November 2010
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THE VELVET FIST
“Bones-a bare skeleton-by all accounts, that should have been impossible. Little or nothing lived this far down in the ocean, the experts said. But there he was, and there was something else in those photographs. Tiny, carnivorous worms wiggled around the body where they had already eaten bit by horrific bit. No one who saw the Soviet boy-submariner could forget him, not anyone who saw the...
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SUPER SHREDDER
Lea and I have been posting about Speculator non-stop the last few weeks it seems-he’s recently created an Angelfire hosted website where you get the latest Speculator news, downloads, and purchase most of his tapes. Below is a download to his newest and longest tape, “Lifestyle”, a C42 journey into the mind of the skullgazing tape king from Los Angeles.
“The last vile...
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GALA DROP
photo: Juampi Bonino When I’m in love, I always spin my body ten times before the sun sets.
The amazing New York label Golf Channel Recordings has just released Gala Drop’s new 4 song 12” EP Overcoat Heat. The band demonstrates a cool, colorful rhythm with a sensible laid-back instrumental pop vibe. Above is the new video for the song Drop, spontaneously created by Antonio...
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FILM GRAIN
The cassette tape means a lot of different things to me, but if there is one genre of music that fits on a cassette tape, it’s noise. Noise cassettes all typically tend to be rare, and sometimes the releases are limited to obscure numbers such as eleven. The cassette tape is essentially the choice format for noise, and while noise has it’s own sub-genres, some might say that a lot of...
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OH CAROLINA!
photo: Stefany Alves Not too long ago Rachel and I had a Twitter DJ set which you can see here. Below is the playlist of the songs, enjoy. =^.^= 1. The Beach Boys - Do You Wanna Dance? (Capitol Records, 1965)
2. Brian Jonestown Massacre - (David Bowie I Love You) Since I Was Six (BOMP!, 1996)
3. David Bowie - Rebel Rebel (RCA Victor, 1974)
4. Duane Eddy - Rebel Rouser (London Records, 1958)
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FROM FORNELO
“From Fornelo” is Wools latest release, a foray into instrumental psychedelia touching upon minimalistic roots. Bjorn Borg is a laid-back synth ride into the heavens, and Roberto In The Summer is the guitar-picking descent back to earth. “From Fornelo” is out on AMDISCS now, you can get it here. Hugo also hit me up with a rad Blur cover on my World Hunger compilation,...
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TENSE
photo: Jonathan Leder
When you sit beside me, I always lose all my ways.
The next time, kiss me because I think that I’ve forgotten the instructions.
Tommyboy recently sent by his new video for the electronic duo from Houston called //Tense//.
The band focuses on creating dark and hypnotic industrial synth. Their aesthetic reminds me of Gatekeeper with their style of music and...
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LET IT BE ME
I’m the kind of girl who likes:
blaring 90’s pop music, Japanese magazines, mini fashion show with no audience, Polaroid film, sand in the bed, rock pool exploring, meeting strangers, playing piano all night in the wild forest, cream cheese and cucumber sandwiches, coyote in the hills, Indian feathers, sleeping on trampolines, blow up pool toys (shark preferably), buying too much clothes,...
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PURE ECSTASY
photo: Gregory Crewdson
Anywhere out of the world. I am bathing in an old dream.
Nervous system, complicated dreams. I slowly pull my black nails. It was at the bottom of a sunken garden, a sort of gaging Sleeping Wood.
I had a hole in my side and my blood was sweating over a hysterical flower parterre. Our tongues are untied, and I argued.
The idea of couple, I think it’s quite...
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LEAVING THE HEAT BEHIND
Emily Reo is exploring her musical depths as she ventures into a bit of a darker style with her cover of Neil Young’s On The Beach. Emily will be leaving her home of Orlando, and her presence will be gracing Brooklyn in the near future, her keyboard traveling with her to the Northeast. On The Beach was recorded for a Neil Young Covers album curated by New Yorkers Fossil Cities, which will...
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THE DEATH OF AUTUMN
The trees become bare, and the leaves settle on the ground. Without the leaves, nature seems more silent, as it prepares itself for winter. We’re about to brace winter’s force here in the northeast, the gradual descent in temperature and the colder, brisk winds are a reminder of the absolute certain death of autumn-until it is resurrected when the right time comes.
Ambience, piano,...
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MUSIC FOR TWIN PEAKS
photo: screenshots from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) Someone left me a message on the wooden coffee table but I couldn’t find it. I just remember that it was on the fourth floor where I had a rendezvous that night. I got headaches from the neon’s glow. The whole situation was weird. The walls were painted green. They almost looked like sick. There was this naked guy laying down on a...
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ZOMBIES
photo: Neil Krug
It’s forty-two degrees Celsius outside and I’m crossing the city on foot, following the smooth noise muffled by the exhaust of a blue car. An awkward looking man with eyes filled of emptiness and incredibly white teeth is driving.
The Supermarket, a desert filled with peanuts that will spin you into an anaphylactic shock. A cashier stands naked it her register,...
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THE GHOST & THE FOREST
Traversing through the forest is a lost soul, a ghost stuck between here and the after life. Confusion and frustration plagues his emotions as he searches endlessly for a way to become “unstuck” and find his path to heaven or hell-he does not care to which of these he travels too, the years spent in purgatory is worse than not being in his right place, he has accepted his ultimate...
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RELENTLESS
Portugals’ digital label MPD continues to represent with their newest release by Chuck Tailore titled “Have You Been Hit By A Car”-subtle minimalism in the form of ambient loops and drone, layered behind intelligently crafted beats. I first heard of Chuck Tailore on a guest mix curated by SBBD a while back, which you can download here.
