New To Playlist - September 2016

A short mix of cool stuff I've been listening to from around the place. Real good for walking around at night. Or driving around at night. Or maybe cooking (especially if you're inventing something new and weird). Probably not that good as cleaning music or making out music.

Featuring:
Paul Kean
Banana (from The Electronic Knights)
D / / U
Wolfboy
Solid Space
Sheet Sweater
Joe Sampson
Eden Burns
Soft Rock

Slinky and Mysterious and Cool Mixtape

"back sweat at the party / 
eleven beers in the carpark /
i'm not a good person / 
but i'm trying to grow"

mid-life mania. 87 Give Up EP coming christmas 21

St Lukes Freakout Tuesday 3pm

CUD refers to the chewing-over-again of partly digested food eaten by ruminants (animals like cattle, sheep & goats). To ruminate is to think, or dwell on a thought repeatedly – as a creature throws up its meal only to chew it over again. 

CUD is a sonic collage intent on reanimating (& ruminating on) a range of ferally scavenged archival media: advertisements for Aotearoa’s meat, milk & farming products; radio cooking shows; queer local cinema; the violent semantics of authoring sound effects; & the hauntological grief of a dance only heard, not seen. The work seeks to explore relations between reproductive/nonreproductive & human/animal bodies, their associated technologies & byproducts through repurposing archival media. 

CUD seizes on what Mel Y. Chen refers to as ‘leakages’ between classifications of what is human & what is not, with an emphasis on the idea of “naturalness” & its other, the “unnatural” – a term frequently deployed in reference to queer sex & reproduction. CUD asks you to lean into the leakages, to reiterate & invert them – irrupting the smooth semiotic surface of naturalness’ normative containers.

The word ruminant is derived from the Latin rumen, meaning ‘throat’ – the site of both the voice, & the breath. The recorded singing voice featured at the end of CUD is that of the only Castrato singer ever recorded, Alessandro Moreschi, singing Tosti’s Ideale in 1902. The dancer you can hear panting & stomping is Douglas Wright, dancing Elegy, a piece made in 1993 for his friends who died of AIDS. Spliced together – with reverence –  across almost a century, they offer a surrogate lament regurgitated from a gender-bent throat.

CUD opens with an invitation to see, perhaps in line with Barthes’ dictum that to see well, you must close your eyes. I wonder then, if to hear well, one must close one’s ears, or perhaps lean into sounds of the errant, the monstrous, the distorted: the unideal. 



Ideale  (Tosti, 1882; translated from the Italian) 

I followed you like a rainbow of peace
 along the paths of heaven;
 I followed you like a friendly torch
 in the veil of darkness,
 and I sensed you in the light, in the air,
 in the perfume of flowers,
 and the solitary room was full
 of you and of your radiance.
 
 Absorbed by you, I dreamed a long time
 of the sound of your voice,
 and earth's every anxiety, every torment
 I forgot in that dream.
 Come back, dear ideal, for an instant
 to smile at me again,
 and in your face will shine for me
 a new dawn.
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Frances Libeau (they/them) is a queer Pākeha interdisciplinary artist. Their sonic compositions, sound designs, & writing feature across live, screen & digital platforms of contemporary music, fine art (film, sculpture & performance), film (feature & short), theatre & dance. Libeau’s work often explores the textural & semantic possibilities of storytelling through sonic collage of found materials & possibilities for queering sonic & compositional & archival practices.
https://iecrazy.com
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For more like this go to www.pyramidclub.org.nz

With thanks to Creative New Zealand for supporting this work

CUD - Frances Libeau

Recorded at the Second Ave Sleep-out and Bach 62 
By Maggie Magee with Alexander Knight 

Drums ~ Catherine Cumming 
Noise guitars ~ Sean Kelly 
All else ~ Maggie Magee 
Mixed and mastered by Sean Kelly at Bach 62 

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There is an incident on the edge of town; all the local lawnmowers drown it out. Brown paper bags barricade the drain; white feathers turn grey in the rain.

It doesn't take a full room to be crowded out!! 

I saw something on the green; something caught beneath the wheels; and a body smiling shouts - it's ONE MORE IN & ONE MORE OUT.

Looking back on all those teenage nights; two of us the small ones were forced to fight... walking home from school; black hair on the grass, she doesn't say a word, she only runs as fast as she can! 

It doesn't take a full room to be crowded out; it doesn't take a full moon to act insane.......

I saw something on the green; something caught beneath the wheels; and a body smiling shouts - it's ONE MORE IN & ONE MORE OUT....

In the passenger seat, there's a hanging head; as though it's attached to a taut and jerking thread. There's a shop en route that sells mannequins... 
I will take one home 
just to eat with it.


