time travel 2015 -> 2012 <-> 2102 <-5102 levart emit

this is a no no flex zone zone

What?!

nab siuol reggaj

lj you should listen to the 'how great a fame has departed' 10" by tomorrow the rain will fall upwards

also gábor lázárs ep on death of rave

ty will check em

lol u guys it's just retnab

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh1-HsSMSog&feature=youtu.be

Gabor Lazar rules

that tomorrow the rain will fall upwards record is right in my sweet spot, thanks Lamp

made a passing reference to this album by Unconscious Collective in the EOY poll thread, which is also how I found it, but this is the place for it rilly

Dallas-based ritualistic improv jazz-rock trio return with their second double-LP through Tofu Carnage Records. "Pleistocene Moon" features an array of improvisations and compositions that awaken spiritual and emotional subconsciousness of the avant and despondent.

Printed on heavyweight artboard jackets with original spot-printed cyanotype artwork by Ginger Berry and sleek black foil-stamped graphics.

"Pleistocene Moon" comes housed with stunning collodion photographic prints on linen paperstock and is pressed on 180-gram gold and bone wax.

huh-huh... bone wax

something a bit of Toby Driver at his most egregious about all that but may dabble

Unconscious Collective are great. Even better live than on record. Check out the video out:

http://vimeo.com/57268430

i still don't know what this thread is for but lj i wonder if you'd dig this guy -- i'm enjoying the entire album (2015 release) atm-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOq285f0zuY

https://arrington.bandcamp.com/album/lovers-and-dragons-2014

enjoying this too:
http://mie.limitedrun.com/products/537633-aine-odwyer-music-for-church-cleaners-vol-i-and-ii-2lp

some of the tracks are on bandcamp here:
http://fortevilfruit.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-church-cleaners

it's shockingly beautiful imho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9ScJBmEdQw

Tähtiportti (Stargate) is a veritable who's who of Finnish leftfield music scene. Albert Witchfinder (Reverend Bizarre, Opium Warlords, Spiritus Mortis) on vocals, while Vilunki 3000 (Op:l Bastards, Larry & The Lefthanded), Stiletti-Ana (Jesse) and Randy Barracuda (Imatran Voima) handle the instrumentation.

Over a downbeat, almost frozen techno music backdrop a Finnish male voice recounts stories of abysses, of an abyss within the abysses. In an ancient kingdom, beyond time and space. Open your mind, open your bowels. Let the stream flow. In the shadow of the gates in your mind.
Primitive techno and the darkly ancient flow of poetry are the fuel that Tähtiportti runs on.

Svart Records will release the Tähtiportti album on CD, LP and digital formats on February 27th. The official music video, directed by the renowned director Miika Lommi, is up on youtube now. The song is Poikarakkaus (Love Between Boys), which is a cover version of a Finnish cult tune from the 80s.

Albert Witchfinder has an incredible vision and in a more just world he would be rewarded with Fenriz levels of bacon adoration

i still don't know what this thread is for but lj i wonder if you'd dig this guy -- i'm enjoying the entire album (2015 release) atm-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOq285f0zuY

― Mordy

I like this guy, didn't know he had something new out, will check it out ASAP

yeah that Asaf Avidan song is great. nice to see Arrington releasing material as well - he performed a magnificent gig at Cafe Oto late last year & was a very pleasant man to talk to afterwards

also hahaha christ, finland is producing so much great art-pop right now (see also: islaja)

Unless it's clear from the description, the original version of "Poikarakkaus" from 1984 was one of the first pieces of pop music in Finland that was explicitly gay sex. It was "sung" by one of the most famous philosophers in this country, the guy is now a philosophy professor.

I was hoping you would post itt and am grateful for the knowledge

Enjoying the new kaitlyn Aurelia smith record - had been spamming the ambient thread about her, but this new one is a bit of a livelier affair than the previous one. Lots of nice burbling analogue synths kind of like a more playful Laurie Spiegel. Didn't see any tracks from it on YouTube yet but this promo film gives you a flavour...

http://youtu.be/9ALnPqBxc6I

oh there is this song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9x37z00RLgE

such an idyllic world created in her sound, i wanna move there

oh this is gorgeous!! but another woman making experimental techno? dog latin will be so confused :(

yeah had to listen to it twice, really lovely & not a little otherworldly

who will be the bigger person and trawl through the entire BIRP! Jan '15 playlist for other potentials

another woman making experimental techno? dog latin will be so confused :(

but this is a symptom of a great thing! it really does feel like the doors have been blown right open to female electronic musicians right now (i hope this isn't a false impression). obviously anyone who knows anything about the history of electronic music knows that women have always been there, but possibly they've been the exception. being neither a musician or a female, i can only speculate on the reasons for this current shift (availability of equipment means not having to deal with what i imagine to be the off-puttingly male environment of recording studios?) but it is an interesting and great trend

i have no idea idea what BIRP! is btw - graphics make it look a bit twee, but i'm a fine one to talk having just hyped KAS

lol it is obviously a great trend producing amazing music, much as my post was obviously a zing

i know i know

Yeah, I agree it's great, whatever's happening. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the case of both Gately and Herndon, they have come to experimental techno through other fields like movie soundtracks and sound-art, right?

yeah that's true - maybe gender inequalities aren't so ingrained in a relatively young area of art like digital multimedia, so they had more opportunity to develop there? again, pure speculation

Katie Gately's music isn't techno, regardless of how experimental a form of techno you might think it is. It's experimental electronics. Electronics != techno.

Also, yes, lots of prominent women in experimental electronics at the moment. But I'd put that down to the whims of media representation not wow these people have just popped into existence like magical fucking fairies.

