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b/art's Playlist for Maandag, 27 Maart (17:30 - 19:06)
The Epidermis of a Lone Decibel Blast deafness is the loss of hearing acuity resulting from the exposure to extremely hi-intensity noises for very short periods of time. | |
| Cut | Artist |
|---|---|
| Beat [Wreck] This Mess "lethargic echo" Mix #.3.w.19t.96m | |
| Misdirected Electromagnetic Signals | Ultra Milkmaids [1] |
| Lumbargo Country Lore / Bed Ridden Chair | C.O. Kaspar [2] |
| Plasma | Curd Duca [3] |
| Macintosh Suite | Curd Duca [3] |
| Digital Basics | Curd Duca [3] |
| Geister | Curd Duca [3] |
| Laura / Rev | Curd Duca [3] |
| A Clearing | Brian Eno |
| Tundra's Ghosts | Yat Kha |
| Wanderer's Dreams | Albert Kuvesyn |
| Through You | See Feel [4] |
| Epopeé de Vent d'Or | Mikhail Kuchakov |
| See You in 1997 | Stefan Tischler |
| Walk Through Resonant Landscape #2 | Frances White |
| The Vibrating Room | Hazard North [5] |
| + International Cartels of Blood [Japanese Fascism] | David Emory |
| Leguminous Tree #2 | Gas / Pop [6] |
| Water Pump | Dallas Simpson |
| + Wanking Ass Licker Listening To WTM | Nina A. |
| Deep | Starfish Pool [7] |
| 5 Minutes Past Midnight & Welcome to the Speculator | Contrastate [8] |
| Major Explosion Musical Sound #44 | |
| Descente | Reclusion [9] |
| Provisional Dub [12"] "Murder" | Systemwide [7] |
| Hot/Radio/Sex/Wreck Jingle | |
| The Process of Cracking ['This is all too real'] | Lithium6 [9a] |
| Noise Aetheism #13 | Furt [10] |
| + Geen Krimp 1 | Jaap Blonk [11] |
| Check | Holon [7] |
| Eugenic Device | Creation Rebel vs New Age Steppers [12] |
| Gun with Ricochete Sound #45 | |
| Upper Egypt | Wayne Horvitz [13] |
| Upper Egypt | Pharoah Sanders [14] |
| Freedom/Peace/Radio Patapoe WTM ID | |
| R.ism V.2PF [excerpt] | If, Bwana [15] |
| Zaeurli Sung While Milking the Cows | Ernst Pfandler [16] |
| [1] "Peps.CD" by the Ultra Milkmaids [great name] on Ant Zen www.ant-zen.com is a very interesting thrust into unsettling ambience. Subliminal and furtive - they call it "arctic minimalism". Regardless, they are all healthy antidotes to the hyper-cliched worlds of pop genres. This kind of stuff is actually just the aural flush your inner ear needs. Earth observed from 10,000 miles out in the ether. | |
| [2] "WTM 270799" a communique from WTM, Paris. A show devoted to subliminal, subsonic, subcutaneous noises that get yanked through our central nervous systems without us even knowing it. Taps into subliminal signals of ghost voices and other communications. | |
| [3] "Elevator #3: Digitalanalog Mood Music" on Mille Plateaux www.mille-plateaux.com Curd Duca is one of my personal faves. What he does best is open the door to aural paradise and then shut it before you cansay 'AHHH.' This forces your attention, you cannot use the music which loops tightly between cuts as a way out of your own daily mishaps. You remain at the edge of listening chair. This cd contains 40+ cuts. | |
| [4] "Quique" by Seefeel on Chrysalis is a beautiful disc full of loops that sound organic. Dates from 1993. Guitars [that must to avoid instrument if one is to circumvent the cliches that bog down almost all music] is here filled with space and never allows the touching to convert the metal strings into heartstrings. | |
| [5] "Hazard North" on Touch / Ash Int. www.touch.demon.co.uk/ashrip.htm certainly to hazard north is to enter aural snowblindness. The ambiences slide across snow and ice, a haunting biosphere of muted sounds. Asif a microphone were placed on a toboggan and pushed off a glacial ledge. | |
| [6] "Pop" by Gas or "Gas Pop" by Wolfgang Voigt on Mille Plateaux www.mille-plateaux.com is an incredibly beautiful cd with almost NO info on the cd itself but it does not matter. It is pure trance-mantra-like rhythms ala Rapoon. Melifluous as if the machine is inducing spiritual states. Perfect veg-out. It calms without dulling. A current disc I keep returning to. | |
| [7] "Wreck This Mess: Remission 2: Ambient-Industrial vs Electronic-Dub vs Hypnotic-Grooves" on Noise Museum www.zone51.com/noisemuseum This is volume 2 of the WTM series. It includes Twilight Circus, Spectre, Systemwide, Dub Factory, Extremadura, Botom Botom, Holon, Silk Saw, DJ Spooky, Egon Zo vs Digidub, Audio Active, Starfish Pool, Andrew Lagowski. Here Laurent expands the empire of WTM, into new unforeseen markets. This is a painstakingly and precisely edited disc. He is very particular about what he likes and here it all fits into a meticulous polemic of sound and noise against hyper-mediated commerce. The Starfish Pool cut is pure beautiful insanity - a mechanical loop of menacing jangling machinery that ends up lilting along until you find yourself not scrunching your shoulders but unwinding. One of the choicest cuts. Systemwide fits in with new roots Muslimgauze and Rootsman. BSI www.bsi-records.com Holon sounds a lot like they have studied the likes of Depth Charge [listen to their 'Goal']. Very explosive and ups the stakes of dub. It is is pure joyous freeform breakbeats havoc - result of a meeting between Starfish and Riou. | |
