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  • bob daktari,

    Been digging the Yumi Zouma... beautifully chilled. There's a ace remix on their labels soundcloud - plus some tasty downloads from other acts too

    https://soundcloud.com/cascine

    I'd quite like one of the bright young things (or old timers) dabbling in electronic stuff to make something sampling cicadas

    auckland • Since Dec 2006 • 540 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel, in reply to bob daktari,

    Homiptera Opera...

    I'd quite like one of the bright young things (or old timers) dabbling in electronic stuff to make something sampling cicadas

    +1
    but until then here is a little bit of scratching from a Lower Hutt Posse

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown, in reply to bob daktari,

    I’d quite like one of the bright young things (or old timers) dabbling in electronic stuff to make something sampling cicadas

    I do not understand why this didn't happen years ago.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel,

    Chchch gigs worth a look...
    Two nights to go to the Darkroom

    Fri 21 Feb:
    Flip Grater + French for Rabbits

    Sat 22 Feb:
    The Undercurrents + Salad Boys + Jay Clarkson

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • bob daktari,

    hmmm, cheers google, Tim Prebble lends a helping hand:

    http://www.musicofsound.co.nz/blog/cicadas-meet-pitch-shift

    auckland • Since Dec 2006 • 540 posts Report Reply

  • Dastardly Bounder, in reply to Russell Brown,

    It's actually pretty hard to get a good clean recoding of cicada, without it sounding white noise. However I'm willing to give it another crack! Anyone with a good cicada sample please let me know...

    Auckland • Since Dec 2012 • 61 posts Report Reply

  • Dastardly Bounder, in reply to bob daktari,

    and I should have read Bob's most recent post too...

    Auckland • Since Dec 2012 • 61 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to bob daktari,

    sampling cicadas

    will locusts do?

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Alan Perrott,

    felt lucky at lunchtime and managed a couple of longtime wants.

    been after a cheap version of this for yonks and snared a lovely US pressing. I am (a funky) Woman...

    and this erm, barking mad b-side. never thought I'd find it here and some would say I'd be better off if I hadn't...

    then, for shits and giggles, this rather took my fancy. they don't make 'em like before they even used to...

    and good to see Jay Clarkson is still playing out, always dug her stuff at the Windsor - and the drummer's spangly blue kit, his name eludes me for the moment.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 438 posts Report Reply

  • TracyMac, in reply to Sacha,

    Oooh, I like that. Not just because of locusts.

    Canberra, West Island • Since Nov 2006 • 701 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to TracyMac,

    Amazing in a roomful of dancing people.

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Ian Dalziel, in reply to Dastardly Bounder,

    ready rubbed music

    a good clean recoding of cicada

    I know!
    ya have to reduce ’em to DNA
    just to get all the bugs out!

    ;- )

    I have a starter for the ‘album’ title
    Cicada din rhythms

    Hark! I hear the Drone Arranger approaching:

    …I do wish Steve and Chris would rerelease
    or upload some more of the Stridulators music,
    the world is ready now…

    Steve Roach appears on this ‘found NZ sounds sampler’

    https://soundcloud.com/lingeringsound/making-airplane-noise-part-1

    in lieu of any other cricket news, adieu.

    Christchurch • Since Dec 2006 • 7953 posts Report Reply

  • Mr Mark,

    Hush Up, Hush Up !!! I thought you Rude Boys were tougher than this....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF3CGENBhn0

    Wellington • Since Dec 2009 • 128 posts Report Reply

  • Mr Mark,

    My preferred version of Townes Van Zandt's 'Dollar Bill Blues'.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBjdR91rHzs

    And, what the hell, seeing it's you, I'll throw in Donald Byrd's decidedly beautiful 'Cristo Redentor' (1963).....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KvM2T40RQ

    Not to mention Ry Cooder's pearls of wisdom (preach it to me brother !!! preach it to me !!!).....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHdjBd105IU

    Wellington • Since Dec 2009 • 128 posts Report Reply

  • Sacha, in reply to Mr Mark,

    Mark, if you just paste the links without any [ brackets ], the clip shows up automatically here.

