fractional with the possums

improvised one take phone recording 
guitar loop 
improvised vocals 
improvised guitar 
recorded december 2013

Vapor

Little Hours Ft. Baths

Television Set - The City

Daily Life are a two piece from Providence, RI. After several tapes on Unskilled Labor, the band (CF- vox/synth, Sakiko Mori - synth) decided to enter the studio with Jeff Zeigler (Philly studio wizard) and emerged with a sugar glazed classic of monstrous icy proportions. "Necessary and Pathetic" sketches out a sputtering romantic vision replete with horny armies emerging from the darkness set to a lush trash strewn landscape equipped with sputtering drumbot rhythms. Croon power is set to 10 to ensure moist thongs. Vocals bring forth stories of aimless midnight wanderers, smarting from discipline, and lustful pilgrim rituals with the hard sting of the sunrise. This is not a lo-fidelity stab at synth-pop but a fully formed set of songs executed with maximum vision. After all the buildings fall and the survivors are wandering the wasteland scrounging for dogfood, there will be few truths, but do realize this: the few things of beauty and grandeur, such as Daily Life’s "Necessary Pathetic" LP/CD will exist to instruct the human dog pack to a greater destiny. Stock the shelter with at least one copy. 

Daily Life - Arousal and Dreams

Futility performs 'Zero Sum' in a single take in the studio.

Futility - all synths, all drum machines, all sequencers, vox, all at once

Gear - JP-4, Avatar, Orban 111B reverb, 01v mix/delay, 808, 606, Garfiend Minidoc, SH-101 (sequencer only, no sounds), KMS-105 -> Aphex 107 ->  Symetrix 528e -> Ibanez UE-405 (delay)

Zero Sum

Eye Screen in the Cone

‘Then Who’ is a track designed for you to simultaneously ugly dance and ugly cry to. 

Na Noise is Yolanda Fagan and Hariet Ellis. 

The long time collaborators (both having worked together on BOZO, Vincent H.L, Echo Ohs and Thee Crockettes) have a rascally take on traditional song - with their new-old songs, Ellis and Fagan introduce a new-old sound. This seed of their sound was initially planted by the work of Alan Vega (Suicide) and eventually lead to the union of volca beats, fuzzy doo-wop and spaghetti western -- Ellis’s driving natural bass lines allowing Fagan to dance deliberately, yet effortlessly, over every note. 

Put Na Noise on your to-cry-to list now.

Then Who

Na Noise  - Then Who

Premiere / feature on post-punk.com: https://www.post-punk.com/fringe-society/

We decided to do a compilation for our next release, we asked some of our favorites artists to provide an original track, with the thought of not having any remixes involved. The outcome has been as we have intended, a good mix of styles, each providing their own individual blend. 
Happy to welcome Fringe Society (Wrong Era / @fringesociety), Mijo (Correspondant), Neud Photo (Rat Life), Skelesys (Ombra International), Macaulay (Wonder Stories), Balam (ESTHÉTIQUE), Uninc & Kolomensky (ИДА), Tassilo Vanhœfen (Kontakt Group), Alpha & Necromante (Aperitif de la Mort), Spivak (Nutty Wombat Records) and returning artist Pixelife.

Release date: 
Digital - Oct 18

Sphere

Fringe Society - Greg Dulli Yoga

https://ssaliva.bandcamp.com/album/dying-strench

DYING

Buried under layers of blankets, attempting to sleep in -45 degree wind chill, TWINS’ Matt Weiner was shivering on the couch in mixengineer Jeremiah Meece’s living room. He’d already named his record ‘New Cold Dream’ before traveling to Chicago on the coldest day since 1985 to mix down the recordings; the fact that the city was in the midst of a polar vortex when he arrived was just a bit of cosmic irony. Still, this frosty scene is a perfect microcosm for the album itself - New Cold Dream is, in his words, about “staying warm in a cold world.”
Though TWINS’ sound has always drawn on synth-pop, his second LP takes the ‘80s influence a step further, interpreting our current climate of fear and uncertainty as a direct result of the economic policies set into motion during the Reagan/Thatcher era. The conditions under which New Cold Dream was created serve as evidence that the New Gold Dream that Simple Minds were singing about in 1982 has coalesced into something much darker. In the 21st century, the idea of the “American Dream” has been replaced by a cold new frontier. If life in America is a new sort of Wild West, then Weiner is its gothic cowboy chronicler, staring into the vast expanse of rising inequality, social stratification and environmental collapse. Still, NCD isn’t a pessimistic record - Weiner seeks to embrace the unforgiving nature of these realities. Balancing our optimism with cynicism, oscillating between hot and cold. This duality can be heard throughout the record - from the foreboding refrain of “Slow Decline” to the sublime choral tones of “Misuse.” Ominous, industrial beats offset dreamy synth melodies, while Weiner’s fervid vocals reconcile tensions throughout. New Cold Dream is a thoughtful yet heartfelt amalgamation of dark electro, synth pop, and industrial dance music. “Lie Awake,” an irresistibly classic dark-electro song underpinned by an infectious dance beat, embodies this balance perfectly. Past influences abound - from John Maus to Bauhaus, from Suicide to Depeche Mode - but this record lives distinctly in the present.
Hot vs. cold, fear vs. courage, light vs. dark. TWINS finds the similarities in what appear to be opposites, and invites us to do the same. 
“I want people to feel moved; both moved to get up and move and also moved in a deeper sense of connecting with ideas that may not have made sense before,” Weiner says of his project. It’s music for contemplating while dancing, for letting go while you hold on tight. As we grow tired of a world that deals in extremes, we wake up to a new cold dream.

