February 1, 2010 – What happens happened because we made it so!
It’s Joe.
I’m excited about tonight’s show. I’m starting out with the latest Buffalo Stance record, Sugar Glider. Buffalo Stance is Jamey Robinson of Need New Body, which shared members with what would go on to be Man Man. John Fernandes over at wuxtry was playing this in the store and I had to pick it up, as I have yet to come across it anywhere else sans online.
The main course, however is this Klaus Nomi record I found recently. It’s called Za Bakdaz and is his attempt at a futuristic electro-pop-opera. His use of analogue synthesizers kinds of makes it oddly familiar, given the recent revival and obsession with these early devices (see Animal Collective, Black Dice, Gang Gang Dance, that scene and others).
Regardless, it fits in well with the whole mission statement of this show: to play the most bizarre collection of musical pieces we can get our hands on.
I’m going to try really hard this semester to keep digging up the older experimental stuff. There is a self-filtering process that goes on when looking for old experimental music, for the only stuff that I am going to be able to get my hands on are those works which someone has deemed relevant enough to keep around. Unfortunately that means, I guess with any aging process, that a lot gets left behind that I’ll never even know about.
But for those interested in this stuff, I can always post where I gather this material. For now, though, you’ll have to be content with listening!
