andyzax.bsky.social
Music producer. Adjective deployer. Cultural gerontologist.
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I suspect Bloch’s intended target when he wrote this would have been clueless studio executives, that era’s primeval version of AI.
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There’s a ton of stuff in RX that’s way outside my knowledge and needs, but the de-click module is straightforward. You can learn how to use it in an hour.
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Izotope RX, used at low settings, is probably the best choice for this.
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I feel about most of this stuff the same way that I’d imagine the members of Dr. Feelgood must have felt about Tales From Topographic Oceans.
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I’d somehow been unaware of the podcast’s existence until recently, but I listened to all of the previous episodes in January—I take long walks; it was a perfect companion. I felt bereft after I finished and was about to write you to beg for more…when the new installment appeared last week. Bravo!
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Thank you for bringing so much of his amazing work into the world these last dozen years.
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I, too, am here for this, with a new Invincible for dessert.
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Flower Travellin’ Band! (But how on earth did they end up on that thing?)
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Mixing It never made it over to the US, but people used to describe it to me in glowing terms.
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I think you should seriously consider becoming the Richard Cook & Brian Morton of drone.
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Oh wow—I’d totally forgotten about this! (Probably because I loaned my CD to someone who never gave it back 20 years ago.) Fascinating work!
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!!!
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His stuff is fantastic! “Journeys On The Winds Of Time” was utterly revelatory when I first heard it on that Austral Voices comp in the early ‘90s.
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(This was a long-ago recommendation from the great @kfw.bsky.social, whose judgments about these sorts of things are pretty much infallible.)
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Garlo, Vent de Guitares (1995)
Exactly what the title suggests: the sound of wind blowing across 54 guitars placed on top of a sand dune. A singular experience, but fans of Thomas Koner, Tangerine Dream’s Zeit, and old Star Trek episodes will love it. (It’s easily findable on streaming services.)
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Acnalbasac Noom, Brain Capers, Fear, Neu! ’75, No Pussyfooting, Pangaea, The Psychomodo, The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage, Stormcock, Time Of The Last Persecution
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Nice of them to take a live performance that fits comfortably onto a single CD in the Hades box and split it onto two discs for no discernible reason.
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It was one of those major label psych albums that collectors were onto early, and it was expensive even back when you could still buy David Axelrod records for 25 cents each. I scored an exceedingly clean stock copy (no call signs, no promo stamps) a dozen years ago…but I paid for the privilege.
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An exec who began his career at Columbia Records in 1970 used to enjoy tormenting me with stories of LPs I desperately wanted: “Kak? We thought that was the stupidest fucking band name we’d ever heard. There were hundreds of copies of that thing piled up in the hallway. We threw them all away.”
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✅
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They’re friendly enough that you won’t be able to sustain the seething for long, but if necessary you can always make up a story about how you found a dozen unplayed copies of the Wil Malone LP at an Oxfam for £2 each and they’ll fall into line.
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I haven’t got one, but come to LA sometime and I’ll introduce you to three or four people who do.
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If you’re digging VD and you want to up the glam quotient a bit, investigate the 1977-80 Nick Gilder discography—it can be obtained for pennies (in North America, at least) and will surprise you if all you’ve ever heard is “Hot Child In The City.”
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Another slightly-out-of-time 2024 album you might also enjoy is Communicant’s “Harbor Song”: very 1971-ish; very bummed-out Emitt Rhodes and/or depressed Rick Wright. (The auteur is a friend, but I’d like it just as much if he wasn’t.)
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Bought it after you recommended it a few days ago. Although I’m not ready to agree, after just two spins, that it’s as great as the four records you cited—Circus Maximus is a pantheon LP for me—I will happily aver that it’s better than every Belle & Sebastian album since Fold Your Hands Child.
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We are the only two people in North America that heard it, I think.
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Text I sent earlier today to a friend who’s written a Beatle-adjacent magazine article and was hoping it wouldn’t be discovered by the more ardent “fans” out there:
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It was ever thus.
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#HoldThatTiger
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Maybe next year they'll finally get around to Fabian.
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Palatable, but not in the same league as Carl Douglas.
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Overrated for decades due to its novelty and semi-obscurity.
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Wow. From a pure sound-art perspective, that accelerates from zero to peak levels of Jerry Lewis novelty record irritation in less than 90 seconds.
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I’m grading on the curve, here.