Taupe Beats

It's all good friend! Totally understand and sympathize. Having to work today in a separate hectic environment while simultaneously having a panic attack over all this shit. It's a lot.

Dope

RIP Los Gringos Locos

It's on the Criterion Channel streaming service for 6 more days along with a couple other of his films (Rebels of the Neon God, Stray Dogs). I found Stray Dogs incredible. That film will stick with me.

Liking this (and I like the other Zenker Brothers stuff too). 2nd the subwoofer recommendation.

Leaves Against the Sky is gorgeous. Really liking the pianos.

@Nebraska Have you seen Tsai Ming-liang's "The Wayward Cloud"? Think you'd appreciate it. (Very much suggest not googling and going in as uninformed as possible)

The "Something to Wrestle" podcast has a great episode about this documentary with some funny background. Also, I recommend "Wrestling With Shadows". That's another great documentary (and it's got classic Stu Hart footage, what's not to love?).

I've only seen his film "Christine". Rebecca Hall and great musical selections are about the only redeeming qualities of this film for me. Ironically my issues with the film somewhat align to the documentary "Kate Plays Christine" but I loathe that doc as well. The former takes far too many liberties to explain an unknown. The latter seems purpose-built to moralize about how awful it is to take such liberties. At least the former has an excellent lead. The latter is a low-worth thought-experiment.

1) The Evolution uc-33a is such a wonderful MIDI controller. 2) I want a Roland Boutique of the VP9000.

On "First Reformed": This feels like a dream project of sorts for Paul Schrader. He wrote a book once on "Transcendental Cinema" (focusing on Bresson, Dreyer and Ozu) and I think this film was...if not his attempt at replicating this style, was certainly an homage to it (the ending leaves no question). I also feel this film doesn't totally work. There's too many references (I counted Bresson, Melville, Bergman and even Antonioni's "Red Desert") that take things all over the place. Ethan Hawke does about as well as one could with the role. There's an interesting thread of an ascetic "purity" of the clergy and its place/marginalization in a modern culture. I think it's the resolution to that (or lack thereof) that I found to be a hinderance. With that said, the final shot is simultaneously an affirmation of as well as a provocation to Bressonian values that got a chuckle outta me.

Post Tenebras Lux is one of the cooler-looking films I've ever seen. I like Reygadas.

Watched Vitalina Varela yesterday. Floored me. Varela's face is so beautifully expressive and this was likely the best performance I've seen in years. The final scene calls back to an earlier moment in such a devastating way. You should see this. And @Schlitze, here's some trivia for ya, you fuck:

I saw Harry Wu speak once many years ago (mid-90's). He spent the majority of the lecture emphasizing that China had created a huge industry of imprisoning people and not documenting anything, executing them and harvesting organs. Harry Wu is not a tin-foil hat conspiracy theorist and he presented some evidence for his claims that had been smuggled out to him. On the basis of that lecture alone (but I could cite other instances of China hiding the tragic plight of large amounts of their people), I wouldn't be surprised if they are doing internal testing within the mainland.

DJ Screw is like Pringles. You'll never stop after just one: RIP Screw. Greatest to ever grace a pair of decks, no hyperbole. edit: Let me do this right. Check where the above came from:

Hit you so hard yo grandma gonna feel it!

Zabriskie Point rules

Celebrating 100 posts in this thread with last Friday's show. Enjoy! Download link: https://archive.sub.fm/taupe-beats-28-aug-2020/ 1. Dro Carey “Healer”, Clear to You/Healer single, self-released, 2020 2. Jad & The “Yeah Band”, Going Away Party EP, 2MR, 2017 3. Low Tape “Autumnesia”, Reality Zone EP, Nerang Recordings, 2019 4. Otik “Antihero”, Thousand Year Stare EP, Gobstopper, 2020 5. Roy Of The Ravers “Emotinium”, 2 Late 4 Love EP, Acid Waxa, 2016 6. Elefants “Dice”, V/A 2019 compilation, FOL Records, 2019 7. Hugo Massien “Touch & Go”, Dance Trax Vol.21 EP, Unknown to the Unknown, 2019 8. No_4mat “Caught”, Caught single, self-released, 2020 9. Locked Groove “Swimming Upstream”, Sunset Service album, Hotflush, 2019 10. Desert “Sense Likes (Baltra Remix)”, Sense Likes single, Cascine, 2017 11. Vin Sol “Air Rights”, 808 Tele Funk EP, Jupiter4, 2019 12. DeFeKT “Split My Mind”, Magnetic Resonance EP, Winthorpe Electronics, 2019 13. Maruwa “5 Am Tool”, Perfect Trail compilation, Snippets Music, 2019 14. Cromby “As Prescribed”, Dance Trax Vol. 20 EP, Unknown to the Unknown, 2019 15. Grant “Reflection”, Perception EP, Duke’s Distribution, 2017 16. Warwick “CTO”, Thinking of You EP, Lobster Theremin, 2020 17. Huerco S. “Cercy”, Apheleia’s Theme EP, Future Times, 2013 18. Chaos in the CBD “Come Together”, Come Together EP, In Dust We Trust, 2019 19. Roza Terenzi “Metal Glo”, Metal Glo EP, Klasse Wrecks, 2019 20. Pinch “Fortune Tellers”, Border Control EP, Berceuse Heroique, 2019 21. Randomer “Get Yourself Together”, Scruff Box/Get Yourself Together single, Hemlock, 2012 22. Interplanetary Criminal “Oh La La”, Nobody EP, Shall Not Fade, 2020 23. Harrison BDP “The Devil in Disguise”, Cathedrals EP, Shall Not Fade, 2020 24. Batu & Lurka “Curved”, Curved single, Fringe White, 2020 25. Bakongo “Bambara”, UK Funky Collection Vol. 1 compilation, Roska Kicks & Snares, 2019 26. Khotin “Piano Theme” Rhythms of the Pacific Volume 4 compilation, Pacific Rhythm, 2020 27. Anunaku “Atlas4088”, Stargate EP, 3024, 2020 28. Tristan Arp “Ingwer”, Pipeline EP, Human Pitch, 2018 29. KETTAMA “Comeragh Sport”, Dance Trax Vol.23, Unknown to the Unknown, 2019 30. Maenad Veyl “Take Nothing with You”, Onto Duat EP, Bedouin Records, 2019 31. Breaka “Steeze Flex”, Breaka 002 EP, self-released, 2020 32. DJ Fett Burger & DJ Speckgürtel “Ibiza Ritter”, Red Scorpions EP, Clone Royal Oak, 2019 33. Dampé “Garden”, Garden EP, Dirt Crew Recordings, 2019 34. Roska “480 BC”, Tectonic Plates Vol 3 compilation, Tectonic, 2012 35. DJ Seinfeld “U Hold Me Without Touch”, Time Spent Away From U album, Lobster Fury, 2017 36. Tuff Sherm “Ska Console”, Or.VA1 compilation, Orphan. Records, 2019 37. Awo Ojiji “Laura's Lodge”, Static Flow EP, Eternal Ocean, 2020 38. Demuja “Getting Dark”, Rush EP, House Puff, 2017 39. Ryan James Ford “Dreamcast”, Out of the Wreckage EP, SHUT, 2019

I tend to believe record labels are the best way to explore new music. So watmm, what are some of your favorite labels out right now? I'll start with Banoffee Pies out of Bristol. The speed garage + breaks combo is lovely. https://banoffeepiesrecords.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrh5kaWfyMQ&list=PL2B6AC29862DEF93B It's a playlist for New Order's "Movement" album if it doesn't embed.