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Playboy: Have you ever taken LSD yourself?
Marshal McLuhan: No, I never have. I'm an observer in these matters, not a participant.
The episode features: Les Halles, Visible Cloaks, Spirit & Form, Kosmische Keuterboeren, Raju Arara and Hare Akedod. -
Pacific City Sound Visions is an experimental and contemporary new age, futuristic record label founded and ran by Spencer Clark (well known for his duo project with James Ferraro, The Skaters). The label releases a multitude of Clark’s aliases such as Fourth World Magazine and Typhonian Highlife alongside a selection collaborations in which he himself takes part in.
The episode features: Star Searchers, The Fanfare of the Ascension of Thee Facehugger, H.R. Giger's Studiolo, Fourth World Magazine Volume, Typhonian Highlife, Tarzana and Monopoly Child Star Searchers. -
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Space Age Recordings and Fierce Recordings are two British independent record labels that not only released music from Spacemen3, but were the godfathers of the shoegazer and drone-rock scenes which blossomed in the U.K. at the end of the 1980’s with obvious affinity with the sounds of The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth and Suicide. This episode features also other bands from their catalogue, including a piece from the controversial album ‘LIE: The Love & Terror Cult’ by Charles Manson.
The episode features: Angus MacLise, Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Experimental Audio Research, Sonic boom, Octal and Charles Manson. -
Hippos In Tanks was a Los Angeles based record label founded in 2010 by Barron Machat and Travis Woolsey. Inactive since late 2015 due to Barron Machat’s passing in a car crash in Miami. The label, named after the novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs ‘And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks’, started as a radio program but became in just a couple of year the benchmark for a new wave of Internet age experimental artists such as Dean Blunt, Laurel Halo and James Ferraro.
The episode features: D’Eon, Dean Blunt, James Ferraro, Hype Williams, White Car, Triad God, Bodyguard, Laurel Halo, Sleep ∞ Over. -
Bruce Mau wrote this sentence in 1998 in his Incomplete Manifesto for Growth. The rest of the music is composed with sounds collected while browsing the Internet during the week of the incredible high tide that dramatically hit Venice.
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Coloursound Library is a Munich based experimental, progressive library label, established in 1979, created by Gunter Greffenius. Artwork paintings were often created by his wife Waltraud Greffenius. Notes on records report intringuing descriptions such as: “Documentary and industrial underlays for current themes of modern life”, “Computer Data Sound, the overture to a new era in music”, “Music suitable for heavy industry, production lines, demolitions, earth movements, biological research, laboratories, mines, oil rigs, light industry including electronics”, “Contemporary synthesizer underscores played by computers; depicting future technologies in today's process”, “Contemporary industrial moods depicting product and fabrication”, “Positive music statements for the commercial creative and business worlds”, "Continuous atmospheric sounds for enigmatic landscapes, metaphysical situations and prehistorical periods".
The episode features: Joel Vandroogenbroeck, Eric Vann, Peter Lüdemann, Alessandro Alessandroni, Klaus Weiss and John Tender. -
Oops! I Dropped the Lemon Tart, is the name of the perfectly imperfect dessert by chef Massimo Bottura of the acclaimed Osteria Francescana. The recipe first came about when Kondo Takahiko, Osteria Francescana’s pastry chef, let go of one of the restaurant’s signature desserts at an inopportune moment. Rather than simply ditch the smashed tart, Takahiko and Bottura decided to remake it in a culinary tribute to the thing that defines great art in any sphere — imperfection. “It’s imperfect,” says Bottura, “in a perfect way.”
The episode features: Inspired School Of Astral Music, Blue Communion: ISAM and Time Gate: ISAM. -
Artist Cindy Bernard initiated sound. at Angels Gate Park in San Pedro, California, in 1998. This concert series eventually evolved into the Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound—better known as SASSAS—a small Los Angeles organization fostering exciting new site-based work at the intersection of experimental music and contemporary art.
The episode features performances from two CD compilations of early sound. concerts: James Tenney (performing John Cage), Solid Eye, Nels Cline and Gregg Bendian (performing John Coltrane and Rashied Ali), Philip Gelb and Pauline Oliveros, Extended Organ, and Voice of the Bowed Guitar. -
Acido is a Berlin based imprint, founded in 2004 by Andreas Krumm AKA Dynamo Dreesen. Initially putting out just one record per year, the label was born as the result of impulse, gut instincts and a laissez-faire approach to business.
The episode features: Dynamo Dreesen, Porn Sword Tobacco, 291out, SVN, Convextion, Asis, Dresvn, SW., DJ Sotofett -
John Giorno died last week, at age 82, at his home in Lower Manhattan, were he was living with his partner Ugo Rondinone. Poet and performer — a strong and suffering voice belonging to New York’s avant-garde milieu — in 1965 has founded the not-for-profit record label and organisation Giorno Poetry Systems with the aim of connecting poetry and related art forms to a larger audience using innovative ideas, audiovisual materials and experimental recording techniques. GPS released albums regularly until the late 1980s featuring recordings by artists such as Laurie Anderson and Philip Glass as well as unique performances by Frank Zappa, Diamanda Galás, Allen Ginsberg, John Cage, Brion Gysin, Giorno himself and William S. Burroughs.
The episode features: John Giorno, Rose Lesniak, Anne Waldman, Cabaret Voltaire, Lydia Lunch and Clint Ruin, Richard Hell, John Cage, Laurie Anderson, Brion Gysin with Ramuntcho Matta and Psychic TV. -
Em:t has been a cult UK ambient record label, managed by Chris Allen & Dave Thompson, active between 1994 and 1998. It became recognized for its CD releases with animal-themed covers designed by The Designer's Republic. Conceived as the ambient sublabel of t:me, em:t shut down in 1998 when t:me succumbed to financial troubles. In late 2003, em:t was reformed as a brand new company (em:t Records Ltd.) and began releasing new music, but then again business problems forced its closure in late 2006.
