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revised TAXES cassette cover

revised TAXES cassette cover, originally uploaded by ∆∆∆standardgrey∆∆∆.

Drawing/logo by me. Out soon.

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After all this time, I still feel more comfortable at rock shows than at art shows

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music waste:ish

music waste: hard feelings at the cobalt, originally uploaded by distrait.

Music Waste: Point form hilites:

Hmmm. I actually went out on a couple nights. for starters. Would have rocked all night but the usual old man day job tired feet agaoraphobia excuses apply.

*HEALTHY STUDENTS---Ex Red Light Sting/WPP/Taxes doing 80's style hahd-koa. Pretty Dope.
*HARD FEELINGS- all drive, power trio, solid solid, tight bros. Al played drums with the above then moved into gitter/vocs duties. 2 sets in a row. Machine.
BCVCO- Killed it at the Anza. See previous post. 5 guys in white, a stage full of analogue synth/soundmaking gear older than you are, more patchcords than hairs on your head......wwwooooowowowowowowwwWOWOWOWowowowowowowWoooooooo
REVELSTOKE - Dead Meadow meets Hella doing Rush covers. Not shabby.
ART WASTE at Little Mountain - other than Julianne Clare's floor tile reno/intervention (interenovention?) and Robert Mearns huge portrait of Cam Reed, the rest was the usual trendy hipster mural/scribble style with obligatory blackmetal irony and surprisingly very little in the way of neon triangles. Whatever. Got tired of seeing it all over the internet last year, extra tired of seeing it now.

Pic: hard feelings at the cobalt by the ENORMOTALENTED Distrait/Noah

Thee Spring(ish) Mixtape

Funny how time goes. You blink and a couple of months roll by and ... yeah. It's summer. Almost. A few days shy of the Solstice as I type, but all the same---some music for you hand picked from the blogosphere and yours truly's archives as the cold and wet weather gives way to the hot and sweaty.

Anyways, this is a big mix, 140mb or so, and should be enough to tide one over til later in July, as I'm getting on a jetplane soon for another stretch of rest and relaxation in Japan.
Lights camera, etc:
---------------> HIT IT.

Thee Spring(ish) Mixtape

Poobli -Jasper Van't Hof
Venus -Logic System
Love Without Sound -White Noise
Langsames Stuck und Rondo für Trautonium (1935) -Paul Hindemith
Windland -Hipnosis
Phantasized Persecutory Breast -Severed Heads
Mosem-E-Gol (The Time Of The Blossom) -Parva�
Little More Gauze -Nichols & May
Revolution Is The Main Trend In The World Today -Cornelius Cardew
Summer '68 -Pink Floyd
Komm und spiel mit mir -Manfred Krug
Together (Album Version) -The Intruders
I can't wait until i see my baby's face -Aretha Franklin
Theme De Celine -Art Ensemble Of Chicago
You've Got What I Want -The Sorrows
Have Love Will Travel -Sonics
Dancing Lonely Night -The Jaguars
Mella Mella -The Spiders
Le Canari Est Sur Le Balcon -Jane Birkin/Serge Gainsbourg
Octopus -Syd Barrett
Tamlin -Fairport Convention

Notes:

Poobli is via dependable Lovefingers and marks the thaw with my winter-long kosmiche bender letting up to let in more sun. But not without a return performance from Japan's Logic System (see the last mixtape for details), classic White Noise, some Paul Hindemith who I heard at dawn on WFMU one day thinking it was Oskar Sala which led me Google-ways to the wonderful Porridge Legs, a new fave blog, who happened to be the source of the Cornelius Cardew track later on. Anyways, it's sourced from vinyl via the Avant Garde Project, a weekly torrent site specializing in old avant/electro-acoustic vinyl gems that have been relegated to the basements and eBay boxes of history. Solid and worth investigating.

