vatican shadow

I really like the minimal synths he does on Bermuda Drain. I can just about put up with the screaming. On the Palm Tree Corpse tune it's fucking incredibly awesome.

so many future vatican shadow track titles floating around right now

i cant read an article about the boston bombers without picking out phrases for vs tapes

chechnya's ghosts loom large in death of former santa

― lex pretend, Tuesday, 25 December 2012 08:07 (3 months ago)

i checked out the new prurient project but it just wasn't as enjoyable as vs

can't get into prurient

more like purr-ient

new prurient great ebm

Caught this guy's live show last night, it was sonically amazing but really uncomfortable to view, particularly when he was raving and gurning in front of a projection of images of dead soldiers and 9/11 headlines - it felt exploitative. Do I just not get this guy's politics? It was provocative and stirring but it felt a bit cheap and ruined any pleasure from the music itself.

I saw him live at Sonar and he actually got a bit of dancefloor action going. There weren't any visuals. I don't know if he was doing something a bit different because it was a dance music festival

There was lots of dancing when I saw him! It kinda added to the discomfort I was feeling. Like, the point he was making about de-sensitisation to war imagery and violence fell flat when people were bouncing about and fist-pumping and generally being... de-sensitised. And when it doesn't work all that's left is folk partying alongside images of war casualties and 9/11 headlines.

I'm sure it's just something I don't understand rather than anything intentionally exploitative.

i think his politics involve the intentional exploitation (or at least decontextualization) of sensational politics - in some sense i think he's fascistic (tho w/ more of a nihilistic ends than a political one): 'Mankind, which was in the age of Homer an object of contemplation for the Olympian gods, has now become one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order. This is how it stands with the aestheticization of politics that Fascism pursues. Communism responds by politicizing art.' -- he's aestheticizing politics, not politicizing art imho.

There was lots of dancing when I saw him! It kinda added to the discomfort I was feeling. Like, the point he was making about de-sensitisation to war imagery and violence fell flat when people were bouncing about and fist-pumping and generally being... de-sensitised. And when it doesn't work all that's left is folk partying alongside images of war casualties and 9/11 headlines.

― boxedjoy, Friday, 5 July 2013 09:58 (4 hours ago)

lol

well sick drop on emir of checjnya despatches emissaries to the caliph there m8s

Anybody listening to Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement? I got the new one on Bed of Nails since VS's Bed of Nails release was my favourite of theirs. Boomkat described it as sounding like Porter Ricks which is a bit of an exaggeration. Pleasant enough background music but I was hoping for more.

01. Circumstances Quickly Became Questioned
02. Tonight Saddam Walks Amidst Ruins
03. Muscle Hijacker Tribal Affiliation
04. Contractor Corpses Hung Over The Euphrates River
05. Enter Paradise
06. Remember Your Black Day
07. Not The Son Of Desert Storm, But The Child Of Chechnya
08. Jet Fumes Above The Reflecting Pool

it's on spotify - i like it a lot

esp liked the prayer/chanting on track #7

i like how the only leftfield electronic shit you seem to like is the dude with the middle east geopolitics fetish

i like basinski too

ur not wrong tho

i love how william basinski looks complete unlike you would expect a producer of maudlin ambient music to look

http://www.villavillanola.com/suoni/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/william_basinski-par-Thimothy-White-290x300.jpg

Might as well have called it "A Tribute to Muslimgauze" with those titles.

he is nothing like muslimgauze politically

Thankfully, I think nobody is or was.

this digression reminds of the mille plateaux record from 2002 called 'walking in jerusalem' by random inc which consists of samples recorded in.....well you can write the rest

does Fernow have an actual politics beyond transgressive bro being transgressive?

I'm a big fan of Basinkski's 'third place in a Limahl lookalike contest' thing too.

i tried to get into muslimgauze but it was too hezbollahgauze for me

his whole thing is paratext abstracted from the context that begot it, see the 'exploring jezebel' discogs page

i applaud him

a more recent picture of basinski:

http://www.artnet.com/Images/magazine/reviews/yablonsky/manchester-international-festival-7-18-11-14.jpg

backstage at the manchester evening news arena with william basinski

he's turning into this guy:

http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/62381921/Nightcrawlers+Push+The+Feeling+On.png

is the exploring jezebel stuff intentionally silly?

it's a paratext of the noise music abstracted from its context

read "hezbollahgauze" as "hezbollahgaze" and was like, nicely done.

plz give me credit for whatever seems better thx

i'd be down for some hezbollahgaze

idk if bryn jones supported terrorism outright

anyway "contractor corpses" sounds like 1994-era autechre

personally i think this music sounds like shit, but what makes it good is the paratext abstracted from its context. that's some pretty good stuff.

nothing stanton in the way of you making your own cool paratext abstracted from context islamodrone records, burt i guess you have better things to do

fyi my ouvre on ilx is a similarly themed middle east fetishism paratextual art project but in the medium of 'message board textual aesthetics' as opposed to leftfield electronica.

true

http://soundinjections.tumblr.com/post/35349961955/vatican-shadow

^^that's v good, i need to hear more tbh

http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-5759187-1401885690-2892.jpeg

Vatican Shadow ‎– Death Is Unity With God

Tracklist
Fireball
A1 Al Qaeda (Branch Davidian)
B1 Desert Storm (Waco)
B2 It's To Come
Enduring Mysteries
C1 ATF Sinful Messiah
D1 FBI God
D2 Koresh Babylon
Easing Of Our Task
E1 Fort Hood Again
E2 Koresh Lamb
E3 Machine-Gunning Of The Davidians
F1 Texarkana Resistance
Oklahoma Military Academy
G1 Theology Is Life And Death (Pakistan)
G2 Descended On Guayanilla (CNN)
H1 Arms Of Yahweh
H2 Manufactured Silencers Under Direct Orders
Elohim City
I1 Living On And Off At The Shadow Motel
I2 Small Explosives And Blasting Caps
I3 Inside The Pages Of A Phonebook
J McVeigh Figures
April Silencer
K1 Shadows On The Courthouse Wall
L1 Waco Postmortem (Murrah)

Notes
Edition of 100.
Comes with seven 8" x 8" collages

Elohim City

sampling what's available on youtube. seems like everything i've heard so far barely rises above a (menacing) whisper.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdmRF5eF85U

My first thought was that's an old Danse Society logo. I am an old goth.

free show @ urban outfitters!

Ahhh this one’s a real peach. Veering far from what we expected, ‘Games Have Rules’ is a brilliant late night excursion made in the spirit of classic Artificial Intelligence albums, instantly reminding us of that killer first Reaganz (Move D & Jonah Sharp) album from ’94 with it’s atmospheric soundscaping and nods to John Carpenter.