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Phil Julian “Transcript” is now available from Obsolete Units.

“Under both the Cheapmachines alias and his own name, England’s Phil Julian has been venturing across various strains of unorthodox sound over the past decade or so, with his prolific output encompassing sonic textures that run the gamut from harsh squalls of decaying cacophony to humming spectral tapestries of melodic drone to patiently constructed compositions of hyper-minimalistic timbres. On Transcript, Julian sources tones and reverberation from blank cassettes as well as the actual cassette decks used in this particular process. Allowing the hissing, fuzzy, and clicking mechanics at work in this aural realm to traverse effortlessly across a half hour of ethereal space, Transcript stands as a remarkable work of foreboding and atonal constitution that stands confidently alongside the best works of similarly inclined sound sculptors such as Francisco Lopez and Joe Colley. This is warmly eerie listening that sounds especially exquisite coming from a cassette itself.”

Pro-dubbed/pro-printed C-30 in an edition of 100.  $7 each

All correspondence: paul at obsoleteunits dot com

Sound sources:
Blank cassette tapes (bulk erased, endless loop, vintage, new)
Cassette decks (mono & stereo)
Personal stereo
Dictaphones

Recorded with:
Cassette recorder
Telephone induction coils
Close-range VLF detector
Piezo & PVDF film tab contact microphones

Recorded throughout 2009/10
Final mix and edit 2011

Short sequence of extracts:

Review by Steve Cammack here.

The dates, venues and some of the performers for the second installment of the NYC Ende Tymes Festival of Experimental Liberation have just been announced.

The festival will take place from May 17th through the 20th at the newly re-opened Secret Project Robot in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn and at Outpost Artist Resources in Ridgewood, Queens, NYC.

More info coming soon, check the Ende Tymes website for more announcements.

Ende Tymes Festival of Experimental Liberation 2012

Cheapmachines (UK)
Phill Niblock and Katherine Liberovskaya (NY)
Joseph Hammer (CA)
Thomas Dimuzio (CA)
Sickness (CT)
Goat (TX)
Zaimph (NY)
SUMMONS (CA) (ex-SIXES)
Mike Shiflet (OH)
Telecult Powers (NY/LA)
Maria Chavez (NY)
Hyena Hive (QUE)
+DOG+ (CA)
Fatale (IL)
Andrew Coltrane (MI)
work/death (RI)
Skin Graft (OH)
Dog Lady FAILURE (MI)
Mesa Ritual (NM)
Nonhorse (NY)
Grasshopper (NY)
Husere Grav (TX)
Narcissister (NY)
Lussuria (NY)
Isa Christ (NY)
Terrors (MD)
Tar Pit (MI)
Diablo (NY)

secretprojectrobot.org
outpostedit.org

“Harbinger Sound and Rammel Club present a weekend of deranged sound blah…”

9th-11th March 2012 / The CHAMELEON Arts Cafe, Nottingham

Featuring: Storm Bugs / Patrik Fitzgerald / John Wiese / Blood Stereo / Con-Dom / Astral Social Club / Cheapmachines / John Wall & Mark Durgan / Part Wild Horses Mane on Both Sides / Ekoplekz / Bill Kouligas / Heatsick / Bong / Spoils & Relics / Patrick Farmer Nacht Und Nebel / Dieter Muh / ++ more TBC.

Info, schedule and tickets here.

“Recent Errors” reviewed by Marc Weidenbaum at Disquiet here.

…an interesting follow-up piece here by Luke Walding at Fire in the Forest.

A couple of recent reviews of The New Blockaders “Antinomia II” 7″ on Dot Dot Dot Music:

‘Veteran noise hooligans wade in with a typically abrasive double dose of their Luigi Russolo-inspired ‘antimusic.’ Throwing an avalanche of spanners into colliding industrial cogs, they shriek like gigantic metallic babies cramped with an outbreak of chromium colic. Scant respite comes in the guise of gusseted gear failure and some timid woodland fur, but by then the damage is done. Quite where part one disappeared to, well, your guess is as good as mine.’

Thanks to Spencer Grady at Record Collector (Jan 2012).

‘The New Blockaders were the original gangstas of Noise music back in the early ‘80s and they are still the Picassos. Always fascinating to listen to, never smacks of the gory postmodern motifs of new wave of tape-culture noise, yet manages to hit harder and scarier. The Blockaders are the Shakespeare of Noise, everyone else is just jockeying for the top slot in the maddening crowd outside the palace walls.’

Brady W. Hunt’s Top 8 of 2011 at Inkdeath.

New podcast featuring excerpts from “Recent Errors” with tracks from Mark Van Hoen, William Fowler Collins and others.

Podcast available here, also available via Mixcloud.

Thomas Lehn / Marcus Schmickler “Live Double Séance”
R/S “USA”
Valerio Tricoli/Thomas Ankersmit “Forma II”
Mimeo “Wigry”
Tim Blechmann “Timbre”
Noish “Eetz”
Phil Julian “Location +”
Francisco Meirino & Jason Kahn “Music for an Empty Cinema”
Russell Haswell “Acid N0!se Synthesis”
Kelly Churko “Atrophy of the instant”
Yousuke Fuyama Yousuke “Untitled”
Haswell & Hecker “Kanal Gendyn”
Mark Fell “Periodic Orbits Of A Dynamic System Related To A Knot”
Mohammad “Spiriti”
Esther Venrooy “Vessel”

Compiled by Aurelien @ Uzusounds

Phil Julian “Recent Errors” – a new 20 minute recording available via the Absence of Wax netlabel.

http://devinsarno.com/absenceofwax/?p=686

I will be performing an improvised set as a duo with Daniel Jones at The Grey Area Gallery in Brighton on 4th February in support of Jason Kahn as part of the UK leg of his 2012 tour.

4th February 2012 @ 7pm

The Grey Area Gallery
31 Queen’s Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 3XA

Additional support from Paul Khimasia Morgan.  This event is organised by Aural Detritus.

Facebook events page here.