Hipnosis provide some triumphant italo space-cruise, Severed Heads is an ooooollld fave (like way old- saw 'em with Skinny Puppy when I was 14 and still have a signed copy of Come Visit the Big Bigot somewhere in the archives).... Nichols and May provide an intermission, an ersatz "end of side 1" giving way to side 2's run of piano, psych, German soul, Motown, and the inimitable Art Ensemble of Chicago. A short garage rampage follows in English and Japanese. We then round things out with some mellow psych and an old fave by Fairport Convention, inserted partially as a spell to convince the Blogglebum to get back on the horse.

So. There you have it. An hour and a half to keep you amused. Enjoy.

Japan is go!

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That is all.

Co-Op Radio, CFRO Tonight!

June 10, Wednesday

9-10pm, Soundscape Radio, doing a co-host thingy on phonography, field recording, souldtransit.nl and Seattle’s Phonographer’s Union

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Now streaming live in 128Kbps or 32Kbps stereo MP3.

MP3 audio archives: 128Kbps or 32Kbps.

Also, BCVCO at the Anza after. Music Waste FUCK YEAH!

Point Form

Point form #9638

1. Sleeping in til noon is glorious
2. Staying up til 3 am drinking pink gin & tonics & chainsmokin’ and talkin’ politics’n’books’n’North Korea’n’the death of common courtesy’n’shit with friends, even more so.
3. North Korea = Jerks
4. Gettin on a plane in July to visit my beloved now that H1N1 hysteria has died down a bit. (see 3)
5. Nara/Osaka rules.(see 4)
6. The Slate Culture Gabfest is unintentional high comedy when they talk about things like Eminem.
7. Herman Goerring would walk into the Louvre and cherry-pick art for his collection. Whoa.

Hey folks.
So the blog got killed, and I thought better and resurrected it. A temporary reprieve, as I'm trying to figure out what to do with it. If anything, I feel like this project has done its job over the last few years, and it's time to start anew, or at least reformat it, beyond changing the template. 420-odd posts is a lot to sift through, though---I'd like to keep some old faves--- so stay tuned.

Quick update:
The piece I wrote on Jeremy Shaw's work in PHG's Moodyville exhibit is done and the co-publication with Capilano Review launches next week. Looking forward to it. After sending the final edit of the final edit of the final revised draft of the final edit, I decided to take the month of May off, and most importantly, some much-needed time away from taking on any new projects.

I've mentioned it before, but it's the freelancers curse: nevermind having a fulltime (crappy)day job, the fact that one has to make work- written, visual, etc- and deal with the constant looming guilt-spectre that tells you you're not pitching and submitting when you're not at the day job or writing or making work----damn, it can be exhausting. There's been a constant nagging feeling of "YOU'RE NOT DOING ENOUGH. EVER." for too long--- And that completely destroys your ability to relax.

You know, relaxing? Chilling out on the PS2, watching a whole season of a TV show in one afternoon, reading books, listening to records, doing nothing except for crosswords....yeah, I forgot about it too. And it's nice to be reminded.

Anyways. I'm back. For now.

The only other new update is that my trip to Japan got scuttled. Well it wasn't set in stone, but JAL had a sweet seat sale and it was all systems go and then Swine Flu/H1N1 hysteria broke out.

Nevermind dealing with that short blast of everyone in North America going
"ZOMG OH NOES I E-MAILED SOMEONE WHO KNOWS SOMEONE FROM COSTA RICO OR MEXICO OR WHERE-EVR AND NOW I'M'A CATCH TEH SWINE FLOOOOZ!!!1!!!", but Japan, the Island nation that is---how do I put it politely?-hmmmmm....a monoculture and, well an island with a siege mentality when it comes to things like respiratory illnesses (See Tuberculosis and the Spanish Flu back in the day) tied with lingering sakoku mentality as part of its heritage ----well, we'll just call it fair that they'd want to protect their interests.

