I'm listening to their debut album Psychic Psummer and am liking this A LOT. They sound very much like Can. Its just under 30 minutes. I want to hear more from them. Anyone else liking this?
― van smack, Thursday, 20 August 2009 23:15 (3 years ago) Permalink
yeah i dig this a lot, the butthash EP is great too
― you! me! posting! (electricsound), Thursday, 20 August 2009 23:16 (3 years ago) Permalink
there's also a static caravan 45 which i'm yet to hear due to broken turntable
― you! me! posting! (electricsound), Thursday, 20 August 2009 23:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
i still cant find their 1st album Hunt Like Devil anywhere. Terrific band.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 20 August 2009 23:18 (3 years ago) Permalink
both sides of butthash are on last.fm in full: http://www.last.fm/music/Cave/Cave+-+Butthash
― you! me! posting! (electricsound), Thursday, 20 August 2009 23:21 (3 years ago) Permalink
I want the opener "Gamm" to go on forever
― van smack, Thursday, 20 August 2009 23:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
Okay found their myspace. Here's what they have released so far
CAVE "Psychic Psummer" LP/CD/Cassette on Important Records 2009CAVE Made In Malaysia 7" on Important Records 2009CAVE/Skarekrau Radio split Jams Cassette 2009CAVE The Ride 7" on Static Caravan from UK 2009CAVE "Raw Vibes vol.1" Cassette 2008CAVE Butthash 7" on Trensmat Records from Ireland 2008CAVE/California Raisins split 10" on Permanent Records 2008CAVE 12" "Hunt Like Devil/Jamz" Double EP on Permanent Records 2008CAVE "Jamz EP" Cassette 2006CAVE "Hunt Like Devil EP" cd-r 2006
― van smack, Thursday, 20 August 2009 23:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
Hey wow, I used to be in this band. I played synth onHunt Like Devil, it shouldn't be too hard for the intrepid googler to find, I imagine. New 12" is already recorded. Dudes are going on a Euro tour, as well.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 21 August 2009 15:11 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://sickness-abounds.blogspot.com/2008/10/cave-hunt-like-devil-ep-jamz-ep.html
I think that Vinyl copies of it are sold out, but the place to check would be Permanent Records or the myspace page http://www.myspace.com/realreelproWrite them a message, I'm sure they will get back to you. They may have some copies of it still, not sure. They probably don't have any of the singles anymore.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 21 August 2009 15:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
wherever i read that they're like trans am ripping off a different set of stuff, that was otm.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 21 August 2009 15:17 (3 years ago) Permalink
The keyboard player quit and they filled the void with Jeremy Freeze (from Jerusalem and the Starbaskets) on guitar. Played in town on Friday night and completely tore it down to the ground. Jeremy provides super solid rhythm guitar action and it basically makes Cave sound extremely dense. They are in Europe now, playing Madrid tomorrow night. Do see them if you can.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 28 September 2009 14:28 (3 years ago) Permalink
aQ tracked me down a cd/lp of Hunt Like Devil hopefully it might be here by the end of the week. It's bizarre that the UK press isn't available in the UK at all, no distro can get it, they must all have been sent to the US.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:32 (3 years ago) Permalink
That is weird. I haven't ever seen or heard the UK pressed one. Did Rocket do it?
― Trip Maker, Monday, 28 September 2009 14:41 (3 years ago) Permalink
no idea, wont know til it arrives.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
http://www.rocketrecordings.com/ it cant be rocket.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Monday, 28 September 2009 14:47 (3 years ago) Permalink
its on permanent records and a wee bit of paper inside it says 2nd edition.
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 1 October 2009 12:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
Weird. Well, hope you like it! It's probably the last record I'll ever play on.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 1 October 2009 14:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
oh i heard the mp3s when it came out, its just taken me all this time to track it down!! aQ have been looking for it for me for well over a year. Monorailmusic couldnt get me one either, and russell who works in there, couldn't even get one for himself. Im just glad i finally got one!You should make another record man!
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 1 October 2009 14:35 (3 years ago) Permalink
Anything could happen. Thanks.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 1 October 2009 14:37 (3 years ago) Permalink
Rough Trade got pretty much all the 2nd version of the 1st Cave. It's here for anyone still looking.
It is fucking great. I Pazz'n'Jopped it.
