Tuesday and it’s raining.
The playlist’s been something like:
Fennesz/Jeck/Matthews / Amoroso: a tribute to the “sacred minimalism” of Arvo Part, Amoroso’s a continuation of the Touch label’s series of 7″ gems. Christian Fennesz and Philip Jeck manipulate and toy with organist Charles Matthew’s performances. Sublime stuff.
Pocahaunted / Island Diamonds: Fresh from the Arbor press, Island Diamonds is Pocahaunted through a hazy fog of dub and drenched out beats. It’s cosmic.
Strategy / Electric Soup: Paul Dickow’s first bit of 2008 material as Strategy, Electric Soup, is a blissfully tripped out 12″ of electric beeps and blips. Woozy wisps, degraded tapeloop, buzzing drones… Yum.
Yesterday’s broadcast, recorded:
Show Playlist:
The Books / Fralite / Music For A French Elevator
Tortoise / Ten-Day Interval / TNT
Deerhunter / After Class / Living Bridge
Project Perfect / Routine / PM+
Sian Alice Group / Larsen B / 59.59
Bowery Electric / Inside Out / Beat
Konono Nº1 / Kule Kule / Congotronics
Hood / John Clyde-Evans / Singles Compiled
Air / Kelly Watch The Stars (Demo) / Moon Safari (Special Edition)
Yellow Swans / Mass Mirage / At All Ends
Tape / Fingers / Luminarium
The Crystals / No One Ever Tells You / The Best Of The Crystals
Animal Collective / #1 / Strawberry Jam
Excepter / The Last Dance / Debt Dept.
Manitoba / Ole / Jacknuggeted
Meneguar / What Would You Wage / The In Hour
Boredoms / Zutto / Vision Creation Newsun
Indian Jewelry / Overdrive / Free Gold
Boris with Michio Kurihara / Fuzzy Reactor / Rainbow
Heliocentrics / The American Empire / Out There
Pocahaunted / Sweat Lodge / Christina Carter/Pocahaunted Split
Belong / My Clown / Colorloss Record
Pyramids / Sleds / Pyramids
Growing / Southern Writes / Sky’s Run Into The Sea
Ecstatic Sunshine / Perrier / Way
Adult Swim: It’s always on here in the dorms so, sometimes I watch it. It’s kind of funny now and then. Regardless of my feelings on it though, they have a habit of releasing these free-for-download albums. They’ve done, thus far, two with Stones Throw (Chrome Children 1 & 2) and one that featured an amalgam of cross-genre artists ranging from Fennesz to Asobi Seksu. Needless to say, they’re intriguing. Their latest comes as a collaboration with Ghostly records. Snatch it up.
http://www.adultswim.com/williams/music/ghostlyswim/index.html
Yesterday’s broadcast, recorded:
Playlist:
Avey Tare / I’m Your Eagle Kisser / Living Bridge
Klimek / For Lia and Jim Corrigan / Dedications
Quiet Village / Gold Rush / Silent Movie
Nurse With Wound & Faust / Disconnected / Disconnected
Psychic Ills / 4AM / Early Violence
Spacemen 3 / Feelin’ Just Fine (Head Full of Shit) / Recurring
Atlas Sound / Headphones / Enjoyed: A Tribute To Bjork’s Post
Cloudland Canyon / Mothlight Part 1 / Lie in Light
Quetzolcoatl / S G Valley / Sleeping Within The Sun
Neil Young and Crazy Horse / Bandit / Greendale
Gregor Samsa / Jeroen Van Aken / Rest
Hilo Hawaiian Orchesta / Hula Love Medley March / Vintage Hawaiian Music
Spiritualized / Take Good Care of It / Pure Phase
Fennesz / Caecillia / Endless Summer
The Focus Group / Baroque Face / Hey Let Loose Your Love
Broadcast / You Can Fall / The Noise Made By People
Earth / The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull / The Bees Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull
Four Tet / Hilarious Movie of the 90’s (Koushik’s Funny Flic) / Four Tet Remixed
No Age / Don’t Stand Still / Eraser 7″
Macha Loved Bedhead / Never Underdose / Bedhead Loved Macha
Movietone / Night of the Acacias / Day and Night
Caribou / Subotnick / The Milk of Human Kindness
Gowns / Mercy Springs / Red State
Last night’s performance went well. A friend of ours, Dan, snapped some snazzy pics.
Tomorrow’s the radio show. Perk up your ears.
Wailing institute tonight in the Cabaret. The show should be crazy, nine weirdos all playing organized chaos. 8 o’ clock on the dot. I’ll try to post some evidence of its outlandishness tomorrow.
Mondays…
Music I’ve been enjoying recently:
Religious Knives / Resin: a compilation album of sorts, Religious Knives’ music throughout the years. It’s dark, lo-fi, drone-inspired krautrock, maybe.
The Microphones / The Glow Pt. 2 Reissue: released recently by K records, there’s an entire second disc of goodies. Some weird spacey takes on tracks like “I Want Wind to Blow” and “The Glow Pt. 2″ really make worthwhile.
Jasper TX / This Quiet Season: Dag Rosenqvist continually lulls me into dream-like states. This Quiet Season comes as 40 minutes of simply gorgeous drone.
Quetzolcoatl / Sleeping Within The Sun: Easily one of my favorite artists as of late, Tim Hurley’s music is distanced, fuzz-drenched drone. Looped layers of distorted feedback; sonic bliss. I could write a thousand metaphors for it, but, they’d all be rather silly.
