HOLY FUCKING SHIT! UTECH FESTIVAL IN JUNE IN MILWAUKEE! (WHO WANTS TO GO ON A ROAD TRIP?)

i'll pay for gas from massachusetts. how long would it take? dudes, this is gonna be EPIC!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mywVG7PDiEk/TZkQKEE-iuI/AAAAAAAAAGQ/lsTGwZYddcs/s1600/URMF_L.jpeg

The festival is taking place June 11, 2011, at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Check out the amazing lineup:
Horseback
Locrian
Mamiffer
House of Low Culture
James Plotkin
Jon Mueller
Gog
William Fowler Collins
Ural Umbo
RM74
Ithi

i never get excited about live music events. almost never. this is ALL stuff i dig a lot. and all in one place! wish i could get them all to come here...

and, even though i probably sound like the most broken of records, utech is definitely my favorite label in all these fucking 50 states right now.

shit, nobody will care about this here. no! someone must. right? man, you really should. this is here and now heavy and dark excitement and fine art in this country. this is happening NOW. and i truly hate most now.

I've enjoyed some Utech releases. Haven't followed them for a few years though, since apparently I thought it was a jazz/improv label? Rempis Percussion Quartet is great, but now that I think about it, that was like 4 years ago?! What have I missed?

you've missed a lot!

gog/william fowler collins collaboration album is my most anticipated album of 2011.

http://www.utechrecords.com/

I've seen Locrian 2x now and they were kind of boring live, but seemed to be the sort of band I would enjoy if I didn't have to watch them pretending to make themselves vom on stage (sorry). I like the vibe, though, and wanted to like them more than I did. Perhaps I would enjoy their recordings more than the live show. The addition of the female vocalist and drummer was a huge leap forward, though, that much is for sure.

i've never seen them live. love them on record.

definitely love the new album.

This is a totally different Utech records than the one I remember. Same name, same location though. ?? Still, I trust you, and I will listen to gog if you say it's good.

oh man gog so good.

my favorite album of 2009

http://www.utechrecords.com/Misc/GOG.jpg

that would be: gog - mist from the random more

alright, i'll give it a try.

WF Collins is in this really great group that also includes Elise Baldwin, and two other people whose names escape me.

This sounds awesome! I've played the hell out of the boxed set I got a couple of months back.

Best release on the label is still the Vagusnerve album.

my memory of Utech records is kind of tied up with Ken Vandermark and a house show in Milwaukee at which I took this picture:
http://www.workseries.com/images/musician/Musician5.jpg

it doesn't seem like that long ago, but i guess it was.

oh shit i can totally go to this

Finally found a youtube video for one of these experimental acts. House of Low Culture:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntfYcta9t8E

i like a good # of these acts, i'd be coming from TX though so it's pretty much a "no" for me :/

Neon Marshmallow dude