― CosMc (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 1 October 2009 15:14 (3 years ago) Permalink
damn i coulda saved cash
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 1 October 2009 15:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
£18 with shipping it cost from aQ :(
Damn.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 1 October 2009 15:25 (3 years ago) Permalink
The first record is great, and has been an undying household/ipod favorite for a year or two now. The centerpiece track off the Hunt Like Devil side -- called Hunt Like Devil, in which the guy says "Hunt Like Devil" a bunch -- stands head and shoulders above anything else on it, but is so damn good that I don't care that the rest is just okay. Maybe the single best post-kraut stoner/space hybrid jam I've ever heard, by anyone, ever.
Loved that double EP so much that I've since picked up almost all of their other stuff, most of it criminally overpriced (hooray for $8 singles). Hunt Like Devil remains the pinnacle by a good margin, though it's all pretty decent if yr into the sound. Psychic Psummer has yet to fully grab me.
― That's not just me saying that, that's the Pentagon. (contenderizer), Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:36 (3 years ago) Permalink
FWIW they'll probably never do anything with Important again.The band has nothing to do with the prices of the records. If you see them on tour, everything is reasonably priced. It's a sore point for the dudes in the band that the record costs 18 dollars in some stores.Glad people are digging the jams.
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:42 (3 years ago) Permalink
I don't get Important as a label. Their only unifying aesthetic criteria seems to be "underground importance" as filtered through OTM trend-hopping, so at least the name fits, but how the fuck do they get away with charging a billion dollars for shit? And how is the transparent pretension of the whole thing not universally repulsive?
― That's not just me saying that, that's the Pentagon. (contenderizer), Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:48 (3 years ago) Permalink
Was more dismissive than necessary in prev post. Psychic Psummer deserves more than "pretty decent", even if it ain't my favorite Cave.
― That's not just me saying that, that's the Pentagon. (contenderizer), Thursday, 1 October 2009 16:50 (3 years ago) Permalink
Just ordered from the rough trade store. Thanks for the heads up!
― van smack, Friday, 2 October 2009 00:03 (3 years ago) Permalink
how weird, saw this thread, checked out their stuff and liked it, and now all of a sudden they're playing here next week. might be fun yes?
― sonderangerbot, Saturday, 10 October 2009 21:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
holy shit, did not know about Jeremy joining...brilliant decision
― got that candy zing (Tape Store), Saturday, 10 October 2009 23:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
nice cover of "Negativland" from Neu! I guess this is from last night or the night before.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:22 (3 years ago) Permalink
this looks like fun!
― got that candy zing (Tape Store), Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
Yes.
― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 14 October 2009 17:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
Just got Raw Vibes vol 2. So far so good! The end of "Bobby's Hash" is terrific.
― van smack, Friday, 20 November 2009 15:27 (3 years ago) Permalink
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― van smack, Friday, 20 November 2009 15:29 (3 years ago) Permalink
Oh for shit's sake..
Driving up to Chicago to see their last show of the year at the Hideout tomorrow night. Cacaw (ex-Coughs) are playing, too. They are great, too.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 20 November 2009 15:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
A new EP "Pure Moods" coming in May on Drag City..!
― van smack, Saturday, 24 April 2010 20:00 (3 years ago) Permalink
lol, these guys are playing a head shop in my area this summer.
― tylerw, Saturday, 24 April 2010 20:10 (3 years ago) Permalink
Loving "Brigitte's Trip (White Light/White Jazz)"
Can't wait to pick this up next week.
― a streaker named desire (van smack), Friday, 14 May 2010 01:46 (3 years ago) Permalink
was late on psycic psummer but that would've been a guaranteed top 20 of 2009, at least. bummed they're not hitting up more of NE during their summer tour.
― Bastards of Young Dro, Friday, 14 May 2010 04:24 (3 years ago) Permalink
liking pure moods a lot -- this is the first i've heard them, i think.
― tylerw, Friday, 14 May 2010 13:13 (3 years ago) Permalink
sounds a LOT like Oneida. This is not a complaint.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 14 May 2010 14:33 (3 years ago) Permalink
Also got onto this album pretty late but really dig it - the last track is a thing of beauty, like Jackie Mittoo produced by Conny Plank or uh something
― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 14 May 2010 14:52 (3 years ago) Permalink
oops, sorry, "this album" = Psychic Psummer, didn't even know there was a new one but I am super-excited for that now! thank you ILM
It's a new ep, no?
