DECAYCAST Interviews: Jacob DeRaadt interviews Northeast Artist & Experimentalist Seamus Williams

Seamus Williams Worcester, Massachusetts is one of the most singular artists in the northeastern American experimental sound that I experienced while living there for five years.  Detritus and negative space conspire to make odd jabs at your senses when engaged with one of his recordings as TVE.  Audio diary and lo-fi are throwaway terms that I would hesitate to use, but the sounds themselves always pop up in unexpected ways.  In much the same fashion, Seamus’ visual mixed media collages accomplish the exact aesthetic urge in a perfectly complementary format.

  I had the pleasure of having Seamus’ visual work up at a visual gallery in Portland, Maine in 2019.  We had a couple beers, I put on some Human League record, and we talked about his perspectives on his own processes and compulsions as an artist.  – Jacob Deraadt

Listen to the interview here:

Photo: Tim Johnson

Photo: Tim Johnson

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DECAYCAST Guest Mix: DJ MICOSE “Digesting 2020: Decaycast Edition.

We’re back with another installment of DECAYCST Guest Mixes, this one from frequent mixer and digger DJ MICOSE.

This is a continuation of the “Digesting 2020” series I’ve been posting on the ploque Mixcloud, featuring only music that was released in 2020. It’s a free-form mix with abstract ambient sounds, industrial-influenced electronic songs, plus a variety of loud and repetitive rhythmic tracks. Features artists from Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Peru, Poland, Norway, and the US.

The Soft Pink Truth – Go

Racine – Geranium

Ale Hop – La Procesíon

Sébastien Brun – Empty

Tantão e os Fita – Ich Bin Der Fluss

Thoom – Large Fly

Negro Leo – Absolutíssimo Lacrador

Eartheater – Burning Feather

SIKSA – Proste Hasło

Jonquera – Artisou

Golden Oriole – The Granitoid Panics

The End – Allt Är Intet

Arrington de Dionyso – The Mani Malaikat Awakening

Mit Mir Kann – Loop It Yourself

V.E.X./Moira Scar – Dancing At The End Of Time

DECAYCAST Guest Mix : HausMo Mix

Hausu Mountain is a record label founded in 2012 by Doug Kaplan and Max Allison. They release music on vinyl, cassette, CD, and on Bandcamp. Haus Mo was kind. enough to. drop us a mix of inspirations and a few HM tracks snuck in for good measuere. We’ve covered their releases fairly extensively here, so without much further delay, dive into this deep “zone” as it were, gems galore, or and be sure to pick up the new Quicksails LP which you can order now!

1) Osamu Sato – “City Lights” – Collected Ambient Grooves 1993-2001 – (Mental Groove – 2020)

2) Ka Baird – “Symanimagenic” – Respires – (RVNG Intl. – 2019)

3) Loraine James “So Much Time” – Bangers and Mash – (Self-released – 2020)

4) DJ Screw / 20-2 Life – “Inside Looking Out” – Bigtyme Vol II All Screwed Up – (Bigtyme Recordz – 1995)

5) Brett Naucke & Ryley Walker – “Clay Scored in Dizzy” – I Am Aware We Do Not Save One Another Very Often – (Self-released – 2020)

6) Matchess – “For Lise” – For Lise – (Mexican Summer – 2020)

7) Xinlisupreme – “Seaside Voice Guitar” – I Am Not Shinzo Abe – (Self-released – 2017)

8) Arnold Dreyblatt – “Point Rotation” – Animal Magnetism – (Tzadik – 1995)

9) Armando – “Land of Confusion” – Trax Classix – (Trax Classix – 1995 [og. 1987])

10) Euglossine – “Balloon 1995” – Psaronius – (Orange Milk – 2020)

11) Rhythm & Noise – “Lapse” – Contents Under Notice – (Ralph Records – 1984)

12) Endon – “Love Amnesia” – Boy Meets Girl – (Thrill Jockey – 2019)

