Monday 25 April 2011

EARTOTHEGROUND: Death Grips - Ex-Millitary Mixtape

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Fitting sentiments at this time of year, by anyone's standards.  Death Grips is Zach Hill's noise-hop collaboration with fellow Sacramentoites that, for the life of me, I cannot seem to identify (answers on a postcard...).


"Spk n abbrvs cuz rl lyf convo moves 2 slowwwwlllyyyy."

Death Grips is a musical Moebius strip that makes you feel like you're playing some kind of real life hip-hop Portal ... in a dream ... or in any case that's the precise image conjured up by the song Culture Shock:
"You need to vibrate higher (... so you can capture the opening of the portal that connects this earth of 3d to the one earth of 4d or 5d, going to the 5d)" :
"Lightworker's (0:50) is a spiritual social networking community for all people seeking to connect with other lightworker's, spiritual seekers, star seeds, wanderers, indigo children, and multi-dimensional beings. The World is entering a new dimension of love, truth and light."


The whole exercise is fairly mind blowing, and the production is as dark and choppy as anything Zach Hill's done, even if it's not entirely different-prime-number-every-bar time signatures, like some of his previous.

Not that this is surprising, even Bygones (see 3:29 onwards for [potential] greatest riff of all time) showed a more restrained style than his work with Hella, and his collab' with Wavves was practically minimalist compared to that.  In Death Grips ... there's not even a drum kit on all of the songs, but you can always hear his signature chops in the samples and the general aggressivity of the drumlines alongside the weird, scratchy, rhythmic synth work and effects the likes of which we've heard in a lot of his solo stuff ... I genuinely love the man.



THE DEATH GRIPS EX-MILLITARY MIXTAPE IS OUT ON 27.04.2011 (Immediately after completion of the Lightworker's year of transformation) AND IS GOING TO KNOCK YOUR BLOCK OVER.

GET IT HERE, ALONG WITH DOWNLOADS AND LOADS AND LOADS OF BOSS BOSS STUFF.



"Gaga can't handle this shit."

Saturday 23 April 2011

EARTOTHEGROUND: Prefuse 73 - The Only She Chapters

Speaking of Prefuse 73, here's a free album taster download for his forthcoming release The Only She Chapters, out on Monday.

The Only Hand to Hold (Featuring Shara Warden) is very much a development and aggrandisement of the haunting, vocal driven ambient arrangements á la P73's Diamond Watch Wrists project with Zach Hill.

In fact, the album in general, following on from 2009's brighter, much more head-bounceable Forest of Oversensitivity, extrapolates more from Diamond Watch Wrists than previous P73 releases.

There is a distinct focus on out-of-focus layers and textures, and album opener, The Only Recollection of Where Life Stopped is bona fide noise.  The entire album is replete with clicking, grinding, dripping, bipping, booping, clacking ... melodic and rhythmic, and sometimes neither ... both sampled and synthesized.  Plonk this alongside samples of oriental string instruments and melodic percussion, all layering together within layer upon layer of background textures ... some tracks are pure exercises in texture, see The Only Direction in Concrete, featuring Zola Jesus ... get some top notch collaborations (mostly female vocalists), with P73 at the helm who, chaotic as the album is, embues it with a progression which never seems lost or confused.

Great album!

Release Date: 25.04.2011

MIX: Baconhead - Kid's TV Mix

Baconhead's new mix is of a Kid's Tv Theme ...

Anybody recognise any of the samples?  Can't quite put my finger on ... any of them ...

Anyway, quality scrunched up beats from porcine craniums Ebola and Autobee right here ... includes new music from the men in question, as well as music from BCT favourites Prefuse 73 and Global Goon, and plenty more chunks of chunky ear fun.


Friday 22 April 2011

EARTOTHEGROUND: sleepingdog - With Our Heads in the Clouds and Our Hearts in the Fields

With Our Heads in the Clouds and Our Hearts in the Fields is the third full length sleepingdog album, the latest noise of the collaboration between Adam Wiltzie of Stars of the Lid (BCT ep. 11) and The Dead Texan (BCT ep. 5) and Belgian singer Chantal Acda (you can listen to the whole thing BELOW) is released this coming Monday (25th April) on Gizeh records.
Underlying With Our Heads... is Wiltzie's everpresent trademark orchestral drone, and the overall effect of its coupling with Acda's so-dreamy-they-might-not-actually-be-real-after-all vocals really does almost make the use of the word "ethereal" too obvious to use in reference to any of sleepingdog's releases.  And yet, it's something rarely avoided...
This is an album where all Wiltzie's best talents for creating understated, deep-set soundscapes are put to work in various fairly disparate ways.  At times these almost engulf Acda's manipulated vocals, such as on album opener Untitled Ballad of You and Me, and at other times, the relative crispness of the vocal production, with the higher level of the vocals in the mix lends particular emphasis to the lyrics, such as on first single off the album, He Loved to See the World Through His Camera.
The natural quality of Acda's voice, and Wiltzie's long-established knack for unwittingly powerful arrangements make for a record of such intense warmth, that if you threw it on a bonfire ... emmm ... well ... depending on what format it was in, it would probably melt ... but for the sake of a metaphor, everybody would probably have to step back a bit ...

Anyway ... listen to it for yourself ...






Release Date: 25.04.2011

The Breadcrumbs are Music.

Hello there, people of network (Breadcrumb T)rail.

Welcome to the new Breadcrumb Trail Music Blog.
Rest In Crumbs.

Since the ultimately untimely demise of the late, great Féile FM, and prior to that, our personal funds, our incarnation as Northern Ireland's only vaguely experimental music radio show has been rendered dormant (though we do expect to return to the airwaves before the end of 2011, and thus before the end of the world).

If you missed The Breadcrumb Trail on Féile FM, you can still listen back to some of the shows here.

Naturally, as de facto audio-fascists, we miss telling people what they should have in their ears, and this is why, without (much) further adooo, we at The Breadcrumb Trail (Brian and Eamonn) are pleased to declare THE BREADCRUMB TRAIL MUSIC BLOG ...


OFFICIALLY OPEN! 

As our first act we would like to say how pleasant it is to have all considerations of restrictions placed upon us by governmental bodies, or what exactly people do or do not want or need to hear between the hours of 9 and 11pm (conceivably while driving down Stockman's Lane in their 1998 Mazda 121) on Thursday evenings lifted from our shoulders.

Secondly, WE WANT YOU TO GET INVOLVED.  Send us anything, demos, reviews, abuse ... if they are interesting or funny enough we will not hesitate in potentially putting it up on this blog, or intergrating it into our own personalities, if it's really really good.  Our email is thebreadcrumbtrail@live.com.

WE WANT YOUR DEMOS:  Give us your music.  We will listen to it all.  We will put up what we consider to be fitting for what is essentially an experimental and generally weird music blog, but we always make exception for the exceptional.  So if it's really really good, it doesn't matter what it is ... get it?

We will be bringing a new LOCAL PEOPLE feature too, and we are asking people from all over the shop to please write Local People articles about bands, artists or their local music scene in general, wherever it may be ... We are all (both of us) very interested to see how far afield this reaches.  Also, feel free to send us anything at all, if we find it interesting or funny enough, we'll definitely put it up/integrate it into our own personalities.

SO GET WRITING.

Lastly, and least leastly ... once we obtain certain equipment, we shall be bringing you regular podcasts.  Woooo.

I think that's probably quite enough excitement information for everybody to be getting on with for now, so just keep an eye out for imminent Crumbs.

And thanks!

Brian and Eamonn.