This episode celebrates monome's 10 year anniversary by exploring the work of Sean Hellfritsch (http://seanhellfritsch.com). Sean is an accomplished musician and filmmaker (http://encyclopediapictura.com), having recently released 'Some Sort of Wave Portal' on Leaving Records as Cool Maritime. He is as warm as the California sun.

Much of the featured music is from Sean's 2012 self-released 'Tea Time Travel'.

Lovingly crafted tapes of both works can be purchased here:
https://coolmaritime.bandcamp.com/album/tea-time-travel
https://leavingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/some-sort-of-wave-portal

Sean Hellfritsch (Cool Maritime): SOUND + PROCESS #2

Degradation Loops was a 16 day composition that gradually and completely 'bit crushes' my 2015 album Yellow Bell. Produced for a group show at the 55 Sydenham Rd, Marrickville gallery in Sydney, a process of sonic destruction unfolds in response to visual artists destroying and reassembling their work, to create new work, and to question the dominance of commercial imperatives within art. Here is a 14'48" time lapse edit of the 16 day composition, 2016.

Degradation Loops_55 Sydenham Rd Marrickville

Howes - 109
Dominic Coppola - Violetta
An Angel - Abuse me 
Tochigi Canopy - Asami’s Theme
takao - 鳥は星型の庭に降りる
K. Leimer - Facing East
WANADA GROUP - INVENTIONS OF TEN OCCUR HERE
mdo - Flat

Ultrafog - Heart of amber

Taken from "Trax Test excerpts from the modular network 1981-1987" 2LP/Download

'Trax Test’ is the first ever survey of Italy’s pioneering, visionary and influential label and mail art collectiveTrax, which ran from 1981 - 1987 as a network for the creation of collaborative projects. The collective included a pre-NWW Colin Potter and some of the earliest work from Masami Akita aka Merzbow, but also had deep connections with the art world; a few trax members went on to be be famous designers and artists -  Ettore Sottsass of hugely influential Memphis Group even guests on vocals on the last track of the compilation. The whole selection here is rare as heck and sorely in-demand by collectors, much of it now making its vinyl premiere some 30 odd years after the fact.

With credit due to compilers Vittore Baroni of Trax and Ecstatic’s avowed wave fiend, Alessio Natalizia (Not Waving) - who was also behind the Mutazione (Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980-1988) - ‘Trax Test’ is a portal to the international scene which laid the grassroots for a proliferation of electronic music over the proceeding decades - a pioneering part of the infrastructure for independent music distribution which could be said to pre-echo the myriad social networks and platforms which exist for sharing music today.

As Frans De Waard astutely points out in the 16-page booklet, there were no ‘templates’ for this thing back then - as opposed to the forms of Soundcloud, Spotify or YouTube nowadays - meaning artists did everything DIY: from cutting, pasting and xeroxing their artwork to experimenting with recording techniques and disseminating their work; all resulting a wonderfully daring and freeform mosaic of ideas which valued the virtues of ostensibly ‘unfinished’ or open-ended work, when compared with more expensive, ‘proper’ studio output.

That’s not to say the music is a happy mess, it’s just that matters such as perfecting your mixdown or getting that hi-hat to sing just right weren’t a priority, whereas making and expressing something personal and non-mainstream were of upmost importance. These guys definitely didn’t have sync for TV and film in mind, or even dream of having their records available in shops. Rather they drew strength in their far-flung unity and counter-cultural resistance in a way that could still be learned from today.

A1 00I…Cancer - Telematic
A2 M.A.Phillips - You’Ve Lost That Loving Feeling
A3 Nausea - No Conversation
A4 Amok / Mecanique Vegetale - Untitled
A5 Daniele Ciullini / Amok - The Secret Door
A6 E-Coli - Borax 
A7 The Cop Killers - Cop Killers Theme / Calma Atmosfera
B1 Peter Mayer / Rod Summers / Robin Crozier / Capitalist Pig / Biagio D’Egidio - Notterossa/Rednight
B2 Piermario Ciani / Vittore Baroni / Nocturnal Emissions / De Rezke - Live Blister Bump
B3 Piermario Ciani / Ado Scaini / Enrico Piva / Giancarlo Martina - I Love Cancer
B4 B Sides - Tribuna Ludu
B5 Colin Potter - Solidarity At Wujek Colliery
C1 Piermario Ciani - Co.Mix 1
C2 Naif Orchestra - Fratelli d’Italia
C3 Merzbow (Vacation Of Merzbow Lowest Music & Arts) - Kimigayo
C4 Monty Cantsin - Catastronics
C5 Die Form - Sex By Force
C6 Utopia Production - Chainsaw Massacre
D1 Spirocheta Pergoli - Merendine
D2 Bi Nostalgia - Biosolution For Today
D3 Ptose - The Jellyfish’s Mood
D4 Vittore Baroni - (Living with) Prosthesis 
D5 DDAA - Ghosts Of The Paper Trumpets
D6 Zone Verte - Le Fantome De L’Elephant 
D7 I Nipoti del Faraone - Prendi l’osso e corri

Out on Ecstatic Recordings 08/09/17

TRAX TEST [EXCERPTS FROM THE MODULAR NETWORK 1981-1987]

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MERZBOW (VACATION OF MERZBOW LOWEST MUSIC & ARTS) - KIMIGAYO [ELP030]

Recorded in the hollow body of Deutzer Bridge, Koln, for brass ensemble, electronics, 8-channel sound. For Bruckenmusik 2018. Listen on good speakers.

Acoustic Shadows - brass (Excerpt)

Liveset with the Azimuth system at TodaysArt 2018, The Hague

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TodaysArt 2018 [excerpt]

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Mourning Dove - Blessings (Mdrgr-025) 

Format: 2xCS with additional insert

Layout and Design by O.R. 

Cassette edition available to order now! You can also buy the digital album at: Mourning-dove.bandcamp.com

Order: https://mdrgr.com
IG: @mdrgr

Blessings

Mourning Dove - I Don't Know

Greg Fox - From The Cessation Of What

From Contact.
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Contact

From the Cessation of What

Greg Fox - From The Cessation Of What

Scattered

https://soundcloud.com/fxbip/insect-funk

Originally from Rapture, Fxbip's "Insect Funk" is one of my all time fav bip experiences. (along with rapture being my fav bip release)
Huge thanks to Fxbip for writing the original and letting me ruin it ;)

X4 Massif

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Mike Kitcher

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