the band CAVE

both sides of butthash are on last.fm in full: http://www.last.fm/music/Cave/Cave+-+Butthash

I want the opener "Gamm" to go on forever

Okay found their myspace. Here's what they have released so far

CAVE "Psychic Psummer" LP/CD/Cassette on Important Records 2009
CAVE Made In Malaysia 7" on Important Records 2009
CAVE/Skarekrau Radio split Jams Cassette 2009
CAVE The Ride 7" on Static Caravan from UK 2009
CAVE "Raw Vibes vol.1" Cassette 2008
CAVE Butthash 7" on Trensmat Records from Ireland 2008
CAVE/California Raisins split 10" on Permanent Records 2008
CAVE 12" "Hunt Like Devil/Jamz" Double EP on Permanent Records 2008
CAVE "Jamz EP" Cassette 2006
CAVE "Hunt Like Devil EP" cd-r 2006

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.

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/realreelpro
Write 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.

wherever i read that they're like trans am ripping off a different set of stuff, that was otm.

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.

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.

That is weird. I haven't ever seen or heard the UK pressed one. Did Rocket do it?

no idea, wont know til it arrives.

http://www.rocketrecordings.com/ it cant be rocket.

its on permanent records and a wee bit of paper inside it says 2nd edition.

Weird. Well, hope you like it! It's probably the last record I'll ever play on.

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!

Anything could happen. Thanks.

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.

damn i coulda saved cash

£18 with shipping it cost from aQ :(

Damn.

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.

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.

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?

Was more dismissive than necessary in prev post. Psychic Psummer deserves more than "pretty decent", even if it ain't my favorite Cave.

Just ordered from the rough trade store. Thanks for the heads up!

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?

holy shit, did not know about Jeremy joining...brilliant decision

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF1PAMtBqLE
nice cover of "Negativland" from Neu! I guess this is from last night or the night before.

this looks like fun!

Yes.

Just got Raw Vibes vol 2. So far so good! The end of "Bobby's Hash" is terrific.

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Oh for shit's sake..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVRYc4meDTM

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.

A new EP "Pure Moods" coming in May on Drag City..!

lol, these guys are playing a head shop in my area this summer.

Loving "Brigitte's Trip (White Light/White Jazz)"

Can't wait to pick this up next week.

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.

liking pure moods a lot -- this is the first i've heard them, i think.

sounds a LOT like Oneida. This is not a complaint.

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

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?

yes, 3 songs, about 20 minutes

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...

love CAVE

good stuff

if this band is like oneida i will like cave

saw these guys last night in Denver -- hollly shit, they were good. would highly recommend them to anyone. kind of worried their records are going to start sounding limp in comparison!

Gonna see them at pitchfork lol

These guys are pretty directly up my alley, loving the Pure Moods EP right now.

look what i got over the weekend! (not a ceiling fan)

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8248/8519440201_a9d9062c3d.jpg

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.

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.

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.

bajas may tour dates FYI
bitchitronics 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

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?"

cave or bitchies?

bitchin bajas new one

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!

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

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.

that sounds maximum fruity
would stretch/breathe under those conditions...maybe?

first song is called "transcendence" last song is called "turiya"...

oh ok i haven't heard it yet because i'm not on the promo circuit
looking forward to it!

it's great -- first tune is heavy on the no pussyfooting/frippertronics vibes.

They've been huffing Alice Coltrane.

http://www.twitteringmachines.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/alice_coltrane_turiyasings.jpg

that sounds great
love alice!!

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

http://www.dragcity.com/products/threace
http://www.dragcity.com/system/album_products/images/2132/large.jpg?1372877757
Behold, Threace! It's the brand new LP from international touring sensations CAVE, arriving October 15th, and it might just bring an end to your party -- no more dancing, no more talking, just people listening to every last clang, tweet and honk of a band really getting after it. Recorded on a 1" 8-track Scully machine that may or may not have spent some quality burn-in time at Muscle Shoals, Threace was half-planned and half-jammed using different mic placements, building up from a basic set of as few mics as possible. Then, they got out the razor blade and...well, this isn't the Rolling Stones! They used it to cut tape (and realities) together into a metro-musical albumen that's only started to flower in this world.

Threace comes on guitar up and jelly tight, saving the keys for color commentary among the beats. Cooper and Jeremy explore their six-string relationship, finding shared space, ducking, parrying, working the edges, and finally, twinning to gut-clutching effect. Meanwhile, there's a cameo appearance from sax and flute textures in here that create new soul-jazz sensations. Last and most, Dan and Rex bring the heavy with thickness, moving rhythm with exceptionally light feet, playing coloristically while always driving, driving, ever driving, bearing the lode and raising the arch under which everything happens in CAVE.

