Inter-Dimensional Music
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The Chihuahuan Desert’s Top-Ranking Mix of Yin Yoga Slow Jams, Screwed Down Dharma Talks, and Irie Cosmic Metal returns to Marfa Public Radio tonight from 9-11p CT. Join your host Cosmic Chambo the first Sunday of every month at 93.5FM in Far West Texas, streaming worldwide at marfapublicradio.org.
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INTER-DIMENSIONAL MUSIC
OCTOBER BROADCAST
THIS SUNDAY ON MARFA PUBLIC RADIO
Tune in October 5, 2014 from 9-11pm (CST)
In the New Age hour (9-10p) we’ll be playing new music from Aphex Twin, old music from Aphex Twin, and some cassette-tape Earth psych that pairs well with Aphex Twin.
For the Cosmic Metal portion of the broadcast (10-11p), we’ll be listening to some sensual pagan grooves from Windhand along with back-to-the-land “prepper” metal favorites from Panopticon, Winterfylleth and Woods of Desolation.
If you’re out here in Far West Texas tune in from 9-11p (CT) this Sunday – and on the first Sunday of every month – at KRTS 93.5 FM in Marfa, KRTP 91.7 FM in Alpine and KDKY 91.5 FM in Marathon. We’re streaming live worldwide at marfapublicradio.org.
Sorry for the long absence: Hollander and I will be coming back a little more frequently here on the ID Music website if all goes according to plan. To start off with, here’s my setlist from this weekend’s sublime Tonalism happening out at El Cosmico.
Super stoked that everybody was feeling the Dead bootleg. Favorite moment came when OG Houston Synth Guru JD Emmanuel comes up during the opening guitars of “Scarlet Fire” and he’s like, “Phish or Umphrey’s McGee?” Dude is so down. It was an absolute lifetime DJ highlight to provide the bridge between Sun Araw’s undulating free-form meditation soundtrack and JD’s epic healing synth session. Here’s what I played.
Scarlet Begonias > Fire on the Mountain – Grateful Dead – 05.08.77 Barton Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca NY / The Illness – Sunburned Hand of the Man – Headdress / Vent B5 – Thoughts on Air – Vent / Dub Disorder – Jah Division – Dub Will Tear Us Apart / St. Elmo’s Fire – Uilab – Fires / Iron Man – Four Tet – Everything Comes and Goes / Cortez the Killer – Stag Hare – A Fundamental Experiment / Take it Easy – The Meditations – Wackies Sampler
Artist-endorsed fan video for “Zombies (Day)” the first sampling from Rangers self-titled double LP, forthcoming from Not Not Fun later this summer (via Brunch Blog).
KWJAZ is the self-titled first release off of RANGERS‘ Brunch Groupe label. Cassette sold out quick, vinyl due on Not Not Fun this summer. In the meantime it’s starting to pop up online …
We’re totally mesmerized, as are plenty of the cassette-psych underground bloggers out there (Simon Reynolds shouting it out too). Undulating fog production similar to Rangers, but less guitar and more jingle-jangle meandering-percussion and smooth-ethno-ambient-jazz vibes warping through the haze of two 20-minute sides. Simultaneously one of the most pleasant and utterly disorienting things we’ve heard in quite awhile. Like Rangers or Sun Araw there’s plenty of easy reference points (the dude says he likes Dilla, Reynolds hears Jon Hassell, sounds to our ears like a bossa-friendly cousin to mellow Marble Surf-mode James Ferraro), but none of that captures the whole of this weird new sound.
Perhaps represented best by its cover art: Some kind of monolithic root-beast casts its sad gaze downward as a cartoon smoke-worm evacuates the empty husk in its arms, a toothy grimace showing under its Ray-Bans. Cloaked figure looks on from nearby ledge. Yeah, that’s kinda what this sounds like.
Probably gonna get some play on Inter-Dimensional Music this Sunday on KRTS. Until then, here’s Keyboard Cat sitting in with KWJAZ.
“Inter-Dimensional Music” floats through the Far West Texas air every Sunday night at 93.5 FM from 9-11pm (CST), and is often available streaming live online at marfapublicradio.org.
The above image is from the Bottomless Lakes, a series of desert cenotes near Roswell, New Mexico.
Here’s what we listened to on 5 December 2010:
Farmland Fantasy by Atlas Sound from Bedroom Databank Vol. 4
Ripley Station by Swanox from Dawnrunner
Gordon’s Theme by Dylan Ettinger from New Age Outlaws: Director’s Cut
Alfa (Dusted) by Arp from The Soft Wave
Moving Apart by Mark McGuire from Living With Yourself
Gudene Vet + Snutt by Lindstrom & Prins Thomas from II
Departure From the Northern Wasteland by Michael Hoenig from Departure from the Northern Wasteland
Echolocation by Pocahaunted from Threshold
Solar System Is My God by High Wolf from Ascension
Makes Sense to Me by The Fun Years from God Was Like, No
Paper Windmill by Mountains from Mountains
Primitive Associations/Great Mass Above by Growing from The Soul Of The Rainbow And The Harmony Of Light
Ke Ala Ke Kua by Dolphins Into The Future from Ke Ala Ke Kua