― pfunkboy (Herman G. Neuname), Friday, 14 May 2010 14:54 (3 years ago) Permalink
yes, 3 songs, about 20 minutes
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 14 May 2010 14:55 (3 years ago) Permalink
Ah, I thought from the price on Rough Trade it was a cheap LP rather than an expensive EP. And apparently Norman Records have sold out of them despite them only arriving yesterday. Time to shop around...
― xylyl syzygy (a passing spacecadet), Friday, 14 May 2010 15:02 (3 years ago) Permalink
love CAVE
― Tape Store, Friday, 14 May 2010 17:12 (3 years ago) Permalink
good stuff
― am0n, Wednesday, 19 May 2010 16:26 (3 years ago) Permalink
I love a day show. Never heard of Wume. The Cave sets in my town last weekend were fun, it was nice to hear a new song and some reworked older material. The event on the Missouri River was kind of disappointing. Isis from the Source family dug it, though.
There are plans for future releases but I think it may take some time. I think that there may be more Bitchin Bajas stuff available before the new Cave stuff. Oh, someone in Chicago has started up a flexi label (flexi-discs like you used to get in cereal boxes or whatever) and Cave is going to do one of those. I think there will only be a couple hundred copies. I am sure the track will be included on another release. It's a good track, includes a flute solo.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 27 August 2012 18:59 (8 months ago) Permalink
it was really fun to see them play in a small garden setting though -- cicada noises between songs and whatnot
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Monday, 27 August 2012 19:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
And it isn't that Cave was disappointing at the River gig, just that the event itself was kind of a drag for the volunteers and talent.Don't really want to elaborate beyond that.
xpost that sounds like fun.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 27 August 2012 19:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
And it isn't that Cave was disappointing at the River gig, just that the event itself was kind of a drag for the volunteers and talent.
aw man, bummerz.
saw these dudes like two years ago, still one of the best shows i've seen in a looooong time.
― Mr. Que, Monday, 27 August 2012 19:04 (8 months ago) Permalink
Haven't been able to catch them before, but psyched to see them at a house-show here in Indianapolis in a couple weeks.
Yes. House. Show.
― dronestreet, Monday, 27 August 2012 19:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
ps you can listen to some wume here if you want http://wumeworld.net/music/
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Monday, 27 August 2012 19:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
http://loudlooppress.com/media/watch-cave-groove-on-giant-system/
― tylerw, Thursday, 30 August 2012 22:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
The flexi is neat! Cool art and great sound. It's a Rotted Tooth release: http://rottedtoothrecordings.com/Looks like Wume has worked with Rotted Tooth. I think one of the guys from Wume has been adding parts to Cave recordings, like the flute on the flexi track. ooh Running has, too. Those guys are great. Check this hilarious tour diary from when Running went out with CAVE last yearhttp://www.scribd.com/doc/73922812/Cave-Running-Tour-Journal-Fall-2011
I like this video made by a guy from/with the Chicago Film Archives:http://vimeo.com/48320861
― Trip Maker, Thursday, 20 September 2012 23:03 (8 months ago) Permalink
I meant that running has worked with Rotted Tooth, not added to Cave recordings. Garbledy.
tour diary is lol
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 20 September 2012 23:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
Saw 'em last Friday and it was predictably great. Such a great band.
― Stormy Davis, Friday, 21 September 2012 06:39 (8 months ago) Permalink
haw that chicago film archives vid is awesome/insane
― tylerw, Friday, 21 September 2012 15:11 (8 months ago) Permalink
man, i don't know if i can support a record label with that namebut i do think wume are one to watchdilemmas...
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Friday, 21 September 2012 15:23 (8 months ago) Permalink
lol at As bad as it got out there on the road with Cave we learned a fewvaluable lessons that are sure to stick with us for years to come.Similar to the way scars stick with you after severe cigarette burnshave been inflicted on you, or the way $7,438 of credit debt will stickwith you because you let Cave talk you into out bidding a guy fromMacau on EBay for a signed copy of the new Lou Reed and MetallicaCD Lulu that turned out to be fake anyway.
