The fine folks at Workin’ Nights flattered me by asking me to make a mix for their site. I obliged with some old & new folk & blues about death & dying. It includes Giles Corey, Nimrod Workman, Michael Hurley, Mount Eerie, and Robert Johnson. I think you’ll like it.
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Black (Metal) Mixmas III
This is the third installment of Black (Metal) Mixmas. The “Metal” is in parentheses because I hoped to make the Black Mixmas/Black Christmas pun a tad more obvious and because this isn’t entirely black metal. There’s some black doom, black noise, black ambient, etc. But it’s primarily black metal so don’t lose your shit if you’re a purist.
Speaking of which, this here’s a three parter, and each part has its own aesthetic. Part I starts off with your more straightforward black metal. It’s still raw and brootal and super awesome, just not too many bells & whistles. Part II gets a bit more melodic and moves towards some of that shoegazey post-etc stuff. Part III (my personal favorite) gets totally fucked up and brings in the twisted shit, extra raw, extra noisy, extra extraordinary. Each part stands on its own as a killer mix but back to back to back they make the biggest most badass black metal adventure you’ve ever been on.
As with everything else on this site, I tend to give priority to the under-represented and pass over the more high profile bands. That means as amazing as Ash Borer and Panopticon are, they don’t need to be here. But tons of awesome blackened shit came out this year that wasn’t on Profound Lore and in fact is available for free/name your price downloads on Bandcamp. I linked to all the ones I knew about but dig around and you might find some more. Also, everything on this mix (except Esequiem’s track) came out in 2012, so consider this the unofficial AGB Best Of Black Metal list.
I’m taking an AGB vacation for the holidays starting now. If I’m not back before the new year, I’ll be back after the new year. These 3+ hours of depravity should keep you sane until then.
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Part I
1. Aven – The Last Thought Of Judas
2. Kaevum – La Mitt Rike Komme
3. WORT – plumplestiltskib (download)
4. Mgła – With Hearts Toward None V
5. Pendulum – Le Verre
6. Klor – Helmet Overgrown With Weeds
7. Alkerdeel – Horsesaw
8. Larvae – Cold Dead Face (download)
9. Jute Gyte – The Cry Essaying The Waters (download)
10. Lucifugum – Щелочь антинатализма
11. Obolus – Desolation (download)
12. Permafrost – Ende
13. Esequiem – An Old Castle In The Fog
Part II
1. Vattnet Viskar – Weakness
2. Aegrotum – Thy Perdition Manifest
3. El-Ahrairah – Drown Alone
4. Loss Of Self – The Mind; It’s Form And Function (download)
5. FIN – Insignia (download)
6. Aisuragua – A Mirror Reflecting The Silence
7. Ragana – Burning Structures (download)
8. Rhinocervs – Untitled (track 1 from RH-12)
9. Hordes – The Darkest Conjuration (download)
10. Infinitas – Immerwährende Nächte
11. Daughters Of Sophia – III: Black Sun Enlightment
12. Seirom – Strands Of Golden Light
Part III
1. Sutekh Hexen – Lead Us In Warfare
2. Mhönos – Ex Nihilo… Ad Nihilum…
3. Funeral Depression – Visions Of Broken Life
4. Misery – Sous L’égide Des Martyrs (download)
5. Gates – Forest Passageway, Hallway to the Void
6. OEDE – 8063 (download)
7. Затухание – зора утихает (download)
8. Dead Times & TRTRKMMR – An Appendectomy
9. Trepaneringsritualen – All Hail The Black Flame
10. Cloak Of Altering – Ancient Paths Through Timeless Voids
11. Immaculate Paragon Of Insanity – Invaders From Darkness
12. Venowl – Hung Alive By The Ribs To A Gallows
Technical Note: Затухание’s whole album is way loud, like, louder than anything else on this mix. I tried to tone it down in Audacity but I’m not totally sure how that worked out. So just beware. When that track comes on, you might shit yourself.
