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Show #325 – 1/2/16 Best of 2015 Part 3

January 2, 2016 at 7:59 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Hour 1
3:00 am Jefre Cantu-Ledesma ~ “Love After Love” ~ A Year With 13 Moons ~ Mexican Summer ~ 2015
3:04 am Vaadat Charigim ~ “Neshel” ~ Sinking As a Stone ~ Anova/Burger Records ~ 2015
3:17 am Matchess ~ “Sinister Prophecies of Coming Catastrophe” ~ Somnaphoria [Album of the Year] ~ Trouble in Mind ~ 2015
3:21 am Circuit des Yeux ~ “Do the Dishes” ~ In Plain Speech ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2015
3:24 am Mind Over Mirrors ~ “Strange(r) Work” ~ The Voice Calling ~ Immune ~ 2015
3:29 am Colleen ~ “Lighthouse” ~ Captain of None ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2015
3:36 am White Poppy ~ “Telepathic Love” ~ Natural Phenomena ~ Not Not Fun ~ 2015
3:39 am Jessica Pratt ~ “Back, Baby” ~ On Your Own Love Again ~ Drag City ~ 2015
3:43 am Julia Holter ~ “Feel You” ~ Have You in My Wilderness ~ Domino ~ 2015
3:47 am Jib Kidder ~ “Dozens” ~ Teaspoon to the Ocean ~ Weird World ~ 2015
3:49 am Fred Thomas ~ “Cops Don’t Care Pt. II” ~ All Are Saved ~ Polyvinyl ~ 2015
3:51 am In Tall Buildings ~ “Flare Gun (City Center Remix featuring Dina Bankole)” ~ mp3 ~ Western Vinyl ~ 2015
3:55 am Billowing ~ “Causeway” ~ Modifications D’Éclairage (new) ~ Life Like ~ 2015
Hour 2
4:03 am Downtown Boys ~ “Desde Arriba” ~ Full Communism ~ Don Giovanni ~ 2015
4:05 am Downtown Boys ~ “Future Police” ~ Full Communism ~ Don Giovanni ~ 2015
4:06 am Joanna Gruesome ~ “Last Year” ~ Peanut Butter ~ Slumberland ~ 2015
4:09 am Jeffrey Lewis & Los Bolts ~ “Outta Town” ~ Manhattan ~ Rough Trade ~ 2015
4:11 am Graham Repulski ~ “Octopus Bribes” ~ Success Racist ~ Shorter Recordings ~ 2015
4:14 am Deafheaven ~ “Come Back” ~ New Bermuda ~ Anti- ~ 2015
4:23 am Locrian ~ “The Future of Death” ~ Infinite Dissolution ~ Relapse ~ 2015
4:30 am Jlin ~ “Guantanamo” ~ Dark Energy ~ Planet Mu ~ 2015
4:35 am DJ Spinn featuring DJ Rashad and Danny Brown ~ “Dubby” ~ Off That Loud EP ~ Hyperdub ~ 2015
4:39 am DJ Taye featuring DJ Earl ~ “XTCC” ~ Break It Down EP ~ Hyperdub ~ 2015
4:42 am Kode9 ~ “Void” ~ Nothing ~ Hyperdub ~ 2015
4:45 am Nozinja ~ “Vamaseve Vatswelani” ~ Nozinja Lodge ~ Warp ~ 2015
4:50 am DJ Topgear ~ “Dedicated CDR Flex” ~ split 12″ w/ CDR (new) ~ AD AAD AT ~ 2015
4:56 am Container ~ “Eject” ~ LP ~ Spectrum Spools ~ 2015
Hour 3
5:02 am Oneohtrix Point Never ~ “I Bite Through It” ~ Garden of Delete ~ Warp ~ 2015
5:05 am Dan Deacon ~ “Meme Generator” ~ Gliss Riffer ~ Domino ~ 2015
5:09 am Coil ~ “Fire Of The Green Dragon” ~ Backwards ~ Cold Spring ~ 2015
5:14 am Steve Roach ~ “Outer Weave” ~ Skeleton Keys ~ Projekt ~ 2015
5:19 am Portopia ’81 ~ “Jet Stream” ~ Jet Stream ~ Constellation Tatsu ~ 2015
5:24 am Sergeant Sawtooth ~ “Adventure Thru Inner Space (Qixoni Remix)” ~ This is Tomorrowland ~ Scolex Recordings ~ 2015
5:27 am John Carpenter ~ “Night (Zola Jesus & Dean Hurley Remix)” ~ Lost Themes Remixed ~ Sacred Bones ~ 2015
5:34 am Shlohmo ~ “Ditch” ~ Dark Red ~ True Panther Sounds ~ 2015
5:38 am Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express ~ “Roked” ~ Junun ~ Nonesuch ~ 2015
5:41 am Helvetia ~ “A Dot Running For the Dust” ~ Dromomania ~ Joyful Noise ~ 2015
5:45 am Mount Eerie ~ “Boat” ~ Sauna ~ P. W. Elverum & Suns, Ltd. ~ 2015
5:47 am Pigeons ~ “Not a Party” ~ The Bower ~ MIE Music ~ 2015
5:50 am Low ~ “Landslide” ~ Ones and Sixes ~ Sub Pop ~ 2015

