Vuzh Music Blog

The new C. Reider recording “Steam Inspector” will be previewed tonight (Saturday August 22) on ‘Not the Normal Shit’ radio.
Most of you will be sound asleep, since in the US, the show airs smackdab in the middle of the night, but just in case check here for show times: http://tiny.cc/6EDbw
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Tune in early, because the preview will be in the pre-show (and so will not be part of the archived podcast, if you want to hear it, you have to hear it when it airs!)
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You can tune in by going to the Stillstream web page, where they have a streaming player.
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If you can’t tune in, the release is scheduled for release on September 7 on the Just Not Normal netlabel.

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The milestone 4 CD-length compilation of music from netlabel underground artists put together by the Just Not Normal netlabel is now available for free download. It’s HUGE in every way. It promises to be an extremely useful introduction to a large amount of unknown artists.
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I appear on CD#3 with an exclusive track called “Captcha upgrade stickyglands“, which samples from various captcha scripts found around the internet.
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Also on CD#3 are a few friends and colleagues, such as Gurdonark and Mystified, who both appear on Long Defeat Variations
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I encourage you to download No-R-Mal, the fiftieth release on the Just Not Normal netlabel.

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If you love drones (I thought everyone did!) you should listen to this NPR Morning Edition segment about the midshipman fish:
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NPR Morning Edition, midshipman fish
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That fish makes some astoundingly beautiful acoustic drones. I could listen to a whole CD of nothing but that. Constant indeed.

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The first review of the PBK / C. Reider collaboration CD “Discorporate”
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Written by Todd Zachritz of Goat’s Den:
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Ten years (off and on) in the making, this 7-track, 46-minute collaboration between drone composer C. Reider and abstractionist PBK is a curious and immersive set of noisy, textured, alien soundscapes, with a very proto-industrial feel. Beginning with the befuddling, loopily surreal opener (we’ll call it ‘Track 1’), the album gels into a far-out set of abstracted sounds, textures, and sound collages. Track 4 is a densely-collaged mass of squelch and what sounds like manipulated and layered field recordings. Track 5 is more woozy, like waking up from a horrible anesthesia experience with your head spinning and throbbing. Track 7 wakes from the dream to a lilting, ambient journey at the beach, complete with what seems like distant waves and seagulls (or was I imagining that? Didn’t hear it the second time through). It’s a fitting conclusion to an otherwise disorienting journey, and a marvelous one, at that.

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http://www.vuzhmusic.com/releases/discorporate.html

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I’ve just set up a twitter account. If you’d like to follow me:
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@vuzhmusic

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Coming soon from the brilliant label Droehnhaus (warning: page opens with music)…
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C. Reider / ULV – Split 7″ … DRH#6
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ULV is another name for the multi-monikered man behind Desohll, Norss and countless other projects.
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Desohll and C. Reider just recently collaborated on a beautiful limited edition CD of dark ambient drone, serving as a taster for this upcoming 7″ vinyl release.
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Dates and prices aren’t set yet. I’ll let you know when things are getting closer!

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While I did not know Dani or Will, I had frequently encountered Celer’s activities in the same places I promoted my music and found out about new music in the underground , so I count them among my contemporaries.
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My thoughts and sympathy for Will.

http://artificialcolors.blogspot.com/

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Lumpy thinks those CDs look pretty cool.
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I’ll be emailing Paypal requests to people who requested to be in line for one of these discs…
There are a handful of discs still available, if you want one, you had better act quickly.
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These are hand-numbered in a limited edition of 120 in a slimline DVD case with full color inner and outer sleeve, not sealed.
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European customers are directed to get their copies directly from the label Impulsy Stetoskopu (myspace link) …
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Otherwise, please check out the page at Vuzh Music for PBK / C. Reider’s new collaboration Discorporate, which includes short sound samples of all tracks. Here’s that link: PBK / C. Reider – “Discorporate” at Vuzh Music

For more information:
Vuzh Music
Vuzh Music Blog

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a.k.a. reviews.
Here’s some experimental sound stuff I’ve found around the internet that I enjoyed, and you can too.
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Dexp Lab – Sectors LP … Retro-futurist ambiance that frequently veers into dissonant noise-ambient sound clusters and occasionally settles into a groove that hints at head nod territory. For me, the best music merely ‘hints’ rather than ‘says’. Like this a lot.
Free. 320 / VBR / OGG. Rus Zud netlabel.
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Pavonine – Pavonine … Soft industrial drone work, reminiscent, to me, of the Hafler Trio’s quieter music, but more explicitly ‘ambient’. Very atmospheric and admirably restrained. “Rassamblement des choses qui portent malheur” has a subdued musical theme that is so understated and melancholy that it could be heartbreaking under the right circumstances. Completely lovely.
Free. 320 kbps mp3. Webbed Hand Records
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Hannah M.G. Shapero (Altocumulus) – My Name is Marietta Cashman … consisting of recordings from the late 1960s of a teenage girl experimenting with the Buchla 100 modular synthesizer. From the descriptive text: “The sounds on this recording, unheard for 40 years, are a compilation of assorted electronic effects which were thrown together without much planning, rather as a storehouse than as a finished piece. They date from 1968 and 1969. The modern aesthetic of patchwork and accidental meaning, which was only at its beginning in 1968, has made this into “listenable” material.” I doubt I could make a better description than that, you will either like that or not. For me it’s pretty great.
Free. 320kbps mp3. Just Not Normal netlabel.

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In the interest of hilarity:

I dare you to use these samples in some sort of composition.

First, a photo for inspiration:

I noticed that the YouTube video of “Jim Gillette hits an insane scream!“, if paired with its reverse, is essentially a kind of sine wave.

Here is a loopable sample:
Jim Gillette Sine (10.6 MB)

Here it is + 48 halftones:

Gillette Sine + 48 (678 kB)

and plus 72 halftones:

Gillette Sine + 72 (169 kB)

DARE!

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