July 15, 2006

Music for Undetermined Mood

Filed under: squashed, beyond rocks, Electronica, After Hours — admin @ 11:37 pm

Night City was like a deranged experiment in social Darwinism, designed by a bored researcher who kept on thumb permanently on the fast-forward button.
-William Gibson , Neuromancer, pp.7

An after hour electronica list, it’s mostly exploration filled with recent releases. Overall the list is useable, surprisingly, a break from harsh up tempo post punk. It could work as a saturday post activities soundtrack.

“Do you have horrible secret about yourself that you don’t talk
about at parties?
How could forget the taste of love
when I could still remember?
Nobody knows.”


“Music for Undetermined Mood”

  1. Touane : The Clap Song , Awake (Persona Records, 2005)
  2. Vernon LeNoir : Some Kind Of Batman , Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas (Vernon LeNoir, 2005)
  3. Mochipet : Moogporn (Featuring Machine Drum) , Daly City Records Presents: Baby Godzilla (Tigerbeat6 Records, 2006)
  4. Eliot Lipp : Glasspipe , Tacoma Mockingbird (Hefty Records, 2006)
  5. Milosh : It’s Over , Meme (Plug Research, 2006)
  6. Cagey House : Elephant Orange , Elephant Orange [EP] (umor-rex, 2006)
  7. Vernon LeNoir : The Little Extra , Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas (Vernon LeNoir, 2005)
  8. Pilot Balloon : Vampire Tonic , Ghastly Good Cheer (2nd Record, 2004)

see also: musique-libre.org , Betterpropaganda
image credit: bitmapr

July 12, 2006

Finite Modulation No. A-01

Filed under: squashed, After Hours — admin @ 12:02 am

A large series of playlists with yet unknown final size, solely for the purpose of proving that a bigger indie zine effort to create serious playlist is too narrow and embarrassingly inadequate. If the said goal of their endeavor is “cramming as much quality shit as you could into the space allotted by your chosen format.” Then the term “quality” is highly debatable and should be explored.

No. A-01 goal is fairly simple. Take as many songs as possible from Infinite Mixtape list and create a functional deep night playlist consisting of the best sample songs available on the net. (beyond 2006, but legal and recent) The list expands on I Love You but I’ve Chosen Darkness, Asobi Seksu, Boris and Band of Horses. The styled varied from post-rock, ambient, jazz and IDM.

The emphasize is “functionality” as an after hour list. Another goal is exploring styles and textures as wide as possible while remains listenable. Next part in series will be daytime lists.

“Finite Modulation. No. A-01. 12:08 a.m.”

  1. Noam Chomsky : Propoganda And Control Of The Public Mind , Less Rock, More Talk: A Spoken Word Compilation (Alternative Tentacle, 2000)
  2. Early Day Miners : Return of the Native , Offshore (Secretely Canadian, 2006)
  3. Helios : Grand Ronde , As it passed the western headland … (Web release)
  4. La Korporation du Train Noir : Untitled , La Korporation du Train Noir (Lamain Gauche Prod, 2004)
  5. I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness : Long Walk , Fear is on Our Side (secretly Canadian, 2006)
  6. Björk : Hearts & Bones (internet release, 2001)
  7. Bill Laswell : Simulacra , Version 2 Version: A Dub Transmission (ROIR, 2004)
  8. Asobi Seksu : Thursday , Citrus (Friendly Fire, 2006)
  9. Boris : Farewell , Pink (Southern Lord Recordings, 2005)
  10. 302 Acid : Quest , 0005 (Em:t Records, 2005)
  11. DJ Olive : The Furry Whale , Heaps As, Live in Tasmania [LIVE] (The Agriculture, 2006)
  12. Band of Horses : Funeral , Everything All the Time (Sub Pop, 2006)
  13. The Angels of Light : Praise Your Name , New Mother (Young God Records, 1999)
  14. Miles Davis : Mystery , Doo-Bop (Warner Bros / Wea, 1992)
  15. Joshua Redman Elastic Band : Lonely Woman , Momentum (Nonesuch, 2005)
  16. Wadada Leo Smith : Piru , The Year Of The Elephant (Pi, 2002)

see also: infinity mixtape at pfork
image credit: (michelle)

July 4, 2006

New Light of Tomorrow

Filed under: squashed, Electronica, After Hours — admin @ 9:47 pm

A simple 10 p.m. after hour list in midtown dark aqua blue. Sorry about sparse update. Will go back up to speed again soon.

