Posts tagged with “Lillerne Tapes”
April 9, 2016
FFFoxy Podcast #76
“I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather over the past few days, so hopefully the talk breaks don’t sound even more scatterbrained than usual on this episode. I wanted to keep things on track with the podcast, though, this time focusing mostly on a bunch of newer music…
January 9, 2016
#1 – 1.4.2016 – Denver based hyper-realist David Winkler, aka julien — who appeared on the recent Wasabi Tapes comp we mentioned in last week’s review — shared a brisk but vibrant preview mini-mix for his upcoming cassette with Orange Milk. It’s the first I’ve…
December 5, 2015
“I had mentioned at the end of the last episode that a feature on Pumice was in the works for the weeks ahead, and I can assure you that is indeed still the case. But, in the interest of showcasing some more new music, along with a few recent record fair scores, I thought I’d go ahead and squeeze…
July 4, 2015
“Settling into summer mode a bit here, so we’ve been just a little bit off the usual podcast schedule of late. But, we’ve got some guests and other feature shows lined up in the weeks and months ahead and plenty of new music to highlight on upcoming shows, so we’ve got good reason to get…
April 14, 2015
In autumn of 2014, guitarist Daniel Wyche took the stage at The Burlington, a noise-friendly Logan Square dive in Chicago, with drummer Ryan Packard, which opened a series of collaborations between the experimental musicians. The duo worked together on a blistering debut performance of his composition,…
March 7, 2015
#1 – 3.1.2015 – Ohio based Apothecary Compositions unveiled their slick debut label compilation, Elite Batch; “This compilation showcases past, present and future members of the Apothecary Compositions team. Music from Druid Cloak, Hasta, Slick Shoota, Myler, Silkersoft, Bathaus,…
November 1, 2014
#1 – 10/26/2014 – Mark Redito of Spazzkid shared a new video demoing a crazy set-up called Makey Makey that allows musicians to “hack everyday objects into midi controllers.” He wisely pursued food, cats, and sushi, using the resulting assemblage to perform the opening…
June 10, 2014
Gabe Holcombe, proprietor of the always stellar Lillerne Tapes, has been releasing music under his solo moniker, Vehicle Blues, for years now. After about twelve cassette releases on various labels, including split tapes with Katrina Stoneheart and Shivering Window, Chicago-based label Lake Paradise…
April 23, 2014
Composed of five resonating tones, which are mysterious in origin, Patrick Piper’s In the Aureole of Lowness is a droning, captivating release from Chicago’s Lillerne Tapes. There is something transcendent about the sounds on this tape as they emanate from my speakers, likely due to the…
April 5, 2014
A DIS Magazine feature from earlier this month began my week, with Danish curator and critic Toke Lykkeberg encouraging art criticism to cool down, be introspective, and re-examine its parameters. He laments a lack of discourse and speculates that “If there is no longer any critical debate, it…
December 19, 2013
Earlier this month, Chicago-based Lillerne Tapes released a winter cassette batch comprised of four pieces of contemplative music that, each in its own way, searches for transcendence from the physical world. Oakland’s Paul Skomsvold, aka Former Selves, often seems to find himself entangled with…
December 14, 2013
Welcome back to Decoder’s Week in Review, a modest refuge for short news bytes that we’d feel banal expanding on without committing to more in-depth analysis. For my money, Hal McGee swept the board this week with his new archival tape project, but the week was great for mixtapes and we’re…
October 31, 2013
Decoder’s very own Marcel Thee hails from Jakarta, Indonesia and – like many of our writers – is involved in a number of projects. Not only is he a member of the eclectic-sounding Sajama Cut, Thee also records under his own name and crafts otherworldly soundscapes as Strange Mountain. Released…
