The Liar - Future Roots Vol. 2

Here's a sweet dubstep mix by NYC based "The Liar" (aka. Mike Mazzotta), one half of the duo "Future Sounds of Brooklyn". You can find more info here and pay attention to their parties poppin' in NYC.

Track list:

Shallow - Joanna Newsom (16bit RMX)
Broken - Martyn
Visions and Dreams - Landslide
Expansions - Sigha
Paradigm Shift - Headhunter
Rut - Joe
Walk Through Walls - Untold
Acquarius - Kloke
The Untitled Dub - F
Rain Mind - Giant
Action Potential - Jus Wan
Bon Feat. Zhakee - Von D
Plumes - Kontext (ReLocate MX)
93 Till Infinity - Souls of Mischief (KidLogic RMX)

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Oneida - The Wedding

One of Brooklyn's finest.

"Oneida have become one of the more rewarding groups in experimental music in the mid-2000s, since they're so unfailingly curious about all their detours. Catatonic psych-rock, heavy blues dirge, post-punk, garage, the anxious blipping of a vintage keyboard -- it's all fair territory for them. 2005's Wedding is no different. Hanoi Jane, Kid Millions, and Bobby Matador drop some inventive pop with "You're Drifting" and "High Life," two songs with real melodies that still manage the unlikely instrumentation and the misdirection you've come to expect. A violin punctuates an exalted ending chorus, blurry organs wail, and -- of course -- someone pisses in Prospect Park. Both songs are like more lucid versions of those Eric Gaffney contributions on Sebadoh's old albums. ("Holy Picture" on III being just one example.) But that's only one facet of Wedding. Speaking of violins, the album begins with "Eiger," where the Swiss mountaintop becomes a place for proclamations to pretty German girls and a full chamber quartet. "Run Through My Hair" matches a brittle mandolin to electric guitar stabs and treated drums for some great psyche weirdness, while "Heavenly Choir" is some clammy sewer drain version of 1970s boogie rock, like an alternate universe Edgar Winter Group. None of these tangents sound forced, or made for the sake of being screwy. Instead they're twisty vines off a central root. So when Oneida opens the nearly eight-minute "Beginning Is Nigh" with a light saber warble and some steadily building organ, you know you're in for a ride. Unfortunately, you're not -- there's a guy mumbling, and a guitar making some noise, but nothing really happens. That's okay, though. Oneida come right back with "August Morning Haze," which brings the strings back to match wits with the liquid tones of a Rhodes and some more impressive vocal harmonies. Wedding might not be Oneida's most way-out album, but it's as satisfyingly restless as anything in their catalog. " - Johnny Loftus

Nigh

Glenn Branca - The Ascension

Long live Branca.

"If one chooses to categorize the music on this recording as "rock," this is surely one of the greatest rock albums ever made. But there's the rub. While sporting many of the trappings of the genre -- the instrumentation (electric guitars), the rhythms, the volume, and, most certainly, the attitude -- there is much about The Ascension that doesn't fit comfortably into the standard definition of the term. Not only does the structure of the compositions appear to owe more to certain classical traditions, including Romanticism, than the rock song form, but Branca's overarching concern is with the pure sound produced, particularly of the overtones created by massed, "out of tune," excited strings and the ecstatic quality that sound can engender in the listener. Though his prior performing experience was with post-punk, no-wave groups like the Static and Theoretical Girls, it could be argued that the true source of much of the music here lies in the sonic experimentation of deep-drone pioneers like La Monte Young and Phil Niblock. Happily, the music is accessible enough that one can jump right in, regardless of one's direction of approach. Branca's band, unlike some of his later enormous ensembles, is relatively modest (four guitars, bass guitar, and drums), so the sound is comparatively clear and each member's contributions may be easily discerned. The chiming notes that begin "The Spectacular Commodity" are allowed to hover in the air, awash in overtones, before being subsumed into a rolling groove that picks up more and more intensity as guitar chords cascade one atop another, threatening to, but never succeeding in, toppling the whole affair. "Structure" plays with sonic torque, whipsawing between two differently stressed voicings of the same theme, pulling them back and forth like taffy. But the title track is both the consummation of the record and the surest indication of Branca's direction in later years. It begins with a marvelously dense haze of ringing guitars, feedback, and percussion, with a foreboding bassline contributing to the strong sense of disorientation. Midway through, it abruptly shifts to harsh blocks of sound over a rapid rhythm, the blocks differing in texture but played in alternating sections, smacking into each other and further heightening the tension. These disparate sounds eventually coalesce into a pure, ringing tone that, over the last minute of the piece, explodes into a spectacular cacophony, a seism of bell tones, microtonal eruptions, and near orgasmic guitar bliss. An absolutely stunning, jaw-dropping performance. Branca's music has served as a major inspiration to many alternative rock bands that surfaced in the '80s and '90s, notably Sonic Youth; both Lee Ranaldo (who plays on this recording) and Thurston Moore were regularly members of his early ensembles. The Ascension, in addition to being an utterly superb album on its own merits, uniquely invites listening from both adventurous rock fans and aficionados of experimental electronic music. For years, the vinyl release on 99 Records, with its stunning cover illustration by Robert Longo, was a highly sought-after collector's item. It was finally issued to compact disc in 1999 by New Tone." - Brian Olewnick

