Photo by Andrew Parks
If you’re sick of year-end lists and simply want to hear some decent music, we’ve got a simple solution: start flipping through 12 months of exclusive Needle Exchange mixes, including popular entries from Demdike Stare, Peaking Lights, Anika and Sepalcure. And if you need tracklistings or some words from our artists, just click the “Read More” button underneath each streaming/downloadable player…
Gavin Russom in the DFA studios
Photo by Aaron Richter
As you may have noticed in the flyer to your right, we’re hosting a free holiday party tomorrow night to celebrate the release of our year-end issue. All you have to do is RSVP to events@grandlifenyc.com and show up at Tribeca Grand around 11, when Veronica Vasicka of Minimal Wave records sets things off with some choice rarities from her extensive vinyl collection. Xeno & Oaklander will follow that up with a live set around 12:30, and Gavin Russom (The Crystal Ark, Black Meteoric Star, LCD Soundsystem) and Ilirjana Alushaj (Typical Girls, Apache Beat) will close the night with some more s/t-approved dancefloor favorites. Oh, and if you’re worried about getting sauced in such classy environs, drink specials include $5 beers and $8 Stoli cocktails.
So with all of that in mind, we’d like to revisit three exclusive Needle Exchange mixes, a handful of MP3s and some year-end content from Russom and Vasicka after the jump. See you tomorrow!
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Words and Mix by Xeno & Oaklander
We’ve selected demos and forlorn tracks from the minimal electronics past for this mix that resurrects gems from Russia, Sweden, France, the UK and Germany. These are songs that friends have shared with us over the years by way of compilation K7s and hand-scribbled homemade CD-Rs. They litter our home studio, and have come in all colors and shapes; our all-time favorites are the mysterious all-black disks, and the highly impractical, wallet-sized mini CD-R…
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In honor of tonight’s You Today release show, Wierd Records have unloaded a weighty compilation of rare/unreleased Martial Canterel material. Reaching as far back as 2003, the retrospective includes strictly analog selections from a long out-of-print LP (Austerton), a self-released CD-R (Coercion), and the Moravagine alias Sean McBride assumed before Martial Canterel or his doubly essential work with Xeno & Oaklander.
You can grab it here, and check out a flyer for this evening’s midnight performance below…
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The Artist/Album: Xeno & Oaklander, Vigils (Wierd, 2010)
A Short Review: Originally released as a limited CD-R in 2006, Vigils was recently repressed as an expanded vinyl/digital EP featuring a live track from Wierd‘s weekly party (“Blue Flower”) and a poison-tipped synth-pop track from 2004 (“Ransack”). As always, everything’s strictly analog, tracked in one take, and backed by machines that are wildly expressive and emotionally damaged as the replicants in Blade Runner. And if you’re wondering what’s next, well, we’re told that Sean and Liz are busy recording their next record now, right as the former gears up for the release of his next Martial Canterel album.
Photo by Turkishomework
Have a listen and a look below, or in our iPad edition here…
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Photos by Turkishomework
Each week we send Turkishomework out to capture a sliver of our city’s blurred-vision nightlife. She nearly lost herself last Friday, though, as two hometown coldwave heroes—Xeno & Oaklander and Led Er Est—served up heat-seeking synth lines and moonlit melodies at Cameo Gallery in Brooklyn. We’ll have an exclusive Needle Exchange mix from their Wierd Records label boss later this month…
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We get a lot of crap CDs at the self-titled offices. But once in a while, a pleasant surprise slips into our promo stack. Here’s a recent delivery that knocked the s/t staff on its collective ass.
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