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The August Mixtape

Now embedded for yr convenience & pleasure and stuff. Or something.


Tracklist:
最上川船唄(もがみがわふなうた)「山形県」 (from a shakuhachi CD I found in a ¥100 store in Nara on the last night of my most recent trip to Japan)

Slightly Delayed - Ashra (on loop. My Dad likes it too.)

Folk Ghost - Douglas Wood (xxJFG hauntology)

Susabu - Sabu Orimo (Read about this fellow in the Wire. Shakuhachi meets improv meets...well, you'll find out. Intense.)

Desire - Tuxedomoon (Oldy, goody)

Seagull Sunday - Bridget St John (Peppermint Store makes wonderfully idyllic British psych/acid folk mixes)

Burial in the Sky - Sun City Girls (always)

Zuerist Ich - Silvia (Flexi Pop, google it, or hit Egg City Radio for a shit ton of comps)

I Feel Your Soul - Ghostape (More xxJFG)

That Thing (American Version) - That Thing (Art Decade...I think. Damn if it ain't funky)

So, there you have it.

The blog isn't dead; it's just resting. Plus I find the divshare playlist format easier to post, and if you want idividual tracks, go for it, rather than having to DL a whole 150mb zip file)....

SPOOOOOOOOX

Julie Feyrer and Pietro Sammarco curate Spoox Audio Zine. I've got 2 tracks in issue 5. Woot!

Hit it here to stream

or

Click here to download SPOOX_Issue_Five.zip
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(20 mp3 files @ 79 MB)

01 Curtis Grahauer - SS60s (twangy)
02 Anthony Valderamma - Squee
03 Devon Lougheed - They Never Give Up
04 Beatboxfred - Untitled
05 Curtis Grahauer - SS60s (reagan)
06 Collin Johanson - The Exuberance of Life 2007
07 James Whitman - Guiniverere Build 2
08 Wedge08 - Oooohh My God
09 Variety Lights - Crunchy Bacon
10 The Try Harder - All the Pernod I Want
11 Pietro Sammarco
12 Rollin Hunt - Hot Momma
13 Christopher Olson - Turntable improv 4
14 Cameron Reed - I Like Tigers
15 Curtis Grahauer - SS60s (tiny tim)
16 Christopher Olson - Cops Dogs
17 Curtis Grahauer - SS60s (burbank)
18 Michele Di Menna - Hands
19 Secretfag - Untitled
20 Sorrenbrothers - Cree Darryl

revised TAXES cassette cover

revised TAXES cassette cover
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Drawing/logo by me. Out soon.

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BBBRRROOOOSSSSS

The obligatory MJ post

This came up in my tumblr via towerofsleep:

barthel:

In 1977, Elvis died. It was an anticlimatic moment, and an anticlimactic death. Long past his prime, and even past a comeback that failed to cohere into some sort of second-act respectability, his death left many things unresolved, a fact attested to by all the posthumous sightings. What was unresolved isn’t exactly clear: there were secrets yet to come out, true, a drug habit that could’ve been kicked, all right, and an embrace of schmaltz that could be rejected. But all seem like unlikely outcomes. It was just an unexpected place to cut off the arc, like someone realized they’d run out of ideas five years back and couldn’t think of anywhere else to take it. Elvis was written into a corner. But he died just when the changes he’d wrought were, according to popular legend anyway, at their moribund peak. 1977 was the year that dinosaur rock was theoretically killed by punk, the supposed “year zero.” Taste killed him, maybe, thinking if it cut out the living embodiment of lazy, bloated, self-satisfied rock the body would die off, too.

Which is basically the situation we have here with MJ. This is an unsatisfying resolution: there was no successful comeback, no redemption, no elder statesman period, not even a blaze of glory to go out on, just a middle-aged heart attack. But at the same time, we are in some sort of end times of all he represents. The world of celebrity journalism and gossip seems to have hit rock bottom, self-sustaining on a steady diet of nothing, running on the fumes of a system totally contained within their walls and unconnected with any sort of exterior fame. Megafame itself is mostly dead, a few old stars aside. Maybe this is a kind of year zero, too. Maybe something else will come along. Maybe it’s politics. God help us all.

towerofsleep: As of right now, the best eulogy I’ve read.

