Sunday 9 December 2012

121209 ep. 31 in return

Six months of digging makes for a pretty sweet bag of dreams. Thankfully the world didn't go kaputt or else we'd have missed out on another opus from the Flying Lotus of Coltrane Blood, new cuts from electro-acoustic upstart Holly Herndon, plus the broken techno of Bxl's Sagat and Brooklyn's Madteo of Workshop fame.



Oh, and somehow Peaking Lights managed to record Lucifer, and a versions dual, Lucifer in Dub, while I was still rinsing the old platters. What what?
▶ Hear here




OBBA SUPA Channelist (ft. FLOATING POINTS)
FLYING LOTUS me Yesterday//Corded
FLYING LOTUS Backpack Caviar
PEAKING LIGHTS My Heart Dubs 4 U
SAGAT ESC
MADTEO Rugrats Don't Techno For An Answer
LEE GAMBLE M25 Echo
HOLLY HERNDON Movement
VLADISLAV DELAY Hetkonen
LEYLAND KIRBY They are all dead, there are no skip at all
THE CARETAKER Libet's delay



Singing in choirs from a young age, Holly Herndon is currently doing a PhD in Music Composition at Stanford, in the CCRMA (Centre for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics), where she is using modern synthesis techniques to transform her voice. Aside from the spastic acid excursions of her latest EP on RVNGintl, she also produces electro-acoustic music in something of an alien vein. Her gig at Cafe Oto on February 2nd is selling out fast so get in!

PS: Apologies for the pesky distortion throughout the first half...
if you noticed you'll be happy to hear it was analogue clipping from Alice, our mixing desk, and not something nasty by way of DSP.
Enjoy the fuzz!

You Don't Have To Call It Music

What happened in half a year of silence? I've been getting my fix in ink instead of air, writing a weekly column on XX C experimental music in Felix, the newspaper of Imperial College London.

Pt. 0 caveat auditor

Pt. 1 contemporary classical
or: what the atom bomb and the death of God
have to do with birds and brutalism


Pt. 2 a new ear for classical
or: when British breakcore met the Polish post-war


Pt. 3 musique concrète
or: how the Berlin Wall made it to Broadway


Pt. 4 elektronische Musik
or: drums are from Africa, synths are from Germany


Pt. 5 the American avant-garde
or: ears make music too, you know?

& a happy birthday to you, Mr. Cage!

Pt. 6 punk
or: I ain't thick, it's just a trick


Pt. 7 noise
or: RRRRrrrrxxxqtqttqtxxckkkkhhhhzzzzzzzz...blip


Pt. 8 free jazz
or: it don't have to mean a thing