http://www.motherboard.tv/2011/3/7/electric-independence-emeralds--2
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 00:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Okay, this is neat:Editions Mego compiles A Young Person’s Guide to… Emeralds’ Mark McGuire― ka£ka (NickB), Monday, March 7, 2011 4:27 AM (2 weeks ago)
Editions Mego compiles A Young Person’s Guide to… Emeralds’ Mark McGuire
― ka£ka (NickB), Monday, March 7, 2011 4:27 AM (2 weeks ago)
about halfway thru disc 1 and OMG if the whole thing is this good, it gets my vote for compilation of the year, easy
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Saturday, 26 March 2011 23:17 (thirteen years ago) link
awesome! I'm pretty excited about that one. nearly impossible to hear everything he's put out but I had a feeling that a distilled set of cuts from his huge mass of material would be really excellent.
― original bgm, Saturday, 26 March 2011 23:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i've been looking forward to hearing thatglad it's goodfeeling ohio pride
― Ralpharina (La Lechera), Saturday, 26 March 2011 23:26 (thirteen years ago) link
btw, I'm gonna stump for my fave mcguire release again - the invisible world tho. really excellent krauty guitar loop action w/a thick and immerersive sound.
― original bgm, Saturday, 26 March 2011 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
whoops, scratch that stray "tho" up there.
and of course, the invisible world was only put out on tape w/a stupidly low print run. so, it's only available on the blogspots of the world now.
but I wouldn't be surprised if one of the cuts made that comp.
― original bgm, Saturday, 26 March 2011 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
yup, "the invisible world" is on the comp - not "backdrafts" tho
― ilxor you've listened to one odd future album once (ilxor), Saturday, 26 March 2011 23:40 (thirteen years ago) link
here's the full tracklist courtest of RA
http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=13808
CD 101. Dream Team02. The Marfa Lights03. Clague Woods04. Slipstreams05. Stranger Than Paradise06. Flight07. Ghosts Around a Tree08. The Path Lined With Colorful Stones09. The Wind On The Winding Road, Pt IiCD 201. Radio Flyer02. Icy Windows03. The Lonesome Foghorn Blows04. Time Is Flying05. Sun Shining Through the Open Barn Door06. Explosion Alarm07. Sick Chemistry08. Skies09. Over the Water10. The Invisible World11. Inside Where It's Warm
CD 201. Radio Flyer02. Icy Windows03. The Lonesome Foghorn Blows04. Time Is Flying05. Sun Shining Through the Open Barn Door06. Explosion Alarm07. Sick Chemistry08. Skies09. Over the Water10. The Invisible World11. Inside Where It's Warm
― hey ilxor, thanks for contributing, glad you stopped by (ilxor), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 14:13 (thirteen years ago) link
courtesy* ugh
one of few bands whom song titles accurately describe what the song'll prolly soudn liek
― kelpolaris, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
New Mist (John Elliott and Sam Goldberg) LP forthcoming on Elliott's own Editions Mego imprint Spectrum Spools...
http://www.editionsmego.com/spectrum-spools-release/SP+004
Recorded January and February 2011 in Cleveland, Ohio.
John Elliott: Moog Voyager OS, Roland RS-101, Sequential Circuits Prophet 600, Roland SH-101, Phasers, Vocals
Sam Goldberg: Korg Polysix, Univox Minikorg, Multivox MX 202, Dave Smith Instruments Mopho
Mixed by Mist and Andrew VeresMastered by James PlotkinCut at D + M Berlin by CGB, March 14th 2011.
"House" is the 2nd official full-length offering by Cleveland, Ohio duo MIST featuring Sam Goldberg (of Radio People) and John Elliott (Emeralds, Outer Space, Imaginary Softwoods etc) after 2009's self-titled debut effort on Amethyst Sunset.A suite consisting of 7 complex, layered compositions shows new progression in composition and melody from the duo. From the lightning fast, bittersweet crescendo of "Twin Lanes" to the dramatic chord progressions of "I Can Still Hear Your Voice", "House" is a certain expansion in execution and construction. Tracks like "P.M." put a new take on the long-form Mist style with cryptic alien vocoder and humid pad sounds, while "Mist House" and "Dead Occasion" reveal new, complex territories that will most certainly please fans of the previous Mist recordings.