Agreed. My first instinct was to blog “Don’t Stop til You Get Enough” since Off the Wall far outshines Thriller in my opinion, but somesongsconsidered and I’m sure a good chunk of the blogosphere had already beat me to it. I got home from work and after a whole day of it playing out ad nauseum on Talk 1410….just as I had expected, every 3rd post on the tumblr dashboard was MJ.

Fair enough.The above eulogy points out was what I was thinking- this is like Elvis, especially since MJ had become more of a monster -of his, the media’s and most importantly and this should not be overlooked- his abusive father’s making. “Wacko Jacko”, tabloid fodder though he was- I couldn’t help but feel a little bit sorry for him. Not fully sympathetic for him (errr——creepy sleepovers with kids in his Peter Pan compound…? Errrr, Macauly, would you like to weigh in?) but for what he had become:

Isolated, Howard-Hughes-like with a fucked-up face, a surgical mask not to protect from germs but to hide a deformed nose that needed surgery after surgery, and in massive debt and a lifetime of odd choices, courtroom appearaces, baby-dangling, John Merrick’s remains, Priscilla Presley, getting mooned by Jarvis Cocker (ok ok, that was kinda awesome)etc etc etc etc ——and until today apparently frail and full of meds and going to prep for a 10-date tour that turned into a full-on world conquering comeback, with Lou “The Incredible Hulk” Ferrigino as his personal trainer….no wonder his ticker gave out.

If anything, I’m sure he’s fuckin’ relieved.

It's telling that TMZ was the first to break it on the radio station, and CNN was the last to confirm two hours later and inbetween, a shitstorm of up-to-the-second hype exacerbated by twitter.

I’m too lazy to dig up the mp3, but I would post “Leave Me Alone”, his semi-satiric middle finger to sensationalist media in his honour.

music waste:oid

music waste: hard feelings at the cobalt
Originally uploaded by distrait

Music Waste: Point form hilites:

Hmmm. I actually went out on a couple nights. for starters.

*HEALTHY STUDENTS---Ex Red Light Sting/WPP/Taxes doing 80's style hahd-koa. Pretty Dope.
*HARD FEELINGS- all drive, power trio, solid solid, tight bros. Al played drums with the above then moved into gitter/vocs duties. 2 sets in a row. Machine.
BCVCO- Killed it at the Anza. See previous post. 5 guys in white, a stage full of analogue synth/soundmaking gear older than you are, more patchcords than hairs on your head......wwwooooowowowowowowwwWOWOWOWowowowowowowWoooooooo
REVELSTOKE - Dead Meadow meets Hella doing Rush covers. Not shabby.
ART WASTE at Little Mountain - other than Julianne Clare's floor tile reno/intervention (interenovention?) and Robert Mearns huge portrait of Cam Reed, the rest was the usual trendy hipster mural/scribble style with obligatory blackmetal irony and surprisingly very little in the way of neon triangles. Whatever. Got tired of seeing it all over the internet last year, extra tired of seeing it now.

Pic: hard feelings at the cobalt by the ENORMOTALENTED Distrait/Noah

Thee April--no, May...ah shit, it's June Already Mixtape

Funny how time goes. You blink and a couple of months roll by and ... yeah. It's summer. Almost. A few days shy of the Solstice as I type, but all the same---some music for you hand picked from the blogosphere and yours truly's archives as the cold and wet weather gives way to the hot and wet. Ahem.

Anyways, this is a big mix, 140mb or so, and should be enough to tide one over til later in July, as I'm getting on a jetplane soon for another stretch of rest and relaxation in Japan.
Lights camera, etc:
---------------> HIT IT.

Thee Spring(ish) Mixtape

Poobli -Jasper Van't Hof
Venus -Logic System
Love Without Sound -White Noise
Langsames Stuck und Rondo für Trautonium (1935) -Paul Hindemith
Windland -Hipnosis
Phantasized Persecutory Breast -Severed Heads
Mosem-E-Gol (The Time Of The Blossom) -Parva�
Little More Gauze -Nichols & May
Revolution Is The Main Trend In The World Today -Cornelius Cardew
Summer '68 -Pink Floyd
Komm und spiel mit mir -Manfred Krug
Together (Album Version) -The Intruders
I can't wait until i see my baby's face -Aretha Franklin
Theme De Celine -Art Ensemble Of Chicago
You've Got What I Want -The Sorrows
Have Love Will Travel -Sonics
Dancing Lonely Night -The Jaguars
Mella Mella -The Spiders
Le Canari Est Sur Le Balcon -Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg
Octopus -Syd Barrett
Tamlin -Fairport Convention