― tylerw, Friday, 21 September 2012 15:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
Oh yeah! They were listening to Lulu really deliberately, one new song a day.They figured that was the only way they would get through it.lol at Lechera's reaction to Rotted tooth.That film archives video uses a brand new recording.Jeremy Freeze from Jerusalem and the Starbaskets is playing guitar in CAVE right now.He's gone out on tour with them before, but these new tracks are the first time he's recorded with them.
― Trip Maker, Friday, 21 September 2012 16:15 (8 months ago) Permalink
oh cool, i didn't know that! is he on that recording posted just above (the vimeo)? that song is awesome. the visuals are great too.
― Thanks WEBSITE!! (Z S), Friday, 21 September 2012 16:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
yes, he is. He's on the flexi, too.They are in Europe RIGHT NOWhttp://www.dragcity.com/artists/cave
― Trip Maker, Friday, 21 September 2012 16:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
Oh wait, I just remembered that I saw Jeruselem and the Starbaskets when they opened for CAVE and they were great!
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Friday, 21 September 2012 16:27 (8 months ago) Permalink
^i love all their records
― upset and upsetting (electricsound), Saturday, 22 September 2012 00:01 (8 months ago) Permalink
Steeple in the Sky ftw
― did drake invent yolo (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 24 September 2012 01:31 (8 months ago) Permalink
Jerusalem and CAVE are "home" for the holiday, they each did a set last night. Both sounded amazing. After touring Europe, CAVE is just tight as hell. They sounded like fucking Deep Purple or something. I was blown away.
― Trip Maker, Sunday, 25 November 2012 19:00 (6 months ago) Permalink
Jerusalem played Steeple and it ruled. They played a bunch of old songs.Kim was feeling under the weather, though, so they cut their planned hour-long set short.
― Trip Maker, Sunday, 25 November 2012 19:02 (6 months ago) Permalink
They sounded like fucking Deep Purple or something.sounds awesome. listening pure moods right now -- kind of think it might be my favorite thing ... ever?
― tylerw, Thursday, 29 November 2012 23:14 (5 months ago) Permalink
I missed EVERY LAST ONE of their many recent local shows, but I do plan to make a special trip to buy the latest Bitchin Bajas EP. I'd even be a booster. I recommend "Jelly" to fans of slow warm droney atmospheric music with a faint hint of melody. https://soundcloud.com/bitchin-bajas/
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 1 March 2013 14:50 (2 months ago) Permalink
hmmm yeah this bitchin bajas stuff is bitchin! what is the connect betw. cave and these guys again?
― tylerw, Friday, 1 March 2013 16:16 (2 months ago) Permalink
cooper crain iirc?
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 1 March 2013 16:21 (2 months ago) Permalink
still totally disgusted by rotted tooth btw. what's with these guys and nomenclature? i do like the name of the new ep though ;)
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 1 March 2013 16:22 (2 months ago) Permalink
"jelly" is definitely some excellent terry riley kinda stuff.
― tylerw, Friday, 1 March 2013 16:28 (2 months ago) Permalink
totally -- if i'm not going crazy, they seem to be getting incrementally more melodic, so i hope they reach (and stay at) a comfortable balance of drone and melody. on an appealing trajectory, but i haven't heard the new one yet. their sound is always warm, that hasn't changed.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 1 March 2013 16:53 (2 months ago) Permalink
ok now i'm down a bitchin bajas rabbit hole. new favorite band!
― tylerw, Friday, 1 March 2013 17:43 (2 months ago) Permalink
yay! my work here is done.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Friday, 1 March 2013 18:34 (2 months ago) Permalink
look what i got over the weekend! (not a ceiling fan)
went to the store for the special green version, it's pretty
the sound is what i expected EXCEPT each track gets progressively more and more layered (to the point of busyness occasionally but usually evens out) and ends with a midtempo jam that lends itself to dancing, more like a cave song but through an 80s electropop filter. kinda weird! i like it.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 4 March 2013 14:03 (2 months ago) Permalink
Actually, the dance jam at the end of one of the title track isn't 80s, more Neu. Either way, I like it. Wish I had gone to at least ONE of those shows, but OH WELL.
