― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Friday, 9 February 2007 03:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jack Cole (jackcole), Friday, 9 February 2007 07:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Some of those omissions were rectified by the LP+7" series but not enough for me.
btw, any news on Gary Todd?
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Friday, 9 February 2007 15:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― Tim Ellison, Thursday, 1 March 2007 06:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 1 March 2007 06:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ, Thursday, 1 March 2007 06:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― libcrypt, Thursday, 1 March 2007 07:14 (seventeen years ago) link
Second of the PooBah LAFMS reissues is out--Acnode One. One LP is the first Dr. Id tape (+ guests) and the second LP is the first Ju Sukreet Meet tape (+ guests). Awesome stuff. Free playing, tape loops, junk noises, sound collage, tinkling bells, weirdo moaning. Awesome awesome stuff. I like it more than the Dennis Duck set, I think, by virtue of its diversity. Also, both LPs have outtakes from the sessions that were not originally issued on the tapes. Get it get it get it.
― ian, Saturday, 8 December 2007 19:44 (sixteen years ago) link
This stuff is circa 76/77 I believe.
I have a few Recchion cassettes down in storage that got a ton of my eartime in the 80s. I really should dig those out.
-- libcrypt, Thursday, March 1, 2007 7:14 AM (9 months ago) Bookmark Link
^^ you should sell them to ME.
― ian, Saturday, 8 December 2007 19:45 (sixteen years ago) link
tell me more about Dennis Duck. i have heard good things and have been looking out for that release of 10 months ago.
― sanskrit, Sunday, 9 December 2007 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
We keep that Dennis Duck Goes Disco action in stock at almost all time, mike. It's a lot of loops and turntable manipulation. Whacked out, wrong speed, no anti-skate control.. needle just kinda sits in a groove for a while and shifts over whenever it feels like it. I enjoy it a lot.
― ian, Sunday, 9 December 2007 01:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I've only heard the Dennis Duck track from the 10 CD box set. One o' Clock Jump, I think it's called. Really cool track, like a hyper-edited Chip 'n' Dale megamix. Is each track a different kind of experiment though? I'm guessing there's much more direct manipulation involved...
― Michael Dudikoff presents Action Adventure Theatre, Sunday, 9 December 2007 19:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Mr. Ellison is correct. Dennis Duck Does Disco is fantastic. Then again, seeing Smegma too many times live has retarded my ability to appreciate them as much as the straight up LAFMSers. Also, Mike Lastra's Northwest Passage doc kinda sucks, but then again, so did the Portland scene with a few exceptions.
― Reginald Mantle, Tuesday, 11 December 2007 09:05 (sixteen years ago) link
Heads up:
Brian Turner doing a 3 hr. special on the Los Angeles Free Music Society right now - Tune in: http://wfmu.org/wfmu.pls
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 December 2009 20:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Three day LAFMS retrospective going on in London at the end of the month
http://www.dangerousminds.net/images/uploads/LAFMS_A3_PosterAW.jpg
― Stockhausen's Helicopter Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 16 October 2010 00:40 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG I will JUST miss this!!
― *group snuggle!* (admrl), Saturday, 16 October 2010 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
in a classical piece of procrastination, i umm'd and ah'd about whether to buy a 3 day pass and now it's all but sold out. 1 day tickets remaining for Friday only. so badly wanted to see Saturday's show. fuck it!!
>:[
― (+) (+ +), Thursday, 21 October 2010 10:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Ah shit I was also dithering about going on Saturday. I can't really afford it, got Swans next week, Membranes/Wolfhounds the week after and Wire the week after that, so probably just as well.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 21 October 2010 10:59 (thirteen years ago) link
oh hey.... thanks for reminding me about Swans. hopefully that hasn't sold out too.
― (+) (+ +), Thursday, 21 October 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
It hasn't - I only just bought my ticket.
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 21 October 2010 15:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Would be curious to know the tracklisting for the 2CDR that jack made hstencil
― Pompoussin (admrl), Thursday, 16 June 2011 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
Noise fest next weekend at The Box Gallery in the Arts District. No word of it on The Box's site though.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/lafms/
― nickn, Sunday, 10 July 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
Juan Gomez parts with his music collection.
http://www.amoeba.com/blog/2016/10/amoeba-music/avant-garde-music-collection-arrives-at-amoeba-hollywood-october-22.html
― nickn, Thursday, 20 October 2016 22:22 (seven years ago) link
I was looking for this thread yesterday! They have another insane box set, new stuff:
https://www.strandedrecords.com/collections/upcoming/products/los-angeles-free-music-society-lafms-box-box-13xlp?mc_cid=a2c026fc30&mc_eid=339cebe4f6
― sleeve, Thursday, 20 October 2016 22:32 (seven years ago) link
They're also doing something at the Armory in Pasadena tomorrow that I will go to. Follow the link to their fb page I posted in July.
― nickn, Thursday, 20 October 2016 23:18 (seven years ago) link
Los Angeles Free Music Society: the west coast's own Radiophonic Workshop
― nickn, Thursday, 1 December 2016 07:24 (seven years ago) link
Another article.
https://frieze.com/article/rest-was-noise
― nickn, Saturday, 21 January 2017 21:00 (seven years ago) link
Late notice, but Airway and more are playing at Zebulon tonight.
https://www.facebook.com/events/712621745898356/
― nickn, Friday, 13 December 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
Dennis Duck Goes Disco is fantastic.
― Tim Ellison, Thursday, March 1, 2007 12:00 AM (twelve years ago) bookmarkflaglink
it's true. and the reissue 2xLP is available on the secondhand market for under ten dollars !
LAFMS is pretty spotty stuff. They've been very good at mythologizing themselves. Some of it's wondrously good.
although i'm far from hearing their entire recorded output, this is pretty much the impression i have, especially listening to the "blorp essette" 4xCD comp just now. some of it is really good, some of it is fine.
byron coley blurb upthread kinda makes me want to barf
― budo jeru, Friday, 13 December 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
kinda related, but this single from 82 by the band Stillife is amazing – great Can rip a-side (Rubrica)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsOtHTpbeP8
and a great Glass/Reich-lite piece on the b-side (sounds eerily like Keith Fullerton Whitman circa Multiples)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veryZdGhfec
Tom Recchion and Dennis Duck play on it
― fpsa, Thursday, 27 October 2022 18:20 (one year ago) link
I'm seeing on the LAFMS facebook page that Ace Farren Ford of the Los Angeles Free Music Society scene has passed away.
― nickn, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 01:44 (five months ago) link