radio: Underwater Visitiations Takeovah

"I'm Giving You Acid"

Pump up the volume. Make parent's freak the fuck out. School closings. Bomb threats. Steal the air. Sort of my mantra walking into Newtown Radio last Thursday with a bag of records and a six pack of studweisers. Time to jack the air waves. And thats what happened for approximately three hours, as I meandered through a set of...well...let's just say it was all over the place; Syrian dance pop, hi-flying prog, droner zoners, Acid House, Aaliyah, etc. In the wise words of Christian Slater, a-hum, I mean, Mark Hunter, "All the great themes have been used up and turned into theme parks."

Underwater Visitations: The Bobka Takeovah

Omar Souleyman- Laqtuf Ward Min Khaddak

Silvester Anfang II- Salon Commune III

Radha Krsna Temple- Bhaja Bhakata-Arati/Sun Araw- Mahol

Run DMT- Vibin

Steve Hillage- Unidentified (Flying Being)

WOOM- Backwards Beach

Jim Ferraro- On Air preview

James Ferraro- excerpt from Discovery Side 2

Sultan- Overture

Fripp & Summers- In A Cloudy Forest

Omar Khorshid- Solenzara

Ron C.- Flex (Time to Have Sex) (Screwheadz KGB mix)

Maurice- This is Acid

Phuture- Acid Trax

DJ Screw- Inside Looking Out

Delonte West- KFC Drive Thru

The Samps!- trainCUMMING

Aaliyah- Are You That Somebody?

Ariel Pink's Haunted Grafitti- Menopause Man

David Crosby- Song With No Name outtake 2/Fripp & Eno- Wind on Water

Madalyn Merkey- Access Nagual

The Mantles - Don't Lie
The Feelies - Raised Eyebrows
Art Museums - We Can't Handle It
Woods - Silence Is Golden
Grateful Dead - Blues For Allah
Beach Boys - Funky Pretty
Riz Ortolani - The Roaring Twenties
Mikey Dread meets Dolphins Into The Future (layered dueling disc soundclash)

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tape: Twin Sister Alternates Side B

"Save Your Money"

Twin Sister's Alternates tape is long gone at this point, however, in celebration of Color Your Life hitting shelves today, I figured it'd be as good a time as any to share the B-side of their contribution to The Curartorial Club. A skeletal rendering of "Lady Daydream" hit the web a while back, and if that tickled your funny bone then you'll probably be into the other demos and outtakes from Color Your Life. Buy the record here, then DL the B-side below.

Twin Sister- Alternates (Side B)

video: Oneohtrix Point Never "Preyouandi"

"Zones Without People"

Psychic chaos and molecular deviance are the name of the game once again as rob0-editor Megazord data-moshes and slime fucks his way through ANOTHER OPN cut. This time we're greeted with "Preyouandi", the magnum opus/swan song off Lopatin's soon-to-be-released Returnal. Will the spinning orb suck you in? That's sort of a rhetorical question, I say 'sorta' because if you went ahead and answered it, you probably aren't lying to yourself. That orb is sucking you in. Accept its magnetic pull, but do not fall victim to the star eating a planet 10 million light years away. Abstract and deconsctruct hindsight until all you can visualize are circuit bent geometrics rotting in the atmosphere.

video: Stellar OM Source "Island Best"

"Ocean Woman"

The genuine nature of movies and television shows is so captivating that most people sit around enfatuated with the boob tube for an average of 10 hours. When the opening credits roll, a new dimension is entered. A realm full of un/paralleled im/possibility. Armchair psychiatrists often note the escapist factor. The video for Stellar Om Source's "Island Best" is an ode to the grand tradition of the escapist-fantasy trailer. A glimpse of a world most would never dream of occupying, yet no one would pass up the chance to leave their body for a few hours to explore regions unknown to mere mortals.

