Existence (_) Precedes Essence

One day, I'm going to make these.

They are like the essence of humanity, the things that separate us from animals.

Found via spime.

Regina Spektor - Us

Cults - Most Wanted

Akron Family - Woody Guthrie's America

Dedicated to all the bloggers out there, living feral, in six quid tents.*

Sun Araw

feelin' a little Sun Araw today, sun-bleached...

if you don't know Sun Araw then you should... you could argue that there's others out there ploughing the same lo-fi spangles but, really, Sun Araw keeps coming up with the goods...

you already know that I listen blind to mostly everything.... just load it up and let it fly from my iPod, letting the complexities of the Shuffle Al Gore Rhythm bust a gut as to the mood... I rarely even look at the track titles / artists... preferring to let things blow... a lot of the music washes over me... but every time a Sun Araw track comes on I find myself caught up.... it's devastating music.... guitars swirl like nothing else... percussion sounds like skulls or chemical containers... and it swirls... in a very psychedelic way... the voice, the guitar, even the drums swirl... dance music for Ayahuascans, for Magic Mushroom Modettes... it's music that vocalises the unvocal, that tries to speak what shouldn't be spoken...

Keep with me here. I know. I know.

Sun Araw - Horse Steppin

Sun Araw - Deep Cover

Music for walking out of the desert. Scab picking psychedelia of the highest order. Music with it's face burned off. Songs that arrive in town over the back of a mule. Creepy as hell. It would make a perfect soundtrack for a Jodorowsky film. In fact, for Jodorowsky filming this little special needer...

(must get round to writing that someday)

Relentless stuff but intoxicating. Hard work like acid is hard work.

You need this.

This Mortal Coil: Dreampop Supergroup 4

New This Mortal Coil album on the way from 4AD, tracklist and artists as follows:

1) See Emily Play (Pink Floyd) Vocals by Scott Walker and Matt Berninger, music by Serena-Maneesh featuring Efterklang

2) The Dreamer Is Still Asleep - accappella mix (Coil) Vocals by Justin Vernon and Ariel Pink

3) Tattoo (Siouxsie and The Banshees) - Vocals by Bradford Cox, music by Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffitti featuring Noah Lennox

4) L'hôtel particulier (Serge Gainsbourg) - Vocals by Annie Clark, music by Gang Gang Dance and Efterklang

5) Kansas (Wolfgang Press) - Vocals by Ariel Pink, music by Haunted Graffitti featuring TV On The Radio

6) I Feel Love (Donna Summer) - Vocals by Anni Rossi and Annie Clark, music by Serena-Maneesh featuring Efterklang

7) Thief (Can) - Vocals by Elvira Nikolaisen, music by The Big Pink featuring Gang Gang Dance

8) God Only Knows (The Beach Boys) - Vocals by Matt Berninger, Annie Clark, Anni Rossi, Ariel Pink, Scott Walker and Elvira Nikolaisen, music by This Mortal Coil.


Can't see how this could be anything but fantastic.

Haint

Found this because of this.

Benders & Alveoli Inc.

Well, I wonder whether eBay'll eventually become a new trove of unspeakable treasures; the old synths seem to be going very cheaply these days, compared to a few years ago, but the modified, cyber-synths are still clinging on...

Like the added video, too... Maybe the future of all selling on eBay: "here's a video of me enjoying the Satin Chickens double 7" in the comfort of my own home. Please don't mind the mess, only my friends were staying over and some of them haven't got autistic spectrum disorders."

That was surely the future of music selling circa 2009/10? The niche, the personalised, the soup-chucked, egg-stained pre-release CD, with added polaroids of the tour bus?

Where next? I want DNA... I want a coughed-up bit of lung inbetween the covers. let's keep people going into record shops on the off-chance that a new bit of alveoli has crept onto the market alongside the re-born 12" ers.