Fall 2016 Road Trip
November 2, 2016 at 10:18 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a commentI drove to Los Angeles and back just because I wanted to, and to visit my cousin. I went by myself and tried not to have much of a plan, but I had to have some sort of timeline to fit with other peoples’ schedules. It might’ve been the best vacation I’ve ever taken. I’ve gone on vacations across the country with my family before, but actually driving by myself was an entirely new perspective. It was fascinating. I feel like I have a newfound appreciation for America, in an entirely unpolitical way. I bought a new camera just for the vacation because my other camera was broken and still being repaired (it’s fixed now). I took well over a thousand photos. A lot of them were just spontaneous shots while I was driving, and a lot of them were pretty redundant or bad shots, but there’s still hundreds worth posting. Enjoy!
- September 30
I drove to Chicago to visit my friend Eric who was having a birthday celebration at a bar/arcade that had free game play that night.

somewhere between Ann Arbor and Chicago

entering downtown Chicago

at the bar/arcade



gigantic pizza for the birthday celebration
- October 1
After sleeping at my friend’s house, we got breakfast at the Chicago Diner and went to Reckless Records, and then I started driving west.

Eric’s cat Claudius

Claudius in his tunnel

Chicago Diner

breakfast table

vegan breakfast

vegan dessert

Chicago Diner

Reckless Records, Broadway

KA-POW!!

back on the road

pulling into a rest stop

exhibits at the rest stop


while stopping to get gas or something
- October 2
I didn’t stay anywhere to sleep overnight, I just kept driving and took a nap for a couple hours at a rest stop in the morning. Also, my camera’s battery ran out, and since I didn’t stop anywhere to sleep, I had to wait until the afternoon to recharge, when I stopped to eat somewhere. I drove to Denver and walked around downtown and then visited my friend Catdog.





wandering around Denver










blue bear peeking into the convention center




D&D miniatures collection at Catdog’s friend’s house

cat playing D&D
- October 3
I drove from Denver to Los Angeles in one shot. I didn’t end up in Los Angeles til about 2AM (Pacific Time) but this took me through the Rocky Mountains, which was mindblowing.

breakfast burrito

train running around the restaurant

back on the road




















stopping at a view area in Utah





- October 4
Made it to Los Angeles!


my cousin lives near Thai Town



driving to the beach



































seals!




hiking up a path in the park to the observatory


Hollywood!

getting there right as the sun sets










ceiling art inside the observatory

pendulum inside the observatory

planet models

sunset skyline

street art
- October 5
I went to Amoeba in the morning, and later we went to a park where there’s an abandoned zoo. There was also a haunted hayride set up, and they let us walk around for free. At night I went out to Low End Theory for a little bit.

breakfast


Brainfeeder on the streetcorner






outside Amoeba



inside Amoeba

entering the haunted hayride area




wandering around the abandoned zoo





election graffiti











subway

Nobody @ Low End Theory

Lee Bannon @ Low End Theory
- October 6
My last day in Los Angeles. Went to Amoeba again, walked around another park area, this time went hiking to a waterfall which was just a trickle because there was a drought.














my cousin ordered a coconut at a Thai restaurant




castle near my cousin’s house
- October 7
I started driving back in the morning. At one point I had to stop and call AAA because I was about to run out of gas and I just missed the last exit for hundreds of miles. So it was mostly just a day of driving through the desert.









rest stop as the sun is setting
- October 8
After staying overnight at a hotel in Utah, I continued driving, and took photos at as many view areas as I could. My camera was running out of space, though, so I put it away after a while and kept driving.

farm outside the hotel I stayed at

the restaurant I stopped at for breakfast had tons of clocks on the wall




















- October 9
Final day driving home. I didn’t stop overnight, I just kept driving and took a nap or two at rest stops.

