Rolling weird music // time travel // unclassifiable 2021

We didn't have a 2021 thread so here is a nice fresh one. To kick things off I'm going to start with, um, a record from 2009? Deathbomb Arc gave this Lauren Bousfield alias a reissue this year, and I've been caning it a lot lately:

https://laurenbousfieldanyev3r.bandcamp.com/album/from-rotting-fantasylands

omg, I still need to send you that secret Bousfield project.

emil.y, i sent something to your webmail!

Lauren is so awesome!! as in, another rad person IRL who makes cool music. (as table is the table also knows) ...

I still remember her telling this friend, this guy Kevin, they shared a practice space, and Kevin would come to all the shows Lauren's bands and their friends' bands would play, but Kevin was terminally broke so depending on the gig, Kevin would often end up outside the venue because he couldn't afford the cover charge. A lot of the time they'd get Kevin in as a +1 or a roadie or something.

Anyway, at one show in San Francisco, Kevin was outside. He was sitting on the sidewalk, smoking cigarettes, and a person walked past with wild hair that resembled that of one of those Troll Dolls. So Kevin pointed at the person and shouted with a smile, "Troll Doll!" The person was upset. I forget if there was any other drama, but anyway ...

So, back to Lauren. We were all at another show, and Kevin was trying to understand why his friends were somewhat embarrassed by him, and Lauren says, "Kevin, there are out-y thoughts and in-y thoughts. There are thoughts that are okay to think but you just don't say out loud. ... Like shouting Troll Doll at that guy!"

Anyway, I still think about out-y thoughts and in-y thoughts ... and Troll Doll!

Kevin was always extraordinarily kind to me, but lord, he really knows how to get on peoples' shit-lists! T00th and our dear departed J0ey, for two, can't stand the guy. And he is a bit of a prick! But a very funny and kind person, in many ways.

I always had a soft spot for Kevin, tbh ... I heard rumors that he (partly due to a substance abuse issue) was abusive to a romantic partner at one point? And that a number of friends became former friends because of that? ... idk, this was after the Troll Doll incident. I think he's cleaned up a bit and is studying to become a therapist or something.

Kevin was in a great band for a while, Primary Colors, and speaking of weird music:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEiEpCsh338

Experimental industrial noise using homemade trash drumset and broken reel-to-reel and analogue synths.

sarahell, let's just say that when T and I lived next the Church, there was often yelling happening between Kevin and others...because Kevin loved startin shit.

I can imagine! And yeah -- I remember seeing Primary Colors and being like, "Damn! Y'all are really great!"

Ahhh, thank you table! Just d/ling now. Having a listen to the Primary Colors youtube and it is pretty cool, I hope Kevin sorted himself out and stopped being a bastard.

I hope you laugh yourself silly listening to what I sent, emil.y!

Kevin has actually -- I think he sobered up and he's working on becoming a licensed therapist!

https://u-udios.bandcamp.com/album/koko-s-t

been enjoying this

Oh yes, these sounds are nice on my ears.

This is a p cool track: Jazzmaster through digital effects - https://samanshahi.bandcamp.com/album/microlocking-ii

i like

the latest in the mutants mixtape series features arca, fire-toolz, giant claw and dj sabrina the teenage dj
https://mutants1000000.bandcamp.com/album/mutants-vol-4-love

previous 3 can be found here
https://mutants1000000.bandcamp.com/

this is nice on the processed guitar tip

https://rachika.bandcamp.com/album/our-hands-against-the-dusk?label=1547924804&tab=music

https://globalpattern.bandcamp.com/track/--265

Please give my man Mick a spin

Maybe more on the noise/aleatory tip, but some acquaintances put this out, and it's pretty weird.

https://corardens.net/007.html

How about that Spirit of the Beehive album?

https://gavsborg.bandcamp.com/album/domestic-audio-workstation

I'm loving the new compilation tape on A Colourful Storm's sublabel Fleetway Tapes, featuring a bunch of folk from the Aussie underground working under aliases I think. RIYL Carla dal Forno, CS + Kreme, HTRK

https://acolourfulstorm.com/album/i-stumble-and-then-i-fall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jo8vOsMYbtg

Gwydir - High Hearts - probably the pick of the bunch for me

Oh lord, so much to catch up on since I last checked in to this thread. Good work everybody.

xps i struggled to get into the spirit of the beehive album initially but after putting on the headphones for a midnight walk yesterday it really worked

insanely good album from a trio of musicians all doing great solo things as well

https://cachedmedia.bandcamp.com/album/futurangelics

this rules

love more eaze, the other 2 are new to me

dntel's been making amazing music forever (hit it big with a very popular duo in the 2000s and has been doing the right thing since then), brin's been pretty active for the last couple years doing sensory percussion stuff

this is also very good: https://colinalexanderfisher.bandcamp.com/album/reflections-of-the-invisible-world

