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Stream: YlangYlang – No Exist (Feel Special)
November 18, 2015
“No Exist is about being mind-blown, deconstructing and starting again with a fresh, curious openness, somewhere on the edge of the world. Self-sufficiency, self-discovery, transcending survival by establishing new rules, interacting in new instinctive and true ways.” In truth this description…Tyler Powell – Outgoing Messages
November 17, 2015
According to Tyler Powell, he began recording in order to build a collection of sounds and loops that could keep him company and help during his “reading, resting, and sleeping.” He eventually came to realize that he had — by means of field recordings, guitars, and discarded answering…Week in Review #94
November 14, 2015
For most of the time that Decoder’s been around, we’ve sporadically contributed to the Free Music Archive, an index of high quality free audio and an equal institution alongside its originator, WFMU. Though in some respects the site hasn’t changed too much over the years, the music…
Los Porcos – Porco Mio
November 13, 2015
Members of the highly-rated yet short-lived Wu Lyf have reunited with a host of Cracki Records alumni, including Ménage à Trois, Famy and Francis Lung, for a second outing as Los Porcos, a slinky-as-dammit faux-funk crew last seen at France’s Midi Festival in 2013. Just in time for the cold,…Nate Scheible – Matter
November 12, 2015
My wife Liz and I heard and met D.C. based drummer Nate Scheible briefly at this summer’s Voice of the Valley, so it’s a surprising bit of synchronicity that his latest work arrives via Toronto’s Power Moves Library, ie, the new iteration of longtime Decoder favorite Power Moves Label….Premiere: Verma – “Elil.Sa.Ursag / Hero’s.Theme”
November 10, 2015
Long-running Chicago troupe Verma return with their third effort for Trouble In Mind, Mul.Apin. In a year adorned by Harmonia reissues, as well as triumphant longform psychedelic compositions from contemporary acts, Verma offer the listener a chance to wade deeper on their forthcoming album. “Elil.Sa.Ursag…Seth Graham – No. 00 in Clean Life
November 9, 2015
Though Orange Milk co-proprietor Seth Graham’s ongoing audio experiments have previously made extensive use of chopped vocal minutia, particularly choral samples, his sounds have never seemed more fully formed or more implicitly dubious of the Almighty than on his latest — No. 00 in Clean…Week in Review #93
November 7, 2015
If you run into our blogs editor Bobby Power, congratulate him on a new job and impending move to from Denver to North Carolina — a good deal closer to our little Appalachian circuit. Hopefully we’ll have him back in the review shortly.
In slightly older news, I wanted to open this week’s…
l’éternèbre – The Spirit Bridge
November 6, 2015
l’éternèbre, “the eternal darkness” in English, is a longstanding collaboration between Chicago’s Natalie Chami (aka TALsound and usually of Good Willsmith) with now LA-based Brian Griffith (aka Greyghost and half of Electric Sound Bath), reconvened for a new effort late last…
Walker/Melchior – In Durham
November 2, 2015
Kill Shaman released In Durham, the first full-length from the duo of Russell Walker (Bomber Jackets, Pheromoans, Lloyd Pack) and Dan Melchior (Lloyd Pack, und Das Menace, and more) earlier this year. The album follows their self-titled seven-inch debut from 2014 and sees the pair expand on their…Yves Bouliane – Champ (10 Opérations)
October 30, 2015
The Tenzier imprint, founded five years ago to bring to light sonic gems from the fertile yet under-appreciated Quebec avant-garde, is back with its fifth release. Similar to the label’s earlier missives, this exploration of the work of free improviser and composer Yves Bouliane arrives in a stark,…Stream: Ali Berger – Respect
October 29, 2015
Detroit-based Ali Berger‘s Respect is the latest from Sweat Equity, the brilliantly zonked CD-R techno/house imprint of Brooklyn muzaker Dan Creahan, aka Mind Dynamics, adding a heavy helping of weird and well-refined ~progressive house to its catalog — though the album’s novelty…Week in Review #92
October 29, 2015
“We have a jam-packed new installment of the FFFoxy Podcast for you this time around with a selection of mostly newer sounds picked out, along with a few choice older cuts from some crucial releases that seemed to fit in nicely. Got some heavy new LP offerings from the likes of The Coolies, CCR…G.S. Sultan – Ad.Sculpt Tutorial
October 28, 2015
Even in the context of Orange Milk’s multifaceted catalog, the latest cassette from Roy Werner’s G.S. Sultan project — titled Ad.Sculpt Tutorial – is a pretty explicit fusion of proprietors Seth Graham and Keith Rankin’s aural and visual interests. With Werner’s…Abba Gargando – S/T
October 27, 2015
Coverage of Sahel Sound’s astounding catalog of anthroactivism often leads me down a dark path of negativity, inevitable when one touches on the tragic instability of the Western Sahel region (comprised of Niger, Mauritania and Mali). Not today. This newest release by Tuareg songster Abba Gargando…Shamane – My Uni Face, Fart Forever
October 26, 2015
Shamane is a multimedia artist and experimental/psychedelic beats producer, as well as a recurring fixture in the DIY tape community for the several years, releasing on labels like Illuminated Paths and Ailanthus — as I wrote way back in Summer 2014, it was as Pop Culture Shaman and thanks to…Week in Review #91
October 24, 2015
Starting off with a late entry this week, circa 10.17, but I very much wanted to share BeatRoute’s recent introductory primer on Dub Ditch Picnic and its headman Chris Jacques — someone that’s introduced me and a gaggle of other isolated weirdo dandies to a whole range of distinct…The Department of Harmonic Integrity – In Deck and Depth, a Whim, a Weft
October 23, 2015
Nebraska’s Tymbal Tapes imprint spun up in the first third of this year, storming out of the gates with a three-tape batch featuring the mysterious Peter Kris of German Army fame, Romanian-American writer Peter Moscovich, and the dueling synthesizers of The Department of Harmonic Integrity. The…Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet – “Headways”
October 21, 2015
The robust Invisible Astro Healing Rhythm Quartet return for their sophomore record (aptly named 2, on Trouble In Mind), and “Headways” is as dramatic an entry point for the album one could find. 2 itself finds the members alternating between soft-and-smooth, complete guilty pleasure atmospherics…Subscribe
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