Posts tagged with “Phinery”
September 19, 2015
“Since the last podcast, things have changed over dramatically from Summer to Autumn here in Minnesota with some refreshingly cool and absolutely beautiful days of late. It’s my favorite time of year, so I welcome the change. It has also been refreshing spending the last couple of weeks assembling…
September 5, 2015
Hamburg-based, lo-fi tuned Thokei Tapes jumped the gun on a previously reported October release date for their spectacular Sandra Bell compilation last month, titled Aureole, so here it is at the top of this week’s review. The new tape collects “EPs, Singles, Tapes & Compilation”…
August 22, 2015
“I know I say this probably far too often, but I was really excited to share this bunch of mostly new sounds with you on this installment of the FFFoxy Podcast. I guess when that excitement starts to wane, I know it’ll be my time to walk away from all of this, but I don’t see that happening…
April 11, 2015
Though we just missed including it in last week’s review by a few hours, I thought we could start this installment by pointing out that Adam Harper recently turned his pen toward East Asian influenced music in his latest column for the FADER; “soothing sounds to save even internet-accelerated…
December 20, 2014
Merry Christmas in advance, happy holidays and all that, thanks for reading along with us another week, another year… welcome to 2014′s final Week in Review. This Saturday we thought we’d kick things off by sharing a tidbit from last week, that is, Brooklyn producer Jacob 2-2′s…
November 4, 2014
This week Phinery unveiled the first in what promises to be a riveting new compilation series, Somehow Commissioned, with an inaugural noise focus; though they’ve opened things up with a suitably acousmatic set, future installments will explore different genres through similarly prepared collections….
October 29, 2014
As of last May, Purr Tapes no longer operates as a label, after having been putting out excellent stuff on tape since 2011. Instead, founder Hunter Peter Thompson has shifted focus to his solo music project Opaline. Projector Mapping, Hunter’s latest release as Opaline, finds him at his very best….
September 13, 2014
The absurdity of everything was cast in sharp relief lately by iTunes and “the world’s biggest album launch,” needless to say. Looking back on the week, for me at least, the best artistic rejoinder to that offense was an ostensibly unrelated Juno Plus interview with Vancouver producer…
September 6, 2014
Midway this week astronomers revised their estimates of Earth and the Milk Way’s stellar neighborhood, replacing our home Virgo Supercluster with the even bigger Laniakea, 160 million parsecs / 520 million light-years across. They speculate Laniakea (Hawaiian for “immeasurable heaven”)…
July 31, 2014
If you’ve been following this blog, you’ve no doubt caught wind of Montreal’s Daniel Leznoff and his lucid, kosmische synth guise Demonstration Synthesis. Leznoff has been somewhat of a prolific underdog at this point, having released several tapes on various labels before the year’s…
July 2, 2014
Following his effusively elegant Drift/Shore tape on Holy Page last year, Andrew Kendall returns as Andrew is Tired with Crowd Control, a tape of similarly distant tones issued by the Phinery imprint. While Drift/Shore focused on eight relatively brief tracks to explore drifting, decaying, and…
