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[dyingforbadmusic]

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[romantictimes]

Lance Hayward at the Half Moon Hotel (1959)

A collision of peppy, lightweight piano exotica and dreamy cabana jazz. You can taste the grapefruit of the Paloma in your hand.

[electriqueboutiqueradio]

ELECTRIQUE BOUTIQUE #5, 12/29/23

We close out 2023 with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Jacno, Gina X, and... a three-time Oscar nominee?? Thanks for tuning in to our first few episodes this year! It means the world to me. Our intro music is "Michael Jackson" by Negativland and our theme music is "The Taxi" by Young Marble Giants

Marie Möör - Pretty Day 0:03:06

Umoja - 707 0:06:01

Cosey Mueller - Tu Mir Was 0:10:17

Ironing Music - Don't Wish It Away 0:14:20

Gina X Performance - Nice Mover 0:17:22

Syrinx - Aurora Spinray 0:24:07

Second Layer - Fixation 0:27:31

Absent Music - Le Reve De CJ 0:31:32

The Deep Fix - Time Centre 0:33:58

Vaughan Mason & Butch Dayo - Feel My Love 0:36:51

Jacno - Triangle 0:44:53

Schwund - Liest Du Mein Gesicht 0:48:15

Sapho - Thatcher Murderer 0:52:05

Shox - No Turning Back 0:56:18

Xeno & Oaklander - Hypnos 0:59:11

Teleclere - Steal Your Love 1:05:16

Glass Museum - Dumping-cart Motion 1:08:55

0010110000010011 (Cancer) - Naonian Style 1:11:56

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Riot in Lagos 1:16:22

Saada Bonaire - Your Touch 1:22:02

Naomi Elizabeth - It's Not Easy When You're Me 1:25:42

Serine Cisco - A Heroe's Tale 1:33:04

Duster - Testphase 1:37:42

Thick Pigeon - Troglodytes 1:38:49

Body Electric - Undercurrents 1:41:59

Pink Industry - Don't Let Go 1:45:15

Elf Power - It's Been a Million Years 1:54:18

[burlveneer-music]

Lori Vambe - Space-Time Dreamtime - Strut Records reissue of 2 private-press percussion albums from 1982

Occasionally, you find music outside the commercial mainstream, outside of everything – the music of visionaries, eccentrics, inventors, loners, the keepers of secrets, the path-finders. Moondog, Daphne Oram, Harry Partch are from this mould. And so too is Lori Vambe. New on Strut, the first ever reissue of Vambe’s privately pressed original albums from 1982, Drumland Dreamland and Drumgita Solo. A self-taught drummer, inventor, and sonic experimentalist, Lori Vambe is a unique figure in British music. Creator of his own instrument, the drumgita (pronounced ‘drum-guitar’) or string-drum, Vambe intended to create a kind of music that had never been made in order to pursue access to the fourth dimension. Vambe was born in Harare, Zimbabwe and his father, Lawrence Vambe, was a noted Zimbabwean journalist and author. Moving to London in 1959, Vambe immersed himself in the Brixton squat movement of the early 1970s, teaching himself to drum and creating a short-lived performance group, The Healing Drums of Brixton (Vambe, the sculptor Alexander Sokolov and outsider musician Michael O’Shea). Vambe later had a dream-vision involving a feeling of ecstasy while playing an unknown instrument that extended from his own umbilical cord; the instrument would manifest itself as the drumgita. In 1982, he privately produced a pair of home recordings, the diptych set Drumgita Solo and Drumland Dreamland, releasing them on his own label Drumony. On these records, he rejected any commercial aesthetic and employed tape effects, temporal shifts, reversed sound and overdubbing to investigate space-time and access the fourth dimension. Combining layered drums with the rhythmic throb of the drumgita and, on Drumland Dreamland, an improvised piano performance by Brazilian concert pianist Rafael Dos Santos, the albums are both hypnotic and perturbing. Both albums were cut at Portland Studios by Chas Chandler and stand as a concealed monument of Black British experimental music. 500 copies of each record were originally pressed, and both were released together. The albums were never performed live. For this first ever reissue of Drumland Drumland and Drumgita Solo, Strut presents the two albums in their original artwork, housed in a deluxe slipcase including an additional 8-page 12”-sized booklet featuring unseen photos, liner notes and an interview with Lori Vambe by The Wire magazine writer Francis Gooding. Both albums are fully remastered by The Carvery. 

