rolling off to the forest 2012

“I love three things," I then say. "I love a dream of love I once had, I love you, and I love this patch of earth."

"And which do you love best?"

"The dream.”

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

where we came from:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPalo2mJoyc

where we might go from here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOOFgt88h_Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWWAzDoOM4o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oj6BtbrU5w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnDt_YYf8dc

starting things off w/some v early 2012 releases (although i dont want to be to rigorous abt release dates or w/e itt)

tale of us vs. thugfucker - step aside/lightweight (visionquest)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWSKgGHXDGs

something dark and menacing to dance away the long dark nites

denim reptile - likwid cookie (bennifer editions)
http://www.beniffereditions.com/denimreptile.html

amateur fun, kids getting high in oblivion, its a scary world out there after all

is this yr new chillwave or whatever thread?

'but things worked out. everything works out. though sometimes they work out sideways.'

mr. spastic - bad dream (8bitpeoples)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvlug-Z1K1I

newest (albeit not all that new) release from a mostly digital-only label thats been mining nostalgia for the early days of home videogame consoles and computing since before most people had highspeed internet. there something eerie about how effectively this track conjures up memories of castlevania levels that never existed but the heavier drum sounds and vocals are an interesting attempt at crafting something other than simulacrum

Think this might be the right place to post some tracks off the new Perispirit (on Digitalis):

http://digitalisrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/14th-annual-s-ance-part-3
http://digitalisrecordings.bandcamp.com/track/attn-deficit-order-part-3

I've picked the two tracks where the album's waking nightmare made of Noise is set up against some rather lovely synth ghosts. Not the easiest listen but pretty great.

penispirit

haha thats totally how i read it at first...

this is the sort of thing that would have to sit w/me i think. sean have you heard the no ufos lp thats been rereleased on spectrum spools? i actually have a copy of the original release that i got and half-listened to and didnt pay much attention to but when it got picked up by ss gave it a relisten and quite enjoyed it. i dont necessarily think its first rate but theres some good stuff

pretty night bus http://i.imgur.com/zi7hd.gif

thanx for stopping by, dave!

Thanks for the No UFOs pointer - I try to keep up with Spectrum Spools but I missed that one. I sometimes feel I'm getting diminishing returns with a lot of this stuff even compared to a year ago, but yeah this is certainly pleasant. I dig the slightly rockier vibe on Soft Coast, where did it come out originally?

Ok you guys need to hear this Piotr Kurek cassette "Heat" (only 75 copies on Digitalis, but it's on blogz):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNF90rGiqr0

I'm still processing it but obvious pointers in my mental music map are Sun Araw and "L'Enfant assassin des mouches". My blurb on the "2011 tracks that didn't get nominated" thread was "It's like the soundtrack to a detective movie set in some dystopian future rainforest" and that's as flowery a comparison as I can come up with at the moment.

sean have you heard the no ufos lp thats been rereleased on spectrum spools? ... i dont necessarily think its first rate but theres some good stuff

I have this and would totally agree with yr conclusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSloKw4qusk

Really been liking this Future Shuttle album from last year that came out on Holy Mountain.

Oh shit, that is the whole fucking album too. Just meant to post the first track.

came to enjoy this more than i expected. some legowelt vibes on this one :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIVR-eEbzo0

ryan garbes - curved in air/excerpt (nna tapes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acCvFZ-wznc

just found this on utube gives a good sense of the piece, i think. this one of the first tapes i bought from nna.

pump - lung (reissue - forced nostalgia)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxSPthMfZxY

this is like my absolute favorite song rn just his voice and the squall and the thump and how dourly 80s and knowing it is

New Julia Holter!

http://soundcloud.com/igetrvng/julia-holter-in-the-same-room

Album due on RVNG in March...

Think I read somehwere about her doing some recording with Linda Perhacs at some stage. I know she's done some live performances as part of Perhac's band.

