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spiders walking on snow

take gut

Songs that taste like lavender, oatmeal & a sense of peace in disorder.
Spotlight on lo-fi and unconventional production this week.
Rejection of an overriding genre, per usual.

Current rotation:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5xPvGk2wzdjdXhy2G0axkn?si=UmT4ssMjRN6ya2HvQCzy0Q

All trax:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1zJnUCeAmZqIFFUmZsPqTQ?si=rgBSaf1tTNSNf-6tPzbs2w

Cover – @psetta

Summer but I don't like heat #4

Obscure psychedelia & opulent psychosis
Blurry songs from somewhere far away

Pastoral, floating, teeth clenched
About noon, a disturbance, a sigh
A sigh again

Current rotation:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5xPvGk2wzdjdXhy2G0axkn?si=cvKLK_hASGGggxvTaGq50A

Full list:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1zJnUCeAmZqIFFUmZsPqTQ?si=U_9xDPB5Rxmx-NWUTcZIhA

Summer but I don't like heat #8

Russian Tsarlag - "Become Solid"

"Secret Paradise" is taken from the single "Secret Paradise" out on Critical Heights. Scraps, aka Laura Hill, wears her obsession with 80’s synth rock on her sleeve, citing The Human League, Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode, Flock of Seaguls, OMD, Gary Numan and Devo as influences.

iTunes

Scraps - Secret Paradise

Therapist

Almost eradicated during the time of the Khmer Rouge, the psychedelic sounds of Cambodia live on in the memory of survivors and exiles as cherished treasures of a lost past. This Rough Guide celebrates the mind bending music from the 1960s and 1970s, with some of the best known artists of the day including Sin Sisamouth, Ros Sereysothea, Pan Ron alongside dynamic revival bands Dengue Fever and The Cambodian Space Project.

For more information, visit: www.worldmusic.net/cambodia

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO PSYCHEDELIC CAMBODIA

1960s and early-1970s Cambodian pop is a treasure trove of kookily re-worked takes on the best beat and psychedelic music of the day. Digging into the archive, one cannot disconnect these golden tracks from the horrifying history of human and cultural genocide in twenty-first century Cambodia. Pop music was squashed by Pol Pot’s evil fisted dictatorship and in recent years has been literally re-born. The Khmer Rouge administration destroyed hundreds of master recordings, reel-to-reels, vinyls and cassettes and murdered many musicians in cold blood. This Rough Guide is significant as it contributes to preserving and spreading awareness of Cambodia’s uniquely cool pop music in relation and understanding to its battered social history. 

This introductory compilation includes songs by stars of the day Sinn Sisamouth, Ros Sereysothea, Pan Ron and others who sadly later perished at the hands of Pol Pot’s regime. Sinn Sisamouth was nicknamed the Elvis of Cambodia and wrote thousands of songs as well as covering the well-known western pop songs of the period. He penned new verses for songs like ‘House of the Rising Sun’, ‘Black Magic Woman’ and ‘Sugar Sugar’. The life and fate of the period's great diva, Ros Sereysothea, was one of difficult times and failed relationships, which were reflected in the sad and soulful ballads for which she has subsequently become celebrated.

This Rough Guide also presents the retro sounds of present-day throwback bands Dengue Fever and Cambodian Space Project. These groups riff on the hypnotic grooves of yesterday while also composing their own original tracks in the genre. Dengue Fever are a Los Angeles-based six-piece whose popularity is soaring. Their humorous track ‘Tiger Phone Card’ tackles the modern-day problem of maintaining a trans-Atlantic long-distance relationship. 

Discover the vintage psychedelic rhythms of swinging Cambodia on this compilation. This deeply cool music is seeping into the consciousness of a wider world who can’t resist these irresistible resurging grooves.

Pan Ron: Paem Nas Sneha (Love Like Honey) (taken from The Rough Guide To Psychedelic Cambodia)

