Brainwashed Radio: The Podcast Edition

Cow in Maui from Veronika in Vienna

Two new shows just for you.

We have squeezed out two extended release episodes for this weekend to get you through this week. They contain mostly new songs but there's also new issues from the vaults.

The first show features music from Rider/Horse, Mint Field, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Anastasia Coope, ISAN, Stone Music, La Securite, Bark Psychosis, Jon Rose, Master Wilburn Burchette, Umberto, Wand, Tim Koh, Sun An, and Memory Drawings.

The second episode has music by Laibach, Melt-Banana, Chuck Johnson, X, K. Yoshimatsu, Dorothy Carter, Pavel Milyakov, Violence Gratuite, Mark Templeton, Dummy, Endon, body / negative, Midwife, Alberto Boccardi, Divine.

Cow in Maui from Veronika in Vienna.

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Asmus Tietchens, "Litia"

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BARDO POND, "CYPHER DOCUMENTS I"

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Piano Magic, "Open Cast Heart"

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aeolian string ensemble, "eclipse"

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Eluvium, "Talk Amongst the Trees"

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MASHA QRELLA, "UNSOLVED REMAINED"

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BJ Nilsen & Stilluppsteypa, "Vikinga Brennivin"

This is one of the best, most expertly crafted releases I have heard inquite some time. The artist formerly known as Hazard (Nilsen) andStilluppsteypa (recently reduced to a duo of Sigtryggur B. Sigmarssonand Helgi Thorsson) combine sounds that evoke panoramic landscapes.
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BJ Nilsen, "Fade to White"

The first thing I noticed upon picking up this disc was the cover,startling in its divergence from Touch photographer Jon Wozencroft'stypically blue-toned design. The majority of images here are gradationsupon a white scale, slow and detailed blends like the windowledge-fragment on the front, juxtaposed with the dramatic plunge intopure white of the tree silhouette on the inner sleeve.
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Big Business, "Head for the Shallow"

At first I thought, "Great, another duo playing guitar and drums isreleasing music with the intent of resurrecting the lost heart and soulof lead-lined rock." This time around it's Jared Warren of Karp playingbass guitar and singing with drummer Coady Willis from Murder CityDevils. The most immediately obvious and awesome feature of Head for the Shallowis its neutron-thick production.
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Smegma, "Rumblings"

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