13) Sunwatchers – “Brave Rats” – Brave Rats – (Amish Records – 2020)

14) Killd By – “Leave Pompeii” – Neotropical – (Noumenal Loom – 2020)

15) Nídia – “Nunun” – S/T – (Principe Discos – 2020)

16) Maggi Payne – “Gamelan” – Ahh-Ahh (Music For Ed Tannenbaum’s Technological Feets 1984-1987) – (Root Strata – 2012)

17) Greg Fox – “From the Cessation of What” – Contact – (RVNG – 2020)

18) Le Révélateur – “Followers” – Extreme Events – (Root Strata – 2014)

19) Tidiane Thiam – “Yeery-Mayo” – Siftorde – (Sahel Sounds – 2020)

20) LEYA – “INTP” – Flood Dream – (NNA Tapes – 2020)

DECAYCAST Guest Mix: Farm To Tape July Mix by D.A.C.

DECAYCAST MIXES : Farm To Tape : Episode 10 – July Mix

Next mix from the Farm To Tape  guest mix series combining experimental, jazz, metal, noise, avant garde, neo-soul, hip hop and other interpretations  of experimental sonic musings.

 

Chapter 319. by clipping.

Black Sheep by Backxwash

NIGHTSHADE by Moor Mother and Olof Melander

Nothing by Tyler Holmes

Black Kaveera by Nihiloxica

ZU FAUL by 93SOVAGE

HOTHOTHOT by Alienood

SUMMER OF LOVE ON ACID by SHA SHA KIMBO

Newtype Track by Yakui

Days of Hate V2 by Dark Machine Nation

Accelerant by Azar Swan

[side B] by Uraño

Under The Stall Door by evicshen

Sermon by Bison Squad

Short Bow by Kcin and Brendan Clark

Negu by Luka Productions & Kandiafa

NORDINE STAIFI by  Goultili Bye Bye

Expanding Electricity by Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

DECAYCAST Radio #023 – Guest Mix: “Quarantine” by Benjamin Ethan Tinker

DECAYCAST Radio #023 – Guest Mix: “Quarantine” by Benjamin Ethan Tinker

Bay Area artistic stalwart, all around musical maestro  Ben Tinker  (White Pee, That Hideous Strength,  The Heroic Quartet et al ) takes us on nearly three. hour psychedelic quarantine adventure through space, time, and the unknown in perhaps the most guitar heavy episode to boot, sit back (don’t relax) and strap in for a fuzz out, tripped in ride spanning art. rock, krautrock, slow warbly Sunday morning horns, piano presentations and  timeless vocal exhalations, plus so much above, below, and more even betwixt and beyond.

 

Tracklisting:

1) Phil Manzanera – East Of Echo
2) Phil Manzanera – Largrima
3) Peter Michael Hamel – Organum Part 1
4) Popol Vuh – Im Garten der Gemeinschaft
5) Baden Powell – Marcia Meu Amor
6) Allen Ravenstine & Robert Wheeler –  A Morning Mood
7) Hans-Joachim Roedelius – Das Eis bricht (excerpt)
8) Nino Rota – L’Harem
9) The Durutti Column – Without Mercy 1
10) Vladimir Cosma – Metro Police
11) Tom Verlaine – Dissolve/Reveal (Instrumental)
12) Richard Pinhas – Beautiful May
13) Swanox – Days Like Waves
14) Andy Summers and Robert Fripp – Under Bridges of Silence
15) Yello – Homer Hossa
16) Andrew Chalk & Ralf Wehowsky – Wycha
17) Tom Verlaine – Let Go The Mansion (instrumental)
18) His Name Is Alive – Echo Lake
19) His Name Is Alive – F Choir
20) Anne Clark – Poem Without Words 1 The Third Meeting
21) Marsfield ‎– Three Sunsets Over Marsfield Pt. 2
22) Anne Clark – Silent Prayer
23) Allen Ravenstine & Robert Wheeler – Twilight With Crickets
24) Andrew Chalk – Obscure In The Valley
25) Robert Wheeler & Allen Ravenstine – Sunrise in Milan
26) Nino Rota – Cimitero & Gigoletto & Cadillac
27) Vladimir Cosma – Le curé et l’antillais
28) Hans-Joachim Roedelius – Regentropfen
29) Robert Wheeler & Allen Ravenstine – A Nocturne
30) Andrew Chalk – A World Displaced
31) Popol Vuh – Engel Der Luft

