Horseback - Half Blood 2012

new horseback

like earth and pelican and thou super-collided

and yet i will continue to listen to a throne without a king twice nightly.

im finna get back in the game, nahmean?

1. Mithras 05:04
2. Ahriman 03:55
3. Inheritance (The Changeling) 07:06
4. Arjuna 05:32
5. Hallucigenia I: Hermetic Gifts 03:55
6. Hallucigenia II: Spiritual Junk 05:49
7. Hallucigenia III: The Emerald Tablet 12:05

my appendages arent working

Isengrind - Night of Raining Fire 2012

MOAR ISENGRIND

1. Lost Girls
2. Cygnus
3. Horselberg
4. Valeria Underground
5. Nadirs of the Sun
6. Lit by the Rain
7. Ascending
8. White Bone Snake
9. Spine of the Night
10. Still Voyager

http://www21.zippyshare.com/v/39508607/file.html

Windy & Carl - We Will Always Be 2012

cross old grouper with the the four mixed parts of a throne without a king.

jesus god some of the melodies in fainting feel so hesitant to change direction. it's so pretty and tired and i love drone.

1. For Rosa
2. Remember
3. Spires
4. The Frost in Winter
5. Looking Glass
6. Nature of Memory
7. The Smell of Old Books
8. Fainting in the Presence of the Lord

http://www63.zippyshare.com/v/26867464/file.html

Horseback - The Invisible Mountain 2009

horseback is fucking amazing. somewhere between old earth playing cult of luna covers, and lichens + cloudland canyon psy-trips with a pinch of batshit craziness. or lichens teaming up with old pelican. or expo 70 playing grind, i have no fucking idea what im talking about anymore. its awesome.


also, i am determined to make a 'drone state' EP, especially in light of this:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/02/201222122252740435.html

it may just be a microphone left on in my room while i drink and fart and listen to black metal. jeremy will probably show up. the EP will be 15 hours long.

01. Invokation
02. Tyrant Symmetry
03. The Invisible Mountain
04. Hatecloud Dissolving Into Nothing

http://www.mirrorcreator.com/files/IJYT7D0Z/H0rs3b4ck.zip_links

Mirroring - Foreign Body 2012

*some rambling about retaining sanity in the face of overexposure to world news*

but yeah. this album is a pleasant distraction. grouper is there. sounds kind of like grouper but egregiously stretched out and meandering. her singing is more prominent than in the past, which...i dunno. seems to lessen her impact, somehow.

1. Fell Sound
2. Silent From Above
3. Cliffs
4. Drowning the Call
5. Mine
6. Mirror of Our Sleeping

http://www.mediafire.com/?4psja5sqmo87lyc

Jackie-O Motherfucker - Ballads of the Revolution & Earth Sound System 2009/2011

their 10th and 11th albums.

the reviews of these two are kind of weird. in the pitchfork sense. lots of really hesitant enjoyment.

you can definitely tell that ballads is closer chronologically to flags of the sacred harp/valley of fire than earth sound system is. and guess what? flags of the sacred harp is still one of the most insanely amazing albums there is. i debated bumping that one up again, but then my charts would be wrong. and i debated posting valley of fire, because 'the tree' next to 'we are/chanel zero' is fucking retarded.

but instead, these. here. because ive been rampantly switching back and forth between poppy DnB and psychdrone as i replay STALKER again and again and contemplate the abject moral decay of my life.

also 'the corner' contains the out-of-context lines "i trust you...keep me drunk...i trust you" which i cant stop thinking about.



Ballads of the Revolution:

1. Nightingale
2. Dark Falcon
3. Skylight
4. The Corner
5. The Cryin Sea
6. A Mania

http://www.mediafire.com/?jtgdz2kffm5





Earth Sound System:

01. In The Willows
02. Raga Joining
03. Bring It To Me
04. Dedication
05. Raga Separating
06. Where We Go

http://www.mediafire.com/?dlpc37td6yv5l0g

Isengrind - Journey of The Seven Stars 2009

french, 24 cassette copies made, absurdly amazing ambient psychdrone. a lot like sun araw or righteous acid but pulverized, or jackie-o's weird, lengthy live escapades through noise.

also she is half of natural snow buildings, if that helps (it should). this is...quieter? than NSB? the NSB albums have this really sharp upper feedback layer that seems to make it significantly louder. this is lower and quieter and dronier. its pretty rad.

also i dont know why 'isengrind', but i love that fucking name.

A Journey Of The 7 Stars

B1 The Psychoduct

B2 Capuchon Tranquille Dance In Hell

B3 Cloud Riders

Side A:

http://www.mediafire.com/?nzi5mzmkomh

Side B:

http://www.mediafire.com/?m3nmatdt1jj

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

Blanck Mass - S/T 2011

still a good chance this one wont stay up. half of fuck buttons (noticeably), heavy pad use but no FB screaming or distortion.

chernobyl sounds EXACTLY like the last song in the sunshine OST. but im not getting worked up about it.

