Good (FREE) music laying around the interwebs.. Pt. 3

 Weaves - Hulahoop

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 Throbbing Gristle - Distant Dreams (Part Two)

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 Samn Johnson - Bäume Im Herbst

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 Pete Drake - Forever

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Nico - Frozen Warnings

~njoy.

EIC's 10Q's w/ Afraid

"..there are two rules to having a good time.."

 

(Photo credit: Ryan Eyestone)

Afraid

Nebulous Drift Drag

Afraid Bio:

Portland, ME-based smoky bedroom sounds. Gravebaby shiv. Est. May 2011.

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Hello, how are you?

Doing much better than I have been in the past six months. Coming out of a bad spell, y'all.

What are you currently listening to?

Tricky's 'Pre-Millenium Tension' album. This Mortal Coil's 'It'll End In Tears.' Also, lots of old soul. Garnet Mimms, Otis Redding, Smokey Robinson, Ben E. King. Other than that, I've been listening to Grouper for a couple hours here and there laying in bed, looking out the window.

Whats with the band name, is there something specific you fear?

I once recorded a version of Nico's "Afraid'" with a very certain girl in my life. We were going to be Afraid together. The girl left, but the name stayed. It still feels appropriate. 'Desertshore' is one of my secret favorite records of all time, and I think it shows through in places in my music if you know where to look. I'm just waiting out here on the Desertshore to meet up with Nico one of these days…

When did this project come about?

May of 2011. I recorded "Tearing The Tongue" and sent it to some close friends. It was over a year until anything was released though (EMF, 9.10.12.) I had to take some serious time to figure out what the fuck I wanted to be doing. Lots of fiddling with knobs and tuning ladies' voices down in audacity.

Care to tell us a little bit about the album you did with Jared Fairfield titled 'EMF', theme/meaning of acronym, how it came up/how you know Jared, etc.?

We sort of promised not to give the meaning away ever. But, you can see on the cover of the album that Jared has an 'EMF' tattoo. We spent a lot of time in that very same room on the cover, doing just what you see there, fucking off and drinking profusely and tattooing each other and our friends occasionally. We watched a lot of Rihanna videos on local access music video television and decided to make a split record, since we were both making electronic music for the first time. The title and the image just came to me. There are maybe three or four different meanings, but a couple hold sway over the others. One day we might share. In the meantime, we both need to cracking on EMF II, as we plan to do a whole string of these things.

Any plans to tour for said release?

No plans to tour at the moment. One of the only things I know for sure that I want to do in life is to tour with Afraid. I just haven't finished putting my live crew together yet. I need friends, people who are on the same wavelength. I can't use any old dummy. No hired hands. No local goons. Big purple lights and lots of strobes, fog machines, many many speakers. All of this needs to come together first.

Got any other projects we should know about?

At the moment, no. I'm married to Afraid.

What movie would work best on mute while listening to you music?

Boogie Nights. I actually put this on mute while I was messing around with my MicroKorg the first time I got it. So yes, Boogie Nights. "I'm a star, I'm a star, I'm a big big star." Put on "All Fucked Up (Forever)" from EMF and watch the cocaine dealer scene, I think that would work nicely.

You can only keep/listen to ONE album for the rest of your life ..which album would it be?

Spacemen 3's 'Forged Prescriptions.' If I can only have one record for the rest of my life, I'm going to take the one that sends me floating off to heaven every time. Thank you Spaceman. Thank you Pete.

Are you living your dream?

No. If one day I wake up and I can miraculously make music all day, and play shows and record all morning and night, then I will be living my dream. I have never been able to tell if this dream is ludicrous or worth chasing, so instead I have learned to focus solely on the work at hand, and to live inside of it. This is all I ever want to do, anyways.

Thanx Jakob!

Afraid recently released the 'French Braids/Dead Friends' single, check that out NOW. He's also currently working on his upcoming "debut" LP, look for that sometime soon (as well as one other surprise;])..

If only I lived here..(!)

