Largely improvised live performance from Terry Riley. Descending Moonshine Dervishes was originally recorded in 1975 at a concert in Berlin and released in 1982. Riley used a modified Yamaha organ with variable resistors to facilitate tuning in just intonation and a tape delay for the 53 minute long piece. Split over two sides of vinyl,…
Fourth studio album from Pennsylvania s Tobacco. Sweatbox Dynasty finds Black Moth Super Rainbow frontman, Thomas Fec, further mining the psychedelic electronics of his particular strain of indie pop for a seriously disorienting affair. Fec employs distorted bleeps and vocoder mangled vocals to craft weird vignettes that are both warm and abrasive. It may not…
TOKiMONSTA cut her teeth in the LA beats scene (Low End Theory, first female signee to Brainfeeder). After a slew of successful releases (4 LPs, EPs, remixes), however, she quietly went on a hiatus, and we only recently found out why; she had to deal w a life-threatening brain condition. After going through surgery, TOKi…
Classically trained in piano, Jennifer Lee aka Tokimonsta started dabbling in beat making while in college. She linked up with Leimert Park s Project Blowed as well as the esteemed Low End Theory as she embarked on her career as a producer. In 2010, Toki released her debut, Midnight Menu on Flying Lotus s Brainfeeder. The…
Deadstock Find. Came up on a handful of Zero 7 s 2002 single for Distractions, complete with remixes from Bugz In The Attic, Madlib, and DJ Spinna! This one harks back to the days when 12 s used to come stacked with top quality remixes and absolutely no filler. The original version of Distractions is a sparse and…