This Week's Updates

Update 6/23

2008-06-23T12:37:00.003-04:00

This week is the 100th episode of the El Plan De Aguavodka Podcast!

The El Plan De Aguavodka Podcast started with the launch of the label in January of 2006. Since then, like my own podcast John Ibarra has been releasng music just about every week. John's creativity and broad sound palette has been a exciting thing to listen to every week.

John's work is often beautiful, monolithic, sometimes violent, always intriguing and involving.

This week with Binaural Amnesia John continues his podcast with a miniature, in fact the very shortest in duration since his first (Bueno Cancelo was :38). This piece is about John's reflections on what forgetting actually is, and the noise and static breakouts recall the short circuits of the mind, and the what can happen to the mind only few feet above the third rail repeatedly over a long period time.

If have not yet done so, check out John's podcast, click here to subscribe with iTunes.

Though it's difficult to connect stand-up comedy and experimental noise music, I have to say one of the biggest influences in my most impressionable years were the jokes, quips, tirades and wisdom of George Carlin. To the left is a mock-up made of the photocopied cover of the tape my friend, Mark Hurley, made of a George Carlin tape I listened to, repeatedly, every day, in 9th grade on the school bus. His most recent HBO special, It's Bad For Ya, showed his in a bit weathered, but ultimate his wit was as sharp as ever.

Also this week, the Barry Seroff Podcast begins it's second series, Call And Response, the first a number of Barry's collaborations. This series is four episodes of Barry collaborating with yours truly. We both recorded two tracks the "calls", then we swapped, and recorded the "responses". I choose to limit myself to my Pushpin/Gameboy synth, and Barry hit me with big surprises. The first episode is Prelude. This one begin on my end, I made a twisted cascade of arp-ed Gameboy squeaks and Barry responded with some gorgeous guitar work. Also check out the latest episode of the Painful Leg Injuries Podcast Duo:East Berlin Is For Lovers the latest of my Hobnox Multiplication series and this time I make a sci-fi-techno-mosh-pit-freak-out, that I think you'll love.

We will be taking a brief break from updates, so the podcasts will return on July 14th.

Until then take care.

Update 6/16

2008-06-16T15:24:00.002-04:00

Hello everyone, it's out, David Lee Myers and Marco Oppedisano's Tesla At Coney Island, the latest release on OKSRNA. To order your copy from CDbaby, click here.

I've long been a fan of David Lee Myers' music. His early work as Arcane Device is the foundation of much of today's electronic music. Marco Oppedisano blew me away with his gorgeous ribbons of swirling guitar, from the first time I stumbled across his myspace page. Together the make a powerful as Tesla At Coney Island demonstrates.

The Barry Seroff Podcast this week is Piano, lovely and tense recording on the aforementioned instrument. Don't miss Barry performing his Duo #3 in NYC this week. Here's some details :

ASM Presents
Another All Premieres Extravaganza
Thursday 19 June 2008 at 8 pm
at
The Pig And Whistle
165 West 47th Street
(BDFV to Rockefeller Center, NRW to 49th St, 1CE to 50th).

El Plan De Aguavodka's latest episode is Meanwhile In Another Corner of the Afterlife, it's a another effects processed batch of AM radio which is full on blast of filtered noise that sounds eerily like a cello, awesome.

The Painful Leg Injuries continue Hobnox Multiplication series with Quartet : Guru Dance The Beakers Broke Orca Laughed. It's sounds like two dozen processed techno records playing simultaneously. Feel free to get down.

Take care, until next week.

Update 6/9

2008-06-09T10:57:00.002-04:00

Hey everyone, thanks for checking back in.

Our latest podcasts have now been posted. El Plan De Aguavodka's latest episode is The First 3.5 Minutes In Heaven, a very rough textured noise beast of processed AM radio that is a fierce, scary seven minutes.

Barry Seroff's latest shows his prowess with the Shakuhachi, and it's at the complete other end of the spectrum than John's latest, is delightful, pretty and though a little eerie, it's peaceful.

The Painful Leg Injuries continue their exploration of the web-based techno/groove oriented software, Hobnox, played on multiple laptops. This piece, Duo : Glass In My Mouth is hardly dance-worthy, a very glass textured sounding piece.

Until next week, take care.

Update 6/2

2008-05-31T11:50:00.002-04:00

Hope that everyone enjoyed the memorial weekend holiday. Here in Texas, the sun is beating down with vengeance and it's only June.

