Nadja - Dagdrøm 2012

nadja fucking moved to berlin. i want to hurt everything.

01. One Sense Alone (10:50)
02. Falling Out Of Your Head (12:44)
03. Dagdrøm (09:42)
04. Space Time & Absence (14:11)

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Wreck and Reference - No Youth 2012

I know these are comparisons that will come back to haunt me in a taunting "Shut up you don't know nothing about nothing" kind of way. Which is something I have gotten used to this week on account of my brother stopping by and my un-ability to win at anything.

That being said...

It's alright. on my first listen through I thought if Horseback sucked and tried way too hard with some lo fi black metal in there as well. Then I realized i like it a lot more than that, there are just some stupid bits where a guy is talking and "Part 1" absolutely ruined any chance of that being carried out successfully, for me, in the future... butt future... forever....

BC

Irena a Vojtěch Havlovi - Hudba Ticha 1992

something about this sounded like music for airports mixed with sakamoto. but listen to what happens at 10:23 in sametova, when the loop/clipping starts. i dont know if it was meant to be subtle, but it's not, at all. i dont even know why the change is there, because they easily could have continued noodling mellifluously, but good god that pulse is everything. i cant even think, and typing is way too loud now.

01 A tichou noci snesl sva
02 Sametova kridla klid
03 Ledova krupej medova

http://www.filefactory.com/file/a2e0084/n/Irena_Havlova_Vojtech_Havel_-_Hudba_ticha.rar

Sol/Blóðtrú - Old Europa Death Chants 2010

this review is written by my forehead, rum, and 5:12AM:

juhhhklkjhgfdfgbhnjmk,lkmjnhbgvfbhnjmk;/'?.;l,kyhtgfrdfrtyyhyjkio

i apologize for not droning much recently. i reached the zenith-state where i am either asleep, at work, commuting to or from work, or it is between 1AM and 5AM. drone downtime has been...hobbled. weekend nachos time has never been larger.

but i lied earlier about the quarterly 80 minutes of bvdub releases. turns out there are already 3 full albums in 2012. look at this shit.

also there's a 36...compilation? best of? there is a 36 something.

so drone on, drones. nothing says 'make up an illusory pentene peak by changing the software's idea of a retention time' like ruminating on your actions 8 hours later and listening to death chants. and poring over these.

01 Alone
02 Crippled by Emotions We Die in Solitude
03 The Dusk of Man: The Dawn of the Beasts
04 Where Did We Fall
05 A Golden Horse
06 Death Chants for Old Europa

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Nadja - Touched 2003/2007

how do you make videos? i need to make a 24 minute reaction video of my negligible ability to cope with touched via the transition from mutagen into stays demons.

this cd is goddamn ridiculous. it should already be here somewhere, but holy shit. i went from dancing to ceremony - brace yourself on loop with no clothes on to comatose in about 4 minutes. now im all mad about foreign policy again.

this will suffice:

no it wont. listen to mutagen into stays demons. as a grouping.

1. "Mutagen" - 14:22
2. "Stays Demons" - 9:57
3. "Incubation/Metamorphosis" - 18:13
4. "Flowers of Flesh" - 13:13
5. "[Untitled]" - 4:16

http://www.mediafire.com/?mhwdnmjinmd

Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness 2008

time of land EP 2010 here

5 years of effort on two discs. think echoes of yul with mid to late katatonia and a lot of belong and some place to bury strangers. it reminds me of angelic process in approach, if not consistent tone.

better reviews here and here. and here.

it's beautiful. and suffocating. bloodhail + big gloom + there is no food is just a bleak, bleak trifecta, should you choose to reorder the discs to suit your own drunken purposes.


Disc One: The Plow That Broke the Plains

1. A Quick One Before the Eternal Worm Devours Connecticutt
2. Bloodhail
3. The Big Gloom
4. Hunter
5.Telephony
6. Who Would Leave Their Son Out in the Sun
7. There Is No Food

Disc Two: The Future

1. Waiting for Black Metal Records to Come in the Mail
2. Holy Fucking Shit: 40,000
3. Deep, Deep
4. The Future
5. I Don't Love
6. Earthmover

Agalloch - Whitedivisiongrey 2012

it's a best-of non-album agalloch songs? plus a bunch more non-agalloch-album-sounding songs?

if for some reason you didnt have the lodge dismantled already...well...

plus you get to enjoy odal nothing. which is like a deck from sleep research facility - nostromo at colossal fucking hyper volume. it's insanely exhausting for a drone remix, if only for the segmentation of components. acclimation to one strata just weakens your ability to prepare for the next.

