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1. Matrix Metals - Flamingo Breeze, Part 4

New music video for a track off of Flamingo Breeze by Matrix Metals, which I posted to the blog awhile ago. Olde English Spelling Bee remastered and reissued the release on vinyl, which you can pick up here.

2. Listen to Raw Thrills on Radio Heart


3. Vangelis & Neuronium (In London 1982)

4. Rangers - Deerfield Village

RANGERS – “DEERFIELD VILLAGE” from OESB // FUTURE SOUND on Vimeo.

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6. Mi Or and the Pedestals at NY Eye and Ear II


Image above by Andrew Chee of RxRF on East Village Radio.

7. Ga'an Live at Silent Barn on Radio Heart

8. Matrix Metals - Flamingo Breeze



I’ve been listening to this project by Sam M. over and over. Perfect summer jam.

Download Matrix Metals – Flamingo Breeze

9. Lubomyr Melnyk Live in Toronto 1985

In the early ’70s Melnyk developed a unique approach to the piano called Continuous Music, a physical and mental technique that allowed Melnyk to play an incredible amount of notes at an incredible speed. In fact he holds two world records, one as the fastest pianist in the world, sustaining speeds of over 19.5 notes per second in each hand, simultaneously! And two, for the most number of notes played in one hour! In 60 minutes, Melnyk sustained an average speed of over 13 notes per second in each hand, yielding a total of 93,650 INDIVIDUAL notes. Holy shit!! But don’t be mislead, this is not some Yngwie bullshit, where songs and composition are sacrificed for mere shredding. No, there is a method to Melnyk’s madness, and the result says all that needs to be said. Continuous Music as you might have surmised, involves generating an extremely rapid flow of notes, with the pedal sustained non stop, patterns, broken chords, the sound is dense and dizzying, like glimpsing the inner workings of some tiny lifeform and watching atoms and molecules spin and swirl. The result of so many notes, played so quickly and so close together, with the overtones drifting and bleeding into each other, is some of the most breathtaking music we’ve ever heard. It’s almost like a waterfall of piano notes, a frothy cascade of tinkling sparkling melody, or a laying beneath a perfectly black night sky, watching a million fireflies dance and flit, a sky full of tiny little streaks of light.

– From a review of the album “Wave Lox” by Aquarius Records




(Originally from the Unseen Worlds Records blog)

10. Ear to Ear Documentation

I contributed two mix CDs to the exhibition Ear to Ear organized by Jeff Khonsary last year. The first mix compiled all my favorite songs from 1996 (the height of my riot grrrl days) and the second was a selection of “ice music” – music that was either made with ice or sounds like music made with ice. My old fanzine from middle school/high school Suburbia was also on view. Here are some photos:

11. Black Pus - Flower Devour

Black Pus were AMAZING last night at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. I didn’t take any photos, but here’s a music video by Dave Fischer below.

12. No Fun: Infinite Sound and Image at the New Museum May 16th at 3pm


Makino Takashi, The Seasons, 2008 (Still)

13. Scores to Matsumoto Toshio's Films

I’ve been in Oberhausen all this week for the International Short Film Festival. This year the festival organized a series of screenings dedicated to Matsumoto Toshio’s work, which has been a real treat. I’ve only ever seen his work on Ubu, and I reposted some of those videos to A Million Keys a few months back. I love the scores used in his films. I was particularly struck by Yosuke Inagaki’s compositions for Connection and Shift, which were screened in the first program (posted below). I asked Matsumoto about Inagaki during the Q&A session, and he responded that he was a graduate student who studied with him. He mentioned that he was a video artist but did not go into much detail. I’d be interested in knowing more, if anyone reading this could provide some insight into Inagaki’s work.

14. Swine Flu

Now seems like an opportune time to post this up – “Swine Flu” from my old band (from high school!) Boxleitner.

15. ::: Good things from Pitchfork TV :::

Jacqueline from (Make the) Product sent me this video she made for Blank Dogs the other day. Her show, which airs Wednesdays 8-9pm on WNYU, is a new favorite of mine.

16. Queen Bohemian Rhapsody Old School Computer Remix


Via Networked Music Review

17. Matrix III (1972) - John Whitney


graphics programming by Dean Anschultz music by Terry Riley

18. Music, Language, Thought April 4, 2009 at New York University

Second session of “Music, Language, Thought” takes place tomorrow. Details below.

19. Taj Mahal Travellers on Tour

I watched this film for this first time while I was sick and delirious last week. It endeared me even more to this band, especially the beach scene around 1:10.




TAJ MAHAL TRAVELLERS ON TOUR
Filmmaker: Matsuo Ohno
Running time: 102 minutes
Year: 1973
16mm.

20. Naked on the Vague on EVR


Last night, Naked on the Vague guest DJed on Radio Heart. They played some of their own recordings (like an excerpt from their release on Near Tapes) as well as side projects Hochman & Hopkins and Knitted Abyss. They were super sweet and I learned some Australian lingo like bogan.

