contemporaries in contempt

"The title is an obvious reference to the song "time travel" by the band blouse. Here though it is taken out of context and used as a reference to the current state of the music industry. Everything has gone digital, whether an iTunes download or a stream from a cloud somewhere but people are missing what's tangible. They miss liner notes, they miss artwork, they miss making mixes for their friends (whether on CD or cassette). Therefore people are gravitating more towards vinyl and even cassette. That being said, I wanted to merge the two worlds. I wanted to give the illusion of something tangible even though this will be heard on soundcloud or some form of digital music player. in the middle of the mix you can hear someone flipping the tape over. Even the first track has a warble to it as if it were recorded onto tape and then stored in a closet somewhere for decades. The opening track is from the 60's even, thus solidifying that illusion and telling a story without explaining verbatim. by the second track the warble blends in with the clarity of digital. But the tape hiss can be heard throughout the entirety of the mix. Even though some of these tracks may be new to listeners, I wanted to give them a familiarity. And for posterity I should note that none of the music on the mix was ever actually recorded to tape. It is all fabricated. an experiment in juxtaposition. 
enjoy.
Evan (aka lazerbat)
skeleton hands.
http://skeletonhands.net/
https://www.facebook.com/zkeletonhandz

side a
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the rolling stones - play with fire (1965)
chromatics - cherry (2013)
psychic twin - dream state (2013)
iron curtain - the condos (1981)
black marble - a different arrangement (2012)
new order - mesh (1981)
blouse - time travel (2011)
oOoOO - mouchette (2013)
side b
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makeup and vanity set - quadra iv (2013)
gessafelstein - pursuit (2013)
skinny puppy - glass houses (1984)
kano - ikeya seki (1983)
boards of canada - music is math (lazar-bat edit) (2013)
seona dancing - bitter heart (12" version) (1983)
mr. pauli - jap fab (2008)
blawan - why they hide their bodies under my garage (2012)
niter ebb - control (i'm here)	 (1988)
charlie - spacer woman (1983)
whitey - no more right or wrong (demo) (2012)

WAVcast 7 // Skeleton Hands - I Was In The Future Yesterday

From the album "No. 3" (2012)

BERG-String Quartet, Op. 3
Composed in 1909-1910.

Alban Berg (1885-1935) met Arnold Schoenberg in October 1904, in response to a newspaper want ad. Schoenberg, who had made news in 1902 with the premiere of his first large-scale work, Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) had decided to take students to help make ends meet. Within days he signed up the two young men who would help him write one of the central chapters in twentieth-century music. Both Berg and Anton Webern were at their teacher's side as he composed the first music that was called atonal (Schoenberg thought the term nonsensical and preferred the all-inclusive "pantonal").

Berg's first compositions written under Schoenberg show the powerful influence of his teacher, as well as the potent impact of the Romantic era. (Berg's relationship with Schoenberg was complicated; Berg's father had died when he was fifteen, and Schoenberg quickly became a surrogate father as well as a mentor and model.) As early as the Four Songs, begun in 1909 and published the following year as op. 2, Berg also seemed ready to abandon tonality. His very next work, the masterful String Quartet, op. 3, was his valediction; Berg was now a colleague, not a disciple.

This String Quartet stands at the crossroads of past and future. The vocabulary is still recognizably that of Wagner and Mahler, but Berg has stretched it beyond the limits of even those two pioneers. Although the last traces of tonality remain, Berg's music is rarely tied to the triad and he seems to be searching for a new harmonic language. The quartet's opening theme employs all twelve notes of the scale, though not in the systematic way of Schoenberg's serial system, still years in the future. The Quartet is colored throughout by passionate expression and explosive dramatic power. The spirit of the work, characterized by such deep emotional intensity, still belongs to the nineteenth century. This ambiguity and tension—between its romantic roots and its modernist ambitions—give it a complexity and richness rare in music written in a more settled style. The last measure is emblematic: a D minor triad is quick followed by a dissonant chord, so that there is both the suggestion of finality, as well as a sense of an unanswered question.