The White:
01. The Isle of Summer 03:58
02. Birch Black 02:40
03. Hollow Stone 04:15
04. Pantheist 07:17
05. Birch White 03:44
06. Sowilo Rune 05:40
07. Summerisle 04:55
08. Haunted Birds (Nest Cover) 10:06

The Grey:
09. The Lodge (Dismantled) 13:12
10. Odal (Nothing Remix) 07:47
11. Nur.Noch.Asche (Allerseelen Shadow Remix) 04:24
12. Dunkelgrauestille (Allerseelen Pale Companion Remix) 04:43
13. A Desolation Song (TWC Aleutian Mix) 12:41

http://narod.ru/disk/40178084001/AW%28metalarea.org%29.rar.html

Pyramids/Horseback - A Throne Without a King Split 2011

if i go completely fucking insaner listening to the text at the end of ATWaK pt 1 over and over and over again, i will consider it a graceful exit. especially compared to the state i could enter trying to ingest the entire album at once.


tldr, can i outsource the remainder of my life? i cant fucking do this shit. i could be beaten to death with wooden planks much more easily than i could try to offer you an accurate reaction to this album.

'just a black lake, forever
glass shattering in a silent movie'

1. Pyramids – Phaedra's Love
2. Horseback – Thee Cult Of Henry Flynt
3. Pyramids + Horseback – A Throne Without A King Pt. 1
4. Pyramids + Horseback – A Throne Without A King Pt. 2
5. Pyramids + Horseback – A Throne Without A King Pt. 3
6. Pyramids + Horseback – A Throne Without A King Pt. 4

http://www.mediafire.com/?8t1x67k5xficm8d

Earth - Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light II 2012

i spent much of tonight googling.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+put+yourself+in+a+coma



1. Sigil of Brass
2. His Teeth Did Brightly Shine
3. Multiplicity of Doors
4. The Corascene Dog
5. The Rakehell

http://www.mediafire.com/?ab6vif31bh0ri36

Clair Cassis - Clair Cassis II EP 2010

i dont want to be that dude, but i dont really understand people who like black metal and dont like this sound. i know some people care about lyrics and message and production (or...lack thereof) and satan and zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

the more black metal i listen to, and the more of it i like, the more i think VC encapsulate how fucking absurd it is to really care about a sonic signature. i think josh and angela could run pitchfork much more accurately.

but maybe i just enjoy projecting my inevitable intoxication into a sound that suits me.

my diatribe on 'how the last day came...' still fits better here.

1.	Aged French Absolute	02:35
2.	Concord Ambergris	02:05
3.	Praline Civet	02:05
4.	Bronzed Ash	01:35
5.	Snowstar Gunpowder	01:30
6.	Coumarin Currant	01:55
7.	Luxury Crypt	03:47
8.	Innocence is the Last Casualty	01:45

http://www.mediafire.com/?nt8f585rsr7kl47

Clair Cassis - Luxury Absolute EP 2011

i was going to wait until tomorrow, but

the snow! and nightfall! the absurd drunken tides of VC!

i am ecstatic to see everyone continuing to hate them. it's like VC never left!

"Oh and fwiw, clair cassis is now a dead project too. vc/cc both, just lost interest in creating the music (still love listening to certain groups though). Thanks for listening." - Josh, in a fun, endless, 2010 lie

1. Antique Sea Smoke - 03:31
2. Rosewater Cake - 01:51
3. The Royal Nocture - 02:14
4. Soft Castles - 02:43
5. Oil Ink Seahorse - 02:04
6. The March of March - 02:00
7. Under Sleepy Grey Elms - 02:26
8. Tiny Bourbon Cedar Stars - 02:18

http://www.mediafire.com/?40q6dj351no0676

1/27

put theory of machines at the end anyway.

and i apologize, one of those Belong songs was not supposed to be included (a walk), but the limits of my perfectionism become abundantly clear to me while uploading/whiskey/any time after noon, and as such you get to endure my unforgivable shortcomings.

delete A Walk, or consider it a non-canonical bonus.