Minimix: Technovember
In response to those of your asking for a regular roundup of shit I’ve been listening to and digging but not reviewing, I’m starting a regular roundup of shit I’ve been listening to and digging. They’ll be short minimixes with little commentary and maybe occasionally cohesive in some way. I’ll be playing with the delivery, so please let me know what you do/don’t like. Do you want everything zipped or single track downloads? Do you want one long stream or individual streams? Just gimme some feedback.
This time around I threw together some techno/anti-techno/ambient techno/technoise tracks that are pretty fucking sweet. I know 8 songs isn’t exactly mini but I doubt it’ll usually be this robust. Anyway, have at it, and hopefully you’ll grace your ears with some new hotness.
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Emptyset – Collapse (from Collapsed)
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Grischa Lichtenberger – Uu78 (from And. IV (Inertia))
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NHK’Koyxeи – 703 (from Dance Classics Vol. II)
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Nina Kraviz – Best Friend (from Nina Kraviz)
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Juju & Jordash – Backwash (from Techno Primitivism)
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Lee Gamble – DTI (from Diversions 1994-1996)
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Pete Swanson – Pro Style (from Pro Style)
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Sensate Focus – X (from Sensate Focus 2.5)
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Dino Kingdom
Another killer mix for you fatheads. Anything with a pulse that came out this year has been tossed into a blender and out spat Dino Kingdom, jamming everything from R.A.P. to R.I.P. Pump this sexy beast at your next block party and you’ll be the summer hero.
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1. NHK’Koyxeи – 530
2. Death Grips – Fuck That
3. tAz Arnold – jimmy
4. Action Bronson – Thug Love Story 2012
5. MondreM.A.N. – Fancy (Yalls Peer Pressure Remix)
6. El-P – The Jig Is Up
7. Boy Fruit – Tits & Tacos
8. Killer Mike – Southern Fried
9. Big K.R.I.T. – Temptation
10. Moth Vegas – Cloud Forest
11. Alphabets – Raptor Signal. Cut Tha Haunters
12. Actress – Marble Plexus
You’re Too Kind
Here it is, the official “thank you for being so fucking awesome” fundraiser mix. Donators got this one early, but now I share it with the rest of the world. This is mostly new stuff. In fact, with the exception of the opener, I think every track came out within the past year or so. There’s a decent variety of styles, but nothing too out of the ordinary. I hope it’s everything you wished for in a new AGB mix.
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1. The North Sea – We Salute The Sandblasted Turrets
2. Hey Mother Death – Desert Of Trees And Water
3. Michael Vallera – Gone
4. Dweller On The Threshold – The Woods: Electric
5. Appalache – F.A. 1999
6. Ancient Ocean – Seneca
7. Fushitsusha – Chuushin No Ketsui II
8. Eli Keszler – Bowed Crotales, Snare Drum
9. James Blackshaw – A Momentary Taste Of Being
10. Millipede – Heart Container
11. Mike Shiflet – (Exile) (Extended)
12. Perispirit – Attn: Deficit Order (Part 2)
13. Mark Lorenz Kysela – Hoefn
14. Aufgehoben – Interruhig
15. Nuojuva – Ahovieret
Funeral Hymn
This mix serves two purposes. I’m attending a funeral, so I’ll be afAGB for a few days. This should keep you occupied until I return. Also, we can consider this technically the first mix as part of the fundraising rewards mix series, but not the official “fundraising award” mix, so if you donated, don’t worry that you didn’t get this before everyone else. This is the first doom mix I’ve made, and since I’ve been really into Pallbearer’s Sorrow And Extinction and since I’ll be a pallbearer at the service, I thought it would be appropriate to include something off of it, but they just didn’t fit the feel. Instead, this is over an hour of black doom, deathdoom, funeral doom (obviously), all things crushing, depressing, and destructive. Enjoy the weekend.
