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Brainwashed | Monday, 22 March 2010 |
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 We're thrilled to roll out the latest DVD fundraiser. The Eye Volume 18 features our popular segments with Jesu, Meat Beat Manifesto, Pan Sonic, and Colleen. All who gratiously allowed us to both capture them live and sit down and talk shop, and have now allowed us to use some of this footage to help Brainwashed raise funds! The DVDs can be purchased in the Brainwashed Commerce shop and like all other Eye DVDs come personalized for the buyer. Thanks for your support! |
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Springtime is here and new releases are due this week from Jim Thirlwell's Manorexia, Mugstar, and Skull Defekts as well as remastered reissues from Galaxie 500. |
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Podcast #216: March 16, 2010.
New and old music from Beat Manifesto, Jack Rose, Godwin Omabuwa and His Casanova Dandies, Fubura Sekibo, Pan Ron, Jonas Reinhardt, Loscil, Coil, Joanna Newsom, and Yellow Swans.
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 After a four-year hiatus, this slumbering drone supergroup has returned with a deeply unsettling and surreal new album. That time was not spent idly, as Above The Sky sounds like it has been sculpted and tweaked to razor-sharp perfection. Despite being the work of three people with three different aesthetics, there is no absolutely trace of ego, compromise, bloat, or wasted time here. This is as perfect as drone music gets.
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 This latest collaboration between Nurse With Wound’s Colin Potter and guitarist/Twenty Herz label-head Paul Bradley is an experiment in returning to an earlier, less complicated way of making an album: only two guys in a studio with some instruments. Despite that, it is not a stunning or radical departure from either musician’s past solo work, though it bears a stronger resemblance to ambient’s early days than usual. It was an inspired move in theory, but the end result suggests that making music the complicated way might be a still better idea. |
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 His story is somewhat legendary in the noise/power electronics scene: recording as MB, Bianchi put out a slew of albums in the early 1980s that helped to define the genre during its nascent days. Then, in the middle of the decade, he left music for personal reasons (rumoredly he became a Jehovah’s Witness). He reappeared in the latter part of the 1990s, with work I had been told (either directly or via a place like alt.noise) resembled a more avant garde Yanni. Needless to say I avoided it. Once this album was available, something told me to check it out and, while not in the same league as his early work, it channels enough of it to still be an interesting listen. |
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 This is one of those kind of albums that is impossible to pigeonhole in any sort of specific genre. There’s some drone elements, but those are mostly overshadowed by tribal drumming. There’s dubby production, but also layers of noise and mutated psychedelic rock. All the while there’s a little bit of metal here and there. Named for a giant squid, this Italian project certainly has its tentacles entangled amongst themselves to create an unclassifiable blur, but it’s a compelling racket. |
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While still a fairly new label, London’s The Tapeworm has quickly established itself as one of the most prominent and unique exponents of the underground’s current cassette renaissance. Obviously, much of the credit for this is due to the surprisingly well-known artists (Stephen O’Malley, Phillip Jeck, Geir Jenssen, etc.) that they’ve enlisted, but a significant part is also due to their bold attempt to bridge the oft-disparate worlds of high art and the DIY ethos. This latest batch of tapes documents the collision of these two worlds with varying degrees of success. |
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 Despite two of their number being ill, Silver Mt. Zion played like there was no tomorrow and midnight was fast approaching. Enraptured by their performance, I could not help but be caught up in the music. Theirs is a music that emerges from the heart and conquers the soul with no preposterous posing and preening. In the past, they have sung that “some hearts are true” and to hold on to the things you love and I believe them. It is hard not to when seeing their conviction on a stage in front of me. |
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 Lopez’ music has a way of getting under my skin, in the same way the faint whine from fluorescent lights and computer screens in an office or the background hum of refrigerators and appliances at home do. While listening to Amarok it becomes part of the environment and the mind filters out its steady subliminal assault. At times I almost forgot I had an album playing, but then the pressure either built up with noise reasserting itself, or it halted abruptly at which times I felt an immediate sense of ease and relaxation. These moments don’t last though and the underlying anxiety (both frigid and animalistic) inevitably returns. |
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 Few current artists are as conspicuously detached from their own era as San Francisco’s Jonas Reinhardt, as there is essentially nothing on Powers of Audition or 2008’s self-titled debut that betrays any inspiration gleaned from the last two decades of recorded music (or culture in general). Nevertheless, his influences are pretty eclectic within the narrow confines of analog’s golden age, as hints of space rock, early synth experimentalism, krautrock, and forgotten cult film soundtracks all find their way into his defiantly dated aesthetic. |