Artist: @thatwhichisnotsaid
Title: New Cold Dream II
Label: @2mrecords
Format: Vinyl & Digital
Release date: 25 October 2019
Pre-order: https://thatwhichisnotsaid.bandcamp.com/album/new-cold-dream

New Cold Dream

Premiere #65 TWINS - New Cold Dream Pt. II [2MR]

Here comes Feinstoff regular Club Bizarre's latest edit. 

"Dark entries is one of our favorite label and especially this track by Night Moves we always loved. First we wanted to make just an extended edit version and the idea to add some drums and synth came after."

Also check out: https://soundcloud.com/fnstff/life-in-tokyo

FREE DOWNLOAD

FREE DL: Night Moves - Transdance (Club Bizarre Edit)

Infos & Order: http://www.mapledeathrecords.com/releases/mdr034/

Hallelujah! - Your Duck

grotta - Жар

grotta - Бремя

Los Angeles’ noise-rock trio Froth released their most fully realised work to date, Duress, earlier this year on Wichita Recordings. Ahead of their final tour of 2019, Froth share this version of their previous single “77”, remixed by Dublin duo, Mount Alaska.

On this remix, Mount Alaska (who recently released their debut album, Wave Atlas:  Season One on 251 Records) bring their customary analogue warmth, deep bass and bubbling synth arpeggios to Froth’s track, transporting the original even further into the gorgeous electronica world. 
 
Froth go on tour in the US this week with DIIV, before heading home to LA for a holiday season show on Dec 18. 
 
Live:
Thurs, Dec 5		Belly Up, Solana Beach, CA **
Fri, Dec 6		Slo Guild, San Luis Obispo, CA **
Sat, Dec 7		The Catalyst Club, Santa Cruz, CA **
Sun, Dec 8		The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA **
Tues, Dec 10		The Crocodile, Seattle, WA **
Weds, Dec 11	        Revolution Hall, Portland, OR **
Fri, Dec 13		Gundlach Bundschu Winery, Sonoma, CA **
Weds, Dec 18	        1720, Los Angeles, CA *

** - with DIIV
* - with SRSQ, Numb.er & Dummy

Stream or buy the album, Duress: http://smarturl.it/fr_duress

Froth - 77 (Mount Alaska Remix)

Robby's Theme

Migration Stories

Migration of Souls

Black Tar

"Amaranthine Stretch" (NRR59)

Pale Ichor

From the upcoming album 'Years', released on January 17, 2020 via 15 Passenger

Pre-Order: https://15passenger.bandcamp.com/album/years

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LYRICS:

By the time I wake up in the night
sweat dried above my dormant eyes
have I lost the will to live

I swear I died a thousand lives
just trying to get across your lines
Have I crossed your rubicon

Then one of us will start to push and shove
We agitate to resuscitate 

Our love 
our way
It’s ten miles high
It’s a ten ton weight

We don’t want it any way

We know what you want
we know how to get it
we know what you want 
we want to deliver it

We know what you want
we know how to get it
we know what you want 
we want to deliver it

I thought I dotted all the ‘i’s
I swear I diligenced this life
but I lost the will to live
then one of us will start to push and shove
we can’t accept/realize 

we’re in love for the very last time
you’re in the love for the very last time.

Our love 
our way
It’s ten miles high
It’s a ten ton weight

We don’t want it any way

We know what you want
we know how to get it
we know what you want 
we want to deliver it

We know what you want
we know how to get it
we know what you want 
we want to deliver it

We know what you want
we know how to get it
we know what you want 
we want to deliver it

fractional with the possums

art greasy