I was using 'techno' in the loosest possible sense. And yeah, of course media representation plays a big part of it. Trying to think which publications would have changed their stance now to make things like this more possible. Wire?

yeah i do see that, but it's a positive trend right? xp

I guess techno and (instrumental) house have always been considered a kinda stereotypically masculine, all those images of knob-twiddlers and bedroom boffins with bad hygiene surrounded by their piles of machines that they refer to with obscure codes (808, 303, etc). So it's not surprising that a lot of women have come to this genres from the outside, from artistic fields deemed more "feminine", like visual design or modern classical music. And I'd say the fact that since the late 90s it's become easier and easier to make electronic music with your computer alone has also made it easier for folks to whom the technological barrier was a bit too high to migrate to electronic music. (This doesn't just show in more women making this kind of music, but also in musicians from less technological genres like indie rock switching to electronic sounds.) There have always been female producers who have risen to prominence from within dance music scenes themselves (like K-Hand, Miss Djax, Ellen Allien, or Steffi), but I guess those who've come to them from the outside are more numerous.

kinda stereotypically masculine, all those images of knob-twiddlers and bedroom boffins with bad hygiene surrounded by their piles of machines that they refer to with obscure codes

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Music/Pix/pictures/2008/08/01/Daphne276.jpg
http://www.effectrode.com/wp-content/uploads/louis_bebe_barron_1986.png
http://static.bbc.co.uk/programmeimages/608xn/images/p00s6k66.jpg
http://kalvos.org/jpg/radigue.jpg

Yeah, I could go on.

Yeah, I know about these women, that's why I specifically said "techno and house", not electronic music as a whole. There certainly were less female producers among the pioneers of electronic dance music in the 80s and 90s than there were in the more avant-garde electronic genres of the previous decades. I can't think of any simple sociological or gender studies explanations for this, though I'm sure there are some.

xpost this is relating to popular perception over reality, of course. daphne oram, delia derbyshire and the rest were all famously subject to industry sexism.

lol at my lazy zing leading to this! kaitlyn aurelia amith is pretty unarguably techno & i was mocking (affectionately) dl for not being able to distinguish holly herndon and katie gately, who are imo doing different things

here's what i said about gately yesterday

k gately exists in that nebulous space between pop, experimental composition and sound art

she is simply marvellous and arguably a paragon of all the above

have the feeling that both emil.y and tuomas are right here, given their expertise in what they are claiming

Or you could turn the question the other way around: pre-80s, what made so many female composers and musicians find their home in electronic music despite stereotypical ideas of technology as a masculine field? Maybe one reason could be that you could produce electronic music on your own, so you didn't have to face the often genderer powered structures and sexist practices in the production of orchestral music? Though the same should apply to techno and house too, so thay doesn't explain the difference.

(xxpost)

dl for not being able to distinguish holly herndon and katie gately, who are imo doing different things

FWIW i am very aware of the distinction. i was doing a lazy lumping-together based on their output habits over the last couple of years.

fair, and it's not that much more heinous than my lumping of gwyer and gately (although they have gigged together in the last year :P)

Maybe one reason could be that you could produce electronic music on your own, so you didn't have to face the often genderer powered structures and sexist practices in the production of orchestral music?

am thinking that it might have something to do with electronic music as more of an academic, university-funded praxis, relatively unaffected by record-label whim or projected sales figures, but emil.y will know better

less performative, at any rate

I actually think that musically there is a lot to compare in Katie Gately and Holly Herndon, even though they come from different approaches. I'm mostly just pissed off b/c I'm pretty sure we had this EXACT SAME CONVERSATION about 4 years ago, so... well, there are craploads of female electronic musicians, there have always been craploads of female electronic musicians, but you guys sure as hell don't remember them.

It's a difficult thing to talk about, because obviously you want to flag up the issues that female musicians face (all female musicians, not just ones in electronica), but it also seriously pisses me off when the existence of such is treated as some sort of "let's coo over these special ladies" novelty thing.

Its not some new welcome trend or whatever imago was talking thrash about.

There are older threads:

Come anticipate Johann Merrich's "Le Pioniere Della Musica Elettronica," about female electronic composers

it's not remotely a novelty. many of these women are making some of my favourite music of the day and i can't think of many male producers i'm as interested in as both gately and gwyer right now. and yeah of course there are loads more - i'm cherrypicking my favourites

i was not the person to call it a trend, xyzzz - that was nickb! let's fight fair here

you started with that idioic 'zing'.

fucksake it was a light-hearted, throwaway response to this:

Much as I love both Katie Gately and Holly Herndon, I find myself getting confused about which tracks are which and where they appear.

not a statement of trend, piss off

i suppose i did agree it was a 'great trend', yeah whatever you got me - i was referring by then to the PREDOMINANCE of female electronic composers in what i'd regard as the venn set of genuinely great electronic music (n.b. this may have been the case before, i don't know)

what i find almost more interesting, is the fact these artists are spearheading what i perceive as a sort-of IDM revival. 'Chorus', especially, makes me remember what I loved about early-2000s Warp/Skam music.

Yeah, there are craploads of female electronic musicians, I hope I didn't sound like I was ignoring the fact because I'm not, I was trying to address the question why there are proportionately fewer women musicians doing techno/house/trance/etc than there are in many other genres of popular music. And I do feel the situation has notably changed since the 90s, 90s dance music is pretty much my field of expertise, and it seems the number of female producers who rose to any kind of prominence back then was clearly smaller than the same number during the last 10 years or so.

