Vuzh Music News




News updated July 30, 2008
       I've just taken down all PayPal links for CDrs. The CDr was never the best medium for delivering music, aside from being glitchy and unreliable, and just have an aura of cheapness. I have never been terribly happy with the medium, and right now, there is no demand for it... in hindsight, I probably prefer the cassette medium to CDr. So farewell to CDrs. This makes many Vuzh Music releases unavailable for the moment... most of these will reappear in downloadable format soon, some will be free, some will be very inexpensive pay-to-download. In all probability, none of the re-released versions will have an advertising campaign or front-page appearance, so please check back here at the news page for announcements of what's available.

News updated June 12, 2008
       The newest release of peculiar futuristic bleeps and scrapes by C. Reider has been released by Treetrunk Records. The release is a remix of ALL of the entries in the Constant series of drones, which have been released on various labels, (including Webbed Hand, TZP Drone Company & Treetrunk) and distributed through the Internet Archive. The idea behind the Constant series was to present one single drone that you could listen to all day long. There have been 12 different drones released with this premise. I think the series is splendid, and have paid tribute to it by DE-mixing it... I did a subtractive remix, wherein all 12 drones were layered on top of each other and all play at the same time, BUT the drone part of each piece has been removed! How do you take the drone out of something that describes itself as nothing more than a drone? What's left after the drone is removed? Find out for yourself, go check out "Inconstant" on Treetrunk records' Internet Archive page: right here (external link).

News updated May 3, 2008
       The newest Vuzh Music release is a free download. It features ambient remixes of The Long Defeat, which has long been a popular release on Vuzh Music. The remixes were done by Mystified, Kirchenkampf, GurdonArk and C. Reider... the new release "Long Defeat Variations" may be downloaded RIGHT HERE, ENTIRELY FOR FREE.

News updated January 27, 2008
       The first release of 2008 is my first solo release since 2003! I had explored the distortion of rhythm (not the distortion of sound, but rather a warping of meter) over a few years and finally compiled a release out of the results of these experiments, which was entitled "Fine Failures" I'm primarily an experimental musician but I used the medium of minimal techno to explore these ideas.

       The coming year should see some more explorations into minimal forms of techno, including some more conventional work. "Fine Failures" is a free-to-download release, and you should also start seeing a lot more free downloads on this site in the future.

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News updated December 30, 2007
       Happy New Year! Tidying up: site updates include very many fixes of broken links, and a new link to C. Reider's discography (external link to blog).

       Another fun item of note is that C. Reider made Disquiet's best-of list for 2007 for his performance of Lucier's "I Am Sitting In a Room". Go look at the write up here: (the item is in Part 3 "Up With the Download" as item number 7 "Echo-Chamber Music"... Disquiet Best of 2007

News updated November 11, 2007
       The latest re-release of an older out-of-print release from the days of VuzhMusic's cassette underground past is now available for free download. Originally released as a double cassette in collaboration with the Implicit Order in 1999, "Opposing Theories" features some calm industrial looping weirdness. Go to the download page for more details.

News updated April 8, 2007
       Vuzh Music is proud to release its first (hopefully of many) vinyl releases. Amy's Arms by Drone Forest is a tour of developing sound scenarios, of beatless weird noises and organic drones. The record is limited to 219 copies, each one individually numbered and stamped with a rubber stamp of a drawing by C. Reider. To maintain the specialness of this record, no downloadable samples of this vinyl record are available; Drone Forest has, after all, allowed over twenty hours of free mp3s to be freely downloaded from its website since 2003. This record does contain some of the most alluring and strangely musical sound-constructions the band has ever produced. It's an utterly unique record, and I am sure 219 of you are really going to love it! Go here now to pick up your copy of "Amy's Arms / metacollage"

       Also of note, two full-length experimental ambient recordings by C. Reider are now up and available for free download. One, the Long Defeat was an improvised recording presented with no post-processing and little editing. It was recorded in a huge, empty building with concrete floors, walls and ceiling. It was a building that once housed a factory that C. Reider worked in for ten years. The second recording, man-hours is thematically related to the Long Defeat, since it prominently incorporates site-recordings from that same factory in its longform, flowing industrial dronescapes.

