Showing posts with label lo-fi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lo-fi. Show all posts

4.07.2010

SILVER HORSESHOES-S/T, LITTLE RED ROCKET, 1995, C-40, U.S.A





















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The Silver Horseshoes -S/T cassette C-40
Little Red Rocket,1995. Oakland, Ca

This little gem sold out fast and was only available on tour if you happened to
catch the band Daredevil during the summer of 95. The Silver Horseshoes was a
side project headed by Daredevil & Indian Summer's guitarist Adam. Tracks from this release would have nestled in quite nicely with some of the better lo-fi country infused
projects of the same period ala Palace, Songs:Ohia & Rex. These tracks were
recorded at a West Oakland warehouse live via stereo cassette, a very cheap recorder
at that. That said the tracks still retain a rustic beauty and deserve to be shared among interested listeners, we're happy to provide...
A lovely packaged release comprised of a die cut fold out chipboard case. lino-cut print of stampeding horses and an unlucky upside down horseshoe. Hand written name and label logo with cut & glued xerox info squares. Even the shiny red staples keeping it all together were a nice touch.
Just 4 songs of haunted slide and discordant country guitar riffs, singing, jaw harp & samples. The songs are sandwiched between repeating record loops of stampeding horses, distorted and tangled in a slightly disturbing manner, a glorious addition...
The line up for these songs featured Adams brother Seth on drums (also of Indian Summer), Billy from Ordination of Aaron and Daredevil, Nate (RIP) of Bubblejug & Gang Gang Dance, Fawn & Quinn from Tarentela.
liner notes:
Songs:
intro (short)
blazing star KY.
silvery horseshoe
horses and angels
by the light of the lone star
outro (long)

recorded in the month of june 95
the silver horse country and western
band are:
adam m. guitars and yellpin
fawn g. singin and samplin

other players:
seth a. drums
nate country harp
bill s. country slide (trk 1)
quinn slide guitar

4.02.2010

MINATURES-V/A, PIPE RECORDS, LP, 1980, U.S.A
































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V/A- Miniatures
1980. Pipe records
A sequence of 51 tiny masterpieces edited by Morgan Fisher. Amazing collection of mostly British composers and sound explorers. Everything from abstract poetry, jazz, experimental, avant-rock and more. It's impressive to see the amount of creativity these artists back into a 1-minute (or less) piece. You can hear them having fun with the work and doing things they are not normally used to doing, full spectrum of composition, sound and explorations. Each track is wonderfully commented on by label owner and project producer Morgan Fisher. Stand out tracks for us were Andy Partridge, The Work, Fred Frith (who squeezes pieces from every Henry Cow song into a power mash up piece!) Metabolist, The Residents & Mary Langford.

10.05.2009

MTK-KORNUTA-CDR-2006




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MEN'S RECOVERY PROJECT UPTOWN SKANKING WITH SNAKEFINGER AND THIS ASSHOLE
ON FOUR TRACKS OF TR-505 NOISE SURPRISE MELT DOWN ORGY MIND SNAGGER DAGGER GHETTOBOX PUMMELER NEVER SHAKE A BABY ETC... SANITY MUFFINS!!!

ALL TRACKS BY MICHAEL THOMAS KORNUTA W/ MANEESH -THE ACID BABY.

8.06.2009

2.3 CHILDREN- THREE S/T 7", 1982, U.S.A







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2.3 children hail from san francisco these three 7 inches were on penguin records all dated 1982, 2.3 make some very strange, creepy and hilarious music "other peoples l.p.'s" for example is arguably an overlooked funnier than all hellbent classic for any record nut, other favorites include "drunk in the afternoon" and "harry bop slow" although relevance of these folks is some what an obscure topic i imagine 2.3 sharing couch with the residents, chrome and other s.f. comrades serving up the same brand of neo political or not.. wacked out lunacy!! i believe these three 7 inchers to be there complete discography however any help or info on the group would be very welcomed.... if you are in the mood for a laugh or just want to hear some very interesting and bizarre music give em a try.

7.06.2009

HEAVY MENTAL MUSIC-S/T, 7", 1981, U.S.A





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hand crafted by HEAVY MENTAL MUSIC manual skills training center... reads the buisness card inset, sample collaging drum machines and synth soundscrapings from 1981 santa rosa,ca

6.24.2009

TRISTEZA-TEARLESS LIMA, TOUR ONLY CDR +BONUS TRACKS, 2005, MEXICO





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self released by tristeza with help from bulbo of tijuana and in conjunction with Japanese tour:

there might be a common misconception that tristeza follows a certain code of musical terrain to abide by, however trim your ear hairs -these next few posts should prepare that tristeza's sound is not only beyond trivial and mostly lifeless tags such as post rock or instrumental, it can actually transcend said genre's muffin although at times true is the sword, we cannot stop lifeless quiffs or horrible luck. I know for a fact that the pretty and quiet than so loud your brain caves in formula that most "instrumental bands" explore bores this band stiff...in several instances you might add: post punk, kraut, minimal synth, ambient, drone, dub, heelgaze, prog, and musique concrete to the descriptive cataloger of tristeza's sound corral.

some music that may have influenced these recordings include:

cluster, neu, bark psychosis, chris and cosey, silver apples, loop, windy and carl, felt, dif juz, durriti column, cocteau twins, john cage, cybotron, spacemen 3, chrome, talk talk and various psychadelicks.