"Island Best" is from the soon-to-be-released Trilogy Selections on, you guessed it, Olde English Spelling Bee. The record is a "a selection of tracks from her CDr trilogy released last year." A limited edition of 125 is currently available solely in the OESB store and at Stellar OM Source shows. The limited version predates an official release coming shortly.

video: James Ferraro "Demon Channels"

"One Million Frost Tipped Dreams"

James Ferraro just posted a preview of what will be a "full length feature" video to hit the web later this summer. "Demon Channels," described as "a sneak peak at hell's hottest TV show", features both "Motel Christmas," from the recently released Feed Me CD, and "Cheez Whiz in Fast Forward," which looks AND sounds just like a chemi-fromage clogged VHS run through a broken security monitor at high speed. The new track will be released on Wild World out July 4th on OESB.

video: Oneohtrix Point Never "Pelham Island Road"

"Zones Without People"

Straight from the source:

LLLLLOOK OUT FOR REPTOIDS. L.A. LAKERS ARE BY NATURE REPTOIDS. YOU ARE LARRY BIRD. WHEN A REPTOID IS IN YOUR AISLE, MOVE LATERALLY TOWARDS OTHER GOODS.REPTANGLES ARE DRACULAR.THE ARE LIKE ANDROIDS AND HAVE NEED HUMAN SEEDS. STAY OUT OF GERMANY. NEVER GO TO GERMANY. IT IS WEIRD THERE. WHEN A REPTOID ANIMALOID IS NEAR YOU TRY TO LAUGH. JUST LAUGH IT OFF. PREPARE FOR BAD DAYS. PREPARE BY SHOWERING WITH OTHERS. STAY INDOORS A LOT AND CHECK YOUR EMAIL FREQUENTLY. ANIMALOIDS CANT RESIST PORN OR REMOTE CONTROLLED ANYTHING. UNDERSTAND THEIR HANGOUTS. CHECK THE WHARF. CHECK YOUR OWN INVENTORY. CHECK THE HOTEL. WATCH TO SEE WHO GOES INTO YOUR HOTEL ROOM AFTER YOU LEAVE. CHECK AROUND DUMPSTERS NEAR YOUR HOME. CHECK BEHIND THE BANK. NEAR DIALYSIS CLINICS. AVOID HIGHWAYS UNLESS YOU ARE FOLLOWING ONE OF THEM. KEEP A 'CRYSTAL' AT ALL TIMES. THEY HATE CLEAR LIGHT AND CLASSICAL MUSIC, EXCEPT FOR BACH STRANGELY. BACH CALMS THEIR NERVES. EARTH IS THEIR PROVENANCE. THEY INVENTED EARTH SO DONT CONDESCEND TO THEM. ACT LIKE YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THE NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL IS, WITH FRONT OFFICES IN NEW YORK AND 1350 NEW YORK AVENUE, N.W., SUITE 300 WASHINGTON DC 20005 Mountain Dew Records, with front offices in New York and 1350 New York Avenue, N.W., suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20005 [tel.(202) 783-7800]. IT IS HEADED BY SHAUN TRUJILLO ESQ>>> MANIC SHOOTER AND OTHERS. THEY OFTEN DISGUISE THEMSELVES AS NEWSCASTERS OR CELEBRITIES. THEY CAN SPEAK LOTS OF LANGUAGES. TAKE THEM OUT FOR LOBSTER. IF THEY REFUSE THEY ARE PROBABLY GREY MANIACS. BRIGHT COLORS ARE PROTECTIVE. DO NOT DRESS LIKE A DETECTIVE OR A DARKO. THEY OFTEN HAVE TAPE DECKS WITH OR WITHOUT AUTO REVERSE FUNCTION. DO NOT SPEAK THE PHRASE 'DESERT MIRAGE' TO A DRACULAR OR AUTODRACULAR. IF THEY DRESS LIKE A BUSINESS MAN AND OFFER YOU A COMPACT DISC ACCEPT IT. DO NOT READ MICHAEL CRIGHTON NOVELS IN THEIR PRESENCE. HE IS A HIGH RANKING OFFICIAL IN THEIR WORLD WITH STRANGE POWERS. THE BAILOUT WAS A WAY TO REPOWER THEIR SHIPS. EXPECT IMMANENT PSIDISPERSIONS IN COASTAL ZONES. DO NOT LISTEN TO BEACH BASED MUSIC OR BLADE RUNNER THEMED MUSIC. IF YOU HAVENT BEEN TO AFRICA THEN IMAGINE IT IN YOUR MIND. CASUAL SEX IN SPACES.