M. and I both agreed that, thanks to older conservative folks in her neighbourhood grumbling about irresponsible people travelling abroad during Golden Week, Japan's national holiday time and possibly bringing back plague, that it would be best to put things off. It's one thing to deal with the "gaijin stare" but, following the H1N1 threat to Japan in the news, I realized that I didn't really want to deal with being scanned by someone in a hazmat suit at Narita Airport or wind up quarantined and twiddling my thumbs because someone two rows ahead of me sneezed. It was best to let the panic subside, let it arrive and become something tangible to deal with(and it has) and let things cool down a bit.

So, July it is, and another trip is on the horizon. Given my blogging record over the last while, expect no further posts til I start sending dispatches from there. Or who knows, I might actually feel like there's something to say.

Marprichril

I'd like to note that Visa called to hassle me while I was making this post about my overdrawn balance and outstanding payment that I currently can't afford to pay off despite 50-hour workweeks at a Joe-job that pays half of what I used to make. If anyone wants to know about my blog silence as of late----I don't have the time nor inclination nor energy to keep this thing going. Matter of fact, after this mix, Updateable Mixtape may very well cease its operations entirely. We'll see, and I don't want to hear any snivelling out of you, my devoted public.

Sorry, I'm a little grouchy from being on my last 5 bucks for the last 2 months.

That said....

THE MARCH/APRIL MIXTAPE IS A GO.

...FINALLY.

HIT IT HIT IT HIT IT

High-Low -Haco
Shock City -Boredoms
ministry of voices -No-Neck Blues Band
∞^∞u™[™i—Ö‚f™j (aka iTunes can't read Japanese) -Masami Kawahara & Exotic Sounds
Der Regen Tropft -Der Plan
Crablogger -Chris Evans-Ironside
Automatic Collect Automatic Correct -Logic System
Le Parisien (Extended Version) -Danielle Deneuve
Time is Running Out -Doppler Effect
Angriff Auf´s Schlaraffenland -Die Radierer
Crabs -Burnel, J.J.
Theme From Gutterballs -Gianni Rossi
Oddball -Alan Hackshaw and Brian Bennett
Anabalina -Las Grecas
The Middle of the Night -Master Musicians of Jajouka�
Je N'avais Pas Qu'un Seul Mot A Lui Dire -Serge Gainsbourg
Para Lennon e McCartney -Milton Nascimento
Alfômega -Caetano Veloso
Dichoso -Willie Bobo
Via Con Me -Paolo Conte
Saint Germain Des Pres -Henri Salvador
Ou C'est Lui ou C'est Moi -Vincent Ahouandjnou

Program Notes:
Haco is an old fave, it appeared on the now out-of-print Improvised Music From Japan box set, followed by another old fave, rediscovered, by none other than the Boredoms whose work has aged incredibly well considering Chocolate Synthesizer came out 15 years ago, Crablogger, Oddball and Anabalina are lovefingers gems who rule as usual, Logic System is some shiny 80's synthpop by YMO's keyboard techie and it comes via Mutant Sounds, there's a few minimal synth bits from an overwhelming retrospective of the genre via Egg City Radio (my current fave) who's also responsible for the JJ Burnel track, he of the Stranglers.



What else....the Master Musicians of Jajouka comes via Dj/Rupture's Mudd UP blog and they're no doubt familiar to anyone who got into that brief Gysin/Burroughs/Brian Jones/Psychic TV phase back in the day...Gainsbourg and Caetano Veloso require no introduction, Paolo Conte is on my deep-internet dig list and thanks to Art Decade for turning me onto him, and lastly, everyone should go buy African Scream Contest, a fantastic mix of West African funk HEAVVVVY shit. Vincent Ahouandjnou track came on at Psych Night a while back and I have to thank Josh for pointing me in the direction of a comp that's been on repeat for the last three weeks.

So.
There you have it. It's a bit of a monster, and could have easily been heftier than its 145 megabytes/hour-and-a-half, but it rolls like a proper C-90 mixtape. I really should get around to doing a radio show one of these days....