(xpost to Emily)

It's a difficult thing to talk about, because obviously you want to flag up the issues that female musicians face (all female musicians, not just ones in electronica), but it also seriously pisses me off when the existence of such is treated as some sort of "let's coo over these special ladies" novelty thing.

point taken here emily - i get this and i'm happy to accept that maybe my perceptions arise from both shifts in media coverage and my own historical ignorance

In the category of "Finnish electronic musicians covering 80s new wave/synth pop tunes in 2015", there's also this:

https://soundcloud.com/theofficialjorihulkkonen/mies-ja-elama-kostea-tuuli

It doesn't beat this genuine vintage artifact though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfGMgE7vBDg

so wow kaitlyn aurelia smith - thank u ilx for continuing to introduce me to amazing music

:)

this place is good really, even if the trax rundown & i are amidst our annual disagreement

i listened to tides last night while trying to fall asleep and during the last track it got quieter and quieter until it was just the faintest synth buzz in my ears, and it kept playing at this super low volume minute after minute, i was shocked (but i really enjoyed it) but after like 5 minutes i got suspicious and checked my iphone and i realized it had been over for minutes and i had been listening to echoes reverberating in my ears

http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/4ApbWaVsmXNO4zp5P7EsNN

Just came here to post that the Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith album is amazing but I see you already have it covered good work ILM.

Though I don't hear it as techno or academic electronics, more as something that could have come out on Fonal in its prime or if OOIOO had made a chill-out record.

ideal music to cavort to in the logan's run dome were that a more just society

new asaf avidan now streaming on npr:

http://www.npr.org/2015/01/25/378607039/first-listen-asaf-avidan-gold-shadow

I was thinking about what that Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith tune reminded me of, and then I realized it's Child's Mind/Nobukazu Takemura!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebSwg6A615c

Very similar approach to music, though I guess Smith has a more organic sound. I like it a lot!

just saw zs have a new album out
anyone heard it yet?

ZS from ILX?

nope
it's a band i think, like Zs

Yeah their album New Slaves got a tiny bit of traction round here in 2010. I think imago was partic taken with it iirc

nah i thought the title track was ok but didn't listen to it much

could like them tho

absolutely love 'gentleman amateur' from that record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX4d5insM8k

new pinkshinyultrablast is sounding great too :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB4tEL6KO6g
about 4 mins in goes into amaaaazing territory

what does time travel thread think about the bizarre Jan St. Werner - Miscontinuum Album (Fiepblatter Catalogue #3)? Spotify

i like the musical bits
what's his story?

mouse on mars dude writing avant-operatic libretto + performing w/ Dylan Carlson (Earth), Markus Popp (Oval), Kathy Alberici, and Taigen Kawabe (Bo Ningen)

ah sweet, yeh this is real fun

Oh, that's a must-listen when I get a chance. Werner & Popp created some of my favorite music ever as Microstoria.

I love Jan! But I know nothing of this record. Must find out.

time travel / outernational crossover appeal!

http://www.bureau-b.de/images/BB175%20Cover.jpg

Kenya meets Krautronics: Stefan Schneider and Sven Kacirek bring African rhythms into dark electronica

Under the auspices of the Goethe Institute and Unesco, Stefan Schneider and Sven Kacirek have spent a fair amount of time in Kenya in recent years. As they travelled the country, they recorded rare, traditional music in different locations, subsequently releasing two albums of unembellished field recordings to document their findings.

"Shadows Documents" takes a different approach: Schneider and Kacirek graft their acoustically gleaned impressions of Kenya onto pure electronic templates (with analogue accents). Field recordings as such cannot be heard. A central role is played by the repetitive, hypnotic element which is so integral to tribal music with its complex rhythms. Both musicians share a fascination with these very rhythms, a recurring theme in their careers to date: clearly audible in Stefan Schneider's work with Kreidler and To Rococo Rot, as well as on his albums with Hans-Joachim Roedelius. In Kacirek's case we can look to his solo albums for evidence, in particular on the much lauded "Kenya Sessions".

The duo's modus operandi differs from that of renowned Krautrock pairings such as Dieter Moebius/Mani Neumeier or Michael Rother/Klaus Dinger (= NEU!), where the drum kit plays a dominant role as the driving force. With Schneider and Kacirek, drums mutate into a sort of synthesizer instrument, almost subliminally melting into the sound of other instruments as a virtual observer, adding a certain nuance here and there, rather than performing a more catalytic function. Played with greater restraint, the drums create variations, translating physique into precision. Synthesizers, meanwhile, assume many of the percussive duties.

A prominent guest musician joins the duo on one track. Niklas Addo Nettey, a Berlin resident since the early 1980s, played with Fela Kuti 70.

i like this: https://phinery.bandcamp.com/album/filho-do-dono

After beautiful releases on spectacular labels such as Where To Now? Noorden, Videogamemusic, Metaphysical Circuits & Fort Evil Fruit Ondness is back with his strongest work yet: Filho de Dono (The owner's son). These two pieces are parts of a story, a bigger picture. Let his hypnotic soundscapes and lush dusty tech-beats take you some place warmer.

"The inherent loneliness in being the landlord's son."

^ checked those both out at the weekend sounding very nice.

am listening to the new mcferrdog album, really great sounds, kinda timetravel/house/vapor mishmash that stays consistently amazing for the entire record
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SZlfRL3968

is this thread just "stuff lj likes" it is there a more specific set of criteria

i like to post strange atemporal stuff that i want to share w/ ppl but doesn't easily fit into most other rolling threads

weird/arty stuff of any stripe gr80

Imago, you should check out Áine O'Dwyer's Music For Church Cleaners, which sort of falls into that criteria. I have been listening to that North Sea Orchestra btw and it is very nice.

