Paradise Engineering

YACHT "Shangri-La" DFA2264

In case I never made it explicit, I am totally into paradise. Utopia. Shangri-La. I've been trying to figure it out since I thought I could talk my life-long public school friends into starting a commune. My ideas about how to collaborate have changed since then.  Now I know there should be lots more dancing than I had originally thought.


That's why this unexpected find today by YACHT at CD Alley has been a gas. I just finished a project that involved generously licensed instrumental versions of their last album's songs, available on the venerable Free Music Archive. And now, here they are again, talking about how gods are up for grabs.

But check the paper on this album?! A gatefold to behold, if not a consistent album (easily forgivable since this works more like a concept double 12." Spins at 45rpm even.) As for the pressing itself, there is unfortunately audible distortion in the sibilance-y frequencies and timbres. Still, my cubicle will be the best cubicle, with these YACHT book cover things tacked up all over the place. And if it does take six million years to build Shangri-La, I'll be happy to have these bass lines with me.

See you there.

Paradise Engineering from Mike Control on Vimeo.

Meiningslaust Oppgulp

//A few tidbits for the dinar daddies out there\\

mittland och leo:



toni and pisces:



who-bah-stank:

RIP CON

Via Brian Turner on WFMU's Beware of the Blog:

Sad news of Conrad Schnitzler's passing from stomach cancer, August 4th. A true maverick of experimental and electronic sound, Schnitzler's work with the likes of Kluster, Tangerine Dream, Gen Ken Montgomery and many others added a rather dramatic fork in the road in the avenues of progressive music starting as far back as the late 1960's. Melodies, rhythms, noise, field sounds, all cloaked with alien atmosphere with a unique vocabulary that was highly emulated, but never replicated. Conrad und Sohn is a particular fave of mine, a 1981 recording he did with his teenage son Gregor that presents a totally Venusian wall of electronics and off-the-wall vox in English, but each of his nearly-100 releases all give glimpses into a truly visionary mind and world. This video clip is not in English, but presents some great images; Schnitzler finished his latest music project a few days before his death, and sent strands of his hair around the world in preparation for his departure, also starting the Global Living site. RIP.

hint for the shrinkage

mug, go to your waffle?
fish, a possible parallel reality, yes
mug, to what extent the salt in the pie?
fish, except for three
mug, except four, then?
fish, a joke on your grave
mug, I do not Spielerei, I am the real thing
fish, especially fish and
mug, especially if the war god was eating potatoes
fish, certainly if a stable relationship to better access the modem port implies
mug, keep up with me all the time to calibrate
fish, then you must measure out proportions, but more
mug, measure to ensure your blackheads
fish; suffering pales with some ass
mug, as the worth he leaves his cabinet
hint, I'm just not what I am
shrinkage, you're more Nug
hint, I'm more, I provoke
shrinkage, provokes you?
hint, for example
shrinkage, but who me?
hint, yes you, you, you, you can ,....
shrinkage, but I do not
hint, that does not much?
shrinkage, that I will not take as much as possible
hint, but never as much as I am more and provoke
shrinkage, with age, you never get
hint, just
shrinkage, you're a pushover
hint, you think you can do something but you do not touch me. I'm high
shrinkage, how high
hint, higher, always a little higher
shrinkage, do you never think about falling?
hint, my thinking is always taking off
shrinkage, my valley is always thought

Bonzenspeck Und Prollgehabe

Video footage from 2008 exhibit by Kati Heck...totally fun and awe inspiring painter from Germany...enjoy! Might be a while before another post.

Vidio (Mimeo) vs. C-dee (Mp3)

brought to you by network awesome, this is a video collection that keith fullerton whitman has recently curated and posted on his blog...so these clips are pretty visionary...10 short videos total...with hilarious commercial interruption.

enjoi:

Fiesta de Baile Portátiles

Courtesy of T-Retz...

