Back to a more strictly ‘electronic’ listening diet today, for the most part:
Carter / Tutti / Void - Transverse
Mark Stewart & Maffia - a “two-fer”: Learning to Cope with Cowardice & As The Veneer of Democracy Starts To Fade
DSCRD - Panopticon EP
Eomac - Monad XVII EP (forthcoming)
Miles Davis - Black Beauty / Live at Fillmore West
Pan Sonic - Kesto
Back to a more strictly ‘electronic’ listening diet today, for the most part:
Carter / Tutti / Void - Transverse
Mark Stewart & Maffia - a “two-fer”: Learning to Cope with Cowardice & As The Veneer of Democracy Starts To Fade
DSCRD - Panopticon EP
Eomac - Monad XVII EP (forthcoming)
Miles Davis - Black Beauty / Live at Fillmore West
Pan Sonic - Kesto
You…I don’t say this often, so enjoy…have exquisite taste in music. What is yr record collection like?
Please tell me you are not a “downloader” and that you have a substantial record collection - so that I may sleep peacefully tonight…
You…I don’t say this often, so enjoy…have exquisite taste in music. What is yr record collection like?
Please tell me you are not a “downloader” and that you have a substantial record collection - so that I may sleep peacefully tonight…
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Well, I always attempt to get a vinyl manifestation of whatever it is that I really like. And I’m also lucky enough to have at least a few entities that throw complimentary records my way in exchange for writing / promotional help (sometimes this can backfire though…once got every single item in a Russian label’s massive CD catalog mailed to me, and there’s just no way in hell I will ever get around to spinning most of those.)
Sadly I’ve been put in too many situations - usually unemployment or having to go overseas to live - where the records were one of the only things of value I could possibly sell in order to get to the next phase of life. So I never seem to have that solid imposing wall of records that I can gloat over. I’m hoping to rectify this problem one of these days…
I will only ever be separated from my record collection at gunpoint.
Time Machines - Time Machines
Wait. Is that “Time Machines” as in Coil’s “Time Machines”???
If it is then A) you are awesome and B) you are wealthy as that shit sells for a fortune on cd and a mega fortune on vinyl.
Plan on sitting up late tonight so there’ll be heaps more. Hell, I may push on til dawn!
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I used to do that shit a lot when I was younger. I would build a cosy nest of pillows in my room, hit the lights, turn on the lava lamp, smoke some cheeba and stay up til dawn just listening to records.
Now I’m old a kinda jaded but I still do the odd marathon now and again.
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I worked for Wordsound on and off for a year…I know Skiz Fernando very well and have everything in the catalog…some great times in my life…
You may have unlocked my dreaded ‘storytime mode’…
One of the strangest shows I’ve attended, just in terms of attempting to fuse together disparate elements, was an event called ‘Flying Swimming’ booked by the Osaka electro-acoustic artists Kouhei Matsunaga. This was like a Wordsound showcase (w/ Spectre, Mentol Nomad, and Sensational), a laptop-based breakcore party (w/ Kid 606 and Lesser), and a performance art confrontation courtesy of local ‘noise’ people and Runzelstirn & Gurglestock.
That last item on the list is fronted by an evil Swiss imp named Rudolf, who is a very serious scatologist, sado-masochist, and occasional leader of things like the “Vomit Orchestra” whose performance gimmick you can probably imagine. He was something of a magnet for Osaka’s small ‘deranged junkie’ population, and the type of guy who, when drunk, would remind you that he was the reincarnation of a Nazi officer shot by occupying forces after the fall of Berlin. Classy.
So…yeah, you had that element doing its damndest to get along with all of the Wordsound people, who were in fact very good sports about it and just tending to their own business for the most part.
I think I got into that show for free because I was wandering around the periphery of the club with some camera gear, and someone came up and slapped a press pass on me without even asking for credentials - so I snuck in and managed to film a collective sound check that was actually more entertaining than many full shows I’ve seen: both of the laptoppers spewing out shards of glitchy mayhem, a couple of DJ’s, ‘Sensational’ freestyling, and a couple of Rudolf’s slaves wandering about zombie-like.