First copies available on pink vinyl. Subsequent copies available on black vinyl.
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link
ooh I totally loved Glowing Net, I'm'a jump on that
― the pussy/butthole addendum (jamescobo), Tuesday, 29 March 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
Nice! another Mist album. Both lps are really good.
― van smack, Tuesday, 29 March 2011 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
caught these guys with alan howarth and harald grosskopf over the weekend. LOVED their set. started with arpeggio swirls looping to create a rhythmic backbone for a few minutes and then straight-up beats dropped in! intensity kept peaking and it really felt like some detroit techno was going to bust out any second. serious e2-e4 vibes. really great.
they also did some collabo stuff with howarth. that didn't work as well for me. a couple tracks from big trouble in little china, the thing, and halloween. the halloween one is the only one that clicked (the others sounded strangely thin) but that segued in some nice, dark drone material. supposedly based on special frequencies howarth studied by renting out one of the pyramids for two hours (!!!) - that was pretty cool. sounds like a collabo lp will be released in the near future too.
― original bgm, Monday, 11 April 2011 14:10 (thirteen years ago) link
does anyone else get crazy early final fantasy vibes w/ "candy shoppe"?
― o pointy birds, o pointy pointy, anoint my head, anoity noity (kelpolaris), Monday, 11 April 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
I can't get enough of this stuff - are any of the Mist/Outer Space/other side project things available digitally?
― She Got the Shakes, Monday, 11 April 2011 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Emeralds in NY on Friday night was just insane.
Saw Mark McGuire last night. Spectacular.
These guys are pretty much ruling at a 90% or better hit rate on all their projects.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 12 April 2011 04:04 (thirteen years ago) link
otm
― jumpskins, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:02 (thirteen years ago) link
agreed
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 22:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Brand new Imaginary Softwoods LP in a month!
― Spectrist, Friday, 15 April 2011 23:58 (thirteen years ago) link
You can stream one of the tracks here: http://soundcloud.com/wirrzbow/imaginary-softwoods-eye-color
― Barnaby, Hardly, Saturday, 16 April 2011 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
thoughts on A Young Person's Guide... here
(don't mean to plug my writing so much as the McGuire comp., which is excellent)
― ilxor running, w/ laptop in hand, checking ILX as he sprints (ilxor), Monday, 9 May 2011 18:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Is there a fair bit of tape flutter etc on the CD release of A Young Person's Guide.
Can't wait to buy this by the way. This guy and Emeralds are too good.
― AnotherDeadHero, Monday, 9 May 2011 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
ilxor, why are you posting all of your brainwashed journals on ilx? I've seen you do that on more than one occasion.
― last updated 2 minutes ago by 1 minute ago (van smack), Monday, 9 May 2011 23:29 (thirteen years ago) link
well, i'd normally wax poetic abt McGuire for a couple paragraphs, but i tend to hold off discussing something on ilx if i'm working on a more "formal" review of it. which usually means the things i'm playing the most (like this) i hold my tongue on, then want to share what i think so throw out a link. i can stop linking to 'em if it's poor form though, which seems to be yr implication. no worries.
― ilxor running, w/ laptop in hand, checking ILX as he sprints (ilxor), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 01:39 (thirteen years ago) link
btw the tape noise is pretty minimal (xxp), i think most of these tracks were pulled from CDs anyway, only a few that were cassette exclusive. i listened on nice phones & didn't notice a thing.
― ilxor running, w/ laptop in hand, checking ILX as he sprints (ilxor), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 01:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://editionsmego.com/release/eMEGO+117
^ details here. a few cassette-only things on disc two. but i'd imagine mcguire recorded those tracks on something more hi-fi, then pressed them onto cassette; so probably used the master versions for this reissue. i could be wrong.
― ilxor running, w/ laptop in hand, checking ILX as he sprints (ilxor), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 01:43 (thirteen years ago) link
i really admire how mark and the rest of emeralds can be so prolific and not churn out any shit.
― jumpskins, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 02:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Nice little status update interview with McGuire on his upcoming projects and what's next for Emeralds.
