Music – Restraint

Goth·ver·sary

October 21, 2009 – 5:40 am

Gothtronic reviews A Bright Cut Across Velvet Sky:

Ad·ver·sary is the powernoise/IDM project of Jairus Khan. In 2008 he made quite a name for himself with his album ‘Bone Music’, which was available as regular cd edition on Tympanik Audio, but could also be downloaded for free in high quality. [...] A very good remix album. Although some songs get remixed three times, all the tracks have a reasonable different sound, so it doesn’t get repetitive. Together with the addition of a couple of new tracks this is really an album you should have in you collection!

I agree with this man! You should download the album (it’s free!), or pick up a CD (on sale now!) from Tympanik.

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I love my job (first in a series)

October 15, 2009 – 9:26 am

This is a list of near-mint records that my boss just gave me:

Bauhaus – Bela Lugosi’s Dead (!), 1979-1983, The Sky’s Gone Out
Blondie – Autoamerican
Gang of Four – Entertainment!, I Love A Man in a Uniform, Solid Gold, The Yellow EP
Joy Division – Atmosphere, Closer, Substance
Love and Rockets – Ball of Confusion, Express, Love and Rockets, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
Minor Threat – Out of Step
Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper – Root Hog Or Die
New Order – State of the Nation, Subculture, Substance, Technique, The Perfect Kiss
Pere Ubu – The Tenement Year
Public Image Ltd. – Album
Simple Minds – Sister Feelings Call
Siouxsie and The Banshees – Cities in Dust
Skids – Days in Europa
Squeeze – Babylon and on
Talk Talk – It’s My Life
Talking Heads – Wild Wild Life
The B-52s – The B-52s
The Cure – Boys Don’t Cry, Concert (Live), Standing on a Beach
The Jesus and Mary Chain – Automatic, Darklands
The March Violets – Walk Into The Sun
The Mission – Carved in sand
The Screaming Blue Messiahs – Gun-Shy
The Sugar Cubes – Life’s Too Good
NME C86

(They were sitting in a milk crate on my chair when I got in this morning!)

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10 * 365.25

September 21, 2009 – 11:54 am

Ten years ago today, I waited outside HMV for it to open in the morning so I could pick up a copy of The Fragile at the very moment it was released.

Ten years later, I’m cursing ebay regularly trying to find a non-bootleg vinyl copy for less than $100.

This lot is what dreams are made of.

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A Bright Cut Across Velvet Sky

April 10, 2009 – 4:16 pm

The new Ad·ver·sary disc is finished. I’m listening to the final master now to make sure there’s no glitches, and then off it goes.

Tracklist:

Ancients (Cyanotic Remix)
Waiting for Gira (Patience is a Virtue Perceived Remix by ESA)
Creatura (and the sea)
Just (Spookier Remix by Iszoloscope)
Bone Music (Disparition Remix)
No Exit (Sartre Wasn’t Kidding Remix by Candle Nine)
Friends of Father (Oil Sands Remix by Monoculture)
Dresden
Waiting for Gira (Still Waiting Remix by Stendeck)
Darker
Just (Boo! Remix by Synkro)
Waiting For Gira (Phylr Remix)
Number Nine (Square Prime Remix by Autoclav1.1)
Just (Passed Away Remix by Salt)
Cyanotic – Deface (Ad·ver·sary + Dirtybunny = Industrial Strength Mix)

Fuck yes.

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a bright cut across velvet sky

March 3, 2009 – 5:52 pm

The Ad·ver·sary remix disc is coming together excellently, and it’ll even be finished in time for my live set at the Kinetik Festival.

I’ve uploaded a preview track of one of the mixes: Ad·ver·sary – Waiting for Gira (Patience is a Virtue Perceived Remix by ESA)

This is going to be a great album.

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We’ll all float on, ok?

January 4, 2009 – 9:04 pm

From a new Genesis P-Orridge interview:

Just recently some young students moved in to the apartment downstairs from us, so we went down and said “Hi welcome, we’re your neighbors,” and they gave us a cocktail because we’re all sitting there trying to make friends, and one of them said, of course, “What do you do?” So we said rather shyly, “well we kinda make music, do some art and stuff.” And one of the guys goes, “Oh what kinda music man?” And we said, “well the first band that we were in played music and we called it Industrial Music.” And he looks at me and he goes, “Yeah!” and he pulls up his T-shirt and he’s got a big Nine Inch Nails tattoo on his arm, and we went, “well, not really like that.” (laughs) And he went, “what do you mean?” “Well it was quite a few years before they were Nine Inch Nails.” and he went, “What? What do you mean? I thought Nine Inch Nails was Industrial” and so we thought, it’s not worth trying to explain this, and then the girl said, “Oh like Modest Mouse!”

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First time anyone’s caught the sample in No Exit, too.

December 4, 2008 – 6:07 pm

A new review of Bone Music, this time from the Grave Concerns e-zine:

What really sets apart Khan’s work from most of his contemporaries in the dark electronic scene is a fondness for more traditional sound sources. While there’s no shortage of electronic ambience and computer-generated percussive sounds, there’s also plenty of mostly unadorned rock and classical instrumentation. “Waiting for Gira” backs its rumbling percussion with the heavy throb of low-end bass guitar, for example, and “Friends of Father” sees what sounds like old-school guitar distortion and clattering snare drum emerging from a fuzzy wash of static. This more organic sound translates especially well to Khan’s use of rhythm. Often, his beats sound less like programmed sequences than tribal percussive ensembles, especially on the ominous “International Dark Skies,” which evokes imagery of some midnight voodoo conjuration, and title track “Bone Music,” which despite the morbid imagery of its title is actually possessed of a sense of fun not unlike Einsturzende Neubauten’s mellower instrumental experiments.

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