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'.

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