“New Light of Tomorrow”

  1. Husky Rescue : New Light Of Tomorrow , Country Falls (Minty Fresh, 2005)
  2. My Brightest Diamond : Disappear , Bring Me The Workhorse (Asthmatic Kitty, 2006)
  3. Dierdre : Waiting for Spring , One (Six Degrees, 2004)
  4. L’altra : Bring On Happiness , Different Days (Hefty Records, 2005)
  5. Joanna Newsom : Bridges and Balloons (PocketMix)
  6. Sub Oslo : Sub Oslo Vs. Bookshelf Speakers , The Rites Of Dub (Sub Oslo, 2002)
  7. Jakob : Semaphore , Semaphore / To Be Locked Up 7 (Midium / Hell Squad, 2004)

image credit: “inside tate” by cocube

June 28, 2006

Acoustic Wednesday

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The Starry Night

The town does not exist
except where one black-haired tree slips
up like a drowned woman into the hot sky.
The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die.

It moves. They are all alive.
Even the moon bulges in its orange irons
to push children, like a god, from its eye.
The old unseen serpent swallows up the stars.
Oh starry starry night! This is how
I want to die:

into that rushing beast of the night,
sucked up by that great dragon, to split
from my life with no flag,
no belly,
no cry.

-Anne Sexton , The Starry Night


Late night acoustic playlist with electronic mix. Au Revoir Simone has debut single recently released in the UK. Overall this list is more aftrhour electronica. Ane Brun also recently released her album in the US. It’s highly recommended. And btw, a brave and wreckless soul is needed for acoustic wednesday playlist maker. email me if you are one.

“Acoustic Wednesday No. 23. Late Night edition.”

  1. Puerto Muerto : Grinding Bones , …Your Bloated Corpse Has Washed Ashore (Action Driver, 2002)
  2. Ane Brun : Song No. 6 , A Temporary Dive (V2 Ada, 2006)
  3. Shearwater : World in 1984 , Winged Life (Misra, 2004)
  4. Barbara Morgenstern : Alles Was Lebt Bewegt Sich , The Grass Is Always Greener (Monika, 2006)
  5. Au Revoir Simone : Backyards Of Our Neighbors , Single (moshi moshi Records, 2006)
  6. Rebecca Gates : The Seldom Scene , Ruby Series (Badman Records, 2001)

image credits: Simon Pais.

June 27, 2006

Memory of Imperfect Murder

Filed under: squashed, beyond rocks, After Hours — admin @ 10:57 pm

“…the memory of her murdered lover - all of it ”
- Madperc , Memory of Imperfect Murder

“an element of seduction turning into irrational compulsion”
- Katz, J. , (existential criminals)

When a friend tries to explain our character and unravel our motives, when he relates all our acts to principles, prejudices, beliefs, and a conception of the world which he &rinks to find in us, we listen uneasily, unable either to deny what he says or entirely accept it. Perhaps the interpretation is true, but what is the truth that is being interpreted? We miss the intimate warmth, the life, the way one is always unpredictable to oneself and also tiresomely familiar, the decision to -get along with oneself, the perpetual deliberations and perpetual inventions about what one is, and the vow to be “that” and nothing else–in short, the liberty.
-John-Paul Sartre , Americans and Their Myths , The Nation , October 18, 1947 issue.

Note: It started as a simple enough playlist project, but quickly gotten out of hand. Essentially exploring how one interpret others work, what is the mode of interpretation, the movement of characters internal upon deciding an action in a work, things that drive it all. Trying to capture it in slow motion, beautiful yet unsentimental and deadly.

“An Evening of Long Good Bye”

  1. Julia Vorontsova : Rome , Julia (Abaton, 2003)
  2. Mono : Jackie-O Motherfuckers , New York Soundtracks (Arena Rock Recording Company, 2004)
  3. Rachel’s : An Evening of Long Goodbyes , Selenography (Quarter Stick, 1999)
  4. Clogs : Who’s Down Now , Lullaby for Sue (Brassland Records, 2003)

“Oblivion”

  1. Jaga Jazzists : Airborne , A Livingroom Hush (Ninja Tune, 2003)
  2. Badawi : I Said Oblivion , Safe (Asphodel, 2006)
  3. Skopic : Allow Me , Skopic (Reincarnate Music, 2005)
  4. Bitcrush : Post , In Distance (N5md, 2006)
  5. Mogwai : Folk Death 95 , Mr Beast (Matador Records, 2006)

“Modification”

  1. bagabagabaga : Love Scene (four of ten, visuals modified from “Hiroshima Mon Amour,” voiceover from Lolita (the book). Satie’s Trois Gynopedies, performed by Reinbert de Leeuw.)

see also: Hiroshima Mon Amour (note)
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June 23, 2006

The World Without Magic

Filed under: squashed, beyond rocks, After Hours — admin @ 1:34 pm

Quick update, these 3 weeks I have to fill at MdM. So post will be sparse.

