The Answer Is In The Beat

Show #312 – 10/17/15

October 17, 2015 at 1:13 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

3:02 am The Space Lady ~ “The Next Right Thing” ~ split w/ Burnt Ones ~ Castle Face ~ 2015
3:08 am The Space Lady ~ “Major Tom” ~ Greatest Hits ~ Night School ~ ’80s?
3:13 am Craig Leon ~ “Donkeys Bearing Cups” ~ Nommos ~ Rvng Intl. ~ 1981
3:19 am Swans ~ “Laugh” ~ Swans EP ~ Young God ~ 1982
3:24 am The Kendal Mintcake ~ “#84” ~ Your Credit Card Has Already Been Charged ~ Big Sleep Records ~ 2015
3:27 am Coil ~ “Fire of the Green Dragon” ~ Backwards ~ Cold Spring ~ 1996
3:32 am Drexciya ~ “Soul of the Sea” ~ Harnessed the Storm ~ Tresor ~ 2002
3:36 am Kraftwerk ~ “Metropolis” ~ The Man-Machine ~ Kling Klang/Parlophone ~ 1978
3:42 am John Carpenter ~ “Abyss (JG Thirlwell Remix)” ~ Lost Themes Remixed ~ Sacred Bones ~ 2015
3:48 am Helena Hauff ~ “Tryst” ~ Discreet Desires ~ Werkdiscs/Ninja Tune ~ 2015
3:54 am Boytronic ~ “Trigger Track” ~ Bryllyant EP ~ Dark Entries ~ 1984
4:00 am “side A” ~ Sci-Fi Sounds of Mystery & Mayhem ~ Special Music Company ~ 1992
4:03 am DJ Spinn ~ “The Future Is Now” ~ Off That Loud EP ~ Hyperdub ~ 2015
4:06 am DJ Rashad ~ “Teknition” ~ Itz Not Rite ~ Planet Mu ~ 2010
4:09 am DJ Taye featuring DJ Earl ~ “XTCC” ~ Break It Down EP ~ Hyperdub ~ 2015
4:12 am Hyper On Experience ~ “Lords of the Null Lines” ~ Speed Limit 140 BPM Plus Three ~ Moonshine Music ~ 1993
4:17 am Keep Shelly in Athens ~ “Hollow Man” ~ Now I’m Ready ~ Friends of Friends ~ 2015
4:22 am Rival Consoles ~ “Morning Vox” ~ Howl ~ Erased Tapes ~ 2015
4:27 am Prefuse 73 ~ “Search the Sky” ~ Rivington Não Rio (Expanded) ~ Temporary Residence Ltd. ~ 2015
4:31 am Grant Evans ~ “side B” ~ Silent Refusal ~ Invisible City Records ~ 2015
4:37 am D/P/I ~ “Don’t Take Her For Granted” ~ Don’t Take Her For Granted ~ Zona Music(a) ~ 2015
4:59 am Earth/Vessel ~ “Psychic Gauntlet” ~ earth/vessel ~ White_Reeves Productions ~ 2015
5:00 am Earth/Vessel ~ “Locality Failure” ~ earth/vessel ~ White_Reeves Productions ~ 2015
5:02 am Earth/Vessel ~ “Superluminal” ~ earth/vessel ~ White_Reeves Productions ~ 2015
5:08 am Hylidae ~ “Coral” ~ Intransitive ~ Dismal Niche ~ 2015
5:12 am Apprentice Destroyer ~ “The Cloud Fortress” ~ Glass Ceiling Universe ~ Castle Face ~ 2015
5:19 am Zombi ~ “Metaverse” ~ Shape Shift ~ Relapse ~ 2015
5:24 am Lung Cycles ~ “Hottest Day Of The Year So Far (8PM Version)” ~ split tape w/ Ocean Charter of Values Lily Tapes & Discs ~ 2015
5:30 am Christina Vantzou ~ “Brain Fog (John Also Bennett Remix)” ~ No. 2 Remixes ~ Bandcamp ~ 2015
5:33 am Opaline ~ “Finding” ~ Open Source ~ Hacktivism Records ~ 2015
5:39 am Steve Roach ~ “The Only Way In” ~ Skeleton Keys ~ Projekt ~ 2015
5:46 am Steve Hauschildt ~ “Arpeggiare” ~ Where All Is Fled ~ Kranky ~ 2015
5:54 am Mind Over Mirrors ~ “Strange(r) Work” ~ The Voice Calling ~ Immune ~ 2015

Spray Paint: Dopers (Monofonus Press, 2015)

October 13, 2015 at 8:29 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Spray Paint: Dopers

I’ve seen this band at SXSW twice, and both times I was pretty amazed at how noisy, discordant and just plain off it was. I feel like this album sort of hints at what I saw live but it would be best to see them in person. Still, this recording shows how they construct steady grooves that are a little bit blown out, sideways, dissonant, etc. Early no wave-era Sonic Youth is a starting point for comparison’s sake, but these guys approach guitar sounds in a much different manner. I’d say “Signal Master” is the best track to start with to get an idea of this band’s sound. “Chris’s Theme” and “Anyone Else Want In” are each 6 minutes; the former is more steady and grooving, and it has a layer of synth, and the latter is faster (but still steady) and builds layers of noisy guitars at the end. “Thrash Master” is fast and short, but I’d hesitate to really call it thrash. Also, I really hope the song title “Voice Modulator” is a Best Show reference.

