hello spiral

Sunday at 01:16 PM

yeah I got his tape that was recorded in a cave full of bats with organ and shit on it, was part of boomkat's white tape series thing

vgood shit

Sunday at 12:56 PM

On 4/17/2024 at 2:25 PM, cwmbrancity said:

“Arsenal to Wimbledon” on your Balked release is annoyingly sublime. The blend of tube acoustics, with a motorised guitar strum or drone over & underlaying ambient background conversations, is mint. Need this.

Thanks m8. Yeah that is currently my favourite of my own releases. At this point considering it the best thing I have done. DM to remind me and I will see if I've got some spare BC codes btw

Sunday at 11:28 AM

Hullo, a year in production (of the physical goods + design), this is a 'lost' cd_slopper album from either 2000 or 2001 (am still waiting on confirmation on that from Berthold)

cd_slopper is the duo of Oswald Berthold (Farmer's Manual) and Florian Hecker

Available as digital download, extremely beautiful cassette tape or art print.

We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various

April 17

We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various

April 8

April 7

On 3/8/2024 at 10:28 PM, zkom said:

I watched the Boxer's Omen, a 1983 Hong Kong occult film.

And this is the strangest movie I have seen in the last few years. It is fucking bonkers. You might think the trailer up there is some kind of collection of just the craziest scenes. No, I can assure you the movie is even crazier. Everything is so bizarre: the plot, the effects, the camera work, the rhythm of the movie, the sound design, the acting, the locations. And it barely has any quiet moments. It's just 1 hour 45 minutes of madness. Like a nightmare you would have after 4 days of binge drinking. I would imagine that if David Lynch and Terry Gilliam got together and took some acid and decided to make a kung-fu movie it would be something like this.

Rating: Flying severed tentacle head / 10.

I bought this on bluray about 6 years ago and afaik still sits sealed on a bookshelf with the rest of them. This might be a sign to crack it open.

April 3

On 3/12/2024 at 9:37 AM, thejewk said:

I'm rereading some Lovecraft while waiting for a Thomas Ligotti anthology to arrive.

I'm about halfway through Songs + Grimscribe

It's ok. A little goes a long way. I find if I binge too many of them at once it gets a bit samey and meh. I do enjoy the very fiddly/intricate prose though.

March 21

March 21

March 20

sorry for your loss man

March 4

On 1/26/2024 at 5:57 PM, hello spiral said:

There's actually a pretty well known label around these parts interested in putting some of this stuff out :^)

something for the FWS thread if the talks work out

:^)

March 4

I have an album out of more odd guitar explorations on the venerable fals.ch label

We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various

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"They take this bloody thing, this box with strings on it and they use it in a particular way which suits their purposes. Well, that’s all I wanted to do. I wanted to take that box with strings and use it in a freely improvised situation."
- derek bailey

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released March 1, 2024

Everything by Joseph Baldwin. Recorded next to Arsenal Stadium in January of 2024, salaamhelicoid.bandcamp.com

Acoustic Guitar, milk foamer, 12W Amplifier, Korg Monotron, SRS-X11 bluetooth speaker, Droner Kebab v1.0 oscillator unit, Digitech 'death metal' distortion pedal, Rucci touch synthesizer, wooden cigarette dispenser, bottle caps, crushed coke cans, ibuprofen.

Thanks to Tom Bench for inspiration, Kerry Gilfillan for support & Jon Abbey for prods, pointers and paraphernalia

enjoy!

NB: the original videos that these edits are taken from are uploaded to the bandcamp in unedited form

March 1

11 hours ago, Walter Ostanek said:

the only person i've ever had to sack is also the only person IRL i've known who's been a self declared JP fanboy. Sacked him for joking about rape one too many times in front of female coworkers, alongside all the typical woman-o-phobic comments

lol christ

March 1

im gay

February 22

February 18

We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various

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Part three in a trilogy after 'You Have Never Properly Misunderstood My Intentions' and 'System Preferences'

Here I have recorded multiple takes of guitar drone, aided by an electric milk foamer augmented with knotted picture-hanging string.

Each take was played alongside a 45 minute recording of a train journey from Arsenal to Wimbledon on the 18th of March 2023.

