alla prossima. ciao

alexander tucker

alexander tucker : veins to the sky (ATP/R, 2008)

atpfestival.com/atp-recordings/alexander-tucker

"Veins to the Sky is one of my favorites from the new album 'Portal'. It's an attempt at writing a more linear song whilst still using some psych electronics. On the new material I use an electric mandolin to create bowed symphonic layers which gives the music a more classical edge."

original snow

natural snow buildings : all animals in the form of water (digitalis industries)

myspace.com/naturalsnowbuilding
digitalisindustries.com

The French duo, Natural Snow Buildings, are a bit of an enigma if you ask me. Mehdi and Solange make some of the most incredible and beautiful music around. The problem (if it really is one) is that all their releases to date have been extremely limited.

gas

gas : untitled #5 da konigforst (mille plateaux, 1999)

gas = wolfgang voigt
wolfgang voigt = kompakt

"Konigforst" of course refers to the Konigsforst, a forest on the right bank of the Rhine. That's a mixed forest outside Cologne, oak, fir, beech etc., you know! A reference point of my hippie adolescence rich with content, to sharpen consciousness for the deeper aspects of electronic life: the German forest on acid. Returning to GAS. GAS is an offshoot of BLEI [lead]. BLEI has always been the name of the mission mentioned before. While BLEI is mostly concerned with brass band music, polka, marches etc. in general and with horn sound in particular, GAS is about strings - and violins. So with GAS a sound passage is taken from the original source and by an extensive loop technique the loop is captured at an arbitrary point and moved across a rhythmic texture according to a random temporal structure. The result is a sound intensification that gets recorded when the object could be liberated from any superfluous meaning in terms of narrative structure.

john. twells

xela : heirs of the fire - brooklyn version (live at WFMU)

myspace.com/learnwithxela
typerecords.com

xela/WFMU live. "John stopped by the WFMU studios a few weeks ago while on break from his tour with Zelienople and Helios to record a brief set that saw him shun the laptop based set-up often employed by similar artists in favor of a micro-cassette player, tons of pedals, trinkets purchased from hippies in the midwest and an unexpected foray into Brian Wilson vocal territory. You'll need to turn the volume up on this one as its rather quiet for awhile."

hauntology. now

the focus group : the new activity (ghost box)

the focus group : salty sun tales (ghost box)

ghostbox.co.uk

hauntology now. "I don't think it's a genre as such," Reynolds says of hauntology, "more like a convergence of interests both cultural and sonic. Analog synths, a certain canon of maverick electronic pioneers, echoes of early '90s rave/techno/IDM, a certain approach to sampladelia that is oriented towards the quirky."

the declining winter

the declining winter : yorkcitythree (the declining winter remix) (mobeer, 2008).

thedecliningwinter.com
mobeer.co.uk

// footprintsinsnow.blogspot.com/2007/11/ci-sono-band-importanti-nella-nostra.html

mount eerie

mount eerie.
seven new songs of mount eerie (cd-r, 2004).

wooly mammoth's absence
do not be afraid
with my hands out
2 blonde braids
my burning
november 22nd 2003, 4:45 pm
cold mountain song 286

pwelverumandsun.com
archive.org/details/SevenNewSongsofMountEerie

upside. down

banjo or freakout.
upside down EP (2008).

42 (upside down)
enjoy swimming
sexing the cherry

banjoorfreakout.blogspot.com
myspace.com/banjoorfreakout

antwerp

machinefabriek : live at desingel, antwerp (2008).

machinefabriek.nu
thewire.co.uk/articles/987

again itself

carousell : again itself (sustain release, 2005).

sustain-release.co.uk
myspace.com/sustainrelease

// thewire.co.uk/articles/119

sledding

pyramids : sleds (hydra head, 2008).

myspace.com/pyramidsmusic
hydrahead.com

basement

no age : eraser (live at juan's basement) (pitchfork.tv, 2008).

myspace.com/nonoage
pitchfork.tv/juans-basement/no-age

// minneapolisfuckingrocks.blogspot.com/2008/05/catch-up-playlist-or-finally-i-can.html

here. it never snowed

the twilight sad : mapped by what surrounded them (fatcat, 2008).

myspace.com/thetwilightsad
fat-cat.co.uk

// burningworld.blogspot.com/2008/05/record-box-110508.html

rest

gregor samsa : abutting, dismantling (kora/own records, 2008).

gregorsamsa.com
ownrecords.com

// stereogum.com/archives/mp3/new-gregor-samsa-jeroen-van-aken-abutting-dismantl_009614.html

another. record

sweets for the wild 3 (another record, 2008).

rrose tacet : i drop all the chorus
polder : feeler
via dubai : time
this is blue : montreal
moonpalace : your words
dolores : obscene
your spoken horoscope : my name is joseph
the healthy boy : there are things
jack lewis : the day that neil young died
yeepee : the worst concert ever
phoebe : to be of use

day in day out : i want faithfulness
drift ease line : mint green
blue haired girl : uterus
laurent paradot : silence
kraken oxen : residents illuminating peace
drew danburry : red rock virgin’s encounter with winter nights
roken is dodelijk : in these places
chris maher : exposing bone
recife : l’univers
up to the ground : one and a half
21 love hotel : bella ciao

another-record.com/en/?page_id=89
myspace.com/anotherrecord

RA.102

four tet : RA.102 (resident advisor, 2008).

fourtet.net
myspace.com/fourtetkieranhebden

// residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=102

tarentel

jefre cantu-ledesma : shining skull breath (students of decay, 2007).

myspace.com/jcledesma
studentsofdecay.com

// paperthinwalls.com/singlefile/item?id=1563

no longer

atlas sound.
things i'll miss EP (2008).

my car
my room
my bed
recording acoustic drums
marietta

atlas sound.
two songs for my dad EP (2008).

i'm so lonesome (i could cry)
blue moon

atlas sound.
virtual 7" no.3 (2008).

bored dub
no longer

deerhuntertheband.blogspot.com
myspace.com/bradfordcox

tired

atlas sound : tired congregation (2008).

deerhuntertheband.blogspot.com
myspace.com/bradfordcox

birthday drones 3

metal.
birthday drones 3 (2007).

rapidshare.com/files/52518041/Birthday_Drones_3.zip.html

myspace.com/metalisquiet
virb.com/metal

// naturefilm.blogspot.com/2007/08/birthday-drones-three-2007.html

bellhead

four tet : allez-allez mix 2 (2008).
fourtet.net

// allez-allez.co.uk/2008/05/four-tet-shackleton.html

summer turns to hurt

the declining winter : summer turns to hurt (rusted rail, 2008).

myspace.com/thedecliningwinter
rustedrail.com