Severed Heads are one of the longest standing bands to have emerged from the Australian post-punk and experimental scene. They began in Sydney in 1979, and were an early outfit to incorporate elements of 'industrial' noise-generation, tape cutting & looping and electronic sound synthesis. As the project developed, song-structures and vocals were employed in a more-or-less recognizable mutant electro pop style. After many line-up changes featuring Gary Bradbury and psychedelic guitarist Simon Knuckey, Severed Heads became the solo vehicle for composer Tom Ellard. 
In 1983 they released a C-60 cassette called “Since The Accident” that grabbed the attention of Ink Records, a subsidiary of Virgin in the UK.  Ellard added a throwaway track at the last minute to fill out the cassette, not wanting to leave an unseemly gap on a C60 tape. This track, “Dead Eyes Opened” was catchy enough to get a lot of airplay on the main non-commercial radio station in Sydney. The band was asked to make this song into a 12” single. For this extended version, Tom Ellard and producer Patrick Gibson went to M Squared studio and passed the multitracked recordings through various EQ's and delays. “Dead Eyes Opened” features samples from a radio program narrated by Edgar Lustgarten, a crime journalist from England, referencing a double murder case that occurred in 1924. The rhythms are made by a TR-808 drum machine and an SH-1 synthesizer. A KORG PolySix was used for strings and additional atmospheric elements. The lead solo was a Casiotone run through an Octaver foot pedal. On the B-side are two solo compositions “Bullet” and “Mount” that Ellard recorded at Terse Tapes in 1982. 

All songs are remastered for vinyl by George Horn at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. Housed in the original jacket featuring the iconic photograph of a girl with a painted face wrapped in some cloth by Juilee Pryor. Each copy includes a fold-out newsprint poster with a large photo of the band wearing Art Unit skull shirts on one side and liner notes and press clippings on the other. 30 years later Severed Heads are still paving the way for powerful, imaginative, and challenging music.

Severed Heads - Dead Eyes Opened extended 12" mix

track "Ode To Joey" on the album Red Moon, by Caethua aka Clay Camero, released Oct 7 2014, Bathetic Records

Caethua - Ode To Joey

So Below

"Galaxy Choker" side A from c10 split with Zerfallt

SALT

Recorded and engineered by Ben Greenberg at the Magic Shop in March 2015.
Mastered and cut by Josh Bonati at Bonati Mastering.

Death To The Acolytes

Masquerade

Eternal Return

From 'Subordination,' out now on Sacred Bones Records.
Buy here: hyperurl.co/Subordination
TOUR DATES: http://bit.ly/1UjOOvT

Institute - Exhibitionism

Primitive London

Primitive London 1

1. Waiting for the heart 2. Ghanadalamaba 3. Forgotten love  4. Forget about it

Kim Jung Mi Record 2,  side b

Recorded by Lewis Glass @ Glassworks Studio Recording and mastered by Joe Caithness @ Subsequent Mastering.

2. Spoke Distort

1. Don't Start

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnXfCCKbtbQ

For The Girl Who Has Everything is Liam Pram, Lucas Hanson, David Harris, Isaac Tollestrup & Adam Staples
Featuring JY Lee on Baritone Sax
Recorded and Mixed by Liam Pram
Mastered by Rohan Evans

Wet Lip Hope

For The Girl Who Has Everything is Liam Pram, Lucas Hanson, David Harris, Isaac Tollestrup & Adam Staples
Featuring JY Lee on Baritone Sax
Recorded and Mixed by Liam Pram
Mastered by Rohan Evans

Dry Lip

'Her Majesty II' is taken from The Green Child's self-titled debut album out January 12th through Upset The Rhythm.

Available to pre-order here now:
upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

Artist: The Green Child
Title: The Green Child

Label: Upset The Rhythm
Catalogue Number: UTR102
Release Date: Friday 12 January

Track listing:
01. Traveler
02. Her Majesty II
03. Bertha
04. New Years Eve
05. 46 Timelines
06. Walking Distance
07. Marie Elene
08. Destroyer

The Green Child is the long distance musical collaboration of Mikey Young and Raven Mahon, who met in 2013 when their bands, Total Control and Grass Widow played a show in Oakland, California. They started writing songs together in Australia in 2014 and the project has been on a slow burn since. Their self-titled debut album is the culmination of few years of putting ideas together internationally and periodically recording in Mikey's home studio. Some of the lyrical content and the band's name was inspired by Herbert Read's 1935 utopian, communist, sci-fi novel called The Green Child.

With such a choice name, it’s no surprise that The Green Child draw their sound from an illusory past as much as they stalk into pastures new. Broadly retro-futuristic in scope, verdant acres of lushly evocative synthesizers and blippy drum machines underpin most of their upbeat yet decidedly uncanny songs. Raven’s calmly scenic and measured vocal flits like a will-o’-the-wisp throughout the tracks, proffering a guiding hand as she walks us through the often eerie, electronic concoctions.

‘Traveler’ opens the album all redolent, beat-minded and labyrinthine. Twisting melody lines swirl and envelop like a sandstorm, whilst Raven coolly projects on a “solitary man” lost to “green oblivion”. Similarly, ‘Her Majesty II’ glistens with its playful yet plaintive vocal and iridescent arpeggios, whilst ‘Bertha’ slows things down with tumbling chimes and stately use of space.

