Drones recently photographed the Nazca Desert and AI discovered several geoglyphs that had not yet been catalogued. This episode features a different kind of drone–ninety minutes of drone-heavy current psychedelic music. New releases from Cosmic Room 99, Diagonal, The Lsdays, La Terminal, Nolla, Jake Blanchard, Zagušljivi Dim, Tombstones In Their Eyes, Charlie Butler, and Water Damage.
| time | artist | title |
|---|---|---|
| 0:37 | Cosmic Room 99 | Plastic Venus |
| 4:56 | Diagonal | Easy |
| 10:45 | The Lsdays | Singing Songs |
| 16:54 | La Terminal | Irijua |
| 21:59 | Nolla | Surusana |
| 29:38 | Jake Blanchard | Dysplasia Delirium |
| 38:42 | Zagušljivi Dim | Durchfall der Lebensmaschine |
| 53:34 | Tombstones In Their Eyes | I Like To Feel Good |
| 57:24 | Charlie Butler | Remnant |
| 66:06 | Water Damage | Reel E |
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#Alternapop #Alternative #BritPop #Cosmic #Doom #DreamPop #Drone #Experimental #GarageRock #Grungegaze #IndieRock #Neopsychedelia #Noise #Post-punk #Post-rock #Psych #PsychRock #Psychedelic #PsychedelicRock #Punkgaze #Shoegaze #Sludge #SpaceRock #VintageSynths |
I was reading in Open Culture about how drones photographed the Nazca Desert and they used AI to make out several geoglyphs that hadn’t been cataloged before. So I used AI to make an image of an electric guitar geoglyph on the Nazca Plain. I had to work with it a little–at first AI made an acoustic guitar, and when I told it to make an electric guitar, its first effort only had five strings. After a couple of tries I got the image you see.
The drops in this episode are from a 1977 episode of In Search Of featuring Leonard Nimoy. That episode makes the case that the Nazca Lines must have been used by ancient aviators. Not very plausible but there doesn’t seem to be a consensus about the purpose of the geoglyphs in the Nazca Desert. Given the arid climate they may well have been used to indicate sources of water. Once the practice became established the designs grew more elaborate over time.
Several record labels are represented in the playlist for this episode. The first set features two artists, Cosmic Room 99 and Diagonal, on Little Cloud Records. The Cosmic Room 99 album was co-released with Sister 9 Records. Several of the releases featured in this episode were co-released by multiple labels: Nolla on Riot Season and Echodelick, Jake Blanchard on Cardinal Fuzz and Eiderdown Records, and the Croatian band Zagusljivi Dim are on WV Sorcerer Productions, Echodelick and Ramble Records. In addition, Tombstones In Their Eyes is on Kitten Robot, Water Damage is on 12XU, and La Terminal, a band from Arequipa, Peru, are on We Here and Now! Records.
#Post-punk #Psych
Cosmic Room 99 is a psych band from Treviso, Italy
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Cosmic Room 99 (the album)?
Cosmic Room 99: Musically, Cosmic Room 99 draws influences from a diverse range of sources, including the obsessive rhythms of The Velvet Underground, the dreamy psychedelia of Syd Barrett’s Pink Floyd, the harmonies of The Beach Boys’ “Pet Sounds,” the sharp feedback of The Jesus and Mary Chain, the austere wave of Joy Division, and the deep, abysmal worlds of Bauhaus, all linked by a punk attitude.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Cosmic Room 99: The Jesus And Mary Chain – Psycho Candy
The Velvet Underground – The Velvet Underground & Nico
CCCP – Affinità, divergenze fra il compagno Togliatti e noi
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Cosmic Room 99: We currently have a series of concerts to promote the album coming out on October 11th.
In addition to the two videos already published, more will be released soon…but
considering how the world situation evolves we’re a bit afraid to image what can be next, so we prefer to live the moment!
#Alternative #Alternative #GarageRock #Noise #Psych #PsychRock #Psychedelic #Shoegaze
Diagonal is a psychedelic six-piece from Chicago. Their new self-titled album, out now via Little Cloud Records, is a mix of highly polished psych rock, contemplative moments, and angular krautrock jams. Silas Mishler – Vocals & Guitar Dan Jarvis – Guitar & Mellotron Alex Brumley – Guitar Andrew Mishler – Bass Dale Price – Keys Chris Detlaff – Drums
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Easy / Flick Your Cig?
Silas: Times have been weird and tough, tough and weird. “Easy” came about as a love letter to my family, friends, and partner to kinda step back from all the things we have to do, all the woes of the world, and just sit in the quiet peace of the now and just be. It’s about the power of taking a moment just to enjoy now. “Flick Your Cig” is honestly just about drowning in the news cycle, and familial issues. Watching my Grandfather die from obvious medical malpractice, and just succumbing to a sort of helpless feeling that we can scream the answers but without action there’s nothing; without a consensus of action we are spinning our wheels…. So I guess… Smoking Cigarettes out of futility.
