Well, I couldn't resist. I've really enjoyed the other 6 volumes and look forward to hearing some new folks.It's kinda like listening to a rotation anyway. Here's what i've heard so far.
From the good old Amie Street days: - "As Adam Wiltzie from Stars Of The Lid told Sadness Is In The Sky fanzine, his collaboration with Bobby Donne from Labradford began when "We all met during a Texas swing of a Labradford tour that Stars Of The Lid opened for back in 1996. They stayed at my house for a few days and we became great friends. A year later I asked them to collaborate on the Kahanek Incident remix for Trance. Subsequently Mark and Carter moved away from Richmond around this time, so Bobby ended up doing their end of the work. Eventually he brought up the idea of doing another record separate from our other projects."
The duo exchanged tapes over the course of a year or two and then Bobby Donne ventured to Austin, TX for a week to record at Wiltzie's home studio in May 2000. The in-person collaboration moved much more quickly than the exchange of tracks by mail. One track on the Aix Em Klemm album, "Sparkwood and Twenty-One", was written and recorded in the course of one day.
The duo took the mysterious name Aix Em Klemm and the self-titled debut came out in the fall of 2000. Kickbright fanzine noted that "The compositions shimmer and simmer, using instruments and sounds over a beatless soundscape, not knowing form or shape. They wander and develop then make way for other spaces. It's a sad, desolate sounding album. The last song has this quiet keyboard melody. It sounds so fragile and alone." Kranky - 2000
In celebration of the 20th anniversary of 93 'Til Infinity, Souls of Mischief graciously opened their vaults to give Gummy Soul the exclusive acapellas of their classic album, to remix for the first time ever.
As the framework of the project, Gummy Souls Wally Clark, dug through his extensive record collection, and gathered all of the songs that were sampled to make hip-hop in 1993. Jazz, Funk and Soul songs, used to create classics from Digable Planets, Snoop Dogg and Black Moon, were then re-contextualized to provide familiar, yet updated versions of some of hip-hops most beloved material.
"I wanted to take all of the records that people used back then, and create new compositions using the same techniques they were using such as filtered bass lines, classic drum breaks, echo-y horns to make an album that sounds like it could have been released in 1993," says Clark. "It was an amazing exercise trying to capture the essence of a sacred time in hip-hop. It also allowed me to playfully use samples that are normally deemed off-limits, because they are too well known."
Am realizing (again?) that one of the side effects of combining ingestion of large amounts of music with keeping an iTunes based library straight as a basis for smart playlists is that I tend to spend more time listening to stuff that is new or that I have not yet decided how to rate/categorize than to stuff I already love, because the best stuff already has its place and doesn't need attending to to keep the system working.
This one is 5 stars and I should listen to it more.
- "German ambient-connaisseur and soundpoet Marsen Jules (aka Martin Juhls) is well known for his releases on City Center Offices, Kompakt or his own label Oktaf Records. On stage he often combines his atmospheric soundscapes with live musicians. A steady formation is the Marsen Jules Trio, which features the twin brothers Anwar Alam and Jan-Philipp Alam on piano and violins accompanied by Jules´ restrained live-sampling, bowed percussions
and singing wine glasses. For tours and festivals the Trio already played in the US as well as in Canada and all over Europe. With their debut-album Présence Acousmatique on Oktaf Records the musicians bring their acoustic presence to CD for the first time. It
features six highly atmospheric soundsculptures between ambient, avantgarde-classic and modern jazz. Whereas the opening OEillet Parfait / OEillet Sauvage is still a variation of a track from Jules´ Les Fleurs album, all other tracks are composed for the Trio or
developed out of the cooperation itself. Two tracks also feature saxophone player Roger Döring (Dictaphone) as a guest musician. The combination of dark scapes and saxophone on Histoire de la nuit and Éclipse makes one think of an ambient version of Bohren und der Club Ghore. The abstract Excalibur and Maison en Vitre remind of early avantgarde-classic and twelve-tone music and the closing Les trains stortent de la gare brings a bittersweet composition for piano and violin hold together by sparkling
percussions." music
A while back someone on the emusic boards started a thread asking what people's longest single track was in their music collection. This was mine, at a fraction under 7 hours, and I just discovered the whole thing is on youtube, so if you need something to unremittingly lull you into somnolence throughout the workday, here it is. I've never actually made it through it; I like the opening sequence best anyway.
I've been uploading a number of older CDs onto iTunes as lossless files, preparing to sell them. Sometimes I find CDs, like this, that I had forgotten about. But last night we entered some on a website to sell. I was expecting maybe a pound or two, but most worked out around 20p each. I'm not sure if they are worth selling at that price. The aim has been to declutter, make some space, and put the money towards a new playback system - I'd really like a Bang and Olfusen wireless system to stream music around the house. But at 20p a CD I'll never get enough!!
