My debut EP (as schädel) is out today on RACECAR!
Check it out below, or buy on Juno, Amazon, or wherever you buy digital music.
https://soundcloud.com/race-car-productions/sets/schadel-watch-my-captor-grow-old-and-die-ep
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As you may know, Richard D. James has been going a bit wild over on soundcloud, uploading a bunch of new, unreleased tracks to an initially anonymous account, user48736353001. And by a bunch, I’m saying that although initially they numbered in the 20s, the number grew to nearly 100, only to hit something like 112 a few days later. I thought it was done a week or two ago when it hit 157, but he’s at it again with nearly 20 more, including this gem:
https://soundcloud.com/user48736353001/5-scorrier
This is a version of Caustic Window’s “101 Rainbows”, which (to my knowledge) only saw release in “ambient mix” form, on the Caustic Window LP in ’94. According to user48736353001 (RDJ), in a comment on the above track’s page, “this was done b4 dat udder1”.
Regardless, enjoy.
While over on soundcloud, doing a bit of cleanup in advance of my new EP, I ran across an old track I made. It’s a weird combination of samples, with a screwed Stevie Wonder for the “verses”, and a bit of MC Pitman on the chorus, reminding us that “shit dj’s play shit records”.
Check it out below
It’s official: my debut release as schädel, on Racecar, has been announced!
The six-track EP, entitled Watch My Captor Grow Old and Die, will arrive on March 10th, just about a month away. As I said on my schädel FB page:
It’s taken me so long to do this that my list of thanks would be totally tl;dr, so rest assured, if you contributed in any way, I appreciate it.
So thanks, everyone. Please click through and listen to the previews over on Racecar’s page.
logo by Max Huffman. he rules.
I’ll be creating things more consistently in 2015, and hopefully that will include a podcast. The details aren’t ironed out yet, but I think it’ll be a talk format, with one to two other, perhaps rotating guests. In preparation for this, I’ve been listening back to the previous podcast, called We Are Not Delicious. It was a talk format, nothing groundbreaking, but it was fun to do. I’m finding it surprisingly entertaining, and I’m not just saying that so you’ll check it out.
We stopped mainly because it just sorta fizzled out. We were both quite busy, and the weekly show’s production (recording and post-production) took about three to four of my evenings a week. This, combined with a lot of technical challenges (both with hardware and Skype, as my co-host was in Arlington), made for something that was ultimately unsustainable.
In revisiting the podcast, I noticed that the RSS feed wasn’t working correctly, and a few quick attempts to fix it were unsuccessful. So, for those of you who may want to check it out, here are all the episodes (and extra bits), along with links to the show notes.
Feel free to comment below, if you are so moved.
- Episode 01: We Are Not Delicious [show notes]
- Episode 02: Look at His Fuckin’ Face! [show notes]
- Episode 03: Something to Be Filled in Later, Based on Something We Talk About [show notes]
- Episode 04: Bree Bree! [show notes]
- Episode 05: Short But Not Shorter Than the World Average [show notes]
- Episode 06: B.S. Awareness Week [show notes]
- Episode 07: Cyborgs and Meatmen [show notes]
- Episode 08: Perhaps the Last of the Mic Issues [show notes]
- Episode 09: Seis de Mayo! [show notes]
- Episode 10: Technically Detailed Espionage and Military Science Storylines [show notes]
- Episode 11: Not Delicious After Dark [show notes]
- Episode 12: In Which Our Heroes Vaguely Remember 80s TV [show notes]
- Episode 13: One Fiscal Quarter [show notes]
- Episode 14: He’s a Cool Dude [show notes]
- Episode 15: A Vodka-Soaked Tampon in Your Hearing Holes [show notes]
- Episode 16: Pans Have Been Handled [show notes]
- Episode 17: Burger Bigot [show notes]
- Episode 18: No More Bachelor Toast [show notes]
- Episode 19: Season 1 Finale! [show notes]
- Bonus: “We Are Not Delicious” Second Season Theme Song [notes]
- Episode 20: Clowns and RVs [show notes]
- Episode 21: Montana and McDeviltoast Read Wikipedia to You [show notes]
- Episode 22: Easter Bunny Throwing Sh*t Out of a Helicopter [show notes]
- Episode 23: Ankylosaurus Hat [show notes]
- Bonus Episode: Not Delicious on Bubbles in the Think Tank [show notes]
- Episode 24: “This Episode Is Gonna Be Unlistenable….” [show notes]
- Episode 25: Montana & McDeviltoast Read Wikipedia to You… Again [show notes]
I *really* need to figure out how to answer when people ask me what type of music I play. Especially when it's a coworker.
— djempirical / Slake Moth (@djempirical) December 31, 2014
I'm also tempted to make an edit of a Hogscraper tune for dj-ing. This may relate directly to my last tweet.
— djempirical / Slake Moth (@djempirical) December 31, 2014
Here’s my modular synth set from my ambient/drone show. This is slightly edited from the live performance because of a couple issues with the raw recording).
Downloadable, so feel free to share.
I’ve been working on a few loop tracks, inspired in part by Chuck Person’s Ecco Jams.
These will probably end up being a proper release, but until then you can listen here.
Listen to “Guru Meditation (schädel mix)” by stAllio!.
stAllio! made another record, and asked me to do a remix. Here’s his description of the record on which it appears:
stAllio!’s triumphant return to the world of sonified data! once again, stAllio! plunges deep into his hard drive and listens to the data — image files, executables, and link libraries alike are converted to sound for his review. the choicest bits of data are then meticulously assembled into music: glitchy melodies, skittery rhythms, and thunderous beats emerge from the digital noise. you could call it IDM (interpreted data music), dirty 8-bit, or glitch-hop. stAllio! used to call it databent music, but these days prefers the simpler term “data sound.”
You can hear the original version of the track here.
A little too much Boards of Canada, and this came out.