    Ak • Since May 2008 • 19745 posts Report Reply

  • Geoff Lealand,

    Charles Bradley was great, in a sold-out concert at the James Cabaret in Wellington last night (the venue is a well-kept secret!). All the right tropes of great soul music and another demonstration that you don't have to be conventionally beautiful to be sexy and sensual.

    Screen & Media Studies, U… • Since Oct 2007 • 2562 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown, in reply to Ian Dalziel,

    …I do wish Steve and Chris would rerelease
    or upload some more of the Stridulators music,
    the world is ready now…

    Very much +1.

    Those guys were doing complex bedroom productions before the equipment really even existed. They were layering cassette recordings!

    Steve was always quite stern about how everyone should look after their cassette tapes properly.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • JacksonP,

    Last week Tiny Ruins released the studio version of Me at the museum, You at the Wintergardens along with announcing the release dates of her album Brightly Painted One (2 May). Details and track here.

    Interesting also that they have signed to indie UK label Bella Union, which I have to admit I hadn’t really noticed before, although I’m familiar with a number of the artists.

    All this is a lead in to what was for me a big discovery. Bella Union is the brainchild of former Cocteau Twins maestro Simon Raymonde, and by searching through the label artists, I found Snowbird, which is Simon himself and the amazing vocalist Stephanie Dosen. Their new album Moon contains some of the nicest 4AD sounding music since… I can’t even remember.

    Two singles have been released so far.
    Porcelain

    All Wishes are Ghosts

    The white vinyl album, along with a black vinyl remix, is at Real Groovy now, and I can recommend finding a quiet place with a real good speaker setup to drift away into the spaces.

    Long post is long. :-)

    Auckland • Since Mar 2011 • 2450 posts Report Reply

  • Mr Mark, in reply to Sacha,

    Cheers, Sacha.

    Incidently, Russell, LOVE the Sora Shima, only mildly taken with the Yumi Zouma and absolutely LOATHED the Helen Reddy, Alan Perrott. What's got into you, man ???????

    Wellington • Since Dec 2009 • 128 posts Report Reply

  • Alan Perrott, in reply to Mr Mark,

    aw shucks Mr Mark, I rather like it - luckily the Reddster has got my back...

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 438 posts Report Reply

  • Mr Mark,

    Public outrage following the release of the truly horrendous Delta Dawn in 1973, saw a team of security guards charged with the task of keeping the woman the hell away from any unlocked Australian recording studio for the rest of the 1970s. Unfortunately, they got drunk one night, Helen slipped in the back entrance, defused the alarm system and your Youtube offerings, Alan, were the result.

    And now back to Sora Shima's 'Glass Coffins" - at the opposite extreme of contemporary music's evolutionary spectrum from poor old Helen. There's a good argument to be made, incidently, that the nadir of popular music tends most often to occur in Australia. Exhibit One: The Reddster, Exhibit Two: Air Supply. Need I say more ?

    Wellington • Since Dec 2009 • 128 posts Report Reply

  • Alan Perrott, in reply to Mr Mark,

    right, you're on. I shall not rest, slumber, blink, utter a spoken pause or consider the lillies till I find an Air Supply badger-baiting scorchio.

    make yourself comfy but, I may be some time...

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 438 posts Report Reply

  • Danielle, in reply to Mr Mark,

    the truly horrendous Delta Dawn

    GTFO.

    Charo World. Cuchi-cuchi!… • Since Nov 2006 • 3828 posts Report Reply

  • Russell Brown, in reply to Danielle,

    the truly horrendous Delta Dawn

    GTFO.

    Let's get Reddy to rumble!

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report Reply

  • Alan Perrott,

    to Helen back...

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 438 posts Report Reply

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