Myself and my partner were travelling to a dinner party hosted by her friends. It was a fairly fraught and tense journey, with us falling out with each other a number of times and not speaking. My partner was very anxious about getting there on time and being pleasant and sociable. I didn't particularly want to go and was especially baulking at having to navigate The London Underground for an hour.

I am told I was a drunken mess at the dinner party and managed to embarrass my partner and put the other attendees on edge.

Arguably this episode was the tipping point in our relationship, which ended two months later.

According to the instructions that came with my milk foamer, extended use should be limited to 3 minutes maximum. During these multiple 45 minute long takes it got very hot and the batteries ran low and required changing multiple times. This proved to be an interesting and unexpected development and introduced tempo changes into the layers of guitar drone here. Quite a few takes got slower and slower towards the end and in some instances the motor stopped altogether and had to be manually coaxed back to its feeble spinning.

After hours of recording I fell asleep during one take, at around 2am, and woke up to find my trusty milk foamer had carried on in its duties for 19 more minutes past the 45 minute field recording.

My options were either to incorporate this extra audio into the rest of the track somehow, or allow it to remain as an extended outro. I went with the latter and it's now the 2nd track here 'Somnambulist (Works on Paper)'.

February 7

On 12/19/2023 at 3:54 AM, baph said:

Can someone get China Mieville to write a new novel?

Man, I loved Embassytown and The City and The City. So when I saw a gigantic one by him in a charity shop I grabbed it.

I didn't realise Perdido Street Station was published 10+ years before those other books, when he was just starting out writing. He was clearly some kinda fantasy RPG type nerd back then. That book has the stink of single boy bedroom and steampunk all over it. If I start a book I will always finish it (only one exception to this in my life so far) but jfc that was a slog.

February 5

Play some more live shows (broke my cherry in December)

Get some more stuff out on some more known and diverse labels (have started that process already)

edit: oh yeah and start and finish a zine I've had in my mind for years (I've bought it up with a label that's already released one thing of mine so now I've actually kinda sorta committed)

February 5

Hello,

I looked for my old thread but it apparently got archived and I can't bump it no mo.

here is my most recent bandcamp 'trilogy'

We Are The Music Makers | Volume One by VariousWe Are The Music Makers | Volume One by VariousWe Are The Music Makers | Volume One by Various

Also very recently I have been moving into non-computer music territory

I have an improvised guitar based album on Chocolate Monk that can be found here:

http://chocolatemonk.co.uk/available.html

and have been exploring that further with some things I've been doing while under house arrest

February 1

23 hours ago, xox said:

February 1

On 11/12/2023 at 6:50 PM, Soloman Tump said:

I bagged myself one of these beautiful Coims t-shirts last week, got the blue one. It's lush. A couple still left here -https://coims.bandcamp.com/merch/nonverbal-communication-t-shirt

Coims rule, I got one of their clay faces

January 26

4 hours ago, ignatius said:

dude. holy shit. i feel your pain. so sorry you have to deal that level of bureaucracy all while being on crutches and in pain. jfc. it's crazy there's no type of triage and priority list for people. it's no wonder why people in USA just go to the emergency room for everything. i suspect that happens there as well.

it's absolutely no fun chasing people down on the phone and being a pain in the ass just so they'll do their god damned jobs. that's kind of where i'm at currently. i woke up at 3am and couldn't fall back to sleep because i was dreaming about conversations i'm inevitably going to have with various healthcare office workers. so now i'm staring at the clock and waiting for the 9am mark so i can call and ask them if they got my messages and if all is clear and to please fucking call me once you have some answers. they suck at following up. i'm going to use the "you catch more flys with honey" approach and be as nice as possible without being a pushover. and this is for surgery to remove my thyroid because cancer (of course it's cancer because it always is cancer w/me)

as for tendons. fuck. i came a hair away from severing my right achilles when i was around 13.. and still to this day it's tight and weird and i get tightness, weakness and pain in it.. i have to wear an ankle brace sometimes and stretch it all the time.

fuck dude.. i hope you get things sorted out.. i firmly believe in the idea that stress reduces our life spans and a lot of stress is created with healthcare situations and the systems of healthcare failing us and forcing us to become advocates for ourselves in the worst times of our lives.

also, life would be meaningless w/o music and sex.

