Eachothers/En Passant split (Watercolor - CD-R)

Eachothers played a killer set at the wygant house this past fall, fusing electribe samples as well as some beautiful ambient guitar work. Many of the same tracks from his gorgeous set are featured on this new release which showcases eachothers texture blending abilities and forrays into sound collage. Perfect late afternoon zoning music. En Passant's side of this cd-r features floating piano lines and deep ethereal grooves. This release is drowned in delay and reverb and perfectly blissed out. Baltimore's ambient scene is really picking up steam through Watercolor, who has been releasing a string of great tapes and cd-rs from some of Baltimore's best experimental musicians.

Full download here:
http://www.wtrclr.com/

Spring Mixtape 2011

In an effort to keep everyone up to date with some musical ramblings I decided to put out a mix of some of my recent favorites. This isn't necessarily a collection of what's new, rather some favorites to enter a droney spring:

1. Midnight Cleaners - The Cleaners From Venus
The cassette culture gods at work. Weirdo dubbed out track.

2.  Untitled - Suzanne Kraft
The last track on his new Missum EP. Sparse, with it's minimal echoing drum pattern a late night zoner for sure.

3.  Ramona - Run DMT
Baltimore/Brooklyn's Run DMT is a bit mysterious and the most I've has been on mixtapes. I hope to hear see some of his music on wax later this year....

4.  Ripples - Moon Duo
A softer and dronier side of Moon Duo from 2009. Quite a difference from the harder stuff on Woodsist, but a welcomed departure.

5.  On The Boardwalk - Ducktails
Ducktails never ceases to amaze me in his output, fuzzy and beachy vibes.

6.  Black Bile 1 - Living Torch
Portland by way of New Jersey droney classical guitar? hell yeah.

7.  Untitled 1 - Gem Vision
Recorded on a 4-track in Baltimore, this is a great introduction to Baltimore's ambient scene. Gem Visions most concise work.

8.  Nopera Fin - Dustin Wong
Dustin Wong's solo work often consists of layers upon layers of guitar loops and this is no exception. Beautiful sound collage on his tape off of Water Color.

9.  Struttin - Edibles
Dubbed out pdx jams

10.  Vessel - Grouper
Off of Grouper's split with roy montgomery, beautiful, ethereal, and one of my favorite recordings in recent years.

11.  Es's - Julian Lynch
Underwater People's has put Ridgewood on the map. New Jersey has it going on.

12.  EM E GEE - INEVERYROOM
Baltimore insanity. Just Listen.

13.  Track 9 - Languis
Beautiful electronics from Los Angeles. Check out the tape on Discotheque Records, one of the most criminally underrated electronic groups.

14.  Let The Sweets Be Filled - Ladyshapes
Portland ambient vibes. Zone the fuck out.



Spring 2011

Lady Shapes

new jams from the portland ambient chillers lady shapes. ambient style ramblings. give it a listen:

Jam 1 (With WYLD WYZRDZ/Braden McKenna) by ladyshapespdx

SFV Acid - New West Coast (PPM Records - LP)

Acid fueled beats and heavily reminiscent of early 90's IDM, this record is an exercise in oceanic synths and mpc processed beats. The first vinyl release from SFV, and hopefully there will be more coming soon. Definitely one of the best electronic joints ive heard in awhile. Pick it up from PPM, only 500 copies. The first fifty on red, white, and blue swirly pinkish wax.

Grouper - Experimental 1/2 hour

Experimental 1/2 Hour - Episode XI: Grouper from Experimental 1/2 Hour on Vimeo.

Grouper's droning tape loops create some beautiful textures. For those of you who missed her at the Artistery, this is a bit of a teaser on the new sounds. Looking forward to the new release in April....

Edibles

edibles. portland, oregon. dubbed out jammers.
More coming on Not Not Fun Records soon....




Edibles-In The Jungle by spacefunk99

Hold the Way

grouper/roy montgomery split - 2010