Crush Collision 12/31/15 – Best of 2015

January 1, 2016 at 12:57 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Hour 1
10:01 pm Marie Davidson ~ “Excès De Vitesse”
10:05 pm Boan ~ “Boan Acid”
10:09 pm Assembler ~ “Schizo-Exstatic I/O”
10:13 pm Cage Suburbia ~ “Copkiller”
10:18 pm Heathered Pearls ~ “Perfume Catalogue”
10:20 pm Chevel ~ “Loop #33”
10:23 pm Ekoplekz ~ “Canon’s Marsh”
10:26 pm Dave DK ~ “Halma”
10:29 pm Anthony Naples ~ “Abrazo”
10:32 pm Levon Vincent ~ “Small Whole-Numbered Ratios”
10:37 pm Fit Siegel ~ “Carmine”
10:44 pm Rival Consoles ~ “Howl”
10:47 pm Max Cooper ~ “Resonant Expanse”
10:51 pm Holly Herndon ~ “Interference”
10:55 pm Multicast Dynamics ~ “Muodossa (VC-118A Reshape)”
10:57 pm Moiré ~ “Blind”
Hour 2
11:02 pm Mike Dehnert ~ “Beiwerk”
11:05 pm Egyptrixx feat. Nyssa ~ “Body II Body”
11:07 pm Container ~ “Cushion”
11:11 pm Oscar Mulero ~ “Involuntary Response”
11:15 pm Deepchord ~ “Cmos Therapy”
11:18 pm Kangding Ray ~ “Sleepless Roads”
11:24 pm Ø [Phase] ~ “R-Mash”
11:29 pm Matrixxman ~ “Red Light District”
11:30 pm Helena Hauff ~ “Spur”
11:34 pm Hologram Teen ~ “Post-apocalyptic Teacakes”
11:38 pm Lakker ~ “Mountain Divide”
11:44 pm Stave ~ “Circle Pit”
11:47 pm Demdike Stare ~ “Patchwork”
11:51 pm Terminal 11 ~ “Tracing Structures”
11:54 pm Dax J ~ “Sempa”
11:58 pm Herva ~ “Video Volume”

