Roadside Picnic is a noisier project from Justin Wiggan. It is also Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s 1972 sci-fi novel that inspired Tarkovsy’s 1979 classic film “Stalker.”
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Archive for June 14th, 2012
Roadside Picnic, “Terminal Swan Songs” tape
Wes Willenbring, “Weapons Reference Manual”
I don’t personally know Wes Willenbring, but something tells me he’s not a very optimistic dude.
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Chuck Persons, “A.D.D. Complete” 4×7″ box
I was entirely unaware of this until recently, but apparently on Record Store Day, Dan Lopatin released a series of Chuck Persons 7″s, consisting of locked grooves of various samples he’s used in his works.
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Emptyset, “Medium”
Another album of endlessly deep drones and beats from Bristol, UK duo Emptyset, who created Medium from recordings made inside an abandoned mansion that they wired up and flooded with noise.
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Wroom, “Fungal Overlord” tape
Wroom’s Fungal Overlord recalls mid-era Growing with gorgeously processed doom veering in and out of pastoral beauty and crushing noise.
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Yellow Crystal Star, “8 Faces of Ixchel in Autumn” tape
Although his live performances have still been engaging guitar-drone excursions, Yellow Crystal Star’s Mark Billings has been pushing the boundaries of his meditative minimalism further and further as he continues his journeying.
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