News updated April 30, 2006
       A brand new recording is available for free download on our Drone Forest page, and also available on the official Drone Forest website. It's called "Point", and it is an especially atmospheric set of minimalist drones with an airy, industrial, timeless feel. Quite a worthy release from this internet collaborative. Here's a direct link to the Point page on droneforest.com, but the tracks are all freely downloadable on the Vuzh Music Drone Forest Page as well. Your choice. Let us know what you think.
News updated August 25, 2005
       Vuzh Music is proud to announce the new work from GoreHallReider - "A Blow to the Head" An edgy, dark and undulating sound work composed by longtime Vuzh associate and peer John Gore of Cohort Records using sound sources provided by Steve Hall of Yen Pox and C. Reider of Vuzh Music.

Here is a review written by Frans de Waard:
GOREHALLREIDER - A BLOW TO THE HEAD (CDR by Cohort Records) It seems to me that Cohort Records is becoming more and more active these days, and so are the musical activities of their boss, John Gore, aka Kirchenkampf, aka The Oratory Of Divine Love and aka >wirewall<. Here he teams up with Steve Hall, aka Yen Pox and aka Veil Of Secrecy and the more unknown C. Reider, who runs the Vuzh Music label. All three delivered sound material for this release, which was then 'arranged, effected and mixed' by John Gore. He calls this 'psychedelic ambient', which is an appropriate tag. 'Violent Drone' might also be appropriate, as in all seven tracks drones of whatever nature (radio static, analogue synth and perhaps even field recordings) play an important role, but a likewise important role is played by all the applied effects that Gore adds to this. This gives this drone music a top heavy character, sounds bursting in and out everywhere, from the depths of the earth and stardust from the sky. A sizzling mix of static sounds that never sounds s tatic. Everything seems to be moving around all the time, with small changes of color and texture, like a Yves Klein painting or a Steve Reich piano piece, ever so apparent in 'I Hear Voices'. Powerful drone music, along the lines of Troum, but more musical... by which ever definition music of course. (FdW)


the CDr is available through Cohort Records. the cost is $8 US + shipping.
News updated March 27, 2005
       Exciting new news for European customers! Drone Records, based in Germany, now carries many of the releases found in our catalogue. This is very good news because now Europeans will not have to pay for outrageous postage to mail from the USA. Here are the titles Drone Records currently has in stock:
All of these titles are available in at a cost of 8 Euro.
As a result of this new distribution, the old system of paying extra for postage is being phased out, and postage to the USA and Canada will be included in the total cost of the item. Does this mean prices are going up? No, as a matter of fact, prices were just lowered on almost all items effective immediately!
News updated March 20, 2005
       Thomas Park of Mystified contacted me after he had used some of the free sound sources that Vuzh Music provides to help in the construction of some of his new music. Some of the pieces that used these sources ended up seeing release on his new CD "Transient", which I must recommend as an especially good release from a little known artist. The music walks the border between droning ambient and industrial trip hop. A very pleasant release, indeed, and I'm happy to have any sort of a credit on it at all, though the true credit falls to Mr. Park.
You may find information about this CD along with mp3 samples here.
I strongly recommend this work.
News updated September 29, 2004
       Drone Forest is pleased to announce the first (perhaps of many) full-length release for free download. "Remixes, Volume Two" contains a satisfying collection of characteristic drones, with plenty of woof and scrape assembled by Drone Forest. Members of this ambient / noise collective squeezed some of their wide and weirdly varied inspirational sources and drew out from them their true drone essences. Distantly recalling faint shadows of the artists each track is titled after, the sound is still and unmistakably Drone Forest.

        There are two internet sites where these files may be obtained. One is at Drone Forest's website, where you can find the files under the "listen to df" link... and also at Vuzh Music's Drone Forest site where you can scroll all the way to the bottom and find the free tracks along with downloadable jpg cover art. Please contact Vuzh Music if you've downloaded these tracks and enjoyed them. That kind of feedback will surely encourage me to make more free music available!
News updated May 25, 2004
        The past months have been personally intensely busy, and label activities have slowed to a crawl, which is why you haven't been seeing Vuzh Music updates lately.

You may remember a recent warning to stay away from the Vuzh Music website due to it having been hijacked by some unsavory types... this problem has been resolved. A shout-out is in order for Drone Forest bandmate Mike Bowman who leapt to the rescue... vuzhmusic.com is now safely in the secure arms of Mr. Bowman's server, fully functional and awaiting your visit! Anyone looking for a webhosting service should look into Mike's business website, which is www.newmediagraphics.com

Although the site's been up for a while now, no notification went out about this, because we were also in the midst of a big relocation to a new town. Vuzh Music Centraal has moved from the lovely, but cost-ineffective mountains of Estes Park, Colorado, to the quaint, small town of Berthoud, Colorado. This will affect the service we provide almost not-at-all, but please do note Vuzh Music's new mailing address:

