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The "wink wink" Thread 2010: This Time It's Personal
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minus_the_david:
i just exploded in my pants seeing that the new Of Montreal had leaked...thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Pictureplane - True Ruin Light Body (vinyl rip)
--- Quote ---Right, so yesterday I spent about an hour and a half writing a big long essay about Travis Egedy aka Pictureplane and where he comes from and his (insert scare quotes if it pleases you) significance as an electronic musician coming up from the ranks of the Denver DIY lo-fi art-punk scene as opposed to a club scene (of which there is very little in Denver). Then I accidentally clicked "save" on a first draft that was still open and I lost about 90% of that. Rather than trying to recreate that post I'm going to spare you and just talk about the music here.
True Ruin Light Body is an EP of sorts released on Kate Moross' Isomorphs imprint, one of many labels / design houses catering to the hip music lover's fetishism for limited run issues of vinyl and merch, and as usual they delivered a fine product in TRLB. The design is a collaboration between Moross and Egedy, and it features a lot of odd cryptographic imagery on the sleeve and vinyl label (including several Stars of David, leading my friends to ask if Pictureplane was jewish) on white vinyl.
The EP is comprised of 4 tracks, 2 of which are culled from last year's weird, compelling Dark Rift LP and two of which are remixes of songs from the same. The EP starts with the eponymous "True Ruin Light Body", which is apparently a remix of the final track from the album, simply titled "True Ruin". Maybe it's my lack of an attention span (both songs run about 9 minutes) or maybe the differences are particularly subtle, but I can't seem to find much difference between the Dark Rift and True Ruin Light Body cuts, aside from the fact that the EP version is a little bit shorter (by a measure of 6-7 seconds). The track itself is Pictureplane's trademark sound at work - like much of the hip electronic music of the last decade, his music looks back with some nostalgia on the 90's, but Pictureplane casts a much wider net than, say, Zomby does, incorporating elements of rave, house and electro but also mainline radio eurodance of the Ace of Bass variety, creating a final product that is mongrelized and seemingly slapdash but also possessed of a distinctly human quality, devoid of tired irony and abound with sincerity and enthusiasm in large part due to the rough, homemade feel of the music.
"Cyclical Cyclical (Atlantis)" is one of the more enduring cuts from Dark Rift, a giddy and quick number with thumping, rough drums, cut-up female vox and a Dan Deacon-esque electric piano line. Then it ends just about as abruptly as it started. The b-side starts with "5th Sun", an uptempo eurodance-influenced song with a rhythm that wouldn't feel out of place on a UK Funky comp. It's a little more "minimal" than Pictureplane's other songs, comprised of just the rhythm, Egedy's voice and a judiciously used, reverb-y synth line.
The final track is a remix of the disco-indebted "New Mind" via UK post-chillwave (I'm making that term up and you can't stop me) kids Teengirl Fantasy, who are about to become hot shit in the next few months. The remix ups the Deep House factor by quite a lot, with snappier snares and hi-hats and a more hypnotic synth warble. It's the kind of vaguely messy club song that would've made the cut on one of those long-lost extra Trainspotting soundtracks.
If you have the means of getting the vinyl I very much urge you to do so. It's crafted with care - mine survived a most unfortunate run-in with my spazzy black lab (the packaging was less fortunate). As usual I've included the ripped tracks as .wavs to preserve sound quality as much as possible.
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Valet / Richard Youngs - Tsuki No Seika Vol. 2 (vinyl rip)
--- Quote ---A little 7" I picked up from Boomkat, Tsuki No Seika Vol. 2 is a split single between adventurous composers Valet (ne Honey Owens) and Richard Youngs. Root Strata's Tsuki No Seika series is 3 deep now (I've got the third on the way, couldn't get the first) and its theme is pretty interesting - One, artwork must be provided by the artist, and two, all sounds on the songs in the series have to originate from the human vocal cords. There doesn't seem to be a limitation on post-production trickery or multi-tracking or anything like that, but there are no instruments beyond the voices of the artists.
