47 am Khaki Blazer ~ “Drum and Bastard” ~ Coco Nara Deezer (new) ~ Experimedia ~ 2016
2:49 am Bizzy B feat. Equinox and TDK ~ “Bless This Sound” ~ Science EP Volume VI ~ Planet Mu ~ 2006
2:54 am Shitmat ~ “Selectahhhhh!” ~ Roughneck Rarities (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2016
Hour 2
3:00 am Nmesh ~ “Balls Caught In Vice” ~ Hard Classiks, Volume 1 ~ H.V.R.F. Central Command ~ 2005
3:04 am Itoa ~ “Snake Pass” ~ split 12″ w/ Toyc (new) ~ Bun the Grid ~ 2016
3:08 am DJ Taye ~ “Move Out” ~ Move Out (new) ~ Hyperdub 2016
3:11 am Otik ~ “Acne Downs” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Durkle Disco ~ 2016
3:15 am Demdike Stare ~ “Curzon” ~ Wonderland (new) ~ Modern Love ~ 2016
3:21 am Beau Wanzer ~ “Ultralean” ~ Untitled (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
3:22 am Street Sects ~ “Victims of Nostalgia” ~ End Position (new) ~ The Flenser ~ 2016
3:24 am Dreamcrusher ~ “Sick World” ~ NOISE (new) ~ Adult Swim ~ 2016
3:28 am Void Opening ~ “Side Opening” ~ May Your Children Turn Their Faces From You (new) ~ Pastel Voids ~ 2016
3:31 am Tiger Village ~ “Jungle Gate” ~ Tiger Village VI: Effective Living (new) ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2016
3:33 am Diseño Corbusier ~ “Flanco – Dama” ~ Stadia ~ Dark Entries ~ 1983
3:41 am Headboggle ~ “side A [excerpt]” ~ In Dual Mono (new) ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2016
3:48 am Richard H. Kirk ~ “Shaking Down the Tower of Babel” ~ Time High Fiction ~ Mute ~ 1983
3:52 am Coil ~ “Heaven’s Blade” ~ The Ape of Naples ~ Important Records ~ 2005
3:56 am Tomutonttu ~ “Kaatuu Rauhassa” ~ Trarat (new) ~ Leaving Records ~ 2016
3:59 am Lockbox ~ “Shimmerbreeze” ~ Demonoid (new) ~ Hausu Mountain ~ 2016
Hour 3
4:00 am Bocal 5 ~ “Babouin Calin” ~ Musique Électronique ~ Dark Entries ~ 1983
4:03 am Bjarki ~ “Sudbury Acid Slurp 2” ~ Æ (new) ~ трип ~ 2016
4:08 am Ital Tek ~ “Utter” ~ Beyond Sight (new) ~ Planet Mu ~ 2016
4:12 am Ssaliva ~ “Owl Cave” ~ Mercury Coast ~ Not Not Fun ~ 2011
4:14 am Poptartpete ~ “RedBeanBun (One4Sofie)” ~ Sofie’s SOS Tape (new) ~ Stones Throw ~ 2016
4:15 am Naked ~ “Slow” ~ Zone (new) ~ LuckyMe ~ 2016
4:18 am Damu ~ “Point and Line to Plane [excerpt]” ~ Off The Spectrum (new) ~ Keysound ~ 2016
4:29 am Phaeleh ~ “Ghost Theory” ~ Illusion of the Tale (new) ~ Undertow ~ 2016
4:38 am Ant’lrd ~ “Msdass [excerpt]” ~ Sleep Drive (new) ~ Whited Sepulchre ~ 2016
4:41 am Fis ~ “SeaPR” ~ From Patterns to Details (new) ~ Subtext ~ 2016
4:44 am Andrew Pekler ~ “Mirror Structures” ~ Tristes Tropiques (new) ~ Faitiche ~ 2016
4:47 am Arvo Zylo ~ “Eight” ~ Heavenly Sounds In Lo-Fi – Arvo Plays Ferrante And Teicher (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
4:49 am Jeff Parker ~ “Super Rich Kids” ~ Slight Freedom (new) ~ Eremite ~ 2016
4:54 am Rhucle ~ “Rigid Hornwort” ~ Fantastic Garden (new) ~ Constellation Tatsu ~ 2016
Hour 4
5:00 am Rose ~ “Marble” ~ Exile (new) ~ Constellation Tatsu ~ 2016
5:07 am Grouper ~ “I’m Clean Now” ~ Paradise Valley 7″ (new) ~ Yellow Electric ~ 2016
5:10 am Deuter ~ “Spirales” ~ (The Microcosm) Visionary Music of Continental Europe, 1970-1986 ~ Light in the Attic ~ 1985
5:17 am Syrinx ~ “Tillicum” ~ Tumblers From The Vault (1970-1972) ~ Rvng Intl ~ 1970
5:19 am Justin Shay (local) ~ “The Process of Inspiration” ~ She Said It Looks Like Spring ~ We’re Twins Records ~ 2002
5:20 am Juan Garcia & Fred Thomas (local) ~ “Outside” ~ Birdsong ~ Ypsilanti Records ~ 2004
5:22 am M. Gira/D. Matz ~ “Cold Creeping” ~ What We Did ~ Young God ~ 2001
5:28 am Ben Bracken + Eric Cook (local) ~ “track 4” ~ Framed/Frozen ~ Simulated Music ~ 2005
5:37 am Disasterpeace ~ “The Sentients” ~ Hyper Light Drifter ~ Bandcamp ~ 2016
5:46 am Roman Flügel ~ “Nameless Lake” ~ All the Right Noises (new) ~ Dial ~ 2016
5:50 am Paul Haslinger ~ “Reverse Engineering” ~ Halt and Catch Fire (new) ~ Lakeshore ~ 2016
5:52 am Kira Kira ~ “Soothe” ~ Feathermagnetik ~ Sound of a Handshake ~ 2012