The Green Child are adept at atmosphere, their songs are refined from gently unfolding ideas that never fail to realise and build to their potential. Tracks like ‘Walking Distance’ (featuring Al Montfort on saxophone) and ‘New Years Eve’ are exercises in evolved composition with ideas budding off and blossoming into truly resonant dimensions. The band’s cover of ‘Marie Elene’ (by Keith Pearson) and closing track ‘Destroyer’ are further crowning achievements, both pieces subtly handled with poise and ample melancholic grandeur. The Green Child fix their sights on the heights they want to reach within their songs and much like the project itself don’t want to rush to the finish line. When it becomes more about the unfurling journey, why not take the time to enjoy the trip and burn slower?

‘The Green Child’ is due for release on January 12th through Upset The Rhythm on 180g black vinyl, accompanied by some spirited sleeve design by James Vinciguerra.

The Green Child

The Green Child - 'Her Majesty II'

Instinctual

This track is taken from Polar Kid & Pondoo`s upcoming Jellyman e.p, which will be released on the 17/07/2018

You can pre order this release from our webstore now /// https://jitterjazzrecords.bandcamp.com/album/jellyman-e-p

Jellyman e.p

Foiler

Polar Kid & Pondoo - Foiler (taken from Jellyman e.p)

CD-r comp for HR#20 Chewy  Chewy Gumdrops, collage book 

Chewy Chewy Gumdrops 4. Caethua - Old Cat

bod [包家巷] - Prelude to Music for Self Esteem [YGK004]

1. RESTITUTION
2. MOTHERHOOD

Format: Digital/EP
Release Date: February 22, 2019
Cover: Nick Zhu
Video: youtu.be/riObCNLoN_w

PRELUDE TO MUSIC FOR SELF ESTEEM (MSE)

This release is intended to introduce the title and positions that will be held by the audiovisual essay Music for Self Esteem, to be released in the summer of 2019. As the title suggests, the focus is to point all meaning towards the feedback loop between oneself and one’s opinion of oneself. 
It is this body of interactions that, in my opinion, create the basis for all art/music/creative work that is self-aware.

This prelude draws a very simple binary perspective (a line) of the system that will be presented in MSE: a reiterative non-spatial cycle of human conditions (an ever changing sphere considered as a point). 

RESTITUTION refers to the eternity of ideas, the ability of people to use and reuse their perceptions (of themselves and others), thus reforming identity and belonging from the ashes of contradictory social expectations. 

MOTHERHOOD refers to the godhood of all origin points, the body that creates the cycle in the first place, the only stable reference point in the chaos of reiterative restitution.

Attached below is an incomplete list of positions that will be both developed and criticized in MSE.

POSITIONS for MSE

1.
Auto Tune is the mask that this album is the body armor to

2.
I’m paranoid that nobody sees me as intentionally acting

3.
Emotion is a construct of the environment — a construct is made by the mind — emotion is thus both contingent on the mind and the environment, but the mind has more power. Maybe I’d be 50/50 on a given day

4.
Aesthetic recombinations are postmodern iterations of the first moment in which art was conceived

5.
Systems of power are considered to have formed “naturally” by those seeking to displace responsibility for their actions

6.
Loneliness isn’t the condition of modern humankind, it's a symptom of inherited survival instincts

7.
I don’t intend on believing that I will be written into history. I don’t think it’s my choice, and if it happens it won’t be because I want it to happen

8.
God is the summation of all interpretable distributed networks in all and any system(s)

9.
Every historicization only describes the visible. All concepts have existed since the beginning of humanity and only some of them make it to the books in each round of erasure

10.
Accelerationist observance of positive feedback loops is using a euphemism for “genocidal erasure.” Since I don’t like to think people are stupid I am compelled to believe that there is intentional evil in the ideological development of contemporary theory

11.
A spatial representation/conception of time is a constraint that demands a logical understanding of the universe

12.
Music for Self Esteem is the spiral of anti-logical usage of rhetoric. It is intended (ironically) to oppose Sophism and irony

Music For Self Esteem

bod [包家巷] - MOTHERHOOD [YGK004]

Caethua – God How I Miss Her

This is a track I have been playing out for a few years and one of those tunes I always get asked about. I recently found the previously unreleased instrumental of the Domu remix and just wanted to stretch the track out a bit and also get the brilliant breakdown in twice in the edit (that's the bit that always gets the dancefloor).

Limited download...let me know if you download and are playing the track out.

Enjoy
Rob

www.robertluis.com

Domu V AC Lewis & Ndidi Cascade: Tickles (Nirobi Edit)

'Surya' - https://smarturl.it/inka-surya

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Caethua - Ode To Joey

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