Lightfield

Ui - Answers

Great band directly out of the NYC streets. Have a good listen. Great ideas on these instrumental tunes.

Uuuuuuuuuuuui!

Mars - 78+

Gabo requested some DNA on my birthday post (thanks for the kind wishes people), and while I look for "DNA on DNA" on my disorganized shitpile of cds, i'll give you a compilation of rare material from another of No Wave's big 4, Mars. Includes the savage rush of "Puerto Rican Ghost". Happy holidays!

"Their music catches you off guard. It's frightening, bordering on creepy. The kind of fear you get when you're home alone and hear soft footsteps on the cellar stair. It's deliberate fear, the kind that hits you in the left side of your brain and makes you see shadows out of the corner of your eyes." - Lydia Lunch

78

Tom Verlaine - Warm and Cool

A few days ago Abe asked me about albums similar to Ry Cooder's soundtrack work in "Paris, Texas". I told him some few names and albums, but I totally forgot about this glorious solo effort by Television guitar maestro Verlaine. He crosses all moods from aggressive to deeply melancholic in his brilliant playing while the original Television rhythm section (Billy Ficca and Fred Smith) give rock solid support, even throwing some krautrock rhythm pulses here and there. But it's Verlaine who's the one allowed to shine, and they know it, so they just stand back and let him soar. Awesome.

w & c

Material - One Down

Second album from Laswell's collective, going into a hard edged, streamlined Disco/Funk direction. Nicky Marrero, Nona Hendryx, Nile Rodgers and Fred Frith all contribute. It also features the curio "Memories", a song penned by Hugh Hopper of the Soft Machine that features some nasty sax from Archie Shepp and the lead vocal by the one and only Whitney Houston. Laswell sure liked to bring incongrous elements together, bless his heart. Not their best by any means, but i like it a lot.

Busting out

Live Skull - Dusted

Live Skull were from NYC and specialized in art-damaged, feedback-drenched noise rock, Contemporaries of Sonic Youth, Swans and Band of Susans, they fell in line stylistically. In this album they bring to the fore an unknown vocalist from Boston called Thalia Zedek, and sparks flew. Her delivery meshed perfectly with group's menacing sound, and helped push "Dusted" into the upper echelon of Live Skull releases and NYC groups.

Machete

Suicide - A Way of Life

Their third album, includes perhaps their most beautiful song, "Surrender", that sounds like doo-wop's ghost trapped in a web of old transistors.

I Surrender

Suicide - Half Alive

The legendary ROIR cassette, remastered with bonus tracks.

A pounding reminder of industrial dance music's early beginnings. They produced a unique obsessively American electronic music of enormous energy and enduring influence - throbbing sequencers and "Morrisonesque" vocals: Awesome. -Trouser Press Record Guide

Haaarleeemm

Suicide - Suicide

The sound of broken dreams and exhilarating drug rushes in dirty NYC alleys. Suicide WERE New York. The importance of this album cannot be overstated.

Ghost Ride

Another Thought.

Like Abe said, Arthur Russell was a unique and otherworldy talent, a songwriter that could combine the ocean and the cornfield. In this album in particular he comes out like a seer that has travelled the innermost depths of space and time. I cherish this inmensely and hold it close to my heart, its heartbreaking longing moving me always.

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Adventure.

The oft-ignored 2nd album by Television. Why? Beats me, 'cause it always sounds marvelous to my ears, specially the delicate beauty "Days" and Verlaine's glorious solo on "The Fire". A
reappraisal is due. Or not.














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