Wishful Thinking: In Remembrance of Peter Christopherson (1955–2010)
Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson was best known as a founder member of Throbbing Gristle and Coil, a designer at Hipgnosis, and a videomaker for Greenback Films. In summer 2010, AV Festival commissioned him to compose a work for the 2012 spring Equinox, to be staged at Durham Cathedral, where his father was University Vice-Chancellor from 1960–1979. Christopherson died in his sleep at home in Thailand on 24 November 2010 before completing the work.

This music, film and performance event is a celebratory remembrance of his life and work. It includes the premiere of three performance sketches with Christopherson‘s original collaborators for the commission: visual artist Alex Rose, sound recordist Chris Watson and vocalist Attila Csihar. Special guests Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti premiere live remixes from Throbbing Gristle’s nascent, and final, studio album: a 'cover' of Nico’s Desertshore, preceded by a rare screening of Philippe Garrel’s The Inner Scar for which Desertshore was soundtrack and inspiration. The evening comes to a poetic close with Derek Jarman’s The Angelic Conversation, with a soundtrack by Coil, Christopherson considered the film “truly, a timeless work of art”.

We miss ya Peter:..(

EIC'S10Q'S w/When Saints Go Machine

"..gonzo organic meshing with man made mechanical bliss.."





When Saints Go Machine

Incongruous Artisans



When Saints Go Machine Bio:

When Saints Go Machine is a Danish electro-pop group from Copenhagen. The group consists of four men: Silas Moldenhawer (drums), Jonas Kenton (synth, vocals), Simon Muschinsky (keys) and Nicholas Manuel Vonsild (vocals).



When Saints Go Machine was formed in 2007 and debuted with their Selvbetitlede EP in 2008. In May 2009 they released their debut album Ten Makes A Face. Their most popular tracks is “Fail Forever, ” “You or The Gang”and “Kids on Vacation”.



The group was awarded P3 Talent by P3 Guld 2008.



In 2010 the group opened Orange Stage at Roskilde Festival.



When Saints Go Machine signed a contract with German label! K7 Records in October 2010 for releases outside Scandinavia. On 16 May 2011 the group published their second studio album, Konkylie.





Hello, how are you?

Good. I am sitting in the back of a van raging through a German forest.



What are you currently listening to?

Deerhoof’s "Offend Maggie" and Nico’s "The Marble Index". I know these records are kind of old, but they’re amazing and two out of the six albums I brought on tour. I have been trying to find Patti Smith’s "Horses" on vinyl for cooking and hanging out in the kitchen for a while, but no luck yet.



Besides it sounding awesome, is the band name a reference to anything?

Not really. We needed a band name when we started out and Louis Armstrong was lying on top of a pile of records in the studio and we stole his words, erased and changed two of them and thought what came from it fit our music somehow. It is a long one though and people always mess it up. Don’t know if people care about band names?



When you began this project did you have a specific "sound goal" in mind?

With "Konkylie" we just wanted to make something we could all feel. Paying attention to every little detail, we wanted to make a pop record you could listen to more than once without being bored.

While we were working on it a lot of horrific stuff happened and I don’t know if making an album helps you or pushes you further towards some kind of social paranoia, maybe a bit of both.



What's your favorite track of yours so far?

My favorite is "Add Ends". This song is very important to me and it took me a year and a half to get it right, Trying to write your way out of something, but standing in the middle of it all can be a hard one some times.



Got any side/upcoming projects coming up?

We’re always in the process of recording so I guess something is bound to come up, always does. Also we just released "Konkylie" under a month ago, that should be enough sound for at least five more weeks. We all have different side projects, but right now I think we’re trying to understand each other through writing some more music together.



If you could collaborate with any artist of your choosing whom would it be with?

Laurie Anderson, Greg Saunier, Beth Gibbons and Los Reyes Del Tambor. Actually all of them on one song would be a dream come true for us. Maybe that’s too much to ask?



The best time to listen to When Saints Go Machine is?

Scuba diving with your eyes closed.



