Knew-Age music: nu-balearic hippies who fell asleep on the beach and woke up staring at the stars.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbP0lr82Nqo&feature=related

just got a totally hot 80's japanese new age electronic exotica comp. basically, martin denny meets ymo. interiors is on it.

Other Music has CD copies of Woo's It's Cozy Inside (still in longboxes!) and since I had already been on a Vini Reilly/ Penguin Cafe kick, this slotted in perfectly.

ya, when i listened to Whichever Way You Are Going, You Are Going Wrong, it def gave me a Penguin Cafe feeling

wau @ woo and interiors. i would love it if we talked more about older stuff in this thread, these derails have been great

also, is that baron mordant thing associated with mordant music? it's p nice as well

nice to see some Woo chat! that first album is the most unlikely combination of, yeah, Penguin Cafe and like, early-Scritti/Desperate Bicycles style diy

16 dollars isn't that much to spend on a nice lp imho! anyway i think you can buy the albums on cd from the band's website -- it's not exactly vinyl snob stuff

also, Interior! i started a thread a while back for them and some of the other spacier groups on Yen Records (not many replies tho, perhaps if an ilx celeb posts then more people will take a look). check out Testpattern and Inoyama Land as well for more j new age, the latter put an album out on Windham Hill

yeah Baron Mordant runs Mordant Music iirc

o, just realized who u are

I think that some of the tracks (I've only listened to a few so far) from A Young Person's Guide to Mark McGuire is definitely in this vein. So far I am enjoying this just as much if not more that the Emeralds LP.

I am really digging "The Marfa Lights", pretty much straight-up Göttsching.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDrQq3YoSI

damn i wish this show was on right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHzCX6HnkKE

mystic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4I-8bOJ30g

pretty into this zodiac free arts club thing (though it's not this, unfortunately)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWDn55NknvE&feature=related

feeling that

yeah when that guitar comes in things really go places. the rest of the album is pretty great too, grade-a kosmische ripoffs imo

the Ken Seeno tape on NNA has this beach/synth vibe going and kinda fits in with the thread's theme. The tape is really good, imo. Some samples here:

http://soundcloud.com/kenseeno/driving-into-light-blustery-day

http://soundcloud.com/kenseeno/a-breezy-memory

Surprised how much I like the Zodiac Free Arts Club...

keep coming back to it.

although naming a kosmische band ZFAC is like naming an acid house act Hacienda.

yea, it is holding up for me too. almost makes me want to pay attention to the argy stuff

The album House, by Mist (one of the Emeralds dudes), which got reissued yesterday incidentally is REALLY, REALLY gorgeous. Blissful, arpeggiated, beautifully textured drift studies.

I posted a youtube earlier in the thread, but this Eden Express album is so good I have to share another. Here's another clip

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

psychegawsple, i just talked to Lea from Blues Control and apparently they're doing a collaborative album with Laraaji, further cementing their 'knew age' status.

although naming a kosmische band ZFAC is like naming an acid house act Hacienda

yeah, I saw the name and was a bit galled by it...at least they spelled it differently ('Zodiac' instead of 'Zodiak', club instead of Lab)

the annoying thing is that now, if you google for information on the 'Zodiak Free Arts Lab', you get all this nonsense about this Zodiac Free Arts Club album

hey guys, check out my nu-disco band, we're called 'Paradise Garage'

im in a neo-choral music band called "church"

although naming a kosmische band ZFAC is like naming an acid house act Hacienda.

lol, what about your club night?
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/04/joy_divisions_peter_hook_force.php

psychegawsple, i just talked to Lea from Blues Control and apparently they're doing a collaborative album with Laraaji, further cementing their 'knew age' status.

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yeah, that's awesome!!

^ i know, i can't imagine any circumstances where the finished product of that collaboration will not appeal to me

more on that Blues Control/ Laraaji collab here, as part of my story on "The New Age of New Age":

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-ca-new-age-20110703,0,2953740.story

new frkways thing w/ david borden, oneohtrix, james ferraro and some other dudes is for this thread

http://soundcloud.com/igetrvng/frkwys07-people-of-the-wind-pt-2

I saw that latimes article, saw it, liked it and spread the love.

I got a heads-up from the rvng guy that there was something cool coming out, good to see in the article what it was.

If its half as good as the Arp / Anthony Moore 12", it'll be some special tones.

wow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP_UB-hrhkk&feature=related

just... wow. so beautiful

woo. just... woo

Only problem I have with that is that it's 10 minutes too short

the Ken Seeno tape on NNA has this beach/synth vibe going and kinda fits in with the thread's theme

yeah i listened to this (invisible surfer on an invisible wave) on my walk to work today & it was really fantastic late summer dream music

has anyone heard much of the other stuff on nna tapes? i have the split btw opn & caboladies (which also probably fits w/in the scope of this thread) but am interested in anything else good of theirs

I dug the harmonizer tape. duo with greg davis and the guy that runs nna, I think. nice to have some percussion on this stuff once in a while.

scroll down this page on keith fullerton whitman's store for a clip:

http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/labels/nna+tapes.html

not sure where else to post this but i recently saw 'drive', and if i had known that angelo badalamenti was in charge of the music i probably would have seen it earlier. there are 4-5 nu-italo tracks on the soundtrack but the original score by cliff martinez seems like it might be of serious interest to people itt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ng9MMRxp1Q&feature=related

this one gives a fuller picture of the general interplay of the soundtrack- ambient badalamenti vibes becoming subsumed by more aggressive john carpenter moves, and then vice versa. good shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbAVGRlnPjc&feature=related

how was the rest of the movie?

o yeah, loved the music in Drive(didn't like the movie though)

yea the movie both sounded and *looked* amazing - this has something to do with carey mulligan and christina hendricks but there are also tons of sexy night driving shots in la (albeit with ryan gosling in silly jackets and driving gloves). the movie overall was less amazing, tho i am def willing to give it another chance b/c the general atmosphere is pretty rad

bad movies with cool ~atmosphere~ are my favorite!

^^ totally <3

new Tycho rules:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL5VUqnfmEw

Not sure if this fits the theme, but since there's some Woo-related activity on here, I've been listening to this a lot lately. Really lovely, floaty squelch that kind of reminds me of 'Sombre Reptiles' and stuff like Interior, tho can also detect obv. influence of Durutti Column/PCO. Apparently it's a cover, as Edwards and Rodgers are credited, but I'm not hearing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YweqSnN1ahk

Upside Down? Edwards & Rogers credited?

C'est Chic!

Tycho did a great interview with Hatchback, that I think is upthread.

The first solo disc from Jonas Munk (aka Manual) ditches his earlier shoegazer personae for some progressive electronic / kosmische bliss. Really feeling this track, in particular:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbd79t6OUk

Try this again:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbd79t6OUk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3WXBc4phRY

Nice! I wasn't aware that Grosskopf did a solo follow-up to Synthesist.

i like that jonas munk but it's kinda... frenetic? not exactly balearic knew-age but totally kosmische

that grosskopf track is also good, but not the most relaxing thing in the world. definitely succeeds at pop-minimalist repetitive 80s piano corniness, would have been the best track on 'far side virtual' (tho i love that record for different reasons)

maybe i just suffer from an 'i want more things that sound like zeus and apollo" syndrome