Some magical DIY here with an atmospheric intro and visuals for this 2005 Arel Pink classic. Video bits recorded with a Sony HDR-TGV, often from a car while driving to and from work in West Hollywood during 2009-10 by the video’s producer – Like
A stunning chystalline pure live performance.Like frozen ice sheets over winter puddles the acoustic electronic sounds and vocals shimmer on one of the best tracks of 2012
… and there are more amazing live performances by other artsists over at Off The Avenue a web TV series produced by North Avenue Studios Inc. Off The Avenue is committed to bringing viewers high quality audio and video of live performances from top notch musicians around the country
Aarom Wilson presents
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PLAYLIST
Peaking Lights – Beautiful Son – Lucifer
Yann Tiersen – The Gutter – Skyline
Dorian Concept & Tom Chant – Dream Work – In Motion #1 (presented by Cinematic Orchestra)
Andreya Triana x Mount Kimbie – A Town Called Obselete (Kit Pop Remix)
Exitmusic – The Wanting – Passage
Sun Glitters Wasting Times – XVI Records: Volume 1
Allez Allez – African Queen – Too High To Move: Remixed With Love by Maxxi & Zeus) 2.50 Amon Tobin – Bloodstone (Royal Albert Hall live) – Amon Tobin
Perth – Jilted (“We Are Massive Fans Of It!”) – Babes, Water, Waves 3. Man Without Country – Parity – Foe
Clams Casino – One Last Thing [Mac Miller] – Instrumental Mixtape 2
The Flaming Lips Feat Erykah Badu – The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face – The Flaming Lips & Heady Fwends
Elisa Luu -Se Fosse Per Me – Un Giorno Sospeso
Gold Panda – Mountain – 7″
Diiv – Oshin (Subsume) – Oshin
Leure – Black Light – Holland Sky
Born Ruffians – Red, Yellow & Blue
The Ruby Suns – Blue Penguin – Sea Lion
Daughn Gibson – In The Beginning – All Hell
Mice Parade – Pursuant To The Vibe – Branches & Roots Vol 1
Mark Daves presents
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Chasing down the playlist. I think Mark is a playlist kind of guy?
From Folkadelphia
Two birds, inseparable friends, cling to the same tree. One of them eats the sweet fruit, the other looks on without eating. Gretchen Lohse, Rick Flom, Alec Meltzer, Steve Quaranta, Dave Barbaree, and Naeemah Maddox
From the compilation LP Early Dutch Electronic Music from Philips Research Laboratories 1956-1963.
True electronic music pioneers Dick Raaijmakers [aka Kid Baltan] and Tom Dissevelt did everything with tone generators and tapes, no keyboards were used. It is hard to believe but the piece ‘Song of the Second Moon’ is from 1957!!!
Dick who worked at Philips NATLAB [Natuurkundig Laboratorium] in Eindhoven, The Netherlands was asked by a Director to compose “popular electronic music” and inspired by the thought of space travel and Yuri Gagarin “Song Of The Second Moon” was the first tune. It was created using oscillators, tone-generators, and tape recorders, and then edited with scissors!!. It was an ingenious piece of effects and melodies with dozens of “frames” or ‘samples’ that had to be edited by hand in the old fashion “cut and paste” style. Golden Apples recommends you file with, but before your Jean-Jacques Perrey, BBC Radiophonic Workshop, and Delia Derbyshire.
Like synths?. Here is a great BBC documentary with HQ sound following a generation of post-punk musicians who took the synthesiser from the experimental fringes to the centre of the pop stage.
Behind a Hill a documentray exploring New Wierd Americana
This documentary is a journey into our own fascination, a collection of portraits of folk musicians living in New England, and a study of the ground on which their music is founded. We listen to them as they tell their stories and play their music. First and foremost, Behind a Hill is a tribute to these musicians and a rare peep into the house parties and basement jams of New England, in the northwestern corner of the USA, with the vain hope attached that maybe you, the viewer, will grow as fond of the music as we have. When we first encountered these musicians, we were overwhelmed by the quality of their musical output. We were entranced by the melodies, harmonies, rhythms, and tempos and every other element that constitutes a song (or, as is often the case, a piece of abstract drone music, heavy feedback, or someone banging a steel pipe against a bag of dirt while chanting in a yet undiscovered language, or…). Perhaps even more than the music itself, we were drawn by an expression of endless possibilities, playfulness and innovation embedded into the music – qualities and ideas that many contemporary musicians seem to have abandoned long ago. Through its freshness and its credible lack of self-awareness, the music managed to circumvent our congenital disorder of always trying to decipher the sounds academically, and to assess it within the context of music history.
This excerpt features Big Blood a Golden Apples favourite.
Lots more on here
The Golden Apples of the Sun 