The Mars Transmission . . .

Coming next month . . . planetary eruptions in the form of post-rock & experimental din . . .

zero dark thirty

zero dark thirty | Minimal/Techno/Post-Rock/Noise | 87:00

Up before dawn (@ dark) to hit the gym, the trail and/or Nordic Track . . . with coffee & . . . some beats!

Made for working out (with a little stretch-time @ the beginning) – a gift from me to, uhm . . . me as a reminder that, a la Jocko Willink: Discipline = Freedom! It also has the added advantage of blending in some nostalgia, especially Plastikman, Tibbetts, Add N To (X), Speedy J, Photek & noisy Brian Eno.

Strap on your seat belt & swab out yer ears . . . this one rocks!

Listen via Mixcloud or Hear.This

01 Alessandro Adriani – Casting the Runes
02 Venitian Snares – Felbomlasztott Mentökocsi
03 Nine Inch Nails – The Waltz (surgical edit)
04 J.Peter Schwalm & Stephan Thelen;
……w/ Eivind Aarset, Tim Harries & Manuel Pasquinelli – Pluto
04 Plastikman – Consumed
05 Shifted – Seel
06 Lucy – Laws and Habits
07 Sendai – Inverse Array
08 Steve Tibbetts – Dzogchen Punks
09 Add N To (X) – FYUZ
10 Speedy J – Drill
11 Lucy – tof (Tommy Four Seven remix)
12 Photek – The Fifth Column
13 Tony Levin, David Torn & Alan White – Crunch Time
14 Brian Eno – Horse

#JohnWickFour

My money’s spent . . .

Moving our Podcast location

As #Mixcloud has just announced it will limit Tier 1 accounts to 10 published shows as of December 2022 (no new uploads allowed unless previous podcasts are deleted – to a maximum total of 10), we will be making shows available via #HearThis. This is a promotion of Mixcloud’s “Pro” business model ($180/year, U.S.) — which I’m sure works for radio stations and professional D.J.’s . . but not for those of us uploading for the sheer love of the mix.

You may stream or download the podcasts on Hear.This for a total charge of
. . . ZERO!

Our three November shows will be the last new releases on Mixcloud.
Beginning in December, we’ll post on ello, HearThis & Twitter (as well as right here).

Happy listening!

https://hearthis.at/ambient-landscape/

Dust & Ether

Peripherie, by rand

You could write a review about this new release by rand and call it a piano & electronica album; or you could label it an ambient album, or a neo-classical fusion album; perhaps an experimental album or a soft-techno & glitch album; you could even label it a Jazz or an Ether-Jazz album . . .

. . . and, in every case, you’d be right!

I’m labeling it a predominantly Jazz-based album (think ECM) with crossover ventures into ALL of the areas delineated above. What it is . . . is a beautiful set of piano pieces with (mostly) beatless, techno machinations, clicks, pops, swells & whirs woven brilliantly & seamlessly throughout . . . skilled sonic architecture.

The piano playing reminds me of Raphael Loher (Kali Trio) or Lucca Fries (Hely) with a hint of Nik Bärtsch floating in the background. The electronics provide an ethereal skyline for the piano’s grounded-ness: soft & hard compositional frameworks accompanied by soft, to mid, to slightly harsh techno/electronic treatments.

It certainly represents a new direction in crossover-genre, fluidly Jazz-based experimental sound; with each track a new beginning within the adventure (we’ll explore their 2 previous EP’s, i & ii in a future post).

Standout tracks for me:
9.3, San Gimigano, Permanent Green, Siegfried 2.0

Rand (Frank Bogdanowitz & Jan Gerdes) deftly capture the listener’s aural attention (as well as their imagination) with the debut of Peripherie – out September 9^th!

Tracks:

A1 – Hoola
A2 – Drangsal
A3 – 9.3.
A4 – Siegfried 2.0
B1 – Permanent Green
B2 – Blood Moon
B3 – San Gimignano

rand will appear on 2 upcoming A.L. podcasts: an Avant-Garde/Experimental Jazz show this Sunday evening (U.S. eastern time zone); and an Ambient show in mid- September.



Additional information:

https://twitter.com/rand_2019
https://www.instagram.com/rand_gerdes_dr.nojoke
https://www.facebook.com/randmusic
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQmRodkdLP1sAuBqpyqRooA
https://soundcloud.com/rand_gerdes_drnojoke

c O g ’23

c O g | Experimental/Ambient/Minimal/Noise | 77:56

A revamping of a mix from 2015 (which clocked in @ ninety+ minutes!)
Four new tracks (*), a reshuffling of the previous lineup & a run-time of just under 78 minutes makes this a LOT more workable as an intentional listening device . . .

Listen via Sync

01 Steve Roach & Dirk Serries – Bow *
02 l@bs – t r U e (interpolating Saul Stokes’ ‘Out of True’)
03 Erik Slodkin – Drowning, Whistling
04 Chris Russell – Allium
05 Taylor Deupree – Sleepover
06 Marcel Rocha – Thor Meditation (excerpt)
07 1 Mile North – In 1983 He Loved to Fly (edit) *
08 Deaf Center – Plateaux
09 Tony Levin, David Torn & Alan White – Sleeping Horse
10 Dirk Serries – The Burden of Hope
11 Svarte Greiner – Midnight Feast *
12 Khem One – Lunadronus *

u n f o c u s e d [a n o n]

u n f o c u s e d [a n o n] | 77:42

Part 4 . . . in an ongoing ambient/experimental series . . .

Listen via Mixcloud or Sync

01 Luigi Turra – II (edit)
02 Li Yilei – HUO/惑
03 Earthborn Visions – Hidden Shrine
04 Steve Roach – This Place To Be (excerpt)
05 Requiem & Simon McCorry – Herd; Immunity
06 Nunc Stans – Edge of Visibility
07 Jason van Wyk– A Diary of Sorts
08 Fictions and Poetics – Just Memories
09 Li Yilei – NEI/内 (extended edit)
10 Simon Scott – Hodos
11 Simon McCorry & Requiem – Class; War
12 Neuro No Neuro – Filled by Needle with Sun Pine

Raise your glass high!

Half the year gone . . . half t’go!

Yesteryear . . .