In addition to 16 track cd post includes 13 live and unreleased songs.

1 Intropeluda
2 Lynched
3 Creedo
4 Gypsy Moth
5 Tearless Lima
6 Kyoto Foto
7 Malabaristas
8 Babear Bath
9 Otak
10 Entry Level
11 Hyped
12 Oakdown
13 Utopiarise
14 Gaza Shuffle
15 X Is Gone
16 Dutch Church

6.21.2009

SIDDHARTHA BY HERMAN HESSE-CASSETTE, 1995, U.S.A






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one of my very favourite recordings of all the ages

I hope my daughter will hear these songs when she is 16 or around the age i was given this cassette by tim dewit in kalamazoo michigan circa. 1995 and i hope she can listen with the same sense of innocence and magic that i did that summer..a beautiful document of home and field recordings recorded in grand rapids michigan washington d.c. and portland oregon, streets sounds, resonant piano, beautifully delivered minuscule guitar parts ringing huge and true in the church halls of an old beat up four track capturing the summer perfectly for me anyway, forever.

nathan maddox/ we listened to this tape incessantly.

tim went on to play drums for cranium, gang gang dance and stints with white magic and neil michael hagerty to name a few.

a cryptic and magical journey, i feel almost protective of this cassette like a favourite hat or a song your grandpa sang you about fishing down a crawdad hole.

I hope you can hold it as close to your heart as i do mine.

6.19.2009

STERILE RECORDS-V/A, SRC1, CASSETTE, 1979, U.K.





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blisteringly wonderful cassette compilation, featuring the first released
nocturnal emissions offering plus ten more songs running the course
of genre's punk, industrial, minimal, noise etc.

side 1

1 Leif Thuresson / Jag Vet Att Du Vantar
2 Moving Finger / From Our Dog
3 Lieutenant Murnau / I Left My Heart
4 S.M. Andrews / In A Box
4.5 Cultural Amnesia / Yellow Song
5 Organbank / Nazi
6 Nocturnal Emissions / From Puberty To Senility
7 M.B.* / COM SA (Extract)
8 Murderwerkers/ Blue Funk (Scars For E)
9 Johnny Alien / Without Measurable Damage
10 Loss Of Head / Sophisticated Incineration

6.09.2009

THE FREED UNIT-DAY GLO, OUT THERE, CDR, 1998, U.K.






DAYGLO

silver apples inspired electronic instrumental offering from the
incredible freed unit!!!

6.04.2009

PETER GABRIEL-GAMES WITHOUT WORDS, LP, 198?, U.S.A





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a little noisy in parts.

lo-fi home recordings.

not what you might expect.

6.03.2009

SPHYNXS-EMPTY SARKOPHAG, CDR, 2008, SWEDEN




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hidden doorway 1:04
spiral speers 1:42
empty city below the sand 1:15
grave map 1:20
hollow sphynxs 1:28
arabic trance 1:57
dawn of egypt 1:10
worm sphynxs 1:40
labrint 1:23
untitled 7:28

5.28.2009

SWINE OF THE TIME-DEVIL'S DELIGHT, CDR, 2007, U.S.A




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: a staggering work of four track bedroom bliss for fans of r. stevie moore, ariel pink, gary war and chrome. outsider. genius. enjoy.

5.27.2009

MUSK-LAPDANCE AT CORN PALACE, CDR, 2007, U.S.A.





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all tracks recorded in one magical deranged summer evening with
creatures holding breath akin to part sun city girls with interludes
channeling early pop rythm box t.g.




josh lindenfeltzer: drums,percussion,trumpet,keyboards
aaron diskin: rhodes,voices,melodica,keyboards
christopher sprague: bass,guitars,rhythm box and voices

01 pascal mescal
02 rememberthemedicine
03 clapsal
04 pisstoll
05 cascade
06 anal candle
07 horselegs
08 horselipblues
09 deutshland
10 loose pills
11 lapdance at cornpalace
12 grouping the heard
13 hard horse
14 flute solo
15 torching the girl
16 touchin the films
17 canadian rules
18 po st
19 collapse
20 clip chipper
21 get well
22 a cocks fight
23 turk heavy weights
24 manitoba
25 piss toll
26 thai lotion
27 toys
28 land pole