Robedoor
Sand Circles
Jung an Tagen
DJ Skvlkrvsh
Struma & Iodine pres:
ROBEDOOR (USA, Important Records, Night People, Woodsist, Not Not Fun, Ecstatic Peace, Hands in the Dark)
2012 happened and nothing happened, but this year LA-based duo Robedoor are back with Primal Sphere – a new addition to their rich, large discography of
cassettes, CDs and LPs dating back to 2005, which includes releases with labels Not Not Fun, Woodsist and Important Records.
Born from what the band describes as “the Spring of 2011´s longform, overdrivecircuit-scum maze sessions”, the follow-up to the gorgeous Too Down To Die sounds very much like an intentional regression from the future, ripping up rock roots in order to regain a grip on the ragged sound of drone.
The product, Primal Sphere, is a crafty album that could prove to be a signifcant new cornerstone in the band´s career, with the absence of a drummer clearly
allowing the unrelated Alex and Britt Brown, of former Pocahaunted fame, to once again head in a new and orginal direction.
Their artistic vision encompases the apocalypse. Describing the record as long undead, they recorded the four dancehall canvases by building a caveman midi and banging duct-taped gongs onto a skeleton of primate, subhuman, industrial noise, faithfully recreating the rich resin waste tones of their sinister transe visions: a massive, dark, dense and hazy wall picturing a cataclysm party under a big dark sun.
Robedoor continue their unstoppable upwards progress with yet another superb, pulsating album, broadening the realm of modern psychedelia music.
Stockholm-based Sand Circles (Not Not Fun, S) started activity in late 2010, releasing a string
of tapes flled with faded synth chords and reverb-refracted melodies. Filtering pulsing, primitivist drum machinery through dusty tape echo units, it’s music for
the ocean foor, rather than the dance foor. Embracing the imperfections, the tracks are often recorded in a single take straight to the fourtrack. Communicating through a vocabulary of sonic images, Sand Circles is reworking the idea of what modern techno music can and cannot be.
Useful links:
www.sandcircles.tumblr.com www.soundcloud.com/sand-circles/continuity www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMPBXr5td0w
Jung An Tagen (VIV, A)
The VIV represents the research of a small group of artists and other interdisciplinary consultants with a shared interest in certain synaestasian arrangements to promote progress in A/V studies and other forms of communication. From the earliest activities of the past, the majority of this work has been kept private with only a few exceptions concerning stimulatory demonstrations intended for a greater number of recipients. Based on recent collaborations the VIV will follow a more exposed trajectory. Nevertheless, most of the members & participants will remain undisclosed for various reasons.
www.vimeo.com/72350053 www.virtualinstitutevienna.org
DJ SKLVKRSH (Lifetime)
www.strumandiodine.blogspot.com