maybe I'm being ahistorical here but time travel belongs to everyone

xp xelab as usual is super otm

'Live Knots' presents two immersive live recordings of Oren Ambarchi playing the epic 'Knots' from 'Audience Of One' (Touch, 2012) in Tokyo and Krakow's Unsound Festival. Captured with alternately intimate and widescreen fidelity, the original elements of cyclonic guitar harmony and quicksilver percussion are twisted different ways across the two performances, exploring and testing every nuance of the track's framework. 'Tokyo Knots' intimately documents their show at SuperDeluxe in March 2013, Ambarchi cautiously stalking Joe Talia's prickling, Dejohnette-esque percussion with viscose bass tone and heady harmonic incense, progressively whipping up a free form storm of buzz-saw guitar attacks and crashing drums, organically resolving to a lean motorik groove flecked with spring reverb. By contrast, the twice-as-long performance of 'Krakow Knots', featuring Sinfonietta Cracovia led by Eyvind Kang on viola, presents a more expansive reading of the same structure, adding a prelude of sliding string dissonance before swelling against Talia's adroit patter with a burgeoning tension, ratcheting the mid-section squall to blistering barrage of buzz-saw flares and strobing fuzz, before burning out to reveal a captivating resolution of string glissandi swept against Joe Talia and Crys Cole's skittish percussion objects and retching spring reverb. The applause at the end is very well earned.

on one hand ambarchi is normally too intense for me. on the other, eyvind kang on viola....

In celebration of its 100th anniversary, the bells of Berkeley's Sather Tower, the world's third-tallest bell and clock tower, were programmed to play a score composed in real time by the data from seismic shifts taking place around the Hayward Fault. The fault cuts right through the Berkeley campus.

The project is called "Natural Frequencies," and it was conceived of by composer Edmund Campion, artist and roboticist Ken Goldberg and artist Greg Niemeyer; all of whom are professors at UC Berkeley. Accompanying the bells was also a light show, which was programmed to respond to the earth's movements.

Campion says when he was asked to "have the earth play the bells at Berkeley," he couldn't resist.

"Music has always responded to and been made with the emerging technologies of the time," he says. "The bells come from the Middle Ages, but we're in the present and we work with data ... so it's absolutely natural for data to be used as a music-making material.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2015/02/09/384941475/shake-rattle-and-toll-berkeleys-bells-play-sounds-of-earth

http://www.npr.org/2015/02/15/385549238/first-listen-public-service-broadcasting-the-race-for-space

Gagarin is AWESOME

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

been listening to this comp of else marie pade's work - think its tremendous. highly recommended

i listened to that! i didn't know anything about her before listening to the comp but she has a crazy story

i've been listening to (and really digging) this new TLAOTLON album "Natural Devices": https://soundcloud.com/tlaotlon

i'm not really sure how to describe it so i'll just c/p the press release

On these eight tracks, dynamic, glossy and malleable assemblages often evoke the plastic arts. Digitally processed sonic objects are manipulated to bubble, burst and drip seemingly of their own accord, yet are simultaneously sculpted with razor-sharp precision and tamed just enough to fit into the dense spatio-temporal terrain.

All eight tracks on Natural Devices have a bass drum on every beat, however the rhythmic sensibilities displayed don’t quite conform to the grid-based and interlocked machinic momentum of Techno. Using numbers and ratios culled from various sources, Tlaotlon creates a mesmerizing ‘rhythmification’ of data. Percussive elements each loop on their own axis, decentering the grooves as they orbit and eclipse one another. Melodic phrases are built with the repetitious logic of ringtones, human speech, radio idents, console start-ups and animal calls. By shifting focus around and between these elements, the listener can appreciate new perspectives in the music’s inter-rhythmic topology and scope.

Natural Devices reflects the multiplicity of the virtual domain onto the open surface of electronic music. Where pop-ups, splash-screens, hover-ads, gifs and auto-play videos might simply rupture your focus zone, Natural Devices zooms out enough to transform this sensation into a multiple-tabs-open musical panorama bursting with divergences of colour, texture, balance and drama. This is a unique perspective on close-listening club music and is a bold, speculative work of contemporary electronic music.

that else marie pade comp is great as is her recent collab with jacob kierkegaard

http://www.importantrecords.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/release_full/imprec/382_padekirk_web.jpg

https://soundcloud.com/finderskeepersrecords/finders-keepers-radio-show-episode-two

am listening to the new mcferrdog album, really great sounds, kinda timetravel/house/vapor mishmash that stays consistently amazing for the entire record

― nxd, Monday, February 9, 2015 5:03 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Played this yesterday. Really interesting mix of sounds, rhythms, and styles. Certainly feels like something that would be popular around here.

Full album: https://1080pcollection.bandcamp.com/album/lawd-forgive-me

Here's the write-up, btw:

"NYC’s boundary patrolling Bossa Nova regular and Chinatown resident Max McFerren returns to 1080p with his distinctly goofed out euphoria and hybrid techno on the "Lawd Forgive Me".

Skewing his stylistic vehicle of steady floor/four techno with childlike glee, synth squiggles, big bass and wonky house signifiers, MCFERRDOG seeks precious moments in adult experience and hyper sincere emotive peaks, utilizing the familiar and nostalgic in dance music for a super confident hour-long release split between peaks and ultra-pretty melodic spaces between.

MCFERRDOG seeks epiphany and moments of beauty in a thoroughly post-ironic mode of electronic music. Embracing unlikely and often cheeseball motifs of deep house, club and slicky retroactive techno, McFerren works from inside the social media prisons, exploring disappointments like the false return of religon, saying goodbye to reckless youth and apologizing for escapism.

Opening track “Bless This Mess” is pure buildup, hellbent on bliss by splicing deconstructed rave vibes with a playful piano melody and splashes of a shattered static FX borrowed from grime. The record is littered throughout with hyperactive pitched up/down vocal snippets and those kinds of oddly displaced textural occurences; “What Justifiable Confidence!” starts out with repetitive half-second vocals pasted as beats before opening up into peaced out synth waves.

