Francisco Franco are a trio originating in Philadelphia, playing instrumental music for two guitars, bass, and electronic rhythm tracks. The group started as a duo of Rob Francisco (who plays solo industrial noise as M Ax Noi Mach) and Matt Franco (from Allentown noise group Air Conditioning), who wanted a creative outlet for more melodic, less abrasive musical modes. After recording some demos, they added Nate Davis (who also plays as Unchained) on bass, and began composing songs of simple guitar lines intertwining over the bass’s harmonic foundation. Influences such as the first Microdisney LP, The Durutti Column, and 70s library records may be heard, but crowds at recent shows have made comparisons as diverse as Neu! and Dick Dale. This is new wave elevator music: melodic, minimal, and extremely listenable. Two cassettes of demos have been released by Silvox Recordings, and their debut LP is out November 12th on Matt Mondanile’s New Images Limited label.

Three Cushion Champ music video here http://youtu.be/NVk78WEXLIs

Francisco Franco - Three Cushion Champs

Audio version of my live performance on April 17, 2021 at a private KRTC event in a secret location.

We tried to capture all this with a camera for virtual reality glasses. The first pancake turned out to be lumpy. A couple of times the camera turned off and the processing took a lot of time, but thanks to Zhenya's efforts, the video is finally online. Look for it on my YouTube channel using the link in the profile description.

Live at KRTC Outdoor Event

From new record 'The Diet', coming 18 September 2015 on City Slang (EU) and 19 September on Merge Records (North America)
Preorder from the label: smarturl.it/HeCTALabel
from Amazon: smarturl.it/HeCTAAmazon
Or from iTunes: smarturl.it/HeCTAiTunes

Sympathy For The Auto Industry

taken from «Im Sinne der Zeit»
released 2014 on TROUBLE IN MIND
http://troubleinmindrecs.com

Les Grecks

"Gender Studies," the title track from the new full-length album, now available from Hidalgo Records: http://goo.gl/LWlhjB
Written and produced by Kent Odessa and Rob Arbelo. Additional production by Hays Holladay and Robert Lux. Mastered by Jeremy Cox. Backing vocals by Taylor Stapleton.

Gender Studies

Title: Profit (No Till)
Artist: Digital Justice
Label: Rob's Records 
Year: 1994
Album: It's All Gone Pear Shaped

It's All Gone Pear Shaped

Profit (No Till) - Digital Justice

The pine trees blew gracefully in the breeze. Their greenery was the only thing to survive what had been a wintery onslaught. For months the country had been battered and hammered by the charge of the wind and rain. It had seemed like it would never end. Now, the spring had finally arrived and that same greenery hung beautifully from the trees of the forest. They had survived another slumber, whilst the rest of the world had crumbled, their presence had remained. 

Hector Plimmer first featured as part of a Bronswood Recordings compilation several years back. Since then he has remained low key, however, his new EP is now upon us and it has already been championed by Gilles Peterson.

Eastern System

PREMIERE: Hector Plimmer - Kalimba [Albert’s Favourites]

US/ROW: geographic-north.com/vinyl/lifetime-of-love
UK/EU: soniccathedral.co.uk/moondiagrams
Digital: geographicnorth.bandcamp.com/album/lifetime-of-love
Catalog #: GN41 & SCR125
Mastered by Heba Kadry at Timeless Mastering

'Lifetime of Love' is the debut album by Moon Diagrams, the solo recording project of Deerhunter co-founder and drummer Moses John Archuleta. Recorded in Georgia (Atlanta and Athens) and Manhattan (East Village) over a 10-year period, 'Lifetime of Love' finds Archuleta processing various stages of love, loss, and regeneration via forlorn outsider pop, minimal techno, and warm, weightless experimentation.
 
Archuleta follows sudden fits of inspiration or moments of chance, letting the unknown happen naturally while still confining himself to a specific set of boundaries. Samples were often taken from thrift store-sourced LPs, removed from their sleeves and chosen at random to find loops and textures. Elsewhere, Archuleta would anonymize digital songs and sound files, erasing track names, and re-recording new versions of the randomized mixes.

'Lifetime of Love' is the result of three extended fugue states, each marked by specific moments of catharsis. In 2007, between the release of Deerhunter’s breakout LP Cryptograms and 2008 LP Microcastle, Archuleta began his earliest solo experiments. The nascent exploration was enough to free himself and create sounds without inhibition. “Bodymaker” and “Nightmoves” are products of Archuleta’s earliest solo recordings, capturing his willingness to venture outside of the taut, mesmerizing drone rock of his main band. The chilling, ambient techno of “Nightmoves” perfectly foils and compliments the broodingly sullen but sincerely beautiful shuffle into the dark.
 
Between 2012 and 2015, Archuleta experienced a reset of sorts, including the collapse of his marriage (a 10-year long relationship), touring support for Ariel Pink and James Ferraro, and a rekindled interest in his solo material. He began actively cutting himself off from a number of personal relationships and experimented with various drugs to begin recording again. Locking himself in his practice space, Archuleta would use only the spare instruments he found laying around in recording sessions. This period yielded a disparate mix of sonic sketches, from eerily bucolic choir recordings (“Playground”), dusty art-pop (“Moon Diagrams”), and infectiously jubilant dance pop (“End of Heartache”).
 
For the final period, Archuleta found inspiration following an extended stint in Berlin, when he had flown out of the US on Christmas day, largely estranging himself from his friends and family. While holed up in the Michelberger Hotel, Archuleta fully intended to finish his debut LP. Instead, he remained in a state of relative isolation, haunting the hotel and taking in the city’s dark energy. After three weeks, Archuleta returned home in Atlanta, without having made much headway on the album. Feeling unproductive, depressed, and marred by jetlag, Archuleta resolved to finish the LP, working in a three-day fury of productivity that resulted in “Blue Ring,” “Ghost and the Host,” “Magic Killer,” and the final edits of 'Lifetime of Love.'
 
Subtly grandiose and quietly epic, the album explores a hopeful and curious beginning, a morose middle, and a bittersweet, optimistic end.

Moon Diagrams - End Of Heartache

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - "Hanoi 6" from IC-01 Hanoi, out October 26, 2018 on Jagjaguwar

Buy / stream: https://umo.ffm.to/ic-01hanoi

Unknown Mortal Orchestra - Hanoi 6

Lucrecia Dalt - Tar (Jan Jelinek Remix)

Ricardo Villalobos - LiveSet @ Phlegmatic Dog Pub  
21.04. 2005 / Moscow

Ricardo Villalobos - Live @ Phlegmatic Dog Pub (Moscow) 2005

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