The World Without Magic is a electronic filled melodies with lead vocalist Patrick Bower doing his part with the help of drummer Chris Egan , bassist Darren Will, plus Mina on vocals/keys/moog/guitar. Surprisingly they feel like a very sweet lounge rock. Relaxing and easy. Yeah I need that after posting some harsh stuff. Think 70’s Byrne stuff. (you think?)

World Without Magic released their first S/T EP just few weeks back. Currently they are dong gig all over Brooklyn.

The World Without Magic : Up The Wrong One , The World Without Magic - EP (Fun Fact, 2006)
The World Without Magic : Never Begun , The World Without Magic - EP (Fun Fact, 2006)
The World Without Magic : Quiet Life , The World Without Magic - EP (Fun Fact, 2006)

image credit: wwm

June 2, 2006

After Hour (Au Printemps - Under Byen)

Filed under: squashed, beyond rocks, Electronica, After Hours — admin @ 10:40 am

A late nite near rock electronica list. A pain to compile all the link, but it’s worth the listen. It has a lot of exotic and nice pieces. Grace Period, a Boston based electronica, A rare My Morning Jacket EP, Under Byen, a new Danish electronica/rock and Spanova, a Japanese electronica duo.

It’s a nice Friday afterhour list. It points to a lot of music directions that I am going to digs later. Under Byen is the best, give it a listen.

“After Hour (Au Printemps - Under Byen)”

  1. Cagey House : They’ll have apple juice on the submarine , Steel Tantrum (Nishi, 2005)
  2. Grace Period : Paris Au Printemps , Dynasty (Audio Dregs / Darla, 2002)
  3. My Morning Jacket : O Is the One That Is Real , My Morning Jacket / Songs : Ohia Split (Jade Tree, 2002)
  4. Blanket Music : Bossa Rev , Nice (Hush Records, 2004)
  5. Under Byen : den her sang hander om at få det bedste ud af det , samme stof som stof (Morningside Records, 2006)
  6. Spanova : Absentminded , History Is Bunk Part 2 (Hefty! Records, 2006)

see also: Alexander Calder
image credit: calder

May 10, 2006

Acoustic Wednesday

Filed under: squashed, regular columns, Acoustic, After Hours — admin @ 10:15 pm

Late edition Acoustic Wednesday. A standard evening playlist. I hope you enjoy this, specially all the romantic souls out there. Hope, resignation, confession and little story. It passes gently like evening breeze, mostly the best of recent release. Cheers.

“The Greatest”

  1. Cat Power : The Greatest , The Greatest (Matador, 2006)
  2. Jenny Lewis with the Watson Twins : You Are What You Love , Rabbit Furcoat (Team Love, 2006)
  3. XeMa : De toute façon , 1ères Prises (XeMa, 2004)
  4. Mansfield.TYA : Pourquoi Mon Coeur (Demo)
  5. Women and Children : Today To Die , Women and Children (Attack Nine, 2003)

Note: check our Manfield.TYA, it has certain earthly nobility.
Image credit: Vasily Kandinsky, Accompanied Contrast, 1935

May 9, 2006

Landing

Filed under: squashed, beyond rocks, After Hours — admin @ 11:41 am

Dreamcore/slowcore landscape. With pulsating beauty, Landing presents a hypnotic picture of post-rock with gentle mesmerizing pulse. This celestial-minded 5 friends hail from Connecticut by way of Utah. Formed in 1998, they have released some 10 CD’s and EP, plus their famous “casettes”. What’s more they do annual summer tour, which is always trippy and interesting. They are a regular performer at Terrastock.