Show #324 – 12/27/15 Best of 2015 Part 2

December 27, 2015 at 6:09 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Hour 1
2:01 am Natural Snow Buildings ~ “King in Yellow” ~ Terror’s Horns ~ Ba Da Bing! ~ 2015
2:10 am Aidan Baker ~ “Lighttrap III” ~ Half Lives ~ Gizeh Records ~ 2015
2:14 am Chris Forsyth & Koen Holtkamp ~ “Sun Blind” ~ The Island ~ Trouble In Mind ~ 2015
2:19 am Ian William Craig ~ “Empty, Circle, Tremble” ~ Cradle for the Wanting (new) ~ Recital ~ 2015
2:25 am Simon Scott ~ “An Angel From the Sea Kissed Me” ~ Insomni ~ Ash International ~ 2015
2:33 am How to Cure Our Soul ~ “Aurea” ~ Saigon ~ Audiobulb ~ 2015
2:38 am Chihei Hatakeyama ~ “Journey to the Imaginary Paradise” ~ Moonlight Reflecting Over Mountains ~ Room40 ~ 2015
2:43 am Opaline ~ “Communication Systems” ~ Memory Drain ~ Constellation Tatsu ~ 2015
2:48 am Rafael Anton Irisarri ~ “Empire Systems” ~ A Fragile Geography (new) ~ Room40 ~ 2015
2:56 am The Host ~ “Sunset Induction” ~ Esalen Lectures ~ Touch Sensitive Records ~ 2015
2:58 am Flying Saucer Attack ~ “Instrumental 2” ~ Instrumentals 2015 ~ Domino ~ 2015
Hour 2
3:01 am Acre ~ “Ruby Tiers” ~ Better Strangers (new) ~ Tectonic ~ 2015
3:05 am Rabit ~ “Ox” ~ Communion (new) ~ Tri Angle ~ 2015
3:08 am Visionist ~ “Victim” ~ Safe (new) ~ Pan ~ 2015
3:11 am Matrixxman ~ “Packard Plant” ~ Homesick ~ Ghostly International ~ 2015
3:14 am Bloom ~ “Quartz VIP” ~ 12″ (new) ~ Gobstopper ~ 2015
3:18 am Shapednoise ~ “What is it Like?” ~ Different Selves (new) ~ Type ~ 2015
3:23 am d’Eon ~ “Datamatics Global Services II” ~ Foxconn / Trios (new) ~ Knives ~ 2015
3:27 am Five Star Hotel ~ “Cluster” ~ Outlands ~ Visual Disturbances ~ 2015
3:34 am Amnesia Scanner ~ “AS ANGELS RIG HOOK” ~ mp3 ~ Gum Artefacts ~ 2015
3:48 am redHat ~ “Ver” ~ F (new) ~ Rare Nnudes ~ 2015
3:52 am Venetian Snares ~ “Thousand Mile Stare” ~ Thank You For Your Consideration ~ Bandcamp ~ 2015
Hour 3
4:00 am Christina Vantzou ~ “Laurie Spiegel” ~ No. 3 ~ Kranky ~ 2015
4:04 am Mumdance & Logos ~ “Hall of Mirrors” ~ Proto ~ Tectonic ~ 2015
4:08 am Vainio & Vigroux ~ “Ravages” ~ Peau Froide, Léger Soleil (new) ~ Cosmo Rhythmatic ~ 2015
4:13 am Special Request ~ “Tractor Beam” ~ Modern Warfare EP 3 ~ XL ~ 2015
4:20 am Dax J ~ “In the Shadows” ~ Shades of Black (new) ~ Monnom Black ~ 2015
4:23 am Oven Toast Jam ~ “MG42” ~ YabaiKore! ~ Ragga Terror Front ~ 2015
4:26 am Dan Friel ~ “Lungs” ~ Life ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2015
4:31 am Shibata & Asuna ~ “Grace Park” ~ Grace Park ~ White Paddy Mountain ~ 2015
4:36 am Panda Bear ~ “Boys Latin (Andy Stott Remix)” ~ PBVSGR Remixes ~ Domino ~ 2015
4:42 am Egyptrixx ~ “Transfer of Energy [Feelings of Power]” ~ Transfer of Energy [Feelings of Power] ~ Halocline Trance ~ 2015
4:45 am Kerridge ~ “MPH” ~ Always Offended Never Ashamed ~ Contort ~ 2015
4:49 am André Bratten ~ “Space Between Left & Right” ~ Gode (new) ~ Smalltown Supersound ~ 2015
4:54 am Laurel Halo ~ “Shake” ~ In Situ (new) ~ Honest Jon’s ~ 2015
4:58 am Heathered Pearls ~ “Holographic Lodge” ~ Body Complex ~ Ghostly International ~ 2015
Hour 4
5:00 am Kelela ~ “Rewind” ~ Hallucinogen ~ Warp ~ 2015
5:04 am Helena Hauff ~ “Funereal Morality” ~ Discreet Desires ~ Werkdiscs/Ninja Tune ~ 2015
5:09 am Abra ~ “Roses” ~ Rose ~ Awful Records ~ 2015
5:12 am Clay Rendering ~ “Sight From Up Here” ~ Snowthorn (new) ~ Hospital Productions ~ 2015
5:17 am Chelsea Wolfe ~ “Maw” ~ Abyss ~ Sargent House ~ 2015
5:23 am Sun Kil Moon ~ “The Possum” ~ Universal Themes ~ Caldo Verde ~ 2015
5:34 am Jens-Uwe Beyer ~ “St. Pop” ~ The Emissary ~ Kompakt Pop Ambient ~ 2015
5:42 am Anthony Child ~ “Mr Naturals” ~ Electronic Recordings from Maui Jungle Vol 1 (new) ~ Editions Mego ~ 2015
5:49 am Steve Hauschildt ~ “Anesthesia” ~ Where All Is Fled ~ Kranky ~ 2015
5:53 am Jerusalem In My Heart ~ “A Granular Buzuk” ~ If He Dies, If If If If If If ~ Constellation ~ 2015

