Petite Noir | Damn Good

Found Petite Noir on Pitchfork's "Overlooked Records of 2015". If you're in the mood for something more of a chill inducing build and ride through a song, as opposed to the cookie cutter compartmentalized stitchery of radio candy canes, then check out Yannick Iluga's stuff. The video for Chess has gotstobe the best thing ever.

"It's real shit right here."

-from Chess, 0:57.

Tera Melos

This band and this record is one of the few I've spent an extended amount of time listening to within the past three years or so.  While every song may arguably have a discernible structure, these songs aren't really straight off the cookie cutter.  The guitar's distortion, tight-as-a-five-sided-fistagon drumming, and crisp assbass make it happen.  Try out New Chlorine or Sunburn. 

The Get Up Kids

In C by Terry Riley

I found this composition while searching for what Bleecker St. looked like in the 1970s. I clicked on a photo of Morton Subotnick, who had a studio on Bleecker back then, and found a site, Critical Terrain. This site also had a blurb on Terry Riley's In C. The constant motion and layers made me feel a simplistic happiness.

Here's what Terry's website says about the composition:

"IN C 1964 - for any instruments - (usual length 45” to 1’45”)score which is the part for all players...The composition that launched the Minimalist movement "In C", with performing directions, in Terry's own manuscript and autographed."

The composition also has its very own Wikipedia entry. Check it for a more in depth look at In C.