#Taraval

[days-of-steam]

Days Of Steam 008: Icarus Redux

(Released July 11, 2023)

Restrained freakout sonics and subcranial rhythms from @icarus-redux — “earth-moving kicks, baleful, eyes-dilated synths, and rough, mostly unsampled breakbeats. Fog machine bathing all as one.” Inspired as an artist by a mixed bag of artists and theorists that cast light on the darkness - Fisher, Graeber, Preciado, Shadow, Sprinkles, Tiqqun, Weatherall - this mix is one of the first I’ve heard that approaches AI-assisted technologies (demuxing, polyrhythmic mixing, etc) in a way that reminds me of early cut-and-paste techniques or Richie Hawtin’s Decks x EFX mixes that reassemble contexts on a micro-level, not just layering tracks over each other but reconstructing them, and here it’s far more subtle. It’s enticing and unnerving to me but such is the effect of the dawn of a new form of technology that has the principle for use and abuse. Here it’s done to only positive effect, again highlighting the spaces between the notes, the snatches of memory that flit through your brain. A lot of the tracks from the early 2010s are records I remember hearing and playing when I lived in Leeds, which I had associated with a very different scene that I naively believed at the time would never truly take off Stateside. At the same time, Disclosure were getting big then and I thought the US would pass them over. From downloading italo and house rips off of Bicep's old blog to seeing them headline warehouses in Brooklyn that charge $40+ admission. Mais je divague...

Bianca Scout - Kingdom [First Terrace, 2022] Herbert - Deeper (Basic Soul Unit Remix) [Curle, 2016] T++ - Dig [Honest Jons, 2010] Avatism - Self Control [Vakant, 2017] Basic Soul Unit - Jak'd Freq (A Made Up Sound - Puur Natuur Mix) [Crème Organization, 2010] Ayln - Victim [Nous, 2018] Tenebre - Axe Nord-Sud [WNCL Recordings, 2018] Reckonwrong - Morton [Pinkman, 2015] Taraval - Bart's Sanctuary [Text, 2016] Blawan - Iddy [Hessle Audio, 2010] Martyn - Body Music [Dolly Dubs, 2018] Pugilist - Déjà Vu [Banoffee Pies, 2022] Ryan James Ford - Brixa Endt [SHUT, 2018] Shed - Lumber Fix TT [The Final Experiment, 2018] Private Press - Wetweird [Of Paradise White Label, 2022] Clark - Superscope [Warp, 2014] Andrea - Rainbow [Ilian Tape, 2015] Glaskin - Grey Lines [Hotflush, 2018]

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, attributed (French, 1714-1789) Psyche Rescued by Naiads, 1750 Birmingham Museums Trust

[sfmuniphotos]

[jamisonwieser]

The end of the line. In truth, the L-Taraval line ends in a loop a few blocks away. This is a spur used for storing trains with problems out of the way.

[justineportraits]

Hugues Taraval (1729-1785) Leda and the Swan

[searchsystem]

The North Face / Vectiv™ Taraval Peak / Shoes / 2023

[weary-hearted-art]

Hughes Taraval, The Triumph of Amphitrite, 1780

[grrl-beetle]

North Face VECTIV Taraval Breeze

[cuprikorn]

[saruvanthewhite]

Being homeless, living in a van I’m trying to get legal and pass smog so I can complete registration…

Fines have been paid and I’m waiting to hear back from the CA bureau of automotive repair for assistance with the repair. Nowhere to safely be until then. Just got a new job. Second day, come back to see my truck ticketed and vandalized by the SFPD with a non removable sticker across my ƃuıʞɔnɟ window warning me to move it. Except I cannot safely do so as THEY’VE BLOCKED MY FUCKING WINDOW!

So I go online to protest the ticket only to find the stupid illiterate ʇᴉʍʞɔnɟ who wrote it nine hours ago, hasn’t ƃuıʞɔnɟ put it into the system yet.

I’m trying to do things legally. I have paid my fines and arrears and I am waiting to hear back for financial assistance so I can get the van legal and complete registration. Now I’m kicked in the teeth again. Just when I try to get up in an honest way, they beat me down again. It’s not worth doing things honestly. I’m just gonna do what other people do and don’t get caught for. I’m just gonna steal somebody else’s ƃuıʞɔnɟ sticker. No one else gets in trouble for that. I get in trouble for trying to do things the right way on everyone else’s ƃuıʞɔnɟ timeline! I think it’s worth it to do something illegal now. It’s ironic that the system that is trying to hold people accountable and make them pay. Actually drives people to doing things that illegally. That’s my primary motivator now; not to get in trouble anymore. Makes more sense to steal and fake being legal because actually being legal is made to be so ƃuıʞɔnɟ difficult if you’re poor or unhoused.

It’s time to ƃuıʞɔnɟ lash the ʞɔnɟ out and burn some useless system…and maybe the unempatheitc, illiterate, GED-only, quota-shy SFPD idiot who

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Hughes Taraval (French, 1729 - 1785) Le réveil, 1781 The Wallace Collection

[sfmuniphotos]

A two-car train traveling through San Francisco's Sunset District on the L-Taraval line.

[granstromjulius]

Hugues Taraval

[jamisonwieser]

Jumping on an L-Taraval train towards the SF Zoo.