Crush Collision 12/22/16

December 23, 2016 at 1:01 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

3-hour Best of 2016 edition of Crush Collision coming up next Thursday, 9PM-12AM!
Hour 1
10:00 pm Danvers ~ “Linx”
10:05 pm Space Art ~ “Nous Savons Tout”
10:10 pm Sandboards ~ “Visa (Space Dimension Controller’s 12bit Late Tape Mix)”
10:15 pm Pilarion ~ “Friendship”
10:20 pm Deadboy ~ “Ten of Cups”
10:22 pm Recondite ~ “Kauz”
10:26 pm Deltawerk ~ “Midstate”
10:31 pm ANFS ~ “VPA”
10:35 pm Monoloc ~ “Momentum”
10:40 pm Doka ~ “Harmony”
10:45 pm Munstac ~ “The Cathedral”
10:49 pm Elektro Guzzi ~ “Schmone”
10:55 pm Sebastian Voigt ~ “Everything and Nothing”
Hour 2
11:01 pm Reinhard Voigt ~ “The Singing Saw”
11:06 pm Reggy Van Oers ~ “Lace Monitor”
11:12 pm Kiwi ~ “Minke”
11:17 pm AC$ ~ “Analog Bass”
11:21 pm DJ Warp ~ “Kakuni Manjyu”
11:28 pm Waitress ~ “Ravus (Sarajevo Mix)”
11:30 pm Francesco Tristano feat. Derrick May ~ “In Da Minor”
11:36 pm Francesco Terranova ~ “Terra 2”
11:40 pm Mickey Pearce ~ “Rant Over”
11:43 pm Shedbug ~ “Siren”
11:48 pm IVVVO & Aïsha Devi ~ “Eros Plexus”
11:52 pm EVM128 ~ “Strangers (Redpine & Solo Remix)”
11:55 pm Bjarki ~ “Genat 8”
11:59 pm Raja Zahr ~ “Drum Sequence”

Running out of space

December 21, 2016 at 8:29 pm | Posted in WTITYB | Leave a comment

So, I’ve been upgrading this site every so often so I can post more content. I’m running out of space, and the only way I can get more space is by upgrading to WordPress’s Business Plan, which provides unlimited space but costs a lot more money than I’m paying already. Since barely anyone actually listens to the radio shows I post (I’m guessing), I’ll probably just start deleting older shows to free up space. The playlists will still be available, I’ll just be deleting the audio. If anyone is really anxious to hear my radio shows from 5 or 6 years ago, download them now before I take them down.

