About tuning in to the obscure
I'm a geek for music whether it be on vinyl, CD, 78 or whatever. My goal is to sniff out the greated music on Earth, specializing in the obscure. I make music myself as well, mostly ambient and sound collage (1 album out and a few remixes so far). I work full time as a professional mascot (it pays the pills) but will soon retire, i hope.
In order to get the full FSOL experience, you have to at least take a look back to their earliest material. In the early 90s, the duo donned multiple aliases and pressed vinyl to pay the bills, a few of … Continue reading →
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Tagged air cut, by any other name, candese, dope module, Earthbeat, FSOL, FSOL Digital, FSOL early singles, Indo Tribe, Jumpin' n Pumpin', mental cube, semi real, smart systems, The Future Sound of London, the life and times of the future sound of london, the pulse EPs, Yage
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Artist: R Stevie Moore Title: I missed July / I Traded My Heart for Your Parts Released: 2013 Label: Sweaters and Pearls Long time rocker, R. Stevie Moore, with his 40+ year career, picked two tracks from his massive archive … Continue reading →
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Tagged 7", 7" single, 7" vinyl, laura k balke, mersea recordings, r stevie moore, soft power records, Sweaters and Pearls Records, the dead records, tieranniesaur, usonian records, waker Glass
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Artist: Red Falcon Projects Title: Simply Ravishing + Ravishing Extras Released: June 2013 Label: Dilated Time Format: Vinyl LP + CD Genre: Ambient, acid-ambient Followers of Tuning Into Obscure know by now that we’re all fans of the Red Falcon … Continue reading →
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Tagged ambient, the Red Falcon Projects, acid, Star of the Falcon, rare ambient, Ice Warz '85, ambient acid, dilated time records, red falcon projects simply ravishing, ravishing extras, red falcon projects vinyl lp, tobacco, Mrs. Jynx, discoverer, daniel savio, nick force, night sequels, rare red falcon projects, microtonal acid dubs
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Updates for Early May, 2013 Here’s some of the neat stuff that’s come out lately or is soon to be released! E4RTH has a new single floating your way. The track, “Ashey Feet,” featuring Memphis rapper Lurrel Low, was released … Continue reading →
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Tagged Akkya, ambient, ambient mixes, beautiful strange, cult party, death metal, E4RTH, FSOL Forum, futuresight, Herd, in-quest, Japanese Girls new EP, Light Organ Records, Lockets, loose link, nmesh, off land, ross baker, S. A. Fred, Terminal radio, Terminal Radio Transmission 7, the trees will lift you and carry you home
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Seems whenever I get a little momentum on the blog, something crazy happens and I wind up leaving it un-updated for weeks or longer. In this case, a family member was ill, and fell, was treated terribly at the hospital … Continue reading →
Sans Nom “Self Obsessed” (self-released) Spacey indie shoegaze magic from Winnipeg! This is a collaborative project, featuring recordings with many of the artist’s friends. The end result is something rather unique, electrical and captivating. Songwriting with brilliant indie and space … Continue reading →
I’m still alive despite vanishing for almost two months. I think the last post on this blog was back at the start of January. That was so long ago now that I’m almost ashamed to say that was our “most … Continue reading →
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Tagged ambient, Beat Mark - Move On, belgian punk, cassette, Cinchel, correspondance tapes, drone, drone ambient, Dura, Dura WAL Installations 1 and 2, eggy records, FSOL Forum, gnar tapes, grunge, guitar drone, Hanetration, happy happy birthday to me records, indie rock from paris, kleenex girl wonder, live music from Cinchel, Love Cop, love cop cassette, Love Cop eat yr heart out, new album by off land, Night People, noise rock, off land, punk, razor blazers, razor blazers 7" vinyl, self releaased ambient, self released music, soft power records, street gnar, This Will Be Our Summer Records, tunabunny, vandal x
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Hunting for Porcupines: “Ruins” Available on January 14th, 2013 on a limited edition CDr. This little gem features nine original tracks, all a masterful blending of foggy folky guitar plucking and chopped up beats. There are a few things that … Continue reading →
Artist: Kabul Golf Club Title: Le Bal Du Rat Mort Released: 2011 Label: Uproar for Veneration Format: CD Genre: Punk, Math Rock, Noise Belgian punks Kabul Golf Club draw their influences heavily from the Jesus Lizard. It’s fairly evident if … Continue reading →
Leo Robinson, of Cult Party, runs a small cassette label out of Newcastle under Lyme. Having had a chance to listen to an earlier Cult Party release via Correspondence Tapes, I was quite excited to see he had his own … Continue reading →
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Tagged cassette label, cassette lable in Newcastle, cassette single, cassettes, Correspondence Tapes, cult party, DIY, E6 Collective, folk, folk pop, Idle Bong, indie, Joe the Bastard, lo fi, lo fi folk, Milkbones, split cassette EPs, TAPE//STRY, The Sunflowers
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