radio: Sunday Brunch Ep 13

"My Mind Went Blank"

Chopped up, not slopped up. This weeks radio set was largely inspired by the mantra of the late DJ Screw. Heat rays and cool mist are priority here, used as transportation to a place you and I have only dreamed of living in; some hippie outpost where Screw & Pimp C would be chillin alongside Wavy Gravy, if WavyGravy was a desireable person to chill beside. (He is not, but there must be a legit Wavy Gravy out there somewhere. A lost Space Cadet searching for likeminded revellers to get zonked with.)

This week the takeover starts. I'll be spinning jams on Underwater Visitations today from 4-7, while Ari (UP) and Emilie will host Sunday Brunch. Be sure to tune in to Newtown Radio for a heaping of audible candy.

Sunday Brunch Ep 13

Janka Nabay- De Debul (Slo-gruv)

Oneness of Juju- Liberation Dues (Broken arm rmx)

Tyrone Ashley's Funky Music Machine- Does Franklin Ever Call My Name?

Tina Turner- I Can't Stand the Rain

DJ Screw- My Mind Went Blank

DJ Screw- South Circle Attitudes

DJ Screw- 13 Ways

James Pants- Checkmate Drome C

Billy Bayo- One Spliff A Day

Major Organ and the Adding the Machine- Transmission

oOoOO- NoSummr4U

Whodini- Magic Wand (20K Leagues Under RMX)

James Ferraro- excerpt from Discovery

How I Quit Crack- In Realm

Balam Acab- See Birds

DJ Screw- Something Good

Games- MIDI Drift

Silent Diane- Riverside

Arthur Russell- The Deer in the Forest pt. 1

The Samps- F.X.N.C

Excerpt from Man on the Moon: Moon Landing LP

Sun Araw- Conga Mind

Ganglians- Modern African Queen

Sun Araw- Conga Mind

Pure Ecstasy- Baby

Twin Sister- Color Your Life

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new: Oneohtrix Point Never "Pelham Island Road"

"Ouroboros"

Eternity always feels like a long way away, but is it? That's the feeling OPN's "Pelham Island Road" conjures. A long and twisted visual trip down a road thats more like a jeti, surrounded on both sides by tides crashing on ancient stone. While digital drone is the force, an air of humanity permeates "Pelham Island Road," a head scratcher which begs on to ask, Who exactly is the ghost in the machine? The answer lies within Returnal.

Oneohtrix Point Never- Pelham Island Road

new: WOOM

"Backwards Beach"

Residing in the murky lowlands can make for a peculiar existence. Minimalism is key, and the union of mind, body and spirit aids in expanding the limitations of desolate living. A voice is much more than a voice. And, like many other oft-overlooked elements of daily life, the voice can be used to fulfill greater needs. (Ex. A bird call is not just a bird call, it's a call/cry for food.) This union can transform tin cans, car tires and fish bones Heathcliff dragged in from the swamp into wondrous pieces of exotic gadgetry; twig sticks, skeletal marimbas and natural cavern echo chambers are some of the first things that come to mind. And thus is the magic displayed on Muu's Way, the debut from WOOM, out June 28th on BaDaBing Records.

WOOM are playing Cake Shop tonight (5/18) and Death By Audio tomorrow (5/19).

WOOM- The Hunt

bobkast: #32 So I Can Fly

"Time Traveling"

May Flowers are spewing out an obscene amount of pollen into the atmosphere. Streets glow a tainted boogie colour, giving concrete a luscious, almost sensual appeal. The green mist penetrates our nasal cavity's and fucks with our neuro-system. Eyes water, heads swell and before you can wipe the goo from your nose, a dizzy-ing rush rolls over you. Next thing you know, your alone in a room. A bed room. In a doll house. Inside a hot air balloon. There's a looney man at the helm, boosting flame power, before letting it ride out and sailing across the solar sea.