21. "Music, Language, Thought" at NYU Tomorrow

Music, Language, Thought is a new lectures series organized by graduate students in NYU’s Comparative Literature and Music Departments. I’ve been involved in the planning process for this alongside Michael Gallope, Amy Cimini, Daniel Hoffman-Schwartz, and Magali Armillas-Tiseyra. This is my first foray into the world of event planning as a graduate student, and I’m excited about it. Our premier session will be held tomorrow at NYU’s Silver Center from 10am-3:30pm, and there will be another session on April 4th. Here’s a short description:

22. New Mi Or & the Pedestals CDR + Show 2/21 at Eat Records

23. No Fun Tickets...

...are now on sale! I’m stoked on this year’s lineup, which includes Emeralds, Blank Dogs, Merzbow, Xeno and Oaklander, Axolotl, Carlos Giffoni and even Sonic Youth …

24. infinite body

I discovered this band today while catching up on Family’s blog.


infinite body – 07 from kyle parker on Vimeo.

25. Glenn Branca, Live in 1978


Via Hanne’s Art and Culture Blog

26. CJ- Single Minded CS

27. "Fur Felix" by Julia Holter (Video by Fenslerfilm)

I first heard Julia Holter on Brian Turner’s show a few weeks back. So good.

28. MLD- "Perpetual Motion"

29. The Moving Line

Video from Mary Pearson of High Places. I came across this via the High Places blog this morning. Looks like footage from the California/Oregon border but I can’t be sure.

30. Electronics in the World of Tomorrow (1968) by Erkki Kurenniemi


I came across this video today via Ed Halter’s delicious feed. Until now, I hadn’t heard of Erkki Kurenniemi. Clearly, I have some catching up to do.

31. MEDIEVAL WEAPONRY by Always

Always aka Alex Vivian posted a new music video. Alex is amazing! I think this is his first music video to date:

32. Interview with Tara Burke/Fursaxa

33. A Million Keys Muxtape


Now that Spring is here, I decided to make a muxtape documenting my favorite slow and sad songs from this past winter.

34. S-S-S-Spectres at SXSW


I’m going down to Austin tomorrow with S-S-S-Spectres, and hopefully I will have time to cover some of the events in the blog. We’ve been recording for the past few months, and will have a limited run CD-R available. Contact me for availability. We also put up a new song from our CD on the myspace page, “Black Malm.”

35. Fast Blue Air nr 1

I came across this video today via Loreto Martin’s blog.

36. Official Tourist

My friend Jon sent these videos over yesterday. Official Tourist is a side project of artist Kamau Amu Patton, whose work I’ve been hunting for online ever since I read about his show at Machine Project last year. (They’re actually still hosting one of his videos, which you can view here. ) Patton does the video work and designs the costumes for Official Tourist. I’m amped to see his creations, but I’m still waiting for the day when more of his cult-inspired low budget infomercials go online. Official Tourist also produce a line of hoodies.




Official Tourist with Shingo2

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37. OESB Special Recap


Leopards

38. Growing- Lateral

39. Deaf Deaf As A Post



Deaf Deaf, Teen Dream

40. Michael Yonkers Band- Microminiature Love

41. Phillip Werren- Polish Wedding Music (1967)

42. Aluk Todolo

43. Carolina Caycedo- Local Motion (2006)

44. Cyrnai

45. ZNS Tapes Archive

46. Fabulous Diamonds

47. Response to Sexual Onslaught /// Form Grows Rampant

48. n213 /// kunst fascion

49. T.I.T.S. Tour (pt. 2)

T.I.T.S drew unibrows for the Seattle show (evidence below). The vibe was pretty weird- there was a cheesy club next door and a fight broke outside. Ick.

50. T.I.T.S. Tour (pt. 1)

We just got to Seattle. Kind of tired, but we’re having so much fun. I stayed with Gabe Mindel (of Yellow Swans) last night and caught up. Went thrifting this afternoon with Mara. We listened to a lot of Black Sabbath and Welsh Rare Beat on the way up.

51. T.I.T.S. OR BUST!!

This week I am going up to Portland, Seattle and Vancouver with T.I.T.S. . BFF Mara Scotia will be up with us too. I am going to document the tour for A Million Keys- be prepared!

52. My first 24 hrs in California

I am back in the Bay Area for the next week and a half. Expect reports of burritos, thrifting, and redwoods.

53. Dead Reptile Shrine- A Journey Through the Darkest of Forests/Isth Narai Ja


54. AAB (Ancient Art of Boar)- Bright Dole

I’ve been raving about this cassette for almost a decade now. It’s Andrew WK’s solo project from high school. To me it sounds like Prince on downers with a good dose of harsh noise. Pretty much incredible. I heard he released one or two other cassettes as AAB- and I haven’t heard them yet. I promise to bake a cake for anyone who shares them with me.

55. Early ‘80s Colin Potter

56. Boredoms // 77 BOA DRUM

Whoa.

57. Myspace Roundup

58. Group Doueh- Guitar Music from the Western Sahara LP

59. La Fondation/C.Naturel

60. TAPES 'N TAPES 'N TAPES

61. Periodikmindtrouble

I am a bit surprised that I only recently discovered Thierry Muller from Ruth’s project Ilitch. Dan Selzer played it a few weeks ago at a French New Wave night we did at Monkeytown, and I immediately decided to hunt it down. I picked up the Ruth reissue Polaroid/Roman/Photo on Fractal a few years ago, its title track also appeared on the So Young So Cold compilation, which came out around the same time:

62. Rub-A-Dub

With the overabundance of Wolf bands out there, few seem to lead the pack. San Francisco’s Fuckwolf are indeed an exception. Their gritty, spaced-out reverb-laden dub interprets King Tubby’s legacy with a healthy dose of dirge-deranged noise. Weasel Walter, of Flying Luttenbachers and Lake of Dracula, produced their new self titled album on Kimosciotic Records.