อำมหิตสุดสัปดาห์

SAVAGE WEEKEND FEST
NIGHT LIGHT
CHAPEL HILL, NC
MAY 6 + 7, 2011
Hot Releases & Meadows of Dan present:

::::::::::SAVAGE WEEKEND FEST::::::::::::::::

MAY 6 + 7 @ Nightlight / Chapel Hill
...
strictly underground music event

back to back sets

FRIDAY the 6th :

7PM - False Flag (NC)
7:15 - Khristian Weeks (NC)
7:30 - Subscape Annex (NC)
7:45 - Ezekiel Graves (NC)
8:00 - Inspector 22 (NC)
8:15 - Sterling Vosburgh (NC)
8:30 - Cornelius F Von Straffin III (NC)
8:40 - Electric Cactus (NC)
8:55- Crowmeat Bob (NC)
9:10 - Pony Payroll Bones (GA)
9:25 - Slow Tongued Beauty (PA)
9:40 - Zack Kouns (USA)
9:55- Hospice Witchery (SC)
10:10 - Irene Moon (NC)
10:25 - Jefferson Mayday Mayday (SC)
10:40- Time Ghost (RI)
10:55- Skein Kompf (PA)
11:10- Jeff Rehnlund (NC)
11:25 - Teaadora (USA)
11:40 - Horaflora (CA)
11:55 - Russian Tsarlag (FL)
12:10 - In The Year of the Pig (NC)
12: 35 - Yohimbe (NC)
12:45 - Fat Worm of Error (MA)
1:15 - Night Burger (PA)
1:30 - Dolce Nirvana (NC)
1:45 - Container (TN)
2AM - Laundry Room Squelchers (FL)

SATURDAY the 7th:

5PM - Secret Boyfriend (NC)
5:15 - Vagina Teeth Jesus Teeth (NC)
5:30 - Bryce Clayton Eiman (NC)
5:45 - Birth Rattle (NC)
6:00 - Gnaw Sticks (NC)
6:15 - Hunnie Bunnies (MA)
6:25 - Viszk (NC)
6:40 - Velvet Buzzsaw (FL)
6:55 - Faster Detail (NC)
7:10 - USA Baby (NC)
7:25 - Ironing (FL)
7:40 - Naked City Cinema (NC)
7:55 - Isa Christ (NY)
8:10 - Penny Royale (NY)
8:25 - Ryan Unks (NC)
8:40 - Cubicle (GA)
8:55 - Glove Pond (NC)
9:10 - C. Lavender (NY)
9:25 - Craow (FL)
9:40 - Then And Than (FL)
9:55 - Motorcycles (PA)
10:10 - Human Beast (RI)
10:30 - Outmode (FL)
10:45 - Diamond Hymen (FL)
11 - Meagr Sunlite (RI)
11:15 - Dysgenix (NY)
11:30 - Pharmakon (NY)
11:45 - Boulders (FL)
12 - Clang Quartet (NC)
12:15 - Ancestral Diet (ME)
12:30 - Noise Nomads (MA)
12:45 - Taboo (ME)
1 - SHV (FL)
1:25 - VVAQRT (NC/MA)
1:40 - Unicorn Hard-On (TN)
1:55 - Leslie Keffer (TN)

10$ each night / 15$ for both nights
Nightlight << 405 1/2 W Rosemary st Chapel Hill




