Face Plant - Get High And Listen (c30)

Face Plant is the solo alias of Peaking Lights' Aaron Coyes. VBS.TV just put out a great feature on the process behind Coyes' sound-making, basically a frankensteining of old electronics from second-hand shops. The results are industrially psychedelic, the sound of boards bent beyond recognition and recreated as overdriven, circuit-powered noise briefcases. With Peaking Lights, Coyes' noise is tamed into relatively pop-leaning intentions. The haze is thick but the vibes are good. Face Plant corrupts it all, dropping a nasty virus into Coyes' CPU. The haze is crystallizing, knobs are melting, control is there but only just.

Below is a selection from the untitled side B of the Get High And Listen cassette, released last year on Catholic Tapes. I'm almost getting a Terry Riley vibe here, some nicely ornamented one-hand keyboard (?) explorations over a thick fuzz and some occasional low fat tones.

Face Plant, untitled side B selection


You can download the entire tape right here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?kng5u2zkvmg

And apparently it's still up for purchase over at Mimaroglu. The packaging is super nice, trippy satellite photos in an oversize cassette case. Only fifty of these beauties were made. Go buy it.