Infinite Infants

artist: Ignatz
title: the last night
album: selected songs from cassettes

Ignatz -  the last night

Ghent-based label KRAAK has been bringing an adventurous spirit to the experimental and DIY scene for the past 20 years and counting. Genre-bending music from the outer edges of the fray!


Kraak Records w/ Cachilapa @ Kiosk Radio 15.02.2023

Kraak Records w/ Cachilapa @ Kiosk Radio 15.03.2023

Track ID: @caapii

https://blushtbc.bandcamp.com/

A new episode in the series features a very special guest—Tim, aka caapi, a driving force of Glasgow’s underground scene. Over the past few years, Tim and @lizzie-urquhart have been creating the deeply heartfelt and immersive label @somewherepress. 
Now, Tim has launched their own label called 'blush', and this mix serves as a kind of sonic palette—or mood board, if you will—that they’ve carefully curated to establish the tone and identity of the label.

Listening to Tim's mixes is always an incredibly fascinating and inspiring experience for me. They are crafted with such skill and intricacy, always full of hidden layers and depth. This mix is no exception—I listened to it several times before its release, and each time, I discovered new shades and nuances. I'm thrilled that Tim chose to present such an important and personal story in the De Kat Memwa series.

Here’s what Tim had to say about the mix:

*My intention with blush is to explore DIY, arcane and delicate sound work with a playful and personal approach.

I recorded the mix as a way to understand the sound that's been forming in my mind over many months, and it captures the mood of what I'm going for.

At the heart, it's an exploration into ambient guitar works, particularly the kind of ephemeral moments when a zoom recorder is left on and spontaneous playing merges with the environment. But there's also a playful distortion to this, tinged with the influence of obscure '90s ambient trip-hop and sample-based music.

My first tape release as blush, by ana reme, explores romantic atmospheres and dated textures and is a big influence for me also.

I'm drawn to fluttering synths through layers of hissing tape noise, ambient guitars recorded serendipitously, obscure trip-hop that never found its place, twee indie soft rock, and everything in between.

The photos are of a waterfall in Bavaria that I photographed in the summer—they felt kind of right for this mix: a bit mystical but also strange and kind of timeless.*

De Kat Memwa #57 w/ caapi (blush)

We invited french artist Manoir Molle to contribute to
our New Drops series, and she came through with an
excellent selection of songs to start your summer
holiday with. Her distinct and playful style shines
through both the mix and in her own releases which we
highly recommend you to check out!

Tracklist: 

Larry Polansky - Four-Voices Canon No 14, Kid Canon  
Kate  NV - in tune
Kate Bush - Aerial Tal  
Fred Frith - Heart Bares  
Kyle Gann - Busted grooves 
Marisa Anderson - The low Country  
Motohiko Hamase - Pascal  
Brannten Schnüre - Pfirsiche  
Fred Frith - Spring Any Day Now  
Jake Tobin - Labyrinth center
Romain de Ferron - Are Are 
James Tenney - Array (a'sysing)  
The La’s - Looking Glass (Mike Hedges version)
Ekkehard Ehlers - Plays John Cassavetes 2 
Popol vuh - Grab der Mutter

New Drops 27/06/25 - Manoir Molle

Loto Retina - Cannolo

Jacqueline Du Pre- Kol Nidrei

Read more: https://electrocorp.fr/2019/06/18/wilson-tanner-ii/ 

"These eight compositions pull in a by-catch of maritime folklore; of Siren and Selkie, Seagull and engine oil slick". This is how we got introduced to the new album of Wilson Tanner. 

Wilson Tanner is the mutual project of Australian artists Andras (Andrew Wilson) and Eleventeen Eston (John Tanner). Here they release "II", a follow up to their debut full-length published in 2016. 

Through the 8 tracks, Andrew and John captured Ambient and Electronica landscapes, all recorded in 3 days, on September 2017, aboard a 1950s riverboat with weatherproof instruments. 

While listening to the LP, we instantly felt in love with the whole aesthetic and the peaceful feeling that spead throughout the tracks. "All Hands Bury the Dead" is our pickup from the release with its early 70s / late 60s electronic sound that brings back a lot of music and visual memories.

