March 04, 2008
Ry

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Nice guitar/synth interplay from one of my favorite synth albums. After becoming disenchanted with DNA’s) direction, Robin Crutchfield started Dark Day. He put out several records of dark synth work (which later became a bit more pop-oriented) with a revolving cast, including Jim Jarmusch at one point, before shifting gears again to more medieval folk.

Exterminating Angel, the first full length remains my favorite.

Lyrics are here.

December 29, 2007
Ry

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The League of Automatic Music Composers was a band/collective of electronic music experimentalists active in the San Francisco Bay Area between 1977 and 1983. Widely regarded as the first musicians to incorporate the newly available microcomputers of the day into live musical performance, the League created networks of interacting computers and other electronic circuits with an eye to eliciting surprising and new “musical artificial intelligences.” We approached the computer network as one large, interactive musical instrument made up of independently programmed automatic music machines, producing a music that was noisy, difficult, often unpredictable, and occasionally beautiful.

–Press release for The League of Automatic Music Composers 1978- 1983

November 12, 2007
Ry

All three of us were wearing Harris Tweed jackets. Beefheart impressed us with his knowledge of how many dyes were involved in their making. We also discussed the horsemanship of rejoneador Don Álvaro Domecq who fought bulls from beautiful white horses. I had seen Don Álvaro in Mexico City and Beefheart wanted to know more.

November 07, 2007
Ry

“He might just be a 49-year-old teenager,” says Thompson.

August 06, 2007
Ry

We watched the Tomes & Talismans series in elementary school, and I’ve basically waited almost 20 years to see it again. Finally, someone put it up on the internet– all 13 episodes. I still have dreams about these videos. Praise Youtube.