rolling time travel thread 2013 -> 1987 -> 1836 -> 3954

cool show at my store if you are around on the 16th of feb:

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/531544_10200121575934850_829563267_n.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE2duvFGVZU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BxEZ2d_RzA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2WVlLqKcgI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWIFbRYe-u8

Does this come with Chinese New Year dim sum?

bang bros were trying to break the record for most shows performed in one day by playing in 12 cities on 12/12/12... I missed the PVD show, did they end up succeeding? even if they only did 10 I guess they'd break the flaming lips' record.

The Dominique Leone one-song-for-every-day-of-2013 thing has broken my brain and needs as much exposure as possible: http://dominiqueleone.bandcamp.com/album/january

On the very slight offchance none of you have bothered with the MBV album, tracks 7 and 9 (In Another Way and Wonder 2) are pretty much as good as this thread's gonna get all year, IMO

'Moses And Melvis' (January 13's song) is just slaying me

whoa, wtf dominique

love the diachronic/internoise/island-of-misfit-death-disco slant of the thread, so I’m gonna run w/that f/a minute and add Colin Newman’s new-to-me melted-genre nod Troisieme from lol ’80. could prob. go in this threadbut it’s such a sweet mess of proto-techno stomp, martial guitar + drums from the ghost of Swans future, rinky piano plonking, sax lost in reverb, Fripp-ish guitar, and pop vox w/ hints of Bowie damage that it snaps in here w/out effort, so w/e: http://youtu.be/fNEkicBxe2o

-now back to your regularly fucked etc:

Profligate - Conditioning Trench (Outmode Remix): Not Not Fun recs should have their own corner office itt, and lately I’ve been digging Profligate’s techno-pop-alt-interzone-noise-bangers from last year’s Videotape EP. the straight toons are okay, but the remixes bring the broken wonder that nestles nicely w/ Mexican blood-sucking cheerleader anthems. Conditioning Trench in partic swings a manic, ominous bounce that attains the elusive toga party/suicide kiosk ratio alluded to by EIII: http://youtu.be/POr-dw5Bl7o

Profligate - Videotape (DJ mdmHEY Remix): starts off w/soothing factory churn, slides into atonal industrial techno, and then takes the last four minutes stumbling into melting-head ambient for all your dystopian needs. I’m sure there’s an electro-smog corner somewhere itt: http://youtu.be/SXMeZ_w4eFY

A-Z rules. everyone on earth should own that album. i love all his 80's stuff, but that is a serious album. its a work of art. he hit the decade running. it should definitely be as famous as any famous post-punk record. but i don't know if it is.

funny you should mention profligate, maralie from the aforeposted humanbeast directed a video for him

SYNCHRONIZE

http://youtu.be/Yhp4tS4YEug

more humanbeast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3GDMFdIh1M

profligate is bumpin

Friend of mine says the new Colin Stetson is the best yet. Confirm/deny?

oh it's not out until April

didn't see much discussion of emptyset's collapsed in these here parts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAhjXzcgKdg

oh it's not out until April

unbefitting the rolling time travel thread imo

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1836_in_music

July – Soprano Maria Malibran is seriously injured in a riding accident, but refuses to see a doctor; she dies later in the year at the age of 28.
September 9 - Frédéric Chopin proposes marriage to Maria Wodzinski in Marienbad.
November 24 – Richard Wagner marries Christine Wilhelmine "Minna" Planer.
Saverio Mercadante is invited to Paris by Gioacchino Rossini.

idk what emptyset have to do with the rest of this thread

they are ok, probably towards the more boring end of the kevin drumm mutant techno thing

well see they're boring on the mutant techno thread but here they're awesome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1836_in_music

July – Soprano Maria Malibran is seriously injured in a riding accident, but refuses to see a doctor; she dies later in the year at the age of 28.
September 9 - Frédéric Chopin proposes marriage to Maria Wodzinski in Marienbad.
November 24 – Richard Wagner marries Christine Wilhelmine "Minna" Planer.
Saverio Mercadante is invited to Paris by Gioacchino Rossini.
December 25 - new Colin Stetson is the best yet

space rock w/ black metal vocals is a thing now I guess?

