wallowing and catching up

Today, we welcome our thirteenth guest mix selection on @subcityradio - this time from Tokyo-based DJ, unrivalled bizzaro-music collector, hair-stylist and reissue label maverick, Tatsuhiko Sakamoto.

Tatsu is the owner of a very cool hair salon in Yoyogi-Hachiman, Tokyo called TANGRAM, founder of Tokyo’s Ideala crew, who organise regular ‘deep listening parties’ at Forestlimit in Hatagaya, and label co-head behind Conatala, one of the best new reissue labels, whose latest archival record, Fishy Tails, compiles tracks from The Dead Goldfish Ensemble.

This guest mix melts sources and samples into an unfathomable pile of rainbow candle wax. Extended thickets of electronic whispers devolve into creamy xylophone-like refrains - massaging synth updrafts free fall into dark ambient communal baths that offer entire universes to idly float through at varying lengths. The first hour is all pealing ripples and imitation bells, cascading hiss and meditative drift, plus a great deal of unstated, baleful fun bridging sounds and subcultures.

The marvellously psychedelic churn changes tempos in the second hour - hypnotic krautrock-inspired repetition, snaking and surging on a dime Jazz-chord skree, proggy synth-pomp and far East tonalities, ultimately hydroplaning into a thicket of bracing, exclamatory effects; think of it as primal lamentation therapy for the lockdown soul.

Originally aired LIVE on Glasgow's Subcity Radio on 14/03/21 - Tracklist available here - https://www.subcity.org/shows/choon/e49e9

chOOn!! with Tatsuhiko Sakamoto [Guest Mix]

Mix I made this afternoon on my porch, inspired by watching Little Miss Sunshine with a sleeping new born yesterday

Prime Suffering Years Mix

first single off Sleeping bag's new album 'WET' out Aug. 11  
PRE-ORDER the LP at https://www.warmratio.com/shop/nat/sleeping-bag/

SLEEPING BAG - 'Doin' It Alone'

PRE-ORDER LP : http://www.tompkinssquare.com/deitrick2.html

Tompkins Square is proud to release two solo acoustic guitar albums by Rick Deitrick, out August 25th. Gentle Wilderness was released as a private press LP in 1978. River Sun River Moon consists of previously unreleased recordings from the same time period. Deitrick came to our attention via Brooks Rice and Michael Klausman, who compiled Imaginational Anthem Vol 8 : The Private Press, which features Rick's "Missy Christa" from Gentle Wilderness.

Ohio-born Rick Deitrick took up the guitar at 16 and decided to approach his playing as if he was the only guy on an island and the instrument had just washed ashore one day.  According to Rick, “I completely divorced my playing from any formal music knowledge, but it was very important to me to use original tuning. During those years, the sixties/seventies, there was a lot of acoustic guitar playing, often using open tuning as a base. I wanted to create whole tones without de-tuning and keep access to the complex sounds stock tuning provided.”

Rick pressed 500 copies of his tranquil solo guitar record, Gentle Wilderness, in 1978 on Niodrara Records, and sold many at performances and directly to music shops who would pay for them.  He gave copies to various libraries and left a few albums in the middle of the wilderness, next to trails, “so people would find them.” Rick sought inspiration in nature and in particular the various rivers scattered around the Western United States, often composing songs seated beside them —and even occasionally perched on boulders in them. He never played the songs the same way twice and did two passes on each composition in studio. Rick would sometimes literally come straight out of the mountains and rush to the studio to record the ideas he’d gathered. "Missy Christa" was recorded at Mount Olympus studio in Hollywood and was named after Rick’s daughter; it was originally composed right next to the Big Sur River where he had been camping.

Rick currently resides in Los Angeles, “still strumming, waiting for the other shoe to drop.” 

TSQ 5456 River Sun River Moon
TSQ 5432 Gentle Wilderness

River Sun River Moon

Morningstar by Rick Deitrick

Pounds Of Silicon

starting a new life together

Its Boys Night Out

song #011 of the song a week series
watch the video here: https://youtu.be/ws19sIF3_bU

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Lyrics:
you in your striped blue t-shirt
me in my skateboard sneakers
we can be as strong as we want to
I'll kick off my new skate shoes

cause It's easy to be with me when I'm with you
cause It's easy to be with me when I'm with you

you and you're cool new hairdo
making love in the guest room
we can play as dumb as we want to
we are young and we ought to

cause It's easy to be with me when I'm with you
cause It's easy to be with me when I'm with you

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Sitcom World...
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Skateboard Sneakers (demo)

Title track of Helvetia's  self-release  "Sun Chasers" e.p .
4 song e.p available for download July 25, 2017.
There will be  beach towels available for purchase on release day.. limited run of 50,, 35"x 60" quality, comfy,  fleece towels.
Essential summer deal.

Helvetia / Sun Chasers

1st Thing

step in line in front of me 
this truth has almost torn me 
i think i'd rather take another number and wait my turn again

oh you say how could it be 
its time that we should be leaving 
you say you'd like to take another walk around the block again

we were stuck on the good times
they straddle such a fine line 
you say you like to ask a couple questions about my state of mind

(chorus)
that moments already slipped away
only silence what could i say
getting stronger every single day
making progress don't get in my way

picture me on the asphalt
my whistle's wet from the last call
i think i'd like another sip of teachers to get that sick again

(chorus)
(solo)
(chorus)

My Turn

💖 lets wait a while 💖

Kevin Krauter's "Suddenly" is the third single from his upcoming record 'Toss Up' out June 15, 2018 on Bayonet Records: http://hyperurl.co/TossUpPreorder

Spotify: http://hyperurl.co/SuddenlySpotify
Apple Music: http://hyperurl.co/SuddenlyAppleMusic
Tour Dates: https://www.kevinkrauter.com/tour

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Kevin Krauter "Suddenly" Official Single

Fuchsia

instagram:  @assjobs

being honest i've been better
i've been quiet nonchalant
im so tired it's whatever
maybe you'll see me or you wont
i've learned somehow after a while
it's easier to be alone
workin on me by my lonely 
by my lonely
and you cant stay no more here
just turn it around i'm for real
in 24 hours i've just been puttin em down
24 hours and i'll be putting you out
and you cant stay no more here
just turn it around i'm for real
in 24 hours i've just been puttin em down
24 hours and i'll be putting you out
it's been the longest off my schedule
wanna see you, no i dont
you were cooler as a rumor
but since i've been through you once is enough
and in my heart's what i'd alleviate 
but mind body and soul all start to separate
and i'm workin on me by my lonely
by my lonely yeah
and you can't stay no more here
just turn it around i'm for real
in 24 hours i've just been putting em down
24 hours and i'll be putting you out
and you cant stay no more here
just turn it around i'm for real
in 24 hours i've just been puttin em down
24 hours and i'll be putting you out

24 hours

24 Hours

Quiet Games

allegheny sounds
still bedroom, noisy nature

SLEEPING BAG - 'Doin' It Alone'

Warm Ratio

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