― Badmotorfinger Debate Club (MFB), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 04:31 (thirteen years ago) link
http://exclaim.ca/News/mark_mcguire_talks_his_young_persons_guide_new_solo_lp_emeralds_future/?&utm_source=TwitterEN&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ENTwitter
i really admire how mark and the rest of emeralds can be so prolific and not churn out any shit.― jumpskins, Monday, May 9, 2011 10:34 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
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this type of thinking killed odd future fwiw
― chairfuckers union (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
the deed is done
― always have time for the crystalline entity (contenderizer), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 05:49 (thirteen years ago) link
This album is really good so far!
― Jonathan Taylor-Swift (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 05:51 (thirteen years ago) link
Even though I've been listening for 25 minutes and I'm only like halfway through the second track
― Jonathan Taylor-Swift (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 05:52 (thirteen years ago) link
It feels really Lovelessy which is something people throw around a lot but almost always inaccurately; this time it actually sorta fits.
― Jonathan Taylor-Swift (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 05:56 (thirteen years ago) link
the first track is one of the most, er, shoegazy on the whole thing. if mcguire can be called shoegazy. i know what you mean though!
― ilxor running, w/ laptop in hand, checking ILX as he sprints (ilxor), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:38 (thirteen years ago) link
ilxor, please don't stop posting your links - I for one enjoyed your piece.
― She Got the Shakes, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ Co-sign. Haters gonna hate etc.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm digging this album btw. Been on a major Emeralds kick lately (new speakers woohoo), this is a great addition.
bullshit boring drone band
― jumpskins, Monday, 16 May 2011 02:01 (thirteen years ago) link
zoning out to 'ledges'
― jumpskins, Monday, 16 May 2011 02:02 (thirteen years ago) link
new Imaginary Softwoods up for preorder at Amethyst Sunset:
http://www.amethystsunset.net/
I missed out on the white/clear vinyl but o well
also Experimedia still has copies of the 2 new Spectrum Spools releases from Forma & Mist available. next two are out in July, one from Temporal Marauder (w/ awesome artwork) and a 2xLP from Bee Mask which I will slit throats to get.
― you penis-curling she-devils (jamescobo), Monday, 16 May 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
@Alan N, good call on "The Invisible World". Sounds like one of his best to me. Unfortunately the CD only has the first section of it. It seems to be in two parts on the original tape. Side A is 14 minutes, and has two 7 minute sections.
― plazzTT, Monday, 16 May 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
xp new Bee Mask has me excited
― last updated 2 minutes ago by 1 minute ago (van smack), Monday, 16 May 2011 22:58 (thirteen years ago) link
the new Imaginary Softwoods album is really good!
― XBOX BING GOATSE (jamescobo), Wednesday, 22 June 2011 06:02 (twelve years ago) link
It really is. I've been playing that and the new Pulse Emitter LP to death lately.
― Super Receptor (Barnaby, Hardly), Thursday, 23 June 2011 08:15 (twelve years ago) link
What's the production on the new Imaginary Softwoods like compared to the old 2xLP? I recently got that older one based on how much I love Emeralds and Mist, but the low-fi-ness of it has left me a little cold (although the pieces are intriguing and sounds good in their own way). I mean, Does It Look Like I'm Here? just sounds so freaking epic and delicious and huge and detailed, and the incredible production really adds to its immersive character (Imaginary Softwoods feels like something I'm beholding; Does It Look Like I'm Here? feels like something I'm inside, or touching). I really think it's one of the best sounding LPs I own.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 23 June 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
well it's not mastered by Plotkin so it obviously won't sound AS rich as DILLIH but it sounds pretty damn good nonetheless. it's totally worth buying just on compositional merits, though; sadly I suck at knowing stuff about original kosmiche records so I'm not going to be much help coming up with comparisons ("it reminds me of Tangerine Dream!" yeah thanks buddy) but I can absolutely affirm that this record does a great job of soundtracking mundane tasks - for example, it helped make folding laundry EPIC last night.
― XBOX BING GOATSE (jamescobo), Thursday, 23 June 2011 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
I'll definitely check it out, thanks... The Mist album House from last month is really, really good as well, and it sounds delightful.
― Clarke B., Thursday, 23 June 2011 17:32 (twelve years ago) link
I actually couldn't get into that one (or the last Mist album either TBQH). really really REALLY excited for the upcoming Bee Mask 2xLP on Spectrum Spools though!
― XBOX BING GOATSE (jamescobo), Thursday, 23 June 2011 18:00 (twelve years ago) link