Yeah mang, ur situation sounds if anything shittier than mine, stay strong bruh

Yeah I had the achilles tendon go before in 2021, needed 4 weeks off work then too, that was actually the last time I went off sick. I never go off sick. Which at least affords me leeway with work, they know I won't be off unless I really need to be.

Yeah I try not to get stressed about this crap, tis a killer indeed.

exactly re: last point. I have been making use of my houseboundness:

There's actually a pretty well known label around these parts interested in putting some of this stuff out :^)

something for the FWS thread if the talks work out

January 26

that's all very well but when is Amber II out?

January 26

9 hours ago, ignatius said:

new specialist. she's great. her office staff.. not so much. currently navigating the healthcare bureaucracy in USA because her office didn't fill out the forms for prior authorization for a procedure. calling their office, insurance, office, insurance.. all because someone can't do their fucking job right.

in USA.. incompetence is as big an epidemic as anything else. when you encounter someone who knows what they're doing and how to resolve issues.. make sure to let them know they're appreciated. jfc. people half assing their job in the healthcare industry is fucking annoying af.

I hear that.

I've had ongoing tendonitis issues with my legs since the beginning of October (I've had sporadic flare ups for the last 10yrs). It was just my knees and I was still managing to get to work, sometimes with a stick, but it was manageable.
Beginning of January my achilles tendon went and I was fucked. Pretty much relying on crutches to get to my bathroom and kitchen. Was stuck indoors for 12 days.

So now I need to go to the doctor. I need pain meds, I need a note for work as I've had more than 7 days off, I also need a reevaluation. Some of my colleagues have mentioned arthritis.
I moved here 2 summers back and I haven't yet registered with a doctor as I haven't needed to go to one.

I call them and am brushed off and told I need to register online. I go online and do that. It's a very small practice so assume I will hear back in a day or two, despite the generic text about a maximum of 2 weeks. Nearly a week goes by so I call them. The woman I speak to seems confused as to why I wouldn't have heard back from them by now so she does some checks. "oh, I see your application in our inbox. It seems you aren't in our catchment area"

This is strange to me as it's a 10min walk around the corner

"you can still register with us, but you need to come in person and fill in a form here" I am now being told to come do the thing I was told I couldn't do the first time I called them.

So I schlep myself to the Practice, on crutches, the 10min walk takes me 35mins. I arrive and explain my situation to the girl at reception. She asks for my postcode and puts it into the computer there.

"that's weird, you are in our catchment area"

...

but hey ho, I am there now. I fill in the paper form with all the information I already filled in on their website, which is presumably sitting in an inbox somewhere in the offices behind this receptionist. She then directs me to a janky touchscreen thing so I can give them a blood pressure reading.....and then answer all the questions I've answered both online and with pen and paper, but for a third time via touchscreen!

I've been there half an hour now. I'm done with the touchscreen but there is a queue for reception, so I have to get in it, on my crutches. 10mins later I realise the girl I've been dealing with has gone and it's a different girl sitting there. She's like "yeah you're registered, that's it"

"ok.....so......an appointment?"

"oh we don't make appointments after X time. I'll text you a url and you follow that link tomorrow after 8am, or you can call after 8"

I shlep myself back home on my crutches, which turns out to be one of the hardest things I have ever endured. I am low on energy and strength reserves now. My legs are screaming at me, and the temp has dropped to zero. The last 200 meters to my building I am having to stop and take a 5min rest for every 10 meters I travel.

I get in around 6pm, pop a load of ibuprofen, prop my legs up and sleep until 3am

In the morning I call the Practice. I am told about this URL once again by a woman who clearly doesn't want to talk on the phone to anyone. Fine I'll do it online, I fill in a triage form. They call me back a few hours later and offer me an appointment in 10 days time, this is the soonest available appointment. I ofc have no option but to take it. I'm still waiting to attend this appointment. I can actually walk unaided now.

The bow on this dogshit cake would be for the doctor to dismiss my problem and refuse to give me a sign off sheet for work, as I appear to be fine.

Anyway sorry WALL OF TEXT

January 26

one of my fave genres of this is people getting pissed and salty over any even vaguely left-of-centre/experimental music.

The 'my kid could do that' crowd

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