Am i the only one around here who keeps up with Time Stereo / Warn Defever / His Name is Alive projects?

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I can't be the ONLY one.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Sunday, 28 November 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Very irregularly. Haven't in some years but I have at least ten of those releases.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 November 2004 05:13 (twenty-one years ago)

he's been over for a few years. the mountain ocean sun cd was nice but that's been it.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 28 November 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I keep waiting for HNIA to put out a sub-par album, but they NEVER DO. The last few HNIA Time Stereo CD-R releases have been especially ace - Leaf Club, Brown Rice, Rare Tracks in the Snow, The Emergency LP, and even the remix CD is pretty darn good. I tried to reserve a copy of the 10-CD Cloud Box but it turns out I was about half an hour late. All 50 copies were reserved in less than one hour. I was amazed. I was thinking, "There are at least 50 people as fanatical about HNIA as me?"

There's a covers-only album available for download (for $10, at http://www.hisnameisalive.com) called Dreem Up, but I'm holding out for a CD-R release.

Roger, did you manage to score a Cloud Box?

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 28 November 2004 05:51 (twenty-one years ago)

nope! But we have friends in common, so it's always like an email away. If I get a copy, I'll totally fileshare and / or burn you one.

Intrigued by the covers album - who does he cover?

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Sunday, 28 November 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

What's the story with Cloud Box now?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 November 2004 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's the track/source list, taken from Pitchfork:

01 Seven (Peter Green - "Seven Stars")
02 Boy (Tiger Trap - "Prettiest Boy")
03 Jody (Masters Of Reality - "Jody Sings")
04 Jane (Jane Siberry - "Taxi Ride")
05 Silver (Leadbelly - "Bring Me Li'l Water, Silvy")
06 Affection (The Carter Family - "Fond Affection")
07 Young (Neil Young - "Harvest")
08 Night (Big Star - "Nightime")
09 Man (Charlie Feathers - "Man In Love")
10 People (origin confidential)
11 Long (The Beatles - "Long, Long, Long")

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 28 November 2004 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Details are on www.hisnameisalive.com, but nine of the ten CDs in Cloud Box were previously unreleased (only Brown Rice had been released before, and it apparently has been remastered and re-edited.) The price was $110. There was an announcement on the Time Stereo mailing list when it was available, and you'd have to email Davin to reserve one.

Here are the ten albums included:
01. Brown Rice
02. USA vs Gamelan
03. Dreem Up
04. The Pinecone
05. Mystery Spot
06. Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
07. Wake Up Jin
08. Everglades National Park
09. Free Concert His Name Is Alive
10. Detrola

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Sunday, 28 November 2004 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Nutty. So were they any good?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 28 November 2004 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

there was definitely a time when i was a HNIA completist, and Time Stereo almost-completist. that time has passed.

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Sunday, 28 November 2004 08:16 (twenty-one years ago)

you're not the ONLY one, J. HNIA was one of my first musical loves, and i've followed Warn & Co closely enough since, through many a bizarre mutation and fixation, that i was hep to the Cloud Box deal in time to claim #49/50. the object itself is a thing of beauty, but i've only gotten through the first two discs. if rips prove hard to come by, i'll do what i can.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Sunday, 28 November 2004 08:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm not a completist by any means, but I have a number of HNIA and Time Stereo related releases. I'm a huge fan of the events/concerts/happenings they hold in Detroit all too infrequently these days. Noise Camp, the Time Stereo-curated concerts, the way they bridge the Detroit garage, noise, jazz and techno scenes -- they're great. And Davin is a super nice guy, too.

I thought about putting in a request for the Cloud Box. I'm glad to see they sold out so quickly.

