“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.” There seems to be a strange synchronicity between Immanuel Kant’s d…
Although it has been a while since I’ve heard anything from Psychic Handbook, Oakland’s most exuberant New Ager, I’m always pleasantly surprised by his output. This track, the appropriately titled “Dolphina”, is from Fuzzy Memories, a free …
Whether they are manning the tape decks (Top Tape), setting films to live soundtracks (Cinefamily), or airing one of their in-studio Sprout Sessions, the people behind Los Angeles independent Internet radio station dublab have been providing free-for…
I spent a lot of my late teens fantasizing about the New York underground of the early 1980s. With the help of ZE Records, I parsed together a bygone oasis of warped dance music, scorching No Wave, and multi-racial, all-night revelry, peppered with sp…
Halloween may be far away, but this ghoulish track from Austin’s Xander Harris keeps its spirit alive and well. A combination of haunting vocal samples and pulsating analog synth tones place this robotic dirge square inside John Carpenter territory-…
DMBQ founder and Boredoms guitarist Shinji Masuko– also a music and comics critic and the man behind the latter group’s legendary seven-neck guitar, “The Sevena”– drops his first solo record today on the Oneida-curated Brah Records. While rehearsing …
Scooby Doobie, the latest release from Venice, CA’s Trance Farmers (aka Dayve Samek), doesn’t adhere easily to taxonomy, bouncing between sample collage, Fahey-esque acoustic guitar plucking, and slow, cosmic psych. But standout “Betty Bop” re…
“Lion of Judah,” the A-side of Dyan Ettinger’s new 7″, sees the Bloomington, IN artist going in for some deep, terrestrial blues after the arpeggiated beam-scapes of his New Age Outlaws LP. Never thought I’d enjoy watching “action shots” of a dude p…
Gaurav Bashyakarla of Kansas’ C V L T S, we learned recently, has teamed with a few friends to found his own tape label, Beer On The Rug. First on the menu, the self-titled debut from Ohio’s Casino Gardens, a one-man, “hypnogogic” concept project cen…
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M. Geddes Gengras seems to make music to achieve maximum mind-body harmony. He has sent many Los Angeles house shows and DIY spaces into the stratosphere with his expansive, slow-brewing analog synth compositions. This tr…