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 This is purportedly the final album in Soundway’s excellent Nigeria Special series (a fact that causes me no small amount of pain), but at least it is concluding in fine form. While some of the previous albums may have hit higher highs, the breezy, laid-back songs collected here might be the most consistently strong and listenable batch yet (though without entirely forgoing eccentricity). This will likely be the soundtrack for my summer. |
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 99% is the record that significantly expanded Meat Beat Manifesto’s audience by narrowing the band’s sound. It was somehow smaller, cleaner, and less ambitious than the records before it, but it managed to give the band a voice that a wider audience could understand. |
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 What initially drew me to Anthony Mangicapra’s work was his reminiscence to classic Nurse With Wound and irr. app. (ext.) pieces and over the last few years his own style has become more distinct, his own artistic voice becoming a firm command to listen. On this cassette, the sound he has been developing appears to have undergone another shift and both sides of the tape reveal new facets of his approach to sound. |
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Peter Christopherson has announced through the Threshold House Web site a 16 DVD box collecting live performances, loops used on the tour, background projections, and even bits of Coil's infamous constumes. Advance orders will be taken starting March 8th, 2010. |
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Loscil, "Endless Falls"
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Joanna Newsom, "Have One On Me"
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Coil, "Gold is the Metal (with the Broadest Shoulders)"
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Meat Beat Manifesto, "Storm the Studio"
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Smegma, "I Am Not Artist: 1973-1988"
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Muslimgauze, "Uzi Mahmood"
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Charlemagne Palestine, "Schlingen-Blangen"
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Dengue Fever Presents: Electric Cambodia
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Ural Umbo
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Jason Crumer, "A Personal Hell"
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Legendary Pink Dots announce major changes
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Jack Rose, "Luck in the Valley"
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Eleh, "Location Momentum"
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Yellow Swans, "Going Places"
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Meat Beat Manifesto, "Armed Audio Warfare"
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Infinite Body, "Carve Out the Face of My God"
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"Nigeria Afrobeat Special: The New Explosive Sound in 1970's Nigeria"
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Kyle Bobby Dunn, "A Young Person's Guide to..."
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Locrian, "Territories"
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Baby Dee with The Cairo Gang
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White Dog/Gomeisa
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'.'93 Current 93'.' to play two shows in London
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Danny Hyde says Thank You
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Gil Scott-Heron, "I'm New Here"
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Aidan Baker, "Liminoid/Lifeforms"
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Colder, "Heat"
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Cabaret Voltaire, "Red Mecca"
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Bonny Billy & The Picket Line, "Funtown Comedown"
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Jóhann Jóhannsson, "IBM 1401: A User's Manual"
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Skullflower, "Strange Keys to Untune Gods' Firmament"
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The Skull Defekts & The Sons of God, "Received in Studio Dental, Gothenburg"
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Robert Piotrowicz, "Rurokura and Eastern European Folk Music Research Volume 2"
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Soriah (with Ashkelon Sain), "Atlan"
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The Other Two, "and You"
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The Other Two, "Superhighways"
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Our Love Will Destroy The World, "Fucking Dracula Clouds"
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Wouter van Veldhoven, "Mort Aux Vaches"
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Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, "Kollaps Tradixionales"
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Harappian Night Recordings, "The Glorious Gongs of Hainuwele"
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2009 Readers Poll - The Results
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The Eye vol. 17!
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