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Music Shit / Difficult Listening Made Easy Podcast

« on: February 25, 2015, 06:18:36 AM »

Hello,
I've just launched a (roughly)bi-monthly podcast that is perhaps of interest to some posters here. Playlist and link to first installment below.

-Tolerance 'Voyage au bout de la nuit' Anonym (No Label, 2015; Vanity 1979)
-Andrew Klimek 'Felt Hammer' Afterbathinginturpentine E.P. (Mustard, 1979)
-Tom James Scott 'About Today' Teal (Skire, 2014)
-The Fall 'In My Area' (Step Forward, 1979)
-Anne-F Jacques 'Excerpt' dans l’herbe (Imminent Frequencies, 2014)

-Elli & Bev 'Already Gone' Might Not Look Like it to You E.P. (Albert’s Basement/Quemada, 2014)
-Code BMUS 'Broken Arrow' Strike Now E.P. (Ever/Never, 2014; No label, 1981)
-Dan Melchior 'Some of My Best Friends Are Spiders' (excerpt) The Souls of Birds and Mice (Siltbreeze, 2015)
-Letha Rodman Melchior 'Harbinger Mts' Moon Mountain (Robert & Leopold, 2012)
-Pearls Before Swine 'A Life' Beautiful Lies You Could Live In (Reprise, 1971)
-Sensations Fix 'Grow on You' Music is Painting in the Air (RVNG Intl., 2012)
- Karla Boreky 'The Sadness of Things' Still in Your Pocket (Recital, 2014; Entr’acte, 2011)

-Flying Saucer Attack 'Here Am I' Further (Drag City, 1995)
-Three Legged Race 'III-Use Vocal Score' Rope Commercial Vol. 2 (Vitrine, 2015)
-Daniel Steven Crafts 'Excerpt' Snake Oil Symphony (Lutra, 1982)
-Third Estate 'Destiny' Years Before the Wine (Void, 2006; No Label, 1976)
-G.I.SM. '(Tere Their) Syphilitic Vaginas to ieces' Anarchy Violence E.P. (No Label, 2000)
-The Gerogerigegege 'Flat Fuvk' More Shit E.P. (Baby Huey, 1992)
-Lea Bertucci 'Faces in the Shadows' Light Silence, Dark Speech (I Dischi Del Barone, 2015)
- Kevin Aprill 'On Tour of the Solar System (excerpt)' Sunset Upon an Imaginary Beach of Latent Energy (Del Val, 2013; no label, 1971)

https://soundcloud.com/difficultlisteningmadeeasy/dlme-vol-1

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Crisis of Taste: Distro Update

« on: February 25, 2015, 06:10:04 AM »

Massive distro update! Titles from Albert's Basement, I Dischi Del Barone, Ever/Never, Recital, Penultimate Press, Tolerance and Vitrine available.

Full listing w/ descriptions here: http://tasteofcrisis.blogspot.com/2015/02/new-arrivals-good-mind-does-not-good.html

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Non-Music Shit / Re: Instagram

« on: February 04, 2015, 08:22:03 PM »

Just signed up for this like a week ago.

@crisisoftaste

 Imagine I'll just post records/distro updates/miscellaneous bullshit.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Crisis of Taste: New Label & Distro of Exp./Left field/etc. et al.

« on: January 22, 2015, 05:28:52 PM »

Thanks Brock! Copies heading to Aus. via Distort and Albert's Basement as well.

Weirdos: Buy some weird records off of me so I can continue to stock dope shit!

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Crisis of Taste: Distro Update

« on: January 20, 2015, 05:20:45 PM »

Hi all,
Feel a bit guilty about promoting here as I don't contribute to discussion at all (and never really did), but some have been supportive of past endeavors so I figured perhaps a few 'round the way might find this of interest.

Anyway, posting in RE: to a new label/distro focusing primarily on, for lack of a better term, 'Experimental' music. DIY/homespun electronics, cracks in btw Noise/shambolic Rock, broken sounds of all stripes really, you get the picture I'm sure.
Web Presence: http://tasteofcrisis.blogspot.com

-Plenty of OOP/'import' releases available (mainly 'cos I've been gathering stock for months but the launch saw innumerable delays) for the nyce pryce, and more on the way. I will update this thread accordingly in the off chance that anyone gives a toss.