rosenkopf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUiYDAdeA0A

in heat
http://vimeo.com/58919126

ooooh cool

as E3 mentioned in their apportioned thread, Pinkish Black def belongs in this thread, esp when they release a new album this year. EZSnappin, who knows them, tells me that the drummer has been taking cues from Jaki for the new stuff

so yeah, speaking of space rock w/ black metal vocals, was pleased to hear pinkish black copping that feel on "tell her I'm dead". PB get a lotta comparisons to suicide for some reason which I guess is gonna happen when you play repetitive fuzzed out keyboard shit, but just cuz you use a whammy bar doesn't mean you need to mention van halen. if suicide were desaturated 1950s rock filtered thru urban future shock then pinkish black is hi-def 1850s baroque shot into the milky way. there's something playful/cartoonish in the music, which is nice compared to the usual blacker-than-thou nonsense, and tho I get their cred w/ the metal crowd, they're jammed sideways between genre cracks and straining towards the sky like some silver apples/rainbow/hawkwind mashup, yup def time travelers and btw check out this reet vid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7tR0zn3zo0

and thx imago, I was aware dominique was doing the song a day thing but got intimidated @ the thought of keeping up, yr post goaded me to dip in

didn't get too far but ava mendoza's skronk on "UB313" sure tickled my fancy

Pinkish Black are less Suicide now (not that it was ever huge, as Edward points out) or anything else in particular and more something entirely new. Definitely some heavier krautrock in the drumming but the keys and vocals are confidently carving out their own space and sound. If the live versions are anything to go by the new record is gonna be amazing, but I don't expect as warm a reception from the metal community. The vaguely metal bit of their mix of influences has been steadily disappearing over the past year, though they are still loud and intense as hell.

But take everything I say with a grain of salt. I've quickly lost any sense of proportion when it comes to these guys and am straight up cheerleading for them these days.

MOTHERFUCKER

Pinkish Black are the fucking NUTS. That song mangled me!

First album is on Bandcamp, broheem. Against the Door is a personal favorite

it's not a zillion miles away from being a much, much more fun (and bass-driven/choral) iteration of nu-Horrors

the album that got talked up a bit on here last year didn't really click w/ me but this track is cool. seems like everything the Beak> album was striving for, but in six minutes

side b of that album (last 3 tracks) is really special, much better than side a, enormous music. and 'against the door' hasn't even started yet!

Love seeing these guys get fans.

'against the door' was if I'm not wrong a whopping great Magma invocation, with more electronics. approval, lots of approval.

I think so, but I haven't asked them directly. The 70s signifiers like Magma, Can and Goblin are really strong in their music without them sounding retro.

yes. not to borrow so much as to refract.

well, the best thing about that album was that it felt like the *start* of something, as if they have plenty in reserve and having tested the waters are about to unleash the fucking kraken

and that it actually made me stop listening to dominique leone for half an hour. seriously, if nothing else gets released this year I think I'd happily subsist on his project alone. ah but then there's mbv, autechre.......2013 is shaping up brilliantly

just wanted to point out that covering stickmen w/ rayguns proves their hearts are in the right place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwdC0ZaR3yo

maybe if i put this here, someone will tell me where i should post it -- also, not bad!
Cyclopean is a collaboration from Burnt Friedman, Jono Podmore and Can founding members Jaki Liebezeit, and Irmin Schmidt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvIDNE0k528&feature=youtu.be

nice!!

Cool, I really liked the last Secret Rhythms album so I'll check this out!

iirc Tuomas is the big Burnt Friedman fan round these parts but he will probably have no inclination to open this thread

newish selma oxor track
http://selmaoxor.bandcamp.com/track/do-it

also checking out this EP from 2009 by the selma oxor band, some nice bits of electrodread in here
http://selmaoxor.bandcamp.com/album/s-o-band-ep-2009

