The Upstate Soundscape

[Archive 05.29.13]

upstatesoundscape — Thu, 30 May 2013 17:48:21 +0000

1) Fresh Snow, “Saturation Complete”

2) Kraftwerk, “Antenna” Radio-Activity (EMI)

3) UVB-76, “In 3″ Live on WBNY’s the Local Show

4) Dirty Beaches, “Mirage Hall” Drifters/Love is the Devil (Zoo Music)

5) Peaking Lights, “Beautiful Son (Richard Formby Mix)” Lucifer Re-Lit (Mexican Summer)

6) Sun Araw, “Midnight Locker” Off Duty (Woodsist)

7) New York Philharmonic, “II: The Sacrifice” Rite of Spring

8) Mercury Rev, “Shhh/Peaceful/Very Sleepy Rivers” Lego My Ego (Beggars Banquet)

9) NYMPHS, “Bird Song Mix”

10) Food Pyramid, “E-Harmony” III (Moon Glyph)

11) VxPxC, “Ballad of the Empty Room” Drapery Dept. (House of Alchemy)

12) Lee Noble, “Indian Princess” Horrorism (Bathetic Records)

13) Todd Peck, “The Rainbow Bridge”

14) Scott Valkwitch, “Machine Gunned (Edit)”

[Archive 5.15.13]

upstatesoundscape — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:30:10 +0000

1) DJ Sniff, “No Time to Breath”

2) Colin Stetson, “To See More Light” New History Warfare Vol III: To See More Light (Constellation)

3) Hanged Up & Tony Conrad, “Principles” Transit of Venus (Constellation)

4) Arrington De Dionyso’s Malaikat Dan Singa, “Tak Terbatas” Open the Crown (K Records)

5) Swans, “The Seer Returns” The Seer (Young God)

6) Pharmakon, “Crawling on Bruised Knees” Abandon (Sacred Bones)

7) Not the Wind, Not the Flag, “In The Province of the Mind, There are No Limits” The Starmaker

8) NYMPH, “Battle Funk,” New Millennium Prayer (Northern Spy)

9) White Rainbow, “Pulses” Prism of the Eternal Now (Kranky)

10) Kwaidan, “Gateless Gate” Make all the Hell of Dark Metal Bright (Bathetic)

11) Ghost Father, “HyperCard”

12) Co La, “Head in a Hole in a Space” Moody Coup (Mexican Summer)

13) The Haxan Cloak, “Excavation (part 2)” Excavation (Tri Angle)

14) Dolphins into the Future, “Memory of Self” ….On Sea-Faring Isolation (Not Not Fun)

[Archive 05.08.13 ft. guest hosts Wooden Cities]

upstatesoundscape — Thu, 09 May 2013 17:20:17 +0000

1) Robert Phillips, “O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden”
2) Ethan Hayden, “Star-light is a little light”
3) Esin Gündüz, “ı filosofi della collina”
4) Esin Gündüz, “Improvisation on Michael McNeill’s ‘Wild Geese’”
5) Traditional Turkish Music, “Üyünüm Layla”
6) Elliott Carter, “Shard”
7) Zane Merritt & Ben Willis, “Improvisation”
8) Nathan Heidelberger, “In flux/inflects/influx/in flects”
9) Salvatore Sciarrino, “Dove andarono la sera i muratori” from Quaderno di Strada
10) Nathan Heidelberger, “The Distance of the Moon”
11) Louis Andriessen, “Workers Union”
12) Will Redman, “The Book (excerpt)” Performed live by Wooden Cities

[Preview: Guest Hosts Wooden Cities]

upstatesoundscape — Wed, 08 May 2013 19:51:58 +0000

Tonight on The Upstate Soundscape, Buffalo’s new music collective Wooden Cities returns to the program to serve as uest hosts. Several members of the group will be on hand to talk about the music they’ve been working on together and individually, while previewing their upcoming show at The Vault this Friday.

Show starts at 8pm on 91.3FM WBNY. Stream at WBNY.org

upstatesoundscape — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:53:13 +0000

1) Zs, “Part 2″ Grain (Northern Spy)
2) The Brian Jonestown Massacre, “Everything Fades to White” Food for Clouds (A Records)
3) Pan American, “The Cloud Room, Cloud Room, Glass Room (Kranky)
4) Zomes, “Monk Bag” Time Was (Thrill Jockey)
5) 100% Black, “Your Black” 2012 Demo
6) Dog, “Great Frog Diety from the North” Praise Dog
7) Black Pus, “Nowhere to Run” All My Relations (Thrill Jockey)
8) Scott Valkwitch, “Echo I (excerpt)” InFraRed (House of Alchemy)
9) VWLS, “Cough Spirit” Broadcast in the Moss
10) Isa Christ, “Live at Strange Maine, 1.14.10″
11) The Haxan Cloak, “The Mirror Reflection (part 2)” Excavation (Tri Angle)
12) Sun Araw and Eternal Tapestry, “I” Night Gallery (Thrill Jockey)
13) Dan Deacon, “True Thrush” America (Domino)
14) Sun Drips, “Track 11″ One Hundred Hints (Orange Milk)

[Preview 5.1.13]

upstatesoundscape — Wed, 01 May 2013 21:34:34 +0000

Brian Chippendale of Black Pus (and Lighting Bolt)

Tonight on the Upstate Soundscape we will preview a number of events that are taking this week, including the Weirdo Music Show at the Jungle Gym, Black Pus at Slyboots, and the next WSADA series at The Wash. We’ll also delve into the Deep Wireless Festival of Radio and Transmission Art that is launching this week in Toronto.