d’Eon: Foxconn / Trios 12″ EP (Knives, 2015)

December 26, 2015 at 7:40 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

d’Eon: Foxconn / Trios 12″ EP

I haven’t been keeping up with the output of d’Eon too closely, but he’s put out some amazing stuff, especially the hardcore/jungle EP he did under the name Kallisti. This EP came out last month on Kuedo’s new label and I’m just getting around to listening now, but already on first listen it is completely decimating my mind. Very intense Mark Fell/DJ Clap hyper-MIDI-juke, with shreds of late-night ’80s digital future melodies and dirty South beats poking through. And titles like “Samsung India Software Operations” (in two parts) and “Satyam Integrated Engineering Solutions”. And then “Datamatics Global Services II” throws in jungle breaks. Holy hell. “Foxconn II” brings things back down to earth with a more straightforward atmospheric trap song, but it still sounds really good. Apparently these tracks were made in 2012. They were ahead of their time then and they’re still ahead of their time. I’m glad I actually got around to hearing them before the year ended, I wouldn’t have wanted to keep sleeping on this one into the new year.

v/a: Replicants 2LP (Inner Surface Music, 2015)

December 26, 2015 at 5:57 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

v/a: Replicants 2LP

AnD and Tom DiCicco’s Inner Surface Music presents a 2LP compilation with a quality lineup and lots of hard, battering techno. Some of the tracks are more straightforward and driving, but then some of it gets slower, more distorted, more grimy. O/H piles on a bunch of slurry, snarly punk-ish vocals, and Honzo slows it down to a blown-out industrial thud. Ontal’s “Spasm” strikes the best balance between a steady beat and waves of distortion, and then there’s Hoover synths to rinse everything out. The underrated Sturqen closes the set out with a slower, clanging industrial track which hammers out sparks and then powers down at the end.