sunrise through a bug-smeared windshield

at a rest stop in Michigan (or maybe Illinois)
Gnod: Mirror (Rocket Recordings, 2016)
October 30, 2016 at 2:25 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Gnod: Mirror
Show #363 – 10/29/16
October 29, 2016 at 2:43 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment2:00 am S U R V I V E ~ “Dirt” ~ RR7349 (new) ~ Relapse ~ 2016
2:04 am ARIISK ~ “Fatal Errors” ~ Fatal Errors (new) ~ SCRAPES ~ 2016
2:09 am Throbbing Gristle ~ “Slug Bait (Recorded At Brighton)/Maggot Death (Studio Recording)” ~ The Second Annual Report of Throbbing Gristle ~ Industrial Records ~ 1977
2:14 am Society Of Unknowns ~ “Vector” ~ Society Of Unknowns ~ Praxis ~ 1997
2:18 am Somatic Responses ~ “Night Driving” ~ Engaging the Enemy ~ Zhark ~ 2003
2:23 am Lil Jabba ~ “iNDuSTrY.” ~ Grotto (new) ~ Local Action ~ 2016
2:28 am Function/Inland “Colwyn Bay” ~ Infrastructure: Facticity (new) ~ Infrastructure ~ 2016
2:34 am Klaus Schulze ~ “Wahnfried 1883” ~ Timewind ~ MIG ~ 1975
2:41 am VVM as MRS VVMILLS ~ “She Shot To Fame During The Same Period As Her Stable-Mates The Beatles,” ~ Between Nothingness & Eternity (new) ~ V/Vm Test Records ~ 2016
2:44 am Orphanage (local) ~ “Another Season” ~ mp3 (new) ~ Bandcamp ~ 2016
2:47 am Telementals (local) ~ “Hidden Sun” ~ Universal Burst (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
2:51 am Minihorse (local) ~ “Blueblack” ~ Big Lack EP (new) ~ Friendship Fever ~ 2016
2:54 am Fred Thomas (local) ~ “Brickwall” ~ Changer (new) ~ Polyvinyl ~ 2016
2:57 am Monogamy (local) ~ “Low Morale” ~ Semifloral (new) ~ Almost Halloween Time/Citizen of the World/Side Wound Worship ~ 2016
3:00 am Danny and the Darleans (local) ~ “I’m Right Here” ~ Bug Out! (new) ~ In the Red ~ 2016
3:02 am Storm Ross (local) ~ “You Will End!” ~ Welcome, Sunshine (new) ~ Satellite Records ~ 2016
3:05 am Gnod ~ “Learn To Forgive” ~ Mirror (new) ~ Rocket Recordings ~ 2016
3:13 am H.U.M ~ “Cat-Man-Do” ~ Trinity Way (new) ~ Rocket Recordings ~ 2016
3:19 am Oiseaux-Tempête ~ “Black As Midnight On A Moonless Night” ~ Unworks & Rarities (2012-2015) (new) ~ Sub Rosa ~ 2016
3:23 am Dirty Three ~ “Black Tide” ~ Ocean Songs ~ Touch & Go ~ 1998
3:27 am Roy Montgomery ~ “Riding” ~ R M H Q: Headquarters (Q: Transient Global Amnesia) (new) ~ Grapefruit ~ 2016
3:38 am Blues Control ~ “Baba Giraudy” ~ OldEnuff2KnoBetta: The Mixtape (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
3:44 am Steve Hauschildt ~ “Ketracel” ~ Strands (new) ~ Kranky ~ 2016
3:49 am Rolf Trostel ~ “Digital Track” ~ Der Prophet ~ Bureau B ~ 1982
3:55 am Camera ~ “Ildefons” ~ Phantom of Liberty (new) ~ Bureau B ~ 2016
4:00 am Negativland ~ “The Stain of Music” ~ Over the Edge Vol. 9: The Chopping Channel (new) ~ Seeland ~ 2016
4:04 am Heimer ~ “Amiga-3D-Säure” ~ Teilzeit Swag (new) ~ Tomlab ~ 2016
4:07 am Camp Candle ~ “The Birthday Circle” ~ cdr (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
4:11 am Devata Daun ~ “Fascinate” ~ Look (new) ~ Pytch Records ~ 2016
4:14 am Valerie Dore ~ “Get Closer” ~ Greatest Hits & Remixes ~ ZYX ~ 1984
4:19 am Cheap Treasure ~ “Manipulation” ~ Saturn Soul (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
4:22 am Eki Shola ~ “Crazed” ~ Final Beginning (new) ~ self-released ~ 2016
4:25 am Adrian Younge ~ “Voltage Controlled Orgasms” ~ The Electronique Void – Black Noise (new) ~ Linear Labs ~ 2016
