revised TAXES cassette cover

revised TAXES cassette cover, originally uploaded by ∆∆∆standardgrey∆∆∆.

Drawing/logo by me. Out soon.

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After all this time, I still feel more comfortable at rock shows than at art shows

After all this time, I still feel more comfortable at rock shows than at art shows, originally uploaded by ∆∆∆standardgrey∆∆∆.

music waste:ish

music waste: hard feelings at the cobalt, originally uploaded by distrait.

Music Waste: Point form hilites:

Hmmm. I actually went out on a couple nights. for starters. Would have rocked all night but the usual old man day job tired feet agaoraphobia excuses apply.

*HEALTHY STUDENTS---Ex Red Light Sting/WPP/Taxes doing 80's style hahd-koa. Pretty Dope.
*HARD FEELINGS- all drive, power trio, solid solid, tight bros. Al played drums with the above then moved into gitter/vocs duties. 2 sets in a row. Machine.
BCVCO- Killed it at the Anza. See previous post. 5 guys in white, a stage full of analogue synth/soundmaking gear older than you are, more patchcords than hairs on your head......wwwooooowowowowowowwwWOWOWOWowowowowowowWoooooooo
REVELSTOKE - Dead Meadow meets Hella doing Rush covers. Not shabby.
ART WASTE at Little Mountain - other than Julianne Clare's floor tile reno/intervention (interenovention?) and Robert Mearns huge portrait of Cam Reed, the rest was the usual trendy hipster mural/scribble style with obligatory blackmetal irony and surprisingly very little in the way of neon triangles. Whatever. Got tired of seeing it all over the internet last year, extra tired of seeing it now.

Pic: hard feelings at the cobalt by the ENORMOTALENTED Distrait/Noah

Thee Spring(ish) Mixtape

Funny how time goes. You blink and a couple of months roll by and ... yeah. It's summer. Almost. A few days shy of the Solstice as I type, but all the same---some music for you hand picked from the blogosphere and yours truly's archives as the cold and wet weather gives way to the hot and sweaty.

Anyways, this is a big mix, 140mb or so, and should be enough to tide one over til later in July, as I'm getting on a jetplane soon for another stretch of rest and relaxation in Japan.
Lights camera, etc:
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Thee Spring(ish) Mixtape

Poobli -Jasper Van't Hof
Venus -Logic System
Love Without Sound -White Noise
Langsames Stuck und Rondo für Trautonium (1935) -Paul Hindemith
Windland -Hipnosis
Phantasized Persecutory Breast -Severed Heads
Mosem-E-Gol (The Time Of The Blossom) -Parva�
Little More Gauze -Nichols & May
Revolution Is The Main Trend In The World Today -Cornelius Cardew
Summer '68 -Pink Floyd
Komm und spiel mit mir -Manfred Krug
Together (Album Version) -The Intruders
I can't wait until i see my baby's face -Aretha Franklin
Theme De Celine -Art Ensemble Of Chicago
You've Got What I Want -The Sorrows
Have Love Will Travel -Sonics
Dancing Lonely Night -The Jaguars
Mella Mella -The Spiders
Le Canari Est Sur Le Balcon -Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg
Octopus -Syd Barrett
Tamlin -Fairport Convention

Notes:

Poobli is via dependable Lovefingers and marks the thaw with my winter-long kosmiche bender letting up to let in more sun. But not without a return performance from Japan's Logic System (see the last mixtape for details), classic White Noise, some Paul Hindemith who I heard at dawn on WFMU one day thinking it was Oskar Sala which led me Google-ways to the wonderful Porridge Legs, a new fave blog, who happened to be the source of the Cornelius Cardew track later on. Anyways, it's sourced from vinyl via the Avant Garde Project, a weekly torrent site specializing in old avant/electro-acoustic vinyl gems that have been relegated to the basements and eBay boxes of history. Solid and worth investigating.

Hipnosis provide some triumphant italo space-cruise, Severed Heads is an ooooollld fave (like way old- saw 'em with Skinny Puppy when I was 14 and still have a signed copy of Come Visit the Big Bigot somewhere in the archives).... Nichols and May provide an intermission, an ersatz "end of side 1" giving way to side 2's run of piano, psych, German soul, Motown, and the inimitable Art Ensemble of Chicago. A short garage rampage follows in English and Japanese. We then round things out with some mellow psych and an old fave by Fairport Convention, inserted partially as a spell to convince the Blogglebum to get back on the horse.

So. There you have it. An hour and a half to keep you amused. Enjoy.

Japan is go!

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That is all.

Co-Op Radio, CFRO Tonight!

June 10, Wednesday

9-10pm, Soundscape Radio, doing a co-host thingy on phonography, field recording, souldtransit.nl and Seattle’s Phonographer’s Union

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Also, BCVCO at the Anza after. Music Waste FUCK YEAH!