Benjamin Ethan Tinker (New York, 1969) is a multidisciplinary artist and electronic musician who has lived in San Francisco since 1996. He chooses to work primarily with analog synthesizers with which he composes electroacoustic music, and performs regularly with the improv ensemble White Pee, and his own project That Hideous Strength. In addition, he curates and writes about experimental music. He has a BFA in Sculpture from SUNY Purchase and a MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College, between those degrees was a decade of commercial audio engineering.

DECAYCAST #027 Guest Mix: Diego Aguilar-Canabal “Farm To Tape 9”

 

Last Friday, Bandcamp dropped their fees and let artists keep 100% of revenues, generating $4.3 million for artists in a single day. Having just cashed my last unemployment check, I joined in the celebration and went on a bit of a shopping spree. Here are some highlights from the occasion, sprinkled with some favorite earworms that have accompanied me on long bike rides through empty Berkeley streets. Enjoy!

Sheik of Araby – Hillboggle

I’m Gonna Stand Still – Rev. Mack McCollum with Combined Choirs

Set That Baggage Down – David Crosby
I Dream Of Sodomy ONO

Play For Today – Frankie Rose

Bouli – Alkibar Junior

Fuck Here – Exit Hippies

All The Way Down  – Couch Slut

Only Climate Change Is Real – Seas Of Winter

Labyrinthine – S H R I E K I N G

2.04052018 (1) – Obozdur

I Love You So Much – Ragk

Triste Pt.1 remake – Oren Ambarchi

I – Monochromacy

Wind/Plastic – Andrew Weathers

Lefebixar – Alejandro Palacios

A Pool Deeply Gouged out by Water – Dylan Henner

DECAYCAST #026 Guest Mix : DJ MICOSE

DECAYCAST #026 Guest Mix : DJ MICOSE

“It was in the vein of my Expatriate Transmissions KUSF days where I just mixed some stuff into others and played excerpts of longer tracks at times. “

Broadcast – The Game’s Up

Anakrid – Exiting The Yealm Of Legitimacy

JASSS – We Solve This By Talking

Borful Tang – Herd and Unheard

Haxan Cloak – Excavation (Part 2)

Grischa Lichtenberger – 0811_09_Re_0211_08

Arca – Entrañas (Excerpt)

Andrew Douglas Rothbard – Theta Cloud

Andrew Liles – Dissolved (Te Whare Ao Aitu)

Demdike Stare – Violetta

Joseph Taylor – Sprig O’Thyme

Potions – Woozy Night

oOoOO – Crossed Wires

Bromp Treb – Self Sacrifice

Muep Etmo – ]__changeable__[

Bruckmann/Diaz-Infante/Shiurba/Stackpole – Nervous Tick

Duplexx – Fios

M83/Anthony Gonzalez/Joseph Trapanese – Temples Of Our Gods

Gesaffelstein – Piece Of Future

Buddhist Monks Of Maitri Vihar Monastery – Three Monks With Bowls And Cymbals

Bromp Treb – Self Sacrifice (Reprise)

 

DECAYCAST #025 Guest Mix : Strategic Tape Reserve “STR Cologne Mix”

DECAYCAST #025 Guest Mix : Strategic Tape Reserve

We asked our friends at  Strategic Tape Reserve to bust off a mix for us for these wild times and here’s what they came up with. Make sure to check out their bandcamp and website linked below.  from the label.