Dan: Musically, these songs are polar opposites and I think that’s what makes them a great pair. You can trace the influence of “Easy” back to our love of the Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Beatles, and just ’60s psychedelia in general. There’s probably a little early Tame Impala in there also. “Flick Your Cig” is a full-on freeform jam at its heart. Personally, I’ve always loved keeping an element of improvisation alive in our songs and this song is full of improvised riffs. The ripping wah-wah guitar of bands like Goat, The Dandy Warhols, and others were definitely a big influence for me.
TMODM: What record(s) changed your lives?
Silas: When I was young, like 7 or 8, I had 4 favorite songs:
“Bohemian Rhapsody”
“Smells Like Teen Spirit”
“Dream Weaver”
“Ladies Night”
Then I heard the live version of “Sunday Bloody Sunday” from Rattle and Hum. The passion, the rage and the power of U2 on that stage in that historical moment absolutely set me on a course to write with purpose, and to perform for a reason. To beat my chest like a silverback gorilla and yell what I believe at the top of my lungs.
… also “Ghost With a Boner” by Diarrhea Planet.
Dan: I mean, all of them, but a few of the ones that come to mind right now are:
The Beatles – Every one of their albums has changed me in some way but especially the later, more psychedelic ones. The breakdown of “Easy” is kind of our little version of “Strawberry Fields Forever”, Mellotron sounds and all.
The Nels Cline Singers – “Instrumentals” – This album taught me that the guitar is just a tool and you can do whatever the hell you want with it. Nels Cline is a mad genius.
Sonic Youth – “Sister” – This is another seminal guitar album for me. Thurston & Lee play off each other so well, it’s like listening in on an intimate conversation between two wildly distorted guitars.
The Pretty Things – “SF Sorrow” – Psychedelic rock perfection right here. The song “Defecting Grey” is exactly what Alex (rhythm guitar) and I wanted to sound like when we started this band.
Paul McCartney – “McCartney II” – It’s just so goofy and perfect in every way, I can’t help but imagine Paul getting high in a little cabin in Scotland and recording these amazingly wacky tunes. Way ahead of its time, go give it a listen.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Diagonal: We recently spent two days at Chicago’s infamous Electrical Audio, where we recorded 4 new songs that had been living their lives as demos for quite a while now as well as 3 impromptu jams that formed in the studio. We’re starting to shape these songs into another full length LP that will come out sometime in 2025. In the short term, we have a show at Cole’s Bar in Chicago on Thursday, October 10th with Emily Jane Powers and Jessica Risker. Oh, and of course a new 7″ record featuring “Easy” & “Flick Your Cig” out on 9/27.
#Alternative #Alternative #BritPop #DreamPop #GarageRock #IndieRock #Noise #Psychedelic #PsychedelicRock #Shoegaze #SpaceRock
The Lsdays are from Mexico City, Mexico.
Cristian Carrera, Yorgys Albarrán, Marco Alarcón
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on The Lsdays (Album)?
The Lsdays: Musically speaking The Verve – A Storm in heaven
Slowdive – Souvlaki
Brian Jonestown Massacre – Revelation
TMODM: What record changed your life?
The Lsdays: The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Methodrone
The War On Drugs – Lost In The Dream
The Verve – Urban Hymns
Travis – The Man Who
DIIV – oshin
TMODM: What’s next for you?
The Lsdays: Next up is an upcoming single called “Clouds”, on Friday 4th October on bandcamp friday you can support us as well as a tour. It will be a powerful song full of synthesizers and psychedelic guitars.
#Alternative #Alternapop #Grungegaze #Noise #Noise #Punkgaze
La Terminal is based in Arequipa, Peru. “La banda se inicia el 2007. Buscamos estar más cerca al grunge, la no-wave y la psicodelia.”
TMODM: What has had the strongest influence on your music?
La Terminal: My quest to alter and confront my own reality through sound. My own songs, as well.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
La Terminal: I’ve always mentioned these 4 albums as being fundamental for me when thinking about making an album. I listened to them a lot around my 20th birthday:
Bioxid – Bioxid
Bad Moon Rising – Sonic Youth
El espíritu del vino – Héroes del Silencio
Loveless – My Bloody Valentine
TMODM: What’s next for you?
La Terminal: The most important thing now is to finish the recording of La Terminal’s second album. As I am in charge of all instruments (except for the drums) and work with different drummers, this will take me maybe the whole of next year.
On the other hand and speaking in the short term, I’ll be doing a tour to present the last EP in the summer (in the southern hemisphere) and I´ll be releasing another EP, which will complement my idea of a “mini album” consisting of urgent out takes.