I missed them amc but I miss them now!! My 'new' music listening then was really mainstream rock/pop CDs from artists mainly around in previous decades when I had more time
Comments
Why, yes. Yes, I am listening to some seriously random stuff today.
Craig
I have been through it six or seven times now....
An Anthology of Noise & Electronic Music, Vol. 7
Well, I couldn't resist. I've really enjoyed the other 6 volumes and look forward to hearing some new folks.It's kinda like listening to a rotation anyway. Here's what i've heard so far.
- "As Adam Wiltzie from Stars Of The Lid told Sadness Is In The Sky fanzine, his collaboration with Bobby Donne from Labradford began when "We all met during a Texas swing of a Labradford tour that Stars Of The Lid opened for back in 1996. They stayed at my house for a few days and we became great friends. A year later I asked them to collaborate on the Kahanek Incident remix for Trance. Subsequently Mark and Carter moved away from Richmond around this time, so Bobby ended up doing their end of the work. Eventually he brought up the idea of doing another record separate from our other projects."
The duo exchanged tapes over the course of a year or two and then Bobby Donne ventured to Austin, TX for a week to record at Wiltzie's home studio in May 2000. The in-person collaboration moved much more quickly than the exchange of tracks by mail. One track on the Aix Em Klemm album, "Sparkwood and Twenty-One", was written and recorded in the course of one day.
The duo took the mysterious name Aix Em Klemm and the self-titled debut came out in the fall of 2000. Kickbright fanzine noted that "The compositions shimmer and simmer, using instruments and sounds over a beatless soundscape, not knowing form or shape. They wander and develop then make way for other spaces. It's a sad, desolate sounding album. The last song has this quiet keyboard melody. It sounds so fragile and alone."
Kranky - 2000
Thanks to BN for pointing out this recording!
NYOP at Bandcamp
Am realizing (again?) that one of the side effects of combining ingestion of large amounts of music with keeping an iTunes based library straight as a basis for smart playlists is that I tend to spend more time listening to stuff that is new or that I have not yet decided how to rate/categorize than to stuff I already love, because the best stuff already has its place and doesn't need attending to to keep the system working.
This one is 5 stars and I should listen to it more.
I also brought that Aix Em Klemm recording on Amie St., and I still listen to it frequently.
Oneohtrix Point Never - Replica
- "German ambient-connaisseur and soundpoet Marsen Jules (aka Martin Juhls) is well known for his releases on City Center Offices, Kompakt or his own label Oktaf Records. On stage he often combines his atmospheric soundscapes with live musicians. A steady formation is the Marsen Jules Trio, which features the twin brothers Anwar Alam and Jan-Philipp Alam on piano and violins accompanied by Jules´ restrained live-sampling, bowed percussions
and singing wine glasses. For tours and festivals the Trio already played in the US as well as in Canada and all over Europe. With their debut-album Présence Acousmatique on Oktaf Records the musicians bring their acoustic presence to CD for the first time. It
features six highly atmospheric soundsculptures between ambient, avantgarde-classic and modern jazz. Whereas the opening OEillet Parfait / OEillet Sauvage is still a variation of a track from Jules´ Les Fleurs album, all other tracks are composed for the Trio or
developed out of the cooperation itself. Two tracks also feature saxophone player Roger Döring (Dictaphone) as a guest musician. The combination of dark scapes and saxophone on Histoire de la nuit and Éclipse makes one think of an ambient version of Bohren und der Club Ghore. The abstract Excalibur and Maison en Vitre remind of early avantgarde-classic and twelve-tone music and the closing Les trains stortent de la gare brings a bittersweet composition for piano and violin hold together by sparkling
percussions."
music
Illuha - Shizuku
Following GP.
Craig
Illuha - Interstices
Robert Rich - Somnium, link=youtube.
A while back someone on the emusic boards started a thread asking what people's longest single track was in their music collection. This was mine, at a fraction under 7 hours, and I just discovered the whole thing is on youtube, so if you need something to unremittingly lull you into somnolence throughout the workday, here it is. I've never actually made it through it; I like the opening sequence best anyway.
Release date: Oct 29, 2013
And:
I've been uploading a number of older CDs onto iTunes as lossless files, preparing to sell them. Sometimes I find CDs, like this, that I had forgotten about. But last night we entered some on a website to sell. I was expecting maybe a pound or two, but most worked out around 20p each. I'm not sure if they are worth selling at that price. The aim has been to declutter, make some space, and put the money towards a new playback system - I'd really like a Bang and Olfusen wireless system to stream music around the house. But at 20p a CD I'll never get enough!!
"digital/acoustic, environmental, spacial, ambient, minimalist, post-classical"
- http://adamcuthbert.com/releases/dream-world-ep
Probably only of interest to Lowlife but Free at Amazon UK
This is one of several new free album downloads available on Amazon UK
Same source as my previous album!
Then:
Because unlike Greg and GP, I didn't miss the '90s. But now I do.