26 songs, 1:49:41, 161.7MB

good luck.

http://www.mediafire.com/?7u7723si10sa74s

AND BECAUSE JEREMY IS SO, SO GODDAMN BAD AT THIS SHIT:

PUT THEM IN ORDER

PUT THEM IN ORDER

PUT THEM IN THE ORDER THAT IS IN THAT PICTURE

PUT THEM IN ORDER.

Astral & Shit - Subtile Corpus 2012

something inside of me is shaking.

1. Apparatus Enim Curationes
2. Clot
3. Eater
4. Fessus Per Orbem
5. Musculus
6. Subtile Corpus

http://someonerecords.bandcamp.com/album/subtile-corpus

James Hoff - How Wheeling Feels When The Ground Walks Away 2011

19 minutes of global riots. from drownedvalley, which I have to mention, so I can include the final line:

//expect war, not music//


1. How Wheeling Feels When The Ground Walks Away

http://www.mediafire.com/?sbt3y9ghngo67bk

Paul Jebanasam - Music for the Church of St. John the Baptist 2011

think tim hecker and ben frost with a pile of instruments, recorded live in one 25 minute take. it's...fucking incredible.

1. Music for the Church of St. John the Baptist

http://www.mediafire.com/?7xniy25eomnldd6

Pyramids/Nadja - S/T 2011

did you know, that ______ with nadja = nadja with _________?

for how much stuff out there there is that sounds like a nadja ripoff, i fucking love being able to tell if nadja is actually playing or not in a ambishoedrone album.

because it's noticeable! and that is fucking awesome! because hearing something out of reference and going 'holy shit, is that _____?!' and being correct is a great, elitist feeling that i thoroughly enjoy.

also this album is fucking insane amazing. think tim hecker with some mutilated ben frost and library tapes, with the fucking aidan baker pedalboard that makes everything sound AMAZING. and sometimes there are a-dynamic fast drums, and baker redeems the obtuse jazz-wankery of that last thing.

like sunn and the body mixed and placed in the center of a bear-trap, waiting.

1. "Into the Silent Waves"


2. "Another War"


3. "Sound of Ice and Grass"


4. "An Angel Was Heard to Cry Over the City of Rome"

http://www.mediafire.com/?tjjmctgd45m

Tim Hecker - Live at Moogfest 2011

i think i would cry if i ever saw tim hecker. listen to how fucking loud it is compared to the audience in the beginning. id be crying and pooping and then pooping my tears once my eyes explode due to the piano drop being the intro.

http://www.npr.org/2011/10/30/141795807/tim-hecker-in-concert-moogfest-2011

Cold - 1. Melancholia

ambient, drone, light post-rock, light psychdrone

posted 11/7/11

1. Last Days Leaving Home
2. Jodis Continents
3. Jackie-O Motherfucker Good Morning Kaptain
4. Cult of Luna Marching To The Heartbeats
5. Gregor Samsa 7 07 Pseudonyms
6. Library Tapes Klosterg
7. Fell City Lights Flickering Off And On
8. Earth Crooked Axis For String Quartet
9. The Gentleman Losers Midnight Of The Garden Trees
10. Kill the Zodiac My Heart Beats From The Outside
11. A Silver Mt. Zion This Gentle Hearts Like Shot Bird's Fallen
12. 36 Geiga
13. Tor Lundvall Early hours
14. Grouper Second Skin-Zombie Wind
15. Masochistic Values Dream (Cold)
16. Near The Parenthesis I Remember It Differently
17. Ben Frost Through The Roof Of Your Mouth
18. Sora Shima The Art of Selfdestruction
19. Port Royal Jeka
20. Tim Hecker In The Air III
21. Last Days All The Lighthouses

21 songs, 1:31:12, 126.4MB

http://www.mediafire.com/?z1r976gisvnp9k2

Bookended for a reason (so much so that this should hardly be the first of the 5 installments...), but the beginning and end of Last Days - Sea have made an unbelievable impression on me, if merely by rote repetition. I listened to Sea once or twice a night, every night, for about two years, and often ended up listening to it in class or while driving too. I was utterly consumed with the conversation in 'Leaving Home', to the extent that I emailed Graham Richardson to ask him what it was (he wasn't sure, he was flipping channels, some soap opera or something; the "story" behind the song is that the man who runs away with a boat into the arctic ocean slips out in the beginning while his family is watching TV). But I could be making that up, it's been a while. So I decided to bookend the whole mix with the bookends of Sea, because it's pretty much solely responsible for me enjoying everything in between.