Show #323 – 12/26/15 Best of 2015 Part 1

December 26, 2015 at 2:03 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

Hour 1
3:03 am Matana Roberts ~ “All is Written” ~ Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee ~ Constellation ~ 2015
3:12 am Rob Mazurek/Exploding Star Orchestra ~ “Collections of Time” ~ Galactic Parables: Volume 1 (disc 1) ~ Cuneiform ~ 2015
3:23 am Evan Caminiti ~ “Excelsior” ~ Meridian ~ Thrill Jockey ~ 2015
3:29 am Kevin Greenspon ~ “Lexical Trap” ~ To Leave a Mark ~ Bridgetown ~ 2015
3:34 am Ekoplekz ~ “A Caustic Romance” ~ Reflekzionz ~ Planet Mu ~ 2015
3:38 am Fis ~ “Ebb” ~ The Blue Quicksand Is Going Now ~ Loopy ~ 2015
3:42 am Arca ~ “Mutant” ~ Mutant ~ Mute ~ 2015
3:49 am Lee Bannon ~ “Aga” ~ Pattern Of Excel ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2015
3:53 am Venetian Snares ~ “Your Face When I Finally” ~ Your Face ~ Planet Mu ~ 2015
Hour 2
4:00 am Thore Pfeiffer ~ “Nirgendwo” ~ Im Blickfeld ~ Kompakt Pop Ambient ~ 2015
4:05 am Colin Stetson/Sarah Neufeld ~ “In the Vespers” ~ Never Were the Way She Was ~ Constellation ~ 2015
4:11 am Johan Agebjörn ~ “The Right to Play” ~ Notes ~ Paper Bag ~ 2015
4:14 am Julia Kent ~ “Flag of No Country” ~ Asperities ~ Leaf ~ 2015
4:19 am Evenings ~ “Non-Traditional Love” ~ La Religion De La Souffrance Humaine ~ Life Like ~ 2015
4:25 am Kaoss Edge ~ “Apparitions” ~ mp3 ~ Konfrontation Records ~ 2015
4:30 am Ken Camden ~ “Asleep at the Wheel” ~ Dream Memory ~ Kranky ~ 2015
4:37 am Alexandria ~ “Bad” ~ Bad EP ~ Bandcamp ~ 2015
4:40 am Georgia ~ “Be Ache” ~ Georgia ~ Domino ~ 2015
4:45 am Black Wing ~ “Death Sentences” ~ Is Doomed ~ The Flenser/Enemies List Home Recordings ~ 2015
4:52 am King Midas Sound/Fennesz ~ “Waves” ~ Edition 1 ~ Ninja Tune ~ 2015
Hour 3
5:00 am Multicast Dynamics ~ “Nebulous” ~ Aquatic System ~ Denovali ~ 2015
5:06 am Lotic ~ “Carried” ~ Agitations ~ Janus Berlin ~ 2015
5:10 am Oneirogen ~ “Vessel” ~ Plenitude ~ Denovali ~ 2015
5:14 am Pearson Sound ~ “Swill” ~ Pearson Sound ~ Hessle Audio ~ 2015
5:17 am Prequel Tapes ~ “The Comfort of Feeling Numb” ~ Inner Systems ~ R’COUP’D ~ 2015
5:22 am M.E.S.H. ~ “Epithet” ~ Piteous Gate ~ PAN ~ 2015
5:28 am Smurphy ~ “Wicked” ~ A Shapeless Pool Of Lovely Pale Colours Suspended In The Darkness ~ Leaving Records ~ 2015
5:32 am Dave DK ~ “Veira (Leandro Fresco Mix)” ~ Pop Ambient 2016 ~ Kompakt ~ 2015
5:40 am CFCF ~ “Melting the Ice” ~ The Colours of Life ~ 1080p ~ 2015
5:44 am Prairie ~ “On Minoan Lines” ~ Like a Pack of Hounds ~ Shitkatapult ~ 2015
5:47 am F ingers ~ “Hide Before Dinner” ~ Hide Before Dinner ~ Blackest Ever Black ~ 2015
5:52 am Helen ~ “Allison” ~ The Original Faces ~ Kranky ~ 2015
5:56 am Express Rising ~ “Perishable Looks” ~ Fixed Rope ~ Numero Group ~ 2015