The gig itself was a beautiful disaster, 8 continual hours of everything from Janovian primal screaming and fire-breathing to MC’s baked out of their mind and forgetting where they were, to Kid 606 falling asleep at the base of a bass cabinet and getting tripped over repeatedly.
Apparently there was an even crazier second stop on this showcase, that featured Merzbow in the place of R + G…[/reply]
Sounds like a helluva gig…Yeah,some very cool people were involved with Wordsound…some batshit crazy ones also haha…Sensational is definitely and “interesting” dude…a very talented MC but I prefer his work in guests spots…his full albums can be endurance tests…
Chrome-Alien Soundtracks
Can-Ege Bayamasi
Massacre-Funny Valentine
Last Exit-Iron Path
Chrome-Alien Soundtracks
Can-Ege Bayamasi
Massacre-Funny Valentine
Last Exit-Iron Path
Good old Chrome - always a good live show, and a band that has mostly survived the “Cleopatra-fication” of their back catalog.
“Read Only Memory” is maybe one of my favorite EP-length records.
And I just have to hand it to anyone who can take a goofy lyric like “I saw you! At the zoo! In the parking loooot!!!” and make it seem like something of grim, apocalyptic importance. Sheesh - stay the hell away from that zoo if you know what’s good for you, kids.
[reply]Chrome-Alien Soundtracks
Can-Ege Bayamasi
Massacre-Funny Valentine
Last Exit-Iron Path
Good old Chrome - always a good live show, and a band that has mostly survived the “Cleopatra-fication” of their back catalog.
“Read Only Memory” is maybe one of my favorite EP-length records.
And I just have to hand it to anyone who can take a goofy lyric like “I saw you! At the zoo! In the parking loooot!!!” and make it seem like something of grim, apocalyptic importance. Sheesh - stay the hell away from that zoo if you know what’s good for you, kids.[/reply]
Yeah,Chrome is way underrated and overlooked…did some stellar work…and definitely in their element live…I really like Helios Creed from his earliest stuff up until about 1993…
St. Vincent
Good old Chrome - always a good live show, and a band that has mostly survived the “Cleopatra-fication” of their back catalog.
“Read Only Memory” is maybe one of my favorite EP-length records.
Classic band. Chrome have been a staple of my music diet for at least the last 15 years.
Great article here too, btw:
http://thequietus.com/articles/15284-chrome-interview-helios-creed
Trivia - did you know that Chrome rarely ever played live because Helios (I think) suffered from extreme stage fright.
Trivia - did you know that Chrome rarely ever played live because Helios (I think) suffered from extreme stage fright.
I honestly wouldn’t have thought that. Saw him at the ‘Empty Bottle’ on a mega-freakout double bill with Silver Apples many years ago. He was jovial and having tons of fun; but this might have been after a long layoff from touring and the fact that not a single soul in the audience was indifferent.
Didn’t it say in Mr. Connelly’s book that he was being approached to do a record with either the Damon Edge-led Chrome, or just Edge solo? A Chrome Connelly record would be an interesting item.
Can never go wrong with some Chrome.
Kyuss - Green Machine
Whitehouse - Mummy & Daddy
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All of a sudden I feel like…oh never mind.
Whitehouse - Mummy & Daddy
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All of a sudden I feel like…oh never mind.
One of their best, IMHO, along with ‘Cruise’ and ‘Quality Time.’
W. Bennett is one of the calmest and most unflappable people I’ve met, who has anything to do with the contemporary arts. Though I wish I could say the same for his stalkers who occasionally think I’m like his personal secretary or something, just because I had a chapter of a book given over to him.
The Incident…Porcupine Tree
I have written to William B. several times. Nice chap. Ignored my bait regarding him vs Genesis P. though.
Slaves- Where’s Your Car Debbie
Nine Inch Nails - The Fragile
Dinosaur Jr - Bug
PIL - Second Edition
Some noise I made 12 years ago. I’m actually still proud of these three little butt nuggets despite my lack of talent. Created over the course of two evenings using a Waldorf Micro-Q and Logic 5.0 but sad that I never worked on them after. Death on Mars was made with the idea of what it sounded like as a lone astronaut slowly looses consciousness and dies on the surface of Mars.