An article I recently wrote on using the Nintendo Wiimote as a music controller is now published in issue #14 of Make Magazine.

It's on page 145. I take readers through various set-ups for using the Wiimote to control music software, soft-synths, and even MIDI retrofits of some of my favorite circuit bends. Make was kind enough to give spot on their site for links to the freeware, software, videos, and other bits of associated information, click here to read more.

Also, if you'd like to hear the results of musical experiments with the Wiimote, my band the Painful Leg Injuries have released a free download album called The Rich Man's Godforesaken Driver's Seat, with 13 tracks of Wiimote-controllled music.

Click here to listen and download

Keep your eyes on this blog for updates on the upcoming release of David Lee Myers and Marco Oppedisano's awesome full length collaboration CD, Tesla At Coney Island. It'll be available very soon, for right now, check out this track, Roog.

Now, we can talk some podcasts. The Painful Leg Injuries begin their 25th podcast series, Hobnox Multiplication. Using the web-based music app, Hobnox Audio Tool, on multiple laptops, I created long improvised tracks. The first was performed on a trio of laptops called Trio: Totally Faked On A PVC Pipe.

El Plan De Aguavodka delights this week with freak out noise-fest miniature called Forms Auto Fill. Barry Seroff's latest is the third of his Primary Colors podcasts called Primary Colors 3 (Acoustic Guitar). Imagine John Fahey in top form slowly getting plastered.

Until next week, take care.

Update 5/18

2008-05-19T13:24:00.002-04:00

Alright, folks you might want to sit down for this one.

We've got a very big announcement, it looks like our next release will be the very exciting collaboration between our own experimental composer and avant-guitarist, Marco Oppedisano, and legendary noise-ician David Lee Myers! It's called Tesla At Coney Island, with 13 blistering tracks, that are full of the widely colorful palette that is Marco's signature, and DLM's gorgeous and powerful electronics. I've put up a bio page for David Lee Myers, if like the kinds of sounds you listen to here, and you are unfamiliar with DLM's work, you should really check out some of his releases.

Stay tuned to this site for details on when the album will be available.

Alright now to this week's podcasts, which are pretty awesome, imho.

Barry Seroff's third episode called Primary Colors 2 (Electric Guitar) is a ferocious beast of a improvised guitar solo. If you dig Lightning Bolt, Sonny Sharrock or Metallica, you should listen to this.

The Painful Leg Injuries conclude the Improvisations for Gameboy series this week with the sixth episode IGB6.

El Plan De Aguavodka's latest, Radiating Lines to Indicate Light is absolutely lovely, as radiant and colorful as it's title suggests.

Next week, we won't be updating the podcasts in light of the holiday, we will return the following week, 6/2.

Update 5/12

2008-05-12T12:53:00.003-04:00

Welcome back everyone. Our latest release The Harmful Free Radicals' Duplicate Factories of Washington State is now available for download at iTunes.

Click here to go to the Harmful Free Radicals on iTunes.

Here's this week's new round of podcasts. Barry Seroff's new podcast will definitely surprise with it's second episode, Primary Colors 1 (Suitcase) an electro-acoustic exploration of the world around Barry, highly minimal (but not minimalist) and experimental.

For the latest from El Plan De Aguavodka we have Ite Missa Est a gorgeous collection of sweeping winds. John wanted me to include this quote with it -
"It is done. Once again the Fire has penetrated the earth.... so naturally has it flooded every element, every energy, every connecting-link in the unity of our cosmos; that one might suppose the cosmos to have burst spontaneously into flame." --Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Mass on the World

The Painful Leg Injuries' podcast this week is the latest in a series of improvisations for a Gameboy synth. Tune in next week for the sixth and final episode of this series.

Take care, until then.

Update 5/5

2008-05-05T10:28:00.005-04:00

Hey folks, this is a big week for us.

First, Barry Seroff, long time friend of the label, former member of future weirdo punk legends Little Ricky's House of Chankletas, highly trained musical avant-genius, begins his all new podcast. He's a multi-instrumentalist, who challenges the notion of how one's supposed to play an instrument. He's also got the musical chops to know what he's actually doing. It's a bit of a departure from our other podcasts that primarily focus on electronic abstraction what we have here is just as abstract, but also largely unplugged and plug-in free. The first episode is Flute, part of his first series of solo improvisations on six different instruments. Expect Barry to be doing collaborations in his future series.

