Sez Tommy Boy (this truly is epic). Now can someone do us similar things re: Chicago, San Francisco, Dalston/Hackney, Berlin? Local Scenes FTW

“I am fortunate to live in a place where so many of my peers are creating the kind of music I love. When most kids are worrying about how the grass is greener elsewhere, these bands are working hard to make where they are where they want to be. This mix is different: it is not vintage or obscure records emanating from some small corner of the globe, but rather all current Texas synth based  projects covering multiple genres. Included is everything from Industrial EBM to Techno, Leftfield Disco to Electro, Deep House to Minimal Wave and even a little Screwgaze for good measure.

I am grateful to all groups who were so kind to contribute to this compilation; special thanks to Klearlight Studios for helping master the final mix as well as producing several of the bands in it. I’d also like to thank Answering Machine Records for their submissions as well as their continued output of quality Texas synth music. I wouldn’t be who I am today if it wasn’t for all my creative friends across this big state.

There is something sacred in the geometry connecting Houston, Austin, and Dallas – this love triangle that we’re all a part of. This mix is a testament to what friends and neighbors are capable of and it’s a fitting time capsule for this time and place. If there’s only one thing I can say about this mix, it’d be simply, “Don’t Mess with Texas ”

Tommy Boy: Texas Love Triangle

1. George Quartz – Coconut
2. Phantastes – Flight of Stares
3. Darktown Strutters – Silver Bullet
4. Indian Jewelry – Same Mistake Man
5. Corporate Park – Intimate Precision
6. //TENSE// – Versus Man (TX Love Remix 2010)
7. Seth Nemec – Count Zero
8. Jake Schrock – Trigon
9. E.R.P. (aka Convextion) – Frozen Volatiles
10. DYX – Lips in the Darkness (feat. Press-On)
11. Submersible Machines - Riding Theta Waves
12. Missions – Phantasy
13. Medio Mutante – Transit (Demo)
14. MVSCLZ – Fascination (Across The Nation)
15. R9 – Dreamdance
16. edrupt – M-U-S-I-K
17. betdat – nex (Radio Edit)
18. MKF KÜNST – Venga (TX Love Remix 2010)
19. Berliner Eins – Nite Life
20. Twisted Wires – Hell
21. Low Red Center – Historic Edition
22. S U R V I V E – White Clouds
23. Future Blondes - NIGHT ANALYSIS (Oppenheimer Analysis “Behind the Shades” RMX)
24. Psychic Violence – U is Moon
25. How I Quit Crack – Gone Away
26. xix – 1111(v7)

So we nicked the title from the horrorhouse mixtapes that Quiet Village slip into choice record stores under the dark veil of the night, but considering what we are about to present to you its pretty fitting.

The wondrous Trunk Records releases another compilation of unearthed treasures, long forgotten in time and space under a layer of static dust. G-Spots (The Spacey Folk Electro-Horror Sounds Of The Studio G Library) collects together otherwordly sounds from John Gale’s Studio G label, featuring the kind of music that could soundtrack ’70s serial killings with red paint for blood, BBC weather forecasts where the bluescreen behind the guy with the moustache was a simple brown card cut-out of Britain with sun and rain-cloud stickers tacked onto it, and the noise shearing through the air when the lights go out on the test-card girl and the clown toy starts to casually chew on her horrified face.

Douglas Wood – Folk Ghost

On “Folk Ghost”, Douglas Wood captures the sound of spectres passing through the spindly twigs of a gnarled oak that sprouts from a hill in a deserted field, lit by the frozen Moon and full of unforgiving malevolence. Any weary country rambler drawn in by the picturesquely macabre nature of the image is soon to meet an unnatural end, but only after feeling compelled to cut away at the blackened bark of the tree to view the blood drenched circuitry inside.

T Kerry- Foggy Dock

T Kerry’s “Foggy Dock” spirals head-first into the echo deck via a gateway hidden underneath a fire damaged amusement park. Here in this phosphorous world of permanent night, all time runs backwards and the juxtaposition of corspes hanging from lamposts while oblivious children play innocently in slow motion silence underneath the gently swaying yellowed sinuous limbs only adds to the white hot fear. A dagger-like pain in your eyes brings on visions of a rusted metal diamond spinning an inch above the ground, before your spat out at the entrance to the smouldering park in the sunrise.