The episode features: A Small, Good Thing, Lucid Dreams, Qubism, Carl Stone, Hywel Davies and Beatsystem. -
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The episode features: Erik Wøllo, Akira Ito, Tim Story, Popol Vuh, Roedelius, Japan, The Durutti Column and Music From The Penguin Cafe. -
Tiago is a brilliant designer, craftsman and friend based in London. "Music has always been a very important element in my work, from being an inspirational source to the most dedicated assistant. I carry it with me all the time. This episode compiles a selection of tracks straight from my pocket (portable music player) and represent a sample of my daily listening."
The episode features: Juana Molina, Liars, Beak, Battles, Clinic, The Octopus Project, Tyondai Braxton, Suuns, Brightblack Morning Light, The Beta Band, Animal Collective, Tortoise, Brian Eno & David Byrne, Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld, Darkside and Vincent Gallo. -
Foster Reed launched New Albion Records in 1984’s San Francisco. It was a record label centred on a variety of styles that belonged to pioneering contemporary music, releasing aroud five titles a year. The label was named after what Sir Francis Drake named the San Francisco Bay after being the first European to see the area, which was near where the label was founded. Reed decided to close the label in 2012, after 25 indispensable years. In his goodbye note, Foster Reed wrote: "Our audience has always been artists, musicians, composers, dancers and all those who like to stare out of the windows of perception.”
The episode features: Stephen Scott, Ingram Marshall, John Adams, Daniel Lentz, Morton Feldman and Joan La Barbara. -
Cold Blue is a label active since the early 80’s, started by Jim Fox. It has been launched through a series of 10-inch EPs with a focus on West Coast minimalism and post-minimalism (sometimes defined as the New California School). The label featured works such as Daniel Lentz’s minimalist choirs or the abstract Clay Music by Barney Childs — a project commissioned by Susan Rawcliffe as a vehicle for the challenging variety of ceramic instruments she has designed and made for years. Even though there is a common avant-garde approach that connects all the releases, every single record has its own peculiar personality. The episode will be performed as soundtrack of the show “Masters of Disguise”, curated by M–L–XL for Seeds Gallery London.
The episode features: Daniel Lentz, Read Miller, Chas Smith, Barney Childs and Rick Cox. -
Séance Centre is a label, a publisher and a distributor of timeless music from the past, present and future. The trio behind the project (a musician, a filmmaker and a graphic designer) have teamed up to discover new and old records to publish through finding original vintage stocks of books, vinyls and cassettes or distributing music from labels and projects that they appreciate. Séance Centre is dedicated to taking their evangelical mission seriously, contextualising their releases with interviews, essays and photos of the musicians and the cultures that generate them. The key to their work, as they declare, is ‘Playing out of time'.
The episode features: Shabason and Gunning, Organizatsiya, Short-Term Memory, Playdate, MJ Lallo, Vito Ricci, Massimo Del Corpo, A-TEAM, Michel Banabila, Joanne Forman, Oren Cantrell, Philip Sanderson and Playdate. -
In 1842 Francisco Lopez discovered gold while foraging wild onions near an oak tree in Placerita Canyon, initiating the California gold rush. In 1965 Don Buchla introduced his 100 series modular synthesizer at the San Francisco Tape Music Center. These histories are entangled and ongoing. The episode has been curated by Michael Ned Holte, a writer, curator and educator living in Los Angeles and occasional columnist of Occasional Radio.
This episode features: Harold Budd, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani, M. Geddes Gengras, Steve Roden. -
Under the direction of artist and curator Matthew Higgs, White Columns gallery of New York City gave life to its record label ‘The Sound of White Columns’ to publish the organization’s longstanding collaborations with musicians that has included such as Thurston Moore, Kim Gordon, Meredith Monk and many more. In between the highly referenced artists present in this episode, there's an intruder, a very prolific composer, that released more than ten thousand songs on Youtube and Spotify, but this is another story.
The episode features: Martin Creed, Tussle, Ikue Mori and Julianna Barwick, Kim Gordon, David Robbins, The Hungry Food Band, Malcolm Mooney, Karl Holmqvist, David Van Tieghem, Meredith Monk and Christopher Knowles. -
Sun Ark, the name that Cameron Stallones has given to his record label, is most likely derived from the synthesis of two mythical stories: Black Ark, the Jamaican recording studio built and owned by reggae and dub producer Lee Perry, and Sun Ra, the afro-american free-jazz-cosmic composer. Although the Californian label leaded by Stallones — also known for his artistic alias Sun Araw — is undoubtedly not devoted to reggae-dub and neither to free-jazz, but for sure derived its experimental, freak, curious and avant-garde approach to its predecessors.
The episode features: Galaxy Express 555, Aylu, Samuli Tanner, Sun Araw, Visible Cloaks, Randall McClellan, SK Kakraba, Rob Magill, High Wolf and Samuli Tanner. -
“Two Negatives Make a Positive” is a famous math slogan that perfectly fits the humorous and nonsense name of the Los Angeles based enigmatic label explored in episode 78: Not Not Fun Records. Even if this law is not universal and we can all think of many, many cases where two negatives don’t make a positive — for example rain on your wedding day plus grand larceny on your wedding day does not make for a winning combination, despite what “two negatives make a positive” would suggest — the pretty unknown music published by Not Not Fun can be the perfect soundscape for your relaxing afternoons while reading your favorite novel in the countryside.
The episode features: Channelers, Unknown Me, Atariame, Dravier, X.Y.R., Les Halles, Dreamers Cloth and Wave Temples. - Mostra di più