Landing is Adrienne C. Snow (Synthesizer, Vocals), Daron Gardner (Drums), Dick Baldwin (Bass, Guitar), Aaron Snow (Guitar, Synthesizer, Drums, Vocals)

Landing : Fluency of Colors , Sphere (K Records, 2004)
Landing : Along , Windy & Carl / Landing (music fellowship, 2001)
Landing : Convergence , Circuit (Music Fellowship, 2001)
Landing : Whirlwind , Fade In/Fade Out (Strange Attractors Audio House, 2002)
Landing : Rial Veed Fiir , Oceanless (Strange Attractors Audio House, 2001)
Landing : Hold Me Under , Passes Through (K Records, 2003)

Note: Try Convergence and Rial Veed Riir. I like them.

see also: music fellowship records
image credit: landing

April 22, 2006

Three Versions of Judas (Part 1)

Filed under: squashed, beyond rocks, After Hours — admin @ 9:34 pm

“it was a predestined deed which has its mysterious place in the economy of the Redemption. … : The Word, when It was made flesh, passed from ubiquity into space, from eternity into history, from blessedness without limit to mutation and death; in order to correspond to such a sacrifice it was necessary that a man, as representative of all men, make a suitable sacrifice.”
- Jorge Luis Borges, “Three Versions of Judas.”


“It is useful to make the following three observations about language games. The first is that their rules do not carry within themselves their own legitimation, but are the object of a contract, explicit or not, between players (which is not to say that the players invent the rules). The second is that if there are no rules, there is no game, that even an infinitesimal modification of one rule alters the nature of the game, that a “move” or utterance that does not satisfy the rules does not belong to the game they define. The third remark is suggested by what has just been said: every utterance should be thought of as a “move” in a game. …

This idea of an agonistics of language should not make us lose sight of the second principle, which stands as a complement to it and governs our analysis: that the observable social bond is composed of language “moves.” An elucidation of this proposition will take us to the heart of the matter at hand.”
- Jean-François Lyotard, “The Postmodern Condition A Report on Knowledge”, 3. The Method: Language Games.


Note: Little weekend musing about text and interpretation. Matmos last album apparently is a postructuralist effort to read Wittgenstein. The list below is mainly post-rock and ambient item. Try Múm, Lampshade, and Pedro.


“The Language Game, Roses & Teeth for Ludwig Wittgenstein “

  1. Múm : Nightly Cares , Summer Make Good (Fat Cat [Caroline], 2004)
  2. Pedro : Fear & Resilience , Pedro (Mush Records, 2006)
  3. Matmos : Roses & Teeth for Ludwig Wittgenstein , Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast (Matador Records, 2006)
  4. Lampshade : Plakka Plakka , because trees can fly (Glitterhouse, 2003)
  5. The Chap : I Am Oozing Emotion , Ham (Lo Recording, 2005)

See also: Perc’s blog entry “Unsolvable Solutions“, Three Versions of Judas (Part 2)
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April 13, 2006

London Night Redo, After hours

Filed under: squashed, After Hours — admin @ 4:03 pm

A cool and cosmopolitan after hours list with indie and IDM tracks. There is too many nice things going on in the list, enough to say it’s delicate.

“London Night Redo, After hours”

  1. Jung Collective : Conga Dementia , rarities
  2. Art Of Fighting : Give Me Tonight , Wires (3 Beads of Sweat, 2001)
  3. The Village Orchestra : Love Theme From ‘Two Man Rumble’ , Et In Arcadia Ego (High Point Low Life, 2005)
  4. Four Tet : Everything is alright , Live at the Spanish Club, Melbourne 20th Jan 2006
  5. Jolie Holland : Springtime Can Kill You , Springtime Can Kill You (Anti, 2006)
  6. Kettel : say thankya it’s over , iron chef 31 - dinner for five with emmy
  7. Puff & Duff : Wooden Land , Hayleen Lömi (Stomoxine Records, 2005)

see also: after hours (categories)
image credits: Susan B, stephen laverack

March 28, 2006

Tuesday After Hour list

Filed under: squashed, beyond rocks, After Hours — admin @ 5:51 pm

After hour list. I’ve been wanting to post a series of afterhour/late night list for all insomniac and late night shifter out there. Afterall, it seems most of Bricolage Fantasy visitors are out of sync with general sun up-sun down pattern. (or is it the entire world that wakes up in wrong hours?) Secondly, I need a way to explore ambient, soft electronica and IDM in more consistent manner than what has been done, since some of the most exciting recent ’sounds’ come from these genres. So here is the opening salvo. My favs. from list below: The Village Orchestra and P-Love. Enjoy.

