Long time no see

Hi, guys.  How've you been?  Here's some stuff I've been introduced to in the past couple of months.

LAG
A DJ from Novi Sad, Serbia who tweaks every sound just beyond the comfort zone, exactly where some aspect of music needs to be if it's going to get your attention.  It's noisy and intense, a real enjoyable "fuck you."


Lag - The Snarl by Lag


Autopark
I'm taking this one over the language barrier.  These guys are band from Belgrade doing a laid-back, synthy math-rock that reminds me of Mew.  The production is surgical as gender reassignment.  They also love their vocoders, so it's going to go without saying I really enjoy these guys.  The link above is to their latest album, downloadable for free and really, really good.

This is something I tripped over yesterday while trying to find out more about the Personal Space compilation DC had mentione:
Fire Star: Synth-Pop & Electro-Funk From Tamil Films 1984-1989

Here's one of the tracks off of it.  About 2:20 the guy really goes off.  The vocoders mixed with the chanting is out of this world.

Live Miles

A YouTube gem... Miles live 1971 hour long special.

Via Robert AA Lowe who tweeted this the other day...

dc

The Black Lips

... where have you been all my life?

Late to the party on that one big time.  Been rocking to this all afternoon, also some Ty Segall joints I didn't know about.

dc

Piano Overlord

I've been pretty stoked about this one.  There is a new Piano Overlord LP out, put out by Chocolate Industries label.  

If you don't know, Piano Overlord is a Prefuse 73/Scott Herren side project.  The new record is dope, sounds a lot like the prior stuff, maintains the same kind of consistent pseudo-free jazz meets IDM vibe.  I've been listening to it a lot.  It's bugged out but I still find it soothing and enjoyable.

I'm a big fan of someone with a million side projects that brings the consistent flavor to each a la Madlib.  That is, a Lootpack LP is different than a Yesterday's New Quintet record is different than a Madvillain record, etc... Unlike people who reinvent themselves under the same name like... Beck?  Nah, not really, but you catch the drift.

This one gets 5 stars from me, and it is on Spotify.

P.S. Chocolate Industries is also behind the comp "Personal Space, Electronic Soul: 1974-1984", a comp of rare, private press regional 45's made with drum machines, casios and commodores and what not.  It's worth checking out, and it is also available on my favorite musical app/service SPOTIFY!  HATERS GONNA HATE!!!!  I LOVE SPOTIFY!!!

dc

Slappa the bass, mon

I just went down a YouTube K-hole that ultimately lead me to this.  Enjoy:



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