Axolotl - 'Garden Lane' 'Garden Lane' is the very first music video from Melbourne's Axolotl. Influenced by artists such as Little Dragon, Feist, Grizzly Bear and Flying Lotus, gives Axolotl a unique sound of stunning experimental pop, glitch, electronic and folk. Over the past year they've been building up and recording their first album. 'Garden [...]
Axolotl Axolotl is a innovative five piece based in Melbourne, Australia. Influenced by artists such as Little Dragon, Feist, Grizzly Bear and Flying Lotus, gives the band a unique sound of stunning experimental pop, glitch, electronic and folk. Over the past year Axolotl have been building up and recording their first album. 'Garden Lane' is [...]
Stumbling (belatedly) on a new release by the Brooklyn noise band.
Last night Nic and I consumed what will inevitably go down as a top ten Los Angeles burger. The "Dry Age Burger" at Oaks Gourmet Market on the border of Hollywood and Los Feliz is quite good. Theirs is (obviously) dry-aged, topped with Taleggio cheese, smoked bacon and a sweet-tasting jalapeno-pineapple compote. I don't know if it will crack the top five, but it will be close. I still have at least three more hamburgers to taste that have won "Best of LA" honors on other blogs. Then I have to begin the process of re-eating most of the finalists [...]

I haven't eaten at either Qdoba or Chipotle in two months. The reason for my epicurean departure from two of my favorite eateries is not without justification. First, I'm trying to implement a healthier diet. Yesterday morning I had a yogurt, a breakfast bar, then consumed a large bowl of Tortilla soup for lunch. Later I ate about 50 cocktail franks. My day usually begins with a health-conscious breakfast and lunch, then crosses over into foul territory as dinner and snack-time approaches. Oh well, it's the thought that counts. The second reason I haven't eaten at Qdoba and Chipotle lately [...]

Axolotl Telesma (Spooky Action, 2006) Axolotl's Telesma is the finest example of noise as beauty of which I am aware. Karl Bauer's ability to turn a violin into anything but a violin is witchcraft, which is probably why I am so bewitched. There are so many layers, Telesma is simply bubbling over with gorgeousness. For fans of Belong, Fennesz or Tim Hecker, this is your new holy grail. I think it is better than any of them. -Thistle

Axolotl Way Blank (Psych-O-Path Records, 2006) This album fits what I imagine would happen if Fennesz collaborated with Black Dice. Is it any wonder that it's one of my favourite albums of the decade? -Thistle
It's LOST night. I can't be bothered to write a proper introduction. RULES for uninitiated noobs : With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other times I'll just throw songs at a wall (not literally) and see what sticks. This week's mix includes a combination of cool tracks from older Sublime Frequencies releases (and please [...]

Axolotl Of Bonds In General (2009, Loci) RIYL = Yellow Swans, Skaters, Caboladies I have probably been anticipating Axolotl's Of Bonds In General more than any other this year; or last year for that matter. Part of that anticipation has come from not really knowing when the next full production, full length Axolotl album would be released and, obviously, the other seven-eighths of that anticipation has come from the fact that Axolotl has produced some of the – wait, scratch that - THEE very best noise/drone/weirdness/experime ntal-whatever albums that I've ever heard. [...]
RULES for uninitiated noobs : With roughly 100MB of webspace, I give birth to a weekly Mix Tape to be deposited on your iPods or Zunes or Kingklangs or whatever the industry is currently pushing on you. Sometimes there will be themes that link all the songs together, other times I'll just throw songs at a wall (not literally) and see what sticks. This week I am using songs from Ilya's CD collection. He's sick right now, so I'm sitting only kind-of next to him, and drinking a stiff Emergen-C cocktail. It tastes like ass but hopefully I won't get [...]

