AGB Radio

This is the last AGB Radio. From now on it’ll just be A Thick Mist which you can catch live on WMWM Salem Wednesday from 7-9 am (ET) or on BFF.fm the following Monday from 11-1 pm (ET). Of course I’ll also be posting it on here for you to download or whatever.

This episode is stacked as hell with some of my all time favorite artists including Eluvium, Mount Eerie, Jeremy Bible, and Windy & Carl, and then some newer faves like Mary Lattimore, CEKE, Blanck Mass, and Mary Ocher. 100% amazing episode start to finish.

AGB Radio 2017/03/20

Background music: Gábor Lázár – 7 (from Crisis Of Representation)

00:00:00 Mount Eerie – Real Death (from A Crow Looked At Me)

And then there’s the packaging. They “spend countless hours perfecting each fold and drop of ink on [their] releases,” each is wholly unique (like Pendra Gon’s 16-song Mu Blaksids Nogard Nep that has each song on a separate 3.5″ floppy disk) and some considered as “anti-releases” that are unplayable (Unholy Triforce’s Siberiliszt Inferno cassette that’s melted beyond repair) or intentionally created to damage your equipment (Unholy Triforce’s The Library Of Babel vinyl whose grooves have been screen-printed over so your stylus gets irrevocably fucked up while it chips away the ink to reveal the audio underneath) or maybe just something you don’t even want to touch (Mike IX Williams’ Glass Torn And War Shortage tape that’s permanently covered in broken glass).

One of the dudes behind the label, Dante Augustus Scarlatti, was quoted in an article from The Wire saying “part of the absurdity in what we do is that we also promote absolute destruction – sonically, physically, socially, spiritually and mentally. If that happens to entail destroying part of the package we worked so hard to make, it was all part of the greater plan and should be considered an acceptable casualty in the pursuit of understanding. Anti-cassettes are our extension of that idea, promoting physical alteration to a degree that it would appear unplayable or damaging to perform in its presented state… They are obstacles designed to provide tangible insight into otherwise abstract concepts, and we encourage the listener to perform whatever tasks are necessary to hear the audio.”

I did my best to showcase AA’s genre variety, to not play artists I’ve repped on AGB before, and to play songs that are difficult to hear in their physical form (which I was able to do because buy cialis online no prescription uk they celebrated their 100th release a few years ago by putting out a microSD card with all the music from their releases including everything from the traditional 12″ LP to the locked grooves and 7 second tape loops).

So much amazing art to appreciate in so many different forms. Thanks x1000000, Auris Apothecary.

Background music: Unholy Triforce – Transcriptions (from Transcriptions)

00:00:00 Dante Augustus Scarlatti – Vinyl Etchings Containing Hymns Of The Sacred Greek Orthodox Funeral (from Demises Of The Dynamic Microphone [In Monodelity])

AGB Radio 2017/03/06

Background music: Caudal – Slope (from Slope/Land)

00:00:00 Jessica Moss – Glaciers I (Pt. I) (from Pools Of Light)

Finally got that new Planning For Burial and it’s probably the best work he’s ever done. Also got the new Umor Rex tape batch, a crazy cool collab between Gustafsson & Nordwall, and a solo percussion record (Lobo) which I am always into.

Background music: Mukqs – My Baby-Tachi (from ダメ人間)

00:00:00 Missing Organs – Hatching 2a (from Old Speakers)

Background music: Zwischenwelt – Die Strasse Zerpflücken II (from Musical Compositions Lasting Days Or Weeks)

00:00:00 Saltland – Under My Skin (from A Common Truth)

Too much excellence in this episode it’s almost not even possible. Bookended with new Emptyset and Second Woman jams with new Sutekh Hexen improv black noise and also a new Scuba Death record (!???!), then there’s the twisted brilliance of Fire-Toolz, I mean honestly this episode is fuckin stacked.

AGB Radio 2017/02/06

Background music: Ritual Object – Energy Vampire (from A Field Guide To Occult Warfare)

00:00:00 Emptyset – Axis (from Borders)

You should do two things right away. 1: go download the Physically Sick charity compilation because it goes to good things (ACLU, PP, etc) and is full of righteous tunes and 2: go sign up for Chris Elmore’s Persistence subscription series and get your fix of the high quality special shit all year long.

AGB Radio 2017/01/30

Background music: Beatrice Dillon & Rupert Clervaux – The Same River Twice (from Two Changes)

00:00:00 CEP – Pupil (from Drawing The Target Around The Arrow)

Debacle is run by one dude, Sam Melancon, out of Seattle and he’s been at it for over a decade. It’s been an AGB mainstay ever since I first heard that Megabats record back in 2009 and I’ve been faithful ever since (oh what’s that? you’re wondering what my favorite Debacle release is? so glad you asked. it’s almost certainly Total Life’s Bender/Drifter). From now until the end of the month (I think?) he’s got just about every release on the Bandcamp page set to pay what you want. So go download literally everything because it’s super eclectic and all 100% amazing and throw Sam as much money as you can. Then make sure you head back later this year when he drops the new High Aura’d and Aquarelle records (!!!!!).

AGB Radio 2017/01/23 – Label Spotlight: Debacle Records

Background music: Blue Sabbath Black Cheer & The Rita – Drowning Witches II (from Drowning Witches)

00:00:00 Megabats – Meak Attack (from In/Out)

There’s probably only a few names on here that you don’t recognize and one of them is probably MJ Lallo and that is seriously the only one that matters. Full Spectrum dug up a copy of the original 1988 tape, remastered it, and shared it with the world, vocal heavy weirdo exotica that sounds a bit like The Knife + Suzanne Ciani.

AGB Radio 2017/01/16

Background music: Senyawa – Brønshøj 4 (from Brønshøj (Puncak))

00:00:00 Pan Daijing – Tenderloin Tanz (from A Satin Sight)

Lots of solo acoustic and black noise/metal, plus a cover of Hank Williams and me mistakenly thinking the Humbert & Rosenboom collab came out this year instead of 2013.

AGB Radio 2017/01/09

Background music: Tashi Dorji – Still III (from Collected Works)

00:00:00 Rob Noyes – Oni (from The Feudal Spirit)