Wizard Amps - "Ice Guitar"

Wizard Amps was/is a recluse of a project, syrupped out "porch drone" with Josh of Grasshopper on keys and guitar duties covered by myself and Andy of Slasher Risk infamy. Little proof of existence still stands, aside from a single late night at Moultrie hastily recorded to a walkman during the Grasshopper/Slasher Risk era of occupation.

A super blink-and-you-missed-it edition of cassettes exists of the session, featuring a double A-side of the chart-topping "Ice Guitar". Long gone, copies were given away during the Grasshopper/OPPONENTS 2010 CHTTD tour. Nab the digital d/l for your iWalkman at the Free Music Archive.

Some sweet words from Nick (Cave Bears / Feeding Tube Records) at Cassette Gods:
"Great drone from the Grasshopper dudes, Jesse DeRosa and Josh Millrod, plus Slasher Risk shredder Andy Borsz playing what I believe to be heavily processed guitars and keys. They told me this was a "blues" tape, but aside from a moment or two that recalls a half second of a guitar lick on cough syrup, I fail to see the connection. That being said, this is the best "blues" tape I've heard in awhile. If you've ever found it hard to write about drone music then you'll understand why I ain't exactly putting out the adjectives. But trust, this is good."

Tranquility Tapes Preview

Art for forthcoming split with Mike Haley's Spectrum Tickets project on Tranquility Tapes. Caroline did an amazing job, as always.

Here's a sneak peak sample:

905 Sampler on Impose

Interview with super dude, and forthcoming split-mate, Mike Haley now posted on Impose Mag here.

They've included a bitchin' 905 tapes sampler that features a track from the oop Shingles "White Out" tape, a new jam from Grasshopper that kicks things off and a host of other awesome jams from Quicksails, OPPONENTS, GX and more. Also, that Sound Out Light track "Mantra UFO" is the shit.

Download it here.

01 Grasshopper, "Destroyed in Seconds" from Classical Music C20
02 GX Jupitter-Larsen from Brains On Backwash III C100 comp
03 Opponents from Scopes Sarcophagus C44
04 Quicksails, "Edgewater" from Vermillion C21
05 Shingles, "Night Beach" from White Out C30
06 Sound Out Light, "Mantra UFO" from split C41 w/ Chapels
07 Derek Rogers, "Flanked by Uncertainty" from From The World We Hid C30
08 Daniel J Moore, "Jacuse"
09 Fun & Head Molt, "2nd Perspective Mix 2" from Halftone Mud
10 Plasmic Formations, "The History of Why I Chose This"

Taped Sounds for Night Listening

Wanted to call out a super rad solely-cassette-sourced podcast put together by the amazing Grant and Rachel Evans of Quiet Evenings/Hooker Vision/Nova Scotian Arms/MSOTT that was posted last week on Discrepant.net.

Tracklist:

1. Super Minerals- Earth Acropolis Welcomes Panacea Home: Man the Rod, Woman the Measure, and Metabolising All Their Poisons with Ease (excerpt) [from Contacteer (Stunned Records)]

2. Sovetskaya Gone- Arapahoe Cqdorig (excerpt) [from 2182 kHz (Dial Square Tapes)]

3. Organ of Species- Migration, Malformation and Reassortment (excerpt) [from Random Selection (Notice Recordings)]

4. Perspectives- Untitled (excerpt) [from 1994/Perspectives split (Housecraft Recordings)]

5. Sky Stadium- Into the Endless Clouds (excerpt) [from Carpet Ride (Sacred Phrases)]

6. Xiphiidae- Split Tongues Conceiving Moss (excerpt) [from Slowing Atrium(House of Sun)]

7. Ous Mal- Aamuisin [from Ous Mal/Bedroom Bear split (Full of Nothing)]

8. Transmuteo- Cymatics [from Cymaglyphs (Rotifer Cassettes)]

9. Ghostrider- Hypnosis [from Demons (Hobo Cult Records)]

10. Innercity- Untitled 12 (excerpt) [from Future Life Reloaded, Part Four: The Anti-Mind and Christ Eating Olives at Temple of Broken Brains (Aguirre Records)]

11. Shingles- Thoughtlace [from White Out (905 Tapes)]

12. Sparkling Wide Pressure- Folding Folding [from Sing What You Remind Me Of (Tranquility Tapes)]