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OTHER MUSIC / Re: what happened to spekk ?

« on: April 03, 2011, 04:02:44 am »

Spekk is still up and running, just problems with the website. It seems to be back up today!

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THE FUTURE OF THE MUSIC BUSINESS / Re: are record labels relevant anymore?

« on: November 14, 2010, 03:15:40 pm »

I surely feel like they're relevant, but I think my ideas of what it is have been changing heavily too. I've started to look at it as much less of a business and more as just a form of creative control and curation over albums and media, and not really expecting profit to come from it, I'm less disappointed when it doesn't come.

I think I'm more concerned about lessening interest in packaged music, books, and films most of all. I hope that things don't get to the point to where people would just rather have a half-price digital download to a nicely packaged CD. Possibly there will always be people who enjoy these things, but it needs to be adapted in production terms to covering just those people. Especially concerning books, made in limited runs.

Or the possibility of people just not being interested in the music, but that's more personally relevant also to Celer and has to do more with my own questions of whether or not people are even interested in hearing what is left.. then whether I should put it out regardless.

I guess though if you look at it as a labor of love then there's nothing really to lose, and all the money you're putting into it is worthwhile if you're expecting not to get it back anyway.

That isn't the ideal situation of course, and it doesn't answer any questions about returns for the artists work, I'm still unsure of those things..

Still, I think its meaningful having labels. I'd surely be very sad if all the labels I follow were just digital downloads.

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: November 04, 2010, 11:37:19 pm »

I have to say I prefer the first album over this one.. I didn't really get into it until the end of it, but somehow the variations in the first one attract me more.

Now playing:

Ironomi - Recode
Richard Skelton - Landings
The Dead Texan
Yoshi Wada - Earth Horns with Electronic Drone

Brian McBride, The Effective Disconnect - so good!

i love it too! a few months ago there were rumours of SOTL doing a new album with an orchestra, but unforunately that rumour appears to be false

listening to:
fabio orsi&valerio cosi-thoughts melt in the air

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: October 21, 2010, 04:14:41 pm »

Radiosonde - Sanctuary (crickets and front porch acoustics)
Radiosonde - s/t (delay of softness.. personal favorite)
Terre Thaemlitz - Lovebomb (Vocoder vocoder vocoder)
Organum - Birds' Wings Were Glued To Their Bodies And Their Feet Froze to The Ground (BUZZ)
Ducktails - Landscapes (Quaint and summery)
RiLF - Ferris Wheel (Shoegaze-like pop.. really great)
Brian McBride - When The Detail Lost Its Freedom (Much more interesting than the new one)

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: August 04, 2010, 07:20:35 pm »

I'd have to disagree with this, and say Coil's Time Machines is the most Essential and Ultimate Drone album.. but isn't the Coil vs. NWW debate sortof like Beatles vs. Elvis, anyway?

Nurse With Wound - Salt Marie Celeste (United Jnana, 2003)
One of my most favorite drone albums. Really haunting stuff...as if you are in a slowly sinking ship or something like that.
Also my fav. NWW release, though I should really give Soliloquy For Lilith a try some day...but it is such an expensive box (like 55 euro or so)

Soliloquy For Lilith is THE Essential & Ultimate Drone album. A truly seminal work.
22 years old and so fresh sounding. You can't go wrong with it. Worth every cent.
Maybe check Discogs for some cheaper copies, and be sure to pick the 3xcd edition with extra material !

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: June 22, 2010, 12:22:11 am »

I'm with you on So, its just too crazy and amazing to not love. Still though, abstract aside, '94Diskont' is one of my all-time favorite electronic albums. Bought the LP used before I knew who Oval was, and still I wake up to 'Do While' at least once a week.

nah, you are not alone. i do not get it neither... I can see how people like it as the harmonies are still similar to the older stuff but all in all it is a bit too playful and cheery/hectic for me.
I do not like the jazzy post rock moments. I do not mean to sound rude but the stuff on "oh" reminds me of minotaur shock, capitol k, leafcutter john, etc. Not bad but not my cup of tea. Wish there'd be another So record sometime.

I think I'm the only one that doesn't like the new Oval.. the abstraction was what I liked about the old stuff so much..

So is one of my favorite albums ever - I don't expect Popp to just keep doing the same thing, but, you know, personal taste...

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: June 19, 2010, 11:28:26 pm »

I think I'm the only one that doesn't like the new Oval.. the abstraction was what I liked about the old stuff so much..

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: May 10, 2010, 08:18:07 pm »

Yeah! Isn't 'This' great! Definitely a superb album.. huge, but not too long at all.

Tim Hecker Apondalifa [Room40, 2010]

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: April 27, 2010, 09:26:14 am »

COH vs ITO (http://www.myspace.com/cohvsito)

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: April 21, 2010, 01:34:19 pm »

Boduf Songs - How Shadows Chase The Balance (Kranky) 
..probably one of my favorite Kranky releases now, as all the experimental stuff has gone out of my interest area..

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: Record companies' standard procedure considering music production

« on: April 13, 2010, 11:19:21 pm »

Just do the best you can, with what you have and what's available, and see where it goes from there. Having access to only a few things keeps you creative within those confines. Nobody has all the stuff they'd like to have to produce something in the beginning, but its you can work up to that. Funny thing for me is you find out you don't really need all that stuff anyway, after all.

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: April 13, 2010, 08:58:08 pm »

Yeah, that Starving Weirdos LP on Blackest Rainbow is great.. I would've bought it for the cover art alone.

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: April 12, 2010, 08:13:34 pm »

Organum - Sorrow (Siren)
drifting.. spiny.. deep bells..

Pjusk - Sval (12k)
chilling and plump.. really good one

Zhang Jian (FM3) - Short wave of Bengal Bay radiobox (Subjam)
crusty, awesome shortwave recs, the very best of 64k

Roel Meelkop - Oude Koeien (Herbal)
Really nice crisp remastering of these archives, sounds really fresh and microtonal.
Its great to get this now.. though going to have to go back and get more of the older works now.

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: What are you listening to?

« on: April 12, 2010, 07:59:54 pm »

Yeah, that Ken Ikeda kindof makes me dizzy, but in a good way. (?..)

Which Roel Meelkop? I just got copies of the one on Herbal (with artwork by Rutger Z.)
and its pretty great, mostly reissues of old vinyl on KP.

re: cassette.. If it can handle Snoop Dogg, it should handle Celer. Are you getting that 'ripping-a-piece-of-paper-for-a-really-long-time' sound?

back home for a whole day, here's what is getting me through it:

Roel Meelkop, Giuseppe Ielasi, Howard Stelzer, Frans de Waard Zondag

thick and physical, occasionally unruly

Nmperign & Jason Lescalleet Love Me Two Times

a lot of material from this matchup, 2 discs of nonstop adventure really.  phew.

Federico Durand

really pleasant, barely there.

Ken Ikeda Kosame

microscopic and kinda trippy.

Celer Rags of Contentment

loving what this does to my boombox

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OTHER MUSIC / Re: Sound art/experimental music record labels

« on: April 05, 2010, 04:21:17 pm »

and/OAR is a good one for field recordings, too