| [8] "Mort Aux Vaches" on Staalplaat http://www.staalplaat.com/ is a 1995 sombient vs engagé style. Through compelling if dour atmospheres and anarcho-analyses of the state of things we come away with a very effective disc. Limited edition of 500. Beautiful packaging. Commissioned by VPRO's Nachtleven Grand Disco, Classique, and De Avonden. | |
| [9] "Reclusion" by Reclusion on Priksonovenie Prikos@worldnet.fr I truly admire this label for its depth and range and intrepid search for new sounds. Here dark ambience is fused to dub and one gets the feeling of traveling down the river Styx if it had been a subterranean aqueduct | |
| [9a] "Dubbed on Planet Skank" on Dubmission dubmission@btinternet.com includes some great stuff including this. This is material which hybridizes anything that comes in its path - water, ether, electronix, beats, message, roots so that it all gets liquefied into some bio-electrical amniotic inflammable material. Includes Doof, Zion Train vs Sounds from the Ground, Dubolition, Lithium6 and Alpha & Omega -- Lithium6 sounds a whole lot like PiL here right down to the Levene-esque guitar twangs that get pinched between the heavy bass explosions | |
| [10] "Angel" by Furt on the small Dutch label of neglected musics, JDK Productions jdkprod@xs4all.nl presents cartoon music -- if everyday life's encounters were a cartoon. The music [word used advisedly] seems to gain its own inner momentum like some of the wackiest cartoons - Loony Tunes - where the characters drive each other nuts. | |
| [11] "Vocalor" on Staalplaat http://www.staalplaat.com/ Blonk is someone to be reckoned with. He brings an insanity and kinetic fervor to words that would make the Futurists proud. He seems to be scat singing to some strange celestial disharmony to make of pre-sense vocals something almost logical -- You are listening and listening expecting the insane world to suddenly make sense. Definitely the scat singer of choice to join Spike Jones' City Slickers Band-- | |
| [12] "Dub Experience / Dread Operators" on On-U-Cleopatra features some of the surliest and inventive moments including this stunning piece from the early 80s that can be put in any 2000 mix and sound totally in place. | |
| [13] "Upper Egypt" by Wayne Horvitz & Zony Marsh on Knitting Factory www.knittingfactory.com is a funky homage cut to Sanders but also replicates a kind of 60s Booker T. and Hugh Masekela funk that when you watch MTV or listen to pop radio you begin to really believe that pop music [not ALL music, mind you] used to be better. I like this disc plenty but on the other hand I still don't always trust this kind of hipper than tongue in cheek retro chic and nostalgia prowess that is so evident in NY where you are made to believe nothing is new and so might as well recondition the old. | |
| [14] "Tauhid" on Impulse / GRP shows the genius of Sanders. I've always been a big fan of the extended spatial spiritual jazz of people like Sanders. It is funny, I worked for awhile at GRP, owner of the Impulse & Decca catalogs, all the new jazz sucked and sucked really bad. It all sounded like it had been put through the LA wringer or a stone polisher. With the strange exception of Diane Kraal. But what made this all the more evident was the amazing treasure they had in their back catalogs. The question remains: why does most new jazz suck? Is it because the giants cast such giant shadows that younger musicians are still busy running to get out from under them? | |
| [15] "Breathing" on Pogus http://www.taojones.com/pogus.htm this is a beautiful piece of ethereal vocals by Detta Andreana that sound like Hildegaard von Bingen in outer space or inner space with Dave prescott on wind, Dan Andreana on vocals, Debbie Goldberg on vocals and Al Margolis on numerous wind and string instruments and tapes. The piece continues to circle right in on you until you are good and calm and your thoughts are your own again or are they someone else's. | |
| [16] "Switzerland: Zaeurli, Yodel of Appenzell" a UNESCO disc in a series of musics from around the world. This fairly captures the feeling and ambiences one feels while hiking through the Alps or - in my case last summer - the Dolomites. For more info on yodeling please contact me for a copy of my exhaustive [exhausting?] article on yodeling that recently appeared in the American Music Center Journal. | |