Well this is a first—we loved Benoît Pioulard (real name: Thomas Meluch) and Rafael Anton Irisarri‘s respective s/t mixes so much we asked the cut to do a joint tape in celebration of their new Orcas project. Sure enough, it’s downright essential listening, featuring everything from a rare Eraserhead selection and Fennesz’s fuzz-flecked Rolling Stones cover to a Cocteau Twins cut that includes Irisarri’s firsthand story about eating Mexican food with Robin Guthrie…
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Photo: Steve Drew
Hard to believe that a year’s passed since Trish Keenan left us after a long battle with pneumonia. And since that means no more new material from Broadcast, one of our favorite peddlers of hauntological pop music, we’d like to share the next best thing: a mixtape Keenan compiled for a friend of writer Joe Muggs. Entitled Mind Bending Motorway, it includes 17 untitled psych rarities and experimental electronic music. As the tape’s original recipient puts it, “Sorry I don’t have a tracklist and to be honest I like it that way. I think it’s less about who you’re listening to on… that compilation and more about the fact you are listening to something that Trish took time to select and compile for me and in turn yourselves. Sorry but please just enjoy the music.”
Stream/download individual tracks below, or grab the entire thing in a zipped file here…
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Via Wilde Calm:
As the leaves fall in the woods and the bonfires are lit, a new mix for you focusing on the darker rituals of the season with pagan pop, mystical dance tunes and haunted sound collages…a clank here, a distant chant there. I also included some reworks from the first Canyon Dancing as well as the yet-to-be-released Canyon Dancing 2 and the in-the-works CD3.
Check out more from Pocketknife—one of our favorite New York DJs, hands down—here, or simply head right on down past the jump for a hefty dose of Extra Alchemy…
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Photo: Angel Ceballos
Free Association is a recurring self-titled feature where we go beyond simply streaming a new album (we’re looking at you NPR and Spinner!) and ask our favorite artists to share the stories behind their songs.
Up this week: Prefuse 73‘s new one, a profoundly haunted exploration of the ether within Guillermo Scott Herren’s ever-evolving sample banks. Not to mention the raw power of such vocalists as Zola Jesus, Angel Deradoorian, and Trish Keenan. Or as the producer puts it in the following exclusive, “Yes, it requires patience, but everything underneath is mutating and taking shapes of its own.”
Listen to The Only She Chapters late at night with the lights off and you’re headphones on blast and you’ll understand exactly what he means…
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You may remember Rafael Anton Irisarri from his stellar Needle Exchange mix as the Sight Below. If not, let’s just say the first three tracks are This Mortal Coil, the Durutti Column, and the Cure, and the rest—all live vinyl blends, mind you—maintains a moonlit feel that’s perfect for the defrosted days ahead.
As for what Irisarri sounds like when he’s not working under an alias, think the kind of neo-classical soundscapes that appeal to Fennesz fans, Wire readers, and minor-keyed mopes like us. The London set below is from a compilation that’s available on a pay-what-you-want scale at Irisarri’s Bandcamp account. A $1 Satie piece (featuring Goldmund) was also uploaded there today. You can sample both tracks below, along with a Broadcast cover (featuring Benoit Pioulard) and two live Fennesz collabs…
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The Artist/Album: Prefuse 73, The Only She Chapters (Warp, April 26th)
The Details: After years of side project rumblings and rambling beat-head records, Guillermo Scott Herren has finally taken a welcome detour with a weightless collection of cuts that has more in common with neo-classical compositions than manic MPC workouts.
“This record is a weird one for me,” Herren admitted in a press release. “The process features all women vocalists and voices and the music was recorded very differently from how I normally work. This can be seen as a departure from other albums but it’s not a departure intended to leave people feeling alienated or baffled. It’s just a different way to interpret my music and it’s an open invitation for anyone that wants to listen.”
Guests include Zola Jesus, Shara Worden of My Brightest Diamond, and the late Trish Keenan of Broadcast. Check out the full breakdown below, and an album sampler at Warp’s site…
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By Ethan Silverman of Terrible Records & His Beige Bandmate Roi Cydulkin
We love Broadcast. They are not only one of the best bands in recent history, but also one of the most inspiring and challenging.
The following are some songs that show how we felt when we found out about Trish’s passing, but also celebrate what Broadcast means to us…
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One of the key changes in Broadcast‘s music over the past few years was their highly experimental work with artist/musician Julian House of the Focus Group and the library music-inspired label Ghost Box. The best known evidence of this partnership is the group’s otherworldly mini-LP Broadcast and the Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age. It’s essential listening for anyone who’s into the hauntological side of our modern age, as is the limited Study Series 7” that was released through Ghost Box last year. (It’s now out of print, but you can pick up a digital copy through iTunes here.)
Here’s what Ghost Box had to say about Trish Keenan’s passing earlier today: “All of the artists at Ghost Box would like to express our deepest sympathies to Trish’s family and to [her collaborator] James [Cargill]. Trish’s passing leaves an immense gap in our world, Broadcast are our central and primary influence and we owe more than we can say to her friendship and support over the years. An enormously talented, generous and beautiful visionary has voyaged on ahead of us to see the Summerland.”
Well put. For more evidence of just how special House’s relationship was with Broadcast, here’s video evidence of a live Broadcast soundtrack set to his Ghost Box film in March of 2009…
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Since money’s tight these days, we don’t buy as much tour merch as we’d like to. However, when Broadcast played (Le) Poisson Rouge in 2009, we couldn’t help but snag an armful of limited vinyl and CDs, including the following tour-only EP. Entitled Mother Is the Milky Way, the 11-track effort is full of song sketches and experimental flourishes that feel like a private look at the duo’s creative process itself. Brief but incredibly beautiful, it’s available below as a deterrent to eBay users who’d like to profit off its 750-copy pressing.
If anyone involved with Broadcast would like us to take this album down, or offer it only as a stream, let us know. Otherwise, please support Broadcast by buying all of their records straight from the source here.
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