^ liking this
front cover typeface too, looks like david rudnicks sorta stuff
will check out olenka szymonski

Glad Colin's getting some love--he's a good friend of mine and in add'n to guitar he plays saxophone in a good am't of other projects here in Toronto incl. the odd-time-sig big band I lead
(forgive the self-promo, but it's maybe of interest to get a sense of our local left-field scene here):
https://kunudusuvuntu.bandcamp.com/album/p-a-n-d-e-m-o-s-1-10

Also xp while I haven't checked out the above collab release yet, there are a handful of tracks on the new Dntel album proper that particularly wowed me: https://dntel.bandcamp.com/track/after-all

here's another really nice/strange time travel type thing: https://obligations.bandcamp.com/releases

I guess this is more of a pop record than time travel (and it's from last year) but whatever, it's cool: https://yosapeit.bandcamp.com/album/phyton

enjoying this OSR/blanche blanche blanche-adjacent mutantish chamber pop by perfect angels: https://laloi.bandcamp.com/album/exit-from-the-ultra-world

Listening to that Yosa Peit record and I love it so far, definitely fits my definition of what this thread should be for. More mutated pop, please. (Am also tempted to steal heftily from this thread for my next radio show, sorry not sorry.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1uwIzI3SE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cn73Wtem0No

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awVNCIjQq1A

first day back to work for a while and plenty to check out in this thread

something i enjoyed in the interim
https://aguirrerecords.bandcamp.com/album/a-morphology-of-wonders

Listening to that Yosa Peit record and I love it so far, definitely fits my definition of what this thread should be for. More mutated pop, please. (Am also tempted to steal heftily from this thread for my next radio show, sorry not sorry.)

― emil.y, Sunday, May 2, 2021 12:25 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

https://clarissaconnelly.bandcamp.com/album/the-voyager

and

https://primordialvoid.bandcamp.com/album/crooner-qui-coule-sous-les-clous

These are some of the better things I've heard in a while

Re: that perfect angels record, it's really nice even tho it's mining the same sound that I feel every lazy musician is mining these days (or the past 5 years or whatever), but this project is done way better

new giant claw!
https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-guide

rules, not expecting it to take an acoustic/folk direction, reminds me of some of colleen's stuff

obsessed with this record right now:

https://goatytapes.bandcamp.com/album/non-g-m-o-rain-dance

New Cucina Povera record sounds excellent at first cursory listen: https://primordialvoid.bandcamp.com/album/lumme

80 minutes of microtonal vapour-tinged synths, samples, and beats from my former PhD supervisor: https://jeffstadelman.bandcamp.com/album/signaling

Interview here: https://infrasonicpress.com/2021/04/10/jeff-stadelman-interview/

Dig that, thanks!

Cool, glad you like it!

been a bit ill with the covid so lots to listen to here

first walk in a while yesterday was to this https://birthdayass.bandcamp.com/album/head-of-the-household

v pleasant

that lucy gooch album is so good!

new fire toolz is insanely sick

https://fire-toolz.bandcamp.com/album/eternal-home

Just listening to Birthday Ass and it's exactly what I need right now. Thanks nxd.

These are both weird although structurally the songs are pretty tight:
https://siliconeprairie.bandcamp.com/album/my-life-on-the-silicone-prairie
https://freakgenes.bandcamp.com/album/power-station

And there's a new Black Dice track:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYMuTj9ZMOs

love it

xps that new fire-toolz album is incredible, what a journey

I like this
https://hypnotizing-chickens.bandcamp.com/album/im-on-time

That has deep early-to-mid 2000s energy, reminds me of Gang Wizard.

Yeah, I can see '00s no wave in there. Fun stuff.

Still doing my radio show, feel like it's been long enough since I flogged it here: https://www.mixcloud.com/citybeatradio/cryptophasia-021/

That's last month's show. Got another one coming up very soon and I've been too disorganised/preoccupied/depressed to really do much listening for it, so who knows how it'll go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I've often found that it's those shows where I'd really pull it off, but when I was prepared, the show could easily go to shit. Hope you experience the same!

new tonstartssbandht is so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPDqH9lv-Q0

<3 tonstartssbandht so much

https://sarahdavachi.bandcamp.com/album/antiphonals

adore this record, listened to it 3 times today
sleep inducing (in a good way)

Well this is the best experimental album I’ve heard in a minute

https://rancapduoi.bandcamp.com/album/ng-ng-y-ngay-ng-y-t-n-th

Oh hell yeah, that's some cool shit.