Plenty of new jams to get to as well so tune in at 8pm to 91.3 FM WBNY. Stream at WBNY.org.

[Archive 4.17.13]

upstatesoundscape — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 16:42:29 +0000

1) Transmuteo, “Side B” Motivational Holography (Aguirre)

2) The Knife, “Fracking Fluid Injections” Shaking the Habitual (Mute)

3) Bitchin Bajas, “Bajas Ragas” Vibraquatic (Aquarius)

4) Ak’chamel, The Giver of Illnes, “El Curandero (Native Ghost Chant)” (Free Music Archive)

5) Sun Araw, “Bump Up (High Step)” Sun Ark (Not Not Fun)

6) Swans, “No Words/No Thoughts” My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky (Young God Records)

7) Mission of Burma, “Heart of Darkness” The Horrible Truth About Burma (Aces of Hearts)

8) Can, “Midnight Men” Lost Tapes Box Set (Mute)

9) Mercury Rev, “Goddess on a Hiway (1989 Cassette Tape Player Demo)” Deserted Songs (Light in the Attic)

10) Purling Hiss, “Porch Dude/Slight Return” Public Service Announcement (Woodsist)

11) Ducktails, “Surf’s Up” Live on WFMU (Free Music Archive)

12) Mark McGuire, “Brothers (For Matt)” Living With Yourself (Editions Mego)

[Archive 04.11.13]

upstatesoundscape — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:10:16 +0000

1) Joseph Byrd, “Water Music” Joseph Byrd NYC 1960-63 (New World Records)

2) Brett Masteller, “Cutting the Corners of a Multi-Art Environment” Out of Nowhere: Electro-Acoustic Music from the Upstate Fringe (Big Orbit)

3) University of Toronto Electronic Music Studio, “Noises” Electronic Music

4) Jon Hassell and Brian Eno, “Chemistry” Fourth World Vol. 1: Possible Musics (EGS)

5) Mercury Rev, “Night on Panther Mountain (Unreleased mix)” Deserter’s Songs (Tarbox Road)

6) JD Emmanuel, “Part IV: Expanding into the Universe” Wizards (North Star) 1982

7) Rambutan, “Typology” Inverted Summer (Fabrica) (Interrupted due to computer malfunction)

9) Mary Lattimore, “Side A” The Withdrawing Room (Desire Path Recordings)

10) Katze, “A Man A Plan A Canal Panama” Berg

11) Katze, “Meeps” Berg

12) Nadja, “Space Time and Absence” Dagdrom (Broken Spine)

13) Zelinenople, “Can’t Stop” Give it Up

14) Hanged Up & Tony Conrad, “Flying Fast N Furious” Transit of Venus (Constellation)

15) Purling Hiss, “Gypsy” Public Service Announcement

[Archive 04.03.13]

upstatesoundscape — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:11:49 +0000

1) Aidan Baker, “Drone II” Drone Compendium One: Pure Drone (Beta-Lactam Ring Records)

2) Beta Cloud, “Marsh of Sleep” Lunar Monograph (Laughing Bride Media)

3) Eschaton, “Live from Christ’s Church, Part III”

4) La Monte Young, “For Brass” Roots of Drone

5) No Shoes and One Sock, “Raise the Djed”

6) Third Eye Laptop Orchestra, “Live in St. Petersburg”

7) Gang Gang Dance, “Dancehall” S/T (Fusetron)

8) Svamps, “King Felix III” Zebra (Digitalis Recordings)

9) Burnt Hills, “Side A” Live at the Elevens (Flipped Out Records)

10) Black Pus, “Hear No Evil” All My Relations (Thrill Jockey)

11) All of Them Witches, “Toyotal Recall” Breathers vs. Drivers

12) Nick Keupfer, “Ladybug on a Window, Spray paint on a Deer Caracas Live of CKUT Montreal’s Sessions (Free Music Archive)

[Archive 3.28.13]

upstatesoundscape — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:27:05 +0000

1) Lee Noble, “December Infinity” Ruiner (Bathatic)

2) Prince Rama, “Exorcise (Chopped and Screwed R.E.M.I.X.)” Utopia=No One

3) Sun Araw, “Beat Cop” On Patrol (Not Not Fun)

4) Lord Tang, “Friends” Lord Tang (Gigante)

5) Sian Alice Group, “Brian Degraw” Remix Songs (Contrarede)

6) Ital, “What a Mess” Dream On (Planet Mu)

7) Black to Comm, “Jonathan” Alphabet 1968 (Type)

8) Pedro Pechano, “701″ Out of Nowhere: Electro-Acoustic Music from the Upstate Fringe (Big Orbit)

9) Pharmakon, “Crawling on Bruised Knees” Abandon (Sacred Bones)

10) Mary Lattimore, “Pluto the Planet” The Withdrawing Room (Desire Path Recordings)

11) De Trop, “Ten Stages Moulting” Man, Woman & Beast (House of Alchemy)