First release description:
T.D. 'Violence as Sport' There is little controversy in suggesting that all that music consists of, essentially, is structured sound, and sound, to skirt its physics for want of both competency and space, represents the audible portion of an elapsed period. It has also been well established and explored that once one presents a work, regardless of medium, within the context of art, framing immediately occurs, separating the result from that which belongs to the natural order of things. And what of the Avant Garde?s oldest muse, the distinction/interaction between life and art? Even that which we label 'non-fiction' or 'documentary' is, at best, a tiny sliver of an infinitely complex substantiality. Indeed, these ideas are far from novel and, if handled awkwardly, would serve as tired, even mawkish premises for any aesthetic endeavor. So it follows: "Out of reaction...a step forward."With this position in mind we arrive at the inaugural release on  Crisis of Taste, Violence as Sport: Audile Realizations of Atrophying Reality. Field recordings of deliberate nature and intent are shaped live, alongside tapes, environmental manipulations and microphone work, into six crude, lacing fragments chronicling processes of aural intoxication and abstraction, the tangible waning in muddled strands. Implicit through purposeful sequencing is a subtle critique of the concepts of verity and 'authenticity' in the art object. Although trading in what some may justly declare egg-headed currencies, of which its maker?s grasp is admittedly tenuous, receptive listeners should find value based purely on musical merit, particularly if they hold self-taught means of "reality confrontation" analogous to RLW/S.B.O.T.H.I., hewn collage tactics of the sort employed by Kiyoshi Mizutani or dedication to the minimally edited, yet often alluringly alien sound worlds of Philip Corner, in high esteem. Imagine all this assembled under, say, Hans Krusi?s shaky gaze; if you haven?t thrown up in your mouth yet then what we have here may be in your wheelhouse.

Full info:http://tasteofcrisis.blogspot.com/2015/01/tastey-01.html

More later

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Demo Tape / Re: School Girl

« on: September 11, 2014, 04:30:31 PM »

more demos:

https://schoolgirl.bandcamp.com/album/vans-nails

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Demo Tape / Re: School Girl

« on: February 10, 2014, 08:05:01 PM »

And here you can view a video of us playing the last song of a set a few nights ago w/ audio from part of the second last song of that very set:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1J1NO5tUs4

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Music Shit / Re: BRUNCH ROCK

« on: January 31, 2014, 02:25:14 PM »

What's the ultimate in Anti-Brunch Rock? My vote's a toss up 'tween later-era Skrewdriver and Meat Shits (fitting).

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Demo Tape / School Girl

« on: January 20, 2014, 08:35:37 PM »

Philadelphia, 2014:

http://schoolgirl.bandcamp.com

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Music Shit / Re: Your Top 5 American Bands

« on: January 18, 2014, 10:24:29 AM »

Without thinking about it too much:

Velvets
Elevators
Mobb Deep
Electric Eels
Bobby Soxx/Teenage Queers/Stick Men with Ray Guns

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Music Shit / Re: Doug Snyder-Bob Thompson "Daily Dance" LP

« on: January 10, 2014, 01:31:03 PM »

very happy this thread got bumped, missed it the first time around and this record makes sense to me in a way few do.

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Used Records For Sale/Auctions/Wantlists / Re: Teasers/rebel shirts

« on: January 10, 2014, 01:01:41 PM »

i'd buy the first one on a black shirt with white print if you'd consider it.

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New Releases For Sale/Distro Updates / Re: Put the Music in its Coffin fifth and final issue available Now

« on: January 10, 2014, 01:00:30 PM »

one last bump for this lil' shit show. copies available shortly from richie records//testostertunes web store and fusetron. sold out at source. thanks everybody who ordered, your good deed will be rewarded in the kingdom.

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Music Shit / Re: Best thing you heard in 2013 that's not from 2013

« on: December 27, 2013, 01:56:40 PM »

anyway, my thing that wasn't recorded now is the epic piano minimalist marathon November, by Dennis Johnson, that Penultimate Press and Irritable Hedgehog did.

Good call. i'm still pissed at myself for missing the performance back in spring. as for the actual topic of this thread, too much shit to remember, but not counting reissues 'n such a couple that spring to mind-

Trees Garden of Jane Delawney. I'm a total sucker for English Folk, the more pastoral and elfin the better, but somehow this cornerstone evaded me until earlier in the year. it's fantastic; concise when called for but sprawling at all the right moments, maudlin, even the artwork is perfect. also, chick who sang for Trees has gotta rate as one of the top psych/folk babes of all time.

  Amirite?!

Have also really been diggin' the Jac Berrocal-fronted Catalogue after picking up Penetration on Hat Hut a few months back. incredible Avant/Psych/Punk that is actually equally deserving of all three qualifiers for a change. they're like a more aggressive Can, and who the fuck wouldn't want that?

And would you believe until recently I hadn't heard much Napalm Death outside of a few tracks? because of said tracks, i long knew they ruled but never listened to 'em on my own. it's been fun rectifying that lately, as it has with a lot of classic Thrash/Death/depressive Metal in general.

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Music Shit / Re: Best 2013 Lps

« on: December 26, 2013, 07:34:24 PM »

feel weird commenting as i never post here, but this shit's always fun to think about no matter how stupid i feel making a definitive "list." anyway, here 'tis. plenty of stuff that's been mentioned a ton already, some that hasn't.

Counter Intuits S/T (Pyramid Scheme)
The Floor Above Bishop (Savage Quality)
Good Area French Antarctica (Kye)
Anne Guthrie/Richard Kammerman Sinter (ErstAEU)
Matt Krefting High Hopes (Open Mouth)
Graham Lambkin/Jason Lescalleet Photographs (Erstwhile)
Lloyd Pack At Home with the Lloyd Pack (L'Espirit De L'Escalier)
Mordecai College Rock (Richie)
Satanic Rockers Fu Kung (Albert's Basement)
True Sons of Thunder Stop and Smell Your Face (Little Big Chief)