Friday, April 29, 2011

Kangding Ray- Pruitt Igoe

A review of the great new EP

For more in Pruitt-Igoe, here's a trailer to a new film coming out on the projects.



There's some footage of the demolition here:



Here's a lo-res version of the sequence from Koyaanisqatsi



A news report from 1968

Hunt in the Garden of False Opportunity



My review of the surprisingly good Magnetic Man disc

Hopefully, I'll have more to say about "The Bug" soon.

Moebius- Blue Moon Soundtrack



A review of the Cluster front man's lone bid into the soundtrack game.

Bjorn Torske- Kokning



new review of the aforementioned

Here's a video from that Open Skies EP mentioned in the article for the old skoolers.

Friday, April 22, 2011

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Evil is Real



A review of Univers Zero's remaster of Heresie

Univers Zero’s music, both performing and listening to it, is labor—a conscious, concentrated, and exhausting effort full of unresolved tension, illusory endings, and alchemical combinations. It’s ritual magick, seemingly in service of mystical elements that defy communication (it’s largely instrumental music except for the invented language used for the chanting throughout “La Faulx”) or easy comprehension (the odd time signatures, the complex structure, the long periods of atonality, et. al)...

Post-Structuralism



a review of ANBB's new album (Alva Noto and Blixa Bargeld)

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

RIP Sidney Lumet



Unfortunatey, all clips of Network on Youtube restricted embedding, so here's a tune of mine from 10 years ago (probably recorded earlier). It's not great, but it has that fantastic corporate cosmology speech in it.