(@freeze_magazine)
Cem:
We have been working on this project with Mira for a while. Following Mira’s Curated Playlist contribution we discussed different ways in which music can enrich “the meme experience.” She kindly created this sound piece that is meant to be listened to while looking at memes on your phone.

Mira:
Classical music lovers will acknowledge that all releases of a piece of music vary and are open to interpretation. Pop music lovers are used to cover versions… Monteverdi has done something unusual for the baroque song I rearranged for this project. Commenting on the soprano part in the introduction to the Lamento, he left a note saying the singer should sing “according to her emotions” while the other singers and musicians are to follow the directions of the written score. He inbuilt variation and virality into the piece.
If you open Youtube and search for “Lamento della Ninfa” you will come across thousands of videos by amateurs and professionals alike. Thousands of variations and mutations sing out, some slow, some fast, some delicate, some wild. Despite the age of the piece, it’s still very much alive and viral… with a continuous stream of new releases and uploads… they keep mutating and imitating. And so it is from this particular ancient element of culture, passed by non-generic means that I have shaped a sound collage… cutting and pasting, and fusing, and moving through all these hundreds of variations to create perhaps the most dramatic soundtrack for your meme scrolling…

https://www.art--market.com/product/the-meme-kit

by other means (la ninfa)

For many years now the Savage Young Taterbug has wandered America’s hinterlands, bewitching drugstore clerks and gas station attendants with his balladry. “Ragman Transmissions” cobbles together songs he raw-dogged on the road, left in the tape decks of friends and fellow freaks, and abandoned or simply forgot about. A few songs carry on his signature swirl of transistor static and scarecrow spirituals. Others catch him in private, tinkling on the piano and crooning deliciously. Still others are bona fide studio slammers buoyed by thick licks and harmonies. Who knows how many Taterbug tracks still lurk out there, like old jellybeans wedged between cushions. Volume one is our humble effort to round some up and savor their strange flavors. 

Cassette $8
https://goatytapes.com/#!/tape/ragman-transmissions-vol-1/

The Savage Young Taterbug - Ragman Transmissions Vol. 1 (Excerpt 1)

noumenalloom.bandcamp.com/album/driftw…ound-objects - cassette + digital preorder

Entire album created using a Casio CZ-1 Phase Distortion Synthesizer (+ Electric Bass on Tracks 1 + 3). Although the album was recorded more than five years ago now, these tracks feel very beyond time to us. The record sits nicely alongside works from electronic music pioneers like Isao Tomita, Wendy Carlos, Vangelis and others. Music for Interiors.

Written and Recorded by Rob Collier in Fall of 2016
Mastered by Howie Gano at Louisville Recording Arts
Titles by Madison Stubblefield
Design and Layout by Alison Kleiman

Driftwood (and Other Found Objects)

The Shimmer of the Lamps Above

Rob Collier - The Shimmer Of The Lamps Above

About Orange 2 by Macula Dog

Macula Dog’s sophomore album, Orange 2 is their most cohesive and purposeful release to date and marks an exciting new stage for the NYC experimental duo. This new collection melds the hard-hitting dynamics of 2020’s Breezy EP with the bands’ own version of traditional verse-chorus-verse pop songs.

Orange 2 was written during the coronavirus lockdown, a stretch of seemingly endless free time that the duo used to fine tune and perfect their new songs while social and environmental aspects of the world were in free fall. The isolation of quarantine also afforded them a respite from live performance, which they used to break out of old routines and songwriting techniques while experimenting with new processes and equipment. Orange 2 is the band’s attempt to write more straightforward songs, each with a prominent lead vocalist. The vocals, which take Macula Dog’s signature processing and voice manipulation to new extremes, are more prominent in the mix than on past releases but hardly conventional. And while this distillation of their vocal sound might not hit the intended “pop singer” mark, it serves as the backbone of Macula Dog’s best songs thus far. As the band says:

“We wanted to make a ‘proper’ record — with 12 pop songs, a distinct, great lead singer, and music you could dance to. Instead we have 10 songs with a singer you can’t understand. We really thought we had made our most accessible album yet until we sat down and listened to the whole thing. This album is a huge failure but may be our best work.”

This modesty and irreverence is typical of Macula Dog, a band that from its earliest days has embraced experimentation and absurdity in equal measure. These 10 songs about chemical preservatives (“Orange 2”), gambling (“Spun”), executive officers (“Smart Man Do”) and misinformation are presented back to back, without the punctuation of interstitial free-form audio found on their previous releases. The instrumentation on Orange 2 hits from all sides in a way that is joyfully unpredictable. From the grinding aluminum rhythm section of the record’s title track to the liquid-rubber melodies in songs like “Go Green” and “Plug,” Orange 2 is filled to the brim with earworms. 

As Macula Dog fans know well, the band’s live act has evolved as much as their recordings. When they released their debut EP, the duo were accompanied by miniature clones of themselves that sat on their shoulders (“a four-person electronic duo”). In the band’s new live configuration, they carry their gear on harnesses, adorning themselves with impact-resistant clothing to cushion from injury should their exoskeletal sit-stand legs slip out from under them. The duo also carry a camera and hologram projection system, transforming each member into a fully mobile performance rig, each with a mini jumbotron. They can now move around performance spaces unattached by cords. 

“If you don’t like the record, maybe you’ll like the concert,” they say. More modesty from a band that makes an art of embracing the incidental in their creative process and in so doing makes music from another dimension.

BUY LP

Macula Dog - Neosporin (from the album 'Orange 2' out 10/7)

Infinite Night out on @strangetherapy

https://strangetherapy.bandcamp.com/album/infinite-night

Infinite Night

Bandcamp

Engine Thrust

from the Magnétophonique / Monte Split
DEPT11
~~ OUT NOW ~~

Magnétophonique - Moist Jungle Mist II (OUT NOW)

Bites

V/Z, Valentina Magaletti and Zongamin featuring Coby Sey - Bites

@petreigne
@bernithecreator
@lefleursantana

tamoshaciendonuevamusica

mambomobb, plugg piola, plagas club

estamos en la misma prod@bernithecreator

Brannten Schnüre - Wann Kommst Du Geschneit

uh oh! ive reached my upload limit!

Photo by Elliot L'Angelier on Unsplash

inhibitor

part of the META compilation. All profits from the sales will be used to help Metaphore Collectif's own venue to reopen.

buy/support:
https://metaphoreindustrie.bandcamp.com
bit.ly/savemeta

BL00M

Gong Gong Gong, Bambara, Holy Motors, Public Practice, Lily Konigsberg, Bush Tetras, Profligate, Palberta, Urochromes, Macula Dog, David Vassalotti, The Sediment Club, Horoscope+

We are in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Macula Dog - Neosporin (from the album 'Orange 2' out 10/7)

Wharf Cat Records

Related tracks