Τις προάλλες μας έφταιγε ο μικρός χώρος για ένα live με τόσο πολύ κόσμο αυτή τη φορά ο αχανής για τα δεδομένα αυτής της συναυλίας χώρος του Principal φάνταζε απελπιστικά άδειος για να ζεσταθεί η ατμόσφαιρα.. Το αποτέλεσμα αυτό βέβαια ήταν αναμενόμενο λόγω των ειδικών συνθηκών: γιατί ποιος θα σηκωθεί έτσι εύκολα να πάει σε μια συναυλία η οποία διεξάγεται έξω από την πόλη και στην οποία το support ξεκινά στις 10.15, όταν η επόμενη είναι εργάσιμη ημέρα, και όταν μάλιστα ατυχώς βρίσκεται σε εξέλιξη η απεργία των μέσων μαζικής μεταφοράς? Χωρίς βέβαια αυτό να σημαίνει ότι [...]

Axolotl is een soloproject van Karl Bauer. Vorig jaar zag ik hem spelen in Cargo, een club in Londen. En afgelopen week was hij, ditmaal zonder baard, te horen op het schip Stubnitz . Gelegen aan de NDSM werf vlakbij de pont kunnen artiesten daar benedendeks ongestoord hun gang gaan. De set van Axolotl was kort maar luidruchtig. Door een technisch probleem kon hij slechts een kwartier spelen. Wat we te horen kregen was noisy zonder veel dynamiek of wisselende ritmes. Hij pakte af en toe een viool die onhoorbaar in de maalstroom kopje onder ging. Vergeleken [...]

Fri 26th - the Cube , Bristol. Presented by Qu-Junktions ...Arrived half way through some films from Fonal label owner - Sami Sanpakkila. Powder-flake snowscapes, an erased face running through the white, trees nebula like to the sky, drawing slow mo circles, then moving on to explorations of Kemialliset Ystavat burning the midnight oil - All available space littered in wires/pedals [...]

Axolotl's opener clocks in at just over 12 mins - a dry clipped beat fringed by a mildly distorted keyboard overlay, a few oscillating textures sprinkled in there, spreading their sci-fi fingers across the mix... Later, dirty fx-ed vocals hitch a ride – humming in raspy kazoo flange, like hairy butter, whilst everything else wobbles along slightly chaotically...further on, warped calypso-like shivers break through and slide along the droning keys, like an apocalyptic cloak throwing harmony to the dogs, chased into a synth flat line sunset... The second instalment from Axolotl is really short in comparison - all [...]
Excellent stuff, again courtesy of Jeff the Taper, exclusively on Aural States. Click through to find MP3s, or download the entire set as ZIP file in these formats: ( MP3 or FLAC ). Other sets from the night: the Skaters, DJ Dog Dick, Kemialliset Ystavat And be sure to read our show review. Axolotl Floristree Baltimore, MD May 25, 2008 Source: Peluso CEMC6/ck41(hypercard)>PS-2>AD- 20>NJB3 Transfer: NJB3>PC>SF-7>Wav>FLAC Taper: Jeff Mewbourn ( jm292@yahoo.com ) [...]
I have a few unidentified mp3s on my laptop that I've gotten really attached to. They're all classical, which makes identifying them even harder, since even if I figured out the composer and the piece, recognizing the specific performance and recording would be near impossible. Today I'd like to post one. I have Benjamin Britten labeled as the artist in iTunes, but no other information. I

. Alfred Schnittke - Census List Suite IV ( Symphony No. 8 / Chandos / 1995 ) . Astral Social Club - 1 (#1 / Astral Social Club ) . Ashtray Navigations - Cassette Redemption . Anla Courtis - Rastrillo-Termotanque (1995) ( Tape Works / Pogus / 2006 ) . Alan Licht - Ambulance Chaser ( The Evan Dando of Noise? / Corpus Hermeticum / 1997 [...]
Are your brackets busted? This was the first year since I was a wee little one that I neglected to fill out an NCAA tournament bracket in advance. March Madness is only marginally interesting when there are no dramatic storylines or Cinderella teams. Two one-seeds and two two-seeds in the Final Four is about as captivating as the Patriots making the Super Bowl. With all this (one paragraph of) sports talk, I've probably lost my entire Sunday evening audience of sexually ambiguous, mildly anorexic, ironic-shirt-wearing, antisocial music snobs. RULES for uninitiated noobs : With [...]

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