“Lawd Forgive Me” has been described as a soap opera; it’s strong narrative chain moves through emotions as quick as browser tabs, getting lost and eventually finding peace in both participation and weirdness."

http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2015/03/25/395100779/cross-the-arctic-with-the-kronos-quartet

http://images.junostatic.com/full/CS565697-01A-BIG.jpg

The new Felicia Atkinson entitled "A Readymade Ceremony" is superb, highly compelling electronic/concrète brainscapes that suck you down into this dark murky undertow, really fucking top class stuff

it's on spotify btw:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0uTJdsSuv2Nx9WeubLs2QK

If I was making cassettes, it would make a nice side two to Jeff Bridges' Sleeping Tapes

listening now, coz the epics poll rollout is missing

so far so pneumatic

Have been enjoying the ANAMAI record too, but that's on more of a Grouperish post-4AD ambient folk bent

this felicia atkinson stuff is rly cool, ty

listening to it on spotify's high quality mode thanks to that tidal thread too, never knew it existed

at the risk of self-zinging i've got low quality eardrums these days so i'm not sure i would necessarily notice the difference

at the risk of self-zinging, i will say that this music is extremely pretentious

but then i have neither carved the concept nor the artichoke

carve the concept and the art i choke

you said it mate

http://kronosquartet.org/images/uploads/Tundra_Songs_Cover_thumb.jpg

Kronos Quartet - Tundra Songs

On Tuesday, March 10, Centrediscs, the label of the Canadian Music Centre, releases Tundra Songs, featuring Kronos Quartet in a trio of works by Canadian composer Derek Charke. Guest artist Tanya Tagaq, the charismatic Polaris Prize-winning Inuit throat singer, appears on the 30-minute title track, which David Harrington, Artistic Director of Kronos, describes as “really one of the major, spectacular pieces that has ever been written for Kronos.” The disc also includes Cercle du Nord III which, like Tundra Songs, incorporates environmental sounds from northern Canada; and four of Charke’s series of Inuit Throat Song Games.

saw this live at big ears! it was very interesting but not as good as tagaq's solo/band performance

This is a quick, quarterly reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread are being posted as updated to a thread-specific Spotify playlist that I'm maintaining. I just did a quick sweep prior to posting this message and updated as of today with everything that's been added on Spotify since it was first mentioned.

That playlist is currently a bit more than three hours of music and is clickable below. Give it a spin and subscribe if you want to listen along through the year.

Time Travel 2015 >2012<2102<5102 Thread Spotify Playlist

This is a p special vocal/electronics/composition thing from the Gabi album: https://soundcloud.com/softwarelabel/mud

Have been caning both the Gabi and Colleen albums this week, both so beautiful.

would you just listen to this goddamn song:

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

<3<3<3

Just catching up on the Tsembla album. One for fans of the Finnish psych-folk underground:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4gFjvCMIbM

New Senyawa record has just come out too, Javanese experimental music with roots in traditional sounds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBbckhwanH4

^ that song really reminds me of Circle for some reason

i like the Senyawa vocals

I have been so feeling the Deux reissues on Minimal Wave recently. French electro pop/minimal synth/wave duo from the 80s who should have been huge

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R5n7ZUdRbk

That Colleen track is nice

sorry if it's been discussed elsewhere, new föllakzoid album sounds great

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

Re-posted from prior tt thread (oops):

Anyhow, here's a cool powernoise-crust punk thing from a guy who has been touring as guitarist for ST 37. I haven't listened to the whole thing but it sounds great so far, could very well be my favorite noise thingy since the dog demo.

Edward III or Hellhouse, if you're out there...

http://quttinirpaaq.bandcamp.com/album/dead-september

https://jmcaggregate.bandcamp.com/album/lucky-dollar-city

http://i.imgur.com/iuvKGVI.jpg

The new Grasscut is lovely English pastoralism - it flirts with triteness but emerges largely unscathed on the strength of its composition - LIYL Hood, The Quietus, that Nature Reader thread

Not the right thread but idk what is - new Trembling Bells album is streaming here. On first listen: no surprises but quite satisfying.

xp grasscut album is v v nice
"the field" is stunning

This is a quick, mid-year reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread (and a handful of album selections from each listed) are being posted as updated to the thread-specific Spotify playlist. I just did a top-to-bottom sweep prior to posting this message and have updated as of today with everything that's been added on Spotify since it was first mentioned.

30 tracks, 3+ hours.

ILX's Time Travel 2015 >2012<2102<5102 Thread Spotify Playlist

really enjoyed listening to this Smurphy record on Leaving today, thanks pitchfork:

https://leavingrecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-shapeless-pool-of-lovely-pale-colours-suspended-in-the-darkness

sonic sensation, aural sex, a pearl necklace it's time for

EXPLICIT DELUXE
by blank body
http://blankbody.bandcamp.com/album/explicit-deluxe

reviewed by a supporter "An evocative collection of avant-garde trap and pop numbers. Think Arca meets suicideyear. Favorite track: BLEEDING HEART TETRA."

reviewed @ http://anothercountyheard.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/powered-up-vaportrap-blank-bodys.html

This release stands out, even among the recent crop of fine vaporwave, which is still the thing, btw, the active stream of underground online art. I was immediately attracted to the artwork when I saw it shared on facebook, and the colorful, dissonant funk of Explicit Deluxe lives up to the promise of its' cover. It's futuristic and funky, without at all being future funk. There are no slowed down songs, no samples used. Not entirely either vaporwave or trap, the music that straddles the borders of those genres. But while so much recent vaporwave and trap has been obsessed with the past, this music is relentlessly forward-looking. It's a meaner, tougher vaportrap. It acknowledges its' roots without repeating the formula...