1. Sifted Gold
2. Sundowner
3. Chernobyl
4. Raw Deal
5. Sub Serious
6. Land Disasters
7. Icke's Struggle
8. Fuckers
9. What You Know
10. Weakling Flier

http://www.mediafire.com/?h4706al3cr0d291

Expo '70 - Black Ohms 2008

always, always listen to lysergic sunrise while experiencing a lysergic sunrise. guaranteed.

it just noodleoozes into you and when it stops yer totes liek OMG WUT. and then listen to it two more times and then you should probably go to sleep because your body is going to murder you for having too much fun.

and then mind echo unit is completely fucking different, like ambient delay-heavy post rock. they sound so phenomenal together, it's tragic the entire release is under 20 minutes. but hes got a bunch.

1. Lysergic Sunrise
2. Mind Echo Unit

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E8GK3OMJ

Righteous Acid - Mellow Doses 2011

my god. idiot's guide tells it better, as usual, and i know no one reading this has listened to a single sun araw song, but...

you know how your grandfathers really enjoy music that seems slightly unstuck in time when you hear it now (obviously, but more kind of the sense that you cant help but filling in a world you couldnt have known with your own little projections)? this is like...grandfather music being blasted from a house a few hundred yards down the beach. if your grandfathers grew up in the 50's and 70's in a nearly parallel universe. also your grandfathers really liked sun araw.

it reminds me of run DMT (the other run DMT, not the boring one) in that each of the two sides are kind of a smattering of vaguely incoherent but cohesive emissions.

also it sounds like a mellow dose of righteous acid. since you wont listen to it anyway, im going to use even more words (from idiots guide and sun ark) to make this post longer so it will be frustrating when you furiously try to scroll past it.

"Fans of Sun Araw will recognise a certain jaded/faded humming of psychedelia... a psychedelic sound that is undeniable but curiously monochromatic; as if somewhere, elsewhere, there's a really grooovy party going on but you're sitting in a room, headstuffed with Cumin and Salvia Divinorum imagining what it might feel like to be invited to that party.

And:

swept endless tumbling

jerky guitar trail offs

rhythms made out of the mis-hits from a 70s Cow Punching competition

others discarded from Maximquaye's dark hours on two track

tracks that seem like afterthoughts and come-downs

fidelity slips

broken-wheeled wagons, circling in the snow

cannibals w/cannabis"



and



""Stately Thai boogie, swaying and sealed in Bakersfield sun. Righeous Acid is Alex Sarad, unleashing this his first c30 of deeply mantric and contemplative fretboard meditations with a depth of soul that vacillates from bleached temple rhythms to bayou sweat in an instant. Sensitive and glowing from within." - Sun Ark "



beware that im using psychdrone kind of solely to perpetuate this sound that i have mischaracterised but dont want to correct. its not really drone. but it is fun and funky and it will emerge from the waves to make your brain shit and then dance. its acid music.



update: im not sure exactly what's happening, but listening to this really loud with headphones seems to hint at an entirely different layer of sounds sitting just at the borders of the music, as though its a highly digitized recording of a scattered playback from a record player. there are some awkward snaps and glitches and a bass layer that seems like it existed in the original songs and survived the production effects that altered the upper layers into something distant. like a shadow of feedback.

i may be missing it entirely.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ebn57bhwl4ztrvz

Lichens - The Psychic Nature of Being 2005

there isnt a decent version of the rad cover art, so here. the more time i spend listening to lichens, the more this sounds radically different from omns (2007). psychic nature is, strangely enough, more sonically/instrumentally in line with what he played live in 2007. heavy looping (compare bune to score line scoring), more low-toned hymnal singing (although he did do the higher, kind of...fuck....near-castrati tribal 'eeeeeeeeeeeeee' loop a lot). hes fucking amazing live, from his manner (lots of whiskey chugging, no words, ignoring the audience) to the way he holds the microphone (see: picture) that mutes just how loud he sings so as not to nuke the furry guitar, to how elegantly he uses a boss loop station (versus, say, russian circles just mashing away at it whenever they run out of ideas and need another guitar riff or a feedback interlude).



i dream a lot, and i forget a lot, but this album completely molded one of my most vivid dreams, and i only recall about 3 or 4 vivid dreams in my life. there were elephants and india and a sunset and fluorescent trees, but no ramnath.





1. Kirilian Auras

2. Shore Line Scoring

3. You Are Excrement If You Can Turn Yourself Into Gold



http://www.mediafire.com/?wtj5x6o5amb

High Wolf - Ascension 2010

not not fun. i miss the grid, way super much.



1. Meeting Of The Three Seas

2. Diego

3. Cloud Head

4. Solar System Is My God

5. Fire In My Bones



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

Sun Araw - Ancient Romans 2011

stealth mode. anticipate DMCA.

this makes me want to furiously fellate everything in my path. i like on patrol a bit more, but this one is a lot more fun and a lot trippier, lots of little pulsed note cascades and breezy upper floors.

they/he had better start touring. especially if motherfucking high wolf toured with them.


