"Operation Pinball" is an explosion of raw energy that captures the fury and frustration of a generation teetering on the brink. It's a song for headbangers and fist-pumpers, a soundtrack for the neon-drenched nights and steel-plated mornings of the aging kids of the 1980s.  Buzzsaw guitars slam like fists against steel, a rhythmic hammer blow driving aggressive lead lines fueled by nitro brew and pure adrenaline cascading and weaving like a chaotic pinball careening through a dystopian funhouse.

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Vines Of The Minds

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The Epilogue of the Tarot-Rized series. Hope you enjoyed it!

This is the 6 of Cups card: In divinatory, esoteric and occult tarot, the Minor Arcana are believed to represent relatively mundane features of life. The court cards represent the people whom one meets. [Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_Arcana]

By Pamela Colman Smith - This image scanned by Holly Voley, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=113970916

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JAPAN TOUR MIXTAPE

BL Radio EP 116: KOSMIK & YOBKISS LIVE RECORDING AT RUBYCON RECORDS

All vinyl live session recordings from our recent gathering at Rubycon Records with Italo Moderni. First 55mins is an excerpt from Kosmik’s opening presentation, followed by a set by Netherlands-born producer/dj https://soundcloud.com/yobkiss, who recently moved to LA. Choon in!

BL Radio EP 116: KOSMIK X YOBKISS LIVE AT RUBYCON

Sumire B2b DJ Mod [27.03.2024]

So immense...and so beautiful...
Composed, written, played and mixed by Guglielmo Allegro aka WillyKuma

Kosm

Meta is a syllabic abbreviation of two words: "Metallophone" and "Tape."
Metallophone and tape music by Nikolaienko.

"It’s an album where I’ve limited myself to using only two instruments – a metallophone and a four-track tape recorder. Explorations of the metallophone and tape sounds, deconstructed and reintegrated into tracks with cassette loops. This release is part of this year’s series, dedicated not to electronic but to electro-acoustic music with a focus on analog recording and production"
Taken from the Shape platform interview (March 2024)

Side A:
1. Meta VI 
2. Meta IV 
3. Meta V

Side B:
1. Meta III 
2. Meta II 
3. Meta VII 
4. Meta I

Recorded at Telemaja, Tallinn, Summer 2023
Composed, produced, metallophone, tape loops, artwork: Dmytro Nikolaienko 
Saxophone on A3 by Mykola Lebed
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi 
Design by Day Night 
Typeface by KTF

Catalogue: Muscut 33C
Format: Cassette, C40, Digital
File under: ambient, experimental, acoustic
Release date: June 24, 2024

Meta VI

Order

Nikolaienko - Meta VI

Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head in a dub reggae jazz style

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Dub

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Dub - Extended Mix

Gaussian Curve - Ceremony [Music From Memory]
Boreal Massif - Low Forties [Pessimist Productions]
Paperclip Minimiser - B1 [Peak Oil]
Ghost Warrior - No Stream [RE:ST]
YS - Pilgrimage [Pace Yourself]
Circuit, Burns & Hawk - From The Legal Pad Of #2 [Rush Hour]
Overmono - Phosycon [XL Recordings]
Anthony Naples & DJ Python - Entouré [Air Texture]
James Holden - Trust Your Feet [Border Community]
Serwed - Virescent [West Mineral Ltd.]
Lord Of The Isles & Ellen Renton - For a Burning World [AD 93]
Strategy - Final Super Zen [Audio Dregs]

All Vinyl Opening Set @ Acadia Cafe, Minneapolis 4.20.24

Rockambo is a bassist from Mount Pleasant, Washington, DC.

Since the pandemic, he's been writing compositions using MIDI instrumentation (and struggling with latency issues on slow computers). He takes equal parts inspiration from Palladium-era Latin jazz (https://www.facebook.com/groups/LFCE893/), vintage 70s jazz-funk (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCv8l4QR862COAotwH_cw9wQ), 00s electronica (https://somafm.com/spacestation/), contemporary lo-fi (https://open.spotify.com/album/2j4Mjok0KmnQ2ENfWIpUKf?si=MuUDlZW9TAuziw5LLmFjvg), and some ethnic music from the countries where he's lived (https://blog.scuolaleonardo.com/2023/04/25/bella-ciao-one-of-the-most-famous-italian-songs-in-the-world-from-the-resistance-to-money-heist/).

Since he can't find his way around a sequencer, he breaks away from repetitive beat loop patterns and seeks to create more organic pieces. Having said that, he only knows how to use a few DAW platforms which are all primarily loop-based ... it's complicated.

All recordings are original compositions recorded using SoundTrap, (http://www.soundtrap.com), and Audacity (https://www.audacityteam.org). More recently, he's been mastering tracks in Ableton Live Lite (https://www.ableton.com/en/products/live-lite/) and learning how to use MPC Beats (https://www.akaipro.com/mpc-beats) ... he bought some MIDI controllers ... There are no pre-recorded loops. If you are getting into composition, you should grab this (https://www.asio4all.org/).

MIDI is currently being played through an Alesis Vortex Wireless 2 keytar and with a regular ASDF keyboard and a mouse. Rad.

The mixes are low, so turn them up!

Jim Greif says his biggest influence is the Doogie Houser theme song by Mike Post (https://youtu.be/zE4M3hPut7E). 

Rockambo is fluent in neurodiversity and his music is neurodivergent-friendly.

All the appropriate influences are noted where possible. Contact him before using or distributing this material.

Some music-related books worth checking out:
"Analog Days: The Invention and Impact of the Moog Synthesizer" by Frank Trocco, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37535.Analog_Days
"How Music Works" by David Byrne, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13235689-how-music-works
"Just Kids" by Patti Smith, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/341879.Just_Kids
"This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession"
by Daniel J. Levitin, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/141565.This_Is_Your_Brain_on_Music
"Under the Big Black Sun: A Personal History of L.A. Punk"
by John Doe, Tom DeSavia
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25898106-under-the-big-black-sun

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