Desert Island Dicks & Where Woodwose Walk — "Clearance Sale" (AMP009)

The new split/collaborative album by 

Desert Island Dicks

&

Where Woodwose Walk

is out now

Clearance Sale, the new album from Desert Island Dicks and Where Woodwose Walk, sees the two noise groups reflecting on the ongoing global financial crisis that started in the late 2000s.

Across ten tracks (including one collaboration) named after British retail chains that went into administration following the crisis, the two groups use noise, drones, field recordings, sampling and live instrumentation to explore connections between the current malaise and the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Train sounds, Cisco Houston, news reports, Woolworths, Zavvi, "Buddy, Can You Spare A Dime?", corporate malfeasance and T.S. Eliot all come together for the first time in what critics are already calling "Capitalist Realism in a disused arms factory".

The album is available from Amoebic Industries as pay-what-you-want digital download or CDr priced at £3 plus p&p. The two groups have pledged to make an accompanying follow-up album in the event of a double-dip recession.

Desert Island Dicks are an anonymous international plunderphonic noise collective. No-one is certain who is in the group nor even how many of them there are. Their 2009 album The Shades of Jazz to Come was named in Marina Rosenfeld and Raz Mesinai's "Top 15 Albums of 2009" list in The Wire.

Where Woodwose Walk is the one-man project of Brighton, UK resident Arran Jones. When not composing, he enjoys allotment gardening, snail collecting and incorrect music.

Amoebic Industries is a jenky DIY label based out of a Glasgow flat.
They have released records by 30KB, Aurist and Desert Island Dicks.

Listen or download now: http://amoebicindustries.bandcamp.com

(p&p for physical copies:
UK: +50p
EU: +£1.00
elsewhere: + £1.50)

Aurist on Tom Ravenscroft show!

Massive props to BBC 6 Music's Tom Ravenscroft for being, as far as we know, the first person to play anything from Aurist's Not Here on the radio. "Dekindling" was aired as the fifth track in his show from Friday, May 20, alongside the likes of Jehst, Danger Mouse, James Pants and Eno & Byrne. Tom says it's "charming", and a listener agrees, adding that the experience is "like filtering gin gently over amplified rocks". We like to think so!

i don't know how Tom feels about comparisons to his dad, which surely get thrown around all the time, but i hope he wouldn't me saying he definitely has the same spirit in him.

Bonus round: later on in the show there's also a new track from Crewdson, who you may remember produced a couple of tracks on the first 30KB record ("Care Less" and "Crewd Sons (Ghost in the Machine)"), as well as being an ace solo electronic producer in his own right. i am looking forward to a day soon when all radio playlists comprise cool people i've worked with.

Check out the show in question on iPlayer (3 days remaining) or, if you're tardy or a podcast fan, stream/download here or download here.

OUT TODAY! Aurist — "Not Here" (AMP008)

Amoebic Industries is pleased to announce the release of Not Here, the latest album by Aurist.

Aurist, aka 19-year-old Londoner Liam Adams, is a noise/abstract digital musician and poet, among other things. He's previously released several albums on labels such as Cantankerous Records and the Australian/Dutch netlabel Glitch City, including Technic'ly This Is Art (2008), Profonan (2009), and the compilation Mislaid (2010).

The name derives from a now seldom-used term for "one skilled in treating and curing disorders of the ear". Not Here, the first Aurist release from Amoebic Industries, prescribes as a cure for any ear troubles four slabs of brooding, intense noise/drone over 35 minutes, somehow managing to be punishingly harsh and strangely delicate at the same time.

The album is available for listening or download at http://aurist.bandcamp.com. Custom handmade CDrs are also available from Amoebic Industries for £2 (UK) or £3 (worldwide). Each CD package will include a small item that is in some way "not here".

Track listing
1. Dekindling
2. Blind & Elated
3. Mes Rois
4. Powerless



"Should we take up a collection for a new record-player needle for Aurist, or lobby the Limey noise sculptor for an extended paper-shredder remix?" — Minneapolis City Pages on Technic'ly This Is Art

"Some of those advertised do harm by setting up a mechanical irritation in the ear after a time, and a better result is often obtained with... a disc introduced into the ear by an aurist." — The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI)

Listen or download now: http://aurist.bandcamp.com

More links to Aurist:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Aurist/143778732317071
http://www.twitter.com/Aurist
http://www.last.fm/music/Aurist
http://aurish.tumblr.com
http://snailshellbackpack.wordpress.com

For CD orders or any further information, email amoebic DOT industries AT gmail DOT com.

Desert Island Dicks — "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (AMP007) (single)

If you're one of the many who have found legitimate reasons to despise Feb. 14th, the noise miscreants in Desert Island Dicks have released a Valentine's Day single that might pique your interest. Nothing the Dicks do ever seems to be straightforward, so it was a fairly safe bet they weren't going to buy into the standard hearts-and-flowers template, and here they don't disappoint.