You can only keep/listen to ONE album for the rest of your life ..which album would it be?

Can’t do that.



Are you living your dream?

Sometimes.



Thanx Jessica & Nikolaj!



WSGM are currently touring Europe, hopefully the US will follow shortly after..(please?)..

Throbbing Gristle news..!

From TG's site:

Sleazy' Peter Martin Christopherson (27/02/1955 - 24/11/2010) - We miss him dearly...

To eliminate any further speculation, rumours or disinformation: Throbbing Gristle (through these, the very saddest of circumstances) concur with Sleazy's comments of 10th November 2010:

"About the future of TG live. I do not regard it as possible for any changed band or variation of personnel to perform live as Throbbing Gristle without all the original four of us on stage.”

Industrial Records hereby announces it's official re-activation. IR is the sole representative of, and ONLY official label representing and releasing records by Throbbing Gristle.

TG’s contract with Mute/EMI expired in June 2010, and despite a number of other offers and proposals, all four members of TG elected to re-start Industrial Records to re-release the IR/TG catalogue and the final TG studio album "Desertshore" along with other archival recordings.

IR has purchased ALL the remaining warehouse stock of the Mute Records editions of TG recordings. The first batch for sale comprises of the last remaining copies of the original editions of "TGV" DVD boxed-set, "Part Two - Endless Not" CD and double vinyl LP along with bargain priced 'end-of-line' titles including; "The Second Annual Report", "D.O.A. The Third & Final Report", "Heathen Earth", & "20 Jazz Funk Greats".

To reiterate, TG will be re-releasing their best efforts on both vinyl(!) and CD/digital. Those come out in September. Also (sometime in 2012) Throbbing Gristle will (FINALLY) be releasing their version of Nico's classic/masterpiece "Desertshore", this will be their last full length as the core group. This news should make any experimental music fan's day (and then some).

EIC'S10Q'S w/Monster Movie

"..I read a review online somewhere that referred to this album as a mix between My Bloody Valentine and Grandaddy, I couldn't agree more.. Mellow guitars (both rock and reverberated), gallant synths (both air-y and pulsating/dancey), uncomplicated drums (both electronic and standard), and pleasing vocals make this album a nice addition to anybody in need of a "new" pop sound.."

Monster Movie
Amicable Reverie Pop

Monster Movie Bio:
Christian Savill and Sean Hewson, a London-based indie rock duo, have been playing together under various names since 1989, including a brief stint as the Eternal, a band that released one single on the Sarah label. Savill, who was also in Slowdive, decided to start playing again with Hewson in 2000 as Monster Movie, most likely naming themselves after the Can album of the same name. Since debuting in 2001 with a five-track EP on Clairecords, they've released a handful of EPs and albums, including Last Night Something Happened (2001), a split EP with Dreamend (2002), Transistor (2004), To the Moon (2004), All Lost (2006), and Everyone Is A Ghost (2010). Their recordings have drifted between neo-shoegaze, straight-up indie pop, and synth-driven material inspired by the Factory label's dance-oriented sect (Section 25, New Order).


Hello, how are you?
Sean: Tense, as always.
Christian: Covered in paint.

What are you currently listening to?
Sean: Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Built To Spill, Crocodiles, Wavves, Sebadoh, Pavement. At the moment, if it’s from the US and has messed-up guitars on it, I’ll listen to it.
Christian: I like 'Teen Dream' by Beach House, but aside from that I enjoyed the 'Homecoming' tune by The Teenagers, lots of Kraftwerk and I'm revisiting dear old Syd Barrett again, Sparks 'Number one song in heaven', Gorillaz 'Rhinestone eyes', 'Take it in' By Hot Chip, Dreamend 'Pink cloud in the woods' is an amazing song, and tragically no one will recognise this. Maybe I'm biased, but Ryan Graveface is amazing.

