Wagonpost part 2

WagonGneissPizza post the second is here. Mediafire can be a total bitch to upload to. I queued something like 13 uploads, and only five (for the first post) made it. But here's some more CDs to make up for it.

Oneohtrix Point Never - A Pact Between Strangers

1: The Pretender
2: A Pact Between Strangers
3: When I Get Back From New York

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Steve Hauschildt - Critique Of The Beautiful

1: No Way Of Knowing
2: What One Does To Another
3: Runaway
4: Wrong Idea
5: Critique Of The Beautiful

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Mark McGuire - Dream Team

1: Dream Team 1
2: Different Light
3: Dream Team 2

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Mark McGuire - Guitar Meditations II

1.1: Beneath The Bells
1.2: Wandering Memory
2.1: Escape
2.2: Postcard
2.3: In The Architecture
2.4: Far Away

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Nate Scheible - Hawthorne

1: Owen Warland
2: The Hill-Top Hearsed With Pines
3: Aylmer And Georgiana

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Mark McGuire - Light Movement

1: The Path Lined With Colorful Stones
2: Under New-Age Skies
3: Dividing Lines
4: The Turtles And The Lizards And The Snakes And The Dragon Flies And The Field Mouse All Sat On The Riverbank

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Mark McGuire - Losing Sleep

1: Through The Open Window
2: Collateral
3: Explosion Alarm
4: Searching
5: No Eye Noon Doe
6: The Marfa Lights 2 (live @ Pats In The Flats 6/24/09)

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Mark McGuire - Stranger Than Paradise

1: Stranger Than Paradise

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Stay tuned for more CDs and tapes coming relatively soon including some by Outer Space, Sam Goldberg, Emeralds, Head Boggle, Lilypad, and the entire Pizza Night lineup.

Wagonpost part 1

First part in a double- (or potentially multi-) part of Wagon/Gneiss Things/Pizza Night megapost which is still in the process of being ripped and uploaded. Things will resume Sunday/Mondayish when I get back from Boston. Wagon and Gneiss Things, for those who don't know, are the two vanity labels associated with Emeralds, the Cleveland-based ambient/synth/krautrock/etc etc etc trio who are taking the world by storm or some such whatever. Wagon is primarily taken care of by guitarist Mark McGuire with help from synthian John Elliott, and Gneiss Things is the slightly less prolific label run by twin synthmaster Steve Hauschildt. Pizza Night is run by fellow Clevelandian (Clevelandite? Clevelandine?) Sam Goldberg who, while not being part of Emeralds, has played with them and is a solidly-entrenched part of that scene, being also responsible for the venue The Grog Shop. As you can see by the stack there's quite a bit to absorb, plus tapes coming.

Mark McGuire - Language Barrier

01: Uneasy Street
02: Mind Games
03: Ice Land Air
04: Language Barrier

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Mark McGuire - Let Us Be The Way We Were

01: Let Us Be The Way We Were

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Mark McGuire - Things Fall Apart

01: Things Fall Apart
02: Inside Where It's Warm

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Mark McGuire - Vacation Days

01: While It Lasted
02: Vacation
03: Home Again
04: Now That It's Over

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Foothills - The Sun Is Fueled By The Fossil Of Creation

A: Adolescent Wavelength
B: The Sun Is Fueled By The Fossil Of Creation

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More coming when I get home plus old stuff, promise

Treetops - North

More ambient stuff I want to up before I leave for Boston in an hour.

A: Pebble
B: At The Edge Of The Sky

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Marble Sky - Sway

Ambient side-project of Jeff Witscher (aka Impregnable and Secret Abuse) on Monorail Trespassing.

A: Standing Still
B: Bell Ringing Softly

(link removed: contact monorail trespassing for copies)

Treetops - Cool Runnings

The lo-est of the fi. Weird creepy yet stiflingly beautiful ambient.

01: Sheer Walls / Elemental Void
02: Creature Comforter
03: Double Reflection

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Treetops - Giant Earth

Mikey Mike Pollard, master of Arbor, continues his prolific output in this 2008 cassette on Sick Head. It's three wonderful tracks of the lo-fi, churning abstractions he's known for. All kinds of wonderful.

A1: Beyond
A2: They Are Land
B: I Lost Mine In The River

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Color Dream - Cloud Factory

One of the earliest releases from this collaborative project of the heads of two of the neatest labels around at the moment, Arbor and Young Tapes, Mike Pollard and Peter F a twenty minute lo-fi cruise over a synth sea split over two double sided tapes. Four untitled tracks, 50 copies, Digitalis Limited.

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Steve Young - Michael Jordan

2008 release from the master of deep space / currently of Young Tapes formerly of JK Tapes, the wonderful Peter F. Side A begins with a lovely synth melody lightly dusted with a trace of melancholy, one of the more beautiful things I've heard in the past few years. Side B pairs a day on the coast with soft swishing lines, abruptly started and re-started in mid sequence yet never in a jarring manner. 40 copies on Arbor with zine.

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