What you want with a cackling hen? - New NP thread

[YojimboMonkey]

I found a song by a guy named Dan Reeder, sort of a folky weirdo, earlier when I was searching youtube for beer songs. Anyway, I'm listening to his stuff on his website and it's not all great but I'm digging it. Anybody heard of this guy? I guess he builds all the instruments he plays, wild

[YojimboMonkey]

This is really good stuff. Some of it is kinda raunchy though

[Nick Ink]

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[Killdozersnakeboy]

Nick Ink on a roll! I've not heard the last one but the first two are couple of the best guitar albums of recent years.

np: Nhk'koyxen - Dance Classics Vol.I


You should probably check this out Nick.

[Nick Ink]

You should probably check this out Nick.

PAN has become a pretty reliable indicator of weird greatness recently. They also just put out an album by Ben Vida from Bird Show that I have waiting patiently here.

Thanks man, you've been throwing up some great stuff lately!

edit: np - that Shangaan Electro comp from 2010, the one everyone (Demdike Stare, Actress, Hype Williams) just remixed.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

Cool. I'm just catching up on the PAN thing recently. I have the SND/NHK split on the way in the mail now. I'm thinking I might splash out and buy a bunch of the records they have on Boomkat next payday.

I'm still not entirely clear of what the Shangaan stuff is. It's a comp of African music right? I have a couple of of the remix 12's (most recently the Demdike Stare/Hype Williams split). None of which have really done a lot for me on early plays. I should give them some more attention. I wanna say something about Hype Williams but i gotta go to bed. Maybe tomorrow.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

Pachanga Boys: "Time"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwG3KlGw11g

so massive

[Nick Ink]

I'm still not entirely clear of what the Shangaan stuff is. It's a comp of African music right? I have a couple of of the remix 12's (most recently the Demdike Stare/Hype Williams split). None of which have really done a lot for me on early plays.

It's a bunch of South African bands who all sprung up around a producer called Nozinja and his label. Everything's fast - 180bpm, and full of cheap-sounding MIDI synthesizers and marimbas, but almost zero bass. It's a bit disorientating, but it shares that circular, hypnotic sense of rhythm that so much African music from The Bhundu Boys to Bombino all share.

[Good Intentions]

It's slightly out-there versions of kwaito, which is the South African version of house music, popular in urban, black-dominated areas. These aren't middle-of-the-road examples - kwaito typically has far more bombastic, declamatory vocal delivery, and it's not quite as loud and energetic as usual - but the instrumentation and rhythmic sensibility is like dance music has been in the townships for a couple of decades.

Edit: I typed 'declarative', but of course I meant 'declamatory'. Too much propositional content.

[Nick Ink]

This Ben Vida album on PAN is insane. Reminiscent of Mark Fell's Multistability from a couple of years back, but perhaps even weirder. I can't wait to try it on earphones tomorrow.



The blurb runs thus:

"...using just intoned pitch combinations to produce difference tones and harmonic distortions, sound materials are created that emanate from both the playback speakers and inner ear of the listener. By engaging a sense of aural perception and sound localization in relationship to the compositional structure, these pieces act to reframe the listening experience and encourage an engagement with, not only the form and aesthetic of the music, but the sonic space a recorded piece of music projects. Higher amplitude will help to reveal."

samples at boomkat

[Trousers and Pat]

Saying it's

Reminiscent of Mark Fell's Multistability

Is a sure fire way to get my interest. I'll look into it!

[narlus]

6 organs - asleep on hte floodplain

[Nick Ink]

np: Nhk'koyxen - Dance Classics Vol.I


You should probably check this out Nick.

This is great, thanks for the tip.

np: Emptyset - another good recent discovery.

Demdike Stare, NHK, Emptyset, Ben Vida, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Monolake. Quite a number of standout releases this year seem to be working in this area, ripping techno into little pieces and sticking it all back together again.

[ellaguru]

I could only get through a couple of Sharon Van Etten songs before I had to turn her off and listen to Tyvek instead. Is she as boring as she sounded or is she just not punk rock enough for a sunny afternoon?

[Captain]

I like Sharon Van Etten! But she isn't very punk rock. "Serpents" is your best bet if you're going for a more fanged song of hers... but she's more of a coffee house musician. All slow burning embers rather than firestorm torrent.

Although, if it's the latter you're after for a sunny afternoon... you might try bolt thrower???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rvFA5yS4Y4

[Nick Ink]

Burial - Kindred (Hyperdub

[peacocks]

All the music on my computer is stuff I put on it in 2008 or earlier so I've been listening to protein source of the future....NOW (by the gandalfs duh) at work for the first time in that many years and I still know all the words! It's like the musics are tattooed to my soul. Sorry if it is inappropriate to mention here.

[Trousers and Pat]

the other day I straight up listened to "going to georgia" for the first time in yeeeaaars. good song though.

[fishjim]

It's like the musics are tattooed to my soul.

We must have the same soul!

[peacocks]

Twins!

[Killdozersnakeboy]

np: Emptyset - another good recent discovery.

Demdike Stare, NHK, Emptyset, Ben Vida, Keith Fullerton Whitman, Monolake. Quite a number of standout releases this year seem to be working in this area, ripping techno into little pieces and sticking it all back together again.

I downloaded this and it went straight onto my Boomkat vinyl wishlist for my next order (along with that Ben Vida album). It's really good.

np: Cheater Slicks - Live 2010 LP
I got this. Finally. The disappointing thing is that it's only a single LP. Apparently this will be part of a set of live albums to be released. But in the meantime I'll wallow in the true bad vibes of one of the best guitar bands playing shows right now.


Nick - What did you think of Kindred? I fell for it hard upon release but haven't played it much since.

[Nick Ink]

Nick - What did you think of Kindred? I fell for it hard upon release but haven't played it much since.

Right. Almost the opposite actually. I was just thinking yesterday how whereas a lot of people seem to worship Burial, I think I kind of take him for granted a bit. Which is to say, every time I go back and listen to those songs again, I'm surprised by how much I do like them, and I should probably pay them a bit more close attention, instead of just putting Untrue on in the background when I'm doing my ironing and such like. Similarly, I'd kind of half-listened to Kindred a couple of times without focusing on it properly, before it finally hit me on the headphones this week. I'm at the stage now where I'm itching to hear it again, especially Ashtray Wasp, which seemed like an outrageously good track. I'd love to hear his music become more abstracted and stretched out over longer tracks like that, a bit like Ricardo Villalobos or Moritz Von Oswald Trio.

edit: np - Relmic Statute's new one, a wash of fragile tape loops. out on Cotton Goods, who have also recently released the excellent Killer In The Rain piece by Boats side-project, Tape Loop Orchestra.

[Nick Ink]

Sorry to clog this thread up so much, but holy crap this is good:


Daphne Oram - The Oram Tapes Vol.1