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1. Mourner – The Death Posture
2. Worship – Endzeit Elegy
3. Fister – Violence II: The An Lushan Rebellion
4. Ataraxie – Funeral Hymn
5. My Shameful – The Return To Nothing
6. Atriarch – Shadows
7. Faustcoven – Lost In The Forest Of Suicide
8. Coffinworm – Blood Born Doom
9. Otesanek – Vacant Stare Of The Wounded Psyche (Aka Deference Of Hope)
3
A couple of my friends and I started a mix trading project. The idea (not mine, sadly) is to take a track number and make a mix using only songs that are that track number on their respective albums. Hence the title 3. My inspiration was A Faulty Chromosome’s “Groaning Like A Grown-Up” (third track off of Craving To Be Coddle So We Feel Fake-Safe) which is one of my favorite songs ever. I even wrote about that song specifically after I had already reviewed the album. It’s just so fucking good. Anyway, this mix starts out kinda poppy, ends up pretty noisy. I had fun making it, so I thought I’d share. Enjoy.
Download 3
1. A Faulty Chromosome – Groaning Like A Grown-Up
2. The Hospitals – Rules For Being Alive
3. The Goslings – Vitium
4. Neptune – Paris Green
5. Nadja – The
6. Pete Swanson – A&Ox0
7. Dan Friel – One Legged Cowboy
8. Power Pill Fist – Fisticus 2:36
9. Lightning Bolt – Dracula Mountain
10. Millipede – Daphnes Nohansen
11. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Loving Love
12. Prurient – Memory Repeating
Black (Metal) Mixmas II
I made a black metal mix in ’09 for my holiday AGB break, skipped over it last year in lieu of this wacky music box album, and am reviving it in 2011 for perhaps an annual thing? We’ll see. I thought it would be appropriate this year because I seem to be surrounded by death & abandonment.
I’ll be gone for a little while, as has been the case lately. Lots of family time due to having less family. So I’m leaving Black (Metal) Mixmas II in my stead. I decided to select songs that only came out in 2011 for this. So it kinda doubles as a year end best black metal list for me, but not entirely. This should be a hit with you & your loved ones. Make sure you share it with everyone. Play it while the little one in your life has woken you up at some ungodly hour and you’re enjoying your spiked coffee. Unwrapping presents before sunrise is what black metal was made for.
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1. The Body & Braveyoung – Song 1 (Nothing Passes, At A Loss)
2. Mamaleek – You Can Bury Me In The East (Kurdaitcha, Enemies List)
3. Angelcrust – Sneer (Pet Semetary, self released)
4. Burzum – Jeg Faller (Fallen, Byelobog)
5. Vit – The Ardour Of Saints (-, Music Ruins Lives)
6. Whitehorse – Fierce Reprisal (The Body / Whitehorse Split, Aum War / Sweat Lung)
7. Petrychor – In Remembrance (Effigies & Epitaphs, Khrysanthoney)
8. Auspicium – Where Waves Mark Our Passage (Infinite Lights Of Greater Stars, Ninth Meridian)
Funeral II
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Too much sadness. The last time I posted was after my father in law had fallen, broken his neck, and was in a coma. It was a mix of the most beautiful music, what I hoped being in a coma sounded like. Without going into too many details, he passed away after fighting for a week and a half. The memorial service is tomorrow, so I made another mix, one full of heartache.
The worst part is that I had to make a new one. I posted a funeral mix once, then I reposted it when there was another funeral a few months ago, and I thought better of triple dipping. This is a much better mix than that first one anyways. And it finally allowed me to do something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time: put Giles Corey alongside Jakob Battick. They sound absolutely perfect together.
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1. Lonesummer – Ghost Stories
2. Locrian – Obsolete Elegy In Lost Concrete
3. Animus – Three
4. Mind Over Mirrors – Point Hammond
5. Brian Grainger – Bloodied Dust From The Boots Of Drunken Princes
6. Sunken – Census
7. Fossils From The Sun – Dry Eyes
8. Giles Corey – Grave Filled With Books
9. Jakob Battick & Friends – Nine Brothers & The Wolf
Coma Bliss Mix
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My father in law is in a coma. He fell and broke his neck. So what I normally do in times such as these is make a mix (dual purpose: for myself, for AGB). He’s hardly responsive at all, but there is a little glimmer every now and then, opening an eye, moving a foot, etc. I thought about what it must be like to be in a coma and hoped it sounded like this mix. Complete and utter bliss. The most beautiful music I can think of. I hope this is what it’s like for him right now.
