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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Monday, July 28, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
MY BROTHER Andy/Andee
Is suddenly everywhere... I was listening to my friend hatch's excellent show on WFMU and he played a new artist Varghkoghargasmal(?!) on Andy's label Tumult, then I was reading the new Other Music update where Andy was mentioned again, in a crazy glowing review of Tumult's new release PYHA, a savant 14 year old korean's alleged heavy Metal doom masterpiece, then, I found out that the boredoms are recreating their seemingly anual outdoor drumming extravaganza on 8/8/08 in which Andy will be drumming, then today - I picked up the music issue of the Believer magazine, and there's an extensive article about black and death metals, and of course, andee is heavily quoted.....
Crazy...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Monday, July 14, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
This record just totally hypnotized me
Burning Star Core
Challenger
Hospital Productions
from Volcanic Tongue:
In the past people have always thrown about the name of Faust – myself included – when describing specific aspects of Spencer Yeh’s Burning Star Core project, the standing waves of electronics, the Outside The Dream Syndicate-style violin and minimalist rock brut, the monolithic arrangements etc. This new Burning Star Core album, essentially a solo work by Spencer Yeh, pretty much explodes the comparison for good, bundling a bunch of (comparatively) short/compact tracks that take the schizophrenic organisational logic of The Faust Tapes as their jumping off point while outrunning the whole fucking deal with a series of minimalist instrumentals that are the absolute pinnacle of condensed brain-erasing psychedelic noise beauty. The whole thing starts with the gorgeous title track; a synth-heavy, Euro-fixated ascension that makes the scene ala Bowie/Eno’s Warszawa and just keeps on going. Then there are vocal cut-ups that sound like puny brain cells dancing in the light of scalpels and lasers, almost orchestral synth instrumentals that are some of the most gorgeously melodic creations of Yeh’s lifetime, totally fucked looped-guitar hypnotisers, cracked electronic melodies that sound like hymns or Christmas carols beamed via shortwave from somewhere just outside the solar system, Basinski-esque sad chorales, intensely detailed and emotionally resonant modulated field recordings that touch on aspects of both Toshi Ichiyanagi and Christoph Heemann …. Yeh has been talking of this album as specifically inflected towards his more compositional interests rather than has blazing free-improv moves and it really benefits from the rigour of the arrangements. There is zero flab, not a single duff track, and I would go so far as to say that this might be the best sounding psychedelic noise record to come out of the whole post-noise generic meltdown. Seriously, it took a lot to drag me away from alla the great punk-primitive DIY/garage/synth sides that have been dominating VT over the past few weeks but this was the mother that did it. Saw that it got a pretty lukewarm review in The Wire but scratch that – this is a stone modern classic, best BXC side ever, great art from Robert Beatty on the cover and very highly recommended. So don’t be a dope.
Challenger
Hospital Productions
from Volcanic Tongue:
In the past people have always thrown about the name of Faust – myself included – when describing specific aspects of Spencer Yeh’s Burning Star Core project, the standing waves of electronics, the Outside The Dream Syndicate-style violin and minimalist rock brut, the monolithic arrangements etc. This new Burning Star Core album, essentially a solo work by Spencer Yeh, pretty much explodes the comparison for good, bundling a bunch of (comparatively) short/compact tracks that take the schizophrenic organisational logic of The Faust Tapes as their jumping off point while outrunning the whole fucking deal with a series of minimalist instrumentals that are the absolute pinnacle of condensed brain-erasing psychedelic noise beauty. The whole thing starts with the gorgeous title track; a synth-heavy, Euro-fixated ascension that makes the scene ala Bowie/Eno’s Warszawa and just keeps on going. Then there are vocal cut-ups that sound like puny brain cells dancing in the light of scalpels and lasers, almost orchestral synth instrumentals that are some of the most gorgeously melodic creations of Yeh’s lifetime, totally fucked looped-guitar hypnotisers, cracked electronic melodies that sound like hymns or Christmas carols beamed via shortwave from somewhere just outside the solar system, Basinski-esque sad chorales, intensely detailed and emotionally resonant modulated field recordings that touch on aspects of both Toshi Ichiyanagi and Christoph Heemann …. Yeh has been talking of this album as specifically inflected towards his more compositional interests rather than has blazing free-improv moves and it really benefits from the rigour of the arrangements. There is zero flab, not a single duff track, and I would go so far as to say that this might be the best sounding psychedelic noise record to come out of the whole post-noise generic meltdown. Seriously, it took a lot to drag me away from alla the great punk-primitive DIY/garage/synth sides that have been dominating VT over the past few weeks but this was the mother that did it. Saw that it got a pretty lukewarm review in The Wire but scratch that – this is a stone modern classic, best BXC side ever, great art from Robert Beatty on the cover and very highly recommended. So don’t be a dope.
Monday, July 7, 2008
B'L'ing
B-o o t*y Le %g Video & DVD Art, Artsy films, Experimental Film Classics Trading Post!
B'L'ing Screening
Opening
Jul 10, 2008
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
The B’L’ing opening party at Art in General is this Thursday, July 10th from 6-8pm. We’ll be screening music video art, bootlegging dvds, and trading throughout the night. Everyone is encouraged to bring videos and participate in the exchange. Dig deep–bring your best.
B’L’ing is a traveling trading post that screens and exchanges bootleg video art and rare media. We will be open all summer (hours to be announced) in the Art in General project space.
Sunday, July 6, 2008
Friday, July 4, 2008
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Mishima's House
I still kick myself for not buying this beautiful photo book, filled with pictures of Yukio Mishima's house, library, books, ephemera etc - Just found it on ebay and debating on whether or not to jump...
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
MICROMIXES
Want some awesome musical inspiration? Crazy Bradford Cox - front man of Deerhunter and Atlas sound routinely posts amazing mixes on his blog... If you google 'micromix' and any number now up to 17, you will find them all Do it...
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