Bombardier @ Far House, 10/3/15

October 11, 2015 at 8:22 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

Matt Demmon

Zwaken

the controls

bubble walls

Fluxion A/D

Bombardier

Selector Catalogue

Watabou

Laetitia Sadier & Deradoorian @ MOCAD, 10/1/15

October 11, 2015 at 7:56 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

Deradoorian

Laetitia Sadier & band

Laetitia Sadier

Laetitia Sadier & band

Laetitia Sadier

Le Flange Du Mal: Carrion, My Wayward Son LP (Resipiscent, 2015)

October 11, 2015 at 4:28 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Le Flange Du Mal: Carrion, My Wayward Son LP

Political art-punk quartet with a small arsenal of instruments including horns, synths, organs, bells, tambura, and more. Apparently this band was active a decade or so ago and this is kind of a lost album, but it’s being released now and coincidentally, the original lineup of the band is playing shows again. Regardless of when this album was recorded, it sounds pretty current; some of it could be Scissor Now! with more instruments. What’s really remarkable is that this group avoids sounding messy or too weird for weirdness’s sake; all of the different instruments and intricate vocal arrangements make perfect sense, nothing sounds random or cluttered. In some weird way it’s even kind of poppy, not really “noise-rock” at all, although it’s still of interest to fans of music that gets branded with that term. The album’s most hypnotic, danceable cut turns out to be a Crass cover (“Shaved Women”). “Iacocca” appears to have some line about “burning Detroit”, if I’m hearing correctly.

Grant Evans: Silent Refusal tape (Invisible City Records, 2015)

October 11, 2015 at 3:49 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Grant Evans: Silent Refusal tape

A much darker, more desolate set of drones than I’ve heard from Mr. Evans. Feels like glowing, radioactive machines, which makes it no surprise that “appliances” is listed as an instrument. A lot more is going on than that, however; there’s also cello, harp, guitars, organs, and feedback. It shifts very slowly and subtly over the course of two 25-minute sides. It manages to get darker and more austere during the second side. The title suggests that this is some sort of act of protest, and it’s hard to tell exactly what for, but whatever it is, he ain’t budgin’.

Sindre Bjerga: Fugue States tape (Invisible City Records, 2015)

October 11, 2015 at 3:19 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Sindre Bjerga: Fugue States tape

Seriously warped live wreckage making improper usage of mutilated classic rock and reggae tapes, circuit-fried sampling instruments, and bizarre vocal antics worthy of Crank Sturgeon or Ghédalia Tazartès. You feel like you’re starting to melt and decompose and then you get jolted awake by shocking distorted telephone rings. It gets still and ambient for a while, and a lonely, decaying voice calls out via tape. Such a strange, disconcerting tape, I can barely imagine what attending these performances must be like.

Opaline: Open Source tape (Hacktivism Records, 2015)

October 11, 2015 at 12:03 am | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Opaline: Open Source tape

This guy keeps getting better and better. Now over a dozen tapes deep, Portland synth artist Hunter Peter Thompson seems to have an endless supply of bubbling, enveloping synth jams. Warm and soothing drones, but with inviting melodies that could be really laid back, atmospheric synth-pop tunes. This tape’s tracklist suggests coming back to a familiar place, becoming immersed and losing yourself, regrouping, and then departing. Listening to his many tapes continually brings back that feeling.

Ocean Charter of Values & Lung Cycles: split tape (Lily Tapes and Discs, 2015)

October 10, 2015 at 11:18 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Ocean Charter of Values & Lung Cycles: split tape

The OCOV side is some very drifty ambient folk, with distant pounding drums, still summer night air drone, and some lost-in-the-prairie vocals. The second side by Lung Cycles (the artist formerly known as Squanto) stood out to my ears more. Hissy drones played on cheap keyboards in public places during hot, humid days. Sometimes there’s some tape manipulations, adding some scrambled, alien-pitchshifted chattering voices in the mix, and sometimes there’s dogs barking or other incidental sounds. Very cheap fidelity, very hissy and flat-sounding, but it sounds like it was too hot and stuffy to worry about trivial things like that. The last track covers a very soothing keyboard drone with rain sounds and subtle tape manipulations. A really unique perspective on lo-fi tape drone. Free download on Bandcamp.

Boytronic: Bryllyant 12″ EP (Dark Entries, 2015)

October 10, 2015 at 10:54 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Boytronic: Bryllyant 12″ EP

Not familiar with this group, but apparently they formed in Hamburg in the early ’80s, released two albums and a handful of singles, and then their record label claimed rights to the name and put together an entirely different lineup of the band which recorded a few more albums. Anyway, Dark Entries just put out this EP of some of their early singles. The title track is included in two mixes, one of which features the track slowed down, the way Belgian DJ’s played it in 1988 at the height of the “new beat” movement. Playing 45s at 33 almost always makes them better, and this is no exception. The fact that this record plays at 45 RPM means that you can play it even slower and make it sound even sicker. The other two tracks on the record are entirely different, sounding like a Hi-NRG version of early Depeche Mode, and they’re awesome too, especially “Trigger Track”.

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