Majeure: Union of Worlds tape (Constellation Tatsu, 2015)

December 25, 2015 at 7:22 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Majeure: Union of Worlds tape

Anthony Paterra of Zombi continues his extracurricular project with his first release for CTatsu. This album seems a lot less prog-rock than much of his work, but only because there don’t seem to be any guitars. On one hand, I feel like there isn’t a whole lot more to say about cosmic synth type records. There’s arpeggios, there’s wooshing sounds, there’s sci-fi or horror score cues, it all sounds cool, what more do you want? But he still seems to be doing something a little bit above and beyond that. “Physis” is a pretty fantastic galaxy space war scene, it’s very busy and animated and has bashing electro-drums, and it’s over in 4 minutes. The album gets a bit frosty after that (just see “Appalachian Winter Blues”), and then there’s beats. “Posthuman” has a constant midtempo kick drum, but the sounds buzzing and swinging on top of it are in 3/4 time, making it some sort of space disco waltz. “Union of Worlds” starts off with a tense pulse, but then it derails into a long bout with space loneliness. On Bandcamp and cassette now, but I think there’s a vinyl pressing coming soon?

Andrew Weathers: I Am Happy When I Am Moving tape (Constellation Tatsu, 2015)

December 25, 2015 at 6:03 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Andrew Weathers: I Am Happy When I Am Moving tape

Like Andrew Tuttle, this Andrew plays instruments like guitars (acoustic and electric) and banjos, but also droning synths and electronic processing, making some sort of spacey 21st century instrumental folk. He gives equal precedence to melodies and ambience, but the melodies are upfront enough that it might not deter people who aren’t into space music. For the most part, anyway: “We Can Only Speak to the Future” only has shreds of acoustic guitar flickering, the rest of it is nature sounds and high, rolling drones. “Hi Jolly at Quartzsite” also has some blippy synths and more skygazing guitars rather than earthy folk melodies. For all the Real Life Rock & Rollers out there.

Paul R. Marcano & Andre Martin: Valley Flutes / As it IS split tape (Constellation Tatsu, 2015)

December 25, 2015 at 5:20 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Paul R. Marcano/Andre Martin: Valley Flutes / As it IS split tape

CTatsu reaches back in time for this one. Paul R. Marcano’s “Valley Flutes” was apparently recorded back in 1973, using several echo-covered flutes (recorders, actually) recorded at different speeds on a reel-to-reel deck. This is actually a 45-minute excerpt of a 4-hour session. Seems like a demanding listen, but of course, it’s meant to be played in the background while you sleep or do chores or study or whatever. Obviously there were other people doing this sort of thing before Eno popularized the concept of ambient music later in the ’70s, but it’s still fascinating to hear other early examples of this sort of thing. This piece is hissy, hypnotic, and does so much with just a few layers of the same instrument. There is a constant rhythm to it, and you can feel it flowing like a current. It is seriously stunning. Seems like kind of a landmark recording, actually. Andre Martin’s “As it IS” also takes up 45 minutes, and also seems to have a wavelike flow, but it’s more electronic and seems a lot darker and more nocturnal. If new age has a dark side, this seems like it. Eternal Bandcamp forever.

Shibata & Asuna: Grace Park (White Paddy Mountain, 2015)

December 25, 2015 at 4:20 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Shibata & Asuna: Grace Park

Looks like this came out back in April, but I just came across it now, and anyway it seems like more of a winter album than a spring one. It’s on Chihei Hatakeyama’s label, so expect warm yet wintry guitar drone and field recordings, and expect it to be incredibly lovely. About six minutes in it sounds like there’s sleigh bells and some sort of rhythmic wind-like sound, and it gets heavier and more psychedelic, and then later it’s calmer and there’s birds and children playing and acoustic guitars. It keeps bouncing between trippy effects and more contemplative moments. Whenever it actually starts getting snowy out, as well as when the snow melts away into spring, this is an album to keep on deck. Stream/purchase at Bandcamp.

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