De facto Dicks spokesman #12 (none of the others are ever identified) offered this explanation:

The single in question is a two-track cover of Joy Division's now-iconic "Love Will Tear Us Apart". Each Valentine's Day, many thousands of people may feel compelled to buy V-Day paraphernalia as a de rigueur activity rather than as a sincere expression of romantic feeling (notwithstanding whether said feeling is present or absent; this is irrelevant). An ironic flipside to this coin is "Love Will Tear Us Apart", a song expressing a contrary, somewhat fatalistic view, yet which a large amount of groups learn to play, and produce their own version of, ostensibly as a kind of alt.rock "rite of passage", and again, not necessarily representative of the feeling behind it.

We have produced two versions of the same record by way of commentary on this phenomenon. The first version, subtitled "consecutive mix", is sampled from 103 existing versions of "Love Will Tear Us Apart" by a variety of stylistically divergent artists. Each cover version is represented by a one- or at most two-bar sample, which are reassembled mosaically in the order of the original song. The second, subtitled "simultaneous mix", simply plays all 103 versions at the same time.

It is hoped that the published studies will provide some directions for future research in the area of culture and management styles.

"Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth."

Credits
Written by Curtis, Sumner, Hook, Morris.

Artists sampled (in order): Joy Division / Vitamin String Quartet / Magick / Scapula Elevata / Chuzpe / Hanky Park feat. Peter Hook / Flowing Tears & Withered Flowers / Bis / Jah Division / Broken Social Scene / Everyone's a Crook vs. ILS / The Blood Divine / Complete Stone Roses / Clock Strikes 13 / Nordloef / Evelyn Evelyn / Michael John / Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha / Trance to the Sun / Rebecca Hancock and the Prison Wives / New Order / Hawksley Workman / Last Days of Radio / Paul Young / Ecstatics / Dahmnait Doyle / In the Nursery / Boy Division / Bloom 05 / Nouvelle Vague / Swans (red version) / Ortzroka / Rodolphe Burger / Kaycee (Gus Gus mix) / Fall Out Boy / The Cure / Invisible Limits / Squarepusher / Slapper / Die Art / Cienfuegos & Mimi Maura / The Sky About to Rain / The Diary / V/Vm / Jose Gonzalez / Kiki & Herb / Sensifer / The Shanes / Pribata Idaho / Amadea & the In-Betweeners / Eon Blue Void / U2 / The Real Bang / Kismet / Philistine / Calexico / Kvinton / Peltz / Michelle Darkness / Honeyroot / Dumb Blonde, Dead. / Poon Up! / Ian Field / Final Virus / Swans (black version) / Tiger Baby / Mike Relm / Testament / Red House Painters (live) / The Motion Sick / Tea Party / The King / Schulz / Lispboston / 10,000 Maniacs (live) (allegedly) / Jenny K Jones / Even Vast / P. J. Proby / Jansky Noise / Nerina Pallot / Itty Bitty Kitty Titties vs. Big Fat Cat Tats / Oysterband / Simple Minds / Morten Abel / Ghost Parade / Susanna and the Magical Orchestra / Stanton-Miranda / Pixeltoy / Jarboe / Albanopower / The Parsonage / Brothers Past / 12:24 / Unbroken / Worm Is Green / Slumber Party / The Carnival of Fools / Opium Den / World Wide Spies / Acrojunk / djstranger / Wundergraft / Philip Boa & The Voodooclub

Production by Desert Island Dicks.

Artwork by Lachlann Rattray for Dreamguts.

Desert Island Dicks 2010. Experiments can go down as well as up.

Make of that what you will, i guess! Happy V-Day.

DOWNLOAD: 
 "Love Will Tear Us Apart" (AMP007)

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mp3: Desert Island Dicks – "Love Will Tear Us Apart (consecutive mix)"
mp3: Desert Island Dicks – "Love Will Tear Us Apart (simultaneous mix)"

Desert Island Dicks — "The Shades of Jazz to Come" (AMP005)

The new Desert Island Dicks album, released by Amoebic Industries (Unlimited) on 28 July 2009, is entitled The Shades of Jazz to Come, a dextrous play on the name of Ornette Coleman's seminal free jazz masterpiece The Shape of Jazz to Come.

The Coleman association is not merely a titular one; the album is also based sonically on The Shape of Jazz to Come. Six slices of the original Coleman album, each equivalent to ten percent of the length of each track, were extracted like biopsy tissue samples, re-stretched by a factor of ten until they arrived back at each track's original length, and post-effected as necessary. The record thus revisits tropes of both of the groups' previous albums, Bring Me the Head of Miles Davis... (use of the '50s/'60s jazz avant-garde) and Stretch Marks (vast expansion, post-production).

The cover was designed by Cliff Lipp for Dreamguts.

Vice magazine called the album "the year's primo meditation music for the discerning smackhead". NME failed to comprehend the concept in an entirely characteristic fashion.

Track listing
All tracks by Coleman/Dicks.

