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(The Future) Stream: Mux Mool's Planet High School

Blake Gillespie — February 06, 2012

Brian Lindgren has a vision of an alternate dimension, in which our adulthoood is controlled by a secret hand that keeps us economically asphyxiated and repressed. It's a reality called Planet High School and in it he is known as Mux Mool. Fully realized and crafted by a beat mentalist who's seen a new way, Planet High School is Mux Mool's graduation record. In coming to terms with stagnancy, Lindgren seems to have shed the dream for a more sensible outlook, which alots him the creat...

(Approved Theft) Mpala Garoo/Golden Dwarves Great Turquoise Mess Age split tape

Ari Spool — February 06, 2012

This tape is only €5 if you actually buy it, plus shipping, which might be a little bit heavy because the label, Steak Au Zoo, is located in France. But if you just want to cruise around listening to Moscow's Mpala Garoo and Brooklyn's Golden Dwarves on a sunny winter's day, the pay-what-you-will Bandcamp download ought to suffice. Mpala Garoo is shiny, fast-paced experimentalists; there are the essences of drone arpeggios, trance hi-hat, and science-museum caroline bells all th...

(Scene and Heard) Dustin Wong at Floristree

Impose Automaton — February 06, 2012

On Saturday, January 28, Dustin Wong returned to Baltimore with a show at Floristree with Sprayer, Touch, and John Jones and Shaun Flynn.

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(Debut) Debut: Coast Jumper, "Lawless"

Ari Spool — February 06, 2012

Coast Jumper are a new-ish band living in the Bay Area, a group of four young guys making the record they've dreamed of since they met in high school. They are going to physically self-release the album, titled Grand Opening, on May 8, but they released it on their Bandcamp in advance of some shows and a possible West Coast tour, so you can listen to the whole thing here. "Lawless" has a little cheese in the vocals, but the concept is good; the guitar solo in the middle and the har...

(Best Music) The best music of January 2012

Impose Automaton — February 06, 2012

January is typically a light month for releases; everyone is hung over from the holidays for approximately two solid weeks, and people need a minute after that to wipe the slate clean. In the world of Best of lists, everyone rushes to be the last great album of 2011 – no one wants to be considered old news by the end of the year simply because they released their record too early. Avoiding that problem is one of the reasons we make these lists at Impose: it is very simple at the end of the...

MU.ZZ.LEGonjasufi

Mark Craig — February 06, 2012

Almost two years ago Gonjasufi, aka Sumach Ecks, graced us with a kaleidoscopic hour of psychedelic brilliance on his début A Sufi And A killer. Ecks’ raspy vocal acrobatics found a deft dance partner in the humidified, retro-progressive production of cohorts Gaslamp Killer, Mainframe, and Flying Lotus which entangled listeners into a world of humidified hip-hop, psych rock, dub, and temporal folk that maybe only understood, in contemporary practice, by Dirty Beache...

(Impose Presents) Introducing the Bieber Side-Boob Hour

Impose Automaton — February 03, 2012

And so we begin our foray into live radio broadcasting thanks to the folks over at Newtown Radio. We think we did pretty damn well if we do say so ourselves. With Chris and Derek manning the mic's we were able to fill minutes upon minutes of unfettered airwaves, and in thus doing so, discussing penis sores, planned parenthood, the Super Bowl, horticulture, and even coining a new name for the show: The Bieber Side-Boob Hour. We aslo played some music. Below is the track listing, and if you l...

(Scuzz) Heavy Hawaii, "Super Bowl XXIX"

Ari Spool — February 03, 2012

I figured out the pun right as the last notes faded away from listening to this song. The entire time, I was thinking "OK, crap, you don't know much about sports. Maybe one of our lovely Jock Strap columnists should tackle this one? What does this song have to do with sports? How would you know if they were talking about sports or not?" I listened intently to the lyrics, trying to spot something like "He throws a pass over the 30 yard-line/The football tackle tackle it's f...

(Video) Debacle Record Fest posts video archive

Ari Spool — February 03, 2012

Debacle Records Festival 2011 took place in August of last year over four days in several Seattle venues. The video archive, now online, has every single performance of the festival, filmed by Rachel LeBlanc who stood with a handheld camera in the front row for every band. Since many of the performances were electronic or lo-fi artists, the videos aren't worth watching for insane moments. However, if you are interested in exploring the relatively encapsulated experimental scene of the Northw...

(Debut) La Big Vic answer Qs on dub LP

Matt Sullivan — February 03, 2012

[Ed. Note: The following Q&A interview is a transcription betweenToshio Masuda of La Big Vic and Impose writer Matt Sullivan. It was conducted in anticipation of La Big Vic's follow-up to Actually, entitled Dub The World! Actually Revisited. Included below is "Mr. Broken Bird Dub", a debut track from the upcoming dub LP. The album drops February 21 on Underwater Peoples.] La Big Vic, "Mr. Broken Bird Dub" What made you decide to do a dub? Toshio Masuda:It was ...