Radicalfashion & Lucky Dragons & Y: The Last Man

Radicalfashion - Odori
Keeping on the experimental side for this post, the first artist is Radicalfashion: this is some wonderfully light, ambient cut-and-paste in the same vein as the already-posted Tape. Piano is the only unaltered, consistent instrument here and it forms the context for the seamlessly mixed samples and the subtlest of rhythms (which often sound like the disc itself is skipping). A record as enjoyable in your headphones as it is filling the room you're in.

Lucky Dragons - Hawks and Sparrows
Next is an experiment on the part of the Lucky Dragons (also featuring members of Aa). A highly-enjoyable series of sound-collages made from the field recordings of four anti-war protests. This was recorded with the intent (in their words) "to remove any rhetoric, any dogma, incantations, chants, or spoken language of any sort, and leave musical constructions culled from in-between pauses, whistles and yells, drums, sirens, helicopters, electric hums, boomboxes, etc...". The sound-editors/musicians (however you see it) behind this recording are highly-talented: each tracks is different: some turn these protests into ambiance, others into chaos. Either way, this short statement is consistently interesting. (NOTE: There ARE no track names to this record.)

Y: The Last Man (Issues 11-20)
A pretty good number of you downloaded the first batch of this brilliant comic. So here's the next 10 issues. Check out last weeks update for info and the first 10.

(As always, click on the images to download. Enjoy!)





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