Listening Diary 20250122

Posted on Wed 22 January 2025 in Listening Diary

  • Schema - Schema - https://schemaschema.bandcamp.com/album/schema: I really should take a note of who posts these pointers. Turn of the century experimental fuzz that bridges the surprisingly narrow gap between Sonic Youth and Stereolab, with added experimental electronica. It feels like some friends getting together to make a record, but I'd happy to hear more. Listening to the Bandcamp Daily below I've just seen that the singer is Mary Hansen from Stereolab.
  • Sad Man - Dark Ambient Collection - https://sadmanband.bandcamp.com/album/dark-ambient-collection: Straight off, ambient this isn't, unless you live in a dying post-industrial dystopia, but don't we all. Samples and snippets are spindled, folded and mutilated and compiled into passages from which tunes or recognisable beats sometimes briefly emerge. It's sounds chaotic but it's cleverly manipulated and certainly intense. There are elements of Speedy J at his most extreme, DJ Beekeeper's epic shed shows and Aphex Twin when he's in one of those moods, which is pretty good company to be in.
  • Various - A History of Cascadian Psychedelic Music in the ’90s - https://daily.bandcamp.com/lists/pacific-northwest-psychedelic-album-guide: A Bandcamp Daily from last weeke looking back on the less grungy parts of the north-west US music scene of only last week. I tapped into the Kranky/Constellation continnuum at the time, but this is a selection of similar and other stuff that was going on at the time in the top left corner of the US, and is more to add to the list.

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