On Soundcloud:

blank body
https://soundcloud.com/1812922

blank body - EXPLICIT DELUXE
https://soundcloud.com/1812922/explicit-deluxe

i notice a rym user, xolotl has a 2015 list full of obscure arty / experimental albums to discover:

15
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/xolotl/15/
A list by xolotl

including one of my fave albums of 2015

Event Cloak - Life Strategies
https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/life-strategies

Under the moniker Event Cloak and as part of the duo Sundrips, Montreal's Nick Maturo has been a heavy purveyor of avant-garde synthesizer music since 2010. Life Strategies is his first LP release and a major step for the artist, with an emphasis on sparse arrangements of digital electronics and chopped vocal samples. Each track unfolds with total clarity, utilizing the minimum amount of elements necessary to highlight their melodic, harmonic, and textural themes. The result is an overwhelming lightness, like a calm exhilaration, or the aural equivalent of a hidden sun-drenched room of bright whites and soothing grey tones.

Vaporwave, Progressive Electronic, outsider techno
riyl: Oneohtrix Point Never

Spotify album link:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6yjR7e4b1aW8rATvE4CMNR

tracks for the thread spotify playlist:

False Positive
Life Strategies

Wow that list is really interesting, thx martian!

ok, this maybe of interest also:

Tiny Mix Tapes - Quarter Favorites (2015)
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/tinymixtapes/tiny_mix_tapes___quarter_favorites__2015_/

that xolotlist has a load of cool(-sounding) stuff I hadn't heard of before, thanks for posting

another interesting list for 2015 obscure releases across numerous genres

2015: Highly Rated Albums w/ Small Amount Of Votes
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/marshmallowc/2015__highly_rated_albums_w__small_amount_of_votes/

oh hey Everclear are still releasing albums
and bob hund!

anyone heard that Ptaki album? I've seen it mentioned a couple of places but it's not on Spotify and I'm lazy

Please, please listen to this if it's the only one of my suggestions you listen to all year

(it is William D. Drake - Be Here Steryear from the album Revere Reach, and it is fucking unbelievable)

aka wd-40

unforch his middle name is derek, not david

xps posted the false strategies album in the vaporwave thread
great record

new on Blackest Ever Black

F ingers - Hide Before Dinner
http://blackesteverblack.com/releases/hide-before-dinner/

album August 28th
https://blackesteverblack.bandcamp.com/album/hide-before-dinner-pre-order

Extraordinary new LP from a group comprising Carla dal Forno (Tarcar), Samuel Karmel and Tarquin Manek (Tarcar, LST).

Deeply drugged, synth-daubed death-folk and DIY electronics of the highest order: acutely psychedelic, inscrutable but emotional, sunken but prone to soaring, with flashes of horror too. Beautifully conjures the mirth and murk of childhood summers…a relatable surburban gothic…grazed knees, hide-and-seek, nettle-stings. Trampled flowerbeds and failing light. Ghouls in your neighbour’s garden. Think Nico meets Dome or Alison Statton wandering The Pickle Factory after dark.

2 tracks

F ingers - Tantrum Time
https://soundcloud.com/blackest-ever-black/f-ingers-tantrum-time
spooky fractured avant-psychedelic-glitch-noise-pop

F ingers - Escape Into The Bushes
https://youtu.be/lSA1Ss8RyCk

this track is more avant-ethereal-darkwave-noir-dreampop
riyl: Nico, Grouper, Slowdive

the latest album from D.Å.R.F.D.H.S. is quite possibly one of the most beautiful things i've heard this year (dark ambient voigt-style stuff)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT2lT8acB6A

imago, experience this ambitious 10 minutes plus avant progressive art-rock-ambient-metal-trip-hop/rock track from Norway's Lethe

Lethe - Forever
https://open.spotify.com/track/2CAWfdQylMK0Y4ew4Q6wuw

absolutely glorious experimental ambition, stunning production, bombastic brilliance, varied male and female vocals.

surely candidate for prog track of the year !

also on bandcamp

Forever
by LETHE
https://dmp666.bandcamp.com/album/forever

"Forever" is not a exactly what we could call a first glimpse of the eagerly awaited second LETHE album. This astoundingly good song is just a little pleasure, generously offered by the magical duo formed by Anna Murphy (ELUVEITIE) and Tor-Helge Skei (MANES, MANII). A short moment of pure genius containing all the precious elements which have forged this unique and exceptional self-identified style and very specific self-created approach, dedicated to anyone who enjoys fresh music and experimental Artists.

Both Rock and Electronic, Metal and deeply atmospheric, LETHE is "a band that will change your way of thinking about music and how it should be made and listened to" (Absolute Zero Media).

Tor-Helge Skei explains : "while working on the new album, we made tons and tons of material, countless ideas and sketches and recordings, some of which didn't fit into the album concept.. instead of throwing these away, we wanted to show you some different sides of LETHE.. so, here's the first one.. close your eyes, open your mind, and let the music take you on a musical journey through different moods and states. to places you might not even know existed.."

new Midday Veil album is probably top five of '15 stuff for me: https://beyondbeyondisbeyondrecords.bandcamp.com/album/this-wilderness-pre-order (three tracks streaming here at time of typing)

there was a post about it on the rolling psych thread but imo that speaks more to what they've done before than this, which is equal parts cosmic disco/early 70s Vashti Bunyan style folk/Portishead + related projects. feel like I'm underselling it w/ that descrip if anything but I do think this is v special

oh now this is a blast

kind of like what would happen if you atom-smashed yamantaka//sonic titan, michael garrison and chrome hoof

Think you need to be more particular with the comparisons. I mean, I get the kind of funk underbelly element some songs share with Chrome Hoof, so its not an inapt comparison, but both YT//ST and CH have a lot more fire and anger going on, whereas this comes across very smooth, vox quite detached, and way more traditionally psychedelic. Probably need a bit more time to work out if I like it or not, it's definitely good but seems maybe a bit clean for me.

