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Christopher and Vas Deferens Organization – Untitled 1 – YouTube: ““

FRUMPY – CARSTEN BOHN – TAKE CARE OF ILLUSION – YouTube: ““

Pro Tools beta adds Lion support | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog: “Pro Tools is the industry-standard audio creation and production software used in the music and entertainment industries. Traditionally, Pro Tools takes its sweet time to be updated to work on newer OSs, but today Avid has released a Pro Tools 9.0.5 beta, which adds support for OS X 10.7 Lion. Note, however, that even though Pro Tools 9.0.5 is officially qualified to work on Snow Leopard systems, that’s not the case with Lion. Hence the “beta” status. If your livelihood depends on Pro Tools, you probably shouldn’t upgrade your production workstations to Lion and version 9.0.5.

If you intend to upgrade, note this warning and advice from Avid. When Lion is installed on a system with Pro Tools, the OS will disable some Pro Tool plug-ins. Given that, Avid recommends against updating a Snow Leopard workstation that already has Pro Tools installed. Instead they suggest Pro Tools users create a new partition on their hard drives, then install Lion from scratch, and then install Pro Tools 9.0.5.

You can check out Avid’s Read Me file on the matter here (PDF) and download the Pro Tools 9.0.5 update here.”

 

Hellenic Antidote: Radio Akritas: Anestis Delias: “Anestis (Anestos or Artemis) Delias was born in Smyrna in 1912 and with Markos Vamvagaris, Giorgos Batis and Stratos Payioumtzis made up The Legendary Quartet of Piraeus, which defined the Piraeus school of rembetika that lasted until 1937 when the Metaxas regime cracked down on the music and those who played it.

Delias was badly affected by the suppression of rembetika and in 1938 got mixed up with Katerina or Koula the Skoularikou (Koula the Earring), a prostitute and heroin addict, who, the rembetologist Ilias Petropoulos claims, was so fearful of losing Delias that while he slept she would insert a paper cone up his nose, blow heroin through it and in this way induced him to become dependent on the narcotic and on her.

Indeed, Delias, despite all the songs rembetes wrote about drugs, was the only rembete to become involved with heroin, and to succumb to it; for, having done everything he could to escape heroin and the clutches of Koula the Earring, including joining the army and fighting on the Albanian front in 1940-41, the Earring tracked him down in Athens and drew him back into her orbit, soon after which, in the winter of 1944, Delias was found dead in the street outside the teke Seraphim in Metaxourgio of a heroin overdose, clutching his bouzouki.

In Radio Akritas, I’ve made available four Delias songs: 1. ? ????? ??? ???????? (The Junkie’s Complaint); 2. ????? ? ????????? (Crazy Nick); 3. ?? ?????????? (The Show Off); and 4. ?? ?????? (The Jacket).

The Junkie’s Complaint, written in 1935, before he knew Koula – who outlived Delias, her victim, by 50 years – is horribly prophetic:

From the time I started to smoke the dose The world has turned its back on me; I don’t know what to do. From sniffing it up, I went on to the needle And my body slowly began to melt. Nothing is left for me to do in this world Because the drugs have left me to die in the streets.”

 

SERPENT Vas Deferens Organization & Brad Laner – Transcontinental Conspiracy:

SUPERSISTER » This is no good news…: “Supersisters and brothers

This is no good news… Since July 20th, wednesday morning,  our dear friend bass player Ron van Eck is no longer with us.  After several years of heavy health struggling his body ‘simply’  had to give up – the end was reached. The end of his working so hard and so patiently on recovering, which even one day resulted in the fact that he picked up the bass guitar again.  Supersister even started to rehearse – very cautiously –  we had high hopes to be able to play Nearfest ’11 after also completing a short TV appearance in September ‘10. Sadly enough we had to cancel all this shortly after : Ron suddenly suffered from significant fall-back. It seemed as if Ron had to start all over again – which he did, as he had done everything before, utmost bravely, but as we know now, half a year later: in vain…

Ron was Supersister’s architect and philosopher – without him it would have been something else completely, as well musically as lyric-wise.  We sure will miss him badly, our dear music mate and friend with whom we went through so many stages in life together.

Bye bye Ron, thank you for all your notes, words, ideas… our Red Giant !”

 

$200.00? Should  have held on to a few….

