CS + Kreme - Snoopy

track in the first post is still my favorite but yeah this is good stuff

anyone get that two cassette mix they just put out, reel torque 20? i've got it but i won't get a chance to listen until christmas (it's wrapped rn up as a lil present to myself), no tracklist, what a mystery

Jealous - I didn't know about that. Hopefully someone will rip it to Youtube at some point.

this album is something else, it does not go down easy for me. it’s so haunted... supremely chill surface but it’s as if it’s hiding something really nasty and awful underneath... idk.. “thoughts”

― brimstead, Thursday, December 10, 2020 12:19 AM (twenty hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah. i'm just going off "roast ghost (ultra lavender mix)" but it's like plants growing out of chopped up bodies or something.

(xp) I assumed from the way that it's described on Boomkat that the Reel Torque tape is a DJ mix with maybe some original material sprinkled in, not worlds away from many of the cassette-only releases on The Trilogy Tapes

So fellow CS + Kreme fans, is there a track that we can all get behind for the end of year poll? I love Snoopy and will be voting for it is my A of the Y but I don't think there's any standout tracks, ie they're all at a similar level of excellence. Wouldn't want to go for Pussywhistle Tea though because fuck me that's a terrible song title.

― paolo, Wednesday, 9 December 2020 13:06 (two days ago)

It's tough to pick a single track, it does all sort of flow together. Blue Flu & Mount Warning are maybe the two that jump out at me most often, but then Saint feels like the one that's the perfect lockdown time capsule. Will definitely be voting for the album high up on my album ballot anyway.

Appreciate the suggestions for similar artists/albums upthread. Got Shadow Weaver by Legendary Pink Dots on just now & it's sounding pretty great.

:-)

dang this is good

The recent single is so great to just ~space~ to

Damn, how did I miss this? ANY mention of Labradford and/or The For Carnation should immediately send up a bat signal of some sort.

Now's not the time for glibness but the widescreen creeping dread of the recent EP is perfect for watching the world burn.

hey what's up, i listened to the tape mix - pretty good

they've got asa chang and junray - hana on there, patty waters, public enemy, a song from the ghost dog soundtrack, got some throat singing on there, some gamelan

whole thing is a trip tbh

Sounds like my freeform radio sets during my uni days!

this album should appeal to all you snoopy-heads that wanna get churned up by more coil-esque looping psychedlic ambient

Geins't Naït & Scanner ‎– GN / Scanner

https://open.spotify.com/album/5kgC1RMEMkt9lsrTU6k2XA?si=Ymr6pPPOTMuNK-KP6zA1WA

That's on Offen isn't it? Love that label.

yep! anything vladimir ivkovic touches is worthwhile imo

Saw that they have a new mix here:
https://crackmagazine.net/article/mixprofile/cs-kreme/

Blue Six – Sweeter Love (Jay's Full Vocal)

not gonna lie to you, been waiting on the naked music revival...

discovered this only now via the albums poll. it is incredible that there is still so much fascinating, uncharted territory on the map of music. there is something haunting about this stuff. i get the piano music comparison but here there are more noises and not so many voices. "mount warning" is a phantastic trip into some dark places, maybe a descent into a cave?

piano magic comparison, obv.

I've also discovered them through the albums poll and am really digging them. What they do goes beyond mood; these are full-bodied tracks with enigmatic personalities.

If I can thank ILM for just three things, those things would be Junior Boys, Sault, and this

I was hoping that they would place high enough in the albums poll to get more people to check them out, so it's great to see that's happened.

:-)

heard this today for the first time, i know it's not quite there (nowhere near murky enough) but i think this is the closest thing i've heard to 'snoopy'?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-pGZsf3Vck

Roy Montgomery with Kirk Lake - London Is Swinging By His Neck (1998)

Saw that they have a new mix here:
https://crackmagazine.net/article/mixprofile/cs-kreme/

those wacky noises at the start meant I couldn't listen to more than two minutes of this, just too distracting :(

that track ends about five minutes in, if you just want to skip it

oh man i used to have that rocket girl box set - some real clunkers on there, but that track and about half of the rest is decent

just had a look and the box set has the track with the offside lyrics that go: "the gallagher brothers masquerading around town as genuises/like beatlemania with tiny penises"

"Where did tiny penises go"

wow the vinyl copy i got (repress i think) sounds like absolute dogshit. a muddy mess. A/B'ing with a 320kbps mp3 is like night and day. trilogy tapes is kind of a stupid label but i've never gotten something that sounds this bad from them before. major drag.

especially with like 12 minutes of music per side

my copy sounds great.

trilogy tapes is kind of a stupid label

what is stupid about them?

put some text on your dang lps so i know what side is what! especially on a double lp. i feel very strongly about this. the rezzett 2lp has 4 blank silver labels!

there is enough uncertainty in life i don't need expensive imported techno mysteries. tho i understand this might be appealing to others

ha ha. i can't argue with that.

a friend bought the repress too so i'll ask them how their copy sounds.

Fans of CS + Kreme might be interested in the debut album from fellow Australian YL Hooi.

https://boomkat.com/products/untitled-b1e42e25-2e48-44e8-a9d6-19856e3f068a

There's something up with those Aussies and I for one am loving it. You've also got the likes of Carla dal Forno, HTRK, F Ingers and Tarquin Manek working in this kinda zone as well. Won't be too long before they're giving this sound it's own name and everything.

Yeah the YL Hooi album is good, as was this set: https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/yl-hooi-19th-february-2021

when will there be new CS + Kreme

They've been playing shows, it seems. Hopefully soon.

huh they're playing in chicago at the international museum of surgical science in june

CS + KREME

06/14/2022 Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, IA
06/14/2022 Trumpet Blossom Cafe, Iowa City, IA
06/15/2022 Rozz Tox, Rock Island, IL
06/16/2022 International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago, IL
06/17/2022 Monarch Tavern, Toronto, ON
06/19/2022 La Sala Rossa, Montréal, QC
06/20/2022 Red Hook Labs, Brooklyn, NY
06/23/2022 The Dolphin, Philadelphia, PA w/ Ulla
06/25/2022 Venue TBA, Los Angeles, CA
06/27/2022 The Miniplex, Arcata, CA
06/27/2022 Miniplex, Arcata, CA
06/28/2022 Mississippi Studios, Portland, OR
06/29/2022 Vera Project, Seattle, WA
06/30/2022 Paradise, Vancouver, BC

via https://heavy-trip.com/artist/cskreme

anyone seen them live? i have no concept if they're like playing instruments or fiddling with laptops or what, and there are no live videos on youtube

my entirely ungrounded guess/hope is that it'd be live bass w/ processing and electronics

If I'm going out I want to see *someone* whispering ominously about blueberries into a mic

CS is of course already a long time standing, most consummate stage performer, so it will be interesting to see if he brings any of that to this. i'm guessing more subdued may be the way here though.

Definitely going to the Philly date.

new track -

https://csandkreme.bandcamp.com/track/crushed-cream?from=fanpub_fb_trk

not new but hard to find.

nice, this is sick. fiending for new stuff by them so anything v welcome

I've been listening to this album Chances by new band Acopia, and thinking "wow this is basically a female-fronted (and marginally more energetic) CS + Kreme" - and lol of course they are from Melbourne.

https://acopia.bandcamp.com/album/chances