― and that sounds like a gong-concert (La Lechera), Monday, 4 March 2013 14:26 (2 months ago) Permalink
Bajas just played a local gig last week! BB started as Cooper's solo gig, but has since expanded to a three piece. There is already another album in the can and lots of stuff in progress, too, I think. I heard some of the new Cave record-in-progress, too, and I'm really excited about it.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 4 March 2013 14:57 (2 months ago) Permalink
bajas may tour dates FYIbitchitronics coming to a town near you
Bitchin Bajas May tour dates:
9 - Indianpolis, IN @ House
10 - Columbus, OH @ Double Happiness
11 - Pittsburgh, PA @ 6119
12 - Philadelphia, PA @ Little Berlin
16 - Portland, ME @ tba
17 - Boston, MA @ Video Underground
18 - Brooklyn, NY @ Body Actualized
19 - Brooklyn, NY @ Body Actualized * Cosmic Yoga
23 - Lafayette, IN @ tba
24 - Chicago, IL @ Empty Bottle
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 6 May 2013 20:50 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
wtf is cosmic yoga?!
pretty much what their new album sounds like! i got a promo and i was blasting it -- my wife asked "are you doing yoga up there?"
― tylerw, Monday, 6 May 2013 20:52 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
cave or bitchies?
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 6 May 2013 21:00 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
bitchin bajas new one
― tylerw, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:01 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
yeah, it's really good! the end of each song gets a little fast for yoga, or at least my kind of yoga. more like groovy dance party!
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 6 May 2013 21:03 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
Every Sunday we host a Cosmic Yoga party. These parties involve a more relaxed and casual yoga class accompanied by live music, performed by various artists and bands. After yoga, our chefs create raw/living foods dinner which are provided at affordable and reasonable prices
― mizzell, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:04 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
here's the info on the new one, in inimitable drag city style
Bitchin Bajas are back, baby! Their new album Bitchitronics, out July 16, 2013 on Drag City, is ready with the quickness we expect from the Chicago-based band - which is funny, since their area of expertise and mastery is in the area of synthetic ephemeral sonic languidity known more instinctively, inclusively (and let's face it, irresponsibly) as drone music. Put it this way - they make slow music at a fast pace. Bitchitronics is their first realized record as a trio.
Since their first appearance way back in 2010, Bitchin Bajas approach has been simple - unfold tones via synth and keyboard, allowing micro-frequencies to press against each other in a way that pleases the ear, the mind and the soul. From record to record (three albums, a split 7" and a split 12", a cassette and an 12"EP), their process is redefined by confronting the technologies of formative and outmoded machines, sliding into different quadrants of the ambient/post-organic/electronic/and drone universe each time around. Thus, the experience of slipping inside their music seems so singular and pure, like floating naked in a sensory deprivation tank. Just us and our minds and the music. Simple, right? But other things occur underneath...
For Bitchitronics, the concept was: use tape techniques to create and then solve problems - loops and edits were there to make things fun and the music great in the style of experimental tape pioneers upon whose shoulders the Bajas play. Mission bitchin' accomplished! Recording was mostly done in, all over and around a house in Fennville, MI with three tape machines reeling in the sounds - sometimes, in addition to sounds that have never seen the light of day, you're also hearing the sound of the light of day on the tape (or when they recorded at night, evening stars). Two 1/4" tape machines were utilized to make loops and execute the Bitchitronics sound system, one of which discreetly captured the combined sounds of the loops with live playing. Once done, it was back to HQ where edits of the 1/4" recordings were utilized to create larger tapestries on the 2-track master tape.
You want to use the Bitchitronics method for yourself? That's how it's done! Taking the long path to realize this album makes for some heavenly music indeed.
― tylerw, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:06 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
that sounds maximum fruitywould stretch/breathe under those conditions...maybe?
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 6 May 2013 21:09 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
first song is called "transcendence" last song is called "turiya"...
― tylerw, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:11 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
oh ok i haven't heard it yet because i'm not on the promo circuitlooking forward to it!
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 6 May 2013 21:11 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
it's great -- first tune is heavy on the no pussyfooting/frippertronics vibes.
― tylerw, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:12 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
They've been huffing Alice Coltrane.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:13 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
― tylerw, Monday, 6 May 2013 21:16 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
that sounds greatlove alice!!
― free your spirit pig (La Lechera), Monday, 6 May 2013 21:19 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
dude djing at our last show played some bajas, it made everyone's ears perk up.. must have been something from krausened as i didn't know it
― groovy replacement (electricsound), Monday, 6 May 2013 22:27 (2 weeks ago) Permalink