Rose: Exile tape (Constellation Tatsu, 2016)

December 18, 2016 at 6:00 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Rose: Exile tape

This is the second Rose tape on CTatsu, and it starts out sounding like the type of dreamy ambient music you’d expect from the label. Vague, distant, fuzzy, misty, and magnificent. But then after a few minutes, a lush techno beat shows up. You’re whisked away to some sort of far off, barely visible cloud dancefloor. Not every track has beats, but when they are present, they’re steady yet disorienting, woozy yet guiding. This one stands out. Hear it on Bandcamp.

Street Value: Studies SS16 tape (Pastel Voids, 2016)

December 18, 2016 at 5:38 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Street Value: Studies SS16 tape

This one starts out sounding like it’s going to be some sort of shimmering lo-fi house thing. Eventually the beat picks up and gets heavier, and then it turns into a blistering rhythmic noise tape. It just keeps getting denser and more all-consuming, and then you’re trapped in a vortex. Yet there’s still pounding beats, at least sometimes. You’re caught in some sort of conflict, but maybe it’s just enlightenment. Free download at Bandcamp.

Bocal 5: Musique Électronique LP (Dark Entries, 2016)

December 18, 2016 at 5:06 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Bocal 5: Musique Électronique LP

Bocal 5 are basically the band that became X-Ray Pop, so that tells you much of what you need to know about their sound. Early ’80s French minimal wave, kind of embryonic but still really charming and fun. Not really noisy or punk, sometimes there’s kind of a downtown art-funk tinge to the guitars. Drum machines are minimal and blippy but upbeat, vocals are playful and animated. There’s almost 20 songs, and most of them are two minutes or less, so their ideas never get a chance to wear themselves out. Yet another completely excellent release from Dark Entries.

Khaki Blazer: Coco Nara Deezer LP (Experimedia, 2016)

December 18, 2016 at 4:21 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Khaki Blazer: Coco Nara Deezer LP

Pad Modugno of Moth Cock goes all out for another strange jumble of lopsided rhythms, cartoon noises, and barely assembled samples. The track title “Drum and Bastard” says a lot — this is like Luke Vibert but even more jokey and twisted. And then that’s only part of it. There’s trunk-rattling beats with squishy, pitch-shifted samples piled on, there’s honks, there’s bubbles, there’s animal noises. There’s bicycle bells and cut-off thoughts. As one of the samples tries to say, “don’t think about it too much”. I was going to end this review by saying something like “Get BLAZED” but that would be way too douchey. Instead I will just remark that the album’s Bandcamp page lists footwork and juke as tags, but this is like footwork if your limbs are twisted (not necessarily broken).

Void Opening: May Your Children Turn Their Faces From You tape (Pastel Voids, 2016)

December 18, 2016 at 3:48 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Void Opening: May Your Children Turn Their Faces From You tape

Many of the releases on Pastel Voids deal with some sort of rave nostalgia, but this one takes a blowtorch to all of that for 25 minutes of rhythmic noise. The first side buries banging-on-cinderblocks rhythms under storms of feedback and distortion. It’s almost danceable compared to the second side, which still has rhythms, but they’re far more erratic and hard to discern. After a while, your face has melted off anyway, so your only reaction is to just stand back in awe (what’s left of you, that is). Free download at Bandcamp.

