[Editor's Note: Best Album Cover of 2009... no contest!]
Approaching the 40th anniversary of their inception, Faust return to show the newcomers how it’s done with their new studio album C’est Com…Com…Compliqué. Original members Jean-Hervé Person and Werner “Zappi” Diermaier team up with Amaury Cambuzat from Ulan Bator to revisit material previously mixed by Nurse With Wound in 2006. Armed with a new outlook and a fresh label, they’re poised to re-stake their sizable territory in the avant-rock world. Continue reading ‘New Faust!!1! C’est Com…Com…Compliqué’
Long time no write. I’ve been too busy sorting through the copious amounts of hate mail I’ve received for calling the new Animal Collective record slightly disappointing. Anyway, I figured that there hasn’t been much Super Swingin’ Mix action happening as of late, so that seemed fitting for the first entry of the year.
Quite a lot of winter left to go for those of us living in the humid continental climate zone who experience four distinct seasons. I dunno about you, but I enjoy expansive, sparse, spacey, folk-inclined music during frigid winter evenings, when there’s a shimmering blanket of frost on the ground and a stillness in the air. Maybe you don’t. If so, too bad, because that’s what this evening’s mix is about. Eight club bangers carefully sequenced and best enjoyed after dark.
MP3 :::
Broadcast – Unchanging Window
Jessica Bailiff – Evidence
Grouper – Stuck
Chef Menteur – Europa
Faust – Giggy Smile
Red House Painters – Mistress
The Byrds – Draft Morning
Marmoset – Winter