CAVE are known for playing with rolling funk minimalism; Threace finds them inhabiting their cut-up aesthetic with tremendous ease and fewer reference points than before. They access new depths of meditative stasis, and then torpedo the dream and turn on a dime to ride the riffs again. On Threace, CAVE have gained access to their unconscious mind, and we hope they never find their way out again.

After the record release show last night, I feel like Bitchin Bajas deserve their own thread. I had to leave early, but they were playing as a 9 piece with strings, 3 guitars, a flute and a...bass clarinet? It was really great, better than expected. I'm not much into boosterism but I feel like they're going somewhere. They're not all the way there yet (imo), but they've got the texture just right. I am hoping they bring that guitarist back who played last night. WHOOEY. It was good, aaaaaaaaalmost reminded me of some of the more soaring guitar parts in LT-LN era Popol Vuh but maybe that's just wishful thinking. It's just the melodic boost they needed though, I liked it. More flute pls!

Next month they are gathering a bunch of people to perform IN C
Not the key of C, but the Terry Riley composition entitled IN C

I mean they named their album Bitchitronics ffs -- they are practically begging you to like them! Anyway I plan on listening to it while I clean the floors today. Cosmic yoga mop time.

here Bitchin Bajas

Here is a little history of the Bitchpork festival that was curated and staffed by members of CAVE and friends
http://pigeonsandplanes.com/2013/07/bitchpork/
After you hit "continue reading" scroll up to read the text.

new album is sounding pretty fusion-y in parts. in a good way.

where's it at

hey is dj trip maker the same as ilx's trip maker? i saw the name bc i'm going to see this band (AGAIN) tonight and apparently that's who is the inter-set dj, would be too weird to not be the same person but who knows?!
if so, see you there!

how was the show?
new video here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLrofQRFQ6k

it was great!! they have a new secret weapon -- i don't know the guy's name but i saw him when he played with bitchin bajas. i really liked the added baritone sax/flute stuff. he also had a snare and cymbal but i couldn't always hear their contribution. as always, they were super tight. i have an altogether new appreciation of the drummer for playing the exact same beat for as long as he plays it. yikes.

yeah that dude is a machine. there is some horn action on the new one, it is pretty good. really does kinda sound like herbie hancock/headhunters/miles in the 70s at times.

yeah they were very tight, the rhythm section in general is sick. i hadn't seen them in a few years, i was surprised that dude who used to pretty much only play keys was now pretty much only playing guitar. he's a good guitarist but i missed the keys tbh, my fave song live had him on keys and the "secret weapon" on flute. the flute playing was great bc he wasn't doing jazz solos or whatever, he was doubling the keyboard part and it sounded amazing.

new video btw http://www.thefader.com/2013/09/24/video-cave-shikaakwa/

lol i think that's the track i was just talking about with the flute.

cave cruise! http://t.co/oLVJYPPLzK

new album is dope

Ha. La Lechera, I dj'd that gig in absentia. Cooper just used a bunch of mix tapes i've made for him over the years for the incidental music.
i was surprised that dude who used to pretty much only play keys was now pretty much only playing guitar.
Two different dudes.

They played in town on Halloween. I got to sing a cover of "Sister Ray" with them at the end of the set. Lots of fun.

that sounds awesome -- where's the youtube?

I don't even have a photo!
I was wearing a pink blouse, blue shades, and a blonde wig.

Ugh that sounds SO FUN!! Did you sing the whole thing?! man that sounds like fun.

All I remember from your mix was Bohannon but it was enjoyable!

We didn't play it for twenty minutes. I sang maybe three verses and improvised a "freakout" that climaxed with repetition of the phrase "don't shake me, lucifer." We were going to cover a Roky Erickson song but current events changed our original plan.

'silver headband' on the new one is so sick. not many can evoke the neu! vibe without resorting to a generic motorik beat. agree with tyler on the rest of it pulling serious fusion moves.

they're playing a reunion(?) show on new years

recent interview with cooper crain said there'd be a new Cave album out this year ... but I haven't heard anything else.
Cave drummer is playing with Nathan Bowles now ... http://www.nyctaper.com/2017/10/nathan-bowles-trio-september-8-2017-three-lobed-wxdu-hopscotch-afternoon-jamboree-raleigh-nc/

an erstwhile ilxor is DJing!

i am thinking about going
wondered what happened to their drummer -- who's playing if it's not that guy?

haha yeah i just noticed trip maker in this thread!

i had heard the reason cave hadn't been playing shows was cuz the drummer had moved. but your guess is as good as mine whether or not he'll be playing new years. i hope he is, though

ha yeah, i hope that they're making a long distance relationship work — Cave w/o that drummer seems a little pointless.

i thought BBs were CAVE w/o that drummer
;)

i am just wondering which local drummer would be his repacement -- an unknown? one of the many excellent known drummers in Chicago?