The Answer Is In The Beat

Crush Collision 8/20/15

August 21, 2015 at 12:08 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Hour 1
10:00 PM Cathode Ray Tube ~ One Day In May
10:07 PM AFX ~ NEOTEKT72
10:11 PM Florian Kupfer ~ Bruit Force
10:15 PM John Monkman & Pete Tong ~ Phoenix
10:19 PM Hunter/Game ~ Bermuda
10:27 PM Mike Dehnert ~ Beiwerk
10:30 PM Madben ~ Organic Drive
10:38 PM Phon.o ~ SOAG
10:42 PM Santiago Salazar ~ Brownout
10:47 PM Jessy Lanza ~ Fuck Diamond (Bambounou Remix)
10:52 PM Wa Wu We ~ B1
10:56 PM Francesco Terranova ~ Magnetica
Hour 2
11:01 PM Mr. Jones ~ The Truth About Robots
11:06 PM PVNV ~ Face Chemistry
11:11 PM Reeko ~ Dishonest Thoughts
11:14 PM Synthek & Audiolouis ~ Counterbalance (Kwartz Redefinition)
11:17 PM Inner8 ~ Praxis
11:23 PM qp ~ Puerto
11:24 PM Tallesen ~ Chime Ever (Thug Entrancer’s Astral Mix)
11:28 PM Chaams ~ All No Thing
11:31 PM Nocturnal Sunshine ~ Footsteps
11:35 PM Chevel ~ Alicia
11:39 PM Profligate ~ Ambient Metal Room (Impossible)
11:42 PM T_st & Dronelock ~ Further Than You Thought
11:44 PM AnD ~ Power Spectrum (Sleeparchive Remix)
11:48 PM AnD ~ Valid Point
11:53 PM Blastah ~ Acid SMS
11:56 PM RP Boo ~ Suicide

El Ten Eleven: Fast Forward (Fake Record Label, 2015)

August 19, 2015 at 9:44 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

El Ten Eleven: Fast Forward

Sixth (at least) album from an instrumental electronic post-rock duo who I could’ve sworn were more crescendo-core sounding, but this album is light, chilled out, and poppy, coming close to recent Tycho or a vocal-free Washed Out. “We Lost a Giant” definitely has the “Feel It All Around” vibe to it. Other tracks (“Scott Township”, “Be Kind, Rewind”) have New Order-esque guitars, which are pleasant. Some of this, especially the first 2 tracks, is surprisingly danceable. The press release describes how the drummer’s father died before the album was recorded, and it seems like there is a twinge of melancholy combined with a bit of a nostalgic overtone, but overall it’s definitely a sunny, enjoyable album.

