Emeralds-Classic or Dud?

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.

i've been looking forward to hearing that
glad it's good
feeling ohio pride

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.

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.

yup, "the invisible world" is on the comp - not "backdrafts" tho

here's the full tracklist courtest of RA

http://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=13808

CD 1
01. Dream Team
02. The Marfa Lights
03. Clague Woods
04. Slipstreams
05. Stranger Than Paradise
06. Flight
07. Ghosts Around a Tree
08. The Path Lined With Colorful Stones
09. The Wind On The Winding Road, Pt Ii

CD 2
01. Radio Flyer
02. Icy Windows
03. The Lonesome Foghorn Blows
04. Time Is Flying
05. Sun Shining Through the Open Barn Door
06. Explosion Alarm
07. Sick Chemistry
08. Skies
09. Over the Water
10. The Invisible World
11. Inside Where It's Warm

courtesy* ugh

one of few bands whom song titles accurately describe what the song'll prolly soudn liek

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 Veres
Mastered by James Plotkin
Cut 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.

ooh I totally loved Glowing Net, I'm'a jump on that

Nice! another Mist album. Both lps are really good.

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.

does anyone else get crazy early final fantasy vibes w/ "candy shoppe"?

I can't get enough of this stuff - are any of the Mist/Outer Space/other side project things available digitally?

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.

otm

agreed

Brand new Imaginary Softwoods LP in a month!

You can stream one of the tracks here: http://soundcloud.com/wirrzbow/imaginary-softwoods-eye-color

thoughts on A Young Person's Guide... here

(don't mean to plug my writing so much as the McGuire comp., which is excellent)

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.

ilxor, why are you posting all of your brainwashed journals on ilx? I've seen you do that on more than one occasion.

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.

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.

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.

i really admire how mark and the rest of emeralds can be so prolific and not churn out any shit.

Nice little status update interview with McGuire on his upcoming projects and what's next for Emeralds.

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.

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this type of thinking killed odd future fwiw

the deed is done

This album is really good so far!

Even though I've been listening for 25 minutes and I'm only like halfway through the second track

It feels really Lovelessy which is something people throw around a lot but almost always inaccurately; this time it actually sorta fits.

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, please don't stop posting your links - I for one enjoyed your piece.

^^ Co-sign. Haters gonna hate etc.

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

zoning out to 'ledges'

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.

@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.

xp new Bee Mask has me excited

the new Imaginary Softwoods album is really good!

It really is. I've been playing that and the new Pulse Emitter LP to death lately.

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.

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.

I'll definitely check it out, thanks... The Mist album House from last month is really, really good as well, and it sounds delightful.

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!

I really like the only thing from Bee Mask I have, which is the Hyperborean Trenchtown LP. I like it's musique concrete elements and its somewhat noisy and unsettled nature; some of this stuff can tend toward the TOO-smooth. I'm hoping for another Oneohtrix record this year, badly.

Has ayone else heard the Jurgen Muller LP (it came into and out of print instantly)? It fits right in with this stuff based on the tracks I've heard on Altered Zones and shit. Hopefully someone will make it available again.