This mix was crafted during the englightening hours by myself and Erez Avissar. Erez and I will be DJ'ing this Saturday at Good Company in Williamsburg (Grand & Hope). We'll also be DJ'ing next Wednesday with Julianna Barwick at a venue TBD. Consider this a primer.

Bobkast #32: So I Can Fly

Franco Battio- Il Silenzio Del Rumore
Joe Meek- I Hear A New World (Alternate)
Edibles- Lazers
Janko Nilovic- Drug Song
Run DMT- Spruce Bringsteen (Demo)
Velvet Davenport- Run (Freakers pitch)
Tracey Trance- Gaugin
Mulatu Astatqe- Tezeta
Krokodil- The Creator Had A Master Plan
Candy Claws- Sunbeam Show
The Samps!- Mashed Skins
Ash Ra + Timothy Leary- Time
A to Austr- Hawaiian War Chant
We Like Cats- Money Dub Money
Omar Khorshid- Solenzara
Spacemen 3- Come Down Easy (Forged Prescription)
Velvet Davenport- Run (Tweakers pitch)
Julian Lynch- Just Enough
Yo La Tengo- Return to Hot Chicken
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas- Boney M Down
John K- Beginners
oOoOO- NoSummr4U
SURVIVE- Lunar Eclipse (bugger)
Ducktails- Dancing With the One You Love (Rez'z Burial Ceremony)
Caribou- Bowls
Blondes- Moondance
Pional- In Another Room (Original mix)
Balam Acab- See Birds
How I Quit Crack- Gone Away (Barbie Huffing NO2 remix)
Fleetwood Mac- You and I, Part II

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mp3: We Like Cats "Money Dub Money"

"THESE CATS CAN DO RAINBOW BASKETBALL SHOTS ACROSS THE SOLAR SYSTEM"
The entire concept of We Like Cats is completely absurd; take three of Portland's wildest musicians (Adam Forker, Honey Owens & Eva Salens) and watch them crank the low ends and rhyme about cats. What followed the session was a mythical germination period, which Marriage Records describes thoroughly:

Original tracks for their debut LP Proper Eats were recorded at Marriage Studio in Portland, Oregon on two sizzingly hot summer days in 2009.The tape were then buried in a small plot of dirt next to the parking lot through the rainy season until the winter of 09/10, at which point they were properly saturated with the deepest filth of soul fire dub juice, cooked in an oven for 7 hours on low heat, strung back up in the studio, versioned, dubbed and mastered for thickest possible vibrations."

That's about as apt a description as you are going to find. The warped and Tubby-inspired party collection is available on LP from Marriage Records, and the vinyl comes with "4 extended bonus dub version mp3s" for all you soundwoofin' heads lurking in the swamp.

We Like Cats- Money Dub Money

cd: Jim/James Ferraro On Air & Feed Me

"Dreams"

It's only been a minute since OESB dropped James Ferraro's The Last American Hero but that doesn't mean the martian hamburgler can't drop another one today. That said, Mr. Ferraro is dropping TWO new CDs today on his Muscle Works Inc. label. The latest batch finds the omnipresent humanoid trying out a new pseudonym, Jim Ferraro, the moniker he used to create On Air. (Feed Me was released by James Ferraro.) Gushing with silicon ease, On Air is the sound of keyboards smoking on battery acid ooz and nascent circuit board tweakery spewing off into the mist like mayonaise fizzing from a 2 liter bottle of Sunkist. Repetition is key, and rewards are great for those huffers gonked enough to seperate the eternal goo from the ecto plasm.

Jim Ferraro- excerpt from On Air

James Ferraro's Feed Me is a tortured nêu-metal study in So-Cal-I-Fuck-You convenient store culture. Caffienated hyginks and five finger discounts populate the aural zones of Feed Me, which is about as moldy Dorito focused and lima bean tarnished as the Cumberland Farms in Elmhurst with the Porky Pig statue out front.

