Shakashuri Blowdown on Xavier Renegade Angel

Hokus Pokus

Few things typify my experience of the late-80's like "Hokus Pokus" and "Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac."

Sean McCann "Over the Stars (There is Rest)"

Sincere World from sean mccann on Vimeo.

"Over the Stars (There is Rest)" from Sean McCann's forthcoming LP, Sincere World, on Amethyst Sunset.

Mark McGuire "Brain Storm (For Erin)"

The entire directors cut of Pink Floyd Live at Pompei

The whole flick is right here.

Ash Ra Tempel: Suche And Liebe

Great Ash Ra track with some cosmic visuals to accompany it.

From Youtube.com description: 'This is the second half of Ash Ra Tempel's "Suche And Liebe" (German for "search and love"). Off of their 1972 album "Schwingungen". The video is a bunch of clips from a few episodes of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos".'

Rising from the Red Sand

This compilation collects multiple cassettes released originally on Third Mind Records, and is a bootleg, from what I understand. Usually, I don't support downloads, but a download of a bootleg of an otherwise unattainable album isn't nearly as problematic. It's available here.

It features mostly great tracks from Chris & Cosey, Legendary Pink Dots, Konstruktivists, Nurse With Wound, Nocturnal Emissions, Portion Control, David Jackman, Smegma, and a huge favorite of mine, Conrad Schnitzler.

Order the 5 tape set from RRRecords.com, or download at the link above.

Popol Vuh - "Vuh"

The last minutes of this epic second track from their second album, "In den Gärten Pharaos."

Popol Vuh - Ich Mache Einen Spiegel Excerpt

Love these VCO random arpeggiations and/or sample and hold LFOs.

Popol Vuh - Improvisation (1971)

Playlist for this week

"I see the political potential of art in art itself, in the aesthetic form as such ... by virtue of its aesthetic form, art is largely autonomous vis à vis the given social relations. In its autonomy art both protests these relations, and at the same time transcends them. Thereby art subverts the dominant consciousness, the ordinary experience."
-Herbert Marcuse


Emeralds "Grass Ceiling" cs
Mark McGuire "Solo Acoustic Volume Two" LP
Island Ice "Island Ice" c30
Colored Mushroom and The Medicine Rocks "At Red Frosting" c26
Synaptic Foliage "The Mitten" c30
Sean McCann "Pages of Shadowlife" c38
Red Electric Rainbow "Ascending the divine" c30
Sean McCann "Nocturne" c32
Pulse Emitter "Longing Thresholds" c30
Tangerine Dream "Phaedra" LP
Cluster "71" CD
Heldon "Stand By" CD
Outer Space "Stereo Constellations" CDr
Pink Floyd "Live At Pompei" DVD
Emeralds s/t CD
Aaron Dilloway "Modern Jester" cs
Klaus Schulze "La Vie Electronique" vols. 1, 3 & 4
Terry Riley "Happy Ending" LP
Eric Lunde "how close one is to the center, if I took the earth, without changing its mass, and compressed it smaller" CD
The Casket Sinkers "Operations" CDr
Hair Police "Constantly Terrified" CD
Asmus Tietchens "4k7" box set
Coil "The Ape of Naples" CD
Skullflower "The Paris Working" CDr

Klaus Schulze "La Vie Electronique" box sets

Last month, the 7th and 8th volumes of "La Vie Electronique" by Klaus Schulze became available in the states at low prices. You can now easily find volumes 1-8 for under $20 each. Each volume comes with 3 CDs at about 72-80 minutes each, for almost 4 hours of listening on each set. They come with a small booklet in each, with text in English and German, featuring liner notes and information on the recordings.

Information on these box sets available from the Klaus Schulze official website, quoted below:

Heldon "Stand By"

rocknroll doesn't ever rock more than this.

Earth 'to get second sun' as supernova turns night into day

Earth 'to get second sun' as supernova turns night into day

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1349383/Betelgeuse-second-sun-Earth-supernova-turns-night-day.html#ixzz1Cxfe4JoC

Look out: Betelgeuse, which is in the Orion constellation, is set to blow itself into oblivion - which will give the effect of two suns in the sky for us on Earth

Schnitzler jams