Click here to check out Flute.

While we wait for iTunes to put up his page in the iTunes store, you can copy/paste this link - http://oksrecordingsofnorthamerica.com/
podcast/bs/bspodcast.xml to your favorite RSS reader or copy/paste it to iTunes
Advanced>Subscribe to Podcast. iTunes is pretty cool about getting new podcasts up quick so, they will likely have it up by the end of the week.

For the Painful Leg Injuries' Podcast this week I went a little nuts, here's an agressive 10 minutes of Gameboy improv, enjoy. This episode marks the 120th PLI podcast. El Plan De Aguavodka also delights with a nicely textured miniature that's full of awesome surprises, with Selective Testing.

Take care, and we'll be back next week.

Update 4/28

2008-04-28T12:16:00.003-04:00

It's odd that all weekend long, Austin's surrounding counties were under tornado watches that the other two, distantly located podcasters had weather on their minds.

Wow, I feel like a DJ. Anyway, this week's podcasts are now up, with Accumulation, the final episode of Alex Spalding's Dead Pulse series, and the title is very appropriate. A dense fog builds, with lovely textures.

El Plan De Aguavodka explores a Phill Niblock territory with Dry River Bed Dreams Of Flood. Great tones, build into complicated frequency overlays, five excellent minutes.

Finallys there's builds and releases, though Gameboys don't sound like tornadoes. The Painful Leg Injuries' third episode of the Improvisations for Gameboy series arrives this week.

Be sure to tune in next week for the premiere episode of the Barry Seroff Podcast. To celebrate Barry's playing this Sunday at ABC No Rio in NYC. letting you know that this Sunday,
here's the info:

Sunday May 4th
8 PM
ABC No Rio
156 Rivington St., Lower East Side
$5

Barry will be previewing material from his new podcast.

Until next week, be well.

Update 4/21

2008-04-21T14:49:00.003-04:00

Welcome back, everyone.

Our latest podcasts are now up. El Plan De Aguavodka delivers one of his very intricate epics with Sistine Chapel By Memory. Eerie and subtle.

Alex Spalding's latest is Warm. Which sounds like a chip-tune version of a porn soundtrack. Pretty awesome.

The Painful Leg Injuries's latest is the second of series of Improvisations for Gameboy Color Pushpin synth. This time I try to ruin 8bit music's cute reputation with spiky aggression. Well, it is still cute in some places.

On May 5th our old friend Barry Seroff returns with his new weekly podcast. Don't miss it.

Also, don't forget to check out the new album by the Harmful Free Radicals, Duplicate Factories of Washington State. Click here to listen and purchase.

See you next week.

Update 4/14

2008-04-14T12:21:00.004-04:00

Welcome back everyone.

New podcast this week. The Painful Leg Injuries have begun a new series, Improvisations for Gameboy. A follow up to the 2007 series called Instant Compositions For Gameboy, however since that time I've built an interface to run the Pushpin cartridge which turns a Gameboy Color into a MIDI-operable synth. I put it to use in six part series.

El Plan De Aguavodka's latest episode is Tall, Dark and Wanted which sounds like a miniature Ennio Morricone soundtrack. Progenesis is Alex Spalding's latest surprisingly pretty and ambient.

Don't forget to check out our latest CD-R release The Harmful Free Radicals' Duplicate Factories of Washington State.

See you next week.

Update 4/7

2008-04-07T10:54:00.003-04:00

Good morning everyone, this is an exciting week for us here at OKSRNA. The first CD-R release of 2008 is now out and available, The Harmful Free Radicals' Duplicate Factories of Washington State. To listen to the songs and/or purchase click here.

Aside from being the first CD-R we've released this year, it's also the project that lead to the start of the label. It began in 2003 when myself, and Jonah Goldstein (The Unevenness of the Moon’s Surface), found ourselves briefly living on the same coast for first time in many years. We decided to resume our old habit of recording bizarre experimental pop music together and see what became of it. Duplicate Factories of Washington State is result of those '03 sessions plus four years of songwriting, re-recording and editing. It's pop songs in the vein of Gastr Del Sol's Camofleur album, David Sylvain's Blemish, Brian Eno's Before and After Science and Animal Collective's Sung Tongs. But you guys know us by now, those are references only, we've never made music that is easily described.

To download the track Can I Eat The Whole Thing? click here.