1. "Lonely Woman" — 5:02
   
2. "Eventually" — 4:22
3. "Peace" — 9:04
   
4. "Focus on Sanity" — 6:52
5. "Congeniality" — 6:48
   
6. "Chronology" — 6:03

Personnel

• Ornette Coleman – alto saxophone
• Don Cherry – cornet
• Charlie Haden – double bass
• Billy Higgins – drums
• Desert Island Dicks – noises, post-production

DOWNLOAD:

The Shades of Jazz to Come (AMP005)

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Desert Island Dicks 2009. Experiments can go down as well as up.

Desert Island Dicks — "Stretch Marks" (GC049/AMP004)

Desert Island Dicks are an arcane international noise collective who have released numerable musical recordings of various styles. Little is known about their number or demographics, but acknowledged compositional influences include BBC Radio 4; hip-hop; strong coffee; The Conet Project; '60s jazz avant-garde: Coleman, Cherry, Taylor, Dolphy, Ra; John Zorn; The Evolution Control Committee; Zappa; The Fall; Metal Machine Music; Cassetteboy; Futurism; Dada; Reich; Cage; Penderecki; The KLF; John Watermann; WFMU.

Stretch Marks is the group's second full-length album. Recorded in 2007 and 2008, it was released jointly by Britain's Amoebic Industries and Australia/Netherlands-based Glitch City on April 30, 2008. The album inverts the concept of the previous album Bring Me the Head of Miles Davis..., which compressed three Miles Davis albums to a universal track length, by taking three of the biggest contemporary female-vocal pop music 45s and expanding them to vastly distended lengths, thus applying the jazz tenets of breathing space and free improvisation to a mode more traditionally defined by much stricter methodical structuring.

Track listing

1. "Toxic (Niigata Minamata mix)" (Bloodshy & Avant, Dennis, Jonback, Dicks) – 10:32
2. "Genie in a Bottle Bank (long version)" (Frank, Kipner, Sheyne, Dicks) – 18:32
3. "Rehab (Betty Ford mix)" (Winehouse, Dicks) – 42:00

Personnel

• Christina Aguilera – vocals
• David Frank – production
• Christian Karlsson – production
• Steve Kipner – production
• Mark Ronson – production
• Britney Spears – vocals
• Amy Winehouse – vocals
• Pontus Winnberg – production
• Desert Island Dicks – post-production

DOWNLOAD:
Stretch Marks (GC049/AMP004)

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Desert Island Dicks — "Bring Me the Head of Miles Davis and Other Jazz Luminaries" (GC008/AMP003)

Desert Island Dicks are an arcane international noise collective who have released numerable musical recordings of various styles. Little is known about their number or demographics, but acknowledged compositional influences include BBC Radio 4; hip-hop; strong coffee; The Conet Project; '60s jazz avant-garde: Coleman, Cherry, Taylor, Dolphy, Ra; John Zorn; The Evolution Control Committee; Zappa; The Fall; Metal Machine Music; Cassetteboy; Futurism; Dada; Reich; Cage; Penderecki; The KLF; John Watermann; WFMU.


Their first known full-length, Bring Me the Head of Miles Davis and Other Jazz Luminaries, sometimes abbreviated to BMtHoMDaOJL, was jointly released in 2007 by Britain's Amoebic Productions and Australia's Glitch City. The album consists of time-compressed versions of three well-known albums by Miles Davis, namely 1969's Bitches' Brew, 1959's Kind of Blue and 1960's Sketches of Spain. Each track on each of the source albums is condensed from its original length to one of ninety seconds, compressing each at an individual ratio relative to its original length. The effect produced has been described as "ironically guidelined free jazz", (Ingus Lovecharts, Modern Jazz: Reflections, pp. 172–4), as "massively compressed, like a shot of Turkish coffee... [a] formula [that] isn't always going to be entirely successful... [b]ut when it works, it can sometimes shock you into hearing the original in something of a new light", and as "either... total win or total fail, but probably the latter".

Despite the title's "Other Jazz Luminaries" appendage, only albums by Miles Davis are in fact processed.

Track listing
All tracks by Davis/Dicks, except where noted.

1. "Pharaoh's Dance" (Joe Zawinul, Dicks) – 1:30
2. "Bitches Brew" – 1:30
3. "Spanish Key" – 1:30
4. "John McLaughlin" – 1:30
5. "Miles Runs the Voodoo Down" – 1:30
6. "Sanctuary" (Wayne Shorter, Dicks) – 1:30
7. "Feio" (Shorter, Dicks) – 1:30
8. "So What" – 1:30
9. "Freddie Freeloader" – 1:30
10. "Blue in Green" – 1:30
11. "All Blues" – 1:30
12. "Flamenco Sketches" – 1:30
13. "Flamenco Sketches (alternate take)" – 1:30
14. "Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio)" – 1:30
15. "Will o' the Wisp" – 1:30
16. "The Pan Piper" – 1:30
17. "Saeta" – 1:30
18. "Solea" – 1:30
19. "Song of Our Country" – 1:30
20. "Concierto de Aranjuez (Part One)" – 1:30
21. "Concierto de Aranjuez (Part Two Ending)" – 1:30

DOWNLOAD:  
Bring Me the Head of Miles Davis and Other Jazz Luminaries (GC008/AMP003)

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