An Incident on the Edge of Town

Artist: Aubrey
Title: The Reflection
Label: Thema Recordings
Cat #: THEMA045
Formats: 12" vinyl, WAV, 320MP3

Distributed through Syncrophone.fr

Sometimes there is a sound that lifts you so high you can’t possibly come down. It’s the kind of sound that many strive for, but few can ever reach. UK mainstay Aubrey has been hitting this pinnacle for years through his releases on renowned imprints such as Metroplex, Ostgut Ton, and Skudge, as well as his very own Solid Groove Records. “The Reflection” EP comes as no exception. As only a DJ and Producer of his stature can do, Aubrey goes above and beyond to take the listener through a spectrum of moods that culminate in a rounded and complex experience. From the uplifting, fast paced pads in “Peligro 45” to the disorienting rhythmic voodoo of “Roger Doger” and peak energy drive of “Train To The Fire” there is a sense of direction and otherworldly ambiance that will take any dance floor to the place it needs to be.

Text by: Nathan Levenson


Aubrey - B1. Rodger Dodger [clip]

Download the album at https://djshadow.lnk.to/tmwfso

DJ Shadow, widely acknowledged as a crucial figure in the development of experimental, instrumental hip-hop, has returned with ‘The Mountain Will Fall’ via Mass Appeal Records [and Believe Digital in France], his first full length release since 2011. The 12-track album finds DJ Shadow exploring new realms in addition to the deep samples and kinetic soundscapes that helped to launch his career 20 years ago. On ‘The Mountain Will Fall’ he’s shifted further toward original composition, a vast experimentation of beats and textures, synthesizers and live instruments including horns and woodwinds. The album features Run The Jewels, Nils Frahm, Matthew Halsall, Ernie Fresh and more.

"Occasionally, I make a beat that demands a specific vocal treatment and  attitude. In the case of 'Nobody Speak,' I wasn't going to settle for anyone other than Run The Jewels; in my mind, it was them or no one. Fortunately, they  agreed, and they took the track to a place I could never get to on my own. That's the definition of a rewarding collaboration." – DJ Shadow

"Shadow is a legend and a friend. When he makes music he often changes music forever.  When he asked us to jump on the record we didn't blink.” 
– El-P of Run The Jewels 
 
The album is available in all formats with artwork designed by Paul Insect including a gatefold double LP. Order 'The Mountain Will Fall' here: https://DJShadow.lnk.to/TMWFYT
 
ALBUM TRACK LIST:
1. The Mountain Will Fall
2. Nobody Speak feat. Run The Jewels
3. Three Ralphs
4. Bergschrund feat. Nils Frahm
5. The Sideshow feat. Ernie Fresh
6. Depth Charge
7. Mambo
8. Ashes To Oceans feat. Matthew Halsall
9. Pitter Patter feat. G Jones & Bleep Bloop
10. California
11. Ghost Town
12. Suicide Pact
13. Swerve (iTunes Bonus Track)

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DJ Shadow - Nobody Speak feat. Run The Jewels

Dress & plate the buttered beast
The meat turns bitter for the feast

words & voices - i.e. crazy
rest - shab

recording - joshua lynn, shab, i.e. crazy

Grotesque (October Skin)

"Evils Face" by Log Horn Breed.

Taken from the forthcoming split 12" with girls pissing on girls pissing, due for release August 2016 through MUZAI Records.

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Log Horn Breed - Evil Faces

"The Great Disappointment" by Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing.

From the split, "Split", with Log Horn Breed, out (officially) August 19th 2016 through MUZAI Records.

(c) and (p) Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing 2016, under exclusive license to MUZAI Records.



Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing - The Great Disappointment

We've been tight with Peckham collective and record label Rhythm Section for a long time now, and catching wind of a new release is always a very big deal. Aukland-born and Peckham-based duo Chaos in the CBD have been on our radar for a minute. You'll probably know these two as the hands behind their seminal debut Midnight in Peckham, released last year. Their new release, Invisible Spectrum, doesn't disappoint. Our favourite of the tracks, "Significant Others" brings the EP to its peak with heavy jazz influences, a bongo beat and serious dance capabilities. Get ready to be wrapped up in the kind of groove that makes you forget all the bad stuff.

The Invisible Spectrum is released on 9th September.

Invisible Spectrum

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Chaos In The CBD "Significant Others" - Boiler Room Debuts

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Photo: Matthias Heiderich (http://www.matthias-heiderich.de/reflexionen-zwei/)

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bzkt. & lordapex - hempseeds [prod. ƒLAXEED]

"Lustration, (from Latin lustratio, “purification by sacrifice”), any of various processes in ancient Greece and Rome whereby individuals or communities rid themselves of ceremonial impurity (e.g., bloodguilt, pollution incurred by contact with childbirth or with a corpse) or simply of the profane or ordinary state, which made it dangerous to come into contact with sacred rites or objects. The methods varied from sprinkling with or washing in water, through rubbing with various substances, such as blood or clay, to complicated ceremonies, some of which involved confession of sins. ."

Girls Pissing on Girls Pissing -  Lustration

Jamboree

Syndaci 1999

Organs Informationized

Rolling since 1976, RDU98.5fm is now the only bastion of alternative radio in Christchurch.

An Incident on the Edge of Town

i.e. crazy

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