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Recently Listening To • July, 2008

CM — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:42:06 +0000

A relaxed saturday afternoon with tasty backery, coffee and a handful of new records to play and listen to. Just set up another ‘top nine’ – containing a few latest arrivals from oversea alongside with some all time favourites. It’s always a satisfying feeling to flip through dusty vinyls & cds and to find the one record perfectly fitting the very moment.

Below you’ll find a detailed list of all nine records and related links. Enjoy surfing through and listening – if you get the chance.

July 2008

Nicola Ratti – From The Desert Came Saltwater . Anticipate 2008
The Remote Viewer – I Can’t Believe Its Not Better . Mobeer 2008
Grouper – Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill . Type Records 2008
Byetone – Death Of A Typographer . Raster Noton 2008
Giardini Di Mirò – Dividing Opinions . 2nd Rec 2008
Sawako – Madoromi . Anticipate Recordings 2007 • Troncolon.com
Scanner – Lost Without Light . Underscan Records 2002
Mika Vainio – In The Land Of The Blind One-Eyed Is King . Touch 2003
Radian – Rec.Extern . Thrill Jockey 2002

* AOCALBOR = And Of Course A Little Bit Of Rock

Anticipate 002

CM — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:31:20 +0000

“Airships Fill the Sky” is the debut solo album from Morgan Packard on New York City based Anticipate label that comes packaged with a DVD called “Unsimulatable” – an audio-visual collaboration between Packard and Joshue Ott. Joshue is multi-disciplined media artist and designer using his superDraw software to explore the idea of storing animation within a single line.

Image source: “Airships Fill the Sky” cd artwork and superDraw screen capture by Joshue Ott

superDraw presents more or less a simple line drawing application created in/ported to Processing, but the visual aesthetic of resulting forms and animaions is truly worth a closer look and listen. Especially in interaction with Packard’s sound – that is marked by a well-balanced interplay of acoustic and electronic elements – the visual patterns and shapes are unfolding their unique charm und particularised perfection. A preview of resulting audio-visual compositions is available at the Anticipate website.

“…The collaboration between Ott and Packard (which includes almost exclusively different music from the CD) is the culmination of two years of playing live shows together and consistently honing their interaction and the means by which their computers can communicate with each other. Though individual scenes can be devised beforehand, neither program allows deferred creation, so no editing is possible and the entire piece had to be recorded live in one take. …”

Recently Listening To • February/March 2007

CM — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:13:15 +0000

I thought it would be a nice addition to the Journal to post my monthly favourites on a regular basis. The current playlist contains a few of my alltime fav’s alongside a handful of recent releases on labels such as Kranky, 12k, City Centre Offices and 2nd Rec – to name just a few. It’s a versatile mixture containing both – textural ambient and electronica sounds and more electro, indie rock influenced records.

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February/March

Tellaro – Setback On The Right Track (2005) . 2nd Rec 2nd 023
Dictaphone – Vertigo Ii (2006) . City Centre Offices Towerblock cd32
Chris Herbert – Mezzotint (2006) . Kranky Krank 101
Keith Fullerton Whitman – Multiples (2005) . Kranky Krank 081
Shuttle 358 – Frame (12k1011 reissue) (2007) . 12k 12k2005
Giardini Di MirÃ² – North Atlantic Treaty Of Love (Part 1) (2006) . 2nd Rec 2nd 027
Labradford – Fixed:Context (2001) . Kranky Krank 047
Oren Ambarchi – Suspension (2002) . Staubgold staubgold 27
Tim Hecker – Harmony In Ultraviolet (2006) . Kranky Krank 102
Mark Templeton – Standing On A Hummingbird (2007) Anticipate Anticipate 01cd
Giardini Di Miro / Pimmon – GDM vs. PMN (2000) 2nd Rec 2nd 001
Xela – The Dead Sea (2006) . Type TYPE 018 V