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

Lordy Lordy

Opp Pack Smoker 8

"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

Hourglass

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

How I Wish

Its Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

The Thrill is Gone (BB King) Live at The Thirsty Pig 12/13/2024

Footsteps In The Dark (Isley Brothers) (ft. Trey Wright) Live at Modestman Brewing 8/16/2024

Samurai Dream Sequence

It’s True demo

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)

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]

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Moody + bleeding

https://soundcloud.com/psetta + Loretta

We are hairy romp with no boundaries for decade, language or style; lubed with a love for the trashy, the queer and the mundane. Genre explorations, surreal narratives and improvisation often guide radio programming & mixes.

In addition to community radio at 90.9 WMPG, we have a rotating biweekly playlist "summer but I don't like heat" covering obscure, upcoming or quintessential dream pop, post-punk, experimental, lo-fi, etc. etc. etc.

Bc this platform has an upload limit and we're broke: continuous mixes will be uploaded to Mixcloud whenever we finish them

It’s True demo

CJ Lee

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