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2011 IN REVIEW: Cold Cave, ‘Cherish the Light Years’
Photo by Shawn Brackbill Like most serious music fans, self-titled spends most days devouring records across hard drives, streaming services and our trusty office turntable. That’s why we’re devoting the next month to deconstructing LPs we loved from throughout the year. Here’s one of them:
NEEDLE EXCHANGE 081: An Exclusive Mix By … William Fowler Collins
Since he’s already emerged as one of the underground’s preeminent dark-ambient players (see: last month’s The Resurrections Unseen LP and a looming collaboration with former Isis frontman, Aaron Turner), we gave William Fowler Collins some simple instructions for the 81st installment of our Needle Exchange series: send us a mix that’s “bleak but beautiful.” He […]
VIDEO: Watch Aphex Twin’s “Remote Orchestra” In Poland
Via Warp: Richard James came up with the idea of controlling a 48 piece string section and a 24 strong choir by remote control, using midi controllers, lots of headphones and some remote visual cues, after being commissioned to write some pieces for the European culture congress in Poland. There was only one opportunity for […]
LISTEN: A New Cloud Nothings Mixtape Featuring Black Sabbath, Thin Lizzy, The Wipers and More
Via Carpark’s Soundcloud page: Dylan says: While I was writing the songs that would become *Attack On Memory*, I listened almost exclusively to music that was made before I was born. This is a pretty common practice for me, actually, but I took it to a new level while making the record. Check out Cloud […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: G-Side’s ‘Modcast’ Mix
G-Side, Modcast #101 (via Modular): 8ball & MJG – Starships & Rockets UGK – Murder Outkast – Liberation Lil’ Boosie & Webbie – Swerve Outkast – Return of the ‘G’ Kane & Abel – Gangstafied Ghetto Mafia – Straight From The Dec Mr Pookie & Mr Lucci – Smoke One, Part Two Feat. Brittaney Starr […]
DOWNLOAD THIS NOW: Fake Blood, ‘USED’ Vol. 6 Mix
Via Fake Blood‘s Soundcloud account: Here is the 6th and last in my USED series. As with all the previous volumes, it’s 100% original pressings of old tracks sampled in classic Hip Hop tunes, loaded into Serato (to save them getting wrecked and cos many of them are super rare), and then cut up on […]
PREMIERE: Zombi Launch Cassette Label, Share New Majeure Song
Steve Moore and A.E. Paterra—Zombi‘s co-founders, and the purveyors of such proven side projects as Majeure, Gianni Rossi and Lovelock—have launched a new cassette label called VCO Recordings. According to a press release that was slipped under self-titled‘s door this morning, “VCO presents electronic-based music that snatches imagination from the jaws of obsolescence—capturing it lovingly […]