But now we are back in 2009, where all is not right with the world (still) and the brown and yellow Bakelite mixing bowl vs pastel paisley apron prints world is long gone. Now its all cobalt grey mornings/mournings on a shore where beached sealife perish covered in gelatinous black. Good times! Rather than feel bad we’re just gonna feel good, dancing with the devil in the pale moon light, poison ivy strung around our necks, distressed leather jacket flapping in the icy wind and a chalice of pigs blood to keep us warm. If we get bored we can stick SALEM on the cassette deck in the car, or we can listen to Liquid Vega.

Liquid Vega – Black Thunder

Gently corrosive guitar loops draw circles in the sand and the air breathes back and forth to the sound of the strings. Menacing weather formations are waiting on the horizon just outside of this reality, while on the desaturated sands of the beach the shining ghosts of Robert Smith and Kevin Shields are turning their faces away in sorrow at the saddening beauty.

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Our favourite visual acolyte Tommyboy has created a new video for CFCF. The single “You Hear Colours” is available on Acephale.

CFCF – You Hear Colours from tommy boy on Vimeo.

We leave you in the capable hands of Tommyboy for the post today.

David Bowie and Amanda Lear

About Tommyboy :

I am the by-product of a Texas Republican, Evangelical, middle class upbringing. I escaped from this conservative, chaste, conformist culture by watching endless hours of television and film. Science Fiction became my genre of choice since it proposed endless possibilities for the future that didn’t revolve around Armageddon. I became enamored with retro-futuristic imagery found in late 70s and 80s television and film. Like the Challenger explosion, they left an indelible mark on my subconscious and imagination.

My visual aesthetic today has been informed through years of intensive research in film history coupled with the extensive use of mind altering drugs. I enjoy exploring visual metaphors which juxtapose supernatural phenomena with technology and science.

I am a firm believer of repurposing intellectual property with the creative use of sampling. I aspire to create video art that incorporates my sensibilities with the artistic integrity and ingenuity of such luminaries as E.B.N, Negativeland, Coldcut, and Nam June Paik.

tags : metaforms, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, transcendental cosmic disco, artificial intelligence, Hajime Sorayama, Boris Vallejo, Nam June Paik, Dan Flavin, “rock n’ roll people in a disco world” fluorescents, neon signs, culture jamming, hactivism, convergent technologies, nostalgic computer animation, Neuromancer’s, retro-futurists, -ism’s, electronic civil disobedience, erratic consistency, multimedia, power, relativity, video art, the idea of peace and positivity thru geometry/science, finding beauty in pure forms, celestial beings, higher consciousness, neo-digital hippy shit, the clock on the wall…

[vimeo]http://www.vimeo.com/2208814[/vimeo]

My other recent work includes video projections for the Butthole Surfers fall ’08 tour, the Maker Faire festival in Austin Texas, Show Cave’s “Summer Sizzlers” series, Dallas Museum of Art late night series, and multimedia performances with Operation Playmate.

I also DJ sets around town and contribute content to arawa.fm

I am presently working on a video for CFCF‘s new release on Acephale Records.

About Texas ?

I love Texas. Seems like every time I think the grass is greener elsewhere, I’m reminded how special this place really is. Please allow me to share these local, kindred spirits with you. If this doesn’t prove that we have what it takes, I don’t know what does.

Darktown Strutters
Survive
Tense
Jake Five
Prince William
Ben Aqua
VC CHLDKRFT
Totally Wreck Institute

lastly, I would like to share the recent mix I made.

Tommyboy – Love Running Down

This mix is indicative of my current interests in dance music. I am very much into the baleric, italo, cosmic sound. My favorite artists at the moment have to be JAZ, Daniel Baldelli, Beppe Loda, DJ Harvey, Thomas’n'Eric aka Rub’n'Tug, and Lovefingers. I have a deep appreciation for the Netherland disco scene and all their exports. Love Viewlexx, Clone, Flexx, etc. You get the picture….

You can see further work/stalk Tommyboy on Youtube or his Blog.