Oh wait, check out this mp3:

http://cdn02.cdn.gorillavsbear.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/delicious-descant.mp3

some context

Actually, that's not as compelling as either party's solo work, but quite nice all the same I suppose.

kuedo - starfox/illum sphere's re-fox (planet mu)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUN7z_fPpDA

this reminds a little bit of like advanced mario sequencer stuff in the way it rebuilds even as it deconstructs with these chirpy, blocky little pieces. its sort of small and soft and clever

brusque twins - what else is there to say? (visage musique)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MngzgVdhInM

...

blondes - pleasure/robert miles remix (rvng intl)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrOGPSifmq4

i wasnt even sure i liked this or if i just liked how easily it transforms biking around the city into first a lost bourne sequel and then a level of bit.trip runner

*AR - return (type)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OerDaiPbzE

the image on the cover this record reminds me quite strongly of the image on a magic card, theres a hint of something uncanny or fantastic about the mountain range, but also something contained and painterly. i think the music on this lp is providing a similar pleasure, its offering an escape into a simpler and idealized landscape while still holding out promise of the unearthly and the unobtainable. its beautiful but barren and haunting and autumn richardson's voice is like glass

lee noble - desire isnt suffering (bathetic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xm2xeexw7SA

the person you loved left you with nothing but a dogeared copy of 'metaphysical horror' and some photos of the soviet hinterlands as ecological ruin so you made a record about how that felt where the common thread was the moan of dissonance and your own muffled cries

la bambola del dr caligari - blue soldier (forced nostalgia)
http://forcednostalgia.bandcamp.com/track/blue-soldier

rituals and revelations, piercing clarity foregrounded by a muzzled thump, yesterdays knowing in-joke is tomorrows high priest

casino gardens - bedroom racetrack (self-released)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWuY4DmJ5qA

dude has a new cassette out called 'fantasies in cool places' thats a little spazzier and brighter which [via cassette gods] is 'a rad tape'. kinda like this track which isnt trying quite so hard buts still a p fuzzed out dream to get with

The new Julia Holter is very nice! Here's the rest of the record:

http://www.npr.org/2012/02/26/147294456/first-listen-julia-holter-ekstasis#playlist

This is good. How good, I'm not sure - feels like JH is moving closer towards canonical ILXbait like SVIIB and losing some of her uniqueness along the way. The weird 80s dub-boogie of Goddess Eyes II is an endearing curveball but on other tracks the effect is kind of overobvious?

I've only listened to it once mind you, so I'll probably be saying something different tomorrow.

some stuff ive been vibin lately:

buffalo moon - beach boy (moon glyph)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XQx5P6OxOw

food pyramid - mango sunrise (moon glyph)
http://soundcloud.com/moonglyph/food-pyramid-mango-sunrise

listening mirror - we are alone, but you never will be (bathetic)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMDLHC0kSyY

charlatan - minus ten (house of the sun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AGUXOTmYEw

innercity - baby food (aguirre)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGMz-VCv6Kc

diggin that mango sunrise. and the last couple of ambient utbes

franco falsini - cold nose (polydor; rr spectrum spools)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3unYuFf13HY

i like this video more than i do the song, which has a stylishly upscale meandering quality that leaves it too foggy and mock-heroic to really vibe out to, i keep wanting to charge expensive sneakers to amex or w/e.

Sweet music for yr all-night beach party in space:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpKR17YYfDQ

^^^ Cruise Family - We're in Heaven (Dream Mix) (NNF)

I don't know what this thread is about but I guess this fits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U65686OS0xA

really nice!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZlOL2pAFdk

^ This is old news I guess, but I now totally love this album from the Deeep that came out last year. Completely missed it at the time, dunno if anyone else brought it up on one of these threads. It's maybe a little bit Grimes-y (I don't really like Grimes but there are some similarities here in the multitracked vocals and some of the slightly clunky 80s-sounding istrumentation) and a little bit Motion Sickness of Time Travel-esque (aqueous and free-floating, but here it also recalls oceanic stuff like World of Echo and the first AR Kane album and Hugo Largo too). Great record with some solid tunes, and I'm a v.v. big dummy for ignoring it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmERm-l2_uc

^ Grouper and Tiny Vipers as Mirroring. The album is alright, but this one song is an amazing standout for me. Gorgeous sad spacey folky music.

do you like violens?

oh, or what do you think of trust?