Vas Deferens Organization – Ninth Ward Fourth World (Vinyl) – Buy at Discogs Marketplace: “Vas Deferens Organization – Ninth Ward Fourth World Label: Free Dope And Fucking In The Streets Catalog#: Fdafits 33.3-1 Format: 100 × Vinyl, LP Country: US Released: 2010 Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental”

MUTANT SOUNDS: PRE-RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT FOR VAS DEFERENS ORGANIZATION & BRAD LANER-TRANSCONTINENTAL CONSPIRACY-FULLY REMASTERED REISSUE WITH BONUS TRACK: “In conjunction with the new Polish label Niklas , I’m pleased to finally announce the imminent CD re-release of the first of Vas Deferens Organization’s two collaborations with Medicine/Steaming Coils/Electric Company mastermind Brad Laner. Transcontinental Conspiracy not only marked our first collaboration with Laner, but it also contains contributions from three members of the legendary Mercury Rev (Grasshopper, Suzanne Thorpe and Jason Russo). This 15 year anniversary edition has been dramatically remastered by Vas Deferens Organization and comes equipped with both an exclusive and brand new 10 minute VDO & Laner track from 2010 called Scheming Foils and with brand new packaging design courtesy of the fine folks at Niklas, who’ve made this all possible.

They’ve described this album thusly on their site: “An absolutely must-have rock avantgarde classic of the 90s., one of best albums on its field, where advanced studio sonic experimentation meets refined influences of Faust and Can, funk, electronics, breakbeats and Dadaist humour – and results in long, crazy, multi-layered suites – a quintessence of what we call post-rock”

You can download one minute long samples in full .wav audio of three of these tracks here , to give you a better sense of it’s remastered sound quality and to absorb what lies in wait with the bonus track.

The official release date for this CD is July 31st, 2011. It will be available at that date to order worldwide from Polish distributors Serpent . A list of further distributors will be made available on the Mutant Sounds announcement on the day of it’s official release. Wholesale and distributor inquiries should be directed to Monotype Records

A full press release for this album can be downloaded via the above Niklas link.”

 

NiklasRECORDS » Vas Deferens Organization & Brad Laner: Transcontinental Conspiracy: “Vas Deferens Organization & Brad Laner: Transcontinental Conspiracy

An absolutely must-have rock avantgarde classic of the 90s., one of best albums on its field, where advanced studio sonic experimentation meets refined influences of Faust and Can, funk, electronics, breakbeats and Dadaist humour – and results in long, crazy, multi-layered suites – a quintesence of what we call post-rock…

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Geneva Jacuzzi At the Detroit Bar, Costa Mesa Ca July 14th… Really Great Show.

Geneva Jacuzzi

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Saw Geneva Jacuzzi at Detroit tonight, I was stunned! She was AMAZING!!!

Geneva Jacuzzi – Love Caboose??– YouTube:

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YouTube – ?Captain & Tennille – Broody Bounce – Drum Break??:

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YouTube – ?U.K. – Caesar’s Palace Blues??: “

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YouTube – ?SPARKS SOMETHING FOR THE GIRL WITH EVERYTHING BEAT CLUB??: ““

YouTube – ?Sparks – Get In The Swing (TOTP 24-7-1975)??: “

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YouTube – ?The Tubes Prime Time??:

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YouTube – ?Throbbing Gristle – ” something came over me “??:

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This is my favorite New Orleans Songs of all time (not to mention classic footage!!!!)…

Back to the future – Page 1 – Music – Dallas – Dallas Observer: “Mazinga Phaser is nothing if not ambitious. Exhausted from a day of intense mixing, producer Matt Castille and four of the six band members are slouching in the bedroom of Castille’s home studio. Although fatigued, they’re talking enthusiastically, riding that final rush that follows a job well done. Phrases like ‘massive cultural enlightenment’ and ‘new psych-rock explosion for the ’90s’ enter the conversation casually, so it’s no surprise when guitarist Wanz Dover announces the title of the debut album they’re working on: Cruising in the Neon Glories of the New American Night.”

Transcendental Blues – Page 1 – Music – Dallas – Dallas Observer: “‘There never will be another Doug, that’s for sure,’ says Matt Castille, who worked with Ferguson in the Vas Deferens Organization, a formerly Dallas-based group that has gained a widespread cult following for assimilating obscure forms of experimental music into a willfully bizarre brew. ‘He would get in his car and drive to the end of the world if he knew he could play on a great record.'”

