Window to the World

-by Aluminum Foliage (Ryne Heslin), 2008

Another upcoming: Aluminum Foliage and Deeyay are in the workings of a split album titled ‘Sequinsizer.’ I have a feeling it’s going to be quite sky entrancing.

Wolf Wolf

Wolf Wolf was a Sarasota no wave, dark punk band that I heard played some notorious shows in bathrooms and alleyways over in New College territory sometime between 2006-2008. They wore masks live, played short sets, and were fueled by possession. I sadly missed out on this stylistic project, but Cameron has been working on his PIL influenced band Boulders while the other 2 members I’m not too sure about, but I heard their guitarist has been playing with the Globular dudes pretty recently. Anyways, if you feel how I feel and that feeling is mostly always downbeatened close to the grave, you should enjoy what Wolf Wolf has to offer in this 7 track E.P.

What Roofless Records said: “Less ‘post-hardcore’ and more ‘hardcore in the future.’ Three piece capable of heavy punk, heavy melody, heavy carrying on.”

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Nows and Soon To Bees

Just posting some updated information. As you can see the layout changed again BUT there’s a few things that need to be fixed. So just bear with the squished photos/content and be on the lookout for added content to the Downloads section. You’ll be able to find plenty of MLU, Uh-Oh Spades, and more downloads from earlier posts that way a lot easier and I will update the links.

Now Out:

Soothsayers and Stargazers

Issue One: Drifting with the Eyes of a Ghost

I’d like to thank James Hendry very much for helping me start making things happen and be my artist for my sci-fi/fantasy comic. I haven’t received much feedback about it, but I hope by the time we get issue 2 done that more people will be more interested in it. As much as I’d like to give them away for free, we are trying to get money for it, $2 each, in order to use any profit to make new batches. So hit me up if you’d like next time I play a show around or whatever. Space exploration, virtual simulations of long gone races, dead planets, ruins, companionship, seeking knowledge and seeking a universal cure to stabilizing everlasting, evolving life.

Also on a side note, I’m not accepted into the UCF art program of any kind, so I’m going to go the entrepreneurship route and see how to start my own business. My dream is to have my own independent video game design company that works on smaller projects (basically downloadable games for cheaper prices on the newer generation systems)  that are simple, stylistic, and featuring some of the music created by my friends and interests around me. Any takers!?!?

Upcoming Releases:

Cyber-Swarm – Astral Dojo c20, Fall 2009

Stephen and I have taken a show break so that we can finally start recording for our 1st release which will be on cassette tape. Judging by our songs so far, it should come off as an electronic sounding something like a mix between Orlando optimism with Tampa darkness. Really we’ll just see how it turns out!

Alien Overmind split w/Future Cop – Altered Streets c20, Fall 2009

Future Cop is Andy from Sarasota who actually I have no clue what his music sounds like. Scary? Well if it’s anything like Nasa or Globular, his previous experimental soundscape projects, it should come off as something spacey and ‘out there.’ AO tracks are almost done, with a voyage like approach of visitations on other worlds and leaving everything you’ve ever felt familiar with for good.

Soothsayers and Stargazers, Issue 2: Dead Cities, Living Ruins Winter 2009

Storyboard sketches already completed, just need to get together for some sleepless nights again with James and get this baby rolling. In this issue, Realm and her spaceship companion arrive on a planet where the next virtual reality-simulating relic (built by a mysterious race) can be found. There she finds the planet to be desolate but full of clues of a dead culture and the cause to their demise. “Is there anybody out there?”

Alien Overmind – The Nullifiers cdr, Spring 2010

This will be the 2nd AO album, as everything prior has just been splits and comp contribution. Influenced by the uninfluential, and really all I have planned out for a new album is to collaborate with some music making buddies for almost every song, which will give it a varied feel to it. Lazy Magnet used this approach to his incredible album, ‘Is Music Even Good?’

All music releases will be under the new label located in Sarasota called Warded Halls. It’s run by Sarasota spaced out dudes Fuji and Andy. Yeah!

One more thing… not 100% official or planned, but Deeyay, Cyber-Swarm, and Mr. Transylvania have intentions on going on a tour up north to Nashville and back down to several spots. We’d like to play with acts like Lazy Magnet, Outmode, CrAow, Deluxin’, Smallpox, Big + Tall, and Matrix Infinity on tour and then Florida friends for a kick off/come back show. More on that later….