#Noise #Psych #PsychedelicRock #Sludge #SpaceRock
Spacerock from Finland
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Avaruusmieli?
Nolla: Same as always, playing together & seeing where the music takes us. I feel we are only transmitters, vessels for the music.
TMODM: Why release two albums at once?
Nolla: The original plan was to release a 2lp, but as we are virtually an unknown band and doing vinyl releases is a risky business, it was financially safer to release two separate albums. I do hope people buy both of them, as they are “sisters”!
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Nolla: Maybe a few days off now…but then, more music!
#Experimental #Drone #Psych #Psychedelic
Musician and freelance illustrator in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, UK. He also runs the record label and zine publishing company, Tor Press.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Fermentation?
Jake Blanchard: There are so many musical influences it’s hard to pin down a specific one. I don’t know if you’d call it an influence but the majority of the album was made whilst I’ve been struggling with chronic pain from a hip condition, I had to completely change the way I approached making music so that certainly had a big impact on the album.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Jake Blanchard: Back in 2006 my brother sent me Wooden Wand & The Sky High Band ‘Second Attention’ and MV & EE ‘Mother of Thousands’, these albums really opened up a whole new area of music for me, it’s when I really started discovering a whole scene of music I hadn’t known existed before that. It was the beginning of what led me to making music myself, putting on gigs, designing record sleeves, doing my own label (Tor Press) and eventually running Tor Fest.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Jake Blanchard: I’m currently waiting for hip surgery so it’s hard to make any plans before that. I’ve been making an updated version of Tor Robot Band which as the name suggests is a robotic band that I built, once they’re finished I’ll get to recording another album using them. I’m also hoping to collaborate with other musicians on some upcoming recordings.
#Cosmic #Drone #Experimental #Noise #VintageSynths #Psychedelic #PsychedelicRock
Zagušljivi dim is a three-member band (Martin Geček – guitar, synth, Aleksandar Dolić -bass, Nikola Švenda – drums) which seeks inspiration in the worlds around us and inside ourselves. The main mission of Zagušljivi dim is a mantric musical journey that aims to investigate the wondrous, ghastly, unknown and what seems familiar to us. The smoke symbolizes the spoken truth, change, and elusiveness.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on Durchfall der Lebensmaschine?
Zagušljivi Dim: he universal human experience of being submerged in the machinery of civilization, which, through its Leviathan-like actions, erodes its own foundations, only to offer us an artificial world of instant gratification —it’s like cooking instant dehydrated soup instead of making one from the fruits of the earth. Also, the superficiality and advertising discourse that have seeped into every pore of daily life. Durchfall is a mosaic of stories told from frog and bird perspectives; narratives of personal struggles, of the search for meaning, of the recurring cycle of history, but also of the holy smoke rising above the twilight of civilization, heading toward infinity.
TMODM: What record changed your life?
Zagušljivi Dim: These are our picks: Body Count: “Born Dead”, Primus: “Antipop” and DJ Krush’s discography.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Zagušljivi Dim: After the album release, we’re planning a live session, which will also serve to announce a brand new album that we will start recording in a few months. Besides that, we aim to play as many live shows as possible—concerts, festivals, and tours (Balkans and Europe). We’re also preparing an ethnographic music film, but we’ll go over that in more detail some other time. Potential tours in China and South America are also on the horizon.
#Alternative #Neopsychedelia #Neopsychedelia #PsychRock #Shoegaze
Psych-rock from Los Angeles.
TMODM: Will you be releasing an LP?
Tombstones In Their Eyes: We will be releasing an LP on Nov 19. It is called Asylum Harbour
TMODM: Are you going to tour?
Tombstones In Their Eyes: No touring in the near future but we are gearing up to play to live shows in LA with an added singer named Clea so we will now be 7 people onstage. I could see us going to places closer t LA like San Diego, San Francisco.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Tombstones In Their Eyes: What is next are some changes. I’m bored of writing songs the way I’ve been doing it and want to involve the band more.
#Experimental #Doom #Drone #Noise #Post-rock #Psych
Loops / drone / psych / doom / noise / emo / etc from Scotland
TMODM: You mention that you recorded these tracks during a difficult time in your life. In what ways does the music reflect your mental outlook?
Charlie Butler: I recorded the Stress Fracture tracks while off work with stress. I think these tracks reflect me having a chance to recover a bit and trying to focus my brain in a more healing direction. 3 out of the 4 tracks (Remnant is the only totally new one) are old and have appeared on previous releases in different forms. They have stuck in my brain and become personal favourites over time, particularly in the more minimal and expressive arrangements on “Stress Fracture”, and I find them very cathartic to play.
