No Pain In Pop

Water Fight Dusk

I’ve been hunting for this track for the best part of a year now, after hearing it first during Bradford’s solo set at Primavera Sound ‘08. Seems anyone else that heard ‘Dovers Jam’ and had internet access was searching for it too, calls last week eventually pointing me in the right direction. Recorded live on New Year’s Eve in Atlanta, Georgia, the track samples The Dovers’ untarnishable ‘What Am I Gonna Do?’ and is the sound of suburban summer caught like fresh sweat steam in a jar then supped by just drunk youngers between the willows by Carbon Lake, as immaculate as the lawns it’ll forever reach out across in the provinces of my mind.

(via Southern Shelter)



MP3: Atlas Sound - Dovers Jam (live at The Drunken Unicorn, Atlanta, Georgia, US; 31/12/08

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Five imaginary musical futures: alternatives to 2009

Photography by the inordinately talented Hannah Elisabeth

2009’s already been talked out, so halt your tongues and tuck in cheeks for five sights of music running on splintered time, rails leading most to bass-weight and rhythm.

Article originally published at DrownedinSound.

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Tags: 14-0848 mimosa, ben adams, beyonce, bhangra niche, black flag, bradford cox, burial, busy signal, calvin klein, dancehall, darkstar, dc hardcore, deerhunter, empire of the sun, felix's machines, fen and ramsey, flying lotus, funky, futurist, george russell, gregory's girl, harry partch, hudson mohawke, james bulley, jg ballard, kode 9, leprosy, luigi russolo, mad max, madlib, moondog, motown, myths of the near future, philip k. dick, pierre bastien, psychedelic horseshit, rick rubin, rustie, sasha fierce, siltbreeze, simon sellars, situationist, soca, soul jazz, t2, telepathe, the bug, timbaland

2OO8 ≠ 32

Photo: Tom King

It’s hard not to feel berk or beast when attempting to cram 12 months into 700 words, so we won’t even try. This late in the day there’s going to be omission to an extent that outstretches the impatient collateral of memory loss, especially as the mind wanders back to recall a year of live music that’s without peer in my 23 on this earth.

So, there’ll be no divvying up of 2008 between movements and moods here. Just a necessary trawl through the shipwreck, flotsam fished from choppy waters and beacon buoys twinkling in the ocean of our terrible collective memory.

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Tags: 20jazzfunkgreats, abe vigoda, aids wolf, alice coltrane, apple pips, arch m, baby venom, bo diddley, bradford cox, darkstar, flowdan, flying lotus, harmonia, harvey milk, health, holy fuck, mark brown, martyn, my bloody valentine, nite jewel, no age, no shows forever, oneman, panda bear, primavera sound, ramadanman, rustie, sam butler, skull disco, teengirl fantasy, telepathe, terrence dixon, the bug, the dovers, the samps, theo parrish, trg, wild beasts, wiley, zomby

Well Rapid

Expelled into the harsh light of the internet just over a month ago, Logos may be denied its intended place as the second legit Atlas Sound record, such was Bradford Cox’s initial dislike of the hackers’ forceps come rummaging ’round his nethers. It’d be a shame if Bradford’s second babe were to miscarry – the leaked demos, though unmastered, have fine genes; an enveloping rush of noise ambiguity and dreamy, lagoon-side harmony surrounding this, the 13 minute delivery of Cox’s ‘Quick Canal’.

MP3: Atlas Sound - Quick Canal (unmastered)

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Saturdig

MP3: The Urinals - I’m a Bug

Or how dirt-nailed, vaccuum-pocket crate diggings disaffected to dredging Saturdays for bore cure. So for penury, A/V cider: ‘Teenage Genocide’, Urinals, ‘Silent Night, Deadly Night’, Harmonia, Bradford, Let’s Wrestle, ‘Love Caboose’, Messrs Randall and Spunt.

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Tags: bradford cox, harmonia, no age, saturdig, urinals