James Ferraro- excerpt from Feed Me

On Air & Feed Me are available exclusively through OESB in the USofA, while INTL folk will be able to order through Volcanic Tongue. Pre-order both and receive special PIXARNI bonus disc, limited to 50 in the entire Universe. Get 'em all here.

album: Liam the Younger Revel Hidden Worlds

"Bob Dylan"

Liam the Younger isn't one to play into public perceptions or preconceived notions. On his latest record, Revel Hidden Worlds, he sheds much of the tape hiss and acousic balladry that populate Clear Skies Over Black River and After the Graveyard and, in the process, finds his voice as redemtive Tiresias. As usual his lyrics are prophetic, words not just for singing, but for living, the sort of songs that become ingrained in your psyche after only a few listens. When "Lie" punches through the drywall caked "All Here For" it's clear this record isn't just a day in the park, but a beast with motives and intentions neither you nor I will ever understand, no matter how hard we try. But in that non-understanding lies the pay off; Revel Hidden Worlds does just that, peeling the coating from the everyday, highlighting the everyday bullshit and beauty that make life worth living. Revel Hidden World was recently released on LP by Brave Men Run as a limited pressing of 300 vinyl, complete with photo/lyric book. I highly suggest you purchase it here. Copies of the album are also available on cassette through Wild Animal Kingdom. In addition, Liam's also made the record available for free download, which you can do below.

Download Liam the Younger's Revel Hidden Worlds

mix: Love Triangle

"Count Zero"

Austin synth-quartet SURVIVE just posted this Texas sized mix made for Vice UK by Tommy Boy. The results are near Earth shaking. Gathering bits and pieces from the Austin-Houston-Dallas Triangle, Love Triangle is a roll slow'd/lean back oriented mix that is sure to set the tone for a warped weekend. From George Quartz cover of "Coconut" to Psychic Violence's "U is Moon" to Twisted Wire's "Hell" and How to Quit Crack's "Gone Away", this is essentially the education I received on my first trip to Austin last March. I can guarantee that nearly all of this mix, if not the entire thing, will be new to you. Now put the lime in the coconut and drink it all up.

1. George Quartz - Coconut
2. Phantastes - Flight of Stares
3. Darktown Strutters - Silver Bullet
4. Indian Jewelry - Same Mistake Man
5. Corporate Park - Intimate Precision
6. //TENSE// - Versus Man (TX Love Remix 2010)
7. Seth Nemec - Count Zero
8. Jake Schrock - Trigon
9. E.R.P. (aka Convextion) - Frozen Volatiles
10. DYX - Lips in the Darkness (feat. Press-On)
11. Submersible Machines - Riding Theta Waves
12. Missions - Phantasy
13. Medio Mutante - Transit (Demo)
14. MVSCLZ - Fascination (Across The Nation)
15. R9 - Dreamdance
16. edrupt - M-U-S-I-K
17. betdat - nex (Radio Edit)
18. MKF KÜNST - Venga (TX Love Remix 2010)
19. Berliner Eins - Nite Life
20. Twisted Wires - Hell
21. Low Red Center - Historic Edition
22. S U R V I V E - White Clouds
23. Future Blondes - NIGHT ANALYSIS (Oppenheimer Analysis "Behind the Shades" RMX)
24. Psychic Violence - U is Moon
25. How I Quit Crack - Gone Away
26. xix - 1111(v7)

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mp3: Do While "Balloon Clouds/Balloon"

"A Candy Coated Slow Down"

The other day I made reference to an escapist balloon retreating into the atmosphere in a post about Wigflip Records new Run DMT/Happy Family split. And now, the score from inside that drfiting balloon; Do While's "Balloon Clouds/Balloon." Transience is the main objective here. Meandering bliss and repetitive loops are the focus, which is totally out of focus and mared by the sun's striking glare. "Balloon Clouds/Balloon" lures you into a realm; you have two choices; to completely avoid it, or to succomb to the atmosphere, a place Do While seems to explore with wide eyes and exploratory intentions. Explorations can be found on his new CD on Wigflip Records.

