January 2012
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quick addendum
All that skepticism and dismissiveness that I was talking about with outsiders in rap and East Asian music, I def do the same thing with exp music, I think largely because there are so many folks that wanna step in and make stuff that is like Halloween SFX records or whatever? And that is so not what it’s about. So, I understand being guarded about one’s music.
Jan 31st
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Lana Del Rey and convincingness
I kind of missed the boat on this Lana Del Rey drama, I’ve mostly been catching people writing about trying to untangle the drama itself, and not so much the music or the persona in a vacuum. So I kind of don’t really understand what this is all about, except that it’s hit a nerve with some people, which is usually something that’s fun and interesting for me to check out. ...
Jan 31st
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Like, you want to be in a scene so you can feel at...
Jan 30th
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My Tumblr Dashboard this evening had a post about that weird Benny Lava youtube video, which reminded me of this totally weird moment I had late night at a hostel in Osaka. I was one of 3 white people in the room, plus maybe 5 or 6 nihonjin? I was making a joke involving a couple different voices, and afterwards someone asked me to do a black accent, which is weird because maybe with enough...
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melody as a tool for sustaining and modulating a...
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Jan 13th
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WatchWatch
Here’s Penumbra too! This one has made its way around the internets once or twice, but I’m stoked to finally be committing it to tape! While World of Prophecy was recorded and pieced together over a few weeks this Autumn in California, Penumbra took us maybe close to a year from start to finish. These recordings are much less sure of themselves, more fragile maybe. We recorded a few...
Jan 13th
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Here’s a new 90 minute Esther Chlorine tape, titled World of Prophecy - Satanism, Ritual Sacrifices of the NWO, out on Donkey Disk in February! (To be followed closely by a 35 minute tape, Penumbra, out on Of Plants!) Yay! For those of you just tuning in, Esther Chlorine is a junk punk late night noise collage project I’ve been working on with San Francisco based tape player Greg...
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“Because of my work concerned with the Sarajevo crisis long ago, people have...”
– Lebbeus Woods, WAR AND ARCHITECTURE: Three Principles
Jan 6th
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sincerelyyours.se is an instant swedish pop rabbit...
Pitchfork: What’s up with the lip-syncing at your live shows? The Tough Alliance: A thousand things. The singing sounds much better pre-recorded plus we can concentrate on more important things like dancing and communicating with the audience. We want our performances to be a situation including the crowd rather than a concert with audience and we want to have the freedom to not sing and...
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i once put on an album of gregorian chant,...
which is kinda cynical for me, but still, that stuck with me. music is a complicated thing.
Jan 5th
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“Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. You know how bad my voice sounds....”
– Babe Ruth, Yankee Stadium, ceremony for Babe Ruth Day, 4/27/47
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From the Miniatures series at MIIT House (pronounced “meat house”) in Osaka last month.
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too thousand twelf
January 2nd I woke up at 4am I’m checking out Kool A.D.s new “highly “anticipated”” mixtape The Palm Wine Drinkard 2012 let’s do this. i’m readjusting to new york a little faster than I’d prefer —- Raub / Horaflora @ Club BART in SF Esther Chlorine same deal i visited Ram he’s got a cat now he’s hella into it ...
Jan 2nd
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i'm back in bushwick for new year's
ok then
Jan 1st