William Bennett’s latest performance-art project Cut Hands surfaces in at least four different threads (world music, noise, mutant techno and DJ mix), so I’m dragging his increasingly prestigious mongrel squall to squat w/its kindred freaks itt. musically, Bennett’s bolting together ambient, industrial, world music and post-techno into a suggestive but too-restrained clunk ‘n drone, but I’m willing to entertain the possibility of advanced-level prankster trolling via Merchant/Ivory-in-leather-trousers mockery. conceptually, Cut Hands seems to be an intentionally overloaded bag o’ signifiers w/ the interpretive Ouroboros expected from a white “racist” provocateur reverently presenting so-quantized-it’s-gonna-crack “trad” Afro-tribal music alternately sprinkled w/ both skronk and schlock and framed in 19th-century dark-continent tripe that’s juggled w/ post-colonial critique (Cut Hands, ffs) and performance-theory gloss. the joke is essentially so all-encompassing that it implodes into synthetic sincerity, but these three tunes are cool, so w/e:

Backlash: http://youtu.be/6pTA3UfS-Yg
Shut Up and Bleed: http://youtu.be/wdakwL8cfNc
Bia Mintatu: http://youtu.be/1gZwk3ia7w0

I’ve been meaning to write about Portal f/ a while, so I’m gonna claim their new rec Vexovoid f/ the folk-atrocity gallery before it mistakenly finds its way to the rolling metal thread. all four Portal recs are great, and w/ Vexovoid Portal continue to furrow obsessively towards an elusive Jandek/Burzum/Merzbow continuum that drives them to vomit endless variations of lysergic sewer-metal. I think these kooks grokked a ruined map in Kerry King’s solos and used it to build a horribly misshapen template of groaning-collapse guitars, intermittent and asynchronous drums possibly from a Roland that's been smashed w/ a bat, and goddamn-the-sun vox that collectively power-ooze w/ meth urgency. Portal don’t “rock” so much as they lurch and sink and swell, concocting noise/psych/jazz/metal that’s arguably awful instead of avant-garde, but idgaf ‘cause this is the tr00 death-ambient shit-show that I need to spin f/hours to quiet multiple brain fevers.

Kilter: http://youtu.be/buBWphrRnkc
Plasm: http://youtu.be/75SERcv4Wfo

at the risk of sounding as dumb as I prolley am, what is the inference of post colonial critique in the phrase 'cut hands'?

Posted on one of the Dead C threads, showing it how its done yet again!

at the risk of sounding as dumb as I prolley am, what is the inference of post colonial critique in the phrase 'cut hands'?

iirc hand amputation was employed by (some) Euro colonists to discipline African workers for failing to meet production quotas during the 19th and early 20th century. "critique" is prob. too blunt f/Bennett's MO, and while "Cut Hands" foregrounds colonial violence, I think Bennett generally portrays violence as a conduit to truth, and in this particular context as an essential if problematic ingredient to 20th-century African musical contribution (perhaps pushing against Adorno's views on jazz). in any event, I think he's more interested in fostering difference than ideology, making him more trickster than activist. my only ish w/the project is the sketchbook quality of the tunes, which are both too short and oddly stiff (w/drums that sound sampled and sequenced rather than played). I also suspect that Black Mamba's turn towards new age gloop is the result of an intentional play against type f/ added frisson, which is interesting but academic. IMO the entire project should've been built w/Backlash as the cornerstone, but atm noize is critical to my mental health, so grain o' salt etc.

'against the door' was if I'm not wrong a whopping great Magma invocation, with more electronics. approval, lots of approval.

― imago, Thursday, February 7, 2013 5:47 PM (2 weeks ago)

Jon was wearing a Magma shirt and belt buckle last night, and Daron laughingly told me that "Against The Door" is their mini-Magma tribute. So a very astute observation.

new purling hiss... not into it

http://blog.irockcleveland.com/2013/02/19/play-me-mercury-retrograde-by-purling-hiss/

think I'm helping to put them on in a few months. do they bring it in the live situation?

when i saw them they were touring off that woodsist lp which was imo their worst release so they played a bunch of that... the material off hissteria or the s/t rips p hard but isn't as drugged out/crazy effects as i would have liked, at times they cand sound pretty classic rock bar band. the good moments were really good and i would catch them again

new track is way too dinosaur jr for me

i've never been into in the side of the band that's not blown out ott hard rock freak out though