I don’t know if I’ll be too pre-occupied to blog for a little bit or if I’ll be writing up a storm to keep my mind off things, but either way I don’t imagine any posts until at least after Thanksgiving. I hope this 82 minute mix will keep you company until I return.
UPDATE: he’s conscious!
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1. Eluvium – New Animals From The Air
2. Kyle Bobby Dunn – Canyon Meadows (Long)
3. Rafael Anton Irisarri – A Great Northern Sigh
4. Aquarelle – A Strange Sweet Woe
5. Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – Where I End & You Begin
6. Polmo Polpo – Romeo Heart
7. Jannick Schou – Act Of Shimmering
8. Mountains – Telescope
9. Lawrence English – Soft Fuse
10. The Golden Sores – Ondine
11. Belong – A Sunny Place For Shady People
12. Windy & Carl – Sunrise
HOTSHOT
GOOD NEWS EVERYONE. I got a real top notch job. Gonna be an archivist at Simmons College. See, I’m in the graduate program at Simmons for archiving and they hired me for a full time position to archive shit and manage the student workers. There’s so many reasons this job is the best fucking thing ever, like regular hours, holidays off, benefits, tuition reduction…
Also, I’m done with my old job at CinemaSalem and have some time off between now and when I start at Simmons, so I’m taking a little MUCH needed vacation. And you know I like to post mixes before I go do my thing. This one’s called HOTSHOT ’cause that’s me baby. BAM.
Part of what I’m going to do on this vacation is figure out how Anti-Gravity Bunny needs to change in order for me to continue blogging. Basically, since I’ll be working the 9-5 deal with a long commute, AGB can’t be the same, I’m just not sure what I need to do to still make it work. But fear not, loyal nerds, I’ll come back with a genius plan and all will be well. Now…
Download HOTSHOT
1. starcircleanatomy – Unline
2. Maria Minerva – California Scheming
3. Wet Hair – Cosmic Radio
4. Mind Over Mirrors – You Ain’t Reeling
5. Foot Village – Protective Nourishment (BIG A little a Remix)
6. Nordic Soul – Wasserfall
7. Ezekiel Honig – Seaside Pastures Part 2
8. Floris Vanhoof – Electronic Mantra
9. Myrmyr – Hot Snow Part I
10. Matt Davis & Javier Reséndiz – Ode To The Tomato
11. Asva – Birds
Funeral
My grandfather died. I’m going to be with family this weekend. I should start posting again sometime next week.
I posted this mix for a funeral I went to last October. It’s still highly relevant.
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1. More Dogs – Duty. Duty? Duty.
2. Boris with Merzbow – Evil Stack
3. Daniel Menche – Track 8 (Concussions Disc 2)
4. The Mausoleums – Totem Pole
5. Xexyz – Metroid
6. Have A Nice Life – The Icon And The Axe
7. Cocteau Twins – Amelia
8. A Faulty Chromosome – Incubate’r
9. Penguin Cafe Orchestra – Salty Bean Fumble
10. Windsor For The Derby – Gathering
11. Shellac – Disgrace
12. Larval – The Strange Farm
13. Jenny Hoyston & William Whitmore – Marrow
14. Langhorne Slim – One Sunday Morning
15. Set Fire To Flames – When Sorrow Shoots Her Darts
RENEGATORS
Last time I went to help my wife, aka Argyle Whale, sell her awesome shit at Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn, I made a mix called Renegades (obviously) to keep yall company in my blogging absence. Well I’m helping her out again! So I made a mix of mostly electronic shit with an occasional emphasis on the absolutely fucking wacky like John Paul Young and The Space Lady, some newer jams from guys like Jonas Reinhardt and Rene Hell, some old school alchemy from Toru Takemitsu and Eduard Artemiev, and tossing in some maxchill minimalism like Steve Reich and Loren Connors. Whatever your preference, I guarantee RENEGATORS is gonna make you flip your goddamn lid.