Premiere: Wilson Tanner - All Hands Bury the Dead [Efficient Space]

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Young Libs - LVIV

YOR is a Leipzig outfit formed by artists Nataly, Tony and Susanne. Known in their local scene for their Beach Boy covers and associations with bands like Mosquito Ego, the trio confounded the bleary-eyed audience at KRAAK Festival 2019’s 24-hour experiment with their offbeat no wave that does not shy away from moments of funky reflection or manic free-form detours.

On LOVE, they bounce from energetic bursts of guitar-laden catharses to groovy bass lines designed for a strange intimacy within a crumbling chaos. Post-punk codes take on a decidedly outsider bent which infuse an offbeat brand of love song, where babbled, screamed and moaned lyrics recount banal yet oddly confidential vignettes of intimacy through frenzied mantras. Each song is a state in itself, and no two songs are alike - much like how every experienced moment of love exists on its own and is different from the next.
credits
releases January 25, 2020

Released 25.1.2019
Recorded and mixed by Maxim Tschernych
Recorded at Paunsdorf
Mastered by Christophe Albertijn
Artwork by YOR
Design by Lene Verschaeren

order at
https://kraak.bandcamp.com/album/love

YOR - Pickles

small talk

Excerpt from the piece 'Ursup' an electroacoustic composition for 16 channels made by IJ - Inge van den Kroonenberb & Jürgen De Blonde.

Ursup (edit)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ij9XJ4EOmDU

Postcoronal Anthem

VALE SEAN BAXTER 
1970-2020

We are crushed by the terrible news of Sean's passing. The Melbourne (and all over) experimental / improvised / noise scene took a huge blow just a few days before the start of the confinement, with the passing of legendary drummer, noise artist, curator, DIY stalwart, lover and enthusiast for all things strange, fukkd and brutal Sean Baxter.
I made a radio show of his music, with a few anecdotes, stories and quotes thrown in. If anyone is involved in radio, online or otherwise, and wants to get it aired please feel free to download to get the files.

1. ‘Almost Lucid Fairytale’ - from Bucketrider 'Guignol’s Band’ - 1998 - Dr Jims Records
2. ‘Safety Pod’ - From The Throwaways 'Angle Grinder' - 1991 - Au Go Go Records
3. ‘Rock and Roll’ - From The Throwaways 'Postmadonna Primadonna’ - 1994 - Dr Jims Records
4. ‘Nancarrow (For Conlon)’ - From Bucketrider 'Guignol’s Band’ = 1998 - Dr Jims Records
5. Excerpt from ‘Open Space’ - From Western Grey 'Glacial Erratic' - 2003 - Dr Jims Records
6. Excerpt from ‘1’ - From Lazy ‘Microsonics’ - 2002 - Dr Jims Records
7. ‘Metamorphics’ - from Pateras / Baxter / Brown - Ataxia - Synaesthesia Records - 2002/2003
8. ‘Bern 4’ - from Pateras / Baxter / Brown - ‘Bern - Melbourne - Milan’ - 2006 - Immediata 
9. ‘Inland 4’ - from Pateras / Baxter / Brown - ‘Bern - Melbourne - Milan’ - 2017 - Immediata 
10. ‘Plates’ - from Sean Baxter - Solo Drumkit Improvisations - 2011 - Bocian Records 
11. ‘Blood Meridian (Tempering Agent)’ - Embers - Slag-Welter - 2008 - Heathen Skulls
12. ‘Unreleased’ - Sean Baxter & Valerio Tricoli - Recorded in Berlin 2012
13. Sean Baxter Classic Intro - Make It Up Club - 2018
14. ‘Windchimes’ - from Sean Baxter - Solo Drumkit Improvisations - 2011 - Bocian Records 

Quotes from Anthony Pateras, Steve Heather, Judith Hamann, Clayton Thomas, Miles Brown, Dale Baxter, Scott Sinclair
Compiled by Annalee-Rose & Will Guthrie - April 2020
Thanks to Dave Brown, Anthony Pateras, Clare Cooper

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