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Show #279 – 2/21/15

February 21, 2015 at 1:07 pm | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

3:01 AM Jefre Cantu-Ledesma ~ The Last Time I Saw Your Face ~ A Year With 13 Moons ~ Mexican Summer
3:09 AM Dan Deacon ~ Take It To The Max ~ Gliss Riffer ~ Domino
3:16 AM Zs ~ Corps ~ Xe ~ Northern Spy
3:30 AM Pascal Savy ~ Memory Fragment ~ Adrift ~ Eilean Records
3:35 AM Ray Sammartano ~ Valeriana ~ Dark Matter Sunshine ~ self-released
3:44 AM /f ~ (j) ~ Micromental ~ Psalmus Diuersae
3:51 AM Disk Provera ~ Scripts ~ Actual Rate ~ Psalmus Diuersae
3:54 AM Gavin Gamboa ~ Gila Monster ~ Esthetogenesis | Hamakhaave ~ Bandcamp
3:57 AM Vulpine Smile ~ Right Handed Romance On A Day That Ends In “Why” ~ Eclectic Components ~ Component
4:00 AM Nathan Mc Laughlin ~ Recess ~ Nothing To Be Sad About ~ Eilean Records
4:05 AM DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid ~ Synaptic Dissonance ~ Synthetic Fury ~ Asphodel
4:12 AM DJ Dlux ~ M1 Frontage ~ The Lost DATs 1993: Time EP ~ Soundcloud
4:17 AM Somatic Responses ~ Dennis Karate Floating Down The River Amman, Tied To Door ~ Hard Landing ~ Photon Emissions
4:21 AM OVe-NaXx ~ Wedding Disco ~ Bullets From Habikino City HxCx ~ Cock Rock Disco
4:24 AM c.db.sn ~ Sun In My Face ~ Neoteric Components ~ Component
4:31 AM Small Life Form ~ It’s Not All Milk & Cookies ~ Parts For Holiday Projects ~ Silber
4:37 AM Amnesia Scanner ~ Live In [][][][][] ~ mp3 ~ Soundcloud
5:00 AM Aaron Martin A Figure Falls Still Comet’s Coma Eilean Records
5:04 AM Solypsis ~ The Man Behind The Sun (Frog Pocket’s éirigh na gréine mix Remix) ~ Masks ~ Component
5:14 AM The Notwist ~ Object 6 ~ Messier Objects ~ Alien Transistor
5:17 AM You ~ Magooba ~ Electric Day ~ Bureau B
5:23 AM Cluster ~ Marzipan ~ Zuckerzeit ~ Brain
5:28 AM Cluster ~ Im Süden ~ Cluster II ~ Brain
5:40 AM Deutsche Wertarbeit ~ Auf Engelsflügeln ~ Deutsche Wertarbeit ~ Bureau B
5:46 AM Johan Agebjörn ~ Will They Forgive Us ~ Notes ~ Paper Bag
5:49 AM Sam Prekop ~ Weather Vane ~ The Republic ~ Thrill Jockey
5:53 AM Mark Isham ~ When Things Dream ~ Vapor Drawings ~ Windham Hill Records
5:55 AM Matana Roberts ~ Dreamer Of Dreams ~ Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee ~ Constellation

Crush Collision 2/19/15

February 20, 2015 at 9:13 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

Crush Collision 2/19/15
11:04 PM William Onyeabor ~ When The Going Is Smooth And Good
11:15 PM Demdike Stare ~ Rathe
11:17 PM Paul Mac ~ Space, Space And More Space
11:23 PM DJ Leukos ~ Untitled Riddim (C Plus Plus & Karmelloz Remix)
11:25 PM Ligovskoi ~ Dilip (Antigone & Francois X Remix)
11:29 PM 2 AM/FM ~ Acid Planes
11:40 PM JTC ~ Buck! (Reimhard Voigt Remix)
11:42 PM DVS1 ~ Black Russian
11:48 PM Joey Anderson ~ Brass Chest Plate
11:52 PM Wen ~ You Know
11:54 PM Aurora Halal ~ Disassociate

His Name Is Alive @ Magic Stick, 2/14/15

February 16, 2015 at 4:03 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

Warren Defever

His Name Is Alive

Andrea Morici

Warren Defever

+ some bonus artwork from the Valentine’s Day art show at UFO Factory

Warren Defever: Two Cats

art by Davin Brainard and Matthew Bustamonte

marble parrot (toucan?)