TMODM: What kind of gear do you use?
Charlie Butler: Gear wise I mainly use my guitar (Gibson SG), a 2nd hand Jen SX 1000 bass synth, a Casio SA-76 keyboard and a whole bunch of effects pedals. The pedals used on Stress Fracture were a lot of my “go to” favourites: Boss Blues Driver for distortion, EHX Holy Grail for reverb, EHX Cathedral for reverb swells/drones and a really cheap but effective analog delay that I need to remember the make of. Recording wise I either record direct into my Tascam digital 8 track recorder or use my phone in the practice room then mix everything in Audacity.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Charlie Butler: Up next will probably be a self released Colossal Letdown cdr to coincide with my first live outing of this project supporting Tongue Depressor in Reading in December. Following that earlyish in 2025 should be a new Chaos Emeralds album and a new solo album, both tape releases, and a new Pocket Dimension release. Probably some digital only / maybe bandcamp subscriber only releases in there too, built up quite a vault of material now heh.
#Experimental
Austin, Texas band.
TMODM: What had the strongest influence on In E?
Greg: I can speak for myself only but Lungfish had a really big influence on my drum parts for In E. I feel like some of the songs on In E, especially live, are like really long Lungfish songs. In E was recorded over a fairly long period of time in different sessions, so the fact that it holds together and is coherent is kind of amazing. I think Travis’s work mixing and editing the record really pulled everything together.
TMODM: What record(s) changed your lives? (anyone is welcome to answer this)
GD: Rhys chatham- drastic classicism, scientist- heavyweight dub champion, silver Jews- bright flight, wu tang- 36 chambers, plastikman – sheet one, the Jesus lizard – goat, Andy stott – we stay together, mayyors- deads EP, the fall – perverted by language, jlin- black origami, stars of the lid- tired sounds of…, Cash Money Records ‘97-‘04ish, westside Gunn, primal scream – screamadelica, the bug – machines I-V
MK:Tago Mago, Vision Creation Newsun, Steady Diet of Nothing, Bulhone Mindstate, Out to Lunch, 300 Percent Dynamite, Black Woman, Tahuid, Selected Ambient Works Volume 2, Fabric 34: Ellen Alien. There are more.
Thor: Kraftwerk,Autobahn.Mike Oldfield,Tubular Bells. Genesis-The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. King Crimson , Discipline.Eno, Nerve Net . Youssou N’Dour, Set . Michael Gira , Drainland . Eno and David Byrne, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts . King Tubby,all . Fela Kuti ,all . Smog , Rain on Lense . Tom Waits , Bone Machine . Rush, Hemispheres . Yes, Going for the One . Talk Talk , Laughing Stock.
Danielle: The Scientist, Fugazi, Fela Kuti, The Slits, Sonic Youth, Silver Apples, Suicide, Can, John Coltrane, DNA, Deerhoof, Le Tigre, Lightning Bolt, Prodigy, Tribe Called Quest, Portishead, Boards of Canada, Erase errata, Chromatics, Refused, My Bloody Valentine- isn’t anything, Liars- they were wrong so we drowned, Dead Rider
Travis: Miles Davis – On the Corner, Get Up With It, Nefertiti, Bitches Brew complete sessions; Neu! – 1&2; Tortoise – TNT; Gastr Del Sol – Upgrade and Afterlife; Nearly God (Tricky); Fela Kuti – Live w/ Ginger Baker, Afrodisiac; Alice Coltrane – Universal Consciousness; Jon Hassell – aka-darbari-java, Dream Theory in Malaya; Madlib – Beat Konducta series; J DIlla – Donuts, Ruff Draft; Eliane Radigue – Adnos 1-3; Can – Tago Mago; Henry Flynt – Hillbilly Tape Music; Luc Ferarri – Place des Abbesses; Suicide s/t; Arthur Verocai s/t
Jonathan: The Ventures “Live in Japan ‘65” John Coltrane “Ascension” The Thing “Bag It!” Man or Astroman? “Experiment Zero” Nels Cline Trio “Chest” This Heat “Health and Efficiency” Sonny Rollins “Our Man in Jazz” Albert Ayler “Live in Lorrach”
Greg: Tortoise – TNT; Gastr Del Sol – Crookt, Crackt, or Fly; Henry Flynt – Hillbilly Tape Music, You are my everlovin’; Lungfish – all of their records; Fugazi – all of their records; Can; John Coltrane – Sun Ship; Freestyle Fellowship – Innercity Griots; there are many more.
TMODM: What’s next for you?
Greg: We are headed to Europe in November to play some shows in the Netherlands and Belgium and at Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht. We have a new song that will be out in October on Longform Editions. Then we are working on a new record for next year. And we will be playing at Big Ears festival in 2025.