If you’re in the Brooklyn/New York/North East area this weekend and feel like meeting the awkwardly-unsociable me, or better yet want to support a working crafter, come by and say hey. We’re at booth 207 near the corner of Union & Bayard. I would be SUPER fuckin psyched to meet you. :D
Download RENEGATORS
1. Giant Claw – Big Crush
2. Rene Hell – Surgery
3. Jonas Reinhardt – Headband Harvest
4. Iasos – Crystal Petals
5. El Marrano De La Razón – Liposucción Magnética
6. John Paul Young – Summertime!
7. Toru Takemitsu – Sky, Horse, And Death (Concrete-Music)
8. Informatics – Hungry Pets
9. Eagle Chalice – Feather Flow Circle
10. Loren Connors – Part Three
11. Preslav Literary School – Dirge In Marriage
12. Steve Reich – Nagoya Marimbas
13. Robert Henke – Layer 007
14. Louis & Bebe Barron – Main Title From Forbidden Planet
15. Eduard Artemiev – Untitled
16. The Space Lady – I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)
17. Akemi Ishijima – Time Drops
APOCAMIX
I’m giving yall some deathly tunes to prepare yourselves for the upcoming apocalypse. Harold Camping has predicted that The Rapture is this Saturday, May 21, 2011 and who am I to disagree? He wouldn’t just make something like that up, right? I mean, The Bible guarantees it! So I figured that since I’m obviously going to HEAVEN, I should make one last mix and pack it full of killer jams that I’d be proud to listen to as I get sucked up out of my clothes.
Making this mix was insanely fun and, GOD FORBID you make it past this Saturday, I recommend making an Apocamix yourself. ‘Cause ya never know when you’re gonna need another one.
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1. Silver Quintette – Sinners Crossroads
2. Sorrows – Despair
3. Giles Corey – Empty Church
4. Voltaic Omen – The Hemophiliac
5. The Body – Empty (Suiciety)
6. Monument – When I Wake Up After Thy Image, I Shall Be Satisfied
7. Bethíoch – The Great Beast
8. Eleh – Death Is Eternal Bliss
9. Life In The Dark – The Sunya Is Rising (Planning For Burial Remix)
10. Troum – Procession
11. Gareth Davis & Steve R. Smith – Birds As Passing Souls
12. Jefferson Pitcher – There Is Dying
AGB Radio 12/7
This was the last show for a little while. Not doing it over winter break because I’m too fucking busy. But that just means you’ll get more reviews and more regular posts. Hopefully. Either way, this was a pretty fine show if I do say so myself.
Anti-Gravity Bunny Radio 12/7
George & Jonathan – No Ya Not & No Ya Didn’t
Coralcola – Dragbunny
Holy Modal Rounders – Sky Divers
Pleq – Calm Coolness
Andrew Felix – Ghost
Pale Sketcher – The Playgrounds Are Empty (Slumber Mix)
Sam Prekop – Lazy House
Aix Em Klemm – The Luxury Of Dirt
Frédéric Nogray – Musique For Crystal Singing Bowls 4
Instruments Of Science & Technology – Nuux
Nice Nice – A Little Love
Fursaxa – Celosia
Byetone – Land
Dieter Moebius & Gerd Beerbohm – Narkose
Emuul – Three Dots (Night Visions Part 1)
Actress – Hubble
The Craters – Weekends Or Not
Mary Möör – Pretty Day
Jim Fassett – Buffo
Charanjit Singh – Raga Kalavati
Wreck Small Speakers On Expensive Stereos – Three Shots
Sam Spence – Sylvia
Chris Abrahams – There He Reclined
Vapaa – Kielo
Ambarchi / O’Rourke / Haino – Tima Formosa 2