Quick one straight to stereo
XD5
JV1010
LXP5
DP4

Humid~116

Another hour of non-standard slabs from the stacks. Icy soundscapes, cybernetic academia, baroque synth noise, and a healthy dose of zonked forehead-slappers. A bunch of tender feels on this one. 

Recorded "dirtstyle", live from vinyl. 
RIP NASH THE SLASH.

1. Linda Cohen - Zambra (feat. Charles Cohen!)
2. Joel Chadabe - Echoes (performed by Paul Zukofsky)
3. Ed Herrmann - Wrathful Eyelids
4. William Kraft - Requiescat (Performed by Ralph Grierson)
5. Daniel Lentz - Slow Motion Mirror
6. Bernard Szajner - Superficial Music 2
7. Nash the Slash - Blind Windows/Countervail 
8. Lustmørd - 735
9. Rhythm & Noise - Menomenon
10. Mikel Rouse - Quorum Part 1
11. Slap - Coke and Heat
12. Peter Green - Medieval Dance
13. Amps for Christ - Millenium
14. Yukihiro Takahashi - New (Red) Roses
15. Zone - Sunbathing
16. Joel Chadabe - Song Without Words 
17. Charles Amirkhanian - Hypothetical Moments 
18. Maggi Payne - White Night
19. Thorkell Sigurbjornsson - La Jolla Good Friday 1
20. Three Legged Race - Mourning Order
21. Can't - The Sprightly Hautboy
22. Suzanne Ciani - The Sixth Wave: Deep in the Sea


Globule of Non-Standard 2

All rights belong to the individual artists. 

Annea Lockwood - A Sound Map Of The Hudson River

Bill Fontana - Landscape Sculpture With Foghorns

Gordon Monahan - Speaker Swinging

Charlamagne Palestine - A Carillon Concert

Alvin Curran - Maritime Rites

After a long hiatus, The Globule is back (if temporarily), with the express intention of presenting this slab of outsider synth choogle from unknown Cincinnati, Ohio synth maestro Charles Brown. This, his only LP, was self-released on “Fracture Electronic Music” in 1981, and it’s a mind-bending collection, containing some of the most zonked synth virtuosity and ill-advised concept tracks I’ve ever come across.


The first half of the LP is Brown’s take on “pop” electronics. Though I think a better description might be “caveman synth rock”, of the proggish variety. After a brief intro of IMAX chordal bombast, the first number kicks off with squelching, panning basslines, and dry percussive shuffle, that thumps and hisses in true future-primitive style. The naively orchestral styles on display here are charmingly optimistic, yet thoroughly off-putting. A real feat.

Some real greasy whiteboy moog funk launches off the next track, before turning into a night-time cruiser, with tape-saturated four-on-the-floor thump, and a driving, two note bassline. From there, things turn disco, with some nice liquid-filtered licks, shimmering arpeggiations, and string synth pads to fill out the mix. Some heavy luxury vibes on display here, with just a hint of giallo darkness. A real “get-down attack”, which is just begging for a killer edit.

The last passage has a grandiose, adventurous flair, with a subtly Asian(?) motif. This one really stretches out, with plenty of wide-open soloing and chugging percussion. Like ELP on a cross-country train with YMO, or the buoyant ending to an Amiga videogame.

The last track on side 1 is a real tear-jerker, with wistful piano refrains, and lyrics about baby fawns (no joke). The fidelity here is pretty rough, both on my copy and in the recording in general. This “stripped down” mode is borderline cringe-inducing, though I admire the effort.

SIDE 2 throws the relatively “conventional” song structure out the window, in a suite composed around the charming theme of dealing with a kidney stone(again, not a joke, check the liner notes). It’s here that things really take a turn for the ill-advised, as all kinds of tone-deaf, searing tones roil and stab, in pure “stress induction” mode. Everything is detuned, howling, clanging, and zapping, in a somewhat clownish attempt at “anxiety” by someone who can’t seem to ditch his penchant for viruistic shredding.

There’s a good bit of dynamics going on, and an impressive pallet of synthetic moves, but the whole thing comes off pretty “goofed”. Reminiscent of a lot of library LPs, whose classically-trained creators were tasked with evoking very specific moods in as obvious a manner as possible. At times the childish thematics evoke a kind of hauntological charm, but mostly miss the mark.

Later bits verge on a kind of mutant proto-techno, with a dark, heavy bassline, and relentless stabs of rhythmic fuzz. The last segment features glorping, liquid drips, plodding pads, wildly phasing white noise washes, and a smokey, reverberant sax solo, adding up to an epic slow burner with a confoundingly unique mood.

The tech on display here is pretty impressive for a home-brew dude like Brown. The record label lists the following pieces of kit: Prophet 5, Rev 2, Oberheim expander modules, ARP 2600, in addition to the real mystery winner, the self-described “E-Mu 16 voice microprocessor keyboard, 48 K Ram, full software, with disk drive”. This was a year before the Emulator was launched (which was 8-voice anyway), so you figure it out.

ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THE ARTIST

320s + Art: 
http://www.mediafire.com/download/zujq2eqjmlpa128/Charles_Brown_-_Bull_in_a_China_Cabinet.zip

Charles Brown - Rock Suite

A mix from the stacks of a sound I love but struggle to classify, a unique niche of independently produced instrumental music from the 70s and 80s that I used to find regularly in dollar bins across the US. Call it baroque world-jazz, lowercase folk-prog, or virtuoso new age. Deft fingerpicking, hand percussion, plaintive sax and ocean sounds. The kind of self-published folk-adjacent experiments that you find nestled in the bins next to Oregon and Mannheim Steamroller, but produced on a tenth of the budget in places like Glastonbury, Connecticut and Richmond, California. 

Ripped from vinyl, apologies for the surface noise. 

Image by Anne Wellington, taken from the cover of Northwind - River Flight

Tracklist:

Northwind - Wanderlust
Wall Matthews - The Dance in Your Eye
Mike Gallagher - Beige Along the Brook
East River Consort - Laurasia
Michael Gregory Jackson - Catalyst to Perception
Quartet Music - Circular Thoughts in Darkness
Big Black & Anthony Wheaton - Trinidad
Linda Cohen - Pink Flamenco
Triune - Raga Soma
Lothlorien - Overviews
Northwind - Contemplation

"Baroque World-Jazz" Mix

Another hour+ of busted rhythm tracks, slamming presets, and pop gold nuggets. Recorded "dirtstyle", live from vinyl. 

  1. Syncom Data - Retaliation [Bunker]
  2. Sandbenders - 45 Seconds [Craft]
  3. Robert Crash - Vertigo [Dog in the Night]
  4. Person of Interest - My 97's [LIES]
  5. ZSA Gang - A2 [Off Minor]
  6. UTU - Synchronia [Plus 8]
  7. Snow Bone - Cubic [Lobster Theremin]
  8. Hakim Murphy - Chill [Finale Sessions]
  9. Ateq - Tet For Drums [Giegling]
  10. Trackman Lafonte & Bonquiqui - Pacific House [LIES]
  11. Chicago Skyway - Leaf [Machining Dreams]
  12. Matias Aguayo - I Was in Love (feat. Aza Zander) [Comeme]
  13. Nocera - Summertime, Summertime (Soft Summer Dub) [Sleeping Bag]
  14. Willie Burns - He Is Crazy Enough [Creme Org]
  15. Boards of Canada - Midas Touch (Hell Interface Remix) [Bootleg]
  16. Beneath - Tribulation [Keysound]
  17. Gilb'R & DJ Sotofett - Cobra (12 Inch Mix) [Versatile]
  18. Fit Siegel - Seedbed [Fit]
  19. Jay Daniel - Brainz [Sound Signature]
  20. Nidia Minaj - Estudio Da Mana [Principe]
  21. DJ Richard - Richardplatz (NJ Storm Drain Mix) [White Material]
  22. Felicita - Bring It [Gum Artefacts]
  23. Samantha Vacation - Samantha's Vacation [LIES]
  24. DJ Rashad & Gant-Man - Heaven Sent [Planet Mu]
  25. Sully - Solitaire [Keysound]
  26. Mike Flowers Pops vs. The Aphex Twin - Debase [Lo]
  27. PG Sounds - 4 [Sued]


Tuff Wax 7

Playlist from the "Music from Mills" Library Gems presentation @ KALX, 8/25/15. The talk presented selections from the station's record library that were recorded by faculty and students of Mills, and traced the history of the Center for Contemporary Music.  

Handout: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B15gyrrf3o-oQXBlV3g0cGJHZTg/

Music From Mills - Mix for KALX Library Gems

The Globule returns, with an(other) worldly array of feels. Cross-brow selections from synth murk to free-jazz blurt to computer-aided incantations. 

- Robert Fripp - 1986
- Deiter Schutz - Bizarre
- Matt Carlson - Bird Level
- Roscoe Mitchell - Chant
- Don Cherry - Omejelo
- Make A New Memory - Music for Animation 1
- Indoor Life - Voodoo
- Interior - River
- Klaus Schulze - Beyond
- David Linton - Die Komponist
- Urban Dance - A Moment’s Pleasure
- Raglani - Dusk Ritual
- Larry Polansky - Four Voice Canon #9b
- IFCO feat. Darren Harris - The Terrible Comet Salt excerpt
- Pornosect - The Face Of Terror
- Gordon Monahan - Speaker Swinging
- Tom Ehrlich - Gamelan
- Harold Budd & Brian Eno - Wind in Lonely Fences
- Philip Perkins - Rosetta Stone
- Quicksails - Up to the Binges
- Music From Mathematics - The Second Law
- Paul DeMarinis - Kokole
- Cyrnai - Suppressionist
- Missa Barbara - Leda
- Maths Balance Volumes - Buried
- David Mahler - The King of Angels
- Stomu Yamash’ta’s East Wind - Rolling Nuns
- Hajime Tachibana - Piano Pillows Going Abstract
- Ichiko - Opening the Door of Heaven, There Overflowed the Orange Shrine
- Zazou Bikaye - Soki Akei
- Rolf Enstrom - Sekvens I Blatt
- Jim Horton - Rave Patterns
- Music of Iran - Bayat-e