Dreamcast Tribute

-modeling project I did for my animation class

The Sega Dreamcast, such a speckle of time that never sadly lasted very long. Whatever, I still have mine and play it all the time, even if XBOX 360 jocks make fun of me. It seriously had the best fighter library of all time and the few but beautiful RPG’s and adventure games were so stylistically amazing that I can’t help but want to play them again and again. Dreamcast, you’re so dreamy, thank you.

-fan art by Ryan Herryger, 2009

DREAMCAST DEFINING GAMES

DREAMCAST HIDDEN GEMS

DREAMCAST FAN ART

Deluxin’ – Black/White

DELUXIN’

Black/White

Fellow video-gamer and hang-out connoisseur Nathan Vasquez with dude duo Max Peebles and John Eatherly have perfected the sound of the most excellent vibe. These angular guitar riffs and sporadic drumming are shimmering with simplicity, added by Nathan’s lyricism that are pretty much straight to the point that will remind you to just shut the fuck up and order a pizza. The world needs less whining, more partying, ya know? And…well… maybe a rad lover to listen to favorite records with.

I first heard Black/White at my buddy Sean’s house. He popped on a record, asked me ‘Hey do you know Be Your Own Pet?’ and I told him I really dug the record and its feel and from that point on I had to hear more. The main force behind Deluxin’ is Nathan, who got his first kick writing songs and playing guitar with Be Your Own Pet, who started young and mutually broke up going separate ways but kept rocking. When constant hype, tours and interviewers started to fade back into the glamor world, Nathan as Deluxin’ was able to once again play at smaller venues, play with friends’ bands that didn’t have to sound alike, and overall just have fun kicking off to a new start. The garage rock meets discordance sound from BYOP I feel has carried onto this album, but there’s something really special on B/W. It is a punk, crazy, poppy, weird, and abrasive sound that clashes very well together, and I can’t imagine how fun a live Deluxin’ show and after party would be. For now, this record will keep me dreaming!

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What Nathan said about B/W: “Max Peebles played bass and John Eatherly was on drums. They now both play with Jemina’s (singer of BYOP) band and are making money for their hardwork and touring dedication. I am very proud of both of them as young humble dudes and I had the honor of sharing a collaborative musical adolescence with.”

If you enjoy this you can find more Deluxin’ downloads on Nathan’s Offensive Blogging. I’ll post these other releases later too over the month!

-both photos by Krisan

Dungeon of Relics -or- Some Recently Obtained Power Through Blackouts

I woke up into a shroud of darkness. I had not one clue how long I’ve been dormant, where I was, or how I came here. A sound of droplets could be heard from a distance, and judging from the echos they gave off against walls I could assume that I was in a vast hallway. I could barely stand up, cold and naked, and as I started blindfully walk through god knows what, I tried recollecting thoughts of a reason to everything and its causes.

I trailed my hands along a freezing stone wall, walking into puddles pretty frequently and shards of broken glass. I begin to lose hope of walking down this corridor, as the pain of curiosity was too unbearable. I sat down against the wall, closed my eyes since there was nothing to even see, and realized hopelessness was the only easy way out.

The water from the puddle that my feet were in stung at my bleeding pores, and I sat there like this for days. Then, suddenly, the water felt differently, it smelt like liquid flesh and I reached my hands out into it and through it. It was there that I pulled out a rectangular shaped object that I knew wasn’t there before. I took it because it was the only fascinating clue I had and then I had to find a light. I bathed my hands in the liquid of my own blood and continued walking down the dark hallway until I found a room. I crawled around and spread my arms around until I felt another unknown object. I wiped my bloody hands over it hoping for another mystical occurrence, and to my amazement the object glowed and it shined through every crevice and plane in the room. I then immediately looked at the mysterious entity that formed from earlier and it seemed to be some supernatural cassette tape. It looked like this:

