Pye Corner Audio Black Mill Tapes Vol 3 Out Now

Jan 24 2012 Published by under Internet/Media, Music

 

Pye Corner Audio Black Mill Tapes Vol 3 Cover

 

The third volume of the wonderful, analog synth festival that is Pye Corner Audio’s Black Mill Tapes series is now available for download at Bandcamp.  I downloaded it immediately after I saw the notice on PCA’s web site that it was available.  I’ve listened to it numerous times now, and I’m happy to say that this is the best of the Black Mill Tapes series to date.  It expands the palate of Pye Corner Audio by adding in some really interesting distortion (like the warped synthesizer fun of the final track, “Theme Number Eight”) and bubbling, backfiring grooves that take the ideas of the previous albums and expands them in all sorts of fun and interesting directions.

Did the best album of 2012 come out in the middle of January?  I’m not sure, but it’s a pretty great start to a new year.

Not bad for $5.99.

More on Pye Corner Audio.  Buy the new album now.

 

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Top 10/Bottom 3: December 2010

Dec 01 2010 Published by under Film/TV, Food, Humor, Internet/Media, Music, Personal, Politics, Sports, Technology, Top 10/Bottom 3

Festive Car Top 10

  1. Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services, Black Mill Tapes Vol. 1
  2. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
  3. Anything Ghost Box
  4. Kaossilator
  5. Whistle and I’ll Come to You
  6. “Best of” season (lots of good recommendations always emerge out of those artificial lists)
  7. Pizza!
  8. Cataclysm
  9. Emeralds, Does It Look Like I’m Here
  10. Sleep

Bottom 3

  1. Republicans
  2. Any team I support (Seahawks, UCLA, Angels, even LA Kings lately–they all sucked this year)
  3. Plagiarism

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Top 10/Bottom 3: November 2010

Nov 01 2010 Published by under Film/TV, Food, Humor, Internet/Media, Music, Personal, Politics, Random, Technology, Top 10/Bottom 3

Pye Corner

Top 10

  1. Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services, Black Mill Tapes Vol. 1
  2. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert (for the rally that makes me hope that the US isn’t entirely filled with morons and suicide bombers)
  3. Darkstar, North
  4. The Walking Dead (awesome premiere–can’t wait for the rest)
  5. Candy
  6. Snorri Sturlson
  7. Shain Erin
  8. Everything released by Belbury Poly
  9. Kanye West’s 808s & Hearbreak (only hypnagogic pop anyone’s every actually heard of)
  10. Artificial Owl

Bottom 3

  1. Republicans
  2. The idiots who canceled Caprica
  3. The lack of campaign finance reform

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Pye Corner Audio Transcription Services

Oct 30 2010 Published by under Internet/Media, Music

Pye Corner

Stop what you are doing right now, go to http://pyecorneraudio.bandcamp.com/, and buy a copy of Black Mill Tapes Vol. 1.  It just came out today, and it’s fantastic.  It’s warbly, stuttering synth music of the highest order.  Think Tangerine Dream rerecorded by William Basinski’s decaying tape-loop machine.  Think Delia Derbyshire if she were in a late 70s synth band.  More than anything else, think awesome because it’s awesome.  Get it now.  It’s only ₤4.99, which is about $8 US.  Download it and play it for yourself or your friends as a Halloween present.  Heck, if you’re in Mexico, play it on Monday for Dia De Los Muertos.  The dead will love it–because the dead probably created it!

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Top 10/Bottom 3: July 2010

Jul 01 2010 Published by under Food, Humor, Literature, Music, Personal, Sports, Top 10/Bottom 3, Travel

New York Parking

Top 10–New York Trip Edition

  1. Coney Island
  2. Hot dogs at Nathan’s
  3. Other Music
  4. Strand bookstore
  5. Pizza in Penn Station
  6. Black & white cookies
  7. New York Public Library’s original Winnie-the-Pooh collection
  8. Breakfasts at Holiday Inn Express
  9. Not having to sit through US men’s world cup loss because I was at a wedding reception
  10. The Cloisters

Bottom 3

  1. Coney Island Museum (just plain sucked, even if admission was only 99 cents)
  2. Humidity
  3. Forbidden Planet New York (big letdown after the London store)

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