February 16, 2015 at 3:51 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

marble parrot (toucan?)

Crush Collision 2/12/15

February 13, 2015 at 9:24 am | Posted in Crush Collision | Leave a comment

This was a special fundraising edition of Crush Collision, which featured extensive usage of a text-to-speech site in order to get people to call in to donate. You can donate at any time over at wcbn.org/donate!
Hour 1
10:02 PM Ekranoplan ~ Coil
10:07 PM Lusine ~ Flat For You (Matthew Dear Remix)
10:10 PM N.M.O. ~ Full Spectrum Dominance
10:14 PM Tzusing ~ No Primordial State
10:16 PM Mr. Oizo ~ Torero
10:20 PM VHS Head ~ Enter The Devil
10:23 PM Blue Sabbath Black Fiji ~ Deep Gravy 7
10:28 PM Max D ~ Chewy
10:32 PM Leon Vynehall ~ Goodthing
10:37 PM Mr. G ~ Lot To Say…
10:42 PM An-i ~ Kino-i (Mix)
10:49 PM Inigo Kennedy ~ Lullaby
10:54 PM Forma ~ Cloud Pillar
Hour 2
11:08 PM Matrixxman ~ Holographic
11:11 PM Jordan GCZ ~ Swingonoguitaro
11:17 PM Juju & Jordash ~ Deadwood City
11:21 PM Beatrice Dillon ~ Halfway
11:23 PM Roberto ~ Prolecanites
11:29 PM Gunnar Haslam ~ Cloud Castle Lake
11:35 PM Omar-S ~ Leave
11:41 PM Raiz featuring Permanent Heartbreak ~ With Me
11:45 PM Young Marco ~ Suzaku
11:50 PM AFX ~ Hypersquij
11:53 PM SVN ~ On Tempo

MOCAD, Eastern Market, Trinosophes 2/7/15

February 8, 2015 at 5:38 pm | Posted in Photos | Leave a comment

One of my friends from college has her paintings on exhibit at MOCAD until the end of March, so she visited the museum to talk about her work.

Jamian Juliano-Villani and Jens Hoffmann

Some Deaths Take Forever

a few other works

Ragnar Kjartansson: The End (multimedia exhibit)

inside Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead

I wandered around Eastern Market for a while.

RoboCrop

Sala Thai

I went to Trinosophes for the 3rd day of the Over The Pavement festival.

Peoples Records’ new branch @ Trinosophes

Thanks USA

Molly Jones and friends (Kirsten Carey on guitar)

James Cornish and friends (Sara Grosky on vocals)

Hasan Abdur Razzaq/Ryan Jewell Duo

juice bar

Stirrup (Fred Lonberg-Holm on cello)

Marshall Allen and Danny Ray Thompson with Jaribu Shahid

Sam Prekop: The Republic (Thrill Jockey, 2015)

February 8, 2015 at 4:24 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Sam Prekop: The Republic

Sam Prekop’s earlier solo albums continued in the same indie-rock/post-rock vein as his main band The Sea & Cake, but his 2010 album Old Punch Card was a major shift into the world of modular synth exploration. This album continues that exploration, collecting several short pieces of buzzing and pulsating synthesizer composition, ranging from dark droning to abrasive noise to more rhythmic techno-like tracks. The first 9 tracks are a suite called “The Republic”, but they don’t flow into each other seamlessly, so they can be taken as individual pieces. The first one starts off with a lot of amp buzzing, but then develops into shimmering drone. 2 and 4 are darker interludes, but the others have brighter, more pulsating tones, with 5 stopping in the middle and becoming more serene during its second part. 9 is another dark drone which ends with some loops that sound like harp samples. “Weather Vane” takes the album in an unexpectedly dancey direction, with its bright synth patterns erupting into 4/4 beats. “The Loom” has busy, scattered fractal arpeggios, and “Invisible” is mostly calm until those arpeggios creep in. “A Geometric” is another serene, sparkling piece which sounds like it’s going to burst into dance beats again, but it shys away this time. “Music In Pairs” ends the album with 2 minute of more concentrated, buzzing synth-bass melodies. Even though this isn’t Prekop’s first album in this vein, it’s still so much of a departure from his earlier work that it can still seem like he’s trying out some new toys, possibly as a side project or other diversion. This seems so much more than that, though, as he seems pretty masterful at creating expressive pieces which go into unexpected directions.

