I Went to a Rave on Halloween

I did. It was weird. The music left me disappointed, but the costumes were good. I thought I should tell someone. It was in Philadelphia. I'm moving back there, btw. That is also weird. I'm going to miss the rubntug/runaway parties that happen here in new york. Oh well, I'll save hundreds of dollars a month, which is important when you don't have an income.



I guess last year was a big year for Levon Vincent, but I'm just now really getting into his sound. Could be a return for me into house with this kind of dub techno lean. I guess I got so grossed out by dubstep that I wasn't really open to the more Basic Channel or straight dub techno sounds out there. I mean, I still liked some of that stuff, and even have some good 12"s from a few years back that are great, but hadn't really stayed up on it. This is the kind of stuff I would have been more happy to hear at a rave. Or like Fred P. or Omar S. Any recommendations along these lines, anyone?

You can download a pretty good mix he put together at mnml ssgs.

Jesus is Red White and Blue

I looked into this on a recommendation from a friend who found it and was ecstatic about it. First listen and I wasn't sold. Fifth listen and its all I've listened to today. Something good going on here. Somewhere between the off kilter white dude funk, 5th Dimension cheese, and the Streisand/Bacharach lounge vibe is something totally and wholly human that reminds me that I am, in fact, alive. This record has Gospel, Funk, Soul, Lounge, and enough cheese to top your taco.

Cincinnati Joe and Mad Lydia

Proto Techno to Robo Techno

I just picked up this reissue of the Tolerance LP Anonym originally released in 1980 on Vanity Records. People herald it as a proto-techno record. Their second LP, Divin, was on the Nurse With Wound List and can be downloaded here. Unfortunately, I don't have a digital copy of Anonym to share. I think at times that it does get a nice proto acid house sound. Very creepy ambiance, so take this as my Halloween contribution, but what sold me on it was the percussion and synth builds that congeal in a few of the songs. Again, this is frustrating because there is not youtube or digi version of Anonym for me to play the tracks that I like the best. More info here....

I'm sure you guys are familiar with the Minimal Wave label and already probably have preset feelings towards electro new wave etc, but for one reason or another I've been really enjoying Deux's Decadance LP, and I think that label does a fair job of rolling out hits. I guess there isn't anything too robotic or too techno about this, unless we can count their Kraftwerky synthesizers, I just wanted to write a clever title. I know we had that BIPP compilation at kcpr when I was there, and I think they were on that. It's pop music. Looked around for a download of it, but I'm coming up empty.

You know that band Cold Cave? Well I got their first 12" cause it was a philly thing and what not. Problem was, I thought it sounded waaayyy better played at 33 rpm than 45 rpm. It made it all harsh and industrial and beautiful. Anyways, I think Deux's record at times sounds a little like I wish Cold Cave sounded like.

I'm rereading this post and it doesn't make much sense. Chill.

There Is A New Arp Album And It Is Great

I duno if you guys remember Alexis Georgopoulos AKA Arp and his wonderful album 'In Light' from back in 2007, but i sure do. It contained soothing tunes full of analog-synth minimalism, kinda like Terry-Riley's "Descending Moonshine Dervishes' on vintage synthesizers instead of organs. Well, he has a new album, and it is similar but also great. This time he seems to be more focused on kraut-y electronics more akin to Cluster or Eno, and if you are a hard-liner for that type of thing you might be put of by the inescapable derivative-ness of these two albums. But I don't really mind, and if you can get down with Emeralds' latest album then you can definitely get down to this. Let's face it, the world will never stop needing more new-agey komische records. So I'm posting the whole thing, because I have absolute faith that no one reads this blog and that therefore I will not get in any trouble.

Arp - The Soft Wave

Happy Halloween... BITCHES

DUDE. I know I talk a lot about Resident Advisor mixes, and really I have to give props to Jimmy for alerting me to the presence of both this mix and the Scott Grooves one I posted a week or so ago, but DAMNS. They are on a serious roll. This week, for the special spooky Halloween edition of the RA Podcast they got frickin ALAN HOWARTH to put together a few tunes from his heyday of making amazing soundtracks to your favorite horror films of the '80s and '90s, along with frequent collaborator JOHN CARPENTER. This is the real deal, as they say, and most of my favorite JC jams are here and accounted for. I don't think I should have to sell you dudes too much on this stuff... synthy, tense, dramatic, repetitive compositional amazingness is contained in these here megabytes... dl soon or forever hold your peace.

Alan Howarth RA Podcast

Linda Perhacs - Parellelograms re-release on Mexican Summer

Hey brahs, thanks for inviting me to be in your blogging club!

I'll start with a little post about Linda Perhacs. I work for Human Ear and we just hosted Linda and her band two weeks ago for a concert at San Francisco Art Institute. This was her third public appearance ever! Unlike all of us at The Society of Mutual Affirmation, she's incredibly generous and modest. She literally talked to probably everyone who attended the show afterwards. She currently lives on her ranch in Topanga Canyon - continuing to work as a dental hygienist while writing new music on the side.

You're probably familiar with her, but her album might be worth revisiting since it was just released on Mexican Summer. Linda received the new vinyl the night before traveling to SF for the show! I would definitely recommend buying a copy, it looks great. There's a print of her visual score as an insert! Parellelograms was originally released on Kapp Records in 1970, but Linda told me the original recordings were so crappy she gave up hope as a musician - and the label pushed her aside when they found it unmarketable. It's really soo amazing what music blogs have done for rediscovering artists.



Linda chatting with a fan at the SFAI show.

WFMU Record Fair Finds

SRC - Milestones
Detroit, 69, their second record. Their first release is their best, but their first two are solid records and not too easy to come by. This was the hit from their first album.

Second record gets more of a prog lean.

Another find worth sharing is the Paul Clark Songs from the Savior LP from 1975. I always want to find the good private press christian folk, acidy, oddball records (cause they're often overlooked and cheap), but am never sure what will be good and what will be just like the rest of them. This I got really cheap, and it is a solid soft rock record with fun backwards guitar and neil young vocals. Can't find youtube from this record, but one of his later records is here, and it kinda gets at the idea. Yacht rock + baby jesus = good used record.

I also picked up a good Wild Man Fischer record, Bukka White's Sky Songs, which Elijah got to before me when we went to the record store in redwood city, Albery Ayler's Love Cry, and an Eddie Hinton album I'm really into.