"Mutant slow techno and Kevin Drumm records..." - A thread for Raime, Chasing Voices, Old Apparatus etc.

I went round Bass Clef's house and had a poke around his home studio and stuff:

http://thequietus.com/articles/07391-bass-clef-coseph-jonrad-interview

Andy Stott's Passed Me By and We Stay Together have been re-pressed on vinyl...

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/408380-andy-stott-passed-me-by

http://boomkat.com/vinyl/453161-andy-stott-we-stay-together

There's a new Chasing Voices 12" -- "Valley of the Dry Bones"...

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

I assumed that someone already bumped this thread because of this forhcoming cassette (out next week?) put out by The Tapeworm:

"Old Apparatus are a four-piece audio/visual collective transmitting from East London that have been releasing bass-oriented electronic dance music on Mala's underground label Deep Medi Musik. This edition for The Tapeworm is an improvised instrumental piece using guitar, piano, violin and found sound ambiences recorded entirely in the front room of the house they share together. Given that most forms of electronic music are bound by linearity and grid-based digital audio workstations, Old Apparatus consciously embarked on an exploration of non-linear forms of musical expression. The audio on the tape is a snapshot in time of that exploration.
Track Listing:
A1. 15:24-15:46
B-side left intentionally blank"

link?

Not totally feeling this new Chasing Voices. "Acidbathory" set the bar pretty high, to be fair...

http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/24/bandshell-makes-his-hessle-audio-debut-with-an-ep-of-crawling-flattened-techno/

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

http://soundcloud.com/rasternoton/senking-dazed-r-n142-the-dance

http://soundcloud.com/rasternoton/senking-dazed-r-n142-closing

Anyone feeling the new Emptyset album, Medium? Was looking forward to it based on press release but it's not really making much of an impression on first listen. Maybe I need a better system. Sound like a Pan Sonic LP with half the tracks muted.

I still need to check that new Emptyset. Thanks for the reminder.

Those EPs by Miles and G.H. on Modern Love are really hitting the spot today...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6mOhA7ajEw

http://www.modern-love.co.uk/releases/ground-ep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKQIJ7UKgFA

http://www.modern-love.co.uk/releases/facets

Free download of an Old Apparatus Electronic Explorations mix... http://electronicexplorations.org/?show=old-apparatus-anstam

I should read this thread more... Been really digging Demiurge by Emptyset lately (I know, it's from last year, but...). Kind of the techno equivalent of Sunn O))) or something. I like the idea of subtractive noise taken to its logical conclusion - like they're chipping away at huge blocks of noise or something? Very cool. They've done something more recently, right?

yup, they had an ep that they recorded by playing live in an empty building (Medium). no strong opinion on it, but the reverb is cool.

it looks like they have another release that was a collection of early tracks that I haven't yet heard

I just found a Boiler Room set they did, pretty danceable

lol @ this release from Blackest Ever Black:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jx2KBWgqLhI/UK0jfTjBu5I/AAAAAAAADfA/t3AhG5ixnlk/s1600/Screen+Shot+2012-11-21+at+18.32.33.png

http://blackesteverblack.blogspot.nl/2012/11/blog-post_6756.html

hahaha.

anyone listen to the raime full length yet?

yeah, it's well-executed if a little samey and... minimal

sounds about right. the review on RA got me curious but I've never really been floored by any their older cuts.

You know, Kevin Drumm records really seem like an outlier in this thread title. I've been listening to his work a lot, lately, though. That Tannenbaum recording that was just released.

humid weather is worth a gander

digging the clips of the 'Spit' LP by Ron Morelli, the L.I.E.S. dude, here http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/118239

sounds kinda 80s industrial (pre-rock version) but I'm OK w/ that

i've always wanted to say that none of these records touch kevin drumm and l.i.e.s can go fuck itself

why in particular (re L.I.E.S)? don't have any properly formed opinion on the label myself

That Ron Morelli album isn't as good as I hoped it would be. Cool cover though

http://opaltapes.bandcamp.com/album/rejections-resin-in-the-filter

This guy is one of my oldest friends. I don't know what to say.

because l.i.e.s. is totally overhyped

That new Rainer Veil ep has at least one track that reminds me of the ambient/dnb edge of old Alec Empire/Christoph de Babalon records

http://joshhall.net/post/81578386910/fascism-and-colonialism-in-the-work-of-cut-hands-and

something that's definitely come to my mind more than a few times

For a white artist to make a record and then claim it is the work of African musicians is to eradicate the work of black musicians.

Oh no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Surprised it's taken this long for someone to write an article about how "problematic" Cut Hands are.

wtf at shit being sold on BEB web store by known malcontents

I think there are a lot of problems with regressive (for lack of a better term) themes being used to create transgressive art when you're a cis white male, both in the inability for people with a casual interest to tell a difference, and also in that the artists seem to revert to form

Surprised it's taken this long for someone to write an article about how "problematic" Cut Hands are.

sun city girls take-down still in the ether

there was this: http://arabicpress.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/omar-souleymans-rise-to-indie-hipster-semifame

( with response from alan bishop in the comments)

ehh, I think the appropriation is secondary to the fact that it's being done by someone with a history of problematic use of cultural symbols

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qjYUGVfDfo

SCG have had the 'problematic' going over from The Wire in the past decade, it wasn't that convincing iirc, one or both of the Bishops have ethered them in response, it's easily googleable

do you think a middle aged white (1/8th druze!) guy decrying political correctness counts as an ethering? they have some sense that they are always punching up due to the scene they inhabit but i am curious what idk ayesha siddiqui or someone wld make of them

That video? Fuck that guy.

Ugh can there be a "let's point at horrible racists" thread so this one doesn't get all shitted up with irrelevancies?

otm, sorry

No surprise, but the Old Apparatus album from last year is really nice!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3thwLgPIa0

Would Prostitutes fit in this thread somehow? I've gotten around to listening to this recent album and am enjoying it

The first thing I heard in this vein (thanks to this thread) was Chasing Voices' "Acidbathory" 12", and it's still my favorite thing. Love, love, love that track so much. Got quickly burned out on everything else (and I'm throwing Demdike in there too). Raime peaked with their first 12", BEB started releasing goth records, etc

Any opinions on the Dalhous album?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbKQzds_9kM

Oake. With abstract female vocals, sort of like Seefeel without any warmth, played at 16 rpm.

Great track.