The Quartet has two movements, comparable to a traditional sonata allegro and rondo. Despite the difference in their moods, the two are so closely related that they function like halves of a single paragraph—the second movement even begins with the last pitches of the first, so that the break between them is, in effect, no more than a pause for breath in Berg's musical argument.

Over the years, Berg and Schoenberg had a difficult and sometimes stormy relationship, but neither man ever lost his respect for the other's accomplishments. Shortly after Berg's untimely death, Schoenberg recalled how his student's String Quartet had surprised him in the most unbelievable way by the fullness and unconstraint of its musical language, the strength and sureness of its presentation, its careful working and significant originality. That was the time when I moved to Berlin (1911) and he was left to his own devices. He has shown that he was equal to the task.

Program Notes by Phillip Huscher
(http://www.encoreccm.org/pieces/425)

Alban Berg: String Quartet op. 3, I. Langsam

Variation based on the tone row from Berg's Violin Concerto

Variation On A Theme By Alban Berg Session

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Niña Terrorista - Armenia (E.NEUBAUTEN)

Balanescu Quartet is an avant-garde string quartet founded in 1987 by Alexander Balanescu that achieved fame through the release of several complex re-interpretations of songs by Kraftwerk and collaborations with Michael Nyman, David Byrne and Goldfrapp amongs others. 

A new compilation, “This Is The Balanescu Quartet”, is available on www.mutebank.com and all good physical and digital retailers.

https://www.facebook.com/BalanescuQuartet

Balanescu Quartet - East

When She Turns Blue

P.P.

Single from the forthcoming release of Equinoxious "Amplitud Nuclear" LP. Comming soon by Androfónico Records. 

Rogelio Serrano: 
Roland SH2, Roland RS09, ARP Odyssey, Korg MS20

Paracaídas

Teaser for compilation on BODYVOLT RECORDS "Electrified Bodies", coming out on vinyl in summer 2017.

Black Pond - Mistress' Eyes (teaser)

Descobri Alben Berg e, imediatamente, por ele fiquei fascinada. Trata-se de uma obra bastante exigente para o intérprete, porém, eu tive o privilégio de a trabalhar com Madalena Soveral,professora rigorosa, mas que, simultâneamente, me permitia uma grande liberdade, no que havia de mais intrínseco, na minha personalidade musical.

Alban Berg - Sonata

Parallels

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We are a couple of weeks out from the LP launch date and the November single release is the Crazy double-A side from Greek Cold-Wave legends Paradox Obscur .

Toxic Razor and Krystal Ann mix it up a bit on these tracks with Guest vocals from Adam Usi on "Cold Hearted" and this stomping version of And Ones' "Techno Man" on the flip..

Two sounds are better than one!!!! 

The LP (with tracks from Neon Lies, Embedded Figures, UIU, Metal Disco, Projet Marina and more ) will be going out to record stores this week and is in pre-order here:
https://detonicrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/minimum-viable-product

"Minimum Viable Product" (MVP) is an incremental Compilation built over the year by Detonic Recordings.
Each Month an on-line single is published with an "A" and "B" side from each of the international artists participating in the project.

Minimum Viabble Product

Paradox Obscur - Techno Man (And One Cover)

Lyrics: Lory Fayer
SOUNDCLOUD: soundcloud.com/loredana-fayer

Sombre Royaume

The Trunk Archives are an ongoing ever growing collection of obscure Beat Antique tracks. These pieces have been collected over the years and never found a spot on our previous releases. The Trunk Achieves is a place for new experimental Beats Antique tracks to find a home. Hope you enjoy... 

Fratres for Violin and Piano - (Arvo Part Remix - Beats Antique)

Mix and additional production by Silhouetted Horizons

Dedicated to Steve Sayers
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I need action in my veins
I leave anger in my wake
See you crying and stay the same
We need motion all the way

Love has stalled here
You think I’ll wait?
I need action in my veins
Satisfaction comes too late
I need action in my veins

Will you call me? Will you come?
Hardly breathing, nearly done
One of fifteen, I feel your pain
I need action in my veins

Action

COMPLEXITES HUMAINES

I Have Nothing

Tacuara Records
Digital Music for unstructured minds 
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