“I moved to Cologne in 2012 and started Strategic Tape Reserve shortly after that. I honestly didn’t love the city when I first got here, but I think it’s the kind of place that only reveals itself over time – things to explore and appreciate that aren’t obvious at first, and it feels like home now. The tracks on this mix are all from Cologne – either by people for Cologne, or people from elsewhere but recorded in Cologne, or both. It’s not intended to be any kind of definitive Cologne survey – it’s mostly what was on my hard drive – but hopefully it presents a varied, disorienting, unrefined world that, geographically and sonically, STR might sit within.”

 

STR Cologne Mix for Decaycast

1. Willy Millowitsch – Ich bin ene kölsche Jung

2. Moebius & Plank – Solar Plexus

3. Senking – Bones

4. Nils Quak – No Significance

5. Pluramon – Flageolea

6. Von Spar – Metaxourgío

7. Severino Pfifferling – Geschirr und Besteck einordnen

8. Studio 1 – Red

9. Anthony Moore – Jam Jem Jim Jom Jum

10. Marcus Schmickler – Discordance Axis

11. Karlheinz Stockhausen – Kontakte

12. Nico – Mutterlein

13. Datashock – Hullu Gullu, wir liefern Shizz

14. Achim Mohné – L’Inertie Polaire

15. The Tuesday Night Machines – Ritual

16. Can – I’m So Green

Follow Strategic Tape Reserve here:

strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com

http://strategictapereserve.de/?m=1

DECAYCAST #030 : Diego Aguilar-Canabal Presents Farm To Tape 8

Back at it again, we’re hosting the “Farm To Tape” Series from friend and Decaycast writer Diego Aguilar-Canabal. Newest episode is a freaky, sonic aquarium of discovered and undiscovered audio species perfect for the quarantine days ahead.

1. Enigmatic Ocean, Part III – Jean-Luc Ponty
2. What It Is – Derek Bailey / Jamaaladeen Tacuma / Calvin Weston
3. Get Down With Your Get Down – Trouble Funk
4. Telillite – Les Filles de Illighadad
5. Derbabe – Gzate Guelay
6. [untitled 05] – Keiji Haino & KK Null
7. Bừng Sáng (Dawn) – Thai Thanh
8. Shapeshifter -VITAMINS
9. Vulgar Yesness – Siobhan
10. Callous Hysteria– Caboladies
11. Circles On Circles – Bitchin Bajas
12. To (a) Certain Extent (β) – Keith Fullerton Whitman
13. hb2 – Koobaatoo Asparagus
14. winds – multa nox
15. Evening Has Arrived – Cheewei
16. I Told Him No – Madeline Darby
17. Dancing in the Dark – Diamanda Galás

Enjoy!

DECAYCAST Guest Mix : FLETCHER PRATT “Experimental Dub Mix”

For this round we welcome multi instrumentalist, video artist and synthesist Fletcher Pratt. Fletcher shaves off an inspiring  hour-long experimental, decayed in, dubbed out, cosmically dense slap to tune out to for our guest mix series. Fletcher also runs the Midori Records imprint which you can check out and support here

 

“Experimental Dub Mix” Track Listing:

1. Quiet Flash by 7FO

2.  Zweimal Steppers by Beam Up

3. Kufic Dub  Alter Echo & E3

4. DubRitual Vol. 3 Side A by  Crabskull

5. Priceless Wipe by  Three Legged Race

6. Welcome to Dog Heart City by Roger Robinson

7. String Dub by Jay Glass Dubs & Guerilla Toss

8. Jah Way by Hebbe

9 Masters of War (Dub) by Anika

10. Dub Voyage by Twilight Circus Dub Sound System

11. Air Walk by  Mondo Lava

12. Käfer by Pole

13. Hedi Dodici Luglio by Sea Urchin

14. Outro Tapes

image courtesy of the artist

Fletcher Pratt is a Canadian experimental composer/musician currently living in Oakland, CA. He holds an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College. Rhythms, dub and musique concrete intersect throughout his work. He produces music for an ongoing tape series called Dub Sessions and plays in a duo called Map Collection.