In other news, starting in May, Barry Seroff, formerly of riotous punk-jazz band Little Ricky's House of Chankletas will be returning to the fold as our with new weekly podcast. It feature Barry doing what he loves, lots of exploration and improv, and he'll also be doing some collaborating. I can't wait to hear this stuff, so I've got something to look forward to in May besides Austin's infamous heat.

Now to this week's podcasts. This week the Painful Leg Injuries drop the final episode of the Up With The Ether series, with Avoicable Voids. Among the thousands shouting on a radio for your attention, one person may possess wisdom, if you can figure out what they are saying.

El Plan De Aguavodka does the best Paris Hilton remix ever with Paris Destroyed. Al hilarious, deeply engaging and exciting piece to listen to, amazing that John could find something so interesting in music made by imho one of the five worst people in America.

Alex Spalding's latest is Seduction (Prolonged). A minimal techno song, with a tense atmosphere waiting for release.

Take care, until next week.

Update 3/31

2008-03-31T14:06:00.003-04:00

Welcome back, folks.

The Harmful Free Radicals, my pop duo with Jonah Goldstein, (the co-owner of OKSRNA along with myself, and of U/M/S) will finally have our debut album, Duplicate Factories of Washington State see release any day now. This project started in 2003 and lead to the creation of this label, but because of the distance between us, Jonah lives in LA, I was in NYC, now I'm in Austin, we only had rare opportunities to work on it. It's a weird hybrid of indie rock, experimental electronics and just flat out pop songs, and it's quite a surprising direction for us, and it's nothing like the Painful Leg Injuries or the Unevenness of the Moon's Surface. You can check it out by downloading the track, Can I Eat The Whole Thing.

Barry Seroff former member of Little Ricky's House of Chankletas will be performing in New Haven, CT for all the folks we know around there (huh?). Here's the word from Barry himself:

"I am playing this saturday with New Haven Improvisers Collective this Saturday in (where else?) New Haven. All you CT folks are totally invited.

Saturday April 5th,
8 PM
Neverending Books
810 State St., New Haven
Free!
www.neverendingbooks.net
http://www.nhic-music.org/

We will be premiering my piece, 'For 6', as well as works by Bob Gorry, Nate Trier, Jeff Cedrone, JohnVenterr and Stephen Zieminski. Hope you all can make it!"

I'm sure Barry will be awesome.

This week's podcasts, El Plan De Aguavodka gives us a haunted psychic dream with The Wreck of the General Slocum. Alex Spalding gives us the latest epsiode of Dead Pulse with Soulbot, a twisted drum machine and static beat. The Painful Leg Injuries drop the fifth episode of Up With the Ether with Squiggles Run Around Your Brain, a melody of a lost ice cream truck.

Stay tuned, until next week.

Update 3/24

2008-03-24T20:07:00.003-04:00

Welcome back.

This El Plan De Aguavodka returns from his series of Forced Confessions with a new test oscillator improv/tape mix, the absolutely frightening and stunning Disaster/Easter In El Paso.

Alex Spalding delivers another fierce noise blast with his latest Atrophied Cognition. He mixes some quite pretty moments in the middle of a lot slow paced violence.

Also, The Painful Leg Injuries drop the fourth episode of the Up With the Ether series called Paul, Call I'm A Freak. Naming these tracks has been like a game of telephone for me, I do my best discern what the voices are saying, who knows, could the phrase "Paul, call I'm a freak?" come up in casual conversation?

Until next week take care. I got the first copies of the debut of the Harmful Free Radicals today, so check this blog for updates on our next release.

Update 3/17

2008-03-17T22:26:00.003-04:00

Welcome back,

New podcasts this week from The Painful Leg Injuries with the third part of the Up In The Ether Series, called Fits Carabaldo.
El Plan De Aguavodka gives us the eighth Forced Confession. Alex Spalding also brings us his latest in his Dead Pulse series, Ovum.

Full update next week, I'm still getting over having a lot of out of town visitors and SXSW, until next week, take care.

Update 3/10

2008-03-10T18:49:00.003-04:00

Welcome back again everyone.

This week, El Plan De Aguavodka continues his long series of Forced Confessions with the 7th part, Empty Handed on 18th Street. Each part of ths series has been very spatial, and this one is no exception, it's like a long gasping breath.

The Painful Leg Injuries deliver the second part of the Up In The Ether series with Aria for Player Piano. This piece is a collage of disembodied voices and lost chimes.

Alex Spalding drops a spiky piece of mutant techno with Coagulated Responsive Fluid.