Fucking Continents. So you know how sometimes you aren't listening to music (for shame) and any event at all occurs in your life and you go I NEED GRINDCORE RIGHT FUCKING NOW, and you have a very narrow time window where you can find the right song? Like, if I say I NEED GRINDCORE RFN, I'll usually just head straight to Rotten Sound because there's no downtime or delay or anything; IT'S GRIND O CLOCK. Continents does that for me with drone. A lot of it is just how instantaneously the song starts. If I NEED DRONE RFN, I don't have time for a buildup or anything, I NEED TO BE SWEPT INTO TENUOUS TIDAL ARRANGEMENTS RFN! And if you double click on Continents, you have a split second before "bllleeeaaaahhh......bbbllllleeeaahhh.......bllllrrrrroooowwwwwwwwwww...............". Which easily gets you to the vocals, at which point you can just forget about doing anything ever again. Forever.

But too fucking bad, because there are even more songs!

"A sailor shouts Jeeeee,sus Chrriiiiiiiist, I'm drown-ding." Right at 2:37, when he mumbles "Sun burns yer eyyyyyes", whatever happens to the guitar tone is the most amazing thing I have ever heard in psychdrone. It sounds like the amp is threatening to actually become sentient (rampant, even), escaping the narrow tonal restraints afforded by the song and completely swallowing any waves in range like a solely-aural black hole. But it doesn't, and it's just a minor moment in a very, very potent song.

Cult of Luna shows up here because it also has lyrics. That's pretty much the only reason it's in that slot, but it's in the playlist because it is the beginning of my favorite album of theirs. It's kind of difficult, I suppose, because when I think of Cult of Luna, I actually tend to think of this song and 'and with her came the birds', instead of, you know, genesis and receiver and waiting for you like I should, but I think that's more representative of the niche they fill for me. There are a lot of times where I use Isis and Rosetta interchangeably, like deciding between oxycodone and hydrocodone, while I have never, ever used Cult of Luna when I didnt mean to. I really like Cult of Luna. They make albums like biblical scrolls, and marching to the heartbeats is flawless, especially in relief of the entire album (listen to somewhere along the highway through and play marching to the heartbeats again at the end after dark city, dead man).

Gregor Samsa - Pseudonyms: I've had this one for a while, but it's hard to pick exactly why. I didn't keep much of the album because....shit I dont know. This song has really nice vocals but they kind of remind me of antimatter and theatre of tragedy and once all those bands are grouped I just get really disinterested. Seems kind of wanky, I dunno. But Pseudonyms has that rapidly-struck dulcimer/piano (maybe? i couldnt tell you what it actually is) layer that sounds like theory of machines, and the last 90 seconds is fucking retard amazing and i wish the end was longer.

Ive never listened to Klosterg in the winter yet, because I just got it. Also I cant keep writing this much because blahnbnlanhlnnewrnjgiajooijweoijvngkndgkgne

So City Lights, as you know, is amazing. It is also, conveniently, a very winter song for me. This is a focal point of these 5 sections that I probably should have mentioned earlier: some of these songs (particularly in parts 2 and 4) may be included because I have a very explicit association between them and winter (ex. NOFX, the idiots are taking over in part 4 is included because we tried to cover it in winter and listened to it a shit ton in late 06/ early 07). City Lights (and 12:59 lullaby in part 4) are intrinsically related to that same winter for me, which involved a lot of driving around and falling in love and snowstorms and drifting sanchez around corners in gomez' neighborhood and trying to measure how long the heaters would stay warm running only off the car battery and giving up and just leaving the engine running for hours so she could sleep. Lots of City Lights. Just listen to it, it's a really apt song, especially since they are local and I know exactly what our city lights look like from a good vantage.

Back to writing less, EARTH.

Gentleman Losers - described in detail on PnB, this song is here because it sounds fucking COLD. very tor lundvall. easily sounds as though (as mentioned earlier, it's very soundtrack-y) it could have the sound of someone crunching through frozen night snow over the entire thing.

This isnt my winter kill the zodiac song, but that one (we breathe from the same mask) is a bit louder and i didnt want that yet. i really wish i could have been friends with this kid in high school. the sound of this song is just so tenuous and brittle it seems amazing that it ends, that it's not just a background noise that you carry with you always.

