Word The Cat

weather too hot for titles

Chris — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 06:28:10 +0000

alphaville have been running an excellent series of podcasts for a while now. field recordings, rain, distant electronics.

greek sound artist manekinekod (named for the waving cat) studied music for film and builds herself a “dream machine” here.

Alpha-podcast presents Manekinekod by Alphaville

tba a.k.a. natalie beridze hails from georgia and builds a more gentle mix on her contribution. FACT are accompanying these podcasts with a series of interviews and you can read TBA’s here.

Alpha-podcast Presents TBA by Alphaville

and here’s a track off TBA’s album annulé on max ernst from 2005.

TBA – cheg

Download audio file (TBA_-_cheg.mp3)

oude oude oude kass kaas kass

Chris — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 08:30:21 +0000

dubbel dutch has been making quiet waves for a while now in this new bass water. here he is remixing fellow austin, tejas resident parson in a broken paving steppers style. he has a mix over here too.

parson – i rep the dirty south (dubbel dutch rmx)

Download audio file (parson – I REP THE DIRTY SOUTH (DUBBEL DUTCH RMX).mp3)

another one to watch is ghosts on tape who plays out at san francisco’s ice hott. here’s a slow, mean one. and he’s got a fine mix you can have too.

ghosts on tape – Midnight Moves

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clearing the archive

Chris — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:28:26 +0000

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i’m sure you’ve heard that Wiley gave away 200 tracks last week. you can nab all 11 zip files here. this is like a ready-made post for blogs. time (to listen) becomes a bigger commodity than data. self-appointed aggregators stand up. BUT.

it’s also a nice side-step for someone who is working on material for a multi-album record deal, as well as being a tribute to Wiley’s insane level of creativity “there ain’t much rest involved”. a lot of the material is rough, unmastered but still strong.

BUT. it’s also interesting for the idea of archive. i’m sure i’m not the only one who has had a hard drive die and felt a massive sense of relief that i lost a shit_ton of music. there’s a big anxiety when music is petrified into file trees, sub-directories and ultimately compressed into binary data. contingency and surprise are more fun.

so, in no particular order, here are some new Wiley tunes. he’s got range.

spending time in the north. spending time with autotune.

wiley shifty & wrigz – if ur makin money

Download audio file (if ur makin money – wiley shifty wrigz.mp3)

going on dilla

janiece – addicted

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beat like sugar bars hard like caramel.

wiley – Exp 102

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stupid. amazing. pies.

wiley – value for money

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pop. wide. sample. your lose your love.

mz bratt ft wiley – lose your (love)

Download audio file (Loose Your – Mz Bratt ft Wiley.mp3)

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Chris — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 10:58:06 +0000

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Chris — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:38:15 +0000

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elsewhere i attempt to juggle abstract world cup blogging.

fielded

Chris — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 05:36:27 +0000

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image by takehito koganezawa

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today a track by kyo ichinose from 2002. it’s from this cd. file under well designed furniture. bought here, where you can get immaculately designed tables for over €1000. the track is from a evening of performance inspired by st.giga st.giga was a ambient radio station that organised it’s programming of spoken word and field recordings according to a tidal timetable. despite attempts at franchising (including a st.giga fragrance) the station was only operational in this form from 1990 to 1995 when a lack of subscribers forced them to cut back on the tide of sound broadcasts and cut a deal with nintendo to supply snes games via satellite. the station crawled on non-tidally until 2007.

kyo ichinose – travelling with st.giga

Download audio file (kyo_ichinose_-_Traveling_with_St_GIGA.mp3)

moi st air and immediacy

Chris — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 08:02:30 +0000

image by yokohama yuichi

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the weather is getting warm and perhaps inescapable. humid air retains smells for much longer. you can smell tobacco 10 metres away or the smoke being pumped out of the barbeque restaurant from down the road. here is a mix of odour from psychadelic bus a.k.a. hiroki murai from mokmal.

“The activity that centers on Tokyo and Toyama is being done now. Music is being produced now.”

psychadelic bus a.k.a. hiroki murai – non verbal communication vol.3

Download audio file (hiroki_murai_-_Non_Verbal_Communication_Vol03.mp3)

tracklist

quiet village – i regret the flower power
tokyo black star – violent rush
tiefschwarz – ghostrack (radio slave remix)
frankman – orion
zoexenia – cherish
gamat 3000 – feeling love (feeling dub)
upz – noiz f/ rasu (abican soul remix)
slam – azure (radio slave remix)
dominik eulberg – liebelle nwellen
dennis ferrer – the undertow
fuckaponydelic – switch the lights (motocity soul remix)
petits djinns – sous l’arbre
quiet village – desperate hours

empathy

Chris — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:00:55 +0000

they’re quite famous, they’re also quite good and they have a new record out. don’t know about you but this is the sort of thing i hear behind my eyes as i’m falling asleep. amplified and with a hint of todd. crystal castles.

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and closer to sleep…

crystal castles – empathy (wordthecat screw)

Download audio file (crystal_castles_-_empathy_(wordthecat_screw).mp3)

クンビャ

Chris — Sun, 23 May 2010 05:07:45 +0000

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as the weather begins to open up and before intense humidity slams it shut again, a window of cumbia. this is built from gigs of stuff i’d never got around to listening to. retroactive searching reveals at least a quarter of it came from mr /r. follow those tracks back up to here and here.

wordthecat – 37 minutes of cumbia

Download audio file (wordthecat_-_37minutesofcumbia.mp3)

Pedro Laza y su Pelayeros – Navidad Negra
Gabriel Romero – La Subienda
Reynaldo “el papi” Diaz y su Grupo – Fidelina (son)
Aniceto Molina – La Faldita Coqueta
Grupo Jalado – Cumbia Parrandera
Viento Calido – Ya No Puede Ser
Grupo La Cumbia-La Negrita
Los Daddys – Cumbia Negra
Majeza – Tu Heriste Mi Corazon
Los Askis – Amor Regresa
Los Shapis – Hombre Casado

voice and noise

Chris — Tue, 11 May 2010 11:57:19 +0000

matthew herbert has a new record out. herbert is primarily an electronic composer, who previously built records out of sampling the human body and the food industry. this record (entitled one one) contains only sound produced by herbert and is the first part of a trilogy. the second part (one club) is built entirely from crowd sound in a club in hamburg. the third (one pig) returns to the food industry and charts the birth, life, slaughter and consumption of a single pig. on one one he sings. his voice is quite soft and heavily treated. so, using this as a diveboard, here’s a post about voices and electronics, or more loosely, a post about electronic music that people sing over…

first up, from one one…

matthew herbert – tonbridge

Download audio file (matthew_herbert-tonbridge.mp3)

and second, staying in north kent, a track from 1974 by robert wyatt. for electronics substitute synthesizer.

robert wyatt – sea song

Download audio file (robert_wyatt_-_sea_song.mp3)

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third a track by zerkalo, named for Tarkovsky’s film, the title of which translates as mirror. zerkalo are heinrich mueller whose name is also gerald donald. gerald donald was in drexciya. he is joined in zerkalo by victoria lucas. there’s a strong visual theme (dare i say concept) to their production too with videos by julia pello & darlene lin. interview and more here.

zerkalo – last meeting from the experiment zero release

Download audio file (zerkalo-last_meeting.mp3)

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and finally, a compressed banger. pj harvey from her 1998 is this desire? LP. always had a big soft spot for this record. this is the hardest thing on there.

pj harvey – my beautiful leah

Download audio file (PJ_Harvey_-_My_beautiful_Leah.mp3)