Thanks again, until next week.

Update 3/3

2008-03-03T10:08:00.004-05:00

This week the Painful Leg Injuries Podcast begins it's 24th series with it's 110th episode, Could Be Dying, Dying, Dying? This series called Up With The Ether is six compositions I've made using my circuit bent Casio SK-1 to sample short wave radio. My father gave me a classic Heathkit 5w 7800 receiver for my birthday, which I then routed to my computer, and on a separate channel routed to my Casio SK-1's sampler input. From there on, I found scan around looking for sounds and voices, many of the titles in the series come from what I think the voices are saying. Enjoy!

Had a great weekend last week, when co-owner of OKSRNA, Jonah Goldstein and I met up for the first time in quite a while to start work on the second Harmful Free Radicals album. Our debut, Duplicate Factories of Washington State is at the printer's right now and should be available very soon.

The El Plan De Aguavodka Podcast returns this week with the sixth episode of Forced Confession. Another lovely creeping drone that mixes menace with natural beauty.

Also returning this week is the Alex Spalding Podcast with Playgrounds, an epic 17 minute long track of evolving insane textures and ultimately aggressive noise. This is the first of his new series called Dead Pulse, enjoy.

Here's a video of me Wiimote-performing my circuit bent Speak and Spell and Casio SK1 . I've been covered by the getlofi and Highly Liquid blogs for this project. Thanks to John from Highly Liquid and getlofi. If haven't done so yet, check out my free download album of Wiimote music, The Rich Man's Godforesaken Driver's Seat. To give it a listen click here, or to download it click here.

Thanks for listening, until next week.

Update 2/18

2008-02-18T14:52:00.004-05:00

Welcome back, everybody.

First off, I have to make retraction from last week's report of the break up of Little Ricky's House of Chankletas. Late last week I heard from founding member, Joe Mapplebeck, that he plans to continue the band either with a new line up or on his own. We'll keep you posted. Check out their latest podcast, The Deitheist.

El Plan De Aguavodka's podcast will return next week.

Finally check out the closing chapter of the Painful Leg Injuries' latest series, Shot By The Hip called The Kind of Spirit You See Can See In Any Blurry Image. It's a translation into sound and MIDI notation of the above image. Next week be sure to download the first episode of my next series Up In The Ether a series of compositions made from sampling my shortwave radio with a circuit bent Casio SK-1.

Take care, there will be no update next week, so we will resume the podcasts on March 3rd.

Update 2/11

2008-02-11T13:09:00.000-05:00

I forget the exact quote or who said it, but it goes along the lines of... "there are too many bands and many should break up, unfortunately, it is too often the wrong ones".

This week's update begins with kind of a downer, our good friends Little Ricky's House of Chankletas have broken up. We have a remaining episode of their podcast, which we will post next week. We are very proud to have released their second album, 27 New York Antisonnets, to some rave reviews. We support the guys fully in their future endeavors, and hopefully some of those will end up on OKSRNA. Check out their hell-fire preacher, jazz number, Ch.5 - Make Fun of Jesus More! the fifth and final episode of their "How to" series.

El Plan De Aguavodka's latest is an airy noise jam called Forced Confession No.5 - Will They Ever Be Quiet dedicated to noisy neighbors on Tuesdays everywhere.

For this week's Painful Leg Injuries Podcast you'll get Large, Red and Fifty Of Them, the fifth episode of my Shot By The Hip
series. It's a translation of the image you see to the left, into a raucous freak out.

Also don't forget to download our very first free digital download release, my band the Painful Leg Injuries' The Rich Man's Godforsaken Driver's Seat.

To give it a listen click here, or to download it click here. This free album is a collection of my compositions and improvisations made by using the Nintendo Wiimote as a controller for music.

Take care.

Update 2/5

2008-02-05T09:58:00.000-05:00

Big update for today, apologies for the delay. First up, our very first free digital download release, my band the Painful Leg Injuries' The Rich Man's Godforsaken Driver's Seat.