Lodged right in the middle is ASMZ, and the most important song in this section. I'd say more, but...i dunno. It's all aforementioned gomez stuff plus a lot of bright clear nights and suicide and pressure. it was hard to watch brick after hearing this song; the best parts of the brick soundtrack sound very, very similar to this.

36 - didnt want to put 'home' on yet another fucking mix, so it was between geiga and drowning. geiga probably won because of filesize, because all of his songs from hollow or memories in widescreen sound like drowning. hollow just has the advantage of sounding like drowning in winter.

Tor lundvall made it, obviously. Doesnt necessarily sound cold (if you consider what the entire album sounds like), but fuck it's empty.

I started collecting grouper albums the same time I started drinking constantly. The first time I heard this (lol genetics lab sometime in Feb 2009) I was taken aback by how her voice is shaped. I only had dragging a dead deer before way their crept, so I was used to hearing her sing, but this is something else. That's not singing.

Is it weird that I have an interlude on a mix that could be entirely interludes? LUUUUUUDES

Near the parenthesis! A very inviting, but crisp song. More like salt flats at night than a winter wonderland, but fuck you this is my favorite NTP song.

Because there was no way Ben Frost wasnt making it in here. Cmon. I want to talk about him forever to anyone (much like Gorgoroth) but there is like fuck all I can try to say here and not sound like I'm speaking pitchfork-english. So just know that Ben Frost is the tops.

Sora shima is...somehow related to kill the zodiac. Might be the same people. It pairs very nicely with

Jeka - Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. I find it weird that Port Royal used this as the beginning of Flares, because it's a very conclusive song to me. Gomez asked me once a lonnnng long time ago what song I would hear if I died and I immediately said Jeka. Jeka and Last Days - All The Lighthouses pretty much made Sommeil Sans Reves for me (listen to them shits. all 3. then try to tell the difference).

Tim Hecker is another guaranteed member here. Ravedeath is flawless, and the In The Air ending trilogy is just...penetrating.

Aaaaannnnd Last Days. If I was ever so fucked up I got knuckle tattoos...LAST DAYS.

Fin. Here's the link again. Put em in order. Or I'll turn you into a fucking tree.

http://www.mediafire.com/?z1r976gisvnp9k2

The Body/Braveyoung - Nothing Passes 2011

the live collaboration becomes a release!



can you imagine how fucking goosebumpily-loud that show would have been?! with so many goddamn beards onstage...

what's with that, anyway? if you play beardy jams and have a big retard beard too, thats overkill.

also the cover on here is beyond the capacity of my hyperbolic language to describe.

1. Song One
2. Song Two
3. Nothing Passes
4. The Vision (Exuma cover)

http://www.mediafire.com/?rmjyscjro3b73y7

Marina Rosenfeld - Plastic Materials 2009

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

AAAHAHHHRRRRRRNNNNNN

WWWWWWWWWWWWHHHUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAATTTT THEEE FUUUUUUUUCCCCCK



the midpoint between grouper and runhild gammelsæter. and basinski. and what frank poole must have been hearing as his oxygen emptied into space.

"In my imagination, Plastic Materials sounds like an strange autopsy where the deceased is part robot, part creature from another planet and each progressive incision opens new caverns of spiraling innards that are both structurally amazing and kind of freaky. There is even an ever present sterility of steel tables and clean instruments to the whole thing. The album is bizarre in the most fascinating way. Rosenfeld’s doesn’t actually use any knifes in the creation of her work, but still manages her fair share of cutting by the heavy use of turntables and sampled voices (both talking and singing out of tune) cut up with medical precision. In addition to the re-emerging vocals, Rosenfeld has crafted a moody sub-noise aesthetic that incorporates turntable tics and spasms along with other electronic mumbling which flow in and out of piano tinkering and other unidentifiable transmissions."

knifes? if there's a pitchfork review of this album, i dont want to fucking know about it.

give to me your LSD's.

1. Conversation

2. "Cuz I Cannot Find My Way..." (Teenage Lontano 1)

3. In F

4. Rings/Black Circles (Version)

5. Formal Arrangement

6. "I Treated Myself... Like I Knew I Would..." (Teenage Lontano 2)

7. Locus

8. "Hey, Girls (It's Not an Issue for You...) " (Teenage Lontano 3)

9. Sweetest Sensation

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=SV4743MC