Vuzh Music
POBox 273
Berthoud, CO 80513

As mentioned, label activity slowed way down, but there are new releases in the works, nearly ready to go for the coming year, including new Drone Forest releases, a great new ambient CD by c. reider, and some cassette underground gems for the VUE sublabel, including classic noise albums by PBK, a wonderful example of mash-up, copyright violation from Samarkand and a collaboration between Yen Pox, Kirchenkampf and c. reider!!! For now, go check out some of the great new titles you may have missed out on, like Apollon's incredible "Nox" album, and the human voice-based experimental noise album "Aughtet" by c. reider.
News updated November 28, 2003
        There are now mp3 samples from each Drone Forest release up, and available both on the official Drone Forest website (which also has a couple of exclusive, previously unreleased mp3s), and on Vuzh Music's Drone Forest page. The notable exception is the latest, "Remixes, Volume One" -- we're working on getting a sample from that recording up soon.
News updated September 28, 2003
        Drone Forest now has its own domain, so please do check out droneforest.com. It's still in the process of being designed at this point, but you will be able to find the most recent news about that very prolific drone band at that site, plus you'll have three options for buying CDs, you can buy it from the Vuzh Music site if you prefer PayPal, from the PureAmbient site if you prefer secure credit card ordering through KAGI, or you can order from mp3.com if you like the security of giving your money to an enormous, multinational corporation. ahem.
       Also new to Vuzh Music is the addition of Apollon to the list of Vuzh Music artists. Check out his webpage here. His new release "Nox" is a powerful addition to the Vuzh Music catalog, with dark, gritty, percussive looping music that might appeal to fans of Zoviet France or Muslimgauze.
News updated on June 13, 2003
        The last months have been very busy at Vuzh Music. Many new projects have been undertaken, new recordings finished, and finishing touches put on upcoming releases. The coming months will see a flurry of new releases and newly packaged and remastered re-releases.
        The best way you can be informed of any new development with Vuzh Music, other than checking this news page, is to subscribe to the Vuzh Music Newsletter. Powered by yahoogroups, it will be an occasional newsletter announcing new releases and other pertinent Vuzh news. Please do subscribe!
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        In other news, I've become involved in an ambient music collective called Drone Forest. The predominant idea is "no beats, no melodies." MJB, Dave Stafford, Ian Stewart and I have been very prolific in the last few months, and we're poised to release several drone music releases which are multilayered and beautiful. Go visit the new Drone Forest artist page for more information, and links to mp3s. Look for more from this group!
News updated March 2003:
        The most recent news is, of course, this website -- carefully hand-coded over the last several months of 2002 -- is now finally online !
        Vuzh Music has gone through something of a metamorphosis, beginning with a long hiatus (a.k.a. near disappearance) for nearly two years. During that time, a full rethinking of the very existence of Vuzh Music came about.

        Up until this time, most Vuzh Music releases had been available only on the cassette medium, needlessly confining the releases to obscurity. The large project of completely remastering most of the back-catalogue for re-release on CDr has begun, and will continue until the job is done. Restoring these cassette classics to reasonably high fidelity (no HISSSSSSsssssssss) has been very fulfilling.

        The current ability of Vuzh Studio to clean up and remaster old cassette releases led directly into the formation of the new sublabel Vuzh Underground Editions. The purpose of V.U.E. is to re-release rare or totally unavailable, yet classic and necessary releases from the worldwide cassette underground. During my ten plus years of tape trading, I came across very many recordings that I found quite moving. I ended up collaborating with quite a few of the artists behind these releases, but the time has come to begin to shed some light on these previously hidden gems. I have a very long list of potential releases for this label, so look for new titles for many years to come. I'm currently working on a new addition to the label from Harlan, so look for that in the coming year.

        Our focus is not only on the past, however. There are a few brand new releases available, including a very nice melodic ambient collaboration with Tarkatak, called "the Druser Pricid", and a new solo recording of weird electronic music from c. reider called "some things i did when i lost my mind".
        Otherwise the most recent re-releases are Luster's "Abandon" (a long-time favorite of mine) and the Tall Bald Grandfather's "Incomplete Inheritances".
        Many other new titles are in the works, so keep checking back! The best way of finding out what new projects are in the works is by keeping track of my on-line journal. There is a recent breakdown of projects in the works in this recent journal post, and there is a more recent follow up here.

Don't forget to check out the special offers page before you check out.

Also check the Sources page for a full length mp3 album and/or sound library for sound artists, depending on how you want to use it.

       
              -- c. reider


March 2003


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