As always, the world is in chaos, so this Friday Bandcamp is waving it’s revenue share for artists Decaycast sounds off fifty releases that are essential from 2018 on spanning noise, experimental, rap, neo soul, black metal, musique concrete and more. Make sure to buy these records and support the artists. In times of chaos, artists, cultural producers, and activists are often left in the dust to fend for themselves. Here’s some of the music that got us through the last few years. Here we have choosen to focus on Black, Brown, Indigenous and queer artists, who are always under represented in music media, because of white supremacy, erasure, which come as by products of capitalism. This is by no means a complete list, moreso what we’ve been listening to the last few months on heavy rotation. SUPPORT THESE ARTISTS!
1. Moor Mother – Analog Fluids Of Sonic Black Holes
2.Abdu Ali – FIYAH
3. SB The Moor – Spirit Realm . Final
4. Debby Friday – Death Drive
5. The Bedroom Witch – Diaspora
6. Backxwash – Deviancy
7. Spellling – Mazy Fly
8. Jasmine Infiniti – Art & Performance
9. Forest Management – After Dark
10. Mourning {A} BLKstar – Reckoning
11. Georgia Anne Muldrow – WVETO II
12. Dj Haram – Grace
13. Yatta – Wahala
14. Kaleta + Super Yamba Band – Medaho
15. The Uhuruverse – Who killed Kenisha?!
16. Anna Luisa – Green Remixed
17. Harlem Gospel Travelers – He’s On Time
18. LSDXOXO ft. Bbymutha – Blackwidow
19. Kel Assouf – Black Tenere
20. Laura Ortman “Elevator – *+*++** *(for Layli)”
21. Elisa Harkiss “Mvkerrv (Deceitful One)”
22. Edgeslayer “She Don’t Text Back / Spell Check”
23. DONormaal
24. Death Convention Singers “s/t”
25. Kepla & DeForrest Brown Jr “The Wages of being Black Is Death”
via the label: “‘The Wages of Being Black is Death’ is an exhausted and defeated audio documentation of the alienation – and eventual distillation – of the Black Body as a subject and content of the social sphere by Kepla & DeForrest Brown, Jr. Written and recorded in a week’s time between file-sharing and overnight home studio binges, the mixtape is framed as a deadpan comedy that follows a slothful and downtrodden Black Body as it drifts amongst the ambient commons of the Whites. Artist Ryan Kuo states that, “Whiteness acts by dictating the terms and categories that describe everything in the universe except itself.” ‘The Wages of Being Black is Death’ in turn serves as a reversal of the nominal gaze of categorization, a paranoid disavowal of an uneven and silent social contract as well as an intimate encounter with the daily, incessant slights and traumas felt by the Black Body in everyday life. “
26. Secret Sidewalk “Primal Dap”
27. King Vision Ultra “Archive 011018 (KVUmix01)”
28. William Winant / Marshall Trammell “s/t”
29. Guayaba “Guayaba Presents: Fantasmagoría”
30. Beast Nest “A History Of Sexual Violence”
31. ONO “Red Summer”
from the artist/label:
“It’s been “Red Summer” for over a hundred years. While the term “Red Summer” typically refers to the race-driven violence in the Summer of 1919 across the United States, its repercussions, its vocabulary can be felt or heard on every corner of every street. In Chicago, it has a special significance, as Chicago was one of two catalysts for that era’s violence, exploded by invisible racial borders along the South Side, a phenomenon that exists today, constantly considered by long-running gospel industrial band ONO.
ONO bandleader P Michael Grego and frontperson travis had met before 1980, sharing a love for written and spoken word, the transcendent, and the genuine. Through continual poking and prodding, P Michael convinced travis to join him in ONO, the name coming from shortening “onomatopoeia,” and underscoring a desire to create “noise not music.” P Michael would handle the audio. travis the words. Since January 5, 1980, ONO’s roster has changed drastically, but always fiercely defended a singular construct: “The ONO STATEMENT OF PURPOSE: Experimental Performance, NOISE, and Industrial Poetry Performance Band; Exploring Gospel’s Darkest Conflicts, Tragedies and Premises.”
32. Russell E.L. Butler “The Home I’d Build For Myself And All My Friends”
33. Tyler Holmes “Her Is”
34. San Cha “La Luz de la Esperanza”
35. V.E.X. “Between Worlds”
36. White Boy Scream “Remains”
37. Lexagon “Electric Meats”
38. Maria Chavez “Plays”
“Turntablist and sound artist Maria Chávez turns in her first continuous full length audio work. “Plays” is a DJ mix CD that doesn’t feature any tracks. It is a remix of a work whose original doesn’t feature recorded sound. It is a minimalistic yet complex electroacoustic work, literally built from scratch, bootstrapping sound out of sheer silence: creatio ex nihilio.
The story of this album starts with a record given to Chávez as a birthday present. It is Stefan Goldmann’s ‘Ghost Hemiola’, a double vinyl set of empty locked grooves. The record contains no sound whatsoever other than the vinyl’s own surface noise.
Chávez’s work with records and turntables usually features a rich layer of recorded audio which is transformed, cut up and rearranged by a wide range of fearless physical manipulations. By contrast ‘Ghost Hemiola’ is a blank canvas, unveiling her craft in its purest form, unobstructed by any audio content other than the sounds of the medium itself.
Breaking up the medium is happening both ways here, literally as well as figuratively. Unlike with her live performances, for “Plays” Chávez employs digital processes extensively, zooming into minute details of sound and the artifacts of both mediums, the tangible vinyl record and disembodied digital audio. Narrowing down shards of sound to extremely short frames creates metallic timbres, reverberating quasispaces and percussive layers. Slowing down the tempo until sound halts at one sample of its digital representation brings forth emergent frequencies, which Chávez then uses to play melodies – vaguely resembling her analog technique of playing melodies by skipping a stylus back and forth across a test tone record.“
39. JLin “Autobiography (Music from Wayne McGregor’s Autobiography)”
40. Irreversible Entanglements “Who Sent You?”
41. Solarized “A Ghost Across Hell from Me”
42. Maya Songbird “80/90”
43. Ed Balloon “Flourish”
Please consider picking one or more of these up today (or any day really) Support the artists by sharing their work with your friends and on your social media. These are excrusiating times for all and eollective support and empathy are the only way through.
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