Phirnis

I wrote about Cut Hands and William Bennett's remarkable evolution from Whitehouse to his later rebranding as "Afro Noise" prducer and Boiler Room performer - in German. skug.at/cut-hands-einm…

The track Exposure from The Gateway Tape on Strategic Tape Reserve is a collaboration between myself and my Australian friend HXDK, who gave me some recordings that he had made on a vintage Buchla synthesizer - pic taken from Wikimedia Commons. strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/track/exposure…

D’Angelo singing Soundgarden’s Black Hole Sun

Synchronizing Failure off The Gateway Tape combines a tempo-shifting synth organ loop with processed field recordings. Hidden inside is a sample from a 1970s German biker film. 🏍️ strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/track/synchron…

Brown Sugar - brilliant, brilliant album. Over the years it's become my favorite D'Angelo record, arguably one of the best-sounding productions of its entire decade. His passing is not easy to process.

There are two Phirnis live albums: Live in Vienna was recorded at Noisecamp festival - Rhiz, Vienna, 08/18/2023: wormholeworld.bandcamp.com/track/live-in-… Red Light w/ The Euphoric Hum was recorded at Phonophon - Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, 03/14/2014: fwonk.bandcamp.com/album/fw135-re…

Low Visibility Concerns, from The Gateway Tape on Strategic Tape Reserve, is mostly built from toy guitar and thumb piano. Guest musician Chorchill contributed some melodica lines to keep the whole thing from falling apart. strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/track/low-visi…

love to get notifications from @spotify about our "new release" that lead me to a totally fake AI generated track that someone has uploaded as if it was new Matmos music, featuring nonsensical AI generated "cover art"! Awesome platform!

1972 publicity photo for American Spring with Brian, wife Marilyn and sister Diane Rovell. Brian produced some of their recordings.

Not only is Baltimora's Tarzan Boy an absolute classic, it is, by its own admission, a "Top Disco Hit". 🇮🇹

Lovely memories of seeing Matmos this past summer at Fluc, Vienna. At one point they handed out instruments to the audience - my partner got a cowbell, which felt like a lot of responsibility.

Udo Dirkschneider (Accept) and his wife Elke, 1980s 🤘

Back in the mid-2000s we were promised a Nurse with Wound album with female rappers. Steven Stapleton was talking about this project all the time - and some of us are still waiting for the record to materialize.

@phirnis @SubCastCo @bleed_air blessed and honored to be able to do a split with you. love you buddy ❤️

'The Complete Phirnis on Tape' - eternally grateful to Strategic Tape Reserve, @SubCastCo, Chorchill, @hyacinthindecay, @bleed_air, and Trium Circulorum for making it happen! 📼

I ⬜ ROCK AND ROLL

Brian Wilson with keytar 🎹

I don't like autumn, but this October will be different - when alien mothership 3I/Atlas finally reveals itself to the world to the sound of a Blood Incantation ambient track.

Anyone remember Brothomstates?

The Gateway Tape features synths, thumb piano, toy guitar, field recordings, harmonica, and voice - with guest appearances by HXDK and Chorchill. 12 tracks, one continuous mix of broken techno and alien drones. Digital: 4€. strategictapereserve.bandcamp.com/album/the-gate… 😵‍💫