Valet's contribution is, apparently, a cover of Mudhoney's minor classic "Touch Me I'm Sick", but it owes more to the pagan mysticism of British post-industrial music than Seattle hrunge. The heavy use of reverb on Valet's clicking tongue and half-audible murmurs creates a pulsing, ghostly backdrop for her whispered lyrics. All in all it's strongly reminiscent of the unsettling claustrophobia of Coil's "Something".
On the flip side, Richard Youngs takes on a different sort of mysticism, this time the strangely alien tone of old folk music. "Fen Flowers" is as much an incantation as a song, as Youngs' even, upwards cadence and seemingly improvised lyrics resemble a chant to some obscure god of fertility. I can't listen to it without thinking of the original Wicker Man film (I have Coil on the brain today - the seminal post-industrial group contributed a bewitching neo-folk track to the film's soundtrack).
Tsuki No Seika is, ostensibly, a subscription-only series, as per the grand tradition of esoteric avant-garde music (Coil, for example, was known to give incredibly rare recordings only to friends) but Boomkat seems to be getting small quantities in as new iterations of the series are released. As I type this Volumes 2 and 3 are still in stock, the former at an irresistibly reduced sale price. Snatch them up while you still can. The artist-provided covers are certainly as compelling as the music itself is.
As I often try to do, the vinyl rips are provided in .wav format for optimum quality preservation.
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Ramadanman - Grab Somebody / Mir [white label vinyl rip]
--- Quote ---It took me a little while to get into Ramadanman, but when I did it was thorough. Continuing his hot streak of 12's (most recently a split with Midland and the killer Fall Short single for Swamp 81) with this white label single, apparently made in Atlanta and self-released.
The A-side is classic Ramadanman, with clean and precise drum programming and Chicago Juke-indebted sampling, this time pitch-shifted a bit higher, the vox taking on a helium-treated sound. "Grab Somebody" also features a much heavier bass than I normally notice from Ramadanman. Also trademark Ramadanman is the compelling R&B-flavored synthwork that picks up halfway through the song (the moment when the organ kicks in on potential track-of-the-year "Glut" is pure genius), very sparingly used here, but to great effect.
The B-side was famously featured on Oneman's Rinse mix CD, here presented as its own track. Ramadanman's mnml drum programming gifts are on full display, but this one's got more of a UK Funky vibe to it, with more varied percussion sounds and zooming laser-beam sounds over pressurized, hollow-sounding synthwork.
Overall this is probably one of the best-sounding vinyl records I've spun on my turntable, and I'm really enthused about the quality of the rips I was able to get. Unfortunately it seems as though the white label with the "Mir" flip is sold out pretty much everywhere, but Bleep still looks to have the single-sided "Grab Somebody" white label. Typically solid work from Ramadanman playing around in the American sandbox. hopefully this moves out of the White Label wilderness into the wider market soon.
And because I'm such a putz, I included yet another pair of 33 RPM fuckup rips in the .rar as well. Interestingly enough 33 play "corrects" the pitch-shifting on "Grab Somebody". Discard them if you like, they're just kind of there as a lark.
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molly rose - molly rose (2009)
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The best folk album you've never heard. Found it in the bargain bin at my local record shop, in a cardboard, home-screenprinted case. Inside was a storebought CD-R with "Molly Rose" written in sharpie and a booklet made of folded photographs. The production value (and quality) is far from DIY, though. Really, really fucking good. If you like girls singing, guitars, strings, and occasional percussion, you're gonna go head over heels for this. I did.
--- Quote from: Seattle Weekly ---Molly Rose draws intricate landscapes of narrative poetry. Her music is as driven by the intrinsic rhythms of her words as by whatever nameless muse guides her. There's nothing conventional about her songs, but she's hardly a weirdo folksinger. She's just a lovely songwriter, and if you're ready to listen closely, you won't be disappointed.
She's got her acoustic singer/songwriter sound dialed in, strummed rhythm, string squeak, and an incredibly dynamic voice, with overtones that make a single line sound both about ready to cry and cry out. Her lyrics are a poetry of secret observations -- you have to listen closely, and she rarely sacrifices depth for a hook. More often, when it comes to the expected chorus, she modulates and the song heads off for new pastures.
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