Zaïmph – ‘Evolucao’ cs
Marcia Bassett’s study of a checked-out Rhythm Master reveals a stack of glimmering overtones in its corrupted hum. Combed bossa programs turn around a hall of purgatorial voices and automata clangor – an amped malaise played through the resonant afterlife of the record’s titular evolution. Dungeon Taxis 27.
Suzy poling's dream-spun poiesis cascades in bewitching
style, an invitation/abduction to an echoic world of poltergeist sirens in
screwed chant, distorted-lens keyboard glare, knotty dance moves and radiophonic
dub. Dungeon Taxis 25.
Pod Blotz – ‘Timeless’ cs
TLAOTLON - 'Teeth Alphabets' cs
Jeremy Coubrough's byzantine stepper of tuned detonations, radiant circuitry and molecular percolation rocks in hyperbolic space - an Aqua Worm Hole of talking-drum boink, atomized bounce and damaged Schaffel, filtered as Ewe music through the dizzy mixed meter and ecstatic syncopation of Footwork. Dungeon Taxis 23.
Ryan Jewell - 'Infinite Light' cs
Ryan Jewell's astral audition of Furniture Music and study in clairaudience develops through the serene modulations of its reflective, percussive bowing. Part I is an ember of yogic minimalism and cantabile, Part II is the slight return. Dungeon Taxis 20.
Pak - 'Cast Shadow' cs
Artifact miniatures of choral filament and cardiac thump dunked in impish mains buzz and cyclic nice gunk. Lauren Pakradooni's palimpsest of crawly melody is kindled in fungal medley, lattice of ooze. Entropy in the mouth of the earworm. Dungeon Taxis 21.
Andrew 'Angel Eyes' Cowie and Kieran 'Superstar' Hegarty's debut as Legendary Hearts bends Fourth World drum programs through a heavenly screen of Romance keyboard moire and subaltern electro ostinato, elegantly ghosted by chimed Dream & Desire guitar counterpoint. Six glassed arenas of upstairs tuneage and vanishing point melancholy in BM/EZ ascension. Dungeon Taxis 22.
Chronox - ‘Gwandalan’ C22.
Lacustrine mood service of tidal zonation and depth-sounding outlook music, transcribed from devotional watching sessions at the Coastal Mirage Tabernacle in Lake Macquarie, NSW. Face A surfaces across a GUI island of synthesizer coruscation and littoral splash; B returns as a tritone horizon of heavenly warble and remote Siren exultation. The Melbourne duo had their equipment set up for days, and would rise from the porch every now and then, change something, go back to the porch and stare across the water. Dungeon Taxis 19. $6USD
Richard Francis - ‘Acid Songs’ C26.
RF’s infra-ordinary sound environment unfolds as a lysergic fugue before dissolving under a burny din of runny hiss, graphed room hum, wibbly sines and crinkled air. Only just sticking within the Goldilocks Zone of its own repurposed crystalline blankness, and ‘dropping the pressure’. Live recordings made between December 2010 – July 2011 in Auckland using oscillators, sine waves, spring reverb, eq filters, delay, noise, microphone, hands, paper, empty spaces, loop maker, computer. Mixed July – September 2011. Dungeon Taxis 18.
RF’s infra-ordinary sound environment unfolds as a lysergic fugue before dissolving under a burny din of runny hiss, graphed room hum, wibbly sines and crinkled air. Only just sticking within the Goldilocks Zone of its own repurposed crystalline blankness, and ‘dropping the pressure’. Live recordings made between December 2010 – July 2011 in Auckland using oscillators, sine waves, spring reverb, eq filters, delay, noise, microphone, hands, paper, empty spaces, loop maker, computer. Mixed July – September 2011. Dungeon Taxis 18.
Witchuals C40.
Chrome hymn zone of nonstop doo-wop detourn by celestial grouches, LA Lakers and I.R.D. Laryngeal juice, fake rataplan, and Kyrie gunk in praise of The Honeycombs, Chordettes and Sharades. Dungeon Taxis 17.
Chrome hymn zone of nonstop doo-wop detourn by celestial grouches, LA Lakers and I.R.D. Laryngeal juice, fake rataplan, and Kyrie gunk in praise of The Honeycombs, Chordettes and Sharades. Dungeon Taxis 17.