The Globule of Non-Standard VI

rx5-6

dr660-dss1

Another hour+ of dusty ambience, lopsided looping, and sentimental bangers from the stacks. 

- Claire Thomas & Susan Vezey - Bright Waves (Cherry Red)
- YPY - Dreams (EM)
- Ramon Zupko - Fluxus I (CRI)
- Regular Music - The Fourth Door (Rough Trade)
- David Mahler - Wind Peace (Artifact)
- James Bailey - The Train to the Eighth Dimension (Applied Science)
- Pili Pili - Be in Two Minds (Amok)
- Michael Moss / Four Rivers - Cross Current (4th Stream)
- Jon Hassell - (Like) Warriors Everywhere (Intuition)
- Paul Schwarz / Bernd Konrad - Epilogue (Creative Works)
- Category - Formant Territory (S/R)
- Haruomi Hosono - Mabui Dance #2 (Epic)
- Camberwell Now - Speculative Fiction (Ink)
- Bernard Bonnier - I Can’t Sing (Amaryllis)
- Praxis - NBS-A (Celluloid)
- Aaron Dilloway - Siena 1 (Hanson)
- U - Golden Son (Where to Now?)
- Human Mesh Dance - Soft System (Instinct Ambient)
- Holger Hiller - You (Mute)
- Slant - Sleep (These)
- Ben Azarm - Parada 7 (Artifact)
- Cheri Knight - Primary Colors (Palace of Lights)
- Denny Zeitlin - Wind-Borne (1750 Arch)
- The Lift Boys - Anarchy Village (Smalltown Supersound)
- Terre Thaemlitz - A-Program (A-Musik)
- Sheriff Lindo and the Hammer - Grossly Overweight Dub (EM)
- A. Tent - No Way of Knowing (Cherry Red)
- Barton Smith - Morcadu (Folkways)
- Group 87 - Angels and Obelisks (Capitol)
- M’Boom - A Quiet Place (Soul Note)
- Kit Watkins - Cycles (Azimuth Records)

The Globule of Non-Standard Volume 7

Like just about every DJ at KALX, I’m still trying to process the events of the last few days. Being tasked with programming an hour of “experimental" music so soon after the Ghost Ship tragedy, I took the opportunity to poke around the nooks and crannies of the diverse and inspiring body of work left behind by those we’ve lost. As anyone even the least bit familiar with Oakland’s underground music scene knows, this community is essentially a bottomless well of expressive, enthusiastic experimentation. Hopefully the resulting hour of music does justice to that spirit. 

Note: I struggled nervously with the on-air mic breaks, so the mix is presented in its original form, not as broadcast.

https://soundcloud.com/cherushii
https://soundcloud.com/p_r_i_s_t
https://soundcloud.com/nacktmusic
https://soundcloud.com/charlieprowler
https://soundcloud.com/rmsmusick
https://soundcloud.com/obsidian-blade
https://soundcloud.com/ghostoflightning
https://soundcloud.com/paralycyst
https://soundcloud.com/themareus
https://soundcloud.com/gm_la-fever

Prist - Duct
Polar - We Mounted His Scaly Head on a Pole in the Front Yard
Nackt - No Pets No Masters
Charlie Prowler - Love Is
Prist - Unseen
Cherushii - Rudy’s Party [Bobby B’s Ambient Mix]
Ghost of Lightening - Aalto 3
Obsidian Blade - Live on KVRXNOR
Paralycyst - Third Image
Nackt - Familiarity SUC
Cherushii - Still Dreaming
RMS - Knots
Them Are Us Too - Fall

Originally broadcast 12/7/2016 on KALX 90.7 FM

Ghost Ship Tribute Mix for Information Overload

An hour of lumpy tracks new and old to soothe the pain of our garbage reality. Vintage prog-jazz, melancholy dub, and late-night synth jams from the stacks.

