I have most of the Ka-Spel albums. As mentioned about the Pink Dots in their threads, they're pretty much all worthwhile. I'd be curious if anybody around here has heard the geekier super-limited art-boutique stuff on Beta-Lactam (Meltdown, etc.).
My top five:Chyekk China Doll LP (on CD with Aazhyd)Down In The City Of Heartbreak And Needles #1 CDThe Blue Room 2LP versionAbsence Of Evidence LPPieces Of Eight 2LP version
My bottom three:Tanith And The Lion TreeAazhyd China DollO'er A Shalabastyr Tyde
Out now or upcoming on Beta-Lactam:O Darkness! O Darkness! LP/CDHappy Birthday LPA Long Red Ladder To The Moon triple LP (!)
Has anyone heard these?
― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 24 September 2005 18:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 September 2005 18:17 (eighteen years ago) link
There is also an actual DVD coming out of a LPD show from 1987.
― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 24 September 2005 18:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 24 September 2005 19:01 (eighteen years ago) link
For sure. And yes, that scene should sorta exist somewhere, and sorta does. (Stone Breath, Unto Ashes...sorta.)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 24 September 2005 19:03 (eighteen years ago) link
― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 24 September 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Saturday, 24 September 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link
― John Justen (johnjusten), Saturday, 24 September 2005 23:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Sunday, 25 September 2005 00:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― brianiac (briania), Sunday, 25 September 2005 00:51 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 20 January 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link
I am going to listen to the new Ka-Spel double LP "Fragments Of Illumina" while pickled in mind-altering substances. We will be brothers together in psychedelic electronica.
Those later Tear Garden records get overlooked, but I like them.
This is also where I note that Beta-Lactam is slowly reissuing all of Ka-Spel's old records, a most welcome development.
― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Saturday, 20 January 2007 23:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 20 January 2007 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― John Justen says Toonces was one of the most talented cats on televison (johnjus, Sunday, 21 January 2007 00:12 (seventeen years ago) link
btw, this new Fragments Of Illumina record is HEAVY, the best thing I've heard from Ka-Spel in a few years. Even an entire side (side two) of him fucking around with whatever esoteric equppment he's using these days sounds good. Awesome double LP art/packaging, too.
― sleeve version 2.0 (sleeve testing), Sunday, 21 January 2007 04:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 21 January 2007 04:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 21 January 2007 05:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 21 January 2007 07:46 (seventeen years ago) link
my nephew tanith is on tanith and the lion tree!
i would still like to hear more about this!
I have not heard Ka-Spel's latest, supposedly in a more noisy musique concrete style.
― sleeve, Saturday, 18 August 2007 02:29 (sixteen years ago) link
this guy is a hero
― Curt1s Stephens, Saturday, 18 August 2007 02:35 (sixteen years ago) link
I wanna hear some Tear Garden some time. I know I would like them, I like LPD and Skinny Puppy and oGhr.
― Trayce, Saturday, 18 August 2007 02:42 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait hang on, Ive heard "In Search of my Rose" before, you've played on WREK havent you Curtis?
― Trayce, Saturday, 18 August 2007 02:43 (sixteen years ago) link
so the new split LP with The Silverman "Thirty Year Itch" is not one of their best efforts, I'm afraid. too much spoken word, not enough shimmery synths. maybe it will grow on me.
CD reissue of Chyekk is out and the remastering is a noticeable improvement like the others in the series. Bonus tracks are still weirdly off from the old Staalplaat CD version, but I think it's because they went with stuff from the same time period instead of the '94 tracks on the 1st reissue.
― sleeve, Monday, 22 November 2010 17:25 (thirteen years ago) link
upcoming ltd. CD and art edition LP on Beta-Lactam - judging from the samples, this is gonna be a great rekkid, esp. "Motorik". yes.
http://www.blrrecords.com/prod/2172/a_pleasure_cruise_through_9_dimensions.html
http://www.blrrecords.com/prod/2171/a_pleasure_cruise_through_9_dimensions.html
― (I Just) Died In Your Asshat Tonight, Friday, 21 October 2011 01:43 (twelve years ago) link
oh cool, this wasn't on my radar yet.
― sleeve, Friday, 21 October 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
such an incredible run of releases during the pandemic years, all worth a listen. eight 2021 full-lengths, four so far this year (I think, check his Bandcamp)
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
also, Chaki posted a picture of Tanith (mentioned upthread) rocking out to his show recently in Seattle! how time flies.
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 00:53 (one year ago) link
I'll never catch up completely but must endeavour to dig in more. "Songs Of Solitude" was easily one of my post listened to albums during 2021. So good.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 01:00 (one year ago) link
most.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
some recent faves off the top of my head are Random Time Machine, Prints Of Darkness, and Tales From The Trenches
― thinkmanship (sleeve), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 01:06 (one year ago) link
just listening to Tales From The Trenches right now. so far, so great.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 01:11 (one year ago) link
still cranking out great stuff on a regular basis
https://legendarypinkdots1.bandcamp.com/album/tease-seize-apply-5
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 10 November 2023 16:28 (four months ago) link
Truly! Thanks for the reminder, that slipped through my net last week.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 November 2023 17:12 (four months ago) link