To give it a listen click here, or to download it click here. This free album is a collection of my compositions and improvisations made by using the Nintendo Wiimote as a controller for music

From the moment I first started reading about the possibility, I've been very excited about the Wiimote as a music controller. When I bought one, and got the software and everything working it was inspiring and I recorded many tracks, and these are the fruits of those sessions. The thirteen tracks in this collection combine compositions with improvisations, the conceptual with the intuitive, and noise with melodies. software, soft synths and samplers, a Pushpin Gameboy Color synth as well as my circuit bent instruments such as my Casio Sk1, Speak and Spell. They are 192 kbps MP3 files, and completely DRM free. Flying Through The Eye At An Alarming Time features recorded samples of me knocking my TV with my Wiimote, samples that were eventually played by his Wiimote. This Is Playful For Diseases is made up completely of improvisations with his Wiimote controlled Pushpin Gameboy synth, and Wiimote played samples of the LSDJ Gameboy tracker software, an anachronistic take on Nintendo gear. Michael Winslow Has His Revenge (On Clever Dated References) features a digital instrument completely made from samples of the 80's actor/comedian.� Thanks in

We plan to release free download albums frequently with projects by advance and we hope you enjoy it.El Plan De Aguavodka, The Harmful Free Radicals and The Unevenness of the Moon's Surface on the horizon.

Speaking of the Harmful Free Radicals, my weirdo pop band project with OKSRNA co-owner and the man behind the U/M/S, Jonah Goldstein, our debut album The Duplicate Factories of Washington State is being printed this week. We've put up a sample track, Can I Eat The Whole Thing? which can be downloaded here. We'll keep you posted on it's release here.

Now for the week's podcasts, let's start with Little Ricky's House of Chankletas. More of their How-To series, this time they do a Smegma/LAFMS style psych-jazz number with Ch.4 - Be A Slick Neighborhood Cat. You will become cooler if you listen this and people will like you. Don't miss them as they perform live this Saturday, February 9th at 8PM, at the Yippie Museum Cafe, 9 Bleecker St, across from the club formally known as CBGB's and it's Free.

El Plan De Aguavodka's latest Forced Confession continues his take on taking the Presque Rein concept to the urban environment, with Forced Confession No.4 - An Underground Death for Orange Alerts. Reminds me of just how insane the MTA could make anyone. Lovely, surreal, another great one from John.

Finally, The Painful Leg Injuries latest podcast, I Bet Richter Loves My Bloody Valentine. Continuing my series Shot By The Hip I used the image above as the source material for this composition. What's weird is that not long after I made this one, I read that MBV are back together for real and are working on the follow up to Loveless. So is GNR! Though I think the MBV, should it happen, will be a lot better.

Phew, this is longest update I've done in a while, I think I need a nap.

1/28 Update

2008-01-28T13:43:00.001-05:00

The latest round of podcasts starts off with the explosive finale to Alex Spalding's Imperformance series called Lasting Ash, a great full on, yet structured noise jam.

Next, Little Ricky's House of Chankletas delivers their third How-to with Ch. 3 - Name A Song Testicles. High volume drums, rock-out-rock, where they just indeed showed us how to do exactly that.

Another spooky field recording from El Plan De Aguavodka with the Forced Confession No.3 - Overspeed Government and Slow Chaos in the Ascending Room. Eerie near silence creates the most foreboding atmosphere you've heard in a while.

The Painful Leg Injuries drop Boldy Diagonal a rough and tumble translation of the above image.

Enjoy, stay tuned for next Monday's release of the Painful Leg Injuries free download album The Rich Man's Godforesaken Driver's Seat, a collection of PLI's music made with the Nintendo Wiimote and the first of OKSRNA's new free album series. Enjoy.

Update 1/21

2008-01-21T13:17:00.001-05:00

Hope that everyone is enjoying their day off.

First up, the latest "How-To" podcast from Little Ricky's House of Chankletas, this time it's Ch.2 How To Annoy A Potential Client. An odd gaggle of weirdo voices.

Then, El Plan De Aguavodka gives us the haunted Forced Confession No.2- Prince Street Uroborus. I found it to be frightening as hell, almost like the weird feedback is some sort of ghostly communication. Prince Street would have a lot of ghosts if you believe in such things.

Alex Spalding's Blue Vein Catheter is a spiky noise jam, with some very rocky textures. Next week, check out the final episode of his awesome Imperformance series.

For this week's Painful Leg Injuries podcast, I decided to use this extremely blurry shot for Zoetrope for Muybridge. For the second episode of my Shot By The Hip series I used the MIDI from the above photo and picked odd sounding soft synths. Enjoy.

Our free download releases will begin soon, including a collection of the complete Unevenness of the Moon's Surface Podcasts and The Painful Leg Injuries collection of recordings made with Ninetendo Wiimote called The Rich Man's Godforesaken Driver's Seat, stay tuned for more updates.