Chuck Tailore: Ford Pinto
Chuck Tailore:...
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LYKKEFANTEN
Sina sent me this video for a new track titled XVII, which is part of a slew of songs he is creating for his upcoming release. The video was created using footage from “Lykkefanten” by Jasper Nielsen- a story that melds realism and magic into a story about love, abandonment and alcohol. Be sure to check out Dream Boat’s past and upcoming releases on AMDISCS.
XVII from Dream...
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CRYING IN MY SLEEP
Summer Twins are a twin sister indie dreampop duo from Riverside, CA. I was recently sent this exceptionally directed video via email on a tip-the video was directed by the twins themselves, Chelsea and Justine Brown, with the help of Benji Newell. You can download their album titled The Good Things for free at their bandcamp here, where each track is a new venture into a beautifully written...
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SICK BAY DUVET
photo: René Magritte, Les Amants (1928)
In the afternoon, the sun posed a torpor on the courtyards and the apartments of the castle which announced their nerves sharpened by the prelude of a deadly game. A force seemed to be pushing Albert and Heide toward each other, and they disappeared for long hours, they buried themselves in the nearby forest, in a perilous head-to-face. These races...
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ABSENCE, RENEWAL
Even though you aren’t here, I can feel your presence as if it were an endless wave of audio feedback-traveling through the walls of this house from a foundation of sound loops.
The feedback forces images into your mind, stills of memories from the past. The atrocious buzz is slowly transformed into the music created by a symphony orchestra, and a wave of calmness tingles around the bones...
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TROU DE VER
A wormhole is a shortcut through spacetime, and is often associated with time travel. No scientific evidence has been able to prove the existence of wormholes, however the Theory of General Relativity predicts that if traversable wormholes exist, they could in fact allow time travel. A traversable wormhole essentially means a wormhole that will allow something to pass through it, but without...
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DUSK
The sky is bright and blue, civil dusk begins to set in. The sun has reached six degrees below the horizon, and marks the end of the civil twilight. The day is nearing it’s end, businessmen and women pack their things to head home to their families. Students are beginning their homework, and some are preparing dinner. Dusk, while associated with the science of time, certainly retains the...
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IN A LONELY PLACE
I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.
Arc creates music that would score the dark moments in film noir-the type of film using German inspired cinematography to highlight themes of fear, mistrust, bleakness, loss of innocence, despair and paranoia-many of these films revolving around the love for a woman.
Revenge City is a dark,...
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LIFESTYLES
LA’s Nick Ray refuses to disappoint with his newest tape titled Lifestyle which will be dropping in the next month or so on Leaving Records. Nick Ray is Speculator, who uses retro samples and plays epic guitar riffs over them. This tape has easily traveled to the top of my tape rotation list, I play it so much I purchased a portable tape player just to listen to it. It features a...
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سلطان
Sultan scores the desert with her lo-fi guitar recordings, creating wavelengths that travel with heat and wind over the desert sand, oscillating with nature as one. The wavelengths are physically exemplified by the capillary ripples in the sand, a real representation of nature’s power. Nature can manipulate the desert as if it were an ocean wave, moving sand around and hiding its secrets,...
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HYMAN G. RICKOVER & NUCLEAR FISSION
Hyman G. Rickover was an admiral in the United States navy responsible for directing the development of naval nuclear propulsion, a technology created mostly for submarines, making them virtually undetectable. Submarines were now able to stay underwater for long periods of time without having to surface, compared to before when they would have to surface to recharge the batteries on board-and...
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GUEST POST: LEA MANDANA: PIGEONS
photo: John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shallot (1888) I’ve had the pleasure of getting to know Lea Mandana the past few months, and have come to learn that she is a pretty sweet, and funny girl. I met her in Brooklyn this past summer, feeling fortunate in doing so-I never thought I’d meet someone from my favorite European-based blog, Delicious Scopitone.
In this post, her grace...
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THE MIRROR, A GATEWAY TO THE PAST
A fifty-year old woman looks into the mirror, and sees her wrinkles, and the bags under her eyes. All are side-effects of living, the body’s battle with time.
Many feel that time is the enemy, for it takes away the beauty that the young possess. Beauty, however is traded for the beauty of wisdom, the double-edged sword of becoming older.
Chrissy recently released a digital 7” for Everything...
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THE CURSE
The Smith Westerns are becoming legends around the Brooklyn DIY scene, it seems as though every show they try and play is broken up the police. I attended a show curated by Todd P. and The Pelly Twins this weekend, where this was unfortunately the case (read about it here). The police approached the stage with their flashlights, only to hear Cullen Omori say “AGAIN!?” while in the...
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A BRAVE NEW WORLD
Wonder Wheel is a Californian band whose music is composed of psychedelic shoegaze sounds. There is a seemingly infinite amount of goodies on their blog, and their latest release is an eleven song golden cassette tape titled Brave New World with the renowned Japanese tape label Sixteen Tambourines. Among these goodies, be sure to make note of their KXLU session here. Below is a video created...
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TO THE FUTURE
Porcelain Raft crafts music composed of subtle shoegaze and dream pop, in turn creating the nostalgia that comes with memories in a musical form. I first heard about Porcelain Raft through the now unfortunately defunct Delicious Scopitone with their amazingly beautiful track See Through , in which I took the opportunity to discuss time as it relates to theoretical physics. The track Tip Of Your...