Notes:

Poobli is via dependable Lovefingers and marks the thaw with my winter-long kosmiche bender letting up to let in more sun. But not without a return performance from Japan's Logic System (see the last mixtape for details), classic White Noise, some Paul Hindemith who I heard at dawn on WFMU one day thinking it was Oskar Sala which led me Google-ways to the wonderful Porridge Legs, a new fave blog, who happened to be the source of the Cornelius Cardew track later on. Anyways, it's sourced from vinyl via the Avant Garde Project, a weekly torrent site specializing in old avant/electro-acoustic vinyl gems that have been relegated to the basements and eBay boxes of history. Solid and worth investigating.

Hipnosis provide some triumphant italo space-cruise, Severed Heads is an ooooollld fave (like way old- saw 'em with Skinny Puppy when I was 14 and still have a signed copy of Come Visit the Big Bigot somewhere in the archives).... Nichols and May provide an intermission, an ersatz "end of side 1" giving way to side 2's run of piano, psych, German soul, Motown, and the inimitable Art Ensemble of Chicago. A short garage rampage follows in English and Japanese. We then round things out with some mellow psych and an old fave by Fairport Convention, inserted partially as a spell to convince the Blogglebum to get back on the horse.

So. There you have it. An hour and a half to keep you amused. Enjoy.

I'll be on Co-Op Radio, CFRO tonight.

June 10, Wednesday

9-10pm, Soundscape Radio, doing a co-host thingy on phonography, field recording, souldtransit.nl and Seattle’s Phonographer’s Union

Listen online! Follow the headline/link.

Now streaming live in 128Kbps or 32Kbps stereo MP3.

MP3 audio archives: 128Kbps or 32Kbps.

Also, BCVCO at the Anza after. Music Waste FUCK YEAH!

"World Music" rethought

Soooolid.

Via rj5000::

BROOKLYN ANTHEMS
Dutty Artz Represents the World Town

“Encyclopedic, scholarly and wielding deep faith in riddim and vibes—the alchemy of the Brooklyn-based Dutty Artz crew is completely mystical and slightly awe-inspiring. Its main proprietors, the power trio of DJ/producers Jace Clayton aka DJ/Rupture, Matt Schell aka Matt Shadetek, and Roberto Fernandez aka Geko Jones, are dudes preeminently known for soliciting and disseminating the globe’s bangingest dancehall, dubstep, and cumbia beats. They have explored metropolises, townships and favelas to seek out music in its indigenous state and found likeminded friends in Brazil’s Maga Bo, Montreal’s Ghislain Poirier, and Cape Town’s African Dope Records crew, and when they can’t get to the most outward of dance music’s niches themselves, they have a gang of colleagues to carry the load. When a friend recently traveled to Distrito Federal in Mexico City, Jones begged him to bring back whatever wild music he could find. Thus, when you Google “tribal guarachero,” duttyartz.com is the only non-Spanish blog that results. They are archaeologists scouring the globe’s nooks and crannies with the curiosity of scientists, not conquistadors. They are so passionate about the beat, and generous with their knowledge of it, you almost don’t know where to begin the discussion.”

read more about these chill bros.

Faithful follower of Rupture’s MUDD UP! on WFMU. Link to listen. You won't be disappointed. It's June, Summer's here. Get sweaty.

Also: April/May mix becomes June mixtape. Coming soon.

Recently....

Yup, more tumblr'd tastiness. Links lead to streamable tracks, which I sadly have no idea how to embed over here, and don't feel like digging thru the code to find out. Lazy? No. Noob? Yes. Oh, and there's pretty pictures/gifs to go along with them.


Phantasized Persecutory Breast - Severed Heads
Old faves, rediscovered.

Windland- Hipgnosis
Triumphant space/italo for cruising thru the black and purple neon towards victory.

Laboratorium- I'm Sorry, I'm Not Driver
Fucking sexy.

Panorphelia - Edgar Froese
Froese. Nuff said.

I'm Not Synthesizer - Boredoms
Worth it for how the .gif syncs up with the music. See for yourself.