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6th February 2012

Every day we are born anew, but familiar.

Featuring:

Baldruin & Demdike Stare

(Our post was given some colour by Philip Caza via 50Watts)

Our genotype mutates slowly, its dominant components a mostly stable tarot deck of archetypes of literary, visual, digital-graphic and subcultural derivation – things that hit us hard in the head when we were being formed, things that perhaps we shouldn’t have been exposed to. Because, as if through osmosis, they penetrated our skin and attached themselves to our soft nervous system. There they remain, never to be dislodged, we return to them again and again in a Nitzschean drone…

Which may explain our stationary state in stats, but also gestalt, we hurl our criteria of validity at the face of the postmodernist gorgon and the spectacle churning cultural-industrial complex like maladapted simians, and run back into the jungle with trophies and relics which we hang in the ruinous gallery of our obsessions, here.

Demdike Stare’s Elemental is a probe exploring a planetary system once inhabited by a civilisation whose culture we cannot fathom, it pans past strange rama-like cylinders enveloping the crimson sun (our analytics software reports that their purpose appears to be ritualistic rather than industrial), it zooms into the surface of one of its deserted planets, and follows a circuit of cyclopean autobahns across which advance brutal crab-looking trucks in mysterious autopilot.

All is quiet, save for a furious wind, and their dubby rumble.

Demdike Stare – Ishmael’s Intent

Go and pre-order Elemental from Boomkat.

Baldruin’s Nachtfalter approximates the Machean ideal of a ramble through wild woods leading our protagonist (say, Mary) to the summit of a hill covered in stones scattered with a hidden logic, like a game of chess left unfinished by long-gone giants. Undine is the love song that the forces simmering within this strange configuration (or beyond the portal that it represents) sing at Mary’s soul, and to which she surrenders, thus becoming the corrupted wife of the dreadful God Pan.

If you had been there, you would have done the same.

Baldruin – Undine

Nachtfalter is coming out in tape at the end of February, through Brave Mysteries.

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  1. so far Demdike have left me a bit…well, not cold exactly because i sort of like it but, you know (not ‘meh…’ either because that seems a shortcut to nothing) like it’s too deliberated or something…

    But on the other hand I love the French Psychedelic Art – I nicked loads from 50 watts too for posters for my Philosophy room (I’m a teacher; not a sociopath – not that they’re mutually exclusive); the guy in the Zardoz outfit is my David Hume. No, really… Ah fuck it…


    Yours sincerely

    Loki

    6th February 2012


  2. Wot is yer man on about there?


    Yours sincerely

    Sean Orr

    8th February 2012


  3. Loki- yes, it is deliberate and meticulous, but in a good way I think. Like space marines planning to breach a space hulk, or alien terraforming strategies.
    Haha re Zardoz. Goraguer designed the walls of our platonic cave!


    Yours sincerely

    Juan

    11th February 2012


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4th February 2012

20JFG Podcast: Donga’s Very Friendly Mix

Featuring:

Donga & Podcast

Welcome Ashley Marlowe aka Donga aka curator of the very excellent Well Rounded / Individuals family with a 100% vinyl  shagged needles and ailing mixer very friendly mixtape which is “kinda house but with a more psychedelic edge”.

Top class, as ever.

Donga Very Friendly Mix

Tracklist:

  1. FLOETRY – ‘Say Yes (Remix)’ (white)
  2. LINKWOOD – ‘?’ (SHEVC004)
  3. ROBERT OWENS – ‘One Tear’ (Tevo Howard Recs)
  4. VIDEODROME – ‘Temptation’s Daughter (Donga & Blake Remix)’ (Well Rounded Housing Project)
  5. BELL TOWERS – ‘Private Time (Dub)’ (Hole In The Sky)
  6. DARKNESS FALLS – ‘The Void (Terje Bakke Remix)’ (HFN)
  7. JULIO BASHMORE – ‘Well Wishers’ (Futureboogie)
  8. VAKULA – ‘Sun S Truth’ (Leleka)
  9. CONNAN MOCKASIN – ‘Faking Jazz Together (Michael Mayer Mix)’ (Because)
  10. DNTEL – ‘Anywhere, Anyone (Silent Servant & Regis Mix)’ (Sub Pop)
  11. Luke Abbott – ‘Brazil (Slow Version)’ (Border Community)
  12. THE BAYARA CITIZENS – ‘Bambara (Tribes Of Distortion Dub)’ (Sacred Rhythm)
  13. SENSORAMA – ‘Exil’ (Ladomat 2000)
  14. DARLING FARAH – ‘Grace’ (Civil Music)
  15. PIRAHNAHEAD – ‘ConScience’ (Third Ear)

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  1. Superb sounds.


    Yours sincerely

    kid vid

    4th February 2012


  2. Nice to hear a new mix from you, mate. Shall be keeping me very happy on the way to work.


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    amypoodle

    8th February 2012


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3rd February 2012

Week 4 – Stasis

Week 4 and Exile is turning into residence.

Two cascading pieces of electronic music.

RxGibbs‘ Proxy falls through the hazy memories of a Kompakt future: a land of brushed metal and milk.  Where reclaimed architectural units of the past; are put into service as the unblinking backdrop; to the entropy of elegance into decadence.  The crisp frame to the final moments of a 48 hour binge.

RxGibbs’ Proxy continues to fall.  Straight through the part 4AD , part Gainsbourg ecstatic/mournful signing of a female voice.  Falling back to the ghostly wireframes of piano house — a dubby place now populated by breeding pairs of Minimal House-oids (a northern European species).

Falling through the synth strains that sound rather like a choral rendition of the metal on metal of banking trains.  Falling through the glorious repetition.  Falling eventually to a pillow soft stop that belies its mechanical reproduction.  Blissful.

RxGibbs – Proxy

Proxy is taken from the Futures EP which is out on February 21st on Cascine.

Crisne returns to 20JFG after Monday’s excursion, this time with Antonio Gallucci in…Architeuthis Rex.

Sometimes, when listening before reading, we stare up at the laptop screen — after hearing something particularly amazing — to make a note of the song title.  This is both in the expectation that it will shed some light on what we’re hearing and so we can find it easier later.  As the brutal looping assault began we knew we in love and, glancing up to see the object of our affection we saw it, there, in grey and white: SpaceMetal#1.

We should have known.

Beginning with the (universally recognised) modulating sound of space’s vacuum, under the pulse of a beacon: we are in space.  A deliciously ominous loop replaces our beacon and metallic shuffling replaces our modulating space sound.  And it grows.  It grows in that creeping way that only a very gradual curve can, almost insidious in its oozing volume.

And lo, there was Metal.  Compressed into the narrowest of beams; a million shreds crying out as one and then refracted.  The pulsating loop obliterating any semblance of structure and time and space.  It’s as if Slayer were placed near a singularity, drums slowed down, guitars accelerated to the point of drone, a human voice desperately clawing its way back from the event horizon.

Architeuthis Rex - SpaceMetal #1

Architeuthis Rex’s album Urania came out on Utech last year.  Go get!

And finally, a plug for our brothers and sisters at Ad Hoc who launched their Kickstarter this week.  Head on over and see if anything takes your fancy or, of course, if you’re feeling altruistic…

This is still up for grabs if you feel that Crabcore is a genre in need of critical reappraisal.

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