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Dear friends and followers of clongclongmoo. It's great to have you here. As you may have noticed, the site has changed a bit. Some people wanted to be able to access the music with fewer clicks. That should work again now. Here's a quick note to everyone who uses relatively new platforms such as Mirlo, Faircamp, or Coop: feel free to use the submit form to draw attention to your new music. I'd especially appreciate hearing from anyone who runs a netlabel with free Creative Commons music. Thank you! Konrad from clongclongmoo

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Ojeras de Damita – Dance songs for amputated hearts

Ojeras de Damita – Dance songs for amputated hearts

Ojeras de Damita

“Dance songs for amputated hearts”

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youtu.be/x8CBR6lAb5M

Total Time: 0:43:35
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inspired by The Caretaker, these are old stories that I wish to be remembered, even for a moment
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Previously on No Problema Tapes:

Ojeras de Damita – Ojeras de Damita (CASS AVAILABLE)
noproblematapes.bandcamp.com/album/ojeras-de-damita

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posted 10 November 2023

Fields Ohio- Don’t Stare at the Sun When Your Hands are on Fire

Don’t Stare at the Sun When Your Hands are on Fire

Fields Ohio – Don’t Stare at the Sun When Your Hands are on Fire

Fields Ohio

“Don’t Stare at the Sun When Your Hands are on Fire”

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Bien que moins souvent à l’honneur dans nos pages que d’autres projets du New-Yorkais Eddie Palmer (citons Cloudwarmer, Aries Death Cult ou feu The Fucked Up Beat en plus de ses albums solo), ce duo plus acoustique et psyché qui l’associe à la multi-instrumentiste et vocaliste Christine Annarino fait preuve d’une belle constance depuis une dizaine d’années d’existence, avec une quinzaine de sorties au compteur, pour l’essentiel en long format.

Déjà auteurs cette année de l’excellent “Valkyrie”, typique de l’univers des Américains entre trip-hop mystique aux accents world music, downtempo-patchouli densément arrangé et touches electro hédonistes, on imaginait les Fields Ohio persister et signer dans leur admirable pré carré Ninja-Tunesque (de la belle époque) avec cette suite. Loin s’en faut ! Si “Don’t Stare at the Sun When Your Hands are on Fire” se décline au gré de la double-hélice d’un ADN désormais bien connu, il donne également l’occasion aux deux musiciens de se réinventer avec subtilité. Les rythmiques ici sont souvent plus feutrées, les textures plus oniriques et gorgées de reverb au diapason des nappes de synthés scintillantes d’Eddie, les lignes acoustiques et vocales de Christine fondues dans l’ensemble avec une homogénéité toute particulière, les mélodies presque serpentines et d’une fluidité qui évoque l’eau, élément omniprésent sur le disque.

Souvent inspiré par la contemplation de la rivière Hudson que surplombe son appartement new-yorkais ou par ses sorties au bord de l’océan, Eddie Palmer y trouve en effet matière à se concentrer sur le présent, autre thème central de l’album. “Don’t Stare at the Sun When Your Hands are on Fire” sonne ainsi comme un rappel à l’ordre que l’on se fait, dans ces moments de chaos que la vie nous réserve : affronter les problèmes un à un, un jour après l’autre, sans se préoccuper de trop d’un futur encore lointain et abstrait. Autant de sensations – ligne d’horizon, impermanence et abstraction – qui président à cette superbe collection d’instrumentaux au groove impressionniste et hypnotique.

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ENGLISH VERSION

Although not featured in our website’s columns as often as other projects by New Yorker Eddie Palmer (including Cloudwarmer, Aries Death Cult or the late great The Fucked Up Beat, in addition to his solo albums), this more acoustic and psychedelic duo associating him with multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Christine Annarino has shown great consistency over the span of its ten years of existence, with about fifteen releases so far.

