10.29.09 Playlist and Podcast.

Hour 1
* Broadcast and the Focus Group, "Ritual / Looking In," Broadcast & The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age, Warp
* Arrington de Dionyso, "Mencerminkan Mahkota Kotor," Malaikat Dan Singa, K
* Oliver Lake, "Zaki," Wildflowers 4: The New York Loft Jazz Sessions (Comp), Douglas
* Sun Ra "Crystal Spears," Crystal Spears, Evidence
* Ecstatic Sunshine, "Anagram," Living (EP), Wildfire Wildfire
* Forest Swords, "Sisters," Friendship Bracelet Club Vol. 2 (Comp.), http://www.friendshipbracelet.us
* Elliott Sharp and the Soldier String Quartet, "Digital," Tessalation Row, SST
* David Rosenboom, "Section VII (Impression)," How Much Better If Plymouth Rock Had Landed On The Pilgrims, New World Music

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Hour 2
* Saudade, "Accumulation," Lookouts' Master Journal, Arena Rock Recording Company
* Ash Ra Tempel, "Darkness: Flowers Must Die," Schwingungen, Ohr
* Sunroof!, "Little Ornamental Lake of Death," Split Series #19, Fat Cat
* Hair Police, "Out Of The Empty Quarter," The Empty Quarter, Troubleman Unlimited
* Alex Gordon, "Ether," Small Craft Warnings, Tone Casualties
* Tangerine Dream, "Mysterious Semblance At The Strand Of Nightmares," Phaedra, Virgin
* Birdy Nam Nam, "New Birth," Birdy Nam Nam, UWe

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Color Rabbit, "A Live Once and Reincarnations."

A little while back I asked Northampton resident Patrick Clifford, a.k.a. Color Rabbit, to come down to the WMUA dungeon. Dude brought his guitar, an amp, a pedal or two, a small gong, and a few other pieces and did his electro-acoustic improvisation thing for forty minutes.

Now a shorter, edited version of that set is available as a very nicely-packaged mini CDR from Iowa City killers Darbolistic Rex. It's yours for the aesthetically pleasing price of $2.22.



And, if you want all forty minutes of the set, check it:

Color Rabbit, "Buildings & Echo"

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Color Rabbit, "Winged Out"

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Also: Ikuisuus just put out the Awarenessness CDR, another forty minutes of music - this time, some wild (home) studio recordings.



Some MP3s, courtesy of Ikuisuus:

Color Rabbit, "Drift to Magnetic Pole Shift"

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Color Rabbit, "Sound Taste Good Today"

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Grab it here.

I Hear A New World, Day 1.

Awesome times at the Elevens the other night. George of Breaking World was kind enough to put together a two-day mini-festival of noisy musics. Totally different sounds from all sorts of totally rad people.



Keith Fullerton Whitman, Boston's chameleon of improvised electronic music, built some alternatingly soothing and terrifying arpeggiated tones.



SQRM yelled and screamed and moshed around. Highbrow punx. Forward-thinking hardcore.





Okkyung Lee and Bill Nace played off each other beautifully. Noise cello, believe it. Killed my ears, enthralled my brain.









Parts and Labor, back to trio status, brought some new material to the stage. First time performances, I think? The anthemic noise pop sounds better than ever. New album on the horizon, they say.

I missed last night's half of the event, meaning no Ducktails, Fat Worm of Error, Noise Nomads/Id M Theftable collaboration, and more. Bummer, but I instead caught Neon Indian at an art museum in Hartford. Photos of that soon.

Broadcast. San Serac.

I caught Broadcast with Atlas Sound the other night in Boston, where crowds continue to be fickle and passive. Openers The Selmanaires (who later doubled as Bradford Cox's backing band) played some very respectable psych pop. Music to dance to. Nary a shoulder twitched nor foot tapped. People were equally unresponsive to the first half of Broadcast's set, a glorious mess of noisy experimentation that wouldn't seem out of place in a Western Mass basement. More applause for the group's poppier material. Check this run-through of "Corporeal."



Fantastic. Atlas Sound, though, was disappointing. The dudes indie rock-ified the weirder A.S. songs and turning even "Walkabout" dull and dirge-like. Nothing against Cox et al., but we wound up leaving midway through the set.





While I'm at it: hats off to Eric Hnatow and San Serac for energizing the small crowd last Saturday at UMass. Dudes brought some serious enthusiasm to Earth Foods and, while not too many showed up to see it, those who did really enjoyed it.





Photos of the elusive DJ Double Dad remain unavailable.

10.22.09 Playlist

Hour 1
* Six Organs of Admittance, "Enemies Before the Light," Luminous Night, Drag City
* Bill Callahan, "All Thoughts Are Prey To Some Beast," Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle, Drag City
* MV&EE, "Snapperhead," Barn Nova, Ecstatic Peace
* Karl Blau, "Goodbye Little Song," Zebra, K
* Catherine Jauniaux & Tim Hodgkinson, "Origine Des Femmes," Fluvial, Woof
* Dreamcolour, "Sun Ritual," Spiritual Celebration (c40), Not Not Fun
* Harmonia & Eno '76, "Almost," Tracks and Traces (Reissue), Gronland
* Color Rabbit, "Telepathic Conversations with China," Awarenessness, Ikuisuus
* Lutz Glandien, "CUT," RēR Records Quarterly Vol.2 No.4 (Comp.), Recommended Records
* Maggi Payne, "Lab Faucet," The Lab 20-Year Anniversary (Comp.), The Lab
Hour 2
* eLan, "I Can't Breathe," Magnificent Mistakes, myspace.com/elansbeats
* Drake, "Say What's Real," The Official Drake Mixtape, www.myspace.com/thisisdrake
* Missy Dee & the Melody Crew, "Missy Missy Dee," Don't Stop: Recording Tap, Group Numero
* Baron Zen, "Night in Jail (M-80 Remix)," At The Mall - The Remixes, Stones Throw
* Subway, "Xam," II, Soul Jazz
* Explorers, untitled Side B excerpt, Bermuda Telepaths, Outer Limits/Not Not Fun
* Tomorrowland, "Saturn," Sequence of the Negative Space Changes, Kranky
* Khate, "Love," Pareidolia, SMTG
* Delia Gonzalez and Gavin Russom, "Relevee," Relevee 12", DFA
* The Rapture, "I Need Your Love," Live From The Bowery Ballroom, DFA/Universal

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