Dispatches from the Underground // March 23, 2022

New Music

MIDDEX – Perpetual Skip (Outer Reaches) / An album of minimal synth, industrial electronics, found recordings & elliptical spoken word – out 25th March – Tim Wilson

JOYFULTALK – Familiar Science (Constellation) / A rousing feast of noise-tinged polychrome electronic avant-jazz: richly harmolodic compositions teeming with intersecting textures and turbulence – Lauren Barley

Jordan Glenn – Flustered (Full Spectrum) / solo drum set and homemade instruments from Oakland’s finest

Tommy and The Ohs – Mariposa Gold (Perpetual Doom) / Blending country croon, oil-slicked rumble, and surf, the album is an unlikely pairing that works its magic well – Raven Sings the Blues

Rubber Oh – Strange Craft (Rocket Recordings) / Inspiration can strike anyone at any time, and more often than not from somewhat peculiar quarters. Rarely more so than when Sam Grant – thus far best known as guitarist and producer of Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs – finally set about work on a solo project that had been pursuing him for some years. “It’s easier to describe it materialistically than by any other way.” he reasons “I want people to imagine that feeling of rubber – its physical memory, the unnatural vibe of it. It’s so tactile but alien, but also difficult not to know. It’s an odd analogy, but that’s what this music is for me.”

Orogen – Societal Eye / San Francisco based experimental producer Orogen intersects dub techno, industrial dissonance, elaborate sound design & extraordinary field recordings on transportive debut solo album ‘Societal Eye’ – Unsung Hunger

Listening Recommendations

Chubby and the Gang – Speed Kills (h/t Vogon Laundromat)

Stephen Cornford – Electrocardiographs of a Cathode Ray Tube (A Wave Press) (h/t Casey Anderson)

Pussycat Trash – The Brat Years: 1992-1995 / Ridiculously complete discography this UK riot grrrl band. Two of them went on to the more bludgeoning Red Monkey. A taste of that xeroxed nineties underground spirit – Adam Grimord-Isham

Old Man Mike – Feel No Pain

Radio, Mixes, Podcasts

New Mixcloud mix from TRIP.FM!

Reading

Foxy Digitalis Mix Season 2, #17: Heavy Cloud

Yabby You’s 80s dub productions compiled by Pressure Sounds (via The Perlich Post)

OTOBOKE BEAVER SHARE THE BLISTERINGLY FUN “PARDON?” (via Beats per Minute)

Author & Punisher – Kruller (via Treble)

Misc

Coming in May – 15 Years of Sacred Bones at the Knockdown Center in NYC / featuring Uniform, Spellling, Black Marble and more

Art Demon interviews Ceschi Ramos

CD Sale at Planet Mu!