Show #372 – 12/17/16

December 17, 2016 at 3:07 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Hour 1
2:00 am Richard H. Kirk ~ “L.D. 60” ~ Disposable Half-Truths ~ Mute ~ 1980
2:05 am ARIISK ~ “Lost Life” ~ Fatal Errors (new) ~ SCRAPES ~ 2016
2:09 am Hiss & Hum ~ “side A” ~ Delice De Nostalgie ~ FREAKS ~ 2015
2:31 am John Fahey ~ “America” ~ America ~ Takoma ~ 1971
2:38 am Sibylle Baier ~ “Tonight” ~ Vinyl Adventures from Istanbul to San Francisco ~ O Genesis ~ 1970s
2:41 am Sister Lake (local) ~ “Photo of Stairs to Nowhere/Foliage Study/Sudden Neighborhood” ~ tape (new) ~ Life Like ~ 2016
2:50 am Rebel Kind (local) ~ “Kiss You” ~ Just For Fools (new) ~ Urinal Cake Records ~ 2016
2:53 am Tyvek (local) ~ “Girl On a Bicycle” ~ Origin of What (new) ~ In the Red ~ 2016
2:55 am Negative Gemini ~ “You Never Knew” ~ Body Work (new) ~ 100% Electronica ~ 2016
Hour 2
3:00 am Devata Daun ~ “Be a Stranger” ~ Look (new) ~ Pytch Records ~ 2016
3:02 am Shaprece ~ “Unwind” ~ Coals (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
3:04 am A Tribe Called Quest ~ “Solid Wall of Sound” ~ We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service (new) ~ Epic ~ 2016
3:08 am Ricky Eat Acid ~ “Climbing Up the Big Red Tree” ~ Talk To You Soon (new) ~ Terrible ~ 2016
3:10 am Kindohm ~ “RISC Chip” ~ RISC Chip (new) ~ Conditional ~ 2016
3:14 am Seekersinternational ~ “Channel2(MurderousDub)” ~ Presents the RaggaPreservationSociety EP (new) ~ Diskotopia ~ 2016
3:16 am DJ Sinclair ~ “Ricky” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Keysound ~ 2016
3:20 am Jonny Oso ~ “A Life Force” ~ City Fresh (new) ~ Pastel Voids ~ 2016
3:27 am Homemade Weapons & Red Army ~ “Retina” ~ Negative Space (new) ~ Samurai Music ~ 2016
3:35 am Michael Gordon/Mantra Percussion ~ “Oneohtrix Point Never remix” ~ Timber Remixed (new) ~ Cantaloupe Records ~ 2016
3:39 am Eli Keszler ~ “Is Stage Director” ~ Last Signs of Speed (new) ~ Empty Editions ~ 2016
3:45 am Dinosaurs With Horns ~ “February 11, 2012, 2:24 PM” ~ LAFMS Box Box ~ Box Editions ~ 2012
Hour 3
4:01 am Sun Ra and His Astro-Intergalactic Infinity Arkestra ~ “Journey to Saturn” ~ Singles: The Definitive 45s Collection 1952-1991 ~ Strut ~ 1972-74
4:05 am yyu ~ “teu” ~ Karaoke ~ Lillerne Tapes ~ 2016
4:08 am Loscil ~ “Animal Silence” ~ Suns (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
4:12 am Sophia Loizou ~ “Artificial Infinite” ~ Singulacra (new) ~ Kathexis ~ 2016
4:17 am Fis ~ “Drain Torch” ~ 010 (new) ~ Fog Mountain Records ~ 2016
4:21 am Franck Vigroux ~ “Icône” ~ Rapport Sur Le Désordre (new) ~ D’Autres Cordes ~ 2016
4:29 am (ghost) ~ “The First Time You Opened Your Eyes” ~ The First Time You Opened Your Eyes (new) ~ Sound in Silence ~ 2016
4:38 am Sandoz ~ “Atro City Reaction” ~ Intensely Radioactive ~ Mute ~ 1994
4:44 am Étant Donnés w/ Alan Vega ~ “Shadows Lights” ~ Re-Up ~ Munster ~ 1999
4:49 am Chris Cobilis featuring Kenneth Goldsmith & Spektral Quartet ~ “Fire of Publicity” ~ This Is You (new) ~ Room40 ~ 2016
4:57 am Odd Nosdam ~ “The One OG” ~ Off Tapes 1998-99 ~ Glue Moon Records ~ 1999
4:58 am Invisibl Skratch Piklz ~ “Polka Fist Pump” ~ The 13th Floor (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
Hour 4
5:00 am Gavin Gamboa ~ “Rainbow Children” ~ Prince 2016 (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2016
5:03 am Kloukloun ~ “Shining Clown” ~ H.V.R.F. Sampler #2 (new) ~ H.V.R.F. Central Command ~ 2016
5:06 am Mechanick Preachers ~ “варенням шланг тяжкого перебігу” ~ H.V.R.F. Sampler #1 (new) ~ H.V.R.F. Central Command ~ 2016
5:07 am BZGRL ~ “Koppelen” ~ 010 (new) ~ Fog Mountain Records ~ 2016
5:13 am Stuart Chalmers ~ “Surge” ~ Imaginary Musicks Vol. 5 (new) ~ Invisible City ~ 2016
5:19 am Jens-Uwe Beyer ~ “Final 9.1” ~ Pop Ambient 2017 (new) ~ Kompakt ~ 2016
5:26 am The Space Where She Was ~ “What She Dreamed For” ~ What We Lost (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2016
5:31 am Tortusa ~ “Maybe You Still Do” ~ I Know This Place – The Eivind Aarset Collages ~ Jazzland Recordings Norway ~ 2016
5:37 am Equiknoxx ~ “A Rabbit Spoke To Me When I Woke Up” ~ Bird Sound Power (new) ~ DDS ~ 2016
5:40 am Lost Midas ~ “Archetype Forgotten” ~ Shapes In Space ~ Tru Thoughts ~ 2014
5:44 am Subaeris ~ “New Dream” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Soundcloud ~ 2016
5:47 am Darling Farah ~ “Fortune” ~ Body ~ Civil Music ~ 2012
5:50 am Cloud Boat ~ “Lions On the Beach” ~ Book of Hours ~ Apollo ~ 2013
5:53 am Botany ~ “Burning from the Edges Inward” ~ Deepak Verbera (new) ~ Western Vinyl ~ 2016

