Nico, The Frozen Borderline 1968-1970 the sonic mise en scene of Marble Index tracks like No One Is There and Lawn of Dawns conjures a dank, draughty castle in Bavaria or Bohemia, with shadows, cast from guttering candles, flickering against the walls.This pendulum swings back and forth between pure-pleasure-and-nothing-else versus the ascesispunitiveness of Edge Factor pursued to the exclusion of entertainment.Its a self-correcting mechanism (similar mechanisms function on other other axes too, ones that roughly align with pleasureun-pleasure, but are not precisely the same -- lightdark, treblebass, yinyang, songtrack, etc etc).These mechanisms are activated (deejays, producers, promoters responding to the desertion of the dancefloor, or deterioration of the vibe) whenever the music goes too far in one direction.
But I really never expected to hear a car go by blasting Comfy in Nautica from the new Panda Bear at top volume. Rufige Kru Malice In Wonderland Rar Extractor Plus Theres AllWhich would normally be a negative but here the sheer size of sound (the ear pictures this massive virtual drum kit) and the bounding cyborg-cheetah propulsiveness are thrilling plus theres all kinds of exuberantly wayward drumfunk-style fills and flourishes richoteting off the basic jacknife-groove to divert the ear. Biggest revelation: discovering that early on at least Christian Death found the exact median point tween Buzzcocks and Bauhaus, and thats actually a pretty fun place. The Glimmers, FabricLive31 another enjoyable mix-CD kicking off with their great re-edit of Roxys Same Old Scene (great cos you can hear all of the original) and along the way reminding me of the majesty of League Unlimited Orchestras dub of Things that Dreams Are Made of and the mischief of LCDs Disco Infiltrator. Jesu, Conqueror listenable, likeable, at times almost glorious, but its like Broadricks immersed himself in shoegaze with a scholarly intensity, working out the genres idiomatic chord patterns and harmonic intervals and guitar-glaze textures, such that after a bit it starts to feel like the tunes are anagrams of each other, the same melodic coordinates reshuffled. The Klaxons, Myths of the Near Future now, apparently -- perhaps inevitably--i am a ctually in this band. Infinite Livez vs Stade, Unbiased Reductionism in 21st Century Music Practices WZT Hearts, Heat Chief been lurking in my promo stack for a while so might be ancient, reprieved thanks to its wazzily psychedelic cover (some kind of Op Artethnic rug art installation, you can see it here ) but on finally playing it I enjoyed the lambent-ambient wooze of it all and especially the short final track which has a nice ghostified waver to it Battles, Mirrored at its least, a grotesque merger of Henry Cow, Michael Nyman and Primus, ie. Subtle Audio compilation featuring Alpha Omega, Equinox, Senses, Fracture Neptune, Polska, Sileni, Fanu, Cloak and Dagger, Macc. OffshoreInperspective-style artcore db: exciting, inventive Fujiya Miyagi, Transparent Things Kieran is obsessed with Pokemon cards so a couple of weekends back we went to 6th Street between 2nd and Bowery where there are a bunch of Japanese adult-toy type stores clustered together, like specialist stores sometimes do and the first one, it really was like stepping into a store in Tokyo, absolutely nothing non-Japanese in the store, EXCEPT they were playing this album, and I did wonder, perhaps they dont realize that Fujiya Miyagi arent actually Japanese and almost asked the dainty Japanese waif-ette at the counter but refrained. Really like this record but dont really know whats good about it--theres a sense that it ought to be faintly deplorable, this business of superimposing Damo over Dinger--yet its compelling, especially the first two tracks, and thats got something to do with the way the hypno-groove aesthetic with its streamlined restraint dovetails with the perceptual acuity of those concrete-detail-attuned lyrics (this review goes some ways to tagging the sensibility, which is foreign to me to the point where they might as well be from Japan). Elsewhere you sometimes think of Happy Mondays meets Stereolab (which in its way confirms the Can-vocal spliced to Neu- groove breakdown and even doubles its redundancy). The hunt continues. Oh yes. Wiley, Playtime Is Over That Wileys on Big Dada nowadays confirms the sense that grime, its crossover dreams dashed, is going to settle into being the Other Britrap. Disappointing for those who hoped for so much more for it, but not that ignominous a fate I suppose. The Camberwell Now, Alls Well The Knife, Deep Cuts, self titled Andre Almuro, Musiques Experimentales Anestis Logothetis, Hor-spielNEKROLOGLOG 1961FANTASMATA 1960 Edward M. Youd think it was all extreme metal round these parts judging by the recent blogg output but apart from Khanate and Blut Aus Nord and a few other things Im forgetting Ive not been that slayed by what Im hearing. Still pretty much at the it all sounds the same stage, which of course really means Im not prepared to get so utterly immersed that it ceases to sound the same. Then again, you can turn that back on the genre, because if the basic thing of what the genre offers isnt enough to extract that compelled immersion from you then Anyway, Im not sure Ill ever get to the point where I can make distinctions of signature and rank within blastbeat science the way I did with breakbeat science.) No, round here, the recreational listening soundtrack is largely avant-classical (the kids dont seem to mind, really). Im just starting to realize that this stuff could consume a lifetime, like being into the blues or into reggae, theres no bottom to it. Rufige Kru Malice In Wonderland Rar Extractor Crack And HesThe fellow who sorted me with the SlovakSiemensIranian composer stuff describes Creel Pone as avant-crack and hes not wrong there. In addition to the utterly obscure but surprisingly high rate of true lost treasure sonic aspect, whats intensely fetishisable about these non-official CD-R reissues is the loving care with which the original vinyl sleeves have been miniaturized, including all the sleeve insert stuff with their somber technical and musicological descriptions of the pieces (the Creelpolation 3 cd anthology--which collates sundry one-off pieces from albums that arent worth salvaging in their entirety--has the album covers of each source record reduced to postage stamp size and comes with a neat little translucent plastic magnifying sheet thingy so you can sorta read them).
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