-BLOOD! 2 compilation off Stay Away From Ghosts, 2009

I opened it and saw that it had a written account of various names that must of contributed to the making of this musical relic. The names listed were in order: Alien Overmind, CrAow, Uh-Oh Spades, Russian Tsarlag, Deluxin, Haves and Thirds, Outmode, Lazy Magnet, and Lesson Lesson Lessen Relearn. After reading a warning on the tape that read Stay Away From Ghosts, a disembodied voice called out straight into my consciousness and said, “This is an account from a long gone age that was magically induced by solo artists that chose the path of personal conquests that, although created from separate forces, came together with the minds that neither stood in the blind light or accepted the fate of darkness. The intentions of these music making mages isn’t to resurrect some sort of old long gone art or fantastical beast into a never ending cycle of creation and destruction, but rather to take the risks of practicing new styles that no dusty old spellbook has ever taught before. Convention is the real curse, and lacks individual experience.”

I immediately wanted to hear these lost sounds, but I knew that something else was out there. I noticed there was a dead body in this room that never made it out alive, and before I could walk out I heard a bone rattling-in-armor sound which gave me more of a chill than I’ve felt being naked in the freezing dungeon water. The body became an undead Skeleton Warrior (circa 2004) that made some shrilling noise just waiting to ensnare me in deathly fear. Instead of fighting it off, I stood there with confidence, and said that I actually enjoyed the sounds it was making. It felt flattered and it thanked me for healing its cursed soul by giving me its armor courtesy of Roofless Records, an ancient foundation.

-Skeleton Warrior footage in 2008 from Ted Records

With this support I was able to reach new levels and it wasn’t too long after I realized that this armor gave me powers whereever I walked and even literally opened a gateway out of the roof of these sickening, stagnant dungeon walls. I climbed above into a new, cleared land, where objects were off in great distances. “Where do I go now?” I said to myself. I stood there intaking the fresh air, and once again heard a voice call to me, and it said “The path you choose is for you and you alone, and you can go about it when you’re ready but if you must need guidance, this tape shall be the expressway towards your real form.”

-Deeyay – GUTS/GOLD, 2009

This tape, a destiny geared to a final fantasy to end all fantasies, is by experimental dance musician magician Deeyay. A seal encloses the package, in which one has to choose whether or not they’re ready to break away from the familiar ground that they once kissed and pissed on. This release calls upon a road of new heights while never forgetting the best parts of this individual’s music making past, known as the art of Uh-Oh Spades. Wisps from far away space beings, melodies floating through a wormhole and arriving back as evolved forms, and spellbounding house segments. I highly recommend some to experience this attunement.

I continued to walk through this electronic desert through its many hard pounding waves and settling chilled nights after, and I got stuck on my journey when I found a strategy based fantasy game, Disgaea: Hour of Darkness. I see myself spending many hours trying to beat another digital quest while in the distant future will review these albums further and more. All I can say then basically is….. keep an eye out for these releases before they become ancient relics!

X-Strike!

-art by Ryan Herrygers, 2007

I know that somewhere sometime, Chrono is making everything better. No more parasitic planet drainers please!

I Now Know What a Triforce Can Do

-all photos taken by Alex Gaesser, Fall 2009

Darkness Before Dawn

-Then and Than

Thanks to everyone that came over to Skeleton Warrior’s haunted house show last night. I had a great time. Not everyone got to play, I almost lost my vision for good (shattered glasses that somehow formed back together by the time I needed to drive home), but the night was still pretty haunting AND I signed my soul to the devil for every rare synth punk record and a Gundam. Staircases of doom, touchy walls, weird pop tunes and a minimal doom band, Gringos de Zapatos, that was clown-synth fronted, wraith drumming, violin shrieking, and frantic as fuck. It was super awesome to see Deeyay play again back home too, with some brand new beats and new intentions. There’s no theme this month other than “other.” So beware for just about any other thing.

HOPE EVERY ‘BODY’ HAD A HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

We’ve Come To See What’s Left Of You

Colin Newman

A-Z

1979

Here’s a Halloween gift to you guys. If I had time I was going to make a goth mix that perhaps I’ll have ready later, but instead this Colin Newman album (read more about the album here) is equally eerie and haunting. If you’re familiar with Wire, you know already that Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154 are their amazing post punk epics, but Colin Newman’s solo effort on A-Z I feel completes that era for them. It’s a great album to listen to when you feel that the whole world is falling apart.

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