Show #303 – 8/15/15

August 15, 2015 at 2:27 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

3:01 AM Qwanqwa ~ Hamalele ~ Volume One ~ FPE Records
3:10 AM Happy Flowers ~ I Ate Something Out Of The Medicine Cabinet ~ 7″ ~ Homestead
3:14 AM Happy Flowers ~ I’m The Stupid One ~ I Crush Bozo ~ Homestead
3:16 AM Happy Flowers ~ Why Didn’t You Tell Me You Were Bringing Home A Baby ~ My Skin Covers My Body ~ Homestead
3:18 AM Happy Flowers ~ Mom, I Gave The Cat Some Acid ~ My Skin Covers My Body ~ Homestead
3:22 AM Happy Flowers ~ My Frisbee Went Under A Lawnmower ~ I Crush Bozo ~ Homestead
3:24 AM Happy Flowers ~ I Saw My Picture On a Milk Carton ~ I Crush Bozo ~ Homestead
3:27 AM Happy Flowers ~ If This Gun Were Real (I Could Shoot You And Sleep In The Big Bed With Mommy) ~ Lasterday I Was Been Bad ~ Homestead
3:31 AM Happy Flowers ~ I Dropped My Ice Cream Cone ~ Flowers On 45: The Homestead Singles ~ Homestead
3:35 AM Old Skull ~ Hot Dog Hell ~ Get Outta School ~ Restless
3:38 AM Detroit 442 ~ Ted Nugent Sucks Dog Cock ~ Pigs ~ Hell City
3:40 AM The Blind Shake ~ Hurracan ~ Live In San Francisco ~ Castle Face
3:43 AM Scissor Now! ~ (It’s) Brr Cold ~ Now That’s What I Call Scissor Now! ~ Arbco
3:45 AM The Sediment Club ~ A Scary Part of Life (Tek) ~ Psychosymplastic ~ Wharf Cat
3:47 AM Royal Headache ~ Another World ~ High ~ What’s Your Rupture?
3:50 AM Graham Repulski ~ Funeral Games ~ Success Racist ~ Shorter Records
3:52 AM Monogamy ~ Cold Summer Water ~ Demo 2015 ~ self-released
3:57 AM Kevin Greenspon + Nicole Kidman ~ Already Dead ~ Already Dead 7″ EP ~ Bridgetown Records
4:01 AM Casiotone For The Painfully Alone ~ When The Bridge Toll Was A Dollar ~ Answering Machine Music ~ Cassingle U.S.A.
4:03 AM Casiotone For The Painfully Alone ~ Casiotone For The Painfully Alone In A Yellow T-Shirt ~ Twinkle Echo ~ Tomlab
4:06 AM Casiotone For The Painfully Alone ~ Young Shields ~ Etiquette ~ Tomlab
4:08 AM Advance Base ~ My Love For You Is Like A Puppy Underfoot ~ Nephew in the Wild ~ Orindal
4:11 AM Mascara-Sue ~ Carrot ~ Welcome To My World ~ Irritant
4:15 AM Cold Beat ~ Cracks ~ Into The Air ~ Crime On The Moon
4:19 AM Telepathe ~ Damaged Raid ~ Destroyer ~ BZML
4:22 AM HEALTH ~ Courtship II ~ Death Magic ~ Loma Vista
4:25 AM Smersh ~ The Land of Feeling Good ~ Super Heavy Solid Waste ~ Dark Entries
4:31 AM Kevin Greenspon ~ Window Pane ~ Paradise A.D. ~ Bridgetown Records
4:36 AM German Army ~ side A ~ Of Babongo ~ Discrepant
4:57 AM Time Ghost ~ Uber Orgone ~ Cellular ~ Load
5:04 AM Multicast Dynamics ~ Nebulous ~ Aquatic System ~ Denovali
5:07 AM Cyrnai ~ Sensitivity ~ Charred Blossoms ~ Mind Matter Records
5:10 AM Cyrnai ~ Windmill ~ Charred Blossoms ~ Mind Matter Records
5:12 AM Herbcraft ~ Push Thru the Veil ~ Wot Oz ~ Woodsist
5:17 AM Black Dirt Oak ~ Magic Hat ~ Presage ~ MIE Music
5:25 AM Our Love Will Destroy The World ~ Hades Iron Horizon ~ Carnivorous Rainbows ~ Ba Da Bing!
5:36 AM Somatic Responses ~ The Bystander ~ Deadmen’s Institute ~ Photon Emissions
5:42 AM Gila ~ This Morning ~ Deutsche Elektronische Musik ~ Soul Jazz
5:47 AM Amalgamated ~ Unworm Ascending ~ Amalgamated ~ Aubjects
5:53 AM Rand and Holland ~ Cobra ~ Rand and Holland ~ A Guide To Saints

Move Yr Ass 8/13/15

August 13, 2015 at 6:44 pm | Posted in Move Yr Ass | Leave a comment

Today’s edition of Move Yr Ass features “Fish Heads”, Charles Manson, “Yakety Sax”, and lots of annoying animal noises.
Move Yr Ass 8/13/15

The Blind Shake: Live in San Francisco (Castle Face, 2015)

August 12, 2015 at 10:33 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

The Blind Shake: Live in San Francisco

I saw this band open for Thee Oh Sees at SXSW this year at a free show late at night inside a cramped, sweaty room, and all I can remember is that it was 100 degrees and I had to wait for an hour or so until the band performed and I was worried that my friend was getting impatient, even though she really wanted to see Thee Oh Sees. So I don’t really remember much about how this band sounded. Listening to this live album, they sound pretty decent, actually. Two brothers both snarling and playing noisy guitar and a third guy bashing away on the drums, no bass (so if you’re not into trebly garage rock with no bass, this might not be for you). With 2 exceptions, all the songs are under 3 minutes, usually about 2 and a half, and they’re mostly uptempo and smashy, owing equally to British punk and ’60s garage rock at its stompiest. The guitar effects are great, they definitely make good usage of such a limited palette. The whole album is over in 25 minutes, which is just perfect. I think I need to see these guys again and actually pay attention next time.