01. Lucretius
02. Crown Shell
03. Crete
04. Lute And Lyre
05. At Delphi
06. Fit For Caesar
07. Trireme
08. Impluvium


boobs

Oneida - Absolute II 2011

think sun araw with sunn.

*update, this post got nuked in the power transfer. but the first two songs are....like.....holy fucking shit. they are pretty much what i am basing the rest of the music i make on.

vocals in horizon!

1. Pre_Human
2. Horizon
3. Gray Area
4. Absolute II

http://www.mediafire.com/?dbu0ibdu6iazdd5

Boris - Heavy Rocks (2011) 2011

boris make me feel like a fucking retard for ever liking music without an electric guitar in it. i was concerned when they announced they were going to release like 40 albums in 2011, but jesus christ. if theyre all this fucking mind-bendingly emotive and awesome and perfect and destructive, then go for it. boris has got to be one of the few bands that knows what they're doing, even if it changes all the time, and loves doing it so much that they devote everything to constant improvement.

i love boris. a lot.

see them live. a lot.

1. Riot Sugar
2. Leak -Truth,yesnoyesnoyes-
3. GALAXIANS
4. Jackson Head
5. Missing Pieces
6. Key
7. Window Shopping
8. Tu, la la
9. Aileron
10. Czechoslovakia

http://www.mediafire.com/?c98acs639kqgjur

Natural Snow Buildings - Chants of Niflheim 2011

read the review of their last album. add psych- to the beginning of every word and -drone to the end.



1. Chants of Niflheim Part I
2. Templars Ritual
3. Chants of Niflheim Part II
4. H Scudder

http://www.mediafire.com/?o5vea8l8di5utl8

Tim Hecker - Ravedeath, 1972 2011

i wish someone else was listening to this stuff. tim hecker is a lot like 36 or the less haunting ben frost or jasper TX, but solidly electronic pulses and waves and sheer tidal loops. lots of layers, lots of different keys and timbres and such sliding around laterally on top of each other.

it's a little different from an imaginary country, although the two albums morph into one another pretty seamlessly, much in the way 36 - hollow becomes memories in widescreen.

listen to more drone you fucks.

update: haHA! ben frost is in there somewhere!


1. The Piano Drop
2. In the Fog: I
3. In the Fog: II
4. In the Fog: III
5. No Drums
6. Hatred of Music: I
7. Hatred of Music: II
8. Analog Paralysis, 1978
9. Studio Suicide, 1980
10. In the Air: I
11. In the Air: II
12. In the Air: III

http://depositfiles.com/en/files/9kq7e1ziy

Natural Snow Buildings - Waves Of The Random Sea 2011

HOLY FUCKING SHIT this is phenomenal. psychy, multi instrument ambidrone with some real progressions. like a quieter jackie o mixed with a positive last days and a really slow grouper. and aidan baker without a distortion pedal. and the albums velvet cacoon stole but slower and happier. and master musicians if they werent so fucking high. and this is so fucking blissed-out i want to excrete summer sunsets from every pore.

dont like ambidrone? fuck you.



constellations in sunny cement



1. The Waves Of The Random Sea
2. This Ice Fortress
3. Through Breaches In The Layer Of Fog
4. Abduction Dream
5. Drift The Water Soul
6. Still Desert

http://www.mediafire.com/?mjoqvol044oy6dp

High Wolf - Japan Tour CDR 2010

supposedly coming to tour/collab with guys like plankton wat and sun araw and shit. if anyone can find anything about tour dates, please let me know.

"Been listening a lot to High Wolf, stands out in an overloaded crowd of dronescapers and murkrakers

(seriously; there's so much of this stuff... used to be you managed to track down a few Zoviet France LPs, maybe some HNAS cassettes, the odd track on a compilation of amplified washing machines and scratches; now you can live a lifetime of drone, a futility of slipped discs)

But High Wolf transcends the genre, I think; a lighter touch, more wholly psychedelic than the Ferraro(adkillers) contingent; less in thrall to the sources of the samples and loops, more deranged by the looping itself; the lightly propulsive power of the everloops and the ever-so-sleight of hand gearshifts...

And the tones are generally lighter too; less stomach sucked-in blackness, more pushed out lightbeams, digging right at your brains... sparkly, even.

Maybe, it's just me. "


on a similar note, here's a sun araw music video, which is fucking ballsy and awesome.

DEEP COVER - SUN ARAW from Brian Davila on Vimeo.

if anyone is actually listening to the ambient/psychdrone shit, please let me know. i feel like im waving my dick at traffic in brisk january air.

	1.	High Wolf - JW 05:44		download
	2.	YKM 12:48
	3.	RMS 05:02		download
	4.	Parallel Vision p1 08:58		download
	5.	Parallel Vision p2 04:20

http://wingedsunrecords.bandcamp.com/album/high-wolf-japan-tour-cdr-wsrt2