“After-hour, the opening list”

  1. The Village Orchestra : Jacob/Bad Hand At Cards v2 , Et In Arcadia Ego (High Point Low Life, 2004)
  2. Stars of Track and Field : With You , You Came Here for Sunset Last Year [EP] (Mad Recordings, 2005)
  3. P-Love : Blue & Brown , All Up In Your Mind (Bully Records/Ninja Tune, 2005)
  4. The Low Lows (formerly Parker) : The Low Lows , The Low Lows (Warm, 2005)
  5. Jung Collective : Love Sick , unreleased rarities (Nanny Tango)
  6. pas de printemps pour marnie : lose my breathe , my bloody covers (2004)
  7. Eliot Lipp : Nuetral , Leo 123 remix (Eastern Developments, 2004)

image credits: fundamental is you, paynomind, scootiepye, ende, razorbern

March 27, 2006

The Summer Wardrobe

Filed under: squashed, After Hours — admin @ 8:35 pm

An undiscovered gem from Austin Tx. In a perfect warm southern winter evening, a sweet musical blend such as The Summer Wardrobe bounds to happen. Describing themselves as “a path of psychedelic soul and ambient southern rock”, The Summer Wardrobe captures perfectly the odd time we live in. Serene storms intertwine with unsettling trend of good and bad. A warm late winter night. My other way of describing their sound would be “Cocteau Twins of the south“, a post-rock ambient sound with an aura of dream-pop. Influences cited in their myspace page : Leon Trotsky, Saint Francis of Assisi, Pablo Picasso, Hildegard of Bingen. Right. How utterly socialistic, religious and surreal. Another strange blend. My kind of band. So go visit their page and give them prop. This band is going places with some love.

The Summer wardrobe is Jon Sanchez and John Leon, both perform with Trish Murphy and Abra Moore, George Duron (of John Wesley Harding and Dumptruck) and bassist Zachary Firnhaber. Currently they are looking for a label to publish their first album “Sometimes Late at Night“.

The Summer Wardrobe : The Blackhouse , Sometimes Late at Night (2006)
The Summer Wardrobe : All the Lovers I’ve Wronged , Sometimes Late at Night (2006)
The Summer Wardrobe : Daisy Cutter , Sometimes Late at Night (2006)

Update: Marty Hobratschk now plays bass for the Summer Wardrobe.

see also: my space
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March 3, 2006

SXSW 2006. After Hour Edition

Filed under: squashed, Electronica, After Hours — admin @ 8:50 am

My fav type of list, downtempo after hour. It opens with Noahlewis’ Mahlon Taits from Japan, an amazing jazzy accoustic piece with delicate pluck. I still can’t get over it. The rest are various soft electronica with interesting sound textures. Admitedly Ladytron is a conventional house, but I am a sucker for good voice. etc. Enjoy.

“SXSW 2006. (2 a.m. after hour mix)”

  1. Noahlewis’ Mahlon Taits : Street of dreams , Tokyo JAPAN [stream]
  2. Zenzile : Simple Lesson (edit) , Angers FRANCE [stream]
  3. Caural : Entre Chien Et Loup , Chicago IL [stream]
  4. Daedelus : Just Briefly , Los Angeles CA [stream]
  5. Piney Gir : Greetings Salutations , London UK [stream]
  6. Decoder Ring : Fractions , Sydney AUSTRALIA [stream]
  7. Ladytron : Destroy Everything You Touch , Liverpool UK [stream]
  8. Tunng : Tale From Black , London UK [stream]

See also: Electronic (SXSW 2006), 2/5′06, 3/2′06, 3/2′06 SXSW entry
image credits: Fotologica

February 25, 2006

Jakarta Skyscraper

Filed under: squashed, After Hours — admin @ 3:50 pm

A product of art school, Jakarta Skyscrapper feels like a moody coffe house music, somewhere between jamming session and free riffing. Jangly, poetic, stripped rythm, and downright artsy. The right amount, of course, topped off by good singing. Formed in March 2003, Jakarta Skyscraper LA based duo consisting of Denise Bonis and Eric Forst. Denise is a Virginia native who has studied at the Berklee College of Music. She supported Lisa Germano on her Lullaby for Liquid Pig tour in 2003 and lives in New Orleans. Eric Forst is also a Los Angeles-based Virginia native holding an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts. What did I tell you? Artsy right? Music for that vaguely memorable afternoon at college coffe house. Texture of melancholia.

Jakarta Skyscraper : These Guitars , Jakarta Skyscraper (Tart Garage Records, 2005)
Jakarta Skyscraper : Cities Cape , Jakarta Skyscraper (Tart Garage Records, 2005)
Jakarta Skyscraper : Open Gates , Jakarta Skyscraper (Tart Garage Records, 2005)

see also : my space, CD baby clips
image credits : JS

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