To be taken.
Carol - So Low
I posted the A-side track (Breakdown) to this brilliant 7”, but the B-side is equally amazing.
Also, checkout Snowy Red’s Vision to hear Breakdown complete with sax. I personally enjoy the original, though the one on Vision is soooo good as well.
Zombie Zombie- Driving This Road Until Death Sets You Free
After acquiring their album, A Land For Renegades, I quickly fell in love with this quirky French duo who produce amazing electronic music (with live drums), who claim influence from Krautrock. Sure, doesn’t sound much like Krautrock. But, it’s far more dark and experimental in approach than most of the electronic scene. Excellent samples, and the synths are to die for.
I was shown this video the other night by now former roommate for what’s the opening track of mentioned album. And what’s better than excellent French electronic music and stop-motion animation? Stop-motion animation with action figures, prefectly recreating John Carpenter’s The Thing. Just watch and you’ll understand. I can’t get enough of both this track, and video.
Oh, and lest I forget… Mentioned roommate is from a local favorite underground electronic act, Clique Talk. Do check them out as well. Space-disco(y), italo-influenced, synth-pop(y), early wax trax sounds all perfectly meshed. Check it.
www.myspace.com/thisiscliquetalk
I’m back, and hoping to express my individuality for you, in the way that only tumblr can do, once more. Since my last posting (was it April?) things have changed, as you’d expect from anyone over such a period. There was blood, love, idiocy, vagabondage, starvation, revalation, peril, hellos, goodbyes, and the end of one of the more turbulent years in my existance.
Goodbye to the one item I have loved (and whom has loved me) most. Goodbye to grandeur, and goodbye to splendor. Having slept under bridges, on trains, and finally a squat-house without heat during a Chicago winter, one can’t help but to realize that self-significance is laughable. I’m laughable. I’m desperate. But, desperation isn’t all too bad. Desperation has been a learning experience. Desperation has lead to alternate means of expression. No longer is my skin pure. Under my nails, dirt. Food scavenged, stolen, or otherwise taken from the refuse. And through such, I build to keep mental deterioration. I’m not an artist. This is what I’ve learned. And as the dadaists have said, I try not to mimic myself as an artist, I try to mimic myself as a constructor. The great tramp, scum, vermin and his creation.
But, we’ll move along now, and I’ll continually jog back to fill the void. Expect more doses of esoteric mess, music discoveries, and everyday stories and of the Windy City’s finest and depraved.
I most also attatch the picture of my petite knight in shining armor. The device that I’ve grown a love attatchment to during sub-zero temps. It’s none other than my glorious spaceheater. You’ll be missed!
I’ve been listening to a lot of James Chance and the Contortions recently. There’s something about his Brian Eno supported No Wave punk that I really like. They’re my favorite part of the No New York compilation. It’s basically James Brown funk meets Talking Heads Lower East Side art rock meets Vic Godard and the Subway Sect punk.
James Chance, never am I not in the mood for you.