singingringingtree
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Re: Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous
Sep 22, 2010, 22:19
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Jean Louis-Costes
http://www.costes.org/
good luck!
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singingringingtree
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Re: Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous
Sep 22, 2010, 22:25
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Mattin
http://www.mattin.org/
(and his Billy Bao band is about the only "rock" music worth listening to right now, IMHO)
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Robot Emperor
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Re: Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous
Sep 22, 2010, 23:22
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How about Russian art rock? All the Magical Unicelluar Music collectives and their believe in "benefits of "painfully dull music".
A bit of high Russian Seriousness is always difficult to accomodate.
http://www.moscow.ucla.edu/articles/magical-unicellular-music.html
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eyeshakingking
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Edited Sep 22, 2010, 23:26
Re: Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous
Sep 22, 2010, 23:25
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Dog 3000 wrote:
As always seems to be the case, certain labels lead the way: NOT NOT FUN is the big one today in my mind. Sun Araw, Magic Lantern, Pocahaunted, High Wolf, Ducktails, Wet Hair, Peaking Lights, and lots more.
Lots of other indie labels, some of them tiny, often still putting out CASSETTES: Cabin Floor Esoterica, Night People, Earjerk, Bum Tapes, Woodsist, Siltbreeze.
The Drone Scene (the ambient end of power electronics?): Emeralds, Expo '70, Drunjus, Natural Snow Buildings.
Dog, you're dead right when you say some of the best stuff is coming out on cassette labels these days. I have to add Housecraft, Rotifer, Stunned & Digitalis to your list. Those four labels are responsible for some of the absolute best stuff around, imo.
Away from labels, and onto artists, allow me to direct you to a thread I recently started about a project called TULUUM SHIMMERING. The perfect example of the new age/no age/hypagogic pop/psychedelic ambient drone/cassette labels/homemade/diy/field-recordings/post-modern melange of all sorts of sounds/ etc etc shit that's zeitgeisting all over the place at the moment, imo. (http://www.headheritage.co.uk/headtohead/unsung/topic/59671/#2)
Another group I'd think you'd dig are the Italian 'Jooklo' collective, who operate under various names: Neokarma Jooklo Experience, Jooklo Duo, Golden Jooklo Age. Another fine example of a big melting pot of influences. Free jazz, spacey/psychedelic rock, ethnic music, etc. If you're looking for a way in, I'd recommend a record called "Time's Vibes", by the Neokarma Jooklo Trio.
*this post was made off the back of three of these,http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/252/35625 , so apologies if it's a little incoherent.
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Dog 3000
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Re: Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous
Sep 22, 2010, 23:28
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I know of the Jooklo guys . . . good label calls, though Rotifier is new to me.
http://www.discogs.com/Second-Family-Band-ThePeaking-LightsJooklo-DuoPlastic-Boner-BandJason-Soliday-Untitled/release/1547458
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eyeshakingking
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Re: Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous
Sep 22, 2010, 23:38
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Ah, totally forgot SFB did a collab with the Jooklo guys. Haven't heard that one (though I have heard they record they did with Peaking Lights last year, another fantastic band)
Rotifer is basically an offshoot of the Floridian Housecraft scene & stuff like Xiphiidae/Tricorn & Queue/Thoughts On Air/Royallen etc. I guess it's a fairly recent development, but it's definitely worth keeping an eye on. Especially if you dig Housecraft's output.
Speaking of SFB & new cassette labels; Brave Mysteries/Cassette Cabal seem to be off to a flying start with their new roster. Definitely gonna stay on the lookout for new jams from those guys.
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Dog 3000
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Re: Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous
Sep 22, 2010, 23:42
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SFB toured with Xiphidiiae last year . . . definitely one to add to the "drone scene" list.
Cassette Cabal does have some impressive stuff out (as you might guess from the T-shirts, it's the guys behind Burial Hex and Kinit Her that run this label): http://www.bravemysteries.com/
And let me plug this one too! http://boondockpissoir.blogspot.com/
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eyeshakingking
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Re: Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous
Sep 23, 2010, 00:06
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Have you ever posted or read another board called Fangs & Arrows? I think you'd fit right in & get some benefit from it. Check it out.
www.fangsandarrows.com
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Dog 3000
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Re: Revolutions are celebrated when they are no longer dangerous
Sep 23, 2010, 01:16
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I should and will try to! I'm generally just a lazy denizen of Unsung -- don't post on other music forums.
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Dog 3000
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Edited Sep 23, 2010, 01:54
Re: Listing the New Names
Sep 23, 2010, 01:51
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Some more faves on a similar vibe I forgot to mention earlier:
Psychedelic Horseshit
Blues Control
Wand (used to call himself Wooden Wand)
Jex Thoth/Sabbath Assembly (same singer, different bands)
Cloudland Canyon
Somehow Wooden Shjips seems too old school and rockist to fit in with the New Thing, but spinoff Moon Duo does.
The hiphop connection: do weirdies like Gonjasufi, Flying Lotus and Georgia Ann Muldrow fit in (labels like Warp and Stones Throw)? In some ways hiphop's "vinyl sampling culture" prefigures the current "everything into the pot" all-styles-are-valid/non-style approach.
A lot of those undergroundy groups from earlier in the decade also seem sorta like trailblazers: SunO))), Sunburned Hand of the Man, Six Organs of Admittance, maybe even Om (losing the guitar and getting into chanty meditative music -- Sleep goes new age!)
Other forerunners could include misfits of years past like Califone and Black Dice? How about "The Heads (UK)"? (Or am I just starting to imagine connections now!)
Getting personal on the HH community next!
Black Tempest (since giving up metal for synths, haha!) and 5-Track definitely fit in with the New Thing.
Lunar Dunes and Solus 3 not so much (too muso, too prog, too funky), but at the same time sorta YES in that they don't fit in anywhere else and that's precisely what makes them fit in here. Where else do you put a jamming band whose the lead instrument is a harp and they self release their own music?
Earthling Society -- for me seems more like a singular and distinctly British rock band led by A Guy Who Has Something To Say. Much like Cornershop, they have somewhat of a "60's-70's vibe" but are living in the here & now. Going their own way apart from any trend?
Unio & Petitio -- I believe the term is "barmy"! All the current UK music I listen to is pretty much weird underground acts like this -- I got no time for your boring-ass Arctic Monkeys, Franz Ferdinand or Radiohead. I think the only three "famous name" UK groups I've given much time to in the last 20 years are Stereolab, Cornershop & The Fall.
Julian Cope -- The man who brought Krautrock back into style. Purveyor of weirdy folk a decade before there was "wyrd folk". A droner and a stoner and an all-night boner. He actually has a lot to answer for these days!! ;-)
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