Dennis Gonzalez Finally Gets His Due – Page 1 – Music – Dallas – Dallas Observer: “The world is just now getting to know Ariel Pink. The totally out-there Los Angeles freak-folker has been stuck in the underground, making some of the world’s weirdest music for over a decade. But since his critically acclaimed indie-pop album, Before Today, earned its release back in April, people have started paying more attention to his unusual pop sensibilities.

HAL SAMPLES Meet Dennis and Aaron Gonzalez, two of the driving forces behind Ariel Pink’s latest blog hit. Related Content Good Friday: True Widow Album Release, Descender, Destroyer, DEVO, Arlo Guthrie, Salt-N-Pepa, Murs, Nervebreakers, REO Speedwagon, Dashboard Confessional & More! March 25, 2011 This Week In Dallas Music History: The Vas Deferens Organization is Not For Everyone December 27, 2010 Happy Days Are Near Again For DFW Market? So Insists National Retail Real-Estate Report. February 15, 2011 Truck Thefts from Texas Soda Distributors Make Dallas a Hub for Hot Dr Pepper April 6, 2011 35 Conferette Adds A Whopping 135 More Bands To Bill, Including A Whole Slew of Locals January 21, 2011 More About Ariel PinkDennis GonzalezDallas (Texas)Eric LumbleauArts, Entertainment, and Media And, now, they’re paying attention to this fun fact: In February, earlier this year, Ariel Pink was right here in the metroplex—Mesquite to be exact—working on his next record, Ariel Pink with Added Pizzazz.

Because of a mutual friendship that had grown after several years of trading music on an underground share-blog called Mutant Sounds, Ariel Pink enlisted Matt Castille and Eric Lumbleau of the former Dallas psych-rock outfit Vas Deferens Organization to handle the record’s production. Ariel Pink and Vas Deferens Organization had been discussing the idea of making a pop record with a basis in jazz-rock for some time. But, to do so, Pink’s backing band, Haunted Graffiti, would need to be upgraded to a group of musicians fluent in both rock and free jazz.”

 

Out Here – Page 1 – Music – Dallas – Dallas Observer: “MIT consists of Mazinga Phaser leader Wanz Dover, Ohm’s Doug Ferguson, and the Vas Deferens Organization’s Matt Castille and Eric Lumbleau. Unlike Bedhead, these guys are unabashed machine musicians with absolutely no tendency toward pop song structure. That said, Musik von Tone Float is one of the warmest and friendliest examples of this kind of music you’re likely to encounter; the VDO crew in particular did an excellent job of subduing its impulses toward confrontational freakiness. We’re definitely in the realm of soundtrack here, running the gamut from random noises shooting through space (‘tonight we sleep with the eggroll king’) to slowly-building tribal stomps (‘millipede’), but the whole trip is quite seamlessly constructed. A fascinating peek in a surprising direction.

–Matt Weitz”

 

Out Here – Page 1 – Music – Dallas – Dallas Observer: “The third cassette in the 10-tape series from local avant-noise collective Vas Deferens Organization, this is indeed the sound of men playing with their penises in public. But God love ’em, they aren’t ashamed about it. Art-rock, Krautrock, trance-rock–whatever the tradition it’s all noise on this end, sound effects and static meant to evoke a mood and create an atmosphere. It’s the legacy of Faust and Neu! and LaBradford taken to the nth degree, where sound becomes pure noise and dreams give way to nightmares and music becomes ‘music’ by definition alone. The sound of the sampler and the computer, human sounds (Arabic chants, exotic percussion, guitars) blend with the inhuman (beeps and squawks and squeals and distorted static) to create something bizarre, frightening, ridiculous, unreal, unlistenable.

That’s not to say Castille doesn’t know all this: The tape, divided into the ‘Acid’ and ‘Opium’ sides, proudly displays its pretensions in everything from its silver-and-black slip-on cassette condom to the noise on the tape. And though a good hunk of the cassette plays itself out like a radio tuned into five stations at once (hell, five countries at once) with the static in between, sometimes he actually achieves something quite remarkable: The Middle Eastern samples on the far more effective ‘Opium’ side contrast extraordinarily with the noise effects (maybe they’re horns sampled into a computer, maybe they’re created by the computer itself), and the result is something just this side of Eno’s ambient sound tracks. It’s actually quite beautiful in spots, even creepier in others–no doubt Castille’s intention from the get-go.”