I'm pretty selective when it comes to glitchy experimental bc so much of it plods and kinda goes nowhere, but yea this sounds like it might be cool.

Well, if we're posting that kind of thing, I'll crosspost something that I also posted to the post-post-post-deconstructed thread, this new 43-track audio sketchbook from Giza's 1127— traditional Egyptian music meets club music and noise. Unsettling and unpredictable, has made me think something is wrong with my speakers more than once. https://1127.bandcamp.com/album/bedroom-adrenalean-post-kovidclub

yeah despite ziurs behind the scenes presence idk it sounded weird and unclassifiable enough to me. bass level is def ‘club’ but it balances out the treble so it’s not as fatiguing as so much glitchy stuff is

yeh the ran cap album rules
been obsessed with 'images' for the last month

it’s really good. wonder how much ziur changed the initial sound. whatever happened it’s great

tables link is fire as well

The guy's last record on Nashazphone is really good, too.

loving this

https://hyphyskazerbox.bandcamp.com/album/headache-bait

Yeah the Ran Cap record is sick.

The new-ish Crazy Doberman record is really fucking me up right now, good shit, for fans of No-Neck and the sort of free ritual music they do.. https://astraldoberman.bandcamp.com/album/everyone-is-rolling-down-a-hill-or-the-journey-to-the-center-of-some-arcane-mystery-and-the-entanglements-of-the-vines-and-veins-of-the-cosmic-and-unwieldy-millieu-encountered-in-the-midst-of-tha

feel like this new album from Tropical Trash-spinoff group Equipment Pointed Ankh is a better new Black Dice album than the new Black Dice album: https://astralepa.bandcamp.com/album/without-human-permission

Machine Girl has been a busy doggie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGnfL-js05A

There's 3, shortly 4 albums in the Prolaps Ultra Cycle. Now drowning gloriously in the third. All on Bandcamp and Spotify. Start at the beginning tho and let the insane avant-breaks odyssey begin

glorious

Listened to part 2 of the third one just now. It builds in the most amazing way, just keeps getting better and better

Were you the one who recommended SEWERSLVT last year, imago?

I wasn't! I've not really heard their stuff but I'm willing to try it. Was at a L'Rain gig just now btw, pretty great

For some reason it seems in the same wheelhouse as the Prolaps thing.

It was RYM-boosted avant-house with an explicitly queer agenda, so definitely the right wheelhouse yeah

eureka

https://liilasounds.bandcamp.com/album/soundness-of-mind

Advance tracks on this are v good; riyl RIO/heavy jazz-rock fusion: https://cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/ur-hd-24-96

I'm enjoying Stice, apparently related to the above-mentioned Machine Girl (who I haven't heard yet). First it was the fangs that drew me in, but now I find the tunes popping into my head every day, and I don't even mind!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU00doKz3Eg

I have been loving the Tara Clerkin Trio EP from a couple of months ago. Trip-hoppy autumnal vibes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMAWTNZ321c

Tara Clerkin Trio - Done Before - this is my fave. It's not that trip-hoppy though

And this EP from the excellent bassæ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jzo8wBeUT8

bassæ — d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsIN8KVPZG4

this one from death's dynamic shroud is good

yes, superb

holy shit @ Last Minutes Of The Memory

really love that dds album
fleshed out version of my two highlights of classroom sexxtape; 'rare emoji collection' and 'side'

some gorgeous gamalan:

https://divisi62.bandcamp.com/album/malar

"Uwalmassa shape their relationship with various forms of musical heritage into technical and stylish forms on Malar, marrying acoustic sonics with a contemporary outlook that reflects their Indonesian identity; evolving, mutating, and scavenging traditions to draw parallels to dance music, and to test the adaptability and flexibility of those sounds.

Here the collective go dark and deep in their first album-length collaboration with Mana, casting long shadows and moving snake style at speed across nine tracks. Using a mix of synthetic and acoustic instruments - the texture of Malar feels enigmatic, occasionally industrial, and the result magical in its mystery and fluctuating impact."

time travel is over. choose your path and choose it wisely

rolling careerist hacks, awkward pandering, transparently manipulative thread 2022

rolling twenty-something RYM/internet stuff like hyperpop, hypnagogic pop, hexD, vaporwave, dungeon synth, cloud rap, nightcore, black midi, future funk, dariacore, seapunk, blown out anime voices, br

tbf this feels like it belongs more to the former, not being hypergarbage

Ooh, dark gamalan sounds. This is great so far.