[superhotsongs]

Karen Brooks - Lost silence [1972]

This is a 4 track ep recorded by a then 17 year old Karen Brooks. Recorded on to a reel-to-reel tape recorder in an open courtyard at there boarding school. Karen Brooks had no idea their parents would have it edited and pressed into an album. Unlike most old folk artist like this you can still contact her. https://www.youtube.com/@karenbrooks1292 After this upload of the album surfaced on the internet and got popular on sites like rym. Karen Brooks actually commented on the video talking about how she is planning on making physicals for the project.

Miss Brooks intends to re-issue this EP with some bonus stuff (It's bin 3 months since then and i have no idea if this ever happened.)

This record is really unique in how it sounds. The fact that it was recorded in some court yard on a tape recorder and you can hear people talking in the background just makes the listening experience really special. Karen's voice is so soft and comforting the whole album feels very vulnerable. I think my favourite track on the album is the first track "king of fantasy" every time I listen too it I go on a emotional roller coaster. Highly recommend you give this one a listen. It's really easy to find a download link for this album so there is no excuse to not give it a shot.

[mrkoppa]

8 November 2023 | Der Klubhaus

Getting to the bottom of these cases as I continue the experience of standing up ALL the type from eight drawers of dirty old Franklin Gothic, all to be arranged and printed in the forthcoming title, Understanding This Book, which ideally will be completed in time for the The Oxford Fine Press Book Fair on 9-10 December in one of my favorite countries. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The little lead shrapnel is nasty. This is a completely necessary task if I wish to truly enjoy my creative time in the future.

[thriftstoresisyphus]

Roy DeLaGarza "Jesus Took The Burden of My Sin"

[jpnnewmusicdaily]

れすとらん (Restaurant) by Niningashi / ににんがし

Album: Heavy Way Year: 1974 Label: Private-press Lyrics & Music: Kazuhisa Okubo / 大久保一久

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[dyingforbadmusic]

Cliff Honiker "Holy Mother, Let It Be" (Talcon Record Production, 19--?) (LP)

This album has made the rounds of the let's-make-fun-of-old-album-covers scene, due to the novelty graphics on the front cover, which show the beatnik-y looking young guitarist kneeling in the forest with cartoon flames lapping around his legs, reminiscent of that classic Louvin Brothers cover from the 'Fifties. Although the liner notes describe this as "country music with a real down home flavor," the arrangements aren't all that twangy, and seems to have been provided by an (anonymous) pop-rock ensemble, doing a work-for-hire gig behind the decidedly amateur singer. The songs pursue some pretty eclectic themes, including a couple with religious lyrics, "Come On, Satan" and the title track, "Holy Mother, Let It Be." Then again, he also sings stuff like "I Need A Woman," "Night Time Lover" and "Marriage On The Rocks, so he had his feet set in the real world as well. Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Clifford F. Honiker, Jr (d. 2010) was a working class guy, the owner of his own flooring and carpet cleaning business, which was still advertising in local papers in the late 'Sixties and 'early 'Seventies, when this was made. He later moved to Georgia, though I'm fairly certain he didn't play live gigs in either state. A single was broken off this album, with these two discs apparently the sum total of his forays into the music business. A "private" album, if ever there was one!

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[romantictimes]

Shawn-Daniel Foreman - Transistor-Jet Strikes Back (1980)

The first thing that came to mind for me when I heard the first track of Shawn-Daniel Foreman’s Transistor-Jet Strikes Back wasn’t Kraftwerk or even Queen, although the influences of both couldn't be more evident. It was the homegrown ethos of Sonic Youth’s similarly titled Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star.

Shawn-Daniel was, like many of these unknown and almost-forgotten musicians who went the private press route, ahead of his time. His musical talents were nurtured by his pianist mother while he grew up attending Catholic school in Kentucky, but his high school rock band had already broken up at least a decade before he released this remarkable electronic-trance record.

Highlights include the robotic voice work on the third track "Master of the Universe." It makes me smile, just like the album title's obvious reference to The Empire Strikes Back. I'm not sure what led to his untimely death at the age of 38, but I'm grateful that he left behind this gift.

[electriqueboutiqueradio]

ELECTRIQUE BOUTIQUE #2, 11/3/23

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Please note that the first few episodes of the show are not great--sound quality/mixing is not quite there yet, and my talking is kind of choppy and awkward. Nevertheless, I'm keeping them available--but maybe start with one of the more recent episodes if this is your first time hearing the show. Thanks!