Crush Collision 12/15/16

December 16, 2016 at 9:39 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Hour 1
10:01 pm Logan Takahashi ~ “Kazoku Ogawa (Kaazi Remix)”
10:03 pm Richard H. Kirk ~ “Hypnotic (12″ Mix)”
10:09 pm Sage Caswell ~ “All of Gardens”
10:12 pm Kilner [aka Blawan] ~ “Auto Wave”
10:19 pm Bumgarden ~ “22gono”
10:20 pm Ryan Huber ~ “Twin Needles”
10:23 pm Annanan ~ “New Wave of Nature”
10:27 pm Kaytranada ~ “Track Uno”
10:31 pm xxxy ~ “(We Have To) Make Things Better”
10:36 pm DJ S ~ “Golf One”
10:40 pm Gnork ~ “Influxxxx”
10:45 pm Monoloc ~ “Phoenix”
10:49 pm Sandoz ~ “Soul Insurgency”
10:54 pm Nukubus ~ “Coming From”
10:58 pm Zeta Reticula ~ “Encroach”
Hour 2
11:04 pm Risque III ~ “Essence of a Dream”
11:10 pm Posthuman ~ “Dont Stop”
11:17 pm DJ Dextro ~ “Robot 1003”
11:22 pm Demdike Stare ~ “FullEdge (eMpTy-40 Mix)”
11:27 pm Roman Flügel ~ “Dead Idols”
11:34 pm Rrose ~ “Specimen 2”
11:39 pm YPY ~ “RIP 505”
11:41 pm Ryogo Yamamori ~ “Sanya”
11:46 pm Scalameriya ~ “Kepslock”
11:51 pm Sieren ~ “Neglection”
11:55 pm Komon & Will Saul ~ “Eve’s Seven (Recloose Remix)”