Well, it's probably closest to Michael Garrison of the three, so fair point

I do prefer YT//ST and CH to it, as things stand, but it's pretty righteous. Perhaps the rest of the album hits even harder. Certainly I'd also favour a bit of extra intensity, but I'm not complaining too much.

There are a few.......metal-ish things that I'd like to post here, incidentally. Is there a protocol? emil.y you shd post all yr '15 faves as well

can def imagine the cleanness of the sound being divisive but it really works for me in this instance

I've kind of gone off listening a bit right now due to brain malfunction but I will gather together a bunch of stuff at some point - I have quite a few faves from early '15 but need to catch up with some mid-year releases. And I thought this was a non-genre specific thread so metalish things should be fine, right?

Cool, because I've recently discovered brilliant stuff from Dodheimsgard, Myrkur and Lychgate which might well apply to this thread...

And yeah, will be good to hear your choices in due course!

new eyeliner album is p fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bLbTkSIYO0

there's a couple of other tracks off the album i really want to post but this will suffice for now

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

for maximum effect play the preceding two youtubes simultaneously

Nnnng, just listening to the new MXLX, it is SO GOOD (M4tt T34m Br1ck/B34k/F41rh0rns/Gn4r H3st) -- https://kindarad.bandcamp.com/album/i-aim-to-understand-nothing

Not really in the mood for that Myrkur track, will give it another try later.

The Dodheimsgard album is an absolute masterpiece and might suit your mood a little better. Avant-garde metal/electronic/neoclassical compositions that show you don't have to be loud or sonically brutal to create a truly otherworldly record:

https://soundcloud.com/peaceville/sets/dodheimsgard-a-umbra-omega-album-stream/s-RurGV

Meanwhile, MXLX is kind of great - this second track rules

Yeah, really good and I need to hear more of him. Irksomely prolific mind!

Listening to the Midday Veil stuff again. Oh it's very good. Can't wait to hear the whole album!

Oh, and I just posted about the new Matthew Friedberger album here: Fiery Furnaces sans sis: Matthew Friedberger's Winter Women/Holy Ghost Language School - it might be a bit of a niche-interest record but that's what this thread's all about, right? Anyway, it's fucking amazing and you'll all hate it.

8 minutes plus dreamy reflective ambient pop track with vocoder filtered vocals and lapping ocean water samples

Fleurie - Hope Where have you Gone?
https://soundcloud.com/fleuriemusic-1/hope-where-have-you-gone

spotify
https://open.spotify.com/track/0IfmCJGeYS7MIF2qWzvNQM

What do you think of Arc Pair, imago? Harmolodic kraut-surf hybrid that keeps a strange entropic tension throughout

http://arcpair.bandcamp.com/releases

Isn't one of them an ILXor?

Regardless of whether this^ is true or not, v cool thx

both are.

i've just listened to that whole thing straight thru, it's very fetching

Yes

(It is very fetching)

art-pop from brighton's Dog in the Snow

Dog in the Snow - Proxy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=85&v=2wbMDVpJWpA

Debut EP 'Uncanny Valley' is out October 9 via Love Thy Neighbour.

via
http://circuitsweet.co.uk/2015/09/dog-in-the-snow-announce-uncanny-valley-ep-uk-gigs-watch-new-video-for-proxy%e2%80%8f/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MRcvPK7Ltv0

instrumental electronic jazz "jazztronica" / art-rock from danish band, Girls in Airports

Girls in Airports - Aeiki
https://soundcloud.com/girlsinairports/aeiki-2

luv the streched out elastic feel of this track, rhythmic bliss

another track on spotify

Girls in Airports - Fables
https://open.spotify.com/track/0IqAwaAzn5eNwnclrjuMfx

this track has a more skronk feel with saxophone

full album Fables released September 18th
Girls in Airports - Fables
https://girlsinairports.bandcamp.com/album/fables

Fables is the highly anticipated 4th album from acclaimed Danish group ‘Girls in Airports’. Founded on stories that resonate in a deeply and emotional way with the listener, Fables is one of the most interesting musical encounters you will experience this year.

MARTIN STENDER saxophone
LARS GREVE saxophones and clarinets
MATHIAS HOLM keys
VICTOR DYBBROE percussion
MADS FORSBY drums
credits
releases 18 September 2015