4:28 am Blanche Blanche Blanche ~ “Mercantile Rugs” ~ Wink With Both Eyes ~ Night People/OSR Tapes ~ 2012
4:31 am Jürgen Karg ~ “Die Versunkene Stadt – Atlantis” ~ Elektronische Mythen ~ Bureau B ~ 1977
4:42 am Nephew (local) ~ “side A” ~ After School Special (new) ~ Atrium Tapes ~ 2016
4:54 am Ritual Howls (local) ~ “A Thoughtful Beast” ~ Into the Water (new) ~ Felte ~ 2016
5:01 am Moby & the Void Pacific Choir ~ “The Light is Clear In My Eyes” ~ These Systems Are Failing (new) ~ Little Idiot ~ 2016
5:04 am Moby ~ “You” ~ Animal Rights ~ Mute ~ 1996
5:07 am Chasms ~ “Intimacy” ~ On the Legs of Love Purified (new) ~ Felte ~ 2016
5:13 am Weyes Blood ~ “Generation Why” ~ Front Row Seat to Earth (new) ~ Mexican Summer ~ 2016
5:18 am MJ Guider ~ “Former Future Beings” ~ Precious Systems (new) ~ Kranky ~ 2016
5:22 am Benoît Pioulard (local) ~ “In-the-Vapor” ~ The Benoît Pioulard Listening Matter (new) ~ Kranky ~ 2016
5:23 am Asher Levitas ~ “Sheathe” ~ Lit Harness (new) ~ Planet Mu ~ 2016
5:26 am Forma ~ “Wanderer Imitates a Cloud” ~ Physicalist (new) ~ Kranky ~ 2016
5:31 am Modality ~ “The Savage Seas of Krül” ~ Under the Shadow of This Red Rock (new) ~ House of Watts ~ 2016
5:39 am Sean McCann ~ “The World He Left Behind” ~ Chances Are Staying ~ DNT ~ 2010
5:44 am Autechre ~ “Tewe” ~ Chiastic Slide ~ Warp ~ 1997
5:51 am Oval ~ “AI” ~ Popp (new) ~ Uovooo ~ 2016
5:55 am The Orb ~ “5th Dimensions” ~ COW / Chill Out, World! (new) ~ Kompakt ~ 2016
Crush Collision 10/27/16
October 28, 2016 at 9:04 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a commentHour 1
10:01 pm Tycho ~ “Epoch”
10:07 pm Rose ~ “Gate”
10:11 pm Ryan Huber ~ “Kholstomer”
10:15 pm TB Arthur ~ “Acid Artifacts 1A”
10:19 pm Lokua ~ “Nettles”
10:21 pm Architectural ~ “Elliptical Storm”
10:27 pm Nautiluss ~ “Alphaville”
10:32 pm Michael Mayer & Kölsch ~ “Gemination”
10:38 pm Tuff City Kids ~ “Nordo”
10:43 pm Cheap Treasure ~ “Meanwhile”
10:47 pm Ment ~ “A Kind of Us (Ross From Friends Remix)”
10:52 pm Rumah & Progression ~ “Lein”
10:56 pm DJ Trebluf ~ “Piano Track”
Hour 2
11:01 pm He/aT ~ “Live & Don’t Learn”
11:05 pm Raam ~ “Ment (Samo DJ & Alexi3d Remix)”
11:09 pm Kero & Gotshell ~ “Samaria District I”
11:13 pm Murder He Wrote ~ “Halloween Riddim”
11:16 pm Clouds ~ “Ultras In Africa”
11:20 pm Perc & Randomer ~ “Igneous”
11:24 pm Blood Vibes ~ “Bounce To The”
11:27 pm Kamikaze Space Programme ~ “Type 1”
11:33 pm Mark Broom ~ “Loop 131”
11:37 pm Psyk ~ “Tension”
11:41 pm DJ Guy ~ “Through the Galaxy”
11:46 pm Moon Pool and Dead Band ~ “Cycloid”
11:50 pm Struction ~ “Kreen”
11:55 pm Bjarki ~ “B07”
Blues Control: OldEnuff2KnoBetta: The Mixtape (self-released, 2016)
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Blues Control: OldEnuff2KnoBetta: The Mixtape
CAM: True Or False? LP (Skrat Records, 2016)
October 22, 2016 at 10:47 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
CAM: True Or False? LP
Modality: Under the Shadow of This Red Rock 2LP (House of Watts, 2016)
October 22, 2016 at 9:48 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Modality: Under the Shadow of This Red Rock 2LP
Show #362 – 10/22/16
October 22, 2016 at 2:59 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment2:01 am Manuel Göttsching ~ “side 1” ~ E2-E4 ~ MG.ART ~ 1981
2:33 am Kluster ~ “Kluster 2 (Electric Music)” ~ Klopfzeichen ~ Bureau B ~ 1970
2:40 am Laraaji ~ “Om Namah Shivaya Pt.1” ~ Om Namah Shivaya ~ Leaving Records ~ 1984
