Eric Copeland - Untitled 1 New and apparently super limited CD from Eric Copeland and its another luau via cheese grater, real sliced melodies and bumping beats so it kind of feels like the usual but the origins of these fucked noises are increasingly hard to pin down and their mulched arrangement, well, he's still making that new. It's pretty interesting, this idea of future music that he and Black Dice (new album in April!) have and pretty amazing that it sounds so good in the search for the progressive. [ Eric Copeland MySpace [...]
Although the only songs I've really listened to in the last couple of weeks are 'Brothersport' by Animal Collective. 'Here Comes The Night' by Destroyer and 'Can't Hear My Eyes' by Ariel Pink, I listened to lots of records this year. I heard them in Australia, in New Zealand (in the sun/in my Mum's Hyundai), in England, out of computer speakers. There were lots of good albums but I think mostly what I heard was cassettes, though they weren't cassettes, they were .mp3s, out of headphones, full of even more hiss and warm fuzz. I believe one trait of my [...]
Eric Copeland - Reptilian Space Beings Shapeshifting Bloodsucking Vampires This dumpster luau makes so much sense in the sample-heavy ghettotech of Eric Copeland's new 12", liquidy and pushed by tricked out chrome beats, kickin it futurian and wide-grinned amongst technicolour bin juice. It smells BADDD/FUNKY, that's for sure. [ Eric Copeland MySpace ] [Buy Alien in a Garbage Dump from Paw Tracks ]

Eric Copeland 's new warped tape looping track "Alien In A Garbage Dump" sounds a bit like a nightmare or if, while you were sleeping, someone injected you with LSD and placed an antenna on your head causing you to pick up signals from the world around you. The track does pose similarities to Steve Reich's "Come Out", due to the heavy rotation of a track with man saying "just don't do it" over and over, as well other tapes of spoken word phrases. Yet supporting and surrounding all the spliced voice tracks and warped vocals are [...]
Sometimes a song's title can tell you something. Case in point is the title track from the Alien in a Garbage Dump vinyl-only EP by Black Dice member Eric Copeland. As heard on his record last year, Hermaphrodite , Copeland is something of a sonic dumpster diver, finding weird bits of sonic detritus and then slapping them together into collages that can be both creepy and funny. Compared to where Black Dice has been with the last few records, Copeland seems to be in a comparatively maximalist state of [...]

I know it's already August and it has officially been summer in New York City for at least a month, but the summer is so full of stuff to do in this town that "summer" still seems to be on the tip of everyone's tongue. If you don't mind humidity that would make even a stoker blush, then you can find your way to tons of free and cheep happenings in all 5 of the Burroughs. Even on Staten Island. As I sat with friends from California and [...]

I know it's already August and it has officially been summer in New York City for at least a month, but the summer is so full of stuff to do in this town that "summer" still seems to be on the tip of everyone's tongue. If you don't mind humidity that would make even a stoker blush, then you can find your way to tons of free and cheep happenings in all 5 of the Burroughs. Even on Staten Island. As I sat with friends from California and a bunch [...]
I know it's already August and it has officially been summer in New York City for at least a month, but the summer is so full of stuff to do in this town that "summer" still seems to be on the tip of everyone's tongue. If you don't mind humidity that would make even a stoker blush, then you can find your way to tons of free and cheep happenings in all 5 of the Burroughs. Even on Staten Island. As I sat with friends from California and a bunch [...]
Antes de nada me gustaría aprovechar la actualización para desearos felices fiestas a los que alguna vez os paseais por aquí. Sí, aún tenemos pendientes las listas de nuestros discos favoritos del año, lo sabemos. Eso llegará a finales de semana. De momento os dejamos con algunos de los discos más destacados de la segunda mitad del año, la verdad es que las fechas y los compromisos han impedido que fuesen todos los que deberían haber sido. A pesar de que, cómo ya sabréis, ahora somos dos. El año que viene prometemos volver con más cambios y nuevas incorporaciones. [...]
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Eric Copeland's been a busy man lately; working with Avey Tare in Terrestrial Tones and prepping a new Black Dice record with the rest of the band, so it almost seems unlikely that he'd have much time for a solo project. But, as prolific luck would have it Copeland has produced a record that straddles the blurred lines that separate all his previous work. Echoing the more rhythmic and electronic direction of the new Black Dice material and waddling in the spacey atmospheres that marked his work in the Tones, Hermaphrodite has come together as a happily jarring [...]

Eric Copeland - Tree Aliens (Paw Tracks 2007) Eric Copeland - Hermaphrodite / Paw Tracks It took a long time for me to warm up to Black Dice, but once I finally understood that the noise was an end unto itself rather than a means to something "greater" à la post-rock, I began to appreciate what they were doing more. I appreciated their hardcore background, and how by some miracle that eventually led to Beaches & Canyons and an EP I used to loathe in Miles of Smiles [...]