After dropping earlier this year the excellent “Valkyrie”, representative of the band’s signature sound somewhere between mystical trip-hop with “world music” elements, densely arranged downtempo psychedelics and hedonistic electronic touches, we imagined that Fields Ohio would go on with that “great Ninja Tune era” trademark with its follow-up. Not exactly though ! Even if “Don’t Stare at the Sun When Your Hands are on Fire” remains consistent with that henceforth well-known DNA, it also gives the two musicians the opportunity to subtly reinvent themselves. The beats here are often more subdued, the textures more dreamlike and bursting with reverb in tune with Eddie’s scintillating synth pads, Christine’s acoustic and vocal lines melt into the whole with more homogeneity, and the melodies’ fluidity evoke water, an omnipresent element on the record.

The contemplation of the Hudson River from his New York apartment or his outings by the ocean indeed help Eddie Palmer to focus on the present, another central theme of the album. “Don’t Stare at the Sun When Your Hands are on Fire” thus sounds like a reminder, in these moments of chaos that life has in store for us: facing the problems one by one, one day after another, without worrying too much about a still distant and abstract future. So many sensations – the horizon, impermanence and abstraction – which preside over the impressionistic and hypnotic groove of this impressive new collection of instrumentals.

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posted 29 August 2023

Sebastián Herrera – Transitos

Sebastián Herrera – Transitos
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Sebastián Herrera

“Transitos”

A continuing step of “Portal” (pn207), a narrative exercise, a story lacking words, looking for dialogues with what happens in each other’s imagery: delays, limitations, intensities and calm realms. “Tránsitos” is a bridge to somewhere that is also nowhere, a timeless space looking to face Time, the dictates of must, hierarchy and imposition to be broken. Why do we listen to what we like listening to?. What gives value to a record?. Questions. Images. Ideas. A listening moment, a conversation with another being, scattered among the resonances of their own landscape.

Sebastián Herrera
(Santiago, Chile. Diciembre / December 2022)

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posted 29 December 2022

Broken Machine Films – Broken Machine Films presents​.​.​. Porn Cult Club TV, Episode 23. [LIVE w_ Jay Good]

Broken Machine Films – Broken Machine Films presents​.​.​. Porn Cult Club TV, Episode 23. [LIVE w_ Jay Good]
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Broken Machine Films

“Broken Machine Films presents​.​.​. Porn Cult Club TV, Episode 23. [LIVE w_ Jay Good]”

Recorded live in Asheville NC cerca 2016.
Samples are from thrift store found cassettes. Remixed, chopped and deconstructed by Broken Machine Films accompanied with Jay Good’s magical drum kit.
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posted 27 November 2022

Luminfire – Kudremukh Environmental EP

Luminfire – Kudremukh Environmental EP
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Luminfire

“Kudremukh Environmental EP”

Continuing the tradition of good but unclassifiable music on Mono211, and relishing the chance to break things up somewhat from the idm+bleep action that’s our normal path, the US artist known as Luminfire, who’s mixed up oldskool Mono .MOD action for us in the past, gives us an EP which meshes nicely with recent Mono211 releases like Braces Tower, but very much toes its own sunny, jazzy line too.

When we hear “Kudremukh Environmental EP”, we think.. recent Ninja Tune artists like Cinematic Orchestra or even Amon Tobin, but with a distinct twist. “The Day They Take Our Smiles Away” bounces spectacularly, scratching up a sunny, rainbow-filled storm outside _your_ window, and “Camellos Cubanos” flips up some half speed samba for your casa, and the final track, “Calador Isle”, hits the breaks, but only serves further propulsion in hazily sharp South American style. It may be that Mono211 is.. starting to regain its groove? Wow.

Release Date: 2002/11/01

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posted 01 November 2022

Konejo – Drumloops, Gimmicks & Inner Creeps

Konejo – Drumloops, Gimmicks & Inner Creeps

Konejo

“Drumloops, Gimmicks & Inner Creeps”

Jointly released by La Voix Dans Le Désert and IRM Netlabel.