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BIRTH RATTLE (NC)
BOULDERS (FL) http://www.soft-languages.blogspot.com/
BRYCE CLAYTON EIMAN (NC) http://www.myspace.com/bryceclaytoneiman
C. LAVENDER (NY) http://www.clavender.net/
CLANG QUARTET (NC) http://www.silbermedia.com/clangquartet/
CONTAINER (TN) http://www.ijustlivehere.org/container/
CRAOW (FL) http://stayawayfromghosts.blogspot.com/
CROWMEAT BOB (NC) www.retroactivedynamics.com
CUBICLE (GA)
DIAMOND HYMEN (FL)
DOLCE NIRVANA (NC) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXmGchj7ZWs
DYSGENIX (NY) http://www.facebook.com/pages/dYsgeniX/116395788407057?v=info
ELECTRIC CACTUS (NC)
EZEKIEL GRAVES (NC) http://www.myspace.com/ezekielgraves
FALSE FLAG (NC)
FAT WORM OF ERROR (MA) http://yeay.suchfun.net/artists/fwoe.html
GLOVE POND (NC) http://www.facebook.com/pages/Glove-Pond/114329671969280?v=wall
GNAWSTICKS
HONEY BUNNIES (MA) http://hunniebunnies.bandcamp.com/album/yum
HORAFLORA (CA) http://horaflora.blogspot.com/
HOSPICE WITCHERY (SC) www.myspace.com/boymeetshermaphr0dite
HUMAN BEAST (RI) http://grossdomesticproduct.wordpress.com/
IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG (NC) http://www.myspace.com/intheyearofthepig
IRENE MOON (NC) http://begoniasociety.org/irenemoon.php
IRONING (FL) www.myspace.com/ironing
ISA CHRIST (NY) www.myspace.com/idiotunderground
JEFF REHNLUND (NC) http://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/jeff-rehnlund-smoke-from-the-mirror-lp
JEFFERSON MAYDAY MAYDAY (SC) http://www.youtube.com/user/anthropocosmos#p/u/2/TMGdVsCJJc4
KHRISTIAN WEEKS (NC) http://visceralmedia.blogspot.com/
LAUNDRY ROOM SQUELCHERS (FL) http://squelchers.net/
LESLIE KEFFER (TN) http://noisebloid.blogspot.com/
MEAGR SUNLITE (RI) http://lazymagnet.blogspot.com/
MOTORCYCLES (PA) http://hotreleases.bandcamp.com/album/wonder-why-7
NAKED CITY CINEMA (NC) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZYbxnwJkP8
NIGHT BURGER (PA) http://nightburger.blogspot.com/
NOISE NOMADS (MA) http://bonescraperrecordings.wordpress.com/
OUTMODE (FL) stayawayfromghosts.blogspot.com
PENNY ROYALE (NY) http://vimeo.com/5127334
PHANTASCIST (NC) http://www.facebook.com/pages/Phantascist/121012857912393?v=app_2405167945
PHARMAKON (NY) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YjS7PpdSBk
PONY BONES (GA) www.myspace.com/ponybones
RUSSIAN TSARLAG (FL) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3al6ve95ZdY
RYAN UNKS / MOUNTAINS NAMED FOR MURDERERS (NC) http://soundcloud.com/ryanunks
SECRET BOYFRIEND (NC) http://cassettegods.blogspot.com/2010/09/secret-boyfriend-end-this-thrall-c45.html
SHV (RI/FL) http://cassettegods.blogspot.com/2009/02/shv-st-c40-night-people.html
SKEIN KOPF (MD) http://americanmachinegod.blogspot.com/
SLOW TONGUED BEAUTY (PA) http://slowtonguedbeauty.bandcamp.com/
STERLING VOSBURGH (NC)
SUBSCAPE ANNEX (NC) http://www.subscapeannex.com/
TABOO (ME) http://cassettegods.blogspot.com/2010/05/taboo-death-to-false-magick-c90.html
TEAADORA (USA) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOicB5ME0e0
THEN AND THAN (FL) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbozVvX1Jnw&feature=player_embedded#at=15
TIME GHOST (RI) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PF9Wdt4YmY
UNICORN HARD-ON (TN) http://www.tangledhares.com/
USA BABY (NC) www.myspace.com/usababy1
VELVET BUZZSAW (FL)
VISZK (NC)
VVAQRT (NC/MA) vvaqrt.lmgrovllum.org
YOHIMBE (NC) www.myspace.com/partywithyohimbe
ZACK KOUNS http://www.zackkouns.com/

Kind of Entranc'd

WTF? I just talked to Robbie here last night at the 333Legged Race show and he explains this mechanism for controlling his synth with his own brainwaves via the Mattel Mindflex. This is brilliant! I wish I could have seen him demonstrate this at Duke the day prior. However, I'm superbly impressed with the idea of it all. So, here's a simple demonstration via U-TOOB.



This one's much better...it features Robert Beatty and I think that makes a difference.



Yo, yo, yo! Is this some trippy shizzy or what? Modified toyz bring mucho, beaucoup joyz.

Biological Speculation

I've been on the Parliament-Funkadelic mothership for a little while now, but the chariot has been swinging especially low since the Carrboro record show last weekend. I can't seem to get them out of my head. Could be related to the impending triple whammy of graduation/marriage/new job, a future which seems so strange and otherworldly as to cause psychedelic things in my head. And that always goes best with serious ass-shaking.


Biological Speculation from Mike Control on Vimeo.

Also at play is the coming of spring, as exemplified by this fine knockout Piedmont Thursday. Being a southern boy raised on album-oriented rock stations, I associate searing steel guitar with sunny days, so this track from Funkadelic's 1972 album America Eats Its Young is doing me right. I love the song title. What is he speculating about?

I'm fascinated by musicians that are workaholics, especially when they're as far out as the funk mob. Can you believe George Clinton made 20 albums in the 70s alone?