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Sunday, 28 November 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

the way they bridge the Detroit garage, noise, jazz and techno scenes -- they're great.

excellent point. they're all over the map and retain legitimacy in each of the genres. not so much with regards to techno, though, the Control Panel releases, IMO, could certainly hold their own. (though i never quite saw derrick may or richie hawtin spinnin' em)

;)

― ken taylrr (ken taylrr), Sunday, 28 November 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Regarding Time Stereo and techno, I meant more in the sense of them working with people like Sharif/Maersk or Persona for shows more than Warn's Control Panel music.

― Jeff Sumner (Jeff Sumner), Monday, 29 November 2004 01:03 (twenty-one years ago)

::sniggers::

― The Grain of Sand in Lambeth That Satan Cannot Find (kate), Monday, 29 November 2004 13:37 (twenty-one years ago)

(only Brown Rice had been released before, and it apparently has been remastered and re-edited.

i believe spring was released in super limited edition for a detroit show, too... at least, i think that's what i have a copy of. the first half of the disc is kind of dubby, the second half is more noisy.

i've heard that warn is pretty well known for bringing a very limited run of discs to shows--my copy of brown rice is something like 7/10. sometimes he'll burn some extra copies for stormy and other local stores, sometimes not.

keep us all posted about rips. i was at the concert that was included in the box and would love to get a copy of it...

― brad k!, Monday, 29 November 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I have NOT kept up at all. Being reminded of this makes me feel very inadequate.

― briania (briania), Monday, 29 November 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

[i]spring[/i] apparently has no overlap with the cdr of the same name that was previously released on Time Stereo. way to confuse, warn.

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 29 November 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

spring.
trying to remember which boards use ]['s and which use >

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 29 November 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

= DUD!

― echoinggrove (echoinggrove), Monday, 29 November 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

what is kate sniggering about?

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 29 November 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Haven't kept up at all, but I feel a need to shout out the tangentially Defever-related record that's grown to be my absolute favorite of them all: Godzuki's Your Future. Livonia-type dreamy pop band decides to become a rock Kraftwerk, circa 1999 -- I'm amazed this wasn't more popular.

― nabiscothingy, Monday, 29 November 2004 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

what do people who still care think of the new one (the eclipse)? I like it more than the last one. Nabisco?

― akm, Saturday, 21 August 2010 07:00 (fifteen years ago)

four years pass...

the opening song on the new album slays. sounds like warren's been listening to the cardiacs and barclay james harvest

― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 20 November 2014 14:26 (eleven years ago)

seven months pass...

Anyone keeping track?

― djh, Wednesday, 1 July 2015 19:44 (eleven years ago)

four years pass...

Hey HNIA fanatics - if you have any of the Time Stereo CD-Rs (that came out around 2000-2001) that were burned on Mitsui CD-Rs (look at the clear plastic at the center of the CD, label-side) then you might want to rip them to WAV/FLAC while it's still possible. Several of mine are deteriorating, even with proper storage (no direct sunlight, room temperature, etc.) In my entire collection, I've only had one other CD-R that has deteriorated, so that tells me that the connection here has got to be that batch of Mitsui CD-Rs they were using.

So far, my CD-Rs of "Great Lakes State Blues", "Sound of Mexico" and "Early Music Vol. 1" are ripping with lots of terrible audio artifacts. The 10 or so others (on Mitsui CD-Rs) that I ripped just now all ripped fine, though.

Someone uploaded a 1995 HNIA show in Mexico including the opening set from the Dirt Eaters (with mosh pit!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5UdkfRS3p8

― ernestp, Monday, 13 April 2020 04:41 (six years ago)

three years pass...

Very pleasant surprise to hear Home is In Your Head's "Sitting Still Moving Still Staring Outlooking" toward the end of the movie Air -- played while Phil Knight/Ben Affleck was waiting for word on Michael Jordan signing with Nike.

― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Wednesday, 5 July 2023 16:51 (two years ago)

Might be time to start a "Brit-label indie music soundtracking major-studio sports-tangential films" thread, i.e. Durutti Column in "Jerry Maguire."

― henry s, Wednesday, 5 July 2023 17:26 (two years ago)

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