Words from La Voix Dans Le Désert :

“La Voix Dans Le Désert is back with another record we are especially proud of. Jointly with our friends at IRM, we are releasing today Konejo’s new album “Drumloops, Gimmicks & Inner Creeps”. Those twenty tracks, like a series of sketches punctuated by film samples, will take listeners on a journey from 1950s’ Japan to Corman’s America, through Chabrol’s France or 1970s’ Italy and its edgy cop B-movies. Konejo unfolds his movie-buff obsessions and his taste for old school hip-hop rhythms, delivering here a particularly personal and intimate album where each quotation resonates more by its own evocative power than by its literal reference. Album obviously available as a pay-what-you-want release.”

FRENCH VERSION :

“La Voix Dans Le Désert revient avec une publication dont nous sommes particulièrement fiers. En co-production avec nos amis d’IRM, nous sortons aujourd’hui l’album “Drumloops, Gimmicks & Inner Creeps” de Konejo. Ces vingt titres, comme une succession de saynètes rythmées par des extraits de films, emmèneront auditrices et auditeurs du Japon des années 50 à l’Amérique de Corman en passant par la France de Chabrol ou l’Italie des seventies perfusée aux polars musclés. Konejo y développe ses obsessions cinéphiles et son goût pour les rythmiques hip-hop old school, livrant ici un album particulièrement personnel et intimiste où chaque citation résonne davantage par sa puissance évocatrice que par sa littéralité. Album bien évidemment disponible à prix libre.”

Also available here : lavoixdansledesert.bandcamp.com/album/drumloops-gimmicks-inner-creeps

released October 19, 2022

“Desacrated” was previously released as “Desacrated (you will not take people from this city)” and part of the “Support Modern Stalking Audio Family” compilation, whose benefits were used to help our friends from the Ukrainian label Modern Stalking Audio to get to safety at the beginning of the war : support-msa-family.bandcamp.com/album/support-modern-stalking-audio-family

Artwork by B-Maltais.

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posted 22 October 2022

Maquinistas – Black E.T.

Maquinistas – Black E.T.
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Maquinistas

“Black E.T.”

“Black E.T.” is a sonic homage to the 1984 American sci-fi film “The Brother From Another Planet”, directed by John Sayles and now a cult classic.

Maquinistas have condensed and contemporised the original score and incorporated dialogue from key scenes. The album, comprised of 12 short tracks, some less than a minute long, retains the feeling of a sound track and is best listened to in its entirety. The music reflects the solidarity and empathy shown towards the film’s subject, the Alien Brother who has found himself dislocated in Harlem. At the same time, there is a focussed militancy. Prolific producers Cinturón Negro and Polar are the masters of sampling and editing with an uncanny ability to loop ambient and atmospheric sound to expose its musicality. They fearlessly push the outer limits of instrumental Hip Hop towards a fresh interpretation of “music concrète”. This is best demonstrated when the space-warped abstraction of “Language Code” gives way to the rhythmic weight of “Sex Between Interspecies”. The steel pan motif heard here, lifted from the film’s original theme, is shared with the monster dub groove of the opening track “The Arrival”. The twisted, off-grid syncopation of “Everybody Needs Tools” reiterates Maquinistas Hip Hop credentials. This is a compact and compelling release for lovers of leftfield rhythm and sound and its ability to illustrate narratives.

Aniruddha Das aka Dr. Das
Asian Dub Foundation bassist.
(London, UK. September 2022)

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posted 24 September 2022

Moki Mcfly – Aether

Moki Mcfly – Aether
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Moki Mcfly

“Aether”

Today, Moki Mcfly brings us mere earthlings some wisdom to help us through these times of confusion and strife. That’s right, we present to you, “Aether”, his latest selection of sonic tales that he brings us from beyond our terrestrial sphere. Download, bump, chill… word.

You did it again, Moki! Another fantastic album. Thank you, sir!

Of course, thanks once again to you for downloading & listening. We always strive to deliver the music you’ll love. Please spread the word about blocSonic, if you enjoy what we do. Remember… everything we release is cool to share! Always keep the music moving… share it… blog it… podcast it! If you’re in radio… support independent music and broadcast it!

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posted 20 May 2022