Over at Brain Goreng there is a post to a Fushitsusha live set from 1999. There’s a great description of the show to help contextualize this. The recording is great, and captures the atom-splitting brutality of the group as they take you on a long & twisted journey.
Feb
05
2010
sun is shine…uhhhh…. screwed mix
Happy birthday Nik! Sorry about the rain!
Bossa nova screwed = existential dread as walls of sound threaten to collapse
Feb
03
2010
force quit – air cut ep
If you want to look at the powerful influence dub continues to exert over electronic music, you could do a lot worse than checking out this free EP.
Of course, in my perfect world, dub would exert a lot of power on all music.
Jan
30
2010
rant
When I first started this blog I was posting music I created on Ableton. The reason that I haven’t done more of that is because the program began crashing on me on a regular basis. In fact it got worse and worse, and eventually trying to make the most basic adjustments caused crashes. So I’ve given up on Ableton. I’m going to look into how well Logic works out in a bit, it seems like a lot of producers I admire have good things to say about it, so that’s encouraging.
Probably the most weird and stupid thing about the world today is that we don’t have awesome music making programs on smart phones. What’s up with that?
I admire a lot of electronic music. The more technology you use, the more chances of failure are possible. So people that are able to overcome these types of obstacles deserve respect, but there’s also a virtue to folk & acoustic music, which has less opportunities for failure.
The financial crisis indicated that human society has not determined how to properly evaluate risk. Is it better to play it safe and do what works, or seek out ambitions that may result in catastrophe?
Similarly, with novels one could create short, concise works of arts, all polished & pristine, without a flaw in sight. But then there are also the authors that write big, sprawling novels, totally messy, chaotic, unable to be tamed into some kind of orderly thing.
Vacillations.
Jan
26
2010
living in the age of an aquarium
When DJ / Rupture and Matt Shadetek decided to go with an underwater concept for their album Solar Life Raft they were of course following a fairly rich history in electronic music of utilizing such thematics, for example, with Drexciya’s Bubble Metropolis. U.R. also did a bit of an acid house banger with a track called Submerge.
Jan
26
2010
you’re a jerk (en espanol)
Thanks to the Soundway’s Panama! comps we know about how much amazing music has come out of this tiny (but geographically fascinating) country. Chief Boima (SF heads can catch him spin, among other places, at Little Baobab) has posted an amazing remix of You’re A Jerk. There’s also a Nigerian remix, but I have to agree with Boima on this one, the Panama version kills it.
Also, of somewhat related interest, although I have a basic familiarity with Jerkin’ and the culture that it entails for over a year now thanks to the internet, it was only this month that I actually personally witnessed a black teenager in skinny jeans. I sometimes like to think about how science fiction was once the stuff people would write about concerning the future, but these days science fiction mostly consists of stuff going on in the present, but perhaps we will soon be entering a phase where science fiction is the stuff that we are writing about from the past that we are only now fully aware of.
Jan
26
2010
a brief ontology
Footage of Thurston Moore listening to music by the recently deceased Maryanne Amacher. I find the honesty of this video incredible. You have a performer and a listener, and that’s it. Music is the mystery of the cosmos that exists between those two entities.
Jan
18
2010
our love will destroy the world
Our Love Will Destroy the World is Campbell Kneale (who used to perform under the name Birchville Cat Motel). He played in a bus like two weeks ago. It was parked on San Bruno Avenue off of 15th St. underneath the highway. I like how at the beginning of this video all you can hear is the highway, but it could have conceivably been part of his set.
It was a good show. I listened to some old punk dudes talk about how all they listen to now is trance, and there was a guy that showed up with a bunch of beer for everyone.
Jan
12
2010
2010.
Well I’m back and readjusting to my normal life after extensive post-holiday travels. I have high hopes for the new year, and have lots of friends that are getting their lives back on track after the harsh reality that intruded into so many people’s lives in 2009. The most exciting thing for me is finally having a practice space to play loud music in again. Back in the 1990s it seemed like finding out about cool music was relatively difficult, but having a place to create music was relatively easy. Nearly two decades later the opposite is true. Music as a commodity is not so valuable anymore, but volume is an extremely valuable commodity these days.
Those of you who enjoyed the Deep Earth track I played on my Chicago podcast will be pleased to hear they have a second cassette release in the works, and are now digitally distributing the first one.
Lets all share even more awesome music in 2010.