Until next week.

Update 1/14

2008-01-14T21:38:00.000-05:00

Welcome to the first update of 2008.

All of our podcasts have returned with new episodes. Alex Spalding gives us a a noisy epic juggernaut with Opoponax, continuing his Imperformance series.

The Little Ricky's House of Chankletas crew deliver a series of "How To" compositions beginning with the darkly spatial How To Put a Cactus To Sleep.

El Plan De Aguavodka serves up a droning sound scape with Forced Confession No.1- Plowshare Painted Night, lovely, scary processed field recording.

The Painful Leg Injuries podcast resumes with a new processed image series called Shot By The Hip. Each part of this series is an image I found on my cell phone that it had taken without my knowledge of the event. I then convert the image into MIDI data to triggers samples and build a composition from. I also use software to gather sound samples from the file. The first episode is a translation of the image above called A Thin, Clear Film Whose Fractures Make White Lines.

We've got new releases schedule for later this month from BIOS and The Harmful Free Radicals, so stay tuned to this site for more information.

Welcome back and happy 2008 to everyone.

Little Ricky's Live and Best of 07

2008-01-11T14:44:00.000-05:00

Folks in NYC, do yourself a favor and
check out Little Ricky's House of
Chankletas, this Sunday
at the Lower East Side's The Annex.

Sunday, Jan 13th
7:30 PM
The Annex NYC

2008 Podcasts begin this Monday! 
Now for my favorite records of '07...

My top ten recordings of 2007:

I have to say this is a weird year for me.
Panda Bear's record topped
my list early on this year and nothing
else came close.  And what's
weirder is that I actually agree
with Pitchfork!  Luckily for my coolness
card,that is where most of the
agreement ends. 
Many of my favorites didn't land in
their top 50.  For the record, I disqualified
any OKSRNA releases due to the fact
I might be slighted towards the artists
I have on my label. 

1) Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Excellent combination of Brian
 Wilson's lush pop and Panda's own
Animal Collective weirdness. 
Tops the year and all his work
with theAnimal Collective.

2) Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid - Tongues
Fourtet's music started to
sound too cold for an artist
who is accredited
with bringing warmth to
modern electronica, Steve
Reid gives his samples
a lively jazzy pulse.

3) Aufgehoben - Messidor
Imagine Lightning Bolt's
electro-acoustic side project. 
Awesome.

4) The Battles - Mirrored
Great update to Post-Rock
and Math-Rock, Tyondai
Braxton's excellent
performance catapults
this supergroup into finally
living up to their potential.

5) Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
A welcome return of one
my all time favorite rock bands. 

6) Astral Social Club - Neon Phibroch
Noise act delves into
the unholy area of techno,
and it works marvelously.

7) Kemialleset Ystevet - Kemialleset Ystevet
Freak noise symphonies
from these amazing
nut-jobs in Finland.

8)  Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Even catchier Jonathan
Richman-esque pop.

9) Supersilent - 8
Why aren't these guys
 as big as Wolf Eyes?

10) Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Even a slightly sub-par
AC album is top ten worthy.

Honorable mention- Kanye West -
Graduation, A Place To
Bury Strangers - S/T,
The Liars - S/T, and the best box
set of the year Miles Davis'
Complete On
The Corner Sesssions

We'll see you on Monday.

Update 12/19

2007-12-20T12:04:00.000-05:00

Hey folks, this is our final update of 2007. We will return with new weekly podcasts on January 14th 2008. I'd like to thank everyone for listening to our music and making this a very successful year for this small label with big ambition.

We have on the schedule a number of releases for 2008, including the debuts of the Harmful Free Radicals, and BIOS, a new Painful Leg Injuries podcast boxset and the third Painful Leg Injuries album on OKSRNA.

New review of Marco Oppedisano's Electroacoustic Compositions for Electric Guitar. Have a look.

For those of you who enjoy X-mas music (just a reminder let's keep the 'X'
in x-mas this year) check out Little Ricky's House of Chakletas' Barry Seroff playing "Little Drummer Boy" on youtube.

I'll be posting my year-end lists soon, but in the meantime, enjoy our podcasts. Thanks again.

Update Delayed

2007-12-18T10:03:00.000-05:00

Hey everyone, there's going to be a brief delay in this week's update, I'm on the road, heading back east for the holidays. I will post the podcasts as soon as possible, apologies for the delay.