Detroit 442: Pigs LP (Hell City Records, 2015)

August 12, 2015 at 10:11 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Detroit 442: Pigs LP

This punk band clearly and proudly hails from Detroit (just check out their anthem “Another Night in Detroit”), but it’s easy to mistake them for a British band, given singer Lacy 442’s over-exaggerated Johnny Rotten snarl. He definitely gives the band character, setting them apart from loads of other samey-sounding punk bands. The band has a riff-happy melodic sense similar to the Sex Pistols as well, although some tracks like opener “A Fear Of…” are repetitive, almost motorik. They kick into hardcore overdrive on tracks like the brief “Such a Laugh” and “The Fall of Everything”, and they pay tribute to their ’60s garage rock influences by covering The Troggs’ “I Want You” (recorded live at Detroit’s Comet Bar). Best of all is the hilarious “Ted Nugent Sucks Dog Cock”, which more than lives up to its fabulous title, meaning that it is completely unsafe for radio airplay. There’s also side B’s intro “Sonata Per Un Uomo Arrabbiato”, which has discordant piano playing showered by taunts of “you motherfuckers!” The album concludes with the lengthy “Pigs”, which breaks loose from the fast, short punk format for a slower, more psychedelic noise-rock jam with horns, sort of in the spirit of The Stooges’ and MC5’s epic jams, which has a subliminal chant of “kill all the pigs.” The whole album is super fun and creative, and it doesn’t take itself too seriously yet it says some interesting and pertinent things.

Black Dirt Oak/Jantar: Presage split 12″ EP (MIE Music, 2015)

August 11, 2015 at 8:41 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Black Dirt Oak/Jantar: Presage split 12″ EP

Black Dirt Oak are affiliated with Pigeons, but unlike that group’s more poppy, song-based psych explorations, BDO are more rambling and free-form. Their lengthy instrumentals have more electronic textures, and are influenced by Krautrock and dub as well as folk and jammy psychedelic rock. They lock into rhythms, but they still keep things loose and squishy. Actually, “Magic Hat” seems to very loosely hang onto its rhythm (but it’s still there), and “Fjordside” takes over 5 minutes of riding an organ drone before the drums come in. And then there’s the far-away vocals and trippy flutes. Both tracks seem to transcend time and go by a lot quicker than they would seem to. Not much is known about Jantar (yet), but their two compositions take their time, with every slowly paced piano and flute note making an impact. “Night From Four Martyrs” stretches to nearly 10 minutes, with the last 4 featuring layers of guitar noise in the background, while the piano still paces back and forth in the foreground. “Pull Out That Poison Dart” begins as a cocoon of reversed guitars, from which gentle, steady drums and mantra-like vocals emerge. And then they disappear, leading the piece to slowly fade away and retire.

still the best tape of last year. no contest.

August 9, 2015 at 11:05 pm | Posted in WTITYB | Leave a comment

runner-up:

feelings.

German Army: Of Babongo tape (Discrepant, 2015)

August 9, 2015 at 10:40 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

German Army: Of Babongo tape

Released on Discrepant, a world music-leaning experimental label with releases by Kink Gong, Old Komm, and Mutamassik (and apparently a new Mike Cooper LP later this year), this could potentially be viewed as German Army at their most Muslimgauze-esque. Or if not him, someone who’s likely to sample traditional-sounding folk instruments from a remote corner of the globe, combined with lo-fi industrial rhythms. This tape does oddly seem a bit more down-to-earth (or maybe out-in-the-open) than a typical German Army tape. Most of the tracks segue into each other, so it has more of a collage feel, and it’s just more cohesive. Plus it just seems like there’s more purpose to this tape than some of the other stuff I’ve heard by them. German Army at their most mystic? Something like that. It’s incredible.

Timeghost: Cellular (Chondritic Sound, 2014/Load, 2015)

August 9, 2015 at 10:01 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Timeghost: Cellular

This album combines fractured industrial drone with creepy spoken word. Unlike a lot of albums that do things like this, a lot of the spoken vocals are undistorted, which makes them even creepier when they say things like “Do you feel something on your leg?” The first two tracks respectively utilize synthesizers triggered by cell phone interference and field recordings of the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. The third track (“Dissection Theater”) has more of a shuddering rhythmic noise pulse to it, with distorted vocals reciting a cut-up version of the Nuremberg Code. “Delicate Resonances” is a warped lullaby with lyrics sourced from Methodist hymns, with a female computer voice reciting text by the artist’s mother. The other side is a little different, it doesn’t always do the spoken word stuff, at least not always in the same way as the first side. “Uber Orgone” is a pretty haunting track with chiming synths, electrifying drums, and operatic shrieking. It’s too easy for me to think of Coil when I hear this type of creative industrial-ish music that really doesn’t succumb to all the horrible cliches of industrial music, but it’s a valid comparison all the same. Closing track “Gaia” has weird massed voices chanting robotically. Seriously strange and haunting. Not to mention the die-cut artwork on the vinyl version on Load Records. An impossibly hard code to crack.

« Previous Page — Next Page »

Create a free website or blog at WordPress.com.
Entries and comments feeds.