Your latest album “Everyone Is A Ghost” is pretty good, did you find the recording process for that to go pretty smoothly or..?
Sean: There’s no room for hyperbole here, right? Recording always goes smoothly for us because we enjoy it. Things can get a bit tense when we do the vocals because we’re not really vocalists but, as we’ve got older, we’ve become a bit less emotional about it.
Christian: Despite living about 3000 miles apart the album progressed quite nicely. I guess the only issue was that I had to fly to England in February and we didn't give ourselves enough time. It actually worked out better because when I came back in September we had some great contributions from Ryan and Rachel and a couple of new songs.

What exactly do you mean by “Everyone Is A Ghost”?
Sean: We didn’t discuss it but I think we were after something that was quite desolate. We also feel separate from the people we see in the streets. Not better - probably worse; but kind of uninvolved in what is important to them. The title was kind of a steal from the film/comic Ghost World. Just as it’s partner song, How The Dead Live, was nicked from a Derek Raymond book. I can’t remember the lyrics but the song (Everyone Is A Ghost) is about a loved one dying. We’re a good-time band.
Christian: I moved from England to US as we started the album. I felt really weird and disconnected all of a sudden. I really didn't expect it, but it had a big impact on me. I felt no association with anyone.

Visually how do you think the cover of the album explains the themes within?
Sean: We asked Will Schaff to do something desolate. I think Christian may have sent him a few examples. He came back with the front cover. I like that there is also some warmth in the picture. We sometimes forget to inject warmth.
Christian: I was after a bleak landscape. It's a recurring theme for us. We had something similar on our first album 'Last night something happened' with a desolate road. Like loads of people we spend so much of our lives driving places like zombies, going through the motions. This time I was after something more abstract. I found some Yugoslavian animation from the seventies and Will Schaff looked at a couple of stills and made his own interpretations.

Out of all the songs you guys have written together which one are you most proud of?
Sean: I’m pretty pleased with everything on our last two albums. Some songs could have been better if we’d had more time but that’s unimportant now. From our first album I’m proud of Shortwave (Christian will correct me if I’ve got the wrong song) which was a great song that Christian had and I added a little piano to it and it came out really well and made me think that we might actually be able to be good at something. I also really like Driving Through The Red Lights which has a brilliant and unexpected chorus and Bored Beyond Oblivion, great title, great song.
Christian: Not sure really. I'd love to make an album which I wouldn't mind hearing in the presence of other people. I've no idea how bands endure record launch parties. The idea of having to listen to my music with other people fills me with total dread. That's not to say we haven't done songs I like.

If you could tour with anyone (dead of alive) whom would it be with?
Sean: We’d probably need someone who had some kind of experience in psychiatric care to help us get on stage. It’s just not something we feel comfortable doing. Maybe a day festival where we can come on at the beginning before any turns up and then we can hang around backstage posing for the rest of the day. I always get incredibly bored when people start doing dream lists of festival line-ups and it’s all dead people like Lennon and Hendrix. People I would actively walk away from if I saw them. It’s like they’re making a dream band in heaven (let’s ignore the fact that Sonic Youth did this on Tunic). I think that kind of simplistic view of a heaven is damaging for young people. You die and you’re gone, they need to realise that. Having said that: I would have loved to see Rowland S Howard, preferably when he wasn’t so sick that he was coughing up blood on stage.
Christian: The Monkees. They looked like they were having fun?

I gotta ask, will Slowdive ever see the light of day again?
Christian: Not in the foreseeable future. Rachel is having a baby this summer. We've all got kids and stuff. Maybe our kids could form Slowdive Jr.

You can only keep/listen to ONE album for the rest of your life..which album would it be?
Sean: I like a good combination of noise and melody so probably The Velvet Underground & Nico or Psychocandy.
Christian: Maybe 'Low' by David Bowie.

Are you living your dream?
Sean: I like having a wife. I like being in a band. I like playing football. Everything else is a humiliating kick in the crotch, to quote Sting.
Christian: No. But it's not a total nightmare.

Thanx MM & Jacob!

Monster Movie are currently working on a follow up to "Everyone Is A Ghost"...