We made it to episode two! Wow. Couldn’t have done it without y’all. BUT SERIOUSLY, thank you for tuning in to my little bleep bloop show, it means the world to me. We dive into the world of minimal synth, lo-fi and DIY electronic music, cold wave, post punk, and whatever else might find its way under that categorical umbrella. Our intro music is “Michael Jackson” by Negativland, and our theme music is “The Taxi” by Young Marble Giants. Listen live every other Friday, 6-8 PM at hollowearthradio.org

QUICK CORRECTION: In this episode, I say that the band Smokey had a contract with Island Records revoked for being too gay. This was actually the response in general from record labels, not Island Records specifically. I think I got it mixed up with Antena’s aborted contract with Island (which was for presumably not-gay-related reasons). My apologies to all those affected. <3

Image: Brenda Ray/naffi

Antena - Be Pop (1983) 0:03:13

Chris Carter - Moonlight (1985) 0:06:19

Rheingold - Fanfanfanatisch (1982) 0:12:00

Guyer’s Connection - Pogo of Techno (1983) 0:16:19

Jacno - Rectangle (1979) 0:19:31

John Foxx - No-one Driving (1980) 0:25:15

Hazel O’Connor - Sons and Lovers (1980) 0:28:48

Anadol - Kiralık Aşk (2012) 0:33:36

Geneva Jacuzzi - Sandtrap (2010) 0:36:38

Ata Kak - Yemmpa Aba (1994) 0:39:58

Solid Space - The Guests (1982) 0:46:46

Berserk in a Hayfield - Optical (1984?) 0:48:43

Belaboris - Odotus (1983) 0:52:27

Х��го-Уго - Мне так страшно (1992) 0:56:37

Carlos Boyce, Jr. - Serene (1989) 1:01:16

Tomo Akikawabaya - Chair (1984) 1:08:55

Kym Amps - You Don’t Know My Name (But I Know You) (1981) 1:13:43

Dark Day - Nudes in the Forest (1982) 1:16:30

Mega Bog - The Clown (2023) 1:19:17

Smokey - Strong Love (1976) 1:23:37

The Judy’s - Mental Obsession (1981) 1:30:08

Mathématiques Modernes - Disco Rough (1981) 1:32:29

Francis Bebey - Il n'y a pas de crocodiles à Cocody (1976) 1:37:12

Brenda Ray (w/ naffi) - D’Ya Hear Me! (1981) 1:39:46

Tuxedomoon - What Use? (1980) 1:43:05

ADN’ Ckrystall - Cocaïna Vitamina (1982) 1:49:55

[mywifeleftme]

280: Reveen // Stop Smoking... Stop Over-Eating

Stop Smoking... Stop Over-Eating Reveen 1978, Reveen Recordings

Novelty record with a fab sleeve here, featuring hypnotic self-help suggestion courtesy of the Man They Call Reveen, an Australian-born magician who toured a trough through Atlantic Canada for 35 years. Due perhaps to the limitations of the LP format, Reveen spends the majority of each side of the record inducing the listener into a hypnotic state by telling you Hooow reLAXed Yooouuuu Arrreeee and COUNting DOWN in a DRONing CADEnce before rather briefly outlining what is bad about smoking and over-eating respectively and supposedly planting the suggestion you mightn’t want to do either of those things anymore. Reveen’s accent is kind of stuck in one of the middle stages of Animorphing between his native Australian and a poncy Received British accent, which makes everything he says funny. I’ve never been susceptible to hypnosis (…unless?), so neither side pulled me under and cured me of my ways, though the record is acceptable as ASMR and I conked right the fuck out listening to it this afternoon.

Reveen was both a mesmerist and a magician—I’m just old enough (41) to have possibly caught the tail end of his career, but never saw a performance. From what I can gather from the sparse clips online, he ran a very old school show, dressing himself in faux Eastern finery and no doubt reciting borrowed stage patter about having learned certain of his arts from Oriental mystics. His illusions look fairly stock, but he probably didn’t have to do more than the basics to thrill rural Canadian audiences in an era before widespread cable television and the internet. He’s largely forgotten these days, though his resemblance to Ricky from the Trailer Park Boys is the source of a running gag, but in his day his gently hokey mysticism was woven into the fabric of his adopted country, and a warm nostalgia still faintly clings to his powerfully coifed visage.

280/365

[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]

[abvchicago]

Artifacts of Sound - Private Press

Brad Clark’s been doing this beer thing for quite some time now. Previously of Jackie O’s, he went out to the coast to brew some beer, throw it in barrels and sell it in a membership-only club. (For more on that, listen to our Private Press episode featuring an interview with Clark.) He understands beer and barrel-aging, so it would make sense that Oil of Aphrodite – one of his most notable…

[thriftstoresisyphus]

Tim Morgon "Live! at the Ice House"