Gloriously droney hidden track version on 1994 Maxi-CD, original version from the album Painful.
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dakhabrakha – vesna (2011)
eliane radigue – transamorem-transmortem (1973)
ARP Synthesizer. Composed in 1973. Released on Important Records in 2011.
“Before the greatest achievement.
Before the greatest detachment.
At the limit of the frontier space of the unconscious – tuned waves – “consonant things vibrate together”.
Where does the change happen? In the inner field of perception or the exterior reality of moving things in the course of becoming.
And time is no longer an obstacle, but the means by which the possible is achieved.”
– Eliane Radigue – June 20, 1973
eliane radigue – l’île re-sonante
Listen to this with speakers that have proper bass (not in crappy earphones) for a full body experience.
In 2006 the Paris recording label shiiin released a CD recording of L’île re-sonante, a 55-minute composition by French electronic music pioneer Eliane Radigue, a student of electroacoustic composers Pierre Henry and Pierre Schaeffer in the 1950s.
L’île resonante features the instrument Radigue has worked with since the early 1970’s, the ARP 2500 modular synthesizer and her medium of choice, analog multitrack tape. The piece is characteristic of her work in that it is a tapestry of long, gradually evolving drones created with oscillators on the ARP synthesizer and with tape loops.
According to Daniel Caux’s liner notes, “For L’ile re-sonante, Eliane Radigue drew her inspiration from an image: an island in the waters of a lake that reflect her face. It is both a ‘real’ image and an optical illusion”.
Read Chuck Johnson’s essay on this piece, entitled “Empty Music”.
karen dalton – same old man (1971)
My mind is fading, my body grows weak
Lips won’t form the words I speak…
Singer, 12-string guitarist, and banjo player of the New York 1960s folk revival, Karen Dalton is not widely known, despite counting the likes of Bob Dylan and Fred Neil among her acquaintances. She recorded only a few albums.
m.i.a. – double bubble trouble
Shampoo, drones and 3D printed guns…
stereolab – metronomic underground
Original version was from Emperor Tomato Ketchup (Duophonic, 1996) – but this is a incredibly immersive alternative version, and the video is the bomb, too (har har, sorry).
mission of burma – trem two
The third track on Side A of the VS album, released in 1982 on Ace Of Hearts Records – AHS 10010. Listen to the whole album HERE. If you are into post-punk, this is really one of the essential albums.
game of drones
givan lötz – quiet
Like being in church without the creeps:
“I am an artist because I am uncertain. My art-objects are, first and foremost, results of a philosophical inquiry – critical thinking about what it means to be human. The moments of obsession involved in this process of art-making aspire to achieve a mood of catharsis. I have a desire for innovative and dislocating descriptions of life through a willingness to confront it in all its contradiction and complexity.”
Check out more of this Gauteng-based artist’s “Trash-Worship Party-Pooper Snore-Core Buzz-Kill Uneasy-Listening Shoe-Gaze Dream-Brown Drop-Out Dead-Beat Geek-Grind Mind-Melt Kewl-Vybz” on Soundcloud.
jessica bailiff – overcast
From Even In Silence (Kranky, 1998).
malala yusufzai
fleurmach 