do you like violens?

yeah! i havent heard trust tho, i dont think

huh, they're even from toronto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tc1xj7Nblc&feature=fvwrel

haha i am kinda spiritually exhausted by too many not very good toronto bands atm

also just really only want to listen to cosmic/spacey/gentle stuff rn

innnnteresting. not usually into dark or minimal synth stuff but i find the vocals pretty striking & kind of diva house in a way?

but yeah, violens, super good. feel like theyre in kind of this wonderful intersection of, like 60's pop psych, the smiths & chillwave???

yah im going to give 'trust' a listen just sorta burntout atm and want to listen to comfortable stuff ::shrug::

have you heard 'chevalier avant garde'? actually theres a couple of recent mtl things that ive liked quite a bit

who who? i played a show with that dude(s?) a while ago, it was ok but once again not exactly my thing. some friends of mine think he's like a pop songwriter genius but i'mmmm not convinced

I have no idea what this thread is about either, but there's tons of good tracks on it.

i have a weird understanding of this thred and i feel like lamp prob has already heard this but it should be here regardless

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VL49YvsPtKs

haha last time i played out i ran that into mint julep's 'why dont we'

casiotone for the painfully alone - attic room (tomlab)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOjuhRsrds&feature=relmfu

"Their gaze hits us like that of a prisoner looking through the bars of his cell. We consider ourselves free, and view others as free as long as we can see through their faces, because they have been shaped in the same way that our face, which we cannot see, has been shaped. But where a different world has left its imprint to obstruct our vision, we recognize just how much we are trapped behind our own masks"

cruise family - were in heaven/dream mix (not not fun)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpKR17YYfDQ

"In fact, we never truly love the other, but merely the different world he represents."

actually theres a couple of recent mtl things that ive liked quite a bit

― Lamp, Thursday, March 29, 2012 3:12 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

???

the new-ish lantern 7" and the visage musique compilation which i guess is 2011? i only heard it this winter tho. also listened to a bunch of the non-sundrips stuff on fadeaway tapes but theres a genteel sameness to some of it, idk, i like it tho. what else is good? i feel like ive read about/been told about some other stuff too

ha awesome, i hung out with lantern dude when he lived here. def a great 7 inch but imo his stuff as "omon ra ii" and in "omon ra" is even better

i'll check out that visage musique comp, i like femminielli ok. i was really horrified & turned off of a lot of local stuff by that expressway comp from earlier this year they had a song on but it wasn't the worst by far

of the more talked about local stuff i've heard recently, TOPS (previously silly kissers) and sean nicolas savage come to mind. i'm not exceedingly hot on either, but i should at least give TOPS another chance, if anything i like the sound they're going for. there was a long interview with sean nicholas savage in the alt-weekly here a couple of months ago maybe that was pretty endearing & really hilarious, came off as, like, somehow so wonderfully pretentious & flamboyant. felt like not enough of that quality translated into the music, still felt guarded & shrimpy

i probably shouldn't mention this but my real favourite current local music project is one of my best friends' solo recording project, i just think this song is fantastic http://bakedgoods.bandcamp.com/track/crescent-moon

sean nicolas savage is another thing ive heard a bunch about. will listen to some of that other stuff when i have some more time

anyway the boneglow/delusions split on kassette klub is s0 fukken good. i was expecting some clanging echochamber drone but its these infectiously lo-fi and summery bedroom jamz plax if yr reading this i think youd really vibe it

a bunch of really incredible new stuff on some old faves: nna tapes including the keith fullerton whitman/eli keszler split and 'the moon regarded...' tape by william hutson. the latter in particular is really highly recommended, excellent use of silence and space, super worth thinking about. the 'head boggle' lp on spectrum spools is also really tight. de stijl also has c spencer yeh's 'songs 2002' cassette which is p rewarding. theres also the nite jewel fact mix and the bookworms 12"

sorry this is just a list of things i really like, i dont want to forget them, time & space are infinite

Haven't heard Head Boggle yet but v much looking foward to the new Motion Sickness of Time Travel, which is also gonna come out on Spectrum Spools next month.