Do While- Balloon Clouds/Balloon

split: Run DMT/ Happy Family

"Gang Green"

There is little one can do to stop a helium balloon from running away. The easiest way would be to simply pop the balloon, then it could never leave. Of course, then you'd have to watch it wither away in front of you, until its a wrinkly mess of plastic and gas. But, if you just set the balloon free, it could lend a smile to anyone in the burgeoning Babylon who happened to watch the balloon soar above the city. In a way, the new split between salty Balty's Happy Family and Run DMT (now residing in Brooklyn) is that balloon, a gas'd vessel capable of charming the pants off the nastiest of cobra's. If "Youtube" and "Spruce Bringsteen" are any indication, smiles abound in our fair city today. Watch the sky.

Both "Youtube" and "Spruce Bringsteen" will be available on the upcoming Run DMT/Happy Family split tape & cd on Wigflip Records.

Happy Family- YouTube
Run DMT- Spruce Bringsteen

video: Dirty Beaches "True Blue"

"Walking"


Enamored with Dirty Beaches sound after reading Tom's praise a few months ago, I copped Alex Zhang Hungtai's self-titled Night People tape at Co-Op 87 last I was there. While the ambiance is up my alley, it hasn't hit me the way "True Blue" did. A relic from days when aching Orbison melodies accounted for a collosal amount of joy and sorry, "True Blue" rings familiar, while skirting the obvious in place of something a little more genuine. The tune is removed from its kin, sort of the ugly duckling, and while it straddles roads Roy probably manuevered many nights in his little Red corvette, "True Blue" is ostensibly original. It help's that in the video, Alex simply performs solo over a backing track, crooning on a security camera while double exposed visions of highways yet to travel color the negative space. One could easily loose sense of self while viewing.

The tune will be made available on 7" courtesy of Zoo Music in the coming month. For now, pick up Dirty Beaches s/t tape on Night People.

radio: Sunday Brunch Ep11

"103?!?!?!"

The above image was found by Googling 'hot city.' On the way to Danbro on Sunday it was 97. By the time we left, 103?!?! Delirious & stanky we sought refuge in the Newtown Radio studio, which, in all honesty, sorta sucked considering how sunny it was. Either way, we did our best to hold down some cool vibes for those sweltering in batcave apartments. No live performances this week, but Ari & I did play tracks from the new Woods LP, the (hot-off-the-press) Mountain Man 10" and an assortment of other random goodies, including Shits & Giggles, an Ariel Pink sideproject released Trick or Treat through (co-conspirators) the Vas Deferens' Free Dope And Fucking In the Streets imprint.

Sunday Brunch Ep11

Panda Bear- Good Girl/Carrots

The Police- Mother

Rangers- Bel Air

Omar Khorshid- Taksim Sanat Alfeyn

Nakoy Alfonse & Marlow- Tsy Olana

Grateful Dead- Dark Star (Live Dead excerpt)

Woods- Mornin' Time

Mountain Man- Soft Skin

Neil Young- Little Wing

Beach Boys- Feel Flows

Shits & Giggles- Zykatronics

Tears for Fears- Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Kate Bush- Running Up The Hill

Pink Floyd- Astronomy Domine

Laurie Anderson- Sharkey's Night (featuring William S. Burroughs)
St. Augustine & his Rovers Dance Band- Onwu Ama Dike

Exceptor- Vacation

The Gentiles- Side A of Lathe cut

Los Indios Tabajaras- Voglio Amarte

Caribou- Hendrix With KO

Andy Summer & Robert Fripp- Hard County

Ducktails- Surfs Up

Koushik- Corner of Your Smile

Quiet Village- Pillow Talk

The Delfonics- Delfonics Theme

Julian Lynch- Winterer 1

Antonio Carlos Jobim- Song of the Sabia

George Ku Trio- Kuu Lei

Dennis Wilson- Pacific Ocean Blue

Susan Christie- No One Can Hear You

Silver Jews- Tennessee

Blind Faith- Can't Find My Way Home

The Barbarians- Moulty

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