Johan Agebjörn: Notes (Paper Bag, 2015)

February 8, 2015 at 3:21 pm | Posted in Reviews | 1 Comment

Johan Agebjörn: Notes

Best known for his work in brilliant Italo-disco duo Sally Shapiro, Johan Agebjörn has actually been recording ambient and downtempo electronic music since the ’90s. Ambient/new age label Lotuspike released two albums of these compositions in 2008 and 2011, and Paper Bag (the label that also released Sally Shapiro’s albums) released his collaboration-heavy disco album Casablanca Nights in 2011. Notes is something new and different, creating curious, wintery electronic pop songs using Casio electric piano sounds. More than anything, this album reminds me of ’80s electronic artists such as Ray Lynch, whose music was categorized as new age but always felt more playful and melodic than most music of that genre, ending up being its own type of spectral synth-pop. This album totally captures that vibe, with songs such as “The Right To Play” and “The Boy Who Thought It Was A Good Idea To Cry” having catchy dancing-snowflake melodies using wispy synth tones (and note the slide whistle that appears halfway through “The Right To Play”!). A few songs have incidental or sampled vocals (children’s voices pop up a few times), but guest vocalists appear on a few songs as well. “The Leftovers” features Loney Dear, and “You Passed Through” has Young Galaxy living up to their name with the album’s most spacey ambient pop song. The pseudonymous vocalist Sally Shapiro makes appearances on “Careful” and “The Best Thing”, but her vocals are hushed and buried under atmospherics on “Careful”, distancing the song from the more disco-leaning tracks on proper Sally Shapiro releases. “Will They Forgive Us” and “Alpha Beta Gamma” (which flow together) are the only songs on the album with solid 4/4 beats, but on “Will They Forgive Us”, it’s still the mesmerizing synth melody that takes center stage. “Alpha Beta Gamma” brings the beats a little more up to the forefront, creating more of an ambient dance track. The whole album is incredibly sweet and it’s easily my favorite album that Agebjörn has released so far.

Show #278 – 2/7/15

February 7, 2015 at 11:47 am | Posted in The Answer Is In The Beat | Leave a comment