Ganelin Trio - Džiazo Kontrastai
David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Plight
Roger Powell - Queene Enfineska: Serenity Of The Lion In Summer
Nic Potter - The Forest
Swell Maps - Robot Factory
Faction - Jamaica Day
Stallone the Reducer - Leave Me Alive
Tusken Raiders - Sexy Sandpeople 
JM - Open Wheel
Leslie Winer - Flove
_moonraker - Refracuity III
David Kristian - A Bee
Eberhard Weber - Quiet Departures
Meredith Monk - Tablet 
Ray Russell - Sarana
Eugene Bowen - The Phase of A Dynasty
Iverson and Walters - Fox Tales
Archie Shepp & Jasper Van’t Hof - Pipo
Vibracathedral Orchestra - Smoke Song
Pedro Magina - High Echoes
Nate Young - Stygian Faces
Robert Quine & Fred Maher - Village

The Globule of Non-Standard Volume 8

The second of four hour-long shows dedicated to abstract and experimental music by Black artists and composers.

1. DJ Spooky - Reciprocal Presupposition - Another Forensic Charade - Magasin 3
2. Jerome Cooper - Monk Funk - In Concert - From There to Hear - Mutable Music 
3. Mike Ladd - Sam and Milli Dine Out - Negrophilia - Thirsty Ear
4. Klein - Stunt - Lagata - S/R
5. Dean Blunt - DIRECT LINE - The Narcissist II - Hippos in Tanks
6. Douglas Ewart - Song for Count Ossie and the Mystic Revelation of Rastafari - Songs of Sunlife - Innova
7. Lotic - Slay - Heterocetera - Tri Angle
8. Actress - Jardin - RIP - Werk Discs
9. Tyshawn Sorey - Permutations for Solo Piano - That/Not - Firehouse 12
10. Milford Graves - Nothing 11-10 - Percussion Ensemble - ESP Disk
11. Sun Ra - The Wind Speaks - My Brother The Wind Vol. 2 - Saturn Research
12. Serpentwithfeet - Penance - Blisters - Tri Angle
13. Heiroglyphic Being - Imaginary Landscapes 2 - S/R

The Globule on Information Overload - Black History Month Special - Week Two

The last of four hour-long shows dedicated to abstract and experimental music by Black artists and composers.

1. Marion Brown - Afternoon of a Georgia Faun - Afternoon of a Georgia Faun - ECM 
2. Gray - Drum Mode - Shades of… - Plush Safe
3. Embaci - Tides - No Album - S/R
4. African Head Charge - Timbuktu Express - Drastic Season - On-U
5. Beans w/ Hamid Drake & William Parker - 7 - Only - Thirsty Ear
6. Sensational - Skit n Skatterin - Crooked: The Soundtrack - WordSound
7. Daniel Ponce - Africa Contemporanea - New York Now! - OAO
8. Anthony Braxton - Composition No. 277 - Six Compositions (GTM) - Rastascan
9. Ripley Jene - One Note Distorted Drone Blip B - No Album S/R
10. Dax Pierson - Levaquin Supermoon - No Album - S/R
11. DJ / Rupture feat. Eugene Robinson - The Book That Can’t Be Opened at Either End - Special Gunpowder - Tigerbeat6
12. Black Spirituals - Black - Of Deconstruction - Sige

The Globule on Information Overload - Black History Month Special - Week Four

"Deep bedroom" 

* Blacklight Braille - Drifting Black Umbrellas
* Arawi - Cumbres 
* The Wind Harp - Winterwhite
* Electroscope - Lifetime Flyte
* Todd Barton - Heron Dance
* Ellen Fullman & Konrad Sprenger - Simple Words
* Gosub - Waking Up 
* E4 - Gentle Killer 
* Air Liquide - Uludag Part 1
* Dane Belany - Bougouna
* Bepotel - Tower Times
* Tom Schmidt - Offerings
* Blue Chemise - Part 8
* Disjecta - Facemaker
* Sub Dub - Sub Tool 1
* Beresford / Toop - Sitting in the Park
* La Algodonera - II
* Davy Kehoe - Going Machine
* DJML - Isthmus 
* K. Dope - Watch This
* Wolfgang Puschnig & Wolfgang Mitterer - Obsoderso
* Person of Interest - Eclipse
* Gemini - Untitled III
* F.R.U.I.T.S - Plum Cake Mass
* Hydrus - The Two Planets
* Riou - M.H
* David Pritchard - Thunderpeat
* James Emery - Modular Repetition
* Big Black - Afro-Cuban Lullaby
* Stomu Yamash’ta - Ishi
* David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
* Peter Garland - Dance No. 3
* G.S. Schray - One Sad Touch
* Del Rey - Insilence

The Globule of Non-Standard 9

A wistful holiday mood for drum machine & synthesizer

Psuedotsuga (for Seigen Ono)

Boss DR-660 / Yamaha TX81Z / Korg DS-8 / Soundcraft Delta SR
"Just for fun"

Memorial Day Acid

Daniel John Myers Letson
Non-standard drum machine music
1/2 of Later Version w/@jerodsrivera
1/2 of Do/While and Motoko & Myers w/@wonj

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