!!!! didnt no that...

half want 2 brag and half want 2 weep seein so many ppl i tangentially know who are getting releases on spectrum spools... need 2 up my game

the new MSOTT is so god damned great. four 20+ minute side-length tracks; all four are great but the last song is on a whole other plane of existence. all I could find was a 5-minute sample on Soundcloud to share though:

http://soundcloud.com/memorybomb/excerpt-from-one-perfect

I'm also really liking Paco Sala's Ro-Me-Ro:

http://soundcloud.com/foxydigitalis/paco-sala-gifts-of-the-bloom

also Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason's Solaris collaboration is proving surprisingly reliable (or is this better suited to the Boomkat classical thread?)

http://www.wnyc.org/shows/newsounds/2011/nov/17/

Yeah, I heard good things about Paco Sala, thanks for the reminder.

MSOTT now up on spotify, goddamn this is lovely

yeah im def digging it. so much good music out lately just in time for the weather to turn and we to start playing out again

I haven't heard anything bad from MSOTT yet but this record is just a quantum leap forward in every regard. I will probably never shut up about how gorgeous One Perfect Moment is.

best release of summer 2012! http://kinntarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-lemon-tape

http://f0.bcbits.com/z/34/54/3454169183-1.jpg

half want 2 brag and half want 2 weep seein so many ppl i tangentially know who are getting releases on spectrum spools... need 2 up my game

― Lamp, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:03 (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah cool a friend of mine has a release coming out nowish, too. i finally checked out the label after all the talk about it itt and actually dig some of the releases a lot. i had kind of avoided it because i'm not really into ambient drone or lush sssssphlshhhhssynthscapes & thought it was all, like, that kind of stuff. but i'm actually digging the human teenager - animal husbandry lp, and the no ufos lp in the OP. looking forward to the gary war lp, ht is great & i picked up a copy of what i think is his first release (?) new ratheonport at a show of his in halifax last weekend been jammin both nonstop

i loved that bee mask youtube you posted to the sandbox but everything else i've heard is b0ring to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReJ6SVUM9L8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66DzW00-bxo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzLpYx8cKqA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA6g_fAJ2eY

mwa mwa mwa

new lee noble/ensemble economique split is p rad: http://soundcloud.com/hitd-1/ensemble-economique-radiate

p big fan of the stuff he puts out on no kings in gen

zelienople - the southern (type)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-sYc8v6pqo

listened to this on the beach in vancouver looking out at the pacific ocean thinking about nothing much

future shuttle - opal star (samling)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HtrlYfuBYg

i had this in a long list of tracks i liked that ive been going through tonight out of boredom and theres this anxious haze to the track that i really vibe, seems p cool

steve moore - panther moderns (L.I.E.S)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8vU94Jd618

xpost with the rolling video thread?

andrés ‎– new for u (la vida)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqmlXTN3GPQ

really, really into this

http://thewire.co.uk/articles/9608/

^^^ attn: flopson

what do you think of the album

co la - dream repeater

?

bought it solely off the album art & a memory of u repping nna tapes

http://browntowndotcom.com/nna/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/NNA038.jpg

kind of reminds me of that starslinger ep you repped for last year

honestly im kinda blanking on it i know ive heard it a few times and may even own a copy but no real opinions.

im sorta burnt out on music atm i have band practice tonite and am just draggin my feet about going and like all i listen to right now are joni mitchell records and 'after the gold rush'

damn homie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frmJKaPT5U8

^ looking forward to this holly herndon album on rvng intl

so the no kings label has been p on point all year ime but a the leslie keffer tape seems partic good - for some reason that fact that it is called 'finally, caves!' lends it some extra charm

http://soundcloud.com/dylan-ettinger/tipoff

New Bee Mask album is nice and foresty:
https://soundcloud.com/memorybomb/moon-shadow-move-by-bee-mask

V.keen on that Leslie Keffer (+ I had no idea Unicorn Hard-On was still around / had gone noise-techno-y after their mid-00s Providence stuff).

This might be kinda relevant to Lamp, NZ vaporwave/post-internet stuff:
http://crystalmagic.bandcamp.com/album/critical-hits-2012