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3:01 AM Matana Roberts ~ All Is Written ~ Coin Coin Chapter Three: River Run Thee ~ Constellation
3:11 AM Jefre Cantu-Ledesma ~ Agate Beach ~ A Year With 13 Moons ~ Mexican Summer
3:13 AM Mount Eerie ~ Emptiness ~ Sauna ~ P.W. Elverum & Sun
3:16 AM Eternal Tapestry ~ Maidenhair Spleenwort ~ Wild Strawberries ~ Thrill Jockey
3:24 AM Johan Agebjörn ~ You Passed Through ~ Notes ~ Paper Bag
3:30 AM Somatic Responses ~ Back Home ~ Obscure The Future ~ Photon Emissions
3:37 AM Sam Prekop ~ The Loom ~ The Republic ~ Thrill Jockey
3:40 AM /f ~ Pviaeni Catic ~ Micromental ~ Psalmus Diuersae
3:43 AM Mark Barrage ~ Pitcher ~ Surplus Behaviour ~ Endless Melt
3:44 AM AFX ~ Acid Organ (Rough Mix) ~ mp3 ~ Soundcloud
3:53 AM Else Marie Pade & Jacob Kirkegaard ~ Altocumulus ~ Svævninger ~ Important
4:00 AM Jessica Pratt ~ Back, Baby ~ On Your Own Love Again ~ Drag City
4:04 AM Jib Kidder ~ Dozens ~ Teaspoon To The Ocean ~ Weird World
4:06 AM Panda Bear ~ Come To Your Senses ~ Panda Bear Meets The Grim Reaper ~ Domino
4:13 AM Portland ~ Canejo Place ~ Uprox Detox ~ Component
4:15 AM Sergeant Sawtooth ~ Mission To Mars ~ This Is Tomorrowland ~ Scolex Recordings
4:20 AM Env(itre) ~ Slanderman ~ Lapislazuli ~ Touched
4:24 AM Barbeque ~ AFK ~ Quit Your Job To This Vol. 2 ~ Placenta Recordings
4:27 AM Stopgap Measure ~ Relocation ~ First Blood ~ Juke Trax Online
4:33 AM Steve Roach ~ Invisible ~ Invisible ~ Bandcamp
4:43 AM Negativland ~ Car Bomb ~ Escape From Noise ~ SST
4:45 AM Ty Segall Band ~ Slaughterhouse ~ Live In San Francisco ~ Castle Face
4:47 AM Vankmen ~ Mirrorshard ~ Demolish (Tooth_Eye Remix) ~ Toxic Appetizer Platter Vol. 1 ~ Placenta Recordings
4:48 AM Quiet Noise ~ It Will Get Better ~ Audible Life ~ Audiobulb
4:52 AM Noboru Watanabe ~ Goretouch ~ White Light Wind ~ Bandcamp
5:00 AM Second Culture ~ Entheon Centuries ~ Thunder Conjuring Mind ~ Second Culture Music
5:04 AM Floating Spirits ~ Noctilucent ~ Like the Rain ~ Touched
5:08 AM Surface 10 ~ Dawn / Bleep / Dusk ~ Surface Tensions ~ DiN
5:14 AM Tinsen ~ Eventualmente ~ Tinsen [lo-op] ~ Placenta Recordings
5:20 AM Tomaga ~ Futura Grotesk ~ Futura Grotesk ~ Hands In The Dark
5:24 AM Ricardo Donoso ~ Prisoner’s Dilemma ~ Deterrence ~ Denovali
5:28 AM Thomas Köner ~ Tiento de las Nieves ~ Tiento de las Nieves ~ Denovali
5:34 AM Squanto ~ Jaffa (Take 1) ~ Basement Tropic ~ Lily Tapes And Discs
5:45 AM M. Geddes Gengras ~ The Last Time We Were Here ~ Collected Works Vol. 2: New Process Music ~ Umor Rex
5:54 AM Jaga Jazzist ~ Kitty Wu (Machinedrum Remix) ~ ’94-’14 ~ Ninja Tune

Michna: Thousand Thursday (Ghostly International, 2015)

February 2, 2015 at 6:35 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Michna: Thousand Thursday

Second full-length from Adrian Michna of Secret Frequency Crew. Like labelmate Shigeto, Michna produces danceable music with downtempo/hip-hop influences. This one seems a little more dancey than previous releases, with the first 3 tracks sounding like they could be on a DFA release, with percolating disco rhythms and rough-but-shiny synths. “Solid Gold” features MNDR and is a shot at a straightforward dance-pop song. “Nuroq Legacy” is a dancey track but it lapses into a downtempo/hip-hop breakdown. “Time Will Tell” isn’t quite so dancey and has bitcrushed drums and playful melodies, and I like it better than the dancier tracks. “Jace the Mind Sculptor” is a simmering interlude with crashing wave sounds and some mysterious voices chanting in the background. “Increasing Ambition” has more percolating dance beats and new wave synths. “Believe In It Pt. II” shifts to midtempo, with more big chunky breakbeats and simple synth melodies, but it settles into another dance groove, has more subliminal voices embedded, switches up a couple times, and really is not as simple as it might seem at first. “She Exists In My Mind” has choppy hip-hop breakbeats and rapidly flickering bass synth notes, with increasingly detailed production (Michna certainly has a knack for drum fills and stuffing up the tracks with voices and other sounds). “Skyway T/A” bumps the tempo up a bit with more busy drumwork and emotive melodies, ending with a voice mail message from a downstairs neighbor worrying that the ceiling is going to cave in. “Death Pits of Rath” ends the album with more thundering breakbeats, almost approaching Meat Beat Manifesto territory.

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The Answer Is In The Beat

Show #279 – 2/21/15

Crush Collision 2/19/15

His Name Is Alive @ Magic Stick, 2/14/15

marble parrot (toucan?)

Crush Collision 2/12/15

MOCAD, Eastern Market, Trinosophes 2/7/15

Sam Prekop: The Republic (Thrill Jockey, 2015)

Johan Agebjörn: Notes (Paper Bag, 2015)

Show #278 – 2/7/15

Michna: Thousand Thursday (Ghostly International, 2015)

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