2:48 am Λένα Πλάτωνος [Lena Platonos] ~ “Τι Νέα Ψιψίνα; [What’s New Pussycat]” ~ Γκάλοπ [Gallop] ~ Dark Entries ~ 1985
2:51 am X Ray Pop ~ “L’Eurasienne” ~ Pirate! The Dark Side Of The X ~ Cache Cache ~ 1985
2:54 am Metal Boys ~ “Paranoia Carnival” ~ Tokio Airport ~ Acute ~ 1980
2:55 am Throbbing Gristle ~ “AB/7A” ~ D.o.A. The Third and Final Report of… ~ Industrial Records ~ 1978
3:02 am Wanexa ~ “The Man From Colours (Instrumental Version)” ~ 12″ ~ Dark Entries ~ 1982
3:08 am Africans with Mainframes ~ “Sense Of Place Strength Of Being” ~ The Faces of Africa (new) ~ Mathematics Recordings ~ 2016
3:15 am L.A.M. [Drexciya] ~ “Hostile Bacteria” ~ Balance of Terror ~ Clone ~ 1992
3:19 am ARIISK ~ “Radio Tmrrw Ppl” ~ Fatal Errors (new) ~ SCRAPES ~ 2016
3:23 am Abra ~ “Pull Up” ~ Princess (new) ~ True Panther Sounds ~ 2016
3:26 am Group Rhoda ~ “Heart” ~ 12th House ~ Not Not Fun ~ 2013
3:31 am Samantha Vacation ~ “Postcards From Mssr Perdu” ~ 12″ ~ L.I.E.S. ~ 2013
3:40 am Anthony Naples ~ “Lekker” ~ 12″ (new) ~ The Trilogy Tapes ~ 2016
3:48 am patten ~ “Obsidian Alms (mid-saccade)” ~ EOLIAN INSTATE ~ Warp ~ 2013
3:52 am Devata Daun ~ “Willow” ~ Look (new) ~ Pytch Records ~ 2016
3:57 am AGF ~ “dis dance” ~ Kon:3p>UTION to: e[VOL]ution ~ AGF Producktion ~ 2016
4:01 am Blessed Initiative ~ “Vile Value” ~ Blessed Initiative (new) ~ Subtext ~ 2016
4:06 am Pinkcourtesyphone ~ “High End Smalls” ~ Taking Into Account Only a Portion of Your Emotions (new) ~ Editions Mego ~ 2016
4:15 am Modality ~ “Curtis’ Music Hall” ~ Under the Shadow of This Red Rock (new) ~ House of Watts ~ 2016
4:24 am Expo 70 ~ “Transcending Energy From Light” ~ 7″ ~ Trensmat ~ 2008
4:31 am Stratosphere ~ “Melancholy” ~ Rise (new) ~ Projekt ~ 2016
4:40 am Ganger/Third Eye Foundation ~ “Smorgasbord (Third Eye Version)” ~ 12″ ~ Domino ~ 1996
4:45 am Storm Ross (local) ~ “Atheon” ~ Welcome, Sunshine (new) ~ Satellite Records ~ 2016
4:52 am Caspian ~ “Castles High, Marble Bright” ~ Castles High, Marble Bright (new) ~ Triple Crown ~ 2016
5:01 am Roy Montgomery ~ “Cocktails with Can” ~ R M H Q: Headquarters (H: Bender) (new) ~ Grapefruit ~ 2016
5:08 am Harmonia ~ “Notre Dame” ~ Deluxe ~ Brain/Grönland ~ 1975
5:12 am M.B. [Maurizio Bianchi] ~ “Chelmno” ~ Symphony For a Genocide ~ Rotorelief ~ 1981
5:18 am CAM ~ “Kryddereddike” ~ True or False? (new) ~ Skrat Records ~ 2016
5:21 am Oval ~ “MY” ~ Popp (new) ~ Uovooo ~ 2016
5:26 am Somatic Responses ~ “Insecure” ~ Post-Organic ~ Praxis ~ 1996
5:32 am Forma ~ “Maxwell’s Demon” ~ Physicalist (new) ~ Kranky ~ 2016
5:39 am The Bug feat. Riko Dan ~ “Iceman” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2016
5:42 am HiM ~ “Weird Science (remixed by Spectre)” ~ Shake the Nations 12″ ~ WordSound ~ 1997
5:47 am Ryan Huber ~ “Macedonia” ~ Kholstomer (new) ~ Inam Records ~ 2016
5:52 am Adrian Younge ~ “Fly Away” ~ The Electronique Void: Black Noise (new) ~ Linear Labs ~ 2016
5:55 am Weyes Blood ~ “Used to Be” ~ Front Row Seat to Earth (new) ~ Mexican Summer ~ 2016
Friendships: Nullarbor 1988-1989 (Mansion Records/Dot Dash Recordings/Remote Control Records, 2016)
October 16, 2016 at 6:48 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
Friendships: Nullarbor 1988-1989
starRo: Monday (self-released, 2016)
October 16, 2016 at 5:36 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
starRo: Monday
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