I quite like the sound of these.

~~~~~~NEW THIGHPAULSANDRA~~~~~~

seriously, if you haven't all booted up spotify (or whatever program you use) and listened to this by the weekend i'll…i'll…ahhh just hear it. HEAR HIM

FYI that new Midday Veil album is available on Spotify, if you dig it you might also like the Swahili album Amovrevx that came out a few months ago.

Folks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KquxHMQD1Z0

(nsfw)

(also, this is just about the most straightforward rock cut from a 2-hour album. jump in! the water's fine)

(here's one of the slightly weirder tracks)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGzph_14A_M

This is a quick, third-quarter reminder that all available tracks mentioned on this thread (and a handful of album selections from each listed) are being updated to the thread-specific Spotify playlist as posted. I just did another top-to-bottom sweep prior to posting this message and have updated as of today with everything that's been added since first mentioned.

51 tracks, 6+ hours.

ILX's Time Travel 2015 >2012<2102<5102 Thread Spotify Playlist

Cheers for that! I will give it a good shuffle listen.

Just in case any of you hadn't heard this yet (U.S. Girls - Woman's Work):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9IMOrF_6EE

The album version is 7 minutes long if you want more!

people are actually consensus-digging the new deafheaven. like it's gaining the irrefutable traction swell of an EOY 60-80 range finisher. we need to goddamn mobilise

That US Girls album is like Pat Benatar if she'd been produced by Fad Gadget i.e. it's flipping great

it's time for something completely different

it's time for LIL UGLY MANE

the hip-hop/lo-fi/electro/indie/??? artist it was never cool to like

y'see he's just released a collage of 16 years' work and i'm listening to it now and it's absolutely fucking incredible. like, imagine if clouddead were really good kind of incredible. but better than that, more abstract, more ethereal

https://liluglymane.bandcamp.com/album/third-side-of-tape

a true banger \m/

https://soundcloud.com/nonegative/01-eternal_crypt

yeah thats p cool

Discovered this band on a previous time travel thread and their latest single is v.dope: https://vimeo.com/136850194

also No Negative rules xp

New Stara Rzeka if you guys didnt know. imago, I feel like the first track may p much sums up everything youve wanted in music in the last couple years

http://stararzeka.bandcamp.com/album/zamkn-y-si-oczy-ziemi-instant-classic

fuck this is amazing

on slsk someone has affixed (instant classic) onto the alb title!

that is the name of the label :P

ah right lol! I did like their last one a lot.

I am getting Psychic Paramount vibes from this, which is always a good thing.

ok by track 2 I am completely smitten

yeah I'm on track 4 and this is frankly superb, there's so much good stuff going on here

Ruth's first and only album has just been reissued

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhiw6JKQc70

I know I mentioned this one on the EOY list thread, but you folks have gotta hear the Anna von Hausswolff album. Think she's worked with Gira before and it has some of the same epic doominess of the Swans but also has a heavy cosmic vibe, partly due to the use of this messiaenic church organ - it's kind of Jodorovsky remake of a spaghetti western set on a cathedral floating in space

I have liked what stuff of hers I've heard but never been convinced that it would make a super impact. Will give it a go. Also she's the daughter of Carl Michael von Hausswolff.

Oh I don't know that guy, thanks!

yeah this von Hausswolff stuff is great! a super day for this thread

mind you i've put susanne sundfor on now and this is even better (if not quite the same thing lol)

new giant claw album out a few weeks ago too
probs prefer dark web but still some great moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em1uRe1Gm0k

& this ep/album thing by elysia crampton is real fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOOCYQtusbw

anna von hausswolff album sounding great thanks nickb!

the PC Worship EP 'Basement Hysteria' is fucking awesome btw

From last year but I've been submerging myself in Elodie Lauten's Transform EP:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47Boqh7Ra94

People who are into synth/80's action soundtrack revivalism should check out The Chosen Themes by Vision Heat. There's a bit of a vaporwave/0PN update to the sound but really it's just fun and accessible:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ORg5nofvpM

the PC Worship EP 'Basement Hysteria' is fucking awesome btw

― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Saturday, November 28, 2015 1:14 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

here btw https://pcworship.bandcamp.com/album/basement-hysteria-2

yeah i been feelin the new PCW

what a brilliant track, take a listen

Jude Woodhead – ‘Beautiful Rain’
https://soundcloud.com/judewoodhead/beautiful-rain

blogger, Nialler 9 sums it up
http://nialler9.com/jude-woodhead-beautiful-rain/

‘Beautiful Rain’ is a great song from an 18 year-old from South London called Jude Woodhead and that is a mighty impressive feat you’ll admit, once you press play. Woodhead is a classically-trained trumpet player and an autodidactic pianist and drummer. He’s put that experience to good use on this song, along with his dad’s records and a few years of musicianship.

The song has African vocal samples (his dad’s Congolese and South African records?) and a soft glowing electronic shimmer (inspired by Four Tet) that combines to gorgeous and hypnotic effect

--- Also posted on: Rolling Afrobeats / Afropop 2015 thread

Imago there is a conference @ Goldsmiths, University of London next May that matches your aesthetics.

Fringes, outsides and undergrounds: The aesthetics and politics of unpopular music
http://www.iaspm.org.uk/fringes-outsides-and-undergrounds-the-aesthetics-and-politics-of-unpopular-music-2/

Fringes, Outsides and Undergrounds is presented in association with the Popular Music Research Unit and the Contemporary Music Research Unit at Goldsmiths College.

Fringes, outsides and undergrounds: The aesthetics and politics of unpopular music

Posted: December 12th, 2015 | Filed under: Calls for Papers | No Comments »
One-day conference to be held at Goldsmiths on 7 May 2016

Musical forms such as noise, extreme metal, performance art, experimental techno, free improv and more take inspiration from both popular and art traditions without being fully identifiable with either.

These forms exist either on the fringes of, or outside, these commercial and cultural mainstreams, both in conventional musical centres such as London and Berlin and further afield, in South America, Japan and China.

A range of questions can be asked in response to these practices:

What values do these musics draw upon, enact and invent?
Where do they sit in culture, particularly in relation to other musics?
What kind of historical lineage might these musics have?
What kind of political powers or political issues do they suggest, or do their practitioners engage with?
What kind of backgrounds do these practitioners have, and how do they make money?
Who has written about these musics, using what languages and what methodologies and platforms?
What do these musics sound like; what kind of aesthetic and musical styles, systems and idioms do they work within, against or, again, invent?

riyl: messthetics

https://submissives.bandcamp.com/releases

I feel this track alone shdve been enough to catapult this LP into the FACT EOY list

http://quttinirpaaq.bandcamp.com/track/lifestyles-ussa

I'm wrapping this playlist for the year. It has been updated with a few new adds (Surface to Air Missive, Dog in the Snow, Lychgate, No Negative) and includes every track mentioned on thread that is available via Spotify's US catalogue as of EOY 2015. If I missed something or if a track comes available sometime in the future, bump here to let me know and I'll add.

Rolling Time Travel 2015 >2012<2102<5102 Thread Spotify Playlist

Cheers Forks! :)

hey LJ, start a new thread and post this at the top:
https://soundcloud.com/hausu-mountain/andrew-bernstein-thought-forms-iii